Youtube comments of Tony Wilson (@tonywilson4713).

  1. Her Name is Palki Sharma and until last year worked for WION and did the Gravitas reports which can be seen here on YouTube. She has since moved on and started her own thing much like Krystal Ball and Saagar moved on from the Hill. I'm Australian and have watched a few of her WION pieces in the past. No doubt she has some biases but then who doesn't. I have always found her very good on facts. She's actually pretty good at going straight at subjects like she does here. If I had a criticism its that in going straight at a subject she tends not to give other perspectives any consideration.
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  2. AUSTRALIAN HERE: I wrote to Peter at the start of this series and spoke about some of this. I hope he pins this comment sorry if its longish - On the Chinese - Peter is 100% right. We are way too heavily invested in China buy our raw materials. I have worked in our mining industry for most of the last 20 years and when the Chinese hit the wall we will be screwed and their construction industry has been so out of control that it won't be able to do anything but collapse and with that the demand for our raw materials will vanish. We got a taste of it when the GFC hit and as Peter said we didn't learn from that lesson. Luckily we have the rise of India that will compensate for the loss of China. The question is what happens as China falls and India rises as in how much overlap there'll be. - On the value adding thing and manufacturing - Peter is 50% right. Before working in mining i worked in manufacturing for over a decade BEFORE OUR ECONOMISTS killed it. We used to make steel and smelt alumina and make cars. We do make flour but only for our market which isn't unusual because transporting flour is a hassle compared to grain. We do make sugar locally and export tons of it. We also export staggering amounts of dairy to Japan and Korea. What killed our manufacturing was our version of NEOLIBERAL ECONOMICS. America called it Reaganomics, the Brits called it Thatcherism and we called it Economic Rationalism. We had treasurers on both sides of politics who loved it (Paul Keating & Kevin Costello). They privatised everything they could promising "Competition would provide better services and lower prices" and it DIDN'T. They have spun everything that's gone wrong into "Its awesome because investors won." and yes its been awesome for INVESTORS but the other 90% of us have been smashed, screwed and thrown under the bus. - On the subprime comparison Peter is again 50% right. None of our home loans are guaranteed, its the banks who are guaranteed. Its another part of the Economic Rationalism -> Protect the investors and make everyone else pay for it. The effect is that our banks have been way too open handed at supplying money for home loans. that's driven prices to idiotic levels and when that bubble bursts it will be volcanic and we might not recover. - On the American links the main reason America will protect us before protecting a lot of other places, IS NOT just because we've been joined every fight America has invited us too. Its because of American has 2 of its most important bases in the world in Australia. There's Pine Gap and Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt (also known as Northwest Cape). Both have Wikipedia pages but neither really portrays how significant they are. FIRST - Because of where Pine gap is, its the ground station for the main US Security/Military satellites in geostationary orbit that look down on Russia, China and the Middle East. as well as being the ground station for any other satellites as they fly over Russia, China and the Middle East. Since 2000 the number of satellite antennas has basically doubled on the site. The YT channel RealLifeLore did a great video on this. SECOND - there's NSC Holt, which is much smaller than Pine Gap but no less significant. Its where the antennas that let the American Navy communicate with all of its submarines in the Indian Ocean are located. There's rumours that both these bases are nuclear powered, but there's NOTHING to substantiate those claims. So please don't bother me with that crap. The ACTUAL SIGNIFICANCE is these 2 bases in a "global exchange" is they are ZERO STRIKE targets. In other words they come BEFORE FIRST STRIKE TARGETS. Many Australians are under the delusion that if we have US bases with B52s we'll be a FIRST STRIKE target. So what - the fact is we have not 1 but 2 far higher value targets than 99.999% of Australians realise and have had them since the 1960s. If Russia, the Chinese or a few others really want to do something huge they have to take out BOTH Pine Gap and NSC Holt BEFORE THEY DO ANYTHING ELSE. That's because Pine Gap is the optic nerve for the "Eyes in the Skye" and NCS Holt is the auditory nerve for the "Ears in the Sea." Basically they are the 2 most important US bases for communications NOT IN AMERICAN territory. Hope that explains some stuff. Hope 2024 is better for everyone.
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  3. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Simple answer - NO, Peter's quite right that hypersonics are NOT replacing anything. They'll just be another weapon in the inventory. Longer answers below based on Peter's 3 main points. 1) Hypersonics are expensive: The Americans have flown a number of hypersonic vehicles deployed from jets at altitude. The X-43 flew twice at a cost of $230,000,000 or $115 million each. The X-51 flew 4 times for around $85 million each. When you look at what it took to get the SR-71 to fly at Mach 3.3 people think going over Mach 5 is just a matter of more bang. The reason the F-22 was so expensive to operate was because whenever it went fast it would burn the radar absorbent paint off. Going that fast is hard and its expensive. If it was easy and cheap we'd all be flying around in 2nd or 3rd generation Concordes. 2) Speed, fuel, payload: First to go twice as fast you need 4 times the energy before you even consider drag. Its called kinetic energy. So just going from Mach 1 to Mach 5 requires 25 times the energy. Go and look at the X-43 and look at how big the booster was just to get the X-43 model up to a speed where its SCRAM jet could start working. So yes Peter is very very right when he say s they need a lot of fuel and therefore have very small warheads. But they do arrive with a lot of kinetic energy and that does enhance the effectiveness especially when it had to penetrate things like several meters of reinforced concrete. 3) Air defense: One of the great myths about hypersonic missiles being promoted by idiots in the media and snakes in the military industrial complex who want nice juicy contracts is that hypersonic missiles are manoeuvrable. They are NOT that manoeuvrable as the pretty graphics like to show. At those speeds things go very straight and at best make some adjustments. A such they were always going to be vulnerable to systems that could detect them early enough. Back in WW2 flak shells weren't so much meant to hit planes they were meant to blast in front of the planes and then let the planes fly into the wall of shrapnel. If you look up the modern CIWS (see-wiz) systems they create a wall of metal for the missile to fly through. Go and look up how the Rheinmetall GDM-008 Millennium Gun and the Advanced Hit Efficiency And Destruction (AHEAD) ammunition air burst ammunition it fires works. There's videos here on YT showing it. Kh-47M2 Kinzhal was always going to be vulnerable to that method of defense if it could detect the Kinzhal early enough, which clearly the patriot can. ON AI selecting targets. This entire narrative of AI being actually think and reason is utter nonsense. AIs are just complex software algorithms that can mimic what a person can do but very fast especially when the task is data analysis or the task can be done as a data analysis task. If they can't get a car to drive down a street and NOT kill people crossing the street then they are nowhere near as the hype suggests. Go and see the reports on how many people the AI in Teslas have killed. PUT IT THIS WAY does anyone want weapons with software written by overrated clowns like the ones who did the software in the Boeing Max-8 that just decided to fly the planes into the ground. These are things are actually designed to strike and kill targets. I write real time software for industrial systems as a control system and automation engineer. I write software that reads information in real time from sensors and makes decisions based on that information. Sensors aren't perfect and they can give spurious data. that's what happened with the Max-8 and look what happened when their software didn't detect the anomaly. Most software people from outside my corner of the software world have NEVER DONE that type of software AND ITS DAMN HARD at times. Most who try to do it either take the easier jobs or they do something else. if the Tesla deaths, Boeing Max-8 and other accidents aren't enough to convince people that this stuff is very hard to do and very easy to get wrong then nothing ever will.
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  4. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  5. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Just some perspective on Crew Dragon and SORRY that this is long. First I absolutely agree that there's massive issues with Elon Musk and how he does business that's perfectly obvious. There's also no doubt the Gwynne Shotwell has said some dumb things which Thunderf00t and others have pointed out. I am also of the same opinion that both Starlink and Starship are doomed to fail (see below). If we are going to fairly judge Falcon9/Crew Dragon then it needs to be compared against its actual competition. You pointed out that a Falcon9 launch costs $67 Million. I have seen Crew Dragon costed at $70 Million. Crew Dragon delivers 4 people to the ISS on each flight making it a cost of $17.5 million per astronaut to the ISS. The last seat an American had on Soyuz has been reported at $80 Million for 1 person. The Space Shuttle cost $350-450 Million per launch and despite its ability to carry up to 8 people it only ever delivered 3 to the ISS for a crew rotation but the others on a flight did stuff while there so its harder to cost but its safe to say it cost over $80 Million for each astronaut who stayed and did a stint on the ISS. However the Space shuttle could also deliver at the same time 16 tons of cargo to the ISS and that's basically 4-5 times Cargo Dragon. So when you consider the Space shuttle on each flight did the equivalent of 5-6 Falcon 9s its in the same ball park as Falcon 9. Here's the ugly comparison - Boeing Starliner the Boeing Max-8 of space flight. The Boeing Starliner which has had more than $550 Million in US Government money ($92M in 2011 and another $460M in 2012) for development is yet to fly successfully. According to Wikipedia Boeing has incurred costs between 2020 and 2022 of $883M and considering its cost plus contracting the US tax payer will eventually cop those costs. So for more than $1.3 Trillion (with a 't') the Boeing Starliner has flown twice for 1 failed mission and 1 partly failed mission. Basically Crew Dragon is NOT a major step forward or a revolutionary rocket. It is however an improvement on what NASA had especially following the demise of the Space Shuttle. Importantly compared to its main opposition (Starliner) it "looks" pretty magical but that's because Starliner really sucks. Crew Dragon is a step backwards so that NASA can go forwards. Thunderf00t has been around enough engineering project and research work to know that at times you simply have to step backwards because you've run into a wall. Going back to the SPACE SHUTTLE and heads up I did a comprehensive review of its history several years ago as part of the lessons learned section of a proposal. Its basic dry weight is 75 tons. So before you even give it people and cargo you have to lift 75t around 200km and then accelerate it to around 25,000 kmh. Those numbers get bigger going to the Space Station which is why its LEO payload is listed as 30t and its payload to the ISS is listed at 16t. So that 75t is a massive cost but it was sort of offset by reusability, but even that had issues. On top of those fuel costs the Space Shuttle required a lot more manpower to service it than first planned. Its one of the main reasons manned space flight stalled. All the things needed to go further and do things like build a lunar base needed people working on the technologies needed. Not only did the Space Shuttle consume money it also consumed the time people needed to do other things. THAT'S what made the Space Shuttle a failure. Technically it was an amazing achievement but for manned space flight it cost us 30-40 years. STARLINK It will fail just like the Iridium satellite phone system failed. Its a solution to a problem that does not exist. This is what kills many (what people think are) great ideas. If you are in a remote location it might provide a service but for anyone with an easy link to broad band then what does it offer? Plus the optic fibres that broad band is based on don't need to be replaced every few years in the same way the Starlink satellites drop out of orbit. Plus if you want to upgrade your broad band system Bob the Builder's mate Eric the Electro-tech can drive to the network hub and swap out the nodes. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂ STARSHIP Not long after the Soviet Union collapsed the Russians released a trove of information on their lunar program based around the N-1 rocket. Go have a look at the arrangement of the motors in the N-1's first stage. YES Starship has a similar arrangement and when you know what the issues with the N-1 were, which I have known for over 20 years having read reviews on the N-1 back in the 1990s. The big problem the N-1 had was if they had a motor failure in the outer ring they needed to shut down the motor directly opposite or the off centre load would make the rocket uncontrollable. The Soviets had a system to do that automatically but it failed to work properly and the N-1 did a very similar thing to what we saw with Starship. Starship not only has the same inherent issue of the N-1 their control system for handling engine failures has the same issues the Russians had in the 1970s. Clearly that first flight showed it does NOT have the control range to handle the sorts of failures it had. But that's nothing. STARSHIP LAUNCH SITE. I have spent most of my engineering career in industrial control systems which has included safety systems. I had the second highest qualification available in that area at one stage. SO I AM FORMALLY TRAINED in assessing sites and systems for hazard identification, risk assessments and risk mitigation strategies. That launch site should never have been approved. for use. 1) The launch pad had no thrust diverter and when you consider the mass flow out of those engines (~26 tons per second at over 3.2km/s) and its just slamming into a flat surface. Look up the Wikipedia page for the N-1 and look at the size of the 3 exhaust tunnels. No one should have been surprised that the launch platform failed and chunks of concrete were ripped up and tossed 100s of meters. 2) Right beside the launch pad are the rocket fuel and oxygen storage tanks. If you look at the photos it had a small deflection barrier less than 1/2 the height of those tanks. That barrier means they expected rocket exhaust gases to head towards those tanks and they were left seriously exposed. On basic safety grounds that site should never have been allowed to be used for such a launch and quite possibly ANY LAUNCH. For anyone who wants to hold Gwynne Shotwell to account this is your opportunity. As the Chief Operating Officer and a highly qualified engineer she should KNOW BETTER should be held personally accountable. I have a pilots license and that's the sort of thing that gets airlines grounded and in some cases LOSE THEIR OPERATING LICENSE. SORRY to all this is as long as it is. I mostly agree with Thunerf00t and others like Common Sense Skeptic but I also think that a few things need better context. Especially that applies to comparing Crew Dragon to its competition which in the case of Boeing Starliner its a lot better than some people think, but I'd agree with anyone who says its neither revolutionary nor an ideal solution BUT IT DOES WORK.
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  6. FINALLY SOMEONE has the guts to call out Matt Taibbi's hypocrisy. Taibbi's always presented himself as an incorruptible independent journalist and NOW he's the mouthpiece for a billionaire.
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  7. LET'S NOT FORGET THIS WAS FIRST AIRED IN OCTOBER 2012. That's 10 years ago and look at what has happened in American politics in that time. Thom Hartman was recently pointed out that America's 465 Billionaires spent over $900 million on the 2022 midterm election campaigns that over $800 million of that came from about 25 of them. Notable among big money doners Barre Seid the Chicago billionaire donated a company to the Federalist Society who then sold that company for $1.6 Billion. If Barre Seid had sold the company first he would have had to pay something of the order of $400 million in state taxes. Instead the Federalist Society got all of it.
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  8. FANTASTIC TO FINALLY SEE PEOPLE CALLING THIS HYPE OUT. I'm an aerospace engineer (by degree) who works in industrial control systems and the staggering amount of nonsense I hear on AI is ridiculous. In the early 1990s I had neural nets and how they actually functioned explained by an electrical engineer who'd worked on them while at University. The origins of neural nets goes back to the 1950s BEFORE the emergence of digital computers. The first generation neural nets were fundamentally analog computing devices set up for complex calculations. The YT channel Veratasium did a good video on what analog computers are, why they were used in the past and why they have potential applications again today. AI (as we know it) is basically digital versions of analog computers and being digital they can be scaled up to immense complexity in a reliable and repeatable way. The most important thing that I see people misunderstanding is that these AI systems DO NOT THINK, but instead they CALCULATE ANSWERS to very complex statistical math. We see this most often when the search box on YT or Google starts giving possible questions as we start typing. Its CALCULATING the most likely search to what you are typing. I BLAME the promoters and media pundits for this misconception.
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  9. AUSTRALIAN HERE - Please do not forget where South Korea gets all of the raw materials they need to make stuff. ALL of their iron ore, coking coal, alumina, nickel, copper comes form other places and the place they get most of it from is Australia. HOWEVER almost all of the raw materials Australia exports to South Korea (and Japan) especially iron ore comes out of Australia's WEST and it goes via the South China Sea. A few things like coking coal and food comes out of Australia's East Coast. So if the Chinese get "upitty" and block access to the South China Sea via their bases in the Spratly's then all that stuff has to get to South Kore via another route and that can get complex because some of the routes that might seem possible by looking at google maps are not viable because the water is too shallow and there's reefs and ships with 80,000tons of iron ores are not that manoeuvrable.
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  10. FRIENDLY AUSTRALIAN HERE: Guess what we produce in monumental amounts?? Zinc and Alumina. We'd like a better deal regarding some submarines!
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  11. Actually in Australia you do need authorization to stage protests. That way police can block off streets and let people have their march and have their speakers talk without interference. Off course people can just ignore that and do what ever they like, but then they also can't complain when they get chucked in the slammer.
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  12. AUSTALIAN ENGINEER HERE: This is NOT an American problem but it is caused by the adoption of American economics in the 80s and 90s. I first became aware of Australia's issues from a small consulting job in 2016. I found we had a fleet of ageing power stations and NO PLANS on the table. There wasn't even a single proposal being spoken about and there still isn't to this day. Our ID0TIC media will put a microphone in front of anyone EXCEPT an engineer leading to the general public being badly informed. When I started to dig further I found that the same or similar situation existed across the developed world. Ageing fleets of power stations and no plans to replace them. Because of population growth the moment you finish 1 power station you should at least start planning the next ones AND THAT PROCESS STOPPED in the 1990s. MYTH #1: The energy transition is being driven by a move to green energy . WRONG - it was always going to happen because power stations wear out and need to be replace. On top of that populations grow and they need new power stations to keep businesses operating and the lights to work. The only question is "What do we build next?" In this case there are competing technologies who hate each other along ideological NOT technical lines. Its also a 4-way battle not a 2-way battle and inside those 4 groups are factions who don't always get along. There's fossil fuel made up of the oil & gas factions. There's renewables made up of wind & solar factions. There's nuclear which has a bunch of factions with different technologies all fighting each other for venture capital. Then there's the natural resource people which is 99% hydro but also geothermal, tidal, wave., ... etc. The biggest issue right now is the fighting going on between the Renewables and Nuclear promoters. They both know coal is dead and are fighting each other which is stupid because there's so much to do they'll both be fine. I actually suspect the fossil fuel people have infiltrated some of those groups to stir the argument into the morass it now is. MYTH #2: This mess was caused by the Greenies. WRONG - It was caused by the economists restructuring the energy markets in the 80s & 90s. It just took a couple of decades for what they did to finally come to where we are. BEFORE Reaganomics, Thatcherism and the neoliberal way, Governments built large power stations and kept the energy markets in OVER SUPPLY. That guaranteed new businesses access to CHEAP power. Its was great for employment and GDP growth but as Milton Friedman said businesses don't exist to create jobs or drive GDP. Private companies exits to make PROFIT and as much as they can. So when the bought up the energy sectors they DID NOTHING in the way of new power stations and simply let population growth catch up and flip the system into UNDER SUPPLY. They did this to make profit and they made boat loads, but now we are all left with ageing fleets of power stations that need replacing and NOBODY has that much money.
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  13. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I did my degree in American in the late 80s when Reagan was spending tons of money. Our department was flush with DARPA funding for Reagan's Star Wars. In my final year we had to do 2 or more advanced option classes which we shared with the post graduate students who also had to present conference level papers. One of my classes was in Spacecraft Dynamics which is the single hardest class I ever had. Its all about how you make spacecraft point in space. It sounded real cool when we signed up and then the math started. In that class was the single most mathematically gifted engineer I've ever met. We were all pretty smart but he made us all feel dumb. He was actually able to simulate a solution to making a laser cannon point accurately in space. The problem is that its not like a satellite or the Hubble space telescope which rotate and point very slowly. Shooting down missiles is more like skeet shooting in that its all very rapid recognition, movement and shooting. What really killed off Star Wars 1.0 and this will still hold true today are 2 basic facts. 1) Lasers reflect off shiny surfaces. So all you need to do is make the surface of your missile a mirror finish and lasers become fairly useless. 2) The basic mechanics of shooting at something that accurately at an object that might be 1,000km away or more moving at hypersonic speeds is absurd. People just don't get how big space actually is. Even the space close to the Earth that we call Low Earth Orbit is a massive amount of territory.
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  14. You are 100% right but it goes a lot further than Boeing. I'm an aerospace engineer who works in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. I've worked across a number of industries and what you have described with the problem of financiers is RAMPANT across most industries especially all of the technical and engineering industries. I became so frustrated I started informally studying economics so that I can talk their language and be able to push back. The thing that really motivated me was finding out how bad of a state Australia's (my country) energy sector was from doing a small consulting job. I can 100% guarantee you that the current energy crisis has NOTHING to do with Ukraine other than Ukraine made the situation worse. The problem is that its NOT just 1 thing. Its collectively called neoliberalism which is more than simply economics as its got political aspects as well. The main problem with energy is that economists have NO IDEA how energy actually produced generated. In fact they have no idea how anything is produced. They see all forms of production as a collection of magic black boxes that "stuff" comes out of. They walk into places of production (food, minerals, products, whatever) arriving with some form of market analysis that declares this "stuff" has a market price of $X. From that $X market price and their declared profit margin they calculate what the cost of production is and then start telling everyone how they have to cut costs to match what they have calculated. Go and look at the Max-8 Story and that's basically what happened. They decided what the market cost was to compete with Airbus and used that to make decisions, which included NOT having the additional costs of a suitable anti-stall system.
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  15. Did they ever hand it back? Rovo in his comment above said "Beyonce winning best country album is like Aerosmith winning best Hip Hop album for Walk this way."
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  16. I'm Australian but went to college in America and you have summed it up perfectly. Just as Australia had a recent report that said how the top 10% had done brilliantly over the past 25+ years while the rest of us struggle the Americans had a similar report last September EXCEPT its EVEN WORSE. The American report was done by the Congressional Budget Office, which means its beyond question. If you want I explain the data but in nutshell the Top 10% of America have not only recovered from the GFC, but are now over $30 Trillion better off than they were in 2007. The Middle 40% are finally better off but it took a while and they aren't that far ahead of their 2007 position. The Bottom 50% who lost almost 1/2 their wealth in the GFC, not only haven't recovered but are still a long way behind their 2007 position. That's 165 Million Americans are still behind where they were 15 years ago and another 132 million are barely above water while about 33 million who got bailed out after the GFC they created are booming.
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  17. AS AN ENGINEER: My red flags for technology scams are: 1: Any person who dropped out of their university or college like Elizabeth Holmes. 2: People claiming: "This is a game changing technology." 3: People claiming: "This is a disruptive technology." 4: People claiming: "This technology will change (or is changing) the world." Note: This is incredibly prevalent among IT people who struggle to separate the realms of the internet for reality. This is most notable among the Crypto people who have confused the technology of blockchain for the security of real state backed money. 5: People claiming: "This technology is so simple a child can understand it." or any other claim along the line of "I swear its not that hard!" which is one of Elon Musk's favorite lines. 6: People claiming: "Our technology uses the latest in AI." Note: AI itself is a terribly misused term. Nobody has yet developed anything like software that can think. What there is are software packages that can mimic well defined tasks like comparing images/pictures. 7: Any technology you once saw in sci-fi being promoted as an original idea. Elizabeth Holmes Theranos "one drop of blood" came from the film "Gattaca." Elon Musk's Hyperloop was originally described by Robert Goddard in 1904. Pods in tubes was in many sci-fi films and TV shows notably Logan's Run (1976) and Space 1999 (1975-77). These I would call Yellow or Orange flags. Its not that they are run from its they are be careful. 8: People claiming: "This technology is not like that technology its an improvement that works." Sometimes people do take a failed technology and work out why it failed and fix the problem. 9: Any technology that defies the basic laws of physics. Sorry by the Universe doesn't believe in magic. Occasionally somebody finds a way to make use of the basic laws of physics in a way nobody thought of before, but that's rare. 10: Anybody spruiking a technology and you hear the phrase "self trained." If they say in addition things like: "My Father/Uncle/Boss was a qualified X/Y/Z and I learned from them," then they did have informal training and are probably practical and many great inventions have come from informal practical education. Its still something to be wary of, BUT if they are that mindset "I didn't need to go to college because I was too smart for the teachers (similar to Elizabeth Holmes)" then run and run fast.
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  18.  @jimmygee3219  I'm another aerospace engineer and we get it all the time in every field of engineering. And I'm not talking about social media either. We get it from family, we get it from relatives, we get it from friends and we get it from complete strangers in the street. Most of all we get it from other people in the work place and including other engineers. If you tell people what they don't want to hear they don't like it and don't respond well. Then they will do and say anything to discredit you.
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  19. I didn't need 18 minutes I didn't need even need 1 second Its simple they buy something with the express goal of EXATRACTING as much money as possible, as fast as possible, by whatever means possible without caring about any consequences to anyone else while telling everyone how fantastic they are.
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  20.  @arth0heen  I'm Australian but went to college in America. I'd correct that to the top 1% of America don't face consequences for there actions and never have. Certainly there's a massive slab of America that has to deal with the consequences of the decisions of the top 1% every day. Consider the people of Flint Michigan and dozens of other places left equally destitute.
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  21. Its called arrogance and is something Jesus told his followers NOT to be.
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  22. Yeah and its the same everywhere across the developed world. I'm Australian and we have these sorts too, just not as many and they are always saying the same sorts of ridiculous crap because they get all of the information from idiots. They all claim to do research but their idea of research is to listen to some narcissist who tells them what they want to hear.
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  23. Dude that is so cold., but damn hilarious. We could ask the Americans: Is the real reason the Americans want slavery back so the NFL Owners can go back to actually owning their players?
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  24. Just yesterday YouTube recommended a CNN video where world renowned criminal John Bolton was on to discuss the crimes of Donald Trump. It was as stupid as having Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy on to talk about Jack the Ripper.
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  25. HEY DAVE - Control system engineer here with 30+ years of experience. FYI - I have used several versions of Step 7 over the years as well as several other major systems like Allen Bradley Control Logix, ABB 800xA, Schneider. I'm not a great fan of Step 7 although it does several things superbly. I prefer Allen Bradley Control Logix. I have also done robotics with Fanuc, Kuka and Adept. I also have a lot of experience with motor controls. Like everyone else in the IT industry you actually need to find one of us and have sit down and get your terminology correct and also get some of the details of this particular subject correct. When Stuxnet hit it was a big deal for the company I worked for because we had just done a major upgrade to an off shore oil & gas rig using Siemens Software. FIRST and this is important for this story. What you have called a "frequency converter" IS NOT a frequency converter. If anything its a POWER INVERTER, because its inverts AC into DC and then back into AC. Starting at the basics - the lump of electronics that switches and controls a motor is called a DRIVE because it drives the motor. it doesn't matter what type of control is being used that lump is called a drive. We do use some more specific terms like soft starter, but in general if it drives a motor then its a drive. Drives that can vary the speed of a motor are called VSDs (Variable Speed Drives). In the past people did call them Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) or Variable Voltage Variable Frequency Drives (VVVFs or Triple VFs). But I have never heard either a sales rep or engineer EVER call a motor drive a frequency converter. On the subject of Uranium Enrichment. In 2005 (~5 years) before this happened I was working at the ERA Ranger Uranium Mine. As part of working there we had to do a full ANSTO induction. A normal mine stie induction is 1-2 hours. The ANSTO induction was 2 days and we covered the entire Uranium cycle from in the ground to back in the ground including a fairly detailed description of Uranium enrichment. In 2005 there was a lot of friction regarding what Iran was up to so we asked what Iran was up to. The give away that they had a weapons program was the number of centrifuges. In general: Fuel grade for power stations needs around 5 to 8,000 centrifuges. For military fuel grade like that used in submarines needs around 20,000 centrifuges. For weapons grade Uranium you need 40,000 centrifuges or more and we knew Iran had 55,000. Understanding motors and motor controls is how we knew they had 55,000 centrifuges. In GENERAL and there's a lot of variation in motors but basically: Normal 3phase induction motors generally operate up to 1500 rpm at 50Hz High 3phase speed induction motors operate up to 3,000 rpm at 100Hz or higher. The permanent magnet servo motors used in robotics and CNC machining centres operate up to 6,000 rpm and maybe more depending on the motor size. The SPINDLE MOTORS used in CNC machining spindles (hence why they are called spindle motors) can (depending on the size of the motor) go in excess of 30,000 rpm. Most VSDs can outputs more than the standard 50Hz and can generally go to 200Hz although I have used ones capable of 400Hz. Spindle motors go much faster and that's why they need specialised drives with much higher frequencies. There are also some very specialised ultra high speed motors that can go in excess of 100,000rpm. But those are very small motors with rare earth permanent magnets and most often used in the computer industry in disk drives. VERY IMPORTANT - There is nothing classified or spectacularly special about spindle motors or the VSDs they use other than they go a lot faster than normal motors. 1,000s are sold every month across the world as part of the machine tool industry. The thing is Iran DID NOT (in 2005) have a machine tool industry so when they bought enough motors and VSDs for 55,000 gas centrifuges people who understood Uranium enrichment knew EXACTLY what they were up to. As to what Stuxnet did inside the S7 PLCs we were advised on that because of the system our company had done. Luckily there was nothing in what we did that Stuxnet targeted. Our project was a SCADA system not a PLC system. So it was in another part of the Siemens Suite of software packages. What it did was very interesting. The S7 like most modern PLCs is a multitasking operating system. We tend to write our systems as a main cyclic task with a number of timed tasks that operate via interrupts. We do that because things like PID close loop functions work best when the operate at a consistent time interval. So we tend to put those in separate tasks running off timed interrupts. What Stuxnet did was not only insert an additional task that took control of the commands to the VSDs but that inserted task DID NOT appear in the task list. So the engineers could NOT FIND IT and could not understand why their code was not working. If you want to discuss this further I'd like to do a podcast with you. You know how this thing ran around the world and on all that stuff your 100% correct. I know what it did inside the PLCs. I also know how it found the specific laptop or desk top it was looking for. The most disturbing thing about Stuxnet wasn't what it did but it laid out the basic blueprint for what can be done to everyone's basic infrastructure. Basically everyone now has a blueprint from which to develop their own cyber weapons. Its sort of like inventing the machine gun in 1750 and then leaving them all over the place for other people to copy or derive new machine guns from. Sooner or later I expect Stuxnet clones and derived descendants to appear and do some real damage.
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  26.  @tim211292  I'm Australian and Rupert doesn't just take the 999 cookies he makes people PAY with their 1 cookie to watch his people explain how bad your life is and why its someone else's fault.
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  27. I'm Australian and have a SSN. I went to college in America (late 80s) and got one when I arrived. It never entitled me to anything other than to be in America and go to college. I had what David said is a restricted SSN. Every nation has some way to identify people who are there for longer than just a temporary trip. As in a holiday or to see friends or for business. I'm an engineer and plenty of people come to Australia for projects and some of those last several years. Because they are hear for so long and have to pay tax on their wages they have to be given an Australian Tax File Number. If they are staying long enough they also get an Australian Medicare number. There's nothing abnormal about this. We have the same types of people speaking the same fearmongering here and they get shot down every time with FACTS. But then fact never seem to stop these people.
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  28. We just had a healthy 27 year old die suddenly in Australia from the Delta strain. He was on day 13 of a 14 day isolation. He was unvaccinated he was being monitored at home which we do in Australia for home quarantine. He suddenly just went down. That news is fresh its shocking. We had done such a great job isolating our entire nation and now we have Delta on the verge of being out of control. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUNxzMad3ts YouTube and Twitter just banned a couple of clowns from our media and 1 sitting member of our parliament for posting false and misleading information. I know Sagaar Enjeti at Breaking points brought that up and he was WRONG on several key points. Kyle Kulinski also discussed that issue and he is also WRONG on several points. Spreading misinformation about vaccines and COVID is NOT a matter of free speech it is a matter of PUBLIC SAFETY.
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  29. And you all wonder why the rest of the developed world laughs at the American Health care system.
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  30. AUSTRALIAN HERE - We've had the same sorts of discussions here for over 30 years as we shut down industry after industry. At the beginning of this the reporters asks - "Who's to blame? Is it climate hysteria is it Brexit or is it the current conservative Administration?" The answer to that is the same as the answer we have in Australia - NONE OF THEM. How could these problems in Wales be linked to the same problems in Australia? Simple - This is the result of decisions made well over 30 years ago in the 1980s when the Western World flipped its economics from Keynesian economics over to free market Neoliberalism. In Britain you called it Thatcherism. In Australia we called it Economic Rationalism and the Americans called it Reaganomics. Today its call called Neoliberalism. I'm actually an aerospace engineer who works in industrial control systems, robotics and automation. Back in 2016 I had a small consulting job that highlighted an incredibly serious issue with Australia's energy sector AND NOBODY was doing anything about it. Worse we still aren't. So I started looking into WHY? Other than "Greed is Good"_ a Key part of Milton Friedmans free market doctrine is that the government shall do as little as possible and let the markets react and respond to changes in demand. The stupidity of this is that people like Milton Freidman had no understanding of industrial sectors or logistics. To this day economists still have NO UNDERSATNDING of industry or logistics. I recently found out that they don't even include energy in their economic models. That's absurd because it means they have no idea of the stuff that we use to convert raw materials into finished products or what it takes to move those raw materials and products around so they are where people can buy them. Australian economist Steve Keen has been pointing this out for years only to be dismissed by the Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale types. Gary Stevenson the young British economist that all you Brits should be listening too, did a great video on _"Why economists are always wrong." What he explains are some inherent failures in both the education of economists, how they formulate economic policies, act on those polices and HOW THEY FAIL. I know Gary is always talking about issues in Britain but there are times when it feels like he's talking about Australia and that's because we are all running on similar economic ideology.
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  31. I'm an aerospace engineer who works in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. NOTHING Elon has ever said about self driving cars made any sense. If you ever get the chance to talk to experts in what we call vision systems which are the camera systems we use to recognize parts or do inspections, then those people will explain just how hard that stuff is. You need things like controlled lighting and aspects of target objects that are readily identifiable. Go and watch the TED talk on when they tried to teach AI how to recognise fish to see how easy it is to screw that up. Once you realise what it takes to get a camera to flawlessly recognize what's in front of it under any lighting or background compared to what the average human can do then NOTHING about self driving cars makes sense because just getting them to do the basic task of identifying what's going on about the car is impossible with current technology.
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  32. I'm Australian and we are also having to come to terms with Australia's past with respect to our First Nations people AND YES at times its damn uncomfortable. I was working in Canada a few years ago and they are in a similar situation. I don't know Canada's long term plans as they already have the Assembly of First nations but we have a national referendum coming up to change our constitution and help hopefully resolve some of that past by providing a voice to Parliament for our First Nations peoples. Its not too dissimilar to the Sami Parliaments in the Nordic countries. Unfortunately we also have a similarity with what's happening in Florida. We have First Nations people on the RIGHT who are against the "Voice to Parliament" and just like William Allen they are LYING. As he himself says when you say a mis-truth its a mistake but when you keep repeating it then you're a LIAR. I wonder what Jesse Waters makes of that considering who he works for??????
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  33. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  34. I watched that debate and you have summed it up perfectly. Piers Morgan is a typical Libertarian in that one his core concepts is: "I want what I want and I don't care about the cost to other people." Its straight out of Ayn Rand's "me before society" nonsense.
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  35. As an Australian this freaked me TF out because if you change the words to Australian and Australia and swap Trudeau for Albanese and you are 100% factually describing Australia. His description of Vancouver is practically identical to Melbourne and especially Sydney with respect to housing. We are idiotically addicted to foreign investment. I'm an engineer and was actually in Canada late 2017 through early 2018 for a project. Other than the temperature inversion Canada was like another version of Australia. I was in Saskatchewan and it was like wheat belt of Western Australia, the Western 1/2 of Victoria and the Murray Darling section of New South Wales. A vast area of endless flat farmland, with exactly the same kinds of people. We even hate Canberra the EXACT same way Canadians hate Ottawa.
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  36.  @garethfuller2700  An awful lot of stuff in the British Commonwealth (Australia, Canada, New Zealand,......) Even though we've had metric for decades and that almost anything new is metric there are still a lot of older machines and copies of older machines that have BSW and BSF threads. Most notably you find these Whitworth threads around pipes BSP. If you do anything around pneumatics or hydraulics you come across it all the time. Its one of those obscurities that has survived despite all other attempts. You'd also be very surprised how many lathes come with their main lead screw as a British Imperial rather than metric. Its actually very easy to make the both metric and Imperial threads so long as your lathe has a 127tooth gear. I eventually got my pilots license and flying is a bizarre mix of Imperial and Metric systems. The visual range is given in kilometers, but distance over ground is still in nautical miles. Altitude is still done in feet, but the pressure for setting your altimeter is in millibars (metric) or mm.Hg as in millimeters of Mercury (again metric) Fuel capacity is usually (but not always) measured in gallons and fuel weight is usually measured in (but not always) kilograms. That one depends on the plane and where and when it was certified. All pilots have to be very careful with the conversions or you get the Gimli Glider scenario.
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  37.  @iron4517  WTF are you talking about? You can't even write a sensible sentence. I haven't justified ANYTHING. All I have done is explain HOW part of the law in Australia works. Where are you from? What country do you live in? What level of education do you have?
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  38.  @bounty1402  No it doesn't mean that at all. Why TF do people like you have to take EVERY ANSWER and blow it out of proportion and some stupid hyperbole? Why can't people like you ever just accept an answer without being stupid idiotic smartasses? Its effing idiots like you that are the reason we can never get anything done because you hijack or sidetrack every discussion with stupid some out of proportion remark.
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  39. Yeah I just did look him up by typing "talk tv mike graham" into google. There's a Wikipedia page for him and it includes that story about growing concrete. It happened when he claimed a carpenter and climate change activist was a hypocrite for using timber. When the carpenter told him wood was sustainable and renewable while concrete wasn't Graham then made the you can grow concrete remark and ended the interview after less than 1 minute. I'm Australian BTW and am glad I'm not a Brit with this story.
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  40. I will grant Sam any day of the week that MOST of his argument is valid, but the small part where he is TOTALLY 100% WRONG needs saying. Claiming cultural superiority is the most dangerous of all human traits because at its most basic it decides the fate of people by their birth. Its the very basis for for so many of histories ugliest moments. Every cultural and tribal and nation group has its fanatics and every so often that group takes control. That usually happens when a society is under stress. We are seeing that in America right now, where there is staggering economic stress over a massive section of the population. Its what's allowed Trump to grasp the power base that he has. The stress that Israel has applied to the Palestinian people for such a long time now has lead many young Palestinians right into the arms of Hamas. Just like the stress on many young Germans in the 1930s lead them into the arms of the Nazis. The other thing is that such fanatics will mistreat their own people with MORE violence and cruelty than they treat others. In Germany people who they felt were unworthy of being shot were guillotined like Sophie Scholl whose crime was distributing anti-Nazi Pamphlets at the University of Munich. A few weeks back Vice News did a story titled "Israel’s Far Right Government is a Gift to Settlers" in that story a young settler who has been REMOVED from land he has claimed on multiple occasions by ISRAELI authorities. They have told him repeatedly that this patch of land is NOT HIS to take. In the interview in one breath he's claiming that he's peaceful and he says "I'm a Jew talking to a non-Jew peacefully" In the next breath he basically says that anyone who doesn't agree with what he wants should have their heads cut off. Whenever you ignore the fanatics among any group they will fester and wait for an opportunity to grasp power. Right now Sam should have a look over his shoulder at the Libertarians in America. They've been waiting decades to grasp power and Trump opened the door for them BECAUSE the lazy establishments of both the DNC and RNC left a massive slab of the American population vulnerable to a morally bankrupt person like Trump. The lesson is: NEVER ignore the fanatic in your own culture or one day they will rip your people apart when you least expect it.
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  41. AUSTRALIAN HERE As we got mentioned as one of the countries that has sold the rights to Ports to Chinese Companies I felt I should add to this. This all came form the Privatisation Ideology of our Economists who follow the same Chicago School economic ideology as is causing these problems all over the World. That ideology was part of what was called Reaganomics and Thatcherism in the 1980s. We called it Economic Rationalism and its now globally referred to as Neoliberal Economics or Chicago School Economics. 2 of the core ideologies of Neoliberal economics are privatisation of government assets and foreign investment. Australian economists are almost obsessed with foreign investment and will give any tax concession and any other concessions to foreign entities so long as money comes in. The problem is they never consider the money that subsequently leaves as profits. They also never consider the loss of security or soveriegnty. The sale/leasing of the Ports is in general HATED by the Australian people and it has NOTHING to do with it being Chinese. Its the simple fact we don't control our own points of entry.
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  42. I did aerospace at U. Illinois. I literally had to stop the video and walk out of the room just before the 5 minute mark. On one hand I really like Elon Musk a lot. He's managed to break the stranglehold the big aerospace club (Boeing, Lockheed, Rockwell, etc.) had on NASA budgeting. It still remains to be seen if he's done right by everyone or if he's just muscled his way into the club. On the other hand is persistent garbage PR is idiotically bad for future space exploration and likely to end in disaster. Its fine to push the boundaries a bit and motivate people but deceiving with delusions and fantasy IS NOT.
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  43. Abbott might want to be very careful about what he does and says in coming days. Other than the simple concept of negligent homicide there's the issue that he as a state governor has no right to control an international border. I'm Australian and even I know this. We've had all sorts of legal issues regarding boat people entering Australian waters and we've had calls from other countries to either get our SHlT better organised or face reprisals. Some of the Europeans basically threatened us with trade sanctions if we didn't get our act together. They're quieter now that they're having similar issues with the flood out of North Africa. I absolutely support the right of any country to decide who can and who can't enter their country. That is a basic law all countries, states and tribes have had for centuries, but these days we by international agreements we recognise the rights of people claiming asylum to have their case heard. That's not always easy and even if they are not accepted as refugees it doesn't mean you can simply let people die. You certainly can't just stand there and do nothing.
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  44. I don't know why anyone is really surprised. Go look through history and this has been done so many times in the past its almost a standard human trait. Considering the stresses in our society these days after 40+ years of neo-liberalism making everyone feel helpless to some extent, no one should be surprised by the sort of garbage we see. Add into that people who know how to weaponize the frustration of others and it becomes a very dangerous situation.
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  45. Australian here: A number of years ago I was in a taxi in Sydney. Australian taxi drivers come form all over the world and they are a great source of basic information on places the media never report on. This particular taxi driver was from Liberia and I asked him "Liberia's a country we don't hear much about and what we do hear is mostly bad. So what happened?" He basically said when the French were in control it was basically developing and reasonably civil because they kept the various tribal issues in check. Then one day they just got up and left but handed all the weapons over to 1 tribe who then went on a rampage." The biggest problem with Africa is Europeans split the continent up according to what they wanted and that often upset the balances between the existing tribes and their boundaries. The most notable instance of this is in Namibia where there is the Caprivi Strip (in the North East). This strip exists because of a deal the Germans made with the British so that Germany could have access to the Zambezi River and a route to Africa's east coast, where the colony of German East Africa (now part of Tanzania). Its all detailed on Wikipedia. That strip runs right through the middle of several traditional homelands of different tribes. Those tribes now have parts of their homelands in Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. The European colonial era made a mess of Africa from which Africa has NEVER RECOVERED. Americans should be the last to talk about this stuff considering they ignored the advice some of their own people gave before they invaded Iraq in 2003. Eric Shinseki to congress in a public hearing that not only was Iraq a significant amount of geography to cover but there were ethnic/tribal conflicts with centuries of feuding and violent history.
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  46. Do you think he's alone?? I'm an aerospace engineer who works in industrial control systems and automation. A lot of that includes safety control functions like Emergency Stops and Safety interlocks. You know that stuff that keeps hands attached and prevents stuff blowing up. I eventually got the second highest qualification any engineer can get in that field. Getting that qualification has kept me OUT OF WORK. The last time I saw a job specifically asking for that qualification I called up the recruiter to enquire. By that time my qualification needed to be renewed, but that was just a fee. I asked that if I was offered the job I'd pay the fee before starting. The reply was "Your the 4th or 5th person to put that too me today" and then they hanged up. That meant that other engineers had been experiencing EXACTLY the same situations I had. That's what being qualified means to engineers these days. You work you ass off to get your degree which with all the math and applied math classes is damn lot harder than any arts degree. If you then take the effort to get further qualified your job prospects can GO DOWN not up. People like Managers and their Human Resource minions don't like people who speak out and people with qualifications are often caught out. Their employment contacts often include clauses where "if you know something you must speak out" which clashes with the reality that if you speak out you get your contract cut WHICH HAS HAPPENED TO ME just like it happed to the submariner/engineer David Lochridge who's suing Oceangate. If you think engineers are angry over this sort of crap YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT and its about time there were some actual laws that protected us. Because when we're allowed to do our jobs YOUR LIVES are safer. - When your driving a car its mechanical engineers who designed the brakes to help you stop before the tree; - When you plug something in its electrical engineers who make it so you don't get shocked; - When you drink a glass of water its chemical engineers who make it so you don't get poisoned; - When you get in a jet to fly off on your holiday its aerospace engineers who keep the wings attached. We keep you clowns alive in 100s of ways every day. And before any of you complain just note you wouldn't even be able to read this with out engineers.
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  47. I'm Australian and this is not an American problem. We have the same problem here. It might not be as pronounced or obvious but we simply don't have our media holding these sorts of politicians accountable. A MAJOR PART of that has been the weaponization of the media along political lines which is why these people keep getting softball interviews all the time. AND YES - every Australian is aware of Rupert Murdoch's part in that, but then we tried warning people what he was like. The Brits didn't listen when we warned them and American didn't listen either.
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  48. I'm Australian and worked with a young engineer who had served in Afghanistan in the mid 2000s. When this subject came up he simply told me that ALL foreign forces were told NOT to burn poppy crops as it would cause too much economic hardship. This isn't a Taliban thing. This was going on long before the Taliban took control the first time. It continued under the occupation and this is just a continuation. This is what happens to a poor country when the world treats it like crap and offers NOTHING.
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  49. Australian here - OD has come under some scrutiny because of a couple of scandals at high schools they run here in Australia. What's gone on in those schools is a bit more than just creepy. Someone else commented "Handmaid's Tale and Da Vinci Code. What a terrifying combo." and that sums up what's been going on in these schools quite well.
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  50. What makes you think Western nations are any better? I'm Australian we had a deal to buy submarines form France and it was claimed they were too expensive at $90 Billion so we did a new deal with America that's got a budget 3 times that. I'm an engineer and when I looked into it there's at least $150 Billion that's unaccounted for as in there's no explanation of where any of that money is going. Right now we are spending almost $4 Billion on upgrades to one of America's ship yards WITHOUT ANY EXPLANATION WHY? We are buying new Frigates based on the latest British design but ours are costing 3x what the British ones are and again that's without any explanation. And those are just 2 examples. I'm certain others will have plenty.
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  51. Australian here - what sort of discussion do you think we had after our last majors fires in 2019? What do you think the MURDOCH media pumped out afterwards? AND YES we also have a housing crisis.
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  52. I'm Australian and here's something Kyle and all the others DON'T MENTION. As with any major election there's international observers as well as all the normal embassy staff and cultural attaches watching to see what happens. Its part of their job. Many are simply there to see what's going on and see how it might affect international relations BUT MANY are there in official capacities to see how they can run their own elections. This happens in Australia too. When we have a federal election there's 100s of people showed up to see how we do things. The Australian observers and all the others ALL reported WITHOUT FAIL that Biden won fairly, Trump lost fairly, there was no fraud and it was a clean election.
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  53.  @ProjectFarm  I just made a similar comment in another thread and this is a great thing you do in your tests. You consider durability. I'm an engineer in the process of getting my own shop set up. And value for money is VERY HIGH on my priority list. I haven't yet decided on a power saw for cutting down stock bars. I'm even considering making one, like a power hacksaw because it can be made from a windscreen wiper mechanism. But no matter what I do I'd need blades and blades cost money. So for someone like me, who doesn't need speed but needs DURABILITY these tests are quite valuable. For me the Diablo wins just slightly ahead of the Irwin, not because its speed (which is in the middle) but because it (like the Irwin) handled "abuse" better than the others. My bet is some of the other blades would be fantastic in both speed and durability if they were kept to the EXACT metal types they are designed for. Great test. If you are looking for suggestions. 1) Portable power BAND saws like the Milwaukee M18FBS, Makita DBP and Dewalt DCS. Yeah I know they are pricey but maybe a couple of the suppliers might want to see a head to head. And yeah making a test rig might be a bit of a hassle but I can help with concepts. 2) Sabre (reciprocating) saw blades. Yeah I know you could do a dozen videos on the different blades available. 3) Small diameter circular saws (blades <= 6" or 6.5") like the Milwaukee M12CCS and Dewalt DCS373 There's some really good reviews on those saws. I saw one with the Milwaukee and the reviewer was chopping up pallets and he commented that for cutting up pallets with the bigger battery it was better than a larger saw because it was lighter and easier to handle yet still had the grunt to do the job.
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  54. What you just described is one of the biggest issues in the world right now. People have lost so much faith in political leaders that people will listen to anything and if you only listen to one source then reality becomes what that source says it is. Trump didn't invent ignorance, propaganda or hyper-partisan news services he just found a way to weaponize it.
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  55. Yeah - I'm Australian and do you know what I find totally amazing about this are Nigel Farage's opening words. Nigel's own words "What Brexit's proved I'm afraid is that our politicians are about as useless as the Commissioners in Brussels were" Correct me if I misunderstand this: 1) He was elected to the European Commission, which means he's a POLITICIAN. 2) He immediately resigned after the Brexit vote. 3) He refused to be involved in any of the negotiations and left it to others to deal with what he created. SO WHAT DOES that make him in his OWN WORDS? By the way he was here in Australia recently on some sort of speaking tour. Can you guys kindly keep this clown in your own country we don't need him here.
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  56. In its simplest terms yes but it gets more complicated. This is one of the very few reviews I have ever seen that even attempts to cover both sides. On one hand it was an extraordinary technical success in that they got the thing to simply fly into space and get back. As he rightly point out without it way fewer people would have flown in space. On the other hand its completely wrecked manned exploration of space. At the end of the Apollo program they worked out that it was completely unfeasible to keep building giant single use rockets. At that time the initial suggestion was to extend the X-15 program into its later proposals. Its not widely known but there were proposals for D, E & F variants which included 2 seat, delta wing and scramjet variations. One of the initial proposals was for a 4 seat + cargo or 2 seat + extra cargo variant of X-15 Technology. BUT NASA were told they needed the Air Force to partner. That also lead to the CIA sticking their nose in as well. The Air Force wanted bombing capability and the CIA wanted 30tons of payload. Those are the 2 requirements that flipped X-15 technology THAT WORKED into the giant financially expensive hyper-complex difficult to maintain space shuttle. Where the Space shuttle screwed a generation out of any chance of space exploration was THAT IT COST SO MUCH TO OPERATE. That starved all the other programs out of money. Then that was compounded by all of the ISS components that HAD to be launched on the space shuttle which added extraordinary costs to the ISS which further starved other programs of money and resources. I know it sounds cold but the real failure of the shuttle wasn't the 2 crashes it was starving all the other programs of money and resources.
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  57. I'm Australian but went to college in America and I have many American friends here in Oz. The most amazing thing about this is that Americans are among the fastest people to say "You can't trust the government." Americans will give example after example of why you can't trust ANY government as if its almost a core belief. BUT BIZARRELY on this whole Nordstream explosion the number of Americans howling that "It had to be Russia. It had to be Russia. It had to be Russia." is almost insane. On another video thread I said "Why is anyone surprised that it was America?" and people went nuts. If you site things like Iraq they go even more nuts. If site things like Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo they go even more nuts. The craziest part is if you just consider "Who benefits?" then you get Russia - Zero and American gas exporters - Heaps. This was a no brainer from day 1.
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  58.  @Darrylizer1  It was the fact he claimed it as an original idea that triggered me. As an engineer I knew it wasn't a new idea, but then who can argue with a billionaire's PR machine?
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  59. I believe we are well beyond pattern and the correct term to use is "pathology."
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  60. I'm an aerospace engineer and you are right. Unfortunately when it comes to engineering being right means nothing. Who's paying and what they want is everything.
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  61. Her Name is Palki Sharma and until last year worked for WION and did the Gravitas reports which can be seen here on YouTube. She has since moved on and started her own thing much like Krystal Ball and Saagar moved on from the Hill. I'm Australian and have watched a few of her WION pieces in the past. No doubt she has some biases but then who doesn't. I have always found her very good on facts. She's actually pretty good at going straight at subjects like she does here. If I had a criticism its that in going straight at a subject she tends not to give other perspectives any consideration.
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  62. Well current count is 548,013 (March 16, 2021) -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ About this time last year I started comparing the COVID toll to the capacities of North American Football stadiums. Day by day, week by week it rose up that list and eventually went past Michigan Stadium's 107,000 around June 1, 2020. By Early August it went past the 162,000 Bristol Speedway can hold and by about mid November it went past the 257,000 (permanent seats) of Indianapolis Speedway. Now its more than that. Can you imagine taking the entire crowd of a Michigan home game and simply killing them all and then doing it 4 more times? Can you imagine taking the crowd at the Indy 500 (~400,000) and killing them all and then killing all the crowd at Bristol? Well now you know what COVID-19 has done to America and all Mitch McConnell can do is spew out idiotic lies pandering to his base.
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  63. I waiting for when she's announced as Trumps running mate for 2024. After all they don't want that traitor Pence back again do they.
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  64. Go look at her wikipedia bio, it makes for interesting reading. She was born in Russia and is a native Russian speaker who after her family immigrated studied Soviet history at Princeton. I have also watched Konstantin Kisin who's a Brit with a similar background. He too has been incredibly informative in recent days. Most notably neither of them needs an interpreter when Putin is speaking they can understand what he's saying. Konstantin has already pointed out that some of the news channel interpreters are slanting some of the definitions and not fully conveying the meaning of some of Putin's statements. That's their real value to us all right now. They can both explain what's being said because they are both native Russian speakers.
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  65. Check the reports Boeing are reported to be agreeing to a massive payment and Mark Forkner is expected to be facing charges.
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  66. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I'm Australian but did my degree in America in the late 1980s. In 1987 we had a special guest lecture one day by a NASA engineer who had just completed a project into what it would take to terraform Mars. We were exited because at that time we expected to build Space Station freedom in the 1990s go back to the Moon in the 2000s and start heading to Mars around 2020. His opening remark was "Its impossible and here's why!" He introduced us to 2 topics which I now call Planetary Mechanics and Planetary Dynamics. Planetary Mechanics is the straight forward calculation of "stuff" like how much air would you need to wrap mars in a layer of air 1km thick. That number is 178 Trillion tons of air and YES that's Trillion with a 'T'. The lesson from that is Planets are big and you need lots of stuff to make them work for humans. Planetary Dynamics are things like water cycles, carbon cycles, oxygen cycles,........ stuff that moves and changes and interacts with other things. We barely understand how these cycles work here on Earth and we have ZERO understanding of how to engineer them and tune them for stability. SORRY BUT NASA worked all this out over 30 years ago.
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  67.  @mariakelly90210  Among Christian Evangelicals they call it "speaking in tongues." I can give a very lengthy explanation on it but wont. Lets just leave it that he was being insanely arrogant, which is a behaviour Jesus said NOT TO DO.
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  68. As an Australian I love how you put as "America's Deputy" we prefer to call ourselves the "51st State" although we might have to change that if DC or Puerto Rico gets statehood. There is one major difference we have in the South China Sea. China has become our top trading nation mainly because we export a staggering amount of iron ore to China. In the year 2000 we were the #3 producer with 169 Million tons that year. By 2010 we had jumped over Brazil to 416 million tons. In 2017 it was 870 million tons. Almost all of that growth is to China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emm5aHAifMg On the other hand South Korea and Japan are our #2 and #3 trading partners. So that Sea Lane up the middle of the South China Sea is pretty damn important to us. And for reference India is #4 and America is #5 on our trading partners list. So if anyone tries to start some sort of SHlTFEST in the South China Sea its at the top of our agenda. In a twist to that. America's foreign policy (as Peter has pointed out numerous times) was ridiculous under Bush, almost non-existent under Obama and completely off the rails with Trump. Mid-2017, around 18 months after trump took office it was reported here in Australia that we had a major problem. Since the end of WW2 our #1 foreign policy was basically "What does America want now?" With Trump even that didn't exist, so DFAT (pronounced dee-fat, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) which is basically our equivalent (in some ways) to the US State Department, had to start thinking for itself. That was a serious problem because DFAT hadn't had to think for itself in decades. The report at the time (mid-2017) was that DFAT had made it past the worst of that as was starting to actually do its job. So yes Australia is still America's deputy in SE Asia, BUT America better not be of the mindset that we will just do what America wants. As for those subs wait for the shitfight that is about to start. Despite the current government we have in power having partisan support the cost of that program is so idiotically ridiculous that IT WILL BE MODIFIED or CANCELLED. Once the Australian population realises that the American Military Industrial Complex is trying to take us to the cleaners EXPECT a backlash.
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  69.  @lluow  Yeah but if no one points out any FACTS lets their BS go undisputed then their BS eventually becomes fact. George Orwell made that clear decades ago. One of the tings trolls rely on is having their crap go unchallenged. Its what Trump and many others have relied on. They only go on networks that never challenge them. Its like the quote “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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  70. In answer to your first question. She has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toledo in 1980 and received a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Missouri in 1984. And BOTH those schools and every medical authority needs to yank her credentials and licenses. But this isn't even the worst of her crap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherri_Tenpenny#COVID-19_misinformation
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  71. The most interesting aspect to this is that here in Australia we have just had some very dirty secrets revealed about our gold trading AND SOME OF IT INVOLVES RUSSIANS operating via Cyprus. The bulk of it seems to be money laundering but the Perth Mint has been caught selling gold that's deliberately tainted with silver. Note that this story was aired on TV at almost the exact same time that Peter posted his video. This is from ABC Australia -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko_ZmxGBaB4
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  72. You forgot the most important criminal thing she's done in their tiny brains. Taylor Swift has promoted thinking and having an opinion and then expressing it.
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  73. You are totally right except the correct title to this video should be "Yet another example of how the Corruption and Greed of Neoliberal Economics ruined an Industry." I'm an aerospace engineer with 30+ years working in industrial control systems and automation. I have mostly worked in manufacturing and mining with stints in oil & gas, water treatment, waste processing, dairy and a few other odd jobs. This mentality is so rampant across every business sector I have worked in. You might not think that the current disaster that's Boeing is related to this but it is. Boeing used to have Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas as competitors in jets for airlines. BUT according to Neoliberals that's not efficient so they let Boeing swallow up their competitors. Once you get monopolised control of a market there's no other way to increase profits but to cut costs or raise prices and ECONOMISTS are obsessed with cutting costs and management are obsessed with finding new costs to add to consumers. Economists and Business Managers brag about efficiency but have NO IDEA what efficiency actually is or what it means in any given industry. All of the sorts of activities I am hearing here about costs and practices I can give similar examples in all of the industries I have worked. I can even use it to explain why we haven't been back to the moon for over 50 years.
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  74. God didn't save the Cherokee, Apache, Sioux, Mohicans, Seminoles or any of the others when immigrants came so why's he going to intervene in this????
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  75. Elon's endless BS is about to finally crash his ass. The question is what will he now have to sell to pay for his own mouthing off.
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  76. As an engineer (aerospace) its utterly infuriating to see yet another con job. This idea is straight out of Star Wars. Remember what Luke's uncle Owen did for a living - moisture farmer.
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  77.  @aceocean3450  I'm going to try and step between your comment and andrew bruce's comment. Cornell West said it was a weak response and Kyle says it was measured. How about how LOADED the questioning by Stefanik was? When you consider just how polarised the whole situation and the chances of anyone getting in a measured response you'd almost be insane trying to answer any of these questions because no matter what you say there'll be someone who grabs some part of the answer and tries to beat you to death with it. Just consider how Stefanik was demanding a straight Yes/No answer to a complex question. Just look at how if you miss properly referencing something in a paper that you're considered a criminal. If anything this entire fiasco is just ANOTHER example that illustrates how dysfunctional our media, politics and education systems have become. Around 20 years ago when the very last WW1 soldiers died I remember people commenting how long it would take for us to forget how destructive WW1 was. Here we are now at a similar point where the last of the WW2 veterans are almost gone and we've forgotten how destructive that was and that it ended with nuclear weapons. Because we have people OPENLY discussing the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine and Gaza. INSTEAD of discussing how we stop that from happening we have this crap.
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  78. Question: Where's the $4 million Answer: We had a vision. Question: Where's the $4 million Answer: We had a vision. Question: Where's the $4 million Answer: We had a vision. Question: Where's the $4 million Answer: We had a vision. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Question: Where's the $4 million Answer: We had a vision.
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  79. I'm Australian and I totally agree on NOT getting involved in Indian politics. We have a lot of Indian students here, as well as many ex-pat Indians living and working in Australia. We also, due to our common links to the British have a lot of sporting ties to India (go look up cricket). Occasionally we have been drawn into Indian politics and you are dead right it is a maelstrom of pain and should be avoided at all costs. Having worked with a number of Indians ONE of the major issues is the basic structure of Indian Society. Its not simply that there are a number of tribal groups with issues going back centuries but there's also the Hindu caste system, which even if it gets explained to you does not register with Western brains. They are actually great people and their food is awesome and their love of sport even more awesome, BUT THEIR POLITICS is a place nobody should want to go.
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  80. Aerospace engineer here: You are 100% correct. I actually work in industrial control systems and automation which includes the safety systems. Anyone who's ever done maintenance knows that if you ignore the data you have failures. In the late 90s I had a boss who had race cars. I once asked one of the mechanics WHY the pulled the cars apart after going to the track. He told me they are looking for signs of things failing. They'd pull the entire gearbox out and dismantle it and crack test everything, because if a gearbox fails in a race car it costs so much and is potentially so dangerous that its not worth the risk AND RISK is really the major issue. One of the major issues in the world right now is we have an elite with extraordinary power and money who are willing to risk the entire planet because in their brains its acceptable and because these people are so sure of themselves that any other opinion does NOT MATTER. Just look at how people like Stockton Rush, Elon Musk and others respond to contrary opinions. Just this week a bunch of people walked out of OpenAI because they said Sam Altman has lost hos mind and wont listen to anyone.
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  81. Australian here and that summation is exactly what I see as an outside observer. I'm actually an engineer and have been trying to figure out why economists are driving all our economies into the ground. That story swings around to the Milton Friedman inspired, Ronald Reagan Reaganomics and Margret Thatcher Thatcherism revolution in the 1970s. Friedman was an absolute free market advocate. He believed that governments were inherently corrupt and incompetent and hos free market was the solution. Also out of the same University of Chicago mentality came the Neoconservative movement who also believed that governments were the problem not the solution which was also another thing adopted by Reagan. So there's been both a political and economic movement to push governments out of the way so that the business community could run everything. Margret Thatcher also introduced the world to external consultants effectively running government departments. YES - governments had always hired outside consultants but Thatcher jacked that through the roof. Here in Australia (right now) all of our government departments are effectively run by consultants (KPMG, EY, PwC,.......) and its a major problem. Go look up the PwC scandal. So you are SPOT ON that this is a huge problem in America, but its also a problem that America has exported to the rest of the world and we have all been stupid to accept it.
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  82. I'm Australian and one of those authors was interviewed on Australian TV and he scared the crap out of us. Ryan is completely missing the point here. This infographic might not match up perfectly with the document BUT IT MATCHES perfectly with the goals of the organisations that make up the conglomeration that's P2025.
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  83. This is the sort of video I love people like Thunderf00t doing. Thunderf00t's a Chemical Engineer and I'm an Aerospace Engineer who works in industrial control systems and automation. So much of what's in the media is infuriating. I used to install and program robots like the type he shows at 19:05, although not that brand. When Thunderf00t says they are used for _"tedious dangerous and monotonous jobs" he's 100% right. I've been informally studying economics for a few years and (like journalists) those clowns are always claiming that robots and automation costs jobs. Its a trope they endlessly spew out and its WRONG. Most people will not do things which are "tedious dangerous and monotonous" so we end up having to use robots and automation. But do you think any of the economists, journalists or other clowns will admit they don't know a damn thing about what they are talking about? Its infuriating how many people listen to clowns like Elon Musk, take them for geniuses and regurgitate their nonsense again and again and again.
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  84. As an aerospace engineer with 30+ years in automation, robotics and control systems across multiple industries I am sick and tired of trying to explain Elon's PR & BS campaign. The worst part of it is a couple of his companies have had extraordinary success. We can have all sorts of arguments over details but he's managed to get an electric vehicle into mass production. I've worked in the automotive sector and that's an Olympic Gold medal like achievement. We can have all sorts of arguments about SpaceX but that too has managed to develop to the point where they send real astronauts into space to do real astronaut work. Considering their launch costs are significantly lower than Boeing (with all their history) is another Olympic Gold medal like achievement. BUT THEN the list of stupidity is tragically long (if not longer). - Driverless cars, taxis and trucks which was never realistic (for all sorts of reasons) that's now directly contributing to the supply issue. There's a shortage of delivery drives for both small and large vehicles driven by the fact over the last decade people either left that industry or didn't train as truck drivers because they were told there was no future for people in those industries. - Starlink. Go look up Iridium the first space based communications system that was going to change the world. Yeah its still around but its 2019 income was NEGATIVE $162 million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Communications - Starship. Where do we start. Basically Elon says it will take 100 people to mars each trip. According to NASA it does NOT have enough space for 20. - Mars colony. Other than the facts that nobody has even flown there and back yet and Other than the fact Starship can't get the people he claims it can get there, then there is the not very small issue of HOW they stay alive when they get there considering NONE of the technology required has yet been proven to work. - Hyperloop. Other than its an idea that's over 100 years old and been dismissed many times there is only a single thing Elon got right about it and that's the first 4 letters of the name "HYPE". It will end up being studied along with things like Theranos as ANOTHER example of Techno Hype. *AND those are just for starters.
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  85. I don't know if he's on drug right now, but without any doubt there's been some serious damage from what he has done in the past. I think his biggest problem right now is trying to find a way to get out of the hole he's dug. Like a few others he backed Trump 100% and threw tons of his own money behind it. trying to accept he was conned must be devastating on top of the fact he's got damage from previous addiction. In some ways I feel sorry for the guy and other ways I just wished people would just stop giving him air time so that we can all move past this.
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  86. Yeah I hated my high school teachers who made me study Orwell. We did both Animal Farm and 1984. It was difficult and borderline a cruel thing to do to teenagers. Then Trump came along and justified it. Here's some more quotes I have collected in recent months. Enjoy “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980. And few more: "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ― Isaac Asimov “Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” ― Rod Sterling in his introduction to the Twilight episode “The Obsolete Man” originally aired on June 2, 1961 on CBS. “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche “I think it would be very, very, I think we’d have a very, very solid, we would continue what we’re doing, we’d solidify what we’ve done, and we have other things on our plate that we want to get done” ― Donald Trump answering the NY Times on his 2nd term agenda. August 2020. And a classic I recently re-discovered. “Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a state of utter confusion.” ― Colonel Flagg of the CIA From the TV Show MASH sometime in the 1970s.
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  87. ENGINEER HERE You and the rest of the Heat pump brigade NEED to STOP saying things like 300% EFFICIENCY. Every engineer learns that you cannot get above 100% efficiency for any thermodynamic process and it's called the Laws of Thermodynamics. This is why Heat Pumps use COEFFICIANT of PERFORMANCE (CoP) which is NOT the same thing as efficiency its a measure of performance. AND THERE IS A VERY SERIOUS ISSUE HERE with people misusing the word efficiency and confusing the general public. Right now there are all sorts of claims being made by various people over the efficiency of various power generation systems and how we use electricity. How do you think we can explain to the general public the efficiency of a nuclear power station is 36% and that's good or that gas turbines are about 46% and that's good or that combined cycle gas turbines are around 64% and that's good when you are claiming heat pumps are 300% *WHICH IS ADVERTISING JARGON?*. As an engineer I recently WASTED several days recently explaining to a client that ChatGPT was WRONG about an energy issue because ChatGPT can't tell the difference between FACTS and ADVERTISING JARGON. FYI - the issue was over grid stability and that certain dc-ac inverters are labelled as "pure sine wave inverters" and the fact is that NO inverter produces a technically pure clean sine wave output. (Go look at the Wikipedia page for power inverters). Its just ADVERISING JARGON. This particular piece of advertising jargon is about to come slamming into every society that has substantial amounts of renewables feeding into their grids via dc-ac inverters. Its a major issue in Ireland which now has a lot of wind power. The channel Real Engineering did a fantastic video on the subject. I doubt the flywheel solution will work because that fly wheel will still need a power input that wasn't explained. What the Real Engineering video highlights is the substantial difference between energy sources and how they pump energy into the grid. All through the fossil fuel era this was never a problem because all those massive steam turbines with their inertia did the job. Its actually the one thing projects like Hinkley Point C have going for it, but the pro-nuclear lobby are so stupid they don't understand or realise this.
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  88. Where do you start - Corruption - Conspiracy to Pervert the course of justice - Perverting the course of justice - Violation of civil rights As for Kapaln his links to Chevron have been well documented around the world. Krystal & Sagaar, Kyle Kulinski and others have been on this for weeks. Its good to see David finally discussing it.
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  89. Back in 1987 the USS Stark was hit by an Iraqi Exocet missile. The captain was relieved of command and court martialed. At the time of the missile strike it was late at night, the night time deck crew were in command and the captain was asleep in his cabin. I was in college and by chance took a USN ROTC class in navigation (cos I liked sailing). I asked the teacher and assistant who were both serving USN officers WHY was the Captain court martialed. Both didn't like the question but as a civilian they were very polite about it. They simply explained that when you are appointed a captain of ANY USN vessel you are 100% responsible for the actions or inactions of all those serving on your vessel. So irrespective that it was the night crew that made the mistake the Captain who had left them in charge was held accountable. Yes years, later it still puzzles me why commanding officers were never held accountable for the actions of personnel beneath then when it came to the issues at the Abu Ghraib and Bagram AFB prisoner scandals. it will be interesting to see how this goes.
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  90. Yeah as a Gen-Xr getting laugh at the Millennials who go suckered into this nonsense is the best LMAO moment I have had in a while and a great way to start 2024.
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  91. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship. You need to understand that the way history is taught to Americans is NOT LIKE how its taught in places like Europe or Australia. I studied history starting in Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia. Then we did Greece and Rome and then covered 2000 years of British History finally getting to 200 years of Australian history. Americans are taught American history and that covers 2 periods - before the revolution and after the revolution. Their basic grasp of any other history is almost ZERO and its why they get into so much trouble at times.
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  92. I hope these people all realise that when it gets to the point where it is no longer deniable just like happened with tobacco, they are not going to be simply sued, they are going to be dragged from their homes like the aristocrats in the French Revolution and its going to be just as ugly.
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  93. Joseph Stalin - “a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic” A few die in razor wire on the Texas border and its a tragedy where these people howl and scream that the border has to be defended. 19 students (aged from 9 to 11) and 2 teachers die at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas AND NONE of these people got in a convoy to go down to Texas and help out. The world has all but forgotten Sandy Hook, Columbine and other similar incidents. Maybe we should ask these people at what point it goes from tragedy to statistic to forgotten?
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  94. Well a while back I said that it was possible that the GOP and DEMs could each split into 2 parts (making 4 parts). 1: The Progressives 2: The new money Corporate Dems 3: The old money Corporate GOP 4: The delusional Trumpists Which 2 of those 4 groups actually fit together as a coalition of likeminded people?
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  95. Other than the fact Hutch handed Kyle his ass back to him on the subject of forcing Manchin with blackmail. Its good to see Kyle get put in his place with that sort of nonsense.
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  96. Watch Kayleigh McEnany's eyes in that first clip when she says there's cheering at Mar-a-Lago. Watch how here eyes dip. I don't think she believes a single word she said.
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  97. June, July August, September October, November. WTF this is old news and should be filed under who TF cares.
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  98. David's missing 1 point - the pro-Trumpers don't care what's true and/or what's provable. They operate in another reality with alternate facts and in that reality the Trumps are God's chosen saviors and everyone else is a traitor or liar or delusional clown. Rudy's playing to that crowd and they will believe whatever he says just as they have been doing for months.
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  99. I wouldn't call this a busted video because he keeps pointing out where the Veritasium video was right. Its more like he's a more comprehensive explanation of what's going on with electrostatics and various fluids.
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  100. He's a narcissistic sociopath, who's been allowed to get away with every thing he's ever done. What else do you expect.
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  101. ENGINEER HERE: There isn't one of these projects that doesn't have some merit and some real payback to us the general population of Australia. The real problem is HOW these projects are planned from the start and that includes the contracts that are rarely negotiated in good faith by either or both the government or the contractors. So for everyone interested here's 4 basic project items and for anyone who has ever done a project and wondered what went wrong simply ask which of these wasn't done well enough. Sorry if some of this is longish but I hope it will explain a number of things and how to NOT have projects go wrong. 1) SPECIFICATION: This is the basic what, why and how. What are we going to build - a bridge, a road, a building, a sports stadium or even a submarine. Why are we building this bridge, road, building, sports stadium or submarine. The what and why don't need much detail. Its can be as simple as, We need this bridge to go over that river because the old bridge needs replacing. BUT the HOW must be detailed and most importantly it must explain what STANDARDS must be met. Most people and especially lawyers don't realise that most engineering standards are NOT required by law or regulation. There's actually very few standards that are required to be met by law and yes this stuns most people. So its incredibly important that every standard that a project needs is absolutely listed and described for its applicable use IN THE CONTRACT(s). The single biggest issue with lawyers and engineering projects is NOT what they put in the contracts but what they leave out. See the comment at the bottom. 2) RESOUCES: In all engineering projects there are 3 main resources - labour, machinery and money. Labour from top to bottom needs to not only be available but also the required skills needed need to be available. This is an area where non-engineering human resource people are utterly hopeless. For all their claims (and I have experience with this issue) they CANNOT tell the difference between an mechanic and mechanical engineer, electrician and an electrical engineer or any other engineering skill set. Machinery is another monster bug for engineers. Its no use planning to rent a 50ton crane when you need to lift a 100ton object AND YES THAT HAPPENS. You have to have people who know their subject plan what they need and when they need it. If you suddenly have to rent things like cranes, digging machines, scaffold,... etc. the people supplying those services can charge whatever they like because they know that holding up a billion dollar project is worse than paying ridiculous money to rent something. Money is the worst thing engineers have to deal with because there's always some clown waving an economics degree like a caveman swinging a club screaming "What's the business case for that?" or "Who's going to pay for that?" In 99.9% of cases the reason why its costing more than planned is because the economics clown interfered back at the planning stage. 3) TECHNICAL VIABLITY: This is something that most engineers hate because it involves Donald Rumsfeld's 3 knowns. There's known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns. Planning is about having as many known knowns as practical and the best way to have that is CLEAR SPECIFICATIONS. Think about the Apollo program. It had the very simple 2 PART specification. 1 - get a man to the moon and 2 - get him back SAFELY. That was why they could go there 9 times and land 6 times and not lose anyone in the process. The times they lost people were in training accidents where they were less clear about what they were doing and people were rushed and NOT checking properly. 4) COMPLETION DATE which is also called CLOSE OUT: This is possibly the worst thing done in all projects and again goes back to the specifications. If a job is NOT clearly specified then its gets very murky to what it means to be finished. Despite what people might think an unclear completion is music to a contractor because its easy to make a lot of money late in a project. Most of the major items are already in place so its mostly labour or variations and both are more money on top of profit. As we can all see from some of the enquiries into the Big 4 consultancies getting repeat work is what they want more than anything. In an engineering the equivalent to that are the contract variations at the end of a project. The way to avoid that is by (right up front) detailing in the specification: "This is what we want and this is what we mean by being finished." Go check any project you know of and you'll quickly see the problems that happen when one of these things is not done. And a perfect example of bad planning is Snowy 2.0. Yes as an engineer I can emphatically state that it is a project with merit and eventually we the Australian people will benefit from it. HOWEVER when you plan on building a power station you also need to connect it to the power grid. That was NOT done in the initial plans and that's where the biggest cost blowouts are. Plus the contractors KNOW they have us by the short and curlies because what's the point of building Snowy 2.0 if you don't connect it to the grid. It has to be connected so they have us. Its a perfect example of the problem of what's left out of the contract.
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  102. Shite man are you trying to be logical with them? Its hard to be logical with people who think "Everything they do is patriotic and Anything else is a crime"
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  103.  @gravanon1577  Correctio: Its easier to be a BRAINDEAD DK-HED than a sensible person because one requires the incredible effort of thinking and the other doesn't.
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  104. HEY SAL minor correction and I only know this because I looked up this topic a few years ago because we generally refer to Captain Cooks famous vessel as the HM Bark Endeavor but also sometimes referred to it as the barque Endeavor because she was also a barque (3 masts). The STS Leeuwin II is a three-masted barquentine, (NOT brigantine) named after the Dutch galleon Leeuwin which mapped the south-west coast of Australia in 1622 Simple thing regarding ships with square rigged masts - Brig - 2 masts with BOTH masts square rigged. Brigantine - 2 masts with the foremast square rigged and the aft mast fore-aft gaff rigged. Barque - 3 or more square rigged masts, but the aft mast can be fore-aft gaff rigged. Barquentine - 3 or more masts with only the foremast square rigged and the rest fore-aft gaff rigged. There's are nuances to these terms and the interpretations are flexible. If you want to get confused by all of this go look up Wikipedia and include in your research Schooners. Ketchs and Yawls.
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  105. Ryan I like your channel. You are usually very informative and even in this case you've been informative, but as you can see from my other comments in this thread and many other comments on the page the opinion is you got this wrong. Your mistake (as I see it) was not being clear that you are ONLY CRITIQUING & COMPARING the info graphic to a single Project 2025 document. As many others are saying you are ignoring what the authors of Project 2025 have said in interviews and said at the conferences. You were very critical recently of Sagaar Enjeti, and rightly so. Sagaar made some ridiculous statements regarding Ukraine and America's involvement, BUT YOU have made a similar mistake here. You have taken the infographic out of the context that it not only aims at the single document but also at the overall aims of project 2025. I suggest you look at the analysis of Project 2025 done by Legal Eagle as well as go watch the interview Commander Bryan McGrath, USN (Ret.) gave on Ward Carroll's channel regarding Project 2025 and the US Military. Also on a point of math. Your Graphic at 22:28 claims that the "Truth score" is 17% (5 out of 29) but you also show that there were 15 items you claim are partially true which means the actual "Truth score" lies between 17% and 51.7% (15 out of 29). So just putting up that 17% is misleading by you own standard. HOWEVER if you take the other 14 items and put them against the other comments and publications made by the various organisations that make up the Project 2025 conglomerate WHICH IS WHAT OTHERS HAVE DONE then the "Truth score" might be as high as 100%. Note: I deliberately use the word conglomerate and NOT a word like coalition or group, because the Think Tanks behind Project 2025 are first and foremost the Public Relations and Propaganda arms for various CORPORATE interests. Most notably the Heritage Foundation for decades was the principle PR&P for Phillip Morris to prevent government regulation of tobacco, while the CATO Institute has been the principle PR&P for the Koch family. SO PLEASE Don't go and wreck the good work you have been doing by doing the very thing you recently called someone else out for AND YES I do genuinely mean you do good work, just not this time.
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  106. Actually this is some of the worst I have seen him do. WTF did climate change have to do with any of this debate other than ABSOLUTELY NOTHING? But then he was better than James Lindsey who was just a pompous clown. I started watching Triggernometry about 2 years ago and I thought it was pretty damn brilliant. They had on a variety of (as they put it) "interesting people for interesting conversations." How I found the channel was their talk with Mark Blyth the Scott who's at Brown U. in America. A couple of months back they had on Andrew Doyle who spoke about the "Language Puritans" and that was awesome. There's some of the woke stuff I find repulsive but Andrew Doyle simply cut it to pieces. I'm pretty much agree that Wokeism (as it is at the moment) has gone too far or at least some within that side have gone too far. Especially with those who are trying to force language, like Andrew Doyle pointed out. So why TF has Konstantin gone off on this climate change thing? And its not the first time I have seen him take cheap shots at Greta Thunberg. I don't know what his bug with her is but trolling a teenage girl is fairly SHlT behaviour. And you need to ask WHY?
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  107. YOU'RE RIGHT in these cases we should always look at what the crime to at least check what happened. There's a Wikipedia page on this and it includes details of the crime. SORRY for the length of the reply. The Reverend Charles Sennett Sr. hired Billy Gray Williams who then hired Kenneth Smith and John Forrest Parker to help him kill Elizabeth Sennett the reverend's wife. Williams paid Smith and Parker $1,000 each plus extra money to buy a gun. They opted to NOT buy a gun and spent the money on drugs. On Wikipedia it states "Smith crept up on Elizabeth and decided to beat her. As Elizabeth struggled for her life; a "fireplace set, a walking cane, and a piece of galvanized pipe" were used to beat her. Parker also later joined Smith in beating her. After Elizabeth was beaten, she was then stabbed eight times with the survival knife, which caused her death." If that doesn't meet the details for depraved indifference I don't know what does. THAT SAID HOWEVER I also agree that this method is clearly meets the grounds of cruel and unusual punishment AND YES there's a simple alternative. A number of years ago when the execution debate was being raised in Britain an English documentary maker looked at the methods. I saw this documentary on Fairfax Media's "Melbourne Age" website before they made it a pay for view. The film maker found that Carbon Dioxide is used to stun and kill animals. Its very quick and clean because it can cause unconsciousness in seconds. Most of the time animals are then blead to death without trauma. I remember the 1986 Lake Nyos disaster in northwestern Cameroon when a cloud of CO2 gas killed 1,746. It was so quick that most of the victims just stopped where they were with only a few of them taking anything more than a few steps. The reason why I remember this was because in the documentary the film maker approached the chief medical officer in America (I forget if he was federal or state) and said there's an alternative that's very quick and painless in fact a person might experience a moment of euphoria just before passing out. The response of the medical office still chills me to this day. I can't remember his exact response other than the last words. His reply to the film maker started with (I think) "I'm not interested." but definitely finished with "Its a punishment. Its not meant to be nice." Kenneth Smith is certainly guilty of depraved indifference but I would also contend the people responsible for how he was put to death are also guilty of depraved indifference especially when there is a painless alternative to putting people to sleep painlessly.
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  108. AUSTRALIAN HERE: (and I say this as a friend) The United States of America has NEVER Given a damn about human rights or international justice UNLESS IT WAS CONVENIENT AT THE TIME and to be fair US America's allies have backed it on many of the occasions it has stomped all over the basic rules it promotes. I cringe EVERY time I hear one of our politicians or journalists mention the phrase "rules based order" when it comes to countries like Russia. Every so often someone asks what they mean by "Rules based order" and it then goes from BULLSHlT to Embarrassing BULLSHIT in less than a heart beat. You Americans really do need to get over your view of yourselves on the World stage and don't panic so do a lot of other countries including Australia. In recent years we got a several "Wake TF Ups" from the small nations in the Pacific that we have taken for granted. Repairing that damage will take us at least a decade. Fixing America's reputation is actually going to be the single hardest task of the next POTUS whether its Kamala or someone else AND ITS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN QUICKLY. Unfortunately, thanks to the internet we can now see all of America's faults both internally and externally.
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  109. There's a concept called "strict liability" and its everywhere in every nation. I found out about it when I got my pilots license because all aviation law world wide is "strict liability." What it means is any law classified as strict liability ignores what you DID or DIDN'T KNOW. Nothing matters - if you broke that law you broke that law and you have to face what the laws says. That's why its called strict - if you did it there are no excuses. He's broken an aviation law and there is NO WAY out of it. Its now possible for ANY pilot (private or commercial) to refuse to fly him anywhere for the rest of his life. It probably wont happen in practice, but it is possible because the paramount rule any and all pilots is the "safety of the flight." So its possible that ANY airline pilot can refuse to have him on board citing "safety reasons." Its one of those things a few idiot rock stars & actors have found out after they went nuts on flights.
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  110. Actually Afghanistan has always had places of good agriculture. Its always had valleys where crops were productive. Afghanistan's problem is simple - its been the punching bag of superpowers since the 1980s.
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  111. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship and this is a mixture of unbelievable sadness at watching a country that gave me an education just implode and furious rage at these people who were given a boost by another Australian, Rupert Murdoch. I don't know how we will ever make up for what he's now done to 3 countries.
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  112. ​ @ErikS-  I am an engineer with 30+ years. You-re right he lacks a lot of experience but from my past interactions with him on this channel he is UNLIKE SO MANY OTHERS willing to engage people who know more than he does. As a counter point so you know what I consider good and bad science and tech channels. A while back I corrected a fairly basic mistake made by the Common Sense Skeptic who's a real Elon Musk basher and being honest he's well justified in bashing Elon. But on this one video where they were trying to promote a long forgotten and dismissed alternative to getting into space I corrected them on a point regarding air launched systems. FYI - My degree is in aerospace and I knew what they said was 100% WRONG. I got a damn arrogant reply telling me I didn't know what I was talking about and should remove my comment. I then replied back and sited all sorts of examples PROVING their comment was wrong. They then deleted me from EVERWHERE on their pages. So YES Ziroth is young he does lack experience BUT IS WILLING TO LISTEN while so many others are pretty SHlTHOUSE.
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  113. He forgot to mention that Chavez has been DEAD FOR 7 YEARS.
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  114.  @transformerstuff7029  The world isn't in trouble. Anyone who doesn't have this technology is in trouble, because no matter what agreements they have they are at the mercy of the countries that have this technology. When your society requires a specific technology just to function you are at the mercy of who supplies that technology. Its why the Chinese captured and trapped the Rare Earths industry. Its why other countries have done the same in other spaces.
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  115. No its actually a propaganda machine, its straight out of the playbook of the Soviet newspaper Pravda ->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda
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  116. As an Australian there are moments like this I feel like we cannot apologise to the world enough for the existence of Keith Rupert Murdoch or his family. We warned the Brits what he was like when he moved there and they didn't listen. We tried to warn America when he moved there and very few listened there as well. Some of the few who did produced the 2004 documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" which details how he operates.
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  117. I was about to say the same. Here in Australia we have had to deal with this stuff and face up to and own some damn ugly mistakes from the past and we are still far from settling it. There's been some seriously ugly stuff that has been done in the island states around Australia and some of it has involved Australian companies. The big problem is that no matter what government we elect they promise change and deliver NOTHING. You are so right this happening all over the world and its all to the benefit of a small minority of billionaires.
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  118. HEY KYLE - Can you please get it right. NOBODY is sending money to Ukraine they are sending equipment, most of which has been excess stock pile or older stockpile that was dues for disposal anyway. The actual money is being spent in the countries aiding Ukraine. I'm Australian and all of our assistance ahs been in equipment (mostly vehicles and cannons). All of the vehicles we sent have had to be replaced which has meant jobs. Its very much like exporting product except the country to where you are exporting is NOT PAYING because you're gifting the hardware. SECONDLY: As to the GOP. They are quickly becoming a very serious issue to EVERY NATION that does business with America. Here's a couple of serious questions we are now starting to ask. How do we do business with America when none of us can be certain of the deal being honored? How does international trade continue reliably when most of it is based on the US Dollar? Do any of you Americans realise what the Breton Woods agreement actually did to world trade when the allies all agreed to use the US Dollar as the World's reserve currency? Even though Breton Woods is no longer the effects are still there. Almost all international oil is traded in USD with the exception of Russian oil. Most of the cars and many other products traded across international borders is all done in USD. Even when a dela does NOT involve America at all the deal often involves USD. Either the deal is directly done in USD or the currency exchanges involve backing from the USD. That's what being the Worlds Reserve Currency means. Simply put NOBODY on the planet can afford to have the US Dollar destabilize with maybe the exceptions of Russia, North Korea and Iran AND even they can't really let it happen because they have billions tied up in American assets or hidden away in American banks in places like Idaho. YES Idaho, which has become one the best places on the planet to hide money along with Delaware and Texas.
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  119. AUSTRALIAN HERE with an outside observation. FIRST - I think your sentiments like others (and I can repeat this to those others) is spot on. I actually went to college in America and I can barely believe what this court has done. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and on many occasions they explained to me how the America system is supposed to work. This decision is nothing like anything they ever explained to me. SECOND - this is obviously a massive deal to the American people, but its also a massive deal to Australia as well as every other country America deals with including places like Russia, Iran, North Korea,.... etc. For countries like Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea,.... America is our most important trading partner and our most important security partner. So its DOUBLY important that the person we have to deal with YOUR PRESIDENT is a reliable person. For everyone else there's the simple facts that America has nuclear weapons, is 1/4 of the worlds economy and the US Dollar (US$) is the worlds reserve currency. Do any of you realise that almost all international trade is either done directly in US$ or the currency exchanges are backed by US$? That's the real power America has in the world and for most of the last 75 years it has worked brilliantly and we have all benefitted except for those few times when America did something stupid like you did with the 2007-08 GFC and we all suffered. So its incredibly important to the rest of the world that POTUS is a RELIABLE and RESPONSIBLE person who is CONSTRAINED by LAW. P.S. I really do care about America. I had a great time there at college and want to see you back at your best.
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  120. The amazing thing about this entire discussion is they are NOT even getting into the real issue which is the staggering power of Harvard and Yale which was where the Federalist Society started along with the University of Chicago. RIGHT NOW there are 4 Harvard and 4 Yale graduates on SCOTUS and the other one (Barrett) is a known FS member. When the last judge was selected the short list of 7 had 5 who were Harvard or Yale educated. Going back to the previous generation there were fewer Yale but more Harvard. You have to go back tot he 60s to start seeing more judges from a broader educational background. *Its as if America's other Law Schools simply don't matter. * FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. Other than my personnel relationship with America, Australia is about to start spending several hundred billion on American submarines. JUST LIKE many other nations WE CANNOT AFFORD America to be unreliable and right now 4 out 4 sections of your governmental system are malfunctioning. A simple summary goes like this: SCOTUS is out of control and is handing out POLITICAL direction rather than legal decisions. The House is riddled with maniacs from BOTH parties who are more interested in which stock to buy or sell. The Senate is full of selfish geriatrics from BOTH parties who simply wont retire. The White house is being fought over by a pair of Geriatrics both of who are unfit for an office of that can decide the use of nuclear weapons. In ANY OTHER country Trump be in prison for January 6th and in many countries he would have already been executed. Notably Saudi Arabia and YES we know about the $2 Billion Jared has. Before anyone tells an Australian or anyone else NOT interfere let me inform you about AMERICAN interference in Australia. 4 AMERICAN companies (consultancies) basically run our government. One or more of Deloitte Australia, Ernst & Young (EY), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and KPMG are involved in almost every government decision at both the Federal and State level. Even when we get a change in Government either Left to Right or Right to Left all that happens is that certain government officials swap places with their counterparts in the consultancies. We ACTUALLY CAUGHT PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) committing industrialised tax evasion and fraud. Despite the public outcry nobody has been charged and PwC has recently received NEW government contracts. These consultancies and our government bureaucracy include many graduates of Harvard and Yale.
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  121. I'm Australian but went to college in the late 80s. I did engineering but a pack of my frat brothers were pre-law so I ended up in many discussion about the US Constitution. I am staggered at what's happened. FIRST - that civics is no longer taught because Americans WERE once proud that they knew and understood their country and how it functioned better than other people from other nations understood their constitutions. They were stunned how little I knew of the Australian Constitution. SECOND - I am amazed that things like the Patriot Act exist, as it stomps on the 4th Amendment. Of all the Amendments we ever discussed the 4th was the most discussed. They all looked at Soviet Russia and the Eastern Block and said "NO - we will not have that stuff." THIRD - (And I used to raise this) What would happen when America was faced with an angry frustrated mob that didn't care. My way of putting it back then was "What do you think a starving person would do - accept the money in your right hand or kill you for the hamburger in your left hand." In those days there was the famine in Ethiopia and Iran-Contra and my point was: "Selling guns and bombs to maniacs wasn't sound foreign policy." And that was over a decade before 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Benghazi and lots of other stuff. What I was totally wrong about was that I never guessed the real threat to America was coming from its far right. In those days there was a series of sex scandals and fraud scandals with the fundamentalist preachers. So we all thought the far radical right were done. From everything my frat brothers and others told me this is NOT the America the founding fathers envisioned or wanted. I truly do hope America finds a way back from this madness.
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  122. One of Asimov's great observations. Another of his that someone else pointed out last year is: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  123. As an Australian I 101% applaud what your country is doing and hope you do well out of this. I have watched a couple of stories recently about Chile's lithium industry. if your nation manages this properly your great great grandchildren will thank you. I'd suggest your nation puts as much as it can afford into a sovereign wealth fund like the Norwegians have done. DO NOT do it like AUSTRALIA has. Go and hire some Norwegians, don't let the Americans, Swiss, Australians or anyone else tell you how to do a sovereign wealth fund. I really do wish the best for your country in this. Be better than us.
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  124. Worst part of it is Tim makes an awful lot of us men look bad. Tim thinks he's some sort of problem solver and he's NOT. He's part of the problem.
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  125. I'm an Australian and one of my best mates is a Glaswegian. The saddest part of this is when I look over my shoulder we have them here too. Just the other day they started ranting about the Pfizer vaccine being used here and making wild claims. One person who actually claimed to have a 20 year background in biotech claimed the Pfizer vaccine was "experimental gene therapy." Unfortunately I have another friend with a PhD in Recombinant DNA Research who explained to me years ago how he did his work. Another person claimed the Pfizer vaccine was even registered as "gene therapy." Unfortunately for that clown I was easily able to find our governments website on that and download the documents and SHOW EVERYONE that, that was a fabrication. Sadly I think EVERY country has its idiots and that social media has given them a soap box to share their collective stupidity.
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  126. If a glass of beer can kill a few 100 braincells then this guy is about 1/2 a glass form becoming a Flat Earther. I am an engineer. I find this sort of stuff incredibly frustrating because we end up having to WASTE TIME explaining why its BS instead of discussing solutions that can actually do some good. I have worked with electric motor controls for 30+ years and the idea of using regenerative braking to power CO2 removal is so idiotic its barely believable someone would publish something this stupid.
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  127. I'm Australian and worked with a young engineer who had served in Afghanistan in the mid 2000s. When this subject came up he simply told me that ALL foreign forces were told NOT to burn poppy crops as it would cause too much economic hardship. This isn't a Taliban thing. This was going on long before the Taliban took control the first time. It continued under the occupation and this is just a continuation. This is what happens to a poor country when the world treats it like crap and offers NOTHING.
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  128. Australian here - we know who Eric Prince is and we know what sort of person he is. He is everything America needs to wake up to regarding what went on during the Bush-Cheney years. One of these days America will need to accept what it let people like him get away with.
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  129. Yeah it must never be forgotten what Newt did when he was speaker, because of lot of what he did was a major step along the path that lead to where America is right now. Plus that's had a huge flow on effect to the rest of the world. That whole deregulation and globalisation push during that time lead to the 2008 GFC. A lot of what's going on right now has origins back in the 90s, 80s, & 70s and most of it goes back even further.
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  130. You're not alone on that point. There's a lot of comments along the line of how much of a disappointment she's turned out to be.
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  131. Until Trump supporters want to discuss the FACT that Jared and Ivanka got jobs in the White House they can take any discussion of Hunter Biden and shove it. Hunter Biden might have got a job off of daddy's name and position, but at least it wasn't in the White House, and his $50k a month is only $600k a year while Jared and Ivanka made $135 Million in 2018. You idiots have been duped by a classic "look over there" scam.
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  132. It only took a few seconds -> I'm a patriot and the legal system doesn't work because it didn't do what I want. It was only fraud in the states where they voted in ways I didn't like. Hilary Clinton might be a piece of crap but at least she and her supporters could accept a loss, even if she kept blaming others.
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  133. Go back to David's interview with Yanis Varoufakis who said crypto's a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. He also called the pro-crypto people dangerously ignorant and explained why. Prof Mark Blyth had a great answer to a Bitcoin question. He said its a joke if you think its money. For money to be money its got to be 3 things - a unit of account, a unit of exchange and a way to store value. Its just too volatile to be any of those things. He said the Chinese central bank had the best description its "digital gambling asset". Mark Blyth also pointed out that the printing of money is one of the cornerstones of state power. He said if you threaten that you get a Cersei Lannister solution. Crypto has all the hall marks of a techno fad with a lot of fanbots claiming it to be the savior of humanity or next great thing. It has adherents who know nothing about even basic economics. Its just another over hyped technology and they are buying into the fad. What everybody forgets is that, because its a finite system for every winner on Bitcoin there's a loser who had paid for that win. Its just like the advertising for casino's and gambling - they never talk about the losers who pay for other people to win. NONE of the pro-crypto people talk about those people who have lost at crypto let alone those who have lost everything.
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  134. AUSTRALIAN HERE: I'm an engineer and did a water treatment plant is Saskatchewan back in 2017-18 so I got a front row seat to Trump tearing up NAFTA and some of Canada's infrastructure issues. ALMOST everything Peter is saying about Canada has an equivalent in Australia. We have the wealthy mineral states that are at the moment howling and screaming about paying for other states. We have a monster set of coupled problems with immigration, power, water and housing. Australia's big problem with all of these issues are the ECONOMISTS and CONSULTANTS (many of whom are economists) that now dominate the decision making processes of government. In that I don't think we are much different to many other nations. The main problem with economists is they all study the same market fundamentalism that came out of the University of Chicago (Chicago School Economics). They are all taught to believe markets solve everything and can magically fix things like infrastructure. The simple fact is this is an ideology. There was no data, no analysis or anything else to base it on. Its a belief system that at its core is based on Milton Friedman's infamous "Greed is good" BULLSHlT. Its been fantastic if you are in the higher strata's of Western Society and been a nightmare if you aren't.
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  135. NO what Lindsay is actually saying is "If I don't do this and scream endlessly to protect Trump with everything I have he'll release the damning blackmail he has on me!" Remember how Lindsey was as anti-Trump as any of the GOP ever was and then Trump had a very short meeting with him out on a golf course and INSTANTLY Lindsey flipped into an ardent Trump bootlicker. WHAT DID TRUMP SAY to Lindsey out on that golf course????????
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  136. That's NOT his gift, its his superpower. Like Elon Musk - he's fortunate enough that there's a couple of areas he is actually good at or understands well and that convinces people he knows what he's talking about in everything else. In Zeihan's case he's very good at interpreting geopolitics and demographics. YES I have heard people say he doesn't understand either but every time I have asked those claimants HOW or WHY they never answer back. In Elon's case its his understanding of what technologies he can sell to the World and identify people who are capable of making that technology work. He proved that with SpaceX and Tesla. When he let those people he hired do their jobs they did goo things like the first Teslas and the Falcon rockets. When Elon himself got into those companies and started directing they produced crap like the Cybertruck and Hyperloop.
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  137.  @adnaneajroudi7856  What???
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  138. Don't forget he's just claimed the judges are corrupt, but he appointed many of those judges.
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  139. I'm Australian and DAMN THIS IS SERIOUSLY creepy. This isn't just regular Right Wing nut-job creepy. This is "Silence of the Lambs" creepy.
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  140. As a U. of Illinois graduate all I can say is I'm sorry. Every University in the world has those they should never have let in let alone graduate - she's one of ours. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  141. Americans and all other Westerners NEED to pay attention to this because its a great example of the use of political 1/2 truths. The problem with political 1/2 truths is that because of the bit that's true THE LIE gets credibility and gets believed or accepted by the audience. ITS TRUE America (the mainland) was never bombed during WW1 or WW2 or during the Wars in Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq, or Afghanistan BUT IGNORES THE FACTS THAT 1000s and 1000s of Americans were in those conflicts and DIED in those conflicts. IT IGNORES the incredible expense paid by the American people in straight financial cost of those conflicts. IT IGNORES the fact Parts of America have been attacked in the past Hawaii and the Aleutians in WW2. Washington was actually invaded and parts of it burned to the ground buy the British during the War of 1812 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington. What about New York and 9/11 or the wars that followed? Aren't those scars enough for Tucker to be proud of being American? Aren't all the 1000s of American service men and women who died in Iraq & Afghanistan enough for Tucker to be proud of being American? Aren't all the 1000s and 1000s of American service men and women with permanent damage from serving in Iraq & Afghanistan enough for Tucker to be proud of being American? You see when you tell a political 1/2 truth its then very easy to tell lies and have the audience believe them or for the audience to completely ignore historical facts
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  142. @Alvin Walker Sorry mate but like many other people in the world you are under the false apprehension that anything can just be reverse engineered and that's just NOT TRUE. Sorry for the long answer, but its not just for you it for anyone else wondering. I have degree in aerospace and 30+ years work in automation, control systems and robotics. Some stuff just can't be reverse engineered even when you know that task. It could be a lack of skills, knowledge or resources. Some things are just hard to do. I see it in robotics and CNC all the time. Yes there's been some extraordinary advances that make stuff easy for people to do. But once you start chasing precision its just keeps getting harder. A good example is respirators. Early in the COVID pandemic there was a world wide shortage of respirators and there were many announcements from a variety of amateurs and professionals. There's a YT channel called Real Engineering that's hosted y an engineer who once worked at one of the worlds largest manufacturers of respirators. He did a video on how respirators HAVE to work. It wasn't just what they do but HOW and WHY they do what they have to do. All the amateurs and professionals missed the fact that respirators aren't just an air pump they are hyper-precision air pump. They have to be because they are helping an already gravely ill person possibly with lung damage stay alive. That requires extremely accurate pressure and flow sensors that require very specialised electronics to read them. That alone makes them hard but then you also need software that's super reliable and a pump that can be precisely controlled. Its not impossible its just damn hard and can't be done with normal industrial parts which was what so many people proposed. If you aske the simple question - can it be reversed engineered? The answer is always yes, but that doesn't answer the question of how hard it is to do. That respirator company the guy from Real Engineering worked for released free to the world an older already certified respirator design. All anyone had to do was sign an agreement on the intellectual property and they could just start manufacturing respirators. The problem was many countries just didn't have the skills to make respirators or they couldn't get some of the parts. PLUS in many cases countries didn't have enough nurses trained to the level needed to operate & monitor respirators. This Dutch chip machinery isn't one technology its a collection of hyper-precision technologies anyone of which would be incredibly difficult to reverse engineer even if they handed over all the details and design documentation.
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  143. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. As an outsider looking in but also as one who has spent time in America I think America has sadly underestimated Jimmy Carter. His diplomatic work AFTER leaving office has ended up being incredibly significant and far more significant than other Presidents. If you go and look at the Wikipedia page for him at the end of the 2nd paragraph under Legacy - public opinion it says : "Although his presidency received a mixed reception, his peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts since he left office have made Carter renowned as one of the most successful ex-presidents in American history." I think that's actually a very good summary of how Carter is seen around the world. I think that if an HONEST history of America in the post World War 2 Era is written (that's not a partisan narrative) Carter might well be regarded as the BEST ex-US president of the era. He certainly underestimated how ruthless some of Reagan's people were, but then we are only now really starting to find out just how ruthless those people were, but then he also was more successful than anyone else at SOLVING the Middle East issues. He got settlement between Israel & Egypt which has been forgotten by too many. He tried harder than anyone else to settle the Israel-Palestinian issue and seemed to be ready whenever needed to go anywhere he was called upon to help AND he did those things without any need for a parade of fanfare.
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  144. I'm Australian but went to college and did my degree in America in the late 80s. I sort of saw this coming. I can remember channel surfing and coming across these freaked out bible bashing fundamentalists. When ever I asked about them people just dismissed them as "fringe" others were "Yeah we know its a problem but don't know how to fix it" because there is no cure for being stupid. I love America, I love the good parts of American culture but they have let this nonsense get so far out of control in the last 20-30 years that its hard seeing America continue. More than anything America needs to deal with its billionaire class and deal with it soon and YES I know Rupert Murdoch was born in Australia.
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  145. Lets show how well educated we are by protesting against bigotry by being bigots.
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  146. Me too. I have a degree in aerospace and work in industrial control systems and when it comes to engineering topics Peter is FULL of BS. He simply does not know or does not care. Peter is a100% wrong about the differences between solid fuel and liquid fuel rockets. Its liquid fuel rockets that are far more complex than solid fuel. In simplest terms solid fuel rockets are tubes with a nozzle. There are no pumps or valves or any of the fueling systems required. Its an idiotic claim and it shows YET AGAIN that when it comes to engineering topics Peter does NOT KNOW what he's talking about.
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  147. I'm Australian and would be proud if she was Australian. I actually went to college in America and this is a side of America the world does not see enough of. I did aerospace engineering and a girl I went to college with is now a very senior manager at NASA on the ISS. I've tried explaining that America does have girls who aren't Kardashianesque clones who just make lots of noise.
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  148. You are almost right. Trump ALWAYS has a plan to help himself, but NEVER has a plan for helping others.
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  149. I'm Australian and worked with many South Africans over the past 30+ years and that stunned me. She might have been born there and lived there but if true then she has been in America for a LONG TIME. I actually went to America for college and was there for 3-1/2 years. Even after 3-/12 years people knew I was still Australian. I have seen Australians who have lived in America a lot longer and none of them changed so much that you could not tell they weren't Australian because there's individual words they'd pronounce that don't change. There's not a single word she spoke that had that Dutch-English hybrid the South Africans have.
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  150. BULLSHlT As an aerospace engineer who was doing his degree (U. Illinois) right when the first of the Cray Super computers were becoming available. In fact the very first CRAY supercomputers at any university were just down the street at what's now known as the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. I can remember the first color aerodynamic analysis showing turbulent airflow over wings at high angles of attack showing the onset of stall. They were posted on the notice board in our department. That stuff was spectacular and it changed aerospace engineering BUT IT DID NOT CHANGE EVERYTHING. The Cray Supercomputers were revolutionary in that they combined both vector and parallel processing,*BUT* they did not change our food supply systems, energy systems, health care systems, education systems or many other systems that daily life includes. Other than SOME aspects of computing, Quantum computers will change NOTHING. I am seriously disappointed that someone like Michio Kaku would be making such stupid claims. But then that's the "futurist" in him and I consider pretty much all futurists as nothing more than overrated techno versions of old fashioned snake oil salesmen.
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  151. Oh yeah I got that. She's the classic self righteous ivory tower academic who knows stuff. She thinks being right about some things makes her right about everything. As for academics and their "empirical data" how many scandals involving data manipulation odes it take before they STOP using those sorts of claims.
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  152.  @paradiso4562  Well I just got a reply that said "Thank You" so why don't you take your uneducated ignorance somewhere else or do I need to explain what ignorance means.
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  153. WHICH CHANNEL are you talking about, he's actually pointing out at least 4 that I recognize. 3 of them Matt Ferrell, Alex Guberman (E for Electric) and Ricky (Two Bit da Vinci) are this new classification of social media type called "science communicators." In the past most science communicators where science people - physicists, chemists engineers, etc. These days a lot of them have NO SCIETIFIC qualifications or training. Its basically a fancy way of saying journalist who reports on technology. It does NOT mean they have ANY science background and for some it shows. Occasionally you'll see a person with genuine tech credentials stuffing up. The 4th guy shown here is Sandy Munro (the old guy just before 2 minutes) who actually is a real car guy and does know his stuff regarding cars and manufacturing them. I'd expect he's going to be making a retraction on this once he finds out its a dodgy technology. This vid actually highlights how bad most of the Science Communicators are. Even thunderf00t made a couple of mistakes here. 1: Early on he talks about there is no hydrogen in the atmosphere THAT'S NOT TRUE. There is free hydrogen in the atmosphere there's just not much of it. 2: Where thuderf00t talks about greenhouse gases at the end he's talking as if CO2 is the only green house gas which ITS NOT. Methane which is the main component of biogas like that found in sewers and waste treatment plants is an extremely potent greenhouse gas. In fact gram for gram its far more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2. Thunderf00t should know that. 3: On the positively charged subject. Yes Hydrogen gas (H2) is not positively charged. Yes free Hydrogen atoms (H2) are not positively charged. BUT hydrogen ATOMS stripped of their electron ARE positively charged. Thunderf00t should have also jumped on that because to create ionized hydrogen plasma takes energy and these guys are claiming there is no energy required. Where thunderf00t has this totally correct is the energy density, but even on that there is a point he missed. The only way these guys could claim they are getting the energy density is if they were capturing and storing the hydrogen as Metallic Hydrogen. If these people are claiming or even suggesting they are creating metallic hydrogen then that's even crazier than all the other claims put together.
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  154. I don't know about that but she's certainly pandering to that side of politics. David's analysis of here 80second is fairly much right on the mark. She's specifically using catch phrases that appeal to the MAGA right and her speech was one after another of them.
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  155. Go look at her career ->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Owens She is a narcissistic opportunist who takes advantage of any situation that might further her position. Its behavior she's repeated again and again. if she's successful its by pandering to the worst aspects of selfishness.
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  156. The court packing is arguably one of the single biggest issues affecting the entire Western World at the moment. Many people have heard about the federalist Society that was founded at Harvard and Yale. But di you know that 14 of the last 18 SCOTUS Judges are either Harvard or Yale including 8 of the current 9. Of the 7 potential nominees to replace Breyer 5 of them were Harvard or Yale. Did you know that Neil Gorsuch's mother was part of Reagans team and was a pro-corporate right winger who tried to dismantle the EPA? Most of the the World has to deal with the major American companies. How do you think that works when they control SCOTUS so effectively that when cases in other countries go against American interests they can drag those cases back into American courts. Go look at how Ch3vr0n trapped the lawyer they won against them. The last time I tried to mention that case the YT alg0rithm flagged me as being "outside community guidelines" The packing of SCOTUS is of major concern OUTSIDE America as well as inside.
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  157. What's happening is that for the first time in decades we are seeing IN A WESTERN DEMOCRACY what has been going on in places like North Korea for decades. If you have ever seen news stories where Western journalists were actually let into North Korea then you'd know these people are behaving is exactly the same way North Koreans do. A number of years ago (before the current leader Kim Jong Un came to power) ABC Australia was let to do a story about the Arirang Mass Games. Those are the giant dancing, acrobatics and gymnastics events they do to celebrate North Korean brilliance (look it up on Wikipedia). What I specifically remember was how the North Korean children BELIEVED to their core that being selected to participate in those games would be the highlight of their lives because it was a celebration of how great the "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il was. It was pretty freaky stuff how they were totally entrapped in the mindset of this great leader who would lead them to some promised magical land or plenty and free them from the oppression of the rest of the world. We are seeing the same stuff with Trumpistan. As Sam Harris calls the Trump nation/tribe.
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  158. We can all say whatever we like about this stuff but 1 ugly truth remains - Trumps hardcore base don't care because they believe whatever Trump says. Every answer Trump gave they accept as FACT. Its sad thing to say, BUT until America is willing to deal with what drove 74 million people to discard reality and vote for Trump NOTHING WILL BE FIXED.
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  159. I'm an Australian engineer but actually graduated from U. Illinois (late 80s - aerospace). Ironically this and many other issues is all the fault of one of Chicago person. Sorry for the longish answer. A couple years ago I started to take more serious look at economics. I'd done Econ 101 as an option and regarded the whole subject as a joke. But eventually I had to accept that Economists have incredible influence. As an engineer I got tired of being asked "What's the business case for that?" or "Who's going to pay for that?" and no matter the answer its never enough. I eventually realised its always from people with economics backgrounds. Even those with business degrees have a core of economics education and certain things are hardwired into that education. So I chose to learn about them so I might have a chance of dealing with them. The person at fault is Milton Freidman the famous University of Chicago Professor, who's theories became the foundation of Reaganomics and Thatcherism that we now call neoliberalism. Its been adopted across the entire Western World. His solution to every problem was free market capitalism combined with small government. Its been preached without challenge (or so little its irrelevant) to 4 generations of Western civilisation - boomers, gen -x, millennials and Zoomers. I say preach not teach quite deliberately because anyone who questions free market capitalism is treated like a heretic. If you look at almost any Western Nation right now there are serious issues with basic services and infrastructure. It varies from place to place, but its the same root cause - Milton Freidman's ideology. He had some great lines like "Greed is good" but his line about "Corporations have no other obligation but to deliver profits to owners" that's at the center of these problems. Don't forget that energy, water, waste water, roads, bridges, transportation,... etc are all engineered systems. All the rest of you just assume that us engineers can just deliver this stuff. People are so accustomed to turning on a tap or flipping a light switch they never consider what it takes to make that happen. You all assume we are listened to by management, but we aren't. We constantly get pushback with those 2 questions "What's the business case for that?" or "Who's going to pay for that?" and no answer is ever good enough. Remember Ronald Reagans famous catch cry "Government isn't the solution. Government is the problem." That was pure Milton Friedman philosophy. Another of his lines is "free markets are the most efficient way to run society" has shaped many government decisions IRRESPECTIVE of the the political ideology of those in charge. Don't forget that all the basic economics classes are the same with text books out of Harvard, Yale, Princeton,... etc. So even the most lefty government is riddled with economists all trained in free market economics. In my home state of Victoria it was a Left Wing government that sold off the train system and the power stations. They told us the same line everyone hears: "free market competition will provide better services and lower costs to consumers." * BUT how can that be true when the corporations who have just bought those public assets have "no other obligation than to deliver profits to their owners?"* We now have to subsidise those corporations who bought our rail system. Our power bills are up over 400% and we have our own version of the energy crisis. The problem is Milton Freidman was WRONG and it should have been obvious that he was WRONG, but to question his ideology and its offspring of Reaganomics and Thatcherism is to labelled a heretic. I hate to see this happen to Chicago but it was a Chitown native who brought this shite down upon us all. Sorry for the long answer.
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  160. Yeah I did all of 1 psychology class (Psych 101 - like so many others). I don't think it takes even that much to know some of these people have genuine (and obvious) issues. The fact they can't see the reality of the situation while believing in bizarre nonsense that has no proof says should be enough. Whether that's an individual issue or an offshoot of mob psychology I can't say, but there's obvious issues.
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  161. That's already been done. Its a problem across all of those fame driven industries. You have vulnerable fame driven young people surrounded by people willing to take advantage of them. Years ago I saw a documentary into the modelling industry and that industry also includes pageants. It was done by a British Photographer in conjunction with a journalist. Its been years (but from memory) the journalist was a friend who asked if he could try where journalists just got nowhere. Because he was a known photographer this guy did get inside and its almost impossible to describe how bad the people in that industry can be. I haven't found the original doco I saw, but here's a 60 Minutes Australia that covers some of the aftermath. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl_FXbNrq9o
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  162.  @cocoloco71  Sorry but I'm an Oz and NO farking way and to use some 1970s slang that pommie bastard is 100% all yours. On Wikipedia it has the following info. Graham was born (born 9 August 1960) in Hampstead, London to Scottish couple Archibald Graham, a newspaper graphic artist, and his wife Mairi McAleavey. So you can blame the Scotts BUT NOT us or even the Kiwis for that matter.
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  163. The difference is that puppies don't prance about waving AR-15s and Glock-9s.
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  164. When your central ideology is "Everything we do is patriotic and Anything else is a crime" what do you expect.
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  165. I advise all American to look at what just happened in Malaysia and a few months back in Bolivia. It makes America look like a joke when other countries do lock up their politicians when they do the wrong thing.
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  166. AUSTRALIAN HERE: For an outside perspective on this. I see the Federalist Society as a MAJOR THREAT to Western Society. FYI - I went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering BUT a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they all loved explaining and arguing ideas on the US Constitution with me. So I got an unusual introduction to the US Constitution. I'd argue that any country could become a totalitarian dictatorship because that was the warning all Australians got from studying Orwell in High School. For generations everyone in Australia read Animal Farm or 1984 or BOTH in high school. So I was well versed in "If you're not careful this can happen!" My college friends, several who went onto become lawyers, would always answer that it was impossible for America to fall into a dictatorship (of any kind) because THE SYSTEM WOULD NOT ALLOW IT. The American system of CHECKS and BALANCES would prevent any group or any one person taking complete control. What we NEVER discussed was what a organisation like the Federalist Society could do given enough money. It just never came up. HERE'S the problem for the the rest of the world. We all do business with major American corporations. As was shown with the Steven Donziger case involving Chevron, IF an American company gets into trouble over sees they will drag the case BACK INTO the American Courts where the these corrupt judges owned by the Corporations RUN EVERYTHING and there is no contest. Right now in Australia we have a major scandal involving PwC (an American company) and their consulting to the Australian Government. That inquiry is turning up other issues with companies including KPMG, EY and Deloitte who are all American companies. We haven't yet heard about McKinsey or Boston Group but there are rumors out of Britain and Europe. Just the PwC scandal could end up in a litigation for well over $10 Billion. They actually tried to swindle (with their corporate clients who include other American companies) Australia out of $$$ Billions in tax revenue. What happens if they drag that back to an American court? The complete corruption of SCOTUS is a wider problem than just simply what it does to America. YES I will grant any American its more of a direct problem for you, but don't think its not a problem for us also.
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  167. This isn't hypocrisy its straight out lying. What freedoms have been taken? Its the states that are changing election laws on the federal government. The courts are currently stacked with GOP mutts. SCOTUS is 6:3 GOP. These 2 are just plain liars.
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  168. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. I have put a few more details in a comment about the Murdoch's and their issues in Australia. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  169. You left out ignorance, lack of reality, delusion and the fact its just not funny.
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  170. Actually Derek Muller (Veratasium) has a BA in Applied Science from Queens University in Ontario. So unlike many Science Communicators he actually does at least have a technical qualification. I wouldn't call this a busted video because he keeps pointing out where the Veritasium video was right. Its more like he's a more comprehensive explanation of what's going on with electrostatics and various fluids.
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  171. Yeah its amazing how often people are repeating the mistakes of others these days. They talk about the money disappearing in kickbacks. During the Asian Financial Crisis it was revealed that out of $30+ billion in IMF loans to Indonesia over $20 Billion could not be accounted for as in it had simply vanished. Most of it was believed to have been sucked up by the Suharto family and their friends. Just this last week (here in Australia) we were told about the Chinese slush fund in the Solomon Islands being sucked up by a group of their politicians as vital resources are being snatched away by Chinese companies. Sometime in the future, if humanity survives, economic degrees will include history classes in how wealthy nations can utterly destroy poorer nations with money and the horrible costs that result that no one can afford.
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  172.  @gianthills  You are quite right in pointing out that Trump has had SOME business success, but that is NOT what people are talking about. They are talking about the overall success. Go watch the interview I pointed out in an earlier comment.
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  173. I'm Australian and that has to be one of the smartest most well thought out comments ANY American has said in my lifetime and considering how stupid the world sees Americans these days that's praise you wont hear too much.
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  174. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I did my degree in the late 80s and during my senior year we had an alum who gave a special guest lecture on Terraforming Mars. We were all very excited to hear what he had to say. He started with "Sorry its impossible and here's why!" He then went on to explain just how big planets are and how much stuff you need to a job like Terraform Mars. The numbers are so large that its near impossible for people to grasp. Here's 1 simple thing maybe people can grasp. Imagine a dome (1/2 sphere) on Mars with a volume of 1km. Its about 1562 meters in diameter. So its not a small dome but is the sort of size you'd need for a colony its people, plants and animals. Other than all the materials needed to build that dome (which is substantial). You need 1.3 million tons of air to fill it. Most people don't think of air as weighing much. 1 cubic meter of water weighs a metric ton. 1 cubic meter of air weighs 1.3kg (sea level). There's 1,000,000,000 (billion) cubic meters in a cubic kilometer. So 1 cubic kilometer of air weighs 1.3 billion kilograms or 1.3 million tons. Now considering there's almost NO atmosphere at all on Mars let alone much Oxygen or Nitrogen to make Earth standard air from you have to ask: For the Mars startup colony where are they going to get 1.3 million tons of air from and how are they going to get it to Mars or produce it on Mars? Sorry to bust everyone's Elon Fantasy with math but then WTF I'm an engineer!
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  175. Yeah he seems to misunderstand the words racism, and white supremacy let alone journalism. I have seen David get some things wrong but they are rare. I have never seem him knowingly promote false narratives. On numbers I remember when David was closing in on 1M subs and its now 1.4M subs. This guy is a clueless idiot.
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  176. He's simply like so many in the less talented people in the entertainment industry, he's an attention seeking narcissist who thinks every time he gets attention its good.
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  177.  @PauloBerni699  Yeah but what it does is tell just how he views at other human beings. We are nothing but stuff to be trampled on.
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  178. Australian here - YES we have had lots of QANON issues here too. The most amazing thing in this are the RIGHT wingers (where this stuff abounds) who are so into Family Values and yet its their nonsense that's ripping families apart.
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  179. Yeah, big fan of PZ's geopolitical analysis but I think this is one of those times he just got his information wrong and in hindsight might change it. When he sticks to his strengths (like geopolitics) he's great when he gets away from them he can miss and sometimes miss badly. I'm an engineer and his engineering assessments can leave a lot to be desired. The other day his comments on the difference between wind/solar and nuclear/coal type power projects were wildly off. But then I find almost everyone who's NOT and engineer getting anything engineering wildly off these days. I actually blame techno-promoters who are trying to raise capital and get so hyperbolic its ridiculous. And yeah a guy named Elon is the worst of that crowd.
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  180. Yeah I think your right about these sorts of things. There's a few other vids by Americans with Moore Jig Borers. There's 2 main things about jig borers. 1) How accurate they can move in the X-Y-Z with respect to squareness. 2) How accurate with respect to being parallel to the Z axis they can bore. So not only can you bore a number of holes in a part with great location accuracy but all those holes will be parallel to each other. My bet is this was brought to Australia for the RAAF for making parts for jet engines, where they need high boring accuracy. The few others I have seen with these don't have them out on the general shop floor. Like many high accuracy machines they are located (as you hinted) in purpose built rooms and or floors to keep them free of other influences one of which is temperature change. He's got this in an open workshop in Queensland, which means big temperature swings. But then maybe he doesn't need the really high levels of accuracy it capable of.
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  181. Ronald Reagan stopped making them pay tax. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  182. The insanely stupid thing is that Dominion had to prove that Sydney Powell was: 1: Factually wrong; and 2: That she knew that what she was saying was wrong. She has just proven both those points. (edit) I first saw this first pointed out by CNN. Not that I like CNN but if they get something right lets encourage them to keep at it.
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  183. I'm Australian and been to Texas a few times and it was always great. So it saddens me to see Greg Abbott NOT get tossed out on his ass. BUT what it highlights is this bizarre thing that EVERY society in history does. People actually chose to ignore the FACTS regarding political leaders no matter what we know they do and will do again. I hate to admit it but we not only have Greg Abbott types in Oz but we keep re-electing them. We have our crass billionaire Trumpist in Clive Palmer who even ran the same election strategy as Trump. We have a clown named Pauline Hanson who you'd swear is Marjorie Greene's long lost crazy Australian aunt. We have a guy named Craig Kelly who walks, talks, and acts like a hybrid between Ron Johnson & Joe Manchin with an Australian voice track. We have our version of Andrew Cuomo a guy named John Barilaro. Look at the similarities. He's from our biggest East coast city - Sydney. He's corrupt and had to be removed from office. He even tried to move to New York and have the government pay for it. Although it's not a reflection of Italian people, like Cuomo he's of Italian descent. Whatever you have in America, everyone else has them too. The only difference is how much noise they make. If you look at Britain they have a guy named Nigel Farage who led the Brexit campaign. There's famous footage of him (with supporters) proclaiming how the British "got the country back!" Almost immediately after the Brexit vote he resigned his official posts and refused calls to help negotiate the exit. Forget whether Brexit is good or bad, he created the greatest mess in recent British history and then dumped it onto others to clean up the mess. So you might ask how would anyone give a clown like Nigel Farage any time other than to tell him to FK-OFF? Farage just did a tour of Australia and people actually PAID MONEY to listen to him talk. Steve Bannon does talks all over the world and people PAY MONEY to hear him talk. Never underestimate human stupidity or ignorance.
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  184. You're right. Glenn Kirschner who was a JAG and then a Federal Prosecutor has spoken about i as others have. On the 21st the new Commander in Chief (or a head of the army) can recall him to active duty and immediately court martial him for sedition. The same can happen to ANY of the military personnel who were at the riot and broke the law. There was a Military (general/colonel) on MSNBC the day after Mike Flynn said Trump could use martial law and he not only said said that Flynn could be recalled and court martialed, but he called for that to happen. We'll have to wait and see what happens.
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  185. I'm an Australian engineer with 30+ years of industrial control systems, robotics and automation and what you are describing is now rampant across the entire world. Its now so bad to be an engineer I can't recommend to ANYONE to be one. My actual degree in in aerospace and I have watched the Boeing debacle go on for several years now. EVERYTHING I hear about that SHlTSHOW is almost identical to the things I have seen in manufacturing, mining, and the other industries I work in. Things like "Standards don't matter" and "Test, Check & QA doesn't matter." Unfortunately we have allowed the economists to take over everything and that manifests itself across the engineering professions with COST CUTTING. People from the economics profession are obsessed with cutting costs anywhere and everywhere they can. They talk about productivity but have so little understanding of what productivity means that they think cost cutting means improving productivity. They have NO RESEPCT for ANYTHING and especially engineering experience. They will sack senior engineers in a heartbeat and replace them with junior engineers they can bully about or "YES MEN" who just sign off things without considering anything.
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  186. That might just be the most accurate description of this.
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  187. I'm an engineer and you are basically right. I started informally studying economics a few years ago out of the frustration of dealing with clowns with economics degrees. I can tell you 2 basic facts. 1) Capitalism as we currently practice it isn't the capitalism we think it is anymore. If you go and listen to people like Mark Blyth they'll explain how's there's been 3 main versions of capitalism over the past 120+ years. There was the Gold standard that ended with the Great Depression and WW2. Then there was Keynesianism that ended with the stagflation crisis of the 1970s, which was followed by Reaganomics & Thatcherism which we call neoliberalism. We should have moved to something new AFTER the 2008 GFC and didn't. 2) The reason capitalism is failing is because when we needed to change after the GFC economists like Saadia Zahidi FAILED to do anything. They saw the bailout as a means to continue as if nothing happened. What its done is put about 90% of the developed world under immense stress. Its actually ivory tower clowns from places like Harvard, Yale and the WEF (like Saadia Zahidi) who keep telling us all is well. She isn't the solution she's the problem. Go watch Gary Stevenson the British economist, who's one of the very few economists with a functioning brain. He was Citibank's top trader in the world. So he knows his stuff and no wants to help people UNDERSTAND what's going wrong these days. He has a channel here on YT.
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  188. Yeah this one is so totally disconnected to the point where its beyond head shaking and bewilderment.
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  189.  @njdarda  You've hit the nail on the head with so many of these videos on YT. Most times they have people on who are fundamentally pitching and investment opportunity or a product for sale. I just saw this yesterday for a video on educating by computer software for aircraft maintenance. Yes it has some advantages but its NOT going to replace teaching as the sales pitch suggested. If you see any story on any technology and the words "game changer" are used then your scepticism should start screaming inside your skull.
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  190. Kudos to Emma for trying to be rational with irrational clowns like this. I'm divided on whether its worth trying to engage or expose them for what they are.
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  191. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I'm Australian but did my degree in America (late 80s) and one Friday we had a NASA engineer do a special lecture on Terraforming Mars. We were kind of excited as at that time (despite the Challenger accident) we believed we'd be building the next space station in the 90s, back to the moon early on the 2000s and off to Mars in the 2010s. We were shattered when he started with: "Sorry its impossible and here's why!" He then went and explained how you need think when considering an entire planet. You don't need to be an engineer or geologist or atmospheric scientist just BASIC MATH WILL DO. Once you understand the actual scope of dealing with a planetary issue things like this are irrelevant. For example there's currently around 2.5 Trillion tons of excess Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere and by current estimates it will go past 3.5 Trillion tons by the mid 2030s. So to do a quick time estimate you simply divide 3.5 Trillion by 35,000 and get 100,000,000 years. So if you want to get that 3.5 Trillion tons out in something like 10 years you need about 10,000,000 of these plants built. If you want to do it 20 years then its 5,000,000 plants. As to the costs its even easier to estimate At $1,000 per ton 3.5 Trillion tons will cost $3.5 QUADRILLION tons to remove. 1/10th of $3.5 Quadrillion is $0.35 Quadrillion. So at $300 per ton its (3/10ths) which is $1.05 QUADRILLION And at $400 per ton its (4/10ths) which is $1.4 QUADRILLION So its reasonably easy to estimate that this method will cost between $1 and $1.5 QUADRILLION and that's provided we can find 5-10,000,000 SUITABLE locations and get enough materials to build those 5-10,000,000 plants. Then there's the small task of how do we power it, because power might be reasonably cheap in Iceland where they have enormous natural resources but what about the other 9,999 plants where are they going, how are they being powered and who's paying? By the way if every person on the planet planted 1,000 trees (seedlings) at a cost of $5 per tree. That would be 8 Trillion Trees and if each tree is capable on capturing 1-2tons of Carbon and sequestering it in the wood. Then we'd only need about 1 in 4 trees (~2.5 trillion) to reach maturity to capture that 3.5 Trillion of Carbon Dioxide. Yeah that would cost about $40 Trillion on basic costs which is a staggering amount of money until you consider the alternative is $1-$1.5 QUADRILLION, which is 25 times the cost at the low end. Best of all Trees don't need electricity they just need water and sun light and maybe some fertilizer. Once established their maintenance and upkeep costs are almost zero. If you plant trees that produce food and of building materials then even better.
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  192. Both my parents were high school teachers in Australia and we got to know a number of US teachers who came to Australia. Plus I went to college in America. I have friends here in Australia who are teachers. I have heard this stuff for decades. Lets not be under any illusion BOTH SIDES of politics, the radical LEFT and the radical RIGHT see schools as a battle ground for the future of Western Civilisation. They both fight these battles in insidious ways. It doesn't matter if they are religious fundamentalists trying to force feed ideology or commercial people denying climate science, technology providers promoting various technologies or social theorists using school children as lab rats. THEY ARE ALL WRONG. THEY ARE ALL DISGUSTING. THEY ALL NEED TO BE REMOVED FROM EVERY EDUCATION SYSTEM. Educating the next generation so they can contribute and help grow any society is vital for the future of any society. Allowing ANY group for almost any reason to take over part or all of that process harms the future. Every generation no matter what system eventually gets to an age where they are dependant on younger generations to provide for them. Wrecking the productivity of younger generations eventually ruins your own life. Go and look at history to see how many great empires collapsed. It was never the sole reason or problem but in amongst all of it was a failure of education that eventually caused issues.
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  193. It was always hype and delusion and largely still is. I am an aerospace engineer who moved into the Australian mining industry after meeting Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) in 2002. At that time he was talking up the possibility of mining the moon for Helium-3. I went looking for real practical experience and was lucky because at the time Australia went on a mining construction boom to feed China raw materials. What I got was an education in practical mining, site construction, maintenance, mineral processing, logistics and importantly INFRASTRUCTURE. Before you even start digging mine sites need a staggering array of infrastructure for power and water. I can tell within seconds that most of these people have never even visited a working mine. I have actually built them and worked on them. When real mining people see this stuff they can't stop laughing.
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  194. Its pretty simple for most of them. Biden and the Dems are against Putin therefore Trump and the GOP must be for him. Its pure and simple ignorant tribalism. For Trump himself its about his attitude towards authoritarian leaders. He likes them, he likes they way they operate - pure and simple.
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  195. Its technically impossible for Rudy Giuliani to fart - his mouth is never closed long enough to build up the back pressure.
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  196. I'm Australian That is simply a world class reply to a journalist. Can we just forget who asked the question or why and lets just admit the USA Captain is awesome. I actually went to college in America and I have had to constantly explain to people ever since that the clown brigade of celebrities and politicians we see via American media are NOT TYPICAL of most Americans. Most people who deal with Americans know they aren't like the clown brigade. So thanks to Tyler Adams for showing a better side of America. By the way American needs to be proud of this team. They are playing great and made it through to the knockout stage and that's way harder than you might think. Argentina almost missed out. Tunisia beat the current world champions France and still missed out. Germany missed out while Spain only just got in on goal difference. Mexico missed making the knockout stage for the first time since 1978.
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  197.  @Falcon2609  When he's mouthing off about central America somebody should remind him of all the dictators in that region that the CIA put in place and supported. One of the reasons why Noriega was snatched and locked away was because he had all the dirt on them. What Noriega didn't have was back-up plan in case something happened and the information would get out anyway.
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  198. ENGINEER HERE and you are 100% RIGHT I have recently defended Sabine in respect of criticisms she got to her criticisms of academia. Having spent time in academia she's right to criticise them. HOWEVER when it comes to engineering she, like many others needs to SHUT UP. We need hydrogen as an energy buffer NOT because its hyper efficient or economic factors but BECAUSE WE CAN MAKE IT WORK and over the next 20-30 years WE NEED THINGS THAT WORK THAT DON'T SCREW THE PLANET UP FURTHER. And I really am trying to scream that at everyone. If you want the engineers to keep the lights on and modern society as you know it to keep functioning then all the people in the road need to SHUT UP. Unlike Sabine and many others I am qualified to design electrical systems around explosive gases like hydrogen as well as explosive dusts like wheat & sugar dust (and yes dusts can explode). Hydrogen is one of the hardest gases to work with, design around AND THEN MAINTAIN. Sabine is right in that Hydrogen for practical purposes leaks from everything, explodes easily and makes many substances brittle. What she DOES NOT KNOW is we know how to engineer around those issues. The single biggest problem with hydrogen is having enough qualified maintenance personnel. That's WHY I never thought it would be practical for things like cars, buses, jets, heating & cooking in homes. Any poor maintenance in those areas could be catastrophic. HOWEVER for those few areas like energy, hydrogen is a good option because all the technical issues have been solved and being kept in a controlled environment like a power station makes the maintenance possible. As for the ongoing claim you can't get better than 40% turnaround that's pure nonsense. The latest PEM electrolyser technologies get over 90% efficiency NOT the 80% (and lower) people like Sabine keep quoting. The current generations of gas turbines form companies like GE and Siemens with cogeneration units get over 64%. That's over 57% on the main components which are available off the shelf AND THEY WORK. As for the problems with storage and compressors those problems exist for every gas. How do you think the gas actually gets piped around the world? How do you think they liquify natural gas for exports around the world? I have worked in gas plants and they use lots of energy. If the world is going to have a lot more renewable energy then that industry needs to be able to buffer that system so if can deliver as needed. Efficiency is far less important than simply having something that WORKS.
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  199. As an Australian what can I say? We warned the Brits when Murdoch moved there and they didn't listen. We warned the Americans when Murdoch moved there and they didn't listen either.
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  200. Its not due to blatant corruption its blatant mismanagement that stems from idiotic economics policies. I'm an engineer and this is the shite we are trapped in. Across every industry and area that we operate in there a clowns with business, accounting and economics degrees who interfere in everything. It stems from a couple of things. First is there own self importance. They think that titles like manager mean they have to micromanage everyone and everything. Second They are trained to avoid spending and costs and it unbelievably pervasive. Have you ever heard how the Left have infiltrated universities and education??? Well its true, stone cold motherless true and most noticeable in humanities. Its also just as stone motherless true that the Right have infiltrated business and law schools. Its a system where they certain sacrosanct principles are to be leant NOT questioned. One of those is the principle of lowering costs. That gets practised as "spend as little as possible and delay everything possible to future dates when they are someone else's problem." This is also known as "kicking the can down the road" and it is practiced EVERYWHERE. No joke, they go to college and for 4 years they are told - lower costs & cut spending, lower costs & cut spending, lower costs & cut spending,..... as if it is some form of mystic mantra that will fix the world. And the easiest way to do that is DELAY & DELAY until its someone else's problem. I'm Australian but did my degree in America, I live in Oz but have worked in Canada and I can watch the news from anywhere these days. ITS THE SAME STORY EVERYWHERE and in EVERY INDUSTRY. Failures through spending cuts to maintenance.
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  201.  @darko2407  Look DKHED we've all had enough of the brainless bullshit. Giuliani and others had dozens of times IN COURT and IN FRONT of REPUBLICAN JUDGES to prove stuff and THEY COULDN'T. Its was a lie, A GIANT MASSIVE LIE so that Trump could pay of his campaign debts. Over $200 million you idiots gave him to help pay of the campaign debt. It was there on his web site 50% for Trump 50% for the RNC (to pay off the debt) and you people were too stupid to realise how YOU GOT CONNED.
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  202. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” - Isaac Asimov
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  203. ENGINEER HERE: I worked on a waste water treatment plant for a Uranium mine in Australia back in 2005-06. There's a lot that can be done but removing tritium is not that easy and getting all of it out is near impossible. Plus to be fair the amount of toxins in our lives these days is now so great that the Fukushima water is negligible. Things like the lead that was in gasoline for decades did far more damage and effectively gave lead poisoning to the entire planet. The nuclear testing done in the post world war 2 period irradiated the entire human race. Its what makes all the steel made BEFORE that time so valuable and why Pirates raid the ships sunk in World War 2 and World War 1. All of the steel in all, our cars, boats, bridges, trucks,.... etc. is tainted by those tests. We have to accept that we have abused this planet in so many ways its hard to describe and either we learn to take care of it or we die as a species because there is NOTHING ELSE. What I don't like about BOTH SIDES of the nuclear debate is that NEITHER OF THEM tell the whole truth. The pro-nuclear brigade don't talk about either the construction costs, construction time or the decommissioning costs. The anti-nuclear brigade use a staggering amount of scare tactics when there are other things we need to be a lot more scared of like CLIMATE CHANGE, affordable housing, clean food and clean water for a couple of Billion People.
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  204. I'm Australian and from down here its the perspective is very much along the lines of what he has said. I actually went to college in America (fantastic) and have many American friends. America's greatest problem is that they are drowned in this constant NOISE STORM where's there's just so much noise that none of them can think clearly especially about world affairs. I saw an odd thing happen to a few Americans I befriended here in Oz. After about 12-18 months they'd have brain snaps and realise the world isn't America. Even more shocking is realising the rest of the world does NOT want to be America. Part of that shock is realising that people (in general) like Americans (as in people) but they can't stand America (as in the political entity). The exception are those Americans who preach American exceptionalism in one or more of its various shades.
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  205. Republicanism 101: Nothing we do is criminal. Everything they do is criminal even when they are doing the same stuff.
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  206. Yeah I believe there are some people called Apache, Sioux, Seminole, Mohawk and a bunch others who just raised their hands and collectively said "We support that motion! There's a boat. Bye Bye."
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  207. WHY NOT - if you cant get Captain Domestic Abuse to lead the military then call on Mr. "I'm a Lawyer who's here to make sure you're tortured legally" Duh Sanctimonious.
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  208. No what he has shown is a lack of political experience. The more experienced players would have dropped a word salad and avoided the subject. The Israeli-Palestinian subject is the most toxic subject in the world. ANY answer will offend someone and get you labelled a racist, bigot, both or worse.
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  209. What else are you meant to wipe up SHlT with other than toilet paper?
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  210. Australian here - You are 100% RIGHT. I know it sounds a lot like Libertarians screaming about Big Brother, but this is one of those cases where they're right and I normally would not agree on anything with that crowd. This is NOT just a problem with a few car manufacturers its a major problem across the entire online system. The Australia government was one of the first to crack down Tik Tok on phones with government workers. It was real simple we had a public exposé on how Tik Tok operated and anyone who was paying attention quickly realised that its a surveillance system in disguise. It knows where you are 24/7 and because you give Tik Tok access to your photo gallery you are also giving it access to the rest of your phone including phone logs and messages. Australia's security chiefs eventually came out and confirmed this. That was over 2 years ago. Companies like Meta, Apple, Tesla, Microsoft & Google are just as bad and in some cases worse at hording data. The problem is we have let all these companies get away with the stuff for so long that reigning it in will be incredibly difficult.
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  211. Same reply I just gave to another comment. I'm an engineer and have pointed out on a few occasions that PZ doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to engineering subjects. I have repeatedly advised him and others to stop pumping out garbage, STFU and let the engineers explain what is and isn't engineering fact. My degree is in aerospace but I work in industrial control systems, robotics and automation. In 2005-06 I did a water treatment plant on a Uranium mine and as part of that we did an extensive nuclear induction. A normal mine site induction is 1-2 hours (max) this induction went for 2-1/2 days. the first 1/2 day was normal mine stuff and the other 2 days we covered uranium from when its in the ground to when its back in the ground. When it got to the subject of enrichment someone asked WTF the Iranians were up to. It was around that time that everyone was getting very anxious about what the Iranians were up to. The trainer doing the induction laid it all out and explained how EVERYONE across the World's nuclear industries KNEW 100% that the Iranians had a weapons program. It was the number of centrifuges that gave it away and we knew how many centrifuges they had because of how many high speed electric motors to spin them that they had bought along with the electronics to control those motors. The actual motors and electronics are NOT restricted tech because its stuff used in many other industries. Certain materials are restricted because they allow making the centrifuges much easier. I have explained that so many times.
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  212. Lets be crystal clear about this. It involves CERTAIN people who are neither representative of bulk of Israeli people or the bulk of Jewish society world wide and that's evident by the number of Jewish people speaking out AGAINST what the Netanyahu government is doing. I'm NOT Jewish, I'm Australian, but went to college in America in the LATE 80s and had several Jewish friends. After an incident at a party where I was accosted and threatened by a couple of Jewish students one of my Jewish friends explained it to me. Note - This was ~35 years ago and he referred to them as Ultra-Zionists. He did NOT call them Zionists but was very specific about the term Ultra, which these days we generally use with the term *Ultra-nationalist. Like we have with certain people in Russia and Ukraine. Back in the 90s we used similar terminology with certain elements within the Serb and Croat communities as well as in Rwanda. 35 Years ago that friend told me something very important. EVERY tribe, cultural group and nation has these people. We just don't like admitting it. They are most easily identified by their claims to be "protecting their culture" or "protecting their cultural heritage." We saw that with the Nazis and their claims of protecting Aryan culture. We see it with Putin and his claims of protecting Russian culture. We saw it during the late 90s with the Serbs, Croats and Albanians in the former Yugoslavia. We saw it with the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda. We have people here in Australia who claim time and time again they want to protect Australian Culture from immigration. Occasionally we even elect them to Parliament. What we are seeing right no in Gaza is what happens when Ultra-Nationalists get enough political power to unleash on who they blame or identify as the threat to their culture.
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  213. I'm Australian and therefore fairly neutral on the whole mess. The person who I have found to make the most sense is Mark Blyth the Scottish political-economist who works at Brown U. in America. He was intialy against Brexit but did predict that the Leave vote would win. On one hand it was stupid because you literally threw away all the benefits on a set of false pretenses and got NOTHING back. Mark Blyth points out that London's banking sector was the clearing house for all Euro transactions with non-EU nations and now that income to the nation is gone and will NEVER come back. On the other hand the EU has a lot of economic issues because the French and Germans can't handle the concept that the rest of Europe doesn't necessarily work how they think it should work. Mark Blyth also points out that many of the smaller states are in serious economic trouble because without independent currencies that can't adjust their economies very easily. They are all kind of trapped by the European Central bank. Mark Blyth is now suggesting that its a POTENTIALLY a very good thing for Britain to get some distance from the issues that Europe faces and those things were coming irrespective of Ukraine erupting. Of all the things and players in this mess there is one person who I think needs a good old fashions hung, draw & quartering and that's Nigel Farage. As soon as Brexit went how he wanted he just simply resigned and dumped the whole thing on others. Irrespective of how anyone voted that's a 10,000% shite thing to do and it represents everything wrong with populists. One final point on setting up NEW trade agreements. Britain is not in a strong negotiating position with anyone. No matter who is in #10 they need to make deals and that means every negotiation starts with Britain as the beggar not the prince that it thinks it is. If Britain thinks Australia, New Zealand South Africa, India, Canada are all going to play the meek and humble colonials you better Wake TFU because we all remember how you dumped us in the 1970s when you joined the EU. That nearly bankrupted our entire Ag sector and it took over 20 years to recover. AND NONE OF US have simply forgotten any of the other things Britain did over the last 100+ years.
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  214.  @jackreacher8858  I thought trickle down economics means they get the cookies and we get the crumbs!!!!!
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  215. Australian here: There's a great line in this that goes right to the core of the Thatcherism (neoliberal) mindset. Starting at 3:42 she ends it with "people knowing, under those years, the price of everything and the value of nothing" I'm actually an engineer and a few years ago found a horrible flaw in Australia's energy market when I did a small consulting job. When I looked around the world its fundamentally the same thing going on EVERYWHERE. Every nation went of a privatisation crusade just some more than others. Its had the same effect everywhere of higher energy prices. Ukraine had nothing to do with the energy crisis other than making it worse. It really comes down to what Glenda Jackson has said. Everyone knows the price of energy but few understand its VALUE. If its more expensive it burdens every business and every household with higher costs. No boss can pay higher wages to help pay their employees bigger power bills when his own power bill also went up. Governments used to put VALUE in building power stations and selling cheap electricity because it made investing in industry cheaper and that promoted BOTH employment and GDP growth. Private companies don't care about employment OR GDP their job is profit and electricity & gas prices matter. The VALUE of power stations and gas plants to the rest of us is irrelevant.
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  216. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. I can barely believe where America politically is these days. Sure America was always a bit of a basket case. I was there during Regan's second term and watched the 87 campaign season. It was bonkers by my standards. But this stuff is something else. Its like America has completely forgotten what made America such a fantastic nation. I studied engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they dragged me into many of their discussions. So I got an odd education in the US Constitution. These days (and I have said this a lot in recent years) I believe the US Constitution is one of humanities finest achievements. Unlike Australia who inherited most of their constitution from the British, America started with a clean sheet and threw of a lot of stuff. Tt was fresh daring and brilliant. SADLY, it has been inherited by a pack of clowns with almost NO RESPECT for what it has. I used to be stunned and at times embarrassed by how well every American understood their nation because they'd all done CIVICS in high school. I was stunned to find George Buch de-funded it, because these days I want to see Australia have a similar class (but an Australian version) taught to every high school. I've seen the value it delivered and can now see the damage NOT having such a program has done. I really do want to see America back at its best because with the shear size of the US Economy the rest of the world will struggle to deal with issues like climate change and that's just one issue we have to deal with. There's also 3rd world poverty which is the source of the immigration problem the Right complain about. If we all stopped supporting dictators and helped those countries develop then there wouldn't be a refugee crisis.
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  217. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. I have put a few more details in a comment about the Murdoch's and their issues in Australia. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  218.  @danielboone8256  Jesus was NEVER RUDE & NEVER FORCED anyone to listen to him or follow him. IN FACT at both Mark 6 and Matthew 10 Jesus himself directs his people TO LEAVE if they are not welcome. This something evangelical people of ALL religions and ideologies including the techno evangelists who think everybody needs the latest techno toy, FAIL TO UNDERSTAND IF YOU ARE NOT WELCOME THEN LEAVE
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  219. Australian here - OD has come under some scrutiny because of a couple of scandals at high schools they run here in Australia. What's gone on in those schools is a bit more than just creepy. Someone else commented "Handmaid's Tale and Da Vinci Code. What a terrifying combo." and that sums up what's been going on in these schools quite well.
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  220. I'm Australian but went to college in America. One day as I channel hopped I had my introduction to televangelism. I asked my friends what this insanity was. The first thing they told was to shut up you never know who's listening and then they proceeded to tell me how much money was involved and how much power they had and how many people BELIEVED THEM. That was in the late 80s. The person I had seen was Jim Baker (before he went to jail) and his insaner than insane wife Tammy. In those pre-HDTV days she actually shined and reflected light on TV. It was farking amazing to see and even more amazing that people believed them. Suddenly a year or so ago I saw that he was back preaching the same idiotic crap he had in the 80s. Despite going to jail for fraud and cheating on his wife PEOPEL STILL BELIEVE HIM. Bannon is a smart bastard that many people have underestimated. He knows exactly how stupid and gullible Trumps base is and that they will believe almost anything they are told.
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  221. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. In all the years I have watched what's going on in America I have never heard such bonkers crap as Kristi Noem is speaking and there's a lot of bonkers crap in the world right now. What's even more bonkers than usual is how calmy she says this stuff. Thanks to the wonders of Wikipedia it doesn't take anyone long to look up the US National Guard and find out things like the fact all of the State National guards only exist through FEDERAL LAW and are jointly controlled by the States and FEDERAL Authorities. It also doesn't take long to look at the units and see that ALL OF THEM are part of the US Army or US Airforce which means their chain of command is through FEDERAL officers. So Kristi Noem is not commander in chief of anything, but the fact she thinks she is, is bloody terrifying because sooner or later one of these clowns is going to try something. Just so you know why this stuff concerns the rest of the world. America is still 1/4 (~24.6%) of the Worlds Economy and the US Dollar is still the worlds reserve currency that most of the World's international trade relies on TO BE STABLE. So when clowns like Kristi Noem threaten the stability of America she's also threatening the World's economy.
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  222. I did aerospace engineering and I love your sentiments but unfortunately Thunderfoot is pretty much on with the costs. I love Elon's enthusiasm but what I hate are his ridiculous estimates and I am sorry to say they are ridiculous. On the super plus side of Elon is that he's broken Boeings strangle hold on NASA funding. One thing that's rarely discussed is the change in business model that happened AFTER Apollo. Prior to that pretty much all of the development programs delivered. The X-Plane programs delivered plane after plane. But during the 70s they just stopped ever delivering. Go check how many x-planes never flew in the 70s compared to the earlier programs. A rare exception was the X-29 forward sweep. What Boeing and others had worked out was that NOT completing NASA funded programs was more profitable than completing them. All they needed was to do enough to get the funding for next development project. One of my class mates ended up at NASA and is still there and years ago she told me about how the funding is decided. She also told me the 2 biggest problems they had with manned flight beyond LEO were life support and propulsion. Nearly 20 years later that hasn't changed. One of the great problems with a moon base or a Mars base is that we have dozens of technologies only part developed. Yes there's been lots of research and development but none of its actually ready. And some of those issues are huge. To keep humans alive they need water, food and breathable air. When Trump called for 4 men on the moon for 2 weeks what very few pointed out the enormous difference that was. The Apollo LM was capable of 75 hours life support for 2 guys - that's 150 man hours. 4 men for 2 weeks -> 4 x 24 x 14 = 1344 so its basically 9 or 10x the previous mission. And they have to fly all those materials to the moon and land them. Last I heard they skimmed it back to 3 guys on the moon for 10 days which means the lander only needs life support for 720 hours (3 x 24 x 10). That's way more practical as its basically half as much everything - oxygen, food & water. Just imagine Elon's 1000 people to Mars. That's 1000 people and all their food, water & oxygen for 6 months of flight and several more after they land while they get the systems on Mars up and running. If you can shorten the flight time by any amount its a big deal in terms of how much you have to launch. Yeah its all possible but we need billions and billions spent on the life support & propulsion. Maybe Elon or Jeff really has solved one of these problems if they have they aren't telling anyone.🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  223.  @jimohara  He's not smearing Elder he's explaining what Elder is trying to do -> Steal a governorship.
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  224. “It's Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” – Mark Twain.
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  225. WELL SAID. At every loop hole money uses to get its way there's a lawyer holding that loop hole open for it to go through. In the comic strip "Wizard of Id" one of its main characters is Larsen E. Pettifogger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Id#Main_characters One of his most famous lines is "Every man is innocent until proven broke." I once heard (sort of 😉🤫) that the Grand Canyon wasn't caused by the Colorado River it was caused by a lawyer who took it literally when they heard a wealthy client was lost down a rabbit hole. 🤔🤦‍♂️🙇‍♀️
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  226. I'm Australian and I've left a comment about the issue Peter is NOT discussing regarding American politics its copied below. As an engineer I have worked with many Germans over the years. I work in control systems and automation and have used a lot of German products and had to deal with German engineers. I think Peter has missed that the German people are NOT what they used to be and see their place in the world quite differently. Or at least most of the Germans I have met think and behave that way. I think in a way there are Germans who realise that they are lucky that after what happened in WW2 that they weren't completely wiped off the map. If there's a fear its that current generations forget the past of get a skewed version of it. We aren't immune to that in Australia. In WW1 there was the dreadful Dardanelles Campaign where the British simply sacrificed a generation of Australians and New Zealanders that made up the ANZAC contingent. They also sacrificed 1,000s of Scots and Irish. We now celebrate ANZAC day in Australia as if it was a triumph. Most younger Australians actually think we won that campaign instead of it being a tragic failure. So if there's a danger its in NOT learning from past mistakes AND I HOPE that in these discussions the Peter also has an HONEST look at American politics because right now its a SHlTSHOW and way too many Americans are living in a weird form of mass delusion AND THAT forces the rest of us to act. Below is the other comment which is about the issues in Washington that so far Peter has either ignored or just not done a video on yet. ----- THERE IS ONE THING that Peter is completely leaving out of this discussion is the dysfunction in Washington. I'm Australian abut went to college in America (late 80s) and I have had a lot of contact with American's over several decades. I have NEVER SEEN them divided politically like they are now. Sure the Dems and GOP disagreed on any number of issues, but when it came to FOREIGN AFFAIRS Washington was PREDICTABLE. Yes many people may not have liked what America did and how it behaved especially the CIA and coups across the world, BUT AT LEAST THEY WERE PREDICTABL and the Dems and GOP never saw each other as their mortal enemy and that they had to save the country from the other side. This is a major problem for all of America's allies including Australia. We have just made this massive commitment to nuclear submarines called the AUKUS agreement. Although I agree in principle Australia should go nuclear I think the Virginia-class is a massive mistake. The bigger issue however is: How can we be certain of stable politics in America when the place is now infested with reality denying clowns dominated by geriatrics who wont let go and retire?
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  227.  @Anarcho-harambeism  NO - what most of the other people commenting are commenting based on all the other breakdowns they have seen on Project 2025. Ryan's done a work check of this infographic against another document NOT an analysis of Project 2025. I'd recommend you and others go and look at Legal Eagle's breakdown of the legal issues in Project 2025. I'd also recommend you go and watch Ward Carroll's interview of Commander Bryan McGrath, USN (Ret.) who's worked for the Heritage Foundation on military issues. The interview sticks to the military issues in the P2025 document, but he rips it apart. He basically says Project 2025 is being run by a small group inside the Heritage Foundation who are nut bags and who've linked up with other nut bags in other Right Wing Think Tanks. ALSO the Heritage Foundation has a very, very long history of spewing misinformation themselves. They were the main Think Tank Phillip Morris used to stall anything on dealing with the tobacco industry and they have been one of the main disseminators of climate change misinformation. They have acted in the past as nothing more than a pack of propagandists for hire.
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  228. Lets be crystal clear about this. It involves CERTAIN people who are neither representative of bulk of Israeli people or the bulk of Jewish society world wide and that's evident by the number of Jewish people speaking out AGAINST what the Netanyahu government is doing. I'm NOT Jewish, I'm Australian, but went to college in America in the LATE 80s and had several Jewish friends. After an incident at a party where I was accosted and threatened by a couple of Jewish students one of my Jewish friends explained it to me. Note - This was ~35 years ago and he referred to them as Ultra-Zionists. He did NOT call them Zionists but was very specific about the term Ultra, which these days we generally use with the term *Ultra-nationalist. Like we have with certain people in Russia and Ukraine. Back in the 90s we used similar terminology with certain elements within the Serb and Croat communities as well as in Rwanda. 35 Years ago that friend told me something very important. EVERY tribe, cultural group and nation has these people. We just don't like admitting it. They are most easily identified by their claims to be "protecting their culture" or "protecting their cultural heritage." We saw that with the Nazis and their claims of protecting Aryan culture. We see it with Putin and his claims of protecting Russian culture. We saw it during the late 90s with the Serbs, Croats and Albanians in the former Yugoslavia. We saw it with the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda. We have people here in Australia who claim time and time again they want to protect Australian Culture from immigration. Occasionally we even elect them to Parliament. What we are seeing right no in Gaza is what happens when Ultra-Nationalists get enough political power to unleash on who they blame or identify as the threat to their culture.
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  229. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powell interview. I have left a separate answer with additional background information about why Australia is so concerned about Rupert Murdoch's behavior in America. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powell Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  230. When Boebert worked as an escort do you think she was making money hand over fist? Do you think her next campaign slogan will be? Lauren Boebert - Bringing the Trailer Park to Congress. Or will it be? Lauren Boebert - A firm grip on the things that matter.
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  231.  @JordanHarbingerShow  I hope you can get him back on. I'm an engineer and I'd like to see him challenged on a couple of points that I keep hearing him repeat. Sorry this is long, but your interview with Peter was one of the better ones - you asked better questions. 1) He keep saying that once the American service companies leave Siberia those well stop flowing the water in them will freeze and crack all the pipe work. I work in control systems (the computers that run everything) and have some (but not much) work in the oil & gas industry. Yes there's water, but not in massive amounts, so its questionable on that. But more importantly those companies have been there for 20+ years now. To think that the Russians haven't been gaining the experience themselves in techniques and technology for those environments is a VERY BAD ASSUMPTION. Yes their experience will be less and they might miss some experience at the top level of the expertise tree but to claim they are incapable is just foolish. 2) He keeps making claims that Europe is stuffed on renewable energy because of bad locations and to a lesser extent the grid needs upgrading. He's part right on both points. Its great that he is one of the few pointing out that geography is a major part of the energy transition. I have argued with people on the geography subject and its amazing how ignorant BOTH the pro and con-renewable people are on the subject. Peter's right Northern Europe is hopeless for solar for 2/3rds of the year while southern Europe is better but Spain which has the room for extensive solar is also disconnected from the main European grid. Peter doesn't emphasise the grid issue as much as it needs to be. Its arguably one of the biggest issues. We are moving from an energy system with a few major generators that fed energy out through main arteries into a tree like system where all the leaves on the tree CONSUMED energy and ONLY consumed energy. Now we have an energy system where the main generators are scattered and on top of that many of the leaves want to generate energy and inject it into the system. NOBODY anywhere has an energy grid built for that. Its not an undoable task it just has to be thought through which people are NOT DOING. There's some really major level ignorance from people. Here's a story out of my country Australia. I knew about the grid issues a while back but I can barely believe the stupidity of the clown from Windlab (around 1:30) who claims he's a smart investor who's built successful windfarm projects. My question is - If he's so smart then why did he build a wind farm where the grid can't handle what he's generating? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwfsk446iR0 3) This harks back to a much broader topic of basic infrastructure, which Peter does NOT talk about as much as he should. This is arguably the biggest issue the Western Hemisphere has by far. One of the catastrophic mistakes of neo-liberalism has been the "privatise everything" doctrine that's resulted in governments NOT keeping up with infrastructure. Go anywhere right now in the developed world and there's issues with energy infrastructure, transportation infrastructure, water infrastructure, public education (schools, universities & vocational colleges) and public hospitals just to name a few things. Every country has these in different combinations but they all have similar issues. I'd like to hear peter talk more about infrastructure.
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  232. Actually her proper title is White House Press Secretary. The best in modern history is questionable, but CERTAINLY out of the last 5.
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  233. ​ @robk8463  Macgregor deserves ZERO respect. He was the architect of the Invasion of Iraq and his plan IGNORED what everyone else was saying at the time. The rest of the military were trying to explain to Donald Rumsfeld and others that the main issue WASN'T taking Bagdad and removing the Iraqi Government but securing the country afterwards. HE IS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the disaster that was Gulf War 2 where several 1,000 Americans and several 100,000 Iraqis died. In basic terms he's a war criminal or should at least be treated like one.
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  234.  @jujutrini8412  I just watched part of a NYT podcast (because I could not stomach all of it) where Nancy Pelosi said the election result was NOT a rebuke of the Democrat Party. The level of disconnect with these people is WORSE than anyone yet realises.
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  235. That's PART of why I gave up watching him. The other part was his hypocrisy over Netanyahu's prosecution of Gaza. Sam came out and made this very sound point that there was "no moral ambiguity" that Hamas were simply criminals who dealt in terror AND I AGREED WITH THAT. But he's NEVER put Netanyahu or the State of Israel to the same scrutiny. You can't claim a high moral position and then subscribe to the mass murder of children and there are now over 16,000 dead children in Gaza and 1,000s more who have lost arms, legs and been maimed for life. Here he is asking is History repeating itself. Well look at Gaza. How many times does the world have to watch the wholesale slaughter of children and then 10 years later some of the survivors turn up wearing Hamas headbands and doing horrible things? Its has not been widely discussed but support for Hamas was collapsing PRIOR to the October 7th attacks. Most of the Gaza population saw Hamas as nothing but a gang of criminals. Since the onslaught by the IDF support for Hamas has grown. Just like it did after the last Intifada and the Intifada before that and the Intifada before that. Sam as usual mentions anti-Semitism. The problem is ANYTHING ANYONE says against the State of Israel is labelled an anti-Semite. I am all for the State of Israel existing and being allowed to live in peace with its neighbors, but they have to accept that the Palestinians ALSO EXIST and have the same basic rights. The Palestinians also have to accept the reality that groups like Hamas have no place in their future.
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  236. I'm just wondering when someone will just call one of them out right to their face. Just to see what happens when their bluff and bullshit is called.
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  237. Same happens everywhere. The local reporters wont call out their own politicians as much as they will others. I'm Australian and we have the same problem here.
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  238. Yeah, the only problem is that he seems to prefer blondes.
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  239. This guy MacGregor goes back much further. He was the guy who gave Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz the plan for invading Iraq that ended in disaster. Its all detailed in a 2004 PBS Frontline called "Rumsfeld's War" I started a thread with a brief summary.
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  240. I hear they blame their left testicle when their sons can't throw a football.
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  241.  @cindyabraham5503  Wont it be the ultimate irony that if Trump is ever charged he has to face on of his own bogus judges and he goes down.
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  242. Finally - looking down the list somebody else got it. I'm an engineer (aerospace) and it just infuriates me that here's another con-job exploiting the ignorance of main stream media. Theranos should have been obvious that it was ripped off from the film Gattaca. This is equally a rip off of Star Wars and a few other films. It really is infuriating how ignorant mainstream media is these days. And after they convince the general public about this crap we have to spend days, weeks, months, years explaining this stuff again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again.............
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  243. As an Australian we so often here about Rupert Murdoch and what he's done to 3 nations (Australia, Britain & America) that we tend to forget that he is just 1 of the oligarchs who are currently plaguing our societies and poisoning our world. I'm an engineer but I've been informally studying economics for a couple of years. It came from having a lot of interference on projects from people with economics backgrounds. So I've been listening and watching lectures and videos from people like Yanis, Mark Blyth, Mariana Mazzucato, Steve Keen, Gary Stevenson and others. I have just watched 2 series of lectures by Damon Silvers at UCL-IIPP one on Climate Change Economics and the other on Neoliberalism. The series on Neoliberalism is a must watch for anyone interested in fixing the world, because unless you understand the problem its damn hard to fix it.
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  244. Your exception is the answer.
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  245.  @johnshite4656  As I said go look at what just happened in Malaysia and only a few weeks ago in Bolivia. Despite all of what America CLAIMS to stand for and what it actually does happen its actually amazing how ignorant so many Americans are. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of friends were pre-law and went on to become lawyers. I ended un in a lot of discussion on the US Constitution. it was the late 80s so they had all done Civics in high school and were very keen on the US Constitution and explain to me how great it was. I can barely recognise America right now. What's going on was meant to be impossible. The US Constitution was written so that no one person could become an unaccountable king or that a small group of people could hold absolute unaccountable power. The whole system of House, Senate, SCOTUS & POTUS was meant to prevent this happening. I find it all really sad and hope America can find a way past the Trump Era.
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  246. I saw this yesterday on other sites and its NOT pretty no matter who's commenting.
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  247. Nice sentiment but people who are this self centered and narcissistic and opportunistic NEVER apologize, they just move on to the next headline. Until they have they garbage rammed down their throats by a law suit or public shaming they don't stop. So long as the money comes in they don't stop.
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  248. There actually are people doing those sorts of projects out in desert locations. The problem is they are all underfunded. The problem is Elon has gotten insanely lucky with his timing a couple of times. Getting into PayPal right when that sort of system was needed. Getting into Tesla when all of the hard development work had already been done. Picking up some disgruntled but super talented aerospace engineers to start SpaceX and then NOT interfering with them as the developed Falcon.ng Starship is going to break him. He got lucky and sold off his Hyperloop business to a pack of gullible clowns, but he has no one to sell off Starship too. Who's going to buy it? After all he's spent he still hasn't had one fly into space yet, let alone go to the Moon or Mars. He's very rapidly approaching the point where instead of helping further space flight and exploration to where he's wrecking it by wasting time and money.
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  249. Dr. Michael Osterholm (Director id CIDRAP and an expert on pandemic responses) pointed out 12 months ago that there are 3 groups. 1) The people who will just get vaccinated. 2) The people who will never get vaccinated 3) The people who are undecided. Dr. Osterholm is one of the most pro-vaccine advocates and yet staunchly against mandates. When U. of Minnesota (where CIDRAP is located) went to put in a mandate on students he opposed it. He pointed out that in his experience mandates have the bad effect of pushing undecided people into the anti-vax camp. They also tend to make anti-vaxxers dig in harder. He basically said don't engage in pointless arguments with anti-vaxxers, just tell the facts. Most importantly inform the undecided with FACTS and don't pressure them. Let them decide when they will get vaccinated.
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  250. American libertarianism is best described as: "We want the liberty to strip you of your liberty!"
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  251. Another Australian here. I think he's 1/2 right about the WA Wheat belt, in that its vulnerable to changes in the weather. But I think you have a better handle of the soil issue than he does. I'm from Victoria but lived in Perth for 7 years. My mother's family is from Western Victoria and are farmers. That's also a soy and wheat region and its also vulnerable to the weather. Its also got marginal soils but don't think they are the same as WA. Its odd he didn't mention the salinity issues we have. I know Peter has also commented that we don't have any Potash. I know that's wrong. I lived in Perth working on mining projects and one proposal I came across circa 2008 was a Potash mine being proposed in the NT by a Perth Company, who's office was next door to ours in the same industrial complex. I know that Queensland also has some deposits and several off those are now operating again because of world prices. Most of the time I think Peter is very good, especially on the geopolitical and demographics side but there's times he hasn't quite got his specifics right on the details. I tend to notice things he says on engineering because I am an engineer.
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  252.  @lurx2024  The other favorite line I have for them is: "I demand the liberty to strip others of their liberties!" another variant of that is "I'm here to protect my freedoms NOT yours!"
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  253. I lost all respect with Sam a few weeks after he made he did a podcast where he went into what he called "moral ambiguity" which is where he claimed there are acts that in their very nature CANNOT be excused. This is what he calls "moral ambiguity" and that certain things have ZERO "moral ambiguity" and there is NOTHING to excuse it. My problem with Sam was that he DOES NOT apply this equally to the Israelis and Palestinians. He DOES NOT really (or clearly) distinguish that within each of these groups there is an incredible variety of ideology. He simply lumps everyone in each group into a single category which is just ignoring reality. He claimed in that podcast that what Hamas did was a crime and that there was NOTHING "morally ambiguous" to cloud that judgement - IT WAS WRONG and required a response. On that I do not fault Sam Harris. What Hamas did was WRONG and there is nothing "morally ambiguous" about that it was wrong and needed a response. I am yet to hear Sam Harris explain the "moral ambiguity" for killing over 12,000 children.
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  254.  @markashlock9017  try using less drugs and speaking like a human.
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  255. I agree with all he says except one point, which he even sort of describes. The Tea Party weren't the foundation that lead to Trump they were just a major leap towards Trump. When he said the Tea Party "riled up" the GOP base and that primed them for Trump he's absolutely right. BUT the foundation was laid years earlier during the Reagan/Bush administration when they pandered to the fundamentalists and then cemented in place with Newt Gingrich when he tied himself to Rupert Murdoch. It only came out recently that Newt Gingrich was having an affair as he prosecuted Clinton over the Lewinsky affair. His hypocrisy was thrown in his face during an interview not so long ago. That's on top of the fact he took a $5million dollar book signing bonus from Rupert Murdoch at a time Murdoch was pushing for more corporate freedoms. The Tea Party was a major step in the process but the foundations were laid years earlier.
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  256. Then there's what happened to Genghis Kahn's fleet when he tried to invade Japan. That storm was named "kamikaze" (divine wind) because it saved Japan from invasion. Even better still she's forgetting that "small event" recorded in the Bible and how guy named Noah survived with is family and the animals on a rather large barge.
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  257. Lets get our facts right. NOBODY is covering up the Gaza Genocide there are people who are WILLFULLY IGNORING the facts. Some people are saying the genocide is real and its happening right before our eyes WHILE OTHERS are ignoring the fact that more than 34,000 people (including over 15,000 children) who had NOTHING to do with the October 7th Attacks & Kidnappings have been slaughtered for no other reason than they have been deemed "less than human." Its not a cover-up because the facts are plain and obvious. Its willful and deliberate ignorance of those facts.
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  258. Its Orwellian logic. Its right there all spelled out in "1984." The purpose of doublespeak is to confuse the definitions of language so much that its impossible for people formulate ideas of dissent against the party. Its something BOTH the Radical Left and Radical Right do. I while back before Jordan Peterson bent his brain with drugs and he was being more rational he said that it was easy to know when someone had gone to far to the Right - they became racist. He said it was harder to spot when someone had gone to far to the Left as there was no single clear marker. I think he was wrong. I think the signal that someone is politically going too far (either Left or Right) is when they start trying to control language and THEN use that to control public discussion and drive narratives where dissent of any sort is suppressed.
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  259. I'm an Australian engineer (aerospace) who got his degree in America (late 80s). I work in industrial control systems and automation. I have spent most of the last 20 years in mining and resource projects because back in the early 2000s there was a genuine interest in mining the moon for Helium-3 and I went for the experience. What I got was some great experience in multi-billion dollar projects. So we are 100% clear I am 100% in favor of Australia having nuclear powered subs. A number of years ago I worked with an ex-USN nuclear power plant technician/operator. Is was around the time Australia was having its first discussions on what would follow on after Collins. The first thing said publicly was "No nuclear." We were on a mining project and one night at diner it came up and he told all those interested some basic FACTS on naval operations in a global context and the difference between blue water and inshore operations. What I can tell everyone straight up is that AUKUS is the most ridiculous pile of over-hyped nonsense in the history of BOTH Australian engineering and Australian Military procurement and its got NOTHING to do with the subs themselves. You're all quite right a massive part of the expenditure is the construction of infrastructure and that's where every engineer I have discussed this with has ended up shaking their head in disbelief. Sorry of this next part is long winded, but these things need being said. For example we know that there has been assigned $4.3 Billion for a new Dry Dock in Perth. The last major mining project I was involved in was a $4 Billion dollar project that included: - a airport capable of handling small commercial jets and trub-props; AND - an accommodation village for 800 that included its own potable water treatment plant and sewerage treatment plant, mess halls, laundries, car parks, sports facilities, gymnasiums and bar; AND - a substation and high voltage power reticulation system; AND - a mine with a fleet of dump trucks, a new electric shovel and 2 refurbished drag lines; AND - a processing plant with crushers and all sorts of processing equipment; AND - a raw feed stockpile with its own stacker and reclaimer as well as a product stockpile system with 2 stackers and a reclaimer and the train load out system; AND - a 10km rail spur and loop so the trains could just roll in, keep rolling and leave without stopping; AND - a series of damns for handling run off water to limit discharge into nearby water ways. BASICALLY A LOT OF STUFF. The facility in Perth consists of (so far) a concrete lined hole with doors and some pumps. My bet is it also includes some cranes, workshops, water treatment facility, accommodation for visiting crews, accommodation for a permanent/semipermanent maintenance crews, probably a new wharf for subs to dock at, a substation to power it all as well as multiple emergency power systems to prevent any Fukushima type event. When I have raised this with other engineers we always end up asking "What's the other $3 Billion for?" because none of us can see how this should cost $1 Billion let alone $4.3 Billion unless everything is gold plated. When we have looked at the East Coast sub base we end up with similar questions. Our best guess is that "Various People" have filed some extraordinary estimates. Remember every time anyone has asked how much these will cost per sub THERE IS NO ANSWER. This isn't just a military procurement issue either as most of the people I have discussed this with have seen numerous commercial projects like the Gorgon Gas plant which blew out by over $15 Billion or the BHP Revensthorpe Nickel project that tripled in costs, the NBN which has so far blown out by over $30 Billion, Snowy 2.0 which has gone from $4 to over $12 Billion or any of the other numerous infrastructure projects that have blown out. Lets also not forget the Hunter Class Frigates have just jumped from $30 to $45 billion without explanation or how the replacements for the Armidale class patrol boats, the Arafura Class are each at $300 Million more than 10 times the cost of each Armidale ($24-28M). Australia has a massive issue with the management of engineering projects and its doesn't matter if its government, private industry or military. Its not so much the engineers but the people managing them and a lot of us who are tired of it. Sorry for the rant.
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  260. As another Australian I second that motion. Because what's going to happen when the Chinese bubble bursts. I've worked in our mining sector and you have had to been there to see just how much we ship to China in terms of raw materials. We wont simply lose jobs. Companies like BHP, Rio Tinto and Fortescue will take massive hits and that's going to hit millions of Australians in their superfunds. By law our main superfunds have to invest in the ASX200 and the ASX200 has tied itself to the Chinese economy. We are going to be smashed when China falls. We didn't learn when we tried to ride on the sheep's back and we probably wont learn from over dependency on diggers & dump trucks.
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  261. He's also 100% WRONG. No money has gone to Ukraine. Equipment and ammunition has gone to Ukraine. That has meant some very juicy contracts for the companies that have had to replace that equipment and ammunition. The one thing these clowns will find out very quickly is that you don't interfere with the Military Industrial Complex making money.
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  262. I think it was Professor Rudy Giuliani but we'd need to file the paperwork correctly to confirm that!!!!!
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  263. Like so many others we have been exhausted by their garbage. We don't have any sympathy or empathy left to waste on these people.
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  264. 2 words - ELECTION FRAUD In most places in the world if you falsely fill out a ballot its called ELECTION FRAUD
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  265.  @MysticMary-g9s  Absolutely. And its a far bigger issue than most Americans realise. This form of populist wrecking ball is spreading across the world right now. Its partly fueled by a combination of large groups of people just completely fed up with the establishment parties EVERYWHERE and billionaires wanting to keep doing their stuff unchecked. The problem is the wrecking ball versions of populists like Trump DON'T FIX the problems and in some cases make it a whole lot worse. IF this crap over not accepting the outcome of an election is not smashed then it happen in other places. IT MUST BE SMASHED or nations will fall
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  266.  @nancyross7935  There's no doubt he's a world class nut case. He's publicly stated his office is setup as a "communications center" for supporting Trump. Just think on that alone. What sort of policy is that? The purpose of getting elected ANYWHERE is to help run what ever the jurisdiction is. Its totally nonsensical how anyone even voted for the guy.
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  267. Yeah - I saw this the other day and he sliced and diced this clown like a master sushi chef on a tuna. It broke my cringe meter watching this clown try and escape.
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  268. I'm Australian and we have seen a number of documentaries on the destruction for the Aral Sea. I find it truly staggering in this entire video DOES NOT MENTION the destruction of the Aral Sea. Those Soviet era dams built on those 2 huge rivers (Syr Darya and Amu Darya) destroyed the Aral Sea. That destruction is one of the greatest MANMADE disasters in history. Prior to its destruction the Aral Sea supported an enormous fishery that fed millions. That is all gone -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea The other thing he does not mention is that those enclaves were deliberately created by Stalin. He did it to create the sorts of situations we now see all across the ex-Soviet Republics. He literally grabbed chunks of populations and swapped them to create these enclaves. These enclaves didn't "naturally" develop over centuries they are a fairly recent (in terms of history) Soviet construct designed to displace people from their traditional homelands.
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  269. Also on air launching (and yes I have a degree in aerospace) its NOT just the saving on delta-v. They are only launching from around 10km at less at about 0.25km/s, while orbit is over 200km and over 7km/s. So the actual height and speed gains have little to do with anything. The actual advantages of air launching and they are incremental buy do add up. 1) You don't need to build a dedicated launch facility. All that is needed is a hanger and a convenient airfield. That's a cost saving. 2) Air launching includes a fully reusable first stage. That's a cost saving. 3) It can launch "on orbit" or closer to orbit. All normal launches require fuel in the upper stage to get from the launch sites global position over onto the global orbital position. Reducing the amount of fuel needed either lowers costs or allows for larger payloads. Where I think they didn't learn from previous systems. 1) Launcher 1 is significantly heavier 30t than Pegasus XL 23t which was a fair step of from Pegasus 18.5t. When you are staring with a vehicle around 50% bigger than your competitor and you have all the development hassle a smaller system would have been a lot smarter to start with and then build up from there. Starting out with something much smaller would have meant debugging all their systems both in the vehicle and in the manufacturing and launch processes with a cheaper vehicle and fewer people. They forgot that whole learning to walk before learning to run thing. 2) That extra weight meant a bigger more costly aircraft. Maybe the surplus 747s were cheaper to buy but a smaller 767 can lift those sorts of loads and with only 2 engines to service is a huge operational cost saving. Remember Pegasus used a modified L-1011 Tristar for most of its life. Every time a 747 flies compared to something like a 737 or 767 that's a lot of fuel burn and a lot of maintenance. This is a lesson everyone should have got from the Space Shuttle. Every launch of the Space shuttle meant putting 75tons into orbit before you did anything else. That's a lot of unnecessary cost and also why the ISS cost so much and why Crew Dragon is a massive step in the right direction. AND NO I am not an Elon Musk fanbot but I do cut him some slack on Space-X. 3) Their flight profile negated a very important aspect of what they learned with Pegasus. The wing on Pegasus allowed the vehicle to gain a lot of speed in horizontal flight at a point which is significantly more fuel efficient than trying to accelerate in vertical flight because there is still air drag at that point. That might not be a lot of difference but Pegasus works and Launcher One doesn't. 4) The most important thing they forgot is that space flight is hard and no matter how much money you have their will be failures. Go and look at the Pegasus launch list. They had 4 failures (or partial failures) in the first 10 launches, another at 14 and then 31 successful launches in a row. This stuff is hard and all the vehicles are built right on the razor's edge of failure.
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  270. HEY STEVE: watching you read through Krugman's comments the importance of banks on economics is like watching people ask an engineer: - WHY having a stable power grid is important; or - WHY properly tightening the bolts that keep the jet engine connected to the wing are important; or - WHY building the bridge out of properly rated steel so it doesn't fall down is important; or - WHY using properly rated pipes, fittings and valves for a liquid natural gas plant; or - WHY checking the welds on all the pipes in a nuclear power station is important. YES STEVE - engineers have to deal with ignorant people making stupid remarks too.
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  271. My simple question to them is: When did BLM, ANTIFA, Democrats, 1960s counter culture hippies, tree hugging Kumbaya singing environmentalists, Occupy Wall Street, Lafayette Park or any other protesters STORM the capitol, KILL a police officer, TEAR down the American flag and REPLACE it with another flag? So far no answers! 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  272. Watching that made me wonder what America and its allies (I'm Australian) will be dealing with from having had people in Iraq and Afghanistan for the last 19-20 years. Here down under we are struggling with similar issues and costs. Its not a fundamental matter of failure its a fundamental matter of mismanagement. Its not as if we (like America) doesn't lack the money or resources. Its a matter of managing those resources. If you can spend $50,000 or $80,000 locking people up you should be able to spend the money on programs NOT getting them locked up. Is that easy or should we expect any transition will be simple and go smoothly? NO, but what's the alternative?
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  273. Its called mob psychology or peer pressure. We rarely here about peer pressure, but after the London suicide bombings it turned out to be a major factor. People were tying to understand why young mend did things like that. I remember a psychologist who studies peer pressure describing that we are only now beginning to understand how powerful of a psychological force peer pressure can be. One thing this psychologist said was that once an idea takes hold of a group, irrespective of how ludicrous it is, peer pressure prevents anyone from challenging that idea. Peer pressure acts like a social policing function: "Thou shall not challenge the group narrative."
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  274. He wont throw Ivanka (his darling daughter) under the bus, but he might throw the POS Jared who bangs her under a fleet of buses out of jealousy. I doubt he'll throw Don Jr under the bus unless he finally works out he's NOT actually Dons real son. Do your game of thrones, Don Jrs mother was a fair skinned blond and his father is fair skinned and fair haired. His sister and brother are both fair skinned and fair haired. AND YET Don Jr has an olive complexion and jet black hair - Hmmmm. His father was un-faithful maybe mommy wasn't either? As for Jared, Eric, Tiffany and any other spouses or kids they are all disposable. He's a narcissistic sociopath what makes you think he cares.
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  275.  @Marta_Lledo_Video_Channel  She's walking talking proof that greed has no skin color.
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  276. Just so you guys know this is what Peter means between Biden and Trump. Deluded (as in Biden) means "believing something that is not true." Demented (as in Trump) means "behaving wildly and irrationally on account of anger, distress, or excitement." YES I WILL AGREE with all of you that BOTH of them show signs of BOTH those descriptions. But Biden is (by definition) more deluded than demented while Trump is (by definition) more demented than deluded. If you look at how BOTH have behaved over the last couple of years. Biden still believes he's in full control of all his faculties and that's delusion rather than dementia although he occasionally throws out the angry comment. Trump on the other hand is simply demented in the way he responds to any provocation or even implied wrong doing or even implied disloyalty. The way he goes after people with vicious attacks is simply demented. The fact he makes statements like he never slept with a porn star when we all know that he did and expects people to believe it shows that he's also deluded. On a similar but slightly different tack the people who still think that EITHER Biden or Trump is fit to be POTUS are just plain farking crazy.
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  277. AUSTRALIAN HERE: I've seen some of the reports. Like the Canadians, Japanese, Brits, Japanese, South Koreans and a bunch of other countries we are supposed to believe that America is a reliable security partner when these clowns are your best options??????
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  278.  @OrangeHealia  That's amazing and brilliant - how do you survive without breathing or eating? Because oxygen is a chemical and you breath it in to survive. Food is an array of many complex chemicals. That's why they have taste and smell and your body can digest them into other chemicals your body needs TO SURVIVE. Sorry but your body is made of chemicals and if you had even a basic education you'd understand that.
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  279. Lindsey Graham tweeted "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it. 7:03 AM · May 4, 2016" That is still on twitter. I cut and pasted the quote, time and date on 31/12/2022
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  280. I'm an engineer but watch a lot of economics on YT because I want to know how to deal with them. People like Ian Bremmer are pretty good at explaining economics. WHAT THEY ARE HOPELESS AT IS EXPLAINING TECHNOLOGY. At 1:51 he asks "would the Ukrainians be able to pull it off?" From an engineering and logistics point, NO and that has been discussed by many including military people. 1) Ukraine has no direct access to the Baltic Sea. 2) Ukraine has no submarines of its own. 3) This is NOT a Bridge or a drone dropping an incendiary onto a tank. This is an undersea pipeline AND SO YOU ALL KNOW. These are not simply pipes to help them sink and stay in place at the bottom of the sea they are encased in concrete. So to blow up a section of these sorts of pipelines is several orders of magnitude above blowing up a bridge. This is at the pinnacle of underwater demolition. The number of nations and people capable of that skill set at those depths is very limited.
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  281. You are in part right. The biggest problem with everything in space is logistics. How do you get stuff from point A to point B. And its not that different to what we do here on Earth now. Its just that most people have no idea of how much stuff we move. I am an aerospace engineer who moved into the Australian mining industry after meeting Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) in 2002. At that time he was talking up the possibility of mining the moon for Helium-3. I went looking for real practical experience and was lucky because at the time Australia went on a mining construction boom to feed China raw materials. What I got was an education in practical mining, site construction, maintenance, mineral processing, logistics and importantly INFRASTRUCTURE. Before you even start digging mine sites need a staggering array of infrastructure for power and water. I can tell within seconds that most of these people have never even visited a working mine. I have actually built them and worked on them. When real mining people see this stuff they can't stop laughing. Irrespective if you are Jeff Bezos who wants to shift all iron processing into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) or mine an asteroid you need to get the iron to where you want it. That means bringing it down to the earths surface. The biggest payload carrying vehicle so far that could bring stuff back down was the Space Shuttle and it could bring 14tons down from LEO. I once worked on a min that did just over 20,000,000 tons a year of iron ore at an average of about 70% iron content by weight. So those 20 million tons of ore coverts to about 14 million tons of iron and if that 14 million tons was in orbit it would take 1 million Space Shuttle Flights to bring it down. Australia's annual production of iron ore is about 815,000,000 tons of iron ore. If you do the math to ship Australia's iron ore production up to LEO and then bring the iron back down its around 40million space shuttle flights a year. Even if we magically built a new super rocket 100times better that's still 400,000 flights a year. I will be honest until I was involved in mining I had no idea how much material we actually move these days. The logistics of world trade is simply staggering.
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  282.  @elektrotehnik94  I'll pay that.
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  283. There's an analysis of his debating technique done a couple of years ago and its one of the things he does to overwhelm anybody who questions him. Its the Sherman tank versus Tiger Tank strategy. When your opponent is superior in every way you throw everything you have and overwhelm them. The end up being so busy working through what they can they miss that one guy who shoots them in the ass.
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  284. You can't dishonorably discharged a vet as they are already discharged. What they can do is recall them to active duty and then charged under the UCMJ. That was mentioned BEFORE January 6 in respect to Mike Flynn. It was mentioned several times the military oath to protect the constitution doesn't expire when someone is discharged. The age 85 was mentioned a few times, but I'm not a lawyer so that one may needs a better explanation than I can give.
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  285. KYLE If you want to have this discussion then DON'T drink 25 cups of coffee beforehand AND STOP SCREAMING AT EVERYONE. Fine you believe in in almost absolute free speech almost irrespective of how idiotic it is or HOW PUBLICLY IRRESPONSIBLE IT IS. I believe that you have every right to responsible speech PARTICULARY if you hold a position of PUBLIC RESPONIBILITY. People with public positions DO NOT have a responsibility to those who voted for them they have a responsibility to their ENTIRE ELECTORATE. If MTG was raising these points as questions As part of RESONIBLE public debate then fine, BUT she isn't and people are dying.
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  286. I like that last bit "She may be a rose, but she has thorns." Forget the interview it was worth it just for that description.
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  287. Here's 3 things most people know are in the Bible. 1) Jesus practiced free health care for all people irrespective of their wealth. 2) Jesus practiced feeding the poor when they had no food. 3) Jesus was AGAINST money for profit in religion. He threw the money changers out of the temple in Jerusalem and preached that the pursuit of wealth wasn't good. Later the Apostle Paul pointed out that the LOVE OF money was a problem. He never said money was a problem but the love of it is a problem. If you ever want to freak out a Evangelical Christian ask them about Matthew Chapter 7. Its the third of 3 chapters covering the Sermon on the Mount. Its the Chapter so many Christians never talk about because its the part where Jesus himself warned about frauds and fakes AND HOW TO SPOT THEM.
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  288. AUSTRALIAN HERE: I have been trying to ell Americans for over 35 years they they DO NOT have an actual Left like the rest of the Western World does. What you actually have are 2 right wing parties with one of them being MORE to the right than the other. You DO NOT have a party like Britain's Labor Party or the similarly named parties in Australia, New Zealand and a few other places that STARTED out of their Labor Union movements. Here in Australia the Labor Party was the political wing of the ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions). You do NOT have anything like the Socialist parties in mainland Europe. The American Democrats started in the American South and were the party of the Confederacy and the Klux Klux Klan were a militant offshoot of the Southern Democrats. It was the Republicans under Lincoln who were the progressive party and freed the slaves. How do I know this never having taken a single class in political science or American History? I went to college in America in the late 80s in a time when they still taught CIVICS and I was surrounded by 100s of other WELL EDUCATED intelligent students who KNEW American History and HOW the American Governmental system worked and they explained it to me time at great length. What staggers me more than anything these days is how little American's seem to know or understand of their own history and how their government actually works. THAT USED to be one of America's GREAT STRENGTHS. It blew my mind a couple of years ago when I asked someone what changed and found out Bush had defunded Civics in American High Schools. Years later having seen the pro's of teaching Civics and the cons of NOT teaching civics I am absolutely convinced that ANY Democratic society, INCLUDING Australia, that wants long term stability should tech their version of it and that it should made available to EVERY citizen so that they can go back and check or review things. I remember moments of feeling embarrassed that I didn't know as much about HOW Australia functions as my American classmates did about America. I think American's should now feel embarrassed for what they have thrown away.
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  289. Actually the best new word I saw this week was: GRIFTOCRACY Because this isn't really a kleptocracy where they just steal everything they can.
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  290. I'm Australian and one of the more astute observations was: "The Republican Oligarchs beat the Democrat CEOs"
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  291. As an engineer I could not agree more. Below this is the reply I just gave to a thread started by AlanKey86 that goes "Within the next 10 videos, ColdFusion will slip in 1 where the script's been written by AI... the test will be if we, the audience, can spot it :D" Considering the malignant epidemic of technical ignorance that constantly bedazzles the general public anytime somebody does yet another over-hyped story of "wow-wee future tech" that you all suck down into your vacuous brains then NOBODY should expect many people to notice if the BULLSHlT they are being told comes from a clown or an AI. Yesterday 40,000 children died because we didn't feed them, today another 40,000 will die because we aren't feeding them and tomorrow another 40,000 will die because we don't have food for them. And that's before we get onto the 10s of 1000s who will die from simple infections and other easily dealt with ailments. MEANWHILE we have a room full of idiots who think being able to photoshop better is worth spending millions of dollars on. I heard a term recently "Scientism." Its the ideology that science and technology will somehow magically fix everything. As an engineer I don't know which form of technology will magically start feeding children or the magical tech that will fix the climate WHEN M0R0NS keep thinking this crap is more important.
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  292. Frank Herbert - wrote in one of the chapter introductions in Dune Messiah. Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends to act more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary, royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy. - Politics as Repeat Phenomenon. Bene Gesserit Training Manual
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  293. As another Australian what can we say? We warned the Brits when he moved there and they didn't listen. We warned the Americans when he moved there and they didn't listen either.
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  294. Don't worry the Taliban prefer to hang them or shoot them when they aren't abusing women. Oh fark, I forgot, so do Trump supporters. Sorry my mistake your right.
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  295. And I forgot to add - I am an aerospace engineer and yes it sucks what the shuttle didn't deliver. I actually watched, from ~60 miles away on Orlando the flight before Challenger take off. A few weeks later back at school and all our dreams vanished.
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  296.  @HDnatureTV  Don't be so blindly in the pro-Elon camp. For sure he has done some great things the most important of which was break Boeings (and others) strangle hold on NASA. One thing that is not well known is that NASA has almost NO CONTROL over its programs since the end of Apollo. There has been some incredible waste in the American space program, SLS being a good example. Its all being driven by congress and they are all driven by the commercial interests. We here about the MIC - Military industrial complex all the time. What we don't ever here about is the Space Industrial Complex who dominate everything. You r quite right NASA would have (figuratively) spent 10x as much to build a reusable rocket, but that's not because of NASA that's because of how the Space Industrial Complex works. Elon's gift is that he had enough money to break into that club and prove that people could break into it IF THEY HAD ENOUGH MONEY. On the flip side of Elon's achievements is his bullshit technologies. Hyperloop was bullshit long before he claimed it. Most of his rockets are NOT INNOVATIVE they are upgrades of technologies. Making a powerful chemical fueled rocket IS NOT INNOVATIVE, we had those 50 years ago. Driverless cars were bullshit long before he ever mentioned them. The simple fact is trying to write and then verify that the software WILL WORK anywhere and everywhere as advertised is impossible.
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  297. I can 1/2 agree with that but Mearsheimer has also been typical of his Libertarian roots in the entire Ukraine discussion in that he blames American Liberal hegemony. He gave a great lecture at Yale a few years ago explaining that issue. I highly recommend it. He's been right (as many others have pointed out) about America & NATO going too far and putting pressure on Russia in a way that was always going to blow back. Mearsheimer's also been totally bat crap bonkers off the wall crazy about letting Putin have what he wants. Peter Zeihan (during an interview with Jordan Harbinger) ripped Mearsheimer to shreds on this issue. Mearsheimer ignores the point that Putin has said he wants to write the security policy for 18 countries on the border of Russia or close to. Those countries have almost 280 million people and Mearsheimer says "Let Putin have them" and they get no say in the matter. Just as Mearsheimer says the fault of American Liberals is that they can't help themselves when the interfere in countries and try to remake them as Liberal Democracies because its hardwired into them. Mearsheimer also betrays the great weakness of American Libertarianism which is they are opportunistic narcissists. If they want something they take it and don't care what happens or what the consequences are. If they don't want something they wont care about what happens or what the consequences are. In simplest terms American libertarians are about what they want and f*ck everyone else. And Mearsheimer gives that away - let Putin have what he wants because I don't care what happens.
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  298. You are totally right except the correct title to this video should be "Yet another example of how the Corruption and Greed of Neoliberal Economics ruined an Industry." I'm an aerospace engineer with 30+ years working in industrial control systems and automation. I have mostly worked in manufacturing and mining with stints in oil & gas, water treatment, waste processing, dairy and a few other odd jobs. This mentality is so rampant across every business sector I have worked in. You might not think that the current disaster that's Boeing is related to this but it is. Boeing used to have Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas as competitors in jets for airlines. BUT according to Neoliberals that's not efficient so they let Boeing swallow up their competitors. Once you get monopolised control of a market there's no other way to increase profits but to cut costs or raise prices and ECONOMISTS are obsessed with cutting costs and management are obsessed with finding new costs to add to consumers. Economists and Business Managers brag about efficiency but have NO IDEA what efficiency actually is or what it means in any given industry. All of the sorts of activities I am hearing here about costs and practices I can give similar examples in all of the industries I have worked. I can even use it to explain why we haven't been back to the moon for over 50 years.
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  299. "I think this guy so appreciates the sound of his own voice that he says things without really thinking about them a lot of times or without contemplating the implications of them." Pretty much sums up 335,236,943 people who live in a fantasy land called the United States of America. It especially applies to EVERY YouTuber, journalist, TV presenter, celebrity, Tik Tokker and wannabe star on the planet. I actually watched the Triggernometary interview with Sam Harris and that part of it made him sound like the one rational voice in America because for a change he was putting PERSPECTIVE onto the subject. How does Dave Rubin and the other Hunter Biden ranter compare whatever Hunter might have done with the fact Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump worked IN THE WHITEHOUSE and made a reported $400 million while they were they.
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  300. I'm an aerospace engineer (by degree) who read all of Asimov's works on Foundation way back when I was an undergraduate. The story I remember from (i think) Second Foundation was when a person form the Foundation ventured back into the Empire and found planet after planet had fallen into pre-industrial chaos. When they finally found a planet that still retained technology they found a snag. As the empire had fallen so had education. The traveller found that the chief engineer of the power plant had no idea how it worked. Their title "Chief Engineer" had become hereditary as had many other positions. What maintenance that was being done was being done as a ritual rather than a required engineering exercise. During the 1990s when my parents (both high school teachers) retired they were often lamenting how the education system was slowly being converted from a education system into a factory system and that one day we would pay dearly for it. In the 35 years I have worked in industrial control systems over a number of industries, no matter I have worked there has been a steady decline in the standard of both graduate engineers and skilled tradesmen (electricians, welders, machinists). The problem is NOT a lack of intelligence on the part of the students but the education system has become more concerned with pumping out graduates with certificates than producing graduates with skills who can do a job. Time and time again I am reminded that Isaac Asimov was one of the great visionaries of the 20th Century and sadly underestimated by mainstream thinkers. He understood the world so much better than many of the people we consider visionaries. I cannot say for certain but I think he would be very disappointed with where humanity is right now.
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  301. What you are describing isn't just a Boeing issue its RAMPANT across the entire engineering space. I did my degree in aerospace but have worked in industrial control systems, robotics and automation for 30+ years. I have worked across a number of industries with most of my time in manufacturing and mining. the thing I have seen infect industry after industry is a culture of profits before everything with CEOs and other senior executives driven purely by the bonuses they get. Everything you are describing I have seen in EVERY INDUSTRY I have worked. Its made working as an engineer almost impossible because you're constantly being asked to compromise under a threat to lose your job which is made worse by the fact that most engineers now work as contractors and they can just cancel our contract.
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  302. AUSTRALIAN HERE - the way more disturbing thing is NOT the crap about Haley or Pomposity. Go back to around 0:40 and look at what's just above Kyle's head on the right hand side of the screen. Seriously does Trump think the rest of the world is going to deal with Elise Stefanik? Do any of you think THE REST OF THE WORLD doesn't already know who that psycho is or how she behaves? Yeah that's NOT gonna work out well for anyone.
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  303. Matt Taibbi's problem is the same as so many other journalists. He's become so convinced of the infallibility of his own voice that he's forgotten that's fallible.
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  304. He's just proving that he is a techno-version of Donald Trump in that he's a techno-narcissist who'll throw anyone under the bus in pursuit of what he wants.
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  305. I agree there's a a lot of nonsense in the public discussions on gender issues these days. But I am stopping when the opening remark is so idiotically bad. She said in respect of birth control "so the contraceptive pill is the first transhumanist technology it's the first major widespread, um, social you know biomedical Intervention which aims not at fixing something which has gone wrong with normal Health but upgrading normal." Sorry but that is utter BULLSHlT. People have been practising various forms of birth control going all the way back to Ancient Egypt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_birth_control
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  306.  @alive-q3j  That's the part that upset me too and I'm a white Anglo-Saxon Australian. We've seen enough of that here in our society to keep hammering away like this. Does Islam have a problem at the moment? Absolutely, but that problem is not a lot different to European history that Sam points out but then magically suggests it all behind us AND ITS JUST NOT. Every society has people in it who are a problem and if your society becomes stressed over an extended time period it allows those people an opportunity to take over. That's how Trump go into power. And the worst aspect of this is once enough people have dived into that space its very hard to pull them out because mob psychology takes over. So it can become very hard to deal with which is why America has the mess it has.
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  307. I'm Australian and we studied Animal Farm and 1984 in high school. Almost every Australian over 40 studied 1 or the other in high school. When we studied Animal Farm we mainly looked at the comparisons to Soviet Russia (not current Russia but Soviet Russia). When we studied 1984 we studied what sort of political system it was and what it did to people. The society described in 1984 isn't communist or socialist its totalitarian. We looked at systems that people "claimed" to be socialism and or communism. I emphasize the word "claimed" because what most people claim to be a political ideology these days is barely recognizable as what they claim. What we saw in East Germany, Russia, China,....etc. wasn't socialist or communist it was totalitarian in that the ruling elite had total control even down to thinking. Look at North Korea these days what "ism" is it? Its not communist, its not socialist and its certainly not a democracy despite the official name being the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea." Strip away the bullshit and any of these "isms" come down to 1 of 2 things -> A small group of elitist sociopaths who want control over everything and having a mechanism to get away with it OR a group of idealists who want a better world but have trouble recognizing that the first group will never let them have it.
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  308. I'm Australian and he might be the best thing to have come out of Britain since Jamie Oliver made his first sandwich.
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  309. There was a Dutch guy that was interviewed by Tucker (it never went to air) and he called it "millionaires funded by billionaires"
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  310. Exactly - he's a toddler demanding attention. There must by psychologists going nuts. I can't wait for them to start describing Trump Syndrome. What's the bet that eventually some lawyer will have the defense strategy of "Temporary Insanity by Trump Syndrome" 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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  311. You can substitute London for almost ANY city in the world these days. Sydney Australia is out of water and yet has had floods in recent years and then there's the fires. Southern California is out of water and then there's the fires. There's floods in Belgium, Germany, India and China all in the same week. Most of the ignorant masses don't equate that 1degC temperature rise across the entire planet as increasing the rate of evaporation across the entire planet. And mother earth has substantial surface area - just over half a billion square kilometers most of which is water. That's a lot more water being sucked up into the sky which then has to fall somewhere.
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  312. Another Australian here: I went to college in America in the late 80s. I was there all through the 87 election season and there were aspects to the whole circus that baffled me. It actually took a great deal of time to even start to understand it. On hand I am not surprised at where America is and on the other incredibly disappointed to see where it is AND incredibly scared Australia could just as easily go the same way. The main difference between places like Australia, Canada, New Zealand is that we didn't have to fight a damn nasty war to get our independence. That war of independence has left America with a sort of cultural scar. We have ours too but nothing like America's. America was also granted (what in my opinion) was one of the greatest achievements in human history - The US Constitution with the Bill of Rights embedded in it. You wont here many non-Americans say that. I studied aerospace engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law. They used to drive me crazy with their damn hypothetical questions and discussions. It also left me with a sense I didn't know my own country that well and they understood their country and HOW IT WAS MEANT TO WORK, but then they were also part of a generation that still studied civics, which for the uninitiated is a high school class where they get taught this is how the Constitution came to be and how the whole system is meant to work. If there was only one thing (and there are several) that I would bring into our high schools now it would be an Australian version of that civics curriculum. Because then every person in Australia would have an understanding of how the country (its governments, courts and services work). And this is where America has gone off the rails. America let Bush and Cheney cut the funding for civics. In the past NOBODY would have been able to get away with what Trump and his Trumpistani hoards have done, BECAUSE too many people would have called BULLSHlT to his LIES because they would have been educated to spot it. Here's why I think Civics is so important. The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights are brilliant BUT NOT PERFECT. Nobody's is - Australia inherited much of ours from the British with a 1,000 years of British fluff. As an engineer I explain it this way. Consider the best machines we have made (of any type) they all NEED MAINTENANCE. Formula 1 cars and Fighter jets are among the most advanced machines we've ever made and they all need dedicated highly trained crews to maintain them. Our nations are no different and they are more complex than any machine, which is why we have governments to maintain them. The brilliance of modern social democracy is "we the people" can get rid of a government that fails to do that job. BUT it breaks down when the population isn't educated about how the nation is supposed to work. That's why civics is so important. Without it its easy for populist bad faith actors to come in and convince people of things that are NOT true.
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  313. I'm Australian but went to college at U. of Illinois. I went to college with a few of Iowans and there decent people and there's no need to trash their state just because the GOP is this ridiculous. I can also say the same for states like Kentucky, Indiana and Wisconsin. I spent my first thanksgiving in Kentucky. Beautiful place and wonderful people who deserve way better than Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul. I spent another thanksgiving in Cincinnati - great fun city. EVERY State in America I spent time in I met good people. I have to tell Australians all the time NOT TO judge America on just on the GOP. I also have to remind them that the insanity of the GOP is to a significant extent driven by Rupert Murdoch, a malignant creature we will never be able to apologise enough for. He's helped ruin the political systems in 3 countries - Australia, American & Britain. One final thing to remember the next time your trashing a state like Iowa. DO NOT FORGET the Democrats are so hopeless that they can't beat these clowns. Time and time again they lose and lose and lose to this nonsense. Do they ever stop and wonder WHY? And before you ask the Australian Left have EXACTLY the same problem.
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  314. Hey don't be unfair to vegetables. They are nutritious, healthy, don't cheat on their taxes, don't cheat on their wives and never stormed the capital.
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  315. Try being an AUSTRALIAN. We've signed up to this SHlT with submarines and jet fighters and all sorts of stuff. A few months ago it turned out we hired a bunch of ex-ES Navy admirals to "consult." They are being paid between AU$1.2 and AU$2 million a year, and some of them have been here for over 10 years. SO FAR - Nobody has explained why we, the people of Australia are paying several billion dollars to fix one of your shipyards. - Nobody has explained how we are going to crew these submarines which require more than double the number of people than our current submarines. - Nobody has explained the costs which are a staggering AU$268 Billion. For each sub there's over $20 Billion unaccounted for and that's on the lower estimate. On the upper estimate its over AU$35 Billion.
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  316. Australian engineer here: I'm formally trained and certified in both functional safety (TUV) and EEHA. Rupturing an LNG tank does NOT create a BLEVE, but it certainly makes one possible and that's because the LNG will quickly boil without any fire, ignition or explosion. I got into some ugly discussions over the BLEVE in Beiruit a couple of years ago and it certainly was a BLEVE. If you get into the details BLEVE is not that well defined but basically its when you have an initial fire or explosion that creates the boiling liquid and vapor cloud which then mixes with the surrounding air. That's the boiling liquid and expanding vapor cloud part of BLEVE. If you think about what a thermobaric bomb does which is to disperse the fuel, let it mix with the air and then detonate it that basically a BLEVE. There's was at one point a few really good examples on YouTube but they have been drowned out but the scumbags wanting attention and clicks. Of the few decent vids on thermobaric devices Ryan McBeth who's ex-US Military and is actually informative does a good one. If you search BLEVE on YouTube you get a bunch of older vids, but some are very good but also kind of scary. The best I know of is the BLEVE training video that's on the channel VideoSpikes as it explains what is going on. There's one from Mexico City and its a good example of the 2 stage nature of a BLEVE. At 0:58 there's the initial explosion and creation of the vapor cloud and then about 2 seconds later there's the fireball. Maybe the most frightening one is the "Atmospheric Storage Tank Explosion" posted by Mohamad Mahdi Amiri of what happened in Tehran in 2021.
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  317. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” - Isaac Asimov
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  318. Is it just me or can you see the day when some of these people like Hannity, Tucker Carlson and others step out their front door and something very ugly happens when people finally say they have had enough of having them screeching this garbage? The sad part is I can also see some poor dude going to jail for a very long time.
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  319. To the Hungarian people DON'T. I'm Australian go and look up how the Chinese have treated us lately. I've actually worked (briefly) in China and I found the Chinese people fine. Despite the language difficulties they were great to work with. What we do need to keep in mind is that our issues are NOT with the Chinese people but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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  320.  @dirremoire  Well let me tell you about your ARROGANCE. 1: I don't watch Sky News and I don't know anyone with a functioning brain who does. Occasionally I will watcha YouTube on something they have said so I can answer claims others make. HOW DARE YOU ASSSUME I WATCH THEM FOR INFORMATION. 2: I NEVER said they drained the Aral Sea. Seriously how stupid do you think people are? I said the Soviets building those dams destroyed the Aral Sea without going into the details that the water was diverted mainly for cotton farming. 3: As for Stalin's displacing of people that is well known. He wasn't the first to even practice that concept of disconnecting people from their traditional lands. The Americans did it with their First Nations. Every time anyone does an even half reasonable story involving ex-Soviet Republics and enclaves the subject of Stalin gets mentioned. So here's my advice to you -> In future don't be so effng arrogant, presumptive or STUPID and people wont think you're a FK-wit.
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  321. It helps (or doesn't) when 74million delusional people think he's the savior of America. Maybe with these events that number is finally coming down. I'd like to see some of those Trump supporters explain how storming & trashing the capitol, killing a cop and tearing down the American flag was justified.
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  322. Aussie here: I can't believe that after how Trump treated her PERSONALLY in 2016 that Megyn Kelly would ever support him without some sort of apology (and Trump never apologises). All we have heard from women for the last few decades is how WRONG it is when a man patronises or down talks a woman or treats them disrespectfully LIKE TRUMP DOES and yet people like Megyn, who Trump personally attacked, support him. Does Megyn NOT understand the concept of "mixed messages?"
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  323. I'm an aerospace engineer who's worked in automation for 30+ years and it F*CKING AGGRAVATES me that people are still misrepresenting robots and what they actually do. Anyone can just go and look up Fanuc, Kuka, Motoman, ABB, Staubli and other robotic companies and see what robots actually look like and what they actually do. First off robots (real industrial robots) are nothing like the BS crap that Hollywood makes out. One of the very things Hollywood got close was the original Terminator when it was described as having no feelings, no morals just a program. Second robots are damn heavy seriously heavy. They need mass or they're unstable and shake too much which can make them hard to do accurate work. The more spindly robots you see doing 3d printing get rigidity by the types of mechanisms they use. Third go watch the Canadarm its moves slowly so they can avoid inertia and accuracy issues. Those are less problematic in a factory on earth because we can bolt robots down to solid slabs of concrete. In space inertia and momentum are issues not so easily solved. Like many engineers I am truly over these snake oil salesmen. There are some really serious tasks right here on Earth that if we don't deal with SOON we are in deep shite. Forget climate for a moment almost every Western Developed Nation has serious infrastructure issues that if they aren't dealt with we risk major economic collapses. We don't need clowns wasting money and time on fantasy flights. I'd love it if we started a new major space station YESTERDAY, but I also realise that we have more important priorities.
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  324.  @Cthulhu4President  Here's some suggestions DW - Germany BBC - Britain ABC - Australia (my country) France24 - French WION - Indian, where Palki Sharma was. You'd need to check to see where she is now. Any Canadian News Service. I was there a few years back and they all seemed fairly decent. Most important thing anyone can do is check a story against how other nations report it. Sometimes it sucks but at least you'll see how others perceive something.
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  325. HEY GARY: I'm an Australian engineer who started informally studying economics a few years ago because I got so frustrated with the interference I got on projects from people with MBAs and economics degrees. They always pushed back with 1 or both of 2 basic questions: "What's the business case for that?" and "Who's going to pay for it?" Even when we could answer what they ask they'd push back or worse send HR after us. So from an engineering perspective its great to see people like you also pushing back at these people because they have left a legacy in the energy and water sectors that will take decades to fix. I know you know about the neoliberal economics of people like Margret Thatcher and how its caused massive inequality, but I'd like to talk to you about what else it caused. Trying to keep it simple I'll only talk about the electricity part of the energy sector because its the easiest to understand. energy and my most sincere apologies for the length of this: FIRST AND IMPORTANTLY - When governments built and managed the energy sector as a public enterprise its KPI was NOT profit. People in every country including Australia used to whine and complain about what it cost to run power stations. What we never heard about was what we got in return -> Very cheap energy that allowed out economies to grow and create massive amounts of productive value adding employment. But that didn't suit the free market libertarians of Chicago School economics. I'm Australian but did my degree in America and there's a giant mistake the rest of us make in that we think America has a Left & Right politics. Its has liberal and libertarian 2 forms of Right sided ideology. American Liberals believe in a strong government frame work to protect and provide freedom and economic growth. American Libertarians believe in minimalist government, minimalist oversight and ZERO corporate regulations so they can do whatever they like. One thing not often noted is that the Chicago School is a reference to the University of Chicago which is a private university in part founded by John D Rockefeller who hated government because they put limits on what he could do. Out of UC came people like James McKinsey who founded the consulting industry. Go listen to Mariana Mazzucato on that. Also out of UC came neo-conservative politics that produced things like the invasion of Iraq. Most importantly out of UC came neoliberal economics from people like Hayek and Freidman who can be summed up on 2 words "deregulate" & "privatise." This is what we more commonly know as Reaganomics and Thatcherism. The problem with neoliberal economics in energy is that it flips the energy sector from a driver of economic & employment growth into a profit making enterprise. There's actually no KPIs in neoliberal economics, because that implies there's more than one indicator and in neoliberal economics there is only the one indicator - profit. Direct cut and past from the McKinsey website _"t has now been 50 years since economist Milton Friedman asked and answered a fundamental question: What is the role of business in society? Friedman’s stance was plain: “There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” That view has long influenced management thinking, corporate governance, and strategic moves. "_ You should understand that better than I do. What the effect is that when you privatise the energy sector you don't bring in investment to the energy sector you actually kill it and its killed in a very specific way. You need to understand there are 2 main parts to the energy sector - base load and load following. In case you don't know base load is the minimum amount your society needs every hour of everyday just to keep things going. Load following is what's needed when people start turning things on or switching them off and it has to respond. Base load only varies with economic growth (or decline) while load following changes every minute of every day. Power stations are similar to goods transportation. When you want to deliver lots of small packages like Amazon does where there's variety you use delivery vans. When you want to move tons of product in bulk you use a semi-trailer. Just like a semi costs a lot more than a van so do the large bulk delivery power stations. Example 1) Hinkley Point C (currently under construction at £26 Billon and rumored to now cost £35 Billion took 7 years to design, approve and get started. It will take 10 years to build and is planned to provide power in starting in 2028 for 60 years. I have done the math and it will take around 15 years to pay of at 80% operation. So what's the business case for spending that much money and the CEO wont see a return for over 30 years? That's over 120 quarterly statements that say "we spent and are still paying off the investment." Example 2) Any wind farm, lets just say it has 100 turbines. When the first turbine is built (1% completion) you have income and as you build more turbines and connect them you have more income. Income for the existing turbines to pay for the rest of the turbines. What do you think investors will invest in the £26-35 Billion dollar lump they wont see a return from for 30+ years or the wind farm they wont even have to raise all the funds needed to build it. So fundamentally governments have a completely different agenda tot the private sector when it comes to electricity investment. When governments do energy they are always building ahead of demand so the system has MORE CAPACITY than is needed. That keeps market prices low because of over supply and YES I did a class in economics. That allows new businesses to start and existing businesses to develop, grow and employ people. When the private sector does energy they DON'T BUILD bulk delivery power stations they BUY EXISTING bulk delivery power stations OR they build smaller load following stations where they can get return on investment. There is a monster "herd of elephants in the room" issue and nobody talks about it. FIRST - understand the demand curve for energy is a direct proportional function of population. If the population grows so does the energy demand curve. When the private sector BUYS an existing power station it is generally in a market with OVER SUPPLY. If anyone build more large bulk supply so that energy supply stays ahead of demand then prices stay low and profits stay low. IF THEY DO NOTHING and JUST WAIT then eventually (because of population growth) energy demand will flip the market from over supply to under supply and the market price will GO UP. Best of all the actual costs of generation will not change. So when the power in the UK goes from 20p to 54p (as it did) that additional 34p is 100% PROFIT. All these private companies ever had to do was WAIT until population outgrew supply. The problem is that those costs are paid by every household and business, So not only does everyone have less money to spend which affects consumption but businesses are less profitable because their electricity costs are higher. So nobody can go to their boss and ask for a raise to help pay their electricity bill because their boss ALSO HAS AN ELECTRICITY BILL. Higher electricity costs NEGATIVELY affect the economy at every level and yet where are the economists saying we need to fix this? Yeah they are silent because they are the people who told everyone that privatising the energy sector was the right thing to do because (and they said this everywhere) "Competition would produce better services at lower costs!" If you want to talk about this great. If you want to do a video about this even better.
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  326.  @derekroberts5931  The first 999 are those giant novelty sized cookies the size of large Pizzas and the last one just plain regular.
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  327. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.” FYI - I love to claim I found that all by myself but somebody told me to look it up a while back. Its arguably one of the most important warnings the entire Western Hemisphere should take to heart. Its not just applicable to America.
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  328. You're half right. The biggest issue with any passenger plane is empty seats. No matter what anyone does the basics costs of airport fees, hangar fees, office costs, baggage handling costs, maintenance costs and all the others exist EVERY time the plane flies. There is fundamentally for any aircraft a set cost before you even start the engines. The only offset to that is bums on seats and its a lot easier to fill a smaller plane against that cost. I did aerospace engineering and this basic concept was also the downfall of the space shuttle. Before it ever lifted off and flew a single kilogram into orbit it had to lift 75 tons into orbit. It had a payload capacity to orbit of 30 tons and the basic costs of preparing it for flight was the same if it launched with 1 ton or 30 tons. Just image the financial loss on an a half full A380. You still have to start and run 4 engines. You still have to lift all that basic mass into the sky. Compared to a plane half the size with only 2 engines the math is very, very simple. Then there was also the issue that the A380 could only operate at special terminals. Planes like 737s and A320s can go almost anywhere. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ There was one place the A380 did shine and that was for those very busy long haul routes taking bulk numbers of people from major hubs to major hubs where they could reliably fill (or come close to filling) the plane. It was similar for the 747.
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  329. I'm new to Gary's channel so I am going back over a few and you are right on target. I'm actually an Australian engineer and I started looking into economics out of frustrations from dealing with economic rationalists. People like Annabel with that stupid "they wont invest here crap." That's a complete garbage line because if it was true Apple and others would NEVER have moved any factories to China. Its unbelievable how these clowns make these stupid claims and just keep repeating them endlessly. Its one of the things the pro-business right wing media types just pump out and keep pumping out that are all about scaring workers. Its the shut up or we'll take your job to China narrative.
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  330. Bernie, I'm Australian and love what you stand for. I went to college in America (late 80s) and quite strongly feel for my friends there and what they have inherited. As an Australian its incredibly important to us (as it is for many other nations) that America functions as a healthy democracy. Like others we have very serious trade and security arrangements with America. But you need to be honest the American billionaires already have control of America and have had it for some time. Our billionaires are following the same plans here and we need to put a stop to that. Along with many others around the world I truly hope you and others can break their grip on American politics. Best wishes from Australia.
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  331. I'm Australian but went to college in America. So I have a fairly reasonable understanding of both American politics and its effects on the rest of the world AND YOU HAVE SUMMED IT UP PERFECTLY. Hilary lost because of her own stupid arrogance. Maybe I could see it because I was on the outside looking in, but to me it was so damn obvious. And the fact she is still around being idiotically arrogant is a blight on the human race not just American politics. For those interested here's an explanation of what I saw from the outside looking in. America is unusual in that it has voluntary voting, in that you can chose NOT to vote at all. In Australia we have compulsory voting. You have to be on the electoral role and you have to show up, but because we also have preferential voting rather than first past the post we tend to get fairly decent results (but not always). America's problem is that you can basically vote DNC, RNC or NOT at all and if you chose to NOT vote then the selection is left to those who are politically motivated to either the DNC or RNC. So its incredibly important that candidates motivate people TO TURN UP AND VOTE. I told people here in Australia months out from the 2016 election Hilary was going to lose because I knew she'd lost the rust belt. There was that moment when she said she didn't need to campaign in Michigan because they'd vote Blue anyway and instead she stayed in New York doing campaign dinners to raise money. She completely forgot that it was those same New York elites at those dinners who'd made the decisions to shut down the rust belt and send their jobs to China, Mexico, Texas,.....etc. So rather than motivating people Hilary discouraged people across the rust belt. Go and look at the results and Hilary became the first Democrat to lose all 3 of Michigan, Ohio and Penn since Dukakis lost all 3 to Bush Snr. Even Gore and Kerry each won 2 of those states. She lost all 3 and it was all because of her arrogant dismissal of people. If she'd won those 3 states she'd have won. It might have been easier to see form the outside looking in but from my perspective it was obvious that Hilary waving the middle finger to Michigan was idiotic.
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  332. I think it was Jon Stewart who pointed out that Tucker Carlson has been FIRED from every job he's ever held in the media because he just made stuff up. He's the adult version of that brat in grade school who'd just make stuff and tell any lie he could JUST to see how much chaos it caused.
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  333. Yeah what else should anyone expect from people who are NEVER HELD ACCOUNTABLE. We have a Pandemic of COVID and plague of narcissists who just don't care about the rest of us or our futures while they demand we get out of their way. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  334. Actually that's a very good point. People like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Mussolini, Pol Pot or any of the other dictators of recent history got into power by themselves. A couple of them were very competent public speakers like Hitler. BUT they all had those people who helped convince the masses that these people (who were all monsters) were benevolent, kind and loving leaders. If Trump didn't have people like Tucker spinning 1/2 truths for him he'd be nothing. I just noticed in my recommendations there is a Fox vid with Tucker that has the title "Hungarian prime minister hits back at Biden calling him a 'thug' on 'Tucker'" Pardon me but was it Trump or Biden who told his supporters to throw protesters out of his rallies and beat them up? Was it Trump or Biden who sent an angry mob to the capitol building screaming (among other things) to hang the Vice President? You see Trump is nothing without people like Tucker. Just as Hitler, Stalin, Mao and all the others would have been nothing without their versions of Tucker.
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  335.  @WAEVOICE  Yeah sorry I forgot you repubs use another dictionary to the rest of us. I guess that's how you justify your garbage.
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  336.  @Oniijh  NO - that does not mean he's good at public office that could mean many things. It could mean the Dem candidate was so bad they made De Sanctimonious look good and considering how bad the Dems are at campaigning that's as realistic as anything.
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  337. I'm Australian and have been trying to point out how ridiculous the whole January 6th event has become. IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY - all those who spoke at that rally and told that crowd to go down there and "Stop the steal" would have been rounded up the next day and NOT GIVEN BAIL before their trials. In most countries those trials would have been the day after the arrest and for some of them their execution the day after that. Consider what happened in China after Tiananmen Square? You can also ask what the Saudis or North Korea (2 of Trumps favourites) would have done.
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  338.  @candyburgess2547  I agree unless you actually rip off the wealthy or the powerful like Bernie Madoff did (just watching a Frontline on him) you don't go to jail for this sort of stuff. These people have problem however. As the French, Russian and other aristocracies found out eventually you take so much from the populace that they simply revolt. BLM is actually that kind of event. A giant chunk of the populace just finally had enough and snapped. I saw one vid where people were screaming that these protestors were tearing their own cities apart and a young black woman replied to that. She pointed out that they own nothing, have nothing and have no future. Mark Blyth pointed that a study of Boston showed the average wealth for white Bostonians was over $250K while black Bostonians had an average wealth average of $8----- Yeah if you simply hand a lot of black people a $10 note in Boston you instantly double their wealth. This is what the American establishment DON'T GET. Eventually when you've taken all that's available you leave the general population with no other choice. AMERICANS of all people should get that concept because its how their country started. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  339. Absolutely. This isn't the first of these I have seen about water. I'm in Australia and the one they did a while back abut our issues showed stuff most Australians don't know about. The issue about corporations just rolling over the top of people and taking whatever they want is about to explode across the world. When politicians refuse to do the right thing by society and do nothing but pander to a wealthy few IT NEVER WORKS OUT WELL.
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  340. You've hit the most important thing too many engineers forget on too many projects. WHAT IS ITS PRIMARY TASK and HOW DOES IT NEED TO DO THAT TASK. A truck needs to RELIABLY HAUL CARGO. By far the most successful engineering project in history was the Apollo program. Disclosure - Yes I am an aerospace engineer, so I am a bit biased. But If you look at its basic task "Put a man on the moon and return him safely to the Earth." It was that simple and after the Apollo 1 tragedy they got back to that task of SAFELY RETURN. You can't safely return if you die on the launch pad! They ended up going to the moon 9 times and landing 6 times and did it in less than 10 years from the start. Go look at most of Musk's fantasies. He's always off task. The things his companies do get right they get right because he's fortunate enough to have a few people who DO KEEP THINGS ON TASK.
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  341. Actually its bullshit. Ord river's early days were a bust because they went for cotton, which is easily one of the most damaging crops on the planet. Ask the Russians about the Aral Sea. But this is all based on old information. In recent decades they switched towards vegetables and melons to supply demand in Asia and that stuff has been incredibly profitable. I know that because one of my previous neighbors was a seed merchant who did business in the Ord. Seedless water melons and tomatoes make huge money out of the ord. Also my brother used to work for VISY ad they have a huge division in Darwin selling packaging into that market.
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  342. Australian here: Just so you Americans know. The Australian Electoral Commission that runs elections in Australia sent a bunch of observers to America in 2020. That was nothing new or dramatic. The AEC does it all the time and not only sends people to America but all over the place. When we have elections there's Americans and many others who come here just like they go other places. This happens all over the world and in most cases it has NOTHING to with catching cheats or interference it has to do with people LEARNING HOW TO RUN THEIR OWN ELECTIONS BETTER. So there were 1,000s of foreign observers from all over the world in America in 2020 and NOT ONE HAS SAID A THING. Its not just the American's who ran the election who said it was done properly but 1,000s of foreign observers also agree that it was one of the best run elections in human history.
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  343.  @JP-iq7pu  Peter might be an expert on geopolitics and demographics but he knows fark all about engineering and often gets basic things WRONG.
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  344.  @DrMarmalader  Someone needs to tell him that Jesus and the disciples were from the Middle East. They had dark hair, and olive complexions and all of the parents were Jewish, 100% Jewish. Basically and importantly they were NOT blond haired blue eye Arians. Most Christians should take a little time and do just some basic history. And if they bother to read further they'll find he provided free health care and free food to needy people.
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  345.  @EngineeringwithRosie  I did aerospace but have spent the last 30+ years in control systems. I am qualified in what gets call EEHA - Electrical Equipment for Hazardous Areas. In the context of engineering a Hazardous Area is an area that has all the time or part of the time an EXPLOSIVE GAS or EXPLOSIVE DUST mix. It has nothing to do with toxicity, physical hazards, lack of oxygen or anything else. Its the areas of control systems where we keep gas plants, chemical plants, wheat silos, sugar processing plants,.....etc. from exploding. Of all the things that engineers in my field take most seriously its Hydrogen. Not only does it leak very easily but it ignites very easily. With gas mixes there is a range of mixing where the mixes is explosive. If there is not enough ignitable gas its wont explode and if there is too much it wont explode as there isn't enough oxygen. We call these points the Lower Explosive Limit (LEL) and Upper Explosive Limit (UEL). When gas first leaks from a pipe or cylinder its 100% and then starts mixing with the air. Once it reaches the UEL it becomes explosive and stays that way until it dissipates enough to be below the LEL. Methane has an UEL of 16.4% and LEL of 4.4% while Hydrogen has a UEL of 75% and LEL of 4%. That means when Hydrogen leaks and start mixing with air it becomes explosive quite quickly and a lot quicker than methane. It also stays explosive slightly longer as it dissipates. Then there is the serious issue of hydrogen with ignition energy. Ignition energy is the minimum amount of energy that is required to get something to ignite. The minimum ignition energy for hydrogen is 0.019 mJ while for most hydrocarbons it is around 0.1mJ (approximately 5 times higher). So not only does a Hydrogen leak become explosive far quicker and stay explosive longer it takes about 1/5th the energy to go bang. That means everything we do electrically around hydrogen has to be specifically designed for hydrogen and there are some big traps in those areas. If you want to discuss further let me know.
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  346. Because none of them want to admit that she lost, because they hold onto the fact she won the popular vote. But they keep forgetting that's NOT what its about. Think of it like a football game. One team keeps marching down the field again and again. Out of 10 possessions they get 1 touchdown, 6 field goals, but throw 1 interception. The other team truly sucks. They are a rambling mess of bad calls, penalties and fumbles. They struggle on D giving up yards, 1st downs and points, but somehow they turn that 1 interception into a pick 6. Their O is even worse than their D. They can't move the ball, they fumble and get called for holding again and again. Their QB is sacked 5 times and gets picked off 4 times but somehow they manage to score 3 touchdowns off some gimmick plays and Hail Mary's. They suck so bad their kicker not only missed a couple of critical field goals but also missed 2 extra points on bad snaps, bad holds and bad kicking. WHO WON THE GAME. Was it the team with more first downs, more yards, more interceptions, fewer mistakes, better kicking and a flashy superstar QB? Or was it the team with 26 points instead of 25?
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  347. Australian here - at some point there is going to have to be a reckoning with all this nonsense from America's extreme right AND YES I know Rupert Murdoch and his family are right in the middle of it. Unfortunately for Tucker I can see the day coming where he steps out his front door and something damn ugly happens and some poor guy goes to jail for doing nothing more than stopping Tuckers insane behavior.
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  348. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  349. How about all those early astronomers who looked through their telescopes and saw "canals" on Mars??? In a documentary (back in the 80s or 90s) I remember seeing a psychologist do an experiment on it once they took groups of high school arts class students and asked them to draw an object they had put at a distance beyond what most people could clearly distinguish details. The object was simply a circle on a flat surface with some random blobs inside the circle. No matter how many times they did it the majority of people would include lines connecting the blobs. There is something weird about the human visual cortex that when it can't distinguish details on a distant object it will add details in an effort to recognise what it might be. Psychologists have known about this stuff for decades.
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  350. I'd add a small clarification to that. She might be the worst liar this year who's last name isn't Trump or Putin.
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  351. I'm an Australian engineer who's been doing industrial control systems, robotics and automation for 35+ years and I am sure it was just the usual incompatibility with SHEEPLOVER software systems you guys wont stop using. Sorry mate but I have worked with quite a few Kiwi engineers and technicians. Some are proper DlCKHEADS who we wished you would keep on your side of the ditch, but you have others who are as good as any in the world. So I find it hard to grasp they had a software incompatibility unless you were listening tot he DlCKHEADS instead of the people who knew what they were doing. FYI - we have the same problem here in OZ. To often we let our DlCKHEADS make decisions.
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  352. As an Australian who went to college in America its great to see someone at least putting up a list and explaining why these things will COLLECTIVELY make a difference. Sadly none of them will happen until the parents of these children don't just sue the gun manufacturers but sue those politicians who are acting on behalf of those gun manufacturers through campaign donations. I saw David's vid on Ted Cruz being confronted by Sky News as well as Beto O'Rourke's interjection. I've actually been to Texas a couple of times and found the people there decent, honest and friendly. But their politicians are a disgrace. Ours are pretty disgraceful as are most around the world but Texas reached a new low this week. I just watched Kyle Kulinski's review of Fox's 50 solutions and am ashamed that an Australian (dual US citizen) owns that network.
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  353. The is the real question - how mentally ill is the crowd and why isn't anyone calling this out. Where are the family members of people in this crowd? We've all heard about delusional cults at times, but this is something new because its political. The level of delusion is like watching a documentary about Jim Jones and his Kool Aid but instead they are talking about politics.
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  354. ​ @joelobryan1212  Sorry for the story but you'll get it at the end. In the last semester of doing my degree I needed to fill in with a couple of extra classes to be considered full time. One of those classes was Nautical Navigation hosted by the US Navy as part of the ROTC program. It was open to all students and they often had non-ROTC people do that class and I was the one that semester. I ended up having several interesting chats with the instructors. One of those conversations was about "Operation Nimble Archer" which was when the US Navy shelled a couple of Iranian Oil Platforms in the Red Sea for being used against commercial shipping during the Iran-Iraq War. It was reported the USN had fired an astronomical number of shells into those platforms. So I asked why didn't they simply press a button and fire a missile. One of my instructors simply said _"A missile costs at least $1 Million while 100+ artillery shells costs less. Besides the opportunity to have gun crews fire under real combat conditions is too good to pass up." Yeah I know that conversation was 35+ years ago and I might have the exact words a bit off but I remember that answer very distinctly.
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  355. Your right on the suspicions of both sides. They only thing you have to consider is which of these various acts need to be actually dealt with. The staggering levels of corruption in governments across the world these days is no longer a matter of conjecture its a matter of how bad they are. In America the blatant corruption of the Republicans is clearly worse than the Democrats but the Democrats by almost any measure are disgraceful. They just aren't as cynically ruthless as the Republicans. I'm Australian and it might not be as bad but both sides of our politics are beyond saving. I was in Canada for work a few years back and it was the same there. I meet people from Europe all the time and all I hear are similar stories. Western democracy is at a crossroads, either our political parties start recognizing that they have to do more than simply satisfy the billionaire class or we are headed for revolutions. Look at history again and again it tells us when the top 1% strip and rob the rest of all dignity and opportunity then revolutions are inevitable. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  356. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powell interview. I have left a separate answer with additional background information about why Australia is so concerned about Rupert Murdoch's behavior in America. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powell Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  357. HEY PETER - CAN YOU PLEASE HIRE AN ENGINEER: You cannot just stop the methane release from a coal mine but just stopping the digging. Once you have exposed a coal seam to the air the carbon in the coal seam will begin to react. Carbon wants to naturally react with oxygen in the air. In fact if you are not careful coal stockpiles can simply ignite. Its why they have to be doused in water almost constantly. Coal itself is porous and if the coal seam is also laden with methane like we have here in parts of Australia (my country) then once you give that gas a way out it will leave the coal seam and go into the atmosphere. This is just one of the issues with fracking and it can also make underground coal mining extremely dangerous. Methane in the right amount in air is highly explosive as happened at the Pike River mine in New Zealand in 2010. What keeps the gas in the coal seam is the layers of clay and dirt above the seam similar to oil & gas fields. When you dig the coal mine you go through that layer to get to the coal and in doing so give the methane a way to escape into the atmosphere. So its not simply a matter of shutting down the coal mines you also have to seal the whole thing. That can be quite difficult if the mine is an open pit which many of the mines in China are. There's a German documentary (which I saw 12+ years ago) on the poor practices the Chinese employed in their coal mining industry and they had many in seam fires which was what they brought the Germans in to help with. For almost 20 years (all through China's growth spurt) the Chinese burned as much coal in the ground as they did in their power stations. That's part of why they had those smog problems and also why there's now even more CO2 in the atmosphere than expected. Those fires are now mostly put out or under control. The last report I saw said they had contained or put out around 80% of those fires.
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  358. That's actually a good way to put it.
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  359. I'm an engineer and that's actually a really great observation based on actual data gathering. As an engineer I encounter way to many people who think opinions are more important than conclusions based on actual observed data and verified information and gathered experience. This is one of the things I find so frustrating these days as an engineer. There's a 1000 voices in the room all screaming at the top of their lungs and whatever reason and logic is there to be heard just gets drowned out in the cacophony.
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  360. From an engineer that's great input to a discussion like this. Most notably the issue of up cutting and where you position the piece in the vice. The other thing which I am glad that has been pointed out is the durability. Graph at 15 minutes. The Diablo was clearly slower on that test but also shoed it had handled the abuse of the previous test far better.
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  361. You forgot to add he's really good at justifying force feeding stuff to people.
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  362. Oh shit dude there you go having to spoil all the fun we could have with this by using FACTS. Noam Chomsky termed the phrase the "United States of Amnesia" and lets face it most of America has forgotten about its Cuban gulag. I agree with Noam, but I would describe FACTS as "America's allergy," because lets face it every time somebody points out a FACT all the American's present turn their heads away as if they are about to sneeze.
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  363.  @glenysthomson5955  You forgot she's also got no ethics, spine, education or grasp of reality.
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  364. HEY SARAH DOES THAT MEAN BEING AN UNMARRIED PREGNANT TEENAGER!
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  365. As Australians we all studied Orwell in English class at some point because it was considered "a must" if we were to UNDERSTAND what our ideological opponents were. I did Animal Farm during the American equivalent of Freshman/Sophomore and 1984 during the American equivalent of Junior/Senior High School. I went to college in America (late 80s) and could barely believe that almost NONE of my classmates understood anything about these books. When I studied Animal Farm that included a basic history of the Russian Revolution and how certain characters in the book related to real historical figures and what they did. When I studied 1984 we looked at how authoritarian states OPERATED. We had doublespeak explained to us. Its the political concept of making a statement that has 2 equal and opposite meanings. It was how Big Brother was 100% right about everything. Because even when he said something utterly wrong the opposite meaning was still correct. The classic I remember from the book was all the government ministries were abbreviated from "Ministry of Something" to "mini something." Orwell's implication was that these governments were the opposite of what the label claimed. So the Ministry of Peace was called Mini-peace and it was where wars were fought from. The "Ministry of Love" was called Mini-love and it was where they tortured Winston (and others). The other thing I remember (and my English teacher at the time hammered this home to all of us) is the actual purpose of doublespeak was to utterly confuse the population to the point where they could not form coherent thoughts in opposition to the regime. Its actually described at one point in the book.
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  366. Good comment. I'm Australian but I went to college in America and understand why David is getting this sort of backlash. He's 100% told the truth but its also thrown fuel on the fire and exposed these people. He should've expected this type of backlash considering what these people are. One thing liars, frauds and grifters can never handle and that is being exposed because it threatens the 2 things they crave the most - money and attention.
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  367. A couple of Weeks ago Konstantin Kisin (YT Channel Triggernometry) said almost the same thing on BBC Question Time. He actually argued with people and said NO we need to negotiate with Putin, because to force him out of Ukraine or force him out of power in Russia would be a disaster. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DXwlqoSF70 Then on Mar 25 Yanis Varoufakis said almost the same thing again on Democracy Now. Only a few minutes in he pointed out Chinese military philosopher Sun Tzu said to give your opponent a way out when to trap them means utter destruction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su4czYxGYxo So why are people going nuts at Chomsky, while other people are saying the same stuff? I think this is more of the petty ignorance of Americans who think they understand the world AND JUST DON'T.
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  368. I thought they were satellites from the start. You had 2 objects travelling at the same speed on parallel courses AND THEY FLEW STRAIGHT. When did you ever see bugs fly dead straight let alone parallel to each other?
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  369. SORRY BUT - I went and checked this and maybe Thom could have done some checking too. There definitely is a direct link from Cannons husband (Josh Lorence) to John Rosatti, but there's not much of a link between John Rosatti and the Colombo crime family and nothing to suggest he's actually a mobster. According to FBI informant and former Colombo captain Salvatore "Big Sal" Miciotta "in late 1993, Victor Orena asked multi-millionaire businessman John Rosatti to provide cars from his dealership to be used to carry out murders, Rosatti declined and instead handed over $50,000 to Orena." (source Wikipedia on the page about the Colombo Crime Family). So there's no actual claim anywhere that Rosatti was actually a mobster just a claim that a mobster approached him at one time and the implication he paid money to NOT be involved.
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  370. When somebody wants to take away the cheap labor they provide.
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  371. Yes I am. Here's a link to the article Sagaar was talking about he other day that was done by Nicholas Wade. I would not call it the exact opposite of what David is saying, but its clearly not pro-Fauci as David is. The article by Nicholas Wade is very well done, but its a longer article than most people will read. -> https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/ In a nutshell: - There was "gain of function" research going on in Wuhan. - There was research there being funded by other nations including America. - One of the main people investigating Wuhan with the W.H.O. Peter Daszak has an obvious conflict of interest. As a result we DO NOT have a fully detailed account of what was going on in Wuhan. From that article and other professionals I have heard, I do NOT think it was a genetically engineered weapon. Most likely it was something that became modified or enhanced in the lab that got out into the general population. How it became modified or enhanced is something NO ONE has answered. Its possible it was from deliberate "gain of function" research. Its also possible it just came from an accidental mutation in a petri dish. We just don't know and one of the principal investigators has a serious conflict of interest. BUT Rand Paul is the worst kind of opportunistic maggot politician to be asking anything of such a serious subject and we wont get the answers we need with a clown like him running the show. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  372. Yep. and its just like your other comment. American Conservatism is the right to be free so you can deny others their freedoms.
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  373. Remember how she fronted up that kid in the street? She needs to have people every day fronting her in the street asking why she lies and confronting her over these lies? And then post it and post it and post it. So long as people like her are NOT confronted then they will continue to lie.
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  374. HEY STEVE There's also another factor in WHY Australia didn't have as bad of a recession during the 2008 GFC. We were still building new mines to feed the Chinese beast (as I call it). REMENBER I WAS WORKIGN int that sector at that time. Yes many things slowed down. What affected me personally was the part of the sector I was in. I worked for a small company doing peripheral work. All mines are continuously doing projects to either fix things or improve things or BOTH. That's part of the very nature of mining and mineral processing. The GFC slammed into the peripheral work so we got hammered because what they did was put anything unnecessary on hold. Now that did include some major projects because they hadn't started BUT of the major projects that were already underway KEPT GOING. So there were still billions being spent and even though there was a downturn in the amount of things like iron ore exports IT DID NOT STOP. Also when you process iron ore you need to use coking coal and YES I know that's a touchy subject, but its necessary if you want to produce pig iron and steel. Its not understood well that Australia has 2 very different parts to its coal exports. There's the THERMAL COAL which gets burnt for thermal energy in places like power stations and then there's "METALLURGICAL COAL" which gets used in mineral processing. Both cost about the same to dig up, crush, screen, clean and put on a boat. The difference is that metallurgical coal typically sells for between 2 & 3 times as much and can even be higher. Around 1/2 of Australia's coal exports are metallurgical coal and that industry didn't blink much when 2008 hit because the Chinese, South Koreans and Japanese were still making steel. So by fortune Australia was very lucky in that there was still enough demand out of China, South Korea and Japan for our iron ore and metallurgical coal. Projects were put on hold and that sucked but they also got going again not much later. Now with the demands on things like Nickel & Lithium for the energy transition we are poised yet again to get another free ride out of potential crisis. My real concern is what happens if we mismanage any of it, because lets face it Australia is fantastic at mismanaging great opportunities. The problem is as I said on the podcast the systems we have are fragile. Only yesterday I was speaking to my old boss from back in the 90s. We hadn't caught up in many years, but we have both arrived at the same conclusion our energy sector is being horribly mismanaged. He knew stuff that i didn't know and I had stuff he didn't know. Because I what I have been doing my contribution to the discussion was the interference by economists and that's only gotten a whole lot worse in recent months because of the re-ignition of the nuclear debate which is 99% 2 groups of selfish idiots screaming at each other and maybe 1% of someone sensible talking before the other 2 groups collectively scream at them. I mentioned on the podcast the CSIRO report on nuclear. Its even worse than I first thought. The clowns who did that report need to be fired for LYING and I really do mean they lied. Hidden away in the modelling are some really bizarre numbers. If you get a chance go watch the video here on YT titled "Are politicians listening to the science in the energy debate? | Insiders: On Background | ABC News" The person being interviewed is CSIRO CEO Dr Doug Hilton and he's urging politicians not to undermine scientists in the energy debate. BULLSHlT - he's part of the problem. Not only was the team who di the work made up of ECONOMISTS (no engineers involved) but they LIED. they based their modelling on nuclear power stations having a life of 30 years but also they said (and its there in the interview) that these plants would have a utilisation of 53%. Calder Hall the worlds FIRST commercial nuclear power plant and therefore a prototype ran for 47 years at a capacity factor (utilisation) of 79% (see Wikipedia). So the CSIRO report done by ECONOMISTS has claimed that the next generation of reactors (Gen III+ and Gen IV) will not only run 1/3rd less time than the very first reactors but also run 1/3rd less efficiently in the markets. And for the record the current Gen III+ reactors like the European EPR 2 have a design life of 60 years and a capacity factor over 90%. YES STEVE - CSIRO hired a pack of economists who did a model that's a LIE and giant LIE. What is it that you have kept telling everyone about economists and models and especially ENERGY?????????????????????
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  375. Yeah Imagine if they'd had a fleet of these against the B-17s of they'd had these protecting their bombers during the Battle of Britain. When you consider how successful the P38 was its amazing it was the only twin engine fighter that was widely adopted.
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  376. The company still exists (I just checked) but it does other things these days. Still hyper precision stuff but the Jig Borers and CMMs seem to have gone the way of the dodo, which is kind of tragic. But on their website they will still sell you a copy of Wayne Moore's “Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy” and his father's book “Holes, Contours and Surfaces”
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  377. Abbott might want to be very careful about what he does and says in coming days. Other than the simple concept of negligent homicide there's the issue that he as a state governor has not right to control an international border. I'm Australian and even I know this.
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  378.  @fivethreeone  I'd agree in principle, but if we simply right off 74 million then what does the world do with them? None of them woke up one day and suddenly decided to ignore reality. If there is a fundamental problem in American politics and to a lesser extent western politics its that our established political parties now operate on this insane division principle where the other side is not fellow country men they are our mortal enemy. This all pervading attitude that "we are the true patriots of our nation and they are its destruction" is simply insane. It doesn't matter what side of politics people are on they have this attitude that the other side is irredeemable. The world has to start finding some common ground. Because forget Trump and his bullshit the planet has been hammered by our collective stupidity and mother nature doesn't care if your Dem or GOP or anything else.
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  379. She does something that few journalists do. She shuts her mouth and lets people talk and in doing so lets them hang themselves. Note what she does just after 9 minutes. She doesn't argue his point, she just lets him talk and in a blink he exposes himself for what he is - an intolerant fanatic. How many times do we here the same sort of thing from fundamentalists everywhere: "We are tolerant, law abiding and peaceful but will cut your head off if you oppose us." To be fair. I'm Australian and we have similar people here, maybe not as many as other places but we do have these people who also will tell everyone they are tolerant, law abiding and peaceful and in a blink will turn and attack anything that opposes them. It doesn't matter what label it wears or what flag it waves, intolerant fundamentalism will (if allowed) end humanity.
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  380. Everyone should go and look at the map on the Wikipedia page for "Greater Israel" Because Greater Israel would include ALL of Lebanon and massive slabs of Syria, Jordan and Iraq. This is NOT going to end well.
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  381. Last time I checked you can't embarrass a narcissistic sociopath as they are incapable of feeling anything.
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  382. That's actually a damn good description. Except for those people totally agree with all their stuff they are largely irrelevant. The only interest I have is when they do make some relevant addition to public discussion or equally something stupid. Like Jordan P is relatively good when he talks about psychology issues but then that's his area of training and expertise. But when he gets into other areas he's a bit of a clown. I notice it whenever he gets into technology because I am an engineer. You can say similar things about Sam Harris and the Weinstein's. I think Sam Harris gets so long winded and boring at times that he drowns himself. Weinstein made some great points about COVID and the Lab Leak and then went off the deep end about Ivermectin. It was the best face palm of the year. The problem is too many people think because these people are smart and incredibly well versed in certain topics that they are well versed in EVERY topic. Which is where your point about people who agree with EVERYTHING they say is so spot on. great point 👍👍👍👍👍
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  383. I agree. I'm Australian but did my degree in America. I started informally studying economics a couple of years ago because I got so frustrated with clowns waving economics degrees interfering in projects. It lead to me what we now call neoliberalism which was introduced to the world as Reaganomics and Thatcherism. Reagan wasn't the architect of neoliberalism. That was people like Freidman and Hayek and the rest of the Chicago School clowns, but Reagan was the clown who made it policy. When you consider all the crap that has happened since it all traces back to the fact Reagan put neoliberalism first into policy and then into practice.
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  384.  @ThePoliticrat  if your only considering abut 500 years ago "as recent" when people like Copernicus and Galileo were challenging the Catholic church then yeah its only recent. The real problem is that Rubin thinks he's an intellectual and simply isn't. I wouldn't be surprised that the real reason he switched to the right was they said he was smart and Rubin is that kind of person just begging for anyone to reassure him that he's as smart as he thinks he is.
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  385. I'm Australian but went to college in America and I can tell you that there are millions and millions of sane Americans. Its just none of them are in Washington. And before you aske we have a similar problem in Canberra. I was in Canada a few years ago and they expressed the same thoughts regarding Ottawa. I hear the Brits say similar about Whitehall and the Europeans say the same about Brussels. In fact I'd be surprised in there isn't a country with the same or similar issue.
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  386. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law so I had many discussion about the US constitution. What's amazed when I compare today with the 80s is the insane ignorance about the US Constitution. Americans used to be incredibly proud of the understanding of there own nation. Compared to any other nation (including Australia) Americans WERE the most well educated people with respect to HOW their country ACTUALLY DOES WORK. BUT ITS NO LONGER TRUE and that amazes me because Americans used to be PROUD they understood their own nation. My frat brothers were ADAMANT that America could NEVER become a totalitarian state BECAUSE THEY WERE EDUCATED.
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  387.  @nancyross7935  No shortage of agreement there. David Pakman, Kyle Kulinksi and others have all covered his interviews and its staggering how he ever got elected. At best guess his only policy was "I support Trump" and that was enough. And if that's only fractionally true then its a worrying sign.
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  388. I also heard that the Devil was seen at Sears buying a new heater and some winter clothes. Apparently it snowed in his neighborhood this morning.
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  389. Australian here - form an outside perspective that is the BEST one line description of the GOP's decline in reality.
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  390. Translation: I am so stupid I also need to study before taking a prostate exam.
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  391. But then he's just one of a growing crowd of this type of media presenter. Way back in 2004 there was a documentary called Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. It was highly critical of the Murdoch method of presenting OPINION as FACT rather than "here is what we can see" or "this is what we have been told." Towards the end of it there's a warning of how Murdoch's method was being adopted by other organisations as was slowly dragging the entire media system down a dangerous path to where actual facts would simply be replaced with opinion. Tucker Carlson has now been fired from yet another media organisation (ironically a Murdoch org) for telling more lies and making stuff up as he's done his entire career. He does it because it NEVER HAS ANY REAL CONSEQUENCES because there's always people willing to pay him money to keep saying the nonsense he says.
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  392. AUSTRALIAN HERE with an outside observation. FIRST - I think your sentiments like others (and I can repeat this to those others) is spot on. I actually went to college in America and I can barely believe what this court has done. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and on many occasions they explained to me how the America system is supposed to work. This decision is nothing like anything they ever explained to me. SECOND - this is obviously a massive deal to the American people, but its also a massive deal to Australia as well as every other country America deals with including places like Russia, Iran, North Korea,.... etc. For countries like Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea,.... America is our most important trading partner and our most important security partner. So its DOUBLY important that the person we have to deal with YOUR PRESIDENT is a reliable person. For everyone else there's the simple facts that America has nuclear weapons, is 1/4 of the worlds economy and the US Dollar (US$) is the worlds reserve currency. Do any of you realise that almost all international trade is either done directly in US$ or the currency exchanges are backed by US$? That's the real power America has in the world and for most of the last 75 years it has worked brilliantly and we have all benefitted except for those few times when America did something stupid like you did with the 2007-08 GFC and we all suffered. So its incredibly important to the rest of the world that POTUS is a RELIABLE and RESPONSIBLE person who is CONSTRAINED by LAW. P.S. I really do care about America. I had a great time there at college and want to see you back at your best.
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  393. Hey Thom your next video needs to be on the SCOTUS decision to castrate the EPA.
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  394. There used to be this saying about "there's no such thing as bad advertising" By including these people on these lists or doing "what makes this song great" he's actually FREELY ADVERTSING their work to 2,710,000 million subscribers. This vid alone has been seen over 5.3 million times. These people aren't stupid. They aren't smart enough to be called stupid.
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  395. NO - its ridiculous that we keep giving them the microphone. Neil DeGrasse Tyson said a while back there's this insistence we keep giving people with a counter view 50% of the microphone time. He pointed out that 0.001% of people believe in the flat earth. So its ridiculous to give them 50% of the microphone time. We have let these people have too much air time already and ENOUGH is ENOUGH.
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  396. Go watch some of his interviews from 6-10 years ago and compare them to this and more recent interviews. Then go watch the PBS Frontline "League of Denial" He shows many of the signs for concussion injury. I don't think he's a well person.
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  397. yeah its amazing the difference between him and others. Peter Zeihan who is reputed to have links to the CIA claimed the Russian S300 & S400 were totally ineffective against the Israeli F35s. I tend to go with Larry because he has better links over a longer time span as well as the fact Zeihan keeps making a complete ass of himself respecting technology. I'm an engineer and its infuriating how bad he is on technology.
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  398.  @leifvejby8023  That is the one I can't figure out either. I did a degree in aerospace and work in industrial control systems. Across the engineering fields we have thins like HAZOPs (Hazard & Operability), FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) and RCA (Root Cause Analysis) studies. Almost any engineer from almost any field would easily conclude that the MCAS system was inevitably going to drive a plane into the ground. Because it relied on 1 sensor and could override the pilots if that sensor failed and told MCAS the plane was at too high of an angle of attack it would drive the nose down and KEEP driving it down as long as that sensor reported the nose was too high. Even a basic analysis should have said this system will kill plane loads. I have a college buddy who has been an airline pilot for a major air line. He's now a senior instructor on 737s and was assigned by his airline to look at the Max-8. He told me Boeing had "broken their system." That's NOT referring to the hardware but the design and test and check and quality systems they use to make planes. What he told me was Boeing basically took their entire playbook(s) for making great aircraft and threw it away to satisfy the sales team. Engineers and business students need to study it for how NOT to do something and understand unacceptable risk.
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  399. Arguably one of the great quotes of 2020 "We have got to have enough courage and humility...... to say that particular candidate Brother Biden....His one positive virtue is was he was better than a neo-fascist gangster named Trump."
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  400. Australian here - OD have come under some scrutiny here from things going on in high schools they run here. Your comment is the perfect description of those schools.
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  401.  @SimplestUsername  yeah I'd agree on your Tesla assessment so long as you realise the real development had already been done. His real contribution was the marketing, which I have to acknowledge is brilliant. He's one of those rare people who can say almost anything and convince people its magic. He's like the prince charming type who can walk up to any girl and tell her she looks fat in that dress and she just giggles back at him. Elon's similar in that he can stand in front of a crowd tell them obvious BS and they just go yeah. Look at the share price of Tesla. I saw an analyst compare it to other car companies earlier this year and its completely ridiculous. But then its like a few other tech shares that have insane values despite no dividends being paid. People are not investing in returns they are investing in concepts and we all know how that went with Theranos.
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  402. The last reports I saw said $207 million and that was a couple of days ago.
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  403. Great comment and I love that expression “irrational exuberance" I'm an aerospace engineer who did all of 1 economics class as an easy elective. As a subject Economics seems so based on simple premises and logic of supply and demand but is then practiced in a way that is utterly bereft of logic. I've just been arguing with yet another Elon Musk fanbot (my new label for them). He's a master of manipulating “irrational exuberance." If you look at the share price of Tesla for its market share and number of cars made each year its monumentally over valued. Its not simple over valued by 10 or 20%. Its over valued by well over 1000% based on market share and number of cars made p.a. The Falcon rockets from SpaceX are an incredible achievement now capable of flying humans to space, but Elon's stuff on Mars and the new Starship are complete fantasy and yet the fanbots all think he's gonna whisk them away to space utopia. I see through Elon's BS because of my engineering experience. I suspect other people see through things in other industries because of their experience in those industries. I believe many of the top 1% rely on vast chunks of the 99% not having any grasp of what they're spruiking.
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  404. As an Australian I feel like I have to apologize for what Rupert Murdoch has done to America with respect to reality. Only he would put an alcoholic on camera after she's had a few and claim it as fair and balanced news. There used to be a time when people would disagree over how we interpreted facts, but at least we agreed on what the facts were. Now thanks to Rupert we can't even agree on what are the facts.
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  405. Yeah but that's Piers Morgan. For every person he has on who has ACTUAL QUALIFICATIONS and/or ACTUAL EXPERIENCE and/or ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE of the subject he has on some clown who doesn't know crap but will throw back outrage. A perfect example was the recent show where he had Gary Stevenson one of the smartest and most knowledgeable people and especially successful banking traders and Piers had Dave Rubin who has ZERO qualifications, expertise or knowledge on the subject. Piers is NOT about debate he's about SPECTACLE.
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  406. IN WHAT WAY IS THIS SURPRISING? Ted Cruz doesn't give a damn about this, but he gives a damn about pandering to his base and knows how to rile them up. Anyone who didn't see this coming wasn't paying attention.
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  407. I listened to Sam Harris's podcast here on YT about what he called the "moral ambiguity" question of Hamas, Islam and the Palestinian issue. He kept saying there is NO moral ambiguity that what Hamas did and by it extended that to Islam in general and specifically the Palestinians. 1) There is NO doubt what Hamas did on October 7th was disgusting and the perpetrators and financial supporters of those attacks need to be held accountable. 2) Sam Harris never mentioned in that podcast that he himself is of Jewish descent during that podcast. 3) Sam Harris did not at any stage even discuss the acts of Israel or the Jewish settler movement with respect to his standard of the limits of "moral ambiguity." 4) Sam Harris has not since that podcast (as far as I know) discussed the slaughter of 11,000 Palestinian children in terms of what he defines as "moral ambiguity."
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  408. American libertarianism is best described as: "We want the liberty to strip you of your liberty!"
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  409. HEY ERIC - why don't you go do a quick history review of the Capets of France, Romanovs of Russia, Ceaușescus of Romania and al-Tikritis of Iraq When you are an autocratic family of spoiled brats who treat the country like shit it sometimes goes real bad and ends with bullets, blades, rope and wooden box. 🖕
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  410. CRAZY being the appropriate word. I'm an engineer and I am NOT against our Army, Navy or Airforce upgrading nay part of their inventory, but they are being so idiotically stupid with some of the programs. Other than the insanity of the sub program and I am all for getting nuclear powered subs - ITS THE COST. There's also the new Frigates, which like the subs are a cost issue - we are paying 3x what the British Navy is paying for the same boat. There's also the new offshore patrol vessels which are not only MORE than 10x the cost of the previous vessels but will cost more to operate. That's just the Navy and it highlights the problem - PRICE GOUGHING combined with stupid bureaucrats and even stupider politicians surrounded by a legion of lobbyists with too much money.
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  411. Yeah I don't think Common Sense Skeptic has done anything for his reputation by going on a channel like this. MAYBE if it was to reach out to people on that side of political divide and get them to start questioning what they hear and see then I'd flip and give him a well done on at least attempting to reach out. BUT I will say I have found the CSS (or at least some of his staff) don't like being corrected themselves. Back on the Video "Of Rockets, Shuttles and Planes" I picked up on a mistake regarding air launched systems. I happen to have a degree in aerospace engineering. Towards the end of that video they implied that for air launched systems you had to spend (of development money) 50% on the carrier and 50% on the rocket. That's NOT TRUE and never was. In most cases companies and agencies doing air launching used available aircraft an dmodified them. CSS used the Stratolauncher as an example and that's one of the very few cases where a specialised air launcher was developed. Its the exception not the norm. I simply corrected their implication. NOT ONLY did I a very rude and snide reply from CSS but they have since deleted my comments and their own. I now reserve my right to be Skeptical of the Skeptic and his motivations. I think he's right on many many things but he's also NOT perfect.
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  412. Engineer here: Yeah I can't see how they can actually do this with out making things worse by consuming more energy. At least they admitted the irony of using diesel generators to run the experiment. Like all of the climate solutions its going to be a matter of how we power it more than anything else. Sadly right now (as an engineer) I don't see any initiatives that come close to being called a solution.
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  413.  @willsofer3679  NO What makes this awesome is he's the former president who LOST to Zelensky. Compare him to Trump.
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  414. She should have asked Lindsay Graham what his view on lying was? Afterall he was one of the prime voices who said you can't appoint a SCOTUS judge during an election year in 2016 and then did it in 2020.
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  415. Buddy I'm Australian and went to college in America in the late 80s. I have to explain this to Australians ALL THE TIME. I really like America and American culture - college sport, cheerleaders and NASCAR are 3 of my favorite things. My frat brothers included a pack who were pre-law and they loved bouncing my skull off the wall with discussions on the constitution because I had a different perspective. I did engineering I used to hate it but thanks to Trump and these crazies its now useful background material. You'd be amazed how many times in recent years I have found my self defending the US Constitution and explaining that its actually better than ours which contains mountains of crap we inherited from the British. I don't lose any arguments either and that's for one fundamental reason ANY constitution can be undermined if people sit back and let it happen. America for way too long has sat back and let the crazies like the NRA, Fox Media and others undermine it. I think the Founding Fathers were incredibly brilliant in what they did. They just never anticipated that people like Trump, the NRA, Dick Cheney, Carl Rove, Mitch McConnell and others would do what they have done. Maybe they thought they had enough checks and balances to prevent it.
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  416.  @geoffmesser5091  fair comments. The crop I have concern about is cotton. There's the new cotton which is one of the greatest achievements in ag science ever. It would have been great if they could have reduced the water needed, or the chemicals needed or improved the fiber quality. Doing 1 of those would have been great but they did all 3. The problem is that its now incredibly profitable which is what has driven the madness in the Murray-Darling. I'm an engineer and this is part of my argument about our long term planning. We don't think long term in our engineering which includes our infrastructure (like Ord). Everything is about the next quarter or next season. As a nation we need to start being a lot smarter in every industry we have. I actually started in aerospace and after the new Space Agency started their 1st road map had as its first item - advanced space based water management but delivered in the mid 2030s. So I put forward a proposal to move on it now and try and deliver that in 3-5 years. You should have seen the panic I created. I said to the ASA - "these are your words lets not wait until somebody else hands it too us lets just get on with it." And they freaked out. Feedback form the Farmers Fed was positive but the ASA stomped on me. My mothers family are farmers so I have been around farming and ag since I was born. From the day it started Landline was compulsory viewing in my family. Before that Big Country.
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  417. By chance did any of you see the Tucker Carlson response to Rutger Bergman calling him and the rest millionaires paid for by billionaires? From what I have heard most of the Fox main presenters are on millions per year. Specifically I can't say how much any of them are on because I don't have access to their contracts or the details but I have heard people like Brian Kilmeade and Tucker Carlson get around $5,000,000 a year. I think Kyle has mentioned this several times.
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  418. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. I have put a few more details in a comment about the Murdoch's and their issues in Australia. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  419. Mate it wasn't the Greenies trying to ban bull bars it was the road safety advocates because of how deadly they are on pedestrians and cyclists. Your forgetting that there's a staggering number of bull bars on Toorak Tractors and other vehicles that have never been outside and will never be outside the metropolitan areas. A lot of people from the country actually need to spend more time in the cities just as much as a lot of city people need to spend more time in the country. I grew up in towns and cities but my mothers family are farmers and I spent a lot of time on farms. Its always staggered me how ignorant BOTH SIDES are of each other.
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  420. After the 2000 election that Al Gore lost via a SCOTUS decision that DID NOT follow the legal procedures for recounts on narrow elections an Australian observer commented that that the Republican view was, "If we win it was fair. If we lose it wasn't." That was 20 years ago. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America on a scholarship. I love the place, I love the people and it grates me just what they have done to America over the last 30+ years. And yes I know Rupert Murdoch is one of ours and we will never be able to apologize enough for what he's done BUT we tried to warn you what he was like. We all saw the Trump interview on fake news a few years back where he stated that his intent was to destroy all opposing media and get people to the point where they simply would not believe anything opposing news services said. What Murdoch and Trump have done is totally destabilize Western Democracies EVERYWHERE with this Orwellian garbage.
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  421.  @muskyoxes  That's one of the major issues across the entire Western World right now. of all the things that need to be discussed about "law reform" is actually getting on with trials. In particular with civil trials are the endless delays big money gets away with. I'm Australian and I remember a terrible mine accident about 25 years ago, where a whole squad was killed in an underground coal mine explosion. At the time the families held little how of anything because the courts case for a similar accident 10+ years earlier was still yet to go to trial because of delays. We had cases in tobacco that went so long the claimants had died. This is not an American problem its an EVERYWHERE problem.
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  422. I'm Australian but went to college in America. 1: I have been to Texas a few times and Ted Cruz is nothing like most people from Texas. They are generally well mannered and sensible and when it comes to football some of the best fans on the planet. BUT just like Australia does they have their clowns as well. The difference is their clowns have guns. 2: Ted Cruz is actually very, very intelligent. He was dux of his high school, graduated cum laude from Princeton and magna cum laude from Harvard Law. He's an American champion debater and finished top 4 at a world championship. HE'S ALSO an arrogant narcissistic shite of an opportunistic piece of crap who's pandering to his equally ignorant base. His base think he's a champion of working class values, but they ignore that his wife is a senior manager at Goldman Sachs. Just don't judge ALL of Texas or America on people like Ted Cuz. It would be like judging all of Australia on Clive Palmer or Graig Kelly.
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  423. I'm Australian and had to reply that to believe that I heard what I heard. I went to college at U. Illinois so I know the Midwest reasonably well. Do you get how much this makes my degree look bad? It used to be that the rest of the world looked UP to the American education system. Then we kind of wondered when a lot of American's couldn't find America, let alone Europe or Russia or China on a map of the world. Now your media people can't figure out which city is in which state.
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  424. Yeah its funny how he knows who Hannity and Ingraham are but then denies knowing who Tucker Carlson is? If there is an honest molecule somewhere in this guy's body it must be incredibly lonely.
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  425. Sorry to burst the bubble but I am an aerospace engineer and Star Raker was NEVER GOING TO WORK AS PLANNED or SHOWN in this video. The only credible person I ever heard say he could actually make an SST work was Kelly Johnson (lead engineer for the U2 & SR71) but he was ignored by congress in the late 80s. I'm normally a huge fan of CSS but before they posted this they really should have asked the right people. Elon's Starship is nonsense but its not the only nonsense that's been put forward for spaceflight. The most obvious thing to me (because we worked this out in the 1970s) are that its wings are far to large for a spaceplane. Those stubby looking wings on the Space Shuttle are actually very large for a space plane. If you look at many of the pater SST variants like the X30, X37 they have tiny wings. And lets NOT FORGET that the X-37 actually works. It actually took lessons from the Space Shuttle and there are a lot of ENGINEERS who think that it was a step in the right direction. After the giant wing its the pointy nose which is great for supersonic flight and the worst thing possible for re-entry. The reason the Space Shuttle and X-37 have very blunt noses is to create a massive bow shock wave that not only slows the vehicle down but protects the rest of the spaceplane from the re-entry heat. So that big wing and point nose might look good but they AREN'T. After that the list of issues just adds and adds.
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  426. I'm Australian and have worked in Canada. You don't need to keep apologising for everything. Living next to door to the Yanks is enough that we all have sympathy for you. The real shame of JBP was back in the day when he was just a college professor he was a damn good professor. I have watched some of his older lectures and he was excellent at explaining topics and engaging students. THEN he got famous. THEN he hit the drugs. NOW his brain is damaged from said drugs.
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  427. Agreed. It took less than a minute to realise this might be one of the most important interviews to watch this year.
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  428.  @twothreefour234  You forgot #3 Too big to let fail.
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  429. Your right John Bolton is not the right person to have commenting on good and sound leadership let alone character.
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  430. Well put or rephrasing that Elvis quote "The Joke has left the building" Whatever it might have been its lost any appeal to listen to this crap any longer. People need to start calling her stupidity out straight to her face. Just keep at this clown and the others until she realizes no one is buying her crap any longer.
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  431.  @mikemyers7539  Really I heard he did his MBA at Trump U. under the supervision of Steve Banon or maybe it was Allen Weisselberg. I hear his Thesis was titled: "A profitability analysis on lying you way into public office." But I might be wrong.
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  432. I'm an Australian but went to college in America which is in part why I watch this stuff. There's an interesting parallel with Australia. Our Left (the Australian Labor Party) also never fails to disappoint. I'm an engineer so I put this in engineering terms (sort of). The Left have good ideas but are hopeless project managers and their projects fail. The Right have bad ideas but are good project mangers and convert their ideas into reality. We get a lot of British and European news in Australia and I see the same thing happening all over Britain and Europe. I can give examples of it from Australia if you want. Irrespective this seems to be a trait of both sides. One side has good ideas but can't implement any of them while the other has bad ideas and implements them with ruthless efficiency.
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  433. AUSTRALIAN HERE - ITS NOT JUST WALES. We've had the same sorts of discussions here for over 30 years as we shut down industry after industry. At the beginning of this the reporters asks - "Who's to blame? Is it climate hysteria is it Brexit or is it the current conservative Administration?" The answer to that is the same as the answer we have in Australia - NONE OF THEM. How could these problems in Wales be linked to the same problems in Australia? Simple - This is the result of decisions made well over 30 years ago in the 1980s when the Western World flipped its economics from Keynesian economics over to free market Neoliberalism. In Britain you called it Thatcherism. In Australia we called it Economic Rationalism and the Americans called it Reaganomics. Today its call called Neoliberalism. I'm actually an aerospace engineer who works in industrial control systems, robotics and automation. Back in 2016 I had a small consulting job that highlighted an incredibly serious issue with Australia's energy sector AND NOBODY was doing anything about it. Worse we still aren't. So I started looking into WHY? Other than "Greed is Good"_ a Key part of Milton Friedmans free market doctrine is that the government shall do as little as possible and let the markets react and respond to changes in demand. The stupidity of this is that people like Milton Freidman had no understanding of industrial sectors or logistics. To this day economists still have NO UNDERSATNDING of industry or logistics. I recently found out that they don't even include energy in their economic models. That's absurd because it means they have no idea of the stuff that we use to convert raw materials into finished products or what it takes to move those raw materials and products around so they are where people can buy them. Australian economist Steve Keen has been pointing this out for years only to be dismissed by the Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale types. Gary Stevenson the young British economist that all you Brits should be listening too, did a great video on _"Why economists are always wrong." What he explains are some inherent failures in both the education of economists, how they formulate economic policies, act on those polices and HOW THEY FAIL. I know Gary is always talking about issues in Britain but there are times when it feels like he's talking about Australia and that's because we are all running on similar economic ideology.
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  434. To be fair David gave him a lot of latitude and Denis Prager did point out something which was the stat on bell weather electorates. If that's true then very few have pointed that out. But then the reply should have been why shouldn't we see differences when the last 2 presidential elections have been out of the ordinary. In fact you can say the last 4 have been out of the ordinary because a black man won 2 of them.
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  435. About 15 years ago during one of clashes where the IDF went into Gaza and smashed an entire neighborhood there was a middle aged woman with her children standing there looking at the devastation. She turned to the cameraman/journalist and asked him "Do you wonder why our children are asking us how they can become suicide bombers?" NOTHING can excuse what Hamas did with murdering innocent people, but I am wondering how many of those Hamas fighters were children who houses were bombed in previous IDF raids. When you trap over 2 million people in a small space and give them no hope of a future it can't end well.
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  436. Correct me BUT HAVEN'T WE HEARD THIS BEFORE about a certain laptop?
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  437. She needs to take him down to Trump's sex dungeon and help him get over his mummy issues.
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  438. Brilliant comment. On your math query. I'm actually an American educated Australian aerospace engineer. When in America I was trained in what engineers call complex systems analysis. Its not taught to other engineers but we need to because at its core is considering the effects and consequences of design choices. So we do a lot of propose/consider "Change 'X' followed by "what are the effects of change-X on systems A, B, C, D... etc and what are the consequences of those effects on those systems. Listen to how he describes how that £600 Billion moved around until it ended up with the wealthy who then hoarded it. THAT'S SYSTEMS ANALYSIS and I rarely see it among economists. Either he has natural talent for complex systems or he's had some from of training that he has been able to apply to his field. He's not the first person I have seen, Mark Blyth the Scottish Political Economist does it too, but Gary is certainly the youngest I have seen do this.
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  439.  @Hermetics  Before you finish your book try and learn how to spell.
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  440. This is simply the worst story YET regarding QAnon, Marjorie Taylor Green, Trump and all the rest combined.
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  441. Russell Brand has never respected ANY boundary. Its what he built his career on.
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  442. May be we could try French Polynesia After all the French just nuked that place again and again. Or we could ask the New Zealanders about the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior?? Or the Algerians where the French also tests a few nukes. Put it this way if it wasn't for croissants some, decent wine and girls with that sexy accent we might have let the Germans just keep the place back when.
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  443.  @joeishmael9217  Look in the list I put a link to one of Rick Rielly's book talks.
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  444. EVERYONE GO LOOK AT HIS BIO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Jr.#Early_life You can consider the private schools that daddy paid for. BUT really note what follows for his career. He spent one year working outside the Trump organisation in Aspen and even worked for some time as a bartender. HERE'S THE REAL POINT He then went back to the family business in a senior role. On 1 year of life experience he goes past all the other people with years of experience into a senior role.
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  445. Absolutely true. Masha was interviewed on the Australian program Planet America and gave the best explanation on the entire Trump-Russian collusion fiasco. Masha's explanation was that: 1: Putin is not a master strategist and believes that all elections are a rubber stamp for what has already been decided because that's his Russia. Its all decided before hand. So he expected Clinton would win. 2: Putin like Russians before him have played the game with America from the unpredictable possibly madman perspective to America's straight man. Having Trump in the White House would ruin that vibe. 3: Putin was the master of East Germany before the collapse and destined to rule SOVIET Russia one day, but the Russia he returned to was wrecked. He wants his Soviet Empire back and just as importantly he wants to hurt the West for what happened and that included Hilary Clinton. Masha never explicitly said it but the inference was that Putin was in fact expecting to do great harm to the Clinton Presidency by releasing damaging facts after the win with a rampant Trump going nuts. We now know that assessment was right. The big was the Jim Comey didn't do as Putin expected. In Putin's world subordinates like Comey do as they are told. They don't announce to the world they found stuff and are reopening an investigation. Just imagine if Comey had kept quiet and then after the election knowledge of the additional emails were released. Just imagine how the Republicans and Trump would have reacted. Putin would have been able to sit back laughing as America tor itself to pieces. Instead he got Trump and had to wait 6 more years to start pulling the former Soviet Republics back into order.
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  446. I am an aerospace engineer who moved into the Australian mining industry after meeting Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) in 2002. At that time he was talking up the possibility of mining the moon for Helium-3. I went looking for real practical experience and was lucky because at the time Australia went on a mining construction boom to feed China raw materials. What I got was an education in practical mining, site construction, maintenance, mineral processing, logistics and importantly INFRASTRUCTURE. Before you even start digging mine sites need a staggering array of infrastructure for power and water. I can tell within seconds that most of these people have never even visited a working mine. I have actually built them and worked on them. When real mining people see this stuff they can't stop laughing and can barley comprehend how anyone can believe them.
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  447. Australian here and I went to college in America - sadly you are wrong. Bernie would have been slaughtered in a US Presidential Election for the simple reason that the US Presidential election does not follow common sense. The very system itself has now morphed into an unusual form of popularity contest where logic, reason and sensibility are meaningless. Its not that other elections in other countries have similar aspects to them. Its just that the US Presidential election does it at another level. I'm old enough to remember the Carter-Reagan elections and nobody in the world could believe someone as stupid as Reagan clearly was, got elected. The exception were the business leaders because they knew it was the start of a new economic model that greatly favored them. I was actually in America (1987) at college when the 1988 election season was starting. The Dem front-runner was Gary Hart. He was charismatic like Reagan but far more intelligent. Then he was accused of extra-marital affairs and his campaign was done. His wife came out and publicly declared that although their marriage had struggled it was now doing well and she believed her husband was still the best man for the job. THAT DID NOT MATTER and his policies did not matter, because there were Americans who's great fear was the Russians sending girls over to "suck the secrets out of American leaders" AND YES THEY SAID IT LIKE THAT. And this is the point of me telling you why Bernie would never have won a US Presidential election. The Republicans have operated on FEAR for decades. Its their only policy at times. They find something for people to be scared of and wind the volume up to 11. In Bernie's case that fear is socialism. Forget that Bernie's brand of socialism would get every American health care and an education. The fear to America is that he'd tax the rich to pay for it and if you tax the rich they'd stop investing in jobs for average Americans. The GOP sell that as "Forget what you'd get and embrace the fear of what you'd lose." Sorry, but its an incredibly easy tactic and the Republicans have decades of experience using it. They either scare people into NOT voting for a person who wants to make their life better or they scare people into the arms of the guy who says he will protect American values.
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  448. Sadly Fetterman has now proven that you MIGHT have morals and ethics on the way into politics, but no matter how strong those morals or ethics are they are NOT going to survive the modern political environment. I'm Australian but went to college in America. So I have exposure to the American system. Back here in Australia a good friend was involved in student politics (at the collegiate level). Its used by our political parties to sort out who should and who shouldn't move on to state of federal politics. So its a nasty vicious environment where morals an ethics are literally beat out of them. Its like the Hunger Games where the survivor/winner gets endorsed for state or federal politics. Its a really nasty vicious system that kicks the morals and ethics out of all who participate. If they're smart (and my friend was) they get out before its too late. This is visible all across western politics with the people attached to the establishment parties. They don't want candidates who want to get in and do a job they want people who can get elected, stay elected and have no morals or ethics that might get in the way of what the investor class want.
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  449. That's actually right on the mark. Further its not an American problem either. Here in Australia we have the same sort of garbage dominating our public discussions. We discuss EVERYTHING but practical solutions. The moment actual solutions start being mentioned the radicals on one side or the other start howling and screaming and overwhelm any sensible discussion. There was a great comment last year that basically went "Between the radical right and radical left who just scream at each other, the rest of us trapped in the middle are simply exhausted."
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  450. You need to go back and listen to the interview Jesse Ventura gave Kyle Kulinski and Krystal Ball. He describes the year he worked as a commentator and compares it to Trumps public behavior. There was a year where JV was injured and could not wrestle so he went into commentary which wasn't unusual EXCEPT Jesse came from the Bad Boy side of pro-wrestling and the commentators were traditionally on the Good Guy side. Jesse asked Vince McMahon what he should do and Vince gave Jesse this incredibly simple instruction. "If you say it, then its true." and the implication is that in the cartoonish environment of pro-wrestling that isn't real to begin with you can just say things and THEY ARE TRUE to a part of the audience and it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. What Jesse told Kyle & Krystal is that Trump is simply doing the same job as a Bad Boy wrestling commentator. The problem is Politics isn't pro-wrestling its actually the real world with real people and real lives.
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  451. I'm Australian but went to college in America and there is an undercurrent in American culture that "does not trust anyone in authority." Its been reinforced time and again by corrupt politicians on both sides of the fence AND by big business (as in Wall St., Big Pharma and the MIC). Plus its been compounded in recent years by a relentless barrage of political and religious extremism combined with a failing education system. Americans do have legitimate reasons to not trust those in power because they keep proving they can't be trusted. In some ways its an incredible tragedy to watch a once great nation slide into the state its in all through greed. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  452. Well first its actually spelt D-O-R-E. BUT he has been saying things lately that I don't agree with how he's presenting it. Because if you look at this guy he's presenting, that's an AR15 (or similar) dangling around his neck. His words aren't offensive but standing there with others armed to the teeth protesting the Government and threatening a civil war isn't peaceful. Right there around 9:45 he says "we come in peace." If he comes in piece then why is he and others all carrying AR15s? FYI - I actually saw Jimmy's vid on this and thought he was ignoring certain relevant facts.
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  453. I don't think we'll need to worry that much about AJ (and the rest of these people) much longer because sooner or later someone from one of the families of the victims is going to lose it. Imagine how much pain some of these people are in and it starts pounding away at them. Vice did a great doco on these people a couple of years back -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To91BJGKr5I Look at the comments on the Vice video. People like AJ are sick and somebody will lash out.
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  454. I'm Australian but studied aerospace engineering in America (U. Illinois). I work in industrial control systems and am FORMALLY qualified in functional safety. A number of years ago I worked with a technician who was American and his first career was as a nuclear power plant operator on American Aircraft Carriers. I have worked in Australian nuclear industry on the mining side which included doing their formal introduction into the nuclear fuel cycle. So I am fairly well educated, qualified and I've been around people who know their stuff. There's quite a few things you are absolutely right about and few things you have wrong and I don't mean some of the obvious typographical errors. You are absolutely right they needed to have a legitimate engineer who actually knows their subject on this, but I can say that about so many documentaries on technology these days its impossible to count them. That's just part of the overall failure of our media to ACURATELY INFORMING people. I'll start with Al Gore - misguided is a better term. He meant well but unfortunately missed the boat when it came to actual solutions. But that's one of the worlds biggest problems an oversupply of people who think describing a problem is also a solution to that problem. People like AL Gore need to say their thing ASK for solutions and then STFU. The horrible effect he, the fossil fuel industry, the nuclear industry, wind industry, solar industry, Greenpeace and others have had is they argued and argued and never solved anything. You mention Diablo Canyon - right now in Australia there are over 25 million ignorant people who have no idea how much trouble we are in. We have over 20 ageing power stations and NO PLANS to replace any of them. When I first became aware of the problem a few years ago I checked and its pretty much the same everywhere across the developed world. Its not a Californian problem its an everywhere problem. On Nuclear power. You are absolutely right about the intention of building nuclear reactors for plutonium production but please DON'T BS - America has done exactly the same and so has Britain and France and China and others. Where do you think they all got the plutonium from? Britain's entire first gen nuclear plants were built for plutonium production the electrical power they produced was supposed to be a cheap by-product to help run industry. IT WASN'T CHEAP and those costs help ruin their industries. You are absolutely right that water moderated reactors are safer than graphite moderated reactors, BUT you are totally wrong to claim or allude that they are totally safe. Anybody trained in FMEA (Failure Mode Effect Analysis) knows they are NOT FAIL SAFE and that was proven at Fukushima. Its the fundamental difference between water moderated and molten salt reactors which are FAIL SAFE. You are totally wrong to claim that spent fuel from water moderated reactors cannot be used for nuclear weapons production. Any engineer who has ever looked into nuclear fuel cycles or physicist will tell you that's JUST WRONG. Please feel free to correct or clarify that statement. It might be a lot harder or more expensive but its certainly possible to make nuclear weapons from ANY spent fuel rods irrespective of the reactor type and you should know that. You are absolutely right that spent fuel is not used up its just fuel that no longer emits enough energy to drive the power generating process. However what you failed to mention is that the reprocessing of spent fuel is where plutonium is extracted. Its not the benign process that the nuclear industry proclaims. Also no matter how many times you re-process nuclear fuel you are still left with a gigantic waste problem. You mention Diablo Canyon but failed to mention San Onofre where there is over 1,700 tons of spent fuel rods sitting in a pool beneath the old reactor. One of the biggest issue in the world is that NOBODY is dealing with the more than 120,000 tons of spent fuel rods let alone all of the other materials that have to be dealt with to clean up the first generation of nuclear facilities. And that leads to your next problem. You are totally right about the issues with solar panels and toxic waster but you totally ignore the issues with nuclear waste and site clean up costs. Most solar panels are made with Gallium Arsenide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide) like so many other electronic components and any engineer who's looked knows what the toxic issues are. Solar panels is a waste issue the entire world is ignoring just like they are hiding the nuclear clean up costs. The only country that has so far released any details of nuclear clean up costs is Britain and they stopped after the costs blew out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield#Recent_site_management I will grant that at least you haven't been dishonest about the storage issue as others have. There are people in the pro-nuclear camp who are very sneaky about things. The worst I have seen is Michael Schellenberger who in one of his more famous TEDx talks used Switzerland's storage as the great example. Last I checked Switzerland's total storage was about 30 tons of spent fuel and that just doesn't compare to the 1,700 tons under San Onofre or the other 80,000+ tons the US has or the other 40,000+ tons the rest of the world has let alone the issue these Russians have with old submarines. There are too many people who use convenient facts to hide ugly truths. The thing you are most right about is the solar will not save the planet comment. That's absolutely true. Renewables will not save the planet. There simply isn't enough energy in places where we can use it. Australia's southern shore is one of the best places on the planet for wind but most of it is so far from where we need energy its all but useless. The center of Australia (like the Sahara) is great for solar but its also so far from where energy is needed its also next to useless. BUT anyone on the pro-nuclear lobby who claims solar and wind are not going to be major components of our future energy is living in a deluded fantasy. Its the ugly twin brother of the pro-nuclear people who claim nuclear (fusion, molten salt, small modular,...) will alone save the planet. There are 2 facts people will have to start accepting. 1) We have a far greater cost of cleaning up after previous generations than anyone realizes. 2) No one technology will save the planet.
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  455. Australian here. Four Corners is a program not a station. Its very similar to PBS Frontline, BBC Panorama and Canada's The 5th Estate in fact sometimes 4 Corners shows Frontline or Panorama episodes. The station that produces 4 Corners is Australia's ABC which is our equivalent of PBS. Like the others 4 Corners usually just does 45 minute episodes but occasionally does multi episode stories like Follow the Money. Another great multi-episode 4 Corners is "Fox and the Big Lie" which is all about the involvement of Australian born Rupert Murdoch's Fox network's promoting Trumps election lies. It also includes the now famous interview with Sydney Powell.
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  456. In what way, when a fine bottle of wine ages well we can drink it and enjoy. In that f--king way can anybody enjoy this?
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  457. I'm an Aussie who went to college in America (late 80s) and where America has gone is mind numbing. What we need to be very mindful of in Australia (and we aren't alone) is that we are going down the same path. We have had a few politicians who are this stupid ALREADY (Pauline Hanson, Craig Kelly,...) and we have our own billionaire (Clive Palmer) trying to buy his way into political power so he do the same crap Trump did. I was in Canada for work a couple of years ago they have the similar crap there.
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  458. I'm Australian and watch both channels. I'm actually an aerospace engineer with a pilots license and it was Juan Browne who put me (and others) onto this channel. What I like about Sal is that you actually get a much better picture of world trade from him than any of the business media because he talks about how the system works and what issues there are. I sort of wonder how many trade analysts watch him???? For pilots Juan is just brilliant in terms of "how do we learn from this." And yes for 2 guys who are NOT journalists they make journalists look as pathetic as we suspect they are.
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  459. Joseph Stalin - “a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic” A few die in razor wire on the Texas border and its a tragedy where these people howl and scream that the border has to be defended. 19 students (aged from 9 to 11) and 2 teachers die at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas AND NONE of these people got in a convoy to go down to Texas and help out. The world has all but forgotten Sandy Hook, Columbine and other similar incidents. Maybe we should ask these people at what point it goes from tragedy to statistic to forgotten?
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  460. Its called mob psychology or peer pressure. We rarely here about peer pressure, but after the London suicide bombings it turned out to be a major factor. People were tying to understand why young mend did things like that. I remember a psychologist who studies peer pressure describing that we are only now beginning to understand how powerful of a psychological force peer pressure can be. One thing this psychologist said was that once an idea takes hold of a group, irrespective of how ludicrous it is, peer pressure prevents anyone from challenging that idea. Peer pressure acts like a social policing function: "Thou shall not challenge the group narrative." Consider how they called up that woman for using the word "disappointed." They called her up for 1 word because that 1 word challenged the narrative. That should stun everyone.
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  461. And lets not forget he had control of NUCLEAR WEAPONS for 4 years.
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  462. My joke has always been. What did the MI6 assassin say to the CIA assassin? "You're tying the knot wrong." To which the CIA assassin said "Just shut up and hold him still. Remember no bruising or they might get suspicious." Then the Mossad assassin at the door told them both to be quiet because the guards were only paid to be gone for 1/2 and hour.
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  463. Good comment. I'm Australian and we have sizeable communities of most of the SE Asian cultural groups. The thing I feel Peter has gotten totally wrong is the old rivalries that do exist. SE Asia never had those large semi-organised uniformed militaries with cavalry and pikemen and other various troops because as he points out the geography didn't allow for it. But as you'd know there's been a lot of clannish or intertribal conflicts across many centuries. I think your right, in that those countries that have gotten on top of the tribal/clan issues will do extremely well like Malaysia and Singapore. But those who haven't will struggle. You better understand the Myanmar issues than I ever will but there's also some incredible rivalry between Sumatra and Java in Indonesia as well as some serious issues in the Southern Philippines. I am also aware there is a huge rivalry between Cambodians and Vietnamese that goes back centuries. I think this is a subject Peter needs some better information on. The stuff he's right about he's very good but on other points he's way off.
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  464.  @Eshu666  Scroll up: Hulk Hogan Paralyzed From Waist Down After Surgery If that isn't identifying or making a crystal clear statement then WTF is?
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  465. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) on a sports scholarship and I can barely believe what's happened. I love America and the people and especially college sport, but your politics has been out of control for decades. I was even able to see it back in the 80s. I was there during the 87 primary season and remember the Gary Hart scandal which was a so what because everyone knew what Washington was like and that was years before Clinton got blown. Even during the Clinton blow job scandal Newt Gingrich was banging his secretary. I did aerospace engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they'd drag me into their conversations which gave me an interesting education on the US Constitution. My only real political or legal education was studying Orwell (1984 & Animal Farm) in High School so I'd argue that any nation can fall into a totalitarian dictatorship if it wasn't careful. My friends always argued back that was impossible because of the "System of Checks & Balances." These days I consider the US Constitution one of humanities finest achievements but its NOT perfect and it has one major flaw none of my college friends ever considered. That flaw is in granting so many freedoms allows people with nefarious motives to exploit it. That's where the Heritage Foundation goon plays his part. Heritage like CATO and other Washington Think Tanks isn't just some place where people think its where they plan to get things they want without any consideration of the consequences to others. That's what scares me about American Libertarians. Its not that defending liberty is bad in fact defending liberty is one of the noblest ideas. But American Libertarians demand the liberty to strip other people of their liberties. They are at their core authoritarians who believe there's 2 types of laws. The laws they don't believe apply to them and the laws they believe apply to everyone else.
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  466. As an Australian I can only say Tucker isn't YET as good (as in bad) as Rupert Murdoch, Charles Koch or Trump, but under Rupert's tutelage he's getting there. I'd like to be able to apologize for what Rupert Murdoch has done to America, but I just don;t know how to frame the words that can effectively convey that. Its not like America had some bad history (or bad people) that it will one day have to reconcile. BUT America never needed anyone to add to or make its issues so bad they are now almost impossible to rectify. All I can say is that every nation has those rare people that we simply wish had never been born - Rupert is one of ours and sadly we let him lose on the world. I doubt we will ever stop apologizing for him.
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  467. ACTUALLY THERE'S NOTHING NEW IN THIS. The IDF has been sniping children with head shots for years. I remember in one of the earlier Intifada's that at one stage there had been around 27 Palestinian youths shot dead by IDF personnel and all but 1 had been a head shot. The question was put out publicly and never answered: How do trained marksman from one of the best trained militaries in the World consistently hit children in the head? Just as importantly why are they trained to take head shots when the most common practice for all soldiers is to aim for the chest also referred to as the CBM or "Centre Body Mass" because its a larger target and easier to hit?
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  468. THAT IS AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT POINT And it should be being screamed from the roof tops. Trumpists have been claiming about a stolen election for months. If this isn't trying to steal a governorship then what is it?
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  469.  @toomaskotkas4467  I'm not certain what to say to you looking back through your comments to others. The only thing you seem intent on is starting arguments with everyone by throwing cheap insults. You started with no-one cares and considering your reply to Brian McGucken why don't you FK-off back to your village and play with your chisel and ball of yarn.
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  470. It goes a bit further. What Trump has really done is show just how corrupt Western Democracies have become. I have watched a lot of Mark Blyth these last few months. He's the Prof from Brown who predicted both Trump and Brexit and just co-authored the book Angrynomics. He has said repeatedly for these last few years that Trumpism is not an American phenomenon. Its going on across the world and that its not just limited to the right and there are leftist versions of this sort of populism. Nothing matters to these people except what will be popular with their base at this moment and works for their money people. The difference between the Republicans and Democrats is that the Democrats still have some semblance of shame and that they still care (at least a bit) on what people think as well as what they feel. Conscious rational thought is not a requirement for Republican supporters anymore and they DON'T CARE.
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  471. This guy MacGregor goes back much further. He was the guy who gave Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz the plan for invading Iraq that ended in disaster. Its all detailed in a 2004 PBS Frontline called "Rumsfeld's War" I started a thread with a brief summary.
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  472.  @davespanksalot8413  No actually he's a V chromosome. That's what you get when the Y-chromosome has its lower middle leg cut off and you're just left with a V. Its the genetic equivalent of being castrated and we all know he's only on those shows because he hasn't got any.....
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  473.  @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770  He's a trust fund baby. Check his background his stepmom is from serious big money. He's quite disgusting in his behavior and attitude about wealth. When Rutger Bergman called him out on it he went nuts, just to prove how much a brat he is. ** I said brat to not upset the YT algorithm
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  474. I'm an Aussie but one on my best mates is a Scot and my advice to him on this would be Look at how the Europeans negotiated with Britain after the Brexit vote then imagine how the English would treat the Scots??????????? For reference go and look what they REALLY DID to William Wallace not the family friendly Mel Gibson version and then put that into a financial frame of reference. One thing Peter does not count in here is that Scotland does have a fantastic energy resource if its smart enough to LISTEN. The North of Scotland and its islands are WINDY, very very WINDY. The wind in the north of Scotland doesn't blow it howls like a banshee in heat and it rarely rarely stops. Use the wind to create hydrogen and build a bloody pipe down to England and keep that going all the way to France. I did my degree in aerospace engineering. Back in the 1990s when we all thought we'd have to swap from Jet A-1 to hydrogen companies like Rolls Royce, Siemens and GE did all the work for making gas turbines run on hydrogen. All the technical issues were solved 20+ years ago. As soon as someone connects a wind turbine to an electrolyser that's connected to a pipe then the person who owns that wind turbine and electrolyser wont need to work again - EV_ARGH. Think of it like an oil well that doesn't run dry. Once its built its low maintenance and the cost of producing hydrogen becomes bugger all. All you have to do is check the gearbox for lube, the turbine blades for wear and replace the electrodes in the electrolyser when they wear down. The only reason it hasn't been done is there hasn't been a substantial hydrogen market. the reason why nobody has been buying hydrogen turbines is there hasn't been a requirement or a fuel source. THAT"S ALL CHANGING. You Scotts have an energy gold mine on your North Coast. All you need to be is smart about it.
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  475. David's missing 1 point - the pro-Trumpers don't care what's true and/or what's provable. They operate in another reality with alternate facts and in that reality the Trumps are God's chosen saviors and everyone else is a traitor or liar or delusional clown. Rudy's playing to that crowd and they will believe whatever he says just as they have been doing for months.
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  476. That's pretty accurate of the insane political divide that's happened to America and starting to happen in other Western Democracies. I'm Australian and you Americans forget the long before Murdoch started his campaign to split America he was practicing and developing his skills here in Australia and then in Britain. His business model was built around sleaze, selling sleaze, promoting sleaze and if it wasn't there manufacturing sleaze. Its like a cancer on our societies and now that its metastasized it will be almost impossible to get rid of it.
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  477. Yeah - Australian engineer here. I work in control systems and automation and I've worked in the mining industry for most of the last 20 years building new mines. This is yet ANOTHER example of people in the media who think they know what they are saying about technology. Don't get me wrong on geopolitics Peter is fantastic but when it comes to STEM subjects he needs to improve A LOT. For all the people who think Australia are just producers of Bauxite you are only 1/2 right. The first stage of Aluminium production is to produce Alumina (which is a white powder) using the Bayer Process which is what made the Bayer family rich before they moved in to pharmaceuticals. After producing Alumina it then goes to smelters where they process the Alumina into Aluminium. Its actually a process that needs huge amounts of electricity. The 2 main refineries for that in Australian were at Gladstone in Queensland and Portland in Victoria because both had access to the power needed. One of the main buyers of Australian Alumina is Iceland because they have, via hydro power, enormous amounts of very cheap electricity. How do I know these things? I did a project at Alcan Gove and this was all covered in the inductions. In those years I worked out of Perth and Honeywell (the giant American Company) had their specialist center for minerals in Perth because there's all the Alumina industry south of Perth. I didn't work for Honeywell but knew people who did.
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  478. Funny how he mentions the Tech Giants but then ignores the Big Oil and Big Pharma??????
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  479. You forgot to mention the REAL THREAT She has a functioning brain.
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  480. Here in Australia our government pulled $38 Billion out of their magic hat (that we know of). That's a lot less per person than what's happened in Britain, but it doesn't include what Gary's including which is the entire government expenditure above and beyond the usual. Irrespective, this is something EVERYONE needs to get their head around because this isn't simply a British issue its an EVERYWHERE ISSUE
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  481. This highlights the worst aspect of social media. The great cries of "freedom of the press" and "freedom of expression" never seem to include the right to be accurately informed.
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  482. As an Australian this freaked me TF out because if you change the words to Australian and Australia and swap Trudeau for Albanese and you are 100% factually describing Australia. His description of Vancouver is practically identical to Melbourne and especially Sydney with respect to housing. We are idiotically addicted to foreign investment. I'm an engineer and was actually in Canada late 2017 through early 2018 for a project. Other than the temperature inversion Canada was like another version of Australia. I was in Saskatchewan and it was like wheat belt of Western Australia, the Western 1/2 of Victoria and the Murray Darling section of New South Wales. A vast area of endless flat farmland, with exactly the same kinds of people. We even hate Canberra the EXACT same way Canadians hate Ottawa.
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  483. He's still got feet and meters confused like many American's do. The Tallest turbines in the world are about 1,000ft high NOT 1,000m
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  484. As an Australian we have a current issue with them. We have staked our entire future security on America behaving sensibly and being a reliable partner. Mostly America is a very reliable partner, but I was in Canada at the time when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on them. The problem I have with Republicans is that they are so narrow minded with what they want at any given moment that they can't be considered reliable. The biggest problem the world has with them is this concept that when they win any election it was fair and when they lose it wasn't. Trump didn't invent that but he has taken it to a new level of hypocrisy.
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  485. Engineer here - great observation and the answer is YES. I have a degree in aerospace but have spent over 30 years in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. Control systems are what engineers call the combination of computer (or circuit) and sensors that run things like factories, power stations, mine sites, water treatment plants,...... Its also in the same area of engineering to the technology that runs the engine in your car, the electronics in your washing machine, microwave, air conditioner and thousands of other things. Basically everything from the simplest thermostat in your house to the international Space Station. Its the least understood area of engineering even by other engineers and NONE OF IT REQUIRES AI. We already have algorithms that can self-tune a process to work better and have had them for decades. The entire AI productivity thing is just the latest piece of hype-tech from the IT industry and trust me EVERY Engineer worth more than a dime KNOWS 100% how FULL of SHlT the IT industry is. Yes there's a bunch of them who are insanely clever but MOST of them are overrated garbage people.
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  486. I can see the day coming when somebody is going to confront Tucker Carlson in an ugly way and I don't mean throwing insults in a store either. I can see something VERY UGLY happening. Tucker's like that kid in grade school who always kept niggling picking on one of the quiet kids. That form of bullying that cowards use to constantly put down people because they think nothing will happen. We've all seen that day when the quiet kid snaps back and belts the coward, but this is the world of grown ups where its not simply a punch.
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  487. Actually its not that surprising or should not be that surprising. Look at the televangelists, flat earth brigade, moon landing hoaxers or any of some of the other idiotic things that millions of Americans believe in. For one example look at Kenneth Copeland the low end estimates of his wealth is $350 million. Another is Alex Jones who apparently makes over $50million a year from his over priced overrated name brand products. How about the scammers claiming the Apollo missions were faked as they sell all sorts of crap to gullible people. What Trump has actually exposed is how gullible people can be (even in a developed nation) if you stop funding education properly. He's raised over $200million SINCE the election that will help pay off his debts and pay for the lawyers. Giuliani is charging $20k a day. Why wouldn't they keep this going as long as possible when 10s of millions are coming in each week that they pocket.
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  488. How much are you willing to bet he'd never COMPLETELY READ any book since he was in high school? And by that I mean cover to cover He has a degree in poly sci but with any LIBERAL arts degree you can get away with NOT completely reading anything.
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  489. Well actually go back and watch the documentary OUTFOXED -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P74oHhU5MDk One of the things they pointed out that was even back in 2004 there were signs that other networks were starting to copy the Fox business model of highly target Opinion programs at targeted audiences. What do you think Rachael Maddow and Chris Hayes do? I'm Australian (but went to college in America) so know quite well how much of an absolute piece of filth Rupert Murdoch is. His political power here is staggering and we have 2 ex-Prime Ministers (one from each side Turnbull and Rudd) trying to expose what power he has and break it. Both Rudd and Turnbull were beaten or removed (in Turnbull's case) by pro-Murdoch people.
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  490. I'm Australian. We've had both our scandals as well as being cheated out of medals. I hope this turns out to NOT be another cheating scandal. First she's only 15 and how sick do people have to be to dope a 15 year old. Second it would just stomp on an amazing achievement and the Olympics is meant to be about achievements not cheating.
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  491.  @EnteiIsDoge  John Paul Jones doesn't meant that we shoudl not support Ukraine. He is pointing out that Peter is, in the AMERICAN CONTEXT left leaning. He's also pointing out that Peter does have a bias towards the general American narrative, but then why wouldn't he as he is American. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. So I am used to Americans being American centric. We have plenty of people here in OZ who are very OZ centric. Its pretty much the same everywhere.
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  492. I think they are getting it. Pirro was silent - WHY? If she has any credible legal training she should know fraud when she sees it. You'd think she'd also know about the sedition laws and that there is a limit to the 1st Amendment. Plus FOX is possibly facing its own legal claims over promoting fraud. What someone should really do is file a massive class action against the Trumps, Trump Campaign and Giuliani for soliciting donations from their elderly family members AFTER they lost a fair and credible election. The reports last week were saying they had raised over $207 million - that was last week! If they are raising that sort of money the Trumps wont stop unless someone stops them.
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  493. To not hold these people accountable for the stuff they enabled to happen all based on lies is absurd. I'm Australian, America is our most important trading partner and security partner, just the same as it is for many other countries. There are GLOBAL ISSUES we can't deal with while America malfunctions. We don't need America to take the lead on anything, BUT WE DO NEED AMERICA TO FUNCTION as a DECENT RESPONSIBLE NATION.
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  494. ATTENTION ALL: I just checked through the last 10 Pakman podcast transcripts here on YT for the word "river" and its NOT THERE. So when was this comment made? I'll agree with a few of the negative comments about Pakman here. He can be smug and at times he has on guests who are there for no other reason but to back up his view of the world, but he also has on people he disagrees with. I can be critical of him in a number of ways including his relentless plugging of sponsors, but then that's his business model. What I did find was a video posted 25 Oct 2023 titled "A framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace." So if you actually want to know what his views are then I suggest you go watch and listen rather than rant about a comment that may or may NOT have been made because there's NO REFERENCE to when it was made.
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  495. If you consider making a public spectacle of your own ignorance and stupidity is a KPI for success then yeah Dave Rubin's a success.
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  496. He's certainly never listened to anything Roger Waters has said and especially what he's been saying in recent years.
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  497. Mark Blyth had this line about the 2008 GFC that basically went. "It used to go bail, fail, go to jail. Now its bail, bail, nobody goes to jail." If you go and look up the PBS Frontline on the prosecution of the Wall St. CEOs who caused the GFC there's a point when Lanny Breuer the Assistant AG under Eric Holder tasked with prosecuting Wall St. says that he had to stop going after them for economic reasons. Its a staggering admission of law enforcement that it wasn't a legal decision to NOT prosecute the top people at places like Goldman Sachs. WHY is anyone surprised we are now where we are?
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  498. My fellow Australians lets put this into context. FIRST: America is still 25% of the worlds economy and most of OUR TRADE like all international trade relies on the US Dollar being the worlds reserve currency. Either our deals are done directly in $USD or the currency exchanges rely of $USD. SECOND: We are about to stake the future of our nation's security on America still functioning as a reliable partner. I actually went to college in America and have many American friends. No doubt most American's can be relied upon but we are talking about the guy who sits in the Whitehouse as the world tries to deal with some very serious issues: Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine and China-Taiwan. THIRD: There's the elephant of all elephants stomping through the room, CLIMATE CHANGE. Make no doubt about it climate change will affect the worlds food supply and starving millions make for dangerous times. One of these 2 doesn't care and the other is incapable of doing what's needed. Love America or hate it, doesn't matter as much as knowing the guy in the Whitehouse is RELIABLE and can be counted on to do the right thing under pressure.
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  499. He's one of the very very few millennials I have seen in the field of economics who has a grasp of reality. This is only the first time I have seen him and he's immediately impressed me. I'm actually an American educated Australian aerospace engineer. When in America I was trained in what engineers call complex systems analysis. Its not taught to other engineers but we need to because at its core is considering the effects and consequences of design choices. So we do a lot of propose/consider "Change 'X' followed by "what are the effects of change-X on systems A, B, C, D... etc and what are the consequences of those effects on those systems. Listen to how he describes how that £600 Billion moved around until it ended up with the wealthy who then hoarded it. THAT'S SYSTEMS ANALYSIS and I rarely see it among economists. Either he has natural talent for complex systems or he's had some from of training that he has been able to apply to his field. He's not the first person I have seen, Mark Blyth the Scottish Political Economist does it too, but Gary is certainly the youngest I have seen do this.
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  500. Yeah lets NOT forget how bad polls have been for the past 5-10 years. Lets also NOT forget what happened in 2016.
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  501.  @commonsenseskeptic  I agree with the basic premise ajr993 puts forward. Angry Astronaut gives way too much credence to Elon Musk's ambitions without critical scrutiny. But we all need to be careful on what we come back with. Your slide/powerpoint list at 10:45 has a fundamental mistake. For a Mars colony to be self sufficient DOES NOT require terraforming, it requires the capability of engineering self sustaining biologic systems. Anybody whos considered the terraforming issue honestly gets answers ranging from its impossible to it'll take many 1000s of years. So any Mars colony in the meantime will live in domes. So putting a terraforming requirement on a Mars colony isn't valid, but the bio-engineering is a must. As you pointed out on you vid in the Musk series (which I am binge watching) you went over the disaster that was bio-dome. I call it a disaster in that it totally failed to achieve any of its basic goals. What it did do was provide a mountain of information on how much WE DON'T KNOW and how far from being successful we actually are. As I mentioned in another comment in that series. Dr. Jonathan Trent one of the worlds leading brains on engineering complex bio-systems pointed that out just after he left NASA. He's coined a term call upcycling. Recycling is where you just take something back to its raw material state and remake the same or similar product. Upcycling is where you use processes to take the waste from the bottom and upcycle it back tot he top. Simple example is water. The rain and other processes are the down cycle as it moves down through process. The evaporation is the upcycle. The planet we live on does this naturally for everything all powered by the sun. What JT is working on is taking waste and using natural &/or modified natural processes to up cycle waste into useful things. There's also a 2nd 1/2 mistake in that list. If they were to terraform Mars the problem with an atmosphere starts with where is it coming from. After that that there's how are you going to hold it. For sure the lack of a magnetosphere is an issue, but the lack of gravity to hold an atmosphere down is a bigger issue. What gives the Earth a sea level pressure of 14.7lbs (101,325kpa) isn't the magnetosphere its the gravity. You do need the magnetosphere to help prevent the solar wind stripping it away but without the gravity its a lot easier to strip away. I told you in another comment about the Alumni from NASA who did a guest lecture when I was an undergrad. These are more of the things he told us about. He's a basic calc. Mars has a surface Area of 144,370,000 km^2. If you wanted an earth breathable layer just 1km thick on the surface you have to find 144,000,000 cubic kilometers of AIR. Fine we could crash some comets and make some water break it down and get some oxygen but air is ~80% nitrogen where's that coming from? Terraforming is a pointless argument because its such an unrealistic topic with no valid answers to ay of the problems. The real issue of ANY off-world colony (ANY WHERE) is how do you keep the people alive and that means water, oxygen, food, waste processing and THAT MEANS and engineered bio-logical upcycling systems. When the top guy on the subject says we can't do it, then all the other arguments are pointless.
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  502. Welcome to what its like to be in every other community. No matter how hard you try there's always somebody in your community or cultural group who takes their identity too far. Despite being in the minority, they tend to profess purity and often make everyone in that cultural group look bad. I'm Australian (Anglo-Saxon descent) but went to college in America (U. Illinois). Here in Australia we have a pretty ugly history with respect to our native population and a few other things. Every time we take a couple of steps forward some puritanical clown jumps up and says something stupid or ridiculous and it goes backwards. Just understand that EVERY group of people on the planet have those few who claim to be the most pure, most loyal and most patriotic of the group. OF NOTE - they might dislike people outside their group but they tend to be vicious towards anyone in their group who they perceive as being disloyal. We see this among the MAGA people who can be vicious towards anyone they perceive as disloyal to Trump. We also see it in Russia with the repression of anyone who isn't 100% behind Putin. It happened in Nazi Germany with any German who wasn't 100% behind Hitler. Go look what they did to Sophie Scholl.
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  503. That would require them first taking the time to think. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I love the place and love the people but damn there are these threads (or themes) of disconnect that run through American society like cancer. On one hand America has this incredible belief that they can do stuff that I wish Australia had more of. It actually infuriates me when Australian's drop the ball and say its too hard which our political leaders do all the time. On the other hand there's the incredible delusion that because some Americans have done amazing things then that makes all Americans amazing and everything they do amazing. Treating the planet like it has unlimited resources and can be bashed stupid without consequence is delusional. Preaching to the world that you are the bastion of "Freedom and Democracy" as you support psychotic dictatorships and provide safety and refuge to war criminals is even more delusional. Just yesterday I saw people talking about America's child labor issues and how a 16 year old was killed in a timber mill where they should NOT have been working. How TF can America be going backwards on child labor laws???
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  504. To all - here is a great quote quote for former VicePOTUS Henry Wallace. It was said 2 years before Trump was born but during the time when Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin were in power. I think it perfectly sums up Trump and his inner circle (the highlight is mine.) Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  505. Actually Sebastian Todor claims he studied physics in Munich and has a PhD. A person with that name is certainly listed there and they did produce a number of research publications. So if he is the same person how can he not understand what EVERY engineer learns either in physics class or thermodynamics usually in the first year of a 4 year degree. I think thunderf00t's a bit of a smart ass at times but I get his frustration. As someone with a degree in aerospace I find it incredibly frustrating dealing with the garbage that's put into the blogosphere and social media landscape by so called "technology communicators" and "futurists".
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  506. Yeah - I saw this the other day and he sliced and diced this clown like a master sushi chef on a tuna.
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  507. And on your point of people just attacking people for not being on their side the Triggernometry guys just interviewed a guy named Andrew Doyle who's written a book "The New Puritans" on that subject. I don;t know if the book is worth buying but the interview was worth the time. As for Sam's comment at the start about Sam Harris, "I think this guy so appreciates the sound of his own voice that he says things without really thinking about them a lot of times or without contemplating the implications of them." I'd recommend that Sam Seder and every other political commentator on YouTuber have a look in the mirror on that subject.
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  508. You are absolutely right except you missed the difference. Here's how I'd put it. NEITHER the Democrats and Republicans support the interests of the bottom 90%, its just that the Republicans are better at selling the myth that its the other guy's fault.
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  509. Oh snap dude that would be brilliant except for the fact you're using logic and Trumpsters in the same sentence. I thought we'd made that clear - using logic and Trumpsters together is like making a shit sandwich. Sure you can try and make one, but there's no way you should expect anyone to swallow it.
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  510. I'm Australian but went to college in America back in the late 80s. America has had its issues AND SO HAVE WE (I just watched the MR vid on the evil rich guy and you can see my comment there) That said these PragerU videos are next level Right wing sleaze of a type nobody has seen since the "duck and cover" days and "reds under the bed" hysteria of the Joe McCarthy years. To be sure there are people here in OZ who would love this stuff taught in our schools too or an Australian version of it. I got to spend some time in Florida and like most of America found its people to be friendly and decent. I met good people everywhere I went in America and I did a lot of travelling when I was there. I truly hope the decent people of Florida and the rest of America stand up an be counted and put these clowns in their place. Best wishes from Australia.
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  511.  @Darrylizer1  Dude - what a great line. "Marketing talks and truth walks!" Hope you don't mind if I use it. You should put that on t-shirts.
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  512. It should be but considering The Panama papers came out, NOTHING CHANGED and NOBODY went to jail. The Paradise papers came out, NOTHING CHANGED and NOBODY went to jail. Sadly this won't be any different. We should simply accept that the game is rigged and as George Carlin said its "a club and we're not part of it."
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  513. The real stupidity here is that De Sanctimonious could have simply said: "I can't comment on something I haven't seen and have no context of." He then has to be careful when shown what was said, but playing the denial & deflection game is just stupid.
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  514. I'm Australian but went to college in America and we get all of the news out of Britain. As an outside observer to both America and Britain that's one of the most astute comparisons I have seen anyone give on any current public subject. 👍👍👍👍
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  515. Its not just American politics. I'm Australian but went to college in America and our politicians have been doing the same for years. Out politics might not be as toxic, but we are getting there. I was in Canada 3 years ago and it was similar there. Watching what has happened in Britain - its the same there. This whole "we must win the next news cycle at all cost" mentality is worldwide. Its just more toxic in some places.
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  516. Yeah a few months ago and we'd have sympathy for their family & friends, but people are getting worn out by everything going on and at some point we need to tell these clowns they are part of the problem.
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  517. Well that sort of describes Bernie Sanders as well, except he's more on the left. Also Bernie actually cares about America. David's analysis of here 80second is fairly much right on the mark. She's specifically using catch phrases that appeal to the MAGA right and her speech was one after another of them.
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  518. I can believe that. I'm Australian and went to college in America on a sports scholarship (late 80s). One of my mates at another college told me about a guy on the tennis team where he was. He removed the cores from the centre of the handles on his rackets and replaced it with magic nose snow. It must have been good stuff because it put him through college and paid for a car. Back in those days there were a lot of stories going about college athletes doing those sorts of things.
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  519. That is incredibly sarcastic and cynical and also 100% correct.
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  520. As an Australian let me spell these stats out to any Ted Cruz supporters who might be trolling. Australia has 25.7 million people compared to Texas with just under 29million. So we have a similar sized population. I went to college in America and have been to Texas several times. Australia and Texas are fairly similar in geography - as in mainly flat, with similar weather. We are both reasonably spread out with a few major population centers. Most importantly the available medical technologies are essentially identical. Texas has 69,760 dead from COVID while Australia has 1,577. Based on population Texans are almost 40x more likely to have died from COVID. So please Teddy (and any of his supporters), don't tell us anything about handling COVID. And we also consider it criminal to let children freeze to death.
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  521. Richard Wolff (one of David's Professors) who is a Marxist Economist and teaches Marxism did a video on his channel detailing WHY the socialist and communist systems of Eastern Europe FAILED. I'm actually Australian but went to college in America and Americans have very little idea of these political systems and why some work and many fail. I high school in Australia we studied BOTH of Orwell's "Animal Farm" and "1984." We were taught how Stalin twisted socialism and communism into the bastardized heap of misery that Soviet Russia was. We were taught that if you let a charismatic monster go unchecked they could flip ANY system into the totalitarian nightmare of "1984." I effing hated both those books at the time, but these days I am grateful for the teachers I had.
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  522. HEY SARAH DOES THAT MEAN BEING AN UNMARRIED PREGNANT TEENAGER!
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  523. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I was well prepared to dismiss vid this straight out of hand as yet another crap explanation of engineering, but I am quite happy to say he's hit the spot. What so many people miss is that engineering is fundamentally the art of APPLIED MATH as opposed to pure math or theoretical math. Fundamentally engineers take math and APPLY it to real world problems, but to get to that point we have to learn a staggering amount of math to have the skills needed. Aerospace is particularly brutal in this respect. I had to do 2 extra pure math classes than other engineers. One was in vectors & matrices which was fairly straight forward and I'd expect most engineers to pass it. The other was in advanced calculus which we needed for things like aerodynamics. It was brutally hard and we had a professor who was a real life Sheldon Cooper except he was even more arrogant. By far the single hardest class I took was Spacecraft Dynamics. We had to do 2 high level aerospace classes to graduate. All of us took Finite Element Methods because that's reasonably straight forward applied matrix methods. After FEM most people took orbital mechanics because that was a favorite of the satellite industry. OM isn't easy and involves a lot of differential calculus in 3-d and in spherical coordinate systems. 4 or 5 of us (wanting to be different) took Spacecraft Dynamics and regretted it about 5 minutes into the first lecture. There were about 8 or 9 post grads doing the higher level variant of the class which meant they had to do a term paper and by term paper I mean a journal type technical paper. The difference between orbital mechanics and space craft dynamics is that OM is about calculating orbits, transfers and trajectories while spacecraft dynamics is how you get a spacecraft to point where you want as is flies along its orbit/trajectory. The problem with spacecraft dynamics is that it involves free body mechanics where every action has its opposite response. Satellites are NOT attached to something large and solid like a planet. So if you do something like turn the antenna on a satellite then the rest of the satellite wants to go the in the opposite direction. Since a lot of satellite stability involves gyroscopes or reaction wheels then that math gets convoluted very quickly because of precession. What makes it truly ugly is that a satellite typically has 6 degrees of freedom - X, Y, Z and roll, pitch and yaw, which as the X, Y, X suggests is done in cartesian coordinates.*BUT* if the roll pitch and yaw is done with gyroscopes or reaction wheels then that part of the system is in cylindrical coordinates and need translating into cartesian. The problem is that satellites move in spherical coordinate systems. So you have a convoluted set of differential equations 1/2 in cartesian and 1/2 in cylindrical that need translating into a spherical coordinate system AND THEN you have to solve that system for what you actually want to do. And for those who are wondering this is what makes keeping the ISS in the right orientation so damn hard and what made the US Star Wars program so close to impossible they gave up. And so you all know I did that class in1987 and ALL of the postgrads were on DARPA funded scholarships doing Star Wars stuff.
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  524.  @mariomenezes1153  Quite possibly. Pointing fingers at others, sabre rattling, making grand proclamations and even starting wars are a well practiced tactics by politicians facing trouble. It doesn't matter what the political system is either. When you have trouble at home start a fire somewhere else and yell "look, fire" If it gets hard at home for Xi Jinping he could easily start something as a distraction.
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  525. Well if that's the case. If you even have the slightest fantasy of sending this stuff to Canada you are going to need to talks to someone like me. I have 30+ years in control systems and automation. Back in late 2017 through early 2018 I went to Canada to finish a project for an Australia Company. I ended up having to completely redesign the entire electrical and control system for Canadian standards. I was there through one of their winters and NOTHING you hear prepares you for it. I still remember the days just after Christmas 2017 when the entire middle region of Canada around Saskatchewan (where I was) was effectively in a lock down because of the weather. I woke up one day to every TV channel flashing alarms for the cold. I was in a small town in central Sask with the rest of the team back in Regina for Christmas. The message they gave me was simple - stay indoors and touch nothing made of metal that is connected to the outside like door knobs and window frames unless wearing gloves. Going outside for someone unprepared was lethal. The time to frostbite for exposed skin was something like 3-5 minutes. Unless you have experienced a Canadian Winter NOBODY can properly explain it to you and I never went to the far North were its even worse. EVERYTHING IN THAT VEHICLE WOULD NEED TO BE RECONSIDERED for CANADIAN conditions. When I mean everything I mean anything made of plastic, rubber and the cloth, oil, grease and even the bearings. The engine would need a complete overhaul including the cold weather hardware. You need to go right down to the paint and the welding. You need to think of it in terms of taking the worst of Australia's desert and then put minus signs in front of every number. FYI - I have worked in the Australian mining industry so I have seen how brutal that is first hand.
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  526. I'm Australian, I went to college in America I have many American friends. On one hand I worry about those friends and where this is all headed for them and their families. On the other hand as an Australian we have to ask ourselves where this leaves us. America has been our main security and trading partner for 70+ years. Every time you started a war or went to war we were with you. It was incredibly bad when the Bush White House lied and dragged us into the Iraq War that was stupid on everyone's part. I personally maintain that going to Afghanistan was the right thing to do. The Taliban Government had allowed OBL and his band of fanatics safe refuge from which they attacked our ally. But with Trump showing that its possible for POTUS to just tear up treaties as he did WITHOUT any consequence. We just bought a fleet of F35s plus other future air force purchases and committed to MULTIPLE PROGRAMS and tied our future security to America. What are we meant to think if we now know that its possible for POTUS to simply tear up treaties. What if the next POTUS simply denies us spare parts because he didn't like something that was said? I was working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and put tariffs on Canadian products. If Trump was willing to simply F--K Canada over then what might a future POTUS do to Australia on a whim?
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  527. I agree and here's a couple of points. 1) I'm Australian but went to college in America (let 80s). I used to feel embarrassed how well informed my college friends were when it came to how well they understood HOW America FUNCTIONED. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they used to drag me into various conversations. I got an interesting education in arguing points about the US Constitution. What I remember more than anything else was how well informed they were about their own country and that was irrespective if they were pre-law or anything else. The reason was they had all done CIVICS in high school. 2) Because its surprised me how that's changed in the last 20+ years - I ASKED PEOPLE WHY. The answer I was told was George Bush and Dick Cheney defunded Civics in the early 2000s. 3) SO YOU KNOW - As an outsider who has seen the difference between having and not having an effective civics education I am a advocate of Australia doing an Australian version of the old US civics program. To put that in perspective if you asked the average Australia about copying anything from the US Education system you'd get laughed at or told to FK-OFF and yet I'm saying we should do our own version of this one thing.
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  528. There's a really interesting vid on the A10 and it goes into the design methodology of the A10 and in particular it highlights that from the start it was intended to be EASY TO MAINTAIN. In that vid at 13:25 there is a chart of the costs per hour of flight time for a range of Aircraft. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk6Qr6OO5Xo I'm Australian but did aerospace in America and have done 30+ years of work in industrial automation and robotics. The one thing that concerns me more than anything else with the F35 is MAINTENANCE. Its the same for almost any engineered system - can it be maintained to deliver as designed. Forget mission capability for the moment because there are people with far better credentials than any of us here who can honestly judge the F35's mission capabilities. BUT as they learned in WW2 with superior technologies like the Tiger Tank doesn't mean much if it breaks down all the time. Every Tiger Tank was followed around by a maintenance crew in a truck with a pile of spares. In terms of competing against the Sherman it was almost unbeatable champion. BUT in terms of how hard it was to manufacture and maintain the Tiger was a disaster. AND once they worked out how to beat it with better guns or shooting it in the ass - it was an even bigger disaster. So what concerns me with the F35 is will it become our generation's Tiger Tank - brilliant to use but a disaster to maintain?
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  529. Go look at her Wikipedia bio - she never finished her journalism degree.
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  530. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Sorry to say JUST LIKE EVERY SOCIETY we have people like this too. The smug smile on his face gives away what sort of person he is. Think about the sidekick of the schoolyard bully. NOT the actual bully but his sidekick. This is typical of the COWARD who stands behind the bully or thinks the bully has his back and he can get away with what ever he likes. Listen to his argument about having the right to stand there and harass another person while having that smug smile. That is the behavior of the schoolyard bully's sidekick.
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  531. I'm Australian but went to college in America (U. Illinois) and have visited Texas a number of times. What puzzles me is that the vast majority of my encounters with Texans were really positive. I found Texans like most Americans to be friendly, courteous, welcoming, good humored and could take a joke,.... I just wanted to put it out there that in my experience Ted Cruz is not representative of the people I have met in Texas. I spent my first Thanksgiving in Kentucky and I can say the same about Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul. These people represent a fringe of society that have manged to bewilder with a mix of fear and anger. We have people who do that here in Australia. Its what Vladimir Putin does in Russia. Its what Nigel Farage and the Brexiteer promoters did in Britain. Sad to say that in the American case an Australian, Rupert Murdoch, is right there in the middle of this. Just as people in Texas will never be able to apologise for Ted Cruz, NO Australian will ever be able to apologise for Rupert Murdoch or what he has done. I wish your state the best and hope you can find a way past this clown.
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  532. Correct me BUT HAVEN'T WE HEARD THIS BEFORE about a certain laptop?
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  533. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  534. Although I find Tim Pool and his brigade of M0R0NS repulsive to say the least Prof. Scott Galloway has been pointing out some facts in terms of issues facing men these days. He's also the father of 2 boys and has a real concern for their future. So he has skin in the game and he's not a clown or mοrοn. Just recently Scott pointed out that there has been research into dating sites as in who & what gets responses. On the dating sites where there's data available (and sorry but Scott didn't expound on which sites) there's around 15% of the men who get something like 80-90% of the responses. That's not to say that a significant proportion of the men don't ever get a response its just that a very small group get MOST of the responses. Part of the research included some sort of display of wealth or success. Scott gave the example of wearing something like a Rolex BUT NOT waving it about to say "see I have money" but just casually showing it in one or more photos increases the number of responses. Nobody should ever be surprised that women are more picky when it comes to men - they get pregnant we don't. Its kinda that simple.
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  535. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980. "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ― Isaac Asimov “Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” ― Rod Sterling in his introduction to the Twilight episode “The Obsolete Man” originally aired on June 2, 1961 on CBS. “Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a state of utter confusion.” ― Colonel Flagg of the CIA, from an episode of MASH sometime in the 1970s.
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  536. Almost it depends if supply is matching the growth. I'm an engineer but did Econ 101 as an option. All this nonsense from Fox and others is basic information to anyone who did Econ 101. The Western world is in a supply crisis. Oil supply because of Ukraine and goods because of China being shutdown with COVID. I'm Australian and we are having a housing construction crisis because they can't finish the houses and apartments because of all the stuff they can't get. We had a bunch of companies go bust this last week because they just can't finish the houses off. Its stupid little shit too. Costs are skyrocketing because too few people are fighting over to few parts.
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  537.  @cablehogue599  I wouldn't call Roger Waters a peace and love hippie. Certainly Pink Floyd was counter establishment but I wouldn't have ever called them hippies at least in the general sense.
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  538. About the same for me. A while back I watched a couple of his lectures that were from a few years back (from before his got into the political stuff) and he was a pretty good college professor who knew his subject and handled questions from students really well. I just watched one of his podcasts on climate change with Dr. Richard Lindzen. Its not a podcast I'd recommend to anyone unless they understand various topics especially complex system modelling. because its not so much what they say BUT WHAT THEY LEAVE OUT. I studied aerospace engineering and got trained in complex modelling and complex systems analysis. Stuff like aerodynamics, complex structures and spacecraft dynamics. They were both very right about the issues with research funding at universities. But then Lindzen is also incredibly dishonest in a few times. He does NOT lie about anything but he LEAVES OUT information on complex system modelling. Unless you have a background in that stuff you'd never spot it. Where Peterson really shows his colors is in his repeated references to people like Alex Epstein and Bjorn Lomberg who are 2 of the most dishonest people on the planet. They're first class gold medal cherry pickers with data & information and both are very sneaky how they present it. They aren't alone but the same sorts of discredited people keep turning up on podcasts (like the one Peterson hosts) where they know they WONT be challenged. I noted Peterson also had on Dr. Jay Bhattacharya who's been totally discredited and yet keeps turning up on these sorts of podcasts which profess to be honest public discussions but just aren't. I watched Bhattacharya and Economist Gigi Foster on Jon Anderson's (Former Australian Deputy Prime Minister) podcast and they STRAIGHT OUT LIED about Australia's COVID response. And I don't mean they made a mistake they outright lied. Especially Foster who's just a disgusting liar. It was some of her information that Saagar Enjeti made an clown out of himself last week.
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  539. Go watch some of his interviews from 6-10 years ago and compare them to this and more recent interviews. Then go watch the PBS Frontline "League of Denial" He shows many of the signs for concussion injury. I don't think he's a well person.
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  540.  @EhThisIsAGoodName  Good points but as to nations considering America as a threat to peace, that's not so clear. I'm Australian and certainly there would be Australians who consider that right, but as a nation that's not strictly true. The one thing that has dramatically changed is America's reputation. Prior to 9/11 POTUS was often introduced as "The leader of the Free World." Most Westerners took that with a grain of salt considering it more hubris that fact. But these days if anyone tried to introduce POTUS with that expression they would be laughed from the room. I actually went to college in America (late 80s) and was there during the time of Iran-Contra. My girlfriend at the time lamented one day about the "damage being done to the office of the President." It was an odd expression that took years for me to grasp. There was a time in America when the OFFICE not the person occupying it was a semi-sacred place that deserved RESPECT. My girlfriend was lamenting the damage being done to the office and not Reagan. I'd now contend that every President since has continued to erode that respect. Bush 1 with "read my lips no new taxes" and then came new taxes. Clinton - blowjob (say no more). Bush 2 started a war based on a lie, opened a gulag in Cuba and then signed off on torture as he threw out the Geneva Convention. Obama promised "hope & change" and was hopeless at bringing any change. What ever was left after Obama Trump simply obliterated. If there is any perception of threat its more in the "what if a worse version of Trump gets elected in future?" Almost a bigger question is - what does that even mean? Australia (like a few others) has backed the F35 as a key part of its future security. What might another Trumpist who sucks up to dictators mean for that or any other long standing cooperation or treaty. I was in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA. I was there among Canadians as Trump literally told them to F--K OFF. Its hard to describe what that moment was like. For an Australian it was like - what's he going to do to us. We found out when China retaliated against Australian exports. So I wouldn't yet describe America as a threat to world peace, BUT I would have no hesitation in calling America an UNRELIABLE PARTNER. And that's a scary thought considering the Chinese plans for domination.
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  541. Aerospace engineer here - this is one of the most annoying subjects wasting out time these days. There's no real need to go into the technologies. You can kill this entire argument just by asking how they'll process 1 Billion cubic kilometers of air to remove 2.5 Trillion tons of CO2? Here's the explanation. FIRST - the basic task comes from the fact we have (since the start of the Industrial Revolution) put an extra 2.5 trillion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere with 1.5 Trillion Tons of that being just in the last 80 years and at current rates we'll add another 1/2 a Trillion tons by the early 2030s. Way back in 1987 as an undergraduate (in America) we had a NASA Engineer (as a guest lecturer) explain to us why terraforming Mars was utterly impractical. He'd just completed a project for NASA on what it would take. It was simply the amount of stuff needed to do the job. Before you even get to the subject of making things like water, oxygen and carbon dioxide cycles work you need to just get enough air and water. Its a subject I now call Planetary Mechanics which is doing basic calculations on volumes, mass and energy. He showed us just the basics. From that its relatively easy to calculate that to give Mars a layer 1km thick of Earth standard air requires 178 Trillion (with a 'T') tons of air. Plus you need to raise its temperature from -60C to +20C and that's a lot of energy for that much air. And you'd need a lot more than just 1km to make a planet viable. The related subject is Planetary Dynamics which is how you make things like the water and gas and thermodynamic cycles work which is incredibly complex. Planetary Mechanics is reasonably easy for anyone to grasp except for how big the numbers are, because its mostly just being able to calculate volumes and what mass it takes to fill that volume. That's how you get 178 Trillion tons of air. So coming back to Earth. Earths surface is just over 500,000,000 km² so in the first 1km above the Earths surface you have about 1/2 a Billion cubic kilometers of air. Its actually about 2% more than that. But its just easier to use 1/2 a Billion. Because if you want to consider the first 2km above the Earths surface its about 1 Billion cubic KILOMETERS of air and that's where most of the excess CO2 is and there's 2.5 Trillion tons of it we need to remove. So how do any of these clowns with plants that can do 1,000 tons per year plan to remove 2.5 Trillion tons? How much will it COST in BOTH money and materials to build all these plants? How much CO2 will be produced getting all those materials and building all those plants? How much energy with it take to just build those plants and then operate those plants? You don't need to explain the technology, because just the scope of the task rules it out as impractical.
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  542. I'm an Australian engineer who did his degree in America. That is a bit of a fallacy. Western nations are just as vulnerable on the infrastructure side as anywhere else. Remember that blackout in 2003 that put 55 million Americans and Canadians in the dark? Look where it appears on the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_outages That was just from a main power line fault that was mishandled. Because of events like that most sensible countries know they have vulnerabilities they just like talking about it. Other key infrastructure that's reasonably vulnerable is gas, water & sewerage. But then who bothers to listen to engineers anyway.
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  543. I'm Australian and we shrug our shoulders at the on going lack of reality in America at the moment. Who was it that sponsored the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan during the 80s and 90s and supplied them with guns, stinger missiles and training before they morphed into the Taliban???? Who was it that LIED to the entire world about WMDs before starting the invasion of Iraq????? Who was it that did all the prisoner abuse stuff at Abu Ghraib (Iraq) and Bagram AFB (Afghanistan)???? Who was it that OVERTHREW the democratically elected governments of Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia and Chile (to name a few) during the Cold War???? I actually went to college in America. I love the place, its people and culture BUT DAMN YOUR POLITICS IS DISGUSTING. Our politics isn't anything to be proud of either, but yours is some serious next level SHlT.
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  544. I'm Australian we were expecting boat loads of refugees.
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  545. You are so right, but he does need to be a bit more careful with his language at times. People like him and Piketty and Wolff need to realise that nobody is going to flip back to any sort of Marxism. It will be some from of new economics that might be a hybrid of others things. Yanis likes to call everyone "comrade" and that's ok with me but certainly not ok with many people. Like a few others he needs to realise that Marxism (communism/socialism) FAILED or at least accept that the way Marxism (communism/socialism) was practiced FAILED and FAILED MASSIVELY. From the Gulags & purges to the environmental catastrophes of places like the Aral Sea, Marxism in all its variations FAILED and nobody is going to go back to it. What the Capitalists need to realise is that capitalism has ALSO FAILED or at least this version of capitalism (neoliberalism) has failed. Just like some of the Marxists don't want to admit Marxism failed the capitalists don't want to admit capitalism has failed. On that Yanis and others are 100% right, we need new economic ideas.
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  546. Hey Lindsay - When you play with a rabid dogs, don't complain when you get bit.
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  547. Go look at the US pardon Law it does not apply to people who are impeached. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_pardons_in_the_United_States#Constitutional_provision Forget the 25th he needs to be impeached, that way he's not only out but he can never get back. Further if they impeach Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and all the others who hold official position so none of them can get pardons is also important.
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  548. You've explained why I stopped watching their shitshow. Krystal is fantastic but Saagar has lost his mind and I doubt that BP will last long unless he changes. He used to be a lot more tolerant and it was worth listening to because we at least got to hear an alternative viewpoint on events, but now its just ranting.
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  549.  @jaarneal  He is claiming another culture is inferior AT THE CULTURAL LEVEL and its NOT the first time. AND he is doing that for 2 Billion People across a staggering number of countries. I AGREE 100% that Hamas have done an insanely terrible and stupid and inexcusable thing, but to hold them 100% accountable for the shitfest of Gaza is equally stupid. If Sam was making this ANOTHER example of a religion in trouble with a section of its people out of control then I'm 100% on his side but he doesn't do that. He's painted this as Islam is 100% wrong to its core and that condemns 2 Billion people most of who have not a damn thing to do with this mess. Maybe he can explain why his peaceful Buddhist Regime in Burma can justify their treatment of the Rohingya people, because Sam has a history with Buddhists, go check his Wikipedia. Its his complete dismissal of accountability of the Israeli government that I take offense at. Sorry but that is simply BULLSHlT and he should know better. For example on his claim of holding people accountable. How about the MURDER last year of Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was covering the IDF incursion into the Jenin refugee camp on 11 May 2022. She was clearly identified as PRESS by the Blue Body Vest with PRESS written on it and was shot in the head. Are you seriously going to tell people that a trained military sniper couldn't see who she was in his scope? How about the spotter? You do know snipers act in a team with one of them as the spotter who has a wider field of view and does the range finding and wind. The spotter job is to decide what targets are and aren't valid. Sniper shots are NOT accidentally taken. They are planned and taken quite deliberately. So for the IDF to claim there was no fault in that is complete BULLSHlT. There have been so many case over the years where Israeli soldiers DELIBERATELY targeted Palestinian children. At one point in the Intifada there'd been about 30 children shot dead by the IDF and the IDF were claiming again and again that they were not targeting children. Then one day a journalist asked if they weren't targeting children then how come (I think it was) 26 out of 27 deaths were by single shots to the head. It was between 25 and 30 and only 1 wasn't a head shot. It was by trained military personnel and they claimed there was no targeting. And finally if you really want to discuss who are and who aren't fanatics in the Palestinian-Israel shit show then explain who shot Yitzhak Rabin? By the way did you know Sam's mother is Jewish although the claim is she's non-religious???
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  550. I'm not a psychologist but I believe the term you are looking for is Narcissistic Sociopath.
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  551.  @juliewake4585  Nickie Aiken is the clown on the left hand side of the panel. Its easy to miss her name during the intro but they flash her name on screen a couple of times like at 8:18. I went looking for her name because it was a bit of "who the heck is this bimbo saying this crap?" On the Britain malfunctioning I have no idea of what the figures are for Britain but I'd expect Gary would. What I do have figures for are America and Australia. A couple of weeks ago Richard Wolff who does the channel Democracy at Work here on YT referred to a report from the US Congressional Budget Office on Family Wealth from 1989 to 2019. It was easy to find and has some amazing data that directly relates to what Gary has said about Western Economies NOT recovering. The very first graph of that report shows what's happened to the Bottom 50%, Middle 40% and Top 10% of America through that time period. On the webpage for that report you can also download an Excel file with all the data. I'm an engineer so crunching data into information is part of what I do. There's a super interesting (also tragic) story out of that data. Between 2007 and 2010 The Top 10% lost 11.1% of their net wealth but by 2019 were 21.7% MORE than they were in 2007. The Middle 40% lost 13.3% of their net wealth but by 2019 were 4.6% MORE than they were in 2007. The Bottom 50% lost 49.5% of their net wealth but by 2019 were still 21.8% LESS than they were in 2007. So all through the Obama years and first part of the Trump years the US economy recovered quite well for the Top 10%, a bit for the Middle 40% BUT NOT DIDLEY for the Bottom 50% of the population. They did recover some, but only a bit more more than 1/2 of what they lost from what the Top 10% did. This is the sort of data Gary had access to and speaks about.
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  552. Probably can't sue her because she probably has some sort of parliamentary privilege because she's doing it in a hearing, BUT if she shows it out side of that hearing that's another thing.
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  553. We often forget that we are in fact the result of dozens of generations and selective breeding by violence. Its one reason why we should be careful condemning people and cultures of our times. Further we don't have to go back very far in our cultures to find ugliness. I'm Australian and a few years ago the Indonesians executed 2 Australians for organizing a drug shipment. The main reason for their execution was internal Indonesian politics. In Australia we had a huge campaign condemning the death penalty. The Indonesians ignored us simply citing that a few years earlier we had remained silent when they executed the 3 ringleaders of the Bali Bombing. We also forgot our own history. The last man hanged in Australia was not only innocent of the crime he was hanged for but the authorities knew it and the Premier of Victoria (the state where he was hanged) acknowledged in cabinet papers (recently released) that it was done so he would look tough on crime for the next election which was only months away. Sir Henry Bolte ended up winning the election in a landslide, was knighted and had one of Melbourne's major bridges named after him. If you are of Anglo-Saxon descent (and I am) you don't have to go back many generations to find ancestors who worked a 6 day week. On Sundays they went to church in the morning to learn about forgiveness and then went to the afternoon executions to learn about justice. These days in the middle east its generally Friday lunchtime for the same stuff. We forget the last time the French Guillotined anyone was in the 1970s. We forget that the drug cocktail the Americans use was actually developed by a pair of Nazi doctors who experimented on orphaned boys. Donald Trump just ignored 200+ years of American Presidential tradition by allowing an execution to happen during his lame duck stage. Up until now they have either pardoned or commuted or left it to the incoming President. Donald Trump is the first President ever to allow an execution to proceed during his lame duck time.
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  554. I'm an Australian engineer and have tried to warn our authorities about our power grid's vulnerabilities. Its not an American problem is a problem in every developed nation on the planet. The very nature of how this stuff is built and laid out. PUMPING GIGAWATTS of power around generates heat. High Voltage Transformers need to be out in the open air so they can be cooled. Power lines need to be out in the open air so they can be cooled. Things that are out in the open are vulnerable and can be open to some very simple attacks.
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  555. EXACTLY - I'm Australian and have worked in Canada and the moment any Canadian has US Health Care System explained to them they will not waste a second on this. POP QUIZ - people from which nation cross a border to get cheap affordable medications.
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  556. Morally its a crime, Ethically its a crime, But not legally. But then insider trading IS a crime.
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  557. I only saw Gary for the first time recently. He might be specifically talking about Britain but what he's saying applies everywhere. I'm Australian and he could easily be describing Australia, Our government just pulled $38 Billion out of thin air during COVID at one point, with no explanation of where it came from or an explanation of how they decided why anyone got any of it. A few weeks ago when the 2021/22 publicly listed companies had their reporting season it was announced that the CEOs of the ASX 200 had a new record HIGH average salary of $9.5 million. That's a wage bill of $1.9 billion for 200 people. That doesn't include all the other executives, board members or their bonuses. Now I know where our $38 Billion went.
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  558. As I have said to a few others recently some of this stuff just wont be tolerated in other countries. I can assure you that in Australia she would already have been charged and most likely fined. If any of you saw the recent anti-mask, anti-vax COVID denier protests al lot of those people got $5000 fines we are still waiting on charges relating to things like assaulting police officers. We want back to normal ASAP and these types of clowns are in the way and getting no sympathy.
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  559. "The greatest threat to American democracy is the American people!" - Larry Wilkerson.
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  560.  @Archbuild-rt  Apart from a couple of spelling mistakes you're right absolutely correct. Look at what drove the French Revolution, its one of the best examples of wealth disparity exploding into violence. The Russian Revolution is another one. Even the American Revolution was partly driven by wealth disparity. Time and again all through history the wealthy just pillaged the wealth and eventually drove the peasants into revolt. The thing that scares me is that in the past the peasants had pitch forks these days they have AR-15s. The stupidity of todays wealthy is they live in townhouses not castles. Castles are useful against angry mobs with pitch forks but townhouses don't offer anything against AR-15s.
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  561. Australian here - I went to college in America (late 80s). I did aerospace engineering but one of my humanities sequences was Classical Civilisation. In high School I studied (as many Australians did) Orwell (both 1984 and Animal Farm). My mother was a high school teacher who loved history and taught it when she could, but she loved explaining things from history to me. All those classes and lessons seemed like a waste of time to an engineer AND THEN Donald Trump arrived and then JD Vance and his Opus Dei goon squad added to that. YES in Australia we know who that lot are because there have been several scandals at high schools run by them. So yeah I am 100% in agreement with your comment. And for anyone else in the thread here's one of the greatest comments by any American ever. This is Henry Wallace former VPOTUS in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  562. Your right she's done some good interviews and monologues in recent months but this was shit. How can the people of Guam and other US territories NOT be allowed to vote on POTUS and NOT have actual Representation in congress. Did you know that the population of Puerto Rico is larger than the populations of 20 mainland states and yet it has only 1 congressional representative WHO CAN'T VOTE and NO senators.? Click the tab on population to list the states in order of population -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population America promoted itself across the world all through the Cold War as the World Leader of Freedom and Democracy but denies the people of Puerto Rico, Guam and other territories democratic representation.
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  563. Actually this is NOT a good video and there are a lot of mistakes in it. Unfortunately Sabine is NOT and engineer she's a theoretical physicist. In general I like her videos but in this case she's just got a lot of stuff WRONG. She's obviously never been involved in a large construction project. I have actually written a very long reply to her in her pinned comment at the top. Here's just 1 example. She's claimed that nuclear reactors should only take 7 years to build and the Japanese can do it in 4. Shen never mentions once what type of reactor they built in Japan or how they were built differently to other reactors. The Illinois Energy Prof (here on YT) did a video on the Fukushima design and how the design contributed to the disaster. When you look at the Westinghouse AP1000s there are 2 at Vogtle in America and 4 at 2 sites in China and all 6 of them took 9 years to build. Also the Chinese built a CANDU (Canadian design) reactor in 4 years but its a totally different design to something like the AP1000. So the whole East-vs-West thing is BULLSHlT when you compare sites building the same type of reactor.
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  564. I'm Australian and there is one thing Peter has kind of missed in this analysis. When China stops (and we know it will) then Australia is going to want another place to sell its iron ore, metallurgical coal and other resources. So I think there will be deals made. There's already a lot of wheeling and dealing going on already with companies like Tata and Adani (although they might be in trouble). There's already a sizeable Indian presence in Australia. At the moment outside of resources there are vast numbers of Indian University students here in Australia. Maybe Australia's big advantage with dealing with Indians is that we play Cricket, which the American's Russians and Japanese don't. In fact trying to explain cricket to an American is like trying to explain Quantum mechanics to a puppy.
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  565. I used to watch Jimmy too. It was when he'd have people like Mark Blyth, Abby Martin and others on and he did some really great work. BUT Around the time the Squad would not hold out against the rest of the Democratic leadership and HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE something went wrong in Jimmy's brain. That's NOT to blame anyone because Jimmy has to accept his own choices and what he has done since them and TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for it.
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  566. It started before that when they awarded Milton Freidman the Nobel Prize in economics in 1976. That gave his brand of psychotic garbage legitimacy. Did you know the Nobel for Economics IS NOT a real Nobel Prize? It was never sponsored by Nobel or any member of the family. It was sponsored by a Swedish Bank so that the BS economists pump out was made legitimate in the publics eyes. It really is the FAKE Nobel Prize. But Freidman's brand of psychotic shit was the worst thing they ever legitimized.
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  567. I remember a time when America lead the world in technology, innovation and a few other things EDUCATED NATIONS did. I'm Australian and we used be marvelled at NASA and other stuff Americans did. There was a time when almost every week we got some new amazing thing out of America. We thought electing Reagan was a bit crazy. We thought he had no brains, but we were wrong he had Alzheimer's. Now we're wondering WTF drugs is America on now, because Reagan sounds like a genius compared to this lot.
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  568. This whole argument by Peterson has been asked for several years now. He was here in Australia BEFORE the COVID Pandemic around the time his book 12 Rules.. was being promoted and he brought up the issue of radicals and how to identify them. He said words to the effect and I have heard him say similar numerous times since: Its easy to identify people on the right who have become radicalised and become a problem - they become racist. He said/says that its more difficult on the left because there's not a simple single indicator like racism. He has suggested at times that there maybe a number of signs that if a person displays 1 or more of that indicate that a person has gone too far. 1) If JBP identified this issue several years ago then WHY hasn't he got a better answer, because he's still spouting the same answer he had more than 5 years ago? 2) How does JBP explain people who have been dragged into right wing conspiracies like Qanon but are not racists, because there are Qanon people as well as Trump supporters who are African American and its hard to call them white supremacists? I think JBP should have stuck to being a college professor, because if you have seen any of his lectures from 7 or more years ago he was good at that. He engaged his students and challenged them to think which is what a good professor should do. Because ever since 12 Rules and fame infected his brain its been a long slow slide downhill.
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  569. yeah Bill Maher - another disconnected media millionaire who thinks he knows how average people feel and that everything that comes out of his mouth is pure gold. New rule Bill - Wake up or Shut TF up.
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  570.  @ILuvRum  he didn't start out that way but over time YEAH he's another click-baiter. AND I will say the same about a bunch of commentary channels that I have recently unsubscribed from. At one point there were some great channels on political commentary and analysis and in the last 2-3 years they have all steadily chased the money with more and more click-baiting.
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  571.  @antilarge7860  I'll agree when he sticks to his areas of expertise (geopolitics & demographics) but more and more he's gotten outside those areas and NOT consulted people who are subject matter experts. Like in this case he should have discussed this with Sal. In fact that would be a damn good conversation because if you combined Peters geopolitical & demographic analysis with Sal's knowledge of global logistics that would be good.
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  572.  @kimwarton4894  Agreed it would be a lot better having someone like Roger Waters than any of these clowns he has on. The problem would be Joe's Brain trying to keep up.
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  573. I'd like to hear what Tucker "the defender of children" Carlson has to say on this. Then again maybe not.
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  574. Australian with an observation and its the same as I just put in another thread but its even MOR pertinent here considering the very first reply in this thread. FYI - I went to college in America and from personnel experience I saw the GENERAL population of America show great RESPECT to those who'd served. There's that moment in "A Few Good Men" when Sam asks Joe (Demi Moore) why she liked the 2 marines they were defending. Her reply is one of the most pertinent reasons WHY people (unless proven otherwise) should respect those who serve in the military. Demi Moore's character was asked "Why do you like them so much?" Her Reply was "Because they stand on a wall and they say nothing's going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch." When did we collectively find it convenient to allow ANYONE in politics (and it happens in Australia too) to denigrate people who had served with dignity and keep the rest of us safe?
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  575. AUSTRALIAN ENGINEER HERE: You're right the problem with the entire EV situation is that NOBODY has really thought through what it will take to swap out 1.5 billion cars and 500 million trucks, because that's basically how many there are. I did my degree in Aerospace in America but have mostly worked in industrial control systems and automation for 30+ years. For over a decade a lot of my work was in manufacturing and that included projects in the automotive supply chain. One of my bosses was into car racing and one of his mechanics drove this late 60s American big block V8 gas guzzler. One day I asked him when he would upgrade and get something better? He gave me this interesting reply that I have never forgotten. He said "Because I care about the environment!" He then asked me how much energy went into manufacturing a car (any car) and the think about how many machines we worked around making bits for cars. I have since that time worked in the mining industry and the amount of energy that goes into MAKING A CAR is MORE than most cars consume in 20 years. Simon Michaux (another Australian Engineer) has been looking into how much stuff we'd need to replace 1.5 billion cars and that way we do it now would consume 2-300 years of Lithium production. Simon has a great line: Its not impossible but we need a better plan.
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  576. HOW LONG BEFORE HE DISAPPEARS? Or gets s sudden illness, or trips and falls down the stairs.
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  577.  @mafiousbj  There's a really good (but less well known) TED talk by an AI programmer from a few years ago. Its about where the training of an AI can go wrong. The talker gave an example of when they tried to get an AI to recognise fish over other marine species. After they taught it instead of recognizing fish it gave bizarre answers. When they asked it to draw a fish it drew the back of 2 human hands. When they went back and checked almost every photo they had showed the AI that it was told "this is a fish" the fish was being held up to the camera by someone. So the most common thing the AI saw in every photo that it was told "this is a fish" had the back of 2 human hands. What that speaker was highlighting was the issue of training AI neural nets with data that can be misinterpreted. There's been a few AI people speak out against the hype and they all have similar stories and all of them rail against the hype. FYI - I work in industrial control systems and have serious concerns that people in management positions will be convinced by the hype-merchants to make some really stupid decisions that we might spend a lot of time undoing.
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  578.  @ToreDL87  Sadly that is all we ever seem to see or hear about these things. A while back Mark Blyth the professor form Brown commented that the banks did things like industrialized money laundering that would send you and me to jail for a 1000 years while they just lost that years bonuses and carried on. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ The keep say-ng our world is called neo-liberalism I'd call it a modern take on feudalism, where the lords can do whatever they like as us peasants pay for it.
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  579. Well actually he has a very serious issue with this. Now I am not a lawyer and I have asked for a couple pf lawyers to clarify this, but as far as I know even retired military can be still charged under the UCMJ and face a court martial, because their oath to serve, uphold and protect the constitution doesn't expire when they retire or are discharged. Under the UCMJ he does not have 1st Amendment Protection and can be charged with Sedition AND his pardon does not cover him for this. NOTE: I'd like to hear from a real lawyer on this or law professor or at least a law student.
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  580. Don't forget all the Fox News people are millionaires paid for by billionaires to tell people that its the billionaires they need to send money to not the government who might pay for things that are actually needed or the general population wants. Secondly if its Larry Kudlow speaking then you should automatically realise that is idiotic garbage from a clown. The only reason anyone should listen to Larry - is so they know what the billionaires want to strip from the world next.
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  581. That is a great comparison to yesterdays events - well said. Whether they did or didn't steer that plane away from the capitol is nowhere near as important as the fact that they DIDN'T LET IT HAPPEN.
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  582. Go check he bio she was only a county court judge for a bit over 2 years. The rest of her career she was either into politics or was using her political stance to get elected as a DA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanine_Pirro For someone touted as this "judge" she's very light on experience, but then facts don't matter to Fox viewers so why would details?
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  583. Aerospace engineer with a PPL. Yeah same here. I think all this proves that the film "Idiocracy" wasn't a spoof its a documentary.
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  584. Its a awesome quote, but next time put in the link -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes#Early_life It only takes seconds, leaves no doubts and in the world we live in right now we need facts more than anything else.
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  585. Yeah I agree. My first impression was how FAKE this looked.
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  586. Do you mean China has become just like America where major companies know they can operate (as you call it) Moral Hazard because they know the US Government will bail them out without any accountability?
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  587. The word you might be looking for is cuckhold. Although in strictest definition it isn't but in sentiment it is.
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  588. The Murdochs have done this for generations. Ghislaine Maxwell's father was a competitor of Murdoch and she was able to keep her name (and Jeffery Epstein's) out of the media for decades. Go back and look at the Hearst family and others. Big media has always meant big power. SO WHAT'S NEW IN THIS???????????? N-O-T-H-I-N-G
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  589. Another engineer here and I agree. Bridges are NOT designed to take a hit like that. I was just watching Sam Mercoglianos YT channel "What's going on with shipping?" and he's THE BEST when it comes to shipping news. He's the sort of person others are talking to and Kyle should start showing some better judgment and simply asking guys like Sam what's happened. Couple of points Sam brought up. - The bridge was built around 1977 at a time when container ships were much smaller. - The MV Dali is a 10,000TEU ship which is less than 1/2 the size of the ship that blocked the Suez BUT its still around double the size of anything that was around when the bridge was built. I CHECKED and in 1980 (a few years after the bridge was built) the Neptune Garnet was the largest container ship in the world at 3,268 TEU less than 1/3rd the capacity of the MV Dali. As to Kyles "It looks fragile" comment, he can go jump. I wonder how many times he went over that bridge without EVER considering its structural integrity. This is one of those moments I HATE YouTubers who mouth off without any thought.
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  590. They rely on the simple concept that people like to think they are smarter than they are and if you give them information that the rest of us don't know about it REINFORCES that. This is why its so hard to convince people other wise. They then have to admit they were tricked or they were wrong or they just aren't as smart as they think they are.
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  591. I'm Australian so have an outside view on this. The single most telling single item in this fiasco was Nigel Farage running away from what he'd gotten. He was the single biggest voice that the rest of the world heard on the subject. There was that moment the day after when he declared (with some of his fans in the street) "We have our country back!" The next day he resigned and when questioned about the negotiations he said that's for others. I don't think he didn't expect to win but more importantly that showed HE HAD NO PLAN. His claim to fame was Euro bashing so that vote took away his pulpit to preach from. So he ran before he was exposed to the mess he made. SO YOU ALL KNOW Nigel Farage was recently here in Australia on a speaking tour stirring up contention. Most of all he was asking people to pay to listen to how amazing he is. I honestly don't know if Brexit was the right or wrong thing to do. What I'm certain of is that shite stirring sack of crap Nigel Farage can stay the FARK OUT OF MY COUNTRY.
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  592. As an Australian I totally agree. We knew what he was like and tried to warn the Brits when he went there and we tried to warn America when he went there. NONE OF YOU LISTENED. Our best hope is that either the Brits or the Yanks do us a favor and give him a southside send off. Southside send off? Its Chicago slang for being vanished. I went to college in America
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  593. Arguably one of the great quotes of 2020 "We have got to have enough courage and humility...... to say that particular candidate Brother Biden....His one positive virtue is was he was better than a neo-fascist gangster named Trump."
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  594. Depends which club? If its the American Chapter of NOBFAC (No Brain Function Allowed Club) then I think Dave is right at home in their club.
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  595. Yeah I am NOT impressed either. I tried tolerating this stuff for almost 1/2 an hour. I tolerated his excusing of Donald Trump's behavior only because he pointed out the most obvious thing that BOTH SIDES of the political establishment have become (as he put it) ossified. I HATED his excusing of Donald Trumps convictions for fraud. Trump made millions of dollars committing CRIMES. It doesn't matter if it was a type of crime that's rarely prosecuted Trump WAS LEGALLY CHARGED and got a FAIR TRIAL and was FOUND GUILTY. Like any other person he has the right to appeal his conviction. HOWEVER HIS LIES ABOUT THE LA FIRES IS JUST DISGUSTING I'm Australian and we have dealt with those conditions of very high hot dry winds with natural high fuel load built up from several wet years. We are even heading towards that again in the next 2-3 years.
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  596. Another Oz (Victorian) here. I got caught out of state and its cost me close to a year of my life being in limbo, but I also have been watching the numbers and we could have had it so much worse. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ I actually went to college in America on a sports scholarship - U. of Illinois. On October 28 Australia had 2 deaths and on November 30 1 death. In the same time Illinois with less than half the population (12.6 million to 25.6) had over 3000 deaths with its BEST day at only 25. On December 2 it was 266 dead. I had 4 thanksgiving holidays there and its about to escalate and then get even worse after Christmas as winter hits. I just hope that the next time I visit the states its to see friends not visit graves.
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  597.  @aprildawnsunshine4326  Sorry but your mother might have worked on spacecraft but she DID NOT WORK on what I'm talking about. This stuff was only being worked on by 1 person and his professor. As for AI solving the problem the answer is NO and it never will. The real issues with missile defense (as Joe pointed out) are NOT software but the actual mechanics involved with trying hit small objects moving at very high speeds at great distances. I have tried explaining this many times and nobody seems to listen. Its quite frustrating. As for the whole AI thing. Most of it is a giant mirage. Yes LLMs are very impressive and can seem to do some very clever things, but when you look at many of the claims made in recent years there's an awful lot of stuff that's been found to be 100% conjecture with no basis in reality. There's a journalist named Ed Zitron who's actually behaved like a journalist and looked through the hype and looked into the backgrounds of these tech bro billionaires. There's a staggering amount of outright scamming among these guys. They do startups and then hype the crap out of them. Then they sell them off to people who believe the hype and its ended in some pretty bad outcomes. I think we are headed towards the second dot-com bubble burst except this time its going to be worse. A LOT WORSE
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  598. Good summation. 👍👍
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  599. Your right. Note how Bongino isn't yelling about the truth like Hannity tries. For Bongino its all about how you stabbed Trump in the back. Trump isn't King of America and never was, but Bongino talks like he is. America was founded on a revolution to throw out the ABSOLUTE RULE of a king and his lieutenants. James Comey describe Trump as "acting like a mob boss". Look at how Bongino is talking, its like a Mob lieutenant.
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  600. I'm wondering if this is all just one giant joke like an SNL skit. I will not be surprised if he just turns around in the next few weeks and says: GOTCHA I wont be surprised if he's making a film titled "Politics: It's really this Stupid!"
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  601. As I just said to someone else. He's simply like so many of the less talented people in the entertainment industry, he's an attention seeking narcissist who thinks every time he gets attention its good.
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  602. I'm an Australian engineer (EI&C) and most of our Alumina is exported to Iceland, where they have incredible amounts of hydropower. I have actually worked on a project at was then (Rio Tino owned) Alcan Gove. Its currently shut down but that was over energy supply. The existing power station was heavy fuel oil and the wanted to swap to natural gas, which Darwin has lots of. Rio Tinto wanted the State Government to build a gas pipeline from Darwin to Gove and they got told "Do it yourselves." Rio had a dummy spit and closed it, but I can see it starting back when the prices are right. Where countries like South Africa and Australia are about to enter a golden age is the massive task of new power infrastructure around the world. FORGET the energy transition for a moment. The bigger problem is that because of the squabbling between the Greenies and Fossil Fuel clowns everybody stopped building big base load power stations in the 1990s. Every one is littered with rapidly ageing power stations. The Fossil fuel clowns thought they could play a delay game until people go so desperate that they'd have to build new coal fired power stations. The problem is there are countries who no longer have the time. Countries like Australia can't wait 7-10 years to build a coal fired power station and we need 5 power stations replaced in the next 3-5 years. YES - we have a bunch of power stations so old they are almost falling apart. When I checked around other countries its a similar story. This is what's actually causing the energy crisis. Its all these old power stations that can't keep up. So there is about to be a mad spree of power station projects across the world. To supply the raw materials needed is gonna keep several nations in business for the next 2 decades.
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  603. I'm an engineer and have been trying to point out that we just can't simply pull technology out of our collective ass. Turn switch from coal to clean energy takes time and the coal industry has done so much delaying of replacement technology we really are in a very, very bad place. I'm Australian and my first major revelation was 4 years ago when I did dippy little consult job where I had to do a Power Point for a Taiwanese outfit into Australia's future energy needs. We haven't built a major base load power station on our eastern side since 1999. Our population has gone from 20 to over 25 million in that time, because the coal industry has held up any and all development. The lack of supply has almost quadrupled our basic power costs. To get past it we need a bunch of large base load power stations and those just can't be built overnight. Even coal fire power stations can't be built fast enough to help. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  604.  @felixcosty  There's actually a really good video I saw recently that explained how QCs will break everyone's current encryption. Its got to do with the fundamental aspects of how encryption works and how QCs process data. Its a lot like how Alan Turing broke the Enigma Code by eliminating what can't work. BUT they already have a new encryption system that makes solves the problem. On his predictions. As I said its why I hate Futurists. They are always making pronouncements and predictions that NEVER come true. Its probably some form of attention seeking narcissism. I hate it because its just more distractions from things we need to do.
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  605. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and I can remember telling my friends that America could not keep going down the path it was on. The signs were subtle but if you looked you could see they were on a slippery slope. The unrestrained free-market capitalism they advocated was obviously flawed if you scratched beneath the surface. Don't get me wrong I am NOT against the free-market as its shown for mass produced goods with many suppliers, variety of options and a broad end user base its fantastic. BUT for things like this drug where there is only a single supplier (as in a monopoly) or limited supply it just doesn't work. There's an odd flaw in American society and that is they can't grasp well the idea that something that works well in one place might not work well in other places. I don't think that's unique to America or Americans but they certainly seem to do it worse than most other people or at least louder than other people.
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  606. This says a lot about the world, because this is no longer simply an American issue. In 1944 at Breton Woods 44 allied nations agreed to a new economic system to rebuild after the war that included having the US Dollar ($USD)as the World's reserve currency. Yes that agreement has been superseded by other agreements but the $USD is still the World's reserve currency. Even when nations or companies do transnational business in other currencies the World's currency markets are underpinned by the stability of the $USD. BASICALLY ALL FOREIGN TRADE rellies on the stability of the $USD. Even this crap Russia is playing where it demands payment in Rubles still depends on the currency markets functioning so that people can get Rubles to pay Putin. So if these billionaires continue to destabilise America and with it the $USD how long do you think it will before the rest of the world reacts when its threatening every nation on the planet?
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  607.  @tylerrobinson8963  And don't forget they scream and rant against free health care and supporting poor people with food. AND YET there's a person who they claim to know about and FOLLOW who handed out free health care and fed the poor, while speaking out against and confronting people who made money from religion.
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  608.  @ticarot  Here's what I already knew about Australia and Canada BEFORE I knew Peter even existed. Sorry if this is longish. Here in Australia we have had people warning us for years about our birth rate was falling. Its been hidden by a huge immigration program, which actually causes a lot of friction. Some people, like the bankers, are all for it because it provides a lot of business for them. The 450,000 immigrants each year need houses and that means home loans and home loans mean profit. They don't care if those loans are for investors or owner occupiers. More people to a banker means more profit. What the bankers don't care squat about is where the electricity, gas or water comes from. And they care even less about the waste water systems needed. All those things are somebody else's problem. In the last 20years Australia has gone from 20 to 26 million that's more than a 25% increase and yet we haven't built any new BIG bulk delivery power stations or major dams or major waste water treatment plants. We have a elephant sized infrastructure issue that nobody wants to discuss. I was in Canada 2017-18 on a waste water treatment plant project. At the same time Australia went from 20 to 25 million Canada went from 25 to 35 million. Canada is fine on energy but they have a major issue on waste water. Those extra 10 million flush toilets. That's exacerbated by their snow melt each year. It tends to overflow their waste water pond systems into the rivers. . Its the opposite to Australia. We don't have enough water (normally) and and when all the snow melts every year Canada has too much. So I am coming at these issues from an engineering perspective because its going to be engineers who have to design and build all this stuff. peter is coming at this from a demographic perspective. Yes, Peter has shortcomings on engineering, BUT IF I DON'T LISTEN to people like him I will miss parts of the conversation that are important. This is where so many engineers have failed to get the message across. They try and put everything in an engineering context and that's pretty boring to a lot of people. I ended up spending a lot of my COVID downtime listening to people like Peter and Mark Blyth who talks to a lot people about there area's of study. The world is a very complex place and if we are to solve these issues we have to be willing to listen to stuff from outside our area of expertise.
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  609. Most people have never heard of them until recently. Just like we'd never heard of the Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, CATO Institute and other right wing institutions and lobbyists until recently. America is going to need to comes to terms with these people because the influence they have on American politics is starting to effect other countries. I'm Australian and like Canada, Japan, Mexico, Britain and others, America is our major trading and security partner. These people aren't simply a threat to American Democracy they're a threat to Western Democracy.
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  610. I an Australian engineer who works in industrial control systems. I have spent some time in oil & gas industry and can recognise from the way you speak you've spent time in and around drilling crews. I'm also skeptical about the claims often made about geothermal. Its worked well in a few places where the hot rock was close to the surface. Places like California, New Zealand and Iceland. We've tried it in a number of places in Australia and its failed every time. Typically they found that after a while they just couldn't get things hot enough to create what they needed to drive turbines efficiently. Apparently they were surprised that when you start removing thermal energy that things get cooler.
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  611.  @ShombayChase  But don't you know Fox want it both ways. Maybe that's what Hannity, Carlson, et. al. should be asked "Are they Bi - since they all demand it both ways."
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  612. @user-fv4nb3is3c Right now I can't see why we are making even stronger commitments to America when its in this state of flux. I actually went to college there on a scholarship and believe that overall they are a great country with fine people. The problem is they have sat back letting this minority gain a staggering amount of political power. They have had so many opportunities to put limits on this stuff and just didn't. They have let a small group of insanely wealthy people have too much power and that has never worked at any point in history. AND YES I know Rupert bloody Murdoch has been a major player in that. At some point we are going to have to deal with that entire family and their minions.
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  613. I absolutely agree with you. Peter needs a lot better advice on engineering subjects than he's been getting. I did a degree in aerospace but work in industrial control systems (PLCs & DCS) and automation. I'm also certified in functional safety. I haven't done a lot of oil & gas as I mostly work in mining and water treatment these days, BUT what you have said makes absolute sense. I do a lot of risk assessment work and identifying key items is part of that. I don't know the exact items you are describing, because my time has been limited to gas plants but I know that things like oil refineries do not like being shut down and can be a monster task to get re-started. In my Functional Safety course we covered the Piper Alpha accident and that type of offshore platform normally takes a month to restart after an emergency shut-down. Its not the only area where shutdowns can be difficult to handle. I have been saying similar things about energy grids in recent years. These are big complex systems and if the wrong thing goes down the entire system goes down and doesn't come back easily. Water treatment plants can take days to get stabilised, in the meantime you just pump water from nowhere to nowhere.
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  614.  @lurx2024  YES - its all variations of the same theme. Interesting side note: Penn Gillette the magician recently turned his back on the Libertarians. I don't know why but for years he'd been a staunch Libertarian and was involved with the CATO Institute. For years his friends had told him that Libertarians were just a bunch of selfish old white guys who didn't like being told they could NOT do as they liked. I don't know what changed his mind but a couple of months ago he admitted his friends were right and turned his back on the Libertarians and CATO Institute.
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  615. Good that somebody pointed that out. An amazing number of the YouTube and social media brigade are in it to make a living. They all sell merch and they all promote it. In politics they target a particular audience (left, right, whatever) and will say whatever it takes to keep that audience PAYING or via YouTube earning money.
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  616. 3 days after your comment and we have to wonder why people like her have been ignored and ignored and ignored .............. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  617. The real problem is the hypocrisy of the right wing of politics. For sure the far radical left have stupidity in abundance, but the right have this incredible hypocrisy. The moment they can they impose their rules and values on others. Look at what has just happened in Texas. Look at how the gun lobby defend their interpretation of the 2nd. They demand governments prevent unsafe people (criminals, mentally ill,... etc.) owning guns and then they prevent those governments doing background checks. I just argued the other day with a clown over the right to have a political candidate review an election count. When I reminded him of how SCOTUS intervened and STOPPED the Florida in 2000 he went nuts. This is the biggest issue with tribal politics facts don't matter, rules don't matter, laws don't matter only what the tribe wants matters.
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  618. That's not just a question for America its a question for every Western Democracy, because every Western Democracy has its populists. This is Prof Mark Blyth (Brown U.) on Global Trumpism. Yes its long but also worth it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0 Its from July 2020 and the Q&A is incredibly insightful because of how accurate it was.
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  619.  @michaels9666  That's a good point and its the main part of another thread above this one started by "Mr. Gaudy" where he brings up the same point with Caitlyn Jenner. How do these people not see what's so obvious? America's political right is also very fundamentalist Christian and that goes all the way back to the Reagan era. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  620. Its what EVERY COUNTRY that's had to fight a major war does. Go and look at what the Brits and Americans did in WW2 - we still have the films and posters that plastered the streets with. Just the other day I heard somebody make references to Rosie the Riveter which was part of a campaign getting women to help build the bombers, ships and other stuff in WW2.
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  621. One of my favorite quotes over the past few years. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Although its aimed primarily at America it does apply to EVERY other nation to some extent. I'm Australian and we have these sorts of people too. We can easily swap out United States and put in Australia and it would work just as well. I was in Canada for work a couple of years ago and they have them as well. We know the Brits fairly well and they have no shortage of them. The still keep sending them to Australia. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Go look at any international news broadcast and you'll quickly realise everyone has these people. What's different about America is how many of them speak in front of a microphone no matter how stupid they sound or look.
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  622. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Sorry to say JUST LIKE EVERY SOCIETY we have people like this too. The smug smile on his face gives away what sort of person he is. Think about the sidekick of the schoolyard bully. NOT the actual bully but his sidekick. This is typical of the COWARD who stands behind the bully or thinks the bully has his back and he can get away with what ever he likes. Listen to his argument about having the right to stand there and harass another person while having that smug smile. That is the behavior of the schoolyard bully's sidekick.
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  623. What do you expect from her kind? Remember when Hilary was still blaming Bernie Sanders almost 4 years after she blew here own campaign. This is just another display of self entitled politicians demonstrating how disconnected they are.
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  624.  @PRiMETECHAU  Actually we have been doing that in Australia too. I'm an aerospace engineer and some of our recent military spending has had ZERO OVERSIGHT and much of it is horrendously overblown. Most people now know the sub deal with the French was a monster cockup of staggering proportions, but several recent purchases are also equally stupid but for less money. The upgrade in naval facilities in Perth, the new sub base on the East coast and the new tanks for the army are 3 of the worst engineering decisions I have ever seen and I have seen some doozies in my time. Watch that space because I intend to HELP rattle that cage. Its not that I am against those purchases its the amounts that I know are wrong.
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  625. I'm Australian and we have a similar problem here with our main river system the Murray-Darling. Because it travels through 4 different states and each of those states regulates its own water resources they don't have to care about the downstream states. We even dammed another river (the Snowy) which had the highest flow of any river in our country to generate electricity and provide for irrigation. 90% of it now flows into the Murray which doubled the Murray's flow. The Murray which eventually connects with the Darling (our longest river) no longer even reaches the ocean. So we took our biggest river system then doubled its flow and now it fails to reach the ocean. DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? Go look what the Americans have down with the Colorado River system or look at what's happening with the ground water systems in California and Nebraska. DOES IT SOUND FAMILIAR? What the Soviets did to the Aral Sea was idiotic. What we and others are also doing is just as idiotic. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  626.  @freespam9236  As I just pointed out to another person making the same claim about British Columbia if we are gong to take a couple of Trillion tons of CO2 out of the Atmosphere we need to be thinking about planting 100s of BILLIONS of trees not 10s of Millions. We need something like every human on the planet planting 1,000 trees. That's 8 Trillion trees and if about 1 in ten reaches adult size then we'd have 800 Billion adult trees each taking a couple of tons of CO2 out of the air and capturing it as wood fibre. Millions of trees wont do the job and a few Billion wont either. We need to be thinking in terms of 100s of BILLIONS to do the job.
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  627. Actually that 2.5% is far more important than Farron has played it. More and more often elections are being won by smaller and smaller margins. Not necessarily in individual seats where there's a clear advantage, but across the broader spectrum. People like Mark Blyth and others have been commenting on this recently. Further 2.5% is the sort of number that decides POTUS these days. North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Nevada were all decided by less than 2.5% With Michigan being 2.78% So Trumps bark is more like a rattle snake bite. There's lots of noise intended to scare and a poisonous bite. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  628. I'm an Australian engineer. I did my degree in America (aerospace) and for the many year s worked across Australia's manufacturing sector doing control systems, automation and robotics. You have just described the majority of manufacturing companies in Australia. Its why so many manufacturing companies across North America, Australia and parts of Europe have failed. Idiots with degrees in economics thinking they actually know how to run companies being in charge and cutting costs at every chance. Look at what happened at Boeing and to a large extent is still happening at Boeing.
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  629. Go look around YouTube America has lots of EVERYTHING. Its what you have form being physically a damn big country. I recently saw a video on Lithium and they had showed there's some massive deposits in Montana (I think?) The issues are can these reserves be mined without doing more damage than is acceptable and sadly when it comes to NOT GIVING A DAMN about screwing up the local landscape American corporations are among the worst in the world. Don't take that the wrong way. I'm Australian and we are almost as bad and at times certainly worse.
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  630. Stalin (reputedly) said “a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic” At some point the number of dead Palestinian children, which is now over 12,000, became a statistic. We can talk about the other deaths but those 12,000+ includes many young children and we can simply ask "What crime did they commit to deserve a death sentence before they even had a chance to do anything in life?"
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  631. Because he's just like so many other politicians across the entire western world. They are incredibly good at playing the "I'm so reasonable and practical and have our best interests at hand" card. Look at how he speaks and his general mannerisms. All calm, control, reason and practicality while at the same time he's being insanely hypocritical. Openly with the mouth -> "we can't blackmail others or hold them hostage" In silence -> "I am going hold you hostage and choke you to death." Its what Kyle tries to explain and does decent job of. What he misses is this is how Western Democratic politics works everywhere. Its just in some cases the do it right out in the open like this. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. What I watch here about America I can look over my shoulder and see the same shite right here. I was in Canada a couple of years ago for work and saw the same stuff there. If I watch the British or European news same shite different accent.
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  632. Way too many people title videos with words like "destroys" this is one of the very few times a video might have earned that word in the title.
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  633. Circa 2010 professor Robert McChesney (U. Illinois) was in Australia (where I am). I saw the second 2/3 of a lecture he gave on Australian TV about the state of the media. He was prominent in the 2004 documentary "Outfoxed" about Rupert Murdoch's war on journalism. He spoke about a huge swap in the ratio of journalists and public relations (PR) that happened between the 1950s and early 2000s through commercialisation. The numbers of PR massively increased while the number of journalists collapsed and the ratio flipped from 5 :1 to 1:5. Journalists who used to gather information through research (investigations & interviews) went to people who just gathered what the PR people gave them and pump out the stories. Fact checking became a waste of time compared to the demands for pumping out the next story. People like Matt Ferrell and many others are just channels for PR people to push what their bosses want pumped into the airwaves. This is exactly the sort of stuff people like Robert McChesney were trying to warn the world about when they made "Outfoxed."
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  634.  @Anarcho-harambeism  Well you cant even spell e-a-g-l-e right so WTF are you talking about?
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  635. Australian here - From an outside perspective Karine Jean-Pierre has to be the single WORST White House Press Secretary of recent decades. From the outside looking in the list of the Trump list of Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kayleigh McEnany were just awful people. They were just straight up LIARS but at least were competent liars who lied convincingly. Jen Psaki was also very good at the spin game and also accused of lying, but she also did it with competence. BUT Karine Jean-Pierre is just straight up incompetent. AFTER THE FACT that Netanyahu stabbed Biden and the Democrats in the back regarding the election Biden should simply throw Netanyahu and couple of others under the bus and leave Trump a mess to deal with. On top of that if Biden really wants to stick it to Trump then Biden should pardon all of the January 6th Rioters. Yes it sounds crazy but leaving them in prison after the election is just moot. Garland FAILED AT HIS JOB and the one person who should have been in jail s now about to become President again. So if Biden pardons them all it makes NO DIFFERENCE except for one small detail. Trump doesn't get to do it. Trump doesn't get to stand there and tell his base he did it.
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  636. Then why is she being SO STUPID. The election is over, its been checked, re-checked, audited AND CERTIFIED. ITS OVER. ITS DONE. ITS FINSIHED. TRUMP LOST so you Sidney Powell and all the other clowns can just GET OVER IT.
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  637.  @jaymorgan7728  No he's not Mr Burns is a cartoon character who we can laugh at. There is nothing cartoonish about Rupert Murdoch and there is nothing funny about what he does. However if you are talking about a sociopathic narcissistic cretinous monster who we would all like to see his heart stop if he had one, then yeah maybe there's some similarity.
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  638. @user-rn7hv7of1b In what fashion are you asking? Other than the fact he's never been involved in politics other than doing a film about a Scottish rebel, what's Mel Gibson done that's anything like what Carter did?
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  639. It was the Capital not the WH (Whitehouse) where the insurrection happened although there were crimes of sedition happening and the WH too.
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  640. NBN started at $20B then went to $30B and has so far cost $51B but is sitting on a $1B contingency. Then there's the issue that chunks of it are now heading toward obsolescence and will need replacing. Then there's the 5G networks and who is going to END UP PAYING for that. The guy in Charge of Telstra's 5G roll out claimed it was "game changer" the catch cry of the technology scammer. He claimed people would be able to download a 2 hr high def movie in 10 seconds to their phone. Funny how nobody actually asked him "Who actually needs that?" Just like somebody should have asked Elon about Starlink "Who actually needs it?" Just like somebody should have asked Suckerberg about Meta "Who actually needs it?" I am an engineer and there's a lot of technology sold for no other reason than to wow people who are too stupid to realise they are being techno scammed.
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  641. You watch the sleaze bag lawyers will drag it out with delays for years. It wont see a judgement this decade.
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  642. Republicanism is now the world standard for hypocrisy. They howl and scream about culture wars and yet they throw culture bombs incessantly. They scream about freedom and democracy as they strip other people of their freedom and democracy.
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  643. He was interviewed on Australian television and they lacerated his attitude. He describe himself as a "provocateur" and basically got laughed at. His complete lack of anything resembling substance was there for anyone to see. He was a joke BEFORE he got banned. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  644. Australian here: We are also getting Tomahawks for our navy and for BOTH surface vessel and submarine launching. As well as that we have placed an order for 20 HIMARS Systems As well as HIMARS we are participating in the PrSM development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Strike_Missile Its also rumored we are first inline for the B21 that was just unveiled.
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  645. I watched the whole lot as well, but I had to stop a couple of times because of the frustration. I honestly don't know how David does it. I suspect he's got a couple of very good researchers. I know he has that one assistant who steps in for him at times., but I suspect a couple of others who actually know how to dig up facts. Pakman isn't perfect and I have seen him get a few things wrong, but he's very sharp on most things.
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  646. E-X-A-C-T-L-Y And its the one British thing us Australians wished we had NOT followed and done just as stupidly. You'll love this. I'm an engineer whose looking into to economics so I can explain what we have done to our manufacturing, mining, energy, water and agricultural sectors. It started after O got a weird little consulting job into our energy sector. I got the shock of my life from it and when I looked around EVERYONE ELSE was also doing stupid things in their energy sectors. Like you we are currently harping on about nuclear power, which I think we do need but nowhere near as much as you guys because we have the land. Our problem is the distances between where we live an where its sunny and windy. BUT HERE'S the foreign investment scam. Like all investments foreign investment operates on a 1 in 2 out concept. You see when you invest $1 and then get $1 back all you have done is break even. You need to get another $1 to make profit and investment is about profit. In fact many long term investments are more like 1 in 3 out or 1 in 4 out and if they are really good that number is even bigger. Now the French like everyone else needs to build new power stations because their old ones ARE OLD and need replacing. What's a good way to pay for Mr. Macrons 6 new reactors? Get you Brits to pay for them. That's how. When EDF the French Government owned mega corp invests in Hinkley Point C because you genius economists (other than people like Gary) said YES let the French pay for it. BUT ITS AN INVESTMENT and those frogs will take back more money than they spent and USE THAT to build the NEW French Reactors. Why are they (your elites) doing it? 1) Because its what they have been doing for 40+ years without anyone challenging it, and 2) Because they will make a SHlT TON of money. As every dollar comes into Britain Gary's old banking mates will charge transfer fees and as every dollar leaves they will again charge transfer fees. So YES they will make a SHlT TON of money. Sorry to use dollars - its habit. And analysis like that is what I get from listening to people like Gary. Sorry to bust your nuts, but we are also wanting trying real hard to be just as stupid down here.
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  647. I remember reading many years ago (yes in some paces reading is still allowed) that of a list of 100 people most responsible for mass casualties from their actions, decrees or instructions. That list was topped by people Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Genghis Khan... etc but out of 100 included around 80 Popes. The point of that study made was that the Catholic church either organised, approved or were directly involved in staggering numbers of wars like the crusades, 100 years war, 30 years war..... Plus there were people like the Borgias (who were Spanish) and Cardinal Richelieu in France. Then there were the Inquisitions where they burned people alive who questioned the Church's authority. Then there were crusades like the Albigensian Crusade in what is now southern France that had nothing to do with the Holy Lands. PLUS we have also forgotten the Catholic Church's role in helping Hitler get into power in the first place. If you don't know about that go and look up Franz von Papen.
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  648. How do you think the rest of the world feels about a country with enough nukes to fry the planet a few hundred times, that has 74million of these clowns who still think Trump is the Messiah.
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  649.  @davidoran123  It was actually put up by someone else on another thread about 2 years ago. Asimov's one of my favorite authors so I use it a lot and I have seen many others in recent months use it a lot. I think it would be pretty easy to swap out America and sub in almost any country on the planet. The levels of ignorance might change but its there in every country to see.
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  650. Asimov fan here - I love that quote. Isaac was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. I would have like to have met him. Here's another great quote regarding America from Vice President Henry A. Wallace. quoted from the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  651. Australian here and I would say that others were more educated like Obama (Harvard) and Clinton (yale) who both had law degrees, but where Carter had them all beat was HONESTY and his willingness to HELP. He wasn't perfect and made mistakes but his diplomatic work AFTER being president has been well regarded around the world. By contrast NONE of the other presidents come close in their post presidency work. In fact the hardest thing is to compare the post-presidency work of others to him because the others have done almost NOTHING except charge lots of money to give talks and that includes the work of Nobel Peace prize winner Barrack Obama. Carter did all sorts of stuff and seemed willing to do what ever was asked of him. What have any of the others done as in diplomatic work or charity work or just anything other than make money?
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  652. TO ALL: The graph David shows is here -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/ Just above the graph David shows is the cumulative graph. If you put your mouse on the ORANGE line you can see the cumulative number day by day ON March 2, 2021 the Texas Death toll for COVID-19 was 44,474 ON April 2, 20021 the Texas Death toll for COVID-19 was 48,850 an increase of 4,376 ON May 2, 2021 the Texas Death toll for COVID-19 was 50,567 an increase of 1,717 As of May 31 the Texas Death toll for COVID-19 is 51,727 with 12 more Texans dying yesterday. The sources for that data include the Texas Department of State Health Services. There might be Republicans who believe in science but Lauren Boebert DOESN'T BELIEVE IN MATH
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  653. Your part right, it wasn't just those films its the whole Hollywood romanticising guns issue. Think about the American films on War. Irrespective of whether it was the War of Independence, the Indian Wars, the cowboy land wars, the 1st or 2nd World Wars Hollywood has been 1 giant propaganda machine promoting the "Good guy (or girl) with a gun" fantasy. How many people did John Wayne kill on film? I honestly don't know but I'd bet its in the 100s if not over 1000. Arnie Swartz once commented (as a joke) at the premier of one of his films "We toned down this film. We only killed 250." or words to that effect.
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  654. As an Australian I love some of what Palki's saying here and she' spot on with most points but she has made a fairly major mistake. France was NEVER building nuclear submarines for Australia. We were going to build conventional versions of the Barracuda class (called the Shortfin Barracuda) here in Australia (which we called the Attack class) with a lot of components made in France. At one point during that process NAVAL Group (DCNS) did offer nuclear powered Barracuda's but that was rejected. The single biggest problem with that project were the costs which were spiraling out of control. Another thing she also skips over is that NAVAL Group already make conventional submarines called the Kalvari class based on the French Scorpene submarine. So this deal is a natural progression for France and India. Maybe the AUKUS fiasco has sped things up.
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  655. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE - AND YET AGAIN Peter has shown his ignorance in engineering topics. I work in industrial control systems and in 2005-06 I did a water treatment plant at the ERA Ranger Uranium Mine in Australia. As part of that we did an induction course in the nuclear fuel cycle and it covered everything from in the ground to back in the ground. This was at a time when the Americans were kicking up a storm over Iran's nuclear program which they claimed was for domestic power production. When we asked the instructor what was going on he simply asked us to look at what he had just told regarding enrichment and the different grades produced. He had told us regarding gas centrifuges that for fuel grade uranium (3-5% U235) you needed 5,000-10,000; and for military grade fuel (8-19% U235) (like that used in submarines) you needed around 20,000; and for weapons grade (>80%) you needed 40,000 or more AND WE KNEW THE IRANIANS HAD 55,000 YES I KNOW that you can make bombs with less than 80% but they don't work reliably. Go and read about the yields of early A-bombs. When we asked how anyone could know how many gas centrifuges they had he simply said "they bought that many motors to drive them." Gas centrifuges have to spin quite fast and not even the servo motors used in robots go that fast so they use what are called spindle drives. These are the high speed motors commonly found in CNC spindles, hence the name spindle drive. So they are not classified technology but it gets noticed when somebody buys lots of them. The Iranians DO NOT have a CNC machine tool industry so when they bought enough motors and drives to operate 55,000 gas centrifuges everyone across the World's nuclear industry knew EXACTLY what they were doing. It was NOT a civilian power program. ALSO - It is simply not possible for ANYONE to to extend a fuel grade production plant into a weapons grade production plant in a few weeks that sort of thing takes months just to plan let alone execute. NONE of the countries Peter mentioned have WEAPONS GRADE fissile material and NO spent fuel rods are NOT weapons grade unless you are talking about a dirty bomb. There's a major difference between having fissile material and weapons grade fissile material. That's the sort of thing high school kids can understand.
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  656. On the losing front do you know that people from her campaign went on and helped Australian Labour lose an election they should have won and then went on and helped British Labour to a disaster. I'm Australian and found that out from a Brit when I asked why British Labour ran a similar campaign to Australian Labour's losing campaign that had hints of Hilary's campaign. Their answer was all 3 campaigns had the same strategists involved. Think about what the DNC machine did to more recent campaigns like Andrew Yang's run for NY mayor? 1 question in the street and it was OVER. Why was that question even asked and why was he so badly advised and prepared? Look at Nina Turners run in Ohio and how nasty that got? FYI - I went to college in America and I hate what both parties are doing to the place.
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  657. A couple of people have pointed that he might not be well. He's always appeared as calm and in control, but the other day he was holding a page and his hands were twitching and trembling. Its wasn't major but it was noticeable.
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  658. Like is anyone actually surprised by this. Trump doesn't believe in most of the Bill of Rights. On the 1st - He only believes his speech should be free and others should shut up. On the 2nd - Its fundamentally about public safety and the right to protect yourself and he's advocated beating people up at his rallies. On the 3rd - He violated the city of Portland's 3rd amendment rights by placing uninvited troops onto the streets. On the 4th - He had those UNIDENTIFEDABLE officers grab people off the streets of Portland without reading them their rights into unmarked vans. And lets not forget that he signed the Bill that lets the FBI, NSA, CIA...etc. track your internet usage without a search warrant making all the stuff Snowden blew the whistle on now legal. On the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th - When has he shown any consideration to the rule of Law or due process? He just broke with 130 years of NOT executing prisoners (2 so far) during a transition and letting the next President handle it. At the same time he just Pardoned 4 mass murdering mercenaries who work for the brother of his Education Secretary who doesn't believe in public education. On the 10th - How did he treat the state of Oregon again and how has he treated the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania and their right hold elections how they want???? FYI - I'm Australian and know this stuff. How did 74million Americans just vote for a guy who clearly doesn't? ✋😲🤚
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  659. Yeah I'm an aerospace engineer and this shite is getting sadder and sadder as time goes by. I was doing my degree when Challenger happened and when the debacle that was Space Station Freedom went on. Most people don't know that the original budget was $20 Billion. When that was considered too much it was redesigned and the number came back at $30 Billion. When that was considered too much it was redesigned and the number came back at $40 Billion. Then we got the ISS for about $120Billion. I bet you have similar stories and as usual we have to put up with clowns like these causing all sorts of distractions.
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  660. Get real the Olympics were made shameful decades ago when they never clamped down on doping among the East Germans, Russian and AMERICANS. Track and field has been rife with doping. You're forgetting the Sydney Olympics and the American track & field team who had 1/2 the team only there by court orders suppressing failed tests. Then came the BALCO controversy when we found out even more of them were on stuff nobody even knew existed.. Everyone is also forgetting what the Chinese Swimmers got up to at the Barcelona Olympics which involved a massive cover-up orchestrated by FINA and the IOC. I'm Australian and ex-swimmer who went to college in America. One of my American friends was cheated out of a Gold Medal in Barcelona. We all knew what they were doing and we worked out how it was covered up. The Olympics have had ugly politics going back decades. Go back and check the Berlin Games, when Hitler tried to make it into the Aryan Games.
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  661. I'm Australian but went to college in America (Late 80s U.Illinois) That's a fantastic assessment. Liberals (in the American context of Liberal) OVERTHINK too many things and this is common across the entire developed world. JUST YESTERDAY the state I live in Queensland, which is similar to Texas in terms of attitude Labor (our Left) who were in power LOST to the conservative LNP. Yet again they lost an easily winnable election to the conservative LNP. The LNP ran a shitty narcissistic "scare the old people" campaign about "out of control youth crime" and the Left offered nothing to counter the barrage of scare tactics. I think you are dead right the Dems need to slam Trump with 1 major simple direct thing and just hammer it home. He's what I would suggest: The original Roe-V-Wade was (in part) won on the basic principle of the 4th Amendment and that medical records are private between patient and doctor. So paint it that this is a simple fight for the protection of your medical records. Make it really simple if you vote for Trump you lose your privacy rights to your medical records. Let me know what you think of that.
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  662. Good I'm not the only Aussie watching Kyle. Good points all round, I just watched Saggar Enjeti over on Breaking points make a mess of this. Kyle even makes a pretty bad mistake at 6:15 when he says Sky News doesn't have the connections. They are part of the Murdoch Empire and they certainly have the connections. What he and Sagaar both screwed up is that Alan Jones was forced by Sky Management to correct himself on air. That's the first time I have ever seen Alan jones apologize for anything. For the Americans Alan Jones is our equivalent of Sean Hannity and he NEVER APOLOGIZES. The other thing they both missed was that one of the others banned by both Twitter and YouTube is a sitting member of our Parliament Craig Kelly. He's the equivalent of a Congressman in the House. He's a far far far right winger who has been in trouble several times over recent years for climate change denial and other conspiracies. He'd be right at home as Australia's US Ambassador if Trump wins in 2024. For anyone else watching we have a program called Media Watch. Its on Australian ABC our equivalent of PBS so don't be confused by the ABC it has nothing to do with the American ABC. Here's their report on this starting at 3:21 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPgDf8RFR0 This is the original story presented 2 weeks ago starting at 3:29 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df1Fnw2M6f4
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  663. That's because she's hiding in one of the following places: - a very small hole about 6feet down. - in a small submarine made of cement. - Brick top's pig farm (see the film Snatch for an explanation).
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  664. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I love the people and the country but this garbage wrecking the place and it needs to stop. As an Australian I feel ashamed that an Australian (Rupert Murdoch) is in the middle of this. He just has his people pump out this endless stream of complete crap. And this is not just wrecking America its wrecking democracy across the world.
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  665. Its technically impossible for Rudy Giuliani to fart - his mouth is never closed long enough to build up the back pressure.
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  666. Look at the expressions on his face. He's either a narcissist or a sociopath whop gets off on this stuff. 'The whole saw him raise his fist on Jan 6th and goad that crowd on. He just said a real man takes responsibility so what has he claimed about Jan 6th.
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  667. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship (late 80s). In those years I got to see some of the best in America and the American people. The earliest I can remember the USA chant was "the Miracle on Ice" hockey match. That sorts of highlights the change that's happened. At that time it was sort "our nation has achieved something" and America has had a lot of achievements to be proud of. Landing on the moon, the Olympics, film, television, music, arts. The American College sports system is incredible - I know I was a part of it. I was sort of fortunate in that all my frat brothers, classmates and teammates had all done civics in high school. They gave me a sort of hands on education about the Constitution. They had pride in the Constitution but it was pride born from education and understanding. I have asked about it and apparently during the Bush years civics education was defunded. These people in these videos and this stuff they scream and rant about is just ignorant garbage and it nothing to be proud of or chant about. FYI - Yes we have people this ignorant and this stupid in Australia as well.
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  668. Since you bring up sci-fi here's one of my favourites. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” - Isaac Asimov (edit) but to be fair there's similar cults in every nation.
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  669.  @Femaiden  I think you'll find history is littered with people who were once convicted (some justly and others unjustly) and then eventually lead their country. Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar comes to mind. Then there's people like Imran Khan in Pakistan. I'm not certain but I think the British might have seen George Washington as a criminal too. So please tell us which one you are referring to.
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  670. AUSTRALIAN HERE with an outside observation. FIRST - I think your sentiments like others (and I can repeat this to those others) is spot on. I actually went to college in America and I can barely believe what this court has done. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and on many occasions they explained to me how the America system is supposed to work. This decision is nothing like anything they ever explained to me. SECOND - this is obviously a massive deal to the American people, but its also a massive deal to Australia as well as every other country America deals with including places like Russia, Iran, North Korea,.... etc. For countries like Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea,.... America is our most important trading partner and our most important security partner. So its DOUBLY important that the person we have to deal with YOUR PRESIDENT is a reliable person. For everyone else there's the simple facts that America has nuclear weapons, is 1/4 of the worlds economy and the US Dollar (US$) is the worlds reserve currency. Do any of you realise that almost all international trade is either done directly in US$ or the currency exchanges are backed by US$? That's the real power America has in the world and for most of the last 75 years it has worked brilliantly and we have all benefitted except for those few times when America did something stupid like you did with the 2007-08 GFC and we all suffered. So its incredibly important to the rest of the world that POTUS is a RELIABLE and RESPONSIBLE person who is CONSTRAINED by LAW. P.S. I really do care about America. I had a great time there at college and want to see you back at your best.
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  671. WHY NOT - Have you all forgotten what the American's did to Nordstream. That was $US20 Billion worth of damage and cut Europe off from cheap energy. It made it really easy for American companies to be competitive with shipping LNG to Europe.
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  672. Never forget the most important fact of a Fox viewer - "We don't care. We believe what Sean, Tucker, Laura, Jeanine and all the others say." I'm Australian, we tried warning the Brits what Murdoch was like when he went there and we tried warning America - nobody listened.
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  673. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. I was actually there during 1 campaign season and thought that was bonkers, but this stuff is out over the cliff edge. Right now America is barely recognizable as a functioning state. Other than the mass shooting events there's all the other issues that affect the entire world (climate change, education costs, trade,...) and a malfunctioning America doesn't help anyone. We don't even know how to describe the Feinstein situation or the Pelosi link to it. And that's all before we get to Trumplestein, Elon or the AI bots you guys have released on the world. And so you all know its NOT YOU and the other 90% of Americans I'm talking about. Its the 10% or so at the top who are just driving the entire planet nuts.
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  674. As an engineer with over 30+ years in automation that definition (if it even exists) has nothing to do with what what industry does. I have worked with Kuka, Fanuc and Adept robotics and I have NEVER SEEN or HEARD ANYONE in general industry talk about a definition of "intelligent robots requiring at least 5-axis." But then this is one of the things people who ACTUALLY DO OR who HAVE worked in INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS hate about all the bullshite artists who make claims about various technologies like "humanoid robots" and "automation" and what it will do in future. Most of its not even remotely close to wild speculation and is closer to flat earth claims than science. A lot of technology stories we see or hear in the media are PR exercises trying to raise money. I can tell you its very frustrating to be an engineer these days. There are some way more important things than Elon's robot and driverless car fantasies. First of the rank is new power stations closely followed by clean water and waster water systems. Its not simply a matter of an energy transition its mostly NOBODY has kept upgrading their energy and water systems to match population growth these past 30-40 years. The expenditures in those areas are in the TRILLIONS. That's TRILLIONS with a 'T' and an 'S' on the end because its more than 1, in fact its in the double digit and maybe triple digit range. It all depends in how the next version of modern capitalist economics handles the task.
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  675. Its American Right Wing Libertarianism logic at its finest. "We demand the liberty to strip you of your liberty!" "We want small government with no regulations on us, so that we can force our regulations on everyone else."
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  676.  @Seriouslydave  Yeah kind of but there's a difference. When right wingers get government money its a payment for providing services to society. When anyone else gets government money its socialism.
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  677.  @steffenbach3580  I have not said they are as corrupt as the Republicans (go back and read what I said), but you'd have to be blind and stupid to think they are truthful, innocent and sweet as sugar. Without any doubt the Republicans are (as recently described) "a ruthlessly cynical political actor." Mitch McConnell's view is "when we are in power we are allowed to do anything we like but when we are not in power we must interfere, obstruct and impede every aspect of the elected government." That's actually starting to permeate into every other democracy in the world. Its certainly more prevalent with right wing parties but that does not mean centrist and left wing parties don't get up to stuff as well. The staggering amount of money in politics from the billionaire class is beginning to paralyze nations. Every nation has issues - that's a simple reality, but we nobody's getting on and solving any of the major issues like water supply, energy supply, climate change or displaced people because the billionaire class have simply funded massive blocking campaigns. They are doing the same as big tobacco did for decades. If its not in their interests they start blocking campaigns funded via think tanks, political donations and the media. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  678. That's blunt but about how I feel. Like David we shouldn't take pleasure, but we shouldn't waste an ounce of sympathy when there are those who have genuinely been hurt.
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  679. There's a YES and NO on that because its not just the USN but Brits and French and Russians too. There's a significant distinction between what technology in the reactors used in navies and what these companies were proposing and that was the fuel pellets. The CURRENT reactors in submarines and aircraft carriers (which are the same units) use fuel pellets (the small lumps inside the fuel rods) the same way they do for normal power reactors. That's because most of the American and British power reactors which are PWRs (pressure water reactors) were developed from the early submarine reactors. The new SMRS were going to use Highly Enriched Uranium but in lumps the size of a grain of sand and encased in ceramics. So instead of a stacks of long thin rods that got hot enough to create super-heated steam there would be these round balls that got hot enough to create superheated steam and once finished and the Uranium was burnt off it would already be packed wrapped in ceramics ready for burial.
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  680. I'm Australian but went to college in America (U. of Illinois). In 1984 spent my first thanksgiving in Bardstown Kentucky. My friends worked at Makers Mark and I actually got a taste of raw Makers Mark from the cask. I have nothing but nice things to say about Kentucky. Beautiful place and friendly people. I was back there for work in 99 and caught up with the friend I spent that thanksgiving with. It staggers me that for such an awesome place Kentucky has some of the worst politicians on the planet.
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  681.  @felixisaac  I'm trying to help make the agricultural sector produce more food though better land management. So far I keep hitting walls of ignorance. WTF are you doing?
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  682. All she has done since losing to Trump is prove she was never good enough in the first place. That's a sad, sad truth - she was never good enough in the first place.
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  683.  @shrubsangry  And you have just described 99% of the people who produce political and social commentaries on YouTube.
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  684.  @tolep  Your right but it goes to family behavior at the American Elitist level. She got into Stanford and that's not easy. Stanford is regarded in a few places as the West Coast Ivy. It incredibly elitist in its way. Ans going further American elitism is really starting to take its toll. America was started (at least on paper) as a place where there was no elitist cadre running everything, despite that fact from its outset it was run by an elitist cadre. I picked up the other day on a thread about the Federalist Society and someone advise to do a bit of background of who they are and what they push. Basically its a group from Yale and Harvard who believe that only they can adjudicate on the Constitution and they have to protect America from the rest of the scum. Elizabeth Holmes is just another Ivanka Trump type from a privileged background who thought the rules and common sense didn't apply to her.
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  685. I'm an engineer so I see things from an engineering perspective. In software we talk about multi-tasking. Have a listen to that last piece and listen for how many guitars it sounds like are present. Tommy multi-tasks and an extraordinary level, does it in real time responding to the other guitarist and makes it look effortless. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  686. Lindsey Graham (on twitter) "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it." 7:03 am · 4 May 2016 That's the exact time and date because its still there copy & paste, like I just did.
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  687. The odd thing about Michael Knowles is that he wasn't like this nuts a year ago. David Pakman interviewed/debated him last year and there has been a significant change in his rhetoric. Although they disagreed on a lot of things they still had a reasonable conversation. Yes they disagreed, yes it got energetic, but Michael Knowles didn't voice this sort of stuff. Of note - that interview was BEFORE he joined the Daily Wire and became another Matt Walsh's anti-woke warriors.
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  688. He doesn't simply know the comprehension of his voters he knows what motivates them. I you look at Trumps career and note his time with pro-wrestling. Look at his rallies and they are the same thing. At pro-wrestling you have people operating in a fantasy environment where you hope your hero wins. EVEN THOUGH EVERYONE KNOWS ITS FAKE, that audience wants to believe its real (at least at some level). Trump is simply using that same narrative with the same audience and HE KNOWS they want to believe the fantasy - so he fuels it. How you beat people who WANT to believe in that sort of fantasy - who knows????? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  689. That has nothing to do with overall operations. Michael Sheetz (CNBC) sums it up best right near the end of the video. "Virgin Orbit's legacy within the space industry is a story that's too often told where there are exciting or even innovative new technologies. But that does not make necessarily for a smart or financially sound business." That's not just true of space but the wider technology sphere. Look at how many wonder technologies have been in the news over the last 25 years and nothing come from any of them. There's a meme that "99% of general startups fail." If there was a meme for aerospace it would be "99.9% of aerospace startups fail while the other .1% has juicy military contracts for stuff that doesn't work."
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  690. Everyone needs to shut and let the Trumpsters talk and talk and talk. Let them say what they like. Sooner or later one of them is going to say or do something truly stupid (they can't help themselves) and when they do just stand back and let the FBI/DOJ throw them in jail. Look what just happened to Alex Jones. He couldn't help himself.
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  691. And the same could be said for MOST countries on the planet.
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  692. I'd adjust that slightly. 40% greed, 40% peer pressure and 40% stupidity with a dash of SBF Musk!
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  693. Go anywhere in the world and they are one of the last vestiges of what's called investigative journalism. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). About 10-12 years ago an American was here doing a book tour and his book was about the decline of journalism. Recently I found out he was Robert McChesney who's a professor where I went to college (but after my time). What he's written abut a lot is the lack of real journalism. In Australian we have an equivalent to Frontline called 4 Corners and its also part of our public broadcaster ABC Australia. The Canadians have a similar program called the 5th Estate and the BBC in Britain has Panorama. I know New Zealand ahs a similar program. Aside from these last few vestiges there's not much left of real investigative journalism ANYWHERE. That really should concern everyone. Right now a lot of people are wondering how the mega-rich get away with everything. There have been the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers and most recently the Pandora Papers and no major player has been charged. The whole world saw Trump and his cronies instigate an attempted coup and other than small fish NOBODY has been held accountable. The whole world knows about Jeffery Epstein and other than Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew NOBODY including Trump, Clinton, Dershowitz have even come close to any accountability. NOW WE KNOW WHY - our major legal institutions are full of cowards.
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  694. Its not just American democracy its Western Democracy. America might be in the worst state but make no mistake EVERY Western Democracy is in trouble. I'm an Australian engineer, who went to college in America. We have all the same shite here in Australia. I was in Canada for work a few years back and it was the same there. We get the news out of Asia, Europe and Britain and its the same story in all those places. Its certainly more blatant in America, but make no mistake its EVERYWHERE. We have all allowed a tiny collection of hyper-wealthy insanely selfish people (usually referred to as the top 1% or just 1%ers). I've spent a chunk of my COVID downtime trying to workout how to handle mangers better. They keep pressing idiotic project strategies. Most of them have economics degrees so I started watching people like Mark Blyth (Brown U.) who's a political economist. He looks at how political and economic systems interact, which suited my engineering background because he uses techniques very similar to system engineering. Back in June 2019 he did 3 lectures at McMaster U. in Canada. One on Global Trumpism, which is easy to find. The other 2 were on "How we got here." and "Can we have it all." The talk on "How we got here" is really interesting because it covers the last 120years of economic history. He uses an analogy of 3 computer systems and how just like with real computers they need to have either of both their hardware and software upgraded. He explains that we should have had a major upgrade after the 2008 FGC and it never happened, because the top 1% were bailed out. Instead of cleaning house we made it worse and we now have this insanity where the top 1% get everything they want and the rest of us get smashed. They control our governments, media and courts. Orwell said it best "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever."
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  695. Great comment on how far back this idiocy goes. I'm Australian but went to college in America and was there in the late 80s when televangelism was making it way into peoples lives and they started getting caught out like Jim Baker was. Its so sad to see that America has continued down this path to where that many people see Trump as a viable alternative to reality. By the way America isn't alone with this stuff. We have them in Australia too. I was in Canada for work 3 years ago and they have them as well. Go watch the news out of Europe they are everywhere. There's a great meme going around about how the village idiot used to be restricted to the village but now with social media they can link up and spread their idiocy. I think Joe Biden's greatest challenge will be re-engaging these people with reality. So far his hiring of people from Goldman Sachs and McKinsey doesn't make me confident.
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  696. There's a PBS Frontline documentary on how the Kentucky Teachers lost massively in New York Stock Exchange trading and nobody really knew what was going on or the risks that were being taken. Be careful if you have throwable objects nearby. Its so aggravating that you really do feel you want to break something or throw something.
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  697.  @robcreel4257  I'm similar. I don't think much of her sugar syrupy songs, but its the endless PR that puts me off a lot of artists. What impresses me in this story is that she's taking control of here life and career. So many of these people who start young are just treated like disposable puppets. So as a human being good on her for doing this.
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  698. I'm an Australian engineer and have tried to warn our authorities about our power grid's vulnerabilities. Its not an American problem is a problem in every developed nation on the planet. The very nature of how this stuff is built and laid out. PUMPING GIGAWATTS of power around generates heat. High Voltage Transformers need to be out in the open air so they can be cooled. Power lines need to be out in the open air so they can be cooled. Things that are out in the open are vulnerable and can be open to some very simple attacks.
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  699. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. I have put a few more details in a comment about the Murdoch's and their issues in Australia. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  700. Yeah but Trump supporters don't care. I'm Australian but have a good friend in Pennsylvania and I hope for him and his family you guys send Mehmet Oz packing. An Australian TV crew was in Pennsylvania just before the 2020 election because it was a swing state. There was a cook from a diner who had what I think sums up the politics of the entire Western World. He said "I just wish the career politicians would just go away." Right now Australia we've just started our next federal election campaign and that EXACTLY sums up how many of us feel. We've just had enough of the career politicians who promise everything and deliver nothing. Best wishes to you and the people of Pennsylvania.
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  701. I'm an engineer (aerospace) and its now almost a full time job for engineers to have to REPEATEDLY explain to clowns why certain things won't work or do you want me to explain; - The Titan submarine and how they ignored experienced engineers; or - The Boeing Max-8 and how they threw the common sense rule book out the window; or - Any of a number of other tragedies where "enlightened vision" overruled "common sense"
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  702. None of the other 9 Amendments that make up the Bill of Rights never imagined that the people would turn on them and flip them back on the American people. I'm actually Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering but a bunch of my Frat brothers were pre-law. So I ended up being asked a lot about how Australia worked and we had many conversations about the Amendments. These days I can barely believe what's happening. Americans used to be proud that because of civics classes they understood what their constitution was and importantly WHY it was great. These days I feel the US Constitution is one of the great tragedies of modern society. Without it the modern world as we know it might not have existed. Do you know that the reason every developed nation has a police force independent of the military is because of the 2nd Amendment. It comes from that bit about a "well organized militia" being important to public security (and safety). Prior to the 2nd no country in history had a civilian controlled police force dealing with crime and security. It had always been done via the king's or emperor's or regent's central command using their military. Go check your pre-revolution history and try and find mention of police officers. The colonies weren't a police state because the police didn't exist. It was a military dictatorship ruled over by military officers and policed by their troops. The entire Western World has the founding fathers to thank for so many basic freedoms. They might not be spelled out in our laws or constitutions the same way but we got them because the founding fathers did what they did. It took me many years to realise that my frat brothers were right about many things. Its why I now consider it such a tragedy that the nation that gave the world this incredible gift of "basic human rights" is the nation tearing it apart. As for Rupert Murdoch. We tried to warn the British before he moved there and started doing what he had done here - they didn't listen. We then tried to warn America what he was like when he moved there - you didn't listen. Every nation has some people who they wished never existed, he's one of ours.
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  703. I am an aerospace engineer and that's one of the better comments in this menagerie of social media shitfuckery. I'm mostly a fan of thunderf00t and what he exposes but I don't like his cheap shots at Gwynne Shotwell. He's always linking her to Elon's fantasies which isn't exactly fair. Yes she works for a clown, but thunderf00t needs to separate Falcon (& Crew Dragon) from Elon's fantasies of Starship & Mars. What he should be comparing Falcon & Crew Dragon to is Boeing's Starliner, which isn't easy because it hasn't flown a single successful mission and we don't know the costs. Thunderf00t mentions the Falcon & Crew Dragon at $60-70 million and that's a damn sight better than the space shuttle's $450million, which it was costing at the end. I've seen costs as high as $90 million for a single seat on Soyuz, but also closer to $20 million (for Denis Tito in 2001). So 4 Astronauts to the ISS for $70million is getting back to and under the 2001 Soyuz costs. THAT'S an IMPROVEMENT. Plus if you look at what she actually says there's nothing wrong technically with it. Reusable wont be that great until the usability is closer to a jet plane. I don't think it will ever get there with current materials and technology because your comparing something that goes into orbit, does 7km/s and then flies back down at Mach 20 reaching temperatures of several 1000 deg.C and the other just doesn't do that. IS tunderf00t 100% right on Gateway, John Blincow and Elon Musk? YEAH - ABSOLUTELY. IS he misrepresenting Gwynne Shotwell and what has been achieved with Falcon & Crew Dragon? Yeah, because he's linking that program to Elon & Starship instead of comparing it to Boeing Starliner or Soyuz.
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  704. It only took Henry Kissinger 100 years and 186 days to finally do the human race a failure.
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  705. This video is an excerpt of a preciously posted video from a few days ago. Although its pretty good there is a question they DID NOT ask of Professor Chemerinsky. On the staff of the UC Berkley Law School he is dean of, is John Yoo. John Yoo is NOT ONLY a well known member of the Federalist Society but was the author of the infamous "Torture Memo" during the Bush Administration. That memo lead to the abuses at Abu Ghraib (Iraq) and Bagram AFB (Afghanistan) as well as the issues with extraordinary rendition and the prison at Guantanamo Bay. John Yoo is a genuine criminal and should be in prison rather than being a tenured law professor. How is it that when they have professor Chemerinsky in an interview talking about the Constitution and the federalist Society that they don't bring up the issues with John Yoo?
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  706. No the problem is you shouldn't be comparing it to solar at all. This is the thing I find so frustrating in almost every energy story being presented everywhere. IF someone has a conveniently located stream then this might be the best solution. BUT if they are in Morocco or Outback Australia this thing will be useless and solar with be better. BUT then you might go to one of the islands off Scotland and irrespective of how much sun they might get at times or how much rain they get, you just know a small wind turbine is going to be the best solution. BUT then you go down to dreary old London where the most abundant natural resource is fog and several million people wanting to boil the kettle after Coronation street, then a thumping big nuclear plant is pretty sensible. AND that's the REAL STORY on FUTURE ENERGY. It will depend on where you need that energy, how much energy you need at that location and what's most practical for that environment.
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  707. I am an aerospace engineer with 30+ years in automation & control systems. The basic problem is that rocket engines are highly strung systems where you only need to be a tiny bit off and its a major hassle. With respect to Raptor, out side of the team working on it, nobody actually knows the problems. That's for the simple reason we haven't been there through the process and heard about all the problems they have so far overcome. What I can try an explain is what its like working on highly complex systems with simplistic managers. One of the problems with highly strung systems is that even the tiniest fault can be catastrophic. I have worked around race car mechanics and they get the concept because every part of a race car is being pushed to the limit and small things can be huge problems. At SpaceX you have a guy like Elon Musk who dismisses every problem with "We'll just do." He's a lot like the racecar driver and I've met them. They don't care about details, just make the car go faster. You only need to watch one of his interviews for a few minutes to realise he can't handle details. I have worked with managers who are exactly the same and they are nightmares. They don't give a damn about solving any problem or what it will take and they quite often heap loads of pressure and stress onto people. They're a nightmare for people like me who have to deal with the details and SOLVE THE PROBLEMS. I can't tell you or anyone what the actual issue with the Raptor is. It could be something simple that appears trivial and just isn't. It could be a bunch of things. What I can say is that working with managers like Elon Musk makes the process of getting ANYTHING working very difficult and very stressful.
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  708.  @markmarkson2666  So then what's his aim? What's his goal? What does he want? Because nothing this guys say makes any sense.
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  709. FROM AUSTRALIA: As I was watching this I clicked onto our news services and there was Marco Rubio (LIVE) going on about his family's experiences with the lead up to and the outcome of the Cuban Revolution. That was from one of the clowns who has supported and supported and supported Trump. He was one of those Senators who voted "innocent: at Trumps impeachment. *Does he not realise the whole world watched what he and others did to fuel this? * Trump might be embarrassing America everyday but so are all the people who MADE THIS DAY HAPPEN by enabling this lunacy. Here's an interview that was just shown here about the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYlimLgCuEI To all the sensible Americans - know and understand that you have friends in the world who want to see this end and America be what it can be. My one great fear is that Biden only wants to take America backwards in stead of forwards. The Oligarchy has to end and he has to re-engage and look after the other 99%. To all Take Care & Stay Safe. 👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
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  710. As an Australian you can't imagine how angry we are getting with the Murdoch Media as some of them are still claiming this is normal and there are still millions of our people listening to them and believing them. In late 2017 early 2018 I was in Saskatchewan Canada for work and experienced the coldest temperatures I have ever experienced. For a couple of days 14 of the 15 coldest temperatures on the planet were where I was. Later that year they had record high temperatures. My degree is in aerospace engineering and what most people do not understand is that when you have more energy in a system (any system) BOTH the highs and lows become more extreme. Climate scientists have been trying to explain this for decades. Unfortunately the media has trouble with anything to do with science.
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  711. Your first claim that about proving innocence versus proving guilt is 100% correct. But after that EVERYTHING YOU SAID IS COMPLETE F*CKING NONSENSE. You and every other Trump suck-up can claim anything you like and the following facts are IRREFUTABLE. FACT 1: Donald J Trump was charged with 34 counts. FACT 2: Evidence was presented to a jury. FACT 3: Trump's Lawyers were given every opportunity to counter the evidence presented. FACT 4: Donald J Trump was found GUILTY on all 34 counts. FACT 5: Donald J Trump like every other CONVICTED CRIMINAL has the right to appeal the outcome.
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  712.  @ivoted-5489  The same way any other school gets their students. Their parents send them there. Like all private schools they operate on reputation and if the schools reputation is good within a community then parents send their kids to that school.
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  713. He's got nothing to lose. Note what he describes about those who are effectively trapped by the Republican base (as in the voters). I wished they talked about why the base is the way it is. I would have like to hear him speak about Fox, OAN, Newsmax, etc. and how they have pounded the Republican base into the enraged fascist mob they've become. While the Republican base lives inside its Fox-OAN-Newsmax conspiracy echo chamber there's not much of a future for America. Over 74 million voted to re-elect Trump. That's more than the entire population of countries like France and Britain and almost double the population of Canada and almost 3 times the population of Australia. I would like to hear guys like this talk about getting those people out of those echo chambers and reconnecting them with reality.
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  714. I'm Australian and looking from the outside in YOU are 100% CORRECT. This will change ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. One of my old bosses here in Australia is a 100% Trumpist. He's NOT American, he's Australian and NOTHING, not any fact no matter how irrefutable will change his mind. It all comes from the fact that his support base comes from the Bottom 50% of developed society that has been left behind. In late 2022 I became aware of a Congressional Budget Office report on Family WEALTH. Kyle is one of the very few people to ever comment on that report. I emphasis that its on WEALTH and is about what people gain over time. It simply says that the Bottom 50% of America society has gone NOWHERE since that late 70s. They have basically gained NOTHING while the Middle 40% have gained some but the Top 10% have gained double digit Trillions. During Obama's last 3 years in office (less than 10 years after causing the GFC and getting bailed out) the Top 10% gained $18.3 TRILLION. The Bottom 50% of America gained $0.4 Trillion ($400 Million) over the same 3 years. I checked what I can of Australia's data and it tells the same story. I watch British Economist Gary Stevenson's channel here on YT and he says the same about Britain. These people just don't car about any of these stories. They see Trump as their wrecking ball and bulldozer who's just going to tear the system apart. They don't care what comes afterwards just so long as the system that's wrecked and squeezed their lives into oblivion gets torn apart. I can't blame them for hating the system and wanting it ripped to shreds as its totally understandable, but they need to care about what comes afterwards because we all have to live with it.
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  715. Aerospace Engineer and Pilot here: NO - we simply don't ever let her fly anywhere again. On any commercial flight of any type the pilot in command can REFUSE to have a person on the plane on safety grounds. Since she has NO respect for pilots and is willing to risk other peoples lives then that's cause. Maybe its a slight cause but its still a cause to NOT allow her on any plane again EVER!
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  716.  @jmswillow5969  Yeah dude, she's on Trump Aid. Is a simple to make you take a packet of Kool Aid and instead of a pound of sugar you mix it with a pound of bitterness, resentment and bullshit! ☝😲
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  717. FROM THE TRANSCRIPT AT 0:26 "it is interesting to see how under scrutiny when people really take the look at these bills how brilliantly the single-payer plan stands out" The highlight is mine and I deleted the 2 "uhs" to make what she said clear.
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  718. Its NOT simply that they are Ok that these people died and they don't care. Its that they object to anyone trying to deal with it. They are actually hampering people from saving lives.
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  719.  @Letsgosurfing-cc3ly  I'd agree for some things "just have a think does" but mostly he reports what he can cite. He rarely promotes things as definitive solutions or game changers and I emphasize promotes as in hype like happened with this. He's not perfect but clearly better than average, but then its a fairly low average.
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  720. I'm Australian but went to college in America and this stuff with SCOTUS scares me a lot more than Putin or Xi or Kim. I have a lot of American friends I care about but also as an Australian (like many others - Canada, Japan, Korea, Britain, etc.) America is our most important trading and security partner. I was in Canada for work when Trump without any warning tore up NAFTA and hit them with tariffs. All the treaties and commercial stuff is protected by the most pro-Business SCOTUS in history. Look at "Citizens United" - they don't care what Wall Street does to America, so imagine how much less they care about the rest of us? We trade with all these American companies and if anything comes up they run back to SCOTUS which they own and control. Ask the Central & South Americans about Texaco (Chevron). Secondly - Australia (and others) have backed our future security on the F35 program. What if the next version of Trump one days waves the middle finger and we get no spare parts? Or that spares come with conditions like helping to invade Iran? Its not only America's future that hinges on SCOTUS. Its effects the entire Western World.
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  721. She needs to take him down to Trump's sex dungeon and help him get over his mummy issues.
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  722.  @xzqzq  Buddy there are plenty of channels where you can go and spout that garbage - THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. 1st: NO ONE is attempting to oust or overthrow the legally elected POTUS who at this moment is Donald Trump. No one has gone to the White House and demanded he leave or resign or anything else. A LEGALLY CONDUCTED ELECTION happened and HE LOST. 2nd: Forget Giuliani's bullshit at press conferences and mock trials. IN COURT WHERE IT MATTERS he's FAILED TO PROVE ANYTHING. 3rd: As for Michael Flynn, he has retweeted a call for martial law. That's seditious which might be hard under civilian law because of the 1st Amendment, but Flynn's ex-military and his oath to protect the Constitution still applies. He's accountable under the UCMJ and now facing a potential court martial.
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  723. Its not an American problem either. I'm Australian and we had what we call a Royal Commission into our banks. Its a bit like an American senate hearing where its conducted like a trial and if you lie you can go for perjury. During the Royal Commission one of the major bank managers admitted (under oath) that his bank had defrauded 1000s of customers with false fees. He admitted to orchestrated fraud and enough of it to have the bank decaled a criminal organization. If a stockbroker, financial consultant, accountant or any normal person had done it they would have gone to jail and possibly been asset stripped. No one was charged let alone went to jail. They simply got away with it and even though they only stole small amounts it added up to millions. Before that we had the Panama papers that named over 1200 Australians. Nobody has been charged or gone to jail over that. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ I was in Canada a few years back they had a similar thing with the Paradise Papers. Nobody got charged there and nobody went to jail. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Trump and friends screamed about Hunter Biden getting a job using daddy's name, which he did. But Jared & Ivanka got positions in the White House from which they made millions. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Clinton got photographed with Jeffery Epstein. Trump was photographed with Jeffery Epstein. Epstein's dead and so far nobody except Prince Andrew has been accused of anything. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  724.  @MimiKeel  Yes they do when they are a source of very cheap labor.
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  725. When Tucker was first dumped by Fox someone pointed out how well others who have been dumped by Fox have done and specifically pointed out Bill O-Reilly and Megan Kelly as 2 examples.
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  726. This idea is straight out of Star Wars. Remember what Luke's uncle Owen did for a living - moisture farmer.
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  727. I have seen Saagar do some shit stories these last few months almost to the point cancelling my subscription. But this is his best by far, this is priceless. (edit) It had everything but a references to Oceans 11, 12, & 13, Rounders and the Italian Job.
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  728. Your wrong they are not locked up they are institutionalized under a court order. What ever this guys issues and psychosis are there are beyond what any society should deem acceptable. The fact he uses a strategic term like "escalation dominance" as easy as he breaths air should scare the shite out of everyone.
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  729. EXACTLY - Nordstream was US$20 Billion in damage. Biden said he'd do it and then it happened and then American companies had no competition for their LNG.
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  730. Australian with an observation. FYI - I went to college in America and from personnel experience I saw the GENERAL population of America show great RESPECT to those who'd served. There's that moment in "A Few Good Men" when Sam asks Joe (Demi Moore) why she liked the 2 marines they were defending. Her reply is one of the most pertinent reasons WHY people (unless proven otherwise) should respect those who serve in the military. Demi Moore's character was asked "Why do you like them so much?" Her Reply was "Because they stand on a wall and they say nothing's going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch." When did we collectively find it convenient to allow ANYONE in politics (and it happens in Australia too) to denigrate people who had served with dignity and keep the rest of us safe?
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  731. ​ @jameskelly3502  Great point, YOU ARE RIGHT and I checked it out and there's an explanation. Here's the second paragraph of that press release. "This is a firm fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract modification for the Crew-10, Crew-11, Crew-12, Crew-13, and Crew-14 flights. The value of this modification for all five missions and related mission services is $1,436,438,446. The amount includes ground, launch, in-orbit, and return and recovery operations, cargo transportation for each mission, and a lifeboat capability while docked to the International Space Station. The period of performance runs through 2030 and brings the total CCtCap contract value with SpaceX to $4,927,306,350." SHOR EXPLANATION When people are talking about the US$70Million that's the LAUNCH. What you are talking about is the ENTIRE PROJECT with all the other stuff added in. As you can see there's a difference and quite often it can be a massive difference. Those 5 Crew Dragon missions average just under US$300million which means that on top of the $70M for the launch there's almost another $230M for each flight. This is not simply a NASA problem. Its actually a major problem with projects EVERYWHERE. For Example: Right now in Australia (as I'll explain) we have the AUKUS submarine project. The current Block 5 Virginia subs have a cost AUD$5 Billion each. The project cost for the 8 subs is AU$33-46 Billion each. From what information that's available there's AU$20-32 Billion for each sub that is currently unaccounted for. LONGER EXPLANATION and again I am Sorry to all if this if this is long. With almost every wonderful announcement the devil is in the details and the magic words in that announcement are indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity and related mission services. BACKGROUND I'm Australian but did my degree in America. It was in the late 80s during Reagan's Star Wars Program. Most of the department was on DARPA funding as were most of the postgrads. We all sort of new it was BS but we liked the funding and a lot of people got their MS & PhDs. I came back to Australia afterwards which wasn't good timing and I ended up in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. In 2002 I met Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt and he mentioned Helium-3, which meant we might be going back to the moon for mining. So I thought I'd go off to the Australian Mining sector and get some experience building mines so I could then do the same on the Moon. Yeah I know that didn't work out, but what I got was an education in large multi-billion dollar contracting jobs and how contractors milk them for all they are worth. I also learned how to build complex systems in remote places and I know NASAs plans for a lunar base are crap because of these very issues of "other stuff." Its not only in engineering and in fact the worst cases In Australia are in government department consulting. Go and check out the PwC scandal. ISSUES WITH ENGINEERING and COST PLUSS CONTRACTS 1 mine site I worked on was the BHP Ravensthorpe Nickel project. Now you'd think BHP the largest mining company in the world would know how to get a mine built - WRONG. That job was budgeted at AU$1.5 Billion and ended up costing over AU$3.5 Billion and then they found out that someone had skimped on the drilling program and the ore body was nowhere near what they had expected in either quality or quantity. WHERE it really blew out was the cost plus contracting. We had an electrician just not show for work one day on that project. He turned up at dinner time in the mess wearing another companies shirt and proudly announced he was getting an extra AU$10 and hour. Working 60+ hours a week, which you do on site that adds up to a lot of money. Within days other electricians were being snapped up in similar ways and the pay rate went from about AU$35/hr to AU$65/hr in about a week as people bounced from company to company. For those who have never worked on cost plus contracting it goes like this. You have expenses (labor & stuff) and you hand them in and if the contract is cost plus 20% (which is common) then for every $1 of expense you get $1.20 in cash back. The reason why cost plus happens is that for large projects that go for several years you just cant plan everything. They can be made to work but the managers running them have to know what they are doing. This is why we see so many government and private sector projects blow out on their costs. So when those electricians went from AU$35/hr to AU$65/hr their actual employers went from charging about $60/hr to over $100/hr. Here's where that adds up. If you have a 100 people and they suddenly cost an extra $10 that gets passed onto the company and they return (at 20%) $12 for which means your profit margin just went up $200 per hour. So with something like SpaceX every time NASA makes an adjustment to a mission it means extra profit to SpaceX and its in their interests as a commercial company to max out those expenses. Here in Australia we have a litany of projects both in the government and in the private sector that have blown out with some projects going billions over budget. The worst private sector project I heard of was the Gorgon Gas project which blew out by $15 Billion. You'd think Chevron would know their job and know how to manage a project BUT THEY DIDN'T. The Australian Navy is not only buying submarines but new frigates and that project recently jumped from AUD$30 Billion to AUD$45 Billion. These things happen from contract variations and that word "variation" is the sound of cash being printed to a cost+ contractor. MORE EXAMPLES Back in the day before the ISS came into being there was the Space Station Freedom project. Me and Classmates all believed that was what we'd be building before heading back to the Moon. The 1st budget was USD$20 Billon and VP George Bush told them that was too expensive and to redesign it. The 2nd budget was USD$30 Billon and VP George Bush told them stop being ridiculous. The 3rd budget was USD$40 Billion and VP George Bush scrapped it, but not before a lot of money got spent doing those design studies. In the end the ISS cost America $120 Billion to build and I think the current estimate puts it over $220 Billion so far when you add in the operations AND NOBODY has ever explained where its all gone. The F35 program cost over a $Trillion in development AND NOBODY has ever explained where its all gone. Here in Oz other than submarines and frigates we also have a patrol boat project underway. The previous class cost under AUD$30 Million each and these new ones are AUD$300 Million each - more than 10x the cost to do the same job AND NOBODY can explain the costs. As part of Australia's AUKUS submarine project there was a AU$4.3 Billion dollar upgrade to facilities at the base near Perth. Knowing what they are basically doing I checked with a couple of people I know and that project shouldn't cost more than AU$1 Billion. Just 2 days ago they announced new plans and its now budgeted at AU$8 Billion with NO EXPLANTION what this extra AU$3.7 Billion is for let alone what most of the AU$4.3 was for. BACK TO FALCON 9/CREW DRAGON We know the cost of each Falcon 9 Crew Dragon launch is $70 Million but what you have shown is a fundamental problem in all these sorts of contracts. There's a lot more than just the basic costs than can be itemised and a lot of it we know nothing about. So you are right there's a lot more, but when we are comparing apples to apples we have to compare what we can. The reason we talk about the at $70 Million is because we know its real and we can compare it to other things. We know the Shuttle flights cost US$350-450 million each, but that doesn't include the development and operational costs. We know the Soyuz seats at the end cost US$80 million each but we don't know what other costs with training (including language training) were incurred. Hope that all explains it.
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  732. That's a fairly nuanced comment and I agree. The real threat from China isn't military its subterfuge. There's an interesting interview from way back in 1984 with former KGB Agent Yuri Bezmenov. There's a fairly crappy right wing channel offensive freedom but its got an excerpt from that interview focussing on the Russian strategy. Its title is "KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (1984)" and its 6:49 long. You can find the full interview elsewhere but this short part is interesting. Bezmenov is 100% wrong on how effective the Russians were. After all the Soviet system collapsed and the West rolled on. That or they had very low expectations. What 's important is the reason they weren't effective back then. It wasn't the strategy. It was the lack of a delivery system. BUT THESE DAYS we have social media which is the perfect delivery system for what the Russians wanted to do. Here is where it gets scary. What do you call a lump of technology that tracks everywhere people go and who they talk to? Most people would call it a surveillance system but these days we call it Tik Tok. YES Tik Tok tracks where you go so it can be very helpful and point out places you might like. Part of loading it up is allowing it access to your photo album which means YOU HAVE GIVEN IT ACCESS past any firewall you have AND YES the Australian DSTO announced that it can access things OTHER THAN the photo album including the call logs and messaging systems. This is WHY the US Government banned it for all government employees. And the craziest aspect of Tik Tok is that the Chinese Communist Party didn't have to force it on anyone. Millions of sheep just uploaded it for free AND voluntarily allowed the CCP to start tracking them.
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  733. Newsflash the Canadians will never stop thanking America for taking him. I'm Australian and was over there for work a couple of years ago. Its like us thanking America for taking Rupert Murdoch, except that's a way more serious problem.
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  734. It goes back much further. He was the guy who gave Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz the plan for invading Iraq that ended in disaster. Its all detailed in a 2004 PBS Frontline called "Rumsfeld's War" I started a thread with a brief summary.
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  735. Its called Libertarianism which I describe as: "I demand the liberty to strip others of their liberty!"
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  736.  @PBOperator  The fact its almost impossible to regulate is arguably the biggest issue. As this guy showed with the right part a Glock is 30 seconds and its reliable. He didn't need to disassemble the gun. He didn't need to modify any parts. He just swapped one part for another part AND it clipped in. I'm an engineer and with a small hobbyist CNC mill and workshop I could spit those out at a rate of dozens per day. It's just a shape that needs to be cut from raw material. Unless you're an engineer you have no idea how easy that is. Maybe that's something that has changed. How much easier it is to do with certain guns that nobody used to do this with.
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  737. Make certain you use the word "killer" because if you call him a murderer you can get sued. Yeah it sucks, yeah its stupid, but it was way more stupid that the prosecutor didn't do his job.
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  738. He's another one of these people who play the triple clown show strategy - strawman your opponent at every opportunity, accuse the other side of what you do as often as possible and use the occasional fact (out of context) to hide all the lies while making your own argument sound reasonable. For example on the bombing of Dresden, several British historians have gotten into serious trouble with the British establishment by pointing out that it was a war crime. Also when they put up a statute to Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris (who was in charge of Bomber Command at the time of Dresden) it was protested by BRITISH people over things like the bombing of Dresden. Collateral damage in War at anytime raises serious issues. 5,300 dead children isn't ambiguous and its not simply collateral damage. ITS A WAR CRIME!
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  739. I'm Australian but went to college U. Illinois on a sports scholarship. So I know this part of America quite well and despite the rivalry with Ohio is incredibly sad to hear about ALL THIS STUFF. There was the Governor of Illinois admissions scandal at MY ACTUAL SCHOOL, that affects my employment in Australia because anyone here who googles University of Illinois sees that. I dated a Hoosier for a while and to hear about the collapse of Indiana's manufacturing while Pete Buttigieg tells America how great he is ridiculous. I spent my first Thanksgiving in Kentucky. A while back I saw a PBS Frontline documentary on how the Kentucky Teachers lost massively in New York Stock Exchange trading and nobody really knew what was going on or the risks that were being taken. I spent another Thanksgiving in Cincinnati. I watched the COVID stats for that part of America and to see this on top of everything else that's happened is just heartbreaking.
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  740. Agreed. It took less than a minute to realise this might be one of the most important interviews to watch this year.
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  741. I started with a degree in aerospace but have worked in automation, robotics and control systems for more than 30 years and most of the last 20 in Australia's mining industry. So I do understand the points you make about tunneling. Elon relies on 3 things in particular and this goes across all his technologies. 1) the medias absolute drive to be first to report anything no matter how much BS and PR is involved; and 2) the staggering ignorance the general public to ANYTHING involving technology; and 3) the desperation of so many people to think somebody is going to just wave a magic technology wand and fix humanities issues. The second one is the thing that infuriates most people in technology (engineers, physicists, etc.). There's a number of almost insane beliefs in modern societies. 1) I live in a modern society that's based on technology therefore I am a technological person. WRONG. 2) I can use a particular technology like computers and therefore I understand technology. WRONG. 3) I saw, heard or read about a technology and therefore don't need to go to college for 4 years or have any real world training or get any real world experience with that technology to be an expert on that technology. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG and WRONG. There's almost a mass delusion of a form close to Dunning-Kruger syndrome. We generally associate DK with idiotic ideas like flat earth but it actually is more applicable to how the general population regards technology.
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  742. Agreed. It took less than a minute to realise this might be one of the most important interviews to watch this year.
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  743. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  744.  @jx14aby  Don't forget her partner in this shite storm Rudy G famously claimed "Truth isn't truth"
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  745. It helps (or doesn't) when 74million delusional people think he's the savior of America. Maybe with these events that number is finally coming down. I'd like to see some of those Trump supporters explain how storming & trashing the capitol, killing a cop and tearing down the American flag was justified.
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  746. Aerospace Engineer here: In the last couple of years I have gotten into economics for the simple reason that economists are interfering in engineering to a staggering level, which is why we have an energy crisis, but that's another story. In looking into another profession and how it trains people you not only get to examine that profession but re-examine your own and we don't do that enough. One of the great flaws in economics is the lack of self-evaluation. They have an awful lot of theory and modelling that has NEVER been truly tested except on US and right now that's looking like very bad outcomes as they keep telling us all is well and that's not going to end well for any of us. Your profession is in a similar predicament except you are NOT costing several billion people a future like economists are. HOWEVER, what you and you colleagues are doing is modelling based on UNTESTED THEORY. Yes this is all very interesting and I like your channel because it expands my own knowledge base, but you need to temper this will reality and let people know these are theories that are UNTESTABLE because of the time frames involved. They are some every interesting theories and models but they are just that - theories and models. PLUS and I can't emphasise this enough with dating technologies whether its carbon dating or any other dating. CALIBRATING your measurement system is almost impossible beyond a few 1,000 years because where's the actual sample that you know for certain what its age is that you can use to calibrate against. Your calibration for longer time periods is theory not measured reality. You are one of the very few sciences that is allowed to get away with this lack of calibration but then we also understand that calibrating such systems is almost impossible. So you get some slack on this, but please DO NOT MISTAKE that other STEM fields are unaware of this.
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  747. I'm an engineer who did a degree in aerospace but works in automation and control systems. Part of Control Systems are the Safety Functions. We call this subject area "Functional Safety." In 2007 I did a course and achieved the 2nd highest rating available to any engineer in the field of Functional Safety. Its a qualification I no longer formally hold because IT HAS NO WORTH in the employment market. You see being the guy who interrupts with "is that safe" (or similar) and then insists on applying standards simply isn't welcome. It takes me only about 5-7 minutes to explain to anyone with a basic education and reasoning ability to show how the MCAS system in the Boeing Max-8 was ALWAYS going to end up driving a plane straight into the ground. Any reasonable engineer should have been screaming it was wrong and yet they were overruled by PURE SELFISHNESS. What this clown is demonstrating the same sort of selfishness that the management of Boeing showed and the management of the surfside apartments showed and what other narcissists have shown time and time again.
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  748. Hollywood did a film called "Idiocracy" that was meant to be spoof. Its now looking like a documentary.
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  749. Did you notice she also called Hungary, Hungaria? (7:06 and I checked the transcript is wrong) In that claim of her heritage she's also implied that she's majority Cherokee by saying she's a little bit German. If she is more than 50% native American where is the dark hair and roundish facial features. Some people don't realise how stupid they look and or sound.
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  750. Go and check out Sam Harris's interview on Triggernometry, its an hour long but totally worth the time. He cites Trump U. as a major reasons that Trump must be dealt with.
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  751. Good to see other people starting to point out the CTE issue. Anyone who has seen the PBS Frontline "League of Denial" can see the symptoms. if you doubt that go look up any of his interviews from a few years ago. I found one from 6 years ago here on YouTube where he was talking about football and the difference in how clear his thoughts and speech are is staggering. The people around him letting this go on need to be publicly shamed.
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  752. She brags about her kids but why don't we go back and check what her daughter said. If people don't want to rub that in her face then they can still ask about all of her Hatch violations.
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  753. That is such a priceless comparison. I'm Australian and that might just be the best YouTube comment I have ever seen. I'm sorry I can't give it a million thumbs up, but it does deserve it. 👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
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  754. I agree during his POTUS campaign there was an hour long sit down with him, a host and 2 undecided voters who simply asked him questions and he answered him. I thought he was brilliant. There was no BS, no hype - he simply answered their questions. He pointed out his main motivation which was the lack of people trained for what industry wants. I'm Australian but went to college in America. So I'm pretty interested in America from both a personnel view and from WTF is going with our most important partner. That point he raised about training people would have landed well almost ANYWHERE in the Western world. Because we all run very similar economic policies we have a lot of similar issues and training people for industry is a huge issue. Just go watch some of what people like Mike Rowe have pointed out in recent years. I actually thought Yang should have pushed to become Biden's Secretary of Education and see if he could undo some of the damage done by Betsy DeVos. He had some good ideas and could have found his feet in Washington. Instead he got into that NYC Mayor election where he got set up with that idiotic question. Even in Australia we heard how a couple of Democrat strategists got into his campaign. I have a friend who used to be involved in student politics and questions like that don't just come out of nowhere. That was a set up to put Yang back in his place. Its the sort of thing that happens all over the world when some young guy or gal comes in from "outside" the accepted party system. Its a real shame because his ideas on getting people trained were world class.
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  755. Lets not forget there are millions of people thinking that messianic technocrats like Elon Musk are about to whisk them away to Mars to found a new Utopian society there. Or we could talk about the other messianic technocrats who think that AI will be the magic solution and bring in a Utopian society here. FYI - I am an aerospace engineer and I can tell you that the "new religion" of scientism is alive and thriving. 30+ years ago when I was in college we had a guest lecture by an alum one Friday. He'd just done a project/study into the practicality of terraforming Mars. He simply told us its impossible without god like powers. He explained some of the very simple aspects of it. One of those is just how much air you need. I use the example of a 1km thick layer and if you want I'll explain the math. It takes over 170 Trillion (with a 'T') tons of air just to put a 1km thick layer of Earth standard air around Mars. I once had a scientism clown tell me you'd only need the Oxygen (1/5th of the air) so I asked him: "Ok where are you getting 34.5 Trillion tons of Oxygen from?" I can give you other examples but trust me when I tell you the religious nutters are not alone on this planet when it comes to being M0R0Ns who believe in Utopian fantasy stories.
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  756. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powell interview. I have left a separate answer with additional background information about why Australia is so concerned about Rupert Murdoch's behavior in America. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powell Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  757. Actually this is NOT a good video and there are a lot of mistakes in it. Unfortunately Sabine is NOT and engineer she's a theoretical physicist. In general I like her videos but in this case she's just got a lot of stuff WRONG. She's obviously never been involved in a large construction project. I have actually written a very long reply to her in her pinned comment at the top. Here's just 1 example. She's claimed that nuclear reactors should only take 7 years to build and the Japanese can do it in 4. Shen never mentions once what type of reactor they built in Japan or how they were built differently to other reactors. The Illinois Energy Prof (here on YT) did a video on the Fukushima design and how the design contributed to the disaster. When you look at the Westinghouse AP1000s there are 2 at Vogtle in America and 4 at 2 sites in China and all 6 of them took 9 years to build. Also the Chinese built a CANDU (Canadian design) reactor in 4 years but its a totally different design to something like the AP1000. So the whole East-vs-West thing is BULLSHlT when you compare sites building the same type of reactor.
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  758. Do you know who this guy actually is? He's one of the main proponents of "offensive realism" out of the University of Chicago the home of the neocons and neoconservative ideology. He represents THE OTHER SIDE of American political ideology - American Realism as opposed to American Liberalism. I saw one of his lectures a couple of weeks ago that he did at Yale in November 2017 and it was BRILLIANT. I have never seen anyone explain why a particular political party did or was doing what it was. For anyone who wants to know WHY Ukraine eventually happened, it was the 2nd of 3 lectures on Liberal Hegemony November 2017. BUT and this is the GIANT BUT I have with this guy. His side gave the world the Invasion of Iraq for which there was no reason other than the neo-cons (his people) wanted regime change in the middle east. That cost America over a trillion dollars and cost 4,431 American lives. That's over 1,400 more than died on 9/11. It might be more pronounced in America but there's a horrible fact about Western politics that's become pervasive. and its best summed up by "What my side does is righteous and what their side does is wrong." Its an infantile selfishness that's making a mess of the world. Its like 5 year olds fighting over a sand castle. I'm Australian and we have it here, its just not as bad as America. Trump just declared everyone who didn't vote for him "the enemy." How infantile is that. Donald Trump called over 180 million American citizens "the enemy" of America. Mearsheimer's description of the American liberals is flawless and his criticism warranted, BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE if Biden was a Republican neo-con he'd be singing how righteous America's response is.
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  759. That or he's stopped taking the drugs his doctors has prescribed.
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  760. Its called CHAIN OF CUSTODY. Even if it really is Hunter Biden's lap top and even if it has actual emails and even if they show actual corruption NONE of it is USEABLE in court BECAUSE thanks to Rudy Giuliani and others NO ONE can prove that it hasn't been tampered with because there is NO CHAIN OF CUSTODY. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  761.  @AammaK  For someone claiming another person is taking a simplistic understanding of a subject you reply is incredibly simplistic. You're also ignoring that he's not talking about religion in general or belief systems in general but a particular aspect of religion that happens to be TRUE. Many civilisations DID collapse where their religious practices were a contributing factor if not the most important factor. Easter Island is a good example. If you wanted to argue that Religion wasn't the only factor in those collapses then that would be a good point.
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  762.  @BatMan-oe2gh  100% correct plus we have a ranked voting system NOT a first past the post and that really does force people to appeal to more than their base.
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  763. Your right she's done some good interviews and monologues in recent months but this was shit. How can the people of Guam and other US territories NOT be allowed to vote on POTUS and NOT have actual Representation in congress. Did you know that the population of Puerto Rico is larger than the populations of 20 mainland states and yet it has only 1 congressional representative WHO CAN'T VOTE and NO senators.? Click the tab on population to list the states in order of population -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population America promoted itself across the world all through the Cold War as the World Leader of Freedom and Democracy but denies the people of Puerto Rico, Guam and other territories democratic representation.
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  764. The 1st Amendment - arguably one of the greatest gifts any nation was ever granted and by just as arguably one of the most abused gifts in history.
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  765. Yeah I agree. My first impression was how FAKE this looked.
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  766. I agree. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I was there for the 1987 campaign season and it was bonkers. Even back then there was this feeling that American politics wasn't about policy or making the country function better, it was about 1 group out screaming the other over issues that didn't matter to the bulk of the population. I had this feeling that America would seriously suffer a breakdown because of this sort of nonsense. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and we used to have all sorts of discussions about the constitution. I wasn't someone who studied that stuff BUT I had studied Orwell (1984 & Animal Farm) and the one thing I used to argue was that ANY COUNTRY could fail and fall into an totalitarian dictatorship. My friends used to argue that was simply impossible in America because of how the Constitution was written and the system of checks and balances. The one thing we never actually discussed was what happens if that system breaks down and we didn't because that was inconceivable. AND THIS IS THE LESSON FOR EVERY COUNTRY. If you let people erode away your basic rights bit by bit then no matter how stable you think your system is one day you will wake up and your country will NOT be what you think it is. It will be what someone else wants it to be.
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  767. My mother was a high school teacher in Australia and she was s student of History. One night in the early 90s there was a story about China's one child generation. They had all these cute 7-9 year olds singing songs about how great they didn't have brothers or sisters. It was sort of bizarre. Mum said this was going to one day come back and bite China. It was around the time there were large numbers of orphaned Chinese girls available to Western parents. Even then this issue was starting to show and experts were wondering how this would affect the future. One of the things mum pointed out was societies that get to many men with too few women tend to start wars. Either the men will fight for wives or die trying. Its actually good to see someone doing a serious stories on China. So many people are claiming China is this amazing success story and for sure they have had some incredible successes. They have this incredible high speed rail system and have lifted several 100 million people out of poverty. But China also has some very serious issues with its social structure (as in the one child), staggering over investment in worthless housing, the ridiculous destruction of 1000s of rivers and an insane appetite for coal powered industry. In respect of the wonderful question of: How does the world deal with China? The better question might be: How does China deal with China?
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  768. Mike hasn't understood what reality means for a while.
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  769. ​ @CarlGerhardt1  WHAT DID I SAY IN THE LAST PARAGRAPH? Australia already has plans to grow from the current 26 million to over 50 million. I'm not against that but we can't suddenly do that now. We don't have the housing, infrastructure, energy, water, schools, hospitals just to start the list. We have to say NO and despite what the Europeans said to us they now know. I once saw Angela Merkel who oversaw Germany have the most open of border policies tell a young immigrant girl that "I'm sorry but we can't take everyone." She wasn't being mean or dispassionate or cruel she was just pointing out the basic reality. Every country has limits to what it can do. America is no different and I 100% support America's right to say NO. BUT BUDDY DON'T MISTAKE THAT FOR BEING AN ARSEH0LE. And Greg Abbott is an ARSEH0LE and a damn cruel one at that.
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  770. Same reply I just gave another comment AEROSPACE ENGINEER & PILOT HERE and you are 100% correct. BUT with respect ATC Controllers they are all pilots and that's across the world. Its a pre-requisite requirement of the job and you apply for the job or start training unless you are a pilot first. Its simply IMPOSSIBLE to become a pilot with "severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities"
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  771.  @ronque23  That excuse of "following orders" would be the best thing that can happen. We should welcome it with open arms. "Following orders" is NOT an excuse its an ADMISSION of act. Ask the Nazis who tried it? Sorry you cant they got hanged because all it did was CONFIRM that they had done what they were accused of. So let them do it and start the trials.
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  772. What happened in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial? He only killed 2 people, while carrying a gun he was NOT licensed to carry in the state of Wisconsin considering he was a resident of Illinois. He got lucky the prosecutor was incompetent, BUT these same people claim that was fair and due process.
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  773. I'm Australian and when he was on TV here (a few years ago) he bragged about how he's a "provocateur" and its his job to provoke people. Its was surreal, but it exposed him for the attention seeking fraud that he was. Nothing has changed.
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  774. Well with a college education and 2 Masters Degrees (YES 2 an MBA from Connecticut and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard) he's gonna drive the anti-education faction completely of their rocking chairs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman The big question will be -> How will the Senate handle logical arguments instead of political opportunism?
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  775. That's the truly odd thing about America. They spend an incredible amount of money for poor outcomes. For that amount of money they should be the healthiest nation on the planet by so far they shame the rest of us. I'm Australian but went to college in America (U. of Illinois). So I have a personal interest in how my friends are. I have watched what's happened in the region where I went to college. Illinois Indian and Wisconsin have a combine population almost identical to Australia. Australia has 945 COVID deaths while Illinois Indian and Wisconsin have have a combined total over 48,000 COVID deaths. Yes I know the geography population density and other issues comparing Australia to Illinois Indian and Wisconsin BUT nothing really explains that difference. Australia did get lucky during that initial phase. We didn't have or cancelled major events just in time. Europe and America had all sorts of stuff going on that involved large crowds in packed spaces still going on as it arrived.
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  776. I checked part of what Rogan said. Several times he said "my 14 year old daughter." According to his bio he has 2 daughters born 2008 and 2010 and a stepdaughter from his wife's previous marriage. So the anger he's showing is the real anger of a father. I'm amazed he didn't simply toss this clown out the door.
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  777. Well with a college education and 2 Masters Degrees (YES 2 an MBA from Connecticut and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard) he's gonna drive the anti-education faction completely of their rocking chairs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman The big question will be -> How will the Senate handle logical arguments instead of political opportunism?
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  778. Listen to what Trump actually said: At 3:05 "I couldn't be more glad. I am so happy I did it because I've made America great. We can do it again. Right now we don't. We are not a great country. We are not a great country." He actually REPEATS "We are not a great country." Notice he NEVER says what he did to make it great or what anyone else has done to then NOT make it great.
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  779. Australian here - I first became aware of this guy when he was interviewed on an Australia Show called "Planet America" and I am in agreement with you 100%. He raved on about how Trump was the "Master of the Deal" and would make things happen. Because we see this as an international we saw what Trump did with international deals. HE MADE NONE, but he did tear up a few. I was actually doing a project (I'm an engineer) in Canada in late 2017 when Trump tore up NAFTA and slapped the Canadians with tariffs. To say they were stunned is like saying a nuclear weapons are like fireworks. The whole world watched Trump tear up the Iran Nuclear deal and replace it with "____________________" YEAH NOTHING.
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  780.  @imapseudonymRU12  I don't know but I have heard of that crowd too. They do NOT have a very good reputation in Australia. I can't confirm what I have heard so I won't repeat specific allegations here, but it has to do with dominating small rural communities through business arrangements.
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  781. Well there's one basic piece of idiotic stupidity in the whole CANZUK discussion and that is its absolute stupidity of leaving out India, Malaysia, and other rapidly developing nations with huge economies and populations. It excludes Nigeria, Kenya and other nations with extraordinary resources. Plus it excludes all the small Caribbean nations which are so staggeringly wealth. Those little places are where the rich and powerful do all their banking. So CANZUK takes the failing UK Economy adds to it the reasonable economies of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, while ignoring 1/6th of the worlds population, and ignoring the resources of 1/2 of Africa and ignoring the cash supply of the Caribbean. CANZUK as a concept is mindlessly white anglo centric. I wouldn't call it outright racist or white supremacist but it is an incredibly ignorant and arrogant.
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  782. When Graham made the comments a few weeks that he would NOT approve an Attorney General who would investigate Trump. Glenn Kirschner (former JAG & Federal Prosecutor) raised the point that Graham went from an outright anti-Trumper to a pro-Trumper after his emails were hacked. It was 2 months ago in early December and he did these 2 videos on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EnN3MlFrdI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbaXO_Ogw4I
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  783. 100% agree - If Donald Trump truly was a Christian he'd give the Bibles to Oklahoma. Jesus didn't charge admission to the Sermon on Mount and threw the grifters out of the temple in Jerusalem.
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  784.  @andrewpearson5504  My point is that in many cases they WONT do that for there own politicians because they are too scared to miss out on future interviews BUT they will always go after politicians they don't care about getting another interview from OR are unlikely to ever get another interview OR they know will have to come back in future. Although I will say that some people will always go after the politician in front of them and we DO NOT have enough of those.
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  785.  @lr6477  On some subjects and on others I lean right. I am not ideologically drive and I have no time or respect for ignorant clowns who are blinded by ideology.
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  786.  @KHAOS_CT  Great point. This person claims to have had COVID (no proof) and fails to mention what medical attention it required or any of the medications prescribed or if they were prescribed by a doctor or what sort of doctor was involved. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  787.  @mrblonde1264  There's a great short doco by DW news on Gain of Function and they don't go into conclusions they just explain what is verifiable. Half the problem with trying to discuss this as well as dozens of other topics are the insane levels of tribal bias that's going on. It doesn't matter how rational one side is being the other side immediately takes the 100% opposite side and starts screaming as loud as they can. I just had that on another subject on another video. I'm an aerospace engineer and the topic was small VERTICAL axis wind turbines (VAWTS). For 95% of all wind applications a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) wins because of better aerodynamic efficiency. But there's a few places you just can't put them because of how they work They need room to rotate. If they are small they can make a lot of noise, which might be fine in some places but not others like the roof of your house. Either you'd go nuts or your neighbor will want rip it off the roof. I see it almost constantly in engineering these days. People get attached to some technology and it suddenly becomes THE MAGIC SUPER TECH that will save humanity and anyone who questions it gets screamed at.
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  788. Just a question to you Americans -> Do you realise this isn't just a threat to American democracy its a threat to Western Society? FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. I love America and its people and totally hate what Trumpism has done to a fabulous country. However do you know we have similar issues here. We have billionaire named Clive Palmer who has his own party. He's our version Trump. His chief mutt, a total clown, named Craig Kelly is as bad as any of these GOP Trumpists like Green, Boebert, Cawthorn or Gosar. Go look anywhere in Europe and you find them there as well. Do any of you realise that Steve Bannon went round the world preaching his "Hyper Libertarian Revolution" and that he found supporters EVERYWHERE? Do any of you realise that whenever people like Bolsonaro in Brazil get asked questions they don't like they just howl back "Fake News"? Do any of you realise that the anti-vaxxer, conspiracy, antigovernmental, religious fundamentalists types are teaming up around the world? I'm interested in knowing if you guys realise that Trumpism is no longer an American issue?
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  789.  @montehammons7917  I know but I just want to see someone say it right to her face. That moment earlier this year on Howard Stern where she AGAIN blamed Bernie for losing in 2016 was just simply revolting. And she should not be ever let off for that shit.
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  790. AEROSPACE ENGINEER & PILOT HERE and you are 100% correct. BUT with respect ATC Controllers they are all pilots and that's across the world. Its a pre-requisite requirement of the job and you apply for the job or start training unless you are a pilot first. Its simply IMPOSSIBLE to become a pilot with "severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities"
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  791. Math Class in Trump land looks like. 1x2=1 3x4=2 5x6=3 7x8=4 9x10=5 Just ask Trump's tax accountant.
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  792. I am Australian and trying to point out the issues with our Agriculture Sector is like banging you head against a wall made of a combination of brick, carbon fibre, cement, marble, coated in carbide. In general we produce food for 75 million but only have 25 million. That means we feed about 50 million people in "other places." Australia's growth plan (if it can be called that) steadily moving towards 50-60 million because the economists say that will be good enough to support industry. What they really mean is that all those home loans will be a huge boon for the banks. BUT NOBODY wants to discuss what's to happen to all those people in other countries we feed. If we simply jump to 35 million. that means either we need to increase out own production to feed another 10 million or there's 10 million starving somewhere or 20 million only getting 1/2 the food they normally have. Either way we can expect several million starving people rocking up on our shore. Because starving people don't care about borders. AND THAT'S ONLY IF we have no issues with world wide food supply. The thing that really scares Australians (or the ones who are awake) is what happens of there's a crisis and millions of starving people see we have excess food.
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  793. I'm Australian but went to college in America in that late 80s on a sports scholarship. So unlike many other non-Americans I can testify to how good American education USED TO BE. I did aerospace engineering at a top level engineering school (U. Illinois). A bunch of my friends were pre-law and they used to drag me into their discussions on the constitution. It used to astound me how well educated ALL OF THEM WERE and even those NOT doing law could argue the US Constitution. It used to embarrass me how well even average non-college educated Americans were regarding how their country functioned and how the constitution worked. The answer was very simple America USED TO HAVE classes in what were called civics until a guy named George Bush defunded it. Having personally seen the benefits and now seeing the result I am 100% convinced the most important step ANY COUNTRY (including Australia) the the most important class anyone can do in high school after basic reading & writing is a CIVICS class pertinent to their country.
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  794. The same reason Trump stopped taking it to court. She knows she'd lose.
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  795. The question NO ONE seems to be asking is "Who's Junior's real father?" Don Snr is fair haired & fair skinned. Ivana Trump (wife #1) is fair haired and fair skinned. Ivanka & Eric (his supposed full sister and full brother) are both fair haired & fair skinned. Tiffany & Baron (his supposed 1/2 sister and 1/2 brother) are both fair haired & fair skinned. How come Don Jnr. has dark hair and an olive complexion???? I know its very Joffrey Baratheon Game of Thrones BUT WTF???
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  796.  @ComradCyborg  Well then what did his daddy ACTUALLY get done? Did he get Iran to sign a new nuclear deal? NO he just tore the old one up. Did he solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? NO that's still going. Did he get America out of Afghanistan? NO Biden did that. Did he get ANY new trade deals done that got America better trade relationships? NO he just tore up the ones the previous 3 Presidents had put in place. Did he actually lock up Hilary? NO as far as I know that old bat is still running around blaming Bernie Sanders for losing. Did he stamp out corruption? NO he just gave Ivanka and Jared cushy White House positions where they used tax payer money to make abo $400 Million. Did he actually drain the swamp? NO Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, and others are still there. Are we all missing something or is there something he ACTUALLY DID DO that benefitted anyone other than himself?????????
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  797. HEY KYLE We've experienced this in Australia We've experienced this in Canada We've experienced this in Greece We've experienced this in Spain We've experienced this in Russia WE ARE EXPERIENCING THIS EVERYWHERE and our firefighters are now jet setting world travellers. The Waterbombers go from country to country on a seemingly endless journey from one fire to the next.
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  798. Actually SOME of them understand those things very, very well. What some of those policies mean is that they might have to START Paying Tax and some of those policies might put some restrictions on what they can get away with. Below is an Isaac Asimov quote that a lot of people are referring to. Understand the hierarchy of the RNC KNOW without any doubt how to motivate their ignorant base. Everybody thought Trump was an idiot, but he knew what motivates people and knew how to manipulate ignorance. Hilary Clinton and all her people and most of the current DNC have totally missed that point and its why they lost in 2016 and only just won in 2020. The RNC base may be stupid and ignorant but those at the top aren't and they understand an ignorant clown gets 1 vote the same as a well educated college graduate. They know that if they get enough ignorant clowns out to vote then they win. The DNC need to wake up quickly or in 2022 they will be handing power back to the GOP and there ignorant hoard. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  799. Damn good point and I wish a lot more people thought that way. Everybody seems to forget what a mess he inherited from Barr. Did people seriously think ANYONE was going to be able to snap their fingers and the DOJ would magically be fixed? I thought baseball was America's pastime, now it seems to have been replaced with ignorant stupidity.
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  800. Ever since David first brought it up I have been ramming it down there throats when they make stupid comments. I even got one Google account (others have reported the same) when I pointed out and entire channel was a Trump backing scam. Yes there are channels here on YT that were set up for people to scam Trump supporters. The guy who got my account canceled had a series of vids claiming to all how Trump won this and that and how he needed money to keep spreading "the truth" (sound familiar). The there are the evangelists that David pointed out yesterday. Trumps not the only one cashing in on these people.
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  801. For everyone unfamiliar with Sherri Tenpenny here's her Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherri_Tenpenny Note how she PROFITS from certain things including her promotion of Ty Bollinger's videos who has NO MEDICAL TRAINING As an Australian I'm proud we cancelled her ability to bring here garbage here and I hope America (where I went to college) finds a way to cancel her medical license.
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  802. Its not just MSMS its the entire commercial media landscape. Way back in 2004 in the famous documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" there was a warning that if the media continued as it was then eventually the entire media landscape would be dragged down into Rupert's gutter. It's an amazing prediction.
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  803. I can see the day coming when one of these charlatans steps out of his front door like John Lennon did. The difference will be, while John Lennon is fondly remembered and Mark Chapman is hated, when this clown steps out his front door NOBODY will miss him and people will laud the other guy as a hero.
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  804. No what's truly horrifying is that another almost 11 million extra people voted for him in 2020 despite all the evidence of his corruption. What's almost as staggering is that Biden seems intent on winding America back into the circumstances that got Trump elected in the first place. Hiring Goldman Sachs and McKinsey goons isn't smart at this time. One thing that is missed way too often in the discussion is that a large slab of Western society has been just dumped as "worthless" by the political elite. Look around the world Trump isn't unique except that he's American. Most of the world has had at various times one of these sorts of populists, Americans just never expected to have their own version or that he would get elected as POTUS. By far the biggest issue America faces isn't how to get rid of Trump its how to get his base of the Trump Kool Aid. Yesterday I saw a single frame from one of the Trump rallies and it was a guy holding up a sign that read - "Deplorable Lives Matter." Many, many Trump supporters and particularly the agitators like Sarah Palin need to be told to shut up. But those who felt so disenfranchised they felt they had nothing else to do but vote Trump need to be re-engaged. Because if people don't listen to them and re-engage with them and just leave them in the gutter with no prospects of a decent life, they will vote for Trump or one of his kids in 2024 and that could be the worst of worst disasters.
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  805. Yeah I got the same as did other people who pointed that he might not be well. He's always appeared as calm and in control, but the other day he was holding a page and his hands were twitching and trembling. Its wasn't major but it was noticeable.
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  806.  @zaksilva-sampaio7876  I agree with you - there's a lot of hyperbole in the comments here. They were never outright against the War and Sagaar was way more vociferous on it that Krystal. They were however against US involvement. Sagaar like many libertarian conservatives is an isolationist. His world view is people should help themselves and like most libertarians he's utterly oblivious to the stupidity of that position. He's of that Ayn Rand mindset that everyone is born equal and have the same opportunities and any failure to be successful is their fault. He's not as bat crap crazy as many but that mindset pokes through too much. He wasn't so bad when he and Krystal were still at the Hill. I used to like the dynamic they had back then , because you did get to hear different sides and views to many discussions. It wasn't a fishbowl environment where there was just one way to see things. But since starting Breaking Points that Libertarian side Sagaar of poked through more and more which was why I finally gave up and unsubscribed.
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  807. I tend tp agree but I think he's also gliding over some very complex issues very simplistically. Take the Lab Leak. In the early it wasn't just a lab leak it was a weapon either accidentally released or deliberately released. Dr. Michael Osterholm (director of CIDRAP) and one of the few people who's been both accurate and realistic about the whole pandemic, pointed out (earlier in 2021) that between the outright natural occurrence and the leaked weapon there's 1000s of answers but only 1 is correct. Konstantin fails to point out we never got to have a rational public discussion on the origin. There other thing he completely glides over (or outright ignores) was Trumps politicizing of the issue. America is now fundamentally a 2 bipartisan tribal state where people are (by peer pressure) driven into 1 of 2 camps. The moment Trump politicized and the rest of American politics jumped into the fray there were 2 answers and nothing else was allowed to be discussed. There in lies the problem of over simplifying complex problems which is only ever made worse by politics and catastrophic by partisan politics. The number of discussable answers becomes limited because GROUP THINK TAKES OVER and you are either 100% with your group or you are the enemy. I like these guys but he's dug a bit of a hole here which we all do at times. We want or present simple answers to complex problems. Occasionally the simple answer is all we need, but that's the exception not the norm.
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  808. I'm an aerospace engineer. I work in industrial automation, control systems and robotics. Like so many people Elon relies on people confusing what they see coming out of Hollywood and what's actually feasible. He's not the first, Elizabeth Holmes copied the 1 drop blood testing in Gattaca. David Icke copied his lizard people from the original TV series 'V.' Musk just copies what ever is convenient at that moment. Some of the water from air scammers copied Uncle Owen from Star Wars. As an engineer its incredibly frustrating these days to see what so many people do. I'm grateful to the debunkers for at least trying to set the record straight. Even when the debunkers get something wrong (and they do sometimes) they are at least trying to properly inform people. On one hand YouTube and the rest of social media are great on the other they are a curse that's plaguing society with so much crap and garbage its now almost impossible to fix what needs fixing.
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  809. I hear he's writing his memoires. The title is "Desperately seeking relevance"
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  810. I believe there was this person named Miranda who had some advice for them. It went something like: "You have the right to remain silent..................."
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  811. The British rebel economist Gary Stevenson (here on YT) had a great line about when people like David Koch talk about how good or bad things are or how great or worse things would be if certain things were done. He said just add the 2 words "for us" to the end of everything they say. If they say something like "Getting rid of that regulation will be good." add those 2 words. If they say something like "The economy is going great." add those 2 words. If they say something like "The economy is a shambles." add those 2 words. Then everything they say makes sense.
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  812. I'm Australian and I'd agree. I find Patrick about as exciting as watching paint dry. BUT in doing his homework and explaining how something has happened and where its likely headed he's the best I know of. Too many of the people who are on YouTube are hopeless at their history and history is full of valuable information. History is full of lessons on nations handing out state assets for less than what they were worth to rogues and criminals. We used to call them Lords and Dukes and Counts. Now we call them Oligarchs. And yes we have done it here in Australia too, we just haven't done it to the extent it was done Russia.
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  813. Well I remember a couple of history lessons on countries that America claims went backwards over the last 40 years from exactly this sort of fanaticism - Iran and Afghanistan
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  814. YouTube no longer allows anyone to vent their anger or frustration at how vile these people are. To profit of the misery and pain of others by inflicting even more pain upon their lives has to be one of the most disgusting things a person can do.
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  815. ​ @Falcon2609  I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). One of my college mates spent time in Central America while doing his PhD which was in "How to teach teachers to teach foreign languages" and his main (after English) language was Spanish. In one case (early 90s) the State Department made the arrangements and he was in a luxury villa in a small town in one of the Central American countries. Its been years so I can't recall the exact details but this is as close as I can recall what happened. One day he woke up to what he said was a scene out of Hollywood film. The house was full of immaculately dressed soldiers with mirrored sunglasses and pristine American made M16s. He was invited to have breakfast with Person 'X.' During breakfast 'X' asked him about the town and if he was being treated well to which he said "very well." 'X' then asked if he had any questions to which he sad "No" so 'X' prodded him with something like "I know there's that one question every American wants to ask someone in my position and they should ask." So my friend as tactfully as he could asked about human rights. Person 'X' said words to the effect "That's the question every American should ask and he'd answer it as soon as America wants to discuss what they'd done in Countries A, B, C,......." The crazy part of that is that I have heard people from the small nations surrounding Australia in the Pacific say very similar things about Australia. So I know (99% certain) there's things our countries do that we would never approve of. We don't discuss things and we should.
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  816.  @wilmaroles4375  That's because like so many others in the media she does mix opinion and fact together making it hard to separate what's fact that we can check. Its not a problem she has, its a problem the entire media system has its just worse in some cases than others. People tend to forget that opinion is just that opinion, you can't really fact check it but you can check what its based on as well as it might be ignoring.
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  817.  @Seevawonderloaf  I can absolutely understand why someone who's Indian doubts European sources like the BBC, DW or France24 or even Australia's ABC. The same can be said regarding many African people. I have worked with a few Indians here in Oz. So I'm aware there's a lot of history that we don't appreciate that well (if at all).
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  818. Aerospace engineer and fellow pilot - I absolutely agree. Its NOT simply a matter of the flying its what the guys in the cockpit do when that 1 in a million moment happens and its the training those guys have that makes the difference between landing and crashing.
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  819. LETS NOT FORGET that a certain Donald Trump who tried to cancel the results of an election in his own country PRAISED the leadership of North Korea.
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  820. Actually that's a big issue with empty folders marked as classified. There often is no detailed record of what's in those folders. There might be something like how many pages but not the details of those pages. Somebody explained this a few months back. Other than a title and reference numbers, there's rarely any details on the outside packaging of classified materials of what those materials are.
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  821. That's the bit that will start to come back on these people. I can see a point where the other side of America simply loses its cool with all this shit. As an Australian who went to college in America I find this all incredibly sad. America's strength (basically its real superpower) always was that it could UNITE and deal with any issue it faced or anything it wanted to do. Kennedy simply said lets go to the moon and America simply did and did it a bunch of times just to prove that USA meant the United States of Awesome. But somehow America's lost that. Sadly (at the moment) I just don't see how any current American politician can get that back. Also I find it horrible that an Australian (Rupert Murdoch) has been so significant in this division. He's been just as bad here and in Britain. I fear that what he's done is drag the media so far into the gutter that we can't get it out despite all the efforts of many, many people.
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  822. Its called working for a multi-billion dollar conglomerate run by one of the nastiest sociopaths in recent centuries. As an Australian I can't apologize for Rupert Murdoch enough (none of us Australians can). He's been at this game for decades where he thinks anything is acceptable so long as he's making money. There's no amount of sleaze he wont exploit if he can make a dollar from it. We tried warning the Brits when he moved there and they didn't listen. We tried to warn America and you didn't listen either. I can see a day coming when we (as in all of us) are going to have to deal with these media people who are just vile propagandists. And its not just people on the right, although they are the most well funded and most vocal, its all of them. We are going to have to deal with all these bad faith actors and I can't see it ending well.
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  823.  @gammagongetya8967  They said Trump preached faith. Nobody said he practiced it.
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  824. I'm Australian and I agree. I was actually in Canada for work when Trump tore up NAFTA and hit Canada with tariffs. There's actually a lot of anti-American sentiment in Australia, but its also conditional. It was best described by an American a few years ago who said. "Australians love Americans, but hate America!" What they basically said is we like Americans (as people) but we can't stand the political beast that is America. Oddly we can't stand our political beast either. When I was in Canada I noticed how Canadians talk about Ottawa and its EXACTLY how we talk about Canberra and EXACTLY how Americans talk about Washington and EXACTLY about how Europeans talk about Brussels and EXACTLY how Brits talk about London. My bet is Chinese say the same about Beijing and Russians say the same about Moscow. However, America is a slightly different problem, because its at the centre of Western Trade and Security. Even the most ardent anti-American in Australia will admit that a "healthy functioning America" is in our best interests. Because of all these American issues (like SCOTUS) that are destabilising America, we're starting to ask the question as others will also have to do: "What does a destabilised America mean for our trade and security?"
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  825. Sad but very true.
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  826. At this moment Medhi might be, but he (like all journalists) needs to be mindful of what Matt Taibbi's problem is. Matt's become so convinced of the infallibility of his own voice that he's forgotten that's fallible.
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  827. What they have done is almost standard practice for religious movements with the goal of political power AND ITS NOT a Christian specific thing either. There's a common technique used by religious people where they lift a line or phrase out of the text and literally flip it on end and make it the opposite meaning to suit circumstances. One of the best examples of that is that snippet out of Romans 12:19 "Vengence is mine, says the Lord." Its regarded as one of the great misquotes of human history. Its been used as the Battle Cry for 100s of Christian armies over many centuries. Go read what that paragraph actually says - its the complete opposite. The Muslim suicide bombers and done similar by claiming its a from of martyrdom. Dozens of Muslim scholars have come out and said that's a misinterpretation. They completely ignore those parts that regard suicide as a sin and twist the parts on Martyrdom to include suicide if its against an enemy. The Seven Mountains people are doing similar. Both Revelations and Isiah use word pictures (like are used in parables) and its very easy to lift parts out and flip it into anything you want. But sometimes the explanations are right there in the text. In Rev 17 its says various part of the beast represent political entities as in kings & kingdoms. There's a woman riding on the back of that beast and what social institution has ridden on the back of politics like a prostitute selling itself in any way necessary to retain power, influence and wealth? Answer - organised religion. Revelation 17 is NOT about a religious movement taking over political control. Its the complete opposite. Its about secular politics getting tired of organised religion riding on its back and then turning on it and tearing it to pieces.
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  828.  @jaxstax2406  Due get your facts right. Kaplan is the Judge in the Prince Andrew civil trial. For sure he's an asshole for the Donziger case BUT DON'T MAKE SHIT UP or you are no better than the Trump supporters.
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  829. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980. “Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” ― Rod Sterling introducing the Twilight episode “The Obsolete Man” originally aired on June 2, 1961 on CBS. “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche All great quotes but this one sums up the Republicans. “Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a state of utter confusion.” ― Colonel Flagg of the CIA in an episode of M.A.S.H. sometime in the 1970s.
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  830. DUDE NO WAY. Delta house would never take this piece of crap. Flounder was dumb, stupid and idiotic, but he was also fun and lovable 2 things this guy will never be after this garbage. He's a proper Omega Theta Pi (the assume the position boys). A drop box is his evidence for fraud - a box with a slot and a lockable lid is somehow fraud??? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️
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  831. You're exactly right. I am an engineer (aerospace) and what we (as in society) call AI is NOT something that thinks. They are basically giant numerical models that use statistical analysis to set their parameters so they can MIMIC what a human might say or do. In certain types of data analysis where the task is well defined and repetitive like facial recognition and fingerprint analysis they can do it at incredible speed. What I hate most of all are the proponents of AI dramatically overstating its capabilities while underplaying its threat to society. The immediate threat isn't a Skynet "nuke us all" scenario, its mass unemployment because there are clowns who believe the AI will just do the job better, faster and cheaper. that might be Ok in a few places but when corporations suddenly dump massive slabs of humanity onto the streets its a problem. All of our modern capitalist economies operate on SPENDING. To spend people have to earn money first. Even with credit people must still earn. If a society is NOT earning enough money it CAN'T spend enough to keep the system going. Its a fairly simple concept and most of the worlds economists and journalists are willfully ignorant that their jobs will be among the first to go. Who will need an economist when the AI can do market analysis faster and more reliably. Who will need expensive news anchors, analysts, weather presenters, camera operators, sound people, lighting people and producers when the AI can do it all in a simulation and pump it out. 🤯🤯🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  832. Actually its bullshit. Ord river's early days were a bust because they went for cotton, which is easily one of the most damaging crops on the planet. Ask the Russians about the Aral Sea. But this is all based on old information. In recent decades they switched towards vegetables and melons to supply demand in Asia and that stuff has been incredibly profitable. I know that because one of my previous neighbors was a seed merchant who did business in the Ord. Seedless water melons and tomatoes make huge money out of the ord. Also my brother used to work for VISY ad they have a huge division in Darwin selling packaging into that market.
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  833. I heard that America's financial situation is so bad Ted Cruz can't afford to fly his family 1st class to another country the next time the Texas power Grid fails. Instead they'll have to go coach and he's uncertain how his kids will handle the trauma. Ted Cruz is proof a Princeton & Harvard education does not include a sense of humor, morals or ethics.
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  834. The problem with this discussion is that it is simply 2 people agreeing with each other in front of an audience who want to hear what they want to hear, but they are right about a few things. I am an engineer and there is some very valid points in this like the fact that electric trucks have failed and there is no electric alternative to diesel tractors. The other industry that wont be changing at all is the metallurgical coal for making steel. They are also right that the integrated plan will NOT WORK, but the real reason why is something these 2 clowns don't talk about. But on so many other points they are either WRONG or they are just leaving out facts they should be telling everyone. One major thing they do not tell you is that the nuclear option will cost EVERY HOUSEHOLD in Australia at least $25,000 in high energy bills while it gets built. It will simply take at least 25 years to build out what's proposed and that will mean your power bills will stay the same for the next 25 years costing you at least $1000 each year. The real cause why our energy bills are so high is because we haven't built nay major power stations in 25 years. the last reasonably large (but still under 1,000MW) power stations were Millmerran and Kogan Creek in Queensland. The 3 biggest power stations in Australia at Eraring & Bayswater in NSW and Loy Yang in Victoria were all built in the 1980s. Meanwhile the population went from 15 million in the 80s to 20 million in the early 2000s and its now 27 million. WE SIMPLY HAVE NOT BUILT ENOUGH POWER STATIONS. The real problem with the Integrated plan is that our renewables HAVE NOT BEEN PLANNED. Its all be dictated by the foreign companies building it. Its NOT been well planned and that's why its a mess. As for coal to be used for power is a dead industry and they all know it. Even the Chinese have stopped building coal. They're building nuclear and renewables side by side. In fact the Chinese have installed more renewables in recent years than the rest of the world combined. In some of their provinces 80% of homes now have roof top solar.
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  835. I didn't need 18 minutes I didn't need even need 1 second Its simple they buy something with the express goal of EXATRACTING as much money as possible, as fast as possible, by whatever means possible without caring about any consequences to anyone else while telling everyone how fantastic they are.
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  836. ​ @sprockkets  The weird thing is there's no specific number legislated for how many SCOTUS there are meant to be. There's been times when there were other numbers including one period where there was only 8 because nobody could agree on who to be the 9th. At some point the US Government needs to sort out what the Supreme Court should be and how it should work so that never again can it be captured by a handful of billionaires. Unfortunately there are people who will interfere with any changes for no other reason than they don't want ANYTHING to change unless its in their favor and then there are the Ayn Rand and Milton Freidman types who don't want any government deciding anything.
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  837. You're right Obama ran on the very popular and simple "Hope & Change" which was inspiring and brilliant. Mark Blyth does a really good explanation on it during an answer about Elizabeth Warren -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s But over time Obama was exposed as just another machine operative politician. He never closed Gitmo or ended the Wars (in fact he expanded the drone program) and if you watch the fake sip of water when he was in Flint that totally exposes him for his BS.
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  838. FIRST let me say that this group Thom's describing is despicable and the guy running it is a turd. SECOND Its not just simply women rejecting bad men they are rejecting a lot of good men too. I've watched several of my friends get their lives utterly torn up by their wives. They were not abusive or bad or did anything but try and be decent husbands. One just left one day leaving him with 2 wonderful kids because her boss bought her a car. About 15 years ago I read a report written by a FEMALE psychologist who pointed out that many of her patients were women depressed over their perception there were no men good enough for them to share a life with. She even wrote a book about this. She put much of the blame on an aspect of feminism that said "be demanding of men" being taken out of context. In terms of women demanding that men treat them fairly and with respect I don't no many men who don't agree with that, BUT what this psychologist said was that too many women had these lists of demands as to what a husband should be. These lists were unrealistic leaving a lot of women depressed.
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  839. There's an interview somewhere where Trump was asked about his first meeting with Melania and he said EXACTLY what you said. He was there to meet another girl and said no I want to know who she is (pointing at Melania). What wasn't mentioned was WHERE they met.
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  840. ENGINEER HERE and I TOTALLY AGREE with your assessment of Peter as I have the same issue when he talks about engineering topics. He's great on geopolitics but lousy on engineering. Here's 2 examples. 1/2 to most of the time he talks about things like the Russian Oil wells freezing and being out of action for decades because the American experts have left Russia IS SIMPLY WRONG because he assumes that over the last 20-30 years NONE of the Russian engineers or maintenance people learned anything from operating those wells. Sorry but its an absurd idea that the American experts never trained the local Russians on how to look after their own oil wells and/or that the Russians never learned anything off the Americans. Second, Peter often mentions that Wind and Solar need 100% (or close to) of their lifetime costs up front compared to things like a nuclear power station or coal fired power station because those stations have fuel costs for the lifetime of their operation. Its actually true that when you look at LIFETIME costs Wind and Solar have most of those costs upfront because they have few costs after construction. BUT engineers and investors don't consider lifetime costs as much as they do CAPITAL COSTS which is the money you have to spend getting approvals, getting things designed, getting things constructed and then commissioned so that whatever it is your building can start earning money. In terms of CAPITAL COSTS wind & solar now annihilate nuclear and handily beat coal and other fossil fuels. Just go and look at the costs per Megawatt installed (and that word "installed" is really important). Where there is a leveling of that space are in the grid modifications to link the Wind & Solar to the power grid. I think Peter's problem in these areas is that he does NOT consult with good subject matter experts (SMEs) like the does in other areas. This is why he has certain figures that are way off. Its also likely his economics is skewed by the incredibly poor way economic is taught and that's a subject I have been researching for sometime because it has had huge effects on engineering but that's a much longer discussion. By the way - I'm Australian and love the channel. I was like many introduced to you by Ward Carroll another of the rare breed of YouTubers who endeavor to educate people.
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  841. I'm Australian but went to college at U. Illinois. So I know the Midwest reasonably well. This is kind of surprising because I thought it would have been Delaware (the world capital of tax evasion) or Idaho (the world capital of Russian money) or Texas (the world capital of "look over there at what they are doing"). My take on Ohio is that for every 2 children in Ohio one ends up playing sport for the Buckeyes and the other one learns to read & write.
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  842. In other countries its referred to as "balance of power" I'm Australian but went to college in America. This seems to be something that Americans don't understand well because you have evolved over time into this 2 party system. Go and check the history. America has had many other parties in the past they just never managed to last. Imagine if you have 2 major parties (A & B) and a 3rd minor party (C). Party A gets 48% of the seats, Party B gets 47% and Party C gets the other 5%. In most places Party A will form the government because they have the most seats unless Parties B & C form a coalition. Either way Party C has enormous leverage because they can independently choose to pass or block any proposal. Hence the term "balance of power." If this power is used well it can be very good, but if its used badly it can be a disaster. Here in Australia we actually had this a few election cycles back. Politically speaking it was one of the quietest times in Australian history because everyone had to behave and be reasonable. But then we were fairly lucky because the minor parties and independents we have are mostly centrists and NOT radicals. If you have a look at some of the European countries or Israel where this happens then the minor party might be a Left or Right radical. When those sorts of minor parties hold the balance of power they tend to wield it like a log splitter (as in a big heavy axe) and be very destructive. I actually think AOC and the Squad missed a real opportunity when there was the "force the vote" issue. Forget the outcome it would have shown that they COULD step up and demand action on something. It would have earned them respect.
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  843. Australian with an outside perspective - 100% in Agreement. Kamala won the debate buy so much Trump refused to debate her again. She then had that disaster of an interview where she said she would not do anything different. Tim Walz should have flattened JD Vance but didn't. He simply should have thrown down and said "I get things done. Look at my record. I get things done." Kamala should have said the one thing she would have liked was Joe Boden letting her do more as VP which is why she picked Tim Walz. She could have said "I know I can give him a task and he will get it done." What would have been the counterpoint to that? No matter what JD Vance said they could have replied "Why don't you go deal with your cats & dogs problem first!" I think Tim Walz should have gone on Rogan with the instruction that every time he gets stuck he could have said "that's a great point, but at least I'll have time to work on it because I don't have to worry about cats & dogs" and when Rogan finally would stop him he could say "Well what do you want - people who want to do the job or people who want to speak nonsense about eating cats and dogs? I don't have every answer to every question but at least I want to do the job." Be blunt and be direct. This is the problem with Leftists the world over and we have EXACTLY the same issue with the Australian Labor Party. They are never direct and straightforward and always send confusing messages. Instead of staying focused on the TASK they keep finding ways to turn triumph into disaster.
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  844. Do we really need 5 almost 6 minute explanation of how much of a garbage human being CO is. David use your time BETTER this should not have been more than a 90 second piece. No more than what it takes to remind us how pathetic she is.
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  845.  @llamallama9637  And lets not forget the perpetrators of the Invasion of Iraq were never held accountable for it. Its what as encouraged others to do these sorts of things
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  846.  @jamesmurphy9426  Please go and see a doctor, you need help.
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  847. No - he's a political snake who knows his audience and as a political snake he poisons the discussion.
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  848.  @dalepottie5850  No its simpler than that. You can't make fine wine out of vinegar in the first place. As in she was already vinegar.
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  849.  @felixcosty  Absolutely and its called "Scientism" and you are 100% right on the techno word salad mentality. I just watched the latest podcast Prof. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) did with George DeMartino. Yes its about Economics but it mentions why Economics as a Science is failing and one part of that is the ignorance of economists to the real world. The guy who started this thread just mentioned to me in another comment the IoT which is a technology that's changed nothing because its a technology that is NOT a solution to any of the worlds problems. Yet to its proponents it will solve all sorts of things but they can't name any. Its the same problem with AI and a similar problem with QC. Yes they can all do things but are they things we really need as in where in the priority list are they?
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  850.  @MattH-wg7ou  I'm Australian but I went to college in the states where I first learned to fly gliders while doing my degree in aerospace. Finally after many years I got round to doing my powered license. Got my aerobatics and started competing. It all got cut off a couple of years ago after I picked up a very nasty virus. Hoping to get back to some before too long. Down here all weather information services are in kilometers. Fuel is delivered in liters. Temperature is in Celsius. Weight is in kilograms. But any aircraft built in the US has manuals with gallons and Fahrenheit and pounds. We have to be especially careful with gallons because there's 2 - US (3.8l) and Imperial (4.5l). So you do need to be very careful with fuel.
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  851. But don't forget the base he has tapped into already existed and its NOT and American thing. Every country has a base like this and if you get a political animal like this tap into that base you get outcomes just like this. Hitler did it, Pol Pot did it, Stalin did it, Saddam Hussein did it, Xi Jinping is doing it right now over the Taiwan issue and The Kims in North Korea have done it for 3 generations. There isn't anything new about this and it doesn't matter squat what politics the leader claims to follow. Leftism, Rightism, Centrist, Islamist, Christian, Atheism, Capitalism, Communism, Socialism,... It does not matter what "ism" you care to call it. If you let a narcissistic sociopath gain traction with a disgruntled base that prefers ignorance over rational thought it never ends well.
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  852. Well unfortunately the last country to ever have qualification requirements for public office in a democracy was ancient Athens where you first had to be a citizen before you could vote or hold office. The late great Isaac Asimov summed it up best: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  853.  @s.a.2317  Nice way to demonstrate avoidance of the topic, "whataboutism" and deflection all in 1 comment. Your grade school teacher must be so proud!!!!!!!!! I don't think Biden is the guy who is going to magically save America from itself, BUT AT LEAST HE FINISHED high school and then college and then law school.
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  854. Here's 3 basic facts we can all agree on. 1 - Everybody knows Trump is running again in 2024. 2 - Everybody knows Mike Pence will NOT be his VP. 3 - Everybody knows Marjorie Taylor Green has been promoting herself as Trumps potential VP for months.
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  855. That's a great sentiment but unfortunately this subject (like others) has been flipped into a "tribalized political" discussion where the facts both pro & con are no longer valid. Think about how many kids actually need these treatments. Its a tiny group of kids. Why is there so much public discussion on it?. What does it ACTUALLY matter to Tucker Carlson if there's that 1 kid in 1,000 or 10,000 or 100,000 who needs some form of special care? It no longer has anything to do with medical care, preventative or otherwise. Its just a stick for the tribes to beat their drums with. I'm an engineer and we have exactly the same problem with energy. The whole energy crisis is what it is because of the tribalism that dominates public discussions. Engineers have been trying to warn people about what would happen, but the moment anyone tries to have any sensible discussion the tribes start beating their drums and screaming at the world. Both my parents were high school teachers and the same has happened in education. Anytime someone tries to talk about anything sensible in education the tribes start beating their drums and screaming at the world. Look at the CRT issue and how something that has never been formally taught in any high school anywhere on the planet became a hysterical screaming shitfest. So long as the Tucker Carlson's of the world are handed the microphone and allowed to set things on fire we won't be able to solve anything.
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  856. Seriously when will Hilary Clinton get the message "SHUT UP and GO AWAY" No one should be interested in a failure that LOST to Trump, because she was too busy sucking up to Wall Street types.
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  857. Go tell that to a neoliberal economist and watch them freak out. As far as they are concerned the only place where economic value happens is in the markets. Yes its a ridiculous concept but its what they actually believe.
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  858. I hear they blame their left testicle when their sons can't throw a football.
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  859.  @dantevargas  I'm Australian. We warned Britain what Rupert Murdoch was like when he went there - they didn't listen. We warned America what Rupert Murdoch was like when he went there - they didn't listen either. Its one of those human things. Nobody listens. People prefer ignorance until that day when it happens and then they scream about why nobody warned them. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  860. AUSTRALIAN HERE - we have some experience with bad fires, the loss of life, loss of property and general mayhem of lives being ripped apart. After our last major fire season in 2019 there was the same sort of political misinformation campaign and a lot of it came from the MURDOCH media. Murdoch people made so many claims about arson that we ended up spending millions on a full public enquiry that investigated more than 30 of the major fires that season. YES we had over 30 major fires that season and in the end NOT ONE fire was found to be caused by arson, but there were a couple of inconclusive causes. The vast majority of fires in Australia are from lightning strikes and power lines where there's been insufficient maintenance keeping the power lines clear of trees. Another major factor was a shortening of the time period when we could safely burn-off of the fuel loads. Just as Adams recent guest Dr. Daniel Swain explained about California we'd had several good years of rain that caused a lot of growth followed by a drought which dried it all out. So the fuel load in 2019 was very high making those fires worse than usual. The other thing that the faux-media (with few exceptions) point out is that like Australian Eucalyptus trees the California scrub brush is high in oil content. The sap in those trees is a form of oil. So they don't just burn they literally explode when the fire gets fierce enough. In 2019 we had trees blast apart and shower the surrounding area in eucalyptus oil. Another thing the faux-media fail to highlight is the effects of an unusually high hot wind event. We knew in 2019 that it was going to be a day of high winds and it doesn't matter who's in charge they can't affect the weather. All you can do is hope to be prepared well enough with water, fire trucks, water bombers and people, that you can handle the situation.
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  861.  @UlexiteTVStoneLexite  Same here except I haven't been to a Roger Waters show. Maybe if this comes to Australian I will. Roger hasn't changed from being Roger and part of that is challenging power no matter what color it wears.
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  862.    You're right - "Some things are good and some things aren't." I think when he's talking about psychology he's good but then he should be its his area of expertise. When he's on politics, economics and the environment he's garbage. He mentions a real piece of garbage named Bjorn Lomberg who's an economist. I think he said they were on some sort of UN climate committee together. Lomberg is very good at clever mis-directions. He's like a 2nd gen Milton Freidman, who for some unknown reason is still worshipped by people as an economic genius.
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  863. I'm an engineer have been critical of some of Peters engineering analysis at times. I think he's totally wrong about the Russian oil & gas wells freezing because after being there 20years at least some of the American expertise will have transferred to the locals. That happens quite naturally because as engineers we always have to deal with the locals and they naturally pick up experience. However in this case he's dead right. I have watched a couple of the videos on the ASML photolithography machines and they are at the very top end of microchip technology. Even if the Chinese or Russians or anyone else could get their hands on one its only part of the technology needed to make high end microchips.
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  864. One of the better quotes a few have been commenting on. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Here's a couple of mine for reference. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980. “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain "He's America's colonoscopy – it’s all on camera, you don't wanna watch, it helps to be sedated for the whole thing and it’s a huge pain in the ass!" ― Stephen Colbert Sept. 2020
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  865.  @dandoll4405  Another of Issacs “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  866. Along with that BS about the Israeli air force Peter is also 100% wrong about the differences between solid fuel and liquid fuel rockets. Its liquid fuel rockets that are far more complex than solid fuel. In simplest terms solid fuel rockets are tubes with a nozzle. There are no pumps or valves or any of the fueling systems required. Its an idiotic claim and it shows YET AGAIN that when it comes to engineering topics Peter does NOT KNOW what he's talking about. FYI - I have a degree in aerospace engineering.
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  867. Australian here - its just amazing that whatever Americans do they always find a way to OUT DO the rest of the world and that includes "f*cking up." Usually we tag along for this stuff, but thankfully this time you didn't invite us. 🫡
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  868. That's an incredibly valid point and its exactly what the British did for centuries and extensively during WW1 and WW2. I'm Australian and they got so many Australian and New Zealanders killed in WW1 that it crippled Australia's growth until the post WW2 Baby Boom. You can go to almost any country town in Australia and there's a memorial with the names of those lost in "The Great War" as it was called at the time. If you look at those names you can see the names of families where they lost an entire generation of sons. I have a good friend who's Scottish and he says the Brits did the same with the Scots, Irish and Welsh for centuries.
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  869. LET'S NOT FORGET THIS WAS FIRST AIRED IN OCTOBER 2012. That's 10 years ago and look at what has happened in American politics in that time. Thom Hartman was recently pointed out that America's 465 Billionaires spent over $900 million on the 2022 midterm election campaigns that over $800 million of that came from about 25 of them. Notable among big money doners Barre Seid the Chicago billionaire donated a company to the Federalist Society who then sold that company for $1.6 Billion. If Barre Seid had sold the company first he would have had to pay something of the order of $400 million in state taxes. Instead the Federalist Society got all of it.
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  870. As an Australian all I can say is that he's at least no bothering us anymore. I wonder if that offer for him to go for swim had anything to do with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWPh8AIVLaA
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  871. Its not just Vance its a lot of politicians these days. Its become almost standard practice. Irrespective of the question say "..........." British politician Rory Stewart recently described this as the "dead cat strategy" and that Boris Johnson constantly played it and that Trump constantly plays it. Irrespective of what is asked and its especially true when a scandal breaks "throw a dead cat on the table." The idea is that no matter what the question is or the scandal is EVERYONE has to talk about the dead cat that's just been thrown on the table and that causes lots of noise, distraction and most importantly delays discussing anything else. Recently there were fresh reports of Trump being compromised by the Russians with something new. That's been swept aside by all the "dead cats."
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  872.  @toomaskotkas4467  That's quite possibly true. In Australia we have had more than a few make the same claim about our first nations. I went to college in America and they have people who say the same there about their first nations. As far as I know the Romans said the same about the Barbarians of Northern Europe 2000 years ago. Its a very common claim by those who invade or those who take over or those who come in bearing gifts and promising development. I just saw a story the other day about a Rio Tinto mine in South Africa where there's violence. The locals were promised jobs and development and have seen neither. We have had similar claims here in Australia about mining companies and gas companies coming in promising a "golden era" of jobs and prosperity. Funny how the same story keeps getting repeated. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  873.  @Oniijh  To quote Geena Davis from the Long Kiss Goodnight: "Were you born this stupid or did you take classes?" I answered that - he ran a better campaign and/or the Dem was that hopeless. Same as how Trump flipped Michigan, Ohio and Penn - Hilary snubbed them and Trump actually campaigned there. Just by going there he did better and Hilary despite her fanbase really was a SHlT candidate. Its not that hard to understand. Its a lesson for all political parties. You can put up a SHlT candidate so long as the other candidate is WORSE.
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  874. Australian here - our politics is a mess right now but American politics is like watching a 747 crash during a tornado and as it crashes it slams into a highway causing a mega pile up including a tanker trailer exploding in a fireball. It then bounces off a bridge as a train loaded with toxic chemical waste goes over the bridge before it finally crashes into a nuclear power station as an Earthquake hits. There is no other political dumpster fire going on anywhere that's as bad as American politics. Its not so much a race to the bottom but a reality show where the winner is declared as the person who can do the most ridiculous thing or make the most absurd claim. I'm waiting for De-sanctimonious is to claim the dog ate his speech notes or Elon to claim that a rat ate through one of the sound cables
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  875. Your final line sums up the actual issue PERFECTLY and I know because its sums up the attitude that all managers have in EVERY industry. I'm an engineer who works in control systems. The combination of sensors, computers and actuators that run things like power stations, mine sites and factories. And we get exactly the same attitude from everyone else. Other people conceive, other people project manage, other people design, other people build AND THEN we make it all work in software. The most common question a control system engineer is asked by everyone else is "Can you fix that in software?" and we get asked that for every problem. The Boeing Max-8 is a perfect example of where the answer to everyone else's issue was "fix it in software." Then they wouldn't let the guys put in a proper redundant system with backups and the answer to that was "fix it in software" and we all know how that worked out. Your saying the directors, actors, sound guys and producers do the same sort of thing. Whenever I have spoken to people in other industries they all have their version of this. In politics its called "Kicking the can down the road." Its when they just keep delaying a decision or some legislation until someone else is left with the task. In some industries its called "hot potato management" which is when you (fast as possible) delegate tasks to other people BEFORE you get your fingers burnt. It all comes from business management strategies to do with delegation and avoidance of responsibility. On the surface it sounds right. If you delegate work and responsibility to people that sounds like the right thing to do. BUT in practice its more like "This is a problem, who can we dump it on and AVOID responsibility." Think about how many times you have heard lines like "It was the fault of a subcontractor!" or "We followed the advice of experts (or consultants)" or "It was missed in review" or anyone of dozens of versions of "It was somebody else's fault!"
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  876.  @marquisdemoo1792  I'm really looking forward to the Foundation series when I can get it. I've read the entire robots through Foundation including the short stories. I started circa 1985 and It took me years but I eventually found a second hand copy of "The Currents of Space" around 2008 to finish it off. I have also read the Caliban trilogy by Roger MacBride Allen which is worth it as it explores a variation of the 3 laws with Caliban himself being unique as a positronic Robot (no spoiler in case you haven't read it). I have read a lots of Robert Silverberg who also collaborated with Asimov. Personally I don't just see him as a great writer but also as a great thinker and arguably one of the greatest thinkers since the other Isaac. You know the one who realised gravity existed and wrote a few of other basic laws that have some importance. All I know is the world became a lesser place April 6, 1992.
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  877. As an Australian we can't apologize enough for Rupert Murdoch. Every country has people it wishes it had never allowed to be born, Rupert's one of ours. But then we tried to warn the Brits when he moved there and they didn't listen. And then we tried to warn America when he moved there and you didn't listen either.
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  878. Somebody needs to ask him what was in his emails that got hacked that made him change his views on Trump.
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  879.  @yvonneplant9434  As for you comment about Australian's telling Americans what to do. We can certainly tell you how to hold an election, but then so can more than 100 other countries. Maybe you should ask the Russians or Chinese how to hold your next election.
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  880.  @PBOperator  Look at how many are being done. Many SLRs have had kits that can make them into full auto for many years and in some cases decades. But this is new for Glocks and the ease it can be done and the numbers that it can be done to.
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  881.  @PBOperator  As I said the point isn't that its been around its how easy it is to do. That one for the Glock looks like a couple of hours on a milling machine. If you did it on some of the new small CNC machines you could be spitting them out in the 100s per week. Its how many can be rapidly done that's the thing I find disturbing.
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  882. I'm Australian but went to college in America (U. Illinois) and in my personnel experience of being in places like Kentucky and Texas I can say for a fact that neither Mitch McConnell or Ted Cruz are representative of the GOOD people of those states. I spent my 1st thanksgiving in Bardstown Kentucky and visited Texas several times. I wasn't there for a semester I was there 3-1/2 years on a sports scholarship so I got to visit a lot of places and meet people from many states. And in my personnel experience then and since the American Political system does not represent the American people. Its certainly a reflection of their worst behaviors, but its certainly not representative of who they are as people - decent, honest and hardworking. If their was one thing I'd recommend to the bulk of the American people it would be to to TELL the the loud obnoxious ones like Ted Cruz and sneaky sleazy rats like Mitch McConnell to "Just shut the F--K UP and go away." (edit) P.S. One of my best road trips was to Texas. It was totally awesome. Years later I was there again passing through Dallas. On the plane I met this girl who a week later took me out to this awesome Tex-Mex restaurant. I've had some great times in Texas. So don't be ashamed of being Texan be ashamed that so many have allowed Ted Cruz to make Texas look bad. And yes that's exactly how I feel about some of our politicians. Take Care & Stay Safe - This stuff, COVID and other stuff are not done with us yet. 👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
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  883.  @dmcentYT  Joan Rivers once described Bo Derek as "So dumb she'd have to study for a pap test!" I wonder what Joan would say about MTG??
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  884.  @markprater1  Don't forget he called Mexicans drug dealers and rapists and then WON the Latino vote in Florida and other places. Trump was incredible at selling himself to various groups. We can call him all sorts of things but he was Gold medal at reading a room and flipping it to his advantage. Neither the GOP or DNC could handle it and too a certain extent still can't. Its also what makes him so dangerous. There's still 74 million who voted for him and think they were robbed and will believe almost anything he says. What if he has a genuine honest heart attack? What will 74 million conspiracy devotees do with that? America has a giant orange problem and its not going away anytime soon.
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  885. I'm Australian and went to college in America on a sports scholarship (late 80s). How do you think I feel watching a country I feel a lot about and have great friends living there, as this clown tears it apart? America is a great country, with many great and wonderful people - I know that from personnel experience. *BUT a chunk of it have lost their way and what makes me feel like shit is that it's an Australian - Rupert Murdoch who's been helping push it over a cliff. You might feel like shit for your country letting Trump be Trump but a lot of Australians feel the same for letting Murdoch be Murdoch. I wont encourage anybody to lash out at either of them, but I can see it coming. Sooner or later some poor soul is going to go to prison (or worse) over those 2. Best wishes - take care & stay safe, COVID is not done by any stretch of the imagination.
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  886. There was an now famous/infamous interview about 1 year into Trump's presidency where he told a journalist his intention was to make it impossible for anyone to trust anything the media said. Here's what ex-KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov had to say on the subject of brainwashing and what the REAL intention of psychological war is. Yes he's quite wrong on a few things like it was Soviet Russia that collapsed and Marxism was never close to successful in America. BUT on several points there's stuff that is now scary reality. In particular what he says about sensible conclusions and being unable to accept true information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI Where he is totally wrong is that it was never the Soviets who were the real threat to America or the West. It was those parts of the media - the Televangelists, the conspiracy promoters and most of all the right wing political outlets with their commentators selling opinion as fact who were doing the real damage. Its most obvious in America but its happening across the entire Western World.
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  887. This guy did pre-law at Harvard and Law at Yale and doesn't seem to know the constitution or how elections are run or how votes are counted and he wants to be President. Maybe the Deans of Law at Harvard and Yale need to check what their professors are teaching.
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  888. I'm Australian and before that shit he pulled at the UN he had a decent reputation from the first gulf war. Maybe not perfect, but Gulf War 1 was over and done in a month and then everyone was out. Instead of it becoming Vietnam 2.0 the US and its allies were out. Saddam had is ass kicked, Kuwait was back in the hands of Kuwait and no one was bogged down in some endless disaster. So by about 2003 EVERYBODY WANTED TO KNOW how Gulf War 2 had become the disaster it was. Everyone wanted to know how the same people who did Gulf War 1 screwed up so badly with Gulf War 2. America's own PBS delivered and in 2004 gave the world the documentary "Rumsfeld's War." I first saw it in Australia in either 2005 or 2006 when it was televised on free to air by SBS Australian one of our 2 public broadcasters. Here it is on YT -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPEWIDBrKyM So yeah a lot of people KNOW and have KNOWN for around 16 years, (I have known for at least 14years) that: - Powell LIED to the UN and knew he was lying. - Powell told Bush in a private dinner NOT to go into Iraq and that Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others were wrong. - Powell, Shinseki and others were shut out of the planning by Wolfowitz on Rumsfeld's direction. Before any of you tell me (an Australian) to F--K off let me tell you something. The Australian Prime Minister at the time John Howard is/was a lawyer, which means he knew the basics of International Law and that its a crime to invade a country that has NOT committed an act or acts of war against you or your allies. The invasion of Afghanistan was legal as the Taliban Government by supporting Osama Bin Laden had attacked Australia's ally on 9/11. But Iraq was NOT legal and our PM knew it wasn't legal and we helped destroy that country and and played our part in the deaths over over 100,000 innocent civilians including the 14 killed at Nisour Square by the Blackwater 4 that Trump just pardoned. So before we all go condemning Colin Powell for his part in the Iraq clusterf--k, just know that a lot of other people were involved and very few have ever been held accountable.
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  889. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Like the Canadians, Japanese, Brits, Japanese, South Koreans and a bunch of other countries we are supposed to believe that America is a reliable security partner when these clowns are your best options??????
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  890. I'm Australian and came back for another look at this. I've been watching Gary for almost a year now. Without any doubt he's one of the brightest lights the British people have. I hope he's Ok because he hasn't posted anything for a while and the not only do the British people need him speaking out with the expertise he has but so does the rest of the developed world. Some of these topics are just as hot here in Australia RIGHT NOW. Our housing market is (to put it mildly) a "dog's breakfast" most of which has been fuelled by similar government policies to what Gary speaks about.
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  891. That's a pretty good way to describe it.
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  892.  @blacksocrates1  Its not envy its frustration mixed with bewilderment. And so long as there's some bewilderment society is reasonably safe. But if it runs out and all that's left is frustration that frustration will fester until it boils over. Ask the French Royal family what happens when it boils over? Ask the Russian Royal Family what happens when it boils over? Ask the Saddam Hussein and his family what happens when it boils over? Ask Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife what happens when it boils over? Ask Muammar Gaddafi what happens when it boils over? Sorry you can't they're all dead, killed by their own people.
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  893.  @FullCircleTravis  And don't forget our animals are different. Our ones that eat people stay in the water where they belong. Polar bears get out of the water and hunt you down.
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  894.  @maxheadrom3088  There's a bunch of people including Jeffrey Sachs who have explained it. The only person I saw who tried to make any logical claim that Russia might have done it was Peter Zeihan and even he's pointed out at times that in terms of who had underwater demolition CAPABILITY at those depths it goes back to the Americans, while all the Russians ever had to do was simply turn off the spigot. I work in industrial controls systems (the computers & sensor systems that run stuff). I have done some work in Australian gas industry. All it takes is a few mouse clicks and you can shut down a system like that. You can also press the big red button labelled "Emergency Stop" and it goes away in a blink. Plus there are some reports the Russians are already at work trying to repair the pipes. Because if they are left for to long full of salt water they will be permanently damaged and unrecoverable.
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  895.  @Seany06  I think Peter may have covered Djibouti in another video some time ago. I know others have. Its not only an interesting place but in the current situation in the Red Sea its even more interesting.
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  896. He's a typical American Libertarian Libertarian rule No. 1: "We want the Liberty to strip you of your Liberty" Libertarian rule No. 2: "The Government only has the Liberty to spend money on what we want." Libertarian rule No. 3: "You have the Liberty to concede all power to us."
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  897. “Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a state of utter confusion.” ― Colonel Flagg of the CIA MASH sometime in the 1970s.
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  898.  @mileslong7103  I'm not claiming Bret Weinstein is perfect but he has made a number of important points about the possibility of a lab leak than many others are ignoring. The issues regarding lab leaks was covered by Dr. Michael Osterholm (director of CIDRAP) in his podcast. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching. It has links to a DW documentary explaining Gain of Function and the Osterholm podcast.
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  899. I started with a degree in aerospace but ended up doing 30+ years in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. A sizeable chunk of that was in the Australian automotive sector building manufacturing cells. With the collapse of that sector in Australia I moved to our mining and resources sector. I absolutely get why Sandy is upset, because I have had the same crap repeatedly for 30 years in every industry I have worked. Its usually from clowns with ECONOMICS degrees who spent 4 years at college being told how brilliant they are. They aren't the only ones. Pretty much every accountant, lawyer and business manager I have ever met are the same. Notably they all demand there training and experience valued but anyone else's training and experience is worthless.
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  900. When Democrats inherit something its bullshit when Republicans inherit anything its a crime that needs to be prosecuted. At some point someone needs to call these people out to their face. Not on YouTube or anywhere else, but right in their face.
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  901. Your right but the seeds were planted earlier. This actually goes back right to the end of WW2. Prof Robert McChesney who helped make the 2004 documentary Outfoxed ahs spoken at length about the changes in media. Around 2008 he was in Australia on a book tour and one of his lectures was televised (late one night). For a long time I didn't realise who he was or that he was a professor at my alma mater. Then I saw him on YT talking more about the decline of journalism. What I do remember from his book talk was the shift in the numbers of PR and journalists. In the 1950s it was about 4:1 but over time during the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s that had gradually flipped and there's now 4 PR people employed for every journalist. What he was pointing out was that most of what we see, hear or read from news services is actually written by PR people. All the journalists do is cut & paste the information they were handed. I'm an engineer and the insanely poor information being presented to the general public by the media is infuriating. Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke about it recently. He's had friends call up and tell him that his most recent interview was total garbage. He has to explain how it was edited and that journalists are in such a rush they don't go back and ask "is this O.k?" Brian Karem is absolutely right there is no journalism because there is no fact checking or vetting.
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  902. That's actually the smart comment among a lot of others some of which are incredibly ignorant. Thom doesn't help a lot with a real doozy. When he said the Bible allowed children to be stoned for being uppity. There's no such rule ANYWHERE in the Bible. People need to be very careful with the Bible. It wasn't written in English or anything close to English. It was mostly written in Ancient Hebrew which was structured very differently to most modern languages. Its made it very easy for unscrupulous people to take advantage of it with interpretations.
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  903. Its pretty damn simple what Chian is up to and these people in the Pacific have no idea. 1st the Chinese need to feed their people and fishing rights in these small states is their key aim. 2nd the 1.4 billion Chinese get 1 vote in the UN general assembly. These security agreements get them more votes in that assembly. Worse its our fault for letting it get this bad.
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  904. Yes because like most of the talking heads that fill the airwaves with noise IF WE DID SOLVE these problems what would happen to these people? What would they do? Their entire existence is built around complaining NOT solving. What would happen if there wasn't anything to complain about?
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  905. Agreed. Interesting side story to this Marxian Professor Richard Wolff accepted the challenge when Jordan Peterson said "No Marxist would debate me?" After arrangements were made Peterson pulled out. The claim is he wouldn't debate Richard Wolff without getting paid. Richard Wolff made several videos regarding Peterson's claims and the outcome of the proposed debate and they are here on YT.
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  906. I have been trying to point that out to Americans for DECADES. Ask almost ANY American what any word that ends in "ism" means and they don’t have a damn clue. At its most very basic concept ANYTHING that a "society" collectively owns and pays for is a socialist or socialized function of that society. Police, basic education, roads, and many other GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS including the military are socialist functions. Politically on the FAR LEFT there's PURE 100% socialism where society owns and pays for everything and on the FAR RIGHT there's PURE 100% Capitalism where individuals own and pay for everything. Every society exists somewhere between those 2 extremes. More often than not every society has a mixture of those concepts for different functions of that society. I'm an engineer and understand those concepts. How TF all these clowns with arts degrees in Political Science can't explain that is staggering.
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  907.  @FrikInCasualMode  Your 100% right which is why those reefs & islands are of such significance.
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  908. ​ @robertblue3795  SORRY BUT YOU ARE WRONG and I only know because I have worked in the Australian mining industry constructing new mines. Coal is not simply black stuff that comes out of the ground. Like all minerals there are grades. For starters there's thermal and metallurgical coal AND THEN there's grades within those grades. Coking coal is graded on its lack of impurities and calorific value (how hot it burns). Australia's coking coal is not only cleaner than Canadian coal but also has a significantly higher calorific value. The only other coal that is of similar grade comes from New Zealand but they can't match us in volume. There's some high end coking coal available in other places but they are small deposits and none of them come close to Australia's reserves. In terms of just coal as in all types combined. YES there are places like China and Russia with massive reserves but most are lower grades. Indonesia despite being small has massive reserves of coal BUT those reserves are mostly thermal coal. Basically you CANNOT just switch the Japanese and South Koreans over onto Canadian Coking coal as its the wrong grade. We didn't realise this until until the late 90s when the Japanese threatened to switch to Canadian Coking coal which they did at every negotiation. Eventually we told them we'd had had enough of those threats and if they wanted to use Canadian Coal then they could go use and F--CKING use it. When they backed down we found out their steel mills were set up to take advantage of Australian coal and could not use Canadian coal. The South Koreans followed suit. FYI - Most Australians are not aware of any of this. I only know from working in the mining industry.
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  909. I'm an Australian and when I look over my shoulder we have them here too. Just the other day they started ranting about the Pfizer vaccine (one of 2) being used here and making wild claims. One person who actually claimed to have a 20 year background in biotech claimed the Pfizer vaccine was "experimental gene therapy." Unfortunately I have another friend with a PhD in Recombinant DNA Research who explained to me years ago how he did his work. Another person claimed the Pfizer vaccine was even registered as "gene therapy." Unfortunately for that clown I was easily able to find our governments website on that and download the documents and SHOW EVERYONE that, that was a fabrication. Sadly I think EVERY country has its idiots and that social media has given them a soap box to share their collective stupidity.
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  910. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. As an outsider looking in but also as one who has spent time in America I think America has sadly underestimated Jimmy Carter. His diplomatic work AFTER leaving office has ended up being incredibly significant and far more significant than other Presidents. If you go and look at the Wikipedia page for him at the end of the 2nd paragraph under Legacy - public opinion it says : "Although his presidency received a mixed reception, his peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts since he left office have made Carter renowned as one of the most successful ex-presidents in American history." I think that's actually a very good summary of how Carter is seen around the world. I think that if an HONEST history of America in the post World War 2 Era is written (that's not a partisan narrative) Carter might well be regarded as the BEST ex-US president of the era. He certainly underestimated how ruthless some of Reagan's people were, but then we are only now really starting to find out just how ruthless those people were, but then he also was more successful than anyone else at SOLVING the Middle East issues. He got settlement between Israel & Egypt which has been forgotten by too many. He tried harder than anyone else to settle the Israel-Palestinian issue and seemed to be ready whenever needed to go anywhere he was called upon to help AND he did those things without any need for a parade of fanfare.
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  911.  @lucboy13  Well considering we are 40x better of than America when it comes to COVID fatalities I'd say we're doing a shite load better. As far as these clowns go, sure they are screaming about getting back to normal but they are being STUPID about it. These are the sorts of people who don't look after their car and then complain when it breaks down. Too stupid to listen, too idiotic to behave sensibly and then complain about what they cause. AND worst of all they expect others to pay for the damage they cause.
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  912. My nickname for COVID is "Acid Flu" because its stripped away the veneer of our societies and showed us for what we really are.
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  913. JP is a very sick demented person as are the Murdoch's and the Fox managers who keep putting her on air. At some point one of these parents or relatives is going to lose their nut at these people and simply retaliate in the most horrid fashion. When it happens just watch how much these people flip and start calling for background checks and other rules.
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  914. What a rambling load of idiotic garbage. Whatever drugs you are on - please stop taking them.
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  915. Question: Where's the $4 million Answer: We had a vision. Question: Where's the $4 million Answer: We had a vision. Question: Where's the $4 million Answer: We had a vision. Question: Where's the $4 million Answer: We had a vision. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Question: Where's the $4 million Answer: We had a vision.
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  916.  @stuartsimister5042  NO. Do I trust politicians? NO Do I trust idiotic clowns with no grasp of reality? *EVEN LESS than politicians." Its one thing to not trust one group of selfish clowns but that doesn't mean turning to and trusting a complete pack of idiots. How stupid can people be to ignore a clown but trust an idiot.
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  917.  @arthurdefreitaseprecht2648  You've nailed it. We are wasting staggering amounts of valuable time, resources and money on fantasies while ignoring what's practical because practical doesn't mean perfect or practical isn't flashy or practical isn't "wow-wee zip-a-dee-doo-dah."
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  918. AUSTRALIAN HERE: How do you think we feel about this? At the national level like many other countries (Canada, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Britain, Europe,......) America is still out major trading partner and in many cases our most important security partner. Almost all international trade depends on the UD Dollar because as the World's reserve currency the deals are either done in US$ or the currency exchanges are backed by US$. So NONE OF US can afford America to malfunction like this. On the personal level I went to college in America on a sports scholarship. So I have a strong emotional link to America and there's people there I genuinely care about. I have never seen America in such a state as this. Its like everything that's great about America is being thrown in the dumpster by a pack of drunk clowns I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and through many discussions they schooled me in how America and the Constitution WORKED (or is supposed to work). I am of the opinion that the US Constitution is one of the finest achievements in human history BUT its also vulnerable. Unlike so many other systems the US Constitution was designed/intended to protect and nurture the general population and give every citizen a chance at a good life. Your constitution has things that were almost unheard of when it was created and the influence that has had has been a good thing for so many nations. HOWEVER, because it grants so many freedoms it's vulnerable to be being taken advantage of by people with selfish motives. The protection against such people was (past tense) the system of "Checks & Balances" which a small number of insanely selfish people have slowly degraded via their money and influence. SCOTUS and the Senate are effectively broken, the House is a malfunctioning clown show and the Whitehouse is a disaster zone. As an outside observer with a keen interest in seeing America get back to its best, I think BOTH major parties (Dem & GOP) need major clean outs of their entrenched elites AND TO BE FAIR I can say the same about Australia's main parties which have also become these cabals of entrenched elitist snots who see the rest of us as problems to be managed. I truly do hope America can get past this because with the world as it is and especially climate change we need America at its best.
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  919. Thom Hartman recently reported that America's 460+ billionaires spent over $900 million on the recent mid-terms. Of that money around 25 of those billionaires spent over $800 million. So its not really a matter of 1% its actually less than 0.000008% are the real power brokers.
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  920. ENGINEER HERE: This video that Thunderf00t is busting is so egregious the entire ASAPScience channel should be BANNED from YouTube for peddling misinformation. As an engineer I find this sort of stuff incredibly frustrating because we end up having to WASTE TIME explaining why its BS instead of discussing solutions that can actually do some good. I have worked with electric motor controls for 30+ years and the idea of using regenerative braking to power CO2 removal is so idiotic its barely believable someone would publish something this stupid.
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  921. Ok Fine - Hunter used daddy's name and got a well paid (actually well over paid) job with a Ukrainian company. Its been reported that he got $50k a month. On a basic 20 day month (4 weeks of 5 days) that roughly $2,500 a day. Rudy Giuliani is earning $20,000 a day as he loses case after case. Ivanka and Jared supposedly earned $135million in 2018 and that's something like $500,000 a day as they worked in the White House. Fine Hunter Biden needs to be investigated to make sure the next POTUS doesn't have a compromised son. Hooray when do they start on Giuliani, Ivanka and Jared?
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  922. Engineer here and I can tell you that there's a METHODOLOGY behind this when it comes to human interaction with machines. I work in control systems and that includes the control screens you see in news stories. You might the term SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) and part of my work is programming SCADA systems. What your talking about is something that has become a huge issue in engineering and it has to do with human machine interaction and necessary information versus less necessary information. We have to be incredibly mindful of information overload to operators. About 20 years ago they worked out that the process industries in America were losing more than US$20Billion a year because control room operators were being overloaded at critical times. There's been plenty of aircraft accidents happen for similar reasons of information overload during emergencies and instead of handling the situation pilots got overloaded and crashed. On cars there was a push in the 1990s to have digital dashboards. The problem is drivers don't need detailed displays. They don't need to see the exact speed or water temperature. Just seeing that your below or above the speed limit is enough or that the water is in the green zone is enough rather than overheating is enough. So analog gauges are actually a lot better for drivers as they give relevant information faster rather than detailed information that then has to be processed. The same applies to many other things, even household appliances.
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  923. That debate - no way. Other than being the cringe fest to end all cringe fests. People would eventually face the reality that all 3 of them won elections and served in office. Then it would go from cringe to wrist slashing, pill swallowing, jump off a building level depression and nobody wants that.
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  924. I agree, and I think David's title of the vid id disingenuous. They both made valid points. David's point. Is Ketanji Brown Jackson being asked questions that show how she might adjudicate cases before SCOTUS or are they trying to trap her in a way they can reject her nomination. Michael Knowles point. There are laws that specifically mention "woman" and/or "women." That requires the words "woman" and "women" to be legally defined or how do you know who to apply those laws to or how to apply them? It was good to see that even though it got spirited it didn't descend into a screaming match.
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  925. If it was a book its title would be "Self entitled arrogance gets its assed kicked"
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  926. I'm Australian and that's the best description ANYONE ANYWHERE has given yet. I'd give you a 1,000,000 thumbs up if I could. Hope this makes up for it. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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  927. No they will continue if they are called out. If they are to be stopped they need to be prosecuted, convicted and sent to jail.
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  928. Americans and all other Westerners NEED to pay attention to this because its a great example of the use of political 1/2 truths. The problem with political 1/2 truths is that because of the bit that's true THE LIE gets credibility and gets believed or accepted by the audience. ITS TRUE America (the mainland) was never bombed during WW1 or WW2 or during the Wars in Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq, or Afghanistan BUT IGNORES THE FACTS THAT 1000s and 1000s of Americans were in those conflicts and DIED in those conflicts. IT IGNORES the incredible expense paid by the American people in straight financial cost of those conflicts. IT IGNORES the fact Parts of America have been attacked in the past Hawaii and the Aleutians in WW2. Washington was actually invaded and parts of it burned to the ground buy the British during the War of 1812 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington. What about New York and 9/11 or the wars that followed? Aren't those scars enough for Tucker to be proud of being American? Aren't all the 1000s of American service men and women who died in Iraq & Afghanistan enough for Tucker to be proud of being American? Aren't all the 1000s and 1000s of American service men and women with permanent damage from serving in Iraq & Afghanistan enough for Tucker to be proud of being American? You see when you tell a political 1/2 truth its then very easy to tell lies and have the audience believe them or for the audience to completely ignore historical facts
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  929. NAME the states that did not follow their laws? DESCRIBE how the did not follow their laws? Otherwise STFU.
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  930. Australian here - what sort of discussion do you think we had after our last majors fires in 2019? What do you think the MURDOCH media pumped out afterwards?
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  931. It was being reported days ago that it was $207million. I think we can assume its even higher than that now. I'm not a lawyer but I keep hearing that she's violating the Hatch Act by also being an advisor to Trumps Campaign. If she's been receiving money from the campaign that's been raised by these false claims then that's money obtained through fraudulent statements and I think that's a crime????
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  932. Yeah Jimmy also used to have people like Mark Blyth all the time and used to ACTUALLY BE INTERESTED in how the World worked. Around the time the Squad would not hold out against the rest of the Democratic leadership and HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE something went wrong in Jimmy's brain. That's NOT to blame anyone because Jimmy has to accept his own choices and what he has done since them and TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for it.
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  933. As an engineer who thinks that engineering as a whole is horrendously underestimated by the general public its easy to see why metrology is even more obscure because most engineers take calibration for granted. I work in industrial control systems and its staggering just how much we rely on the manufacturers getting things right. We simply take it on face value that the manufacturers made every pressure, flow, temperature,...... sensor accurately and that they measure what they claim to measure at the scale on the box. So at the practical application level we are separated from the metrology people by the manufacturing layer. Ever since I saw MT's vid on the Jo Blocks that was followed by his more recent one on the NIST I have gained a lot more appreciation for metrology and wish it was covered a lot better at the college level.
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  934. No the correct label is "facilitator" as in someone who facilitates something, which in this case is allowing people to suffer. FYI - I'm an Australian who went to college in America (U. Illinois) and spent my first thanksgiving in Bardstown Kentucky. I knew others from Kentucky and in my personnel experience Kentuckians are decent people. So I find it incomprehensible that somehow Mitch McConnell represents them. He certainly does not represent their best interests or the American people.
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  935. Yeah that's a good summary.
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  936.  @robk8463  Thanks I'm not trying to be rabidly antagonistic just factual and the facts are Macgregor may have been brilliant as a tank commander and lead his men brilliantly but he screwed up with the Invasion of Iraq and people like Tucker C and the Hoover Institution just IGNORE that. If Macgregor simply came clean on that failure and pointed out the lessons learned from that failure and what to avoid in future then I'd back his expertise, but he's NOT doing that. Nobody's perfect. I know I'm not.
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  937. The really odd thing is - where did they come from? For at least 2 years prior EVERY POLL said Trumps base was shrinking. Even FOX did polls that said he was losing people. Maybe not by much but it was never growing - according to the polls. So where did those extra 11 million votes come from. Maybe the reason Trump is adamant that fraud happened was that he cheated, just like in everything else he does in life, and somehow he still lost?
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  938.  @JaneFleesTexas  YES 100% He's that kid in grade school who's not very good at anything so makes it up by annoying everyone.
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  939.  @matthewroy7718  As an Australian let me say (yet again) we tried warning you what Rupert was like just like we tried warning the Brits what he was like. BOTH of you ignored the warnings.
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  940. True - Absolutely True. But right at this moment this will hopefully take some of the heat out of Trumps base. People are forgetting that 74million voted Trump and over 50million of them think they got cheated. Its pretty easy to assume that each of them owns at least 1 gun and they've been stockpiling ammunition for months. 2020 has been one of the greatest years ever for gun and ammunition sales with numerous stories reporting stock shortages. So anything that cools those people down has got to be seen as a positive. Biden is inheriting a mess that in reality is so bad that no one really should want to be the next President.
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  941. Trump rallies are like group therapy for Dunning-Kruger patients except the therapist makes the condition worse.
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  942. You just hit the nail on the head. Bernie would have made them work.
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  943. Australian here and I totally agree. This sort of protest DOES NOTHING but aggravate an already stressed world. In most cases I empathise with their cause. My family are from farming so I get some of what they claim about farmers needing support because that's where our food comes from, but this is the worst way to go about it.
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  944. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. I have put a few more details in a comment about the Murdoch's and their issues in Australia. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  945.  @gracieb.3054  Don't thank me thank the people who put stuff on Wikipedia with all the references.
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  946. Just a question to you Americans -> Do you realise this isn't just a threat to American democracy its a threat to Western Society? FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. I love America and its people and totally hate what Trumpism has done to a fabulous country. However do you know we have similar issues here. We have billionaire named Clive Palmer who has his own party. He's our version Trump. His chief mutt, a total clown, named Craig Kelly is as bad as any of these GOP Trumpists like Green, Boebert, Cawthorn or Gosar. Go look anywhere in Europe and you find them there as well. Do any of you realise that Steve Bannon went round the world preaching his "Hyper Libertarian Revolution" and that he found supporters EVERYWHERE? Do any of you realise that whenever people like Bolsonaro in Brazil get asked questions they don't like they just howl back "Fake News"? Do any of you realise that the anti-vaxxer, conspiracy, antigovernmental, religious fundamentalists types are teaming up around the world? I'm interested in knowing if you guys realise that Trumpism is no longer an American issue?
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  947.  @NathanPK  I absolutely agree. I actually have spent most of the last 20 years in Australia's mining industry. I went looking for experience when it turned out we might be going back to the moon to mine Helium-3 AND YES I know. One day one of the people I was working with told me how Logistics was going to become EVEN BIGGER and more important. He'd done logistics for many years and explained how logistics people were going to become some of the most important people in any and every company. That was circa 2010 and before Amazon, which is basically a logistics company, had become what it has become. In hindsight if you ga back to consider what went wrong with the invasion of Iraq, it had a lot to do with logistics. If you look at the massive disruption of COVID, it had a lot to do with logistics. Its odd how you remember those odd conversations that never seemed important at the time suddenly seem important years later.
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  948.  @terryparenteau1200  I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and I thought at the time America was showing signs of slipping. Things like basic literacy and math skills. Don't forget America has a long history of simplifying spelling. Its one of those funny subjects between America and the rest of the English speaking world. Sorry fo he longer answer but you raise an important issue. I'm fairly well informed on what's happened in Australia with education as both my parents were High School teachers and 1 cousin was a high school principal. And our system is following America's. What's masking lower education standards are the advances in technology. If you've heard about how apps like MS Word have contributed to a decline in spelling skills because it auto corrects. We have a very similar issue in engineering with packages like AutoCad. Its brilliant in how it helps engineers design BUT it also makes them very lazy with some vital skills. The equivalent to spelling in engineering is tolerancing. That's where you decide how accurate each dimension on a part needs to be. In the past engineers had to think about how accurate each dimension needed to be and now they don't. I think there's been a long slow decline in Western Education that's been so gradual we don't realise it unless we something very specific. I've noticed in engineering but I'm certain its across the board. I think its being driven by at least 2 main things. First there's the fundamentalist religions for sure. That's the point you made and its all about power and obedience. Its been well practiced for 1000s of years by many religions that literacy is for priests and obedience is for the illiterate. Second is politics where its much easier to motivate mobs if they are less educated (eg. Trumpism). After those 2 I know of 2 others. There's pressure from business who again want obedience. There's a lesser and very significant pressure from the FAR LEFT (and I mean the far far far radical nutcase left) who want to take the "we are all equal" mantra to its extreme which means none of us are allowed to be smarter than the least intelligent person in the group. I see that in a lot of industrial training where there are NO GRADES just pass/fail. Its fine for many things but certainly not all. The strange thing is all these pressure drivers need people educated. They just don't like them too educated. Its like that great line from President Snow in the Hunger Games about how a little bit of hope is good and too much is very dangerous.
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  949. Seriously when will Hilary Clinton get the message "SHUT UP and GO AWAY" No one should be interested in a failure that LOST to Trump, because she was too busy sucking up to Wall Street types.
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  950. I'm an ex-swimmer and I agree. I just can't see how in a power orientated sport like swimming how you can never claim its fair. because there will always be doubt. The same would go for track & field, track-cycling and other sports where power and muscle mass go together. As for team sports I am way more open minded especially where those sports require significant teamwork and power is less of a factor. Sports like field hockey and soccer and possibly water polo where agility is far more important than power I'd have no problems with but a sport like rugby I'd have some reservations. FYI - I played a lot of water polo and also 3 seasons of rugby in high school. On the political side this its just as you describe a pack of clowns using this to hide their bigotry. For them to be so occupied by such a small percentage of society shows just hoe little they have to offer the rest of society and some of the bigger issues like climate change, housing, wages and the economy in general.
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  951. Agreed, but I will add this. Emma's sort of wrong, because Dave Rubin actually is a true believer. He's a true believer IN HIMSELF and his own intellectual capacity. Kyle Kulinski pointed something out recently about Dave Rubin. He encountered Dave Rubin while at the Justice Democrats and he observed that Dave Rubin was only ever interested in Dave Rubin and promoting Dave Rubin. That was what people got tired of. Dave Rubin is a classic underachieving attention seeker.
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  952.  @buttkid3548  Are you referring to the bit where I said David gets some things wrong but never pushes false narratives? SO WHAT - I don't expect perfection because that's idiotic. But I do EXPECT people in the media to try have some integrity and most of all NOT PUSH FALSE NARRATIVES or PRESENT PROPAGANDA as this caller is claiming that he does. Sorry if you missed that point.
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  953.  @relevantinfor6682  I'll take advice from people who actually read their comments. I suspect you meant "They are a hypocritical government..."
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  954. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  955. Aerospace Engineer (with a pilots license) here: I DISAGREE I watched a few videos from the channel about an abandoned twin engine Cessna 401 and the guy running the channel is just another attention seeking social media clown. Myself and others tried making helpful comments about that plane. NONE of the concerns raised by ANYONE were addressed. YOU SHOUDL KNOW - the Cessna 401 for its time (1966-1985) is a seriously complicated plane and NOT something amateurs should be touching at all. Other than being a twin engine its also a got a pressurised cabin meaning you can't just go and fly the thing. You have to be specially trained for it. Its engines are also turbocharged and turbo charging an aircraft engine is NOT the same thing as turbocharging a car. Its NOT done for power its done to keep the engine supplied with air equivalent to sea level so there's no power drop-off as it climbs and the C401 could go to almost 27,000 ft because of the turbo charging. So its a very complicated plane requiring mechanics who know what they are doing. People tried telling this clown these sorts of things and a lot more. I could tell by the details in the comments many of them were coming from professional people wit a lot more knowledge than I have AND HE LISTENED TO NOBODY.
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  956. AEROSPACE engineer here: Sorry to call your prof out but its BULLSHlT that electrical engineering is the hardest. Its not close to either aerospace or nuclear engineering. Due to various outcomes I have spent most of my career in industrial control systems and automation. So I have done a fair amount of electrical engineering and know what it is and isn't. WHAT MAKES Aerospace and Nuclear engineering so much harder is the additional maths classes needed to get the required skills to do things like (in my case) aerodynamics, propulsion, orbital mechanics and the hardest class I ever took Spacecraft Dynamics. I don't know how far you are into your degree but if you like I'll let you know why I found some classes horrendously hard and others more palatable and others MORE USEFUL. Sorry but they all sort of suck in their way its just that some suck worse than others.
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  957.  @notyourroad  Buddy I doubt any of his people know the meaning of any word ending in "ism"
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  958.  @cindyabraham5503  I'm listening right now to David's vid on Trump turning on Kellyanne Conway.
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  959. Its American Right Wing Libertarianism logic at its finest. "We demand the liberty to strip you of your liberty!" "We want small government with no regulations on us, so that we can force our regulations on everyone else."
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  960. I'm Australian and a British Journalist looked into the methods that America used. The documentary he made was done more than 10 years ago when there were issues over the lethal injections. It was also at a time when there were a number of ugly murders around the world and people were asking if capital punishment should be brought back. So this was a timely documentary in a number of ways, but most of all - what method. In the end when all the methods were looked at the cleanest and quickest was carbon dioxide. I remember the Lake Nyos disaster in 1986 when 1,700 people died from carbon dioxide asphyxiation remember how quick it was. Most of the bodies only took a few staggered steps before falling over. I'm an engineer and one of the things people are warned about across many industries are what we call "confined spaces." These are places where other gases can pool and the oxygen level is too low to support human consciousness. It can be incredibly dangerous. One of the major risks in confined spaces is carbon dioxide especially in open pits because CO2 is heavier than air and it can pool in the pit. Its well documented how quickly people succumb and pass out in such conditions. So its well known that if you flood a room with carbon dioxide almost any human or animal will past out within seconds and die shortly after with little or no trauma. In fact its well documented that if anything people have a moment of euphoria before passing out from carbon dioxide. WHAT HORRIFIED ME about that documentary wasn't the fact they found a quick way to simply turn off a human life but the RESPONSE of the chief medical officer they presented their findings to. He simply dismissed the idea of using Carbon Dioxide and how its far less likely to be traumatic. He said "Its a punishment its NOT meant to be pleasant."
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  961. This is just one of several great comments on how ridiculously wrapped up in his own celebrity Bill Maher is. He's now a character of the type he so often rails at. Maybe there should be a "New Rule" that says "Members of the general should be allowed to b*tch clap any celebrity who thinks their opinion based on NOTHING but their celebrity is more important than actual facts."
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  962. It depends if they are present in the ore. Like any of these by-product resources its dependent on the ore body and also the concentrations in that orebody. I've spent most of the last 20 years in the mining industry doing control systems and EVERY ore body is different. Germanium isn't present in all zinc ores. According to Wikipedia its most prevalent in what's called Mississippi Valley type deposits. Mt Isa the worlds 3rd largest zinc mine isn't that type but MacArthur river probably is looking at the maps. There's the refinery in Tasmania but who knows what type of ore they process. I checked for Gallium and there's a real possibility Australia does have some capacity because we have a number of Alumina refineries. There's a bunch in Western Australia south of Perth and one in the Perth area at Kwinana. We also had one at Gove in the NT where I spent some time for work.
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  963. Sorry but you're wrong -> it isn’t the powerful people Epstein KNEW, it’s what Epstein KNEW about powerful people. Whatever it was he KNEW somebody didn't want us to know what it was. My bet whatever "insurance policy" he had in place as in - "if an accident happens then information gets released" it got compromised. The real question is who has it now and what are they doing with it.
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  964. You forgot to mention: - the seizure of dozens of small islands across a vast area of the ocean. - the deal with the Taliban. - the deals with other dubious regimes across Africa for access to resources. - and lets not forget everyone's favorite sabre rattler North Korea that the Chinese push at the rest of Asia.
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  965. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. I am an engineer, I work in control systems and this is my main beef with the pro-AI crowd. What most people do NOT understand is that AI is a fallacy. There is no logical explanation for what intelligence actually is and by logical we can't write out a general algorithm or set of formulas for what intelligence is. What we have algorithms that mimic specific human tasks that are basically repetitive. These claims that they learn are simply garbage. As an engineer its actually infuriating to watch people shamelessly promote imaginary technologies that don't exist or don't work and will never deliver as promised. Yeah we get called boring because we can actually use basic math for real world problems. The best PR & BS I have seen recently is Elon Musk's Starship, which he claims can take 100 people at a time to Mars. Problem is that NASA has already worked out the minimum volume needed in a space craft per person for that kind of travel. When the simple arithmetic is done Starship has barely enough space for 17 people not 100. It really would be a sardine can in space AND YET 1000s of people still believe Elon is going to whisk them off to Mars. The volume of techno PR garbage these days is staggering and yet so many people just suck it up as if its gospel fact.
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  966. Don't forget Howard in that. And don't forget that both Howard and Blair are lawyers which means they have even less of an excuse than Bush because you'd think they would have taken at least 1 class in International Law.
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  967. I'm Australian and I can explain why not only Australia but pretty much any other country on the planet has could have a reason to pull the trigger (see below). What Tucker wants to be very careful off is who else other people might want to be rid of. Here's why almost every other country MIGHT pull the trigger on Trump and sorry if it takes some explaining. Back in 1944 there was the Breton Woods agreement where (among other things) the US Dollar became the worlds RESERVE CURRENCY. Despite all that's happened that has NOT changed and no matter what the BRICS countries for Crypto clowns claim its not going to change because there is simply too much US Currency out there in the wider world to deal with. For instance in December 2022 the Bank of International Settlements reported and alarming concern with FX Swaps (Foreign Exchange Swaps). The BIS is an institution few people know about because its NOT a normal bank. Its where all of our central banks go and settle all the foreign money they have. Whenever you buy something that was made in another country or visit another country then at some point money moved and currency exchanges happened. In the end our central banks collect that stuff and then settle it and they do that through the BIS. FX-swaps are a tool businesses that trade internationally use and in many cases they simply stockpile cash in hope the as the currencies shift they'll make money. What the BIS have reported in December 2022 is that there's now $100 Trillion in FX-swaps out in the worlds financial market place and most of it is being held by non-banking entities (as in other business entities). ALSO most of the worlds FX-swaps involve US$ either outright or as part of the mechanism because its the World's Reserve Currency. So if Donald Trump keeps playing idiotic games with it the value of the US$ then he puts the entire world economy at risk and that really does mean everyone - even the Russians, Chinese and North Koreans stand to lose and lose huge of the US$ goes of the rails. Sorry but NOBODY, not anyone of the 8 Billion people on this planet can afford to have the US$ go off the rails and right now the biggest threat to that is Donald J Trump and his clown brigade.
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  968.  @wespeakforthetrees  Yeah I know every time us Aussies think we have someone who can out-American the Americans one of them proves we just aren't as SHlTHOUSE as them no matter how hard we try. Maybe we need a dedicated program with world class coaching like the swim team and soccer teams do to train the Tim Gurners and get them to gold medal DIPSHlT standard cos silver just aint cutting it.
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  969. Yeah I am stunned to. Its 28th of May 2023, 4 months after you posted your comment. As I just said in another comment YES - we have a collective issue with memory. Maybe 20+ years of the war on Terror has numbed us so much that another pile of bodies just doesn't matter. I think we lost something on 9/11. Bin Laden's maniacs didn't just kill 3,000 people they killed a our social conscience of right and wrong as well AND we have NOT recovered.
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  970. Another Aussie here YES - real estate value is regarded in Australia as the only metric that actually matters. GDP is something economists go on and on about but nobody believes economists any more. I'm actually an engineer and other than housing the really big issue NOBODY discusses properly is ENERGY prices. I found out how much crap we are in while doing a project in 2016 into our future energy needs. What surprised me even more than our situation was that most of the developed World has the same problem. Across the World we all privatised our main large-scale power stations because the economists promised that "competition would provide better services and lower prices" which has NOT happened anywhere. The elephant in that room is that many nations (including Australia) have not kept up with building new power stations as our population grew. Its really noticeable when you look at power stations rated over 1,000MW. That's why we have power shortages and higher prices. The immediate problem is that neither side has a plan that will work. The ALP 82% renewable plan wont work because we'll end up with an unstable grid like they now have in Ireland, BUT AT LEAST ITS FIXABLE however it will take 3-5 years to fix The LNP plan for nuclear power is so absurd its barely comprehensible and NOT because its a nuclear solution its because their plan is simply idiotic. It puts so much money into nuclear there wont be anything left to do anything else and there's no way it can deliver any positive effects for at least 25years. That means we'll have high energy prices for another 25 years which will cost the economy by reducing household spending by over $250 billion and that's on top of the $330 billion they plan to spend and that money can barely build 1/4 of what we'll need going forward because by 2050 we'll be over 40 million and by 2100 over 65 million people AND ALL THOSE PEOPLE WILL WANT TO TURN ON LIGHTS, TURN ON COMPUTERS and COOK FOOD.
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  971. yeah I am an engineer and my economics education was a single class in college as one of my humanities options. I thought it was so much garbage I never wanted to deal with it again. BUT (and to your point) I HAD TO ACCEPT WE ALL NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW IT WORKS otherwise the top 1% will CONTINUE to run over the top of us. As an engineer I simply go tired of them beating me over the head and interfering in projects. So I started looking for people who could explain this stuff. I only discovered Gary recently and he's one of the brightest lights we have right now. One of the other very bright lights is Mark Blyth (the Scot) who's at Brown U. in America.
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  972. ​ @qownson4410  You're very much on the right thinking process but you're simply not going to air launch at 70,000-100,000 feet because there's so few jets capable of that high . But you are quite right that getting as as hight is is an important part of the discussion. Sorry if this is a long comment. I actually put in a A$720 Million proposal to the Australian government based around air launching. So I did a lot of research into this subject a few years ago. The carrier aircraft I proposed was a 2nd Gen White Knight One as used to carry Spaceship One that won the X-Prize. There's a really interesting item about White Knight One. It uses the same engines as the T-38 Talon (General Electric J85) which is the military version of the General Electric CJ610 engine used in the early Learjets (23, 24, 25 & 28). What many people don't realise is that the Learjet was originally proposed as a small tactical bomber and as such had military grade engines. So White Knight One like those early Learjets could fly up to 53,000 ft which is substantially higher than the normal 35-45,000 ft limits we see with current commercial aircraft. That 10,000 ft doesn't sound much but its significant because of where it is in the flight profile. If you had unlimited access to ex-military aircraft the Convair B-58 Hustler is the plane to consider because it could not only go high (63,000ft) but also very fast (Mach 2 at 40,000ft). Going back to why that extra altitude matters. Its simple high school level science. Getting into space is all about energy and there's 2 parts to that. Straight out altitude is the potential energy equation pe = mgh. Getting into orbit requires speed and that means kinetic energy ke = 1/2mv². So no matter the launch type every bit of altitude and speed you can get matters and saving fuel matters because that's your energy source. This is as Don Pettit put it "The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWjdnvYok4I Air launching has the obvious saving that you are launching at speed and altitude. You simply avoid all the issues of the launch pad. That's when a rocket is at its least efficient because that's when its total mass is highest and the rocket nozzle needs to produce its highest thrust. Where air launching also saves fuel however is at the top of the launch profile. If you launch from a fixed location you have to burn fuel right at the top of the profile to get onto the desired orbit. This is the part of the launch sometimes referred to as "orbital insertion." You have to burn fuel getting onto the right trajectory. Air launching reduces the amount of fuel needed for that because at the moment you launch you are pointing in the right direction. Its sometimes referred to as "launching on orbit." So there's substantial fuel savings from air launching. At times its not that much and at other times its more. Irrespective every extra kilo you can lift is a bonus. That's even more significant if your payload has orbital adjustment motors because you end up with more useable fuel on the payload. The other consideration is construction of facilities. All you need for air launching is a hangar beside the runway. You don't need launch platforms or towers or spend money maintaining them or much else other than a convenient airport. People tend to forget those costs all add up. Again - sorry for the long comment but you are on the right thought process.
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  973. Agreed, or at least post it as a playlist like they have for other debates. So that is possibly coming.
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  974. AUSTRALIAN HERE: 1) We have universal health care, but we do it a little different by having a dual system of public & private. 2) Its EMBARRASSING to here how far down the list we are. We have just had our most successful Olympics and finished 4th on the Medal Table with 18 gold, 19 solver & 16 bronze. WHAT'S NOT SHOWN is how much we support Olympic Athletes BETWEEN THE GAMES. We don't have the stipend system the Brits have but we do have a system that has incentives for a SPORT to do well. Swimming gets huge money here because it gets big results. We just finished second in swimming with 7 Gold, 9 Silver 3 Bronze for 19 medals. Field hockey is really well funded because they do so well at World Championships, Commonwealth Games and other big tournaments. These Olympics were a bust for them after solid starts and that could hurt their future funding except the fact we are hosting the Brisbane games in 2032. What most Australian Olympic sports can expect is that if they are going to be contested in Brisbane they'll get big money and if they have chances to medal that money will only get better. So in the next few years ANYONE who has to compete against Australians vying for Olympic money can expect them to throw EVERYTHING into it and that will be even more so at things like world championships.
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  975. ​ @StuntpilootStef  There's nothing funny about it. There's too many who would say "NO" and not enough who would say "YES and we need to fix this." Back when he was doing the Daily Show Jon Stewart interviewed King Abdullah of Jordan. It was an amazing interview to see a head of sate interviewed on a parody news show which shows just how bad the media has been for a long time. There were "Peace Talks" on the Israeli-Palestinian issue going on at the time and Abdullah warned that if they didn't solve the problem AT THAT TIME (I think it was 2012) then it we'd have to wait an entire generation before another opportunity like it would happen again. He basically said that if they didn't solve it them we'd have 20+ years of the same chaos or even worse. What's more Abdullah also said fixing the Israeli-Palestinian issue would defuse most of the Middle East because it would take away the soap box that so many preached from.
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  976. That's a great point and I saw another example of that sort of thing yesterday. British commentator Konstantin Kisin gave this 15minute speal on why "Communism is worse than Fascism"_ and there wasn't a single thing he said that wasn't true BUT what made it a vile piece was that it put forward the notion that "Our cruelty isn't as bad as their cruelty" which is exactly the type of case Denis Prager is making. Its also the same type of argument that Prager's now infamous cartoon claiming slavery was better than being killed that Ron DeSanctimonious has endorsed for Florida schools.
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  977.  @genkiferal7178  I'd agree, but I'd be very careful with RT at the moment as we should be with EVERY American media outlet for one simple reason: "the first casualty of war is the truth." Or do we all need a reminder of the things we were all told right before the Invasion of Iraq?
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  978. Its 28th of May 2023, 6 months after you posted your comment. YES - we have a collective issue with memory. Maybe 20+ years of the war on Terror has numbed us so much that another pile of bodies just doesn't matter. I think we lost something on 9/11. Bin Laden's maniacs didn't just kill 3,000 people they killed a our social conscience of right and wrong as well AND we have NOT recovered.
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  979. I'm Australian but went to college in America (U. Illinois) so I know both Wisconsin and Missouri. I used to have plenty of interesting discussions with friends on the US Constitution. I did engineering but a bunch of them we pre-law. My policy sci was mostly studying Orwell (AF & 1984) in high school. So I used to argue that any country or society could fall into a totalitarian nightmare because that was Orwell's warning - "Look after your country or it can turn into a nightmare." Their main argument (and they studied this stuff) was that it was impossible in America because the US Constitution was specifically written to prevent it through its system of "Checks & Balances" One thing that we never discussed because it was inconceivable was what would happen if somebody corrupted that system of checks & balances so that they could start undermining other parts of the US System. Look at what a small group of billionaires have done funding Mitch McConnell's corruption of the Senate. They now have a completely corporatized SCOTUS making judgements that suit what they want. My friends used to explain to me that SCOTUS would protect the Constitution from abuse. and that SCOTUS was impossible to corrupt because the Senate would provide the checks & balances. The House could pass new laws but the Senate would check what they wrote and make sure it was balanced. The president would make the necessary executive decisions if and when needed and the Senate would reign him in if he went to far. If you think I have misread what my college friends told me 30+ years ago (it was the late 80s) then tell me what they got wrong. A bunch of them are now lawyers and I can't wait to eventually make it to a Homecoming and ask them about this stuff and hear what they have to say now.
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  980. NAME the states that did not follow their laws? DESCRIBE how the did not follow their laws? Otherwise STFU.
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  981. And California went onto be the worlds technology superpower. Not Texas, Not Wyoming, Not Florida, Not New York and not any of the other states.
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  982. The last I heard was the number of children killed in the bombing is 16,000. If we put aside all the other things that alone says something. That's 16,000 young lives that nobody can say what might have been with any certainty. Nobody can say who would have done bad things or good things. Nobody will know who might have been a teacher or a doctor or an engineer or a plumber or anything else. Nobody will know what any of them would have been because for being nothing else but children living in Gaza they have been killed and what ever futures any of them might have had are gone.
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  983. And also I don't know why he left out Krystal Ball and Brian Tyler Cohen.
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  984. When did Bernie join the UFC? This looked like a pre-fight press conference: Bernie "Functioning Brain" Sanders Vs Lindsey "Count de Money" Graham.
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  985. The same way that people in Jonestown kept drinking the Kool Aid despite the bodies piling up around them - PEER PRESSURE Whether its actual pressure being applied by some people onto others to conform to the group or perceived pressure from people wanting to stay with the group it has the same effect. Its mob psychology 101 and its damn hard to go against the voice and will of the mob.
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  986. I haven't watched that many hours and I agree. On Psychology he was great, but on other subjects he often failed. One of his big failures for me was when he talked about climate change during a Q&A in Britain. He bullshitted on about being on a UN Climate committee for credibility (see below). BUT I am an engineer and what he said about engineering was just plain WRONG. Here's the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBf2PU_Bvog Its one of those moments where a person can be so right and then so wrong in a heartbeat. Was he right about how serious climate change is? YES. Was he right about that it wont unite the world? From a mob psychology aspect YES, because nations will act in their own interests. Was he right about there's NOTHING that can be done? TOTALLY WRONG I am an engineer and his understanding of modelling and error analysis is both hopeless and pathetic. His understanding of what to do about power generation is even worse. Then he brings up Bjorn Lomberg who is NOT and engineer. BL's a self centered grandstanding attention seeking narcissistic who is certainly NOT a genius and certainly NOT worth listening to on climate science.
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  987. Australian here - seeing this from the outside. I have NO DOUBT the Russians were interfering in the 2016 election but I have seen very few people truly explain Putin's MOTIVES and what he actually sought. Masha Gessen (the Russian American Journalist) was interviewed on the Australian show called Planet America (for my mind) put forward the best explanation. FIRST - Masha explained that Putin wasn't a great strategic thinker and that's been born out with the disaster that is now Ukraine. Masha also explained Putin believes in ABSOLUTE LOYALTY and we all saw what he did to Yevgeny Prigozhin. So Putin would EXPECT someone like James Comey to keep his mouth shut. Most of all in Putin's Russia elections are decided beforehand and election days are just confirmations the general population knows their place or at least what percentage know their place. So in Putin's mind Hilary Clinton had already won long before election day. If that's the case then what was Putin really up to and what happened? Everybody has forgotten that out of 330 million Americans Putin hated NOBODY more than Hilary Clinton who had, as Secretary of State, called out Putin publicly and slapped Russia repeatedly with sanctions that personally hurt Putin. So just imagine this. 1) James Comey keeps silent on the emails because in Putin's mind that's what servants do. 2) Hilary then wins. 3) The Russians then leek the emails along with details James Comey covered up. What do you think Trump and the Republicans would have then done? No matter how it turns out Putin wins because: If Trump wins sure Putin gets to laugh at Hilary. BUT If Hilary wins Putin gets to watch America tear itself apart and at the very least Hilary's presidency is a disaster.
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  988. Imagine how they feel about the claims "Tesla has just won the robot contest!" I am an engineer who has worked in industrial robotics and I think the humanoid robot claims are horribly overrated. I actually think a lot of what companies like Boston Dynamics is garbage. We don't need electronic dogs and we don't need to replace people. We do need some of the things those robots do but they are NOT the panacea that gets hyped up in the media.
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  989. Race to the bottom NO. Its a race to see who can dig the bottom of the hole even deeper than it already is. You do know there are people in China looking at the ground wondering if that's American tunneling towards them.
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  990. She lied in the first few words - "Independent Audit." Its hasn't been independent from the start. Its been done by far right radicals lead by people who have never done this kind of work before and using untrained people with unverified techniques. In what way do any of these people actually think this will stand up in any court?????
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  991. Absolutely true but he also understands his audience and what they react to and respond to and get motivated by. BUT Don't forget his vote numbers WENT UP. He got 74,223,744 up from the 62,984,828. ALL the polls said his base was shrinking so where did those extra 11million come from? When he acts the way he does how the F--K did that happen? Why did 74,223,744 turn up and vote for this clown? The DNC are also living in a state of denial. They lost House seats, they didn't (yet) get control of the Senate and lost in state legislatures. Biden's biggest task by far is answering these questions and finding solutions. SO far Biden's hiring of 2 Goldman Sachs and a McKinsey (as recently reported) don't fill me with confidence.
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  992.  @joeishmael9217  I posted the link throughout this page. I hope people don't see it as spam.
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  993. ​ @cynthiaswingle5134  Yeah it came up when some of the folders they first found were empty. And then the problem became what what's missing. And that's when a few people with intel backgrounds explained how this stuff works. They don't have info floating about like "File X has A, B, C, in it" because that tells anyone interested what File X contains. It also tells anyone interested that on subject X they at least have some details on A, B ,C and not on D, E, F. That in itself is information you might not want other people knowing about. This is why keeping this stuff in secure locations is so important and why there's such strict rules on HANDLING classified materials. It might take many months to work out what's missing and then take even longer to find out who's got it and even longer still to work out the implications. How Trump and his staff are yet to be charged over this stuff is barely comprehensible?
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  994. I lost all respect with Sam a few weeks after he made he did a podcast where he went into what he called "moral ambiguity" which is where he claimed there are acts that in their very nature CANNOT be excused. This is what he calls "moral ambiguity" and that certain things have ZERO "moral ambiguity" and there is NOTHING to excuse it. My problem with Sam was that he DOES NOT apply this equally to the Israelis and Palestinians. He DOES NOT really (or clearly) distinguish that within each of these groups there is an incredible variety of ideology. He simply lumps everyone in each group into a single category which is just ignoring reality. He claimed in that podcast that what Hamas did was a crime and that there was NOTHING "morally ambiguous" to cloud that judgement - IT WAS WRONG and required a response. On that I do not fault Sam Harris. What Hamas did was WRONG and there is nothing "morally ambiguous" about that it was wrong and needed a response. I am yet to hear Sam Harris explain the "moral ambiguity" for killing over 12,000 children.
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  995. Great comment - straight, simple and damn accurate.
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  996.  @IamCaleum  Yeah I'd never heard of the federalist Society until a couple of years ago. They had done a good job of slipping beneath the public discussion until Trump mouthed off that he was simply going to use their recommendations for judicial appointments. Krystal and Saagar (Breaking Points) interviewed someone who wrote a book about them. Its when they were at the Hill. They pointed out that for many years nobody openly admitted they were members. That's changed and now people put it on their Bio and Resume to get jobs. That judge in Florida who got in the road of the documents scandal, Aileen Cannon is not only a Trump appointment but also an FS member.
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  997.  @LG-dj9qr  Thanks. The worst part of social media are the idiots who think they can just make crap up. Its what's farking up so much of public discourse these days. Nobody can have a sensible discussion on anything without some moron spouting stupidity. Worse are the ones that take over any reasonable conversation and turn it into a shite fest. The right to free speech is a gift that few previous generations were ever granted. Its something that needs protecting from those who would take it away and equally from those who would waste it.
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  998.  @Nope2022HugeTheWarningFan  Mostly fair claims in your reply to Devonic, except the bit of voting for Trump. Remember that Dems threw a massive guilt trip at progressives and Bernie supporters after treating them like shit. They didn't like Biden and especially didn't like his hacks BUT they still voted for him over Trump. Has this guy got his flaws? Absolutely, but he was absolutely right about America being addicted to 10 second sound bites. And that's far from being an American issue that problem has infected the entire Western World. At least everybody should take the positive that this an elected Republican who's only going to get even more flak for simply admitting Trump lost. And considering how some of the Trumpsters are threatening people that's deserves at least some respect.
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  999. NO HE'S NOT HE'S A VERY CLEVER LIAR Unlike Gerard Holland who's background is in accounting I am an engineer and have know about Australia's energy situation since doing a project on Australia's future energy needs in 2016. I am utterly disgusted with how public discussion has been dominated by UNCHALLENEGED claims from BOTH SIDES of the energy debate. BOTH SIDES LIE just as Gerard has done here. And so you know you can read my formal challenge to him on this page.
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  1000.  @bhadanisandip  You are right on track. I'm an engineer and have been trying to tell people that it won't be 1 technology in our energy future it will be a range of technologies where we use better options. There will be all sorts of mixtures of tech because each country will have its own resources to draw upon.
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  1001. I'm Australian and I have know a lot of South Africans, in fact in Perth Western Australia (where I lived for 7 years) there's a whole section that's jokingly referred to as Little Jo-berg. I worked with quite a few in the mining industry and in general I would describe them as pragmatic. A few were pains in the ass, but so what, every tribe has them. BUT none of them ever behaved like this. There must be a version they never exported to Australia.
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  1002. As another Australian - YEAH. But then we may have overspent some of the dumb myths Americans think. Stuff like riding Kangaroos the same as Luke Skywalker rode his tauntaun in "The Empire Strike Back" Maybe we need to start a rumour that Joe Rogan is actually Ronald Reagan's brain in a new body or something just as stupid.
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  1003. What America needs to realise is that the immigration issue is NOT an American problem. Its a problem with the lack of development across the 3rd world. The developed world has spent decades exploiting these countries and often supported horribly ruthless dictatorships or doing other stupid things. We've allowed our corporations to get away with stuff that we'd never allow in our own countries. PLUS we shove our media (TV, film, music,... etc) down their throats and it repeatedly sends the message "Look at how fantastic our country is!" What does anyone expect? There's several billion people living in crap places with no future and they are constantly bombarded with messages of that tell them "You should want to live here!"
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  1004. I can see the day when someone is going to lash out in a very ugly way at one of these people. All they do is provoke others. They're like that annoying brat in grade school who niggles people. Sooner or later someone loses their cool and belts them. When it happens watch them squeal.
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  1005. As an Australian let me spell these stats out to any Ted Cruz supporters who might be trolling. Australia has 25.7 million people compared to Texas with just under 29million. So we have a similar sized population. I went to college in America and have been to Texas several times. Australia and Texas are fairly similar in geography - as in mainly flat, with similar weather. We are both reasonably spread out with a few major population centers. Most importantly the available medical technologies are essentially identical. Texas has 69,760 dead from COVID while Australia has 1,577. Based on population Texans are almost 40x more likely to have died from COVID. So please Teddy (and any of his supporters), don't tell us anything about handling COVID. And we also consider it criminal to let children freeze to death.
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  1006. To all you Americans who care. This was just shown Australia regarding Rupert Murdoch and Fox -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Its the 1st of 2 parts and the 2nd wont be shown until next week. It includes interviews with ex-Fox presenters who detail what happened inside the Murdoch/Fox Empire with regards to Trump. Its been done by ABC Australia (our equivalent of PBS) on a program called "4 Corners" (our equivalent to PBS Frontline). You can expect the Australian Right Wingers to go completely unhinged. Murdoch's Australian operation is called "Sky News Australia" (if you didn't know). Their Equivalent to Hannity is a guy named Alan Jones, but he's just one of a group of narcissistic liars. So watch out for ANYTHING done by Sky News Australia. Murdoch has been trying for more than 20 years to get the ABC dissolved (as in completely annihilated). The right wingers claim the ABC is leftist and the left wingers always claim they are pro-right. The fact is the ABC is publicly funded but under its charter its programming is independent, including its news and current affairs. SO it reports what comes across its desk. Does it get shit wrong at times? ABSOLUTELY, but its also a place where we can still get HONEST in depth investigative journalism. We can never let the ABC go just the same as America must never let PBS go. If you doubt that watch this Frontline from 16 years ago when all this idiotic shit in Iraq and Afghanistan started. For that question of how did this all happen? Here are the answers. For anyone who's forgotten what people like Paul Wolfowitz did to make this shit storm happen. Here's what he and others said -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byu9Yhr0Q_0
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  1007. I checked the actual MSNBC vid for the interview that's here on YouTube and at 6:35 they mute her. It has to be some of the crappiest journalism in the history of journalism. Do you think MSNBC would do that to Hilary Clinton????
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  1008.  @tsunamis82  I believe the correct term is "narcissistic sociopath," but I only did psych 101 and others might be able to better clarify that. From www.mayoclinic.org Narcissistic personality disorder — one of several types of personality disorders — is a mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others. Antisocial personality disorder, sometimes called sociopathy, is a mental disorder in which a person consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others. People with antisocial personality disorder tend to antagonize, manipulate or treat others harshly or with callous indifference. They show no guilt or remorse for their behavior.
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  1009. @peter the first thing we need to teach EVERYONE about critical thinking is that it is NOT about criticizing or deciding importance. Its about critiquing as in analyzing, evaluating and reasoning. That's probably the single biggest misnomer I see in the discussion - people NOT understanding what critical thinking means let alone how to do it.
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  1010. Fun fact Kenya isn't alone, New Zealand and Iceland both use geothermal. The very title of this is garbage. In Australia we thought we had some really great locations for geothermal and NONE of them panned out. It takes very specific structures under the ground to make this work and importantly it has to be within reasonable reach of the population centers. That was part of the Australian failure the sites were so far off grid that the delivery cost was not viable for the amount of energy available. The other part was the below ground structures were not hot enough, maybe future technology will change that?
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  1011.  @doofyler  Exactly - I sum Libertarians up in the simple statement: "I demand the Liberty to strip other people of their liberty."
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  1012. Shutting them down is nice and would stop these clowns spewing garbage but it would only drive Trumps base to worse behavior. Its like dealing with a symptom and ignoring the disease. These people need to be confronted with INDISPUTABLE FACTS. They need to be pounded with them until the bubble bursts and reality hits. Its the same with people in any cult you have to keep pushing truth until it breaks through.
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  1013. What confuses a lot of people is why haven't any of them been recalled to active duty and court martialed - which has been called for.
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  1014. Yeah but she's mouthing off like a typical American and there is something very misleading in this. All militaries operate trucks, tanks, jets and ships. Plus they have vast numbers of portable generators. Not only do all those burn fossil fuel but they consume huge amounts of energy making all those trucks, tanks, jets and ships. The only exception are the nuclear ships & submarines but even then they have emissions during construction. So by the very nature of their basic operations all militaries are big emitters.
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  1015. There's a few videos here on YT that detail parts of Finnish education system. I'm Australian and this is was shown on one of our prime time news & information programs when there were some questions about our standards. The main point being teacher qualifications. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xCe2m0kiSg It aggravated certain parts of or education establishment. Both my parents were high school teachers and they were speaking about this sort of stuff 25-30 years ago. In a nutshell Finland hasn't just mouthed off about the importance of giving every child a decent education they have actually done it. Part of that is the drive to have the best trained teachers in the world, which they've done. Finnish society puts a value on teaching as a profession and educating their nation as a priority. If you listen to some of the socioeconomics people many of them talk about the advantage of being better educated in a more technical world. Where do you think the Finns are headed?
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  1016. Anybody who doubts the CTE issue should watch the PBS Frontline documentary "League of Denial" about the issues NFL players have had. In particular it shows several interviews with players before and after the degradation. Go and watch Herschel's past interviews. I saw one from 6-7 years ago on a sports show and the difference in his responses in terms of clarity of thought are significant. He is not a well person and should be in the care of medical professionals who know what they are doing. The people around him supporting this nonsense are of the most despicable kind. Those people need to be outed and confronted about this mess.
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  1017.  @blondeguy08  Mate if you think I got something wrong then say what it is or don't comment at all. I'm not perfect and I don't know any engineer who is. This is a serious subject and If I got something wrong I want to hear it, but don't dare say I'm wrong and then say nothing - that's BS.
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  1018. I'm Australian and there's times in what Moira's describing that I don't know if she's describing Greece or Australia. Right now we have both an energy and housing crisis while food prices are skyrocketing. The food price rise are insane. Things as simple as corn chips, cans of soup, cans of baked beans and some vegetables like tomatoes have almost doubles in price since the start of the year. Its insane because Australia is an incredibly wealthy country. For the Green transition we are a major supplier of things like Lithium, Cobalt, Aluminium and Rare Earths and yet massive swathes of Australian's are struggling. Our housing crisis is out of control and the head of our Central Bank simply sat in an inquiry (just days ago) and said "its just the market adjusting." In that moment he gave away exactly what he is - a neoliberal fundamentalist who believes to his core that "the free market will self adjust and government shall not interfere." I have been listening to British Economist Gary Stevenson (here on YT) and he's telling a similar story about what's happening in Britain. Go watch his video on "Why are economists always wrong?"
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  1019. I think the other line about this is: "The village idiot used to be confined to their village. Now thanks to social media they have been able to share their stupidity across the world."
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  1020. That seems to have been downplayed. I have watched 3 members of my immediate family die form cancer. The chemo weakens their immune system and in some cases smashes it. At one point we had to limit how many people could see my mother, because of the risk of an infection. Anybody who has witnessed cancer and seen what happens knows this. If the anti-vaxxers jump on this then their shame really has no limit.
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  1021. Of course Sean thinks Herschel was a great candidate. As far as Sean and the GOP are concerned they don't want senators who can think for themselves and lets face the fact when it comes to thinking capability Herschel is the perfect GOP candidate for them.
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  1022. As an engineer I usually win the AI arguments with the software clowns by asking them a very simple question. What is thinking and how do you write the algorithm for it? All that they have right now are stochastic software engines that basically calculates the "average answer" based on a data set. The difference is the amount of data they are based on is huge and the replies aren't simply the average number from a group of numbers. The answer is a data set that describes and average answer from 1,000s and 1,000s of related data sets. Hence why some people are calling Chat GPT a "stochastic parrot." No brain no thinking just the average answer to whatever its asked.
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  1023. And by the way the whole world has watched clown after clown start their campaigns. Mike Pence finally told the truth after 3 years and got a cheer so lame you'd think he farted instead. For what Chris Christie said about Trump we don't know if he's a Dem, a GOP candidate or contestant on a new reality show called "America's Next Sumo." And they are the 2 least ridiculous so far. I bet the script writers for SNL are going nuts just trying to find something they can spoof that isn't already so ridiculous that a spoof would seem reasonable.
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  1024. Advertisers are always saying there's no such thing as bad publicity.
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  1025. Someone else just pointed out on another of Kyles vids. These people are currently passing laws to REGULATE who can vote, despite the 15th Amendment, but at the same time claiming nobody is allowed to REGULATE who can own a gun or what types of gun they can own.
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  1026. That's actually one of the more sensible comments on the subject I have seen. Well done.
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  1027. Very sensible comment. As a man I can't understand what you went through because it simply isn't in my experience and never can be. But it did happen to a very good friend of mine. It also happened to the sister of another friend. I don't know what it feels like to go through what you went through, but I ABSOLUTELY know that this is something NO MAN has any right to tell any woman what she can and can't do on this subject.
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  1028. YOU ARE DEAD RIGHT I'm Australian but went to college in America and first hear about this report over 6 months ago when RICHARD WOLLF mentioned it. The report was published in SEPTEMBER 2022 nearly 10 months ago. I went and checked it against the Australian data which is presented a little differently but tells the same basic story. Anyone can find the CBO report just google "congressional budget office family wealth" and the actual home page for the report should come up. On that page you can not only download the report but an Excel spreadsheet with all the data in the graphs. Here's some facts from the data of the very first graph in that report which is the one shown by Kyle at 4:26. From that graph you can not only get the effect of the 2008 GFC by comparing the 2007 data to 2010 but also the recovery by comparing the 2007 data to 2019. Adjusting for population and averaging the data on a per person value: The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 21.1% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 4.6% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were STILL 21.8% BELOW their 2007 value. So after the GFC that they caused the Top 10% got around US$4 Trillion from Bush and another US$4 Trillion from Obama and have since recovered and by 2019 were US$20 Trillion ABOVE their 2007 value. Estimates have them at least US$8 Trillion above that during the COVID Pandemic. The current collective value of the Top 10% can be estimated to be above US$90 Trillion compared to an estimated collective value of US$2.5Trillion for the 165 million people who make up America's Bottom 50%. This is neoliberal economics in overdrive and its made a mess of the developed world.
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  1029.  @its.emma.jacobs  Good point on standards. I love this channel for how well its researched and how well it presents engineering. His vid on Jacques de Vaucanson's lathe was brilliant.
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  1030.  @MattH-wg7ou  Thought I'd ask. Where I got my aerobatics ticket the school owner was ex-USN and flew both F4s and F14s. I asked on day he really surprised my in how much he liked the F4 and disliked the F14. But then Ward Carroll who has a YT channel points out that the F14 was a handful at low speed. What did you fly where there's an interesting comparison? If you can't no prob. As an engineer I like to understand what people do and don't like even if its in areas I'll never work. It all adds up when you are a solution provider.
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  1031. the stupidity of your comment is that you yell at the Lefties for not getting what they want but IGNORE that the right have been screaming about things like Roe V Wade for decades. Your comment that its all political dogma is 100% correct but framing that its only a Left problem is stupid.
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  1032. The exact same thing can be said of those people on the political right. A really smart debate would be "This House Believes Political Tribalism Has Gone Too Far." The guy who went second Tommy Nguyen. You could swap the words woke and wokeism out of his speech with right and rightism and it would have made the same amount of sense. All the things he was critical of are also done by the Political Right. This is the shittiest aspect of political debate these days. They all accuse the other side of doing exactly what they do - stifling debate, cancelling people, playing endless word games and making bad faith arguments just to name a few things.
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  1033.  @darthwiizius  There's rumors an inland taipan, (the worlds most poisonous land snake by toxicity) bit him once. Sadly the snake had to be put down under the advice of a vet. The next day one of the snakes cousins a coastal taipan (considered one of the worlds most dangerous because of its aggressiveness) took a go at him. Sadly it also had to be put down under the advice of a vet. The task was then offered to a blue ringed octopus, a stone fish and a box jelly fish. They all declined. What isn't a rumor is that we tried to warn the Brits hen he moved there and they didn't listen. We then warned the American when he moved there and they didn't listen either. Finally: There is NO TRUTH to the rumor that when Elon Musk suggested he'd do a lottery for the first crew to Mars more than 3,200,000 Australians bought tickets and all of them signed their name "Rupert Murdoch." We tried but the internet crashed from the surge.
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  1034. I'm Australian but went to college there. Its been that way for generations. It mostly happens to be in the way they were taught history. In Australia at high school I did Egyptian, Sumerian, Greek, Roman, 2000 years of British History and eventually Australian history. Some might consider that narrow but what it gave me was a TIMELINE to this point in history where we live. I studied Orwell (Animal Farm and 1984) as well as Camus (the Plague). I even did All Quiet on the Western Front which was WW1 from the German perspective. I hated it at the time but now am grateful. Americans never got those perspectives and even our kids no longer get that type of history or perspective. Both my parents were high school teachers and I have friends who are current high school teachers. Those friends told me about 15 years ago there was a change and instead of history high school students would do "case studies." My parents and my friends all thought was insane because kids would have NO TIMELINE to frame things in. I'm Gen-X and I'm fed up with millennials who think they invented the Internet and are therefore smarter than everyone. When I was in college no American seemed capable to discuss anything that happened before the Pilgrims landed (1620) except for Jesus and Adam. Australia seems to be going in the same direction with the same results.
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  1035.  @mrsandmrbutterfly  You might like this if you dislike Citizens United. It was first posted by someone else a while back. Its truly awesome in that it was written 2 years before Trump was even born and yet it describes this moment perfectly. It was written by someone who saw the destruction brought by people lie Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin and it also means American's like Trump have been around for some time. (edit) the highlights are mine. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  1036. What did the CIA hitman say to the MI6 Hitman? A: Your tying the knot wrong! What did the MI6 Hitman say back? A: Shut up and hold him still! What did the MOSAD Hitman say? A: Will both of you just shut up and get it done, I only paid the guards to be gone for 30minutes!
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  1037. I'm Australian and do you know what I find totally amazing about this are Nigel Farage's opening words. Nigel's own words _"What Brexit's proved I'm afraid is that our politicians are about as useless as the Commissioners in Brussels were"_ Correct me if I misunderstand this: 1) He was elected to the European Commission, which means he's a POLITICIAN. 2) He immediately resigned after the Brexit vote. 3) He refused to be involved in any of the negotiations and left it to others to deal with what he created. SO WHAT DOES that make him in his OWN WORDS? By the way he was here in Australia recently on some sort of speaking tour. Can you guys kindly keep this clown in your own country we don't need him here.
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  1038. As an Australian who went to college in America in the late 80s this is something I have been trying to explain to Americans for over 30 years. America NEVER HAD a true Left like Britain has with British Labor, Australia has with Australian Labor or many other countries have with political parties that STARTED out of their union movements. What America has is 2 parties that were formed by their political and business elites and as such are BOTH fundamentally RIGHT WING PARTIES. Further they have shifted where they were on the political spectrum as well. Americans seem to forget that at one point the Democrats were the radical racist Right Wing party while the Republicans were the moderate Right Wing Party. Remember that Republican President named Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves. Go look at the history of the Klu Klux Klan they were an offshoot of the Southern Democrats. Here in Australia the our version of the Labor Party was essentially the political party of our Unions. People like Dan Osborne were its members. There has been a significant change in recent decades however. The Australian Labor Party like British Labor and other Left Wing parties across the Western Democratic World have been taken over by college educated people usually with educations in law or economics. Tony Blair (former British PM), Julia Gillard (former Australian PM), Anthony Albanese (current Australian PM) and Keir Stammer (most likely to be the next British PM) are all lawyers and all members of their respective Labor parties. So it does NOT surprise me that America might be looking for working class people to displace some of the political elite like Dan Osborne is. We had that, then lost that and need to get it back again.
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  1039. As for Ted Cruz running for President you'll need to remind me where Calgary, Alberta is. Because last I heard and we heard it a lot between 2008 and 2016 that you are ineligible to be President if you weren't born in America. Ted Cruz (according to his bio) was born at "the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Canada, to Eleanor Elizabeth (née Darragh) Wilson and Rafael Cruz." -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz#Early_life_and_family Someone needs to call Justin Trudeau and tell him that Alberta has been annexed by America and they plan to rename it North Texas. Maybe NAFTA made Ted eligible, but that's a problem cos his buddy Trump tore that up. This is confusing. Is there anybody out there who can explain how Ted Cruz can run for President?
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  1040. ENGINEER HERE (and I left a more detailed comment to Sal's pinned comment at the top) In a nutshell Peter is (as Sal points out) VERY GOOD at geopolitics. I find Peter's also fairly good at putting things into historical context, which (in general) is done so badly that it makes people like Peter look very good. BUT where I see Peter get things WRONG and wrong often is on the specifics of engineering and I gave 2 examples in the other comment. I'm less certain about your comment on demographics, because I don't know what your friends have said he gets wrong on that subject. When I have seen others criticise his demographic analysis and ask what's wrong - they usually fall flat or silent or both. I'm not a demographic expert by any means but what I can see (quite easily) is that demographics like economics is at a crossroads where there are 2 camps diving off. One has a very delusional "business as usual" attitude and one with an almost equally delusional "this is a catastrophe" attitude. I tend to think we are more in the middle of those and business will NOT continue "as usual" but we are NOT YET in the catastrophic state some(or many) claim either. However I would temper that with "We might NOT be in a catastrophic state, but if we don't start doing things that need doing we will be."
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  1041. Yeah - he did?????????? But then his base live in an alternative reality and he panders to that reality. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1042. Yeah this is ANOTHER in a growing list of Peter doesn't know SHlT about Engineering videos. All anyone has to do is go and look how much Lithium is needed to do things like convert all the cars to electric and then check that against the Lithium Reserves which you can get on Wikipedia. Answer at about 63kg per car (based of a Tesla) the 1.5 Billion registered cars in the World need about 95 million tons of Lithium and there's less than 30 million tons in known RESERVES. AND for those wondering if they look at Wikipedia and see the number for Resources the difference between resources and reserves. Resources are what people think is out there. Reserves are what the Geologists and miners KNOW they MINE.
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  1043. At this stage of this train wreck of an election that's as good of an answer or explanation as anything else.
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  1044.  @Momo_8k  No probs. The more people that are better informed the better chances we have of surviving the mess our world is in right now. The insane tribalism is gonna destroy us if it doesn't stop.
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  1045. The true stupidity of Netanyahu quoting about Amalek (and yes its spelt with a 'a') was that King Saul did not do as instructed and its what caused him to lose his crown. So not only is Netanyahu misquoting what he thinks he himself is allowed to do he's quoting something where the King acts improperly, the troops under his command act improperly and it gets him tossed from power. For any one interested the account is in 1 Samuel chapter 15 and you have to read right through to the end of the chapter to see what happens. Take note that the mistake made was the soldiers plundering with Saul's approval which was what they were explicitly told NOT to do. Forgetting the argument of why Amalek was being punished or if the punishment was overly harsh just consider the parallel to today and of the leader and his troops going BEYOND the rules of acceptable conduct. And that's the example Netanyahu is citing as justification for what he's done.
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  1046.  @grantadamson3478  Its was actually the classmate who's at NASA you should thank. About 20 years ago I was the one being mouthy and very "Elon like," and she rammed some hard truths back down my throat. What I am really frustrated with the se days is the very same problems THEN are still the same problems we have NOW. Half the problem is that we take so much of what nature does in terms of life support. No matter how you want to consider it - if we want manned spaceflight beyond LEO the life support is an absolute. Only 24 men have been beyond LEO and they did it in equipment that was incredibly limited. Its just kept them alive and just got there and only just got back. One reason why they stopped was they were afraid of losing a crew. By 1972 they really had pushed their luck with 1960s technology. One analogy I like to use for the moon is a remote mine site here on Earth. I actually met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) in 2002 and he told me we were headed back tot he moon to mine it for He3. So I went off into the Australian mining industry for some hard on the ground experience with remote mining. The actual number of similarities between the Australian Outback and the Moon are more than you'd think. For starters the first thing is a long range survey (Satellite & aerial) kind of like they did with the Ranger & Mariner probes. Then they do an on the ground survey with a couple of geologists and an SUV. They go out with all their food, water & supplies check the place out and come home with a few samples. The only go for a few days or weeks. Then they send out drilling crews for deeper exploration. The big difference at that point is the amount of equipment and men and supplies and for the first time accommodation, water storage, toilets, showers, communications and power generation. They don't simply go for a few days - they go for weeks. Some stay out there for months. If they find a suitable site with suitable resources then they go with huge amounts of gear. They send in a cast of 1000s to build a mine, the processing plant, the trucks, diggers, more accommodation, more water, more sewerage, more of everything. All that infrastructure takes time effort and construction people and construction equipment. Apollo was just like those couple of geologists doing the on the ground survey who bring back samples from site. The Apollo LM was like a space SUV, but for the next phase we need trucks not SUVs. I can build a mine site here only using SUVs but it would take 1000s of trips. What we need next is the space equivalent of a Kenworth and I don't know if Elon's new rocket is a Kenworth or just a bigger SUV. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1047. I'm Australian and that is a staggering way to describe this situation in America. AND YES it seriously scares the crap out of the rest of the world. The rest of us simply can't afford America to fail for several reasons. First there's the obvious security issues, but just as important are the economic reasons. 1) America is still the worlds largest economy (24.6% almost 1/4) and that includes staggering amounts of foreign money invested in America including billions in Chinese money. 2) America (or certain states) have turned out to be some of the worlds largest storehouses of foreign money being hidden from other governments. The Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands might be where the Chicago & New York mobsters hide their money but Russian Oligarchs and 3rd World dictators prefer Idaho, Texas and Delaware. 3) The US dollar is still the worlds reserve currency and that's not changing anytime soon no matter how much the BRICS wants too or how much anyone else wants to. Its just such a massive task. SO NOBODY on the planet, NOT EVEN the Russians can afford America to implode because of the GOP freak show.
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  1048. That calculation isn't quite right. If you work 48 weeks a year that's 240 days and at $5k/day that's $1.2M If you do that from 25 to 65 that's $48 Million. Where the other $100M can come from is asset growth - houses, stocks, shares,... etc. I personally don't object to the existence of billionaires, BUT I absolutely object to how most of them get that wealth. Some get that wealth because they start a business or patents something and it ends up being valued very highly. Their wealth isn't in the from of money its in asset value. So long as that company or companies provide FAIR wages & conditions, treat their customers well then AND PAY their TAXES then I'm fine with someone being a billionaire. So far as I know that person doesn't exist or if they do they keep a very low profile.
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  1049. Not quite Michael Corleone actually had brain function.
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  1050. I tend to agree with you on that as well as most of Dave McGs and others (above on the list). Kelly Johnson was no mug at designing aircraft. BUT his designs pushed the performance envelopes and as such needed to be used as they were intended. The F104s basic task was to get up as high possible as fast as possible and deliver bomber smashing missiles against the potential fleet of Russian bombers. It was first and foremost an interceptor not a dog fighter, BUT THEN many other planes of that era were also of that mindset. Don't forget many fighters of that era ONLY had missiles and they were designed to go fast, line up, fire a missile and GET TF OUT as fast as possible. Go look at the rocket fighter videos the British were proposing at the time or the Canadian Avro Arrow which was a far more rounded aircraft. Simon did a video on the Arrow and if you look through the comments on it or any of the Arrow videos the Canadians are still sore about how Lockheed out muscled (& bribed) them with the business BS that ended up with a set of Laws called the "Lockheed Laws" to this day.
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  1051. It's actually a very smart way to do politics. Prof Mark Blyth explained this back in July 2019 as the DNC campaigns were going on. He explained during a Q&A after a lecture on global Trumpism in a reply to a question on Elizabeth Warren. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s NEVER FORGET most people aren't interested in details or understanding. They want TO BE TOLD a simple answer and then fill in their own details.
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  1052.  @jimohara  I call the 2 American sides Carbon Versus Silicon because if you have a look at it there's a lot of Carbon orientated billionaires (oil, gas & coal) on one side and a lot of Silicon orientated billionaires (computer tech) on the other. Its not strictly true but its as good of a divide as any. Probably the biggest thing Americas MUST LEARN they do not have Left and Right Parties they have Right and Far Right compared to anywhere else in the Western World.
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  1053. Francis is quite right about one thing. We have had public discourse TOTALLY HIJACKED by a tiny minority on an "ideological crusade" for want of any better description. I absolutely agree with Francis these people have made public discussion of the topic almost impossible. Where Francis is wrong however is there are these very rare cases of people, who for whatever reason are genetically caught between male and female. A famous example is the South African athlete Caster Semenya who has a testable, verifiable genetic condition. So Francis can't just say there's only male & female because there are these rare cases BUT are NOT the people being discussed. What's being discussed are people who psychologically want to identify as whatever they like. This all comes from an ideology that's been pushed before. There's the famous case of David Reimer. He had a tragic accident as a child and a psychologist named John Money stepped in. John Money claimed David would be fine raised as a girl so long as nobody told him. It ended tragically when David Reimer committed suicide. People like John Money were dismissed as fringe lunatics and cases like David Reimer's PROVED their ideas were simply WRONG. How these ideas have made a comeback is ridiculous. Just like happened with the repressed memory cases of the late 1990s that also were found to be manifestations of fringe psychology the few people who were genuine cases got lost on the mess. Others got tragically destroyed in the witch hunts as happened to a friend of mine's family. This is the problem with fringe ideologies. They cause real harm and for whatever reason the psychology community seems to attract fringe ideologies.
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  1054. That's because he'll be in a small room, wearing bright orange and the golf course is on the other side of a fence topped with barbed wire. Go have a look at the prison where they send people like him. Its called Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery (FPC Montgomery) and its where Charles Kushner (Jared's father) did his time. AND YES its surrounded by a golf course.
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  1055. Yes there have been many people call for that and its about time they pulled the pin and threw that hand grenade. A lot of the people who have called for it are military or ex-military. A which back it was pointed out how he had spent a career in the intelligence & counter intelligence environment where all the normally accepted behaviors don't exist. Essentially Michael Flynn has spent decades involved in the business of lying and misinformation. Scary is that his BROTHER Charles Flynn is not only still in the military but also very high up. He's the commanding general of United States Army Pacific. AND ALSO mentioned when talking about Christian Nationalists in the US Military. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXb5IJiEeIE
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  1056. I half agree, because its a matter of why. If it gets to the point of simply entertaining then NO, because at that point David just becomes like so many others except he's on the left. If he sticks to the "lets try and understand" then I'm 101% for it, because if you don't ever try and understand the problem you cant ever solve the problem.
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  1057. Well to be 100% honest if we wanted to hear from an expert about the media and politics and spinning false narratives then who else knows more about how its done that Meatball Ron De Sanctimonious???????
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  1058. All she has done since losing to Trump is prove she was never good enough in the first place. That's a sad, sad truth - she was never good enough in the first place.
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  1059.  @wolvesetc  I'm actually Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). I think the US Constitution and particularly the Bill of Rights is one of the greatest achievements in human history BUT THERE IS A FLAW. The flaw in the US Constitution is the lack of accountability and responsibility. There is no onus on the American people valuing what they have, there is just this "We have this and its awesome!" attitude. There's no "We have this, its valuable and we have to look after it!" There used to be, but it seems to have vanished. FYI - I studied aerospace engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they liked dragging me into various discussions. Mostly 1st & 4th Amendment hypotheticals. The 2nd wasn't as much of an issue back then. I used to hate it but its kinda useful these days.
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  1060.  @kamion53  Actually somebody pointed out during her press conferences that she was once (past tense) a really good lawyer. It doesn't forgive what she's done but it maybe highlights how far she really has fallen. If she was always crap its not much of a fall, but if she WAS good once then this is a massive fall. Maybe next she'll claim she was a victim of Trumpism 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1061. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Like the Canadians, Japanese, Brits, Japanese, South Koreans and a bunch of other countries we are supposed to believe that America is a reliable security partner when these clowns are your best options??????
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  1062. The problem with that is that its her own show.
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  1063. “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” - Isaac Asimov
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  1064. You and every other similar comment are 100% correct. But have a look who posted that first comparison video. You can see it clearly around 56 seconds. KYLE needs to NOT show ANY videos from people like Russell Brand. In these sorts of discussions CREDIBILITY matters and using an accused rapist as a source doesn't look good.
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  1065. There are a staggering number of the rich & wealthy elite who should be in prison. Trump was right when he said he could shoot someone in the street and get away with it. The elite can get away with it.
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  1066.  @KM-nd6wj  Who would be surprised if he was? George Carlin said it best. "Its a big club and we aren't in it."
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  1067. "Good Candidate" and "Electable Candidate" are NOT the same thing. For Sean Hannity and the GOP they don't want Senators capable of thinking for themselves and to that Herschel was a "Good Candidate" he just wasn't an "Electable Candidate."
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  1068. I'm an engineer and the amount of media opinion on engineering subjects that's devoid of facts and/or reality that I see is incredible. I could make it a full time job (if somebody would pay me) correcting bad information. I would expect that other people from other professions would say similar. The Internet age was announced as the "Information Age" but I think it'll be remembered it as the "Misinformation Age" if we find a way to survive it.
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  1069. Yeah but should it be called Death by Stupid or Death by Stupidity. After all Misadventure is a noun in that it names the action the same as stupidity names the action rather than stupid which is an adjective which is descriptive of the action. And do we need to add qualifiers like. Death by Self Inflicted Stupidity Death by Voluntary Stupidity Death by Willful Stupidity Death by Mindless Stupidity Or maybe we need to consider other words that might better describe this. Death by Ignorance Death by Dumbness Death by Mental Illness After all it is important we get legal definitions right. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  1070. We can all say whatever we like about this stuff but 1 ugly truth remains - Trumps hardcore base don't care because they believe whatever Trump says. Every answer Trump gave they accept as FACT. Its sad thing to say, BUT until America is willing to deal with what drove 74 million people to discard reality and vote for Trump NOTHING WILL BE FIXED.
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  1071. Australian here. As an outsider that is one of the smartest answers I have seen yet and so you all know we have exactly that same issue here in Australia with BOTH sides of our politics. EVERYTHING both sides do here when they are in power is based on the simple theme "What do the billionaires want?" If you go and look back through the history of populist revolutions this exploitation of the general population by a wealthy elite is always there as a factor. Go look at the Slave Revolt lead by Spartacus, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution and any of the British or European peasant uprisings and there were a bunch of those. Plus there was that well know of revolutions the American revolution which was basically the American colonials throwing out the British Aristocrats. I think the second 1/2 of the 2020s is going to be a very rough time for a few countries for the simple fact that there are people with simply too much money and they don't know what to do with it other than drive the rest of us crazy with it.
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  1072. Mark Blyth has repeatedly asked the question about CNNs future considering their business model was simply "Trump Bad." When your business is so 1 dimensional you get hammered when that 1 dimension goes away. That's not a media thing that's goes to any business and quite a few major cities (like Detroit with cars) and more than a few countries.
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  1073. Australian here - the idea that anyone thinks De Sanctimonious (yes we know his nickname) is close to being presidential material is absurd and shows just how morally bankrupt American politics now is. And before you ask Australian politics is almost as bad. I actually went to college in America (late 80s) U. Illinois. I was there when Walter Payton was still playing and I got to see the effect he had on people. I have also watched a number of the winners of the Walter Payton Award speak. I have seen people like Admiral William McRaven speak a few times including that incredible commencement speech. We all got see Captain Brett Crozier put his personal career second behind the welfare of the thousands of personnel on the aircraft carrier he commanded during COVID. I have maintained that America DOES NOT lack for good leaders who actually have character and fortitude. In fact I think you have an over supply of them. Its just that NONE of them are in American politics. Maybe they are smart enough to stay out of it.
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  1074. Really I though it was constipation? Either way there's a doctor right there to look at it.
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  1075.  @opinion4755  I totally agree. In a discussion that needs clear rational arguments she's borderline hysterical.
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  1076.  @nrotko  I think your mostly right. Where Peter usually gets it right is when he sticks to his strengths of history, geopolitics and demographics. Where he gets it wrong is when he gets away from the areas he knows or gets into a country he doesn't know as well as he thinks he knows it. He also has an American centric view of the world, which gets him along with EVERY OTHER American into trouble. Having gone to college there I have seen the American Centric mentality up close. It can be fixed, but it takes an American to live outside America for 2 years or more and then go home. They need that time to acclimatise to different information. It actually happened to a really good friend of mine. Doug was in Australia for about 3 years after an ugly divorce, went home not too much different, BUT THEN when he visited a year later he was a different person. He'd had enough time outside America to see when he went home just how much of a bubble the American people live in. That was back in the late 90s. I see Peter's mistakes when he speaks about technology but then I'm an engineer. Some of the things he's said on the energy transition are just plain wrong, but I have noticed that MANY OTHER COMMENTATORS making the same mistakes. For an engineer its an infuriating time because there are a bunch of persistent meme's and its like playing whack-a-mole trying to correct them. I do think he's right in that America is going through a major political realignment and that its going to be messy for a couple more years. The thing I see is just how different it is this time. Its nothing like after the Great Depression of what happened in the 1970s & 80s. There's NEVER been a time when Americans were so divided along religious and secular lines where the "other side" isn't just the "other side" they are mortal enemies and think the other side is out to exterminate them as if they are from another planet. I actually think the US Constitution is one of humanities finest achievements EXCEPT that it needs a people who actually care about it rather than what they can exploit from it. That's part of the change that I don't hear Peter or any other American talk about much. American's used to value the Constitution and now its a club to bash the other side with. And that's why I am really concerned.
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  1077. I can see the point where somebody just belts the living hell out of him (and a few others) in the street. It will be one of those things nobody will openly condone but we'll all understand WHY. This endless lying and provoking by these people will eventually go past someone's limit.
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  1078. Sadly at some point you have to let go of people. Its one of the tragic realities of life. These people scream and howl about health care and then scream and howl when they can't afford it. No matter what anybody does or tries they block it and then scream when they can't get it. They want everything their way instant by instant. REALITY DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.
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  1079.  @johndavies5985  I'd agree clowns are great at the circus, but this isn't the circus it only looks that way.
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  1080. This is one of those things that's almost crazy for men to comment on but there's clearly something wrong with these people. One of the things that men don't understand is how serious an issue it is for a women to get pregnant until it gets explained to them one day and a friend of mine's wife did one day. The rate of serous threat to life a pregnant women is far higher than men realise think. We've lost sight of the fact that with modern technology like ultrasounds that let doctors know if something is wrong or not. We forget that with healthier food and cleaner water that there are many complications women in modern societies don't face. A few years ago there was a scandal where American doctors were helping poor women in Bangladesh do a simple procedure to block their fallopian tubes and prevent further pregnancies for women who already had children and didn't want any more. The controversy was the technique they were using had something like a 1 in 10,000 chance of cancer. One of the doctors involved explained (I think on 60minutes) that poorer women in Bangladesh had almost a 20% chance that any pregnancy could kill them either during the pregnancy or in childbirth. The fact that Oklahoma has that high rate of deaths says a lot about where Oklahoma is these days. Maybe a bunch of men should stop and listen and think.
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  1081. Yeah I heard about Taylor Swifts cat the other day too and about the super yachts. I saw a documentary (link below) last week on tax evasion and tax avoidance. YES, the YT Algorithm had a day off or something because its brilliant. It highlights the real problem isn't Tax Evasion its what they call Tax Avoidance. As one person in the doco says these people can afford the lawyers and accountants and auditors to operate in the grey space between what's legal and what's illegal. Its long but worth the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6O3US9IE4
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  1082. Santos is some new form of clown. Most corrupt politicians are smart enough to not be so blatant about it.
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  1083. I'd like to see them say these things to Travis Kelce's face. He's only 6'5" and 250lbs and can run damn fast.
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  1084. I'm Australian and Sydney harbour considered one of the Worlds most scenic harbors is now so toxic from the leached chemicals from a few old plants, Phillips and Union Carbide among them that NOTHING caught in the harbor is fit for eating. It used to be an extraordinary fishery and the families of the last commercial fishermen who had (past tense) licenses are riddled with PCBs and other forever chems. They used to feed the by-catch to their families including their grand children. We can't sue either Union Carbide or Phillips because they have now been chopped up and sold off.
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  1085. That is a great well thought comment.
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  1086. Your the first person I have seen or heard say that and IF TRUE then it explains why De Sanctimonious has not attacked Trump. It means that he can claim to Trump's supporters that he's their guy while Chris Christie can't.
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  1087.  @2PMisTimeless  What I don't like in this BBC report is the inference it started AFTER America & Co. left when its been going on for decades. When the Mujahedeen were buying weapons to fight the Russians they used money from Opium. Other than the one personal experience a workmate who served there told me I have seen other reports over the years. One of them I remember reported that half the problem was that poor Afghans were being given loans to plant opium crops from drug gangs. If the crop got burnt then they wouldn't be able to pay their debt to the drug gang. The Afghan problems were a giant mess of idiotic mistakes made worse by ignorance of the tribal allegiance's and the existence of the drug trade. Complex problems are rarely solved by pointing a finger and SIMPLISTICALLY proclaiming "That's it. That's the cause. That's the problem."
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  1088. Its why engineers end up hating clowns with arts degrees. I did aerospace engineering and I had to do 2 additional pure maths classes before we started on the wonders of aerodynamics and other fun stuff. The actual number of classes I had to take added up to the equivalent of an extra semester but planned to be done in the same time as an arts degree. I have spent most of my career in industrial control systems and automation. A lot of that includes safety control functions like Emergency Stops and Safety interlocks. You know that stuff that keeps hands attached and prevents stuff blowing up. I eventually got the second highest qualification any engineer can get in that field. Getting that qualification has kept me OUT OF WORK. People like Managers and their Human Resource minions don't like people who speak out and people with qualifications are often caught out. Their employment contacts often include clauses where "if you know something you must speak out" which clashes with the reality that if you speak out you get your contract cut WHICH HAS HAPPENED TO ME just like it happed to the submariner/engineer David Lochridge who's suing Oceangate. You can't imagine how much I hate recruitment people these days. If you think engineers are angry over this sort of crap YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT and its about time there were some actual laws that protected us. Because when we're allowed to do our jobs properly YOUR LIVES are safer. - When your driving a car its mechanical engineers who designed the brakes to help you stop before the tree; - When you plug something in its electrical engineers who make it so you don't get shocked; - When you drink a glass of water its chemical engineers who make it so you don't get poisoned; - When you get in a jet to fly off on your holiday its aerospace engineers who keep the wings attached. We keep you clowns alive in 100s of ways every day. And before any of you complain just note you wouldn't even be able to read this with out engineers.
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  1089. Well in answer to both. Yes Stephen thanks to people like you America is a banana Republic lead by the Orange Monkey himself. Lou the Republicans are down at McDonalds having a happy meal to sooth themselves after 81,282,903 adults voted Trump out.
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  1090.  @monopalle5768  As I said previously and other have said he's fine professor and teacher and there's great content out there of his university lectures. BUT when he strays into fields that he clearly does NOT understand then he tends to fall flat on his face.
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  1091.  @underworld7148  What's that go to do with any of this discussion. Typical "whataboutism" 🧏‍♂️🧏‍♀️
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  1092. I'm an aerospace engineer with an interest in energy systems at the moment. I have been trying to tell people that some of these types of alternative wind technologies like Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTS) will have applications in future and in particular on the tops of houses, apartment blocks and office towers where Horizontal Turbines (HAWTS) just don't work. Either they are to noisy (propeller noise) or their mountings are structurally incompatible with mounting on a rooftop. Yes without doubt big 3 bladed HAWTS have the efficiency when they are out in the open country side, perched on top of large posts with suitable footings, BUT you can't put them in your backyard or on your roof. I'm in Australia and we have 1000s and 1000s of homes with solar in places with good reliable wind, especially in coastal regions because they get incredibly reliable sea breezes. Plus Australia's sea breezes are driven by the sun but they are operate on the opposite side of the solar cycle. They start to blow in the afternoon and then blow consistently through to the next morning and drop when the sun starts heating things back up. So in certain locations the solar inverters (right now) are only pumping out power when the sun is up. If those systems are fitted with a small COMPATIBLE wind units those systems go from pumping out power during daylight hours to ALMOST being able to generate power 24/7. So I think these guys are being very smart. They aren't trying to solve to overall energy problem but instead they are trying to fill a gap that's there.
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  1093. This is Modern Politics 101 Whatever your side does that's morally, ethically or legally wrong, scream as loud as you can "the other side does it worse than you do and they all deserve to be jailed." Its not an American thing either. It goes on Everywhere. I'm Australian and while working in Canada a few years ago they had a political scandal over a government contract that was similar to scandals we've had. If it wasn't for the snow and the accents I wouldn't have known I was on the other side of the planet. Go look at any developed nation and the same ridiculous stuff is going on everywhere.
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  1094. Yeah that's an important set of points. These people are showmen and they know their audience and how to play them. A few weeks back Sagaar & Krystal on "Breaking Points" interviewed Jesse Ventura and he described what Vince McMahon instructed him to do when he first started commentating when he was out injured. Its actually fascinating to see how well McMahon understood the audience and even more interesting to see how Trump learnt from it. Its easy to find and totally worth watching if you want to understand how these people are operating.
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  1095. Well with a college education and 2 Masters Degrees (YES 2 an MBA from Connecticut and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard) he's gonna drive the anti-education faction completely of their rocking chairs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman The big question will be -> How will the Senate handle logical arguments instead of political opportunism?
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  1096. @Andrew Please tell me you are getting this form other sources, because what you just said is utter complete and total nonsense. It DOES NOT matter how you bring stuff down from Low Earth Orbit. The energy has to be dissipated and at orbital speeds that's a lot of energy. This is why things burn up on re-entry. They convert kinetic energy into thermal energy by air resistance. This is why Jeff Bezos is an IDI0T for suggesting we move iron ore processing into space. Even if we get it from an asteroid the 2.4billion tons we use each year has the equivalent energy of over 1,100 Hiroshima bombs if its in the same orbit as the ISS. To get it down means dissipating that energy in the atmosphere, which would heat it up worse than it already is. Its called thermodynamics, you and all the other clowns need to do a class in it.
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  1097.  @christopherharvey4849  You are very much on the right track. I can't say nuclear fusion is "the technology" we need to develop but there's a whole range of technologies that have yet to be developed to the stage where they can be used. AND there's a lot of unanswered questions regarding how we'll do things. I quite often point out that the Space Shuttle was on one hand an incredible achievement in that they made a reusable space plane work, but that it was also a horrendous failure because it consumed resources in terms of both money and people that starved development of a lot of other technologies we need to do things like build a moon base and then make it work. Things like space suit development just froze and if you know where to look it up they almost had fatal failures on some of the longer Apollo Missions. The lunar regolith is laced with microscopic fragments of silicon oxides which are almost as hard as diamond and it got into everything like the wrist and waist seals. You simply can't do a 10-14 day mission on the lunar surface with an Apollo era space suit.
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  1098. I think you are right on the details, but listen to what he's pointing out. He's saying that its easier to promote a big lie if part of that lie contains a sliver of truth. Its what Conspiracy theories among Americans always do. Its sort of that 1% True 99% Garbage but that 1% makes the garbage seem true or easier to accept.
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  1099.  @DoctorHouse999  Buddy, there's insanity in every democratic system on the planet. Its just a matter of how stupid it is. We used to have a joke in Australia about how sheep voted in Queensland, because of how gerrymandered the place was. But if we look at the history of every other state we have bits of insanity everywhere. These days we have Qanon people too, just less of them. I went to college in America and hate what BOTH the DEMs and GOP are doing these days. Both are disgusting in their ways. One of the truly crazy things is Puerto Rico and the territories. For the last 75 years (since WW2) America has preached freedom and democracy. Puerto Rico has 3.26 million US Citizens who CANNOT vote for POTUS and have just 1 NON-VOTING house seat. If you add in Guam and the other territories its 3.6 million who get a total of 5 NON-VOTING house seats. Rhode Island, Montana and Maine combined have 3.47 million and have 6 house seats, 6 senate seats and 12 electoral college votes. The Dakota's combined around 1/2 the population of Puerto Rico and have 2 house seats, 4 senate seats and 6 electoral college votes. Its insane to preach about democracy as you refuse to allow 3.6 million of your citizens any representation.
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  1100. Buddy you need to realise a few very serious thing about the big lunar rockets BOTH are sad jokes. SLS will become the case study for idiotically bad management classes in college for decades to come. The fact they never even tried to find a way to recover the main engines after each flight is absurd. Then there's the idiotic fact that 2 separate teams repeat each others work. Due to politics nobody cancelled the second team and senator is willing to create unemployed people in their electorate. Starship is Elon's personal 1950s sci-fi fantasy rocket, with so many practical issues it will never to a tiny fraction as his PR machine blurts out constantly. That whole refuelling thing to be done in 1/2 an hour so they can fly another launch in a few hours is idiotic garbage at its finest. Do any of you people who don't fly ever consider why every pilot does a walk around check of the plane before they fly it? Machinery that's pushed that hard needs to be fully inspected and checked between flights. Even small failures are catastrophic. If you guys don't want to end up in 10 years time angry and frustrated as my generation is then you need to stop the fantasy and stick with reality. I watched the last men walk on the moon with class mates. Years later when I was doing aerospace engineer we all expected to build the Freedom space station and go back to the moon. Then Challenger happened and that clubbed us with a harsh dose of reality. Its taken Elon nearly 20 years to replicate what NASA did in the 1960s. At his disposal was all that experience, and all the technology developed through the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. PLUS he had gathered, by luck, one of the best rocket teams the world has ever seen to develop Falcon. AND they still took 20 years to put men into space. Even sadder still is that Boeing had even more resources, more experience, more government funding and more time and they haven't even made it that far.
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  1101. Aerospace engineer here - fabulous video of a subject not well understood by way too many engineers. Its not a thing they need to know about every day but its a subject they should at least know about.
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  1102. Milo Yiannopoulos was interviewed of Australian television and when quizzed on what he was doing at time simply described himself as a provocateur and his goal was simply to provoke people. All this nonsense comes from the idea in philosophy that somebody needs to take the opposite side of a discussion to generate sensible debate. They think its a way to not miss vital points, but they never seem to understand that endless circular discussions SOLVES NOTHING. To the rest of humanity its arguing for the sake of arguing. One of the assistant coaches for my college team was a philosophy major and used to drive us nuts with this shite.
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  1103. I'm an aerospace engineer and I does make a few mistakes, but overall slapping down these fraudsters is fantastic. So you know I disagree with thundef00t and a couple of others on a few technical points. The Tesla is actually a damn good car, but Elon had zip to do with its development (he lucked into that). Plus breaking the recalcitrant behavior of the established manufacturers on electric cars is something special. The Falcon Series of rockets (NOT the starship) is an outstanding achievement (but Elon had zip to do with that). Especially when its put up against what the rest of that industry has done. SpaceX can put 4 people in space for less money ($70 million for 4 seats) than the last few seats NASA paid for on Soyuz ($90 million for 1 seat). Plus it at least works, Boeing's Starliner is yet to have a proven safe flight let alone a manned flight. BUT NONE OF THAT EXCUSES ELON'S BULLSHIT And none of it excuses the BULLSHIT of his fanbots.
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  1104. I think they mean the "New Normal" is unpredictable extreme weather.
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  1105. The word you might be looking for is cuckhold. Although in strictest definition it isn't but in sentiment it is.
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  1106. Sam Harris did a podcast recently titled "A Golden Age for A$$holes" (I had to add the $$ signs) or the algorithm might get me. In it Sam points out that these people have NO SHAME when it comes to lying. They will simply say whatever they feel will get them what they want at this moment. If you point out the grifters that people like Coffeezilla exposes like the one he just did in a video titled "Scammer BEGGED Me Not to Investigate" they have no shame when it comes to telling lies. If you watch the conversation Coffeezilla has with that scammer its insane what lies he will tell. Peter Navarro is in that mold. So are a bunch of the people who latched onto Trump. It was almost like Trump was a magnet for people with no sense of shame or control. I'm almost certain there's going to be a new psychological label for it because they are certainly combinations of shamelessness, narcissism, sociopathy and psychopathic tendencies to say the least.
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  1107. To All Americans: DO YOU RELIALIZE HOW BIG THIS ISSUE IS FOR ALL DEMOCRACIES? I'm Australian and this affects EVERY DEMOCRACY. America spent most of the last 75 years calling itself the "Leader of the free (as in democratic) world" as opposed to the NOT FREE Communist/Socialist World. The entire Puritanical Ideology of the RADICAL American Right threatens everybody's freedom in every democratically free nation. This behavior of NOT ACCEPTING and election result is what 3rd world dictators do. It was most recently done in Myanmar and Sudan. How many of you know that in many of those counting rooms there were International Observers as there always is for major elections? Most of the developed world INVITE people from everywhere else to show them HOW they conduct free and fair elections. When we have elections there are American Observers here. They don't come here looking for illegal stuff they come to watch, to sometimes advise, but mostly to see how we do it. We also sent observers to America in 2020. NOT 1 International Observer from ANYWHERE has made any claim or even questioned the integrity of the 2020 US General Elections. Yes America its not just the Dems and judges and a few Republicans saying it was fair and free. It is also the opinion of accredited observers from all over the world. If all of you want America to survive and I hope you do then STOMP on this garbage once and for all. There are real issues in the world with economies, refugees, famine and the biggest of all CLIMATE that is almost impossible to handle with America malfunctioning. Americans need to realise you do have friends in the world and they do want to see America get past this and simply doing better.
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  1108. Australian here and its so damn similar here as well. Only a few hours ago I got the video below in my recommendations list. For the Americans Neil Oliver is a well known Scottish historian. In the past he has done some brilliant documentary work. So this did interest me to here what he had to say and I got a hell of a shock. It started out as reasonable. For example he hits out at the idiocy the green energy transition can just be done overnight. I'm an engineer and it can't be done that fast. We can't build that many EVs because there's not enough Lithium for the batteries. Even with new mines and new processing plants and new battery factories IT WILL TAKE DECADES. I know SOME (not all) of the greenies are idiots with ridiculous expectations and claims that are fantasies. BUT THEN he started sliding into very Trumpian anti-vax territory. At that point I stopped to check out who GB News is. Its run by an ex-Murdoch Sky News Australia clown named Angelos Frangopoulos and mostly owned by people operating out of Dubai. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB_News Its the British equivalent of America's Newsmax. Here's the clip with Neil Oliver for anyone to check out. Watch how he slides into the Trumpian anti-vax nonsense after a couple of minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cACETqHXq94
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  1109. Not long after Jim Comey wrote his book about leadership after Trump sacked him he was asked what he meant by saying the Trump Whitehouse is run like a mafia family. His reply was that like a mafia family EVERYTHING that's done is done to satisfy the boss and anything that the boss doesn't like is seen as disloyalty. Everything is in these simplistic and absolute frames of reference.
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  1110. How do you really expect a narcissistic trust fund baby to behave when he doesn't care squat for anybody but himself? Sooner or later we wont have to worry about Tucker. When you play the games he plays somebody will lose a friend or family member to what he promotes (this or something else). That's a very dangerous game that risks retaliation in a society known for retaliation.
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  1111. I agree. I wonder who's providing the money to support his channel. I suspect its all to provide distraction from REAL ISSUES.
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  1112. Aerospace Engineer here: I work in industrial control systems which has enabled me to work across several industries giving me in experience of many of the things needed to do things like build a lunar base. So I have been involved in manufacturing, mining, water treatment, power reticulation and even done a power station project. I also have certifications in both Functional Safety and Hazardous Areas (Explosive gas & dust). So I am more qualified than Sabine to talk about Hydrogen and have commented previously on her remarks regarding Hydrogen. SHE IS WRONG it is the way forward because there is nothing else that can do the job Hydrogen can do. There is no battery system that can be large enough because there isn't enough Lithium. Simon Michaux (who I don't always agree with) is 100% right on this point. In fact there isn't enough lithium to make 1/3rd of the batteries needed for all the cars in the world let alone the trucks, buses, laptops, mobile phones and especially not the mega batteries Elon Musk and others sell. Using Hydrogen as a buffer between renewables and the power gird makes sense. The Electrolysers are getting more efficient with some experimental ones reaching 94% efficiency. There's a new generation of gas turbines coming out. Both Siemens and GE have been selling mixed fuel Gas Turbines for a few years now. These can run AS THEY ARE WITHOUT MODIFICATIONS up to 50% Hydrogen. There are numerous power stations around the world that can be replaced by these. For example: In Australia we have 2 older gas thermal power stations (Torrens Island & Newport). Torrens (built in the 1970s) puts out 800MW which is the same as the largest Siemens & GE turbines. At best Torrens was about 35% thermal efficiency when new and likely less than 30% now considering the state of other old power stations we have (and had). At better than 64% Thermal efficiency one of these turbines would use less than 1/2 the natural gas for the same power. If it also then used Hydrogen that was produced from excess energy on days when the wind blows hard and the sun shines bright then we'd have an even bigger saving on natural gas and with it even lower emissions. The problem I have with Sabine talking this way is that she is NOT a project engineer and does NOT understand that project engineers have to be very pragmatic with their decisions. As a theoretical physicist she can ponder about things. As engineers we can't. Engineers have to solve the problem that exists in front of them and that gets damn hard when other voices who DO NOT know what they are saying wont STOP SPEAKING. SHE IS RIGHT that Hydrogen is difficult to handle, but scaremongering about the Fukushima explosion is exactly the sort of nonsense nobody needs. I am qualified to talk about the safety requirements needed around hydrogen because I have been trained for it and had to deal with it in projects. The moment its known to be of noticeable quantities in a process everything changes. Hydrogen has a very low ignition energy and that included thermal ignition where simply being hot enough causes ignition. Go and ask any engineer who works in the selection of electrical equipment for use in Hazardous Areas and they will tell you hydrogen is a hassle. For those reasons: I DO NOT want to see hydrogen used in cars and busses. If there is an accident its going to be horrendous. Sabine is right hydrogen explosions are nasty because of how much energy can be released and because of how easily they ignite. HOWEVER as a buffer to the worlds energy systems Hydrogen makes a lot of sense if we are going to have a future dominated by renewables (Wind & Solar).
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  1113.  @storksforever2000  Your right, every country has them and I have been trying to get people to see that. I'm Australian and we have a guy named Clive Palmer who has his own party. Their latest adds claim they are a follow on from a party from the 1930s & 40s. Its total BS and most Australians know its BS, but there not chasing after the majority. They're after the disaffected, less educated, and frustrated people who have been left out by globalization. sound familiar Same game plan just a variation in degree.
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  1114.  @robynmarx7000  If by intellectual you mean, can I read, write and think - sort of. I absolutely agree that the moniker is overutilized and would add that its also insanely overrated as well. I have a degree in aerospace engineering - so what. I work in automation, robotics and control systems - so what. When I walk into rooms of engineers I'm usually the smartest or one of the smartest ones there - so what. I've learned to assume that every person in a meeting knows something of value that I don't. How I see Asimov's quote is that it highlights how societies elevate opinion or status over reason and common sense. The word ignorance doesn't necessarily mean uneducated or unknowledgeable. It comes from the verb "ignore." Ignorant is a descriptive word of a person who ignores factual information. Trump, Cruz and many others on both the political left and right went to decent colleges and got decent degrees. Go look at Cruz he really is a highly intelligent person and YET he ignores clear sound scientific evidence for political reasons. I do think Asimov's quote like any can be misapplied, but then its only 2 sentences. Its not an in depth paper or book. Its a comparison between what people accept as fact and what they chose to ignore. And right now a lot of people are ignoring obvious basic facts. If you consider what Chomsky is talking about it includes a lot of people who are ignoring some basic obvious facts. For a different example away from politics. Could NASA have faked the Apollo landing? Absolutely yes, but would they have got away with it considering 600million people watched the moon walk live and how that took 1000s and 1000s of people to make happen? It would have been obvious to everyone something was wrong. Look at the 2020 election. Could somebody have tried to swap, cheat or tamper with several million votes? Absolutely yes, but would they have gotten away with it considering the systems, technologies and observers present? Look at all the people who think Elon Musk is going to whisk them off to Mars and escape this madhouse. Are they ignoring some basic facts while at the same time claiming to be the intellectuals? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  1115.  @yak41m  Yeah, but if you mention him too early then the fanbots (as I call them) switch to troll mode and start screeching about how you don't understand "the vision" 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♀🤷‍♀
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  1116. I'm Australian but went to college in America and know that part of British-American History. And the Pilgrim fathers are just like you describe. I remember reading an article comparing the Brits who settled Australia and the Brits who were the Pilgrim fathers on the Mayflower. He described the Pilgrims as "religious zealots who's only intent was to make more rules on top of the rules they already had." He described Australia as being settled by the "original party animals." but that's only 1/2 true. So the Pilgrim fathers were basically the same sort of delusional fanatics that we see today. Its sort of why Americans talk a lot less about them compared to the Founding Fathers who wrote the constitution.
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  1117. Summing up so far. Yeah its utterly crazy to the point where they openly admit it was all a lie and THEY planned to steal the election. And Jo OL points out why - there are no consequences. There were no consequences for the lies that started the Iraq invasion. There were no consequences for the torturing and abuses at Abu Ghraib and other places. There were no consequences for the fraud & lies that caused the GFC. There are NO CONSEQUENCES for the political establishment or the corporate elite ON BOTH SIDES.
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  1118. POTENITAL Future phone call: Hey Trumpski, its Vlad. Good to see you got my girl through her confirmation. Don't know how you did it but well done. _Why don't your boys come to Moscow so we can discuss the future Trump Odessa gold club. _
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  1119. You've got it exactly right and this is the single biggest media issue across the entire world right now. All these media outlets geared towards particular audiences is a huge problem. Its fine if its for stuff that doesn't matter so much like sport, fishing, cooking and other subjects that aren't government policy. But when it comes to news and politics its so incredibly dangerous. Its divides families and nations or sets them on paths of destruction.
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  1120. I'm also an Australian but I did aerospace engineering in America in the late 80s. One Friday we had a visiting alumni do a special lecture. He'd just finished a project at NASA on the feasibility of terraforming Mars. We were pretty exited to hear from somebody who'd actually done the math on making Mars habitable. This was just BEFORE Challenger and when Space Station Freedom was being designed, so at that time we believed that over the next 10-20 years we were going to build a space station, then a moon base before going further. This wasn't a sales pitch to a pack of space junkie clowns, this was a serious talk to serious students and professors. We were shattered to find it WASN'T going to happen. He wasn't even looking at the technology required, just the math of what it would take to raise the temperature 70-90C and then add billions of tons of oxygen and nitrogen to make a breathable functioning atmosphere. His summation was "As well as planets being massive they don't like being changed." Planets are very complex semi-stable systems and such systems with their own cycles that fight back against disturbances. Remember when Jupiter got hit by the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 and the big giant black spots. Jupiter just absorbed that and went back to being Jupiter. That talk never got to the technology because NASA had stopped the project once they realised the scope of the task. Its easy in science fiction but near impossible in reality without god like powers. 30+ years later I was discussing this very concept with a climate expert after a space conference. He'd said in his talk that if we hit a certain temperature point we would have to start geo-engineering. I told him we don't know how to geo-engineer and he confirmed that was true but then added we'd inadvertently done it. So you really are right to call it 'Marstubation' and it still is. Its a bunch of charlatans picking bits out of sci-fi and flogging the ideas to idiots via crowdfunding. Its the old adage of "a fool is easily parted from his money." So what of "maths/engineering/science" or what we now call STEM did you end up doing?
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  1121. Junior isn't on drugs, he's on socially prescribed performance enhancers.
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  1122. Hey everyone Frontline PBS just posted an interview with Adam Kinzinger that's worth the time to watch. Not only does he give a scary perspective on what it cost to be on the the Jan 6th committee (his 6 year old's life was threatened) but he sounds like a mild middle of the road Democrat NOT a Republican and certainly not like anything we see with Trump suckers. Put it this way if Nikki Haley picked him as a VP he'd destroy Kamala in a debate, because Kamala is a poor debater and never sounds confident while he sounds reasonable and level headed. WTF he's doing in the GOP is damn mystery. WTF he was ever doing supporting Trump at any stage is a question he needs to answer.
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  1123. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powell interview. I have left a separate answer with additional background information about why Australia is so concerned about Rupert Murdoch's behavior in America. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powell Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  1124. He's in an interesting position. I'm not a lawyer but as far as I know he can still be charged with Sedition under the UCMJ and under the UCMJ he does not have 1st Amendment protections to hide behind like others do. If there is a real lawyer or law student who can actually clarify this we all should welcome them to speak up and quote the appropriate parts of the law.
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  1125. Not certain but I think Joe Hilderbrand might have just gone past him in the arrogant self deluded self righteous shite category. "you've all had a turn, time for the grown ups to take over" I'm not certain if that's a joke or the worst take we've had on climate change in the 121years since Svante Arrhenius won the 1903 Nobel Prize for Chemistry when he predicted too much carbon dioxide would be a problem. I think Joe might want to be careful with that attitude before someone beats the crud out him.
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  1126. As an Australian this freaked me TF out because if you change the words to Australian and Australia and swap Trudeau for Albanese and you are 100% factually describing Australia. His description of Vancouver is practically identical to Melbourne and especially Sydney with respect to housing. We are idiotically addicted to foreign investment. I'm an engineer and was actually in Canada late 2017 through early 2018 for a project. Other than the temperature inversion Canada was like another version of Australia. I was in Saskatchewan and it was like wheat belt of Western Australia, the Western 1/2 of Victoria and the Murray Darling section of New South Wales. A vast area of endless flat farmland, with exactly the same kinds of people. We even hate Canberra the EXACT same way Canadians hate Ottawa.
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  1127. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980. Actually to be fair that concept/idea holds for every other tribe, village, state, nation and empire in history. So I have this generalized update. “There is a cult of ignorance within humanity, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that ignorance is just as good as knowledge.” And yeah I am a big fan of Isaacs work. When he left the world I think we lost one of the truly great minds of this era.
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  1128.  @bishop31656  IF HE WAS SO SCARED WHAT WAS HE DOING THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. You right wingers are so full of stupidity, delusion and selfishness and its wrecking a great nation. You just gave permission for anyone to shoot anyone they don't like and claim they were scared for their life.
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  1129. I'm an aerospace engineer and did my degree during the Reagan "Star Wars" era. Its hard to describe the way money was being spent other than bonkers. In my final year when we did a couple of high level classes that also had post grad students in them a couple of those guys were SW funded. As they were postgrads they also had to do term papers and presentations. One class I did was space craft dynamics (damn seriously hard stuff) but the post grad guys did some amazing stuff. One guy was doing the dynamics of rail guns (this was 86/87) and another focusing mirror systems for laser batteries. It was fairly obvious that most of it was bonkers but the money was being delivered by dump truck. But then the Soviets crashed in 88/89 and the whole show vanished. At one point my academic advisor called it "damn peace" because all of his funding had vanished. What people had failed to realise was Reagan spent about 20 years of research funding in about 4 years. But it did scare Moscow enough that they also went on a spending spree and it was what ended up bankrupting them which effectively ended the cold war.
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  1130. I agree if he had been more seasoned he would have side stepped that Israeli-Palestinian question like a first class tail back. Instead (staying with the football analogy) he tried to run over a 6'15" linebacker and never got back up. The real question about his future is "will he learn from it." And the same goes for every other new progressive, because so far they just haven't understood how ruthless the establishment is.
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  1131.  @harrymaurer7984  That's a great point. FYI - I'm Australian and one of the underlying issues with the whole AUKUS Submarine deal is: "How are we supposed to trust America as a partner in our future security when Americans don't trust America?" I actually went to college in America in the late 80s. I was there for 87 campaign season and it got bonkers at times but it was nothing like this stuff. I think 9/11 had a bigger effect than most people realise. That was followed by the invasions of Afghanistan & Iraq, then the GFC and then Trump arrived. There's moments I'm amazed America is still 1 country.
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  1132.  @fmbbeachbum8163  Oh but according Uncle Milton Friedman "Greed is Good!" It drives the economy and makes it grow and inspires innovation and anyone of 1,000,000 other lies we have been told since Ronnie "brainspace" Reagan and the Nobel committee pronounced Milton the economic genius of all economic geniuses.
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  1133.  @jimohara  Yeah - I'll admit my poly-sci education is fairly limited (I'm an engineer) but the one thing I remember is that Orwell wasn't just warning about Communists he was warning about ANY Authoritarian or Totalitarian system. How's this for a quote. Its Former US Vice President Henry Wallace in he New York Times, April 9, 1944 (That's 4 years before Orwell published 1984) “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection." How's that for a scary accurate prediction.
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  1134.  @lemonblue6282  The basics are he actually knows what he's talking about. Way too often in these forums we have so called well educated people who are often talking about things they have no expertise and no real knowledge of. I'm an engineer and I see it whenever these people start talking about technology. It drives me bonkers at times how utterly stupid they are and yet think they know. What we have here isn't an academic with a theory or journalist with an opinion or some other clown. This guy was born there, speaks Russian as a native, has family there and is in contact with them. Everyone should STFU and listen to him.
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  1135. ​ @ChewEberrie  I wouldn't doubt it at all. I actually went to college in America and one thing I found that the rest of the world does NOT understand is just how complex of a society America is. Just on basic population you're 13 times larger than Australia. So at just a basic level you generate 13 times as much news. I have to explain this to Australian's all the time in defense of Americans. What we can get in a 1/2 hour new program would take an American 6-1/2 hours. I also have to explain it to Americans once they get over the shock of how little they actually know about the world. Think about how much time it would take to hear the news from Washington, then the news from the major centers of LA, Chicago, New York, Dallas and a few others. Then try and get the State News from what ever state a person is in. Then there's SPORT - pro-sport, college sport, local sport.... In some ways Australia is lucky we only have 26 million. We don't generate enough news so we have time to look at the rest of the world. Americans just don't unless its a major story. BUT what I'd like to see is more Americans taking a bit of time to realise where America sits in the world. A lot of the stuff we're dealing with now was set in motion decades ago. Things like Breton Woods which being honest I knew little about until a few years ago. Its effects on the world are staggering and GENERALLY POSITIVE. I honestly believe it was a good thing to do and its still a good thing to have in place BUT IT ALSO HAS TO BE MANGED RESPONSIBLY and that's my issue with the GOP. They have no sense of responsibility. And YEAH I know Rupert Murdoch has done a lot of damage to America and PLEASE feel free to deal with him.
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  1136. I'm an engineer and Simon Michaux another engineer has coined a phrase. "Its not that the energy transition is impossible BUT we need a better plan." He says that with respect to the actual known reserves and production rates of some of these key minerals, BUT his line also applies to the environment. Unfortunately jumping onto various bandwagons are people so intent on their solution and making money from it that any other consequence is irrelevant.
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  1137. Well said. I am actually an engineer and I classify a significant difference between answers and solutions. And question can have almost infinite answers, but only a few are actual solutions. In engineering we always have many answers on what could be done. BUT of those answers only a few are solutions and even fewer are viable solutions. From my experience its only people who have to SOLVE problems on a regular basis that get the differences. People like Doctors, where they have to decide on how they will treat something and evaluate the options and work out what's best under the circumstances. So well done on highlighting that we need solutions - REAL SOLUTIONS.
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  1138. I'd Generally agree but this time KYLE is WRONG MTG is NOT a victim, she violated the terms of agreement between herself and her social media providers. Its a simple breach of contract and they have terminated the contract - case closed. She might feel victimized but that is not mean she was victimized.
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  1139. Sorry this is long, but I think you'll find this interesting. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). Both my parents were high school teachers. In the 1970s Australia was importing American high schoolteachers because for a while we had a shortage. So I basically grew up around school teachers. One thing I noticed when I was in America in the late 80s was that America's education system was already showing signs it was sliding. I remember commenting on it to my professor one day and he told me that was BS. We just happened to be in the department office at that moment and one of the secretaries interrupted him and asked my professor if he was right then he should explain why her kids needs tutors in English, Math and Science. Back here in Oz I befriended a couple on the mid 90s. He was American she's Australian and both of them are high school teachers. So again I was around school teachers and I can tell you for a fact Australia has also STARED to SLIDE. Right now in Australia we have a significant skills shortage in things like welders, machinists, electricians,....etc. I am an engineer (aerospace) who works in industrial control systems and automation. The problem is WAY WORSE than people think. It actually goes back to the influence of the Chicago School Economics that was called Reaganomics in America, Thatcherism in Britain and Economic Rationalism in Australia. We now (collectively) call it neoliberalism. I was looking into it because its had a massive effect on engineering in areas like infrastructure and energy. If I try and explain either of those things it will take pages. Suffice to say Bidens $3 Trillion Build Back Better wasn't going to work because its really needs to be about $20 Trillion. The $1.2 Trillion Inflation reduction Act is like trying to put out a raging forest fire with a bucket. The real problem the Neoliberals have cause that's going to make everything that needs being done with infrastructure and energy is they have MASSIVELY interfered in education as well. I saw Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs) describe how American kids with a 6 month welding course at a community college are getting more money than the average college graduate BECAUSE of the shortage of welders. WE HAVE EXACTLY the same issue here in Australia. The Neoliberal economists flipped our education in the 1990s and instead of training the people we actually need to keep a modern society working we sent 80% of our kids off to universities to get a lot of useless degrees. In a single generation we went form 20% to 80% of our high school graduates going to college WITHOUT ever asking what that meant. Our Economists simply said we were flipping from a manufacturing base to a service industry base AND NOBODY ASKED what that meant. In 2005 I was on a mine site and asked how they were going with the skills shortage. The shift supervisor simply turned to me and said that if I had a welding ticket (fully qualified from a 4 year apprenticeship) he'd pay me $X and $X was $50K more than I was on at the time. At that time I had 15+ years experience and was told a kid almost 1/2 my age with a welding ticket was worth $50K more a year. 15 Years after that Mike Rowe is saying that American kids at 18 or 19 with a BASIC welding ticket are worth more than a college graduate. YEAH all those economists who decided to re-wire Western Society back in the 80s, 90s and 2000s really did a number on us all. AND HERE'S the killer problem. Every generation since the start of civilisation needed people who could teach the next generation and that was irrespective of what their society actually did. It didn't matter if they were into farming or fighting they still needed black smiths and carpenters. The moment that any society forgot to teach the next generation they were done. Go look at any empire in history. They became empires because they had skill sets that enabled them to expand. The moment they stopped training those skill sets they collapsed. Here's our problem across the entire Western Developed World - we stopped valuing teachers and as such we have LOST an entire generation of teachers. That has also included the people who can train teachers. So getting that back is a monumental task. Go and ask your mother how Texas expects to TRAIN the next generation of teachers? FYI - If you ask that in Australia it clears the room faster than David Copperfield can make stuff disappear. Again sorry for the long long long blurb, but education is a damn serious issue that NOBODY wants to tackle.
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  1140.  @shawn13mertle13  Here in Australia after the 2019 fires we had a lot of reflective discussion on people building houses in fire prone areas. There were people who DID SPEND the money to make their houses fire resistant. There's no such thing as fire proof in these areas but the people who did build fire resistant houses still had those houses AFTER the fires passed. They did a lot of really innovative things. - They built their gutter systems so that they would NOT collect leaf litter. - They sealed up all the spaces around overhangs so they would not collect litter and kindling. - They used treated timbers that made it hared to actually catch fire. - They built there own onsite water storage. - They cleared unnecessary trees and scrub around the houses. - They made it possible to seal the house so that embers could not come in and start fires inside the house. The people who did those things pointed out that NOT any one of those things saved their houses but collectively they saved their houses.
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  1141. A while back one of the ex-military pilots with a YouTube channel had one of his guys on and he presented one of the same thoughts that were discussed here. He pointed out how many of these sightings were in restricted military space and then pointed out where the military fly their developmental aircraft and secretive aircraft. He also pointed out how many of those programs are done on a "need to know" basis. In which case, no matter what you rank if you don't need to know then you aren't told ANYTHING. In other words if a pilot sees an experimental aircraft that's doing something like stealth research flying in among military flights with pilots who are NOT TOLD you're there just to test out if you can fly in among other military aircraft undetected then you're going to get exactly the sorts of reports we are hearing about. The someone showed a group media event NASA had on the subject and one of the NASA astronauts related how on one shuttle flight they were just about to close that payload bay doors when someone spotted a bright object and everyone on board the Shuttle freaked out because if they tried to land with a lose object in the payload bay it could bounce around like a bullet and do a lot of damage. They were just starting to prepare for an emergency spacewalk to go and get whatever the object was when someone realised that this bright shiny thing was Venus - YES the planet Venus was mistaken for a small object lose in the Space Shuttle's payload bay. The human brain has the incredible ability to assume conclusions from extremely ambiguous or small amounts of data and this is especially so with our vision system. We normally call this "tricks of the eyes"
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  1142. He might be doing a better job than Trump but almost anyone could. And since you raise the Foreign Policy issue. CAN YOU AMERICANS PLEASE TAKE A BASIC CLASS IN WORLD GEOGRAPHY AND LEARN WHERE PLACES ARE. The Australian base for submarines is over 4000 nautical miles form the South China Sea. Its in Perth way over on the far south west (lower left on a map) of Australia. The Philippines where America is re-establishing its naval base BORDERS the South China Sea. The Solomon islands is NOT in the Indian Ocean and you cant have a small island that's in the Indian ocean or the Pacific. There is an island that has shores in both the Indian and Pacific oceans. Its called Australia and its not small. In fact its almost the same size at mainland USA (as in the lower 48). We all know Americans are geographically challenged but do you have to be this bad. I did my degree in America and every time you clowns do this you make my education look bad. FYI - I did aerospace engineering and it was awesome.
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  1143.  @beccawoodhouse  I'm an engineer and his opinions on engineering are often terrible and factually wrong. But on geopolitics and demographics (which is actually his background) he's better than most pundits.
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  1144. ​ @robk8463  I absolutely agree with you but what Macgregor did with respect to Iraq SHOULD NEVER BE FORGOTTON. Tucker Carlson isn't the only person who has rolled him out and presented him as a war hero. I'm not trying to detract from what Macgregor did during Gulf War 1 at battles like 73 Easting. There's no doubt he lead troops into danger, defeated a more numerous enemy and got his men out without casualties. I'd bet every American soldier in that battle sees him as a hero and they have every right to see him that way, BUT THAT DOES NOT ABSOLVE him of what he did with respect to the invasion of Iraq. He willfully ignored what other people WITH EXPERTISE were saying. There was a lot more than just a tank battle there was the securing of a nation and if you remember that time it was the lack of numbers that caused the failure to secure the Iraqi military supplies which included the explosives that were later used against American personnel and the civilian population.
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  1145.  @classicalaid1  Mark Blyth asked this: "For 4 years CNN's business model was 'Trump Bad.' What do they do now he's gone?"
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  1146. There's actually a bit of nuance the conservatives never discuss. I think anyone can agree that no government (unless it has some form of ownership) should be telling any company how to operate. BUT (and this is the nuance they wont ever discuss) the Government should have a right to SET LIMITS and BOUNDARIES over what is acceptable. Here's something I found just the other day that says a lot about these people. Here is the famous quote by Milton Freidman that is on the McKinsey Website Friedman's stance was plain: “There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” That view has long influenced management thinking, corporate governance, and strategic moves. NOTICE how they have a full stop at the end of the quote after the word "profits" as if that's all he wrote. Here's the actual full quote and note that there is no full stop after the word "profits" and there's more. “There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”
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  1147. They need to interview quite a few people. At the top of my list would be Mark Blyth the political economist from Brown U. As a political economist he studies the interactions between politics and economics. Way to many people try to explain things as very simplistic A causes B. The world isn't simple its complex and when you do A to cause B there are side effects of A and they can cause consequences C, D, E, F.... etc. Sometimes those consequences are easy handle and sometimes they aren't, but if ignore them then sooner or later one will bash you stupid.
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  1148. Unfortunately he does have a brain and its a functioning brain. Its just running on Elon Musk's latest AI software.
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  1149. I can see the day coming when one of these charlatans steps out of his front door like John Lennon did. The difference will be, while John Lennon is fondly remembered and Mark Chapman is hated, when this clown steps out his front door NOBODY will miss him and people will laud the other guy as a hero.
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  1150. Great comment.
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  1151. That effect is even more profound with sea water because the salt affects the resin matrix. Its why they thought for a long time that carbon fibre for yachts, boats & ships was impractical. It wasn't until the New Zealanders won the America's Cup with a carbon fibre boat that anyone realised it can be done but that it takes real skill AND ATTENTION TO DETAILS to do it. Its why the guys who build carbon fibre sailing vessels are so careful to make sure its sealed properly. I'm yet to see or hear any of those guys comment on how they do Carbon Fibre or how they get it done in a way that works. BUT lets not forget they aren't going 4km down.
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  1152. I'm Australian and we have been hearing off and on for years now that we have a similar problem. Its just gotten so expensive to have children that its now very difficult for people to have them. COMPOUNDING that is the explosive cost of housing in Australia. Basically our entire nation got drunk on property prices over the last 25+ years. Its been great for the investment orientated baby boomers and an utter disaster for the rest of us. We have tried to make up for a falling birth rate with immigration but that has brought its own set of issues.
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  1153.  @kiwihib  Yeah, I was born in the 1960s and grew up in the 1970s. I am quite well aware of the attitudes many people had back then. Times change and people change. There was stuff said back then that was considered normal and these days most of us would not tolerate that stuff for a fraction of a heartbeat. I have no problems with anyone saying Australia has a bad history of racial issues. SO LONG AS THEY ARE WILLING TO ADMIT THEIR OWN HISTORY AS WELL. Because every nation and every tribe has its ugly bits of history.
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  1154. They could try running candidates that can address the actual need of the electorate they represent. Nobody should forget that MTG won UNOPPOSED because the DNC said it was too difficult. While the DNC remain spineless corporate hacks America is doomed to have people like this in congress.
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  1155.  @chrischestarrow9031  As I said I went to college in America. It was the late 80s but even then there were signs America was in decline. I was very lucky in that I went to a very good school and did aerospace engineering, but even there among the American students there were signs. They had such a poor grasp of the rest of the world. In high school I had read both Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984. Our teachers were of the opinion that we should understand why the Soviet system and totalitarian rule weren't good things. My American classmates knew the Soviet System wasn't good but it was an impossibility to them that America could ever fall into that trap. One hand they were right the US Constitution had mechanisms designed to prevent a dictatorship ever happening. What they never could grasp that powerful people with bad intentions always find ways around those obstacles. The biggest problem right now is that almost every public discussion gets hijacked by people wanting to drag every discussion into the most jet black versus jet white hyper argument. The world isn't black and white, its 7.8 billion shades of grey. Worse is that these people who hijack public discussions often point the finger and just scream about how "the other side does X, Y & Z. The worst things possible," while they do the same basic thing(s). This issue with indoctrination in education is a perfect example. Both sides scream about the other side doing what they do.
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  1156. HAD (past tense) HAD such an important position. And lets not forget that position is at the centre of a military machine with nuclear weapons.
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  1157. No its like when a piece of shit rolls its nose up at a turd and claims "it smells bad"
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  1158. As I just said in another thread, its a very sad downfall. At times during the whole COVID issues he was a voice of balance asking valid questions particularly on the lab leak. But then he just started sliding into nonsense and anyone who questioned his position was a an enemy. This is one of the big problems when we have issues like COVID. Everyone needs to be prepared to accept they can be wrong when nobody has the full picture. But we now live in such a polarised time where any and every public discussion is immediately dragged into radical positions where proponents just scream at anyone who disagrees with them. A lot of public issues are complex and there is no simple answer and there is no simple fix. So long as public discussion is tribalized or hijacked by bad faith actors there is no chance of finding solutions.
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  1159. Good I'm not the only Aussie watching Kyle. Good points all round, I just watched Saggar Enjeti over on Breaking points make a mess of this. Kyle even makes a pretty bad mistake at 6:15 when he says Sky News doesn't have the connections. They are part of the Murdoch Empire and they certainly have the connections. What he and Sagaar both screwed up is that Alan Jones was forced by Sky Management to correct himself on air. That's the first time I have ever seen Alan jones apologize for anything. For the Americans Alan Jones is our equivalent of Sean Hannity and he NEVER APOLOGIZES. The other thing they both missed was that one of the others banned by both Twitter and YouTube is a sitting member of our Parliament Craig Kelly. He's the equivalent of a Congressman in the House. He's a far far far right winger who has been in trouble several times over recent years for climate change denial and other conspiracies. He'd be right at home as Australia's US Ambassador if Trump wins in 2024. For anyone else watching we have a program called Media Watch. Its on Australian ABC our equivalent of PBS so don't be confused by the ABC it has nothing to do with the American ABC. Here's their report on this starting at 3:21 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPgDf8RFR0 This is the original story presented 2 weeks ago starting at 3:29 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df1Fnw2M6f4
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  1160.  @110000116699  You don't need to tell an Australian that. We tried warning the Brits when he moved there - they didn't listen. We tried warning the Yanks when he moved there - they didn't listen either. Do you know that Australia has the most poisonous animals on the planet - Inland Taipan, Sydney Funnel Web, Blue Ringed Octopus, Stone Fish, Box Jelly Fish,....... None of them will bite Rupert, they are scared of dying. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1161.  @lchpdmq  Please don't argue with an engineer who knows software systems about the difference between calculating and thinking. I don't have that many hours to explain it. First I'd have to explain the differences between digital and analog processing AND THEN the differences between parallel and vector processing AND THEN why quantum computers are going to radically change a couple of areas of technology especially encryption BUT THEN how the new type of encryption called vector encryption will get round that. Bottom line is calculating is NOT thinking although it can at times look like it because 1 area of thinking is actually calculating. Its sort of like cars are a subset of motor vehicles. Cars might be one type of motor vehicle but there are other types as well. Calculating might be one type of thinking but there are many other areas of thinking and most of them we have very little idea of how they work.
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  1162. The reality of this thread is that its based on a very simple description of a very complex problem. I'd recommend everybody to go and listen to Dr. Michael Osterholm (the Director of CIDRAP) who has decades of experience at handling pandemic response. He's the expert in this field NOT Chomsky or Kyle or Pakman. CIDRAP is located at the U. of Minnesota and when they went to implement a mandate on students earlier this year Dr. Osterholm advised against it and he's as pro-vaccine as anyone can be. He explained on his podcast at the time that when it comes to vaccinations there are 3 groups NOT 2 as most people assume. There are: 1: The pro-vaccination people who will get vaccinated as soon as they can. These people are not a problem. 2: The anti-vaxxers who will not voluntarily get vaccinated. These people are a huge problem THAT CAN'T be easily dealt with right now. 3: The hesitant who will likely be vaccinated once their concerns are answered. Dr. Osterholm was adamant about NOT ALIENATING people. In his decades of experience it NEVER WORKS. It only drives the anti-vaxxers harder into their corner where they dig in even deeper. It also can have disastrous consequences if it drives hesitant people to the anti-vaxxers. Here's the link to his podcast -> https://www.youtube.com/c/OsterholmUpdateCOVID19
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  1163.  @noname-by3qz  Yeah that oldest continuous culture line is a bit of a Furphy, for the simple reason there isn't any real evidence of any culture anywhere older than about 4,500 years because that's when written records started. There's certainly evidence going back further but its not recorded history. That's what is actually meant by "prehistoric" as in "before history." Without records that detail who was doing what and when who knows what any tribe or people or culture they were actually doing.
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  1164. He should never have been let out in the first place.
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  1165. Yes its like watching 2 snakes fight each other to the death.
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  1166. There's a less talked about aspect to Trump's mentality that's based on playing the part of a pro-wrestling manager. There's a great interview that Jesse Ventura gave Kyle Kulinski and Krystal Ball a while back. There's a couple of excerpts of it on Secular Talk here on YT. IN one of them he talks about HOW Trump operates. There was a year where JV could not wrestle because he'd been badly injured and he switched to commentating. Yes we all know pro-wrestling is scripted but it JV going into commentary CHANGED the standard script. Previously the commentary teams were always 100% on the side of the "good guy." JV in commentary was at the time unique because NOBODY from the bad guy side have even been on the commentary team. So Vince McMahon came up with a very simple plan and gave JV a very simple instruction - "Whatever you say is true!" It worked better than anyone thought and kicked off the whole good guy promoter versus bad guy promoter pantomime stuff that's now common. JV explains it better than I can and its totally worth your time going back and watching that interview. Bottom line is - for Trump this is all just pro-wrestling pantomime. The problem is, this is NOT pro-wrestling this is the real world and being US President involves nuclear weapons.
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  1167. This idea is straight out of Star Wars. Remember what Luke's uncle Owen did for a living - moisture farmer.
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  1168. ​ @SamiKotiranta  You are 100% right, but sadly International Lawlessness has been what humanity has done for its entire recorded history. These days we hear the term "Rules Based Order." I am yet to hear a single person explain in any sort of coherent fashion WTF that means. There MIGHT be a number of treaties including things like the International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt), but if you have a look at the Wikipedia page for the ICC there is a map (RHS near top) showing the places which are and aren't in that system. NOTABLY - The United States of America and Russia which were 2 countries instrumental in that courts founding because of the Nuremberg trials ARE NO LONGER signatories to that treaty. China and India, the 2 largest nations on the planet HAVER NEVER SIGNED. Combined those 4 nations are over 40% of the World's population. So WTF are any of them talking about with this "Rules Based Order?"
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  1169.  @georgeneuhauser4752  But that's part of the problem when you give people too many options in referendums or vague options in referendums or options designed to SCARE people in referendums. When you have people who DO NOT want change they word referendums TO FAIL. Its a well trod path in many countries. Its why the Londoners expected Brexit to fail. Its why the Australian Republican referendum failed. Its why so many other referendums have failed despite what seemed like obvious outcomes.
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  1170. Go and look what ex-KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov said in an interview with the Canadians in 1984 about getting opponents so confused they would not be able to discern reality no matter what evidence was presented to them. Its here on YT. Other than the fact that it was the Soviet system that collapsed, what Bezmenov was wrong about was how effective the Soviets actually were with their psychological war. That was because back then they didn't have the right delivery system. What changed and ahs made this point in history so bad was the advent of social media where bad faith actors could just overwhelm people with staggering amounts of misinformation or facts taken out of context. With generative AI that's only going to get worse.
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  1171. I'm Australian and do you guys know that people like Charles Koch have been exporting this across the planet? RIGHT NOW here in Australia we have a referendum to change out constitution to formally recognize that the country had an existing people with their own culture BEFORE British Colonization. It would set up a "Voice to Parliament" that's based on the systems the Nordic countries set up for the Sami people of Northern Scandinavia. It has taken years to set-up and get organised and was (at first) widely supported across the country. It now looks like failing due to a vicious misinformation campaign running on straight up fear. The public front of the "No Campaign" is lead by 2 well known Aboriginal with links to American Libertarianism. Both have worked with or for Australian Libertarian think tanks (yes we have them too). The most notable among those think tanks is the The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA). Not only does the IPA have links to a string of Australian billionaires including the Murdoch's (and yes Rupert & Lachlan are both radical libertarians) but it openly admits its links to America's Libertarian think tanks including the Heritage Foundation and CATO Institute. Go and look at its home page here on YouTube and scroll down to its links.
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  1172. At some point I can see people confronting these people. Remember the guy who had a go at Tucker Carlson in a store some time ago. I can see this clown walking into a store or sitting at a café and ugly situations developing. These people are like the grade school brat who is always testing out the teacher and other children to there limits of tolerance and the more people back off the further they push until it explodes. I can see a moment where people finally say they have had enough and it will be ugly.
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  1173. ​ @macalister8881  I like Peter he's very good on geopolitical stuff but occasionally gets his information wiring crossed. I'm an engineer so pick up that he gets technical stuff wrong at times, but they also tend to be common misconceptions. On practical math & stats here's my best advice for everyone. If you put 2 circles either side of a line like this -> "oIo" its basically a dick symbol. If you tilt that symbol to the right you get this symbol "%" or as I like to call it the dick symbol of math because it f-cks anything and everything it can. For starters it can make any number equal any other number. Like when does 1 = 25? When the interest rate goes from 4% to 5% that 1% equals a 25% increase. That's why bankers like it so much because with it they can f-ck who ever they want. Just remember whenever you see this symbol -> % if you aren't careful you will get f-cked.
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  1174. You guys do know that American girls and particularly American blondes DO NOT have the best of reputations? Isn't it bad enough that Hollywood portrays American girls as stupid, ridiculous and irresponsible without Kayleigh giving all those stereotypes credibility? Put it this way if American girls EVER want to be taken seriously EVER again then American girls need to stand up be counted and tell her to SHUT UP.
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  1175. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  1176. I agree that decent public debates need to be had on all manner of subjects, but NOT worthless debates that take 4 hours to go nowhere with people who can't ever solve any of the issues. I'm an engineer and left a lengthy detailed response to this in the Lex's pinned comment at the top.
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  1177.  @jacobtaylor7506  Its not often mentioned that the reason PWRs became the mainstay of the nuclear power industry was because the tech had already been developed for the USN. Its like all the stuff that eventually trickles down to our cars from the racing industry. Those guys sort all the bugs out of the technology to where its reliable. The USN had similarly sorted out all the tech and operating and maintenance details of PWRs, which made it easy to scale up for the power industry. Plus the USN supplied a steady stream of skilled operators to the power industry. In some ways it also stifled other tech like molten salt. Why spend the time on that when you have PWRs all sorted out? Similar for the CANDU reactors which the Canadians have sorted out. For a country like Australia (my country) its not a matter of IF but WHEN we have nuclear. The actual discussion needs to be WHAT TYPE. I was pro-MSR until recently when James Krellenstein was talking about CANDU and he pointed out the experience they now have operating CANDU. He said MSRs look very good but at the moment NOBODY has any real experience operating and maintaining them year after year. So for Australia right now I'd say CANDU is the best option because the Canadians speak English, behave rationally and we get on really well with them.
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  1178. EXACTLY - I'm Australian and have worked in Canada and the moment any Canadian has US Health Care System explained to them they will not waste a second on this. POP QUIZ - people from which nation cross a border to get cheap affordable medications.
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  1179.  @B_Bodziak  Agreed but I'd add that the sympathy only goes so far. There's a limit after which you need to say STOP. I think the word we are looking for is intervention.
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  1180.  @cindyabraham5503  its a good laugh
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  1181. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and that is a VERY GOOD way to summarise the American concept of "Biparisan." To be fair it wasn't as obvious then as it is now but the signs were there to be seen if you looked. in my experience Iran-Contra should have been a major wake TF up warning. I was there during that episode. The girl I dated at the time expressed it an unusual way. She said she hated how "it made the Office of the President look bad." Its one of those off-handed remarks that keeps echoing in my head these days. Even in Australia we now have a majority of politicians who see themselves and their policies as IMPORTANT rather than being the person who's been GRANTED BY "WE THE PEOPLE" to look after that office and care for it.
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  1182. Actually he would have a really good job. It would be working for the CEO to doing it again and again so that the CEFO gets his BONUS.
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  1183. What do you expect for someone who worked for Rupert Murdoch?
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  1184. Didn't they call for invading Cuba just recently??????
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  1185.  @timjilman3295  Look shit for brains we all know that the extension on mail in ballots was reversed by the courts and that it was the only case the Trumpists won and it was quite simple the judges said they could not arbitrarily extend the deadline. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT JUST LIEK EVERYONE KNOWS THAT IT DID NOT AFFECT THE FINAL OUTCOME EVERYONE KNOWS THAT COURT AFTER COURT HAS UPHELD THE ELECTION AND THAT EVERY STATE CERTIFIED IT ITS JUST NOTHING BUT BAD FAITH - TRUMP LOST and you can't handle that he lied and lied and lied to raise money to pay of his debts.
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  1186.  @DibIrken  Narcissistic Sociopaths don't care they just take what they want. The narcissistic part drives their greed and the sociopathic part doesn't care.
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  1187. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE the intoxicating effect of PURE UNADULTERATED GREED.
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  1188. I think you're right on the money. What's really telling is a couple of statisticians worked out that a shit load (as in several million) voted Republican for EVERYTHING ELSE (House, Senate & State) and Biden for POTUS. They looked at how many people actually voted and where the votes went across the board. Trump lost because he pissed off a chunk of the Republican base so much they voted Republican for everything except him.
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  1189. Yeah but he's really good at helping prisoners being force fed in an illegal prison.
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  1190.  @authenticshift5515  My motivation to question your integrity is very, very simple. NO ONE knows who you are or what your qualifications are or what hospitals you're talking about. You are clearly not qualified to be handing out medical advice that could get people hurt or killed. AND YOU have given away your motivation. You don't like big pharma. I don't like them either, they lie, they cheat they are disgusting in so many ways and no doubt they will find ways to profit from this disaster. Look at the Oxycontin disaster, which is arguably a crime against humanity that should be handled by the ICC, but we all know America's politicians wont let that happen. BUT YOU are clearly NOT medically qualified to be telling people what is or isn't true about adverse reactions. You have given no data and no references to studies. You have not clarified your actual job or qualifications. YOU HAVE JUST MADE A BULLSHIT CLAIM and if somebody uses that to justify their medical choice ITS ON YOU IF THEY GET HURT. Thanks to the anti-vaxers and their misinformation the world is again experiencing outbreaks of measles and hooping cough. Have they accepted ANY RESPONSABILITY for those deaths. I'll stick to listening to people with qualifications I can verify, not nameless unqualified clowns.
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  1191.  Divine Truth1  For someone claiming divine truth you should at least START WITH FACTS. Vaccines DO NOT alter a persons genes, the provoke a response that teaches the immune system to recognize a particular virus or bacteria so that if we come into contact with the real thing our natural immune system knows how to respond. Get your basic science right.
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  1192. They certainly have tests for cocaine and other narcotics, but I don't think they have tests for his issues. Certainly not drug tests - maybe psychological tests. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1193.  @augustgreig9420  Greta point and it goes to show that almost EVERY INFLUENCER these days is SELECTIVE in what they say what they try and influence. As the old saying goes "follow the money and you'll find a path to the truth."
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  1194. You mean they know Fox viewers don't buy and read books - don't you?
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  1195. As an engineer I can tell you all that its exactly the same when anyone describes a technology as a "game changer." Almost every technology story I see in the media these days is FLAWED to say the least but MOST are simply nonsense produced by PR people as some form of capital raising or funding strategy.
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  1196.  @knackyknack  I kind of know that having studied both. What most people really don't get is that when any of these political "isms" go too far the concepts of left and right don't matter as much. If your the person being shot by the henchman of a dictator it doesn't really matter if its an AK47 made in a leftist workers nightmare or if its an AR15 made in a Western capitalist factory. You're still getting shot and if the bullet hits a vital organ you're going to die. Go have a look at major environmental disasters and you will find out pretty quickly that the greed and stupidity of the Western Capitalists is equaled by the greed and stupidity of the Leftist/Communist/Socialist/Marxist world. You can look at the insanity of the Californian Aquifer or the insanity of the Aral Sea or Yong Ding or 3 Gorges and its the same brainless stupidity again and again. Once any society lets its "ism" of the leash its almost inevitable that like letting a rabid pit bull lose - you'll get bit.
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  1197.  @knackyknack  I'm actually an Australian who went to college in America (U. Illinois) on a sports scholarship. I really love America, mainly because I got to see Americans at their best. It simply infuriates me to see what the Dems and Repubs have done. Its not one or the other ITS BOTH. The proof in that is that Trump had Steve Mnuchin (of Goldman Sachs fame) and Biden just hired 2 more Goldman Sachs plus a Blackrock and a McKinsey. WTF Where is the difference other than the raging twitter storms we wont be getting. that's the same Goldman Sachs who were caught red handed selling dud financial packages during the GFC. SO how the F are any of them being trusted to run America's finances. McKinsey have made billions in consulting fees sending jobs to Mexico, China and anywhere else there were no unions and cheap labor. Your right the issues go back way further than Trump. He's more like the inevitable conclusion of decades of abuse by the elite. I've watched a lot of Mark Blyth this last year and he has as good of a handle on this stuff as anyone. He's also been pointing out that ITS NOT JUST AN AMERICAN PROBLEM. All the stuff I first recognized 30 years ago I have watched Australia slowly adopt and go down a similar path. Just as America has a group of bankers running Wall St and the Treasury, we have similar and from what I know so does Britain and Europe.
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  1198. Are you seriously asking a GOP mobster about an "actual law" and not get a hypocritical answer. Don't forget it was recently disclosed that Newt Gingrich was having an affair as he pursued Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair. If they could monetize hypocrisy the GOP could pay off America's debt in a couple of weeks.
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  1199. Yeah too many people who re-post don't do that. Or if an interview is a few weeks in the past. I agree its incredibly important we know when people produce a video.
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  1200. At some point America is going to need to deal with these people. I mean truly deal with these people. These people are no longer a threat to America they are a threat to the entire western democratic world. People like Bolsonaro in Brazil and Maduro in Venezuela use the same rhetoric. Radicals across Europe use the same methods. If they don't like something its "fake news." If they don't like an outcome "the other side cheated." Whatever they do its the greatest or biggest or most magnificent irrespective of how obvious its NOT. Anything they do is perfect anything anybody else does is criminal and they need to be locked up. Here in Australia where I am we have our version of Trump a complete fraudster named Clive Palmer. His latest add which is being shown here on YouTube is claiming that his party is now the largest party in Australia by membership. Its total garbage but he says it with a straight face and NOBODY challenges it. The threat is that he almost gained the balance of power a few elections back. In our system its when no party has a clear majority and they need a minor partner to pass legislation. This is common in other places, notably Italy, Greece and Israel. We've had occasions in the past where a minor party did get the balance of power in our Senate but they acted with good faith and it worked. But to give a person like Clive Palmer that power could destroy us and he is using the exact same methods Trump does.
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  1201. Australian here: I spent time in Canada a few years ago. They are great people with an actual sense of humor. Other then adding "eh" to the end of every sentence, they have the quaint quirk of saying SORRY for almost everything. They'll even say sorry to the rest of the world for how Americans behave. Why? I don't know. Sorry Canada, but this time you really do have something to apologise for. DON'T PANIC here in Australia we are about to officially prove we have a significant racist element by voting down a referendum on a Native "Voice to Parliament" that has been several years in the making. AND just to prove how stupid we really are the NO campaign is being lead by 2 Native Australians who both just happen to work for Right Wing Libertarian Think Tanks with links to America's Right Wing Libertarian Think Tank system. Despite all the SHlT we have been through and all the advances we have struggled to make with our history we are about to flush to whole lot down the drain.
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  1202. So which of these do you think will end up as Donnie Js theme song. Eric Clapton - Cocaine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ZmzZFWSJY Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhFF_NhaUIU Beck - Loser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE Radiohead - Creep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk
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  1203.  @damham5689  Its the extreme form of Libertarianism which has as its core doctrine. "I demand the liberty to strip other people of their liberty!"
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  1204. You and a few others have made this point. When I first heard Kyle say that. I thought he made a valid point that not all criticism is reasonable, but what you a few others have done is balance that out. That's part of having sensible rational discussions. So - Well done to you and others making this point. 👍
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  1205. I'm Australian and went to college in America on a sports scholarship. I did aerospace engineering at a top engineering school. I spent various holidays with the families of teammates and frat brothers. I HAVE SEEN and EXPERIENCED the best America has and it is awesome. When Americans are at their best they can do stuff no other country can. We can claim all sorts of stuff like resources and population base, but one day they decided to just go to the Moon. Out of the Apollo program came a flood of technologies including a massive leap forward in digital computing. The computer you are on right now can trace its heritage to Apollo. Everything in the room you are in right now that came out of a factory was made using machines controlled by computers with direct heritage to the Apollo computers. What's happened to America isn't simply sad its a tragedy created by the brainless greed of a handful of billionaires.
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  1206. Go look up a lecture Scottish Political-Economist Mark Blyth did in July 2019 at McMaster in Canada. Its here on YouTube. During the Q&A He's asked to comment on Bitcoin (the answer starts at 1:17:50) Listen for what the Chinese have labelled it.
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  1207. Go watch the interview that Kyle & Krystal just did with Jesse Ventura and you'll understand exactly how this guy and Trump are operating.
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  1208. Absolutely correct. Not only should they be outed but de-platformed as well.
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  1209. AS an example: Earlier today Saagar Enjeti interviewed Marc Andreesen about AI and as an engineer I think Andreesen explained very little. The one good point he did make was that production of AI chips is so low it will hinder or limit growth. The most egregious thing he said was regarding government interference in growth which is a very typical investor/neoliberal standpoint. I did my degree in aerospace engineering at the U. of Illinois which is where Andreesen did his undergrad degree as well worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) located at U. Illinois. I know this place it was just down the street from where I took classes. So I know for a FACT that his education was in part state funded and his early employment where he was trained and introduced to graphical web browsers was PAID for by the US Government. Andreesen's narcissism and hypocrisy were unbeleiveable.
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  1210. As an Australian who went to college in America an watches British politics a reasonable amount. You might want to add in that British politics is a SHlTSHOW its just not as much of a SHlTSHOW as America but damn you guys tried hard with Brexit. And before you ask - YEAH I know Australian politics isn't much better but at least we rejected our Trumpist billionaire and we didn't punch ourselves in gonads like Brexit, but then we have also let the Americans con us out of several hundred billion for submarines.
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  1211. That's because it really is the Handmaids Tale come to life.
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  1212. You know there still are people who can and should be prosecuted. Among them my #1 pick who needs to be dealt with is John Yoo the Lawyer who wrote the infamous "torture memo" that gave Rumsfeld and others the greenlight to do what they did at places like Abu Ghraib, Bagram AFB and Guantanamo. There's a great line in the Tom Cruise film "The Firm" when he tells the FBI agent at the end that the way to get the mobsters is to start with their lawyers. Go look at John Yoo's Wikipedia page it has some extraordinary statements by American officials. One of those comments basically says he (and others) can NEVER leave America where they are protected because they would be headed for the Hague. What I find most egregious about John Yoo is these days he has a very cosy life TEACHING LAW at UC Berkley. Yes the lawyer who said its ok to torture and is regarded as a war criminal is now teaching law.
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  1213.  @Daniel-yo5es  Yes dude we all know that, but they can still file for one and have a vote taken. In this environment just filing one will set the Trump supporters off. And that's the real game - keep the rage, because that keeps the donation money flowing. Anybody whos been watching knows the Trump campaign has raised over $200million since the campaign and that was reported days ago. Who knows how high that number is now. Hunter Biden's $50k a month is 1/8th Giuliani's fees which at $20 a day is $100k a week (maybe more) which is $400k a month (maybe more). Jared Kushner has been accused of laundering $170million out of the campaign, via a shelf company (David covered that). Do you know his father went to prison for campaign fraud? This is a cash grab of extraordinary scope.
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  1214. I don't doubt anything your saying for the simple reason it makes sense. Once you make any public service a for-profit enterprise you have the same issues anywhere in the world. If you operate a for-profit prison then you make more money if you get more prisoners and the longer they stay the more money you get paid. Its the same for almost any of these services. So long as they are for-profit then they have no incentive to fix any issue. It doesn't matter if its prisons, homeless, health care, education, roads and other infrastructure. So long as the profit incentive is based on NOT FIXING the problem the problem will never get fixed.
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  1215.  @shermanpeabody6102  China is not doing anything EVERY other country does. BUT its doing it at such a massive level its affecting the rest of the world's food supply chains.
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  1216. What actually is there to debate? This choice was made the instant Reagan was elected and he adopted Milton Freidman's "Greed is good" economics. The crazy thing is so many still hold him as a saint and they don't get he put in motion the things that wrecked their lives. Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden have all just kept it going.
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  1217. I'm Australian - DO ANY of these clowns know that this gets seen across the entire world (and almost instantly)? To be fair we have a couple that are just as stupid and just as awful. The only answer I have on ours is they simply don't care. They are speaking to their base 24/7 and nothing else matters. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1218.  @davidmoss2576  That's an idiotic conclusion based on hot air.
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  1219. Just recently Scott Galloway interviewed Fareed Zakaria (its here on YouTube) and Fareed sort of complained that the media were being blamed and maligned for many things. But you point out the most basic thing the media DOES NOT DO which is making things clear. They want to crap on with worthless details and confusion. FYI - I am one of the Australian's who watches Gary all the time and repeatedly points out how things he says apply to Australia. I just went back through his vids looking for something and came across his video "Why Liz Truss's Energy Plan Won't Work" posted 11 Sept 2022. GUESS WHAT? We just had our 2024/25 budget released (as in last Tuesday) and one of the key plans was AU$300 cash rebates for power bills. Its exactly the same thing Liz Truss did except with an Aussie Accent and just as Gary explained about how that sort of thing works all its going to do is give a giant pile of money to the rich investors who own the power stations that we sold them because according to all the economists would bring us better services at lower prices. Our power bills are now among the highest in the world.
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  1220. HUGE FOLLOW-UP COMING. Just after this was posted the news started coming in - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in prison. How he died is unknown.
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  1221. This isn't a lesson for outsmarting the money thieves in music its ANOTHER lesson to out smart them. Remember the GameStop short selling by the hedge fund that got scrambled last year. Honestly I had little respect for TS. All I thought was she was just another cash generating singing bunny for a pack of music maggots. My respect for her has just gone way up but not too high I think like all stars she's over-hyped but that might have more to do with the maggots than her.
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  1222. Actually he does have at least 1 conviction and its as solid as a block of granite. Its the conviction of all libertarians which I describe as: "I demand the liberty to strip others of their liberty!"
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  1223. ​ @curtisthomas2670  Yeah isn't that an interesting point. Recently I saw a lecture by a U. Chicago professor John Mearsheimer and he hammered the liberals over their interference in Ukraine. He pointed out how its hardwired into American Liberalism to interfere in any country with a government in their view oppresses their people by not allowing them liberal democracy. In particular he pointed out the nation building failures of Iraq, Afghanistan. 2 Things about his lecture 1) It was 1 of 3 lectures he gave at Yale in November 2017, long before the current Ukraine crisis. 2) He completely ignores what his side of American politics (the Realists) have done. Mearsheimer's a Realist and one of the main proponents neo-conservatism. He's basically the head coach of the neo-cons, but calls it offensive realism. I found this on Wikipedia "Realists think that mankind is not inherently benevolent but rather self-centered and competitive." That might be true for some people but NOT all of society. In fact societies grow and survive by acting together. From the smallest tribe to the great empires they grow by working together and fail through selfishness. They consume all the resources and collapse. Easter Island and the Roman Empire are good examples, both failed by overconsuming resources it was just more complex in the Roman case. America is dominated by these 2 groups of thought - liberals and realists. BOTH endlessly accuse the other side of being stupid and destructive. The fact is both are arrogant, ignorant, believe 100% in their superiority and most of all DESTRUCTIVE because both are ultimately driven by selfish people. Most of all BOTH can't stop interfering in other countries out of this delusion that they are superior and know better.
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  1224.  @SmiIeyyXD  Buddy most of the planet don't know what happened before their 10th birthday and most don't want to know. EVERY country, as in EVERY nation, tribe, and culture has some dark nasty shite in their past they wished never happened. What happened in China in WW2? A lot of stuff is the answer, and its the same answer for every other country. AT least tell people what you're talking about otherwise your comment is meaningless.
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  1225. It doesn't matter what color, what creed, what tribe, what religion or what ANYTHING. You can't argue or reason with a fanatic. They're not driven by reason, logic or the general well being of others or society. They are driven by ideology. Jordan Peterson (who David's commented on) said that they can tell when radicals on the right have gone too far - its when they become racist. He then said we can't do the same for radicals on the left because there's no simple indicator. I think he was dead wrong. Its fairly simple to see when anyone has taken any idea too far. Radical Left, Radical Right or Radical anything else. Its when they have their ideology take precedence over the welfare of other human beings. Look at the NRA. What comes first their ideology of "their security" or the security and welfare of anyone else?
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  1226.  @Falcon2609  never forget Noriega claimed he was a CIA asset and his men were trained in America, but then we didn't hear much after that.
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  1227. Yeah Peter Zeihan has EXPLAINED several times that Putin wont stop at Ukraine. Its got to do with certain historical strategic locations that the Russians like to control for security reasons. Ukraine isn't one of those locations but its on the way to 2 of them in Poland and Romania.
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  1228. ​ @michaelhuggins8513  Buddy you hit the nail on the head. America needs to take a seriously hard look in the mirror. As I said I am Australian, but I also went to college in America. I genuinely like the place, like the people and the GOOD PARTS of the culture. I love college sport. The basic problem is Americans live for the "here and now." Yesterday is like what happened 1000 years ago and tomorrow will happen tomorrow. Next week barely exists. Next month or next year is irrelevant unless your a parent trying to get your kids into college. By far the single biggest issue is American politics which is about 3 things. 1) What do my money backers want? 2) How do I get re-elected? 3) How do I club the other side today? Truth, reality and the welfare of the American people are irrelevant. Our government isn't much netter by the way. At the core of that is the money. In the last midterms America's 460+ Billionaires spent over $900 million. Over $800 million of that was by a group of about 25. Most of America's billionaires are too busy running their companies. A small number of them are the real problem. Its why the Chinese went and locked up a bunch of theirs. They looked at American and said "No farking way is that crap happening here!" and a bunch of people simply disappeared. I really do hope America sorts itself out. its not only good for a lot of my friends but its also good for my country.
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  1229. Actually they might just begetting close to that. Due to the 1st Amendment its a very difficult thing to prosecute in America. The Founding Fathers (bless their hearts) thought that being able to speak out without getting hung for it was important. But like everything in the universe (except for God) has limits and that's something we need to tell Sean - "you're not God, you aren't perfect and you have limits." For instance there is the family of a certain DC police officer who might just test Sean's limits as a person partly responsible for his death.
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  1230. AUSTRALIAN HERE: 100% Agree. If it wasn't for Gary's explanations I would NOT understand how stupid BOTH SIDES of Australia's politics are. In particular his explanation of looking where money flows when the government hands out rebates. Our government is about to hand out $300 to every household in Australia as an energy rebate. It sounds great on face value as we are struggling with high energy costs. HOWEVER thanks to Gary I can now see that, that money actually does NOT help us but makes the situation worse if you consider as Gary says "Look where the money goes!" Instead of reducing the actual money that the energy companies charge for our power our government is instead reimbursing part of it AFTER we have already paid the energy companies. So it does not actually make the energy market more competitive or force (or encourage) them to be more efficient it just guarantees the energy companies will keep charging whatever they can get away with because that's how Milton Friedman's free market works. I am an engineer and the problem is that Milton Friedman never understood a damn thing about energy supply systems or water supply systems or in fact ANY ENGINEERED SYSTEM. Thanks (in part) to Gary I can now explain where this has all gone wrong.
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  1231.  @johncarlson5611  Except he said that 3 years ago and where are they????? He also said the same about electric trucks, hyperloop, solar roof tiles,... AND WHERE ARE THEY??????????
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  1232. There's another part of this discussion that needs discussing and that's the degrading of institutions BY EXPERTS. At the start Sam said Bret went to the University of Chicago or as I like to call it the Grand Temple of Narcissistic Arrogance. That place was in part founded by John D. Rockefeller himself the man who made his entire career about how useless government was and that the general population needed a strong hand like his to guide it. Out of UC came McKinsey the worlds largest and most influential consultancy and Chicago School economics which has done nothing for 90% of the developed world and been fantastic for the type of narcissist that Rockefeller was the model for. I'm Australian and right now we are trying to find out how to deal with the utter SHlTFUCKERY of the consulting industry. The big 4 as they are referred to here (EY, KPMG, Deloitte and PwC) have all been involved in a series of scandals that have undermined our nation. We haven't yet got to discussing McKinsey and Boston Group. That major problem we now have is EXACTLY what British-Italian economist Mariana Mazucatto has been saying. She's quoted a British MP who decried the fact that the British government had become infantilized by the consulting industry. This is a backlash America needs to be ready to face. All these consultancies that are screwing up Western governments (McKinsey, Boston Group, EY, KPMG, Deloitte and PwC) they are all AMERICAN.
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  1233.  @samchickensandwich23  TRUE. 😅🤣
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  1234. Go watch some of the on-bike footage here on YT. There's also a in car that's just insane.
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  1235. Go look at the US pardon Law it does not apply to people who are impeached. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_pardons_in_the_United_States#Constitutional_provision Forget the 25th he needs to be impeached, that way he's not only out but he can never get back. Further if they impeach Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and all the others who hold official position so none of them can get pardons is also important.
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  1236. Yeah but he creates clicks and unfortunately David Pakman has a business to run.
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  1237.  @eliesh3833  Your spot on. I did aerospace engineering but work in industrial control systems. The level of poor, badly presented and just flat out wrong technical information that's rampant across social media is immeasurable. I don't call this the "information age" anymore. I call it the "misinformation age" Social media hasn't so much brought people together as much as it has given the village idiots a platform.
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  1238. ​ @christopherallen9476  Yeah everybody needs to be informed about the Federalist Society and in particular just how much power they already have.
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  1239. That is what every government in history has understood. Its what every political actor through history has understood. ITS WHY THEY DO IT
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  1240. I'm Australian and I was In Canada 3 years ago when he tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on Canadian product. I think someone got that chart (at 5:26) has a typo - the right hand bars show % that can't be right. I just checked 74,223,744 voted for Trump out of 332 million - that's 22.3%. In Percentage terms that's claiming more Australians have confidence in Trump than Americans who turned up to vote for him. Its claiming almost as many Canadians have confidence as Americans who voted for him. B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T I was there and I saw the Canadian reaction and they were NOT HAPPY and had NO CONFIDENCE in Trump.
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  1241. Good comment and I agree across the board. My understanding was the doors were designed that way FROM THE START to allow for more cargo including cargo pallets. One of the Aircraft Investigations does a really good job (including a 3d CAD model) of why the lock mechanism could fail. The worst part of the original mechanism was that the mechanical indicator that indicated it was locked for ground crew to know it was locked could give false positives. I'm an engineer and its one of those mechanisms that ALL engineering students need to study and understand.
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  1242.  @ajasen  Yeah some of them can because their state laws allow it and some can't because their state laws don't. There actually wasn't a decision made in Michigan. The Michigan SC didn't even hear the arguments they simply dismissed the case on the grounds that the Michigan SecState BY STATE LAW has to accept onto the ballot for a primary whoever the party says to put on the ballot. Glenn Kirschner explained this really well. He said if the Dems in Michigan want they can put Barrack Obama's name on the PRIMARY ballot irrespective that he's ineligible to be POTUS for a 3rd term. THIS IS BECAUSE ITS A PRIMARY and NOT an actual election for office. The law is different in Colorado which is why there was an actual decision on if Trump can be on the primary ballot.
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  1243. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  1244. You're absolutely right but then where was the leadership when the same things happened among Catholics or Protestants. This sort of thing has been going on in one culture after another for centuries. There's a very ugly truth to the theme that all Asians look alike. When Genghis Kahn sacked cities he systematically killed every male and then raped every girl and after he raped them he had his sons rape them and then his men raped what was left. BUT THEN the Romans did similar, the Greeks did similar, the Vikings actually did the same, the British did similar. EVERY EMPIRE has done the same thing in various ways. We all think this is something new and dramatic. Think of the shock about Harvey Weinstein and yet Hollywood was rife with rumors for decades. We've always suspected the rich and powerful people do things and then get shocked when we find them actually doing those things. We've sadly tolerated certain behaviors for centuries and now claim we are shocked to find out they're bad.
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  1245. Its not so much that plants are inefficient at converting solar energy into bio-energy its just that they can't do it as fast as we are consuming energy. And out energy consumption at the moment is simply a bit more than the biosphere can produce its orders of magnitude. Your quite rightly point out the planet took millions of years to store up all that fossil fuel and we dug it up and burned a giant pile of it in less than 200years. There's a recent hypothesis that tries to answer the Fermi Paradox, which says there should be life everywhere we look in the universe and we just don't see it (actually hear it via radio waves). The idea is that as societies grow technologically they start to consume more and more energy per capita. We see this in the difference between developed and undeveloped nations. There is a real possibility that the reason we do not see other species is that they either had a technological burst and consumed all of their energy resources or they got way more efficient with those resources and stopped wasting energy transmitting in every direction. One way or another we must reduce our energy usage or raise the efficiency or both. Otherwise we need to keep over 5 Billion people in poverty and the problem there is we have been ramming Western Values and culture down their throats for 50+ years.
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  1246. I'm Australian and in the same age group as you and you're right he's one of the brightest lights of his generation. He's not only damn smart but well educated combined with a far broader perspective on reality. Right now here in Australia the head of our central bank is exactly the sort of Ivory Tower Academic/Idiot that Gary has spoken about. There's times I have wondered if Gary is speaking about Britain or Australis.
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  1247. Yeah who would have thought it was possible to wreck their campaign so spectacularly WITHOUT a sex scandal?
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  1248.  @douglasbillington8521  Joan Rivers had this great line about Bo Derek that "she was so dumb she would have to study for a Pap test." Adapting that thought, this guy "is so dumb he'd need to study for Prostate Exam."
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  1249.  @robertstan298  Yeah, that's hard to deny. Whatever claims they may have had regarding combatants have been lost. It wasn't justifiable under Bush. There wasn't any justification to keep it going under Obama or Trump and for it to still be there is blight on the entire Western Hemisphere. The question EVERY American should be asked is "What about Gitmo?" The question every other western government should be asked is "Why aren't you asking the Americans about Gitmo?" Trying to wish away Gitmo isn't going to work.
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  1250. HE DOES NOT NEED PRISON. He needs help and unfortunately the sort of help he needs has been defunded by the political party he supports.
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  1251.  @geoffdyer1150  Make sure they use champion spark plugs the last guy who tuned mine used el cheapo types from Chy-naa. It sucked cos I had ta ride me wombat to work for a few days. He's great for pulling stumps but lousy in traffic.
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  1252. There's some bullshit in calling him the "highest rating" because its highest rated on Fox BUSINESS not Fox and he got about 1/10th of people like Tucker Carlson do on the main Fox channel. So don't anyone read too much into "highest rated." Sure he's named in the legal documents and its great to see someone like him get cancelled but he's no where near that important.
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  1253. She needs to take him down to Trump's sex dungeon and help him get over his mummy issues.
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  1254. That's a good way to put it. America is going to need to come to terms with these hyper-powerful hyper-funded lobbyist institutions. I'm Australian and these organizations have influence in a global scale. By virtue of their power and influence in America they have effects over a lot more than just America. For Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Britain and many others America is the biggest and most influential trading and security partner we have. This place is a concern but its not the real problem and I wish people like Thom would start talking about Harvard and Yale a lot more. That's where the Federalist Society started and that crowd scare me more than anything else. Do you know that 14 of the last 18 SCOTUS judges are Harvard or Yale including 8 of the current 9? Do you know that 5 of the 7 short listed to replace Breyer including Ketanji Brown Jackson are Harvard or Yale. Do you know that both Clintons, both Obamas and Ted Cruz are all Harvard or Yale while Ted Cruz's wife is Harvard and a senior manager at Goldman Sachs? Do you know that AG Merrick garland is both a Federalist Society member and went to Harvard? You might not realize it but that influence affects the entire Western World. Particularly regarding SCOTUS because that's what all of America's giant tech and business monopolies hide behind. George Carlin famously said "Its a big club and we're not in it"
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  1255.  @sobroed  Exactly. Remember that kid in grade school who was NEVER at fault it was always somebody else's fault and they were always seeking attention and always jealous if anyone else got praise from the teacher? This is what they grow into?
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  1256. I thought he 3 words she's wanted to say for 5 years are "I wanna divorce" or are they the 3 words the rest of us wanna hear her say so we can laugh at Trump. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1257. I'm Australian and have known about this for at least 15 years if not 20. The Iranian Prime Minister from that time told this story years ago. The rest of the world accepted what he said its just that America wouldn't.
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  1258. AUSTRALIAN here. The one thing I would say or ask is what the effect of the incredibly powerful Jewish Lobby in America will play in this. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee better known as AIPAC has an incredible amount of influence on American Foreign Policy as we are seeing right now with Biden being UNABLE or UNWILLINGING to condemn the insane over response of the IDF that has caused so much harm to the civilian population of Gaza. Its one thing for Israeli forces (the IDF) to go in after the Hamas terrorists and NOBODY can blame them for seeking justice for what they did on October 7th as it was an act of bastardry, but more than 20,000 civilian dead including more than 10,000 children SHOULD BE CONDEMNED and Biden had been unable or unwilling to publicly step up and face the ire of groups like AIPAC shows just how influential they are politically in America. FYI - There's also a fairly influential Jewish Lobby in Australia which also explains the similar reluctance of Australian politicians to condemn the Jewish assault on the civilian population of Gaza. The Jewish Lobby in Australia is not as open in its influence in Australia as it is in America. There aren't the large high publicity conferences that groups like AIPAC hold, BUT if a matter like Gaza comes up there are Jewish leaders here who are very quick to grab the microphone and let their views be heard. There is also a section of the Australian Jewish community who are staunch supporters of the Settler Movement in the West Bank who are also quick to grab the microphone when that subject is broached.
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  1259. Interesting sentiment. My bet right now is that Trump will tear the GOP in half and Biden buy ignoring the progressives and pandering to the corporates will split the Dems in half. What might come out it is a 4 party split that then becomes 3 when the corporate Dems and Corporate Repubs merge. I call them the Republicrats because Democlitans sound crap. I think Trump is so hell bent on tearing shit apart because he's a narcissistic shit that he will happily tear the GOP apart. He threatened to do it in 2016 if they didn't back him. Then Again I wont be surprised that on December 15 the 2nd American Civil War will be declared. Either the EC will vote Biden in as they should and the Trumpists will riot or the EC will cheat Biden and the rest of the country will riot. Either way if Trump does not stop this madness America might only have 8 days left. FYI- I'm Australian but went to college in America. Its a great country with great people and the vast majority do not deserve this shit. Take Care & Stay Safe 👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
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  1260. For anyone interested here's the Wikipedia page on CRT -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory
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  1261. I'm Australian and before that shit he pulled at the UN he had a decent reputation from the first gulf war. Maybe not perfect, but Gulf War 1 was over and done in a month and then everyone was out. Instead of it becoming Vietnam 2.0 the US and its allies were out. Saddam had his ass kicked, Kuwait was back in the hands of Kuwait and no one was bogged down in some endless disaster. So by about 2003 EVERYBODY WANTED TO KNOW how Gulf War 2 had become the disaster it was. Everyone wanted to know how the same people who did Gulf War 1 screwed up so badly with Gulf War 2. America's own PBS delivered and in 2004 gave the world the documentary "Rumsfeld's War." I first saw it in Australia in either 2005 or 2006 when it was televised on free to air by SBS Australian one of our 2 public broadcasters. Here it is on YT -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPEWIDBrKyM So yeah a lot of people KNOW and have KNOWN for around 16 years, (I have known for at least 14years) that: - Powell LIED to the UN and knew he was lying. - Powell told Bush in a private dinner NOT to go into Iraq and that Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others were wrong. - Powell, Shinseki and others were shut out of the planning by Wolfowitz on Rumsfeld's direction. Before any of you tell me (an Australian) to F--K off let me tell you something. The Australian Prime Minister at the time John Howard is/was a lawyer, which means he knew the basics of International Law and that its a crime to invade a country that has NOT committed an act or acts of war against you or your allies. The invasion of Afghanistan was legal as the Taliban Government by supporting Osama Bin Laden had attacked Australia's ally on 9/11. But Iraq was NOT legal and our PM knew it wasn't legal and we helped destroy that country and and played our part in the deaths over over 100,000 innocent civilians including the 14 killed at Nisour Square by the Blackwater 4 that Trump just pardoned. So before we all go condemning Colin Powell for his part in the Iraq clusterf--k, just know that a lot of other people were involved and very few have ever been held accountable.
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  1262.  @ProjectFarm  If you do, do another series of tests try endurance testing in the metals they are meant to be used in. So if you're comparing HSS cutters try this. Drill 1 hole in Aluminum then 4 in mild steel and then repeat that sequence 3 or 4 or 5 times with a final hole in aluminum. In other words start in Aluminium and then every 5th hole is back in the aluminum. Don't worry about timing the mild steel. The aluminum is the test the mild steel is just for wear. If you graph the times for the aluminum you should get a fairly good representation of how they are holding up. The other thing to look at is the accuracy of the hole. Is it still the same diameter? That should tell everyone is how well they wear.
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  1263. Somebody needs to ask Mark Levin the following Question: When did BLM, ANTIFA, Democrats, 1960s counter culture hippies, tree hugging Kumbaya singing environmentalists, Occupy Wall Street, Lafayette Park or any other protesters storm the capitol, kill a police officer, tear down the American flag and replace it with another flag? For anyone interested please feel free to copy that question and post it anywhere you like. Someone else first directed me to this quote by Vice POTUS Wallace, who was alive when Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin were in power to personally see what those sorts of people are like. the 2 highlights about method and patriotism are mine. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  1264.  @jamesgentry6814  That's a fair comment. If you go all the way back to the documentary "OutFoxed" they did warn that Murdoch's "opinion presented as fact" business model would eventually be copied. You only have to watch CNN and MSNBC for a couple of hours to see that was great prediction. Jon Stewart had a great jab at the entire news media a couple of years ago after he dropped off the Daily Show. He told them they should all take up a hobby and that they could try Journalism. Long before Trump came around the problem with the media existed. What's changed is that its now totally out of control on the right. Fox, OAN Newsmax don't even try and report reality anymore and in some cases THEY SIMPLY MAKE STUFF UP. That's the difference.
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  1265.  @bradleywesterford3587  Yeah but the uncool thing about words is the negative effect they can have on situations when they are used for nefarious means. Hitler said a few words and look what happened there. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld,..... said a few words and look what happened in Iraq.
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  1266. That's a great comment. I'm an engineer who works in industrial control systems and automation. That includes a lot of safety work because it includes things like emergency stops & emergency shutdown systems, safety gates, alarms, fire protection systems and all sorts of other stuff. I have even done some work on FPSOs, but nothing with trains. Its amazing how many times each year how close people come to catastrophe. What keeps us safe are the back up systems. When Sal got to that point about fires it was a massive face palm for me. Back in 2008/09 I worked on both the Varanus Island fire recovery project and also the Ngujima-Yin FPSO incident. One of the major issues with the Ngujima-Yin FPSO was the failure of the onboard fire system to work properly when the fire broke out from the gas compressor failure. It sounds like people are NOT learning from these incidents.
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  1267.  @adamm4766  Australian here - You are RIGHT its American politics and we have NO RIGHT to influence American politics. He's your POTUS not ours, but we have to deal with him. AND WHEN American politics affects our lives and the lives of billions of people around the world YOU BETTER EXPECT WE HAVE OPINIONS ON AMREICAN POLITICS.
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  1268. Speaking of golf he just got millions from the Liv golf tour to use one of his courses. If he needs money he could also ask Jared who as I believe a couple of billion in Saudi cash to play with.
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  1269. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law. They loved dragging me into discussion on things like the Bill of Rights. Out of those first 10 Amendments the most we discussed were the 1st & 4th 2 and the least were the were the 2nd & 3rd. Look at what Hamilton said about a "pertinacious minority" and how they could dominate majority opinion. Consider how the 2nd Amendment is NOW the foremost Amendment in public discussion. I've Trump stand up preaching about how he was THE person protecting their 2nd A. rights. When did he ever say he was protecting ALL their rights. Because they all seem to have forgotten that the NSA (& others) now have almost unlimited access to everyone's online activity. They can be watching everyone who reads these comments and start tracking and profiling all of us no matter what side we are on. TRUMP signed that into action. That's an amazing quote form Hamilton considering where America is right now. And for the record - I still think America is a great country with many great people, its just NOT at its best right now. If we are going to deal with some of the major world issues we actually need America at (or near) its best and right now you're just not there. If there is one thing that will help -> Get the money out of politics and that's not an American problem that's an EVERYWHERE problem. We have that problem in giant mining dump truck loads.
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  1270. My mother died of breast cancer and her father from prostate cancer so you have my absolute sympathy for what you have been through. I too am completely fed up with "this age of misinformation." I went to U. Illinois where many of the people who made what you know as the Internet (Web browsers and YouTube among them) also went. The internet and social media was meant to "democratise information" and instead what it's done is "democratise MIS-information."
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  1271. There actually was a single seat version of the Mosquito -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito#Fighters I don't think a lot were ever produced, those variants are certainly less known about. The simple fact was you could make 100 V12 engines and have 100 Spitfires or 100 Hurricanes or 50 Whirlwinds - its pretty simple math. But on the flip side there were squadrons of Mosquitos that did these intruder missions that they basically went out and shot and bombed what ever they could find, trains, train yards, fuel depots,.... whatever. With a Mosquito those required 2 people trained (pilot & bombardier) with a Whirlwind it was only a pilot. When you look at the success of the P38 with long range bomber escort I think the Whirlwind missed a calling or at least an opportunity. It could easily have carried extra fuel instead of bombs and done long range bomber escort. Why they didn't look at that? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️?????
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  1272.  @yawningkitty457  Nice comment. I'm an aerospace engineer and when I see Spitfires & Lancasters I see incredible planes that I want to fly. I knew a Spitfire pilot years ago and he described what they were like to fly. Its one of the great tragedies of human history sometimes our best work is for all the wrong reasons
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  1273. As an Australian this freaked me TF out because if you change the words to Australian and Australia and swap Trudeau for Albanese and you are 100% factually describing Australia. His description of Vancouver is practically identical to Melbourne and especially Sydney with respect to housing. We are idiotically addicted to foreign investment. Your specific comment on students is IDENTICAL to here. The industry we have developed for students from Asia, India, China,... etc is almost identical to what's happened in Canada. When our news services do stories about the issues almost all the comparisons are with Canada. I'm an engineer and was actually in Canada late 2017 through early 2018 for a project. Other than the temperature inversion Canada was like another version of Australia. I was in Saskatchewan and it was like wheat belt of Western Australia, the Western 1/2 of Victoria and the Murray Darling section of New South Wales. A vast area of endless flat farmland, with exactly the same kinds of people. We even hate Canberra the EXACT same way Canadians hate Ottawa.
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  1274. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I'm Australian but did my degree in America (late 80s) and one Friday we had a NASA engineer do a special lecture on Terraforming Mars. We were kind of excited as at that time (despite the Challenger accident) we believed we'd be building the next space station in the 90s, back to the moon early on the 2000s and off to Mars in the 2010s. We were shattered when he started with: "Sorry its impossible and here's why!" He then went and explained how you need think when considering an entire planet. You don't need to be an engineer or geologist or atmospheric scientist just BASIC MATH WILL DO. Once you understand the actual scope of dealing with a planetary issue things like this are irrelevant. For example there's currently around 2.5 Trillion tons of excess Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere and by current estimates it will go past 3.5 Trillion tons by the mid 2030s. So to do a quick time estimate you simply divide 3.5 Trillion by 35,000 and get 100,000,000 years. So if you want to get that 3.5 Trillion tons out in something like 10 years you need about 10,000,000 of these plants built. If you want to do it 20 years then its 5,000,000 plants. As to the costs its even easier to estimate At $1,000 per ton 3.5 Trillion tons will cost $3.5 QUADRILLION tons to remove. 1/10th of $3.5 Quadrillion is $0.35 Quadrillion. So at $300 per ton its (3/10ths) which is $1.05 QUADRILLION And at $400 per ton its (4/10ths) which is $1.4 QUADRILLION So its reasonably easy to estimate that this method will cost between $1 and $1.5 QUADRILLION and that's provided we can find 5-10,000,000 SUITABLE locations and get enough materials to build those 5-10,000,000 plants. Then there's the small task of how do we power it, because power might be reasonably cheap in Iceland where they have enormous natural resources but what about the other 9,999 plants where are they going, how are they being powered and who's paying? By the way if every person on the planet planted 1,000 trees (seedlings) at a cost of $5 per tree. That would be 8 Trillion Trees and if each tree is capable on capturing 1-2tons of Carbon and sequestering it in the wood. Then we'd only need about 1 in 4 trees (~2.5 trillion) to reach maturity to capture that 3.5 Trillion of Carbon Dioxide. Yeah that would cost about $40 Trillion on basic costs which is a staggering amount of money until you consider the alternative is $1-$1.5 QUADRILLION, which is 25 times the cost at the low end. Best of all Trees don't need electricity they just need water and sun light and maybe some fertilizer. Once established their maintenance and upkeep costs are almost zero. If you plant trees that produce food and of building materials then even better.
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  1275. Correction: "I like democracy but only if the people who get elected are ones I like" It can be said a 1000 different ways and its the same thing every time. I want power. There was thing he did say that's true in a sense and that was the very last line. " if you don't value our input you don't value our concerns then let us go" There is a problem with rural people not feeling appreciated by city people in many countries, but that isn't going to be solved by doing stuff like this.
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  1276.  @genestarwind4610  Yeah that's the unwritten unmentioned point. Did you note the guy who went straight to his 2nd Am rights? I just wonder if any of these clowns realise there's another 9 Amendments that make up the Bill of Rights?????
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  1277. He's quite right about a couple of things but also a questionable on others. I am an engineer who works in industrial control systems and automation. I have worked in both manufacturing and mining and know both industries quite well. In the short. He's quite right we simply do not have enough supply of certain raw materials to go to a full EV system. In particular Lithium and a couple of the other ingredients just aren't there in the quantity needed even if the Ruskies were being good boys. On manufacturing he's NOT as right. Other than the drive train (fuel system, engine, gearbox, drive shaft,... there's actually NO DIFFERENCE in making and EV or any other car. The body shell, doors, glass, seats, seat belts, sound system, steering wheel, suspension, chassis, wheels and tires are still the same stuff. Depending on the manufacturer something like 80-95% of an EV is the same as a normal car. In the longer story. On the mining of some of these metals like Lithium and Molybdenum those projects can take many years to go anywhere. There's a Molybdenum mine in Western Australia and a company I worked for did the electrical design for the processing plant. That was around 2007-08. The GFC smashed that project. But they did get it done and mined the site from 2010 to 2014. Its now in care and maintenance. So there's at least 1 Molybdenum mine that can be brought back into production fairly quickly. The company that owns it has a good coper & molybdenum ore body nearby but they have not yet developed it. At that's one thing about mining, they wont spend money digging stuff up unless there's a market to sell it to. So they don't look at what the markets are today they are looking 3-5-10 years into the future. Plus to actually mine some of these minerals can be damn hard. Sometimes the percentage of what you want is tiny. They measure gold in grams per ton of ore. Copper isn't much better. And getting it out can be seriously hard. They dissolve gold with cyanide and copper with sulphuric acid. So a lot fo the processing gear is fairly serious stuff. Right now there are people scrambling for finance for projects but these thing take time to plan, procure build and get operating. Typically from the first time an ore body is found its at least 5 years until first dirt. Some projects go for about decades until first dirt because the markets aren't right or there's other mines producing what's needed. Even when everything looks good there's still that fact you are hoping to dig dirt and turn it into money. Its quite a difficult thing to get a full appraisal on an ore body and it can be horribly expensive if you get it wrong. I watched BHP, 1 of the biggest mining companies on the planet blow over $3 Billion on a Nickel project because the geologists did not check properly and guessed wrong. So I'd say Peters quite right on the supply of raw materials, but depending on what the Chinese and Russians do next that can change rapidly.
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  1278.  @whyamimrpink78  In Australia you can own almost any gun that is available for sale & ownership so long as you meet the licencing requirements for owning that gun. Its sort of like the licenses for vehicles - motor cycles, cars, trucks, buses and taxis all get driven on our roads but they each have different licences. Every gun that is available for sale in Australia gets classified into one of a list of categories. To own guns from a specific category you have get a license for that category. Most importantly you have to have a reason for getting the license to own a gun. Farmers have to deal with pests and injured animals that's reason and allows certain guns Professional shooters who deal with feral animals have a reason to own certain guns. People want to compete in shooting sports that's a reason to own certain guns. People want to hunt ducks, deer, pigs,... etc. that's a reason to own certain guns "I want a gun" is not a reason. There is a giant misapprehension that Australians are not allowed to own guns. That's WRONG. So long as you can get the license you can own the gun. We just don't make getting any firearm license easy.
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  1279. EXACTLY - Because they have all forgotten that the Americans blew up Nordstream Biden said he'd do it and then it happened and then American companies had no competition for their LNG. Nordstrem was US$20 Billion in damage.
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  1280. Unfortunately there's about 74,216,15 Americans who have been convinced their votes were stolen and they were just trying to be heard. Most of the rest if the human race knows it was an insurrection. Unfortunately the rest of the planet doesn't matter. Its up to the rest of America to decide if their country is worth saving.
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  1281. And little did you know (like so many others) they actually existed. The only difference is the real thing is a lot more insidious than anything Dan Brown wrote.
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  1282.  @TwoForFlinchin1  Everything outside of America is less known in America and less understood by Americans. I'm Australian and went to college in America. Their basic knowledge of ANYTHING outside America is pitiful. They thought "Crocodile Dundee" was a documentary.
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  1283. It actually goes back centuries. For a while we all thought we had broken free of idiotic stupidity and ignorance through education. Then a guy named Reagan got elected by pandering to the Southern fundamentalists and suddenly a lot of idiots were given a stage to perform on. Then America did the stupidest thing of all when they let a guy named Rupert Murdoch get citizenship and then ownership of a media empire I'm Australian. We tried to warn the Brits when he moved there and they didn't listen. Then when he moved to America we tried to warn you guys as well and you guys didn't listen either. He is a master of tapping into peoples base emotions and jacking them up to ridiculous levels where they just simply lose grip with reality.
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  1284. Its NOT a European thing - its being done every where. I'm Australian and you just perfectly described what BOTH our LEFT and RIGHT parties have preached since the late 1980s. They did it to our transport sector, our energy sector, our communications sector and more recently our water sector. AND EVERY TIME we were promised that we would get cheaper prices on these basic commodities and EVERY TIME prices went up. I hope you can see this YT from DW News. It was blocked into Australia for many months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oyFRoxuf4g At just before 20minutes it introduces Mike Young and calls him a "renowned economist" who attended Harvard the same place where the clown who constructed the Texas Power system came from. You know the one that filed and had children freezing to death. Well he's so renowned that NOBODY I know has ever heard of him. But note what he says with pride (20:50) "It's fascinating to see how sophisticated our water markets have become" He doesn't say if they WORK or that how well they work. NOBODY asked the Australian people if they wanted or needed a "sophisticated" water market. Neo-liberalism is an ideology nothing more. It got a massive boost when Milton Freidman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics and then Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan both adopted it as their central economic doctrine. In practice its failed for 99% of us and monstrously enriched 1%. Mark Blyth keeps pointing out the Rand study on wealth that basically brags how the top 1% of America have made over $50 Trillion (yeah that's trillion with a T) since Reagan started his garbage. The hard part of countering neo-liberalism is the fact its been the main ideology taught in economics courses since the 1970s. So everybody trained in economics will tell you "No Neo-liberalism ahs brought incredible wealth to everyone" because that's all they have been taught. Go and look up Prof. Mark Blyth and listen to any of his lectures where he uses his computer analogy. Sorry to hear Romania has joined the club.
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  1285.  @deniseeugene1852  I'm Actually Australian but went to college in America. What freaks me out more than anything is that most people don't realise 2 incredibly important things. And sorry this is a long reply. 1) How important America is economically to the whole world. The US Dollar is the worlds reserve currency and that was decided in 1944 at Bretton Woods. Its now so ingrained there's no practical way to move to another currency. What so many don't realise is how much world trade is done in US Dollars and even when its done through other currencies the currency markets work because the US Dollar keeps them working. 2) America is no longer politically stable, because there are a pack of about 25-30 billionaires who are totally bonkers. They make most James Bond Villains look sensible. Several of the key players are engineers like Charles Koch. One of them, Robert Mercer did his PhD in computer engineering at the same college I did my degree in aerospace engineering (yeah small world). So I know what sort of things they can rationalise and that scares me as much as anything else. SO YOU KNOW - I might have done aerospace but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and we ended up discussing the constitution a lot. It was the late 80s so they'd all done Civics in high school and were doing pre-law and knew how to argue the Constitution. This is how I know about how the US System is supposed to work. Its why I think Mitch McConnell and his billionaire backers are so damn dangerous and that danger extends to the rest of the world. An unstable America means an unstable US Dollar and that's catastrophic to world trade. Sorry for the long reply.
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  1286. Yeah 2 years later how do you feel?
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  1287. BECAUSE ITS FULL OF LIES Unlike Gerard Holland who's background is in accounting I am an engineer and have know about Australia's energy situation since doing a project on Australia's future energy needs in 2016. I am utterly disgusted with how public discussion has been dominated by UNCHALLENEGED claims from BOTH SIDES of the energy debate. BOTH SIDES LIE just as Gerard has done here. And so you know you can read my formal challenge to him on this page.
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  1288. I can say the same thing except I live in Australia. I went to college in America on a sports scholarship and can testify that America is simply better than everyone else at a vast number of things. Unfortunately Americans think because they are great at something's they are great at everything. They get told time and time again how great their health care is. For sure their medical technology is as good as anywhere. Some of there medical schools are among the best that have ever existed. So its very difficult for Americans to see that despite their great medical schools and awesome technology that the overall system is also a disaster in progress.
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  1289. AUSTRALIAN here, with an outsiders perspective/observation on American Libertarians and why it matters.* They are always howling about Freedom, Liberty and the Slippery Slope to Authoritarianism when in fact they are only ever talking about THEIR Freedoms, THEIR Liberties and THEIR RIGHT to throw everyone else over the cliff of Authoritarianism. My way of describing them is a simple way is: "Libertarians demand the Liberty to strip other's of their Liberties" And so you all know - I went to college in America (late 80s) and even back then you could see that the American population (in general) was unaware of the threat the Libertarians were. One of the Koch brothers ran on the Libertarian ticket (as a potential VP) AGAINST Reagan claiming Reagan wasn't going far enough. I did engineering NOT poly-sci with no real interest in American politics BUT EVEN BACK THEN it was obvious how much of a future threat these people were. FURTHER, there are several Australian Libertarian Think Tanks (e.g. The Institute of Public Affairs) whose power and influence is growing through the support of American Libertarian Think Tanks. As to why American politics matters now (in 2024). 1) I care about America and have a lot of good friends there. 2) American is still Australia's most important trading and security partner. Simply put Australia cannot afford to America fail and in that Canada, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Britain and a few other can't either. 3) America is still about 25% of the worlds economy and if it gets messed up by these clowns then the whole world suffers the consequences BECAUSE the US Dollar ($USD) is still the World's reserve currency and most of our international trade is either done in $USD or the currency conversions involve $USD or are backed by $USD. So if these clowns DESTABILIZE the $USD by being stupid (which they are), then its really bad for the other 7.6 Billion people on the planet. All international trade goes away. Its even bad for pariah countries like Iran, Russia and North Korea because even they do business in $USD.
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  1290. I'm an engineer and Simon Michaux another engineer has coined a phrase. "Its not that the energy transition is impossible BUT we need a better plan." He says that with respect to the actual known reserves and production rates of some of these key minerals, BUT his line also applies to the environment. Unfortunately jumping onto various bandwagons are people so intent on their solution and making money from it that any other consequence is irrelevant.
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  1291.  @Spingalo  Your right vinegar is great on salads and if you're in the British Empire even better on hot chips (what American's call French fries). He's q question: What's the difference between Sarah Palin and horse shit? Even horse shit has its uses - its good for your garden. What's Sarah Palin useful for?
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  1292. That's a good point. Nobody was actually questioning this technology and its claims. I'm an aerospace engineer and I didn't pick it as a SCAM but it was fairly obvious something was wrong. I usually avoid these so called "science communicators" because they get so many basic things WRONG. In the past most science communicators were actual physicists, chemists, engineers, etc. Even when they were journalists they were journalists who usually took the time to get their facts right. Neil DGT recently commented that these days the "news industry" is so geared to being first to report something they don't check anything. Its in the first few minutes of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S58vlJwhwDw Just in the aerospace area I see so many BADLY researched stories produced. Half the problem is there are so many companies trying to promote their ideas and get funding. That's such a competitive space and its a space where there are so many people scamming investors.
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  1293.  @mrspirus5735  Could Could Could Could Could Could Could the endless mantra of futurism.
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  1294.  @gregbors8364  I'd agree except I wouldn't put Miller in the same league as Bannon. Certainly he's a snake and damn dangerous one at that, but he's not in the same league as Bannon and he doesn't operate like Bannon. Miller sneaks around quietly looking for opportunities while Bannon stomps around making buckets of noise looking for confrontation. Miller doesn't seem to crave or like confrontation. His preference seems to be to sneak off and wait for another opportunity. Its hard to say which of the 2 is more dangerous. One's like a lion on the hunt and the other's like a pit viper. One moves about looking for a fight and the other slithers about poisoning what ever it bites. You're spot on with Trump. He's a pure narcissistic attention seeking sociopath.
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  1295. I hope these people all realise that when it gets to the point where it is no longer deniable just like happened with tobacco, they are not going to be simply sued, they are going to be dragged from their homes like the aristocrats in the French Revolution and its going to be just as ugly.
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  1296. Yeah the college kids are chanting: "Ket---a---mine" "Ket---a---mine" "Ket---a---mine"
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  1297.  @darthwiizius  We even heard that he went through a hospital full of COVID patients and miraculously they were all cured. Apparently the virus could detect his presence in the building and it just left.
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  1298.  @jimarnn1938  I think what he means is that 1/2 of the Boomers and in particular those in control (both political and business) are all about conformity and they see everyone else like the hippies and nerds as weird because they are non-conformists.
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  1299. This is just one of several great comments on how ridiculously wrapped up in his own celebrity Bill Maher is. He's now a character of the type he so often rails at. Maybe there should be a "New Rule" that says "Members of the general should be allowed to b*tch clap any celebrity who thinks their opinion based on NOTHING but their celebrity is more important than actual facts."
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  1300. Since when did anyone on Fox or anyone watching Fox give a damn about historical facts? Actually when did they give a damn about any facts?
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  1301. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Your expertise and experience in some of these areas coupled with your ability to explain what is and isn't misinformation and how bad the outcomes form misinformation can be ARE SUPERB but you are NOT perfect and in fact in this video you as also (in part) misinforming people. I loved your explanation of the National Guard and FEMA operations and what they are dealing with. I loved the fact you exposed a lying sack of garbage like Stew Peters. HOWEVER - That claim about drones being AI powered is utter garbage and you should know better. I work in industrial control systems and automation. I also have a pilots license. I have 30+ years of writing, debugging and deploying real time control systems software and these claims of "AI powered" are nothing but publicity spin. AND YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT. FACT - AI does not power anything. Its an energy consumer not a power generator. AND YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT. FACT - No drone could carry the hardware or power system required to do what the IT industry calls AI. AND YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT. FACT - MOST of the current narrative regarding AI is nothing but Public Relations (PR) spin to raise capital for things that one day MIGHT work and MIGHT do some of the things promised. AI is NOT the only area of technology that is happening in right now. In fact its a well established practice in many fields. AND YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT.
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  1302. Its a very sad downfall. At times during the whole COVID issues he was a voice of balance asking valid questions particularly on the lab leak. But then he just started sliding into nonsense and anyone who questioned his position was a an enemy. This is one of the big problems when we have issues like COVID. Everyone needs to be prepared to accept they can be wrong when nobody has the full picture. But we now live in such a polarised time where any and every public discussion is immediately dragged into radical positions where proponents just scream at anyone who disagrees with them. A lot of public issues are complex and there is no simple answer and there is no simple fix. So long as public discussion is tribalized or hijacked by bad faith actors there is no chance of finding solutions.
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  1303.  @bigmike6461  Which 3rd world nation do you want to discuss. Zimbabwe where Mugabe reused to let go. Myanmar (Burma) where the Junta refused to let go. Egypt where Hosni Mubarak refused to let go. And there are dozens of others. Or we could discuss Iran, Guatemala, Chile, Indonesia and other places where the CIA staged coups to overthrow democratically elected governments. But you are right - in terms of American Presidents this is uncharted territory. And this has huge effects on the entire western world. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America and can barely believe this is happening. I had many discussions with my frat brothers (some are now lawyers) about the US systems and how they had checks and balances that could not be beaten or undermined. I don't think anyone ever expected or believed a President would or could do this. Beyond America this has huge ramifications for western democracy and developing democracies. For the West its our biggest trading partner and biggest security partner. What does it mean to Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada and many others, particularly when China is in full Empire Construction mode? For a lot of developing countries, they used the US Constitution as the basis for their new constitutions. What does that mean for them?
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  1304.  @russcarvertruthjedi259  I'm an aerospace engineer who works in industrial automation and control systems. I'm Australian but went to college in America. So I have a pretty good handle on America but also see it from an outside perspective. My biggest concern right now is how like America Australia is becoming. Our politics are more divisive than ever with an insane desire by our Right to spend as much as possible on the military while deregulating as much as they can. Our Left is an inept mix of too many policies that confuse them as much as they confuse us. I've spent a chunk of my COVID time getting my head around economics. That started because I'm tired of clowns with economics degrees belting every proposal senseless with their mantra of "who's going to pay for that" as they waste money on useless things. That's not to say everyone with an economics degree is a clown just as I know most engineers are NOT the problem solvers they think they are. Our problem here is that our economists have too much power and influence and too little grasp of the reality that we live in a technological society and that's why they make so many bad decisions. The person I listen to the most is Mark Blyth (Brown U.) and that's because he uses "system analysis" methods very similar to what aerospace engineers use except we call it "systems engineering." In the simplest way in aerospace we can't just simply make a change to any part of a system get an outcome. We have to consider the effects of a change to all the other parts of a system and the consequences of those effects because everything is to tightly coupled from everything being designed so close to their limits. If you listen to any of Marks lectures like the 3 he did at McMaster in June 2019 he talks about systems, effects and consequences. Via the Watson Institute he's interviewed people like Adam Tooze, Albena Azmanova, Fiona Hill, Eric Helleiner, Elizabeth Berman, Stephanie Kelton and others about books they've written. If you go thought some of those he's always looking for explanations between history, politics and economics. I have just gotten copies of Angrynomics, The Defecit Myth (Kelton) and Adam Smith (WoN), plus a couple of Piketty's. If you are going to do a podcast on the things you are talking about Mark should be one of your first people.
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  1305.  @trashkumaneko4539  The Germans (as part of ESA) are actually working on it. They are doing an isolated lab in the Antarctic at the moment. But the top top guy on complex bio-systems is a guy named Jonathon Trent. He's done a few TEDx talks and other more complex lectures on YT. He recently left NASA after 20years and started promoting what he calls "Up-Cycling" as something different to recycling. From his NASA work he was involve din bio-processes where they converted human waste back into usable materials (food, air, etc.) In simplest terms humans generally downcycle in that they take raw materials and through various process produce waste. Upcycling is where you take biological processes to "Up-Cycle" waste back into raw materials. Its the other side of the biological cycles that mother earth does for us every day. Composting (what gardeners do) is a simple from of an up-cycle process in that takes waste and with bacteria and worms shifts it back up the scale into raw plant food. Photosynthesis is an up-cycle process in that it takes our waste C02 and converts it back into raw O2 for us to breath. Basically, moon and Mars bases can't happen without the sort of work he was doing. What he is into now is doing some of that work and using it to drive food and energy production here in our societies. Instead of simply dumping all our waste into old quarries he wants to fuel society with it. What they worked out is for Moon & Mars bases the shit out of your ass is one of the most valuable resources those bases will have if its used properly. The human gut is great for turning raw material into actively biological raw material that other processes can then use.
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  1306. Well there's actually a good chance Don Jr is not his anyway. Look at Trumps other 4 Children and their mothers and their basic features. Ivana (blonde fair skin) had Ivanka (blond fair skin) and Eric (blond fair skin) Marla (blond fair skin) had Tiffany (blond fair skin) Melania (blond) had Baron (blond fair skin) So all the others matched the combination of Trump and their mothers but NOT Don Jr. who has Dark hair and olive skin. I have raised this several times and a couple of times people have said there was a rumor that Ivana had also had affairs including Vince McMahon of wrestling fame. Look at a photos of Don Jr compared to Trump and McMahon and ask who's the likely father.
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  1307. You're 4/5ths right. Putin was never intimidated by Donny, but what the Russians like to have is a predictable person in the White House. Its been the Russian thing for decades. Russia plays the unpredictable superpower while America plays the predictable superpower. Trump actually messed that dynamic up. There's been a few really good Russian experts comment on that and a few suggested the real aim of the 2016 interference was never to get Trump elected but to make Clinton's WH a scandalised mess by continuously releasing information and putting her into conflict with a Republican controlled House & Senate. With Biden in the WH America is again predictable and that makes this sort of action by Putin possible.
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  1308. The next question should be Did we make it this way? Yes Steven, people like you and Lou made America what it is today.
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  1309. I saw a TEDx Talk a few years ago titled The Four Most Dangerous Words? A New Study Shows | Laura Arnold | Its still here on YouTube (I just checked). It was about people writing stuff and publishing it as FACT when most of the times its nothing but PR designed to raise capital from investors. The point made was that for every study saying a new thing there's other studies showing its NOT TRUE. I think there's the same thing in politics and MAYBE the 4 most dangerous words in politics are "A New Report Says" or maybe "A New Poll Shows..." because we hear it so often that its meaningless and the tragedy is that we are likely to DISMISS that one report or poll that we really should NOT.
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  1310. Nice list of attention seeking malignant narcissists - WATCH HER BODY LANGUAGE. The crossed arms - defensive but with the smug smile also PROUD that she's gained attention The way she leans back as she holds her hand over his notes at 4:50 I am NOT a body language expert by any means and her signals are so obvious that she simply DOES NOT CARE. She is a malignant attention seeking narcissist JUST like the others you list.
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  1311. Another Aussie here and you're fairly close to my view. What I'd add is that the illegals who do get caught trying to get here consume resources. A lot of them are NOT political refugees they are economic refugees and that consumption of resources means we are NOT spending money on people we should be helping. Part of the problem is that we have advocates who just wont accept the judges decision and just move on. A staggering amount of money and resources is spent on appeals. Those same advocates relentlessly howl we need to discuss the issue but then wont allow anyone with even the slightest counterpoint to be heard. Every person or group of people who have ever emigrated anywhere have arrived with baggage. My Anglo-Saxon ancestors arrived in Australia with Anglo-Saxon baggage and some of that is still haunting our nation today. The real problem with trying to have any sensible public discussion on immigration is there are so many people who will instantly turn it into a howling screaming shite-fest knowing full well what they are doing.
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  1312.  @alexandermckay8594  I am well aware of that, but Peter keeps repeating that its a MATTER OF EXPERTISE. Its actually easy to stop them freezing, don't stop them flowing for too long. You do know that wells heads can both open and close. So open one of them one day and another the next and keep cycling them. Peter has this bug, that's typical of Americans and that's American technical superiority over other nations AND ITS JUST NOT TRUE. I'm Australian but went to college in America so I am aware of how technically advanced America is. the University I went to was at the time the world center of supercomputing technology. But I also know that Americans have the flaw that they think they are the worlds best at EVERYTHING and that they are so far ahead of everyone else that nobody could possibly solve any problem the world has without them. Its called American Exceptionalism and it gets them into a lot of trouble because they keep underestimating other people.
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  1313.  Dustin Stich  Your the first person I have seen bring that up or make that claim that everybody hates him for that court case. I'm not going to touch that. If anybody wants they can look it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kyle My question here has NOTHING to do with Chris Kyle. Its to do with why is JV wearing a jacket with that logo when it will only upset many Americans and make what ever he has to say (right or wrong) irrelevant.
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  1314.  @AnitaD28  👍👍
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  1315. This is not simply an Arizona thing. I'm Australian and we have been also letting this stuff happen. We have the Saudis, Canadians, New Zealanders, Brazilians, Americans, British and others all active in our agriculture sector and they are all buying up water rights or dominating the water auctions. And we let a Harvard educated Australian economist do to our water market almost exactly the same thing as another Harvard economist did to the Texas energy market. All through the influencers and lobbyists on government policy you will find Harvard, Yale, LSE neoliberals pushing that the best way to distribute resources is via sophisticated free markets. The issues with water supplies being bought by corporations who then rape those resources for all they can is a worldwide issue. This year Australia has lots of water. We are right now having our 9th or 10th flood depending on who's counting. Before that it was 5+ years of brutal drought. Next year it might be more floods or the start of the next brutal drought. Either way we will be farked if we don't regain control of our water. This neoliberal nonsense where the economists run everything to the benefit of their backers has to stop. Sadly I think its going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
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  1316.  @lynnetitus648  I'm actually Australian and America right now is our entertainment. It used to be American Shows now its just America. I actually went to college in the states (U. Illinois) so I know Ohio has the excuse that its state mascot is a NUT, but what excuse do the rest of you have? Seriously you have people using Robinhood accounts to take money form the rich? 🤔🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ We have a show in Australia called Planet America its a half serious news satire program, because its almost as if you're all from another planet. I have actually seen Americans at their very best. When I was at Illinois in the late 80s there were some boys doing profound shit that changed the world as we know it. The web browser like the one you're on right now was first developed when I was there. We had this POS system called Plato and a couple of boys down the street said lets make it usable like an Apple Mac with a GUI and they developed Mosaic and founded Netscape. At least when we watched Happy Days, The Brady Bunch, Friends, Seinfeld, Family Ties and all the others we new there was a fair bit of Hollywood BS about it. But not even the most drugged up Hollywood B-Grade whack job could dream up this shit. Florida, one of the WORST affected places for COVID on the planet just offered Japan to hold the Olympics. Really WTF (in giant neon lights) are they thinking. What country is going to send their best and finest to Florida instead of Tokyo. 🤚🤪✋
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  1317. ACTUALLY ITS NOT - As an aerospace engineer I am disgusted at this PR garbage. TED & TEDx have become a PR organisation for Elon Musk. FYI - Jennifer Heldmann is NOT and aerospace engineer she's a geologist. Has SpaceX done some good? Absolutely. They have literally saved the US manned space program with Crew Dragon and Falcon, but this idiotic hype with Starship needs to stop. Most of its technology is YET to be proven to do anything in space. Most importantly re-fuelling in space is unproven especially at the levels it needs. Just as importantly Saturn 5 could lift a similar payload into Low Earth Orbit and the WITHOUT REFUELLING go tot he moon. Also there was a variant of the Space Shuttle called Shuttle-C which could also lift a similar payload to low earth orbit.
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  1318.  @JULIAN11.  Since you seem interested let me tell you about where NASA went wrong after Apollo. Sorry for the horrible length of this but you do seem interested in understanding the problem, but its a complex problem. The Space shuttle is one of the greatest TECHNICAL achievements ever. They actually made a reusable spaceplane work. It truly was extraordinary, but it was also a horrendous failure that crippled manned space flight for decades and we are still dealing with those effects. Every time it was launched there was 75tons of mass lifted into orbit and accelerated to orbital speed (7km/s or more depending on the orbit). Its payload to vehicle mass ratio was actually very poor. That's a real problem because 75 tons at orbital peed is a lot of kinetic energy and that means a lot of fuel. if you go watch Don Pettit's "Tyranny of the Rocket Equation" you'll see where that leads. Combined with the costs to simply run and maintain the shuttle crippled other programs. Its the main reason we haven't got a moon base. There's a whole bunch of technologies required that are just not ready because the money and resources weren't available to get them ready. I was doing me degree when Challenger happened. I was actually in Florida a few weeks earlier and saw Columbia take off. It was from a distance but still spectacular. After Challenger Kelly Johnson who was lead engineer on things like the SR71 and U2 said "Don't build a replacement." He argued that the shuttle had proven unreliable and the money would be better spent on the "next generation." Even before the accident it was failing on costs and maintenance, but NASA, the USAF and CIA were so invested they had to continue with the shuttle. That also spilled over into the ISS construction costs. The Russians flew Buran once and then looked at it and said never again. One of the main failures was the payload to vehicle ratio. That goes back to Don Pettit's "Tyranny of the Rocket Equation." As rockets get bigger and bigger they need ever increasing structural strength to handle the loads and that adds weight. That means you need even more power and more fuel to lift that extra weight. That's what Don Pettit talks about. As rockets get bigger and bigger they generally do improve in performance and payload ratio. BUT eventually they reach a point where they start getting WORSE. That should have been evident way earlier, because that was the argument Buzz Aldrin won with his Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR) mission profile over Von Braun's Earth Orbit Rendezvous. What Buzz worked out was that with EOR you needed a much bigger vehicle with a lot more mass because it had to do a lot more. It had to fly to the moon, land on the moon and then fly back to earth. That meant more fuel, that meant a heavier rocket with more power and eventually they ended up with a version of the Saturn 5 but with 8-12 engines. The is the mistake BOTH Musk and Bezos have made with their heavy rockets. They are so big the are less efficient NOT more as they claim. The crazy part is NASA wanted small after Apollo. Do you know that when NASA first proposed the shuttle all they wanted was a small efficient vehicle with 2-4 people based on X-15 technology and its purpose was to just get people up and down as efficiently as possible? Most people don't realise the X-15 had at least 3 more variants planned. A 2 seater, a single seat delta wing and a single seat delta powered by a scramjet. This is why I support the Crew Dragon program. It actually proves that NASA was right in the late 60s early 70s. You don't need huge rockets you need rockets that get the job you NEED done. NASA should have either done the X-15 or something like Crew Dragon. Instead the USAF and CIA got involved and they created a monster. In the end it tried to be too many things to different needs. Crew Dragon works because it does 1 thing and does it damn well. Do you know the cost of Soyuz seats ended up at about $90 million while Crew Dragon is 4 seats for $70 million? That's a cost per seat of under $20 million down from over $90M. That's what SpaceX should be shouting from the roof tops. Starship is trying to be too many things. Get into orbit, go to the moon, go to Mars and my favourite replace jets for travelling between cities on Earth. Its similar to the criticisms of other systems like the F35. Its also trying to be too many things and as a result does none of them as well as it might. The A10 Warthog is a good example of being on task. Its good for one thing close air support. It does it so well that its still flying today despite being a 1960s design. The A380 Airbus like the shuttle is an amazing technical achievement but also a failure for all but 1 operator. The father of one of the instructors at my flying club flew them for Singapore airlines. That was circa 2008 and even then they knew it was in trouble. Its not just Starship its the same for New Glenn and some other proposals. Sorry for the lecture.
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  1319. Yeah welcome to the club of "those with Brain function" and be simply grateful you can still reason and function as a normal human.
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  1320.  @X2LR8  Your village just called - they are missing their idiot.
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  1321.  @carltaylor4942  Yeah we know it seems that way but America actually has some incredibly good education. Its just very hit and miss as in if you have the money you can hit a homer and if you don't you miss out. I'm Australian but went to college in America at the U. of Illinois. Before anyone screams at that. YouTube was founded by 2 Illini Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. The Web browser you're using comes from another Illini Mark Andreessen. I know first hand how good an American education CAN BE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois_Urbana-Champaign#Companies_&_entrepreneurship What I find very sad these days is that just as there is an insane wealth gap there's also an equally insane education gap and even worse PEOPLE WHO EXPLOIT IT.
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  1322. I think AOC wants to try, but what does she actually have to offer as far as leadership. And by that I don't mean among her fans but among the wider community. Kamala has the same issue ONLY WORSE. The Dems have a really serious issue. They have held onto this aging block of baby boomer power brokers who are now in their 70s and who wont let anyone else have a go and have stifled anything that might want to do things even slightly differently. What's more this isn't an American problem either, its rampant across the western world. Go check Britain, Australia, Germany they are all riddled with these way past due date clowns who wont just FK-off so that society can move forward. There are really serious issues in the world that have to be dealt with and all these clowns care about is their effing stock portfolios.
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  1323.  @nolongerblocked6210  I agree with that point exactly. Oversight has been the problem and it goes back further than COVID-19. Sorry for the long answer. You probably know some of this already. There's a really good short doco on Gain of Function by the German DW network posted 23 Jul 2021 here on YT. In it they highlight why there was the moratorium. They talk about how in 2011 a Dutch researcher announced they had made the worlds most deadly virus in their lab. The researcher was Ron Fouchier and he made a version of avian flu (bird flu) that's not normally contagious to humans but the few people who do get it have less than 40% chance of survival. Its more lethal than Ebola. He whipped up a version that's highly contagious to humans and NOBODY knew he was doing it until he made his announcement. Ron Fouchier tried to publish all his work and explain to the world how smart he was. Imagine some of the Doomsday cultists we have being fully informed on how to make a doomsday virus. Luckily the Dutch government shut him down and prevented his work being published. It was that sort of thing that caused the moratorium. THE SCARY THING happened after the moratorium. GOF used to be 3 areas of research. 1 - making viruses and other pathogens more lethal to humans 2- making viruses and other pathogens more contagious BETWEEN humans 3 - making viruses and other pathogens contagious TO humans from the natural environment. They dropped that 3rd are from the definition. It helped get the funding of a lot of programs back. Remember when Dr. Fauci had that stoush with Rand Paul and Rand Paul said (paraphrasing) "According to your definition that you wrote these NIH programs in Wuhan were Gain of Function" and Dr. Fauci replied "Your wrong that's the old definition." What Rand Paul should have done next is ask 2 questions. 1) When and Why did you change the definition? 2) What do you call these programs now? Those 2 questions would have exposed everything and instead Rand Paul was too stupid, too arrogant and so wrapped up in the politics he forgot there was truth right there for him to expose. The group Drastix uncovered a lot of the research papers that were published by the Wuhan lab and it details what they were doing and it was that 3rd type of research and it was done without supervision.
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  1324. The late Rene Rivkin used to preach "Buy in gloom. Sell in boom" Or basically buy cheap when everyone is panicking and sell high when everyone thinks all is grand. He also had questionable morals getting caught for insider trading, which is ironic considering its now effectively legal for politicians. But whatever his faults Rene was never close to the moral blackhole Ray Dalio and Bridgewater are.
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  1325. As an aerospace engineer I am disgusted at this PR garbage. TED & TEDx have become a PR organisation for Elon Musk. FYI - Jennifer Heldmann is NOT and aerospace engineer she's a geologist. Has SpaceX done some good? Absolutely. They have literally saved the US manned space program with Crew Dragon and Falcon, but this idiotic hype with Starship needs to stop. Most of its technology is YET to be proven to do anything in space. Most importantly re-fuelling in space is unproven especially at the levels it needs. Just as importantly Saturn 5 could lift a similar payload into Low Earth Orbit and the WITHOUT REFUELLING go tot he moon. Also there was a variant of the Space Shuttle called Shuttle-C which could also lift a similar payload to low earth orbit.
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  1326.  @johnmcgee636  Yep she's the poster girl for corporate minded career politicians, who don't give a damn about anyone worth less than 7 digits.
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  1327. You forgot Think Tank which means Corporate or Elitist PR & Lobbying Machine.
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  1328. It like the owner who beats their dog with a stick and them complains when the dog bites them.
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  1329. I'm an aerospace engineer (U. Illinois) and Dr. Jonathan Trent commented a while back that people are not paying attention to just how harsh of an environment Space and particularly Mars actually is. He's also commented that NOBDY is even close to a functioning self supporting closed loop bio-logical system. As a doctor you'd have a more detailed grasp of what it actually takes to sustain life. Beyond water and oxygen there's food and that means DIET. It seems that the space cadet family have just ignored that human beings EAT, PEE and POOP or as I call it the EPP problem. Your an ER doc. Does the human body stop EPP when you put it into an induced coma? And yes I know what its like to come out of an IC. People generally have no idea of going into IC but they sure do remember coming out. I'll never forget the doctor saying "Relax. Congratulations you made it!" What amazes me is that the space cadet family have as a core belief that we must become an interplanetary species to survive, because we have basically broken the life support system on the planet we live on. They then proceed to ignore the issues of life support which are at the core of their beliefs. As doc you might also have better knowledge on the psychology of cults. But my understanding is that all cults have people who CHOOSE to WILLFULLY IGNORE basic facts that are right there to be clearly seen. These are people who can look at something and then deny or dismiss it. Feel free to comment further on that.
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  1330.  @commonsenseskeptic  I did aeronautical & astronautical engineering at Illinois in the late 80s. So far love your channel. The fact you are using simple basic math to prove points is fantastic. I totally empathize with your frustration with the "space cadet family" (SCF). I'll call them that instead of a cult. Irrespective of what we call them the point is there is too much of public discussion about technology (across all industries) being presented by people with no technical training or those with technical training who have just thrown away all they were taught. A while back Dr. Jonathan Trent (who is without doubt one of the smartest people I've ever encountered) commented that NOBODY is even close to being able to deploy a fully self sustaining closed loop biological system for off world use. So at the most fundamental basics we don't yet have the technology for long term off world self supporting habitation. That's not to say its impossible but the actual science (both R &D) hasn't been done to where we have a deployable system. Put it this way: If we only had a partial system that was deployable and could recycle SOME air, SOME water and provide SOME food, then why isn't that module already attached to the ISS. Even if it only provided a few cubic meters of Oxygen, few liters of water each week and few kilos of food each month, then that's a huge cost saving because that's supplies that DON'T need to be lifted to orbit. Go back an look at the ORIGINAL Space Station Freedom concepts that merged into the ISS. That was all being done while I was an undergrad. Those concepts called for 6-8 people stationed in space NOT 3. The simple reason why it was quickly scaled back was food, water and oxygen COSTS. Going back to basic math. Look at the next planned lunar mission. The Apollo LM had 75hours for 2 men that's 150 (2 x 75) man hours of life support. When Trump announced 4 people for 2 weeks that became 4men x 24hours x 14days or 1344 man hours. That means you need to land on the moon 9 times as much water, food, oxygen, CO2 filters, etc. and al the hardware to use it. Reducing that mission profile to 3 people on the moon for 10 days brings that back to 720 man hours, almost halving the life support requirement. Basic math is a great tool. Its also something people who like spinning daft ideas hate. In space discussions the ridiculous spin masters are the terraforming people. Way back when I was in college we had a guest lecture from an alumni who had just done a study for NASA on terraforming Mars. He basically told us to forget it. To change a planet that much was technically impossible and he gave us a list of reasons. The number one reason he gave is that planets are massive STABLE systems. For sure at the detailed level they are incredibly chaotic, but at the planetary level they are hyper stable. Otherwise they'd be falling apart. Planetary systems are like mob psychology. Its impossible to predict details like what individual members of a mob will exactly do. Yet you can predict a mobs overall behavior with incredible accuracy. That's one of the basic tenements of Isaac Asimov's psychohistory, which is now a genuine scientific field of study and we see every day in both commercial and political advertising. Its part of why public understanding of climate change is so poor. This entire concept of terraforming mars was DISMISSED by NASA over 30 years ago as folly. This is just a discussion on space. If we start going into other areas of technology like energy, water, agriculture, the ocean systems and the insane public discussions on them we'll be here for weeks. I you want to have a discussion on this stuff let me know.
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  1331. Its only $268b on the project with $100b in contingency and Virginia's cost AU$5.5b each not $3b each. But even the right numbers make this a ridiculous deal. The fundamental problem with AUKUS is not that it was an agreement between Australia the UK and America or that it was for nuclear powered submarines. I'm an engineer and the REAL PROBLEM is the project itself which is hopelessly conceived and its costs are mindlessly stupid which is par for the course with Australian military agreements. I'm 100% in favor of Australia getting nuclear powered subs but am 100% against AUKUS. Because of how much ocean we need to patrol we need faster long range subs and nuclear powered subs are over 50% faster than subs like the Collins and that's the first of several points. Here's my 2 main points on why AUKUS needs to be ripped up and started over. 1) The Virginia requires too large of a crew and there's just no way Australia can operate more than 2 of them let alone 3 or 3 + 5 of the AUKUS subs. This point has been brought up again and again and the RAN has never answered how they'd solve this problem. 2) The basic cost of a Virginia class is AU$5.5billion and the project is costed at AU$33.5billion per sub. NOBODY has explained where the other $28billion per sub is going. I have done some research and costing on this. I even constructed a project costing model and started plugging in numbers. I threw everything I could at this and then started doubling the cost of things and even tripled some and then added in an outrageous bonus system to get stuff built on time. With all I tried I could not explain where over AU$115billion might be going.
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  1332. If you look at that statement David shows at 2:00 it shows how sneaky he is with FACTS. Did he call out NATO countries that weren't keeping up their financial support? Yes he did and it startled a lot of people. He was also correct. EXCEPT it wasn't hundreds of billions. ALSO NATO was never in doubt of going on. ALSO Trump didn't send Javelins to Ukraine. Ukraine purchased them and it wasn't Trump who authorized that sale. Military sales like that have to be approved by the appropriate committee. This is almost endemic to politicians these days. They start with a fact and then tell a bunch of lies hoping nobody sees the switch. Because politics is now so tribal this technique WORKS and it works everywhere.
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  1333. There's a quote that I believe is attributed to Warren Buffet. "When the tide goes out we can all see who's swimming naked." Its his way of explaining that when capital leaves like when people shift their money to safer more secure places we can all see which companies are operating with real profit making activities and/or systems and those that are just clever at PR, marketing and tax evasion.
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  1334. “They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.” - Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky
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  1335.  Frank Last  It not the beginning of the end. The beginning of the end was Thatcherism and Reaganomics when the Western world decided "greed was good."
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  1336. You're missing the work "lack" after the word complete.
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  1337. SORRY BUT - I went and checked this and maybe Thom could have done some checking too. There definitely is a direct link from Cannons husband (Josh Lorence) to John Rosatti, but there's not much of a link between John Rosatti and the Colombo crime family and nothing to suggest he's actually a mobster. According to FBI informant and former Colombo captain Salvatore "Big Sal" Miciotta "in late 1993, Victor Orena asked multi-millionaire businessman John Rosatti to provide cars from his dealership to be used to carry out murders, Rosatti declined and instead handed over $50,000 to Orena." (source Wikipedia on the page about the Colombo Crime Family). So there's no actual claim anywhere that Rosatti was actually a mobster just a claim that a mobster approached him at one time and the implication he paid money to NOT be involved.
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  1338. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. I have put a few more details in a comment about the Murdoch's and their issues in Australia. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  1339. I'm AUSTRALIAN and even I know about Puerto Rico. Does this guy really think the rest of the WORLD is as ignorant as the people who vote for him?
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  1340. Agreed, I want to see the GOP explain their next military spending increase.
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  1341. Australian here - We've been through that argument as have Canada, New Zealand and a few other countries. If he said something like that in Australia or a few other countries he'd be yanked off air so fast nobody would have time to tell him to "shut up" or "wake up" or Trumps fav line "You're fired!"
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  1342. HUGE FOLLOW-UP COMING. Just after this was posted the news started coming in - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in prison. How he died is unknown.
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  1343. I'm an Australian who went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering but a bunch of friends were pre-law and we used to discuss various things about how our countries worked. I'd studied Orwell in High school (Animal Farm and 1984) which was pretty standard in Australia. I used to argue, as Orwell warned, that any country could fall into a totalitarian state. They used to argue and assure mt that the American System via its constitution that it was not possible for America to become an totalitarian state. This was in the late 80s so they'd all studied civics in high school as as law students they were very well versed in the constitution and how the various parts of the system worked. I'd love to sit down with them now and ask how this has all happened considering they all assured me that this kind of thing was IMPOSSIBLE. They assured me that stripping away people's basic right to vote was IMPOSSIBLE. There's a lot going on in America they assured me was IMPOSSIBLE. They called it the "system of checks and balances." What we never discussed, because it was inconceivable. "What would happen if that system became corrupted?" The main part of that "system of checks and balances" is the US Senate, where senior government appointments and judges are confirmed. Mitch McConnel with massive funding via the Federalist Society has manged to corrupt that system so it no longer functions properly causing serious NEGATIVE EFFECTS through the entire system. And for any country that trades with and/or has security agreements with America its as serious as it can get because it means America is no longer a reliable partner.
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  1344. @Bhante Its what happens when ideology overrides common sense. AND it doesn't just apply to energy production it applies to almost everything in our modern world. I'm an engineer with 30+ years of automation and control systems and its so frustrating to see the level of STEM ignorance (as opposed to STEM literacy) that's in public discussion and political policy these days. Sure nuclear power has some enormous and expensive issues that cannot be denied or avoided. BUUUUUT the biggest issue we have are green house emissions. The waste form nuclear energy is vile but its manageable, we have it reasonably contained. Once CO2 and CH4 are released there's no containment and there's no management of the issue. The only solution anyone has that we know works is plant more trees, except we are now cutting down forests faster than ever. Sure nuclear is bad but for this time period its a lot less damaging than coal and a damn heap less trouble to clean up.
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  1345. Absolutely true. Masha was interviewed on the Australian program Planet America and gave the best explanation on the entire Trump-Russian collusion fiasco. Masha's explanation was that: 1: Putin is not a master strategist and believes that all elections are a rubber stamp for what has already been decided because that's his Russia. Its all decided before hand. So he expected Clinton would win. 2: Putin like Russians before him have played the game with America from the unpredictable possibly madman perspective to America's straight man. Having Trump in the White House would ruin that vibe. 3: Putin was the master of East Germany before the collapse and destined to rule SOVIET Russia one day, but the Russia he returned to was wrecked. He wants his Soviet Empire back and just as importantly he wants to hurt the West for what happened and that included Hilary Clinton. Masha never explicitly said it but the inference was that Putin was in fact expecting to do great harm to the Clinton Presidency by releasing damaging facts after the win with a rampant Trump going nuts. We now know that assessment was right. The big was the Jim Comey didn't do as Putin expected. In Putin's world subordinates like Comey do as they are told. They don't announce to the world they found stuff and are reopening an investigation. Just imagine if Comey had kept quiet and then after the election knowledge of the additional emails were released. Just imagine how the Republicans and Trump would have reacted. Putin would have been able to sit back laughing as America tor itself to pieces. Instead he got Trump and had to wait 6 more years to start pulling the former Soviet Republics back into order.
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  1346. IF THIS IS TRUE then what's mindboggling is how this is coming out RIGHT NOW. If this is the game changer then the real investigation is how it took this long to come out. FIRST - who sat on this and how long did they sit on it? AND no mercy should be shown that person or persons.
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  1347. Australian here - The world needs a LOT MORE Gary And a damn ton less of these other idiots especially that clown Abby Innes who just rambles on all through this with stupid irrelevant word play. We need so much less of word play and a lot more ACTION.
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  1348.  @lberghaus  They did that for Britney Spears and she wasn't 1/2 as close to being as bat crap crazy as AJ.
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  1349. Yeah my first thought was the time Lindsay Graham was called out to meet Trump on the golf course. After a only a few minutes Graham walked away and since then has NOT SPOKEN a single word against Trump. It gets mentioned Graham's morals or ethics come up. Its pretty much accepted around the world that Trump is a known blackmailer.
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  1350.  Studentofsweetscience  Do you NOT UNDERSTAND that all those claims have already been taken to court and LOST an LOST and LOST? These counting systems are just counting systems, they cannot change anyone's vote and that has been PROVEN time and time again. Georgia has done 3 recounts and the result haven't changed. All 50 states have certified their elections. ITS OVER, ITS DONE, BIDEN WON and TRUMP LOST.
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  1351.  @Master_J2375  That's actually a good point but it was NEVER mentioned here. The price of gold got mentioned as is always does but nothing has been said of its affect on Australia's overall economy because compared to iron ore and coal is nothing. You need to actually be there on the ground and see it to really appreciate how massive Australia's iron ore industry is. I had no real idea until I went and worked in the industry. When I was first told around 2000-2001 they intended to DOUBLE Australia's out output from under 200mta (million tons per annum) to almost 400mta it sounded absurd. The person who told me said that's nothing "there are people claiming it will double again after that!" (~800mta). Australia now produces and exports between 900 and 960mta. Our big mines used to do 20mta now we build nothing less than 50mta. There was a dip in production after the GFC, but since then the flow of iron ore just kept climbing and climbing. Most went to China but also a heap went to South Korea. China at one stage looked doubtful on keeping up its orders until we realised they had depleted their own reserves. Our reserves are insanely large can go at this rate for a couple of centuries.
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  1352. I like dean but am going to take a more pragmatic view on his first point. There's NO GUARANTEE that Trump won't win. Hilary tried and lost that with some of the most stupid campaign strategies ever and she's now head of Biden's re-election team. I'm Australian but went to college in America U. Illinois). So I know the Midwest and Rust Belt fairly well. The moment I heard she wasn't going to campaign in Michigan I knew she was in trouble because I knew the Rust Belt was not going to take that sort of arrogance well. I wasn't alone in thinking she was going to lose. Both Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth predicted she'd lose but for different reasons. Rana Foroohar said it was her link to NAFTA and Mark Blyth because the Dems had just screwed so many of their BLUE states over time and time again. Not only did Hilary lose Michigan but also Ohio and Penn becoming the first Democrat since Dukakis in 1988 to lose all 3. Even Gore and Kerry won 2 of those 3. If you look at the EC votes if Hilary had won those 3 as Bill and Obama had she would have won. What NOBODY on America's Left has been willing to explain or even face up to was how Trump went from 63 million votes in 2016 to 74 million votes in 2020 when every poll for 2 years had said his base was shrinking. 1) The polling WAS WRONG and NOT by a little but by a staggering amount. An extra 11 million people turned out in 2020 to vote for this guy. Hate him all you like but he knows how to appeal to particular crowds. Jesse Ventura said he learned it from Pro-Wrestling. 2) Despite all the crap and craziness his people really do see him as someone who's going to save them from the career politicians who have made their lives miserable for the past 30+ years. They don't care at all about facts or evidence or how much BS he tells. His base hates the Washington Elite so much that they'd vote for a rapid dog if it would bite one of those elitist snobs. And yes I know Trump is actually one of those elitist snobs, but he knows how to sell his base a different story. EVERYONE FORGETS that before he beat Hilary Trump beat of 16 GOP favorite sons including Jeb Bush and he didn't just beat them he wiped the floor with them. America better wake up to itself and the Democrats need to take the coldest of cold showers and realise that those 74 million might turn out to be 85 million next year.
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  1353. Its called a lack of political experience. A more experienced player would have dumped a world salad and avoided it. The Israeli-Palestinian subject would have to be one of the most toxic subjects. Almost any answer offends someone and gets you labelled a racist, bigot, both or worse. Its almost become impossible to have any rational discussion on the subject. That last time I heard anyone be sensible was over 10 years ago when the King of Jordan was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and he said that if they didn't find a solution then this conflict would just go on for another generation and get worse. He was right.
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  1354.  @nrotko  You have just perfectly described the problem with the American Centric view of the world. They are completely oblivious to consequences. They are almost childish in their view of the world. You know how a young child can't see the consequences of their actions. But eventually as we grow older we know what to do and what NOT to do. On foreign policy Americans just don't seem to get that lesson EVER. I think Peter's right on China because that's a demographic issue and nothing can fix demographics except time. As Peter once said if you want a 25 year old it takes 25 years and 9 months to make one. We also have a similar issue in Australia. It was only 2 days ago I checked out bureau of statistics and found a bizarre thing. There's an interactive population pyramid and it has this noticeable notch for 16-19yr olds and that's factual because we just had a major census in 2021. BUT in the forward projections that notch just disappears and its something like 40-50,000 people. NOBODY IS EXPLAINING where they are coming from. Somehow the bureaucrats are magically going to pull 40-50,000 high school graduates and university students out of thin air.
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  1355. She started with a totally valid point about NOT making these sort of appointments political and then got totally stuck on the SIV question where she played the misdirection. She might actually be a valid sensible appointment and her being asked to resign might be the wrong decision. BUT when you are an advisor to a political campaign and then get a political appointment you have to accept that you'll eventually be asked about all sorts of related things if you do an interview like this. Your right all she did was do a lot of avoidance, which is the hallmark of a career politician.
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  1356. YES but its only going to take 1 blind and def Trump lover to scuttle one of the court cases. They have to get 12 people with open eyes and open ears and functioning brains on those juries and in America these days THAT'S NOT EASY. Its NOT a majority vote in a jury room its 12 out of 12. 7 isn't good enough. 8 isn't good enough or 9 or 10 or 11.
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  1357. Engineer here - 100% RIGHT. This is just Peter being pathetically like 100s of other commentators and just regurgitating PR from companies trying to raise money. I really like Peter when he's explaining geo-politics but as an engineer I think he needs to either employ an engineer or just STFU on engineering topics. Because every time he's either 1/2 Wrong, 3/4 Wrong, or 100% WRONG.
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  1358.  @Dan-ud8hz  Interesting, I've never heard of it - thanks. Found it easily. There's also a Wikipedia page on it. I'm more surprised that people don't quote it. Einstein reasoning on anything should be noted and commentated on. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1359.  @michaelkurchak5427  Don't forget to mention that Fox Lawyers have defended their client IN COURT consistently with the claim they are NOT a news service but commentary. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ https://www.courthousenews.com/fighting-slander-suit-over-tucker-carlson-fox-calls-host-hyperbolic/
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  1360. The other person David needs to interview on this subject is Barbara F. Walter who is an expert on what causes civil wars. She's done a short TED talk as well as a number of longer talks all available here on YT. One of the really interesting things she talks about are the 2 main identifiers a country is in trouble and possible facing a civil war. Surprisingly neither of those 2 indicators are authoritarianism or economics or populism. The 2 main indicators are. 1) Democracy failing into a condition called anocracy. Its not they become authoritarian it this weird state in between where its still democracy but also ineffective. She explains it better than I can. 2) One or both sides of politics becoming ethnically or culturally ideological.
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  1361.  @hughjass1044  That's a valid point.
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  1362.  @_h1ghlife_  Most Americans have not visited the next county let alone the next state let alone another country. If the do travel is by bus or plane. So they never see what's in the next state except for a blur as they go through or over. I'm Australian but went to college in America and there. One thing that most people don't realise about America is that its a massive population that is VERY ACTIVE. Its actually impossible for Americans to get anything but a very basic summary of the news. There's so much happening that no one has ENOUGH time to sit down and get a decent in depth look at anything. In Australia between the time I went to college in America and now our population has gone from 15 to 25 million and its now hard to get a full understanding of all of Australia. So America at 238 million is simply impossible for anyone to grasp. So for Americans to get anything but a rudimentary understanding of any other country is actually difficult. With their failing education system its even worse.
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  1363. That's a good point, but the main reason they must keep a second pilot is REDUNDANCY. I have a degree in aerospace engineering and a private pilots license but I work in industrial control systems. I am formally trained in programmable safety systems. So I am formally trained in WHY WE USE REDUNDANCY for critical safety functions. Risk Assessment not only includes people but their training & competency. Redundancy can also include people. For complex and heavy aircraft the second pilot is a key part of the safety strategy. Their fundamental job is to reduce the workload on the pilot who is flying the plane. One of the key parts to that strategy is CRM (Crew Resource Management). And the key takeaway that other industries have adopted from CRM is "agreement." Its not a matter of one person checking another persons work. Its a matter on them agreeing its been done correctly. After the fiasco of the Max-8 this should not even be a discussion any longer. I can explain in detail that the Max-8 was always going to have those sorts of fatal accidents because it was a single point failure system. The Max-8 will be a case study in "What not to do!" for generations of engineers. Boeing are not alone as Airbus also have had some shocking accidents to overreliance on automation. Any engineer who thinks this can be done clearly has no cockpit time and no proper training in safety systems or safety management and NEEDS TO BE RUN OUT OF THE INDUSTRY.
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  1364. I agree that decent public debates need to be had on all manner of subjects, but NOT worthless debates that take 4 hours to go nowhere with people who can't ever solve any of the issues. I'm an engineer and left a lengthy detailed response to this in the Lex's pinned comment at the top.
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  1365. Agreed on that, he's one of the best. Another person worth listening to is Dr. Michael Osterholm (director of CIDRAP) who does regular podcasts -> https://www.youtube.com/c/OsterholmUpdateCOVID19 A few weeks back I did hear about Lambda causing a lot of trouble in South America, which made me wonder. Because between Delta and Mu there's Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, Kappa and Lambda -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variants_of_SARS-CoV-2 David's right the media are NOT properly informing us about these things and when they do its more hysteria and hype than fact.
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  1366. Agreed. The way Kyle & Krystal fawned over Rogan was pretty poor and sooner or later that was going to not go well.
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  1367.  @yobiwolrd07  We all understand that sentiment but if they do go broke and need food just remember there's 74 million of them they are already upset, pissed off, wound up and we should all expect the majority of them own at least 1 gun. The scary moment hasn't yet happened and I truly absolutely hope it doesn't. What do you think will happen on December 14. There's only 2 versions of the same outcome, because it wont matter how the Electoral College votes there will be a massive crowd of angry people who feel they got cheated. Biden needs to get very tough and blunt with the Republicans. Either shut Trump up or you'll pay the price for it. Because every one of them who helps keep this crap going can be charged with sedition.
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  1368.  @yobiwolrd07  Sadly I think you're right. If they pursue Trump it will simply sink America into a sea-saw of going after one after another. Biden himself has baggage - they all have something. But I do think they might go after some of those around him. Trump himself might throw Kushner under the bus. But fundamentally the only way Trump goes to jail is if the Republicans do it or Trump is found to do have done something so bad it can't be ignored. The Republicans just might decide to get rid of him as he's too much trouble. The Lincoln Project people would certainly throw him in a cell. The old establishment Republicans (Bush Family & others) certainly don't like him. If you could break him away from the Evangelicals that would help. What might he have done to be found where it can't be ignored. He ordered the hit on Epst--n, to cover up his involvement with Epst--n.
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  1369. Yeah well there's a question of who his daddy actually is? Look at his 4 brothers and sisters. All have the same fair haired fair skinned father. They all have fair haired fair skinned mothers. The other 4 are all fair haired and fair skinned while Don Jr has dark hair and an olive complexion. It has been pointed out by other people that while Don Snr was having his fun on the side that Ivana Trump was rumoured to have had a fling with Vince McMahon the Wrestling Promoter. Have a look at Don Jr's facial features and Vince McMahon. Have a look at the facial features of Eric and Barron Trump to Don Snr. At the very least it raises a question.
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  1370. Someone needs to point that out right to his face.
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  1371. 1: For starters I have never seen or heard ANYBODY involved in the climate debate put it in the "its about everything." 2: I am an aerospace engineer by training and we are formally taught mathematical modelling and how you need to simplify things down to a point where you can actually create code and run simulations. If I tried to explain what has to happen with aerodynamic modelling it would take months. You have to simplify models or you can't do the job. Where it goes wrong at time is when people DON'T check their model against experimental data. Computer simulations are approximations NOT facts and many engineers and scientists forget that fact and get things wrong. I would like to be clear - Jordan Peterson is very good on his actual expertise which is psychology. Go watch any of his class room videos and you'll find he has been a very good university lecturer and professor. But that does not make him an expert on climate or any other of the hard sciences - chemistry, physics or engineering.
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  1372. No its a bit more than that - its an insult to the concept that humans can actually make progress.
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  1373. What's he supposed to do? This trope of not doing enough is being spewed out all over the place. WTF was he supposed to arrest Trump on/ Sure there are lots of claims but HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF EVIDENCE? Did the BS of the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict escape your brain. It was filmed and shown to the world how he strutted down a street playing soldier boy waving a gun about, shot 3 people and killed 2 of them. Yet was cleared of EVERYTHING he was charged with. Trump was impeached TWICE on crystal clear evidence that would have sent anyone to jail in almost any other country and got off TWICE. The only way Trump will ever face jail is if its over something that is so airtight that not even the most idiotic Trumpist can deny it. That's before anyone begins to discuss the backlog of CASES from the Trump era that the DOJ had before he took office. That's before anyone begins to discuss the backlog of CRAP that the DOJ had before he took office. That's before anyone begins to discuss the issue of unqualified judges Trump appointed across the country. Seriously I think the guy deserves a medal just for taking the job to try and clean that mess up.
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  1374.  @edwardmiessner6502  It might surprise many Americans but all through the cold war America sponsored Coups to overthrow democracies. Among the notable examples are Iran and Chile, but there was also Guatemala, Indonesia and most recently Iraq. Yeah Saddam Hussein was democratically elected. Yeah they may have been very dodgy elections but he still was elected. Americans have a very skewed version of what democracy is. I'm Australian bit went to college in America and was there during a Presidential cycle. BY EVERY OTHER STANDARD America's view of democracy is skewed. Its almost impossible to describe how different it is. This thing where each state has its own rules for federal elections is bizarre by every other standard. Its the duality of American politics that confuses the crap out of everyone. "One nation under God" except when electing leaders and then its 50 separate states doing their own thing.
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  1375.  E. E. Lawson  As I said we tried to warn everyone!!
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  1376. To All - Here's David Dunning (of Dunning-Kruger) explaining why ignorance can't recognize itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErkhYq13VVE Its worth watching if you want to understand why people like this cannot not see what they are doing or what they are saying is wrong.
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  1377. It must be some form of early onset dementia. Every time you think the GOP and their media goons can't get any dumber they get dumber. Have a look at this from Ted (watch me accuse the Dems of what I do) Cruz -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQcBbvLOJR8
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  1378. Richard Wolff the Marxist Economist gave the answer you are looking for during one of the Michael Brooks tribute shows. Its still here on YT. It was titled "Panel 3 THE MICHAEL BROOKS TRIBUTE SERIES: Mark Blyth, Ben Burgis, & Richard Wolff & David Griscom" and was posted on the 9th of December 2020. his comment states at 52:50 but at 55:00 he says regarding people in West Virginia who HAD PREVIOULS voted Democrat and switched to Trump (punctuation is mine) - ".....they're angry at the Democrats and they're giving the Democrats the middle finger...... I think it's an insult of those people to say of them they're not voting their economic interest. That's not true, they are. Now they're doing it in an impetuous way but what you would you expect. They've been literally screwed for decades. They're going to give you the finger. Its about all they can." I recommend you keep listening for what Mark Blyth (The Scot with Glasses) says about the internal structure of the Democrats. FYI - I'm Australian and 3+ years later I am still staggered the Democrats still wont admit to any of this AND before you ask Australia Labor do the same sorts of things here, with the same results and the same levels of DENIAL. I've been watching a bit of British stuff recently and British Labor do similar. There's this common thread through over educated LEFTIST elites that they are superior, they need to manage those beneath them and are NEVER at fault. The Right know when they are wrong. They just just don't care so long as they're in power.
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  1379.  @deahelkcunklaer2180  I went to college in America mate. I love the place and the people, but your politics are toxic, your economics are a nightmare and your health care system is a sociopaths wet dream.
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  1380.  @Jon-es-i6o  The problem with all the fighters is they were all brute force devices, while Concorde was designed for 1 task. Concordes ceiling was 60,000ft while the Tomcat was 53,000ft which is still damn high. Best story I ever heard on the Concorde was back in 1987. One of the Concorde pilots became the first ever pilot to log 10,000hrs at supersonic speed. I heard it from a tug pilot at our glider club who was also a commercial pilot with friends in the USAF. When I queried that there must have been others he threw it back at me that I was studying aerospace and should know how hard it is to fly that fast. Among his USAF friends they knew of no pilot with more than minutes outside of a couple of programs (SR-71, X-planes, B58, etc...) At that time that 1 Concorde pilot had more time at supersonic than the combined total of all USAF pilots excluding the SR71 pilots, because nobody had any idea how much they did. Its one of those things that still blows my mind is how little time fighter pilots have above Mach 1. Its mainly because it serves little purpose other than to escape. Plus it thermally stresses the airframe so it adds to maintenance costs. Go look up how much the Concorde and SR-71 used to stretch at those speeds.
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  1381. Fun fact Kenya isn't alone, New Zealand and Iceland both use geothermal. The very title of this is garbage. In Australia we thought we had some really great locations for geothermal and NONE of them panned out. It takes very specific structures under the ground to make this work and importantly it has to be within reasonable reach of the population centers. That was part of the Australian failure the sites were so far off grid that the delivery cost was not viable for the amount of energy available. The other part was the below ground structures were not hot enough, maybe future technology will change that?
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  1382.  @ericgulseth74  You have it dead right. He's got a pack of clowns following him the EXACT same way Trumpsters follow Trump and the EXACT same way North Koreans follow Kim. Anybody who dares question a single word of the leader is an abomination that must be put down. Meanwhile they all chant freedom and understanding!!! They are called cults of personality or cults of celebrity. Its all the same thing, mobs of people too lazy to think for themselves. About the only thing we have to do is give them a name. Thunderf00t calls them Muskrats. I call them Muskbots. In general I call all such people fanbots because they behave like Dr. Who's Daleks anything they don't like or they think is inferior must be exterminated.
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  1383. Isn't just sad he's not still here to give us his take on this. He left us way too soon.
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  1384.  @EngineeringwithRosie  I did a bio-conversion plant in Perth that batch processed the organics from household waste. For a significant part of the process there was enough hydrogen that it could not be ignored and as such we had to do the entire electrical design around the bio-digestor for hydrogen. The big issue is cable length. It sounds strange until you look at it but 2 conductor cable is also a capacitor and if its twisted it is also an inductive coil. When you use energy limiting barriers like zenner barriers or galvanic barriers you have to calculate the total capacitance and inductance of the circuit into the hazardous area. The certification of the barrier gives you limits on capacitance and inductance. You really have to watch the installation sparkies because they have the horrible tendency to put what ever cable they have into the field. To them paired cable is paired cable they don't care if the inductance or capacitance per meter changes. In Australia where I am there are plans to introduce Hydrogen into out natural gas networks. I can see significant issues that people are ignoring. Being blunt about it, the mechanical, civil, chemical and other engineers always dump it on the control system guys to solve their problems, which rarely goes down well. We don't mind a challenge but there are limits. The worst is when people sit in project meetings telling all that the delay is software when the software delay is to handle a mistake by others.
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  1385. Nice way to put it - So did Australia although ours has hints of Thatcherism thrown in for variety. Sovereign manufacturing has suddenly become a hot topic around the world. Here in Australia there are calls for our Government to simply build the factories the we need as a nation. And its not the first time either. Way back in the 1930s the head of BHP at the time famously got Australia its first steel mills. Had we had not listened to him then we'd have been overrun by Japan for the simple reason we might have had NO steel to make anything with. What COVID has done is expose one of the great flaws of neoliberalism which is based in Milton Freidman's claim that companies owe nothing to society and have no responsibility to society, they only have a responsibility to their owners. I call COVID Acid Flu because its stripped off all the bullshit veneer our business & political leaders have shoved down our throats for these last 40+ years. I was actually in Canada a couple of years ago for work and 1 thing I found out was how dependent on certain foods Canada is. Canada grows almost no lettuce and other leafy greens. Its mostly from California. I was there when Trump tore up NAFTA complaining about Canadian timber and putting tariffs on Canadian products. I was there as Canada pointed out all that they imported from America - like lettuce. FYI - Australia is world leader in Vertical Farming technologies and could easily help Canada free itself from America on things like lettuce.
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  1386. The smirk on her face said that to all the world. Plus she never turned away from others and coughed, she approached them and coughed AT THEM. But in our idiotic tribalism there will people who will claim anything so long as its against the other side.
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  1387.  @lenroddis5933  There's a saying going around that basically says (and there are variations): The village idiot used to be confined to the village. Now thanks to social media they can get together and spread their stupidity across the globe. Take your pick on how you want to say it, but social media is such a mix. In that last year I have had many great conversations that made you feel better about being human and then there's the incredible stupidity that you hope God or Aliens (take your pick) aren't going to judge us by.
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  1388. I'd be more concerned what happens when people finally snap from all the idiotic crap he and others promote.
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  1389. I'm an Australian who went to college in America (late 80s) and have been warning that this is a huge issue to Australia, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Britain, Europe, the Philippines and many others. For so many America is our most important trading partner and MORE IMPORTANTLY our most important security partner. Like others we've staked our security future on things like the F35.
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  1390. AUSTRALIAN HERE: I went to college in America and the most fundamental way to see this is that America REACTS while others have to PLAN. America with its incredible resources with the water ways & farming coupled with some of the worlds best mineral resources allows Americans to REACT rather than plan because almost everything is in over supply to demand. On minerals Americans often forget that they have some of the richest mineral deposits every found. They might not be as large as those found in Canada and Australia but the quality of its deposits makes gives America a huge advantage. Australia (26 million people), Canada (36 million people), New Zealand (3.5 million people) might have some amazing resources (minerals, oil & ocean) but none of us has the population to take a "we'll do what we need to when we need to" approach. We have to think ahead a lot more than America and its something we don't always do well. In fact MOST of the time Australia, Canada, New Zealand..... try to operate like America and wait until they MUST do something and that gets us into some staggering trouble with things like infrastructure, water management & power grids.
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  1391. Look at the logos in the bottom left and right corners. -> Real America's Voice (lower left) & Pandemic War Room (lower right). So "Real America" what's your take on the now 507,000 dead Americans from what you great leader called the Chi-nuh Flu. Over 1/2 a million dead and the war room is discussing how Rudy looked up a girls skirt. I thought Bannon was an asshole and not this stupid.
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  1392.  @Stoney-Jacksman  Go and watch people like Mark Blyth explain the elephant graph and income distribution. Yeah most of those videos feels like being lectured but that's because most of them are lectures. Its simply a matter of do you want to be educated or ignorant.
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  1393. ​ @PlanetEarth3141  "try less engineering" sorry but there's been TOO MUCH of that already in public discussions and that's why we have the mess we have. Its actually been damn rude of all the economists, futurists, influencers,.... etc to IGNORE US because after all we are the people who have to design, construct and maintain the next generation of power systems. You can either listen to us OR get ready for when the lights go out AND DON'T COME BACK ON.
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  1394. When the French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracuda and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered Barracuda - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT?
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  1395.  @Archbuild-rt  Your right on left wing peasant revolutions being driven by wealth disparity but right wing revolutions are more complex. We more often think of revolutions as being leftist but there are also right wing revolutions. Think about the Iranian Revolution which was driven by religious conservatives. What's just happened in Myanmar is similar as its a right wing action that's just a straight out power grab. Consider what almost just took place in America, which was also a straight out power grab. What's also of interest in comparing what just happened in America and what happened in Iran is that both include very strong fundamentalist religious movements who claimed they were being culturally undermined. That's not all of Trumps base but it is a significant chunk of that base.
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  1396.  @dr.zoidberg8666  Fair statement and I have heard similar about Puerto Rico and how rich people are buying glorious beach front property for very cheap prices.
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  1397. Great point and 100% accurate, but the Cubans were not alone. As an Australian I can tell you that the Brits used Australians, Canadians, Scotts, new Zealanders and any other "colonials" they could throw into a fight for that last 100+ years. And lets not forget the Americans did the same in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  1398. Was that the film where they had that great line about spending millions of dollars training the child super-agent but forgot to teach him how to speak to girls?
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  1399.  @tlhamp0  You are absolutely right. A while back I checked on Ted Cruz's background and was amazed at what I found. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz#Education It might be dismissible that he was valedictorian of is high school, but you don't finish cum laude at Princeton and then magna cum laude at Harvard Law unless you are seriously smart. To get those honors you have to finish in the top part of your class. During that time he was a world class debating champion and represented America at the 1995 World Championship as part of team from Harvard. Simply put Ted Cruz is incredibly well educated and seriously damn smart. If you follow the links you can even get to a PDF that's a photocopy of his Princeton Senior Thesis that's all about the 9th & 10th Amendments. After law school he didn't just clerk for normal judges he ended up clerking for William Rehnquist SCOTUS Chief Justice. Its actually amazing that someone with that level of intellect and that level of education, behaves the way he does. So you assessment at least on Cruz is 100%
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  1400. It wasn't simply how many times he played golf it was HOW MUCH $$$$ did he make when he played at his own golf courses. His resorts made money from: 1) Renting rooms for the Secret Service 2) Renting golf buggies for the Secret Service 3) Food and catering for the Secret Service 4) Renting rooms to foreign nations because the easiest way to get access to Trump was on the golf course. Some of the Villas and rooms were rented CONSTANTLY over several years at top rates. This might not be known much in America but its widely known around the world.
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  1401. Napoleon Bonaparte - "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
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  1402. ONLY COMMENT in the list DESERVING a THUMBS DOWN.
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  1403. Australian here and you are 100% right. This is so typical of ALL THESE TYPES OF EVENTS. Every damn media organisation tries to become instant experts instead of actually ASKING experts and then shutting up while the experts explains what is what. We see this all the time.
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  1404.  @user-vx9jy7jl2l  Maybe people need to just keep asking again and again why they bitch about money as Trump blows 10s of millions of THEIR MONEY on legal fees and payouts. 🙄😳
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  1405. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powell interview. I have left a separate answer with additional background information about why Australia is so concerned about Rupert Murdoch's behavior in America. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powell Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  1406. I think you 100% right. I'm an Australian who went to college in America (late 80s) an watched what has happened. I also worked in Canada for a few months back in pate 2017. We also get the British NHS explained out here. We have a dual system where we have both public and private systems running in parallel with a reasonable amount of overlap. It works for us I know that Britain and Canada have similar private systems running in parallel but I think they are smaller than our private sector (as a percentage of the overall). We have had people push for a fully privatised system in the past. None of of our politicians dare try now because we all look at America and tell them to FK-OFF. Its a sure fire way to lose an election and it can end a political career quicker than any sex scandal. The problem America has and I have said almost an identical thing on 2 other videos today on completely different subjects is that our public discussions these days get hijacked by tribalized clowns who just want to scream at everything. These tribalized clowns come in all sorts of colors depending on the subject. They all believe they are 101% right and they need to save the human race from the rest of us. I'm an engineer and I can tell you with assurity that if the tribalized clowns would just STFU and go away then we can get out of the energy crisis in a way that is both cost effective and doesn't kill the planet. It won't be quick and will take some time but its doable. We just can't get heard and that's just so typical at the moment.
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  1407. I'd never seen Peter Ziehan until recently. I've been mainly reading and following Mark Blyth the political-economist from Brown U. Peter seems to cover a lot of the same stuff but from the perspective of someone who's concerned about the demographics and how that affects the political landscape while Mark looks at the interactions between economics and the political landscape. Interesting they both have almost the same assessment of Bitcoin and Crypto in general. But I will say this (as I am an engineer) they get their engineering wrong at times, but its mainly in details only an engineer will pick up. I sort of doubted the population of those countries Putin wants control of. They weren't quite right its NOT 300 million its just under 270 million.
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  1408.  @robinsss  Yeah right - build this in America where there's at least part of the government still functioning. Don't panic the Libertarians have a plan to make this happen in America.
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  1409. ​ @DarenMiller-qj7bu  Do you know that back around 2005 there was a giant split in Greenpeace? It wasn't widely advertised but the majority of the scientific and engineering people basically said look "we have to replace the coal fired power stations with low emission generators and nuclear is LOW EMISSION." INSTEAD the ant-nuclear side of Greenpeace who are NOT STEM people but political people said NO the priority is getting rid of nuclear. This is nowhere more evident that in Germany where they spent €1.3 Trillion on low emission wind and solar but it needed to be backed up and the German Greens said turn off the low emission nuclear while the STEM people said NO turn off the coal. The result after spending €1.3 Trillion to lower emissions was that nuclear got turned off and they then had to run the coal flat out and emissions WENT UP. This is what happens when you let people with an ideology put their ideology in front of common sense and reality. I have no proof but I believe the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated BOTH the Wind/Solar and pro-nuclear camps and got them to fight each other when they should be working together.
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  1410. Imagine being an Australian and it was an Australian who inspired this. We had the mass shooting at Port Arthur in 1996 that set a new world record for a mass shooting. We collectively agreed "Never again". We had a voluntary gun buy back and handed back most of our guns. Despite the claims of the NRA we can still own guns its just that most simply chose not to. We've had shootings since including some terrible ones but nothing like Port Arthur. So it was a hell of a shock when Brenton Tarrant did what he did. To hear he was the inspiration for another shooting is the worst. If there is one thing I do hate its that we are not dealing with the root causes of this. Its not good enough to just claim they're crazy, we need to start being honest about what drives them to this point.
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  1411. ​ @johnmartin4641  You're pretty much 99% right I'd just suggest a slight change to the line "taught material that is actually useful in high paying jobs so they will make lots of money to support themselves and their families" to "taught well enough so they can be reasonably well employed and make enough money to support themselves and their families in a stable environment" Not everyone can be a brain surgeon, astronaut, NFL QB or many other things, but they can have reasonable employment that allows them and their family to have a good life. There was a report from September 2022 by the congressional budget office on Family Wealth 1989-2019, that's been ignored by 99.9% of ALL Media. It shows that 50% of America still has NOT recovered from the 2008 GFC and another 40% has only just recovered. Meanwhile the Top 10% who caused the GFC and were bailed out (US$4 Trillion by Bush and another US$4 Trillion by Obama) have made over US$30 Trillion since.
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  1412. Not the brightest bulb??? Edison apparently tried a 1000 times and failed before he found a way to make the electric lightbulb. If Sarah Palin is any sort of light bulb she cam from one of those failures.
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  1413. Maybe because he can see the day when people have just had enough of right wing mouth pieces. I don't think anyone can encourage or condone murder, but I think we can all see the day coming when one of these Fox clowns steps out their front door and gets whacked. My concern isn't so much if it will happen its what will happen afterwards.
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  1414. Farron just released a video with the same story BUT a different clown and it got the same responses WE HAVE RUN OUT OF COMPASSION FOR THESE PEOPLE For a while these were rare stories now they are daily. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  1415. I'm an engineer and you are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. Most people have NO IDEA how software is written or how it works AND ESPECIALLY how it can be manipulated AND EVEN WORSE how it can give the wrong answer. I write software for part of my living. I do industrial control systems and automation. Once the computer has the data and starts crunching it all comes down to the algorithm, BUT EVEN before that the data might be wrong. Look at what happened with the Boeing Max-8. Twice the sensor broke and twice the software acting on bad information flew the plane into the ground. There have been accidents where the AI in Tesla cars have been found to have caused fatal accidents. How many times have we heard how a computer system did something awful with records. Here in Australia we had this brilliant thing called "Robodebt" which was a system that was supposed to stop people getting more than they should from social services. It ended up taking millions of dollars off people it should not have. We still haven't got to the bottom of the that mess. Most countries have similar stories. The IT industry has acted, because of the money it can push on politicians through lobbying, gotten away with so much and the AI Revolution is just making that WORSE.
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  1416. Aerospace engineer here: I actually work in industrial control systems and have worked across a number of industries. I am also formally qualified in 2 areas of safety engineering. Engineers across the board have been trying to tell people about the problem of economists and Accountants for decades and NOBODY WILL LISTEN. After the Boeing Max-8 accidents I wrote to Ralph Nader who's niece died in one of the accidents. I gave a lengthy explanation of what I knew part of the problem was, which is a formal safety review of how a the MCAS would respond to faults. That type of review is called a CHAZOP. Its a special form ot the standard HAZOP (Hazard & Operability) studies most engineers know about except its for control systems (hence the C in front of HAZOP). So after explaining what a CHAZOP was and telling Ralph Nader what types of documents to go and look for I got IGNORED.
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  1417. KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov during an interview in 1984. "Ideological subversion is is the slow process which we call either ideological subversion or active measures.... or psychological warfare. What it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions" Despite some of what he says It obvious the Russians never succeeded because the Soviet Union collapsed a few years later. The main reasons the Soviets failed is they didn't have the TOOLS or MONEY of people like Rupert Murdoch, David Koch, Robert Mercer, Mark Suckerberg, Bill Gates, etc. But the methods the KGB developed have been proven very effective once you have the tools (cable TV & social media) to use and the money ($$$$$) to make it happen. Its even easier if you have control of politicians like Koch and Mercer do.
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  1418. Its like Ricky Bobby "If you ain't first you're last." I saw a talk by an author who had written a book about the Koch brothers and it was similar. Their fathers made them into these monsters that now haunt our lives. I'm Australian and Rupert Murdoch is the same sort of creature of his fathers making. Murdoch's son Lachlan is apparently worse just as I have seen/heard people claim Ivanka is a mini-Donald.
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  1419. Absolutely spot on. And he's saying some stuff that a lot of Western politicians wont like.
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  1420. @Vebunkd Well sorry but its people LIKE YOU who are the reason why the world is the mess that it is. If you wanted to point out that many who proclaim to be intellectual and mislead many are false teachers or advisors or consultants that nobody should listen to I'd back it up. I'm an engineer and these people who call themselves "futurists" and tell us what technologies we'll have are just bullshit artists. For sure there are many college programs that are misleading because they have been written or influenced by big business to suit what they want. Its well known that the major banks have had way too much influence over business degrees at places like Harvard. BUT your call to "shut all the universities" is ignorance and stupidity at its worst. The very web browser you are using right now traces its history back to 2 University of Illinois students who developed the Mosaic program and founded Netscape. Most if not all of the products you buy and use in your life has some or most of its development based on University research. All the Doctors, Dentists and other medical specialists you have ever seen were all educated & trained at Universities. All the technology you use is either designed or made by University graduates. The electricity grids, water systems and sewerage systems that YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON are designed and maintained by engineers educated & trained at Universities. Your life as you know it is because people went to University and got educated. If you hate Universities then fine, BUT GET OFF the INTERNET, STOP using ELECTRICITY, NEVER SEE another DOCTOR and go LIVE IN A CAVE.
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  1421.  @seemlesslies  Thanks mate. Its not just an aerospace thing. I'm seeing it everywhere with technology reporting. I'm Australian but did my degree in America so I watch a lot of what's going on there as well as other parts of the world and its the same everywhere. All I see are journalists and media clowns dropping buzz words like "AI" and "hypersonic" as some way of saying "What I am saying is 100% accurate." I just heard it this morning. We're having a huge debate over submarines and yet again a journalist was using the "AI" buzzword. Last week it was "hypersonic missiles" and the week before that "space lasers"_ 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂ The other thing I hate are the people who take highly polarised stances without using common sense. I like channels like CSS but damn they get arrogant if they get called out on anything. I started another thread about some things in this video that are just plain wrong. Towards the end they insinuate that air launching requires a 50-50 split in labor and that's just nonsense. Go and look at the response I got from CSS. Do I think Elon is generally a clown who speaks nonsense? ABSOLUTELY YES and he deserves to be outed, but that doesn't mean he hasn't done a couple of decent things even if he lucked into them. Yeah he lucked into Tesla and yeah he's done some stupid things but he's also managed to kick the auto industry out of its shell and got them moving on electric and hybrid drive systems. Yeah SpaceX has some issues but damn its also kicked the US space industry out of its lethargy. That last Soyuz seat cost NASA $80 million. Crew Dragon costs NASA $70 million for 4 seats. SpaceX has broken the strangle hold that Boeing, Rockwell, Lockheed,... etc. have had on the US Space Program. Breaking that stranglehold is arguably the best thing to happen to manned spaceflight since Apollo. The risk is that in his pursuit of attention Elon will send it right back to where its been. I don't know when you graduated, but I graduated in 87/88 and I've watched 2 generations lose their hopes and dreams on the BS of those few companies. We should have built Space Station Freedom in the 90s and been back on the moon by 2001 AS WAS PLANNED. We've lost almost 30 years on the hamster wheel going nowhere fast. My great fear is that Starship is just another hamster wheel. Sorry for the rant.
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  1422. You just know that Jerry Springer's manager is sitting somewhere crying "Why, why, couldn't he have stayed with us for this! We could have done so many shows!" That or their sitting around somewhere saying stuff like "Yeah sure people used to say we went too far but our worst stuff was G-rated compared too this stuff!"
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  1423.  @DrKlausTrophobie  I tend to agree with you on that as well as most of Dave McGs. comment. Kelly Johnson was no mug at designing aircraft. BUT his designs pushed the performance envelopes and as such needed to be used as they were intended. The F104s basic task was to get up as high possible as fast as possible and deliver bomber smashing missiles against the potential fleet of Russian bombers. It was first and foremost an interceptor not a dog fighter, BUT THEN many other planes of that era were also of that mindset. Don't forget many fighters of that era ONLY had missiles and they were designed to go fast, line up, fire a missile and GET TF OUT as fast as possible. Go look at the rocket fighter videos the British were proposing at the time or the Canadian Avro Arrow which was a far more rounded aircraft. Simon did a video on the Arrow and if you look through the comments on it or any of the Arrow videos the Canadians are still sore about how Lockheed out muscled (& bribed) them with the business BS that ended up with a set of Laws called the "Lockheed Laws" to this day.
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  1424. As an aerospace engineer you have hit one of the big nails on the head. The media way to often do stories like this where they talk about emissions and focus on a minor subject. As they say at the start aviation is 2.5% of global emissions. When we bailed out the banks from their own selfish stupidity during the GFC the estimate was something like $17 Trillion (with a 'T'). Some estimates put it closer to $40T. So we can spend $$Trillions converting the aviation industry to hydrogen and at best we'd cut 2.5% off global emissions. BUT if we spend several Trillion on the power industry and/or the shipping industry then we could make a real difference. FYI - I'm an aerospace engineer who works in industrial control systems and automation. Back in the 1990s when people first thought we'd need to change aviation over to hydrogen $$$ Millions was spent on research. Companies like Rolls Royce, GE, Siemens have ALREADY sorted out the engines. Hydrogen burns very fast and very hot compared to other fuels, but they had that all sorted out by the late 1990s. RIGHT NOW you can by from GE and Siemens gas turbines for power generation that will run on 50% hydrogen without modification. The GE 9HA for example can do 50% out of the box and they have the kit to go 100%. Here in Australia I am advocating that we go down that path. What's held back hydrogen is generating, storing and handling it. I have had to deal with Hydrogen in my work and can tell you from experience hydrogen is WAY HARDER to deal with than any other gas. In general it prefers to go bang than burn. Its why don't think it will be good for things like aviation and cars but will be brilliant for electricity generation because it will be in a contained environment. Yeah wind and solar will be huge but they both need grid level storage. At the size the world needs, hydrogen is the technology that can be done at that scale.
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  1425. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. I have put a few more details in a comment about the Murdoch's and their issues in Australia. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  1426. Billionaire Nick Hanauer in his August 2014 TED talk "Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming" included some very interesting FACTS about Henry Ford including how he paid his workers more than other companies did. That talk is still available here on YT. At 5:15 in that talk he says "So the model for us rich guys should be Henry Ford. When Ford famously introduced the $5 day, which was twice the prevailing wage at the time. He didn't just increase the productivity of his factories, he converted exploited autoworkers who were poor into a thriving middle class who could now afford to buy the products that they made." FYI - I am an aerospace engineer who has worked in the automotive sector. Elon Musk deserves some credit for slapping BOTH the aerospace and automotive sectors which had become stagnant and both of those industries NEEDED to be disrupted. Without his disruption I doubt (having seen the auto industry in action) would have started pushing EVs as they are all doing. I know that without SpaceX that Space flight would be far worse off because there WOULD NOT be the Falcon Rockets. HOWEVER that does not excuse his idiotic behavior or ridiculous claims about things like driverless cars or colonising Mars or the even more dangerous Neuralink nonsense. Despite the success of the Falcon rockets Starship is almost doomed to be a monumental failure due to its size and complexity. Plus the launch facility in Texas shows they are way too comfortable cutting corners on fundamental safety. They were lucky not to lose the entire site at the last launch. The FAA should have yanked their license to operate. As for colonising Mars I attended a guest lecture in 1987 as an undergraduate that was given by a NASA Engineer who'd just done a project on what it would take to colonise Mars. We were all fairly stunned to find out just how impossible of a task it would be without God like powers. Over 30 years later I am yet to see anyone prove they have developed any of the basic life support technologies that would be needed or the means to get there in any sort of a reasonable time period.
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  1427.  @ryanosterman2651  I'm not an economist. I'm an engineer whose been looking for a means to beat clowns with economics degrees with the same club they have been using on the rest of us. I've watched a lot of Mark Blyth because he uses similar techniques to the system analysis I was taught in aerospace. He's mentioned Michal Kelecki's 1944 paper "Political Aspects of Full Employment" a lot and its free to download. Right now I have a full reading list. My basic hatred of Freidman was his narcissistic and destructive "greed is good" but me real hatred was the way he disparaged so many of the great minds of history who's motivation was understanding, knowledge and making the world a better place. The only person I have seen more full of his own sense of puritanical importance than Friedman is Trump.
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  1428. ​ @LookB4ULeap  You've just described how EVERY Democracy works. At its core democracy allows different opinions and policies to co-exist at the same time. Even in countries where there is absolute control there's almost always a different opinion even if it doesn't dare speak out. The biggest problem the world actually has with America right now is that too many Americans are so badly informed about the rest of the world. Even worse is how little Americans know of their own country. I'm a Gen-Xr and did my degree in the late 80s. I used to find it embarrassing how well my friends understood the US Constitution while I new little of my own. Even those friends who weren't pre-law or politically minded were well informed. BUT then they had all done CIVICS in high school. If there is one thing I would add to the high school curriculum of Australia it would be a Australian version of the civics class that all Americans used to do in high school. Since I can see the effect of what Bush and Cheney did by defunding civics. I think I can fairly claim that in defunding civics Bush & Cheney committed a "social" or "societal" crime against the American people. I think its one of America's major problems right now. Trump would never have gotten away with what he did if the American people were better informed and civics gave the American people the foundation of being better informed which is why I'd like to see an Australian version of it taught here. If America ever does bring it back the one thing they need to add to that class would be some basic world geography and geo-politics. Sorry for the rant
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  1429. You make a good nuanced point. I think this was a pretty ordinary interview with next to zero pushback. To single out 1 film which had a number of pretty bad scenes of how hard the whole mess was. In Saving Private Ryan. Right at the start the beach landing was horrific. They opened the ramps on some of those landing craft and the machine guns just slaughtered them all before they could take a step. Not long after they made their way up the beach and over the top there's a short scene where German soldiers surrender and with both arms in the air the Americans simply shoot them. Then there's the one young American machine gunned when they storm the Radio station. Then Vin Diesel gets shot by the sniper. Then a bunch of them get blown up trying to plant sticky bombs on the Tiger Tank. Then a bunch get massacred by the small auto cannon. And then there's the fact most of them died in the final battle. How are all these things glorifying that generation. Band of Brothers and the Pacific were great series that showed a lot of the issues that people faced and a lot of it was damn ugly stuff. I think she's written an anti-war book and I'd agree Hollywood has whitewashed the War but the examples she is giving don't actually fit her message. If she'd picked on some of the other Hollywood films, like the recent film Midway which was just awful, she'd be a lot more convincing.
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  1430. And WTF makes you think he was ever part of the human race??????
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  1431.  @darthslain  agreed
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  1432.  @MonkeyJedi99  Go see the answer I just gave and in respect to your reply which I know is sarcastic the answer is Compassion Yes but also DON'T put them in front of a microphone. Tucker C needs to watch himself because he's cost Rupert Murdoch over $800 million so far and Rupert has a vengeful streak as wide as a Galaxy. Best advice to Tucker would be go away and hide somewhere and be very quiet.
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  1433.  @djinn666  YEAH we could try but there's things called contracts and courts like to uphold contracts. We'd need to catch the Chinese doing something illegal (tax evasion, drug smuggling, people smuggling, whatever) or the courts will simply prevent it without a massive compensation package.
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  1434. The one thing I can say with near certainty is that Dave Rubin does NOT have PTSD unless you mean something other than Post-traumatic stress disorder and that's because PTSD requires a functioning brain and Dave Rubin simply does not have enough brain function to suffer PTSD.
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  1435. Go watch the interview that Kyle & Krystal just did with Jesse Ventura and you'll understand exactly how this guy and Trump are operating.
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  1436. I'm an Australian engineer and I hate to break it too you but that happens to many many engineers who get dragged into projects with massive hopes. I have lost chunks of my life to things like that. I have known other engineers to lose chunks of their lives in similar ways. Sorry for the longer explanation below. The problem with this video is that Sabine skips past a number of other areas where hydrogen technologies need to be discussed on both the pro and con sides. I've never thought Hydrogen was a solution for cars, irrespective of if it was with fuel cells or combustion. I did my degree in aerospace but have spent 30+ years in industrial control systems and automation. I'm also formally trained in electrical equipment in hazardous (explosive) areas. Hydrogen is the most difficult gas to deal with around electrical gear because it ignites so easily. My #1 concern is how do you prevent hydrogen cars, busses & trucks doing a Hindenburg? BUT that doesn't mean its unsuitable in other areas. That's where this video is a little frustrating. Maybe she'll do more vids??? I checked Sabine's bio on Wikipedia. She's did undergrad in Math and a PhD in theoretical physics. It appears she's never worked outside of the University & Research environment. She's very good on the theory behind the issues but she has no real experience with problem solving in industrial environments. The issue of the efficiency of bulk energy supply is almost irrelevant compared to reliability of supply and the cost to consumers. Rio Tinto did a public campaign about how their new hi-efficiency coal plants had brought them up to about 42%. Most coal is under 30% and older units as low as 20%. Kirk Sorenson (Thorium proponent) points out that the Pressure Water Reactors (PWRs) are under 1%. But those systems are VIABLE because they can reliably supply bulk energy at an affordable price. Fuel cells are around 60% but theoretically capable of higher. That didn't matter for the Apollo missions because they also provided water for the astronauts at no extra weight cost. The area where I think hydrogen is going to be huge is in grid level power and grid level power is the enraged mega elephant in the room that everyone is afraid will stomp on them if they make a noise. For decades now methane fueled turbines have been used for GRID STABILITY and SURGE CAPACITY. Batteries are very good and efficient but lousy for sustained surges. Gas turbines are not only very good and reliable but they can also have steam units powered by the exhaust heat. That's called cogeneration and there are companies that quote 90% efficiency for cogen systems. You can't just feed hydrogen to a standard gas turbine, but in the 1990s Rolls Royce, GE and others worked out how to make gas turbines (for aircraft) run on hydrogen. The technology is already done, it just wasn't going to happen for aircraft because of the tank issues. So the technology is all sorted out. It just never had end users or the hydrogen supply.
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  1437. Go back and have a look at what happened. Yang was doing fine and then Bloomberg got involved and the Yang campaign picked up some establishment campaign strategists. His Israel-Palestinian comments were just idiotically bad in the environment, BUT what did foreign policy ever have to do with it the New York Mayor? He was badly advised and its just possible he was handed a loaded question where they new what would happen. After all IF these establishment strategists KNEW how to their job - why wasn't he ready for that sort of question. New York is an incredibly mixed cultural city. It has a huge Jewish population as well as substantial populations of other groups. SO WHY WASN'T HE READY? One explanation is they set him up. That or they're simply incompetent.
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  1438. Its not so much capitalism BUT THE VERSION of capitalism we are now running that's the problem. Like the extreme versions of socialism and communism that various countries tried in the last century they promised great outcomes for all but delivered to only a few at the top. If you go back through history at all the other "isms" people claimed would be great they delivered for only a few and ended up destroying themselves. Capitalism is no different. If you go and watch people like Mark Blyth he'll tell you there's been at least 3 main versions of capitalism and the first 2 failed for various reasons and the 3rd is now failing for reasons like what you are talking about. The more important discussion that needs to be held is WHAT COMES NEXT and there's not many people even discussing that concept.
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  1439.  @jacqdanieles  I'm actually an Australian who went to college on a sports scholarship. So on the personal level I'm really concerned for the futures of my friends and their families. As an Australian America is our most important trading and SECURITY partner. We've made the F35 (as have a few others) the central point of our security for the next 30-+years. Just off our northern coast are several incredibly populous Asian nations a couple of which have ongoing fundamentalist conflicts and further North is China with all its issues. No matter if an Australian likes, dislikes or is indifferent we all agree on one thing. A healthy functioning America is in our best interest. And yes many of us know we will never be able to apologize enough for the existence of Rupert Murdoch or the damage he's done.
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  1440. I know there's variations, but the saying basically goes: "The village idiot used to be confined to the village. Now thanks to social media all the village idiots can get together and share their stupidity across the world." I have seen so much stupidity just this last week that it should make anyone embarrassed to be part of the human race. I'm an aerospace engineer and I get asked every so often "If aliens exist where are they." Of late I tell people they are doing the following 2 things. 1: Hiding from us so there's no chance we will get our greedy fingers on their technology. 2: Working on a plan to contain us to this solar system so that we don't spread our stupidity across the cosmos.
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  1441. Australian here with an observation/question. IN WHICH other country (as in other than America) would ANY citizen of that country call people to a protest outside (or close to) the parliament building or other assembly building the AND THEN those people to interfere with the government doing its job of governing the country AND THEN not go to jail? I know that here in Australia had any Australia done what Donald Trump and others did on January 6th, which includes Rudy Giuliani's call for "trial by combat" would get that person immediate jail time and most likely have any and all bail requests denied. I know that in most Western nations it would be a similar outcome. I also know that in many countries Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump Jr. and the others who spoke at the protest before the riot would not only have been detained, they would have been EXECUTED by now. Just think about how the Chinese, North Koreans, Saudis, Iranians and other regimes would have treated them. How do you think Donald Trump's Russian buddy Vladimir Putin would have treated the leaders of such a protest?
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  1442. Like a few others with similar thoughts I think you've summed it up pretty well. I think the Jan 6th public discussion needs to be more focused on holding people higher up to account which, if history is any lesson, is unlikely to happen without a concerted effort. Years ago I watched a documentary called "taxi to the Dark Side." It was about an incident at Bagram Air Base, where an innocent Afghan civilian was beaten to death by 3 US military personnel during a sanctioned "enhanced" interrogation. The 3 US soldiers were court martialed, convicted and given lengthy jail sentences. A couple of them were even interviewed in the documentary. Their remorse over what they did was as obvious as the fact that their lives are destroyed. However their immediate commanding officer was not only NEVER charged or faced any sort of scrutiny they were given a commendation for their work. As for people like Rumsfeld and Cheney they were never even questioned over such incidents. John Yoo the famous author of the torture memo is now a tenured professor teaching Law at UC Berkley. At some point we will need to start holding political leaders and there minions ACCOUNTABLE for their words, actions and deeds.
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  1443. They were not tactical nuclear weapons you clown. They were the biggest bombs that could be built at that time. In both cases the bombs were too large to fit into the B29's normal bomb bay and the planes had to be modified. The only reason they weren't of higher yield was because in those days they couldn't purify the Uranium for one bomb as much as they can now and they couldn't get enough Plutonium for the other bomb.
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  1444. Kyle Kulinski covered this guy the other day over the same sermon this guy is a genuine threat to public safety. How anybody can follow this sort of obvious garbage defies any rational explanation.
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  1445. When the French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracuda and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered Barracuda - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT? DCNS were ripping us off - simple as that.
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  1446. that's a good one Foghorn Leghorn used to say "as sharp as a bowling ball" or "as sharp as bag of wet leather"
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  1447. Off course he does when there's millions of people cheering him on. Thunderf00t's a Chemical Engineer and I'm an aerospace engineer who works in industrial control systems and automation. So much of what's in the media is infuriating. I used to install and program robots like type he shows at 19:05, although not that brand. When Thunderf00t says they are used for _"tedious dangerous and monotonous jobs" he's 100% right. I've been informally studying economics for a few years and those clowns are always claiming that robots and automation costs jobs. Its a trope they endlessly spew out and its WRONG. Most people will not do things which are "tedious dangerous and monotonous" so we end up having to use robots and automation. But do you think any of the economists, journalists or other clowns will admit they don't know a damn thing about what they are talking about? Its infuriating how many people listen to clowns like Elon Musk, take them for geniuses and regurgitate their nonsense again and again and again.
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  1448. I half agree with David the emails themselves DO NOT display any clear evidence of a Lab Leak. BUT on the other hand what they display is that Dr. Fauci was far more knowledgeable on what was going on in Wuhan than he let people know. We now know the NIH was involved in funding research in China - see the links below that show NIH funding of COVID research in China. BUT NOTE: None of it clearly states any of this was for "gain of function" research. What Dr; Fauci does needs to explain is why at the START of the pandemic he didn't disclose this funding. IMO - it makes perfect sense for the Chinese to be researching Corona viruses and for other nations including America to be involved. China had already had SARS1 and MERS. So researching potential "what's next" is obvious common sense. Not being open and clear about that at the start was (in hindsight) stupid. Note: The first 2 links below clearly show NIH funding with Peter Daszak (named in the Wade Nichols article) as team leader for research in China. The 3rd is a research paper and if you look for the section on funding you'll find the NIH listed. https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9491676 https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9819304 https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698
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  1449. FOR EVERYONE - This documentary on Tax Evasion showed up in my recommendations last week. YES, the YT Algorithm had a day off or something because its brilliant. It highlights the real problem isn't Tax Evasion its what they call Tax Avoidance. As one person in the doco says these people can afford the lawyers and accountants and auditors to operate in the grey space between what's legal and what's illegal. Its long but worth the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6O3US9IE4
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  1450.  @jefflane617  It wont be AI taking the role of the charismatic idiot. It will be AI taking the role of the charismatic idiot's ventriloquist dummy. The problem for most audiences will be recognising which is the dummy and which is the ventriloquist.
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  1451. I'm Australian but went to college in Illinois in the late 80s. Even back then you could see parts of this growing. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and we used to discuss the differences between America and Australia. I had studied Orwell (Animal Farm & 1984) and used to argue that any country could fall into an authoritarian nightmare if it wasn't careful. THAT WAS Orwell's message. They used to assure me it was impossible in America because the Constitution would not allow it as there were to many "checks and balances" what as an engineer I'd call "safety functions." The main safety function was SCOTUS and as they told me repeatedly SCOTUS will always protect the constitution. We never discussed or even considered what a corrupted SCOTUS might mean let alone do because it wasn't even fathomable HOW it could be done. So you know why this is of very serious concern to other nations. Many of us, Australia (me), Canada, Mexico, Japan, Britain, all of Europe have not only got major trade relations with America but also SECURITY arrangements with America. What Alito and others have just done is destabilise America without any regard to the consequences for America. So the rest of the planet doesn't even register with these people. What people like Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are clearly doing is trying to place themselves as Trumps running mate. What do you think that means to the rest of the world when they'd be 1 step from being in charge of nuclear weapons. And so you all know, we know Mike Flynn's brother Charles Flynn is the commanding general of United States Army Pacific. He's also a Christian Nationalist like his brother and has a command staff made up of Christian Nationalists. Paul Jay at "the AnalysisNew" channel here interviewed a lawyer who's clients are military people being harassed by Christian Nationalists.
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  1452. @David Kim Most strange the, here in Australia this video is ow "turned off" and the comments unavailable. But yeah the issue with corruption of tertiary education by big money is a ticking bomb. The worst affected area by far is economics, but its not alone. Pharmaceutical research also has some very serious questions.
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  1453. I also heard that the Devil was seen at Sears buying a new heater and some winter clothes. Apparently it snowed in his neighborhood this morning.
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  1454. AND LETS NOT FORGET THAT WE DON'T LET CHILDREN FREEZE TO DEATH IN THEIR BEDS!!!!
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  1455.  @retafelberg3203  I'd half agree because maybe 1/2 the time she knows what she's doing but the other 1/2 of the time she's so busy mouthing off that she has no clue where she is or what she's doing.
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  1456.  @tomsunshine6209  Seriously just go back to the fantasy channels, we're tired of the idiotic garbage. I'm sorry you're an uneducated clown who just wants attention.
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  1457. Dude the 50 years thing comes from the odd combination that was the Space Shuttle. On one hand it was an incredible success in that they made a reusable spaceplane work. On the other hand it consumed so many resources (both in money and people) to operate that it starved other programs. Some of those programs still haven't been completed and are flight ready - like the next gen space suit.
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  1458. Its reminiscent OF EVERY COUNTRY that's had to fight a major war. Go and look at what the Brits and Americans did in WW2 - we still have the films and posters that plastered the streets with. Just the other day I heard somebody make references to Rosie the Riveter which was part of a campaign getting women to help build the bombers, ships and other stuff in WW2.
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  1459. HEY THOM: There's a report by the Congressional Budget Office on Family Wealth 1989-2019 released September 2022. Kyle Kulinski spoke about it last week after the Jacobin's Luke Savage Published a short piece on it. What's amazing is that not only was it published in September 2022 (almost 1 year ago) NOBODY on the America Left is talking about this. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America and I can tell you for a fact that our data is no better. I regularly watch British economist Gary Stevenson here on YT and he's saying the same sorts of things about Britain. Here's the bit that I am furious that nobody is pointing out in that report. When you compare the 2010 data to 2007 you can see the effect of the GFC and when you compare 2019 to 2007 you can see how people have recovered. Since Australia, Britain and other places all run similar economic policies its safe to say its the same or similar everywhere. Here's the comparisons adjusted for population and in terms of the wealth per person in each group. The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of their wealth in the GFC but buy 2019 had recovered and were 21.7% UP The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of their wealth in the GFC but buy 2019 had recovered and were 4.6% UP The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC but buy 2019 were still DOWN 21.8% Yes 165 million Americans (and possibly more) had, by 2019, still NOT recovered from the 2008 GFC that they did not cause. Meanwhile the people who did cause the 2008 GFC and were bailed out with US$4 Trillion from Bush and another US$4 Trillion from Obama had not only recovered but had gained over $20 Trillion in collective wealth which has since grown another (estimated) US$8 Trillion during the pandemic years.
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  1460. As an Australian who was working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on Canada I can vouch for that. Canadians are incredibly polite except when they're playing hockey or talking about Trump. I bet that anger is still there and just as fresh.
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  1461. Go back through David's vids to the time she joined the White House. There's a vid excerpt from Fox (that they later removed) where Kayleigh was interviewed during the 2015 primaries when she was on another campaign team. She basically said Trump would never win the nomination or be President. David should re-visit that vid.
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  1462. You forgot to mention that no matter who is in the White house Goldman Sachs always seems to have their people in there. They went from being in the middle of the GFC and ripping off everyone to running the US Treasury. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1463. The difference is: Russians say things knowing they don't believe what they are saying too keep their government from sending them to Siberia as a lesson to prove how righteous Russian ideology is. Americans say things believing that they know what they are saying too keep their government sending them to invade countries they can't find on a map to prove how righteous American ideology is.
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  1464. I have no idea why anyone is surprised that the planet is swinging back and forth like this. Having more energy in the earth's climate system was always going to cause wild swings. Its like pushing a child harder on a swing they go higher one way then swing back higher the other way.
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  1465. That second line is actually wrong and it should read: Anyone who doesn't give their life to MY VERSION of Christ worships false gods. (high lighted mine) You'll find with most fundamentalist religious people as well as majority of generally religious people that they barely understand "their version" anyway. Its why they keep following the most convenient source of information. That's what the established ""traditional" churches as well as people like Kenneth Copeland rely on - a combination of wanton ignorance and convenience. And all of that i snot just a Christian issue either - all of them have it or do it.
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  1466. As an Australian this freaked me TF out because if you change the words to Australian and Australia and swap Trudeau for Albanese and you are 100% factually describing Australia. His description of Vancouver is practically identical to Melbourne and especially Sydney with respect to housing. We are idiotically addicted to foreign investment. I'm an engineer and was actually in Canada late 2017 through early 2018 for a project. Other than the temperature inversion Canada was like another version of Australia. I was in Saskatchewan and it was like wheat belt of Western Australia, the Western 1/2 of Victoria and the Murray Darling section of New South Wales. A vast area of endless flat farmland, with exactly the same kinds of people. We even hate Canberra the EXACT same way Canadians hate Ottawa. AND we have the same brain drain of younger highly educated Australians to America, particularly in tech industries.
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  1467. Kyle Hill did a fantastic video on the subject a few months back. He explained the YouTube business model favors garbage click bait channels because every time someone clicks on a link they also get a tiny amount of advertising revenue. By producing 1,000s of AI generated videos and generating millions of clicks those tiny bits of revenue add up. Until the advertisers who actually fund YouTube make a stand and get YouTube to prevent the AI generated garbage NOTHING will change.
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  1468. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  1469. Dude America does have the most generous welfare benefits in the world, its just those benefits only extend to the top 1%. Of course Tucker sees it as generous. Its never taxed his smug condescending ass they way it does others.
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  1470.  @sushanth262  Your argument would work in any country that has compulsory voting but America doesn't have compulsory voting. Among developed nations it has incredibly low voter turnouts. So that argument that the majority of Americans voted in the Dems and GOP is just wrong. There's also the way that BOTH parties operate, which is to say they'll promise ANYTHING to get elected and do ANYTHING to stay elected. They'll tell ANY LIE they can to scare people, which in America is incredibly effective. Add that to the fact that a staggering number of Americans who do actually vote make their choice based on an incredibly small number of subjects its not that hard to get elected and then do whatever you like. In many parts of America you only need the right stance on abortion, guns and oil/coal and you can elect a dog. That's what Trump tapped into, the GOP are incredibly good at exploiting and the DEMs are hopeless at.
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  1471. But Elon is a champion of free speech its just how he uses the word FREE. He doesn't charge any money for people to say what he likes and that makes it free speech. He doesn't charge the Russians any money for using bots and that makes it free speech. He doesn't charge the Chinese any money for using bots and that makes it free speech. OH Sorry did you think Elon meant the other kind of "free"????
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  1472. And we all would have seen the best side step since Walter Payton was in his prime. This guy is slipperier than Patrick Mahomes and is the new, new, new,...... new poster child for the "we hate politicians who lie" club.
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  1473. For anyone wondering what that will look like check what happened in Russia to the Aral sea. On the other hand you can expect stonking great floods at some point soon. One of the little things about climate change is that a warmer planet means more evaporation meaning more water in the sky meaning that at some point there will either be massive snow storms or massive flood storms. Ask an Australian about this. After several years of incredible almost catastrophic drought this year has seen record floods. Not 1 record flood but 9 major floods in one year with the latest one going on right now. These are the sort of once in a decade flood and Australia has had 9 so far this year. Some people have been flooded multiple times.
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  1474.  @raykirkham5357  Dude I am NOT INTERESTED in arguing those sorts of points. This clown has made a claim in one breath and then in the next contradicted himself. Forget Israel-Palestine this clown wants a war with Iran. Do you have any idea how much WORSE than Iraq that would be? For starters Iran is a massive country with more than double the population of Iraq. They have not been successfully invaded since Alexander the great and have been defending their patch for over 3500 years. If America tried using its "other people" in the region into a conflict, it would likely drag the entire Shia population of the planet world into a war and that would drag the rest of the Muslim world into a war and that would drag the rest of us into it. Take the disasters of Iraq & Afghanistan add them together multiply by 1,000,000 and you are starting to get close to how big of a disaster it would be.
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  1475. Yeah because politics no longer ahs anything to do with substance. A while back David used the term "toxic sport politics" which I think perfectly describes this era of politics. None of these people care about substance its only about winning a point in the current media cycle. Its why the world is so FKD up right now. Nobody wants to solve any problems or fix anything. The only thing they are interested in is scoring imaginary points. They are like sports fans who are obsessed with stats and ignore who actually wins. Go ask a NASCAR supporter who wins championships they guy with the best car, the guy with the fastest car, the guy with the most powerful engine or the guy who gets to the job done when it matters?
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  1476. AUSTRALIAN HERE: This concerns us a lot down here because 1) Like a few other countries, America is our most important trading and security partner and these clowns threaten that. 2) All of these Think Tanks involved in Project 2025 have links to Thinks Tanks down here (as well as other countries). YES - these people are not just looking to re-engineer American Society but their equally twisted friends around the world are planning on taking this GLOBAL.
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  1477.  @authenticshift5515  I am NOT the person making claims YOU ARE and You are being called out for your claim. YOU SAID "I can attest that adverse reactions are massively underreported" What do you think that is other than a medical opinion? You made a claim that doctors are fabricating statistics and people might take that as a reason to not get vaccinated. That's called medical advice. YOU HAVE NOT given any evidence to anyone that your statement is in any way true or not. YOU HAVE NOT given any evidence that you are in anyway qualified to make that sort of claim. YOU still haven't said where you are from or anything else that should give anyone any assurance you are telling the truth. If you have any decency or honesty you will delete this entire conversation thread or at least edit your original statement and clarify where you have seen this fabrication of statistics and link a study or investigation report about it. Otherwise its just the idiotic opinion of a nameless clown.
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  1478.  @4thetruth62  That's actually the sort of question people should be asking. A year ago when this was first breaking and politicians (not doctors) were doing the Hollywood thing of "we'll have a vaccine in a few weeks" one of Australia's foremost experts on vaccines Professor Nash who was on the papilloma virus vaccine team warned us it normally takes a decade and we needed to be more realistic. Since then we found out that they were already doing a lot of work on SARS in case it resurfaced. Its out of the same family of corona viruses and they used that work as the basis for these vaccines. We also know they had many many volunteers test these vaccines that sped up the process by years. BUT we still don't know about any long term effects because (as you point out) there hasn't been time. So I do have some genuine concerns about how we are handling COVID-19. But what I will not tolerate idiots making UNVERIFIABLE CLAIMS and the clown who started this thread has not told ANYONE what country or state or hospital that has fabricated statistics as claimed.
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  1479. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. I have put a few more details in a comment about the Murdoch's and their issues in Australia. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  1480. As an Australian who was working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on Canada I can vouch for that. Canadians are incredibly polite except when they're playing hockey or talking about Trump. I bet that anger is still there and just as fresh.
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  1481. I saw the whole show yesterday (my time) and Jamie Kirchick (on Krystal's right) who troped out the standard "inflation is caused by the government spending too much" is such an ignorant clown too. I did engineering and as a option did Economics 101 and even I can understand that prices go up if demand goes up with respect to supply OR supply goes down with respect to demand. I spent a semester (as many others did) where they draw graph after graph of different market types and they said the same thing again and again. "Prices go up if demand goes up with respect to supply OR supply goes down with respect to demand." I'm reading Stephanie Kelton's "The deficit myth right now" and in the introduction she points out that its not a matter of how much any government spends its a matter of where its spending for what effects. She points out that there was no shortage of money when FDR put through the New Deal or Kennedy sent America to the Moon AND MOST NOTABLY there was never a shortage of money anytime America went to war. Government spending can only cause inflation if it does one of 2 things - it pushes up demand or causes a shortage of supply. The other thing that can cause inflation (and we all covered this in Econ 101) is when a monopolised system raises prices. Oil is now around $115 a barrel a few years ago it was $150 a barrel and prices were 1/2 what they are today. None of the neo-cons or neo-liberals can explain that.
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  1482. There's a less talked about aspect to Trump's mentality that's based on playing the part of a pro-wrestling manager. There's a great interview that Jesse Ventura gave Kyle Kulinski and Krystal Ball a while back. There's a couple of excerpts of it on Secular Talk here on YT. IN one of them he talks about HOW Trump operates. There was a year where JV could not wrestle because he'd been badly injured and he switched to commentating. Yes we all know pro-wrestling is scripted but it JV going into commentary CHANGED the standard script. Previously the commentary teams were always 100% on the side of the "good guy." JV in commentary was at the time unique because NOBODY from the bad guy side have even been on the commentary team. So Vince McMahon came up with a very simple plan and gave JV a very simple instruction - "Whatever you say is true!" It worked better than anyone thought and kicked off the whole good guy promoter versus bad guy promoter pantomime stuff that's now common. JV explains it better than I can and its totally worth your time going back and watching that interview. Bottom line is - for Trump this is all just pro-wrestling pantomime. The problem is, this is NOT pro-wrestling this is the real world and being US President involves nuclear weapons.
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  1483. Yeah about 350 million Europeans and a few billion in other places just went - WTF????? As usual Trump is all about Trump and facts have no place in the discussion.
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  1484. Aerospace Engineer and pilot here: CALLING BULLSHlT to this VIDEO but your point is 100% SPOT ON. YET again someone who might understand business dynamics but who has no NO GRASP AT ALL of Aviation is making yet another idiotic claim that can't be proven right for another 15 years. Even if this wasn't in aviation making any sort of DEFINITVE CLAIM about anything 15 years into the future is idiotic at best. NOBODY can be that certain that far ahead. As for targeting the aviation market your point about the 737 is accurate. There's a reason WHY the 737 has been (until recent versions) so successful and why Airbus did the NEO. At that size its simply fantastic for domestic air travel. Its a bit of Goldilocks - not to big and not to small to make consistent profits for airlines and domestic routes. You point is 1,000 times more valid than this clown's claims about what might be in 2040. THIS IS CLEARLY A CHANNEL NOT WORTH WATCHING.
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  1485. Yeah sure they are??? That's why he's facing over 30 charges because he kept his own documents. 🐂💩
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  1486. Its not treason as that has a very narrow definition in American law. Sedition is another matter and even that isn't needed. Those rioters broke so many laws that it will be easy to charge them. Trump and others are best pursued via impeachment because pardons do NOT apply to people found guilty via impeachment. So if Giuliani, Jared, Ivanka and others are impeached then Donnies pardons mean nothing.
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  1487. I absolutely agree David Speirs is (at times) among the worst of the smuggest arrogant interviewers. I think Noel Pearson has been one of the best among the 1st nations public figures for some time. I remember a few years ago when he openly said that native Australians had to stop seeing modern education and specifically math and science as "white man's stuff" and that education was a human thing.
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  1488.  @Wolfsheim23  I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and loved arguing the amendments with me because I came form a different background with different views. The 1st and free speech around the world is a hot topic and has been long before social media. The question is one of "where do you draw the line and make someone accountable for what they say" For Americans there is that question that most never have to ask. And that is WHY was it so important that free speech was the 1st. Why wasn't a fair trial the 1st or anything else. The answer is actually in American history which almost no other modern country has. Americans had to fight for their independence and one thing the British officers did to the colonials was try and shut them up. If they spoke out against an injustice the British officers used Sedition and Treason laws and simply hanged people. The film last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day Lewis has a good example of it. Because of the American Revolution Australia, Canada and others never had to fight for independence and we never had to deal with that and we never really have. Most Australians don't know that we actually have much tighter restrictions on what we can say. We have many freedoms but they are not in our constitution as a basic right like America does. I actually think the US Constitution is one of the great achievements of human history. But it has 1 major flaw. The founding fathers never considered or predicted that people like Mitch McConnell would undermine 1 of the basic functions (checks and balances). They never expected groups like the Federalist Society would seek to influence and control ALL Federal Court appointees. The problem now is that America has all these "special interest groups" who twist the gift the founding fathers left to suit what they want without caring about consequences to others. Its basic selfishness mostly.
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  1489.  @matthunter4868  You forgot to add: "especially after being caught sleeping with prostitutes."
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  1490. I'm Australian and this election has always had huge ramifications for us like its had for some other countries. The democrats are plagued by a group of OLD PEOPLE who just won't accept their time is over. Jimmy Carter is one of the rare examples of a Democrat getting out of the road while helping when he can. The Bidens, Pelosis, Clintons and Obamas on the other hand......... The ramifications of that attitude is staggering. I've looked at some of the stats and one that I have NOT YET seen anyone discuss is the voter turnout and its the REAL ISSUE America needs to look at. According to the stats on Wikipedia almost every election gets a larger turnout than the previous one as expected from population growth. 2012 is a rare exception, but it doesn't compare to 2024 with over 16 million FEWER voters. EVEN Trump is DOWN by 800,000 over his 2020 result. When you consider that he picked up a slab of young male 1st time voters that means a couple of million of his base give up on his nonsense. Harris is Down by 12.4 million compared to Bidens 2020 result and that means a gigantic slab of the people who turned up in 2020 just gave up. Independents were simply annihilated. Anthony Scaramucci said something the other day about the options people had. Here's some to think about. 1) If you're a college student who wants the Genocide in Gaza to stop. Do you vote for Kamala who's helped support it or do you vote for Benjamin Netanyahu's choice for President. 2) If your a mother who's son is stuck in the basement vaping and playing video games. Do you vote for DEI Kamala or the felon who brags about grabbing women by the pussy. 3) If your a father who's daughter is worried about boys in the locker room. Do you vote for DEI Kamala or the convicted felon who would grab your daughter by the pussy. 4) If you vote 3rd party or independent what's the point of actually voting when you get NOTHING for it other than an opportunity to wave your middle finger at the Democrats and Republicans who don't care anyway. 5) If your Gen-X, Millennial or a Zoomer do you vote for the party run by selfish old people who don't care about your future or do you vote for the party run by a narcissistic sociopath, liar and convicted felon who's surrounded by other narcissistic sociopaths, liars and convicted criminals NONE of who care about your future. America has alienated so many of its people that 16 million who voted 4 years ago GAVE UP ON VOTING. Simply it doesn't matter if you're being asked to eat a BULLSHlT sandwich or a CHICKENSHlT sandwich you're still being asked to eat a SHlT sandwich. Sorry for the rant but what just happened has GLOBAL ramifications and America is functioning like NASCAR on 5 cylinders.
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  1491. I'd agree in part because she even missed the the basic origin of the term - woke. Its African American Street slang for "Are you aware of our situation?" Mark Blyth the Scottish professor at Brown U. pointed out a City of Boston study that showed the average white Bostonian has a net wealth (assets & cash less debts) of about $240,000 while the average black Bostonian has a net wealth of $8-- Its a staggering thing to realise that if you just gave a single $10 note to every person of a particular group in a major city in a developed nation that you'd more than double their net wealth. That's what it was about WEALTH DISPARITY. It had nothing to do with the state, with laws, with the police, with education, with gender issues or environmental issues. But that's the part where she is absolutely right. A lot of other interests have HIJACKED or ATTACHED this word to their cause. I actually that that because its something Orwell wrote about in "1984" regarding doublespeak. The purpose of doublespeak was to confuse people with multiple conflicting definitions of words making it almost impossible to formulate ideas.
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  1492. NO what's scary is there's over 74 million of them. Do you know how many European countries even have 74 million? Russia (146) & Germany (83). It's 7 million more than the entire population of Britain or France (67 million each) and over 15 million more than Italy (59 million). Its almost almost 3 times the population of Australia (25 million) and almost double the entire population of Canada (38 million). Trumps support isn't scary, its a terrifying number and if they get power in 2024 will control the biggest nuclear arsenal on the planet.
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  1493. If you go into the history of the neo-liberal era Harvard is one of the biggest problems the western world has. In trading on its "merit" it became a target of big money wanting to promote what big money wanted. Just consider how easy it is for ANY Western Government to promote something that has as its architect a "Harvard Graduate." I'm Australian and we have a perfect example of that RIGHT NOW. Our main river system the Murray-Darling has been privatized and the water is now traded in an American style free market. Its operation is almost identical to the energy market that caused the collapse in Texas earlier this year. The architect of the Australian water market is a "renowned Harvard educated economist" it was all highlighted by the German DW news channel in a documentary. I'd like for everyone to watch that documentary BUT YOU CAN'T as you can see because its been taken down. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oyFRoxuf4g Why is it that a German documentary on Australia's water market has been taken down? Is it because how it exposed just how much of a disaster its been allowing certain market speculators to make insane profits while raising water costs to farmers by so much it has drive them from the farms their families have operated for generations? Almost NONE of what was in that documentary has been publicly discussed in Australia. It had interviews with farmers driven off their farms. It had interviews with market speculators who have made millions. It interviewed the renowned Harvard educated economist who set the whole lot in motion.
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  1494.  @Myfriendvinny  WTF do you mean "you do not murder people" Murder is a legal term for defining or classifying what a person has done in relation to the death of another. Other legal terms include manslaughter and negligent homicide, regicide. In fact there's a list of words ending in the syllable "cide" like genocide, matricide and patricide. Sorry but murder is a real thing and it happens in every society.
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  1495.  @jessesloan864  Yeah junior and his kids should sing that at the next family get together.
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  1496. ENGINEER HERE: This is reasonably easy to understand and my apologies if this gets longish. Its ANOTHER outcome of what we now call neoliberal economics. The short answer is we need more supply because anyone who ever did an economics course (and I did as an elective) gets told that IF demand is greater than supply then PRICES GO UP. In Australia we have built vast arrays of solar and wind BUT we have not built any new large bulk capacity BUT we have turned of several like Hazelwood in Victoria and Liddell in NSW. The last time Australia built a power station with more than 1,000MW of base load capacity was 1993 when our population was 17.6 million and we are now just over 26 million. For sure Callide C (810 MW) in 2001, Millmerran (852 MW) in 2002 and Kogan Creek (750MW) in 2007 helped but there's another 5.2 million people in the country since Kogan Creek was commissioned. For sure Snowy 2.0 at 2,000MW will help but that's not a base load generator its a storage system. Something else still has to generate that 2,000MW. Bottom line we need to build new major base load power stations in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales and plan on building future major base load power stations in Queensland and Western Australia. To give you an idea of the costs involved the Hinckley Point C nuclear power station with 2 x 1,630 MW units is now expected to cost £35 Billion (about AU$66.5 Billion). So the cost of 1 of those 1,630 MW units is about AU$33.3 Billion each. Based on what power stations have either closed or are going to close through age we'd need 1 or 2 in South Australia, 3 or 4 in Victoria, 4 or 5 in NSW and 1 or 2 in Queensland. In total that's 9 units to produce 14,400 MW up to 13 units producing 20,800 MW. The combined total of Australia's coal fired plants is just over 24,700 MW. That's just to replace lost capacity from power stations just getting too old to keep them running. It has nothing to do with climate change or anything else. That's between AU$300 and AU$433 Billion just to fix the stupidity of the last 25+ years it doesn't account for future population growth and we have some people wanting us to grow to as many as 55 or 65 million. The long answer on how we got here is below. I started informally studying economics because I got so frustrated from clowns waving economics degrees interfering in projects. What I found was that things like Reaganomics and Thatcherism didn't end they morphed in to this thing we now call neoliberalism or Chicago School economics if you're an academic. At its core is the line expressed by Ronald Reagan himself "government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem." In practice it has "the belief" (and its only a belief) "That anything a government does the private sector can do better." Part of that was Milton Freidman's "Greed is good" line because in his view greed drives efficiency because its financially rewarded. Milton also gave us that the free market can and will solve everything because it self corrects. Australians heard a version of this recently when Philip Lowe governor of the RBA said that the housing crisis was just the market correcting itself. Philip Lowe's comment about the housing market SHOULD CONCERN US ALL about the energy market, because part of the neoliberal ideology is that regulators should do as little as possible and let the market self correct. The 2008 GFC told us that's nonsense. It didn't self correct and there were $TRILLIONS in BAIL OUTS. The current housing crisis tells us that's nonsense because its not self correcting. The current inflation driven by supply chain issues and profiteering tells us that's nonsense because its not self correcting. The current energy crisis tells us that's nonsense because its not self correcting. This neoliberal nonsense of self correcting markets just DOES NOT WORK for certain things. Housing and energy being 2 of those things because they take time. It takes months to approve and build a house and longer if its something like a multistory apartment complex. Power stations take years to approve and if they are large scale can take years to build. Education is similar it takes 13 years of primary and secondary education and another 4 doing a degree, cadetship or apprenticeship just to make a functioning adult. There is no business case for spending $2-300,000 dollars on a 5 year old hoping that in 17 years they'll do something. The new nuclear plant the British are building, Hinckley Point C, took 7 years to design and approve. It will take 10 years (at least) to complete and power up with first power around 2028/29. It will take at least 15 years to break even on costs and that's only if its energy is sold at higher rates. There is no viable business case in the "Greed is good" neoliberal model that says you can spend £35 Billion and the break even point is 30+ years in the future. During an engineering consult circa 2016 I discovered that Australia not only hadn't built any new large scale bulk delivery power stations since the late 1990s we haven't even got any proposals on the table to discuss. Snowy Hydro 2.0 might have a 2,000 MW power station but its NOT a generator its a pumped hydro energy STORAGE system. Those 2,000 MW have to be generated somewhere else. This is the basis reality the neoliberals have wrong. There are some things that Governments have to do because they don't need a viable business case for shareholders. CEOs need profits while Governments needs a functioning economy. Governments measure themselves by GDP which is dependent on employment, wages and the effects of things like education and health care. Its complex while a CEO's task is simple we made $X and that gets $Y per share - done. When Governments build power stations the outcome is measured in GDP growth. They don't have to care if it makes just 0.01% profit or even if it loses money. So long as the outcome is GDP growth which can happen when companies can start or expand on cheap energy then so what. More people get employed. More people can buy things that other people make - including houses. So when we privatised our energy sector back in the 1990s we went from a system that was measured as part of GDP growth and designed to create jobs and growth to a system that had but one purpose. Milton Freidman said it in his famous 1970 New York Time essay "There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits..." If you ask why none of the so called experts in this video have NO ANSWERS its very simple THEY DON'T HAVE ANY. They all come from think tanks (like Tony Woods), lobbyists (like Ben Barnes) OR they are economists, lawyers, business leaders, academics,.... They are all people without any motivation to solve anything. This is something British Rebel Economist Gary Stevenson (here on YT) points out that is WRONG with current economics - too many of the people speaking have no motivation in solving anything. And why don't they dare talk about solutions whether they be hydrogen, solar, wind, nuclear and there's a whole raft of nuclear technologies to discuss.
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  1497.  @ProjectFarm  I was about to start writing about a performance loss graph when the last one was shown. That's great work because what it tells is which blades can handle abuse and which ones can't. What I really like about your channel is that you demonstrate the concept of "value for money" and so few reviewers actually do that.
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  1498. That's a brutal but also factual truth of what's happened.
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  1499. That's all true and others have pointed it out. BUT WHAT ARE THEIR STANDING ORDERS - as in what are the Police told to do under these circumstances. This isn't the first time police have stayed back to secure the perimeter and wait for the tactical team. I'm not saying its right or wrong. I'm asking what they were told to do or what does their training tell them to do? There's clearly a problem, but it wont get fixed yelling and screaming.
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  1500. They are incapable of even thinking. I spent half the weekend pointing out a bullshit claim on another page. Where a person claimed that they were a record keeper in a hospital and said "Having worked in patient record systems, I can attest that adverse reactions are massively underreported" That comment now has over 1200 likes and yet they have not identified what hospital, what state or what country they are from. I challenged that person and they still haven't answered even the most basic question like "in what country?" They got upset when challenged and asked to provide details and they still haven't provided a single detail. The simple fact is that most of these clowns look for comments "they like." They don't care to even think let alone check the most basic facts like what country is this person talking about and what vaccines have had adverse reactions. AND YET these people always demand others provide evidence. Notice how Amie never provided the evidence they claimed they had??????
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  1501. Go look at the sailing videos, they have always had some form of morphing its just gotten a lot better in recent decades. That's what many of the adjustments to the mast & boom have been for. They are actually changing the shape of the airfoil. I am an aerospace engineer and some of the stuff being done on the America's cup boats is seriously impressive.
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  1502. Engineer here - I wondered about that. Thanks for clearing it up.
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  1503. Kyle Kulinksi has been sounding this warning for several weeks now. It might not be real but people are testing the waters.
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  1504.  @jonasp6043  No arguments there. Rupert Murdoch bought the Fox network back in the 1980s and then set up Fox News for the express purpose of political propaganda. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship. It shits me how an Australian (Rupert) has done what he's done to a once great nation. Knowing exactly how Murdoch's empire operates, Brian creating this fund is a ammunition that they will hurt the cause with. Getting rid of McConnell is good for the world. I remember a film about the Nuremburg trials and the lawyer prosecuting the top Nazis including Goring lamented to his commander that its was almost impossible playing fair to convict. His commander told him to simply go in there and simply let Goring expose himself for what he was and what he had done. They (the DNC) should have simply gone on a very basic but relentless campaign on what McConnell had one. Even be so blunt as to drive through towns with the old speaker cars blaring all day every day - "McConnell doesn't care about you" "He says, he does, he lies, he cheats, he doesn't care - he has to go." Imagine where the GOP would be if one of their chief power players got made to pay for his behavior?? Instead the DNC let him off the hook and he's still there doing the same shit. McConnell has to go, but it wont happen when you hand soft targets to the right wing media.
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  1505.  @jonasp6043  I have watched a lot of Mark Blyth this last year and he's very good at explaining how we got here. 2 of his compatriots in explaining the mess the world finds itself in (its not simply and American problem) are Adam Tooze & Quinn Slobodian. They've indicated that it really started when Nixon swung the Republicans with his "Southern Policy." Reagan then hammered it home when his people realised they could lock in the Southern evangelists by taking a "Right to Life" stance even thought Reagan had done a "freedom of choice" bill as Governor of California. The Republicans (as a party) flipped on a heartbeat so they could win and they haven't stopped digging that hole deeper and deeper. What Trump did was downshift, engage the blower & hit the NOX ah la Mad Max mode. If you're an real Aussie you'll get that. The Republicans are what they have been for 50 years, with Trump they no longer hide it.
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  1506. ENGINEER HERE: And I would love to come on your channel and discuss the issue of LESSONS LEARNED because across the entire world of engineering that is a monster issue that is NOT BEING ADDRESSED. FYI - I started with a degree in aerospace engineering but landed in industrial control systems and automation. That's a highly transportable skill set as almost every industry has computers with sensor connected to them and they run software to read those sensors and control things - power stations, manufacturing plants, mine sites, water treatment plants, traffic lights,...... and many other things. I have mostly worked in manufacturing and mining, but also have experience in water treatment, waste processing, oil & gas and power stations. Time and time again I have watched people make the same mistakes on projects after projects. Lessons are NOT being learned anywhere. Maybe on of the few times I saw it done well was when Colin Powell and others decided NOT to repeat Vietnam. Out of that came the Powell Doctrine, which I first heard about on a PBS Frontline documentary called "Rumsfeld's War." In it a General summarised it as having 4 key questions. What is the task? What are the required in manpower and machinery? Do we have the absolute support of the American people? When the job has to be done by? When that was used there was Gulf War 1 it was over in a month with its main objectives achieved - get the Iraqis out of Kuwait and make sure they can't come back. They pushed the Iraqis out of Kuwait and they had that famous battle where the Americans shot up all their trucks as they fled. By destroying all the trucks they removed the Iraqi capability to move anything around and armies have to move. When I first heard the Powell Doctrine explained it struck because it applies to ALL ENGINEERING PROJECTS. You have to start with a clear specification. You have to resource the project properly with money, men and machinery. You have to be in agreement that the solution is going to work. You have to have a firm date on when it has to be done and what it means to be done. If you look at the Apollo Program easily the most successful engineering project in history it had all those 4 things in place from the start. Land a Man on the moon and safety return him to the Earth. You have all the money, men and machinery needed. The American people said they agreed. The date was set -> end of the decade. Note that by the end of the 1960s Americans had been to the Moon 4 times (Apollo 8, 10, 11 & 12) and landed twice (Apollo 11 & 12). Further the technologies developed and then made available to American industry had paid via taxes back to the American people around $9.50 for every dollar spent on Apollo by the late 80s. That was the conclusion of an independent report commissioned by the AIAA during the aftermath of the Challenger disaster as people tried to get NASA abolished. This is NOT taught to engineers at all and EVERY project I have ever been on has missed at least 1 of those things. You'd all be amazed that engineers are NOT taught anything about project management in college. Yet this concept that Colin Powell came up with is so simple and it was based on LESSONS LEARNED from Powell's experience in Vietnam. AND YES when they threw it away as Rumsfeld and others did for the Invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan they both went tragically wrong and the effects of which we'll have to deal with for decades to come. AND YES when NASA has had projects with a lack of specific goals they have had issues like the Space Shuttle, like the Space Station and like the Launch systems meant to replace the Space Shuttle. So when you talk about LESSONS LEARNED its a much bigger issue than a broken wharf in Gaza.
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  1507. Look at the expressions on his face. He's either a narcissist or a sociopath whop gets off on this stuff. 'The whole saw him raise his fist on Jan 6th and goad that crowd on. He just said a real man takes responsibility so what has he claimed about Jan 6th.
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  1508. Sooner or later there will be violence because these mis-information organizations. Jan 6th wont be an isolated event, that's becoming more and more obvious. Either there fans of these clowns will follow their lies like they did on Jan 6th or somebody who's lost family or friends will react back the other way. Right now its like adding more Uranium to a bomb eventually it reaches critical mass and then it goes from dangerous to disaster in a fraction of a heartbeat.
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  1509.  @ProjectRedfoot  Yes they do, they get used to blow the crap out of various places like Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Abrams#2015_Yemen_Civil_War
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  1510. I'm Australian but went to college in America, so I know America reasonably well. I saw and heard a few things BUT NOTHING like this. I can see something ugly happening to this guy. He's got this attitude of "I don't care what anyone thinks. I am going to say what I like!" and the problem with that is people who do that eventually stand in front of the wrong person who simply smashes the crap out of them.
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  1511.  @thedissidentleftist6997  Yeah and its taking its toll on Western Democracy, not just American democracy but Western Democracy. There's now problems all across the democratic world where clowns have followed Trumps and techniques and claimed anything they don't like as "fake news" and any election loss as "fraud". I'm Australian but went to college in America. I can barely believe what Trump has done, and been allowed to get away with. Right now in Oz we have our own billionaire running EXACTLY the same type of campaign for our upcoming election. He's a real POS named Clive Palmer and worse he doesn't need to win like Trump. Our parliamentary system is like Canada, Britain and Israel where a tiny minority party can end up with enormous power because they are needed as part of a coalition. Merrick Garland needs to get off is butt and do something. He needs to send a sledgehammer of a message that trying to wreck a democracy will not be tolerated.
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  1512. As an Australian who lives in a country with a very similar system as Canada - YES, its the same here and yes we don't know how America doesn't get it.
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  1513. I'm Australian a few years back we found Christian fundamentalists doing what we call "branch stacking." It happens in all forms of politics and we've had it on the left as well and it ruined a number of our labor unions. Its when you move people into an area so that you can out vote the local committee and then control nominations. Its incredibly insidious because the voting public doesn't realise that the person on the ballot got there by cheating. What we found a couple of years ago were Christian fundamentalists doing it in local right wing areas. Not much was thought as our laws can deal with it because branch stacking is illegal in Australia. WHAT freaked people out was the American Right Wing Christian training video that was uncovered. As far as I know its never been identified as to who produced it or when. We know its American because of the accents and things described like Sheriffs elections and District Attorney elections (we don't have those). We estimate it was made in the 80s because it was in video not film format but its low quality by todays standards. What it described was how to take over at the very lowest political level. Things like DAs, Sherriffs, School Councils,.....etc. The aim was to eventually have a base from which they could control NOMINATIONS for state positions and then eventually federal positions. Basically its about taking over America from the ground up instead of the top down. On the expose I saw that had it they asked and American political commentator about how the Republican Party missed this bottom up take over. And the answer was the top of the GOP never cared so long as the fundamentalists kept it local and left Federal politics alone. Sorry I can't give specific details it was about 10-12 years ago that we uncovered it. It was around the time Sarah Palin was forced onto John McCain's ticket.
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  1514. I didn't hear anything about either in this report?????? I'm Australian and I can tell you from our experiences that if power lines are not properly kept clear of trees they can start fires. We had a very bad fire in Western Australia a number of years ago that was started by power lines sparking and setting fire to trees. Don't forget most of our trees are eucalyptus and their sap (which is mainly eucalyptus oil) is highly flammable. The major fires we had in 2019 were mainly started by lightning strikes. Our right wing media (owned by Rupert Murdoch) claimed it was from arson but later inquiries found that was 100% FALSE. Not one of those fires in 2019 was proven in any way that it was arson. The lasers stuff is simply idiotic garbage.
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  1515. I'm Australian and years ago I met a businessman who owned a string of drive through coffee shops. I asked him what other investments he had and the first thing he said was he never went near the stock exchange. He described the ASX (Australian Stock Exchange) as "The National Casino"
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  1516.  @proudchamp9865  Yeah - I'd sadly agree with that. It was certainly the case with the invasion of Iraq. Its less obvious with Afghanistan but they have some quite valuable minerals and semi precious gem stones. I've heard they have one of the richest iron ore bodies ever found and its large, making it worth billions. Being Australian and having worked in our iron ore industry I can tell you that high quality iron ore is better than gold because it requires so little processing to make money out of and the profit margins are insane when the market is humming. Its utterly crushes other minerals and oil and gas on that front.
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  1517.  @ethanstump  NOT meaning to question harshly but I doubt the Mormons have 2x the wealth of the Vatican considering the number of Catholics in the world or their distribution or that the Vatican has had 2000 years to collect that wealth. Possibly in terms of wealth in America you are right.
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  1518. I'm Australian and do you guys know that people like Charles Koch have been exporting this across the planet? RIGHT NOW here in Australia we have a referendum to change out constitution to formally recognize that the country had an existing people with their own culture BEFORE British Colonization. It would set up a "Voice to Parliament" that's based on the systems the Nordic countries set up for the Sami people of Northern Scandinavia. It has taken years to set-up and get organised and was (at first) widely supported across the country. It now looks like failing due to a vicious misinformation campaign running on straight up fear. The public front of the "No Campaign" is lead by 2 well known Aboriginal with links to American Libertarianism. Both have worked with or for Australian Libertarian think tanks (yes we have them too). The most notable among those think tanks is the The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA). Not only does the IPA have links to a string of Australian billionaires including the Murdoch's (and yes Rupert & Lachlan are both radical libertarians) but it openly admits its links to America's Libertarian think tanks including the Heritage Foundation and CATO Institute. Go and look at its home page here on YouTube and scroll down to its links.
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  1519. I'm an Australian (Victorian) who went to the U of Illinois on a sports scholarship so I have some fairly strong feelings on this. I find it incredibly sad to see that over 13,300 people have died there out of a population half the size of Australia (12.6 million to 25.6 million) where we have 908. We had 2 deaths on October 28 and 1 on November 30 and none in between. During the same time period over 3000 people died in Illinois, with the BEST day when only 25 died. On other days it was over 100, with 266 on December 2. Having been there for 4 Thanksgiving holidays I can see it is about to get very very bad and then even worse after Christmas when winter is in full swing. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ This isn't just sad or tragic its something else. I hope I don't have to put too many flowers on graves next time I am over there. Where ever you are take care & stay safe. 👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
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  1520. You could try and explain what being a bigot is but how do you explain to an uneducated bigot that they area bigot.
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  1521.  @AlexDeLarge2022  Really?? If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck its usually a duck. My grandfather was a sheep farmer and I've seen them herded around by dogs, seen them have their fleeces shorn off their backs and watched them sent off to be slaughtered. Trump supporters are herded around by a dog, they are getting fleeced off their money and being lead to a slaughter. Sounds a lot like sheep to me.
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  1522. You're right in that Kyle has said something stupid deserving of scorn. The problem isn't the Senate its HOW the Senate FUNCTIONS. It was meant (like similar institutions around the world) to provide a voice to smaller demographics and give them a voice in government. It was also meant to provide checks and balances as it does with validating appointments. It was never meant to be a place where an opposition could stall the will of the majority. It was also mean to be a place where they limited executive power which as the whole world saw with the Trump impeachments has totally been corrupted. Concentrating 100% of political power in 1 house doesn't generally work. Most developed countries have a 2 tier system where one tier runs the country and the other checks they aren't doing crazy stupid crap. America's problem is that both houses and the executive are so corrupted by money none of them function as intended.
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  1523. Australia here: What you are describing is the HISTORICAL attitude of and excuses made by people here for most of the last 200 years (since white settlement) and I dare say for many other nations. I was in Canada a couple of years ago and the similarities with Australia were stark. New Zealand is similar to Australia as we were both settled by Europeans around the same time and have had similar issues. Like many other societies were are trying to move on and repair the damage done, but just as other places we to have these types of conservative (or regressive) people who just won't see that the rest of us are moving on. In general these are people who of whatever reason are afraid of change and it really is fear. Some are afraid of losing power (political or otherwise) and others just change itself, while for some it is an ideological issue. What is in Australia's, Canada's and New Zealand's favor is that we have at least started down the path to reconciling our past and not too many countries can say similar. Maybe we have a slight advantage in that our colonial history is more recent in terms of time scales as it only goes back around 200 to 300 years (a bit longer for Canada). For many others they have a lot more history to reconcile. We sometimes forget that the Jews, Egyptians, Persians, Arabs, Turks, Greeks, Romans,.... etc have complicated histories going back at least 3,500 years (1,500 BCE) and in some cases much longer. If you don't know the references recently made regarding Amalek by certain Israelis references events in the Eleventh Century BCE (which is over 3,000 years ago).
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  1524. Go watch Common Sense Skeptic's channel, he adds in math to rip Elon.
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  1525. The best one and David did a piece on it just after she was announced as the new WHPS. When Trump was trying to win the primary she was on a rival campaign and told Fox that Trump would never win the primary and that he was a horrible person. After it was announced that she was the new WHPS Fox took that interview down. As far as I know David is one of the very few people who might still have it available.
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  1526. I just saw an interview Roge Karma did on the majority report about the Private Equity industry. Its exactly in the same vein of conduct of NOT holding people accountable. Its titled "Why Are These Companies Making Everything Worse?"
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  1527. I saw this and wondered if it was going to be another brain dead clown spouting off about stuff he knows nothing about. FYI - I'm an aerospace engineer who works in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. This is a great honest technology video and we need more people doing this sort of thing. Just be careful on your titles. Yes I know you need to get people to click and watch but its also easy for people with technical backgrounds to just go by and right you off. Its also possible people who ask technically qualified people will look at a title and tell others you're an idiot. I watched 3 other of your videos Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Rewrites Laws of Physics Why China is Building an Underground Nuclear Lab How This Hole Generates Infinite Energy They were all really good and each and multiple points I had not heard. I really did get something out of each one. But look at your titles. In the first one was ok, except no laws were re-written just a theory and your explanation of what they now know was superb. The second was fine, but the third was a but like the first one. The video was fine and informative, but you know there's no such thing as "infinite energy." Even our sun will one day run out of fuel as all stars do. I'd really like to see you do a follow up on geothermal systems. The public perception on it is fairly poor. Except for a couple of rare places like New Zealand and Iceland its pretty much been a failure everywhere else its been tried. We've had a couple of spectacular failures here in Australia. They started Ok but once they started removing energy from the hot rock, the hot rock got colder which somehow surprised them. This is that problem you mentioned of not getting the stream hot enough to efficiently power a turbine. That's also the main problem with nuclear fuel pellets. Its not that they stop producing heat they just don't produce enough to power a steam turbine. I actually think people need to start looking into heat recovery systems a lot more. I came across a European company a couple of years ago that had a process that needed as little as 120C to generate power. There's a lot of processes with heat waste around 200C. They were very quiet about what they did but I suspect they used the same basic process as a steam turbine system but with a fluid that had different properties including a supercritical temperature point that's a lot lower than the 600C of water. Keep up the good work, just watch those titles.
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  1528.  @evilentity302  I get your point, but banning books has never worked because people have always found ways to get past it. The real problem with information is keeping it out of the hands of people who will use it in the worst ways possible. After that are the dual problems of how do you police it and who polices it? I'm an engineer and I know that there's a staggering amount of basic engineering information in public spaces that if misused can cause incredible damage but also without that information we can't have modern society. At some point society has to trust itself with information and either hope or have safety functions in place so that its not misused.
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  1529. I'm an engineer (aerospace) and its now almost a full time job for engineers to have to REPEATEDLY explain to clowns why certain things won't work or do you want me to explain; - The Titan submarine and how they ignored experienced engineers; or - The Boeing Max-8 and how they threw the common sense rule book out the window; or - Any of a number of other tragedies where "enlightened vision" overruled "common sense"
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  1530. ​ @pondering1716  As I just said to Obcane if China goes away as Peter predicts its a massive issue. If the timing is right the we might be in trouble and the Indians can screw us on any deals. Right now some of their big players already have stakes in Australia. I actually spent time on a copper mine that was Indian owned and yes the food was awesome. So they already have a serious footprint here, but who knows where it will actually end up.
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  1531.  @skippertunes  Yeah sorry. I went to college with a Kevin Costello and flipped the names. And there was the Kevin Rudd vs Peter Costello rivalry. My mistake.
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  1532. Australian here - where is all this anger coming from? I went to college in America (late 80s) U. Illinois but had a couple of road trips to Texas and ALWAYS had a great time. I have been back to the states a couple of times since and usually gone through Dallas because its an airline hub and AGAIN always had a great time. I found Texas people to be generally polite and friendly. That whole "Sothern Hospitality" thing is something I have experienced. So this level of aggression seems out of place. One of the things I learnt form going to college overseas was that in almost any cultural group there are those few who try to be the perfect version of that group. They tend to have a fantasy/idealised version of their identity and aggressively defend it. Worse than the aggression to outsiders they are often ruthless to anyone of their group who doesn't comply usually labelling them as traitors. AND YES we have such people here in Australia. thankfully not many but they have these fantasy notions of what they think being Australian means and they have a very narrow limited version of our history. Is that what we are seeing? A fraction of Texan society who are trying to be more Texan than Texas and trying to hold onto some version of Texas that never really existed.
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  1533. You are mostly right but also not quite right on a couple of things. Certainly Musk's SpaceX does a lot more normal commercial launches than tourism. But both Branson and Bezos are doing commercial stuff as well buts its less significant and less publicized but it is there. Virgin has Launcher 1 flying -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LauncherOne Bezos has his Luna lander work and the New Glenn and yes I know both have serious questions. So you are partly right and your criticisms are also valid. As an aerospace engineer I'm pretty critical of all 3 in certain aspects and incredibly grateful in others. On the criticism none of them have been all that innovative. Air launched rocket planes were there in the 50s. Re-usable rockets were being developed in the 1960s. On the positives they have broken the strangle hold that companies like Boeing, Rockwell and others had on government funding. That is actually a way bigger deal than most people realise. I get asked all the time why we haven't been back to the moon in 50years. The simplest answer is that companies like Boeing, Rockwell and others had these very cushy very profitable government funded programs where their goal wasn't so much as development as it was doing enough to get the next government grant. So these 3 guys disrupting the entrenched system has been a good thing. I worry about them over-hyping what they do and giving false narratives.
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  1534. That's a great point. As an engineer I hate these people because they confuse the crap out of the general public with what we can and can't do. You've pointed out a major issue with these for vehicles. Even when there are good technologies they often confuse people about what those technologies can and can't do. In this video above there's a reference to the liquid metal battery. That's a technology that's been developed by MIT Professor Donald Sadoway. He's cofounded the company Ambri to manufacture them. That's a technology that has great potential for FIXED (not mobile) energy storage. As in things like community batteries. So its shame that clowns like Matt Farrell are confusing people with garbage because some of its NOT garbage but most people can;t tell what is and isn't garbage.
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  1535.  @JRay2113  I agree on the basic description but they are messy for very different reasons and those reasons have a lot of history. Italy as we know it wasn't a country since the fall of Rome in the 5th century. Its been a lose collection of warring states that occasionally united against a common foe but usually just assassinated each other. Italy as we know it is quite recent, but that history lingers. India has some similarities to that in that it has been a number of semi-autonomous kingdoms and even to this day has some large cultural groups who don't always get along. But while Italy has had a population of Catholics controlled by Catholics, India which is majority Hindu has been controlled by the Islamic Moguls and then the British. So its had long periods where the control was by people of another religion and culture than the bulk of the population. Then there was the split where they literally split India into 3 chunks - India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Then there is the whole Kashmir thing and the India versus China issue. I'd agree there's similarities but also some major differences.
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  1536.  @rishisingh3408  The Hindu caste system is almost unique in religious ideology. There is nothing like it in Islam, Christianity or Judaism for that matter. I suggest you learn about other people and their cultures before making such stupid remarks.
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  1537. Why do you think Vladimir Putin thought this was a good time to take Ukraine?
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  1538. That's actually a fair assessment in among a pile of stupid comments. Yang failed to ever understand how ruthless politics has become. I'm Australian and this is a problem across the Western Democratic world. I have a friend who was in Australian student politics and he explained to me how ruthless that is. Its like the Hunger Games for future politicians and the survivors get to go into the big game. I remember watching Yang do a small interview with a host and 2 "undecided" voters. He was really impressive about some issues I am familiar with in terms of education and training. BUT having good ideas means NOTHING in politics right now. Look at what Matt Gaetz ahs just done, without having a single redeeming trait let alone any policies or getting anything done that benefits anyone but himself. No matter what good ideas or intentions some people have, if they don't understand how politics works its like sending people into war armed with swords and shields against artillery and automatic weapons. Here in Oz we have same basic problems. We get the news from Britain and Europe and they're similar (if not worse). I was in Canada a couple of years ago for work and loved the place but their politics are almost as toxic as Australia's. The most bizarre thing was (at the time) Canada had a scandal over government contracts that was so close to a scandal in Australia I could only tell the news reports apart by the accent of the reporters.
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  1539. This is not simply an Arizona thing. I'm Australian and we have been also letting this stuff happen. We have the Saudis, Canadians, New Zealanders, Brazilians, Americans, British and others all active in our agriculture sector and they are all buying up water rights or dominating the water auctions. And we let a Harvard educated Australian economist do to our water market almost exactly the same thing as another Harvard economist did to the Texas energy market. All through the influencers and lobbyists on government policy you will find Harvard, Yale, LSE neoliberals pushing that the best way to distribute resources is via sophisticated free markets. The issues with water supplies being bought by corporations who then rape those resources for all they can is a worldwide issue. This year Australia has lots of water. We are right now having our 9th or 10th flood depending on who's counting. Before that it was 5+ years of brutal drought. Next year it might be more floods or the start of the next brutal drought. Either way we will be farked if we don't regain control of our water. This neoliberal nonsense where the economists run everything to the benefit of their backers has to stop. Sadly I think its going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
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  1540. @Fonky Munk Really in what way? In what way is he dishonest when compared to the mainstream players like, Fox News, MSNBC, WaPo or NYT? How about an honesty comparison between Kyle, Rachael Maddow and Tucker Carlson? Because if Kyle is dishonest then what does that make people like Maddow & Carlson?
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  1541.  @danc8381  Gotta love all the math that's being done here.
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  1542.  @GeneBrown-c9q  Thanks. I'm just finding it really frustrating that people are stomping on ideas that might not be perfect BUT CAN ACTUALLY WORK while they also promote things that NOBODY knows if they can work. And the arguments they use are often spurious or irrelevant. Part of the problem is that we don't end up having sensible discussions.
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  1543.  @TheGalifrey  BULLSHlT Sorry but its a violation of the second law of thermodynamics which basically is "Entropy always increases and therefore 100% thermal efficiency is IMPOSSIBLE in any process." And as for MIT they aren't perfect and can be just as wrong as anyone else. Its advertising jargon NOTHING MORE.
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  1544. I recommend everyone go have a look at TCs Wikipedia page and check his education. There is no way someone can get those sorts of academic achievements and wind up at this stage NOT KNOWING exactly what LIES he's telling and exactly what responses he looking for. You can't get into Harvard Law without serious brains and he then finished in the top 10%. If anything that should infuriate people even more because HE HAS NO EXCUSE for what he does.
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  1545. Can we simply accept that Hunter Biden is NOT WORTH DISCUSSING??? If Ivanka and Jared earning $400 million while they WORKED in the WHITE HOUSE isn't a talking point then Hunter Biden isn't either.
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  1546. Actually it makes perfect sense if you know what Trump is doing and the audience he's reaching out to. Go check when Kyle and Krystal interviewed Jesse Ventura a couple of years ago, Jesse described his foray into commentating and how Trump has imitated what he learned from being involved with pro-wrestling. Its EXACTLY THE METHOD Jesse described. Trump is playing the part of a Pro-Wrestling "Bad Guy" and he uses the Vince McMahon line "If you believe it, then its true!" Its still here on YT posted 13 Aug 2022 "EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Ventura EVISCERATES Trump | Krystal Kyle & Friends Podcast" Go watch it and pay attention to Krystal's questions and the answers Jesse gives.
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  1547. Who ever this clown is that's claiming there's admiration for Hilary is of his nut. Was he not paying attention when she was still blaming Bernie Sanders 4 years after losing to Trump? Its just staggering how delusional these "political strategists" can be. No matter what's obvious and clear they will simply spew idiotic garbage. And they all do it. No matter what side of politics or which country these people just say stuff they expect us to believe and its garbage.
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  1548.  @UvalU  So why don't you tell all of us where TRUTH can be found TR0LL?? TELL US WHERE TO FIND THESE GREAT TRUTHS or F⋃CK OFF
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  1549. You'd think somebody with a college education would simply have a better understanding of the world and how it works or at least how their own country works. Even, as an Australian I know this idea violates the 14th Amendment. I actually went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law. They loved explaining to me how great the US Constitution is and what all the Amendments guarantee and how they work. They were proud of the US Constitution and VALUED what it gave them. It staggers me that Americans used to have so much pride in their constitution. It used to freak me out how all of the college kids I knew could all explain it because they had all done civics in high school. Its barely comprehensible that people like MTG not only exist but that they want to tear the US Constitution apart.
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  1550.  @clementvining2487  And most of all don't make stupid claims taken from science fiction as if they are science fact. Antimatter - really????? Please learn the difference between fiction and fact.
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  1551.  @alanhat5252  You are absolutely right. I went to college in America and America is fairly important to Australia considering the trade and military ties. So I watch a lot of what's happening there. Same story. I was watching Mariana Mazucatto talk about the problems with the consulting industry and almost the next day the PwC scandal broke in Australia and its only gotten worse since. The problem is that most of the economic text books are written by a relatively small group of people out of Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge,... who all have the same basic ideology. The problem for ANY politician IRRESPECTIVE of the politics is that on ANY issue being discussed is in a room full of people who were all taught the same economics. That's why it feels like things don't change. The only subject where economists are silent is military spending.
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  1552. As an Australian all I can say is that he's at least no bothering us anymore. I wonder if that offer for him to go for swim had anything to do with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWPh8AIVLaA
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  1553. I'm Australian and do you know what I find totally amazing about this are Nigel Farage's opening words. Nigel's own words _"What Brexit's proved I'm afraid is that our politicians are about as useless as the Commissioners in Brussels were"_ Correct me if I misunderstand this: 1) He was elected to the European Commission, which means he's a POLITICIAN. 2) He immediately resigned after the Brexit vote. 3) He refused to be involved in any of the negotiations and left it to others to deal with what he created. SO WHAT DOES that make him in his OWN WORDS? By the way he was here in Australia recently on some sort of speaking tour. Can you guys kindly keep this clown in your own country we don't need him here.
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  1554. I'm an engineer who's been informally studying economics for a couple of years and YOU'RE RIGHT. The economics we are living with right now isn't capitalism as its been described or what people think its supposed to be. Clepto-Capitalism is a great description. Look at the very title of Adam Smiths book. Its "Wealth of Nations" NOT Wealth of the few and screw the rest. The interesting thing is that the work of Smith, Ricard, Marx and others were all in the vein of how do we (humanity) not go backwards into feudalism or mercantilism and yet what we have right now is a weird hybrid of feudalistic mercantilism. I've listened to a lot of the book talks Mark Blyth (Brown U.) has done. One was with a Eric Helleiner who's described what he calls neo-mercantilism and he's given the best explanation of what China is up to. At its core mercantilism is not simply about controlling wealth but also about political control at the nation versus nation level. What we now have are people who have no allegiance towards any nation or even society itself but their means of control is through economics. I recently watched a series of 4 talks by Damon Silvers for the UCL IIPP that Mariana Mazucatto runs and yeah I watched all 6 hours. The first of those talks is titled "Understanding Neoliberalism as a System of Power" Another great thing I saw recently was a video by Simon Clark titled "Global Warming: The Decade We Lost Earth" and he highlights that the whole denial campaigns that started in the first Bush Whitehouse had NOTHING to do with fossil fuels or solar or wind. Its was a political move by American Libertarians who are 100% of the mindset that NO Government should ever do anything except leave them to do whatever they like. What you call Clepto-Capitalism (which is an awesome label) is all about this small group of people getting what they want without any consideration of the rest of society, humanity or the planet. Their ideology is basically "We demand the liberty to strip the rest of you of your liberty!"
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  1555.  @ResurgentVoice  no probs The other super person to listen to on economics is Gary Stevenson who's not a college professor, but was Citibank's top trader in the world by his mid 20s. He's what I call a rebel economist and has a great YouTube channel Garys Economics. He's also done a number of podcasts with Peter Komolafe which are pretty good.
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  1556. You need to have a conscious, moral character and ethics to also feel shame. Who among the GOP or the conspiracy promoters has any of those 3 things?
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  1557.  @lwright1554  Your obviously a Brit. I'm Australian but went to college in America. What we are seeing in America is an amped up version of what we are seeing across the entire developed world. It comes from the inevitable result of Milton Freidman and the Chicago School's economic ideology that "Greed is Good." It started as Reaganomics and Thatcherism but we know call it Neoliberalism. Its not simply 1 concept but a bunch of ideas that when combined have 1 inevitable conclusion the rise of second Robber Barron Era and we are now there. I'm old enough to remember the start of Reaganomics. At the time i was too young to understand any of it, but I remember people saying that he was going to far while others said NOT far enough. I remember Margret Thatchers fight with the coal workers and their union. I also remember the Unions in the 1970s became their own worst enemy with ridiculous strikes where they simply held the rest of us to ransom. So we basically let the Unions die and billionaires rise. One of the great problems now faced is that all of the text books that economists study are written by neoliberals. So there's almost ZERO understanding of other economic ideas in the education system. This is why no matter who does get elected in any developed nation the economic situation never changes. That's because all the politicians and/or their economic advisors all studied the same material in college. Simply put, when it comes to economics there's no other voice in the room except the neo-liberal voice and that's why nothing changes no matter who is elected. Your a Brit - look at Keir Stammer and try and tell anyone he's actually different to Sunak, Cameron, Thatcher or any of the other recent Tory leaders except for Boris and the Lettuce Brain.
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  1558. Is it just me or is a really dumb tactic that when your facing legal challenges that you start by letting all the lawyers know you wont pay them?
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  1559. If he needs money he could also ask Jared who I believe has a couple of billion in Saudi cash to play with.
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  1560. You and a few others have made this point. When I first heard Kyle say that. I thought he made a valid point that not all criticism is reasonable, but what you a few others have done is balance that out. That's part of having sensible rational discussions. So - Well done to you and others making this point. 👍
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  1561. That's a damn good way to put it. I don't particularly feel much for any of these Fox people. They have spent the last 3 decades turning their base into a rapid pack of maniacs. Should we feel sorry that the attack dogs they created are now biting them back?
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  1562. That's a fair comment. Even if somethings have gone well for Ukraine, having 8 million people be displaced and your country in ruins isn't a good thing.
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  1563. No she's NOT losing voters she's gaining Trump lovers WHO VOTE.
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  1564.  @markusschellenberg4684  It stuns me nobody is pointing to that obvious point. Whatever the motor is, that's what defines the rate it can soak up power and also the limit it can deliver power. With pumped hydro you can have a small pump or collection of pumps it does not have to be the same size as the turbine. Personally I think the grid scale tech that's about to take off is hydrogen. We know how to generate it from water. We know how to pump gas down a pipe. Companies like Rolls Royce solved all the issues with hydrogen fuelled turbines years ago. The only reason its not taken off is because there hasn't been a market. Guess what there now is a market and NONE of the battery technology can deliver sustained gigawatt delivery. The batteries are awesome for short term power smoothing, because they can react so fast, but they suck for sustained delivery because they just can't hold enough. We built what was the biggest battery in the world near Adelaide. But if Adelaide's main power station completely tripped out that battery can supply that demand for maybe 2 hours. I once heard that if all the power went off in California they have about 27minutes of battery time. Hydrogen can do days. Pumped hydro can also do days but that's provided you have the right geography. Plus you can build hydrogen power stations on existing sites because the grid connection already exists.
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  1565. As someone from Victoria I find the numbers quoted as utterly ridiculous yet also understandable and Brisbane needs to wake up because you're facing the same issues. I'm an engineer and we have a horrendous epidemic of government project gouging at the moment. Its been there for a while in both government and in the corporate sector, but its now totally out of control. Other than many of the infrastructure projects the Navy's submarine and ship programs are totally out of control. I've spoken to some other engineers about some of this because we've seen a fair amount of this sort of price gouging during the mining boom and some of that was pretty bad, but this stuff is totally out of control. Here's a simple example. The Navies new Arafura-class offshore patrol vessels are $300 million each and that's more than 10x what the Armidale-class boats they are replacing cost. You'd expect some increases due to inflation and that they are bigger, but 10x the cost is ridiculous. Also the new frigates are more than 3x the cost the British are paying for the same ship. There's no explanation other than we are being ripped off. I strong suspect we'll find out that these issues with external consultants has a lot to do with it. What most people don't realise is that these consultants are NOT there to provide solutions. Their obligation is to their employer and their employer's profit. I think Dan Andrews has simply said "We've had ENOUGH and are not going to be ripped off any more."
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  1566. Australian here: As an outside observer and someone who went to college in America there's an easy answer. All those clowns from Harvard's Medical School need to do is walk a few yards over to the Harvard Business School and they'll get the answers they seek.
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  1567. Ask us Australians about Google and Facebook and avoiding tax using Ireland? After that you can ask us about Glencore and how they've fucked us using African banking? After that you can ask us about the British Virgin Islands were a few hundred billion in un-taxed earnings sits? After that we can discuss the Chinese billionaires who we actually caught and then let them out of 90% of the fines. But out government just committed to $350 billion for new submarines and boats for the navy and that's just some of their spending. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1568. Thanks for that. I'm Australian and was in Saskatchewan for 4 months late 2017 early 18 and loved the place. It was so like Australia except for all that white stuff. Even the numbers were the same except for the minus sign. For me December and January are supposed to be 30C but that -30C stuff wasn't much fun. Overall I had a really great time in Canada. I have hated to watch how COVID bashed you guys as hard as it has, but this trucker thing stinks. In Oz we have had this issue festering from the early part of the pandemic where the anti-5G and anti-vax peoples used social media to team up. Sure we had some protests but compared to many others they were small. 1,000s not 10s of 1,000s or 100s of 1,000s. And just like your describing the rest of us had had a gutful of their garbage. All this crap about tyranny, how unfair it all is mixed with utter garbage conspiracy nonsense. When I was there the whole Paradise Papers thing was just exploding and just like we had with the Panama Papers a lot of people were exposed and as usual NONE of them went to jail for stuff we'd get life for. Is Justin Trudeau yet another Western spoiled brat with an overdose of self entitlement who thinks his shite is gold? Yeah - but we have those as well. The Brits have those as well. Even the New Zealanders have them, because EVERYONE has them and none of them get that we see straight through their BS these days. And their political opponents are just as transparent and just as blind and deaf. That's one of the biggest stressors across the world right now - their are so many politicians spewing BS and so few with any real solutions that will actually help us go forward. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  1569. You are EXACTLY RIGHT, but that doesn't matter to people pumping political narratives. And its the same for ALL political movements and commentators these days. There's so much shouting that the only way to be heard is to out scream everyone else. Even Kyle is guilty of that at times. The difference is are you making points that can stand scrutiny and that's where so many of the screaming banshees of both the FAR Right and FAR Left fail.
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  1570. Actually America has been self sufficient in energy for over a decade. Go and listen to one of Peter Ziehan's talks. The American northern shale fields produce sweet light crude and most of the southern refineries were designed to refine heavy sour crude. Normally the tankers only transport crude in 1 direction so costs money to send an empty tanker back to the middle east for another load. So, its incredibly profitable to send tanker loads of sweet elsewhere and have them return full of heavy sour. With prices as they are those profit margins are only better.
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  1571. Definitely shady. Dylan Taylor isn't an Astronaut and he's NEVER been to orbit. He paid for a ride on Jeff Bezos sub-orbital Blue Origin NS-19 (its on Wikipedia). PLUS the space shuttle was expensive but it wasn't US$100,000 per kg to orbit. For most of its life the Space Shuttle was around US$40,000 but around the time of the final missions it was about UD$54,000. Plus SpaceX is NOT as low as $1,000/kg either. Falcon 9 is about US$2,700/kg and Falcon Heavy is about US$1,500 BUT those figures can also be misleading because it all depends on WHICH ORBIT they are sending the payload to as well as how much the payload actually weighs. The Space Shuttle cost around US$450 million per launch and that had nothing to do with how much it carried into orbit. If it flew with the full 30ton limit to Low Earth Orbit that's around US$15,000 per kg NOT US$100,000. But if the Space Shuttle had to go to the ISS which is at a higher altitude then at most it could take 16 tons at a cost of almost US$30,000 per kg. But then the US$450 million per flight is just the sort of accepted costs per flight. What he's doing is comparing the best cost for one company against the worst case of another company. The problem with idiotic media people NOT asking pertinent questions as happened here is that the viewing public end up MORE NOT LESS confused.
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  1572. Its called the 1st Amendment. One hand its an amazing gift that was granted the American people. Unfortunately they have allowed clowns like this to abuse that gift.
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  1573. Great quote thanks for posting.
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  1574.  @dropbear9866  Go and read my comment regarding what happened in 1987 with the USS Stark.
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  1575. That's not a Red States problem that's so damn common across so many parts of the world. Some places its cultural and others its through politicians just NOT wanting to deal with social issues or pandering to various fundamentalists.
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  1576. Yeah that can't be said enough.
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  1577.  @cosmicraysshotsintothelight  Good points. When did any gun lover NOT know where their gun was? There's also a legal concept called "strict liability" that's also used in aviation law around the world. It means there is no such thing as an excuse or Mulligan or "I forgot" or pleading "I didn't know" or anything else. In almost any other country in the world he would have been charged and put in front of a judge no matter his political status. What the judge might do is arguable, but the airline, the airport security people they all would have dodged responsibility and handed it to a judge.
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  1578.  @orionsorbit  Actually I think MTG might take 2 knees, but unfortunately for her Trump prefers them younger and a lot better looking. Trump also prefers women that when they are standing up their mouths are closed.
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  1579. “The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (4th century BCE)
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  1580.  @taiwanluthiers  No cars come in fourth behind: - moto-cycle riders in third place who have to ride in among maniacs in cars; and - those amazingly brave guys who ride crocodiles across piranha infested rivers in second place; and - the pilots in first place of the Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka rocket powered Kamikaze flying bomb. That thing was 100% fatal.
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  1581. The French did offer nuclear powered subs to Australia. As an Australian I love some of what Palki's saying here and she' spot on with most points but she has made a fairly major mistake. France was NEVER building nuclear submarines for Australia. We were going to build conventional versions of the Barracuda class (called the Shortfin Barracuda) here in Australia (which we called the Attack class) with a lot of components made in France. At one point during that process NAVAL Group (DCNS) did offer nuclear powered Barracuda's but that was rejected. The single biggest problem with that project were the costs which were spiraling out of control. Another thing she also skips over is that NAVAL Group already make conventional submarines called the Kalvari class based on the French Scorpene submarine. So this deal is a natural progression for France and India. Maybe the AUKUS fiasco has sped things up.
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  1582.  @Sonturist  As I said I am an aerospace engineer and the short answer on anyone escaping to space is NO. And its as simple as NOBODY has solved the life support problem. Its the same reason why we don't have a moon base. The only way a moon base works or a Mars colony or giant Jeff Bezos space stations work is if we can solve the problem of a self sustaining life support system. We know what one looks like. Its called Spaceship Earth and its even solar powered. We just don't know how to replicate it and until we do there will be NO Moon base, NO Mars Colony and NO giant space stations.
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  1583. Not certain which brand of engineer you are. I did my degree in aerospace and have spent 30+ years in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. Back in 2002 I met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17). Nice guy and I wanted to talk to him about satellite maintenance he that's nice but go look at Helium-3. I did and since I'm Australian I went off to our mining industry because I though if I ever had to chance to fulfill that dream of doing what he did I'd need RELEVANT experience. I thought I knew stuff, but damn I got dozens and dozens of eye openers. During the 2nd 1/2 of the 2000s and 1st 1/2 of the 2010s we built dozens of new mines to feed the Chinese beast. Most of it was in remote locations some of it was near towns and the difference between construction in remote areas is staggering. Really basic construction stuff like concrete, scaffolding, cranes all become exercises in logistics and planning. Then there is the basic thing of accommodation and services that support the people who work there. On more than a few occasions people couldn't understand why I wanted to work on the stuff around the accommodation camp. Things like the water, sewerage, domestic power and entertainment systems. Guess what if we build a Moon base or Mars base people are going to eat, pee & poop and want to be entertained. Someone has to know about that stuff and even in companies that do this stuff every day there are head office geniuses who IGNORE what they get told. I got a monster reality check on supporting infrastructure and its way more involved than people think. Despite all that people DO KNOW from real experience across all sorts of fields of science and engineering there's always people who think they know better. What CSS is showing is that Angry is just armchair expert who knows nothing about doing real world science and engineering.
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  1584. Yeah its like an less gross but more icky version of Event Horizon.
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  1585.  @lgr_5626  Your not wrong on the USA and Europe being in trouble but you conclusion that China will survive is just plain wrong. That's what is being pointed out here. China has funneled a mountain of money into real estate that's now worthless. China is about to find out what other nations have at various times. If you try and drive your wealth avenue via real estate it will eventually collapse. They aren't alone. I'm Australian and we have been through a number of real estate crashes and yet here we are YET AGAIN going through a real estate bubble. I know people from New Zealand and theirs is out of control. The Chinese are doing what many other societies have done, with the exception of how big it is and how valueless many of the assets are. Their one saving grace might be the one party system where they can just declare "something" 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  1586. Yeah just so long as she is still recognizable in prison orange for the jury I think we'll be fine with that.
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  1587. Yeah that's a bit of exaggeration when there's Jared & Ivanka in the same family. Which 2 are/were in the White House and which 2 mostly do crap softball interviews. Actually I don't care. I just want to see the family photo where they are all wearing prison orange.
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  1588.  @TanyaCumpston  Firmly within the sphere of U.S. influence?? We actually kind of don't like that but its way more than 100% true. We actually have a couple of incredibly important US bases in Australia. The most significant is Pine Gap. There's a lot of "Ooh Ah What If" vids about it but this one is fairly good. Note the graphic on satellite coverage at about 8 minutes to see why its so important. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FUVwC-B1k4 Its what should be labelled a zero strike target, because before anyone tries to do a first strike they need to take this place out.
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  1589.  @SP-po5qg  There's parts of Australia around our major universities where you can say exactly the same thing, except its about 50% Chinese and 50% Indian students. Its causing some very serious issues with our universities but the "business people" who now run our Universities don't care. More students = more money, and that's as far as things are discussed. As far as I know New Zealand has similar issues but not yet as bad as ours.
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  1590.  @genestarwind4610  Also here's a right you never hear any of them speak about. The right to live in safety from the irresponsibility and selfishness of others. or this one in reference to Columbine, Sandy Hook and other places. The right of children to go to school in safety.
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  1591. And so you know. Before the gun buy back after the Port Arthur Massacre Australia had the grand total of 1 Olympic medal in 100 years. Since the new licensing laws we have won 10 Olympic medals including 5 gold and 2 of those were won by girls. Having strong gun laws seems to have HELPED our aim and our Olympic results.
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  1592. Well with a college education and 2 Masters Degrees (YES 2 an MBA from Connecticut and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard) he's gonna drive the anti-education faction completely of their rocking chairs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman The big question will be -> How will the Senate handle logical arguments instead of political opportunism?
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  1593. Actually America lost it a long time before that. I'm Australian and went to college in America in the late 80s and even then you could see this eventuating. It wasn't obvious but it was there if you look. Americans know there is wealth disparity, what is not discussed is education disparity. I know as we have the same issues here. In many ways its a cold war hangover, we never got over. Think of the fact that most of the communist world collapsed in the late 80s early 90s. Its gone its finished and it isn't coming back. So why are these people still scared of a communist Marxist takeover - its dead and its gone? The Chinese don't run the same ideology as the Russians they moved onto a weird hybrid single party capitalist thing no one yet understands not even the Chinese. The North Koreans aren't communist any more they are an absolute monarchy in everything but name. Even Russia isn't communist anymore they're an totalitarian oligarchy. They just hold elections to confirm Putin is in charge. Most of this bullshit across the western world if from education systems and news services that never upgraded out of the 1950s.
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  1594. As a vet can you explain (or at least confirm) what was mentioned in respect to Mike Flynn. It was said (and I am paraphrasing) the the military oath to protect the constitution does NOT expire when you're discharged and remains in place until you're 85. Anyone can be recalled to active duty and charged under the UCMJ, which does not provide much 1st Amendment protection. I'm not a lawyer and have never been a member of the US military. If you can clarify this even a little it would help everyone.
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  1595.  @wendellhammack7691  Good answer and a great link. I usually put up the Wikipedia page. The levying of war is a very hard one to argue however because because you have to have some declaration. Your getting into the very definition of what war is and isn't and where the boundaries between riot, insurrection and war lie. There's also the boundaries between protest, sedition and treason that anyone knows lawyers have 1000s of opinions on. A huge part of the problem is that in response to how the British colonial powers used sedition and treason charges for almost anything they didn't like anyone doing, they gave the American people every narrow definitions of Treason and Sedition (way narrower than any other country). It was so the Federal and State governments could not use them as weapons against the civilian population as the British had. People like Legal Eagle and Glenn Kirschner have spoken about these issues here on YT.
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  1596.  @soulsphere9242  I did this odd little engineering consult for a Taiwanese company wanting to invest in Australian Solar. In the course of it I became aware that we had stopped building major power stations. By major I mean greater than 1 Gigawatts (1,000 Megawatts). Our population was 15million in the mid 80s and hit 20 million by 2003 in that time we built many power stations including our biggest Loy Yang. Since 2003 we have not built a single major power station just a bunch of smaller ones. What's masking the problem is roof top solar and wind farms but none of that masks the rise in power bills. I did a single class in economics (actually the easiest class I ever did) and the entire class was about supply and demand in different types of markets. Irrespective if demand goes up and supply doesn't match then prices go up. Our populations gone up another 5 million and new supply has barely replaced the older stations that have been turned off. That's what's pushed prices up. In the next few years there's Liddel, Torrens Island and Yallourn W all scheduled to turn off. Its exactly the same problem Rick Flores has described for California. Its already happening in parts of Europe. About a week ago there in a conversation like this but more about energy prices. A guy from Romania described their situation. It was like he was describing Australia, except he was adding to a discussion about Britain. It was bizarre. Suddenly there were people from other places all saying the same stuff. That's Australia's nightmare. We (because of our banks) are addicted to foreign investment, which is idiotic considering our wealth. To replace our 23 coal fired units plus the older gas units is about $100 Billion (with B) and that's just to REPLACE NOT UPGRADE. To cover the expected population increases double that. BUT it gets worse, there will be no foreign investment because so many other nations are also facing the same problem and there won't be the money available. Australia like a lot of other countries has been drowning in wave of indecisive political BS overly influenced by billionaires who don't give a FK. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  1597. The Panama papers were released and NOTHING happened and NOBODY went to jail. The Paradise papers were released and NOTHING happened and NOBODY went to jail. Anybody who thinks anything will happen or if anybody will go to jail with this load is just wishful thinking.
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  1598. He was interviewed on Australian television and they lacerated his attitude. He describe himself as a "provocateur" and basically got laughed at. His complete lack of anything resembling substance was there for anyone to see. He was a joke BEFORE he got banned. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1599.  @alexanderwestphal9777  Taking that further Sam Harris has spoken against other religious ideologies for similar reasons. I think before Sam Seder says anything like that again he should look in the mirror first and ask how much he likes the sound of his own voice and believes how brilliant his own opinions are.
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  1600. I'm an engineer and similarly I am tired of having to argue the basics of engineering with morons who like this clown. They heard something or googled something and suddenly my years at college and 30+ years of experience mean nothing. Some of the things that are pushed by the media and by amateurs are obviously stupid to anyone with basic understanding of the subject that its amazing these people aren't called out more often. The internet was supposed to deliver The Information Age and has instead delivered The Disinformation Age.
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  1601.  @projectgolio  That's exactly the thing I have found everywhere I look with few exceptions and the few exceptions aren't that clear either. There's actually 2 business cases for large base load power stations. 1) If the government built them they are insanely profitable because if you don't do anything but keep them running then eventually population growth will flip the system from over supply to under supply. Prices go up but costs remain the same and especially for the coal plants where the coal mine is right there beside the plant. At that point profits skyrocket. 2) If private industry tries to build large scale then there is no viable business case. It takes too long to pay off. How do you ask a CEO who's probably 55 or older that if he spends this monster pile of money that he'll break even when he's 75? So its only viable with massive government subsidies, tax breaks and forward profits/bonusses.
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  1602.  @donstrong6754  Right on the first 2 but Sean thinks Kyle is a fine upstanding young man.
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  1603.  @webfreakz  I second that
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  1604. To All - Here's David Dunning (of Dunning-Kruger) explaining why ignorance can't recognize itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErkhYq13VVE Its worth watching if you want to understand why people like this cannot not see what they are doing or what they are saying is wrong.
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  1605.  @odinisnotthesomefather4687  A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E-L-Y and not just on social media but right to her face in public. She needs to be confronted as she walks out her door. All of these bad faith LIARS who claim the moral high ground need to have their heads pulled back into reality. I just watched a couple of Sam B vids on book banning and the bad faith actors in that crapfest are just as disgusting.
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  1606. Good point. I saw a BBC report a few weeks back about how the Ukraine war was so much different and in particular how drones were being used. Most notably they are used to guide artillery shells onto to targets. Also they noted how the Ukrainians have what they call the "Geek Battalion" who are a bunch of young drone enthusiasts who have been modifying off the shelf hobbyist drones for combat. They have been brutally effective against Russian tanks and trucks. Its like the issue American forces had in Iraq with IEDs except these are flying IEDs.
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  1607.  @lizetteperez1469  What can we say Eric's so dumb he'd need to study for a Prostate Exam.
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  1608. It might not be treason because that would mean he's trying to overthrow the existing government and Trump's still the legal POTUS. But Sedition is another matter --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition Flynn's problem is that his is military and his oath is for life and sedition is specifically described under the UCMJ and I think he can still be court martialed. I have previously asked Glenn Kirshner who has been both a JAG and Federal Prosecutor about clarifying treason & sedition. He has a channel here on YT and has been clarifying many of the recent legal issues, including Michael Flynn's and other pardons. Here is a link to his most recent comment on Flynn. Flynn's pardon is already being challenged . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlFCJzL8W0
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  1609. But the NRA promised everyone: "The way to stop a bad guy with a gun was a good guy with a gun!" I'm still wanting to hear their explanation for what happened.
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  1610. I just wonder if its a getting to the point where its not a matter of IF but WHEN somebody puts a piece of metal into Charles Koch's skull l at high velocity. If you've seen any of the excerpts from his interviews (like the recent Axios one), he's a monster. He genuinely believes that any politician who he helped financially should do what he wants and they are not allowed to use their conscious or morals or ethics.
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  1611. If you want to take that a step further and accept that at the most fundamental level communism is the communal ownership of property. Then by that most basic definition things like publicly owned companies where anyone can own shares in those companies are also a form of communism that overlaps with capitalism and democracy. Everyone is free to join or not join the ownership of an enterprise that is owned by a community of shareholders where each person is free to own as many shares as they like or can afford while the officers of that enterprise are democratically elected where each share gets 1 vote. I'm an engineer and I've been informally studying economics for a couple of years and one of the things I found is how badly most people understand some of the most basic concepts because of all the political culture war nonsense that's been raging. As an engineer we have things called basic principles that DO NOT CHANGE. The problem is that in Economics & Politics everything changes constantly. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. I was there 3-1/2 years including the 1987 presidential pre-season. The single biggest issue with American politics is that the whole shitfest takes place in a manufactured bubble of noise and confusion. American politics is more Truman Show than reality. And before anyone asks yes I am aware that one of the WORST offenders in fueling the current culture war is Australian born Rupert Murdoch. But then we did try and warn you what he was like just as we had tried to warn the Brits and you didn't listen just as the Brits didn't listen. For reference go and watch or rewatch the 2004 documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism"
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  1612. Everyone should take note of the intro this thing wrote for Scott and consider something. Chat GPT was trained off public information including the media. Has the media ever over-hyped or over-ratted or over-stated the introduction to a story or interview. Chat GPT learnt FROM the media how to do an introduction. What does that say about the media?
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  1613. Well that is the sad state of almost EVERY political discussion on the planet right now - "me good, you bad" Or as George Carlin so brilliantly put it. "My shit is stuff and your stuff is shit." Its almost "Hotel California" in that we are trapped and can't find a way out. The basic struggle is between the establishment who don't want anything too change unless it makes them more money and the progressives (and others) who want things to change. And that's real problem BOTH sides of politics (all over the place) basically are the establishment and even though they sound a little different they actually aren't.
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  1614. I think the answer is that Piers, like many other ex and current Murdoch people, are far more intelligent than we normally think. Its their narcissism, lack of empathy and most of all GREED that drives them to pump out the garbage they do. I recently checked and Jesse Watters salary at Fox is US$12 million a year. if you take the average working year to be about 2,000 hours. (40hrs x 48 weeks = 1920 plus overtime) then it can be said Jesse earns about $6,000 an hour on that salary. When he recently complained (and this was why I checked) about minimum wage earners wanting US$1 per hour more it would take those people 3 years to earn an extra $6,000. Think of the level of narcissism and greed it takes to say live on air with a straight face that minimum wage earners SHOULD NOT get that extra $1, when you earn $6,000 an hour and it would take those people 3 years to get what you get in 1 hour. Go and check the famous interview (that never aired) where Dutch historian Rutger Bregman told Tucker Carlson he was just another millionaire speaking for billionaires and Tucker lost his cool. Bregman hit a raw nerve and Tucker lost it.
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  1615. 2 days ago I was advising we wait on judgement until we know more. Things like knowing what the police were actually doing, what their procedures are, what decisions were being made, what instructions they got,...etc. This is just getting worse and worse. I saw Ted Cruz today blaming the doors. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦
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  1616. We are not out of ideas we are out of people who will listen to new ideas. We have too many in management who have 1 overriding question to almost everything: How will this get me a bonus? Their next most often asked question is almost as cynical: How will this get me laid?
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  1617. Yeah I find her 1,000 word per minute diatribe to be almost as disturbing at the man on fire. Just the other day I heard Fareed Zakaria on the prof G show whine about how the media are constantly being looked down on and blamed for misleading people. Just look at this and ask if the scorn that's thrown on the media is justified?
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  1618. And from Australia.
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  1619. “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” ― Mark Twain
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  1620.  @MattH-wg7ou  Yeah my frat brother is a senior instructor with one of the major American airlines on 737s. He was part of a team sent to Boeing to get the Max-8 sorted out. He gave me no details but did say "they broke the Boeing system." That actually scares me because I understand what he means by "system." That includes all the procedures, tests, methodologies and engineering ideologies that they use to go from words and blank sheet of paper through to you and me at 35,000ft. Basically a library full of knowledge and experience AND they broke it. I'm well aware of how little certain pilots fly. Way back in the late 80s there was a Concorde pilot who became the first pilot ever to record 10,000 hours as pilot in command at supersonic speed. That came up in a discussion at the glider club one day where a couple of our tow pilots we ex-airline with over 10,000hrs. When I quizzed why the big deal one of them slapped back at me asking how stupid I was because he knew I was doing aerospace. I'd forgotten just how little planes can normally fly at supersonic, because of how fast it drains the tanks. Plus it also thermally stresses planes. You might know better than me, but most air force pilots have less than a single hour at supersonic speed and most never record more than 2 hours in their entire career because its all little short bursts. For what was known at the time that 1 Concorde pilot had more hours at supersonic than the entire USAF history that was known. The SR71 hours weren't known at that time and could/would have changed that assessment. Concorde truly was an amazing piece of technology.
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  1621.  @richardkell4888  If you don't have the right thread gauges working out what thread you actually have can be a mongrel especially if its worn and even worse if its an odd pitch. I'm an engineer and never underestimate people to do something odd for a 1 off part and NOT document what they did.
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  1622. The real question wont be the "IF" just as it was with Epstein it will be "WHO" My joke about Epstein was - What did the CIA Assassin say to the MI6 Assassin? "You're tying the knot wrong!" What did the MI6 Assassin say back to the CIA Assassin? "Just shut up and hold him still and don't bruise him or it will look suspicious." What did the Mossad Assassin say as he watched the corridor? "Will you 2 just get on with it I only paid the guards to be gone for 30minutes!" Do you know that Epstein isn't in Hell? The Devil rejected his application for political asylum.
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  1623. Its not just oil its fundamentally about energy supply. Fundamentally everything that happens in the modern world needs energy at some point either to make it or deliver it or both. We so often forget in the western world that our wealth has come from cheap energy. Our major problem is that we haven't kept up with demand as our populations grow. Anyone who did Economics 101 knows that if supply doesn't keep up with demand then prices go up. One of the biggest issues that has made the West uncompetitive is that our energy costs have climbed while China has had simply accessed its massive coal resources and kept the productions costs down.
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  1624. Just a word of caution. There were a staggering amount of conspiracy accusations following 9/11 and when the dust settled it was nothing more than an incredible intelligence failure of the CIA, NSA and FBI simply not sharing vital information. In the early days of the Bush Admin they pulled apart the FBI team that had been piecing together the entire Al Qaeda network. So there was no one coordinating the information and responses to threats. PBS Frontline did an episode called "The Man who knew" in 2002. Its kind of a legendary doco on what happens when management and/or politics interferes with expertise and common. Look at what Trump did with Obama's pandemic plans. Look at how Trump dealt with Dr. Fauci when Fauci contradicted him. My caution is to realise that Trump has screwed up institutions like the FBI - sacking anybody who said anything he didn't like. Was there a conspiracy to storm the capitol? I don't know, but if there was it has backfired spectacularly. We can say for sure was that there was a catastrophic security failure. We can also say for sure that Trump did not deploy additional security resources as it started to break. We know it cost 5 lives including a police officer on the same day COVID took a record 4134 lives and that Donald Trump has mismanaged BOTH. There actually isn't any need for theories no one can prove at this point. The simple facts tell enough - Trump is incompetent.
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  1625. Closely followed by running away from home to chase after a boy they barely know and their father disapproves of.
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  1626. I absolutely agree and this isn't the only time recently that David has put "click bait" titles on videos. He should apologise for the title. When you look through the whole part of prisons its a clusterf*ck by everyone. They 1/2 agreed on 1/3rd of nothing and then kept trying to be in the right despite arguing the answers to hypotheticals that have no basis in the real world. Konstantin argued the 2 prison solution doesn't work and David kept trying to put the answer into the 2 prison system. They were both 1/2 right and both 1/2 horribly wrong. That part of the discussion fell into a typical philosophical whataboutism that SOLVED NOTHING.
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  1627.  @emm8357  Somebody else put it in a quote a while back. I like it because Asimov's also one of my favorite authors. I have a slightly updated version because I think what he said can be applied to any country maybe some more than others. So I generalized it. “There is a cult of ignorance within humanity, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that ignorance is just as good as knowledge.”
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  1628. Sadly all her followers claim to have heaps of it, even though they have no idea what it is.
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  1629. Since she is preaching this in her church then her church should immediately LOSE its tax exempt status.
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  1630. Well actually it isn't the equivalent of someone putting their fingers in their ears and shouting "LA LA LA LA LA!" IT ACTUALLY IS someone putting their fingers in their ears and shouting "LA LA LA LA LA!"
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  1631. I forget who it was but after Sandy Hook one of the pro-gun advocates said something like "Those 20 dead children are the price I'm willing to pay for our freedom." It was a truly revolting statement because what they really meant was "I don't care what it costs OTHER PEOPLE I want my gun." This isn't about rights its about idiotic selfishness. Because if it was about rights these people would care as much about living walking talking children as they care about the unborn. Anyone can go and look up the NRA's history and see that before 1977 they were a strong advocate of gun regulation. It was PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan who introduced the Brady Bill that banned AK-47s. The NRA isn't about rights its about MONEY.
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  1632. Actually only partly true. Trained yes BUT at his core he's a neo-liberal Freidmanite. Just go check his bio and look where he has worked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers
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  1633. Go watch Glenn Kirschner's channel. He's an ex federal prosecutor and before that a JAG lawyer. So he knows both civil and military law. He's been pointing out for several years that many of the Judges appointed by Trump are what's termed "not qualified" and he's stressed that does not mean unqualified. Its things like they did law as an undergraduate but didn't go to law school or did go to law school but haven't passed the bar. So these are people who have qualifications but are "not qualified" to be a judge. Its one of the things that freaks people from other countries out. The lawyers who argue cases must be qualified including passed the bar, but judges can be anyone.
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  1634. Another Australian here and that's one of the great questions NOT BEING ASKED RIGHT NOW. How this has come about is anyone's guess, but I would start with the ECONOMISTS because they have influence over pretty much everything. I'm an engineer and have some VERY SERIOUS questions on energy for our leaders. They are all basically standing around waiting for someone to do something. The biggest problem is that ECONOMISTS now have so much control that we can't get anything done or have anything discussed WITHOUT their interference. And this is not simply and Australian issue. Its rampant across the entire Western developed world as well as having way too much control over the rest. Its basically hardwired into economics DOCTRINE that they have to be in control because as far as they are concerned "the rest of us don't know what we are doing." I've been looking into this for a couple of years now and there are a loose collection of fringe economists who have bene trying to sort out the rest of the economics profession for some time without any luck. One of the more prominent people in that is Australian economists Steve Keen who hosts a weekly LIVE podcast that's also shown here on YouTube for free. Sadly it starts 3:00am Sunday Mornings.
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  1635. When he is dragged from his home and hung form the nearest tree by a mob of angry peasants no one should be surprised. Charles the 1st of England got his head chopped off with an axe as the crowds cheered.. Louis the 16th of France got his head chopped off in a guillotine as the crowds cheered. The Csar Of Russian and all his family got bullets. The Ceausescu's of Romania got bullets Saddam Hussein and his cronies got their necks stretched and we all saw the footage of the guards cheering. It does not matter how much money or power you have if you push it too far the peasants revolt. Nothing should scare us more than a peasant revolt because peasant revolts get nasty and brutal and destructive.
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  1636.  @davidlafleche1142  CLOWN.
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  1637.  @davidlafleche1142  Yeah sure God wants you supporting an ADULTERER and LIAR in Trump. Go back and actually read your Bible instead of preaching to people. And while your at it check up on Jesus words at Matthew chapter 7 about frauds.
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  1638. From the film Lord of War: "Yuri Orlov: There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?"
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  1639. It actually comes from the British comedy "Black Books" as an insult to the French. Its strongly advised, you don't say it to a Frenchman unless you can run damn fast or have serious backup.
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  1640.  @dp0004  Yes and No. Your answer implies he had no choice at all and that doesn't hold up. Even one of Murdoch's kids (James) turned on him and left the family business. It was after the Australian bushfires when the local Australian Murdoch people simply lied about the causes. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1641. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE - This is one of the best and straight forward videos I have seen on YouTube regarding a STEM topic. There is NOTHING wrong with the title. For a planet to be habitable it has to have the most basic thing of all which is a suitable atmosphere and RIGHT NOW we don't YET have the technology to confirm a habitable atmosphere. I did my degree in the late 80s and in my final year we had a number of guest lectures. I remember 2 of those. One was an aerodynamicist from the X-29 forward swept wing experimental plane that was just the coolest plane of the era. The other was a NASA engineer who'd just done a study on what it would take to terraform Mars. At that time, even though the Challenger accident had happened, we still expected to built Space Station Freedom in the 1990s, go back to the Moon in the 2000s and then onto mars in the 2010s. So we were seriously excited to hear about what we'd be doing on Mars. His opening line was "Sorry. Its impossible and here's why!" He then introduced us to 2 topics which I now call Planetary Mechanics and Planetary Dynamics (which we know next to nothing about what we'd need to do). Planetary Mechanics is reasonably easy to understand as its about: how much stuff do you need to do certain things? How much air? How much water? How much heat do you need to gain or lose to get the planet to the right temperature? Planetary Dynamics is: how do you make all that stuff do the things you want it to do? How do you make the gas cycles work? How do you make the water cycle work? How do you trap enough heat form the star while losing enough to space to keep the planet in a reasonable temperature range? Its basically all the stuff we know about but almost NOTHING about how those systems actually work because they are all interlinked. In that lecture we never really got into any discussion on Planetary Dynamics because the issues with Planetary Mechanics simply killed the idea of terraforming Mars. Once you realise it takes 178 Trillion tons of air just to put the first 1 kilometer of air around Mars the discussion ends. Its a logistics nightmare. Either the planet you want to terraform has enough atmosphere you can convert or its game over before you consider anything else. Just trying to answer the question - Where do you get 178 Trillion tons of air from? Let alone how you deliver it? Is a project killer. This is how I expose people when they talk about colonising Mars. Other than all the how do you get the people there issues, there's the simple logistics of where to they live when they get there. Because Mat Damon's tent form "the Martian" wont work because how does that protect from the radiation? Then there's the how to you grow food? Because Mars soil is laced with perchlorates. Where do you get water? Because plants and people need water. But the real conversation killer is: Where do you get the air? Its going to be the same for ANY planet that we want to consider as being habitable. Its going to have to have those basic things. - Size so we know its got suitable gravity. - Distance from its star so we know its got the right temperature. - A viable atmosphere that's already there. - ENOUGH water to provide a water cycle AND thermohaline circulation. - At least one natural satellite large enough to help drive the thermohaline circulation. That final point of the thermohaline circulation is something that we have only just begun to understand how it works here on planet Earth as well as how important it is for life to exist here. That's things like the AMOC and Gulf Stream that keep our planet viable. If you don't have a planet that has that then how do you build something like ? Sorry for my rant, but I really liked your video and would NOT change anything including the title. It wasn't click bait.
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  1642. Do you have a link to show that. I am not disagreeing and would expect something that idiotic in this chaos but if you make claims like that please show a link. There's a lot of heat in this and there is way too much misinformation already. Van Jones just claimed this was treason (among other things) and as a trained high profile lawyer he should know that its not treason. Its many things like SEDITION, destruction of government property, trespass, assault, theft, BUT none of it is treason and as a lawyer with a very high public profile VAN JONES - SHOULD DO BETTER. He should be clear on what this is and what this isn't. In Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution, treason is specifically limited to levying war against the US, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_States I recently saw Van Jones do a TED talk and it was arguably one of the best commentaries on the American situation, but that claim of treason is just plain wrong and he should know that better than I do. ->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w
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  1643.  @thedoctor.a.s1401  I agree. Sam is normally so well spoken and his condemnation of Hams was after October 7th spot on. But his silence since is as you put it cowardice.
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  1644.  @awolffromamongus875  Yeah - agreed. The thing for geothermal will be the same as it is for oil & gas - GEOGRAPHY. Geography is also a major issue with wind solar and hydro. Its arguably the least understood factor in the energy debate.
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  1645.  @jamesspry3294  No these are new holes in a different place that have been specifically drilled to geothermal power. The difference is they are using the same fracking techniques the shale oil people use to great the wells and instead of extracting oil & gas they are extracting heat. I don't know how they have actually done this system but a few years ago a system was tried in Australia that sounds similar. In Australia the hot rock was actually granite so it was very hard but also brittle and could be cracked. In that system they'd drill 2 holes and frack the hot rock between them. They'd pump water down one hole and as it went through the hot rock via the cracks caused by the fracking it would get hot and then come up the other hole. That system failed in the end to deliver as much power as they thought they could get and it wasn't economically viable. I suspect this new system is working because its a significant improvement in how much they can frack the hot rock and access the energy.
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  1646. YEP - I actually can't figure out why people aren't simply calling these dumb clowns out. "Oh you don't want this money to do your job? Fine, then don't go complaining when your business fails."
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  1647.  @trashkumaneko4539  The actual key to manned space flight is the life support. Its called manned spaceflight not corpse spaceflight because you want them alive and humans produce waste - waste air, waste water & waste solids. Nothing is better at scrubbing air, cleaning water and providing food as the existing natural environmental solar powered processes. I know I sound a bit like a Greenie, but spaceship earth is what we need to learn to maintain. Because in doing that we can learn how to construct systems suitable for other places. I work in automation and one of the main methods is called integration. It where you take existing solutions and equipment and "integrate" them into a new solution. We need to start doing this with our natural environment. We need to integrate existing systems into our environment. There are people doing this but not enough.
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  1648. Yeah I don't think Common Sense Skeptic has done anything for his reputation by going on a channel like this. MAYBE if it was to reach out to people on that side of political divide and get them to start questioning what they hear and see then I'd flip and give him a well done on at least attempting to reach out. BUT I will say I have found the CSS (or at least some of his staff) don't like being corrected themselves. Back on the Video "Of Rockets, Shuttles and Planes" I picked up on a mistake regarding air launched systems. I happen to have a degree in aerospace engineering. Towards the end of that video they implied that for air launched systems you had to spend (of development money) 50% on the carrier and 50% on the rocket. That's NOT TRUE and never was. In most cases companies and agencies doing air launching used available aircraft an dmodified them. CSS used the Stratolauncher as an example and that's one of the very few cases where a specialised air launcher was developed. Its the exception not the norm. I simply corrected their implication. NOT ONLY did I a very rude and snide reply from CSS but they have since deleted my comments and their own. I now reserve my right to be Skeptical of the Skeptic and his motivations. I think he's right on many many things but he's also NOT perfect.
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  1649. I think we've got a case of brain dead people claiming dead people are voting.
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  1650. HUGE FOLLOW-UP COMING. Just after this was posted the news started coming in - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in prison. How he died is unknown.
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  1651.  @tomfrench7146  Are you trying to be logical on social media? Good luck to ya mate. I'm Australian and we have had an incredible outcome that has saved 1000s of people when we compare what we've managed to most other developed nations. We are almost back to normal and we have a tiny minority of stupid selfish radicals (with extreme emphasis on selfish) howling and screaming because they just want something to howl and scream about. Almost all of our outbreaks have come from people breaking the rules. There's this shitty attitude among a small but significant chunk of our society who think that rules DON'T apply to them and that ANY RULE put on them is some sort of criminal conspiracy.
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  1652. Yeah and that's the scary thing. You got 74million who voted for Trump. You have to expect most are gun owners and quite possibly have more than 1 gun. The potential for Trump doing an Emperor Nero and letting "Rome Burn" is very real.
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  1653. They forget that the ORIGINAL Roe V Wade decision was also leaked. Jesse Dolomore brought that up with a pro-life demonstrator outside the court the other day. David Pakman covered it. Its worth watching for the reaction.
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  1654. If everything goes as it has for 4 years Trump's gonna sack him tomorrow.
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  1655. I don't mind Kyle but every so often he makes a total ass of himself and he did it today.' On multiple times he referred to Trump as a Jehovah's Witness. They don't participate in politics anywhere and they don't tolerate infidelity which Trump is renowned for. Its just such a stupid remark. Even if he was doing a comparison it would be a stupid comparison.
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  1656. That is one of the most concise summations of humanity's current state I have seen yet.
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  1657. Here's a link to the article Sagaar was talking about he other day that was done by Nicholas Wade. I would not call it the exact opposite of what David is saying, but its clearly not pro-Fauci as David is. The article by Nicholas Wade is very well done, but its a longer article than most people will read. -> https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/ In a nutshell: - There was "gain of function" research going on in Wuhan. - There was research there being funded by other nations including America. - One of the main people investigating Wuhan with the W.H.O. Peter Daszak has an obvious conflict of interest. As a result we DO NOT have a fully detailed account of what was going on in Wuhan. From that article and other professionals I have heard, I do NOT think it was a genetically engineered weapon. Most likely it was something that became modified or enhanced in the lab that got out into the general population. How it became modified or enhanced is something NO ONE has answered. Its possible it was from deliberate "gain of function" research. Its also possible it just came from an accidental mutation in a petri dish. We just don't know and one of the principal investigators has a serious conflict of interest. BUT Rand Paul is the worst kind of opportunistic maggot politician to be asking anything of such a serious subject and we wont get the answers we need with a clown like him running the show. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1658.  @gregbors8364  Rupert just didn't divide America. He's divided Australia and Britain as well. His business model is based around conflict and arguments and he'll do anything to keep those divisions fuelled up and raging because it makes money.
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  1659. Trump nominated 100s of them. Glen Kirshner started a program to track the bad decisions and start dealing with what are described as "Not Qualified" Judges. These are people who have been appointed to be judges without actually being specifically qualified. Its maybe one of the truly bizarre things of the US justice system. To practice as a lawyer means passing the Bar Exam, but there does not seem to be an equivalent for judges. If somebody else in this thread has a better explanation or description then please give it.
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  1660. Its 2021 Jeff Bezos made how much last year as he prevented his workers taking any breaks, didn't provide PPE and wont let them form a union which is against the law. It seems like America is actually run by 6th graders making Citron a step up from average.
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  1661. Your right how important this topic is. I'm Australian (and an aerospace engineer) and we have had our version of the brain drain going on for decades now. So its really interesting to here another person talk about the same issue from their perspective. One of the things that drives Australian scientists and particularly engineers overseas is the abundance of Indian Engineers available to come here and work for what they see as a good wage but is in fact a low wage by our standards. I have actually lost work to cheap Indian labor coming here. It was prevalent circa 2010 when our visa system was being abused by our mining companies. Its one of the UGLY, UGLY, UGLY consequences of what's now labelled neo-liberal economics. That's the stuff that started as Thatcherism and Reaganomics and was pushed by clowns like Bill Clinton and all his banking friends. In neo-liberal economics labor is a commodity to be bought and sold openly. For anyone interested go and look up Prof, Mark Blyth. He's a Scotsman based in America at Brown University and he works in "political economics." Its a field of study where they do NOT treat politics and economics as separate concepts but consider them as intertwined systems. So the whole concept of labor and how its being traded and how that affects politics and economies is of interest to these political economists. And for anyone wondering the rest of the economics people in industry HATE THEM for the simple reason people like Mark Blyth aren't simply exposing their BS they are explaining their BS so people can UNDERSTAND that their BS really is BS. On the huge downside of this the part where Palki is talking about the cost to Indian growth its even worse for countries even less developed in places like Africa. Every engineer, doctor, teacher, nurse, electrician, welder, plumber who leaves for the Western World is incredibly damaging. Look at the mass migration from undeveloped nations. Why are they undeveloped? Could it be that more developed countries keep taking their talent and ability to develop.
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  1662.  @CraigMcGuinn  He's counting Puerto Rico and Australia! or maybe Australia and Alberta (after all Koch Industries owns Alberta) or maybe Australia and Britain cos there's that clause in the AUKUS treaty nobody knows about yet.
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  1663. That's a bit hard to claim without any evidence, but the circumstances seem to indicate an incredible series of injustices. I'd bet more along the lines of social and or business connections. The prosecutor seems to have gone insanely soft and the fact she is NOT answering phone calls and dealing with claims of violations. The other charges against his mother seem to be very strange in that they have not been heard in a court. Overall there is something that needs to be investigated.
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  1664. Well what you are highlighting is one of the terrible aspects of modern media. Take 1 person claim they represent others and them blast them and blow the whole thing into another culture war catastrophe. Its classic right wing divide and conquer. Lets be clear about 1 thing Jesse Waters like all the Top Fox presenters is on over $1 million a year. So for him to be crapping on about the working conditions of others at or near the bottom of the wage scale is galling. Just note his own words - "you're not being forced to work. This isn't this isn't slave labor. You've you've applied for a job. You've agreed to the terms and conditions of the employment." Those are the exact talking points neo-liberals have shoved down people's throats for the last 40+ years. Get rid of unions, put everyone on individual contracts and if they complain remind them of the contract they signed. This person might or might not represent others, but lets not forget Jesse Waters is an arrogant piece of crap.
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  1665. How do people have faith that the electoral process works - charge the liars with sedition. Get them in a court and ram it home that these people LIED and that those LIES had consequences. The capitol was stormed, a police officer was killed, the flag was torn down and replaced by another flag. ALL BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE LIED and those LIES should HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
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  1666. I'd called it "Here's another Boomer claiming they know stuff!"
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  1667. If you can find it there's a staggering interview Milo gave Australian TV a few years and he described himself as a provocateur and it was obvious that the only thing he is interested in is attention. Milo is just another of these attention seeking narcissists.
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  1668. I half agree with David the emails themselves DO NOT display any clear evidence of a Lab Leak or any malicious intent. BUT on the other hand what they display is that Dr. Fauci was far more knowledgeable on what was going on in Wuhan than he let people know. We now know the NIH was involved in funding research in China - see the links below that show NIH funding of COVID research in China. BUT NOTE: None of it clearly states any of this was for "gain of function" research. What Dr; Fauci does needs to explain is why at the START of the pandemic he didn't disclose this funding. IMO - it makes perfect sense for the Chinese to be researching Corona viruses and for other nations including America to be involved. China had already had SARS1 and MERS. So researching potential "what's next" is obvious common sense. Not being open and clear about that at the start was (in hindsight) stupid. Note: The first 2 links below clearly show NIH funding with Peter Daszak (named in the Wade Nichols article) as team leader for research in China. The 3rd is a research paper and if you look for the section on funding you'll find the NIH listed. https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9491676 https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9819304 https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698
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  1669. Question to all when did any of us actually hear about all the other variants after Delta? A few weeks back I did hear about Lambda causing a lot of trouble in South America, which made me wonder. Because between Delta and Mu there's Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, Kappa and Lambda -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variants_of_SARS-CoV-2 David's right the media are NOT properly informing us about these things and when they do its more hysteria and hype than fact.
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  1670. That is a great way to put it.
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  1671.  @meowy4720  You're touching on a very touchy subject but its a subject that needs discussing and some have tried in the past and some of those people were WOMEN. Sorry for the long reply but I think you'll find this interesting. Years ago I came across 2 articles 1 is about a book written by a woman and the other was a news paper article written by a woman. Circa 2010 I read this odd book review in the Sunday paper in Perth Western Australia. I've tried to find it with no luck. It was about a book written by an American Psychologist. SHE had so many female patients with the same issues she wrote a book about it. They were all well educated, career orientated, successful types BUT with a description like the female version of an incel. She said the main problem was they judged men from the glass half empty view. It wasn't about what any man was or had or did. Their judgement was based on what they weren't. They all had these insane lists of things a man HAD TO BE and if just 1 thing was missing they were rejected. This psychologist said these women were all demanding a man that has never existed. They were all miserable and frustrated and complained about why their demands weren't being met. But that was one of the main tenements of feminism - be demanding. I'm sorry I can't tell you the book title or author. One day I really have to track it down. Circa 2005-06 Australian journalist Virginia Haussegger wrote an article titled "The sins of our feminist mothers." Its easy to find via google. She still has it as a pdf on her own website. BE WARNED that article caused a nuclear level shitstorm when it was published. Even years later you need to be careful who you wave that article at because it can be like throwing rocket fuel at a blazing fire.
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  1672.  @Adrobiel  That's a great comment. You're 100% right there's no harm in having students throw up ideas and work through them even if they work out that it won't work. You're 100% right that when people try and promote it through the media to RAISE MONEY its WRONG and the fact that we have to waste time explaining it only makes it worse.
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  1673. This reminded me of Robin Williams describing Muammar Gaddafi's line of death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0JSi17ArmM What else can this now be but comedy material. Just imagine if Robin Williams and George Carlin were still here and describing this.
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  1674. Yeah - HOW TF is she even giving him time of day after what he said about her. The same goes for Tucker Carlson after what he had said about Trump in emails and text messages. This just shows how bad these ex-Fox people are. They weren't just hopeless when they were at Fox but they are still hopeless AFTER leaving Fox. I actually have a bit (not much) of time for Megan because there's been a few times when she's brought up legitimate points that need to be discussed BUT THEN she keeps doing dumb stuff like this disaster.
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  1675. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. I have put a few more details in a comment about the Murdoch's and their issues in Australia. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  1676. You have one of the few smart answers I can see here. Clearly a lot of people here have NEVER worked in the mining industry or have NO IDEA about manufacturing, but then most of these idiots spouting nonsense have NO IDEA because they have never been involved in manufacturing or been involved in mining and I'VE DONE BOTH. I used to work in the Australian automotive sector before it shut down and have since worked in the Australian mining sector in control systems and automation. 1: There's a giant difference between finding a deposit, getting it properly assessed and then being able to mine it. Circa 2006 I worked on the construction of the Ravensthorpe Nickel project. BHP spent $3.5 Billion on the project. It was laterite nickel which is a bitch to process, but it was justified by the quality of the deposit and the value of Nickel. BHP did NOT complete a full drilling test pattern and the deposit was found to be NOWHERE near as good as the PR claimed. The mine was closed after about 18months and sold for less than 1/7th ($500 Million) its. The Lesson: Don't believe the PR hype even when its from a major player. 2: You absolutely do need Nickel for batteries, just as you need copper for the electrical cabling in an EV just as you need all the other metals, glass and plastics. Go and look at your car and see how much stuff is actually in one. If you have ever been in the plants where they make all those bits that go into a car you'll quickly understand that it takes a whole range of raw materials and lots of energy to make the bits that make a car and all of that uses lots of energy. The quickest way we can reduce emissions is to reduce how much energy we consume as a society. THE AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING SECTOR is one of the largest energy consumers because it not only uses a lot of energy making the cars it uses a lot of energy getting the raw materials out of the ground and processing that into the raw feed stock to make the parts the cars are made from. The best thing we can do is NOT replace old cars with new cars but replace the drive systems in old cars with EV and Hybrid systems. It will save huge amounts of energy and resources while keeping millions of people employed. BUILDING EFFICIENCY: The other great (and inefficient) user of energy are BIG BUILDINGS. Mark Blyth the political economist from Brown U. pointed out this a couple of years ago. Some engineer worked out that just triple glazing all of America's buildings would employ 1000's and 1000's of people for well over a decade and reduce America's emissions so much that meeting the Paris goals is easy because you can then turn off a bunch of dirty old coal fired power stations. All those big giant glass boxes are designed by architects to look pretty NOT by engineers to be efficient. Not only would it creat employment but raise the asset values of all those buildings as well as reduce the power costs all the tenants have making them more profitable. I'd like to hear an economist claim that's not a good idea.
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  1677. As an Australian who lives where we have a dual system which is similar to systems in Canada, Britain and New Zealand, here's a little clarification on this. One system is publicly owned and operated by our governments and ANYONE can walk in the door and see a doctor. Those doctors can send ANY of their patients onto a specialist. How soon those people get to see a specialist depends on the availability of a specialist. Wait times in our public system has NOTHING to do with that its a "M4A" system it has to do with how many specialists we have and how much of the specialist analytical machines (& Services - like MRIs) that are available. The other system we have is the Private system (privately owned and operated) and it is simply a matter if you (or employer) have the money (cash, insurance or credit) then you can be seen by a specialist of your choice as soon as they can see you. Our professional sports teams for instance often have specialists on retainers to keep them available. More often than not wait times in the private system are far shorter, because you as the patient can go straight to the specialist if they are available. In the public system it has to go through a system of assessment and then waiting in line for a specialist to be available. So no matter what getting to see a specialist is about availability more than anything else. Is Australia's dual system perfect? NO it has shortcomings and gaps and not everybody gets the health care they deserve. When I have talked with Brits, Canadians and New Zealanders who have similar systems we all agree on one thing under no circumstances would any of us want what America has.
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  1678.  @jan-willemvandijk3850  I'd simply say your assessment is utter bullshit. He and many others are putting the natural occurrence as less likely than a lab leak. There's actually nothing new in that the ex-head of the CDC Dr. Robert Redfield voiced this MONTHS AGO. Jimmy Dore pointed this out a few days ago. Not that I'd give Jimmy kudos on credibility at times. His attacks on Dr. Fauci are simply over the top, but he was dead right about 1 thing its all been politicized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG7Kxbfp5Oc&t=403s Now its almost impossible to discuss any answer without politics, no matter how hard anyone tries. My sort of a what if came from people attacking Bret Weinstein and his wife a few weeks back (David Pakman among them). They both have backgrounds in biology and pointed out the dismissal of a lab leak WAS NOT DISPROVEN and most of the discussion on that was political NOT scientific. David's dismissal of them was political NOT scientific. His whole monologue was about the Weinstein's re-harping a debunked conspiracy. David's got a clear bug with anyone linked to the Intellectual Dark Web. As I said repeatedly my initial view that it was natural was because several epidemiologists discounted the weapon conspiracy. Their claim was nobody has the technological skill to specifically engineer a targeted viral weapon, which some were claiming. What that answer did not exclude and it was not mentioned was the possibility of other research that might produce something that escaped. I think the most damning thing in this is that a person with a crystal clear conflict of interest, Peter Daszak was running the investigation into the Wuhan Institute. That's being called out more and more along with what "gain of function" research is actually going on and how it was being funded -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQlnnCPOxyk There could be absolutely innocent answers to all this BUT CREDIBLE ANSWERS are not on the table. Even when you look at what Congressman Mike Gallagher, claimed he's put the lab leak ahead of the wet market, but that DOES NOT EXCLUDE a natural origin from somewhere else. There's now evidence that a bunch of people who worked in a bat cave contracted something a few years back in southern China. This is a mess and until the people with vested interests are put to the side and a proper investigation happens no one will know.
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  1679. Half the problem in this is that there are some very serious issues that need to be asked of Dr. Fauci on the subject of what was actually going on at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and what involvement other nations including America had. Sagaar Enjeti (at the Hill) raised this article the other day that was done by Nicholas Wade. Its very well done, but its a longer article than most people will read. -> https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/ In a nutshell: - There was "gain of function" research going on in Wuhan. - There was research there being funded by other nations including America. - One of the main people investigating Wuhan with the W.H.O. Peter Daszak has an obvious conflict of interest. As a result we DO NOT have a fully detailed account of what was going on in Wuhan. From that article and other professionals I have heard, I do NOT think it was a genetically engineered weapon. Most likely it was something that became modified or enhanced in the lab that got out into the general population. How it became modified or enhanced is something NO ONE has answered. Its possible it was from deliberate "gain of function" research. Its also possible it just came from an accidental mutation in a petri dish. We just don't know and one of the principal investigators has a serious conflict of interest. BUT Rand Paul is the worst kind of opportunistic maggot politician to be asking anything of such a serious subject and we wont get the answers we need with a clown like him running the show. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1680. For all those years during the Cold War preached to the world about Freedom & Democracy and yet denies millions of its own people basic representation.
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  1681. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powell interview. I have left a separate answer with additional background information about why Australia is so concerned about Rupert Murdoch's behavior in America. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powell Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  1682. Its actually very common in other countries, most notably Japan, to wear masks in Flu Season. As such it wasn't a problem for them to wear masks. What has gone very bad for America is the incredible "My Rights" mentality that America has. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I love America and the American people, but you're not perfect. Of all the traits that American's have that drives everyone else crazy its the "My Rights" mentality. The Bill of Rights is one of the greatest achievements in human history. It really is and yes I get into trouble voicing that. In general I found Americans to be incredibly kind and generous, but there's also this Jekyll & Hyde trait when it comes to personnel rights. Its almost like they just snap into a hyper-defensive mode and stop considering consequences and outcomes. Way too often Americans put their own rights ahead of what's best for everyone. Listen to what David's saying around 6 to 7 minutes. Wearing masks isn't about anyone's rights its about what's best. In Australia at one point the major supermarkets simply handed everyone masks as they entered. No one complained and no one protested, it was a matter we wanted this under control and wanted our lives back. We haven't had anyone die here since late December. Lockdowns and restrictions and new rules sucked, but we are getting our lives back.
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  1683. I know its a hand grenade comment but its called trying to win the Latino vote in Florida 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1684.  @WhatNotEven  At least I can read a book. And for the record I have read many books since reading Animal Farm. Its what you get from living in a country with a functioning education system,
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  1685.  @andrewcoulthard-clark  They're worth listening to occasionally so that you get reminded how bat crap crazy they are and how damn dangerous they are.
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  1686. Yeah - there's been some times when he's made some sense. Like even in this when he made the comment that it was a crisis that big interests took advantage of. I think most sensible people would agree that at least to some extent they did. BUT THEN he goes of on the BS about natural immunity and that exposes his complete lake of understanding of what happened. I'm Australian and we have had a people comparing us to Sweden. So you know Sweden was the Western Nation to go all in on natural immunity or herd immunity as it was sometimes called. Australia has roughly 2-1/2 times the population of Sweden but (as of today) they have 23,749 deaths compared to our 19,459. If we had done what Sweden did and Russell Brand advocates we'd have over 60,000 dead and if Sweden had done like Australia they have around 7,600 dead not almost 24,000. I remember when that debate raged and all anyone had to do was compare Sweden to the surrounding countries, Norway, Finland and Denmark to see how badly they got it wrong. For those interested the real metric to look for on places like Worldometers is the Deaths/1M population. Australia's is 746 Norway's is 946 Denmarks is 1,422 Finland's is 1,614 Sweden's is 2,324
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  1687. We all get the sentiment, but someone pointed out recently that America has very specific rules about treason. It can only happen during a state of war and you have to actively work with the enemy against America. You have to remember America's constitution was largely written to prevent people being charged with treason and sedition. The reason why the 1st Amendment exists is to prevent the government simply charging people with sedition if they said something the government didn't like. The British basically used to charge people who dissented in any way with sedition and hang them. If you actively went and did things (other than just speak) against the kings interests he could charge you with treason and then they simply didn't just hang people it was hang, drawn and quartered. The entire reason the Bill of Rights exists was to prevent the government doing what Trump is doing. His supporters think he's upholding the constitution, He is the least presidential President in our lifetime if not in history. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. My few of my frat brothers were pre-law and used to love discussing the Bill of Rights with me because I had a different perspective. These day's I firmly believe the US Constitution with its Bill of Rights is one of the greatest achievements in history. It just has 1 major flaw - some very selfish people have learned how to manipulate it for some very selfish reasons. The NRA are a perfect example of that. I truly hope America finds a way past this. COVID is hammering the country. Nobody should envy Joe Biden's task. Trump is leaving him a collection of nightmares - COVID, social divisions, Climate Change, wealth disparity jobs and the economy just to name a few. Take Care & Stay Safe.
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  1688.  @PhotoTrekr  The late John McCain in regards Abu Graib and Al Qaeda had that great line about this not being about who they are its about who we are. There's no doubt that Trump needs to get put down and his close support people with him BUT IT HAS TO BE DONE PROPERLY OR THIS WONT END. Don't forget all they got Al Capone on was tax evasion, but he went to jail and died there. I don't care what they get Trump on just so long as we see him, his kids, Giuliani, Powell, Flynn and the rest of them in handcuffs wearing prison orange being taken away. What ever they go down for will never be enough to make up for the damage done and the lives lost. Trump said there would be 15 cases of COVID and it would disappear, he called it a hoax and now there are over 326,000 Americans DEAD. That's over 100times worse than 9/11. What will ever make up for that?
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  1689. I'm Australian but went to college in America. A bunch of my friends were pre-law and they used to drag me into all sorts of arguments. So I ended up with an odd take on the US Constitution. These days I get to see this from a distance and also without the emotion. I happen to think the US Constitution is one of the greatest achievements in human history, BUT it has flaws. Its biggest flaw is the system that was setup to make adjustments and maintain America is broken. The purpose of the House is to make adjustments to the laws. The purpose of the Senate is to CHECK those adjustment and make sure they are BALANCED. The purpose of SCOTUS is to make sure no laws are being enacted that infringe on the Constitutional Rights of the American people. ALL OF THAT IS BROKEN. The Constitution is NOT broken the systems that are meant to protect it and maintain are BROKEN.
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  1690. Why TF should Venezuela switch their currency? This is such American centric stupidity. The US Dollar has been the worlds reserve currency since the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944. Even after Nixon tore up Bretton Woods and the WTF eventually came in to being the US Dollar was and still is the worlds reserve currency. Most international trade is done is US Dollars. EVEN when deals are made between countries and America is nowhere in sight it still involves US Dollars most of the time and when it doesn't the deal is usually made on markets and traded through banks underpinned by US Dollars. Go listen to some of Mark Blyth's lectures on the main issue with the common currency in Europe. Yes it has benefits but also has some very bad side effects.
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  1691. AUSTRALIAN here - we have the same problem with money in politics. Its just not as bad or as obvious or "in your face" we don't care but its an issue that's getting worse.
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  1692. I was told a very similar thing by a doctor many years ago. Its one of the issues with palliative care. They eventually get to a point where the treatment is doing more harm than good. I have watched 3 members of my family die from cancer so I am familiar with cancer.
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  1693.  @ZMAN_420  That's what Thom Hartman was alluding to. He talks about this stuff a lot and interviews people who can explain it.
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  1694. To all of David's American viewers wait to you see the totally bonkers interview Trump endorsed Republican (for Arizona governor) Kari Lake just gave Australian 60 minutes that was shown on prime time Australian public TV only hours ago. ITS WORSE THAN THIS. Its already lit up Australia's online media. I expect David will cover it shortly, so brace yourselves. On a 1-10 scale for embarrassment its a 25. Australia just spent most of the last 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan supporting America. When you see the interview ask yourselves how we might feel right now. FYI - I went to college in America and have many American friends. I understand the reality of the relationship - America is our most important trading and security partner. But many Australians we are very concerned (as other countries also are) that America is NO LONGER a RELIABLE PARTNER. How is anyone supposed to have confidence when America can't hold any of these people accountable?
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  1695. No they are a threat they just anything like the threat these fear mongers make them out to be. The rhetoric in North Korea is for their own internal society. Years ago one expert on the subject and who actually dealt with them in negotiations described a discussion he had with one of their generals. He asked the general why they kept up the parades and propaganda and threats, because nobody wants war and we hate being threatened. The general let slip that they WERE NOT worried about America they were worried how their own society would react if they suddenly told them America wasn't a threat. Its the flip side of what these clowns are saying. The entire North Korean society has been convinced America is about to invade at any second so they have to go hungry and do missile drills and all sorts of other stuff to keep safe. Their generals know its bullshit and they are scared what might happen if the whole lot broke down.
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  1696.  @knockknock1246  On That we are 100% in agreement. There's so little of real journalism left its amazing. Circa 2009 I watched the second 1/2 of a lecture on late night TV about journalism. I didn't realise it for many years that the person speaking was actually a professor from my old university. I'm Australian but went to U. Illinois and only later found out that's where Robert McChesney teaches. He'd also been prominent in the 2004 documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism." What I distinctly remember him saying in 2009 was that, due to changes in the the corporate structures of the media, there had been a significant change in the way journalists work. Gone were the days when reporters went out and met people and asked questions and then wrote up what they found. The new stock market controlled entities didn't care about facts and stories they cared about advertising, subscriptions and quarterly statements. So journalists had to produce more and that meant checking less. Robert McChesney said that in the 1950s there was a ratio of journalists to public relations (PR) people of 4 or 5 to 1. By the early 2000s that had flipped to 1 to 4 or 5. He said many journalists spend there days cutting and pasting material prepared by corporate PR people into what's published. Except for things like the weather, traffic and plane crashes the news we see is largely an exercise in corporate or political PR. Even a lot of sports stories are via PR people. I bring this up with people on occasion and its amazing how few people realise it. They know something has happened but not what and it was only by chance I heard this about the PR people. One of the few channels I know on YT that does proper journalism is Paul jay's channel "the Analysisnews" and he has interviewed Robert McChesney about the state of journalism and how its become a PR conduit.
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  1697.  @signoguns8501  Yeah he's becoming another Alex Jones type of rage merchant. I once heard Jones sells up to $50 million of crap in a good year. Recent reports put his wealth a lot lower, but still he's worth millions. I wonder if that's what Jimmy's chasing now. He gave up being reasonable and decided rage was more profitable. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  1698. What a great quote to put up. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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  1699.  @ross4  Can people like you please just stop with the whole "imperialist" and "capitalist" and "socialist" and "communist" rhetoric. It does NOTHING, means NOTHING, and it just plain STUPID.
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  1700.  @ryanwalsh5019  Don't credit me it was pointed out on CNN, which I watched just before this one. I don't like CNN but if they get something right we should at least encourage them to keep trying. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1701. Actually it should become an Olympic Sport. Just imagine how much of a ratings winner it would be.
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  1702. Have any of you ever seen that classic "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century" where Daffy Duck fights Marvin Martian over "Planet X"? With these 2 egotistical clowns its going to end the same way. Porky Pig dangling of the last shred saying "big deal"
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  1703. LOU DOBBS GOT FIRED 😂🤣😅😺😂🤣😅😺🤬
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  1704. As an engineer who works in industrial control systems I can say you are absolutely right on the first point except like every process its never quite that simple. There's well trodden proverb about engineering projects. "The last 10% is harder than the first 90% and the last 1% is harder than the first 99% and the last 0.1% is harder than the first 99.9%."
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  1705.  @darkpraxis  Your right there are differences between the N-1 and Starship BUT AND THIS IS THE POINT they both have similar engine configurations with large numbers of smaller engines AND NEITHER (SO FAR) have proven they can handle engine failures in the outer ring. Look at Saturn 5, Artemis, N-1 and Starship which systems are similar and which are different and which (SO FAR) have worked. Its hard to say on the concrete reinforcement. I'm not a civil engineer and that's not my field but the photos clearly show there's rebar in the launch platform. That fact it was dead flat meaning it got the full force is the basic problem. The fact there is a small deflector in front of the fuel storage tanks is even more telling in their recklessness. Its like having the fuel fight from the film Zoolander. As I said I have a pilots license and have experience in hazard IDs & risk assessments for plant like that and its pretty damn obvious they IGNORED a lot of things and DO NOT deserve an FAA license to operate.
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  1706. I'm an aerospace engineer who works in industrial control systems and automation. After graduating I did several years of postgraduate research and I can tell from FIRST HAND experience that the entire research industry has serious issues with funding. MOST people are honest and work their guts out doing good work, but then there are those who are outright fraudsters. There's several YouTube channels dedicated to exposing that sort of stuff. I see and hear so much nonsense in engineering reporting it hard not to scream at times. This whole lab leak saga is just as bad maybe worse. The point is that science and scientists aren't 100% pure and honest. There's buckets of fraud going on and many honest people get run out of the research industries for speaking out. There's a lot been said about things going on in virology and pathogen research that is not being publicly discussed because almost every public discussion outlets - Left, Right or Centre are being delivered from a POLITICAL view with a POLITICAL narrative. Its why we've not gotten to the bottom of this mess. Anytime someone does try and say anything sensible there's some clown with a political narrative jumping in screaming and ranting. I see the same happening in engineering topics. As an aerospace engineer I can tell you most of the discussions about hypersonic missiles and Chinese Space lasers are complete nonsense BUT THEN the media is reporting POLITICAL NARRATIVE not facts.
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  1707. He seems to like it. But then some people like a daily spanking! 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1708. So as a trial lawyer would you call these guys - hopeless, useless or hopelessly useless?
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  1709.  @SolarisOmega  I'm an an engineer and seen very similar things in engineering. Companies taking on jobs because nothing else is on. That or the sales guy has taken on a new client/customer and hasn't checked what the project will actually cost. In never works out well. In engineering our main thing to start with is a specification. What the client wants and what's expected to come with the delivery and WHEN its meant to be delivered. If that isn't done right you are doomed before you start. I have been on projects that were doomed months before we even knew the project existed. Its staggering how easy it is to do and at times how hard it is to spot before hand that its a project to run from.
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  1710. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. I used to tell American friends who could be quite oblivious to the rest of the World, that: "If you're holding a gold brick in one hand and a hamburger in the other hand and offer a starving man the gold brick. He wont care. He'll just take the gold brick and bash you head in with it and then eat the hamburger." Mark Blyth the Scottish professor from Brown U. tells a story about some Apple event where they were extolling the virtues of the latest iPad and how it could help poor people improve their lives. A person in the audience simply called out "You can't eat an iPad ASSH0LE!"
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  1711. Sorry but I'm calling this out for the simple reason its Hilary Clinton. She might be right on this and considering how Trump supporters behave she probably is right, but Hilary's problem she has NEVER KNOWN WHEN TO SPEAK and WHEN TO SHUT UP. Like a few others in US politics she has had her time and now its time to SHUT UP and GO AWAY.
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  1712. I have repeatedly pointed out that in ANY OTHER COUNTRY that Trump would already have been thrown in jail and in many countries already been executed along with people like Mike Flynn, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani,... etc. Do you really think the Chinese, Saudis or Iranians would have tolerated this for a heartbeat? Think about what China did to the Tiananmen protestors and what the Saudis and Iranians have recently done to protestors. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and I can barely believe how far Trump has been allowed to take this, BUT THEN this was predictable. Although the the US Constitution including the Bill of Rights is one of the greatest achievements in all human history it has a weakness. This its the tragedy of the "American Experiment," ITS OPEN TO BEING EXPLOITED and in Trump's case being exploited by a pure narcissist. And before any of you tell people form other country to mind our own business. Sorry but Trump is our business because we all have to deal with America and an unstable America is a very serious issue for the rest of the World.
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  1713. Australian here but I was working in Saskatchewan in late 2017 on a waste water treatment plant. Little known fact is that Saskatchewan is sitting on top of one of the worlds least developed onshore oil fields. Its South West of Saskatoon sort of centered around Kindersley. The difference is that its deeper than Alberta's oil fields - about 1000m. I know this because the accommodation I had was shared with oil people. The reason I was doing a water treatment plant was so the town where it was could expand. Canada's problem is that its population has gone from 25 to 38 million and that means there's an extra 13 million people flushing toilets. Its another part of the infrastructure issues plaguing the Western Hemisphere. In some places its roads, in others bridges, others power stations like here in Australia. But in Canada its waste water treatment. Plus their roads are crap, but they do have really good rail out that way to service their potash and ag industry. That field has been marginal because its deeper, lacks a pipeline out to the world and not much else. Because of changing world politics the locals were telling me they expected Sask to boom through the 2020s if they could get past their infrastructure issues.
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  1714. Yes and No, listen to the comments by Dr. Wen about there were many things all happening at once. Add that to Dr. Birx comment about NOT learning from the first surge and you have America's real problem - a population that's to arrogant to listen. I'm Australian and we are getting to watch most of this from the outside. The one American I have seen publicly be consistent is Dr. Michal Osterholm the director of CIDRAP and he was sort of cut out after he did that 90minute piece with Joe Rogan and answered almost ever question that could be asked at that time. The other thing I see that nobody seems to mention is that certain countries got very lucky. Here in OZ lots of people are bragging about how we did things better and its bullshit - we got lucky. I went to college in America (U. Illinois) so I know what Americans are doing in February each year - going to indoor sports like high school, college and pro-basketball AND those were the perfect spreading events. Europe had things like soccer and the stadiums might be outdoor but the buses and trains they use to get to and from those stadiums are also perfect for spreading COVID. In Australia it was summer and we were all outdoors. Plus it arrived in the small gap between our summer sport season and winter sport season and we cancelled the major crowd events JUST IN TIME. I hate those Australians who wont acknowledge how lucky we got. So if you add up all the little things that were going on, Australia got lucky while others got unlucky. The real failure in America AND in parts of Europe are those screaming to rush back to normal and those howling about wearing masks. The dumbest thing any of us have seen recently is the REPEAT of Spring Break. Look at what we now know with how this thing spreads in crowded places. How stupid can you be to take a couple of million college kids from all over pack them into crowded venues for 7 days straight and then scatter them across the country. ITS CALLED STUPIDITY AND SELFISHNESS, and that's just one example of it. I hope I am wrong but I fear that America could be about to get another surge and if its B117 it could be the worst yet. To be fair we have some pretty bad examples down here that are almost as bad, almost as stupid and almost as selfish. So far we've managed to shut them up.
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  1715. When the French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracuda and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered Barracuda - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT?
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  1716. Aerospace engineer here: fabulous comment. There's been a few times Peter has gotten close but missed the mark on technology issues. Sounds like he missed a bit on the battery tech. Which begs a couple of questions. What do you know about the Sadoway Battery? What do you know about the Lithium Air batteries the U. off Illinois Chicago team did a couple of years ago. I will say this about Peter - this time he's actually dead right on the mining side for a change. Because I thought we'd be going back to the moon to mine it I went off to Australia's mining industry for some work experience. One thing I learned is that until you do a proper drill test program and confirm an ore body NOBODY should take any claim seriously. No serious investor with the kind of money needed will touch it NO MATTER the potential and that's because they have all been burned at some point by someone making a claim that turned out to be NOTHING. Peter is dead right. At best its 8 to 10 years away.
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  1717. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: News Flash. EVERY Telescope looks backwards in time. Even a telescope you can buy at the hobby store looks back in time. Even your naked eye looks back in time when ever you look up at the night sky. Every little twinkle from every star you can see is the result of photons travelling across space and time to your eye. If you look at Orion's belt there are 3 stars in a line. They are Alnitak (left), is about 800 light-years away, Alnilam (middle) is about 1,300 light-years away and Mintaka (right) is about 900 light-years away. When that twinkle from Alnitak started its way to you in the 13th Century Genghis Khan founded the Mongol Empire When that twinkle from Mintaka started its way to you in the 12th century the Crusades were in full swing. When that twinkle from Alnilam started its way to you in the 8th century the poem Beowulf was composed, Charlemagne was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III and iron horse shoes started to be used.
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  1718. From AUSTRALIA - Great to see you back mate. Been seriously wondering if something bad had happened as you just kind of disappeared. I have started joining in with the Steve Keen and Friends podcast, which is a place you should DEFINITELY do a talk. It might be a small audience but you are exactly the sort of person they like to hear from. I'm actually an aerospace engineer and would like to discuss what I know about the issues with infrastructure and in particular the energy transition which has some MASSIVE ISSUES. About 20 years ago when we looked like going back to the moon to mine it I went to work in our mining industry for some experience. What I got was a pile of experience in FUNDAMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE because that's the main task of building a mine in a remote location. Other than the big hole there's all the power, water, roads, accommodation, workshops, airfield, fuel systems and piles of other stuff that has to be built to SUPPORT the mine. Then one day I got this odd little consulting job into Australia's future energy needs and got the shock of my life to find out how much trouble we are in. That was 2017 and we are even more trouble these days, because we don't have a viable plan BECAUSE the plan is being written by economists AND NOT engineers. DO you (and also any of your listeners) realise that if we dig up all the known reserves of Lithium on the planet right now its NOT enough to replace 1/3rd of the cars? Currently there's 1.5 Billion registered cars in the world and 500 million trucks. (source Wikipedia). The current Tesla S requires about 63kg of Lithium for its battery. AT that rate we'd need about 95 million tons of Lithium to replace 1.5 Billion cars and the problem is, according tot he US Geological Society, we only have 21 million tons of reserves. There's some people who now think with new discoveries that its closer to 26 million tons, but even at that figure its not enough to replace 1/3rd of all the cars. THAT'S JUST ONE OF THE ENERGY ISSUES.
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  1719. Go watch the series on the resurrected Apollo AGC they did as part of the 50th anniversary. (its all on YouTube) Its extraordinary what that thing did. The most incredible thing was how efficient the operating system was. There's a whole video on how it worked and its amazing. Everything in computers is usually a power of 2 (as in 8, 16, 32, 64 bit processing). The AGC was 15bit and used the 16th bit for parity checking. All through out the early personal computer era systems were single task not multi-tasking. The AGC was not only multi-tasking but it was also incredibly efficient with the time it gave tasks. The program where they resurrected an AGC has lit parts of the computing world up. Its an ongoing argument among engineers that the rise on processing power and memory has made programmers lazy and their software is less efficient. The Apollo AGC has thrown buckets of fuel on that fire.
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  1720. They are Republicans if they could blame the Dems for gravity they would. I once heard a Republican blame the DEMs for making their dog stupid.
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  1721.  @pirrracy  I get your point but Pauline was a politician NOT a TV presenter like Kilmead. She was (past tense) our very own Marjorie Taylor Green and has thankfully disappeared into oblivion and hasn't been seen or heard from in a few years despite COVID being tailor made for her conspiracy bent brain. I bet she's sitting somewhere complaining about how she was a head of her time and that MTG, Kari Lake and and Lauren Brobert are cheap imitations. Maybe MTG and Kari Lake will do the same, while I hear that Lauren Brobert has a future at IVF clinics as a hands-on assistant.
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  1722.  @redrum3623  Graduated 88 in aerospace. It was a tough time, challenger had crashed and the next gen space station at that time (called Space Station Freedom) was a mess courtesy of some real idiots. I was trained to be logical and solve problems and be methodical. I'm not certain about any university curriculums these days but all the graduates I've met in recent years were short on logic, hopeless at problem solving and the only methods any of them demonstrated were in self promotion. You'd be stunned at some of the stupid stuff they do as they tell everyone how good they are. Worse is that if you do correct them on something they run off to HR howling how the bad the old man is repressing their creativity with experience and logic.
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  1723. Fine, while he's at it Jesus can teach you to spell. Its vaccine with 2 c's. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1724. Patrick Boyle did an excellent report on this and it really was a pack of children in charge of billions. He hinted towards the incredible lack of experience among them including the Chief Operating Officer Constance Wang. She gave an interview that's here on YT where she talks about leaving Credit Suisse because she didn't like the compliance training course she was doing. Just think about the logic of handing about $10 billion to an inexperienced person who's bothered by compliance.
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  1725.  @PBOperator  Sorry but that is part of the point ITS NEVER BEEN THIS EASY. What part of your brain doesn't get that?
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  1726.  @davestagner  That only works if the net effects of more ice out weigh the negative effects of energy use. As an ENGINEER this is my main issue with so many of the overly simplistic and/or unrealistic suggestions of dealing with climate change. Too many of the programs are like trying to handle an arterial bleed with a band aid. They don't deal with the actual problems and causes. You can't deal with an arterial bleed unless you also stop the person with the knife who cut you in the first place and then secondly deal with the arterial bleed in a way that you don't die. With respect to climate change we are neither addressing the causes nor dealing with fixes and repairs to the planet.
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  1727. Dr. Michael Osterholm (director of CIDRAP) put everyone into 3 groups. 1: Those who have gotten vaccinated or who plan to get vaccinated. 2: Those who haven't gotten vaccinated for personal reasons BUT THEY MIGHT get vaccinated. As in they haven't ruled it out. 3: Those who will never get vaccinated because they will never accept a vaccine for whatever reason they claim. Dr. Osterholm was fairly adamant that we have to be very careful with the 2nd group that we don't push them away and most of all that we don't force the issue. He said the first group are fine and the 3rd group we just don't have time to waste on right now. Its the 2nd group that we have to reach out to. Their reason could be as simple as they are scared. Don't forget its been a turbulent and stressful time for everyone. So its important we don't alienate them and that's the advice from one of the real experts in this field.
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  1728. Aerospace engineer here and what you are describing is exactly we have the same sorts of problems in engineering. I don't have any exact quote but there's a basic principle that the worst enemy is not the person confronting you but the person standing beside you who caused that person to confront you. The biggest problem engineers have are bad engineers who somehow worm their way into senior management despite how bad at engineering they are.
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  1729. I'm an engineer and have worked in Australia's mining industry. Its just the way the mining industry distinguishes between the corporate owned mines versus the small operations where the owner of the claim actually works the claim and usually with a lot less modern technology. If you watch any of those "reality TV" shows on Yukon or Alaskan gold mining that's considered artisanal mining. If you look at the definition of artisanal there's 2 definitions. The first refers to the work of artisans which is what most of you are thinking. The second is referring to traditional or non-mechanised methods. YES - Those small gold operations in the Yukon & Alaska use machinery but that actual sluice method of collecting the gold is the traditional way of collecting gold. They are lucky to get 60% of the gold present. The industrial methods using crushing, grinding, concentrators and cyanide leaching can get around 95% of the gold from the ore. YES I have worked onsite at a gold mine as well as onsite on copper, iron ore, uranium and bauxite mines.
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  1730. HOW LONG BEFORE ROBINHOOD gets hit with a CLASS ACTION in the BILLIONS. If they prevented people trading how they wanted to trade because a client stepped in and caused those people losses then OOPS. RH have 2 problems. First its called market manipulation and that's illegal anywhere in the world. Second there willful actions caused legitimate traders losses - class action. Finally can someone call up that idiot Keith Olberman and inform his ignorant brain about the CIA and what they did in places like Iran, Chile, Guatemala and Indonesia where they helped overthrow democratically elected governments. Yeah the whole world knows that the 2016 American election was interfered with, but many people across the world laughed at it because its what America has done to others and now America got to find out what it feels like.
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  1731. I'm an aerospace engineer who's got a private pilots license. If they use an oval shape for the pressure vessel part of the structure it won't be so bad. What makes odd or compound curves possible and easier than in the past is carbon fibre, but that also has its own issues. What will kill this is what it will take to make the passenger loading and unloading compatible with current airports. Forget the emergency evac issues there's just too many airports that remember what had it cost to accommodate the A380 and that's already disappearing from service. They wont pay for it a second time. Like everything else in engineering they have to make a business case that the economic bean counters will accept. Those guys can smell an engineer who doesn't have a sound business plan like a shark can smell a drop of blood from kilometers away and they respond in kind.
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  1732. That's why they have lawyers, teams and teams of lawyers. Until somebody actually takes them to court and criminally charges them NOTHING will ever change. Look at what's happened with the Sackler family over oxycontin so far. Look at what's happened with the Boeing Executives over the Max-8 so far. Look at what Chevron just got away with over the Steven Donziger case. Look at how the tax evasion of the worlds top 1% was exposed with the Panama papers and NOTHING HAPPENED and then was exposed again with the Paradise Papers and NOTHING HAPPENED and how its been exposed again with the Pandora Papers and NOTHINH HAS HAPPEND YET AGAIN. At this moment in history the entire Western World has fallen (or falling) into a plutocracy ruled by the wealthiest 1% who can get away with anything they want. Its just more obvious in America than other places.
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  1733. The word you might be looking for is cuckhold. Although in strictest definition it isn't but in sentiment it is.
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  1734. You forgot to mention Facebooks involvement with Brexit and the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. But there is a far wider issue with the media landscape being so concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people. It doesn't matter if we talk about Zuckerberg or Murdoch or any of the others. ITS AN ISSUE THAT THREATENS ALL OF US
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  1735. And yet somehow she graduated from college. Go bulldogs 🙁😨
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  1736. You're not alone. I'm an Australian engineer and I had this odd little consulting project back in 2015. I was stunned to find out the ACTUAL state of Australia's power stations. I watched a video today on California's looming crisis, so I did a quick look at their power stations AND ITS THE SAME STORY. When I look around the world its the same story again and again. Sorry to all if this is long but I have been on this for almost 7 years. Others have been trying to warn about this for a lot longer and nobody listens - we're just engineers. This isn't a German an Australian problem its everywhere. In simplest terms we all stopped building large baseload power stations in the early 1990s. So we are clear what I call a Gigawatt class power stations is one that can deliver in normal operation at least 1 GW (or >1,000 Megawatts) 24/7. California currently has 6 gas, 1 geothermal and 2 nuclear Gigawatt class power stations and only 1 of them was commissioned after 1990, the La Paloma Gas plant at McKittrick in 2003. In the time since they commissioned the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in 1980 California has grown from 24 to almost 40 million people. Here in Australia as our population went from 15 to 17.5 million in the 80s & 90s, we built 7 Gigawatt class power stations to meet the expected growth. The last of those was commissioned in 1999. As we went from 17.5 to almost 26 million we built NONE. Like another places we built a few smaller power stations and installed heaps of solar and wind. That's great and i love it but it DOES NOT solve the bulk supply that modern societies need. Its help mask the problem, but like the Titanic we are going to sink. It doesn't take any genius to understand the basic economics of supply and demand. If your population increases the demand for electricity increases. If supply doesn't grow to match population growth prices go up. When they used to build big power stations it was with growth in mind. In Australia we built those stations with 20 million in mind. So there's a delay between when we built those stations and when we hit the limits of their supply. Once that happened our prices haven't stopped climbing and have risen over 400% But it gets worse. Now those stations are reaching the end of their useful life. Its doesn't matter what type they are they all have an expiry date. California turned off San Onofre and Australia turned off Hazelwood along with some older small stations. We have 4 of our Gigawatt class power stations scheduled for shutdown due to age in the next 3-5 years and the rest not long after that. RIGHT NOW we haven't a single proposal to consider let alone approve let alone begin constructing. In Britain Hinkley Point C was announced in 2010, approved in 2016 began construction in 2017 and is expected to begin operating in 2027. At £26 Billion ($44B AUD) Australia would need 2 of those and 2 more 1/2 size ones to replace what we are shutting down at a cost of $132 Billion AUD. At best we might have 1 built by 2032 if we started tomorrow. CAN YOU SEE THE PROBLEM. Does rising power prices, power shortages, power outages all sound familiar? You are not alone. Does your government seem to have no answers on what to do? You are not alone. HERE'S THE REAL REASON FOR THIS. The time it takes to propose, approve and built big power stations means that no existing government (state or federal) that starts the process will still be in power when its gets approved or if they approve it when its built. So there's NOTHING for any politician to gain from asking for or approving new power stations. In fact for many politicians making no decision is their re-election strategy or "We will work on it!" is the way to win an election. If Britain had fast tracked Hinkley and maybe another 1 or 2 when they knew what the situation was back in 2010 and just got going they might be turning one on right now and avoiding the crisis. The rest of us are in an even worse state. To all, sorry for the long answer but no matter where you are its pretty much the same problem. Its not the fault of one particular politician or party. Its not the fault of the Green movement or the coal companies or the nuclear proponents. ITS THE COMBINATION OF ALL OF THEM.
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  1737. A while back Glenn Kirschner said there's a basic practice for all lawyers. When you have facts on your side slam your hand down on the table and hammer away at the facts. When you have truth on your side slam your hand down on the table and hammer away at the truth. When you DON'T have facts or truth on your side slam your hand down on the table and hammer away at anything you can AND whatever you do don't stop.
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  1738. Well nuanced thought and there's not enough of that. This is probably the single most frustrating thing about social media. Most of them seem to like starting fires and then throwing gas at the fire to see how hot they can make it. They simply aren't interested in sensible public debate to trying to promote solutions. Their MO is simple "That's a problem. Where's the gas and the matches?"
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  1739. I'm Australian and went to college in America (late 80s). I did aerospace engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and used to drag me into discussions on the constitution from time to time. I'd studied Orwell (Animal Farm and 1984) and used to argue that ANY nation could fall into a totalitarian nightmare if they weren't careful. They used to argue that it could never happen because of how the US Constitution was written. We never discussed what might happen if people like Trump, Charles Koch and Robert Mercer were allowed a free hand to do as they pleased without restraint and worst of all started dismantling the system they said could not fail. If you actually look through it then you get to a simple conclusion. These American billionaires are a bigger threat than China and Russia combined ever were. We all trade at the international level in US Dollars because that's the reserve currency for international trade and has been since we all greed at Breton Woods in 1944. If they get their way it will destabilise America and with it the US Greenback. That means chaos as in total utter maniac chaos for international trade and that hurts everyone.
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  1740. Kyle's forgetting what Jesse Ventura told them a few weeks ago. Remember what Vince McMahon told JV at the start of his commentating career "Reality is what you say it is!" Trump learned that and has exploited it for almost 7 years now. That's why his base behave as they do. Its likes an extreme version of mob psychology. Its not just getting a mob to respond to an event. He's getting the mob to respond to political spin. Everyone should go back and re-watch that interview. JV actually explained so much of how Trump operates. Trumps rallies are straight out of the Vince McMahon wrestling promotion playbook.
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  1741.  Studentofsweetscience  NO DUDE - You and all the other Trumpists are the ones NOT LISTENING. ==>> IT IS OVER Like all conspiracies you are jumping from claim to claim each gets debunked. First it was dead people, then it was the machines and now its paper. What next the magic light sensitive ink that the CIA use hide messages? ITS OVER. ALL 50 STATES have certified their results as per the Law. The Electoral College has met and voted as per the constitution. Joe Biden won and will be sworn in on January 20, 2021 as the next President of the United States.
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  1742. Just so you know what's being reported across the world is that not only has he let those 4 mass murderers go but they are employees of the brother of his Education Secretary and that's in stark contrast to his "hard justice policy of executions." He's not only broken a 130years old practice of NOT executing people during a transiting he's done it twice and plans 3 more. HOW DO I KNOW this is being reported across the world? I'm Australian and here's 3 different Australian news services reporting on this. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-12/another-us-execution-donald-trump-presidential-transition/12978184 https://www.9news.com.au/world/trump-administration-plans-2nd-execution-in-as-many-days/94f56c16-1594-4d21-bc14-542f1078b706 https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-speeds-up-pace-of-executions-before-biden-inauguration-20201208-p56lgv.html And if your wondering a quick google search gets this from the British BBC, one of the most trusted news services in the world. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55236260
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  1743.  @mgm8822  I saw your other comment. We aren't that engaged in Australia either and we get a similar result. The main difference is that we aren't as far down the path that America has taken, but we are following a similar path.
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  1744. They are hopeless the world over. I'm Australian and ours are just as bad. They are that stupid that in the last election they had advisors from Hilary's campaign involved. I've had British friends tell me the same happened in Britain. They have good ideas and then present them is the stupidest of ways. A huge part of the problem is that the left side of Western Politics is dominated by lawyers and other intellectuals, but mostly lawyers. The Clintons and Obama's in America, the Blairs in Britain and Julia Gillard in Australia. All of them are lawyers and they all come across with that intellectual superiority schtick. They all expect us to be like a jury and judge their arguments or claims as fact. They all sound great in debates and sound like they have answers but when put to the test are soft as butter and as stupid as eating a shit sandwich. Obama was one of the very few who ever had a decent slogan "Hope and Change" but then he did that stunt in Flint Michigan where he faked that sip of water and everybody saw through him. If he wasn't going to stand up then he wasn't going to stand up ever.
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  1745.  @truetech4158  You saved that twice?? But YT does that sometimes. You are absolutely right on the guns issue. The problem is how do you get around 50+ years of the NRA pumping garbage into the soft skulls of morons until it dribbles out their ears. Half the problem with America (and to a growing extent the entire Western World) is the staggering faith in ignorance that rules over politics.
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  1746. Yeah and what percentage of those are there. What we do know for sure is that vaccinated people are less likely to get infected and if they do the chances of getting seriously ill are lower. That's clear you idiot. Wake the F--K up and stop being so stupid.
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  1747.  @ProfSteveKeen  Thanks, that's a relief from the usual screaming and ranting clowns. At the moment I am getting so tired and fed up and frustrated with people who have no idea what they are talking about try and tell me to go do some research when I have actually worked in these industries.
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  1748. I'm Australian and what's so odd about your story is that its sounds so similar to stories I have heard here that every reference to "America" you could swap "Australia" and every reference to "US" swap in "Oz" and nobody would notice. Even your reference to $10K wouldn't be noticed, because that's about the same number we hear. Its even a similar to the $10K we hear that it costs to smuggle people into Australia from Asia. Other than some of those things these also a lot of very common issues and very common talking points with the entire legal & illegal immigrations issue facing Western Countries. 1) BOTH SIDES of politics use these issues to gain points in the public narrative. BOTH SIDES of politics are riddled with ruthlessly cynical bad faith actors whose only motivation is polling points. Human misery is just another stick to beat their drum with. 2) Those who have immigrated via the legal channels resent those who just arrive. They have spent huge amounts of effort, time and money doing things right and they see everyone else as cheats AND THEY HAVE A POINT. That group at around 18 minutes all said EXACTLY the same things I have heard Greek Australians, Italian Australians, Vietnamese Australians and every other flavor of Australian say to a TV camera. 3) Those who are advocates for refugees have a the similar set of common talking points. The reporter who said back to that group "the law is we have to hear and provide for everyone who seeks asylum." Just like the comments from the people she was talking to her response was EXACTLY what I hear everywhere else. 4) What I almost never hear is the actual size and scope of the problem, probably because its scary. Back int he 90s I heard people say there were 20 million refugees in the world and maybe 40million and people went nuts on BOTH SIDES. These days I hear numbers of 60-80 million and nobody bats an eye. This is maybe the biggest problem and the hardest point. How does anyone deal with that many displaced people? In so many ways the endless tropes and rants of BOTH SIDES has exhausted the rest of us. We all have enough issues without any of this. Even without COVID there's still the energy bills and other costs of living that fell out of control. Most of us just don't have time to care.
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  1749. Yeah - the hypocrisy of the right is wearing very thin across the entire world. They are so like that kid in grade school who liked to annoy the quiet kid and any time the quiet kid reacted they jumped with glee. Then one day the quiet kid belted them when they had had enough and the annoying little smart ass cried and squealed how bad they were treated. Right Wingers - what ever they say and what ever they do is just fine and fair so long as they win. If anyone else wins it was only because they cheated.
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  1750. Really how do you think I feel as an Australian. We just signed its biggest ever security agreement in our nations history AUKUS. We have just committed our nations security for the next 50years to a country that has over 70million people who believe this clown. The same clown who (on a whim) tore up NAFTA and told Canada and Mexico to go F themselves. I was actually in Canada for work when that happened. Secondly I went to college in America on a scholarship. I love America and American people, but can't stand American politics. I am deeply concerned for my friends and their families over how far this clown seems prepared to go. Just as concerning is how far other political actors will let him go to suit their ends. This Machiavellian narcissism needs to end. Its not good for America and its not good for the rest of the Western World. There are some major issues to deal with, China, Russia, Climate Change, refugees and pile of other stuff. We all need Washington to function again and be a responsible place with adults in charge.
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  1751. Very interesting comment. I'm an Australian engineer and I have worked with numerous German companies and their engineering people over the the last 30+ years. I've always seen the Germans as very pragmatic with technology yet that seems to have changed dramatically. I think what your suffering is from people so ideologically driven they will ignore common sense and reality. Both the Left and Right can doit easily. We see the American Right doing it now. A few years ago I heard how the Germans spent €1.3 Trillion on renewables to REDUCE emissions. The Greens then forced the closure of the nuclear power instead of the coal power. Instead of emissions going down they went up. Its insane for a Green party to chose higher emissions over reducing emissions and its a lot of emissions. Most of the worlds coal fired power stations are not only old they are also inefficient which means they pump out a lot more CO2 than newer technology. So the German Greens are either so ideologically driven they're blind to reality or they've been infiltrated. In Australia we've just started passing new environmental that might prevent every project unless they do not damage the environment. The problem is almost every human activity damages the environment in some way. Food production, cotton production, every metal we use including recycling does some sort of damage. The materials we make wind turbines and solar panels out of do some sort of damage. Almost everything we do, does some sort of environmental damage. I love that the Greens want to save the planet. I really do, but unless they are going to behave sensibly they have to start being practical. We need to turn the coal fired power stations off. We need to delay forcing electric cars until the infrastructure exists. We can save extraordinary amounts of energy with building efficiency like triple glazing all the office towers.
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  1752.  @jarretheller2244  Yep and its a problem EVERYWHERE. I'm Australian and we are 8 days out from election day and all we have had for weeks is exactly that from both sides. EVERY advert has been a "look what they do". Not once have I seen a "This is what we'll do." Even though we all know that politicians can't be trusted to deliver on campaign promises, this time they haven't even bothered except for a few vague policy announcements with 1 exception - military spending. Yeah were getting all our economics from Harvard too.
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  1753. I'm Australian and this result is a huge relief to us and others. I know a lot of people think its not our business but America's economy is so huge and has such an effect that when the NYSE blinks our stock markets have heart palpitations. America's security is so encompassing that when the Secretary of Defense speaks we HAVE to listen. But if any of our stock exchanges have major event it barely causes a ripple in New York. If we make any major defense announcements, unless its one of those incredibly rare events like last years submarine deal its not even noticed and my bet is NONE of you know what I am talking about with submarines. So America having common sense prevail and clowns like Kari Lake being told to take a hike is a huge relief to the rest of the world. No hopefully the rest of the GOP will WTFU and get back to some sort of rational behavior. They can start with throwing Trump and others under the bus.
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  1754. Look at how she's dressed and here demeaner (eg 6:17). She's meeting a farmer and she's not in a CNN/MSNBC suit. There's a whole series of PBS interviews under the title "Lies, Politics and Democracy" and all of those people are in suits, they are well educated and articulate. Couy Griffin is not some college professor or analyst, he's a rancher from Texas. She's not threatening, attentive, lets the guy speak and that's really important because most of Trumps base express a feeling that they have been ignored. That frustration is what Trump tapped into and he's got them to vent that frustration. America is in a very dangerous place right now. 74 million people voted for Donald Trump and he has not stopped winding them up. If you consider other times when countries self imploded into revolutions it was when the lower classes lost faith in their governments ability to simply govern. It makes it so easy for populists (Either Left or Right) to seize the narrative. They weaponize frustration. Khomeini did it in Iran, Robespierre did it in France, Stalin did it in Russia and Mao did it in China. The leadership of Al Qaeda weaponised the despair and frustration of people across the Muslim World. Populism can be very dangerous especially when the populist leader is a sociopathic narcissist.
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  1755. Yeah same here. I've never used it and don't ever want to use it. I think its the most overrated pile of hype/crap in the history of overrated piles of hype/crap.
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  1756.  @EverettBurger  well put 👏👏👏
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  1757. IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (2006) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA
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  1758.  @originalpunkSxE  I can't see Ronald's comment at the moment (YouTube?????). Your right up to a point. Glenn Kirschner who runs a YT channel and was both a JAG and Federal Prosecutor has explained the US conspiracy laws numerous times over the past year because of Jan 6th 2021. He's pointed out that a criminal conspiracy requires 2 specific things, 1) 2 (or more) parties organizing to commit a crime and 2) an overt act. He's pointed out several times that if a 3rd party comes into that group it doesn't matter what they do or don't do they can IF THE PROSECUTOR CHOOSES be held accountable for anything that happens. Like in a bank robbery if the get away driver steals the car then everyone can be charged with car theft. He's pointed out that it doesn't get used a lot because its harder to explain to and convince a jury. Its why most people don't understand that its there. Most of the time its simply easier to charge each individual with their specific crimes. He's pretty good at explaining that sort of stuff. The other good explainer of legal stuff is Legal Eagle.
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  1759.  @whyamimrpink78  We'll all do that soon as the January 6th rioters AND THEIR ORGANIZERS are dealt with.
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  1760. ONE WORD - Payoffs. That $2B is part of the Saudi's Sovereign Wealth Fund and most of it is to be invested in Wall St. Who owns shares all through Wall St? How does the company you own shares in get any of that money if you're also trying to shut it down?
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  1761.  @DejaView  America has 330 million people and with the university system it has you should expect there to be some seriously smart well educated people. The proof is in technologies that have come out of America which are pretty damn incredible. But that doesn't change the basic fact that 50% of the population (just like everywhere else) has an IQ of 100 or less. We have 26 million in Australia and that means we have 13 million people with an IQ of 100 or less and NOTHING can change that fact. All any country can do is deal with it RESPONSIBLY and make sure everyone has a fair chance of a decent life.
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  1762. I absolutely support your sentiment but this will be just another useless talk fest where politicians avoid responsibility and activists disenfranchise people with stupid childish displays of self gratification. Until we can get the money out of politics the billionaires will have control of the politicians.
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  1763. Journalism has always been rampant with self righteous and hypocritical garbage. Its why so many people have lost faith with main stream media. Look at the title to this which suggest he it was going to blow up in Fauci's face. I watched the first 2 answers he gave and they were both sensible and rational. When he answered about the 10,000 emails. Who TF can remember their last 10 emails or last 10 important emails and he's expected to remember his last 10,000. There is something he should be INTELLIGENTLY asked about on the lab leak theory. When they first dismissed the lab leak it was in response to the Chinese releasing (deliberately or accidentally) a WEAPON. And that was put down by many experts for several reasons one being that NOBODY anywhere really has the skill set to develop a TARGETED Bio-Weapon as in a weapon that targets a specific racial group. BUT he never told us about the US (via the NIH) funding of research in Wuhan. I can't say that he specifically or deliberately lied but he did withhold information of US involvement in Wuhan. He has to accept that affects his credibility.
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  1764. NAME the states that did not follow their laws? DESCRIBE how the did not follow their laws? Otherwise STFU.
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  1765. Its pretty simple for most of them. Biden and the Dems are against Putin therefore Trump and the GOP must be for him. Its pure and simple ignorant tribalism. For Trump himself its about his attitude towards authoritarian leaders. He likes them, he likes they way they operate - pure and simple.
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  1766. Would doing your BA at Yale and your JD at Harvard qualify as being among the elite?
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  1767. As an Australian who's just watched Sagaar Enjeti completely botch this story and Kyle make a bad mistake (at one point) THANK YOU for getting the distinction right Kyle makes a pretty bad mistake at 6:15 when he says Sky News doesn't have the connections. They are part of the Murdoch Empire and they certainly have the connections. For anyone interested I go over all the things Sagaar got wrong on that page in the top (pinned) comment. What he and Sagaar both screwed up is that Alan Jones was forced by Sky Management to correct himself on air. That's the first time I have ever seen Alan jones apologize for anything. For the Americans Alan Jones is our equivalent of Sean Hannity and he NEVER APOLOGIZES. The other thing they both missed was that one of the others banned by both Twitter and YouTube is a sitting member of our Parliament Craig Kelly. He's the equivalent of a Congressman in the House. He's a far far far right winger who has been in trouble several times over recent years for climate change denial and other conspiracies. He'd be right at home as Australia's US Ambassador if Trump wins in 2024. For anyone else watching we have a program called Media Watch. Its on Australian ABC our equivalent of PBS so don't be confused by the ABC it has nothing to do with the American ABC. Here's their report on this starting at 3:21 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPgDf8RFR0 This is the original story presented 2 weeks ago starting at 3:29 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df1Fnw2M6f4
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  1768.  @JB-tr6nu  The rarest thing in democratic politics is the elected officials taking away from themselves their sweetheart bonuses for being a politician. That's NOT and American thing that's an everywhere thing.
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  1769. NO PETER - we don't need reliable sources of information. 1) We need an educated public who can actually discern between fact and fiction. 2) We need some from of enforcement that is acceptable to all that can warn people about UNCONFIRMED INFORMATION.
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  1770. As an Australian let me spell these stats out to any Ted Cruz supporters who might be trolling. Before we get to the stats, let me say ALL of the times I visited Texas the people I met there were fantastic. So please pass it on that we DO NOT consider TC as representative of all Texans. Australia has 25.7 million people compared to Texas with just under 29million. So we have a similar sized population. I went to college in America and have been to Texas several times. Australia and Texas are fairly similar in geography - as in mainly flat, with similar weather. We are both reasonably spread out with a few major population centers. Most importantly the available medical technologies are essentially identical. Texas has 69,760 dead from COVID while Australia has 1,577. Based on population Texans are almost 40x more likely to have died from COVID. So please Teddy (and any of his supporters), don't tell us anything about handling COVID. And we also consider it criminal to let children freeze to death.
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  1771. Correct - they completely misunderstand the concept that freedom doesn't mean you are free to effect others in negative ways. We see this all the time with other issues like pro-gun activists (like the NRA). They protest anything and everything including background checks, fire arm registration, firearm modification for fully automatic operation, sales via mail and private sales at gun shows. They just don't care that what they want has a direct consequence on events like Sandy Hook. We also see this with free speech advocates and other things. I do support people's rights to be free and have their own opinions and say what they like provided they act sensibly and NOT selfishly in ways that threaten everyone else. Take the flat earth crowd. There are people who really believe the earth is flat - sad but true. I don't like that they speak garbage but its their right. BUT then there are those who know the earth is spherical but preach lies to vulnerable people trying to make money from them. That shite I have zero tolerance for.
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  1772.  @bidzej86  Prof. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) had a great comment specifically about Fox Media and the Murdoch family but I think it now applies across the board to some extent. Of the Fox he said "Their product is rage!" as in what they are selling to their audience is commentary to be enraged over. look at what their commentary is about and importantly how its delivered. Everything is about being outraged at what the other side does or says.
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  1773. You forgot spine, standards, morals and ethics. We could also ask for education, empathy and a few other things, but when they're that vacuous almost anything is an improvement.
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  1774. Bingo. A few days ago Brian said it was $150 million raised SINCE the election. I've seen claims of $207million since. Question to all Trump supporters - WHY does a billionaire need donations?
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  1775. Don't forget we can ask DON Jnr where to go get the first one!
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  1776.  @paulpinecone2464  I'll pay that. 👍👍👍👍👍👍🤣😅🤣😅😂
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  1777.  @amyrashap5713  Great comment. Also if you have or haven't read it Orwell in 1984 predicted the advent of Television sets with inbuilt cameras to watch the people watching TV. All of our laptops, mobile phones and even some TVs are now just as Orwell described. The only difference is that Big Brother isn't watching you BUT your friendly AI brought to you by Meta, Google, Apple, Microsoft,..... is watching EVERYTHING.
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  1778. I'm Australian and I remember those interviews. And its about time people started calling Joe Rogan out for his nonsense. He's comes across as just another college dropout who thinks he knows what he's talking about. I actually went to college in America and did aerospace engineering. They made me take a bunch of humanities classes which I hated. NOWDAYS I wished I had taken more, because I can discuss things in CONTEXT. My favorite subject right now is Energy and the crisis economists have caused. BECAUSE I did ECON-101 I can explain what they got wrong and how the mismanagement by economists has caused the energy crisis that's across the developed world. One thing I have noticed is the number of college drop outs who are NOW trouble. Look through the Tech Bros. brigade and there's a staggering list of NEVER FINISHED college. I genuinely think part of the problem with people who never finished college is they didn't have those classes where they had to deal with other people with different views. I think its also compounded because even in their early 20s they didn't think they had things to learn because they believed they knew all they needed. These people seem to have never had that moment of realisation where they found they didn't know what they thought they knew and then had to re-think.
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  1779.  @existentialcrisisactor  Go look at the photos of that boat leaving the dock in Tunisia. It was a tragedy in the making from the moment they put 700 people on board that rust bucket. Absolutely tragic, but also just as stupid as Oceangate.
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  1780.  @smokejaguarsix7757  You do understand that re-entry involves dissipating enormous amounts of kinetic energy via HEAT. Jeff Bezos wants to take iron production off planet. Way back in 2002 I met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) and he told me to look at Helium-3. I did and then went to learn about remote mining by working in Australia's mining industry and that was an eye opener. These days Australia ships over 800,000,000 tons of iron ore *PER YEAR*. At about 70% iron concentration that's about 560,000,000 tons of raw iron. The space shuttle is the ONLY vehicle ever built that can transport any tonnage at all and it could only do 14t per flight. At 14t per flight it would take about 40,000,000 space shuttle flights to bring back what Australia digs up each year. What do you think the heat dissipation from 40million space shuttle flights would do to the atmosphere? Even if you don't use a vehicle and simply de-orbit it. 560million tons of iron being dumped down on the - NOT GONNA HAPPEN. That's before we add in the iron ore production from China, Brazil, Africa,.... Sorry but most people simply don't grasp how much raw material we (the human race) consume each year. I didn't until I went out and saw the extent of it.
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  1781.  @smokejaguarsix7757  Dude maybe I didn't make it that clear. When I said I went into Australia's mining industry for experience in remote mine site construction and operation I should have said that included multiple projects in the iron ore sector. I have actually spent time on site and several mines. I usually use the example of Tom Price because its a well known mine and the math is very easy. Their trains (when I was there) were 200 carriages at 100t/carriage. At 70% that's 70t of iron in each carriage. That's 5 space shuttle flights PER CARRIAGE if you want to fly it up convert it to iron metal and bring it back down. 200 carriages = 1,000 space shuttle flights. When I was at Tom Price they did 5-7 trains per day. We have enough iron ore just in Australia to supply the entire world for a couple of centuries.
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  1782. I'm an aerospace engineer and this is painful and infuriating. We have so many REAL ISSUES and there are these absolute BULLSHlT artists who just waste everyone's time. Nobody should have to answer or explain this obvious crap.
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  1783. I'm Australian and and on one of our public discussion panels someone quoted Jonathan Haidt who said: "There's this cacophony where the Radical Left and Radical Right just scream at each other and the rest of us trapped in the middle are exhausted." Its from memory so I am not certain if I have the wording exactly right, but its all we see these days. Maniacs form BOTH SIDES screaming names and nonsense at each other. Professor Mark Blyth (Brown U.) said words to the effect that the Murdoch's main product is "rage" and that ahs spawned an entire industry. Look at how agitated and outraged Kyle gets and he's just one of dozens. Politics is now almost a case of where policy is irrelevant and outrage at some public issue is political currency.
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  1784. Don't forget that if you go far enough to the left you find people who are just as bonkers. It doesn't matter if people get radicalized to the far right or far left its dangerous. They lose grasp with reality, facts don't matter and only their tribal group think means anything. And anybody who questions the group think in even the slightest way is immediately labelled a heretic that must be purged. We've seen this in the COVID lab leak discussion in recent weeks. David Pakman had on a virologist who was very good on most points but made a terrible mistake (and I don't if it was deliberate or just a simple mistake). He claimed the Chinese were NOT working on these viruses when we know they were. For putting up a correction to what he said people went bonkers. For putting up evidence that what he said was wrong people went totally off the deep end. I know Jordan Peterson is controversial and I certainly don't agree with some of what he's said but there was a point where he was being screamed at by far left SJWs as a right wing Nazi while at the same time Right Wing nutters were calling him a left wing shill. Its certainly more obvious amongst the right (at the moment) but never forget that people on the left can be just as radical and just as bonkers.
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  1785. This is exactly why the Republicans have confidence they will be back in absolute control of BOTH houses in 2022. Its the same for other left or leftish wing parties in places like Britain, Australia, Canada, ALL of Europe,..... They get a result in an election and then turn on each other. The only difference is that if its a good result they wait a little longer before starting this crap. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1786.  @petecarroll3949  Sadly in almost every Western developed nation there is a difference between having some evidence and having enough to prosecute a specific crime. Sadder still is how people like Trump know just how far to take things so they avoid accountability. Remember despite the body count they only got Al Capone on tax evasion. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1787. ​ @pipz420  I'm Australian but went to college in America. So I know American politics and issues reasonably well. PLUS since America is our most important trading and security partner there's a real interest in having America FUNCTION properly which it simply isn't. You are 100% right on medical costs and student debt. We've managed to control out medical costs but are blowing the student debt issue almost as bad if not worse than America. But those a longer stories to explain. You are 100% right on foreign policy America needs to stop funding wars. It also needs to stop funding psychotic maniacs because its convenient. That's also a long story. You are 100% right the Military Industrial Complex needs to be reigned in and this is a major issue in Australia because we are drinking the Pentagon Kool Aid by the bucket right now. AUKUS is just 1 part of a much larger issue both our countries face. FYI - I'm an aerospace engineer (U. of Illinois) and the problem isn't the stuff our governments buy whether its military hardware, infrastructure or other stuff ITS THE COST. As a profession engineering has been hijacked by a collection of economists and lawyers and charlatans who have become incredibly adept as rorting projects in both the Government and Private Sectors. That's a really long discussion and I hope to be on an economics podcast shortly to explain it. So you are right on the problems BUT Sadly I don't think RFK is going to be able to solve any of them. He's already tied himself to big tech with his VP candidate and Big Tech is as much of a problem as anything else on the planet. But then Biden and Trump can't do the job either. America needs a generational change away from where it is AND SO YOU KNOW so does Australia and many other countries.
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  1788. I agree there's a a lot of nonsense in the public discussions on gender issues these days. But I am stopping when the opening remark is so idiotically bad. She said in respect of birth control "so the contraceptive pill is the first transhumanist technology it's the first major widespread, um, social you know biomedical Intervention which aims not at fixing something which has gone wrong with normal Health but upgrading normal." Sorry but that is utter BULLSHlT. People have been practising various forms of birth control going all the way back to Ancient Egypt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_birth_control
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  1789.  @invaderjoshua6280  Oh you have to be a farking zoomer with that sort of comment. WTF is an "older millennial"? 30 isn't old. I'm an Australian Gen-X who went to college in America. I was raised on metric and had plenty of fun explaining it to my Gen-X class mates. FYI - I did aerospace engineering. And yes I know all about a couple of space probes where they got metric & imperial confused. How did Jim Gaffigan put it? "Metric is so hard. Dividing and multiply by 10s is so confusing." In future be careful with metric comments until you know which country people are from.
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  1790. I'm Australian and ha heard about what was going on with organised crime gangs destroying sections of Romanian forests. What I didn't know was 1) How important Romania's old growth forest was to Europe, and; 2) That IKEA was involved. Here in Australia IKEA is regarded as this fun kit furniture created by innovative Swedes.
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  1791. @Wallace Carney I here that answer very loud and very clear. When I first graduated and landed back in Australia with my fancy degree from a top shelf American college I was greeted with the news the RAAF were not going to build its new basic trainer in Australia from an Australian design and instead were buying Swiss Pilatus PC-9s that didn't meet ANY requirement listed in the RFP. It became Australian official policy and doctrine to get everything made somewhere else. The truly stupid thing is as a nation you lose that skill set and getting industrial skill sets back is damn hard.
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  1792. Here's 2 things 1: Curing the insane ignorance in people who give million and millions of dollars to the snake oil salesmen like Ken Copeland, Creflo Dollar, Jim Baker and others who also get them to vote for people who do nothing but pander tot he billionaire class. 2: Getting the educated but ignorant suburbanites who keep voting for people who do nothing but make their lives precarious to wake TFU and realise these people they keep electing do NOTHING for them because they are also pandering to the billionaire class.
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  1793. ENGINEER HERE: This video that Thunderf00t is busting is so egregious the entire ASAPScience channel should be BANNED from YouTube for peddling misinformation. As an engineer I find this sort of stuff incredibly frustrating because we end up having to WASTE TIME explaining why its BS instead of discussing solutions that can actually do some good. I have worked with electric motor controls for 30+ years and the idea of using regenerative braking to power CO2 removal is so idiotic its barely believable someone would publish something this stupid.
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  1794. For anyone who knows people who think this is acceptable in any way please direct them to Matthew Chapter 7. For those who might be less familiar its the last 3rd of Jesus Sermon on the Mount. To most Christians the Sermon on the Mount is a fairly important speech. Its got some of Jesus famous sayings like "Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy." But Chapter 7 is different. Its not about the hungry, sick, tired or how to be good. Its mostly about identifying fakes & frauds. Its as if Jesus knew people like Greg Locke would come along. So he told people what to look for.
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  1795.  @Yada500  I agree Dr. John makes mistakes but the whole cult building claim is just nonsense.
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  1796. As an aerospace engineer I can tell you quite simply the problem isn't IF or WHEN the problems are how we keep people alive up there and we get people to & from the moon reliably. These are 2 problems that have been well understood for decades. I have a classmate who is now quite high up at NASA in the ISS management program. Basically she is has one of a couple of signatures that without your stuff doesn't go to the ISS. About 20 years we were arguing over the ISS and slow it was progressing and what that meant to go back to the moon and then possibly beyond. She was very blunt about 2 subjects. Until we solved the issue of life support and the issue of propulsion NOBODY was going beyond low earth orbit. If you go through the math a 1/4 pounder is about $10k to get to the ISS. You need to multiply that by 100 to get it onto the moon. We all take for granted that the Earth cleans our air cleans, our water, deals with our sh*t and provides us with food. We need to able to replicate those basic functions which when you get into them are damn complex. This is what Elon Musk and his fanbots wont listen to when it comes to the Moon or Mars. This what so many of the other fan based programmes wont listen to. Then on propulsion, so long as we are limited to chemical rockets for orbital transfers then mass is a problem. There's a reason why Buzz Aldrin's LOR (Lunar Orbit Rendezvous) was the mission profile that won out. Its optimises the mass transfers and reduces the fuel required. Go watch Don Petits the "Tyranny of the Rocket Equation" TEDx talk to get your head around that. If you break it down as Buzz did the requirements of the vehicle needed to land on the moon is radically different from the requirements to go to and from the moon. Its better to have separate vehicles for those tasks. Its why Elon's Lunar Starship is actually a bad joke he's pulled from B-grade 1950s sci-fi. The reason why Apollo worked was because they stuck to the functional tasks required. Remember the task was "put a man on the moon then get him back safely." It wasn't, lets do a parade and tell everyone how big our rocket is or anything else. They made small improvements each mission without causing issues. That final Saturn V was actually smaller than the 8, 10 & 12 engine behemoths that other mission profiles like EOR (Earth Orbit Rendezvous) called for.
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  1797. As an engineer speaking as calmy as I can. Can people like you STOP regurgitating the PR and spin coming out of the fusion community. For the last 70 years they have been saying that fusion was only 20 or 30 years away. Yes there is progress being made but the facts don't indicate ANYONE is near to commercial operations. The ITER project is years behind. The Stellarator which has shown some promise is only experimental. If we really did make the giant push and did an Apollo like approach where a deadline was set then maybe we might see something in the next 20 years. Also don't ignore one of the biggest facts regarding nuclear fusion - its NOT as clean as the proponents suggest. The main mechanism it generates heat is with high energy neutrons and high energy neutrons are among the worst forms of radiation known. high energy neutrons tend to fly off like atomic bullets and in a human those bullets tend to smash DNA and that either kills cells or causes cancer.
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  1798.  @skylarkesselring6075  DON'T LECTURE PEOPLE WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT I have over 30 years of automation, robotics and control system experience. I have a degree in aerospace engineering and the second highest qualification for safety engineering available anywhere. I have also worked with vision guided robotics, but only in a limited way. I ACTUALLY KNOW what I am talking about and you are just repeating PR. I'm tired of trying to explain how clowns like you who have caused disasters like the Boeing Max-8 because people like YOU refuse to listen to answers you don't like. If the software systems you claim are so good then how did the Max-8 crash and crash TWICE? Its infuriating to be lectured by yet another moron who has no grasp of the difference between the fantasy world of gaming and the real world of flesh and bone where there's NO reset button. In my work we don't get 2nd chances and we have NO TOLERANCE for fools - they get people killed. I can tell you're not an engineer because you're repeating garbage PR. You certainly know NOTHING about real time sensor & evaluation systems let alone safety related systems. Learn to think and reason in future.
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  1799.  @fica375  Good comment, unlike some others. I don't mind his assessments. In fact I think they are important to hear. What I do mind is people ignoring what his side of the conversation is about. Peter Zeihan pointed out several times that PART of Mearsheimer's assessments are also incredible ignorance. YES we need to give Putin a way out, but NOT on his terms. Yanis Varoufakis made that point out a while back and quoted Sun Tzu's "golden bridge". Either give Putin a way out or he'll flatten Ukraine just as Mearsheimer predicted back in 2017. Zeihan points out that Mearsheimer ignores that Putin has said he wants to dictate the security of almost 20 nations with a combine population of around 270 million people and that those 270 million would NOT have a say in it. Here 53:44 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdP01go8wdQ
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  1800. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and they used to drag my ass into all sorts of hypothetical arguments. I think they did that at times because I had different background and views on things. So I got an interesting education in the US Constitution. After coming back to Oz I met many Americans and we always had interesting conversations about some of these things. All these years later I am convinced of 3 things. 1: The US Constitution is the best Constitution that any Nation in history ever constructed. Australia, like Canada, New Zealand and a few others inherited a lot from Britain including many obscure things which do cause us problems. The Founding fathers dumped a lot of stupid stuff and that allowed America its extraordinary growth. What America's done in a little over 200 years is extraordinary. America helped take humanity into the sky, then into space and then to the moon. 2: The Greatest threat the US Nation (its people and constitution) isn't Russia, China communism, socialism or any other ism or nation. Its Americans who are bent of getting what they want irrespective of any damage or consequences it does to America. Every country has those sorts of people but with the US constitution American citizens have very few restraints on what they can do. When it works well America booms like it has with the computer age, but when those people are damaging then there's almost nothing to contain that damage. These militias and the NRA being are just 1 example and that has effects outside America. America's corporations are another example and America's agencies like the CIA are another thing entirely. 3: A healthy functioning America is in the best interests of the entire Western Democratic World. Whether anyone wants to consider the economics, trade, political freedom and a host of other things America has is huge influence. Lets not forget that the worlds other 2 major powers Russia and China are both run by absolute dictators with almost no restraint to what they will do to any opposition. Putin has had people he didn't like assassinated, sometimes when they are in other countries. Xi Jinping has started a genocidal program of an entire culture that doesn't fit with his view of the world. Chinese advocates are publicly stating on social media *like YouTube) how they will crush the America and the Western World. Right now I'd encourage every America to consider 2 words "healthy" and "functioning." Is it "healthy" to have a mother give her 17year old a gun (any gun) and let him lose on the street? Is it "functioning" for a justice system to have a judge to refuse a legal advocate to state the case that 2 dead people are victims of a crime. I'd ask that of any of my frat brothers who are lawyers. How is it that even possible. The basic function of all justice systems is to allow parties (or their advocates) to state their case and have it judged. What do you call it when a judge allows one side to call the other side whatever it likes as he restricts what words the other side can use? I truly hope America can find some political leadership that has the backbone to sort this mess out. Because I absolutely believe that a "healthy functioning" America is in everyone's best interest.
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  1801. Great sentiment except that the thing everyone should have realised by now is that no matter what democratic country you want to talk about the party in power will do anything to avoid anything embarrassing coming out and the party in opposition will do anything to make sure that it does come out. A while back David used the term "toxic sport politics" he didn't define it but from the context it was referring to the endless news cycles of politicians not caring in the slightest in running their country and only being interested in winning the current news cycle no matter the cost to human decency or the nation they claim to care about. National security has nothing to do with anything anymore other than being a quaint talking point used like a special teams gimmick play.
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  1802. WHAT THEY DON"T SAY ABOUT KEPCO the South Korean company that makes the APR 14000 nuclear reactors. 1) Kepco were caught falsifying records, test reports and other paperwork by the South Korean Government. So forget it as a "Reliable Supplier" 2) The reactors built in the Middle East took a similar time (8-9 years) as the American designed AP1000s took in China and if you look at actual construction time (without the standdowns) it was also similar to what it took at Vogtle in Georgia. I am in favor of nuclear power being PAR of Australia's future BUT IT HAS TO BE DONE RIGHT and for the RIGHT REASONS.
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  1803. You forgot Cheney, Wolfowitz, Blair (Britain), Howard (Australia), John Yoo (the author of the torture memo) and about 20 others from Iraq and Afghanistan. Unfortunately we missed out on charging Powell and Rumsfeld, but their names should be included so that history doesn't forget what they did.
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  1804. Of course you shouldn't get medical advice from a comedian. You're supposed to get it from Social Media Influencers like all the other geniuses do.
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  1805.  @alwayz247  Correct on all points but I'd add or alter that the legal system WONT touch them rather than CAN'T.
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  1806.  @alwayz247  Yeah our legal systems. After several 1000 years of refinement where we progressed step by step to make all men equal we have arrived back at the start. The Kings, Emperors and Nobles are exempt from the law while they persecute us peasants with it at every opportunity.
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  1807. The late great Joan Rivers said of Bo Derek "She's so dumb she'd need to study for a pap test." I wonder what Joan Rivers would say of Tomi Lauren, because Tomi makes Bo Derek look like a genius.
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  1808. The real question is who got this money? It wasn't Rudy Giuliani because he just claimed Trump owed him money in his bankruptcy documents.
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  1809.  @sporer_  Really? Only 25,000??
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  1810.  @machinethinking  Aerospace engineer here and I absolutely agree on this sentiment. My goal in life was a moon base as was many of my classmates back in the late 80s. We truly believed we'd build Space Station Freedom and then go back to the Moon. Then 1 morning Challenger happened. Irrespective I haven't given up the hope we'll get there and a couple of you videos have brought real clarity to what we'll need to do to build a moon base. Its a simple matter that we can't simply fly everything we'll need to the Moon. Its the simple cost. By various estimates its between 1,000 and 1,000,000 times more expensive to put 1kg on the Moon than it is in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). I do industrial control systems and I can tell you that copper is heavy so wiring up a Moon Base like its the Rebel Alliance snow base in the Empire Strikes back or any other Sci-fi movie is JUST NOT GOIGN TO WORK unless you can get the Copper locally. The same goes for all the other stuff we'd need. But we will need to make things that go together with parts made on the Earth. So one of the most important items that MUST GO to the Moon is a set of Johansson Gauge Blocks. I would NEVER have known that without your video. There's a pile of stuff I have learnt form your videos and unfortunately due to circumstances I can't do a lot more right now than thank you and offer my encouragement to keep doing what you do.
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  1811. What America needs to accept is that it HAS held former leaders accountable before this - its just none of the were the leaders of America. Most famously they held the Nazi leaders accountable after WW2 and more recently Saddam Hussein who they handed over to an Iraqi puppet government run by America. In 2003 America offered a $2 million for the capture of ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor who was later captured and tried for his crimes. If you really want to go into American self righteousness with respect to other countries look at Reagans 1983 invasion of Grenada. Then there's the fact NOBODY at a senior level was ever held accountable for the atrocities of Abu Ghraib and other incidents in Iraq & Afghanistan. America is very good at holding foreign leaders accountable and pathetic at holding its own accountable.
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  1812.  @drewking250  If you really want to freak out then work out how many nuclear detonations it takes to heat the planet up just 1 degree. FYI - I did aerospace engineering and we once had a NASA guy do a special lecture on planetary sciences. He'd done a research project where they tried to work out what it would take to make Mars habitable. Their conclusion was "its effectively impossible" planets simply don't take being forcibly changed. That was 30 years ago so I did an upgrade a while back regarding what we have now effectively managed to do. The surface area of the Earth is just over 510,000,000 km^2 and if you take just the first 1km of the earths atmosphere you pretty much have 1/2 a billion cubic kilometers of air. Its pretty straight forward to calculate how much energy it takes to heat that from say 20 to 21 deg. C and yeah its a big number with lots of zeros. Its just as easy to divide that number by the published energy release from something like the Hiroshima bomb. So its pretty easy to estimate how many Hiroshimas you need to let off to heat the planet up by a degree. Its a very scary number and makes no sense until you realise that up in the sky is a mega huge nuclear fusion reactor beaming energy at us and all you need to do is trap a bit extra for a century to start making some very serious changes. This is why Venus although only being just a little bit closer (in astronomical terms) is also massively hotter. Heads up if you do that calculation don't go trying to explain the number to average people. They can't comprehend the answer let alone understand what it means. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1813. Who else has come back to watch or re-watch this after Jan 6th 2021?
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  1814.  @jmb3d  I think its timely reminder that we all need to watch for that.
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  1815. I'm Australian and was in Canada for work around the time Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs. At the time there was a scandal over a government labor contract and the Paradise Papers had exposed many of Canada's elite for institutionalized tax evasion. All that stuff sounded just like here in Australia except our elites were caught up in the Panama Papers. I keep trying to tell people that all these sorts of things are the same everywhere. Look all across the Western World and you will find the same sorts of stress, anger and frustration. Mark Blyth the Scottish professor at Brown U. calls it Angrynomics - the effect generated when most people in the country believe the economy no longer benefits them.
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  1816. HEY SLEEPY HEADS. WE KNOW AND HAVE KNOWN since Snowden blew the whistle.
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  1817. Yeah that was my immediate thought. When did this guy EVER walk into any store that the other 99% of humanity use. At best the only time this guy bought Tylenol was when he was at Tiffany's buying his next Rolex and got so confused over which one he needed a Tylenol and Tiffany's sold him one in a silver box with gold inlay.
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  1818. Good I'm not the only Aussie watching Kyle. Good points all round, I just watched Saggar Enjeti over on Breaking points make a mess of this. Kyle even makes a pretty bad mistake at 6:15 when he says Sky News doesn't have the connections. They are part of the Murdoch Empire and they certainly have the connections. What he and Sagaar both screwed up is that Alan Jones was forced by Sky Management to correct himself on air. That's the first time I have ever seen Alan jones apologize for anything. For the Americans Alan Jones is our equivalent of Sean Hannity and he NEVER APOLOGIZES. The other thing they both missed was that one of the others banned by both Twitter and YouTube is a sitting member of our Parliament Craig Kelly. He's the equivalent of a Congressman in the House. He's a far far far right winger who has been in trouble several times over recent years for climate change denial and other conspiracies. He'd be right at home as Australia's US Ambassador if Trump wins in 2024. For anyone else watching we have a program called Media Watch. Its on Australian ABC our equivalent of PBS so don't be confused by the ABC it has nothing to do with the American ABC. Here's their report on this starting at 3:21 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPgDf8RFR0 This is the original story presented 2 weeks ago starting at 3:29 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df1Fnw2M6f4
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  1819. NO he actually called them "nasty" as well, but yeah you heard it right. Lets not forget it was recently disclosed that as he was going after Bill Clinton over Monica Lewinsky, Newt Gingrich was also having an affair. Then there was that infamous chunk of money from Rupert Murdoch for a future book.
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  1820. Actually North Koreas official title is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea often abbreviated as the DPRK. They weren't the only dictatorship to do this during the cold war. East Germany was infamously the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) or in English the German Democratic Republic (GDR). These are just labels people put on their causes. How many times have you heard a terrorist organisation calling themselves some sort of "freedom front." Its more notable among the Left than the Right. Look at how the left hijacked the word "woke" in recent years. For decades it was used to specifically apply to the economic plight of African Americans. Now it means anything the social justice warriors want on the day. The Right don't do it as often but when they are given the opportunity by the Left like they have with "woke" they will scream and rant about it every chance they get.
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  1821. If Americans believe in democracy its a no brainer. Did or did not the American people introduce POTUS as "Leader of the Free World" and the "Champion of Democracy" for the entire cold war and afterwards? Funny how America fought Wars in Korea and Vietnam and other places in the "Name of Democracy" and yet have denied democracy to Puerto Rico the entire time AND STILL DO. Maybe the rest of the world should put sanctions on America unless they give Puerto Rico FULL democratic representation.
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  1822. HEY DAVE INSTEAD OF YET ANOTHER LOOK HOW TERRIBLE HERSCHEL WALKER IS VID. How about you show just one video of something or anything Raphael Warnock has done or said. Your the guy who raged about "toxic sport politics." So why don't you do something, anything positive.
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  1823. I'm Australian and have been around guns most of my life. In the past I have competed in both small bore and big bore rifle. We went through this in 1996 after Port Arthur. One of the defining parts of that horrendous day was the execution of Nanette Mikac and her children, Madeline, 3, and Alannah, 6. The sight of those 2 tiny white coffins at the funeral is seared into our collective conscious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia)#Toll_booth_murders_and_carjacking Of note before Port Arthur and the gun by back Australia had one a single Olympic shooting medal in 100years. Since that time we have won 10 medals, 5 of those gold and 2 of those gold by women. Yes since that time we have had shootings and a few of those were horrible family murder/suicides. But neither Canada, Australia or the rest of the western world is like America. Someone the other day mentioned Canada so I checked Wikipedia. They list massacres (of all types) and since 1986 Canada has had 10 massacres with 7 involving guns. The American list FOR JUST mass shootings has 14 so far this year and that's only because there's multiple definitions in America of what is and isn't a mass shooting event. On PBS last week during the Brookes and Capehart discussion they said 3,000 - so far this year.
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  1824.  @lrvogt1257  Where do you get that figure of 300-400 million from? I'm not saying its wrong and its an incredibly important factor that is rarely discussed. The one nuclear site where cost data is/was being published for a while was the clean up of Sellafield in the UK, but it wasn't just a a power station it was a processing facility as well. Plus its a fairly dirty site and was where the 4th worst nuclear incident in history happened - the Windscale Fire. So its costs might not relate to other sites. A report in 2018 said that its currently almost £1bn over budget and is due to be fully decommissioned by the year 2120 at a cost of £121bn.
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  1825. ​ @purplepill2024  And there's a reason it all sounds the same - ALL of the Economics courses around the world teach the same basic curriculum. Many use the same collection of text books written by people AT Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford,..... and PUBLISHED by Harvard Press, Yale Press, Cambridge Press, Oxford Press,..... or WRITTEN by GRADUATES of Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford,..... This is also why NO MATTER which party gets elected in any of the Western Democracies NOTHING CHANGES. All of those elected officials have economic advisors who were all trained the same way and they give the same advice. When it comes to economics there really is only 1 VOICE in the room. That voice goes by many names and has a variety of shades but in the end its all just shades of the same some color. FYI - I'm an engineer who did all of 1 economics class, which I know regret that I hadn't done more because then I would have been better equipped to handle the economics clowns who now plague engineering. You mention prisons. The reason I got interested in economics was power stations. Back in 2016 I had this odd little consult job and discovered just how bad Australia's energy situation is AND STILL IS. We have NO PLANS to replace anything and no matter what anyone does you have to eventually replace power stations because they simply wear out. What's holding it all up are the economists who want the government to do nothing and "let the market correct itself" because that's neoliberal doctrine.
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  1826. What do they say: "Not all cryptos are scams. Some of them are Ponzi Schemes and Pyramid MLMs Business Arrangements AND everyone knows someone, who knows someone who made heaps cos they're so awesome."
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  1827. John Fetterman isn't the only person pointing out the discrepancy between the last time there were high oil prices and this stuff. I'm Australian and we are having the same issues here AND it involves companies like Chevron who's a major player in our oil & gas industry. In a way I see this as them punish our countries for electing people who want to get us OFF fossil fuels.
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  1828. Clearly a lot of people here have NEVER worked in the mining industry or have NO IDEA about manufacturing, but then most of these idiots spouting nonsense have NO IDEA because they have never been involved in manufacturing or been involved in mining and I'VE DONE BOTH. I used to work in the Australian automotive sector before it shut down and have since worked in the Australian mining sector in control systems and automation. 1: There's a giant difference between finding a deposit, getting it properly assessed and then being able to mine it. Circa 2006 I worked on the construction of the Ravensthorpe Nickel project. BHP spent $3.5 Billion on the project. It was laterite nickel which is a bitch to process, but it was justified by the quality of the deposit and the value of Nickel. BHP did NOT complete a full drilling test pattern and the deposit was found to be NOWHERE near as good as the PR claimed. The mine was closed after about 18months and sold for less than 1/7th ($500 Million) its. The Lesson: Don't believe the PR hype even when its from a major player. 2: You absolutely do need Nickel for batteries, just as you need copper for the electrical cabling in an EV just as you need all the other metals, glass and plastics. Go and look at your car and see how much stuff is actually in one. If you have ever been in the plants where they make all those bits that go into a car you'll quickly understand that it takes a whole range of raw materials and lots of energy to make the bits that make a car and all of that uses lots of energy. The quickest way we can reduce emissions is to reduce how much energy we consume as a society. THE AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING SECTOR is one of the largest energy consumers because it not only uses a lot of energy making the cars it uses a lot of energy getting the raw materials out of the ground and processing that into the raw feed stock to make the parts the cars are made from. The best thing we can do is NOT replace old cars with new cars but replace the drive systems in old cars with EV and Hybrid systems. It will save huge amounts of energy and resources while keeping millions of people employed. BUILDING EFFICIENCY: The other great (and inefficient) user of energy are BIG BUILDINGS. Mark Blyth the political economist from Brown U. pointed out this a couple of years ago. Some engineer worked out that just triple glazing all of America's buildings would employ 1000's and 1000's of people for well over a decade and reduce America's emissions so much that meeting the Paris goals is easy because you can then turn off a bunch of dirty old coal fired power stations. All those big giant glass boxes are designed by architects to look pretty NOT by engineers to be efficient. Not only would it creat employment but raise the asset values of all those buildings as well as reduce the power costs all the tenants have making them more profitable. I'd like to hear an economist claim that's not a good idea.
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  1829. You are sadly right. Just have a look at the toxic ignorance of ZombieNinja Ted Smith who's comment (that was right below this one) is just a stupid childish finger point. BUT Sadly this is not an American thing. I'm Australian and our politicians are no better and their followers are no better. They don't take it as far as Americans do, and we aren't YET as toxic, but we are getting their. Don't forget Rupert Murdoch was born bred and raised in Australia. Before he arrived in America he had done the same in Britain and Europe. He has taken his media lead poison to the rest of the world. Plus as he has done it he's dragged many other competing services into the same toxic swamp. The documentary "Outfoxed" warned about that
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  1830. NO its NOT criminal its exactly how safety in the engineering fields work. No matter how well qualified (and I am qualified in safety engineering) we get OVERRULED by those who are not qualified and at times SACKED for speaking out, which has happened to me. We now live in an era where qualifications, experience, standards and regulations ARE OPTIONAL and in many aspects they are seen as NEGATIVE QUALITIES especially by certain types of people. This is PART OF the whole deregulation mantra of the business world and economists that started with Reaganomics and Thatcherism that preached Chicago School economics from people like Milton Freidman. In one of Milton Freidman's books he argued against regulating and licensing doctors. He claimed people would work out who were the good doctors because their patients would survive and therefore it would be better to let market dynamics rather than a regulatory framework decide what was best practice. That's exactly how the Americans reduced the FAA into ineffectiveness that lead to the Boeing Max-8. Its exactly how other regulatory bodies have been chopped down to the bone and lead to other disasters.
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  1831. I'll give you an example of a valid point that then missed the target. Konstantin pointed out the poor people of Asia and South America. Forgetting that he also ignored the poor of Africa he argued Britain has no influence. That is complete and utter BULLSHlT and is the same crappy argument that's used here in Australia by the pro-coal lobby. I just saw (only yesterday) a very good documentary on the world wide tax evasion industry (see below). Its almost 90minutes long but totally worth the time. Part of it covers the City of London and why its such a massive part of the tax evasion industry. There's a really insidious part to the tax evasion industry that deprives poor countries of tax income they could use to develop. I can understand why Konstantin might not know this stuff because I didn't until yesterday. I knew that London is called the "London Laundromat" because of what it does, but I didn't know some of this stuff. Way back in 1066 when William the Conqueror invaded he DID NOT capture London, but negotiated a treaty that is still in place today almost 900 years later. The actual City of London is 1 square mile marked by the old city walls as they were in 1066. The treaty was that London would surrender to William the Conqueror BUT it would get to decide how it traded with the rest of the world. When computerised off shore banking came along they used that treaty in a very unusual way. A real human trader sitting at a desk in London could be making trades but the actual trade is regarded as happening on a computer somewhere else. They gave an example of bananas from Guatemala. A trader in London buys banana's in Guatemala for very low prices from the local peasants using a company registered in the Cayman's. That company then sells the bananas in America or Europe marked up like 100 times the price (sort of thing). There is no one doing any work in the Cayman's there's just a computer there being remotely accessed. The farmer is in Guatemala, the trader is in London and the customer is in New York, Paris,.... etc. The trader pays no tax on his work because its regarded as being done in the Cayman's. The company he works for pays no tax because their profit is regarded as being made in the Cayman's. The farmer is getting ripped off, the Guatemalan Government gets no tax income, the British people get no tax income and its because of a 900 year old treaty with obscure conditions written in very old English. So when Konstantin says Britain has no influence its garbage on so many levels its hard to consider if he's ignorant, stupid or deliberately obtuse. These countries are poor because countries like Britain are keeping them poor. This is the link to the documentary on Tax Evasion -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6O3US9IE4
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  1832.  @MichaelAronson  Actually that episode where they didn't hold Nancy Pelosi and others drove a lot of people on America's Left wild at the time. The difference was they didn't lose their minds the way Jimmy Dore did. As for being Dore knob (nice pun) when he was having sensible conversations AND HE WAS Jimmy was fine. But then he just started howling crap into the microphone and it only got worse and worse. I haven't watched a thing he's put out since that time, which was a couple of years ago. Stories like this only confirm he hasn't changed. There's been times I got tired of others too and stopped watching them for a while, when all they would do is vid after vid of nothing but howling rage. Its why I stopped watching TYT. Yeah Cenk & Ana are fairly smart and mostly make sense but I just can't stand the constant howling even if they are making sense. At least they don't talk idiotic SHlT like Jimmy Dore does.
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  1833. Put it this way if you were ever being charged with a crime would you want him or another pro-defendant person as the judge? In a way I am kind of pissd off at legal eagle for having made a sensible argument and rational explanation, that's made me re-evaluate this. Do I think Kyle Rittenhouse deserved to go to jail for killing 2 people? ABSOLUTELY, but as Eagle boy has shown in this and the other video he did, it has to be for the right reason. You have to charge a person with the RIGHT crime not the crime the mob thinks. I think a few others have claimed the prosecution was bad and misguided and I tend to agree with those assessments. It will be interesting to see what happens next. After the Rodney King trial there were federal civil rights cases. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1834.  @jwatson181  2 PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND YOUR SAYING THERE WASN'T A CRIME. That's so idiotic its beyond logic reason and sensibility. If you want to claim he didn't commit the crime he was charged with, then that's a totally different matter and sadly I have to agree with the verdict as right. But to say there was no crime is the sort of ignorant stupidity that caused this mess.
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  1835.  @nicholas8739  I have to agree with your first claim in part there because that's a matter of fact with respect to the charges presented to the court. He was found innocent by a jury of his peers. But to claim there was no crime when 2 people are dead is just stupid and that is because of the FACTS YOU GOT TOTALLY WRONG. 1: He is NOT a resident of Kenosha. He is a resident of Antioch, Illinois. 2: Further to that the owner of the "Car Source" dealership has stated publicly they DID NOT ask for anybody to go there and protect it. 3: As a 17year old he was illegally in possession of a firearm. Those are 3 unarguable FACTS. So don't tell people what they are saying is baseless when you can't get basic facts right.
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  1836. The tragedy of Dave Rubin is that he thinks he so much smarter than he actually is. I so many ways we all get ahead of ourselves at times before we suddenly find out we didn't know as much as we thought and have to take a pause. Rubin just thinks he's above that. A few weeks back ! saw an interview with British Actor/Comedian Tom Hardy who plays Jonathan Pie and he said we have to take at least some time listening to the other side or we'll never understand them. One of Dave's podcasts popped up a few days later and I bit the bullet. It was a 34 minute long panel discussion Dave hosted with 3 others, one of whom represented Prager U. I don't know what was the worst aspect, the cringe, the ignorance, the arrogance, the hypocrisy or how they CELBRATED those things. Everyone no matter their politics can be and usually has done something cringy or ignorant or arrogant or hypocritical, but these guys wound the dials up to 11 across the board and CELEBRATED IT. Despite their claims of being intelligent and reasonable, the only things they seem to value are taking smug cheap shots at others.
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  1837. Go watch Kyle Kulinski and Krystal Ball interview Jesse Ventura. JV talks about the time he was injured and went into commentating. He perfectly explains how these people operate: "What ever you say, its the truth." They are running all these discussions as if its the WWE. Its fine if you want to behave this way except these people run the country that has the most powerful nuclear weapon stockpile on the planet.
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  1838. Its actually incredibly important that they charge and prosecute Bannon. For just the simple reality of keeping these people accountable. If they don't America's eventual collapse is almost guaranteed. That simple fact that people were never held accountable over the Iraq War or the torture and all the other things going on like the insider trading of members of congress. If America isn't willing to simply start holding these people accountable then its serious trouble and that has huge implications for the entire Western World. Has both military and economic implications that nobody wants except for a certain Russian a-hole named Vladimir.
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  1839. Well summed up. And it applies to many other corporations and governments and politicians who just don't get that we now live in the 21st century and things have changed. Vladimir Putin is finding out right now in real time that having the best 20th century army doesn't necessarily work against an insurgency using 21st century tactics. America still hasn't really woken up to that even after Afghanistan and Iraq - certainly America's politicians haven't.
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  1840.  @druidictroy1157  Yeah that's a good one.
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  1841.  Joe Maleski  Nice effort of bullshit "whataboutism." No this is FKing nothing like that. This is just typical of your kind (and yes they exist on the left as well). Whenever you have something you are asked to think on or be sensible or practical or simply accept reality you go for the bullshit "whatabout" this, "whatabout" that, "whatabout", "whatabout", "whatabout", "whatabout", "whatabout".......... This is why we aren't solving ANY problems these days because there's always some turd who jumps in with another "whatabout." 👉🤯
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  1842. ​ @charliekowittmusic  I'm Actually Australian we have been through all of that stuff multiple times over the past 30 years. Every so often these days there'll be a public forum on immigration and there's always some old white clown complaining about "boat people." Every so often there's an Aboriginal person there who just throws it back about how they should have stopped the boat people 200 years ago. It always shows just how stupid the arguments are.
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  1843. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship (late 80s). I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and they used to drag me into all sorts of discussions. Because I had studied Orwell (both Animal farm and 1984) I used to raise the idea that if you didn't watch out ANY CONTRY could descend into a totalitarian dictatorship. That was one of Orwell's main warnings. People forget that both Hitler and Mussolini were democratically elected. People forget that the early Russian Communist Party practiced democracy and held elections for their officers. It was only later that Stalin got rid of that after they democratically dumped him. Those frat brothers of mine used to explain (in detail) how that was totally impossible in America because of the US Constitution. There main points were Americans were too well educated and too well informed. Their main argument was the 1st Amendment guaranteed a free press would tell everyone what they needed to know and prevent any dictator from emerging. In my time at college a guy named Gary Hart got dumped after an affair was revealed. Trump was known to have cheated on all 3 wives. We all heard on tape how he treated women and we all know he partied with Jeffery Epstein. My frat brothers assured me the free press would keep the America government in check by keeping the American people informed. I don't think anyone ever considered that such a large part of any modern population could just ignore reality, ignore their own values and ignore their own morals and ethics. When I look over my shoulder I see the same patterns emerging here in Australia. Large slabs of our population just don't care about facts. We even have our own version of Trump a total ratbag named Clive Palmer and he's using the exact same campaign strategy. I don't like the fact that several million Australians are denying reality every day just like Trumpists, but it is a fact. More than anything else the collective future of the Western World depends on TRUTH and FACTS even when those truths and facts aren't what we want to hear.
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  1844. Your first sentence was sensible and after that it was just rambling pile of frustration. Climate change as we now define it has NEVER happened before. There have been localized events like Easter Island and you'd be quite right that we need to consider what happened there as an example. What we are now seeing isn't an island in the Pacific its to a whole planet. There's no other island to go to this time. I can tell you as an aerospace engineer Elon and his band of delusional space trekkers and so far of the mark Most of it is being driven by a insane group of ageing narcissists who are addicted to their power and money. It has nothing to do with native Americans or native populations anywhere although how they are treated is a symptom of the problem. The real problem is the top 1% of the human population who are dominated by an ageing pack of insanely selfish disconnected narcissists. Look at the age of most of the power people around the world both in politics and business. How old are people like Biden, Pelosi, Murdoch, Koch, Trump,.... They wont retire and they wont let humanity make progress towards a functioning planet.
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  1845. You and about 6 or 7 BILLION other people with functioning brain cells on the planet.
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  1846.  @WolfGamerBohumin  Mate I am not going to argue semantics with you. I have been doing motor control for over 35 years and am not going to bother with idiots who wont listen. I get enough of that from moronic mechanical, civil and chemical engineers. About 90% off all the INDUSTRIAL motors sold in the world are 4 pole 3phase induction motors. Go into any factory or mine site or petrochem plant and on most sites you will NOT find a single motor of any type other than a 3phase 4 pole motor. AND I HAVE WORKED IN ALL THOSE INDUSTRIES The only 2 major INDUSTRIAL users of motors that are NOT 4 pole 3 phase are the CNC Machine tool and robotics people who almost exclusively use permanent magnet servos because they need the combination of slow and high speed with accuracy.
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  1847. Good I'm not the only Aussie watching Kyle. Good points all round, I just watched Saggar Enjeti over on Breaking points make a mess of this. Kyle even makes a pretty bad mistake at 6:15 when he says Sky News doesn't have the connections. They are part of the Murdoch Empire and they certainly have the connections. What he and Sagaar both screwed up is that Alan Jones was forced by Sky Management to correct himself on air. That's the first time I have ever seen Alan jones apologize for anything. For the Americans Alan Jones is our equivalent of Sean Hannity and he NEVER APOLOGIZES. The other thing they both missed was that one of the others banned by both Twitter and YouTube is a sitting member of our Parliament Craig Kelly. He's the equivalent of a Congressman in the House. He's a far far far right winger who has been in trouble several times over recent years for climate change denial and other conspiracies. He'd be right at home as Australia's US Ambassador if Trump wins in 2024. For anyone else watching we have a program called Media Watch. Its on Australian ABC our equivalent of PBS so don't be confused by the ABC it has nothing to do with the American ABC. Here's their report on this starting at 3:21 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPgDf8RFR0 This is the original story presented 2 weeks ago starting at 3:29 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df1Fnw2M6f4
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  1848. Because just like he does not want to admit that he's WRONG. His Trumpian (love that word) customers don't want to admit they have been conned either. “It's Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” – Mark Twain.
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  1849. That's a great suggestion. As a guy I had a huge eyeopener a number of years ago when a friends wife turned to me and asked if I had any idea about what actually happens once a sperm hits an egg. Thankfully my brain didn't say anything stupid and she left my head in place and instead told me a few things. I found out just how little men are told. If there's any girls in this thread who can correct anything please do. 1) The percentage of eggs that get fertilised and attach properly to the wall of the uterus and then from into a human being that is birthed alive is incredibly low. 2) Most simply don't attach tot he wall of the uterus and are just discharged without the girl every knowing anything because they are still microscopic at that point. 3) The number that do attach and then have an issue of some kind also then discharge before there's any real development is also high and also the girl never knows anything about this unless they have a blood test and certain hormones are present. 3) Because of certain body chemistries some women cannot easily carry to full term. A friend of mine had multiple miscarriages and then finally 2 girls. The doctors concluded in her case because of some oddity that she cannot carry a male foetus to full term. There's so much that men rarely or never get told that its ridiculous for men to be telling women what they can and can't do with their bodies or hold them accountable for what they do with their bodies.
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  1850.  @gothgammy666  Don't get me wrong I think she's been amazing. I just think she can be compared to any other PS except the ones who acted under Trump. Until Trump and his clowns nobody on the planet actually cared much about who the White House PS was. Under Trump its was daily crap fest of stupidity, exaggeration and outright lies. So its damn hard to actually compare Jen Psaki to previous WH PS's because they operated under incredibly different circumstances. I think she's pretty amazing to remain calm day after day and not blast off at this clown. I am amazed that nobody else in the press corps hasn't just told him to STFU already. Trump would have yanked his credentials by now. I think they all put up with this stupidity simply so Fox can't complain.
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  1851.  @gothgammy666  see my other reply. Its not that she hasn't done an amazing job. I just don't see how she can be compared to people who never had to do what she does or put up with what she has to put up with.
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  1852.  @EnglishLaw  It depends what claims your making about electric cars. For people claiming they will solve climate change - yeah BS unless you generate the power they use cleanly. BUT as part of an overall solution they are vital as an important component. For people claiming that Elon was going to give the world self driving cars - yeah total BS and was always total BS. FYI - I'm an engineer and Elon's lucked out a couple of times with getting into decent technology developed by sensible people and he's made a dogs breakfast of them every time.
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  1853. NO IT SHOULD NOT Unlike Gerard Holland who's background is in accounting I am an engineer and have know about Australia's energy situation since doing a project on Australia's future energy needs in 2016. I am utterly disgusted with how public discussion has been dominated by UNCHALLENEGED claims from BOTH SIDES of the energy debate. BOTH SIDES LIE just as Gerard has done here. And so you know you can read my formal challenge to him on this page.
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  1854. That's a smarter comment than most. This stuff about Trump's decline wont make a micro-gram of difference because the MAGA supporters wont care, the Dems already have made their choice and if their undecided by this stage they wont vote anyway. So your right - the goons who wont certify the results are far more important.
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  1855. It also doesn't mean you are free from the consequences either.
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  1856.  @LennyAllen-cp9cl  On your comment about specialised vehicles. Sorry but there are so many examples of specialised vehicles outperforming general vehicles in their specialised role that its barely worth considering. There are literally 100s of examples of cars, boats, airplanes, tools, machines,... etc. Here's the simplest I can think of - the spork (a combination fork and spoon). Its not as good of a fork as a real fork or as good of a spoon as a real spoon but then forks are almost useless as spoons and spoons are almost as useless as forks wile a spork can do both well enough that campers use them because it saves space and weight in their rucksack.
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  1857. In the years to come we will have many new definitions. Orwell gave us many like Doublespeak and Mark Blyth has already coined the term Trumpism. So here's my contribution. Trumpspeak - the act of someone saying something they claim is true because they heard it said only a moment earlier. Trumpisdom - the act of claiming your very smart when it's obvious you're not. Trumpshit - when what you just said was more than just plain regular bullshit. Trumphead - what we will be calling certain people instead of dickhead. Trump-Aid - what we call it when people chug (rather than simply drink) the Kool-Aid. Trump-cash - the imaginary money you claim you have when your tax return says you don't have any. For all those who want to contribute and extend that list - feel free and go for it.
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  1858. I'm going to go a bit against the tide on this because its all fairly one sided and the problem with taking sides in the Israeli-Palestinian is that its the most toxic political subject on the planet. Anytime you take even the slightest movement to one side or the other the other side immediately paints you as a racist or bigot or both or worse. A more experienced politician would have known how to dodge this, subject. Running for mayor of NY where there are powerful lobbies on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian subject is a nightmare when something like this happens. Other than a clever word salad to dodge the subject there is no answer that wont get you into trouble.
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  1859. Not unless its escorted. If you go back to the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) the Americans and others escorted tankers into and out of the Persian Gulf. Look up the "Tanker War" that's a subsection of the Wikipedia page in the Iran-Iraq War. But Taiwan would be totally different as people would not be protecting their energy supply they'd be blocking a large part of China's energy supply and certain key raw materials.
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  1860. Sacha Baron Cohen's character Admiral-General Haffaz Aladeen from the The Dictator (2012 film) was supposedly inspired by real-life dictators like Kim Jong-il, Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Mobutu Sese Seko, and Saparmurat Niyazov. What does Trump inspire????
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  1861. Napoleon, “Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
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  1862.  @ryanosterman2651  Good points and to add to it - at its core is are the concepts of Milton Friedman's "Greed is good" hypothesis that was the foundation behind Reaganomics and Thatcherism. There's an amazing interview of Freidman by Phil Donahue that can be found on YT. There's 2 things I noted. 1) Was the complete self importance and arrogance of Freidman. Watch it without sound and pay attention to his body language. The arrogance and dismissiveness is beyond absurd. 2) He made this astounding claim that "Greed drives innovation." I'm an engineer and that's utterly ridiculous. 3 of the worlds most important inventors and without whom the modern world would NOT exist were not driven by greed but by a desire to make the world a better place:\ Nikola Tesla - famous for his work in electricity and who Edison and Marconi cheated and lied about. Jacques de Vaucanson - whose V-Bed Lathe made the Industrial Revolution possible. Carl Edvard Johansson - whose Gauge Blocks enabled modern manufacturing to exist. NONE of them did it out of greed and NONE were Oligarchs. Neoliberalism is based on a litany of lies, garbage and false premises. Its just taken us 40+ years to work out how damaging it really is. The real question isn't how bad it is. The real question is how do we get past it so we can start fixing the planet, while we can.
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  1863. Ask almost ANY American what any word that ends in "ism" and they don’t have a damn clue. At its most very basic concept ANYTHING that a "society" collectively owns and pays for is a socialist or socialized function of that society. Police, basic education, roads, and many other GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS are socialist functions. Politically on the FAR LEFT there's PURE 100% socialism where society owns and pays for everything and on the FAR RIGHT there's PURE 100% Capitalism where individuals own and pay for everything. Every society exists somewhere between those 2 extremes. More often than not every society has a mixture of those concepts for different functions of that society. I'm an engineer and understand those concepts. How TF all these clowns with arts degrees in Political Science can't explain that is staggering.
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  1864. Nice comparison. But then that just shows that no matter what tribe, culture, race, language,.... etc. everyone has these people. I just hope that if anyone gets hurt (or worse) from taking the advice from these types that the families of the injured take serious legal action.
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  1865. Along with that BS about the Israeli air force Peter is also 100% wrong about the differences between solid fuel and liquid fuel rockets. Its liquid fuel rockets that are far more complex than solid fuel. In simplest terms solid fuel rockets are tubes with a nozzle. There are no pumps or valves or any of the fueling systems required. Its an idiotic claim and it shows YET AGAIN that when it comes to engineering topics Peter does NOT KNOW what he's talking about. FYI - I have a degree in aerospace engineering.
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  1866.  @rosemaryalles6043  Thanks. A couple of clowns have missed that I think this interview was brilliant except for one stupid remark that was out of step with the rest of it. I have said this might be one of the best interviews I have seen anyone do on YT. But that 1 moment just busted the mood. I don't know of anyone calling themselves progressive in any way shape or form who thinks that way at all. What Konstantin talked about was an ideology prevalent among psychologists and sociologists about nature verses nurture. What's that got to do with progressives. All progressive basically means is that you want to see change, in the form of progress and that can mean many things. That can even apply to people on the right because there are people on the political right who want to see progress on things like the economy and industrial development of new technologies. Its one of the stupidest things that happens in the world these days. People take 1 person or 1 comment or 1 idea or 1 event and use that as the principle description or quality or generalisation of everyone in the associated group. Sometimes its 100% accurate and other times so idiotically wrong its bewildering.
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  1867. Its not just the SEC its all of them around the world. In Australia we have the ACCC (referred to as the A triple C). They are utterly hopeless. They are as effective as a wind down winddown on a submarine. Even when they have dead certainties they find ways to lose the court case or do nothing at all. They have scandal after scandal, failure after failure AND NOTHING EVER HAPPENS. They are so bad there are regular calls to have the entire agency dissolved.
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  1868. 74 million just voted for Trump AND AFTER HE LOST he got them to hand over more than $200million. What did they keep saying, "send money, send it now, we need it RIGHT NOW to fund the legal challenges." oops, oooops, and oooooooops.
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  1869.  @nagualdesign  I'm an engineer and pretty much everyone in this thread is right. Sabine skips past a number of other technologies on both the pro and con sides. I've never thought Hydrogen was a solution for cars, but that does NOT mean its not the solution in other areas some of which she doesn't discuss. Sorry for the longish reply. I did my degree in aerospace but have spent 30+ years in industrial control systems and automation. I'm also formally trained in electrical equipment in hazardous (explosive) areas. Hydrogen is the most difficult gas to deal with around electrical gear because it ignites so easily. My #1 concern is how do you prevent hydrogen cars, busses & trucks doing a Hindenburg? BUT that doesn't mean its unsuitable viable in other areas. That's where this video is a little frustrating. Maybe she'll do more vids??? I checked Sabines bio on Wikipedia. She's did undergrad in Math and a PhD in theoretical physics. It appears she's never worked outside of the University & Research environment. She's very good on the theory behind the issues but she has no real experience with problem solving in industrial environments. The issue of the efficiency of bulk energy supply is almost irrelevant compared to reliability of supply and the cost to consumers. Rio Tinto did a public campaign about how their new hi-efficiency coal plants had brought them up to about 42%. Most coal is under 30% and older units as low as 20%. Kirk Sorenson (Thorium proponent) points out that the Pressure Water Reactors (PWRs) are under 1%. But those systems are VIABLE because they can reliably supply bulk energy at an affordable price. The area where I think hydrogen is going to be huge is in grid level power and grid level power is the enraged mega elephant in the room that everyone is afraid will stomp on them if they make a noise. For decades now methane fueled turbines have been used for GRID STABILITY and SURGE CAPACITY. Batteries are very good and efficient but lousy for sustained surges. Gas turbines are not only very good and reliable but they can also have steam units powered by the exhaust heat. That's called cogeneration and there are companies that quote 90% efficiency for cogen systems. You can't just feed hydrogen to a standard gas turbine, but in the 1990s Rolls Royce, GE and others worked out how to make gas turbines (for aircraft) run on hydrogen. The technology is already done, it just wasn't going to happen for aircraft because of the tank issues. So the technology is all sorted out. It just never had end users or the hydrogen supply.
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  1870. WHY?? What did he say that's so off putting?? Unless you're a bot.
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  1871. Australian here - absolutely correct. There's plenty of things we can be critical of regarding our trans-Tasman friends over BUT WE MUST NEVER FORGET the times they have stood beside Australia in such matters.
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  1872. Just so you know what's being reported across the world is that not only has he let those 4 mass murderers go but they are employees of the brother of his Education Secretary and that's in stark contrast to his "hard justice policy of executions." He's not only broken a 130years old practice of NOT executing people during a transiting he's done it twice and plans 3 more. HOW DO I KNOW this is being reported across the world? I'm Australian and here's 3 different Australian news services reporting on this. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-12/another-us-execution-donald-trump-presidential-transition/12978184 https://www.9news.com.au/world/trump-administration-plans-2nd-execution-in-as-many-days/94f56c16-1594-4d21-bc14-542f1078b706 https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-speeds-up-pace-of-executions-before-biden-inauguration-20201208-p56lgv.html And if your wondering a quick google search gets this from the British BBC, one of the most trusted news services in the world. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55236260
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  1873. In the aftermath of 9/11 about where the conflict between the west and middle east came from. During it there was this amazing comparison between Al-Qaeda and neo-conservatives. They BOTH don't believe in democracy because they fundamentally believe people will vote in their self interest and not in what's best for a state or nation. Both use very conservative religious mechanisms for their base. A such they feel it only appropriate that they (the superior ones) guide society with a firm hand. It was bizarre to watch this documentary just strip both back to some basic concepts and show how similar they are. Don't ask which particular documentary it was as it was years ago, but that bit stuck. It still holds true, because that's how the elitists in any society have always been. From the start of civilization they have been the same, just with different clothes.
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  1874. Hey everyone a history buff and one that actually understands it. My mom was a high school teacher who loved history. You sound like one of her students and yeah you are right except the time frame is dramatically shorter. It took generations for Rome to degenerate and finally collapse. Even then it hung on for centuries as a religious Empire. The American Empire has risen, peaked and now starting its collapse in the space of about 70 years. I'm an engineer and normally hate economics and politics because its just a cesspool, but I have taken to listening to people like Mark Blyth because he like to rip it open and expose the BS. One of his compatriots is a historian, Adam Tooze, who specializes in economic history. Some of the comparisons he's drawn to past eras are amazing. Its not that we are repeating the collapse of Rome or other empires. Its like we are taking all the worst aspects of those collapses and doing them all at once. I call it neo-feudalism and I think it started after 2008 when the whole world got told that we have to pay for and support the billionaire class.
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  1875. Vice news has done several recent vid stories on these people (see below). The second one highlights the story of a guy who is genuinely in a bad situation. Honestly considering how and why his child was taken - its wrong, but its also a complex case. What's way worse is how a clown named David Straight promotes this sovereign citizen concept. He's taking advantage of vulnerable people and got them so confused over some basic definitions and basic concepts that they have no idea of reality. What they have totally been mislead about is that if you are located within the border of a sovereign state you are subject to the laws of that state. Being a citizen, resident, guest, tourist is irrelevant. The guy who lost his child actually claims that by changing his status from "American citizen" to "American national" he will be granted limited diplomatic immunity. That's how evil people like David Straight are. He's charging people for some idiotic notion that does not exist. Diplomatic immunity only exists when 2 (or more) SOVEREIGN STATES agree by means of a treaty to give each others diplomats various levels of immunity. NO INDIVIDUAL can simply decide they are immune from prosecution. Otherwise Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and others could have just declared themselves sovereign citizens and walked out of jail. Its an absurd concept. Here are the vice videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Egid5gjNo4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5a7CV8U6vM
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  1876. Americans and all other Westerners NEED to pay attention to this because its a great example of the use of political 1/2 truths. The problem with political 1/2 truths is that because of the bit that's true THE LIE gets credibility and gets believed or accepted by the audience. ITS TRUE America (the mainland) was never bombed during WW1 or WW2 or during the Wars in Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq, or Afghanistan BUT IGNORES THE FACTS THAT 1000s and 1000s of Americans were in those conflicts and DIED in those conflicts. IT IGNORES the incredible expense paid by the American people in straight financial cost of those conflicts. IT IGNORES the fact Parts of America have been attacked in the past Hawaii and the Aleutians in WW2. Washington was actually invaded and parts of it burned to the ground buy the British during the War of 1812 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington. What about New York and 9/11 or the wars that followed? Aren't those scars enough for Tucker to be proud of being American? Aren't all the 1000s of American service men and women who died in Iraq & Afghanistan enough for Tucker to be proud of being American? Aren't all the 1000s and 1000s of American service men and women with permanent damage from serving in Iraq & Afghanistan enough for Tucker to be proud of being American? You see when you tell a political 1/2 truth its then very easy to tell lies and have the audience believe them or for the audience to completely ignore historical facts
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  1877.  @gdjherp1295  There's a problem with that and its called 74 million who voted Trump in 2020. If you think that many people will just switch off you need to re-evaluate what's happening. That number was 11 million more than 2016. MAGA isn't shrinking its growing because people like Tucker are feeding the rage. This is actually incredibly dangerous for America's future. Just remember the Soviet Union and the Communist block were there one day and then simply just gone in a few weeks.
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  1878. As an aerospace engineer I can tell you that idea is way to much Star Trek and way too little reality. The whole problem we currently have is getting materials into space from Earth. Say if you wanted to build a spaceship that weighed 1,000 metric tons. That's a 1,000,000kgs of raw material needed to be put into space and at around $10,000 per kilo the cost isn't building the vehicle its putting all the stuff up there. Then there's all the people and stuff required to do the assembly up there. How do you think they magically get up there and then stay alive? I love Star Trek and most Sci-fi, except for one thing. They have all oversimplified by a staggering amount of what it takes to go into space. Its actually very very hard to keep people alive in space. We all forget the Earth cleans our air, cleans our water, cleans our sh*t and provides us with food. There's none of that in space and the few programs trying to do that have been starved of resources since Apollo.
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  1879. I'm Australian and even though I have never been to Brazil I find it an extraordinary country that's been working hard to develop. I did aerospace engineering and I wish we had a company like Embraer, which is a great success story. There were many comparisons between the Olympics we held in Sydney and those In Rio. I thought overall Brazil did a great job of hosting them. We have held a number of such games and had some practice at it so for a first time effort it was great. But its clear Brazil also is going through some growing pains, particularly with the wealth gap. Do you know that most of the Western world NOW has a severe wealth gap that's causing all sorts of trouble. If there is one thing I'd advise Brazil is don't be so eager to repeat our mistakes - learn from them. And I'd say the same to most of Africa, Asia, and the rest of the developing world. Keep your head up. Take care an Stay Safe
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  1880. I'm Australian and this is exactly what we are seeing here these days with our politicians and its not simply politicians on one side its ALL SIDES. Only hours ago one of Right Wing politicians did exactly the same sort of thing. He blasted the current Left Wing government over energy policy and was then asked what he did when he was in charge over the last decade that he was in power AND all he did was deflect and then waffle on with a pile of virtue signalling. it was just like what Nikki Haley, Tim Scott and Vivek Ramaswamy did If I go and watch anything out of Europe its the same thing. We get a lot of British news and if you had Australia or American actors doing the voices you would not know it was British. ALMOST NONE OF THEM HAVE POLICIES and the few that do have policies get shot to bits by all sides. Its almost like having a viable policy to do stuff is political heresy.
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  1881. Here's another quote from arguably one of the finest minds of recent centuries. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  1882.  @tc2241  Nicely summed up.
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  1883. Another Aussie here and I went college in America (late 80s). This stuff is way more serious than most people realise and its not simply important to Australia but its important to every nation that trades internationally. I did engineering but a few of my friends were pre-Law and we'd discuss things like the US Constitution because they were interested in other viewpoints. Yeah I know that sounds weird but these were college kids doing pre-Law. There are things happening in America that they told me could never happen, like what's happening with the Supreme Court. That's causing instability and that's a problem for all of us. Back in 1944, at Bretton Woods, 44 allied nations (including Australia) signed the Breton Woods agreement. Yes that's effectively over and replaced by other treaties but one of the things that remains from it is that the US Dollar is still the worlds reserve currency for international trade. Even when we do deals in other currencies (£, ¥, €,... etc.) the whole system relies on everyone's currencies being stable and trustworthy. Yes currencies move and change but none of us can have any one of the main currencies becoming unstable especially the big one in the middle. Remember the Asian currency crisis and what that did? How would America, Britain Europe, China, Japan, Canada, Australia or anyone else trade their stuff (oil, food, minerals, cars, iPhones,...etc) if we suddenly can't trust each others currency? And yeah I know how much some people hate how it all works and yeah it would be nice to change it, but letting a pack of clowns, idiots and bozos blow it up isn't a smart way to do it.
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  1884. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I like your vids they are pretty informative but there is a huge mistake in this and its being repeated EVERYWHERE. Hypersonic missiles DO NOT zig zag anything like what you have shown here and others also keep showing similar. Simply put at those speeds nothing can manoeuvre like that. First off the control surfaces just aren't large enough and second if you tired it would simply rip the missile apart because of the lateral G-forces. Regarding Hypersonics there's a lot of hype and this one of the main hype subjects. The main reason people want these missiles to go that fast is to give any defensive system less time to react. You might not be old enough to remember the Falklands war but the British ships had the SeaDart and Seacat missiles which could hit artillery shells out of the sky. I remember the Brits showing footage of these systems as their fleet sailed South. It didn't stop them losing 2 Frigates and 2 Destroyers because they just could not lock onto the sea skimming Exocets. The Russians found out similar last year when despite the CIWS systems on the Moskva failed to shoot down the Neptune missiles the Ukrainians fired. The manoeuvring issue for hypersonic missiles was demonstrated recently when Kinzhals were intercepted by Patriot missile systems. Although details are sketchy my bet would be the patriots burst ahead of the Kinzhals and the Kinzhals just ripped themselves apart when they hit the flack cloud. Go look up the Rheinmetall Oerlikon Millennium Gun using AHEAD ammunition does. This all comes back to one thing. If you can detect an incoming missile or artillery shell EARLY ENOUGH you can respond otherwise it doesn't matter how fast its going. Also when you go and look at the X-43 Hyper-X and X-51 Waverider programs they cost more like $75 and $85 million per launch but they were experimental/development programs. I think you'll find that hypersonics will be more hype than hypersonic for some time to come. If you want to discuss the inherent issue with SCRAMJETS and why despite decades of research they still aren't in common use then let me know.
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  1885. America is almost at 360,000 COVID Deaths and at the current rates it will be past 400,000 by the time Biden is sworn in. It would be interesting to hear what these people think what number they is acceptable and they will change their minds.
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  1886. I'm Australian and American blondes DO NOT have a great reputation for intelligence. Kayleigh isn't helping that reputation. The late great Joan Rivers once said Bo Derek was so dumb she would have to study for a PAP Test. I wonder what Joan would say about Kayleigh? After all Kayleigh said that she thought Trump, a man who has cheated on all his wives, is a good role model for her daughter.
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  1887. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Who's also worked in our nuclear industry on the mining side, but as part of that we were fully schooled on the entire nuclear fuel cycle. Peter makes a series of horrendous mistakes in this the worst being that Plutonium is the end result of Uranium fission and that's just NOT true unless you are talking about breeder reactors. Peter's #2 egregious error is that Thorium produces Plutonium. Totally 100% UNTRUE This is a myth that started a few years ago and keeps getting repeated.
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  1888. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). I was there for the 87 campaign season and it was bonkers. So I have seen American politics as an outside observer for many years. IT DID NOT SURPRISE ME DONALD TRUMP BECAME PRESIDENT. Its not like it hadn't happened before. Back in the 1970s the rest of the world could barely believe that Ronald Reagan was elected as President. All anyone really knew of him was that he was a b-grade actor from 1950s Westerns. No one could believe it. One day we are all watching Americans go to the moon and do the most amazing things. The next day America hands control of nuclear weapons to a b-grade actor. The rest of the world mostly saw it as the EVENTUAL outcome of American society behaving as it does. If it wasn't going to be Trump then it would be someone else just as bonkers. Before Trump announced the 2 main picks were Hilary Clinton versus Jeb Bush. Friends who knew I'd studied in America asked me at the time "WTF, can't America find anyone who's not a Clinton or a Bush." Further if you look at how stupidly Hilary's campaign was run its even less surprising that Trump won. Her campaign people really were a pack of idiots. Politically it was like that Superbowl where Atlanta had that huge lead and then forgot they were playing against Tom Brady. Hilary forgot that the game was decided on election day and that Trump from his wrestling days and TV experience knew how to wind up a crowd.
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  1889. The tragedy of that statement is that its not that far from the truth. I'm an Australian U.of Illinois graduate and this week I did some math & stats. Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana have a combine population of 25.2 million which is very close to Australia's 25.6 million. Australia has 908 COVID deaths while Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana have over 25,700. Australia has just over 1,400 active cases while Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana have over 255,000 active cases heading into winter. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Its not simply a tragedy its a catastrophe and its only going to get worse as I know what winter is like in those states. America just past the 300,000 dead mark which puts it over 100 times worse than 9/11. Its quite likely that number will go past 400,000 before Joe Biden takes the oath of office. Australia does not have a magic juice as some claim, mostly we got lucky being an island and having lots of space and a mild winter. I truly hope America finds a way past this - bets wishes to all. Take Care & Stay Safe. 👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
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  1890. AUSTRALIAN HERE - Calling Australia America's Deputy is not quite accurate. The correct term that the rest of the Asians use is "America's Little Bitch!" We just call ourselves the 51st State but apparently that upsets the Puerto Ricans. Here's a couple of points that Peter doesn't mention with respect to the region and the countries he talks about. 1) There are 2 CRITICAL American bases in Australia that few people talk about. There's Wikipedia pages for both. - There's the Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt at Northwest Cape and its used to talk to the US Submarines operating in the Indian Ocean so for all that stuff going on in the Red Sea with Iran and Houthis all of the comms to the submarines in the area is done via this station. - There's Pine Gap in Central Australia that is the primary ground station for American Satellites watching Russia, the Middle East, Pakistan, India, China and most of Asia. Its what I'd call a "Zero Strike" target rather than a First Strike target because BEFORE tries a first strike this place needs to be dealt with because other wise America will see your first strike coming. 2) Besides 4 small Aircraft carriers the Japanese have 6 large destroyers (over 9,000t) and 29 smaller destroyers (5,000-7,000t). The 6 larger destroyers are similar size to the American Arleigh Burke-class destroyers Of the 6 larger destroyers the 2 Maya-class (Maya & Haguro) carry the AMERICAN MADE SM-3 anti-ballistic missile. The SM-3 is a major upgrade to the RIM-161 family of surface to air missiles. The main difference is the SM-3 is an anti-ballistic missile capable of intercepting missiles at greater than 100km of altitude. They have much greater range and their speeds are greater than Mach 8 with the latest Block IIA capable of Mach 13.2. For perspective the SR-71 went Mach 3.3 and Hypersonic is regarded as greater than Mach 5. Both Maya and Haguro have successfully hit targets at over 100km altitude during their commissioning. All those details are on Wikipedia. 3) BOTH Japan and Korea import large amounts of food and raw materials from Australia. Most of the food comes out of Australia's East Coast as does the coking coal for steel production. HOWEVER all of the iron ore comes out of Australia's West coast along with significant amounts of other raw materials and goes via the South China Sea. Go and have a look at WHERE China has been setting up bases in the South China Sea. The Spratly Islands are a long way from China and China has NO history of being on the Spratly's like they do with the Paracel Islands. So WHY ARE THEY THERE? Peter has often spoken about the 7 gaps the Russians want to control for their security. Look at map of where the Spratly Islands are they are not just a long way down near the Southern edge of the South China Sea but they are at a narrow point between the Philippines and Vietnam. So these bases are in a strategic position where multiple countries could interfere with trade. Basically if you want to put a toll gate on the entrance to the South China sea the Spratly Islands are the location to do it. This is one of the main reasons Australia wants (or needs) nuclear powered submarines. The South China Sea is where a lot of our critical Exports go. Its a long way from our main naval bases and nuclear powered submarines are significantly faster than conventional powered subs and don't need to surface every day or 2.
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  1891. It gets way, way, way...... way worse than that. Here's 3 points I have made several times in recent months. POINT 1: Only 3 times in the last 4,500 years has anyone successfully invaded Persia (Iran) - Alexander the Great, Mohamed and Genghis Khan. Without doubt its one of the greatest homefield advantages on the planet. POINT 2: Go and look at the basic geography of Modern Iran. In the North East Mountains and borders with Iraq, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. In the North The Caspian Sea with direct link to Russia. In the North East Mountains and borders to Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. SOUTH OF THAT is desert, desert and more desert and that's the only place that an invading force large enough to subdue 88 million people could land and set up a base of operations. POINT 3: The population of Iraq was 25 million when America FAILED. The population of Iran is 88.5 million more than 3 times the population of Iraq when America invaded. There were experts (including Eric Shinseki) who told congress they'd need a force of 400,000 or so to SECURE (as in subdue) the Iraqi nation and its people. That was ignored and look what happened. Based on Shinseki's estimate (who was an expert) you'd need a force of at least 1 million to land and then subdue those 88.5 million Iranians. How many jets and ships would it take to move 1 million soldiers and support staff? How would you feed those 1 million soldiers and support staff? How would you provide fuel for all the Jets, Tanks, Trucks, Gensets and everything else you'd need? Just the basic logistics makes invading Iran almost impossible and that should be obvious to anyone.
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  1892. Yes we all agree that the GOP, Fox, Newsmax, OAN and other right wingers are totally devoid of morals, ethics and telling the truth. BUT Lets not forget that other "news services" like MSNBC, CNN, WaPo and NYT aren't that great either. Journalism across the board has hit an all time low, its just that some of them are more disconnected from reality than others.
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  1893. Aerospace engineer here - Everyone needs to grasp the concept that there's a prevailing ideology among the tech-bros where they believe they are going to save humanity with technology. So we all need to understand that some of the advertising claims are borderline religious prophecy wrapped up in technology.
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  1894. Then Trump called him out onto the golf course one day and he suddenly flipped. So we've all know for a while Trump has something on Lindsey Graham and as Lindsey knows Trump will throw anyone under the bus. My bet is that whatever it is Trump has on him, Lindsey Graham is terrified Trump will just use it. My other bet is that Lindsey Graham isn't alone in being very, very scared right now.
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  1895. I think you guys have your definition of bad policing confused with police state. This is bad (really bad policing). A police state is when the police simply come to your door and then take you away to the mass grave. Go check your history on South & Central America, Iran under the Shah, Cambodia, East Germany. Go check Saudi Arabia where they have "religious police" and they can simply drive up and take people. America certainly has serious issues with its police forces but its a long way from being a police state.
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  1896. @Armament Armed Arm Well what do you think they actually did study in civics. How old are you? What do yo u base any of that claim on? What does law is theater have to do with civics classes? If you want to contribute to a discussion contribute. But if you want to make stupid claims then just go over to the channels where that sort of garbage is popular.
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  1897. AUSTRALIAN HERE and you could easily swap all the British place names Gary mentions for Australian place names and NOBODY would realise the story is about Britain. Just like Britain we are dominated by economists who went to places like Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, etc. We have a huge problem in Australia with calling out the nonsense of these people. There is some sort of "You must not question" mentality when it comes to people who went overseas and went to one of these "elite" universities and did economics (either as a degree or MBA). They are like some sort of sacred priesthood that speaks nothing but absolute truth when the reality is they are WRONG, WRONG and WRONG on most things.
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  1898. WHY TF is anyone surprised. Rupert Murdoch like the rest of corporate America has has made no secret he believed Reaganomics was brilliant and Milton Freidman was a genius. They all quote: "There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits...." They just ignore the FULL quote because its seriously inconvenient: _“There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud”
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  1899.  @aaronburtram3175  I'm actually in the "it wasn't nefarious" camp. And I agree the monetary amounts are irrelevant. But I am also trying to be realistic about the socio-political environment that's just insanely toxic right now. As I have said repeatedly: If you take into consideration the SARS1 & MERS outbreaks its makes perfect sense for the Chinese to be doing the research and for other nations to be involved so they can look at "what's next." Have a look at that research paper and the funding. WHO listed right after the NIH? For all the people who have thrown crap around NONE have mentioned this -> "the USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) PREDICT program to PD and ZLS" I spotted that the first time I saw this paper (the link for which came from somebody else). Its right there in the section for funding - https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698 I think Dr. Fauci has done an incredible job under the worst of toxic socio-politics, BUT HE HASN'T explained a few things well. I don't hold that against him as so many think I do, but we all need to accept he HASN'T told us all he knows. Its also possible he hasn't been told all that he needs know by other people like the Chinese and/or Peter Daszak. I actually empathize with that. As an Engineer who works on projects I have learned to NOT INFORM people at times because I know how certain people are just ready to pounce on anything they can. Try working on a major multidisciplinary project like a mine site (which I've done). You get the different engineering groups setting each other up all the farking time. Its utterly disgusting, totally unprofessional and you can guarantee it will happen on every project. BUT at certain moments you have to tell what you know AND YES it never fails to start a shit fight.
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  1900. This actually goes back right to the end of WW2. Prof Robert McChesney who helped make the 2004 documentary Outfoxed ahs spoken at length about the changes in media. Around 2008 he was in Australia on a book tour and one of his lectures was televised (late one night). For a long time I didn't realise who he was or that he was a professor at my alma mater. Then I saw him on YT talking more about the decline of journalism. What I do remember from his book talk was the shift in the numbers of PR and journalists. In the 1950s it was about 4:1 but over time during the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s that had gradually flipped and there's now 4 PR people employed for every journalist. What he was pointing out was that most of what we see, hear or read from news services is actually written by PR people. All the journalists do is cut & paste the information they were handed. I'm an engineer and the insanely poor information being presented to the general public by the media is infuriating. Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke about it recently. He's had friends call up and tell him that his most recent interview was total garbage. He has to explain how it was edited and that journalists are in such a rush they don't go back and ask "is this O.k?" Brian Karem is absolutely right there is no journalism because there is no fact checking or vetting.
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  1901. I'm an aerospace engineer who's spent 30+ years in industrial control systems and automation. Over that time I gained formal qualifications in safety engineering including the second highest any engineer can get for what we call Functional Safety. I can tell you for a fact those qualifications have NEVER GOT ME WORK (contract or permanent). Pointing out that I was qualified got me into trouble on numerous occasions and even licked off projects or off site. The simple fact is that when you are QUALIFIED in safety engineering you do get sacked and there is no support or mercy coming from anywhere. This is how this stuff happens and things like the Boeing Max-8. In Australia where I am there are a couple of rare areas where formal qualifications are required by law. Most notably in structural engineering. I actually went to the Institute of Engineers in Australia to try and get them to lobby for rules requiring QUALIFIED people to approve of high risk installations. They and the other professional organisations were simply NOT INTERESTED. We have never needed more engineers across the developed world. Due to the neoliberal economics massive amounts of infrastructure everywhere is either so old it needs replacing or its so badly maintained by cost cutting it needs replacing AND YET I can't think of a worse profession to be in right now. Engineering degrees are NOT Easy there's a lot of math because engineering is fundamentally a profession of applied math. Structures, thermodynamics, aerodynamics,... is all applied math. WORSE our careers and job paths are dominated by Human Resource clowns. I have ACTUALLY DEALT with so called professional recruiters who could not tell the difference between an electrician and an electrical engineer or a mechanic and a mechanical engineer or a chemist and a chemical engineer. I have heard things from from other professions but can't really comment, but I can assure the entire Human Resources industry has been a disaster for STEM fields.
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  1902. That's not a bad description of RB. I think his heart is in the right place but his mouth gets ahead of brain function way to much. Most of all he forgets that fame and celebrity ARE NOT measures of credibility on anything but fame and celebrity. On all other topics ITS NOT.
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  1903.  @birchsongsltd.6831  Dude he's all over the place whether he's jacked up on coke or clean as bleached sheets.
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  1904. NO - I am an engineer and know for a fact they are a compilation of facts mixed with some staggering LIES. Congrats you're just the 4th comment on this page that's sensible. The major problem are the clowns on BOTH the Left and Right like Gerard who have no place in the discussion. ENERGY IS AN ENGINEERING TASK. I have know about Australia's energy situation since doing a project on Australia's future energy needs in 2016. I genuinely believe we need to have nuclear sensibly discussed as part of our energy future but we FIRST have to get the clowns like Gerard to STFU and let the engineers speak. I am utterly disgusted with how public discussion has been dominated by UNCHALLENEGED claims from BOTH SIDES of the energy debate. BOTH SIDES LIE just as Gerard has done here. And so you know you can read my formal challenge to him on this page.
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  1905.  @mrblonde1264  one of the biggest problems is that too often we can't even agree on basic facts. I can't express fully how frustrating it is to be an engineer right now. Engineering is pretty damn straight forward. Stuff works or it doesn't. Its maintained properly or it breaks down. Some things are great in some circumstances and lousy in others. But with social media there's so much BS being pumped out its almost a full time job explaining to M0R0NS what is and isn't possible. I am beginning to think the worst mistake engineers ever made was working out how to let non-engineers use computers. Its created the mass delusion that because people can use a computer they are also technically qualified.
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  1906. What did the CIA hitman say to the MI6 Hitman? A: Your tying the knot wrong! What did the MI6 Hitman say back? A: Shut up and hold him still! What did the MOSAD Hitman say? A: Will both of you just shut up and get it done, I only paid the guards to be gone for 30minutes!
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  1907. No need to panic the NSW Liberals have been doing similar shite for decades and will probably see this as an improvement.
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  1908.  @terrypetersen2970  I'm Australian but went to college in America. on a sports scholarship. Its such an awesome country and I'm just watching an idiotic pack of hypocrites ripping it in half FOR WHAT EXACTLY. What are they actually trying to do and/or achieve? Their catch cry was MAGA. So HOW TF is supporting am attack on the US Capital going to "Make America Great Again?" How is lying about it afterwards when the whole world saw it live on television going to "Make America Great Again?" These people are not just damaging democracy in America they are damaging democracy across the entire world.
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  1909. I'll contend that David is partly right and partly wrong here. He's very wrong in trying to dismiss the concerns over superbugs in hospitals. I'm Australian and our health care system is miles in front of America (sorry but it is) and the place you are most likely going to get a golden staff infection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staphylococcus_aureus) is in a hospital. Its a very serious issue and needs to be discussed. As for the over prescription of anti-biotics and over use in agriculture in causing super-bugs that's also a major issue that needs to be discussed. As for the over prescription of opioids and anti-depressants, ADHD drugs and other things - does anyone think those aren't issues? BUT where David is absolutely 10,000% right. THIS IS NOT THE TIME and IT IS DANGEROUS to bring this up right now. The timing is idiotic right now and Brett Weinstein should KNOW THAT. Jordan Peterson should also have enough knowledge, education and experience to know this is NOT the time to discuss these issues. We need to get through the Pandemic first.
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  1910. I'm an Australian Aerospace engineer and what you have highlighted is a basic government practice that we all did during the post WW2 era and that's variety of design and development. Look at the American X-planes for a great example. Part of the economic argument was employment and IT STILL IS TODAY. In fact right now Australia is on this idiotic military spend and the justification is employment. Some of the contracts we are doing are so absurd in terms of the spending its barely comprehensible that ANYONE THINGS they are worthwhile at those prices. Yet on every announcement theirs a claim of jobs. The craziest thing is that we have people claiming the solution to our variation of the energy crisis is nuclear, BUT NONE of those proponents will say what type BUT they are claiming its a quick fix. I think nuclear will be a PART of our LONG TERM solution. Maybe around 20% of the baseload simply because nuclear is great for base load BUT ITS NOT A QUICK FIX. Large scale units like Hinckley Point C take at least 10 years and SMRs wont be available until at least 2035 and that's what companies like Rolls Royce are saying.
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  1911. No its their oath to the constitution and they have a problem. Their oath does not simply go away after their service. They can be recalled to active duty and charged under the UCMJ. David also forgets to mention the worst domestic terrorist event in American history with the Oklahoma bombing done by a vet, Timothy McVeigh. The real question that needs answering is WHY and if no one bothers to do that then the problem is NOT going away?
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  1912. I might be Australian but I went to college at U. Illinois. One summer I drove to California, which included driving across Iowa, Nebraska and then across the rest to SF. So I know how far you are talking about and that's barely comprehensible that the smoke has travelled that far. We've had some bad fires in recent years but these seem to be worse and its only the start of summer.
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  1913.  @Tao-fp3yr  Yes I agree. Irrespective of if we are talking about Australian Labor (where I am) or any of the others they are now dominated by collections of lawyers and economists. Right now Australian Labor is run by a lawyer - Albanese. Just this last week I saw Chris Bowen the minister for climate change say live on TV that he doesn't believe in government ownership of power stations. That's a 100% pure neoliberal economic stance. I can give you example after example of Australian Labor being right wing on economics.
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  1914. As an Australian who was working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on Canada I can tell you they are NOT INTERESTED. Canadians are incredibly polite except when they're playing hockey or talking about Trump. I bet that anger is still there and just as fresh.
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  1915.  @faggianogeuiseppi5135  My favorite on that subject at the moment is John Yoo. He was the lawyer who wrote the famous "Yes you can torture people so long as you call it enhanced interrogation" memo during the Bush WH that lead to things like Abu Grhaib and other atrocities. He's now a chaired & tenured professor TEACHING LAW at UC Berkley.
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  1916.  @ideal7755  That's exactly the point I keep bringing up and the more interesting fact is he might be able to be charged via the military under the UCMJ where he'd have little or no 1st Amendment protections. That's Leavenworth and serious time.
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  1917. If you want to question Genetics try this. Donald Trump is fair haired, Ivana was fair haired, Ivanka is fair haired, Eric is fair haired even Tiffany and Baron are fair haired and yet Don Jr has jet black hair. Further look at the facial features of Eric, Tiffany and Baron and they generally match their father while Ivanka is quite similar to her mother. Who does Don Jr match up with? It sounds very Game of Thrones (with respect to Joffrey) but it is a case in point. How come Don Jr has jet black hair while every body else is blond, even his half brother and half sister. Plus the other 4 all look like 1 of their known parents. Just something somebody should ask him one day. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  1918. @UCOaDHPHrsXLZCBjlzeLU74Q I'm not American, I'm Australian but went to college in America. So I know the Americans quite well. I know their attitudes towards taking things. I wasn't being pro-American I was replying to the sarcasm of your notion that Bruce could mine an asteroid. Just so you know for future reference. There's actually 2 versions of American politics. Its not surprising most people don't understand that because they are both what the rest of the world identifies as right wing. They are just slightly different versions of right wing. A bit like Apple OS and Android are both smart phone systems - same, same but different. On one side are the Realists and the other the Liberals. The Realists are mostly Republicans and in their view humans are greedy and selfish so they justify everything they take, like they did in Iraq, because that's human nature. They don't care who's in charge so long as they can do what they want and take what they want. These are the goons who went into places and overthrew or helped overthrow democratically elected governments and installed dictatorships. The Liberals are the same in many ways but instead of narcissism they have the "we are superior culture" line and its hardwired into their brains that they have to make the whole world American. Its a hangover from when the British wanted to make the whole world British. These are the people who often turn up after the Realists have hammered a nation and try and install an American style democracy. Either way if the American Realists or American Liberals start interfering in your nation its a mess AND YES they have done heaps to Australia. Don't misread that either. I love America and their people because they do some amazing stuff but there stinking foul politics is something they should burn.
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  1919.  @LadyWhinesalot  Thanks, I suspect he's as daft as his namesake.
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  1920.  @meloncholy7515  Thanks, I suspect he's as daft as his namesake.
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  1921. As another Australian I agree. But maybe we shouldn't have kept telling Americans we ride kangaroos like Luke Skywalker rode his tauntaun in "The Empire Strikes Back."
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  1922. I'm Australian. I finished my university degree in America. I have spent time in Canada and New Zealand. I have visited China, Japan, Thailand and Europe. We also get the news from pretty much anywhere in the World. Especially here in OZ because of the large British ex-pat society we get a lot of British news. So we have watched the whole Brexit implosion self inflicted catastrophe its been. We even had Nigel Farage here recently asking people for money to hear him speak about how great he is. I had a university friend here here in Australia who dabbled in student politics and it was so vicious that he walked away from it. That was despite doing so well he was offered a real seat in a real election. What bothered him most was how the parties supported the vicious nature of student politics. Its their way of sorting out the people who can fight without any restraint of morals or ethics from those who might show restraint. SO IF YOU CAN FIND a politician anywhere who is both honest and clear thinking then you have found the rarest of rare people.
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  1923. I'm Australian and before that shit he pulled at the UN he had a decent reputation from the first gulf war. Maybe not perfect, but Gulf War 1 was over and done in a month and then everyone was out. Instead of it becoming Vietnam 2.0 the US and its allies were out. Saddam had is ass kicked, Kuwait was back in the hands of Kuwait and no one was bogged down in some endless disaster. So by about 2003 EVERYBODY WANTED TO KNOW how Gulf War 2 had become the disaster it was. Everyone wanted to know how the same people who did Gulf War 1 screwed up so badly with Gulf War 2. America's own PBS delivered and in 2004 gave the world the documentary "Rumsfeld's War." I first saw it in Australia in either 2005 or 2006 when it was televised on free to air by SBS Australian one of our 2 public broadcasters. Here it is on YT -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPEWIDBrKyM So yeah a lot of people KNOW and have KNOWN for around 16 years, (I have known for at least 14years) that: - Powell LIED to the UN and knew he was lying. - Powell told Bush in a private dinner NOT to go into Iraq and that Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others were wrong. - Powell, Shinseki and others were shut out of the planning by Wolfowitz on Rumsfeld's direction. Before any of you tell me (an Australian) to F--K off let me tell you something. The Australian Prime Minister at the time John Howard is/was a lawyer, which means he knew the basics of International Law and that its a crime to invade a country that has NOT committed an act or acts of war against you or your allies. The invasion of Afghanistan was legal as the Taliban Government by supporting Osama Bin Laden had attacked Australia's ally on 9/11. But Iraq was NOT legal and our PM knew it wasn't legal and we helped destroy that country and and played our part in the deaths over over 100,000 innocent civilians including the 14 killed at Nisour Square by the Blackwater 4 that Trump just pardoned. So before we all go condemning Colin Powell for his part in the Iraq clusterf--k, just know that a lot of other people were involved and very few have ever been held accountable.
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  1924. I'd never heard of him until a couple of years ago when he was interviewed on Australian television. He must have thought it was going to be easy because it was a morning TV show, but he didn't count on a couple of the girls being a fairly serious and decent journalists and they took took him to task about being disingenuous and not having any responsibility. He defended himself by proclaiming as a "provocateur" it wasn't his job to be responsible. You can see it here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ef7Us0zw8Q
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  1925.  @flytoday  I think that's why a lot of people with actual aircraft knowledge gave up on that channel. I got so tired of the BS that I finally told YT to stop recommending it.
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  1926. Well lets look a how the anti-vaxxer movement has caused preventable deaths for young children getting hooping cough and measles. Like all garbage clowns whether they are politicians OR activists they love to spout of about this and that BUT NEVER do they accept responsibility for what they cause and the anti-vaxxers brought back diseases that we once had eradicated. Before you spout of any more garbage just tell us all what those families who lost children to preventable disease are meant to feel about your garbage. Or were they just acceptable sacrifices to you?
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  1927. Its a well worn tactic of a lot more than the Catholic church. Did you ever hear of the Hitler Youth? How about Madrasa's where groups like ISIS have young boys and girls reciting verses for ours every day? How about the youth and sports programs from countries like Russia, China, North Korea,...? How about the government funded youth programs of many Western Countries, go and check some of the old news reels for pride in your nation stories? EVERY COUNTRY, TRIBE, and NATION has done this at one point or another.
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  1928. Why is anybody surprised? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Go back to the very foundation of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover and how he operated it. It was an internal spy agency that was out of control for decades.
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  1929.  @torontoenvironment9899  You've just given an example of one of the major problems in the world right now. We have so many commentators across all forms of media confusing the crap out of everyone. On e of the few exceptions was back in January when David interviewed Yanis Varoufakis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0lNnXAiL0 He said somethings that really stuck with me. One was that social democracy worked when capitalism worked and capitalism stopped working in 2008. I went back and watched it again before finishing this comment and I urge everyone to go back an listen to it again. Yeah government run fire services are a form of socialism. My parents were high school teachers and they explained this to me decades ago. Its one of those things most people just don't understand because they are never taught it. Socialism and capitalism are NOT types of government they are types of economy. Democracies, monarchies, oligarchies, dictatorships are types of government. Socialism and capitalism are the economic models governments use to run nations. Mostly they are run side by side. Things that societies collectively pay for like roads, schools, police, fire brigade, the army,..... those are forms of socialism. Things where people (as individuals or groups) invest their capital (money & labor) to make money through selling products or providing services is capitalism. Most societies have run both in parallel its just the ratio of socialism to capitalism differs. In America its leans to capitalism and in Europe to socialism. Its like a tree in the wind. The wind blows one way and the tree leans that way but if the wind blows to hard the trees breaks. Worse if you don't care for the tree properly it doesn't take as much wind for it to break. Look at the old Soviet block. What Yanis explained is that after 2008 capitalism has gone so far that its breaking. As yanis said its like beating a sick cow and still expecting to get milk.
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  1930. Did you notice that Piers asked in his pinned comment if people agreed with Gary or Dave? Its like watching a priest from the dark ages argue the flat earth with Einstein.
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  1931. That's absolutely right. I'm an engineer and without any doubt when you consider the technical functionality the nuclear power option should have always been on the table. Over 10 years ago when the subs were first being mentioned I happened to be working with an American electrician who had been in the US Navy as a nuclear power plant operator on aircraft carriers. He explained a few things. We have wide open deep water territory which is where nuclear subs are simply work better. The only places where diesel electric subs (which are typically smaller) have any advantage is in Littoral waters (close to shore) where its noisy and their size makes them viable. If you actually have a look at the original French deal it was never really viable and made no sense in 2 key areas. Quick note the French Sub offered from DCNS is the Shortfin Barracuda which is the non-nuclear powered version of the Barracuda which the French Navy has. FIRST - The Collins class has basic crew of 42 and the Shortfin Barracuda requires 60. We have only been able to bring a 4th out of 6 Collins into active service because the RAN took a Frigate out of service. The real issue (that's not EVER been discussed) was how did the RAN intend to crew these 12 submarines when they can barely crew 4 now. This is going to be an ever bigger issue with the Brits and Yanks because despite the fact the British Astute and American Virginia class subs being of similar size and purpose to the Barracuda they both have bigger crews (Astute 98, Virginia 135) making them even less viable. SECOND - The actual cost per sub. The French Navy paid just over $2 Billion AUD for their nuclear powered Barracudas and yet DCNS was asking Australia to pay $7.5Billion AUD for each of the non-nuclear powered Shortfin Barracudas. Imagine walking into a car dealer who offers a Renault or Peugeot for $75,000 when YOU KNOW he's selling the same car with the upgraded engine to others for $20,000. Any reasonable person tells the salesman to "** off" and walks out the door. On the diplomatic side - we should have asked DCNS for the price on nuclear powered Barracudas and if they had said anything over $2.5Billion each ($30 Billion all up) we walk. There's no secret to what these subs cost its all available on public platforms like Wikipedia. What has to happen without any doubt is that we (the Australian people) are presented with a plan on how we will train and crew these subs and MOST importantly deal with them at the end of life. Whether its 8 or 12 or some other number in 40 years time we will have a bunch of decommissioned nuclear reactors to deal with. BEFORE WE START THIS we need to know what we are going to do with those reactors.
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  1932. Yeah mate but who owns the majority of stocks on our stock markets? The Dow, S&P 500 and other indexes are great gauges of how the Top 10% are doing and to a lesser extent the middle class. But when it comes to the Bottom 50% of the economy the stock market is a SHlT indicator because NONE of the wealth on it flows down to them.
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  1933. Patrick also did a video on Elon Musk "The inventor of everything!" and his twitter takeover.
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  1934. I don't think anyone can actually claim WHAT he's actually on, BUT we can all agree that he's taking WAY TOO MUCH of it.
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  1935. There's a reason we have dictionaries and go to school. Its called being able to communicate. How TF she ever graduated from grade school defies logic. Yet somehow MTG has a college degree.
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  1936. Its 22 Sept. 2021 and there are reports he is expected to face charges. Boeing is reported to have agreed to a massive payment (fine) for defrauding the American people.
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  1937.  @sushanth262  Where's there's the piece of reality you've half ignored. There are people who do care about their integrity and those who don't. Its there in politics, sport, business and even college where you get people who BELIEVE that cheating and getting away with it on exams only proves they deserve to be granted superior lives. All those people share some common traits. - They love enforcing the rules onto others and scream injustice whenever they are caught. - They squeal about and demand their rights as they trample on the rights of others. Its called hypocrisy and if you couple it with narcissism in the administration of a state or nation's affairs its incredibly destructive. And you have sounded out one of the stupidest arguments of all "admiring their success" irrespective of how they got it. That's pure Machiavellian thinking. I bet you don't even realise that Machiavelli NEVER advocated that the ends justify the means he just pointed out that it as a way others operated.
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  1938. FARK GUYS - I love so many of your conversations but what I can't stand is this stream of hyper-funded radical Right Wing clowns. I know you have Lefties on every so often like you did with David Pakman AND I know he acted in bad faith to you guys with a short video on his channel. I called out his bad faith on that and I got panned by some of his fans. Because the one thing I cannot stand are people who act in bad faith. Marion presents a lot of facts I agree with but I cannot stand his bad faith or the sneakiness with which he does it. For instance his claim that the energy crisis is from bad policy is 100% true BUT the claim or inference that it is totally due to Green policies is one of the worst lies being perpetrated on the planet. Yes without doubt the Greens have been very vocal on changing the source of energy to green technologies but that is only a fraction of the story. FIRST: Power stations do not last forever. They have a basic lifetime of 20-30 years which can be extended to around 50 years with rebuilds and overhauls. But no matter what is done they reach a point where they are done. So this time period where we need to build new power stations has been coming for decades. The difference in public opinion is over what type of power generation. SECOND: NOBODY has kept up with the power demands in developed nations. I'm an engineer and found out several years ago that my country (Australia) has a huge problem. We haven't built any new large bulk delivery power stations since the 1990s. We've built a few smaller power stations and some wind and solar farms but no large scale bulk delivery. I call these power stations Gigawatt class power stations because they can deliver more than 1,000 Megawatts (1 Gigawatt) of power constantly 24/7. THIRD: The Energy generation issue is 100% an economic issue. Britain is currently building one of the very few Gigawatt class power stations anywhere in the world with Hinkley Point C that has been commenced since the year 2000. Its also an economic lesson that explains the problem. Hinkley Pt. C took 7 years to approve and will take 10 years to build with a planned commissioning date of 2027. At £26 Billion pounds those 17 years are impossible to economically justify to any private corporation. Most CEOs are over 60 with many over 70 and a few very influential CEOs over 80 with a couple over 90. The same can be said for many politicians. How do you justify to people of that age to invest that much when they wont see anything for 17 years. Other large scale power generation plants might not take as long as a nuclear power station but when you're building Gigawatt class power generation NOTHING IS SIMPLE OR QUICK. As an engineer I can't begin to explain how angry people like Marion get me with the economic rationalism and other garbage. They are never the people who have to deal with building a mine or factory or power station or water treatment plant, but they tell people like me to get it done and deal with the issues THEY CREATE.
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  1939.  @felixisaac  There is the most terrible aspect of that. There's nothing you or I could do that will stop the next million children dying of hunger or the other million dying from a lack of basic medicine. All we can do are those things that might make the world a better place at some point in the future. I'm actually an aerospace engineer and when they did the first road map for the Australian Space Agency the very 1st item in the list was advanced space based water management with the claim it MIGHT be available in the mid 2030s. Its an area of space technology called Earth Observation Sciences. My attitude was "Why TF are we going to wait until 2035 for somebody to just gives it to us. Lets just get on with it." Australia currently has a population of 26 million but produces food for more than 75 million. If we mismanage our water (and we have a long history of doing that) then we don't produce as much food as we should and a lot of people go hungry. However - if you try and tell the Australian Government you want to spend a few hundred million so that it will help starving children in other countries it wont go far. There are these people called economists and they'll ask "What's the business case for that?" So I tried another tack. Australia's ag sector employs over 300,000 people and is worth just $200+ Billion a year. Our tourism industry employs over 550,000 people and is worth over $55+ Billion a year. So collectively we have a lot of people dependent on the management of our rivers, land, forests and ocean areas. So I pushed that as simple straight forward economic reason - protecting jobs & money. I GOT NOWHERE. Unfortunately I'd upset a few egos, which is an ever bigger issue than economics when it comes to politics.
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  1940. That's the saddest truth in the world right now. ANY fact they don't like and can't be disputed is simply filed under "it doesn't matter" or "we don't care"
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  1941. You are absolutely right and its called mob psychology or peer pressure. We rarely here about peer pressure, but after the London suicide bombings it turned out to be a major factor. People were tying to understand why young mend did things like that. I remember a psychologist who studies peer pressure describing that we are only now beginning to understand how powerful of a psychological force peer pressure can be. One thing this psychologist said was that once an idea takes hold of a group, irrespective of how ludicrous it is, peer pressure prevents anyone from challenging that idea. Consider how that woman was called and told not to use the word "disappointed." She wasn't told not to speak just not to use that word because that word challenged the narrative. Peer pressure acts like a social policing function: "Thou shall not challenge the group narrative."
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  1942. Very simple and if not 100% true then the differences will be things like they're defending or benefitting the interests of their financial supporters.
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  1943. And of interest in the fertilizer issue just yesterday the YT algorithm flagged me a story from the Financial Times titled "Fighting agricultural pollution in England’s waterways." There's a 2019 Report that says only 14% of Britain's rivers are in good health and farm run-off is a major contributor. And I didn't mention it but farm run-off is a major problem in parts of Australia too.
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  1944. I think you are specifically referring to Tim Poole but I'd slightly modify that statement to "A coward never debates a rational person alone, they always need backup." Never forget that no matter what the ideology someone has (left, right, up, down, whatever,....) once they get to the point where defending their ideology matters more than rational behavior there's a very real problem because such people are willing to destroy society to prove their point. We have dozens of examples from history including recent history that prove that. Don't ever forget that when the left get out of control they do it at spectacular levels or do we need to discuss Russia, China, North Korea or any of the other communist or socialist countries that have been catastrophic failures or are their way to catastrophic failure.
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  1945. As someone who has watched 3 immediate family members die from cancer, this is so bad I wont voice my rage because it will solve nothing. Instead we should assume that there are some decent people in Kansas who will deal with this and simply encourage them to act.
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  1946. As an Australian I'd normally take that as a bit insulting but right now I am reminded of something I read in the Chicago Tribune when I was at college in America in the late 80s. The writer was comparing the founding of Australia to the founding of America. He said (words to the effect) that America was founded by the Pilgrims, religious fundamentalists out to make more rules on top of the rules they already had. Australia was founded by party animals. That's not entirely true, but I always found it an interesting comparison. On the COVID issue here are some facts. Australia has 25.7 million people compared to Texas with just under 29million. So we have a similar sized population. I went to college in America and have been to Texas several times. Australia and Texas are fairly similar in geography - as in mainly flat, with similar weather. We are both reasonably spread out with a few major population centers. Most importantly the available medical technologies are essentially identical. Texas has 69,760 dead from COVID while Australia has 1,577. Based on population Texans are almost 40x more likely to have died from COVID. So please Teddy (and any of his supporters), don't tell us anything about handling COVID. And we also consider it criminal to let children freeze to death.
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  1947. And its still up there on Twitter. I have cut and pasted it several times lately. Its good to see others haven't forgotten it. Historically it might one day become the greatest Tweet ever.
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  1948.  @LowreyContractorsUK  So you'd prefer the unverified claim of a nameless person to someone who you can check out and whose data you can go and look up. So when your car breaks down do you take it to a CARpenter or a mechanic. Seriously think it through and stop believing things just because you like the sound of it. If you want to raise questions about trusting big pharma are the vaccines safe and will they work and what the risks are. That's smart and we all should be, but think about who your listening to. If you're scared then go and see a doctor YOU TRUST. Just don't simply take the advice of someone you have no idea who they are and that can include me.
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  1949. I think you are saying 1 of several 100 things that need to be said out load. We have desperate pathetic politicians desperate to either hold or gain power by playing each other off against each other. I believe it was Jonathan Haidt who said a couple of years ago "There's this cacophony where the Radical Right and Radical Left just scream at each other while the rest of us trapped in the middle are exhausted." I know that comment was aimed at Western politics but it applies to all these situations where we allow 2 groups of fanatics fight while innocents are trapped in the middle and get slaughtered.
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  1950. No unless it has a $ sign in front or a % sign behind it doesn't matter to an accountant. Its now a bit over 638,000. A year ago I started comparing the COVID fatality number to the capacity of American sports stadiums. University of Michigan has the biggest football stadium at 107,000. COVID went past that number at the end of MAY 2020. Bristol Speedway is the biggest small track & multipurpose venue at 160,000. COVID went past that in JULY 2020. Indianapolis Speedway at 250,000 is the largest venue in America and one of the largest in the world. COVID went past that in early NOVEMBER 2020 and did it for a second time in FEBRUARY 2021 and is now past half way for doing it a third time. *Yes America has 2-1/2 times more dead from COVID then it takes to fill Indianapolis and could fill Ann Arbor Stadium almost 6 times. That's all after his buddy Trump declared there would be maybe 15 cases and then it would be gone. Can this guy just tell everyone HOW MANY DEAD it takes for it to become serious so that we just know what he means.
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  1951.  @ricgibbon9771  What a stupid an idiotic statement devoid of common sense, fact and reality. Nobody has ever blamed Trump for the virus and nobody ever should, but his response to the virus is 100% his responsibility. Grow up or shut up.
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  1952. I'm Australian and almost totally agree with you. My answer to Thom's question Will The Davos Billionaires Team Up Mean The End Of America? Is NO - they will NOT mean the end of America they will be the end of Western Civilisation. Just as America calls it Reaganomics and the Brits called it Thatcherism we had our version of Neoliberal economics called Economic Rationalism. I had a boss try and explain it to me back in the 1990s and he said the bizarre joke was they called it rational and there was nothing rational about it. My old boss used to ask: "What's rational about making slabs of the population unemployed by sending their jobs to China?" It didn't mean much to me in the 1990s but it means a lot these days. The bit where you're not quite right is that Neoliberalism is already well entrenched in Canada like it is everywhere else. What you're talking about is the CPC going EVEN FURTHER and becoming more Trump like and pushing neoliberalism to a new height. We have exactly the same problem here. FYI - I was in Canada for work late 2017 early 2018. When I heard Canadians speak about politics it was quite hard to figure out if they were talking about Canada or Australia. You guys talk about Ottawa in exactly the same terms we talk about Canberra. Had it not been for the accents and freezing cold I wouldn't have known I wasn't in Australia. Canada and Australia are so alike in so many ways its kind of scary. Everything has its equivalent.
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  1953. Yeah but unfortunately for Tucker - as far as tools go he's about as useful as a hammer made out of cheese.
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  1954.  @wgooetrik  At this moment Yes, but America keeps proving that their TV hosts only get worse with each passing day. So what shit he will pull tomorrow or next week is anybody's guess.
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  1955. Matteo he's another good quote for you: “The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the world. No first world country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent” ― Gore Vidal
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  1956. The reason its delayed is the same issue Ukraine has. The South Ossetia situation means Georgia has a disputed border. To join NATO a country must NOT have any part of its border in dispute and Putin knows this. Its the reason he's fueled the whole Donbas issue. So long as he can keep the disputed borders it prevents these countries joining NATO. Its part of the NATO charter. The Russians and particularly their far right have never gotten over how the Soviet Empire collapsed. Like all other Empires they blame everybody else and accept no responsibility for what's happened.
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  1957. I'm Australian and it takes pages to explain just how bad Trump has made America look. For perspective, I went to college at U. Illinois and if you add up the population of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25.2 million which is almost identical to Australia's 25.6. Australia has 905 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana Wisconsin has just gone past 30,000. Yes Australia has the advantage of being an island and is spread out, but we don't have any magic juice as some clowns suggest. We got very lucky with the initial spread but nothing explains the disparity other than a complete failure of leadership. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ On the international stage Trump has been a catastrophe for the Western world. As an analogy think of the Western world like a car where America is the engine. To have a great car you need more than just a good engine you need a good transmission, good suspension, good body and all the rest. BUT if the engine is misfiring and running like shit it sucks to drive that car. Well guess what the Western Worlds engine is not just misfiring. The plugs are fouled, the distributor cap is cracked, the oil hasn't been changed, one of the head gaskets is blown, the radiator is rusted, the cam shaft is worn, its got lose main bearings, its using a 1950s 4 barrel Holley that needs new jets and the idiots in charge are running the engine past the redline. It doesn't matter if the Germans did the transmission, the Brits did the suspension, the Italians did the body and the Japanese put it together the engine that drives the Western World is FARKD and if it keeps being revved way beyond the redline it will detonate. To highlight that - as millions of Americans have lost their jobs and need financial assistance to put food on the table the Stock Markets have soared as the top 1% have made billions. I really do hope America can find a way past Trump, because even when he is gone there still is COVID to get past and Climate Change, the Russians, the Chinese and other stuff to deal with.
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  1958. ENGINEER HERE: The single greatest problem with the entire nuclear discussion is that ANYBODY and EVERYBODY who is NOT and engineer is speaking. There's economists doing MOST of the talking, followed by the media, activists, special interest groups (from both sides) and Think Tank clowns (from both sides) as well as Lobbyists (from both sides). Worst of all the media will put a microphone in front of anyone EXCEPT an engineer. The only question the media are interested mainstream irrespective of traditional mainstream or new media is "what will generate clicks." The CSIRO report and the more recent LNP report by Frontier were both written by economists and both had wildly different numbers BOTH of which are equally ridiculous. How can 2 sets of economists look at the same TECHNOLOGICAL problem and get such different answer unless one, the other or both have NO IDEA what they are talking about. As an engineer I am so frustrated by the stupidity being shown in this discussion and it could easily cost our nation several $TRILLION. Don't forget Snowy 2.0 was originally costed at $2 Billion and is now expected to cost $20 Billion AND HOW THAT HAS HAPPENED is NOT BEING DISCUSSED. If we don't start addressing WHY these projects blow out it won't matter what we build its going to bankrupt the nation.
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  1959. Aerospace engineer here - 3 points 1) Kinzhal is spelt with an 'i' not an 'e' 2) Calling anything ballistic only means it follows a ballistic trajectory for some or all of its flight and has NOTHING to do with the speed at any point in the flight. 3) Saying something goes hypersonic only means that it can go faster than Mach 5 for part of its flight and has NOTHING to do with the type of flight path taken.
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  1960. Charlie Kirk is just one of the reasons why the Aliens haven't made contact. Why would they? If you just travelled across the galaxy in you hyper-space faster than light worm hole starship would you make contact with the ignorant local species if you tuned in to their comms and Charlie Kirk came up??????
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  1961. Because rich people like making money!!! 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  1962. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  1963. Lets not lose sight of the fact that at least he's accepting some responsibility for lowering the standards of the media. How many people in the media have actually done that even in the slightest way? Kyle just did a vid on another bizarre outburst from Maria Bartagarbagromo. When is anyone from the main stream media going to accept any responsibility for creating the atmosphere we live in?
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  1964.  @craigwall9536  OH yes we did! Do you not realise that in almost every survey of favorite movies by profession that "Blade Runner" rates as #1 among STEM people?
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  1965. EVERYONE GO LOOK AT HIS BIO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Jr.#Early_life You can consider the private schools that daddy paid for. BUT really note what follows for his career. He spent one year working outside the Trump organisation in Aspen and even worked for some time as a bartender. HERE'S THE REAL POINT He then went back to the family business in a senior role. On 1 year of life experience he goes past all the other people with years of experience into a senior role.
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  1966. Yeah I was going to comment on that. I'm Australian and a few years back when we were having "issues" people arriving unannounced by boat. There was lots of the usual claims and counter-claims but one of the more biting comments/images was of a Native Australian superimposed over a famous painting of the arrival of the First Fleet (of British settlers). The caption read something like (I can't remember the exact words) "We can tell you all about unwanted boat people." It was truly biting and mad a lot of people realise that every person in Australia is descended from an immigrant. Even our first nations accept that their ancestors moved in from Asia. All this shows is just how ignorant Tucker Carlson's audience is.
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  1967. I suspect that's the least of it. He did pre-law at Harvard and Law at Yale and doesn't seem to know the constitution or how elections are run or how votes are counted and he wants to be President. Maybe the Deans of Law at Harvard and Yale need to check what their professors are teaching.
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  1968. I agree that decent public debates need to be had on all manner of subjects, but NOT worthless debates that take 4 hours to go nowhere with people who can't ever solve any of the issues. NEITHER OF THESE 2 are experts on climate or anything to do with future energy or technology solutions I'm an engineer and left a lengthy detailed response to this in the Lex's pinned comment at the top.
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  1969.  @atomicstyle7344  Couple of very astute comments there. The best being how everyone thinks they too will end up a billionaire. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship (late 80s) and they used to love telling me "that only in America can anybody become a millionaire." It was this idiotic mantra that almost everybody preached and NOBODY could explain.
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  1970.  @underworld7148  Will you people just stop with the idiotic bullshit. What utter garbage there is no such thing as a "vaccine court." Anybody can be sued, whether its successful is another thing entirely.
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  1971. I half agree with David the emails themselves DO NOT display any clear evidence of a Lab Leak. BUT on the other hand what they display is that Dr. Fauci was far more knowledgeable on what was going on in Wuhan than he let people know. We now know the NIH was involved in funding research in China - see the links below that show NIH funding of COVID research in China. BUT NOTE: None of it clearly states any of this was for "gain of function" research. What Dr; Fauci does needs to explain is why at the START of the pandemic he didn't disclose this funding. IMO - it makes perfect sense for the Chinese to be researching Corona viruses and for other nations including America to be involved. China had already had SARS1 and MERS. So researching potential "what's next" is obvious common sense. Not being open and clear about that at the start was (in hindsight) stupid. Note: The first 2 links below clearly show NIH funding with Peter Daszak (named in the Wade Nichols article) as team leader for research in China. The 3rd is a research paper and if you look for the section on funding you'll find the NIH listed. https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9491676 https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9819304 https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698
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  1972. Here's a link to Chomsky listing the crimes of Presidents from 2003 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXtgq0Nhsc For the couple of people mentioning Carter it starts just after 5:12
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  1973.  @vasopel  Thanks. Its kinda frustrating with the media these days. Unfortunately they all think being able to use a computer makes them technically literate. Its not just aerospace its pretty much everything technical.
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  1974.  @brucewagner4394  NO what helps is when their supporters are not smart to begin with and only hear what they want to hear. On another page I just pointed out how well educated Ted Cruz. Despite appearances he's seriously intelligent. You can't get into Harvard Law without brains and he finished in the top 10% of his class. What excuse could he possibly have for spouting the crap he does other than to appeal to and take advantage of less educated people?
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  1975. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I had a fantastic time and I have many great memories of my time in the states. So it greatly saddens me that so many people have sat back and let Trump get away with so much. I honestly believe the vast majority of Americans are decent people and that even included many of the Trump supporters who have simply been sucked into this catastrophe AND I DO SEE THIS AS A CATASTROPHE. You can blame or thank my college friends but I genuinely believe the US Constitution is one of humanities greatest achievements because it threw off a lot of the baggage from previous cultures, BUT AMERICA has to not only believe in the US Constitution they have to actually care about it and maintain it. A few years ago I was stunned to find out that civics had been defunded in pubic schools. I think one of the major reforms Australia needs is to do an Australian version of the old American civics system, BECAUSE I SAW THE EFFECT IT HAD. American's used to (past tense) be able to say "We are the greatest country" AND THEN EXPLAIN WHY because in part they understood what their constitution is, how it works and what that does for them. I wonder how many Americans can do the same now?
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  1976. And it worked so well that America could go to the moon with the spare change and in doing that they developed (or advanced the development) of a pile of technologies especially digital computers that have changed the world massively for the better. The computer you are on right no can trace a lot of its heritage to Apollo. I am an engineer who works in control systems which include the computers that run industry. Those computers (PLCs, DCS, Robotic Controllers, Engine management systems, autopilots,...) that run the world and provide you with power, water, manufactured goods, GPS,... are all direct descendants of the Apollo computer systems. And Apollo came from the spare change.
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  1977. IN REPLY TO TED CRUZ - Off course Ted Cruz stands by Pittsburgh its a modern city WITH ELECTRICITY.
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  1978. Look on the bright side they have a document (a real document) that details THEIR PLAN to subvert the constitution. So for any of these charges of "seditious conspiracy" here's solid evidence there was a plan. As several lawyers have explained for a conspiracy to exist there needs to be 2 or more parties AND and overt act. It might be arguable but it might just be that writing this down and SENDING it as an order or directive to one of the parties or a third party constitutes an "overt act." I'm no lawyer but I look forward to the explanations of this. Put it this way if this was done in ALMOST ANY other country except America (with its 1st Amendment and narrow definitions of sedition and treason) these people would already be in jail. In more than a few places they would already be dead.
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  1979. I'm Australian and as an outside observer I have a question for you: How did American get to the point where over 70 million people BELIEVED in NOTHING, so that they were so easily fooled by Trump? The best commentators are NOT describing Trump as a disease but as a symptom of a larger problem. Among America's elite there's a view that everyone else is a problem that they have to manage and so we are clear we have the same problem in Australia. If you ever go and look at the core ideology of neo-conservative thought its based on the idea that democracy will fail because people will vote for what's best in their best interest NOT what's best for society. I first heard about that during a documentary (~20years ago) comparing the Al Qaeda leadership to the American Neo-con leadership AND BOTH shared this common belief that democracy CANNOT WORK because people are fundamentally selfish. There was a great comment Jessica Tarlov made about this recently. She reiterated what Trump supporter had said. "Yes we know Trump's crazy but crazy doesn't look down on me." She then explained this is the problem that America's elite has. They look down on everyone else and see them as problems to be managed. As I said at the start, I'm Australian and YES we have the same problem here in Australia. Its just not as obvious.
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  1980.  @zpettigrew  Go look up Patrick Boyle here on YT. He's a fund manager who does a channel and listen to what he says about Musk. He's as monotone bland as a person can be but his assessment is as hilarious as it is brutal.
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  1981.  @louistournas120  Its not just religious indoctrination - its indoctrination OF ANY KIND. Anywhere you teach people to STOP thinking and reasoning on what they can see before their own eyes and hear with their own ears ITS A PROBLEM. David Pakman has repeatedly called to tech critical thinking skills. Do you know that critical thinking is NOT about criticizing its about critiquing. Its about looking at what's right there and assessing it against known standards or facts. Its not about being skeptical its about being able to assess evidence and reason on it. The lack of critical thinking is why our major parties around the world keep being re-elected. If most of our politicians were critiqued on what they actually got done almost NONE would ever get a second term. I'm not just talking about broken campaign promises or failed policy. I am talking about the work they actually did day by day. What did they actually do? Not what they claimed or promoted or got criticized for BUT WHAT THEY ACTUALLY DID. Its arguably the one thing NONE of them want - an honest critiquing of their work.
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  1982.  @Bad_Hombre_ADK  Awesome summation. 🤣😂👍
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  1983. FROM AUSTRALIA and I went to college in America (late 80s). I have more respect for and a better understanding of the US Constitution than Mr. 'ex-federal agent' and many others. For over 3-1/2 years I was surrounded by people fresh out of American high schools who had STUDIED CIVICS. I used to find it embarrassing because of how much they new about America and how it functioned compared to what I knew of my own country. We sort of covered parts of how Australia functions in things like history classes but we never had a specific class that simply focused on "this is how our country functions." Its the one class I would like to see instituted in Australia instead of the haphazard system we've had for decades. IT STUNNED me a couple of years ago to find out that George Bush had defunded it completely. if you go and watch any of dozens of videos on fascism the first thing they always do is downgrade education and start a campaign of anti-intellectualism. Considering we can all see what happens when you have that sort of education built into the system and when its removed its pretty damn obvious what the benefits are. Does anyone with a functioning brain really think Trump, Lake and Bannon would be taken seriously if civics was still taught? Yeah sure there'd be M0R0Ns but there wouldn't be 74 million of them.
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  1984. I've been trying to warn people of exactly a French or Russian Peasant style revolution for the last few years. There's a report by the Congressional Budget Office on Family Wealth 1989-2019 released September 2022. Kyle Kulinski spoke about it last week after the Jacobin's Luke Savage Published a short piece on it. What's amazing is that not only was it published in September 2022 (almost 1 year ago) NOBODY on the America Left is talking about this - including Thom. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America and I can tell you for a fact that our data is no better. I regularly watch British economist Gary Stevenson here on YT and he's saying the same sorts of things about Britain. Here's the bit that I am furious that nobody is pointing out in that report. When you compare the 2010 data to 2007 you can see the effect of the GFC and when you compare 2019 to 2007 you can see how people have recovered. Since Australia, Britain and other places all run similar economic policies its safe to say its the same or similar everywhere. Here's the comparisons adjusted for population and in terms of the wealth per person in each group. The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of their wealth in the GFC but buy 2019 had recovered and were 21.7% UP The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of their wealth in the GFC but buy 2019 had recovered and were 4.6% UP The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC but buy 2019 were still DOWN 21.8% Yes 165 million Americans (and possibly more) had, by 2019, still NOT recovered from the 2008 GFC that they did not cause. Meanwhile the people who did cause the 2008 GFC and were bailed out with US$4 Trillion from Bush and another US$4 Trillion from Obama had not only recovered but had gained over $20 Trillion in collective wealth which has since grown another (estimated) US$8 Trillion during the pandemic years.
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  1985. Horrible but true fact of our world.
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  1986.  @genkiferal7178  I agree on WION and Al Jazeera but definitely NOT TR. I have seen some and what I have seen is usually reasonable but underpinning it all is pro-Russian anti-American money. Its like watching the sensible news part of Fox and thinking its Ok. Its not the sensible parts of any of these networks anyone needs to be wary off its the opinions presented as facts that's the problem with all of them. The other aspect are the stories they don't tell. Most of these commercial networks avoid telling anything that puts their vested interests in a bad light.
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  1987.  @ms9771  You right on all but the deficit. Government deficit is nowhere near the issue its made out to be anywhere. The issues of inequality of wealth and who the debt is owed to are far bigger issues. I spent a chunk of my COVID downtime looking into economics and how it all works. Government deficit is an issue but its mostly a misdirection away from wealth inequality.
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  1988. EVERYONE should go and re-watch the 2004 documentary film "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism." One of its predictions was that eventually, due the business interests of corporate owners, that OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS would eventually follow the Fox News model. In particular they pointed towards the model where opinion is presented as fact. FYI - I am Australian and we did try and warn the Brits, Americans and others what Rupert Murdoch was like. People either didn't listen or didn't care.
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  1989. Being an Australian who was alive at that time, I remember the news broadcast of that Alan Jones test. From memory that test was at Paul Richard on the long circuit with the full length Mistral straight. It was BIG NEWS here in Oz. AJ had won the world championship was trying for a second and this car was the potential winner. BUT Jones was publicly saying these extremely stiff cars were going to be death traps. He said things to the effect that if they hit the wrong bump they would simply take off. Remember this was pre-carbon fiber and BEFORE the rules about drivers feet being behind the front axle. The almost indestructible tubs they now have were years away at this point. The tubs were basically aluminum sheet riveted and welded together. Part of the news was AJ saying that the rule changes were necessary because the cornering speeds had become too dangerous for those cars. This was before data loggers could tell the engineers what the suspension was doing. The tire compounds were real rubber from real trees not the synthetic stuff some science geek made in lab. There was actual concern being publicly voiced that our World Champion was going to be coming home in a box if their wasn't some common sense. One thing not discussed here and its related to the rule changes. As I remember was that the floating side skirts that followed the road surface were banned. The side tunnels were NOT banned but the side skirts had to be fixed and have a minimum gap to the road when STATIONARY. AJ voiced at the time that there were plans for cars to lower and seal the side skirts (or close the gap) using the normal suspension. He also said that would be just as dangerous because the cars would effectively be running with the suspension continuously bottomed. Which would be just like the car with no suspension. Great to see that footage again.
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  1990. ​ @chriswilkinson7636  I forget who it was and it might have been Thom but they had an author on who'd done a similar book but more on the psychology of WHY people follow conspiracies. Just watch the arrogance they talk with and you'll see it. There's a channel called Scimandan. He's a Brit who debunks flat earthers and other nonsense people. Its staggering how much nonsense is being promoted. I think a lot of them KNOW its BS but they make money from the advertising on social media or sell merchandise.
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  1991. HEY THOM. if you go and look at the Wikipedia page for Roe V Wade one of the major points that won the case when it was argued was the 4th Amendment right to privacy. The basis was that what happens between a doctor and their patient is PRIVATE. This is why in TV show after TV show you hear medical practitioners tell investigators to go and get a warrant. With the wiping away of Roe V Wade what Americans actually lost was the RIGHT to MEDICAL PRIVACY. Anyone who understands this was expecting this sort of stuff to happen.
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  1992.  @Daniel-yo5es  Fair enough on that, but then there seems to be a lot of "obvious" stiff people should know and simply don't.
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  1993. Its one of the great contradictions of capitalist business ideology. 1) You have to spend money to make money 2) You have to reduce spending to make profit Try finding a way to make those 2 concepts compatible.
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  1994. It does get covered at times which is how I know these 2 things. What is truly staggering in this entire video DOES NOT MENTION the destruction of the Aral Sea. Those Soviet era dams built on those 2 huge rivers (Syr Darya and Amu Darya) destroyed the Aral Sea. That destruction is one of the greatest MANMADE disasters in history. Prior to its destruction the Aral Sea supported an enormous fishery that fed millions. That is all gone -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea The other thing he does not mention is that those enclaves were deliberately created by Stalin. He did it to create the sorts of situations we now see all across the ex-Soviet Republics. He literally grabbed chunks of populations and swapped them to create these enclaves. These enclaves didn't "naturally" develop over centuries they are a fairly recent (in terms of history) Soviet construct designed to displace people from their traditional homelands.
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  1995.  @roxannehale1386  Thanks. For some reason YT threw me a recommendation to a lecture by John Mearsheimer who's a U. of Chicago professor in Realism. It was one of 3 he did on how liberalism has failed. The one YT flagged was the 2nd of the 3 and it was about how American foreign policy had lead to the mess in Ukraine. So I watched it out of order. His explanation of the current situation was flawless until he said this line about "that's why Trump is now president." It was only then I realised it was from November 2017. It was when I watched the first of the 3 lectures I realised where he was from. He's from U. Chicago the birthplace of neo-conservatism and they hate liberalism. It doesn't make what he said wrong but it explains why he can rip the US foreign policy apart. Its a real interesting insight into the basics of American political ideology which isn't a single ideology but a mixture of ideologies that overlap in some ways and viciously opposed in others. On one side are the Liberals who believe they can make the world a better place through ramming liberal democracy down everyone's throats. On the other side these Realists who just don't care because they rely on the world being exactly as it is. The Realists see the world full of selfish, lazy and gullible individuals who can be taken advantage of. Their Realist ideology is centered around this incredibly narcissistic view of the world. Liberals hope the world can be better. These people are "fark that. what can I take advantage of." Look at people like Sinema, Manchin & Cheney that's them in a nutshell. They care about nothing. They just look for things to take advantage of.
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  1996. Its called tribalism and its going to destroy western society. There's this incredible interview from 1984 with an ex-KGB agent name Yuri Bezmenov. For sure he was wrong about a few things, like teaching Marxism and it was the Soviet Union that collapsed a few years later not America. But listen to what he says about brainwashing. Its not about convincing a person of something its about getting them to the point where they can't rationally conclude anything despite whatever evidence is put in front of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI He was right about 1 thing. America was doing the damage to itself. He was just way off on the time scale.
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  1997. ​ @bok..  That's a good assessment and the problems start with just how badly the basics of math and science are taught. and most importantly how they relate to our everyday lives. One basic thing I try to get people to realise is the number of items they interact with every day that are either engineered or include engineering is in the 99.99% bracket. In any modern society there's almost NOTHING in your life that wasn't engineered or involved engineering at some point. Anything that's metal or plastic or went through a factory is easy to see as engineered, but also your food & clothing involves engineering at the process and delivery levels. Then people need to simply realise that engineering is the PRACTICAL application of math and science. I wish that was better explained but unfortunately we have social media clowns and underfunded education systems.
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  1998. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  1999.  @mgc7199  Yeah but not only are engineers (I'm one) oblivious to that concept so are economists. In fact the main reason an engineers installs a robot is because an economist has made the decision to replace the human. I can tell you for a fact I have had people say to my face "You engineers cost people their jobs" and in many cases they are not wrong. I used to work in manufacturing making automated machinery often with robots. And every industrial robot is doing a job that a human could be doing. The fact however is that most of the jobs robots do humans wont do or wont do for very long. In most cases they are either dangerous or incredibly repetitive or both. In robotics there's a few sayings with a similar theme. "Robots don't get RSI, don't have union reps and best of all don't have lawyers." "Robots don't need doctors or rehab." "Management doesn't need to deal with HR when they buy a robot." I can actually talk for hours on the subject of automation, where its good, where its bad and where the general public are badly misinformed.
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  2000. Best words Kyle has said in a while "the fact that this guy ever had any power when he's been wrong about everything is a true indictment on the system"
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  2001.  @parrmik  I remember once seeing the cars leave the Dandenong plant for GM. It was like watching an army charge into battle or a massive herd of animals suddenly move. It was one of the most bizarre things I ever saw.
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  2002.  @SolaceEasy  Yeah so I did apologise for the length right at the start.
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  2003. Is that the Federal Bureau of Idiocy or the Federal Bureau of Ignorance you're talking about? You need to be clear about these things as they have different jurisdictions.
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  2004.  @cezarcatalin1406  But then she and Jared wont be able to scam like they did these last 4 years. Reports have it they made $400 million. Which makes me wonder why the druggie son making about $600K working in Ukraine is even a story?
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  2005. He's a crack addict so I'd go with mental break down. That shit eventually breaks a persons brain and his is definitely broken.
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  2006. He's just started a channel -> https://www.youtube.com/c/TheProblemWithJonStewart
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  2007. Well as long as parties keep nominating clowns and people keep voting like clowns then democracy will be a circus.
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  2008.  @everforward8651  Good point. I would add that on people's perspectives or opinions its not simply a matter of "a fact" as in a singular item but a collections of facts and that any collection of facts involves filtering. As in everyone filters out some facts while including other facts or they underplay or over emphasize particular facts. And then that leads to the reasons WHY they might include or exclude a fact. And that leads right to their ideology and narrative and motivations. And if you never get that far you'll never really solve anything because you wont understand what the other person actually wants irrespective of whether its good or bad.
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  2009. ​ @everforward8651  Thanks. Its pretty simple we aren't going to fix the world unless we own up to a few things. Just the other day I rewatched a Jon Stewart Podcast from a year ago on systemic racism. On the panel was British born American Andrew Sullivan. At one point when it got a little heated he simply blurted out "I am not responsible for anyone before me." Its right here at 10:41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cmnwbGmu7w The reason I find that so shitty is that he's benefitting from what people did before him. Its part of the American Libertarian mantra. "I have no responsibility to anyone else past or present, but if I need help you have to come to my aid." Its an insanely selfish attitude. Think about the American banks who have the attitude. "The government is not allowed to put rules on me but they also have to bail me out when I screw up." Its the same attitude just with a different slant. At its core they are like 2 year olds - "I don't care, I want what I want and I want it now!"
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  2010. There's is also some totally misleading information in the opening graphics. At 0:56 they are claiming a massive slab of the North Sea between Britain, Scandinavia and Holland is unmapped. That's garbage as the oil industry had that place mapped back in the 1960s. They are also claiming that basically the entire Baltic is unmapped. That's also garbage other wise they wouldn't be able to lay the Nord Stream pipe lines. I think they need to distinguish between what's been basically mapped and what's been mapped in detail.
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  2011. Australian here - fell sorry you have to live next door to them. But then you do get the chance to beat them at Hockey each year.
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  2012. You need to be clear what it means by WINNING. Because in a War the usual way you win is to defeat the enemy and there's simply no way Ukraine can actually defeat the Russians. Its a simple matter of numbers and Russia's numbers are simply bigger than Ukraines. Peter has explained this several times. HOWEVER if you consider that Ukraine can SURVIVE in its own right and NOT a conquered state like they were during the Cold War, then that is an entirely different matter. History tells us that America with all its might was pushed back out of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Their best post WW2 result was a stalemate in Korea. What Ukraine can do is simply grind the Russian military down to the point where they just can't continue, because there is nothing to be gained. This is what the Vietnamese, Iraqis and Afghanis did. They didn't really win, BUT it did put a NOT win against the mighty American War machine. So what I would say is Ukraine MUST NOT LOSE. Because as Peter has said so many times look at what Putin's real goal is. Its to recapture the strategic positions the Russians had during the Soviet Era. If Ukraine LOSES then Putin will keep going and that really is a disaster for everyone.
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  2013. When liars get caught and they have no way to defend their lie the standard response is distraction with a new lie.
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  2014. HEY THUNDERFOOT YOU MADE A MISTAKE. I work in Industrial control systems, automation and robotics. Those 2 robots you show at 37:30 have been available for AT LEAST 25 YEARS. The company I left in 2001 was the (then) Kuka and Adept agent in Australia and we knew what our competitors could do. The robot on the left of your shot is a standard 6 axis anthropomorphic arm and those have been around for decades. The robot on the right is a 4-axis "Spider Robot" (just put "4-axis spider robot into google"). I know that BEFORE the year 2000 ABB had one of those available. The thing that you are NOT highlighting in that part of the video is that the spider robot is locating the items its picking off the conveyor using vision guided robotics. Notice how all those parts are randomly arranged and the spider is arranging them in organised groups so the other robot can place them on the next conveyor. There is a camera upstream of the robot looking down on the conveyor which has an encoder on it. The vision system identifies the location and orientation of each part and with the encoder on the conveyor translates that to the Spider which can then pick it up and orientate it and put it back down in the right place so the other robot can pick up the groups of 4 parts. I know how that stuff works because I had that technology demonstrated to me by an Adept Engineer when I visited their Cincinnati Office in 1998 or 99. They weren't using a Spider robot at that time. They were using a small high speed SCARA robot. So I know for a fact that technology has been available for AT LEAST 25 YEARS. So SORRY Thunderboy but your 15 years is wrong its at least 25. Fyi - I actually did aerospace and if you would like I'd be happy to show you how truly stupid they are being with the Artemis program. Its worse than most people realise. The closest I have seen anyone expose the real depth of the issue is Destin (another Aerospace) who has the YT channel "Smarter Every Day." For anyone interested put "smarter every day artemis" into the YT search and the top item should be titled "I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293" posted 4 Dec 2023.
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  2015.  @Darkrider12  I think you'll find they all do it as some sort of "dodge the difficult question technique."
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  2016. _"Stated simply, the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings," Federal Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson 2019.
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  2017. “Presidents are not kings and plaintiff is not president” D.C. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, 2021
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  2018. Have look at his Bio -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lindell College drop out, drug addict, dubious business practices. Reads just as you might expect from someone associated with Trump.
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  2019. But they were NOMINATED by the parties to work for the DONORS!!!!
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  2020. FOR FARK SAKE CAN YOU JUST GO AND WATCH ROLLS ROYCE'S OWN VIDEO BY ONE OF THEIR ENGINEERS. Its here on YouTube. He said it would be 2035 before they could be ready to start deliveries of SMRs. And that was provided they started back when he said it. These constant claims that its just a few years away ARE NONSENSE.
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  2021. Aerospace engineer - that's the first really smart intelligent and insightful comment I have seen on this page. WELL DONE.
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  2022.  @buzzhawk  I disagree with that assessment. He's nothing like Alex Jones who's own lawyers defended him as a "performance artist." Plus Alex Jones makes about $50million a year selling his name branded over priced crap. What does Jimmy try and sell? He's nothing like Alex Jones - that's a ridiculous comparison. Don't get me wrong, I'm very disappointed in the path Jimmy has taken recently. He's losing people at a moment when voices against corporate politics are needed, but being rapid and destructive is stupid and counterproductive.
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  2023. James Comey compared Trump to a mafia boss. There's plenty of interviews to look up. What he explained was in the Mafia everything is about the Boss and what the Boss wants RIGHT NOW. What the boss wanted yesterday doesn't matter. Wat the boss wants tomorrow doesn't matter (until tomorrow). The only thing that matters is what the boss wants RIGHT NOW. Look at how Trump's behaved since.
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  2024. Just as good of a question - When will the rest of American WAKE UP to the fact that these people embarrass their country time and time again? FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. I actually love America. I love the people and love things like college sport, NASCAR and the NFL (Go Niners!) BUT FOR FÚCK SAKE your politics has gone from absurd to mindlessly ridiculous. I was there for the 87 campaign season that ended with a second term for Reagan and it was bonkers. That stuff seems tame. This stuff is off the chart. There's a guy named Richter and even he's confused on how to measure this stuff. Every day there's another story of how ridiculous its gotten. Maybe the most ridiculous part of this slow motion disaster is the Failure of the Democrats. 1) They still haven't acknowledged the 2016 election was a disaster. YES Biden won the White House but the Democrats lost seats in the House, lost even more seats in the state house and failed to gain an outright majority in the Senate. The Democrats treat this like it NEVER HAPPENED. 2) The Democrats still haven't admitted that Trump, despite being a disaster as President, somehow managed to get 74 million to vote for him in 2020 which was 11 million more than 2016. We all heard that the polls said his base was shrinking. Even Fox News said his base was shrinking AND YET Nobody wants to admit they were WRONG and its as if it NEVER HAPPENED. 3) The Democrats despite all the complete utter idiotic garbage that followed 2020 including January 6th then LOST Control of the House to Republicans and now we hear that Nancy Pelosi wants to run again. Yeah sure we have crap politicians but when ours lose they have the decency to go away and let someone else have a go. To paraphrase the immortal words of Full Metal Jacket's Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: "America UNFÚCK yourself!"
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  2025. If somebody does a Tony Soprano on this clown how would the FBI investigate it when there's so many people with motive. How would they interview several million suspects?
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  2026.  @rurdy2rk380  When somebody told me that about 2 years ago I could barely believe it. Because back in the 80s that was something kids found boring BUT ADULTS said "Yeah our country is great because,..." I eventually learned not to argue on the subject because I was surrounded by well educated people. Australia was different. We had this long long course in history a lot of it English History but what it did give us was this huge base of information for "How we got here." I found out a few years back we'd stopped teaching that as well. We now have generations who lack solid grounding in where we are at in time.
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  2027. Go and have a look at the Russian Moon Rocket the N-1. See what happened when they tried and you'll understand that people who know have known for a long time that starship was going to have these issues.
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  2028. Well actually Comey didn't say anything but "consider" and that might be just a warning that Joe Biden needs to have an answer ready. Those millions of Trump supporters aren't simply going to disappear or be silent. They will likely be demanding pardons in future. But in the American system pardons have a catch and that is - accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt. Glenn Kirschner (retired JAG & Federal Prosecutor) just today did a vid on this catch with pardons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baWkPCQzgoQ
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  2029.  @KKOPPONG  That is actually one of the great questions that needs asking across the ENTIRE World and it addresses the biggest issue in the world right now - accountability. I'm actually Australian but went to college in America. I love America and Americans, except that 1in 5 person who screws up everything and is never held accountable. Its not that they are simply screwing up things in America (which I hate) but its also overspilling into other countries like Australia, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Britain, Europe,............................... I bet if you meet 5 people from any country you could say the same thing. 4 out of 5 are great, friendly and fantastic to hangout with. ITS THAT OTHER 1 in 5 who's the problem. They NEVER accept responsibility for anything they do and never care about it either. They are called narcissistic sociopaths who in the most basic terms are selfish and don't care. That Lawyer in Indiana Jim Bopp is a perfect example of these people. He simply does not care about anything but his ideology or the effects he has on other people's lives. The most amazing thing in this documentary is the guy from Montana Jim Ward (25:38) who as a sitting Republican was viciously attacked by OTHER REPUBLICANS who were not from that district. Where is the accountability for that? Where are the other Republicans standing up and saying "NO, he's one of us!" And so you know we have had the same sort of things happen here in Australia in our right wing parties AND there's been no accountability.
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  2030. I absolutely agree that the right are currently unbelievable at how much they project what they do onto others while claiming the moral or ethical high ground. BUT don't ever forget that the radical far left can do this as well and have done it many times in the past. Just go and see some of the pro-China clowns howl about any of several dozen topics. Go back and look at some of the garbage the Eastern European leaders used to claim. Radicals on both ends of the political spectrum do this. Its just that at this moment in time the biggest and loudest is the American right. A really good vid on the subject are any of Mark Blyth's lectures on Global Trumpism. Here's one. Yeah its long but totally worth the time if you want to understand the subject. There's a Q&A afterwards that includes a great explanation of what works in American politics and why. (its at 1:19:54) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0
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  2031.  @derekfoulk4692  REALLY - You're claiming the rest of us have "too much abstraction in life" AND THEN YOU CLAIM "Zero sum is the only truth. It's why wars are fought and it's always our fate." Who's the abstract person here???????????
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  2032. As distinguishable from the Dems with just their hypocrisy and bowing to corporations. But no panic Sinema and Manchin are helping them with their lack of an obstruction skill set.
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  2033. What everybody needs to understand is that 1/2 the population has an IQ of less than 100.
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  2034. Fellow Australian here and I support that 100% I fear one of these days the rest of the world is going to punish us for the existence of the Murdoch Clan.
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  2035. If everything goes as it has for 4 years Trump's gonna sack him tomorrow.
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  2036.  @darex0827  If there is a significant difference these days from 10, 20 or 30 years ago its how much harder it is to pay off student debt and its only getting harder. But that's also a symptom of the wider debt driven economies almost every western nation is running these days.
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  2037. To all you Americans who care. This was just shown Australia regarding Rupert Murdoch and Fox -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Its the 1st of 2 parts and the 2nd wont be shown until next week. It includes interviews with ex-Fox presenters who detail what happened inside the Murdoch/Fox Empire with regards to Trump. Its been done by ABC Australia (our equivalent of PBS) on a program called "4 Corners" (our equivalent to PBS Frontline). You can expect the Australian Right Wingers to go completely unhinged. Murdoch's Australian operation is called "Sky News Australia" (if you didn't know). Their Equivalent to Hannity is a guy named Alan Jones, but he's just one of a group of narcissistic liars. So watch out for ANYTHING done by Sky News Australia. Murdoch has been trying for more than 20 years to get the ABC dissolved (as in completely annihilated). The right wingers claim the ABC is leftist and the left wingers always claim they are pro-right. The fact is the ABC is publicly funded but under its charter its programming is independent, including its news and current affairs. SO it reports what comes across its desk. Does it get shit wrong at times? ABSOLUTELY, but its also a place where we can still get HONEST in depth investigative journalism. We can never let the ABC go just the same as America must never let PBS go. If you doubt that watch this Frontline from 16 years ago when all this idiotic shit in Iraq and Afghanistan started. For that question of how did this all happen? Here are the answers. For anyone who's forgotten what people like Paul Wolfowitz did to make this shit storm happen. Here's what he and others said -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byu9Yhr0Q_0
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  2038. What did anyone actually expect. Australian has long standing ties to America. We are one of 2 countries (Britain is the other) that hosts one of their major communications hubs - Pine Gap. There are so many idiots who get worried that Australia is a target. What do they expect when one of America's main communication hubs has been here for decades. If the Chinese (or Russia) ever wanted to take on America then Pine Gap becomes a very high priority target.
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  2039.  @petersinclair3997  I know that and anyone who understands the significance of those bases knows that. You clearly know their significance which means you also understand they are first strike communications targets. This is something the Chinese don't seem to understand about the US-Australia relationship or at least they give that impression. The problem I see is too many people in Oz take the US-Australia thing for granted or simply don't understand it at all. Possibly its because the millennials and zoomers are fairly clueless while older people have just forgotten. Yes there was Iraq and Afghanistan but they weren't WW2, Korea or Vietnam. My bet is if you asked most Australians what Pine Gap is they would think you talking about something you use at home to fill gaps in walls.
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  2040.  @truth2700  Have you seen what Marjorie Taylor Green just said about her speech to a White Supremacist Group. Nobody has to put words in their mouths we just have to wait for them to speak. Since you want to quote Jesus why don't you go look at what he said about the political leaders of his time. How about the proponents of "Wealth Christianity"? How do they claim what they claim when it was Jesus who threw the money changers and traders out of the temple. Why don't you review Mathew 7 and take in what Jesus himself said about how he would REJECT certain people and that we would know them by there behavior.
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  2041. 2500 Wall St. bankers dying every day is not a tragedy its an underachievement. What do you call a Wall St. banker with a conscience? A contradiction in reality. What do you do if you see a WSB limping? Reload and don't miss with the second shot. Why wasn't Voldemort a WSB? He wasn't evil enough. What's the difference between a WSB and porn star? One claims what they do is a respectable job that everybody approves off. The other one makes films. What's the difference between a WSB banker and burglar? One believes that they can come into you life and stealing what ever they can get their hands on without impunity. The other one expects to go to jail if they get caught. Some New York Mothers were comparing the children's achievements. The first said "My son just graduated from Law School because he has such a fine brain." The second said "My daughter just graduated from Medical school she has such a fine heart." The third said "My son just joined the peace corps because he has a good conscience." The forth said "My daughter just joined the military because she has a sense of honor to uphold and defend the constitution." The last one said "So what, my kid didn't need a brain, a heart, a conscience or any honor the be a Wall St. banker and get millions in bonuses."
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  2042.  @vishitokinny6927  A lot of people are starting to see through Ziehan. I will grant that Ziehan is very good on geopolitics and putting them into historical context BUT the moment he gets to specifics and especially if it involves technology than his quality of information goes to zero very quickly.
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  2043.  @callidusvulpes5556  Actually calling Tucker a rich brat is an insult to other rich brats. At least they have the discretion of not displaying it the way he does. I love the fact that the CIA rejected him, because just imagine what a shit like him would have done with CIA resources. It might just be one of the very few things the world can thank the CIA for getting right.
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  2044. Yeah I am NOT impressed either and stopped at less than 1/2 an hour. I tolerated his excusing of Donald Trump's behavior only because he pointed out the most obvious thing that BOTH SIDES of the political establishment have become (as he put it) ossified. I HATED his excusing of Donald Trumps convictions for fraud. Trump made millions of dollars committing CRIMES. It doesn't matter if it was a type of crime that's rarely prosecuted Trump WAS LEGALLY CHARGED and got a FAIR TRIAL and was FOUND GUILTY. Like any other person he has the right to appeal his conviction. HOWEVER HIS LIES ABOUT THE LA FIRES IS JUST DISGUSTING I'm Australian and we have dealt with those conditions of very high hot dry winds with natural high fuel load built up from several wet years. We are even heading towards that again in the next 2-3 years.
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  2045.  @markastoforoff7838  Joan Rivers used to say of particular Hollywood actresses that they were "So dumb they'd have to study for a pap test!" The male equivalent of that is "He's so dumb he'd need to study for a prostate exam."
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  2046.  @Yourdeadmeat69  If we're going medical then Stephen Colbert summed Trump this way: "He's America's colonoscopy – it’s all on camera, you don't wanna watch, it helps to be sedated for the whole thing and it’s a huge pain in the ass!" ― Stephen Colbert Sept. 2020
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  2047. There's actually a specific terms used to describe the spreading around of military SUB-contracts that's done specifically for making the overall project hard to cancel by congress. They're odd military terms that make no sense when you hear them but what it means is if you spread enough of the overall project around different states then there are TOO MANY senators who would get a backlash on cancellation that they never cancel it. The basic concept is that a Senator will not cancel a project that then causes job losses in their state. The F35 was scattered across as many states as possible so that it didn't suffer the same fate as the F22. Here's a report from Australia (one of the F35's users) -> https://www.businessinsider.com.au/this-map-explains-the-f-35-fiasco-2014-8?r=US&IR=T
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  2048. Yeah go have a look at the Wikipedia page on her. She has a damn long history of of "questionable" actions and associations.
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  2049.  @douglasbillington8521  Joan Rivers had this great line about Bo Derek that "she was so dumb she would have to study for a Pap test." Adapting that thought, this guy "is so dumb he'd need to study for Prostate Exam."
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  2050. HEY PETER - I'm Australian and saying this out of friendship. I completely understand your stand on Qasem Soleimani as he simply was America's enemy or at least a foil in Iraq, BUT you can't simply say he was a bad guy because of his actions and leave out the fact George Bush and his Neo-con goon squad LIED about WMDs and got at least 10 times as many people killed. You especially can't say it when Benjamin Netanyahu has just bombed around 30,000 civilians to death in Gaza WITH THE BLESSING of Joe Biden. Everything you are describing about Soleimani's actions (and you hint at it) is what America has does all over the world. Americans are always howling about -> "Why do these people hate us so much?" More often than not I have heard Americans answer that with -> "Its because they are jealous of our success!" NO IT ISN'T and THIS IS WHY -> You point the finger at someone like Qasem Soleimani and say he's a bad guy for doing the same thing YOUR 3 letter agencies do all the time. Its called hypocrisy and the reason hypocrisy is not an Olympic Sport is because NONE of us can compete with America. I love American culture and the people. I went to college there and it was awesome. BUT Americans have this vile habit of pointing fingers at people for doing exactly the same things your government does.
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  2051.  @JamesDavy2009  Oh yeah Stalin was a maniac to put it mildly. Way back at the start of the Soviet Republic they used to hold elections each year to confirm or change the party leadership. At that stage Russia was Communist Democracy and yeah I know that sounds almost contradictory to what most people know. It worked well at first and then one year they decided they'd had enough of one Joseph Stalin and VOTED his ass out. He didn't take rejection well and promptly had his Bolshevik maniacs kill the entire party off after which he took over and the USSR became what we got to know it as a totalitarian dictatorship.. Does that sound familiar? Its interesting that Trump got on so well with that fat little maniac from North Korea because he too claims his country is a "Democratic Republic" when its actually a Stalinist Dictatorship. The comparisons between Trump and Hitler are wrong. Trump's way more like Stalin than Hitler.
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  2052. NOTE TO ALL: This clown fails in his own admission at 1:48 "the attack by Hamas would not have happened if Iran did not okay it Maria and that is the link that has to be established" (that's a direct cut & paste from the transcript except for the capitalization of names) WHY DOES A LINK HAVE TO BE ESTABLISHED? If he is such an expert on Iran & Hamas and so certain that Iran is sponsoring this violence then how come he needs to establish a link?
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  2053.  @geoffdyer1150  It happens when you forget to fill their radiator with the right beer. You can't run a Queensland wombat on VB or Victorian wombat on XXXX, cos wombats are fine tuned to their environment. While Tassie wombats need that cold climate Cascade. Except for NSW wombats, they can run on almost anything cos any beer from anywhere else is better.
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  2054.  @ChristopherFynn001  Don't go there because we warned you Brits what Rupert was like and you didn't listen. We warned the Yanks as well and they didn't listen either. You gave him residency and the Yanks gave him a passport. So he's NOT our problem any longer, but if you pay us enough we have a couple of well trained crocs that can take care of it.
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  2055. FINALLY SOMEBODY SAYS THE MOST OBVIOUS THING IN POLITICS "progressives are people who want the country to progress to move forward" How come none of the other clowns making all sorts of grand speeches can get that simple fact right?
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  2056.  @CombatMosquitoTrainer  Hell No - Its not take it down but I can see her fans wanting blood. Its just so brutally blunt. Its like one of those monster slam dunks where the other team just wants to walk of the court while their fans go bonkers. Its her fans you need to watch out for.
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  2057. There's actually a very simple way to look at this. Consider the size of the electric motors in the cranes. I do control systems and automation and they don't look much over 100kW. Even if they 200 or 250kW during discharge they are only discharging 50% of the time (at best) because they have to go up and get the next block. So even if you use really big motors your going to struggle to get anything more than a few hundred kilowatts out of this thing on discharge. How does that work with a solar farm of wind farm producing megawatts let alone on a grid where things are measured in gigawatts?
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  2058. I saw part of this interview and it was such a train wreck. I actually had a go at Lex in the comments for even airing it. I'm tired of people letting Kanye and people like Kanye access to a microphone. If you keep giving microphone access to clowns you well hear nothing but stupidity.
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  2059. So you all know this story has gone around the world and with it the stories of how Trump has pushed through 2 executions and scheduled 3 more. What's odd about that is that its the first time in 130years that a President has gone forward with executions during a transition. For 130 years Presidents have let the incoming president handle it. So there is a massive double standard going here and the WHOLE WORLD KNOWS. I'm Australian and all our news services have reported this. The BBC have reported this. Just Google it and you'll find just how big of a news item this is.
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  2060. Interesting point. I'm an engineer and all of the German engineers I have worked with and all the engineering hardware I have worked with have been incredibly good. In engineering the German education is brilliant. Across the board its as good as any country and certainly better than most. For sure most countries have specific Universities or colleges that are first class but they don't seem to have the consistency across the entire system that Germany has.
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  2061.  @PseudoSpaceMarine  Buddy forget the rules they don't even understand the first page of the bible let alone the rest of it, but that's a longish discussion. In fact its incredibly common among most religious people irrespective of the religion that they have almost no understanding of their own sacred writings. As in where it came from, when it was actually written let alone the language it was written in. In part that's because they were written in languages that are no longer even spoken although many of our modern languages are derived from them. In some cases we don't even really know how those languages were spoken or specific words were spoken. And if you think that language doesn't matter then go watch a TED talk by Lera Boroditsky titled "How language shapes the way we think." I lost interest in TED talks a while back because too many were laughably stupid and inaccurate but occasionally there's a great one and that talk is one of the great ones. And when you back track what she says about language it goes a big step to why so many religious people are so clueless.
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  2062. Yeah I'm Australian and found it ironic that a group of Germans are talking about the terrible consequences of electing a destructive clown show. Maybe it would have added gravitas if they'd said something like "As Germans we know what can happen when this sort of thing goes too far!"
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  2063. That's actually a very good point, but then who would have thought the Supreme Court could have been stacked with radical maniacs. Who would have thought the Senate that exists to make sure other parts of the state function as intended could have become so corrupted that its made the entire US Government malfunction to the extent where a President can commit crime after crime and not face any justice. Look at the Judge in Florida and how biased she is. If you rate absurdity on a 1-10 point scale she's well over 1,000. The real question for Americans right now is: _"How did it get this far?"_. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering but a bunch of friends were pre-law and we used to discuss things like the US Constitution regularly. Because I had studied Orwell (Animal Farm & 1984) in high school I used to argue that any country could fall into a totalitarian state because that was what Orwell warned. My friends, who had all done civics in high school, would argue that it was IMPOSSIBLE in America because of how the Constitution was written and how the system operates. I love to ask them right now how this has all happened? Because as an outside observer I am seeing things they told me were impossible.
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  2064.  @jascu4251  Thanks, at the very least that is an answer. It goes to show one of my main beefs with the media in that they drown us in so much information that we just don't have a chance to filter out the garbage and hear the things we need to know. Keep telling people things like this. 👍👍
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  2065. Go look at his career. He worked for the Murdoch's for years and that's a technique that I'm surprised Rupert never trademarked. Aske a question and when they are 1/2 way through answering talk over them and then just keep doing that until you can catch them out on something.
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  2066.  @georgedragich6056  Oh yeah when you have a group: - lead by a charismatic leader; - that the group believes is infallible; - that everything the leader says is the absolute truth no matter how absurd - when they follow the leaders directives irrespective of the law; - when they refuse to acknowledge the leader has done anything wrong irrespective of facts. There's a word for describing that group and that word is "cult"
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  2067.  @HDnatureTV  Don't be so blindly in the pro-Elon camp. For sure he has done some great things the most important of which was break Boeings (and others) strangle hold on NASA. One thing that is not well known is that NASA has almost NO CONTROL over its programs since the end of Apollo. There has been some incredible waste in the American space program, SLS being a good example. Its all being driven by congress and they are all driven by the commercial interests. We here about the MIC - Military industrial complex all the time. What we don't ever here about is the Space Industrial Complex who dominate everything. You r quite right NASA would have (figuratively) spent 10x as much to build a reusable rocket, but that's not because of NASA that's because of how the Space Industrial Complex works. Elon's gift is that he had enough money to break into that club and prove that people could break into it IF THEY HAD ENOUGH MONEY. On the flip side of Elon's achievements is his bullshit technology claims. Hyperloop was bullshit long before he claimed it. Most of his rockets are NOT INNOVATIVE they are upgrades of pre-existing technologies. Driverless cars were dismissed as bullshit long before he ever mentioned them. Verifying the software will work in them for every situation is effectively impossible. If he is trying to stimulate innovation then fine, but he needs to be clear about that. You are right Space-X is kicking butt, but dont; take that as techno-gospel.
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  2068.  @BobSmith-dk8nw  Sorry but that's a garbage answer and its garbage answer but its nothing but a claim. If you want to say someone is wrong you better have a reason other than just a hollow opinion. The simple fact is that after Apollo when NASA wanted to keep going with what they wanted to do they were told NOT without the USAF participating. You can scream all you like about that, but NASA like many other institutions had a budget. They didn't budget well. They let themselves be bullied by industry and let many programs get starved of funding while letting others go staggeringly over budget without producing results. You can complain all you like but those are facts.
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  2069.  @mbg4681  Canadians are always welcome here, just remember it gets hot, damn hot. And we don't tend to have big dangerous animals that are obvious like polar bears. Ours tend to be smaller and poisonous.
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  2070. Its the basic answer all those with wealth give for the problems of the poor -> Its their fault for not working hard enough or its their fault for not going to the right school.
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  2071.  @DarylBark  Great comment and considering some of the idiotic stupidity I have seen in the last 24 hours MUCH NEEDED. Thanks.
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  2072. And while he's there can you ship shuggers net tuch hum inee uv ya kunkee unimal hibits.
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  2073. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  2074. Just remember 229,827 voted for her while only 77,798 voted for a person who had WITHDRAWN. Don't forget not only the the GOP nominate her but the DNC didn't even contest against her. If America doesn't want clowns like this making them look stupid then maybe they need to find some candidates who aren't this stupid.
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  2075.  @thecanadianempire8767  Your right banning American oil exports hurts the American companies that export sweet crude and hurt them heaps because it sells for a lot more than heavy sour. But in terms of the worlds energy crisis you are misunderstanding the issue. 1) The energy crisis is a complex economic problem that has been coming for about 25 years. Its got a lot more to do than just Russian Gas, American light sweet and Saudi heavy sour. Most of the worlds large nuclear plants as well as many large coal fired power stations are rapidly approaching their end of life. I am an engineer and I can tell straight up this is a monster issue nobody is talking much about. These big large base load power stations are not easy to replace under any circumstances. They take years to design, years to get approved and years to build. Hinckley Point C, one of the very few that's been approved let alone started took 7 years to design and approve and will take 10 to build and wont be ready before 2028. Meanwhile Britain is farked for the next 6 years. Others might be farked for a lot longer than that because at least Britain is building something. 2) If America doesn't export sweet crude it also doesn't need to import heavy sour either. So the supply of crude isn't going down. The problem is where do you process it. If you have a plant that's been set up for American light sweet crude you can't switch it over to process heavy sour at all. Again I am an engineer and this is another fact very few people understand. Also America has its own heavy sour supplies from Alberta and Mexico so it can mix that with light sweet and process it Texas. Its not ideal but its better than being farked.
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  2076. I'm Australian and started watching after Ward Carroll and Juan Browne recommended him. I haven't stopped watching. Its actually a far more important subject than most people realise because of how much stuff gets moved by sea. Australia is an island and almost everything we do goes by ship. People go by air but stuff goes by ship.
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  2077. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. I have put a few more details in a comment about the Murdoch's and their issues in Australia. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  2078. They don't want a health care system that works. They like that big pharma goes unregulated because we all know how well de-regulation works or at least for some of us. 🤨🤔😣🤑 Hooping Cough and Measles aren't that bad as they don't tend to kill people old enough to vote. We could call them sick but then what would we call them when they catch something because they aren't vaccinated?????
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  2079.  @thomasbenau2810  To the rest of the world the Dems and GOP are referred to as "Dumb & Dumber." You chose to be dumber than dumb! 🤣😂🤣😂
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  2080. Not really the definition of fascism but certainly the definition of corruption. More interesting are the originalists on SCOTUS because they voted for citizens united which certainly wasn't what the original writers of the constitution thought which is who they claim to channel.
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  2081.  @ebperformance8436  Over all good points and good list, but there's a couple of items to consider. Point 3: Who did they attempt to kill? Sure they chanted "Hang Mike Pence" but that's questionable if its attempted murder. Did they have a rope or did they build a scaffold or prepare a noose capable of hanging the VP? Certainly sedition or seditious conduct for interfering with lawful government processes. It could also be intimidation (as in corrupt behavior) of a government official. Point 4: 1st degree murder is for when deliberately and unlawfully kill a person. Felony murder should be an almost no brainer. Were they committing a felony in that they broke into a government building in an attempt to stop the government doing its lawful duty? Did a police officer die during the commission of that felony? If the answer is YES or arguably YES to both those questions then Felony Murder should at least be on the table. FYI - I'm not a lawyer or law student these are just points I've gotten listening people who are lawyers explaining this stuff.
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  2082. Your right that is NOT an R-7 in the footage, unless its one of the very first test vehicles. But to say the R-7 launches Soyuz isn't strictly true. Vostok, Voshkod and Soyuz all use the same stage 1 with RD-107 boosters and RD-108 on the main core. But those engines have been slowly modified over and over. They still have the basics but its like trying to compare Chevrolet V-8s from the 1960s to todays LS series V-8s. Its one of the great lessons the Americans never seem to learn from. The Russians take what they have and make it better bit by bit. The Americans take what they have, throw it all away and start with a clean sheet. Its very costly, takes huge amounts of time and never seems to end well. Its also one of the main reasons why they haven't been back to the moon for 50 years. Go look at how much money they spent on SLS and related projects. Its one of the arguments you have to be very careful with when discussing Space-X, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic. How much have they spent reinventing things they didn't need to. If Jeff Bezos just wanted to go into space he could have paid the Russians like Dennis Tito did. If Richard Branson just wanted to get flown to the edge of space he could have simply had Scaled Composites build him a version of space ship 1 and gone 10 years ago. If Elon just wanted to go to space on his own rocket did he really need to reinvent EVERYTHING. Lots of 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ in those discussions. Good pickup on the footage.
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  2083.  @ZirothTech  Here's something even weirder about a competition aerobatic plane. The propellers have quite fat blades which at first seems unusual for a high performance aircraft. because they are limited in diameter they need more blade to do what's needed. The other thing is that on vertical down lines you also need braking as in like putting your foot on the middle pedal in a car. For instance a competition spin you have to complete the vertical line AFTER the spin. It goes almost against normal human behavior that after recovering a spin you then point the plane vertically at the ground. When you're doing this you aren't looking at the ground either you're looking at the wing tip gauge because for every 5deg you are off the vertical the judged deduct a point. So you push into a perfect vertical dive and at that point you WANT DRAG not thrust. So at low engine power the constant speed prop goes flat and acts like a bag fat air brake. When flying straight at the ground you don't want the prop puling you want it creating as much drag as possible. I once had a pilot tell me "You haven't experienced prop drag until you've flow a Yak." He then described how in his old plane that in a vertical down when he'd pull the engine back he'd fall forward into the harness. Competition aerobatics is this weird set of trade-offs and until you get into it there's just stuff you'll never know. Look under the wings for the small winglets that are attached to the ailerons. Look at the ailerons near the wingtips. Several planes have the last part of the wingtip well ahead of the pivot point, just like many rudders have part of the rudder ahead of the pivot point. Its not that different to other forms of competition inspired engineering. I had a boss who was into the top level of Australian open wheel racing. At the time all the cars were ex-F3000 from Europe with a locally sourced engine. Scott Dixon the Indy Car racer was in a rival team to my bosses team back then. There's stuff about those cars and how they drivers drove them that 20 years later still amazes me.
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  2084. Tom Walker the British Comedian/Actor did an interview where he said you need to listen to the other side at times or you'll never understand where these people are going. Thom Hartman just interviewed Peter Navarro and it wasn't as bonkers as this but it was equally telling. When Thom tired to get him to answer direct questions he also went off track into other subjects. At one point Navarro started going off about the Kennedy election back in the 1960s. I'm actually Australian and and here in Australia we don't have drones flying about telling us where to go, but these clowns keep repeating this nonsense because its their narrative. These people have dug them selves such a hole they can't do anything but keep digging. The real question is how far will the rest of us let them drag us down into their hole.
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  2085. If somebody actually gets hurt in this these clowns will get annihilated, can you just imagine the lawsuit.
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  2086.  @dropbear9866  To this day I still find it harsh but also fair. The thing that annoys me is that in many other services the upper echelons of power are exempt from the mistakes others make following their orders.
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  2087. Its hard to figure out if he's an American Nero who'd party as Rome burned to the ground or an American Caligula who thinks he's an untouchable god OR is he some freakish combination of the 2.
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  2088. USA Today?????? Yeah I guess its not as bad and awful as some, but its also fairly shallow. NYT & WaPo used to have great reputations across the world. I'm Australian and I can assure you that the reputation of the entire American media landscape has collapsed in recent years. And if you want to blame our very own Rupert Murdoch for destroying the credibility of American Media - we tried to warn you. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2089. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Yeah it took me only a few minutes to start realising this is yet another variant of the sovereign citizen movement that's plaguing America. The reason I point out I'm Australian is that we are just starting to see sovereign citizen groups pop up here. Only yesterday I watched a video here on the YT channel Van Balion (posted 18 Aug 2024) about an Australian quoting US Law to Australian cops. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so serious. Like most people I get that our governments (via the mainstream parties) have completely failed and that's in part due to them being owned by our super wealthy. We all sort of know they don't give a damn about our collective future, but that doesn't mean you have to lose your mind and be stupid about it. This is why there's the current political upheaval across the parts of Europe (and other places). There's the outright rejection of centrist established parties with people flocking to all sorts of parties on the more radical Right but also the radical Left. We even have that emerging here in Australia. Its actually important to understand that THIS IS NOT simply an America problem. Look at the woman they interview - Julisa. Typical of sovereign citizens she claims that we are being told a "false history" and she complains about the narrative of Black History month. YET, she (like many sovereign citizens) is just making up a narrative to suit what she wants. Like many she also claims to know the Law. Clearly they don't understand reality but they do know how to use the law to confuse or intimidate people. Like many she uses terms like "lack of understanding" but claims to belong to an empire that no longer exists. Its as stupid as someone in Europe claiming their government has nothing on them because they belong to the Roman Empire or Greek Empire. This is similar to claims by various Asian peoples over what's theirs in places like the South China Sea. Europe or the Middle East claiming they still belong to the Roman Empire or Greek Empire or Persian Empire. The most absurd claim by sovereign citizens is that the courts have no authority over them, but then they use those same courts to harass and intimidate people. This is the real mental health crisis. People losing faith in society and then latching onto whatever idea they like. There's nothing really new to this. In times of crisis people latch onto whatever hope of a better future they can. This has been going on for 1,000s of years.
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  2090.  @Wack-Sabbath  Nice background information, but you have completely missed the point with this particular section of the "New Moors." They are NOT as you put it wanting "to go back to Africa at a time before colonialism" because they have STAYED in America and made claims that parts of America are actually part of the long gone Moorish Empire. As I said earlier these claims are as stupid and ignorant AS IF someone arrived in Europe and made claims they own certain lands because they are citizens of the Roman or Greek Empire. Can you imagine if someone with a round Asiatic face suddenly turned up in Beijing, Tashkent, Tehran, Mumbai or any other of dozens of places and proclaimed they owned the place because they are descended from the Mongol Empire? These people are re-writing history to suit themselves with NO VERIFIABLE FACTS. Have any of them done a genetic test to even see if they are actually descended from West African people who were actually part of the Moorish peoples?
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  2091. NO ITS NOT - ITS FULL OF LIES Unlike Gerard Holland who's background is in accounting I am an engineer and have know about Australia's energy situation since doing a project on Australia's future energy needs in 2016. I am utterly disgusted with how public discussion has been dominated by UNCHALLENEGED claims from BOTH SIDES of the energy debate. BOTH SIDES LIE just as Gerard has done here. And so you know you can read my formal challenge to him on this page.
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  2092. ENGINEER HERE and you are 100% right I have recently defended Sabine in respect of criticisms she got to her criticisms of academia. Having spent time in academia she's right to criticise them. HOWEVER when it comes to engineering she, like many others needs to SHUT UP. We need hydrogen as an energy buffer NOT because its hyper efficient or economic factors but BECAUSE WE CAN MAKE IT WORK and over the next 20-30 years WE NEED THINGS THAT WORK THAT DON'T SCREW THE PLANET UP FURTHER. And I really am trying to scream that at everyone. If you want the engineers to keep the lights on and modern society as you know it to keep functioning then all the people in the road need to SHUT UP. Unlike Sabine and many others I am qualified to design electrical systems around explosive gases like hydrogen as well as explosive dusts like wheat & sugar dust (and yes dusts can explode). Hydrogen is one of the hardest gases to work with, design around AND THEN MAINTAIN. Sabine is right in that Hydrogen for practical purposes leaks from everything, explodes easily and makes many substances brittle. What she DOES NOT KNOW is we know how to engineer around those issues. The single biggest problem with hydrogen is having enough qualified maintenance personnel. That's WHY I never thought it would be practical for things like cars, buses, jets, heating & cooking in homes. Any poor maintenance in those areas could be catastrophic. HOWEVER for those few areas like energy, hydrogen is a good option because all the technical issues have been solved and being kept in a controlled environment like a power station makes the maintenance possible. As for the ongoing claim you can't get better than 40% turnaround that's pure nonsense. The latest PEM electrolyser technologies get over 90% efficiency NOT the 80% (and lower) people like Sabine keep quoting. The current generations of gas turbines form companies like GE and Siemens with cogeneration units get over 64%. That's over 57% on the main components which are available off the shelf AND THEY WORK. As for the problems with storage and compressors those problems exist for every gas. How do you think the gas actually gets piped around the world? How do you think they liquify natural gas for exports around the world? I have worked in gas plants and they use lots of energy. If the world is going to have a lot more renewable energy then that industry needs to be able to buffer that system so if can deliver as needed. Efficiency is far less important than simply having something that WORKS.
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  2093. I doubt she cares about Happy Hour when she earns millions from being a Fox host. Pirro is so off her nut all the time it wouldn't surprise me she has brain damage from the alcohol.
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  2094. My mother died of breast cancer and her father from prostate cancer so you have my absolute sympathy for what you have been through. I too am completely fed up with "this age of misinformation." I went to U. Illinois where many of the people who made what you know as the Internet (Web browsers and YouTube among them) also went. The internet and social media was meant to "democratise information" and instead what it's done is "democratise MIS-information."
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  2095.  @GunSmoker  Well said 👍👍😂😂🤣🤣
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  2096.  @indigotulip11  Sorry but ai disagree on the neoliberal thing. I'm an engineer but I have been privately studying economics for a couple of years trying to figure out why economists would NOT LISTEN to anyone. Its a long story but I'd recommend you join in a weekly podcast with Steve Keen and Friends. Steve's an economist who accurately predicted the 2008 GFC and a few other things. The first problem with neoliberals is that they are so ingrained in our economy that its like dealing with cancer. The second problem is they wont listen to anyone and ignore reality. The third problem with neoliberals is too many people ignore how much damage they are doing.
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  2097. You might have Libertarian and Liberal mixed up. Libertarians are the extreme version of Reaganism. In fact Reagan had to run against Libertarians in his primary. They are into small government, de-regulation (where the liberty things comes from) and most of all TAX CUTS. These are the business class side of the American right who think any regulation is an affront to their freedom and any tax is robbery by socialism. If they had their way there would be no corporate taxes AT ALL and no regulations AT ALL. Liberal (the American version) are from the American left (which is not to be confused with any other nations left) and what the religious conservatives think of as those immoral free sex baby killing heathens from places like California. Libertarians believe in freedom for corporations to do what ever they like and Liberals believe in freedom for individuals to do as they choose. Rand Paul is a Libertarian not a Liberal and that basically comes down to his supporting tax cuts.
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  2098. Like 127 others I was about to say the same thing. He's why we should all stand back and let Trump go nuts. As Napoleon Bonaparte said, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." But by far the best description that now seems prophetic was by VPOTUS Henry Wallace “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection." quoted in the New York Times, April 9, 1944”
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  2099. Absolutely - I'd only be surprised if it was a Ted Cruz story labelled something like "Surprise - Doctor Finds Ted Cruz's Heart." And you all know if this happened in ANY other Western Country he would be dragged out of the House. Only in shit dysfunctional countries does this get tolerated. I'm Australian and for sure our politicians aren't angels but they aren't this bad. This is proper 3rd world banana republic style corruption.
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  2100.  @MentourPilot  Sorry if I am coming to this one late, but considering where we are with Max-8 issues and a host of other issues in 2021 there's a couple things to be said in addition. Also my apologies if this is a bit longer than a normal YouTube comment. I have a degree in aerospace engineering and a private pilots license. I have worked in industrial control and automation systems for 30+ years including a fair amount of work with robotics. Along the way I became certified in industrial safety systems, which are the systems that cut in and shut down systems when they get too far out of normal. Which is very similar to what the MCAS in the Max-8 was meant to do. Its an area we call "functional safety" and a lot of it came out of the aerospace industry, things like sensor redundancy, multi-cpu self checking systems and MooN (M out of N) methods. I have at times written the sorts of algorithms for plant and machinery that others could classify as AI. I wouldn't call what I have done as AI because I know that NOTHING anyone has ever done in terms of algorithms come close to thinking or reasoning. When engineers talk about "learning" and "teaching" we ARE NOT talking about teaching or learning as a human does. We are generally talking about an algorithm that can re-tune the parameters for the specific task at hand. I most commonly see this for simple control loops like temperature control. Its quite possibly a poor choice of words and there's a complete lack of understanding in the general community about what algorithms are and how they work. There's also been a horrendous over-selling of what AI is and what it can do from the computer and IT industries. For people like me we absolutely hate those people because more than anything else they are selling a lie. And those sorts of lies have consequences as we all found out with the Max-8. The way these algorithms work is they AIM to MIMIC how a human MIGHT manually do something. Like the way a pilot adjusts the trim. You adjust it a bit and then see what happens. You then readjust and see what happens and keep doing that until the plane is trimmed. We can do that in software because its a well defined task. I know how these types of algorithms work because I have written them to do unusual things like pH control in waster water treatment. These sorts of algorithms work in well defined tasks BUT they fall over in complex tasks like driving a car. Its not been widely advertised but they all gave up on driverless cars and trucks about 2 years ago because they eventually realised just how complex the task was and near impossible it would prove to test. This is why an autopilot in a plane works. Its a very well defined task -> keep the plane on this heading and this altitude at this speed. Driving a car down a street sounds much simpler until you start considering ALL the possibilities of weather, parked cars, light and pedestrians. Why has there never been an autopilot that could taxi a plan from the apron to the runway? Consider how many things a computer would have to consider just taxiing out to the runway. For starters you'd have to map every bay and taxiway at every airport your aircraft could be used. You'd then also have to be able to consider every permutation of what other aircraft and vehicles could be doing at all of those airports. Its the variety of circumstances ad how abstract the task is, that brings these systems down. The human brain is incredibly good at abstract situations and can evaluate extraordinary amounts of data per second and eliminate most of it on the fly as irrelevant or less important. Computers as we know them just can't do that. There simply isn't a camera or evaluation system as that's even the tiniest of a fraction the capability of the human visual cortex. BUT keeping a plane on heading, altitude and speed is a very well defined task with almost no other inputs than altitude, heading and speed. There is a possibility that quantum computers will be able to do these sorts of tasks, because its thought they will be able to evaluate vast amounts of data in parallel and do abstract tasks. So bottom line is there is nothing in the current technology of AI that's even the tiniest fraction of what would be needed to replace you in the pilot seat. And with the safety requirements for redundancy your co-pilot doesn't need to worry either. 👍😀
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  2101. No the real joke is that the Chinese have actually built a replica or updated version of the MIR Space Station. The 5 port ball shaped docking port on one end with the robotic arm for moving modules around and the 6th axial port at the other end is the same configuration as the MIR core module. In some ways it makes a bucket of common sense. Why reinvent when you can do what the Chinese are best at COPY what others have done. Plus MIR proved it was fundamentally a good design that did what it was meant to do. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2102. WHY IS ANYONE SURPRISED Anyone who's been paying attention knows she has been pushing for this.
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  2103.  @franktaylor2649  No probs. In this day a few quaint historic distractions are a breath of fresh air. 👍👍
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  2104.  @franktaylor2649  This made for interesting viewing on a very similar aircraft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8RMaEs6Npg I think both are cases of "what if?"
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  2105.  @yawningkitty457  There was such an aircraft it was called the de Havilland Hornet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8RMaEs6Npg It just came too late in too small of numbers. It and the Whirlwind are simply 2 of WW2s "what ifs" Don't forget they could only build so many engines and if each plane takes 2 then you only have half as many planes in the sky.
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  2106.  @TanyaCumpston  You right on the minerals, but out major problem is that we no longer actually process that much. There's lots of angst on that subject in various parts of Australia. There's a few places where you can say the simplest thing and go to hospital. The biggest problems with our wind and solar is that a lot of it is nowhere close to the existing power grid. Added into that are some seriously stupid people with way too much to say and the media keep handing them the microphone. We have enormous potential in a number of areas and too many selfish clowns getting in the road on all fronts.
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  2107.  @juniorjames7076  Just remember Australia might be trying to escape its past but a sizeable chunk of the population still wants to deny everything. I am Australian and our corruption might be different to South Africa's and we might have some ways to handle it BUT DO NOT THINK we don't have some huge issues. Chunks of our banks and real estate markets are fundamentally part of the global money laundering system. Our lobbying industry is atrocious, maybe not as bad as America's is but seriously bad none the less.
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  2108. ENGINEER HERE: Normally I would agree 100% with Thunderf00t, but there is a major problem he has missed with the whole carbon capture system and there's simply NO WAY to power it. EVERY VERSION of CARBON CAPTURE REQUIRES ENERGY and by far the single biggest issue facing society right now is energy. I first became aware of the energy issue during a small consulting job in 2016 into Australia's (my country's) future energy needs. Ignoring other things Australia has 22.6 GW of coal fired power to be replaced. Just like many other countries there is no way around this BECAUSE they are OLD and WEARING OUT and HAVE TO BE REPLACED ANYWAY. That build out also has to be double that amount because of population growth. Using Hinkley Point C which is the nuclear power station being constructed in Britain we can get the cost of what it would take Australia to replace that 22.6GW with LOW EMISSION nuclear. Its AU$440 Billion but when you add in expected population growth that doubles to AU$880 Billion. Then when you add in the extra power needed for all the electric cars we want it goes over AU$ 1 Trillion. When you add the power grid upgrades needed it costs around AU$2 TRILLION. I AM NOT AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER but I am calling you and many others out on what it actually costs to do what the job that exists will take. If its going to cost Australia AU$2 Trillion what do you think its going to cost all the other countries around the world with similar problems? Simply put the CO2 removal from the atmosphere has to be done with A LOW ENERGY SYSTEM and I am sorry but that means trees. YES I AGREE with Thunderf00t 100% that doing this with trees will take a monumental world encompassing program and that none of the tree hugging Greenies understand SHlT about what it will take, but trees don't need to be plugged into anything because they're solar powered. At a basic concept it means something like every person on the planet planting 1,000 trees and hoping that 1 in 10 make it to maturity. But those 800 Billion trees that survive to maturity should capture several Trillion tons of Carbon over the next 20-30 years and we need to be thinking about and talking on a level of Trillions of tons. Just so none of you think I'm crazy Statista has the global emissions on graph going from 1940 to 2022. It took the 44 years from 1940 to 1984 to emit 500 Million tons. It took the 21 years to 2005 to emit the second 500 Million tons (making 1 Trillion tons) It took the 15 years to 2020 for the next 500 Million tons making it 1.5 trillion tons of cumulative emissions since 1940. At the current rate of 37 Billion tons a year we'll reach 2 Trillion tons of cumulative emissions around 2033. Sorry TF (and I love your channel) but nobody's mechanical or chemical carbon capture solution is going to work if its needs energy and trees don't need to be plugged in to a power station to work. They only require muscle energy to plant them.
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  2109. I did aerospace engineering and back in 1987 we had an alum from NASA who did a guest lecture on Friday. He'd just completed a preliminary study into terraforming Mars and the answer was forget it. Here's a slightly longer explanation. Sorry for the math. What this NASA guy introduced us to was what I now call "Planetary Mechanics" which is how much stuff do you need. The sister to that is "Planetary Dynamics" which is how do you make stuff like water cycles and gas cycles and ocean currents work. So how much Earth normal air would you need? Sorry for the math. Mars has a surface area of 144,370,000 km² If you just wanted a 1 km thick layer of Earth standard air on an object that big its easy to approximate it as enough big cubes of air to cover and that's easy because you just change area to volume and you have 144,370,000 km³ of air. Earth standard air weighs 1.2kg/m³. To work out what that 144,370,000 km³ weighs in metric tons you add 9 zeros to convert m³ to km³ and then take off 3 zeros to convert kilograms to tons. Yes this is why engineers like metric. Finally you multiply by 1.2 because its 1.2 kg/m³ And then you get 173,244,000,000,000 tons of Earth standard air. Yes that's a bit over 173 TRILLION tons of air. The simple question is where are you going to find that much air. That's before you ask anything like how are you going to get it there or keep it attached tot he planet because Mars has only 1/3rd of Earths gravity and n magnetic field to stop the solar wind stripping it away. There was this one bright spark who recently told me we'd only need the Oxygen (as in 1/5th) 🤔🤔 So I asked him where he thought he could get 34.6 TRILLION tons of Oxygen? Now I will grant its not technically impossible, but unless you really do have God like powers, it is like trying to build a 1 to 1 scale model of Mount Everest out of Lego.
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  2110. Did you not listen? The vaccines are not killing these people. What he said was that old people die its called old age and it can be anyone of dozens of reasons. If you take 1000 or 10,000 or a million people of any age group then you expect that a certain amount will die each month from all sorts of causes. What he has said is that out of the vaccinated older people is that the death rate is NORMAL. This is actually how they now how devastating the COVID pandemic is. There's the normal death rate and there's 2020 which is above normal. Some of those can be directly attributed to OCIVD because they tested for it. Others they are not clear on because testing wasn't done. Around July August last year the death toll in America that was above normal was about 220,000, but only about 170,000 of those were confirmed COVID. Working out the causes of those 50,000 will take time and in some cases we will probably never know for certain.
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  2111. I'm an engineer and have pointed out on a few occasions that PZ doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to engineering subjects. I have repeatedly advised him and others to stop pumping out garbage, STFU and let the engineers explain what is and isn't engineering fact. My degree is in aerospace but I work in industrial control systems, robotics and automation. In 2005-06 I did a water treatment plant on a Uranium mine and as part of that we did an extensive nuclear induction. A normal mine site induction is 1-2 hours (max) this induction went for 2-1/2 days. the first 1/2 day was normal mine stuff and the other 2 days we covered uranium from when its in the ground to when its back in the ground. When it got to the subject of enrichment someone asked WTF the Iranians were up to. It was around that time that everyone was getting very anxious about what the Iranians were up to. The trainer doing the induction laid it all out and explained how EVERYONE across the World's nuclear industries KNEW 100% that the Iranians had a weapons program. It was the number of centrifuges that gave it away and we knew how many centrifuges they had because of how many high speed electric motors to spin them that they had bought along with the electronics to control those motors. The actual motors and electronics are NOT restricted tech because its stuff used in many other industries. Certain materials are restricted because they allow making the centrifuges much easier. I have explained that so many times.
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  2112. Look on the bright side - there's this little thing in American Law called conspiracy. Ex-Jag & Ex-Federal Prosecutor Glenn Kirschner has explained it several times. It requires 2 (or more) parties discussing a crime and then 1 of those parties doing an "overt act." In this vid there are 2 parties discussing a potential crime (emphasis on potential). If just one of them turns up and does an "overt act" or even prior does an "overt act." Then there is an issue FOR ANYONE INVOLVED because in a conspiracy charge everyone involved is accountable FOR ANYTHING CRIMMINAL that happens. This is the problem a number of Jan 6 people have like the clowns with radios who were clearly organized and had made plans. Here's Glenn Kirschner's YT channel -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrWmonkmTk5NbvmVnc7f70w For those who prefer someone less fiery than Glenn try Legal Eagle -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpa-Zb0ZcQjTCPP1Dx_1M8Q
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  2113. Hey NEW RULE: "Members of general public have the right to b*tch slap celebrities who think their opinion matters more than the education, training and experience of subject matter experts - LIKE DOCTORS!" For the record I'm an engineer.
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  2114. I'm waiting for him to console himself with some Jerry Falwell Jr words of wisdom on how to avoid getting caught.
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  2115. I hope he has good security because the way he is going this only ends in somebody lashing out. Look at the way he smirks at 9:12. When people keep fueling outrage eventually somebody gets hurt. Its never mattered which side is fueling whatever outrage is being wound up IT EVENTUALLY BOILS OVER AND EXPLODES. Just like Goebbles was hunted These guys weaponize doubt and disconnect people from reality. The weird thing is this is exactly what the KGB's main technique was. If you doubt that here's a KGB defector describing it back in 1984. Listen to what he says about disconnecting people from reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI
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  2116. From Australia 🙋‍♂🙋 Oh and we just got a news flash over the Star Trek sub-space communicator. The Klingon High command has asked "nuq jatlh?" Which sort of translates to "what said?" which basically means the Klingons are asking WTF? The Romulans are yet to say anything, but are smirking as if they know something. Meanwhile the Vulcans have gone into a catatonic state after someone asked to explain Trump's logic.
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  2117. That's priceless, incredibly sad and 100% accurate. And if you are wondering how TF she got elected you only have to go and look where the 14th district of Georgia is. Its the far north west corner (hillbilly country) of Georgia. Go have a look at the results she won by long long long way.
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  2118.  @davidrobinson1510  It was one of the things I didn't mention in my reply but I think he grossly overestimated the degradation of solar panels. It could also be he's used older data from older panels. People need to consider that the cell technology has been refined and developed. Cell efficiency is improving all the time. In Australia the bigger issue we have had is badly constructed panels that are NOT properly weather protected. If they get water in them they're wrecked. In one news story I saw 2 guys had a business removing failed panels and breaking them down for scrap and re-processing. They averaged 600 panels a week at the time of the story. We've had panels meant to last 25 years and they have been lasting less than 5. So there is certainly issues with panels but degradation is only 1 of those problems and comparing older to newer cell technology should be part of that discussion. Our problems are the same as any product - low price does not equal good value.
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  2119. I agree. Sadly so many of the more recent TED/TEDx talks I see are garbage pseudoscience garbage. The Elon Musk PR exercise recently was a disgrace. I'm an aerospace engineer and these are the sorts of talks that attracted me to watching a lot of TED/TEDx talks a few years back. Talks that inform and make people think, not PR for clowns.
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  2120. THAT NUMBER IS GARBAGE and if people like Gerard get their way it will be much larger Unlike Gerard Holland who's background is in accounting I am an engineer and have know about Australia's energy situation since doing a project on Australia's future energy needs in 2016. I am utterly disgusted with how public discussion has been dominated by UNCHALLENEGED claims from BOTH SIDES of the energy debate. BOTH SIDES LIE just as Gerard has done here. And so you know you can read my formal challenge to him on this page.
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  2121. Similar sentiments from Australia. Following the serious fires 2 years in a row we've also had some flooding, but our recent floods are not close in destruction to this.
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  2122. You forgot to mention the 40+years of trickle down economics combined with deregulation combined with crippling the DOJs anti-trust ability that her saint Ronny Reagan gave the Western World like a slow developing cancer called the "Wealth Gap" that's now metastasized into the heap of failing garbage we are living with.
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  2123.  @thefisherking78  Agreed. I watch Peter every chance I get because on the geopolitics he's fantastic. Even on points you might find out later he's a bit off on you'll find that at least he's giving a perspective. ON ENGINEEERING how ever he is getting some damn bad information at times and I have commented a few times on things he's just been plain wrong about.
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  2124.  @borag  Great question. I think its going to be more significant than some do. UP front I will say Sorry if this is lengthy but I have looked at Hydrogen and there's things many have NOT looked at or are aware of. Most notably many don't realise that hydrogen can be used in gas turbines. My degree is in aerospace and back in the 90s when they thought jet fuel was going to be done away with companies like Rolls Royce and GE did a lot of work on hydrogen as a fuel for gas turbines AND they solved many of the problems. These days GE and Siemens offer large gas turbines at 800MW (with combined cycle) that can use 50% hydrogen WITHOUT and modifications. The also say they have a path to use 100% hydrogen. FIRST (and this is very important) EVERYTHING has efficiency issues. If we'd used efficiency as the arbiter we would never have had the industrial revolution and possibly would never have made it out of the cave. We do need massive investments in energy storage research, but for the immediate future we need to use what we can. We can't rely on hope or maybe and have to use what we can and in ways we can. That means hydrogen will be huge, but there are some misunderstandings being bandied about. Simon Michaux (another Australian engineer) has done some really great work on the energy transition regarding the issues of just how much stuff is needed versus what's actually available. Once you realise there's 1.5 billion cars and 500 million trucks in the world, its a mind numbing task. Just to do that many cars with the same Lithium based tech Tesla uses you need in excess of 94 million tons of Lithium and according to the US Geological Survey there's about 21 million tons in reserves available. Other sources put that at 26 million tons (See Wikipedia). So there's some major problems to over come with energy storage. As Simon says "Its not impossible we just need a better plan." One thing I know Simon is wrong on is hydrogen. I have watched several of his videos including one only a few hours ago that he gave for the University of Queensland. In that video his models uses PEM cells for BOTH the hydrogen generation and power generation. Plus he insists it needs to be stored at 700 Bar which might be true for some cases BUT NOT ALL CASES. All up he gives an efficiency of 18% making Hydrogen unfeasible but I know his method is WRONG. If you use PEM cells on the generation and current generation gas turbines those have a combined efficiency of 45% with the PEM only at 70% efficiency. PEM can be as high as 80% and its believed they can get it up to 94%. At that point its over 60% without the losses for storage. Simons problem is that using PEM for generation only gets about 40% efficiency which combined cycle gas turbines are over 64% RIGHT NOW. What people forget is that if you have to flip the power from AC to DC and back to AC which you have to with these lithium based battery storage because its DC and that causes a lot of losses. A hydrogen gas turbine just produces AC directly. Now is GE and Siemens are BOTH pushing these turbines I think that means they know something. They are selling lots into SE Asia. The first couple have gone into Malaysia already and I saw a report that said one country might be buying 23. Here in Australia, we have 2 old gas thermal plants (Torrens island & Newport). Torrens is already past its "end of life" date. Based on their age I doubt if either gets better than 30% thermal efficiency. If I simply replace Torrens with one of these turbines it would be almost identical in power output but use less than 1/2 the gas. If we add in a hydrogen supply that comes down even further meaning there's more gas available in the gas market (i.e. lower prices). Based on age I'd estimate its running less than 30% thermal efficiency which is less than 1/2 the 64.7% these new gen gas turbines run at. So even without Hydrogen they'd be a massive saving on gas. With hydrogen there's an even bigger saving on gas and reduced emissions although at this point emissions reduction is only a fraction of the problem. FYI - I did my degree in aerospace and back in the 90s Rolls Royce, GE and others were flat out trying to run their turbines on 100% hydrogen because they all thought Jet-A1 was going to be phased out of the aircraft industry. So I know they've worked out the issues with using Hydrogen in gas turbines.
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  2125. ​ @dustinsindledecker154  Agreed. And that's what blows my mind. When I was in college in America, Americans were PROUD that they knew how there country functioned. I'm being honest when I say I used to feel embarrassed that I didn't know how Australia worked as well as they knew how America worked. I'm being honest when I say I want Australia to have its version of the old American civics class BECAUSE I know what the benefits are.
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  2126. I'm an aerospace engineer by training and I will grant anyone that there is a section of the community who think that science and technology will magically do anything and everything they can think off. We call that ideology "scientism." These are people who usually have NO scientific or engineering or technological training. I can't stand them because all they do is confuse people over what engineers can and can't do. I particularly hate those who call themselves futurists who peddle science fiction from movies as if tis real. HOWEVER Aaron Brown is also just as deluded as the far left. He is NOT a climate scientist and it only takes seconds to find his bio via google at Reason Magazine. His initial claim that he can find nobody who has refuted Steve Koonin's claims on scientific grounds is EXACTLY the same cherry picking that he's saying people have claimed about Steve Koonin. For starters he points out that Steve Koonin worked in the Obama Administration but leaves out Steve Koonin was BPs Chief Scientist. It took only seconds to find out that Steve Koonin based a lot of his work from a narrow set of data which is what people have pointed out. So Aaron is either incompetent at fact checking or just another liar in a debate full of liars. And that's the problem with any discussion on climate. There are cranks on BOTH SIDEDS.
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  2127. Its getting harder and harder to tell the difference between the vaporware salesmen and the bankers.
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  2128. FINALLY Finally a journalist has called out the bullshit being spoken by our governments (as in not just America). I'm Australian and only a few of our journalists are willing to call out our people often enough like this.
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  2129. Really I thought he would have been one of the prosecutors in the Sanhedrin???? We know on thing for sure - he would NEVER have been among the disciples unless you are talking about that one particular guy named Judas.
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  2130. British rebel Economist Gary Stevenson said that you need to put the words "for us" on the end of all sorts of statements from economists. He did this awesome vid here on YT about why economists are always wrong. One of the problems with them is they are generally well enough off that the issues affecting everyone else DON'T MATTER. So when they say things like "The economy is doing fine" or "The abcdxyz market is booming" you need to ad those 2 words "for us" to the end as in "The economy is doing fine FOR US." Those 10 things in the Washington Consensus make a whole lot more sense when you add "for us" to the end of each item.
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  2131.  Diana DBB  Ouch - that one is a little harsh, but strangely its not implausible either. This family really is a mess, but I'd recommend leaving Baron out of this fun because he is a minor and despite all the garbage we should draw a line somewhere. The rest of them are all adults have made themselves public figures so they are fair game.
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  2132.  @oscar37440  Hmm - she does have dark roots. But still its fun to mess back with them and its only fair for what they have done.
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  2133.  @jacobmccandles1767  Its the wing size and the number of hardpoints that makes me doubt the claims. So I went and checked. The F35 has 4 internal and 6 external hardpoints that can carry a total of 8200kg. The A10 has 11 hardpoints (all external) that can carry a total of 7,260kg. So that F35 can take off with slightly more payload. But in that configuration I'd expect it to be a slug. It already has poor maneuverability from its small wings. So I doubt that would improve much with all that added extra weight. While the A10 is meant to fly with all that weight. And that's before we discuss the guns. Only the "F35A" has a gun - 25mm/182 rounds and I don't think that matches the A10s 30mm/1350 rounds or the types of rounds it fires. Its the difference between a purpose built system versus a "do lotsa stuff" system. No I am not in Montana.
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  2134. Your almost right. You forgot that after being denied citizenship you'd have your children taken away and thrown in cages. And if you really upset him you'd get a trip to his Cuban Resort called Club Gitmo where NO ONE has any rights.
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  2135. It hurts their feelings because they have to face the fact they have been conned. They actually shouldn't be because he is a master conman. He conned & bluffed his way to the GOP Nomination. He conned and bluffed his way to the White House. He conned & bluffed his way around all sorts of laws while in the White House. He conned & bluffed his way out of 2 impeachments. He's conned and bluffed 10s of millions into believing an election was stolen. He conned and bluffed several 1000 people to storm the capital. And he has done it all AND MORE without being held accountable (so far). The real question for so many of these people is what happens when there's something they just can't deny and have to face. How are they going to respond?
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  2136.  @bobbylong8348  Yeah I think we are on the verge of widespread violence across the Western World. We have an ugly combination of stresses (climate, jobs, finances, immigration, .....) COMBINED with a political elite incapable of making any decision unless its to the advantage of the top 1% COMBINED with the means for any agitator to agitate without restraint COMBINED with chunks of the general population that doesn't care about facts. Any way you want to put it - that's NOT a good combination.
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  2137. Yeah but just like them, you should expect to get shafted the instant they don't think you're useful and even quicker of they think its in their interests.
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  2138. Dude we all get what you saying but you're also factually WRONG. If you go to this list and click the dat column https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Canada 7 of the most recent 10 "massacres" in Canada involve guns, BUT that goes back to 1985 That's 10 such events over 36 years and that covers ALL TYPES of attack. Here's the American list JUST for shootings and there's 14 so far this year AND 6 of those are AFTER Uvalde. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
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  2139. What did the CIA hitman say to the MI6 Hitman? A: Your tying the knot wrong! What did the MI6 Hitman say back? A: Shut up and hold him still! What did the MOSAD Hitman say? A: Will both of you just shut up and get it done, I only paid the guards to be gone for 30minutes!
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  2140. HEY DAVE INSTEAD OF YET ANOTHER LOOK HOW TERRIBLE HERSCHEL WALKER IS VID. How about you show just one video of something or anything Raphael Warnock has done or said. Your the guy who raged about "toxic sport politics." So why don't you do something, anything positive.
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  2141. Aerospace engineer here: I've over 30 years working in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. I am going to try and explain were some of this confusion comes from. First there are 2 words we use a lot in robotics and automation, teaching and learning that have very different meanings to us our work than they do for the general population. In the AI field the word "training" is also a word that's got a completely different meaning to what the general population knows or uses. I'll do this in 3 sub comments so that this isn't one giant lecture like tome of confusion.
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  2142. No its like when a piece of shit rolls its nose up at a turd and claims "it smells bad"
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  2143.  @johnsviewsonspewtube  Awesome assessment of TC.
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  2144.  @annamae6021  I doubt the 15 minute thing. She's NOT in Gitmo. But I think you are right she wont talk unless she gets the deal of all deals. The names she could name and dates, girls and places she could confirm would be staggering. Way too many powerful people don't want her talking, that's one thing we all know.
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  2145. What is truly staggering in this entire video DOES NOT MENTION the destruction of the Aral Sea. Those Soviet era dams built on those 2 huge rivers (Syr Darya and Amu Darya) destroyed the Aral Sea. That destruction is one of the greatest MANMADE disasters in history. Prior to its destruction the Aral Sea supported an enormous fishery that fed millions. That is all gone -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea The other thing he does not mention is that those enclaves were deliberately created by Stalin. He did it to create the sorts of situations we now see all across the ex-Soviet Republics. He literally grabbed chunks of populations and swapped them to create these enclaves. These enclaves didn't "naturally" develop over centuries they are a fairly recent (in terms of history) Soviet construct designed to displace people from their traditional homelands.
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  2146. That's a stupid overly simplistic statement on an incredibly complex subject just like so many others.
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  2147. You are absolutely right EXCEPT, messages like that have to come from people who themselves aren't deplorable. Don't ever forget Hilary NEVER accepted ANY responsibility for losing in 2016. Years later she was on Howard Stern and blamed Bernie Sanders for that loss when he had spent his time and effort supporting her and that was even after we all found out how the DNC cheated Bernie Sanders out of a free and fair primary.
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  2148.  @OolTube02  That's part of the confusing thing in what they are claiming. Where is it actually coming from. There isn't enough free hydrogen in the atmosphere. The main constituent of sewer gas like biogas is methane. The biggest part of this confusing mess is that the main suppliers of information aren't technically qualified in any way so they just miss things (in this case lots of things). They aren't asking pertinent questions like - where are you going to get this much hydrogen? To power the worlds cars you need a lot of hydrogen. It has to come from somewhere. What I like about thunderf00t's argument is the energy density. I actually missed that point when I first saw this presented. I was trying to figure out their chemistry, which didn't make a lot of sense. The energy density should be pretty easy for most people to grasp. Even if they don't exactly get it they can understand you can't put 5 gallons in a 1 gallon tank.
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  2149. AUSTRALIAN HERE - we had the fact his hotels and golf courses made staggering amounts during his presidency. Because he played golf so often and did so at his own golf courses many foreign governments started renting out rooms and condos at his courses so they could get access to him. We had this reported years ago and how they mostly paid full rates for these rooms and condos. Because nobody knew which course he'd play at next some nations did this at multiple courses. I honestly don't know how this is more widely known in America.
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  2150.  @howardedlund4242  Yeah Trump 2024 the year he finally goes to prison.
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  2151. You have to remember that when it comes to the concept of ethics all lawyers see ethics the same way they play golf - the goal is to get the lowest score possible. This isn't an American thing either. I'm Australian and our legal profession is almost as bad as America's and when you go looking around the world its the same all across the developed world. Whenever any of our lawyers are in the same position its the same stuff, the same deflections, the same avoidances, the same gish gallop nonsense and every other tactic they can dream up. I know everyone laughed at it but the one time Rudy Giuliani was 100% right in recent times was when he said "Truth isn't truth." because we now decide what's truth. Yeah its a totally Orwellian doublespeak statement, but its also 100% correct regarding current society where narrative is currency and facts are meaningless in political discussions.
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  2152. You have left 1 thing off that list - Civics. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s on a sports scholarship. I can remember how well versed in the Constitution my frat brothers, classmates and team mates all were. ANY OF THEM could easily explain and defend the basic tenements of the Constitution. Despite doing engineering a few of my frat brothers were pre-law so I ended up in plenty of discussions. What stuns me is how incredibly ignorant of the basics of the Constitution so many of these people have. I started asking about this a while back and every answer was "The Bush Administration defunded civics during the early 2000s". This really does stun people like myself because Americans used to be proud of their knowledge and understanding of the Constitution. I wasn't at first but these days I believe the US Constitution and in particular the Bill of Rights is one of the great achievements of human history. These days I can easily explain and defend the Bill of Rights which stuns some people, but I was surrounded by others WHO KNEW & UNDERSTOOD what they were talking about. For sure you are right about teaching critical thinking and the other subjects but if you really want to start fixing America then Civics MUST be on that list.
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  2153. Yeah in legal terms its called a SHlT defense but then that's all he's got right now.
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  2154.  @digitalvictory8266  Sorry but people with reputations like Michio Kaku SHOULD NOT be saying CRAP like this. There are enough hyper-bole merchants who do this idiotic version of the boy who cried wolf. Everything they talks about is a "game changer" and it will "change everything" and "our lives will never be the same" and how this "shocked the world."
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  2155. Yeah I watched his who press club speech yesterday and to put it simply. He is right about some things but totally full of SHlT on others. His claim we could have and operate 45 Collins class replacements is so breathtakingly IDl0TlC its barely wroth considering. We have 6 Collins class now and only enough submariners for 4. So where do you think the smartest man in Australian politics is going to find all the submariners to crew those 45 subs?
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  2156.  @sportsfanivosevic9885  NO I am factoring in how much military contracts blow out over time. You are right - Collins compared to AUKUS looks like a bargain, but Collins compared to other current non-nuclear programs is a dog's breakfast that we should not ever want to do again. As an engineer we should have been having sensible public discussion on this years ago. This is the thing that aggravates me the most in this. All we have are clowns who are pumping their NARRATIVES with no thought to what we actually need. When the Collins replacement first came up circa 2006/07 and they emphatically said we will not go nuclear I was working with an American who was an ex-US Navy nuclear power plant technician and operator. He'd served on Aircraft Carriers, but they still had the same power reactors as the subs. Its just the ACs have 2 and the subs have 1. He EXPLAINED that with Australia's vast ocean areas why diesel-electric was stupid. The biggest factor is the speed nuclear subs can maintain. Subs like the Astute (30kts) are 50% faster than a Collins (20kts) and do not have to slow down each day to breath air. HE ALSO EXPLAINED part of the American design philosophy and that revolved about having very little automation. This is why American subs have huge crews compared to others. The French sub is 60, the British Astute is 98 but the Virginia crew is 138. This is what I find so aggravating, there is no nuance in the public discussion. Its all opinion, narrative, rage, outrage and whatboutisms. I'm lucky in that I once worked with someone who could explain this stuff and I am fortunate to remember it.
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  2157. On the crew size (and this really aggravates me) any society only has so many of any sort of person who can do certain things. There's only so many who can be surgeons or dentists or engineers, or AFL/NRL players or Olympic athletes. We only have about 240 submariners (4 x 60 Collins crewman) as in people who will go into subs. Maybe that number can change with better recruitment but do not forget for almost 10 years we only had enough crew to keep 3 Collins active. The incredibly bad reputation the Collins first had might be part of that, but don't forget it took almost 10 years before they could reliably fire a torpedo. That's why as project it needs honest discussions on what went wrong as well as HOW they got past all those issues. I saw a great review of the Collins last year and they went over many of the improvements made over the last 20 years from operating the Collins. One thing mentioned was the time needed on the surface to recharge the batteries had been reduced from several hours to about 1/2 an hour. The main reason that review was made was they are concerned Australia will lose all the knowledge, skills and experience gained from the Collins and that is a very serious topic that needs a proper public discussion.
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  2158. ITS ACTUALLY WORSE THAN KYLE IS SAYING I have been trying to highlight this report for over 6 months ago when RICHARD WOLLF mentioned it. The report was published in SEPTEMBER 2022 nearly 10 months ago. Anyone can find the report just google "congressional budget office family wealth" and the actual home page for the report should come up. On that page you can not only download the report but an Excel spreadsheet with all the data in the graphs. Here's some facts from the data of the very first graph in that report which is the one shown by Kyle at 4:26. From that graph you can not only get the effect of the 2008 GFC by comparing the 2007 data to 2010 but also the recovery by comparing the 2007 data to 2019. Adjusting for population and averaging the data on a per person value: The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 21.1% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 4.6% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were STILL 21.8% BELOW their 2007 value. So after the GFC that they caused the Top 10% got around US$4 Trillion from Bush and another US$4 Trillion from Obama and have since recovered and by 2019 were US$20 Trillion ABOVE their 2007 value. Estimates have them at least US$8 Trillion above that during the COVID Pandemic. The current collective value of the Top 10% can be estimated to be above US$90 Trillion compared to an estimated collective value of US$2.5Trillion for the 165 million people who make up America's Bottom 50%. This is neoliberal economics in overdrive. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America on a scholarship this is my gift to you all. Apologies if its blunt, but I do love America and the American people. I do want to see America back at its best and right now America is NOT at its best. And so you know this sort of neoliberal brain virus is doing just as much damage in Australia. We are in the midst of a full blown double crisis of housing and energy and our genius economists have said things like "its just the markets adjusting."
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  2159. Sadly that's where its going. Unfortunately Omicron isn't as lethal as other variants. Maybe the next major variant will get the job done. Its horrible to think we might just have to give up on these people and just let nature do what it wants. But what other choice are they giving the rest of us.
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  2160.  @MattH-wg7ou  Same to you. There's a Matt H who flies in Australia, did fly for the RAAF and these days likes High-G, low altitude flying between pylons?
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  2161. @Numero uno There is nothing new in politics, its all been going on since 2 brothers named Cain and Abel disagreed over the wheat and meat markets. I'll agree that this current from of wokeism is new in our lifetime as far as Western societies go but its not that much different to times like the French, Russian or Chinese revolutions or any of the other peasant revolts in Europe or the slave revolts in Ancient Rome. They were all peasant revolutions where a class of people felt (rightly or wrongly) that they were being victimised and repressed by an intolerant conservative aristocracy. You're also utterly wrong that the right don't "bend reality and warp logic to support false conclusions based on someone's feelings" or have you NOT seen any of what has happened in America. That whole January 6th thing was about a group of people with hurt feelings who felt they were wronged and had their reality bent out of shape with cocktail of Trumpism and Qanon. I suggest you step back and look at the basics of these things. The radicals on BOTH sides of politics have a number of similarities. They're intolerant and any view that does not comply with their world view. They believe they are wronged and are victims even when they are victimising someone else. They believe the ends justify the means irrespective of how ridiculous the means are.
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  2162.  @Madonnalitta1  How do you know? You'd be right to say outside of the Bible there's no proof they existed, but also there's no proof they didn't exist. A guy named Abram (later Abraham) mentioned a lot in the same piece of literature was also thought to be a myth until they found archeological evidence in the 1970s proving he existed. They found his tax records and business records from his dealings with the Royal family of Ur (in modern day Iraq).
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  2163. I'm Australian and we have spent years trying to deal with what happened here with White Settlement and several of the events afterwards. I had nothing to do with any of the horrible crimes of our past, but if we are NOT honest about those events then we are destined to repeat them, because there will be people like Elon Musk who's living with the denial of his own family's past behavior in South Africa AND they will take advantage of that. On the flip side of that I will always warn people to NOT ram guilt down the throats of people who had nothing to do with these sorts of events. It will always lead towards resentment and out of that resentment you can have people doing exactly what Elon is doing here.
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  2164. I'm Australian and wished we'd found a way to rid the world of Rupert Murdoch long before he wrought any of his nonsense on the world, including Donal Trump. Rupert is proof to every country that no matter if people think you're fun or your country has some cute animals or anything else there's always someone in your society you wished was never born. My 3 favorite things about America - college sprots, college sports and college sports.
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  2165. @🍄Personal Shaman🍄 If you take out the religious stuff that made sense. Never bring religion into the discussion that way. It just kills your argument every time. For starters all those organisations w=you rant about are all endorsed by religious leaders. Secondly 99% of all the people claiming to FOLLOW God are liars, hypocrites or lying hypocrites. Go and check your history books on religion and politics.
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  2166.  @annarae2396  Agreed, but I think you math needs improving, In 2020 there were 74,216,154 who voted for Trump and 81,268,924 who thought Biden was the answer to America's issues. By my math that makes 155,485,078 million Americans who haven't a clue about history because if they did they would have found other candidates.
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  2167. Larry Fink loves one thing - His way. On MMT I am reading Stephanie Kelton's book "the Deficit Myth" and she makes the very basic point on deficits. If a government (any government) spends $100 and taxes back $36 then there's a deficit of $64 fine. She asks: WHERE'S the $64? It can't just vanish it has to be somewhere, bank accounts, stocks, assets, whatever. Its just can't not exist. So the real questions are: Who's got it that $64. What are they doing with it. More importantly what did the government get for that $64? Did they get something that benefits the economy or the general population or did the government just benefit SOME of the population. That's what Larry hates. MMT gets people to think about where the money ENDS UP and who benefited
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  2168. Look on the bright side they have a document (a real document) that details THEIR PLAN to subvert the constitution. So for any of these charges of "seditious conspiracy" here's solid evidence there was a plan. As several lawyers have explained for a conspiracy to exist there needs to be 2 or more parties AND and overt act. It might be arguable but it might just be that writing this down and SENDING it as an order or directive to one of the parties or a third party constitutes an "overt act." I'm no lawyer but I look forward to the explanations of this. Put it this way if this was done in ALMOST ANY other country except America (with its 1st Amendment and narrow definitions of sedition and treason) these people would already be in jail. In more than a few places they would already be dead.
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  2169. Love the sentiment but there's this thing called free speech. Napoleon said you should bever interrupt an enemy when they are making a mistake and the best thing anyone can do is keep letting Tim Pool make and idiot of himself. Besides, that anyone with a functioning brain knows it was America who blew up Nordstream. Its simply a matter of who actually has the skill set and personnel and means to sneak into the Baltic and then split open 50 meters of concrete lined pipe at depth AND DO IT 3 TIMES. That's not 4 dudes on a rented fishing boat.
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  2170. HEY DAVE INSTEAD OF YET ANOTHER LOOK HOW TERRIBLE HERSCHEL WALKER IS VID. How about you show just one video of something or anything Raphael Warnock has done or said. Your the guy who raged about "toxic sport politics." So why don't you do something, anything positive.
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  2171. Although the Dems are far being actual Lefties by any other standard, they are to the left of the GOP. More importantly this is exactly what Left Wing parties do all over the world. They are the most self destructive idiots EVERYWHERE with maybe the exception being New Zealand but then Jacinda Ardern actually has a functioning brain. I bet most of America does not realise that after the Hilary 2016 debacle that some of her campaign consultants and staff ended up in Australia WHERE THEY LOST and then ended up in Britain WHERE THEY LOST both time running similar styles of campaigns. I'm Australia and it was somebody I met from Britain who told me about that when I asked why British Labour used the same strategy as Australian Labour who seemed to use the same strategy as the Clinton campaign. These same people keep losing with the same sorts of campaigns - We are intellectually superior with all these ideas while the other side are RW fanatics who don't care about the planet. No matter how many times they lose they don't ever seem to get that shaming and belittling people and then confusing them doesn't work. AND EVERYTIME they lose they start the blame game. The whole world saw Hilary on the Howard Stern Show blaming Bernie Sanders for her loss 3 years after the fact.
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  2172. TOTAL COMPLETE BULLSHIT. This is just another bunch of techno toys trying to solve problems that don't exist. The bigger pile of garbage is this endless garbage about AI. There is no such thing as software that thinks or has intelligence. What does exist are algorithms that mimic specific human tasks. But to make those algorithms work requires tasks that are well defined. This is why its used for facial recognition its a specific task to find something that is well defined (somebodies face) in a bunch of images (still photographs or moving film). I'm an aerospace engineer who works in control systems (the computers that run industry - power stations, mineral processing plants, water treatment, waste treatment, etc.) We've had very sophisticated algorithms for decades, and by all the claims today we could claim they are AI, but no self respecting engineer calls any of it AI. AI is a claim made by promoters trying to get people to invest or buy stuff - nothing else.
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  2173.  @thetruthchannel349  First off don't highlight everything it makes you seem like your ranting. Highlight the bits you want people to notice or to emphasize. Jeremiah didn't predict weapons if you are referring to wheelwork. Like may parts of the bible those are word images meant to provide readers and listeners a picture in the head to convey an idea or concept. Jesus did the same thing with his parables. He wanted people to think so he gave them word pictures so that they would UNDERSTAND what he wanted them to understand. My parents were teachers, their friends were teachers so I was surrounded by people who taught and spent their days trying to get people to think. Way to often scholars try to read way too much into every subject they study. Sometimes you don't need to read things in but simply accept the information for what it is and use it to expand your own knowledge of the world. The Dan Brown fans and followers of Kabala are and conspiracy people are always trying to read things that just aren't there. Greek is nothing like a modern computer language, whether you are talking modern Greek or ancient Koine Greek. Its a language with a different alphabet and structure to modern English - nothing more, nothing less. Computer languages are nothing like human languages. They are task orientated to process data. Human languages convey all sorts of things for which no data is definable (morals, ethics, empathy, etc.) Its what makes true AI almost impossible because how do we make a processor capable of processing raw data and human data in parallel when we've no idea how to define human data let alone process it. Smart weapons aren't that smart, as in they don't think. In WW2 bombs dropped and hit whatever they landed on. Smart bombs are guided and glide to hit the target with a very high level of accuracy. So instead of sending dozens, 100s or a 100+ bombers you can send 1 plane with a very accurate bomb and surgically destroy a very specific target. Its considered smarter to drop 1 bomb with surety than 1000s with hope. As I said I am an aerospace engineer and I work in control systems. I also have a pilots license so I know this stuff. Not as well as some do but certainly better than 99.9%. I also understand my Bible fairly well. I don't like to talk much about particularly on social media where you have no idea who you are talking to or what their motivations are. Plus so many people interpret it the same way they interpret other things - to suit their own motivations. That's arguably the real cancer of modern society - too many people wanting to interpret or reinterpret information rather than accept information for what it is.
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  2174.  @thetruthchannel349  Don't lecture people about AI when you don't know a damn thing about the subject.
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  2175. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Like the Canadians, Japanese, Brits, Japanese, South Koreans and a bunch of other countries we are supposed to believe that America is a reliable security partner when these clowns are your best options??????
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  2176. Bullshite as someone who IS AUSTRALIAN he got caught playing games with his status. We gave him every an exemption and gave him a chance and like so many spoiled brats he abused that status. LIKE AARON ROGERS ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS BE HONEST AND HE WASN'T. I have no sympathy for any of these spoiled brats and its about time some of them WTFU.
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  2177. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  2178. Because his most favourite place in time would be Salem, Massachusetts circa 1692. But that's a problem for Ted because with his arrogance they label him a warlock then drown him, hang him, hammer a stake through his chest and when the realise he has no heart they'd burn what's left and the scatter the ashes mixed with Garlic and Holy Water. We'd never hear about it because all mention of his existence would be removed from the records just so nobody would be able to call him back from Hell.
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  2179. HEY KYLE I agree with your assessment of this in that these tribal politics are basically bad, but what this guy has really pointed out in this article is quite accurate. Certain groups respond very predictably to specific buzz phrases and its called mob psychology. Morally & Ethically what George Santos did id repugnant, but in todays politics, he played it close to perfection.
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  2180. Australian here and your description of Canadian Trump supporters is the same we have here and they are mostly Qanon supporters as well. The one thing David misses early on here is when he's talking about their views on the CIA, FBI, DOJ is that he forgets that all those agencies have shown in the past that they cannot be trusted. This is one of the major issues facing all Western democracies these days. Our governments in general cannot be trusted they keep doing stuff expecting nobody will find out and we always do. Right now Australia has a major scandal involving our Federal Government's hiring of PwC for tax consulting. Its raised questions of other government contracts at both state and federal level with all of the big consultancies - KPMG, McKinsey, EY, Boston,... etc. NOT ONE contract has even been put on hold let alone cancelled. Plus there are incredibly serious questions over the AUKUS submarine contracts. I am an engineer and none of the costs make sense and again it involves consultants and lobbyists and think tanks with NONE of them being trustworthy. If you go and look at some of the issues in Britain right now its similar stories. Plus I have heard stories out of Canada with similar themes. Italian British Economist Mariana Mazzucato just wrote a book about the consulting industry and in the talks she has given she keeps mentioning the same consultancies and their work around the world and the effect its having an effect on our governments. There are very serious issues with the credibility of our governments these days. Even when people don't understand the details they still know that things are not going well and that makes them incredibly easy to mislead. Sorry for the longish answer. FYI - I spent 4 months in Canada late 2017 early 2018 and despite the cold I loved the place.
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  2181.  @HistoryScope  Cool video all round. I didn't need to really watch this. I already new the answer to what's happened since the fall of the Soviet System BUT this is a good video because it fills in a lot of the historical "how did it get here" background which I hadn't heard. The version I have heard of what happened since the fall of the Soviet system which is very similar to yours and the details sort of overlap goes like this. In the 1990s the Russians unfortunately listened to American Economists like Jeffery Sachs. These were the clowns who told the Russians to sell or auction off all the Soviet State assets. It was the same ideology that started with Reagan and Thatcher in the 1970s driven by the Chicago School economists lead by Milton "Greed is Good" Freidman. I have been trying to work this stuff out for a couple of years now, because it affects my country Australia like it does so many. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) hosts the Rhodes Centre Podcast where he mostly talks to people who've written books on economics, political-economy and history. A couple of them have been highly critical of people like Jeffery Sachs for what they have done around the world and then blamed the people in those nations for the disasters that happened. AND YES they have blamed the Russians for the mess they helped create. Basically the American economists tried to neo-liberalise Russia without understanding if the Russian people were ready. Its similar to the stupidity of ramming democracy down the throats of people in nations with none of the institutions needed in place to manage it like happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. The giant problem with trying to flip Russia into a capitalist free market society in such a short time was that the only Russians with any real experience in capitalist systems were the KGB officers who'd served outside Russia. So why should anyone be surprised that it was Ex-KGB people who knew what to do and when to do it and how its turned out.
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  2182. That's interesting. I'm Australian but went to college in America (Illinois) and did visit No-lo and its an amazing place. I was going to point out how this and other videos keep showing people who I'd assume vote Republican talking about Climate change. Do you know why? Is it because they can't ignore what's right there before them and so obvious they have to accept it?
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  2183. Well actually Lincoln was a Republican who led the Union against the South. The Dems actually started in the South among wealthy landowners and the KKK was founded among Dems. That's one of the things about history - things change over time.
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  2184.  @gedias1  I'm Australian and like Canada we have a traditional British Labour Party or at least one that started that way. Ours is now full of University Educated Kumbaya singing wankers who have never had dirt or grease on their hands, but that's another discussion. What Americans don't get is that they have 2 Right Wing parties. They used to be mild right and right. Now they are corporate right and radical fundamentalist right. I find it funny and at times infuriating to hear Americans talk about leftists when they have no idea what they're talking about.
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  2185.  @dougking4377  Foxworthy should do a special on this.
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  2186. Great idea and it wont ever happen anywhere where political parties have control. Do you really think they will cancel their money stream?
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  2187. Your right and this is one of Kyles best takes on anything he's spoken about recently. When I first started watching this I expected Maher to be his usual self indulgent worst and instead he seemed thoughtful. When Kyle started I first thought WTF is he on about. The after the Chomsky interview it was an Ah Ha moment and I got what he was pointing out. Maher is quietly pushing the idea these people are irredeemable while Chomsky is pointing out that they are people with legitimate grievances and if you don't listen to them they'll turn to someone who does. This isn't the first time I have heard this argument either. Prof. Richard Wolff (one of David Pakman's old professors) had a similar explanation of Democratic failure. It was during one of the tributes to Michael Brooks. Take note Prof. Wolff teaches Marxism as an economic subject. There's a lot he says I don't agree with but his explanation of West Virginia is priceless and it totally highlights why Bill Maher is an idiot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s Take note that Mark Blyth calls it "the politics of recognition." That's the point Bill Maher is totally idiotic about. Chomsky is saying you need to listen to these people and give them something to be hopeful about. Bill Maher is saying they're terrible people that we can't talk to and there is no hope for them.
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  2188.  Doug Parker  Its been certified by all 50 states, the electoral college have voted and the Supreme court has thrown out the challenges. ITS OVER. ITS DONE. ITS FINISHED. Trump LOST - deal with it.
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  2189.  @myleslong5584  Thanks. It comes from 3 things. 1) I actually do care about America. I had this amazing time over there going to college and it hurts watching America tear itself apart the way it is. 2) No matter what any Australian likes or not, America is our most important trade and security partner. That has its pluses and minuses. Either way we need America to be stable and reliable. 3) No matter what any other country thinks or wants America is still 25% of the worlds economy. The US Dollar ($USD) is still the worlds reserve currency and MOST international trade is done in $USD or the money exchange is backed by $USD. NOBODY not even the Russians, Iranians or North Koreans can afford that system to be come unstable. Right now there's around $100 Trillion in Foreign Exchange (FX) Swaps held by banks, companies and others around the world. There's a Bank of International Settlements (BIS) report on it that went largely unnoticed 2 years ago. It raised the concern that over 60% of those swaps were held by non-American non-bank entities. Its NOT odd for businesses who trade internationally to hold FX swaps but there's also a lot of people using them like Casino chips AND IF the currency backing the swaps suddenly jumps up or down in value it can shock the entire global trade system. Better still is the fact that a couple of American states are now the favorite hiding places for money. There's little said about it but Idaho is America's equivalent of Switzerland and has a very secretive banking system. Its also a favored place for Russian Oligarchs to hide their money. Putin's worth around $200 Billion through various stocks and entities. Where that money is, is anyone's guess, but there's probably some in Idaho. So I really do mean it when I say NOBODY can afford America to become unstable or unreliable. Not even Putin. And Harvard, Yale and U. Chicago ARE the problem, because of what their graduates do and how they network together.
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  2190. HEY THOM (and anyone else paying attention) the line you really want to quote to people like Rachel Campos-Duffy is by Jesus himself, because this line confuses the daylights out of them. Right at the start of the Sermon on the Mount Jesus gave what are called the The Beatitudes where Jesus said who would be blessed. The 3rd of those recorded in Matthew 5:5 is "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." Just ask them how are the meek going to be blessed if they inherit a toxic garbage dump that wont support life? If you really want to confuse them, then ask them this. Considering one of Jesus tasks (as described in the bible Matthew 25:31-33) is to separate the sheep from the goats (as in likeable people from stubborn people). How is Jesus going to take it, when the planet that he wants these "meek" people to inherit IS TASHED BY YOU? There's a big hint at Matthew 25:40 and the verses that follow.
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  2191. Actually NO. There was some really great commentary by a few Russian born commentators about 2016. They put forward the idea that Putin's real game was to interfere with a Clinton White House by continuously releasing scandalous information and setting her into conflict with a Republican controlled House and Senate. If you think about it Putin hated Clinton because she was the one who imposed sanctions on Russia as Sec State. If she'd been in the WH and then it was just an endless stream of leaks with the GOP going bonkers. Some of the actual Russian born analysts who understand Russian culture have been really good at explaining this stuff. I wish people like David would talk to them.
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  2192.  @insightfulhistorian1861  He was a professor at Harvard the grand temple of neo-liberal philosophy. Nuff Said! 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2193. Australian here: Kyle is explaining exactly the same sorts of problems we have with our centrists. They stand for nothing except compromise and because BOTH the Far Left and Far Right KNOW with certainty that they can bluff the centrists then the centrists end up getting nothing done. Because our politics is dominated by a Centrist Left (Labor) and a Centrist Right (Liberal) parties the more conservative Nationals on the right and more radical Leftists can just play their interference games and NOTHING CHANGES. Even when the centrists do have good ideas (which they do have) they find ways to completely botch it up and if you want I can give examples. The only correction I'd give to your statement is that rather than SIDE with the Right I'd say they CAVE IN to the right because the Right now how to bluff better than the Left. I think it would be safe to say that at any political poker tournament the Right win all the time and its not because they cheat they just know how to bluff better.
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  2194. ​ @FoldedCloak  That's a good point but its also the same point people can make about Sal regarding shipping. I can say the same about many of the people I watch here on YouTube. the difference is Sal does NOT stray outside his area of expertise. I actually found Sal because Ward Carroll (Ex F14 RIO) pointed out his channel. Ward is an expert on Naval aviation NOT shipping so he linked people into Sal's work. That's where Peter Z goes wrong. He doesn't engage other subject matter experts (SMEs) as much as he should. However Peter is not even 1% as bad as the political commentators who are just 2 howling packs of clowns that yell at each other in ways that make any sensible dialogue impossible.
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  2195.  @cragnamorra  YES I noticed that one too. I think it was a typo because its simply idiotic to think a carrier can go that fast. A quick check says that 90knots is 166.68kmh or 103.6mph. Its so ridiculous that it has to be a brain fart or typo. FYI - I'm Australian but did my degree in Aerospace Engineering in America. In my last semester I did a class in nautical navigation (I liked sailing). It was a class hosted by the US Navy for their ROTC students. So it was a military class with USN officers for instructors. They were awesome too and treated me very well. It was a class that had the occasional civilian (like me). Its was in 1987 and at that time there were some very serious political differences between Australia and Indonesia. So I asked one of my USN instructors a few things. In that conversation I remember 2 things. 1) He assured me that America would not allow Australia to be touched because there's a couple of incredibly important US bases here. 2) Officially America could have aircraft carriers in Australian waters in 30 days. He told me quite seriously it would be less than 8. As an engineer I can do the calculation. In 8 days (192 hours) from San Diego to Brisbane which is 6260 nautical miles you only need to do 32.6 knots. In most cases San Diego would be the LONGEST distance as Hawaii, Japan & Guam are a lot closer. Published speed of Nimitz and Ford class carriers is simply put as "in excess of 30knots" but there are claims that its over 40knots. BUT THERE'S NOBODY saying anything over 50 let alone 90. So sorry the 90 knots just has to be a brain fart or typo. That said the actual disturbing thing is that NOBODY called him out on it.
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  2196. All she has done since losing to Trump is prove she was never good enough in the first place. That's a sad, sad truth - she was never good enough in the first place.
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  2197. This is PART of the biggest issue in the world right now, because its PART of the international banking system. The staggering amount of money that the wealthy are hiding in tax havens only happens because all of the banks shift the money. What America doesn't realise is that 2 of the biggest tax havens in the world are Delaware and Idaho. The British have over a dozen small island states (like the Cayman's) that are all tax havens. Then there's the European microstates like Monaco and Liechtenstein. Most of what we have right now has come because NOBODY wants to deal with the big banks or the big auditing companies that sign off on all this stuff. There's a PBS Frontline on the 2008 GFC and Lanny Breuer the assistant AG to Eric Holder brags about prosecuting over 3,000 people. But when he's asked about the CEOs he simple says they chose not to on economic reasons. YEAH NOT LEGAL reasons but economic reasons. Its not an American thing either here in Australia we had a Royal Commission in our banks and they found enough stuff we should have needed to build a whole new prison and not a single person was charged let alone prosecuted with anything. Just recently a story started to emerge that the banks are at it again except this time the problem is much bigger than in 2007-08. Bloomberg reported on it but nobody paid any attention and a couple of others have since started to report on it. Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRc5r-qBoNY
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  2198. My first thought too. Come on, what were their shareholders meant to do after they pulled out of Iraq & Afghanistan?
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  2199.  @franklinwilkerson2061  On first read that was about the craziest thing I've heard in weeks. ON SECOND read its the scariest, because in the world right now it might just be true. Because why fight a war you can't ever win and instead fight one you can make someone you don't like lose badly or at least suffer badly.
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  2200. Another aerospace engineer here and I agree. There's way too many people with no technical background at all pumping out technical opinions these days. Its at the core of why we just aren't solving a lot of problems. We really do need to start telling the clowns and idiots to shut up especially non-engineers on engineering subjects.
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  2201.  @truegret7778  Buddy I have just had another clown berate me over being a spoiler for fully auto-piloted cars. I have actually spent the last 30+ years in control systems and automation. I know what it takes to write software to link sensors to actions and can unequivocally state that 99% of everyone who can program can't do that sort of work. They can't look at code and see what it does in the real world in real time. They can make some stuff work but the moment things don't work they are lost. I have no doubt they can make a car that will follow a winding road with near absolute perfection. The problem is what that system does when it encounters something NEW that isn't accounted for in the code. One of the most amazing aspects of the human brain is its ability to fill in gaps in the available information and adapt its experience at incredible speed. It also gets us into trouble at times like with pilots misreading something they see and their brain goes "UFO" because their peripheral visual system has labelled it as "out of the normal - potential threat." This is my beef with non-technical people and other ignorant types. Not only do they NOT understand these nuances and details BUT they aren't interested in hearing them. The idiot who ran this sub not only killed himself he killed 4 others BECAUSE details were inconvenient. Go ask your wife about the history of aviation and how many times untrained geniuses built planes that engineers with knowledge and experience said "DON'T do that!" and it ended tragically. Better still ask your wife what happens when over 21tons of mass going at supersonic speed rams into a flat surface? Then ask her about the geniuses at SpaceX and their brilliant launch platform in Texas. If she's wondering point out the fuel flow rate of a Raptor engine and multiply that by 33. I heard a great description of the sub-clown "Brilliant Idiot"
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  2202.  @pamparker4047  Your not actually disagreeing. He's highlighting 1 side of the issue which is teenagers and sex while you are pointing out what the HPV vaccine is - a protection against cancer..
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  2203.  @2Hard2Core  thanks
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  2204.  @ericdunn555  100%
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  2205. The other thing he talks about which is very rare for an American is that he recognizes that the rest of the Western World has had as one of its key foreign policies since WW2 is "What do the American's want us to do?" About a year into Trump's presidency it was leaked here in Australia that our Foreign Affairs Department (DFAT) was in unchartered waters. For the first time in decades they were having to think independently of America. The problem was its been so long since any Australian government has actually had to think for itself that NOBODY knew how to write policy outside of the "What do the American's want?" framework. What America is yet to accept is that a lot of countries have now had 4-6 years of thinking for themselves outside the "What do the American's want?" framework.
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  2206. This should be pinned to the top of the comments list. There's also the stupidity of what he says about the Crude out of Venezuela. Saudi Crude like most middle eastern crude is also what's called "heavy crude" and EVERYONE needs heavy crude because that's where we get things like grease and bitumen from. You actually can't have modern society without it. Trump relies on 2 things with his base - ignorance and more ignorance
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  2207. I don't know why anyone would call this a word salad. According to nutritionists salads are good for us, They provide us with nutrition and are good for our health. "So in what way is this pile of crap in any way representative of anything nutritional or healthy?"
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  2208. As an Australian (who has worked in some of those areas) do you have any idea how inhospitable those areas are? Do you know the life expectancy of somebody without the required bushcraft is about 6 hours? I worked at one mine site where they just told us NOT to go past the perimeter which was just marked by a piece of rope suspended at waist height with small posts. They told us at the induction beyond that point your life expectancy rapidly drops to zero. Beyond sight of the mine we were told maybe 6hours. They said the only chance would be trackers from our first nations people and they'd take at least 4 hours to organise and start. There's a sort of joke people say out there "If it bites it can kill you!" Even if we could get water to those regions the soil quality is so poor it would need vast amounts of fertilizer to work. The freakiest idea anyone ever had was to build (yes build) a mile high mountain range across the right part and it would create the weather for rain and rivers.
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  2209. I have the same question - where is the charge of perjury???
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  2210.  @secreteobsession3584  That's a very shitty link on a very dubious viral YT page that includes all sorts of old footage "as admitted." The snap at 1:28 looks more like a cop simply NOT aggravating the situation and making it worse. He doesn't lower his mask and smile or try to make conversation. The implication made by T.J. is that these cops were involved and that the selfies were part of the game. It does not show that. The photo of the rebel flag has been shown along with others around the world and that should upset people its the flag of slavery and oppression and waving it inside congress while claiming to be upholding democracy as you try and deny other people there right to vote is absurd. Here it is on Australian TV from earlier today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp1K-LfEn4s (6:40 to 6:50) I actually think they have to invoke the 25th. POTUS just encouraged people to storm & invade congress. I mean HAVE TO not discuss because how can anyone say he is fit for office and wield executive power.
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  2211. You can't commit treason when you are the sitting President, BUT your followers can if they scheme against the government. As far as I know treason is when you are in the act of overthrowing the government or monarch. It was very easy for English Kings to use treason in times past because whatever they decided was treason was treason. Its very hard to charge these days UNLESS you are caught acting on behalf of a foreign government like spies do. It was why the Rosenberg's could be charged and executed as they were. --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg On the brighter side of the argument there is a crime called sedition --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition From what I understand (and I am not a lawyer) its very hard to get a conviction in America because of the 1st Amendment, EXCEPT for military personnel.
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  2212.  @IlluzionMe  They don't just watch her, 1,264,842 people voted for her. America might have dodged a bullet but I doubt this is over.
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  2213.  @falconquest2068  I'm Australian but went to college at Illinois in the late 80s. I can remember see the televangelist of those days and thinking this stuff is going to come back to haunt one day. What I try and explain to Americans is that this stuff has gone global. These sorts of institutions that get hijacked by right wing publicity and propaganda machines is common across the entire Western World. Australia has an array of right wing think tanks all calling themselves "something something INSTITUTE" all pretending to be neutral academic places where very smart people to outstanding work for the benefit of everyone. Does that sound familiar? Without doubt this stuff is a lot more visible in America, but its happening everywhere.
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  2214.  @awolffromamongus875  There's talk of that sort of thing but no matter what's done you still have to get the rock out of the hole and when they go deep its a lot of rock. On top of that issue to stop the hole collapsing they have to put down a liner. You only have to spend about 30 minutes with people who drill to realise that its quite different to what's shown on TV. Its one of those odd areas of engineering where experience really does matter.
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  2215. How about Lindsey Graham If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it. 7:03 AM · May 4, 2016 I just checked and its still on X/Twitter. The reason for the date and time is because its a cut and past.
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  2216. If you want to complain the complain about how other nations with similar systematic issues have not been banned. Drug cheating at the Olympics has been going on for decades. If Russia feels bad about getting caught then don't - you got caught wear it. BUT Russia has every right to scream about other nations cheating particularly China and America. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s on a sports scholarship for swimming. At the 92 Barcelona Olympics a girl from my club in California was cheated out of a gold by the Chinese and it was obvious they were cheating. FINA (the swimming governing body) were only checking swimmers they new had been tested before they went to Barcelona. That included a lot of people from various countries who were at college in America making it look like the testing was random. The British worked it out because one of their swimmers was at the University of Iowa which was a college I raced against. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics the husband of Marion Jones (who was later caught as part of the BALCO scandal) CJ Hunter was caught multiple times and yet still turned up in Sydney expecting to compete. It was later found out that the US Track & Field team had amassed around 150 failed tests prior to arriving in Sydney. Australia had a runner who finished 4th in 2 successive Olympics. Both times the 3 Americans in front of him were caught at competitions after the Olympics. The infamous Seoul Olympics 100m final where Ben Johnson was caught was a disgrace as every other Athlete in that final was either suspected or actually caught at later events. That included Carl Lewis. America has a terrible record of cheating in track and field. If Russia should be angry its should be because they are the only country punished like this.
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  2217. Obama could have said. Kings drink champagne they don't drink water - ask Flint.
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  2218. Australian - here Your trying to point out geography to Americans. Note: Go and watch (still a classic) Caitlin Upton's amazing answer on maps at the Miss Teen USA pageant.
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  2219.  @trashkumaneko4539  I now it sounds pedantic but the correct term is up-cycling. It took me a bit of time to distinguish it but once the difference you understand why its so important. Re-cycling is a very basic simple process of just converting finished product directly into raw material. There's no fundamental change in what the material actually is. Think about when they re-cycle cans, cars or plastic. The metal and plastic isn't being really changed it just being converted back into raw stock for manufacturing. On the other hand raw sewerage is raw sewerage. There's no machine that simply melts it back into food. BUT there are other biological processes that can be used to "convert" that waste into "different" compounds that can be used in other processes. You can't actually eat shit, but you can use bacteria to convert it into useable fertilizer and you can eat the food produced by the plants that use that fertilizer. If you use really clever bacteria you can also create other usable compounds for other processes. It's called Up-Cycling because your taking waste from the lowest level and converting back up to higher levels. Go watch the talks by Dr. Jonathon Trent, he's easily one of the smartest people on the planet.
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  2220. I hate to bust anyone's nuts on this, but as an aerospace engineer this looks like a senior year project that's somehow managed to get funding. They have taken a novel idea and progressed it further with funding. But there is one major issue that your video totally did very good job of dismissing and that's the structure of the satellite itself and where that 10,000G loading is. And before you dismiss me I was doing Finite Element structural simulations on discarding sabot projectiles at 200,000G while an undergraduate in 1987. Also from that time. When the Challenger accident happened the biggest issue for satellite manufacturers was that all the satellites built for launch on the shuttle had to wait until the shuttle could fly again. They'd all been built for launch on a vehicle that took of at 4G of less. They couldn't just be moved over onto a Delta or other because the tended to launch at over 20G and some over 30G and the satellite structures were not up to it. Also from that time is the Pegasus air launched vehicle which has since become one of the most reliable launch systems ever (3 outright failures, 2 partial failures and 45 successful launches including the last 31). When it was being designed I remember the discussions of how they had to redesign for the horizontal launch and consider how that affected the vehicle structure and the payload structures for those loads. A capacitor and other parts on a circuit board is one thing, but the physical structure of the satellite is another thing entirely. This was actually where project HARP failed. By the time they had satellite structures strong enough to handle the launch loads there wasn't much left for payload. Is this system novel? Yes Does it have some things worth spending some money on? Probably Is it going to be a came changer? NO. Where I think this system is going to come unstuck is with that much mass swinging at those revolutions any failure is going to massive damage if not destroy the system. No matter how hard people try things fail. I have worked in safety systems and failure analysis and this screams on the what happens when things fail scenario.
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  2221.  @makeamericagreatagain3401  Seriously just cut that stupidity, we've all had enough. Trump lied so he could suck money out of people to pay off his campaign debts. He even had disclosures on his web site that said money would go to the RNC as well as legal challenges. Sorry, but YOU GOT CONNED 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2222.  @peakz8548  World demand, but mostly the Chinese construction boom. People seem to forget that the Chinese have lifted around 500 million people out of the peasant class into the lower middle and middle class. India is also moving in that direction. Then there's the rich oil states of the middle east, they have also been building over the past decade. Back around 2002/03 I was told the Australian iron order industry was planning to double from around 200 million tons to 400 million tons a year. In 2017 we produced over 885 million tons. I think that's backed off a little to around 820 million tons. There's a little heard of economic indicator called the iron consumption rate. Its so rarely heard of I might even have that name wrong. Back around 2003 the Western world consumed between 70 and 85 kilograms per person each year of iron. It was through stuff we bought but also through construction. At that time China was around 8kg and India 7kg per person per year. You don't have to move populations that large much to have a big effect.
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  2223. SORRY BUT - I went and checked this and maybe Thom could have done some checking too. There definitely is a direct link from Cannons husband (Josh Lorence) to John Rosatti, but there's not much of a link between John Rosatti and the Colombo crime family and nothing to suggest he's actually a mobster. According to FBI informant and former Colombo captain Salvatore "Big Sal" Miciotta "in late 1993, Victor Orena asked multi-millionaire businessman John Rosatti to provide cars from his dealership to be used to carry out murders, Rosatti declined and instead handed over $50,000 to Orena." (source Wikipedia on the page about the Colombo Crime Family). So there's no actual claim anywhere that Rosatti was actually a mobster just a claim that a mobster approached him at one time and the implication he paid money to NOT be involved.
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  2224. Wagner - its the Russian word for Blackwater.
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  2225. Well pointed out this is a matter of definition. I'm an aerospace engineer who did post graduate research. What angers me so much with this argument is that we are NOT getting a clear picture of what the NIH was doing in Wuhan. I remember that May 11 confrontation, because it was just after the Wade Nichols article, and yes I know there's been some debunking of that article. -> https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/ But following on from that article others posted links to these NIH project reports which clearly show NIH funding to Ecohealth Alliance and managed by Peter Daszak for Corona virus research in China. https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9491676 https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9819304 I'm not a virologist or epidemiologist (an most of us aren't). I do know what researchers can be like. At times very fine details and definitions are incredibly important because they can be doing work that is right at the balance point between 1 definition and another. For anyone who has never done research or development that's more common than you think. I did a water treatment plant a couple of years back where we had to be EXTREMELY careful about everything we said or wrote in emails and reports because there were 2 competing companies, both with patents pending that were very, very close in what they claimed as original work. Its quite possible that how researchers define Gain of Function and where they draw the line between it and other methods might not make sense to the rest of us but makes perfect sense to them. We DO NEED is clarity from an expert in the field as to why certain research is regarded as Gain of Function and some is NOT. I don't want to hear from any more commentators or politicians about this - I WANT TO HEAR FROM AN EXPERT.
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  2226.  @maiyenish8552  That's Mastercard priceless.
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  2227.  @laughingoctopus6550  Yep Kyle lets his emotions get ahead of his brain on occasions. I'd condemn him for it but then we all do it at times and I'd be no better than clowns like Ben Shapiro. Its what makes Kyle and some others what they are. Yes they make mistakes but they aren't trying to deliberately or maliciously project a narrative. Shapiro and others are always trying to twist some basic fact into a jumble mess of spaghetti lies and they know what they are doing.
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  2228.  @logancarlile8895  Ok fine its a joke but its also a stupid idiotic joke. And considering Kyle's just done YET ANOTHER video slamming Ben Shapiro for projecting its a bit hypocritical to be projecting himself. And as I said it wouldn't matter who he's attaching Donald Trumps name to ITS WRONG. Nobody should be attaching anyone to Trump unless they have done it themselves.
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  2229. To all of Thom's watchers. Trump endorsed Kari Lake whos running for governor of Arizona had a train wreck interview with Australian 60 Minutes that was broadcast free to air only hours ago. Before she stormed out she abused the reporter and gravely insulted Australia. FYI - I am Australian, I went to college in America and this might blow up. This wasn't some silly rant by some clown on YouTube this was a Trump endorsed candidate going off the rails. Don't forget Australia, Britain Canada and others just spent most of the last 20 years supporting America in Afghanistan and Iraq. It wasn't popular anywhere, but we stood by America. I was in Canada for work when Trump tore up NAFTA and hit them with tariffs. How do you all think this makes us feel about America? We are all now asking if there is anyway we can believe that America will be a reliable trading or security partner going forward.
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  2230. Rosie, Can you please have someone on who is actually qualified with respect to electrical equipment for hazardous areas (EEHA) to talk about the issues with hydrogen AND YES I am qualified. I think hydrogen is amazing and we should be using it as much as PRACTICAL and I really do want to emphasise that word practical. FIRST off everyone needs to realise that no one technology is going to save the planet. Its going to be combinations of things and those combinations will vary from region to region depending a lot more on things like geography and demographics than people realise. Despite all the good will some counties just don't have the right geography for certain technologies and others have some demographics issues that are about to slam the door on a few things. Go watch one of Peter Zeihan's lectures on demographics. SECOND everyone needs to realise that all technologies have limits. Those limits include basic physics, availability of resources and most importantly demographics. On the basic physics Hydrogen is wonderful in that it makes up so many useful chemicals that the exhaust from many processes can be used as feed to other processes. BUT its so damn easy to react with almost anything. From an EEHA perspective all its wants to do is go bang and because its ignition energy is so low and its explosive range in air so wide its a real hassle for engineers to design plants that have it (even in small quantities). That leads to the next issue. THIRD its no use having any technology if you don't have people trained to use it. It no use getting nuclear power if you have no nuclear engineers or technicians and they don't get trained in a 5 day TAFE course. I once worked with an electrician who's first career was in the US Navy as a nuclear power plant operator. He once explained his training. The problem with hydrogen is we have so few people who use it enough right now and we don't have the training programs. Its not simply a 5 day EEHA course. I really do believe hydrogen is about to play a major role in our lives, BUT all the clowns in the room need to shut up and let people who actually know what they are talking about speak and be listened too. This is not a pilot project at a university, this is real industrial stuff we need discussed. That whole skills pow wow we just had was a joke. It was run by economists, lawyers and special interests. Its not like the world has had energy transitions before. Ships went from sail to steam to diesel. Road transportation went from walking to horse to wheels to engines. We've been through transitions before its just this time we have TOO MANY clowns hogging the microphones. Its a tragic consequence of modern communications. Every clown gets a microphone and the more of a clown they are they louder they yell into that microphone. Go look at the publicly available information. In the time our population went from 15 to 17.5 million (up 2.5 million) we built 7 Gigawatt class (>1,000 Megawatt) power stations. In the years since when the population went to almost 26 million an increase of 7.5 million WE BUILT ZERO large bulk power generators. Anybody who has done even a basic economics class knows how that works out. Its a small thing called supply and demand. That's been compounded by their age, which has been compounded by privatisation because in the private sector cost cutting is a religion and the easiest cost cutting is maintenance. So they are old and poorly maintained. We have about 3 maybe 5 years at most to build at least 5 major power stations (2 NSW, 1 QLD, 1 VIC & 1 SA) or we are in monumental trouble. Plus as we are building them we need to start on replacing the rest of the 22 coal fired power stations. And before you ask, YES most other developed nations are similar or worse. Sorry for the long reply.
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  2231. That will be the day History teachers write of the board. This Weeks Assignment (2500 words or less, due Friday): Nixon or Trump - who was the bigger ass hole?
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  2232.  @jontomas2271  That relies on the concept of accountability and accountability is as rare in politics as reality is in Hollywood. We all like to think its there in abundance but it just isn't. The saddest fact from history is that political accountability when it has happened has most often required the use of an axe and a wooden block not any judicial or legal process.
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  2233. Its what you have in democracies where there is NOT a clear mandate by one party having a clear majority OR you don't have strong leadership. When parties only have a slender majority they're always at risk having a small faction within them with the BALANCE OF POWER and those who hold it can often hold their nation to ransom. I'm Australian and we have had this problem here at times. Countries like Israel, Greece and Italy are notorious for having minor parties wield enormous power this way. The Tea Party were the last to do this in a big way in America, but more recently we saw it with Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin all through Joe Biden's first 2 years. The only way to get past it is with STRONG LEADERSHIP. Sorry but neither Joe Biden or Kevin McCarthy are strong leaders, they got where they are through sweetheart deals. Its grating to say it but Trump was and still is a person who's strong enough to bully and muscle his way in politics and get people to do what he wants. Think of how they all folded - Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham,... etc. One of the few exceptions was when Mike Pence refused to delay the vote counting. I hate to say it but this is why people tend to vote for scum like Trump. YES they know he's scum but they don't care because all they know he can bully all the other spineless clowns and get stuff done. Tragic as it was a lot of people around the world predicted Trump would beat Hilary, but what it also did was motivate millions of American's to get off their asses for a change and vote against him. The next POTUS is going to decide the fate of the western world. Either they will be strong enough to drag clowns like Sinema and Manchin and just roll right over idiots like Gaetz and MTG or the next 2-3 decades are going to be very rough for ALL OF US.
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  2234. Funny how he mentions the Tech Giants but then ignores the Big Oil and Big Pharma and others??????
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  2235. I'm an Australian engineer and I started looking into economics a few years back in frustration. One of the problems I worked out is the education regarding economics. No matter what college anyone goes to and even if there are a couple of rogue professors teaching stuff like MMT at the core of the curriculums is the same Milton Freidman neoliberal free market economics that was the basis of Reaganomics and Thatcherism. Its a big giant echo chamber and its why so many people around the world feel that democracy is failing because no matter who's voted into power they do the same economic stuff. Its because all the advisers are pumped out of the same schools with the same curriculums with the same text books. One thing I didn't know was how the top banks take those few top students and hide them. I knew they recruited top shelf maths kids and computer kids but I didn't know about the top economics kids or that they hide them.
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  2236.  @shortchange26  Your right the biggest mistake people keep making is that Trump isn't smart. He has been smart enough to get away with so much during his life. He was smart enough to convince 63 million to vote for him in 2016 by convincing them that he wasn't one of the Washington political club. He was still smart enough to get another 11 million people to vote on top of the 63 to vote for him on 2020. He's since be been smart to convince millions that the election was stolen and raised millions from them and pocketed a lot of it. He's not dumb or stupid he's narcissistic, in that he's selfish and sociopathic, in that he just doesn't care about the damage he's doing. That's a bad combination.
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  2237. For anyone who wants here is the full panel that Rutger Bergman was part of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mG-r_3eRCw
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  2238. I'm Australian but went to college in the late 80s. I tried explaining back then what you just described and they didn't get it. One thing America has never had was a MAIN political party that was started from within the labor movement. Australia, Canada, Britain, New Zealand all have Labour parties that started among their trade unions hence the name Labour. France, Italy and others had (and still do) communist and socialist parties also that started from the peasant & worker classes. America has the Dems that started in the South and was the "Rebel Party" and helped found the KKK only sided with the unions after the great depression as a way of gaining votes. The slid to the left but not very far and time and time again have dumped the unions in favor of supporting corporate agendas. The Republicans were the "mild right" ones who under Lincoln freed the slaves. It was only under Reagan when they sided with the Southern fundamentalists to gain votes that they started sliding to the right which they have never stopped. So forgive the Americans for not understanding what the rest of us know as left-v-right politics, because except for the ones who have lived in other places they haven't any experience with the concept. I know I tried explaining to then what the Australian Labour party was about and they thought I was crazy. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2239. ​ @Panosky  I actually went to college in America. I proverbially love 90% of America and Americans. Its that other 10% that does all the damage. If you think these problems - social, economic, energy and development are not interlinked then you really need to take a step back. These issues might be more obvious in some countries than others but they're all there to some extent. We can hate globalisation all we like but its our reality. So all these sorts of things are interlinked because our societies are interlinked. Its a bit like those cooking competitions where they all get the same 2 or 3 ingredients and told to cook something. Yeah the dishes might be different but the ingredients aren't so there's commonality. I'm an engineer who's been looking into economics because I got so tired of clowns with economics degrees interfering in projects. One of the things I have found is that we are all running some variation of American free market economics. Its a bit like all our computers and laptops. Think of it like this. Each of us has our own customised PC/Laptop with our own selection of apps but underneath it is the same basic Microsoft operating system. Similarly we might not have the exact same economic issues but we all have similar economic issues because underneath it is the same set of basic principals. Most notably the entire world as issues with wealth inequality. Its closely followed by the energy crisis which has ALMOST NOTHING to do with the war in Ukraine and an awful lot to do with economics.
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  2240. ​ @Panosky  Most amazing of all this stuff (study) I have done is that it all centers around a handful of universities and some unbelievably narrow minded thinking. We've all heard about Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge,... etc but the place we all need to look at is the University of Chicago. First off, one of its original founding financiers was John D. Rockefeller and there is no secret he believed in the idea that the "Government should not do anything except public security, national security and the punishment of criminals." Especially he believed that the state should not regulate business in any way. Out of UC came, people like James Oscar McKinsey who was professor of accounting at the UC and founded McKinsey Group. Then there's Chicago School Economics from people like Hayek and Freidman. There's also Neoconservatism that once loose gave us the Iraq Invasion. A couple of years ago UC graduate and tech billionaire Barre Seid gave a company worth $1.6 Billion USD to the Federalist Society who then sold that company and as a non-profit organisation paid ZERO tax and now have $1.6 Billion to bribe senators with and get even more radical judges appointed to federal courts and the supreme court. Most recently current UC Professor of Politics John Mearsheimer said the world should back off and let Vladimir Putin have what he wants. That would mean around 20 nations with a combined population of around 270 million people being handed over to a maniac and they'd have no say in it. Yes the University of Chicago that was funded by the most psychotic robber baron in history is quietly sending America back to the 19th century so the current robber barons can build the America they wanted back then.
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  2241. She was in the US military and when people enter the US military they swear and oath to uphold and protect the US Constitution. It was pointed out earlier this year with respect to Mike Flynn that that oath does not simply go away after military service. Had she survived she could have been charged under the UCMJ with sedition in the same way people explained about Mike Flynn. That will probably go against her family.
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  2242. EVERYONE should go and listen to Peter Zeihan's explanation of the whole Israel, Hamas and Gaza that he did 5 days ago. Its a very simple explanation of how the Israeli Government political system works because of how it works and the demographics of Israel. He also gives a very interesting take on the Iranian reasons why they MIGHT be involved. He not only points out that the Iranian people ARE NOT Arabs they're Persians. Its often forgotten there are a number of ethno-tribal groups across the middle east and at times they have different goals. Its an easy video to find. Its titled Israel, Hamas and Gaza: Q&A w/ Peter Zeihan
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  2243. Lets not forget they have had a very narrow focused stream of propaganda shoved down their throats for several decades now. This is what happens when you take a slab of ANY population and deprive them of ALL other points of view. This sort of ignorant behavior has been coming towards western society for a couple of decades. The 2004 documentary "Outfoxed" is almost 20 years old and they warned about the direction Western (not just American) media was heading. Its now flooded with incredibly biased outlets and that includes people like David. David might be a long way from the worst but his material is mostly from his perspective for his audience and we are all guilty of just listening and NOT checking at times. He's very lenient on the subject of Dr. Fauci. I think Dr. Fauci has done an incredible job under almost impossible conditions. BUT he's not perfect and there are still some outstanding issues regarding the Wuhan Lab and virology research in general. Irrespective of a Lab Leak or NOT, COVID has exposed a lot of what has been happening in many labs around the world. There've been some serious issues from BEFORE COVID about what certain labs were doing. There was even a moratorium on certain types of research because people were doing dangerous things without oversight. The good news is that we now know it was NEVER a weapon. Nobody makes a weapon system and then publishes the details. So that's one good thing, but it doesn't answer other things.
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  2244.  @MrKennyBones  A quote from 1 of my favorite authors and arguably one of the finest minds of the 20th century. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980
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  2245.  Tazmanian Devil  I know but he will be deciding who the replacement is. Plus I wont believe he's going until he has actually left. He's addicted to power and such people don't tend to let go of power until they die.
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  2246. I'm an Australian engineer who works in automation and control systems. There's a saying German engineers have: There's the right way, there's the wrong way and there's the German way. I must say that in general I will always put a German option on a project. If for no other reason than its incredibly rare for them to put a product on the market that does not do as specified. if there is one complaint I have about German engineering its that they are totally garbage at written documentation. Technical drawings and schematics are always near perfect but instruction manuals - Aaarrrrggghhhh.
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  2247. I have a degree in aerospace and a college friend of mine is a very senior 737 pilot at a major airline. He was sent by his airline to look at the Max-8 problems. One thing he said shocked me: "Boeing broke their system." To put that into normal speech. "The System" in this context is all those processes and procedures that a company uses to go from an initial concept to a product to be sold. So for a company like Boeing we are talking an library of documentation built up over decades. Things like Design methods, SOPs, test reports, subcontractor quality controls, the writing of manuals,... etc. This is a massive body of knowledge on how to build sound reliable safe aircraft. I have a PPL so we are also talking things like all the manuals you have in the plane, all the instrumentation in the cockpit and how that was integrated into the aircraft, the training programs that you went through as well as the regular re-certification processes and all the maintenance processes that give pilots like you the faith that the planes will do as you expect. He basically told me that Boeing had burned that system to the ground and threw out all those decades of work and experience. We are talking millions and millions of hours of experience being thrown out by management clowns who knew NOTHING about building aircraft. The real question on Boeing's future is: "How do they cut out the cancer and get back what they had?" At the very least that will take time, a lot of time.
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  2248. What about Maddow? Apparently she is on money so big even Alex Jones and Sean Hannity are impressed?
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  2249. Well said.
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  2250.  @mercesletifer47  Its actually rare to have a good thread when divisive people like Jordan Peterson are the subject.
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  2251. Actually that's kind of idiotic. Panicked people are not easy to control, calm people are. I truly do hope for your sake and Saagras sake that you are both right. Because on 30 March 2020 the American COVID count was 4132 dead and exactly 1 year later the number is 564,138 dead. This time last year many people were telling people like Dr. Fauci to shut up just as Sagaar was just saying. According to Saggar and many others in the media EVERYTHING the CDC, Dr. Fauci and other experts have done these last 12 months was wrong. If there is one thing that contributed to those 560,008 who died in the last 365 days, more than anything else its been people NOT listening to experts.
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  2252. I'm Australian but was in Canada for work at that moment when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on Canadian products. Trust me I know what Canadians think of Trump supporters and its not polite. Canadians will apologize for almost anything except the behavior of hockey players, clubbing seals and what they think of Trump supporters.
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  2253. ENGINEER HERE: Just adding to this. The basic C + O2 -> CO2 equation when we put in the weights is the problem. Carbon has an atomic weight of 12 and Oxygen 16 and that scales. So when you add up the weights you get 12(C) + 32(O2) -> 48(CO2) and that works for kilo's and tons as well as atomic weight. So for every ton of Carbon we burn IRRESPECTIVE of its as coal or any other Carbon compound we get 3-2/3 tons of Carbon Dioxide for every tone of coal consumed. So when the Chinese burn 3 Giga tons of Coal in their power stations it produces 11 Giga tons of CO2. Plus for most of the 90s and early 2000s the Chinese burnt as much coal in the ground as they did in power stations. Plus the Americans, Europeans and others burn just as much and its pretty easy to see where that 50 Giga tons a year comes from. And for the non-metric people 1 Giga is 1,000 times a million which is also called a billion but giga sounds better.. SO - Yeah Carbon capture is essentially a scam and wont even come close to what's needed in the time frame we need it done. We are now entering a phase of MANAGING our way through what's coming to the planet and the problem with that is the same people who have denied climate change are the same people who want to control that process as well.
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  2254. Well said in that you used the word parties (plural) not party (singular) because the same schism is on the cards for the Dems who have screwed the left side of American politics so many time that they will collapse as well. Here's 2 FACTS that will hurt the Dems. 1: Despite all evidence that Goldman Sachs is a disease that infects American economics. They were in the middle of the GFC where it was disclosed they defrauded customers on an industrial scale. Then Trump hired GS goon Steve Mnuchin as Secretary of the Treasury and just recently Biden hired 2 more GS goons plus a Blackrock and a McKinsey. What message does that tell the world -> Wall St. will do what it wants and no election can change that. 2: Despite all the promises made for $2000 stimulus checks to gain those 2 seats in Georgia and gain control of the Senate Biden has already started to voice that down to $1400. Even before he was took the oath he proved his word was worthless. And those are before we get to the subject of how they cheated Progressives in 2016 and 2020 and simply demanded they tow the line and vote blue.
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  2255.  @virtuerse  I'm actually Australian, but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and gave me an interesting education in the US Constitution. We used to argue endlessly over what system was better. 30 years later I am convinced they were right and that's not easy to admit. I honestly believe the the US Constitution is one of the greatest achievements in human history and Donald Trump just proved it. Every attack he made, every lie he told and every attempt to undermine it and HE STILL LOST - the system might be battered and bruised but it survived. BUT (and here is the real issue) America is not yet out of trouble. In engineering we do a thing called Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Its where we don't jus accept something failed but work out what was the thing started the process off that eventually lead to the failure. In the simplest way America right now has 2 huge problems - the money in politics and a dysfunctional congress. The Wall St issue is well known, but the dysfunction of congress is way more subtle. As an outsider (with some knowledge) the real problem is Mitch McConnell. Wall St. is obvious there's too much money on politics and that's not an American thing that's rampant across the Western World, its just America has (like COVID) got it worse than the rest of us. McConnell is the bigger problem. My frat brothers argued that America could never be undermined or be taken over by a dictator because of the system of checks and balances." The Senate is what it is with 2 from each state for the very reason *its not there for policy. Its there to assure every state that they have equal rights and that nobody can get to big that they lord it over the rest. But neither my frat brothers or the founding fathers anticipated Mitch McConnell. He has flipped the Senate from a body that checks the Presidents Appointments are sound and capable people, that checks the House have written sound and fair laws and perverted it into his own power palace where he dictates policy. Lets not forget how Mitch stifled the Impeachment trial or how he pushed through Amy Barrett. Those people appointed to the FCC, EPA, Education and other places were all approved of by McConnell. But most of all lets not ignore that the SCOTUS he stacked gave America "Citizens United" that basically let Wall St. have free reign over American politics. Its called "Root Cause Analysis" and it leads straight back to Mitch McConnell and the power structure around him. Worse what he has done stacking the courts can't be easily undone. Just know one thing - the American people do have friends in the world and we do want to see you get back on you feet. Those of us with brains realise that we can't deal with many of the issues we face without America functioning as a responsible nation.
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  2256. What they could (or should) have done was throw his own claim back at him. They could have said. "Yes Jesus words are fine and fair. Now can you please tells us when we will all live by them?" And then remind him about all those Christians who fought to retain slavery and then enacted segregation laws and to this day gerrymander to disadvantage black communities. There's a famous exchange between Mahatma Gandhi (a Hindu) and a British official where he told the British Official that if he'd agree to live as Jesus described in the Sermon on the Mount the world would be a better place. He basically said "you all claim to believe in Jesus but none of you practice what he said."
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  2257. The scary thing is when you consider what her father did (and got away with) for Liz Cheney to be the "voice of reason" shows just how farked up American Politics has become. This stuff should scare the entire Western Hemisphere, because if this can happen in America it can happen anywhere. I'm Australian but went to college In America (late 80s) and I can barely believe this happened. When I was in college EVERY American had pride in 2 institutions - the US Constitution and the free press. They used to argue with me at any instant that the sort of stuff COULD NEVER HAPPEN in AMERICA because the Free Press would tell the American people the truth. How come we keep seeing blatant lies go UNCHALLENGED? Where is the Free Press challenging what's being said? The whole world saw Trump stand in front of a crowd and tell them to go down there and stop the steal. The whole world saw what that crowd did next. Now you have this ridiculous statement that its someone else's fault AND IT WENT UNCHALLENGED. Do you Americans realise just how bad this makes you look that these blatant lies go UNCHALLENGED?
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  2258.  @douglasphillips5870  I started to re-evaluate after watching Brett Weinstein and his wife do an interview that they were panned for. It was claimed they were trying to re-introduce the conspiracy that China released a weapon. Which they were not. What they were saying was that the lab leak scenario had been dismissed without any real evidence to dismiss it. Early on the weapon hypothesis was clearly dismissed by several experts. They all agreed that nobody has the actually skill set to specifically engineer a targeted bio-weapon. There were some early claims it was a weapon and had more effect on Westerners than Asians (as in Chinese). Those experts explained why that wasn't real AND by extension others used that to dismiss the lab leak hypothesis and promote the wet market answer. What the Weinstein's put forward was that nobody had answered the questions about other lab leak scenarios, like an accident from the type of research that we should expect the Chinese to be doing considering they had previously experienced SARS and MERS. What we now know is that the Weinstein's were right. Nobody has yet answered the other possible lab leak scenarios. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2259.  @falcoperegrinus82  That's a great comment, especially the part about people NOT realising they have more in common with people on the street than with billionaires. That's where the media (all of it) needs to be more accountable.
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  2260. Yeah I watch it too, but his quip about not to trust a Brit with a Pencil and a map is a bit rich coming from an American considering how ignorant of maps most Americans are or do the rest of us need to remind you of the famous Miss Teen America map question. Yeah its from 2007 but its one of those timeless moments that never grows old.
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  2261. FROM AUSTRALIA: As I was watching this I clicked onto our news services and there was Marco Rubio (LIVE) going on about his family's experiences with the lead up to and the outcome of the Cuban Revolution. That was from one of the clowns who has supported and supported and supported Trump. He was one of those Senators who voted "innocent: at Trumps impeachment. *Does he not realise the whole world watched what he and others did to fuel this? * Trump might be embarrassing America everyday but so are all the people who MADE THIS DAY HAPPEN by enabling this lunacy. Here's an interview that was just shown here about the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYlimLgCuEI To all the sensible Americans - know and understand that you have friends in the world who want to see this end and America be what it can be. My one great fear is that Biden only wants to take America backwards in stead of forwards. The Oligarchy has to end and he has to re-engage and look after the other 99%. To all Take Care & Stay Safe. 👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
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  2262. You've hit that particular political nail on the head. And its NOT and American problem - its rampant across the entire Western Democratic world. We have it here in Australia its just not as obvious and blatant. I've spoken with people from other countries and its the same everywhere. There's one common policy ALL Western political parties have "What do the billionaires want?"
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  2263. Well for starters there is no such thing as "Republican Logic" its a contradiction in terms like "military intelligence" or "the cold sun" or "the hot ice." There's Republican bullshit, Republican hypocrisy, Republican crap and many other things Republican, but there is no such thing as "Republican Logic." 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2264. I'm Australian but went to college in America. Its incredibly sad to see what's happened and how a minority has made an entire nation look this stupid. The film Idiocracy is starting to look more and more like a documentary. I actually got a great education (aerospace engineering) but this crap makes it feel less than what it is.
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  2265. Actually any of the military or ex-military people involved (like Mike Flynn) can simply be recalled to active duty and court martialed. That's be expressed by a number of experts, like Glenn Kirshner who was a JAG then a Federal Prosecutor. He has a channel here on YT if you want to get a better understanding of that stuff.
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  2266. @Johnny Park Well said. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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  2267. Yeah, but never lose sight of what type of political actor this guy is. He is only every really interested in one thing, his bank account. NOT YOURS.
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  2268. When the French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracuda and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered Barracuda - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT?
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  2269. I'm Australian and even from the other side of the planet we can see the truth of that. I find it kind of sad because I think that at the very least he'd have brought an interesting perspective to the clown show that is American politics.
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  2270.  @aces92E  Yeah - about 6 months back Kyle Kulinski and Krystal Ball interviewed Jesse Ventura. Its still there to be watched. In one part he talked about the time he was a commentator because of really bad injury. Vince McMahon gave him an insanely simple direction. "If you say it then its true." The pro-wrestling fans went bonkers. That's fine in that arena because its THEATRE and people know its theatre. What Russel Brand and others don't get is that this IS NOT theatre its real life with real people and real tragedy. There is no place for performance art clowns with no grasp of reality in these sorts of public discussions.
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  2271.  @thefpvlife7785  Yes and No. Certainly McConnell has obvious power at the political level, but Tucker has substantial public influence at "the base" level. McConnell isn't being heard in people's living rooms every day except maybe for short snippets.
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  2272.  @patmahinie5728  Will you do us all a favor and tell us what these inconsistencies ACTUALLY ARE. And while you're at it can you explain why NONE of these have been presented in court or stood up under examination? We've been hearing for months about inconsistencies BUT NOBODY HAS PROVEN ANYTHING.
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  2273.  @patmahinie5728  Why do you keep saying the side I support , when you know NOTHING ABOUT ME or WHAT I ACTUALLY SUPPORT. On the other hand you are pretty clear in that you support bullshit and delusion as yet again you still can't explain - WHAT ARE THE INCONSISTENCIES? You started the claims and yet you can't even describe what you claim. This is at the core of the real issues facing humanity. We have people chasing after the wind because some narcissistic attention seeker can't take rejection and makes claims that are as solid as the smoke he blows out his ass. Facts, reality and evidence mean nothing to you people. You made the claim of inconsistencies now explain yourself or simply FK-off.
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  2274. Considering how many things Trump could have or should have gone to jail for I sadly doubt it will happen UNLESS somebody who knows something that cannot be ignored or avoided spills on him. Something that is so sound in LEGAL fact, not public opinion, that not even the slipperiest sleaziest lawyer in front of the most most corrupt judge in the history on the planet can get him off.
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  2275. Actually some are on YT - I saw this reported 2 days ago. The most amazing thing was when I checked Wikipedia to see what it had on Elliot Abrams. By the time I had typed in "elliot ab" he came up as the top option with the words "American war criminal" as his tag.
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  2276. WHY DID KYLE do a vid on Donald Trumps cognitive decline when the person showing clear signs of cognitive decline is Junior? Maybe the question to ask is: "Is there anyone in the Trump family capable of opening their mouth and NOT speaking complete SHlT?"
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  2277. According to her bio (Wikipedia) she graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1996. So she must have some intelligence. If you look there's nothing of note. She went to college, got married and had 3 kids. Then in 2016/17 she just flipped out with conspiracies. The problem with all conspiracy people is that once they start digging they sooner or later hit a counter fact they can't deny. At that point they drop the nonsense and go back to reality or they ignore reality and start digging deeper and harder with even bigger claims. They just keep doing that over and over until they lose their minds. I think she's one of those who's lost their mind doubling down in the conspiracy.
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  2278. And know how you know the person asking the yes or no question is being disingenuous? Because they wont let the person answer and constantly interrupt.
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  2279. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I find it incredibly sad but am also not surprised. I was there in the late 80s and the televangelists were on the rise then. Despite scandal after scandal people just kept following after them and handing them millions. I was there when the 1987 primaries were going on and was amazed that nobody could see how weird it was. Substance, policy and ideas were irrelevant even back then. Right now in Australia we aren't as bad as this but we are getting there. I was in Canada a few years ago for work and their politics is sliding. We get a lot of the British and European news here and its similar there. I don't know where you're from but I bet your country has some scumbag politicians that should STFU. WE ALL HAVE THEM, its just some of us really have bad ones.
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  2280. Simply - well said.
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  2281.  @user-th1pv6ks5o  You've obviously never experience college sport. Shame, cos its awesome and is a form of culture. Your right on the hit or miss with people, but you get that everywhere.
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  2282. Its actually what we should have expected. Since European settlement there's almost not a single part of Australia that hasn't flooded at some time. Even some of our desert areas have flooded. When our droughts break its usually in a big way, but this is something bigger than expected. 2 weeks ago it was as dry as dry could be. A bush fire would have been massive. What's surprised people is just how much fell in an insanely short time.
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  2283. Didn't you just love the guy who interjected with "the rest of us are here too pal!" I wonder if he's one of those who DOES get his questions asked and just sees this as a "how dare you!" moment? As in "how dare you insist on having your fair go!"
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  2284. I'm Australian, but went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering but a bunch of friends were pre-law. They used to drag me into hypothetical discussions. I think they did it because I could say things out of left field and then they would then argue then back. So I got a weird introduction to the US Constitution. All these years later I know consider the US Constitution one of the truly brilliant achievements in human history. Its NOT PERFECT and has a major flaw in that with enough money it can be taken advantage of, but at its core its brilliant. It guarantees you have the right to chose what you believe. It guarantees that you have the right to confront your government over a grievance. It guarantees you and your neighbors can decide how you will provide your community with security. It guarantees the government just can't invade your privacy because it feels like it. It guarantees you will be fairly treated by the court system. Yes it doesn't do these things perfectly and there are some real maggots taking advantage of the system, but you at least have these things written in concrete.
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  2285. That's a really interesting point on the gold price. An interesting aspect to this is that here in Australia we have just had some very dirty secrets revealed about our gold trading AND SOME OF IT INVOLVES RUSSIANS operating via Cyprus. The bulk of it seems to be money laundering but the Perth Mint has been caught selling gold that's deliberately tainted with silver. Note that this story was aired on TV at almost the exact same time that Peter posted his video. This is from ABC Australia -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko_ZmxGBaB4
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  2286. I'm Australian and what you have just described is happening across the entire Western Democratic World. I actually went to college in American at U. of Illinois and bizarrely these issues all trace back to one single American college - The University of Chicago. It sounds like a weird conspiracy but the largest single contributor to the founding of UC was JD Rockefeller. FIRST Out of UC has come the consulting industry starting with James McKinsey who not only founded McKinsey the mega consulting firm but he was (before that) Professor of Accounting at UC. The consulting industry MORE than the Think Tanks and lobbyists has more political influence these days. Its almost like we elect people to interface with the consultants who then decide WHAT & HOW policy will act. SECOND Out of UC came the ugly twins of American political ideology Neoconservatism and Offensive Realism. Both are at the core of American politics. THIRD (and arguably the worst thing) Out of UC came Chicago School Economics which has now infected the entire World with its profits before society mentality. Not only did UC promote clowns like Hayek, Freidman and Coase who's ideology gutted the very institutions modern society was built on but they lobbied their way to credibility with a string of FAKE Nobel Prizes including last years to yet another UC Goon. I don't know if JDR set out to have UC become the nightmare that it has become, but that's what it now is and these effects are world wide. Chicago School Economics in its various disguises dominates economics across the world. In America it might have been called Reaganomics and in Britain Thatcherism but we called it Economic Rationalism here in Australia. It might have been a different colored pig but it was still the same bacon and ham underneath. Sooner or later the whole world is going to have to understand what UC is and what it does when it comes to politics and economics. Because in understanding UC we can then go after the Consulting Industry.
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  2287. SORRY BUT PETER IS 100% WRONG on the project costings of renewables. FYI - I AM AN ENGINEER (Australian) I don't know where he's getting this nonsense from but he is so wrong and its infuriating. This is the sort of crap that drives engineers crazy. 1) The capital out lay of coal, hydro and nuclear is now multiple times higher than Wind and Solar. In Australia we have 22.7 Gigawatts (GW) of coal to replace and IT HAS TO BE REPLACED because most of it is old and worn out. In fact we have already turned of 6 coal fired plants NOT because of emissions but because they were so old we couldn't keep then running. BASED ON the Hinkley Point C nuclear project in Britain, the basic cost of nuclear is £10.3 Billion/GW based on a project cost of £33 Billion for 3.2GW. That £10.3 Billion is AU$19.8 Billion/GW. The current cost of wind and solar in Australia ranges from a low of AU$1.55 Billion/GW to a high of AU$1.86 Billion/GW. The Capital cost of replacing that 22.7 GW with nuclear is AU$450 Billion. Building the standard 2.2 times for Wind and Solar to make up for night time and wind not blowing the capital cost of 50 GW of wind and solar is between AU$77 Billion and AU$93 Billion. Even if we double that cost to include power grid upgrades we are still less than 1/2 the cost of nuclear. And before anyone says hydro we are also doing the Snowy 2.0 project that started at AU$4 Billion and went to AU$5 Billion before it started and will now cost at least AU$12 Billion with some estimates putting it at AU$14-15 Billion. The main reason for the cost blow out was because SOME CLOWN DID NOT include the power lines to connect it to the grid. At 2GW full capacity it will cost AU$6 Billion/GW or more than 3 times the cost of wind and solar. Because we are such a dry continent hydro is actually getting more and more expensive because it has to go into even more remote places. SO when Peter's talking about raising capital HIS FACTS ARE WRONG. 2) The actual project expenditure model Peter is are talking about is TOTALLY WRONG. When you are building coal, nuclear, hydro you CANNOT produce any power and start recouping costs until it is 100% complete. You cannot turn on 1/2 or 1/4 or any other fraction or percent of a coal, nuclear or hydro project. BUT YOU CAN WITH WIND AND SOLAR. The moment you put up the first array of solar it can be connected and start recouping money. The moment you put up the first wind turbine it can be connected and start recouping money. That money from a partially completed wind or solar project can help finance the rest of the project. The only reason people need to find 100% of the capital for a wind or solar project is they're INCOMPETENT at project management. 3) The problem with wind and solar has always been and will always be that it is cannot supply ON DEMAND and needs to have a buffer system. This has also been a huge problem with coal, nuclear and hydro power because although they can run 24/7 they do NOT RESPOND quick enough for the daily swings of modern society. This is why many modern societies have smaller gas turbine plants scattered about. They can spin up and shut down as needed. Hydro plants also use IF THE GEOGRAPHY ALLOWS to have small pumped hydro systems up higher in the hills. Because those pumped hydro systems are smaller they have smaller turbines that can be spun up and shut down as needed. Solar and Wind actually needs 2 systems in the future. The large batteries that people like Elon Musk sell are great for very fast response to changes in demand that happen every day, BUT when it comes to storing energy at one time of year to use at another time of year those batteries are almost useless. This is where hydrogen fueled gas turbines which already exist can be used. Before anyone says they don't exist BOTH GE and Siemens offer gas turbines that can run on up to 50% Hydrogen RIGHT NOW. This is not future tech needing development it EXISTS RIGHT NOW. I did my degree in aerospace back in the 1980s and when it looked like we'd need to move away from jet fuel (kerosene) they started doing research into hydrogen. By the late 1990s that technology and all the issues were worked out except for one thing. Storing enough hydrogen on a passenger plane to get it to fly anywhere was a nightmare and made it unfeasible. PETER REALLY NEEDS TO START SPEAKING TO SOME ENGINEERS.
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  2288.  @diegotuff8320  Your right, this story could so easily be about Enron, Theranos or even Ponzi himself. What would you need to change other than the names and some of the dialog?
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  2289.  @marypetrie930  I am very well aware that there were more British that died in the Dardenelles campaign and it included one of the Kings own regiments made up of his farmers from Sandringham. Most Australians actually aren't aware of the British losses. A British historian made huge headlines a while back when he told Australia to get better perspective. BUT WHAT HE FORGOT was that Australian lost a massive slab of a single generation. I don't know if you've been to Australia, but know that in many country towns there are memorials with the names listed of those killed. They often list multiple names from the same family. There were Australian families that LOST ALL THEIR SONS in WW1. The effect it had on Australia which was at the time only a small population (under 5 million) was massive. Its what we hold against the British command, they took the best of a generation and lead them to a slaughter.
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  2290. It shouldn't take any but then the court of public opinion only matters for elections not criminal convictions.
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  2291. ​ @tvdinner325  Agreed. And the only way to combat that is with education and we all know the American Libertarian view on that. After 9/11 I remember this documentary on Al-Qaeda and how it was founded. The most interesting thin is that BOTH Al-Qaeda and the Neo-conservatives in America believe democracy will always fail because people would vote for their own selfish interests not what's best for society. In political theory its called realism and its based on the idea that people are selfish and that society is not benevolent. The #1 institution for promoting it is the University of Chicago. That's where Milton Friedman taught and made his famous claim that corporations had no obligations to society. Also common to BOTH Al-Qaeda and the Neo-cons is they hate education and love indoctrination.
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  2292. I'm also an engineer (aerospace) who works in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. Everyone needs to be mindful of people who do these talks because even though they make many great 100% accurate comments they also either ignore inconveniencies, over simplify things or outright mislead. I've had some huge eye openers in the 30+ years since graduation. I'm Australian but did my degree in America and then came back here and spent over a decade in manufacturing. In 2002 I met Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison Schmitt and he talked about mining the moon for Helium-3. So I went off to Australia's remote mining industry to learn about mining. The timing was sort of fortunate because we were building a bunch of new mines to supply China. Other than learning about mining the real benefit I got form that experience was a massive lesson in basic infrastructure including energy systems and water management. This guy is right on about 90% of what he's saying but he glosses over or ignores or just gets plain wrong a couple of things. That slide at 3:30 is BULLSHlT you cant have anything so many times less than something else unless you are comparing it to a 3rd item. You can only do a fraction or percentage. I truly hate anyone who does that because its so misleading. The other thing is he glosses over the minerals needed to make things like solar panel. YES I hate the clowns who usually scream about how much emissions from extracting these minerals are made, but they do have a point. These are things the Greenies are always ignoring. I have worked on both a copper mine and an an Alumina refinery and those are damn nasty energy intensive processes. Rare earths minerals are even WORSE and we need huge amounts of them for the high efficiency electric motors needed. He never even mentioned the issues with Lithium production and energy storage. There's 1.5 Billion registered cars and nearly 1/2 a billion registered trucks in the world. That's a massive task requiring a staggering amount of lithium to either replace them or replace their drive systems AS WELL AS GENERATING the electricity to power them. AND THAT does not even begin to address the energy needs of developing societies which he never even mentions. So despite the fact Ramez has a got a lot of important facts right he's also leaving out a lot that is just as important points. I'm not sure what sort of engineer you are but this is really import in any project you ever do. The problems that bite are rarely the things you are working on but the things you dismissed as less important.
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  2293.  @mbd6054  Well trump started with "there'll be maybe 15 cases and then it will be gone." Then there was the "maybe 50,000 will die. Now the count is over 556,000 and the 3rd wave is subsiding but what happens if the new variants take off. Spring Break is going on right now just as it did last year. What's better for spreading COVID than packing fit young people (who are most likely to be asymptomatic) into enclosed venues where they breath each others air for a week and then scattering them across a nation? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ I thought you sent people to college to get an education not avoid it.
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  2294.  @mmafyasco  NO - you added balance to the discussion and more of that is needed in all these important public discussions. Way to often we all sit back and let the radical left, radical right or vested interests dominate the discussion with idiocy, screaming, screeching, yelling and ranting. We all do yell at times - mostly when we get frustrated. But unless people pull it back, whether its us pulling someone back or someone pulling us back all that happens is a shite shower. I don't know about you but I'm tired of being showered in shite.
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  2295.  @blaq7892  Go back a bit in western history and this was actually the norm. Girls were married off very young. Basically once they became able to have children they got married. Most often it was to older men for the simple reason they had survived enough battles and disease to prove themselves worthwhile. You actually don't have to go back that far either. The idea that girls waited until their mid 20s to get married and to men their own age is a post world war 2 thing. Because it was only in this modern era that girls started finishing high school and going college. Both my parents were high school teachers and I remember my mother describing this. I know it sounds weird but historically we aren't that far from some fairly weird ideas.
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  2296. Very sad Very true
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  2297. I wouldn't say perfect (although it is very good) because he's also gliding over some very complex issues very simplistically. Take the Lab Leak. In the early it wasn't just a lab leak it was a weapon either accidentally released or deliberately released. Dr. Michael Osterholm (director of CIDRAP) and one of the few people who's been both accurate and realistic about the whole pandemic, pointed out (earlier in 2021) that between the outright natural occurrence and the leaked weapon there's 1000s of answers but only 1 is correct. Konstantin fails to point out we never got to have a rational public discussion on the origin. There other thing he completely glides over (or outright ignores) was Trumps politicizing of the issue. America is now fundamentally a 2 bipartisan tribal state where people are (by peer pressure) driven into 1 of 2 camps. The moment Trump politicized and the rest of American politics jumped into the fray there were 2 answers and nothing else was allowed to be discussed. There in lies the problem of over simplifying complex problems which is only ever made worse by politics and catastrophic by partisan politics. The number of discussable answers becomes limited because GROUP THINK TAKES OVER and you are either 100% with your group or you are the enemy. I like these guys but he's dug a bit of a hole here which we all do at times. We want or present simple answers to complex problems. Occasionally the simple answer is all we need, but that's the exception not the norm.
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  2298.  @conorhealy2763  On the left v right. I consider myself a true neutral. So I can can understand why I seem like a bit of both, but that's also got a lot to do with 2 particular people. My grandmother was a card carrying member of the Australian Liberal party (our centre right party). Her daughter (my mother) was a teacher and unionist, who fought and won a battle over "equal pay for equal experience" in the mid 1970s. Both were incredibly honest about the faults of their own sides. My grandmother hated that many on the right just wanted girls to stay home, cook, clean and make babies. My grandmother ran businesses and was one of the first women in the state of Victoria to have a drivers license and own her own car and she was a farm girl. She hated the clowns on the right because they used to tell her to go home, be a good girl and cook dinner. My mother was what many would call a socialist but she utterly hated most leftists and particularly feminists. She saw them as nothing but clowns who endlessly complained while she believed in getting things done. After the team she was on won that wage claim and got all the women teachers equal pay for equal experience, the feminists went crazy. It shouldn't make sense, BUT by winning that claim they took away one of the soap boxes the feminists loved to stand on and howl at the world. So I have this quite odd background where I got educated in BOTH sides including their negatives. It took me years to work it out but what my grandmother and mother hated most of all were career politicians.
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  2299. On your second point which you are also right about. I'm an engineer who's been informally studying economics for several years now. I got tired of clowns with economics degrees interfering in projects with their 2 favorite lines. "What's the business case for that?" and "Who's going to pay for that?" Sorry if this is long but here's a basic run down on what I found out. Even when I had those answers they still interfered because that's all they know what to do. Its doesn't take long listening to people like Mark Blyth, Stephanie Kelton, Marianna Mazucatto and others that there is a small but getting louder minority of economists who are calling for change. Mark Blyth for instance has his computer analogy and describes how capitalism has had 3 major versions so far, each that developed its bugs and needed to be replaced (or upgraded) and that we need a new system much like we do with computers. However the most startling thing I came across was only a few weeks ago when economist Steve Keen who (in an interview) said that economists DO NOT include energy in their models. AS AN ENGINEER I find that bizarrely ridiculous because EVERYTHING needs energy to work. This is where I think Marx, Smith and everyone since got it horribly wrong. Marx & Smith put everything in terms of labor, but then how do you value the work product of an ox that pulls a plow or the horse that pulls a cart or the cow that produces milk? Better still since Smith & Marx had seen the industrial revolution up close and then how did they value coal because that was the energy that drove economic growth? How did they value wind because that was the energy that drove the ships that moved the goods? As an engineer I can barely believe that the last 200 years of economics has been founded on a combination of stupidity and ignorance. 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂ Pardon me if I am an engineer but universally you can't have work without energy input, whether its by labor, animal, machine or by capturing natural forces. The efficiency of any economic system is therefore NOT profit margin but the efficiency of energy use to generate wealth and I say wealth rather than profit because profit is just a measure of capital return measured in monetary units and money is nothing but transferable debt where wealth is the accumulation of value which can also include things unaccountable for with money. If you are wondering on the money is transferable debt thing. Go and watch Gary Stevenson explain what money is here on YT.
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  2300. Just when you think Americans can't get any crazier another one comes forward to go even deeper into the abyss.
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  2301. That can also be read as "Pander to the whims of an angry mob and you can easily find an audience willing to listen to any absurdity."
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  2302.  @PRiMETECHAU  What twigged me to it was the Perth drydock upgrade for $4.3 Billion. I've spent time doing projects in the mining industry. Typically mining projects in the $3-4 Billion bracket have onsite workforces of 3-4,000. I have done projects in WA, NT and QLD all in that bracket. So I am familiar with projects around that sort of money and seen how much stuff gets built and how many people that takes. They are similar types of projects there's a big hole, cranes, workshops, electrical services, water services, etc. And that involves all the same sorts of people - welders, crane operators, electricians, plumbers, et. The Perth Dry Dock project has a workforce of 500. For that sort of money I'd expect a workforce over 3,000 not 500. If I compare the East coast project to similar mining projects for port facilities its even worse. I don't think its a matter of "if there were kickbacks?" its more like "how big were they?"
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  2303.  @domitiusseverus1  I think you meant "should NOT have been possible" No probs we all got the meaning. Its not an Australian problem. All anyone has to do is look about the world and you'll find its the same everywhere. It might take different forms every country now has these issues because we've let things slide for too long.
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  2304.  @nerag7459  I once heard a tiger rattlesnake the most venomous snake in North America bit John Bolton. Despite the best medical care available the snake didn't make it.
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  2305. Lets look at one of the real tragedies here. Chris Anderson has taken his creations TED & TEDx which were (past tense) brilliant and trashed it. Here's some examples of what I mean by brilliant. These are very intelligent highly skilled people giving us introductions into their work. FYI - I am an aerospace engineer and the first 4 are all STEM people. Jonathan Trent (formerly of NASA). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8lWDmz7wVU Emily Calandrelli - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9haKpJakU4 Bill Crawford - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF5hDwZa7-0 Don Pettit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWjdnvYok4I Nick Hanauer on Plutocrats - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8 Cassie Jaye on Men's issues - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WMuzhQXJoY Lera Boroditsky on language - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k These are all amazing talks by amazing people and we'd normally never get to hear what these people have to say or what they are doing if it wasn't for TED & TEDx. I am Australian and had never heard of the that tribe in Australia with no concept of Left & Right before seeing that unless I heard Lera Boroditsky's talk. What Chris Anderson has done to his own creation by sucking up to Elon Musk is a tragedy.
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  2306.  @marquisdemoo1792  I like that one, do you know when he said it or did it said repeatedly?
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  2307.  @marquisdemoo1792  He was a prolific writer and wrote a lot of non-fiction as well as his sci-fi. He did a lot in the early days of Genetics and his 3 laws are still a very important part of AI Research, because it always gets down to "how do we NOT create SkyNet?"
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  2308.  Frank Last  Since you haven't named anybody I'll ask - are you referring to Reagan, Trump or Biden. FYI- the rest of the world is still trying to figure how a country (that once put men on the moon) elected any of them. Or for that matter keeps electing people like Bernie Sanders or Mitch McConnell. And have started on the next generation with Cruz, Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Come on America, you have better people than any of them. I know, I went to college in America and have seen how good Americans can be and this lot you have in Washington are nowhere near the best America has.
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  2309.  Frank Last  I'm not a yank either, I just went to college there. I was there through one of their primary seasons and could see even back in the late 80s that their system was inherently flawed, because it was based on incredibly hypocritical ideologies. "When my side does something its fine. When their side does the same thing its a crime." They have since exported that to the rest of the world and we are now ALL trapped in this endless stupidity where PEOPLE LIKE YOU rail against one senile old fool (or worse) as you vote for another senile old fool (or worse). 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Democracy is no longer about voting for the best option its now about voting for the less worse option or less destructive or less pathetic option.
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  2310.  @kathyadair8552  Today I saw a video where Dave Rubin said that he missed Trump because Trump told the truth. Today I saw this featuring Harvard & Princeton graduate Ted Cruz. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQcBbvLOJR8 What hope is there for Western society when we keep letting stupid people say whatever in front of microphones.
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  2311. That might be the only way to describe this without screaming like banshee in a tornado.
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  2312. That's not a Chinese problem its a developed world problem. The fastest growing business sector in many western nations is aged care. One of the consequences of Brexit are what do they do with all the Poles and others who moved to Britain for the aged care sector. I'm Australian and we have these issues growing as well. I know Japan has an aging society for the same sorts of reasons, the story mentions that as well as Germany. Plus there is a consequence of the 1 child policy that is rarely spoken about and that is the generation where the men outnumber the women 3:1. China like many societies places a lot of value on a son taking on the family name. They dumped millions of unwanted girls in orphanages. Where do you think so many westerners got their Chinese baby girls from? That's an issue that will one day cause serious issues because when there aren't enough girls to go around men do not act well. I don't know why any of this story is a surprise?
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  2313. Why not they now have almost absolute control of SCOTUS? With that level of control what can't they get done?
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  2314.  @SA-hh9mv  Soon as you tell all those Canadians what will happen with the seriously nasty toxic leftovers from the refining process you can start. Or did you miss the part where he mentioned that Albert crude has lots of sulphur?
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  2315.  @bluerock4456  Yeah the Sask people told me about their roads. In a weird (and kind of fun way) they seemed almost proud of that fact. There's a road between Kindersley to Saskatoon which I drove several times and its regarded as one of the worst. So I do have experience on that subject. I think they joked about their roads as a way to deal with their frustration. Oddly the attitude of Saskatchewanites to Ottawa is identical to the attitude of most Australians to Canberra. Its very similar to the way Brits feel about London and Americans to Washington. We all see those places as bureaucratic cesspools where good ideas are eaten, digested and shat out by highly toxic swamp beasts.
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  2316.  @bluerock4456  That sounds EXACTLY like the road up to Saskatoon from Kindersley. We have similar problems in parts Australia. The joke used to be you knew when you crossed the border into to New South Wales because of how much the car would start to shake. These are just symptoms of a much wider problem with infrastructure everywhere. It manifests itself differently in different places. In some places its roads, others bridges, other schools & hospitals but its really noticeable in energy if you know what information to look up. I first became aware of Australia's issues when I did a small energy project about 7 years ago and found out how old our major power stations are. Everybody thinks the energy crisis is a green energy transition issue, buts its NOT. The green transition is just a part of the issue. The real issue ECONOMICS. Many places have NOT been keeping up with their energy demands and everyone is told the same story about investments that cannot be guaranteed to earn money. That's all a misdirection. What I am talking about are the big power stations that supply bulk power 24/7. I call these Gigawatt class power stations because they supply at least 1GW (1,000 Megawatts) 24/7 except when they are shutdown for maintenance. When Australia's population went from 15 to 17.5 million we built 7 of them. As our population increased from 17.5 to almost 26 million we built NONE. California has 9 Gigawatt class power stations 8 were built before 1990. La Paloma at McKittrick was commissioned in 2003. France has not built a new power station since 1999 and since then its population has increased 12%. Its all been caused by some fundamental economics. If you own power stations the easiest way to make MORE money is don't build any new power stations and in particular big power stations. YES it sounds bizarre until you realise how supply-demand markets work. If you let the population growth increase demand then by basic supply-demand economics it drives prices higher. Since your power station has not cost increase (why would it) your profits increase. This is why new Gigawatt class power stations are NOT economical. They would increase supply and drive prices down which might be economically good for you an me but lousy for the people who own power stations. This is why the privatisation of infrastructure around the world has been so awful and why have things like: - bridges collapsing in Italy or failing in America; and - bad roads in Canada and Australia; and - water supply issues in America, Spain and other places; and - an energy crisis. I am amazed Peter doesn't talk about this more.
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  2317.  @bluerock4456  More point is that its more or less symbolic of how developed nations just aren't spending what they need to on infrastructure. I agree with many people that governments have become so bureaucratic that most of what they do attempt they mismanage. But on that front I have seen private industry make some monumental management blunders over the past 20 years. And I mean multi-billion dollar blunders. In engineering project management is arguably the least understood and worst practiced activity. How some of the people I have met ever got their position in senior management defies common sense and practical reality.
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  2318.  @rachel9508  I'm Australian and we are tired of it too. The entire Western world needs America on its feet and functioning like a responsible adult. It doesn't matter if we look at economics, social issues or security. Right now America is like an old clapped out V8 with a cracked head, a busted distributor, some bent valves and a rusted exhaust. If its lucky 5 of the cylinders are firing and there are a bunch of morons claiming it still sounds great. FYI - I went to college in America. Love the place, I love the people and HATE the politics. And yes - our politics is getting just as bad.
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  2319.  @french1956  If you go back and look at the whole Trump Big Lie there's some bizarre facts. (in order) 1) Fox News (the actual news show) was the first service in America to call Arizona. 2) Trump went totally off his rocker over Fox calling Arizona and other places. 3) People then started cancelling Fox subscriptions and taking up OAN & Newsmax subscriptions. 4) Hannity, Carlson and others then switched the rhetoric to the Big Lie and Fox started regaining subscriptions. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  2320. Australian here: I would have thought the Brits were most proud of Fish & Chips or The 66 World Cup?
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  2321.  @MrAgonizomai  WHEN YOU ADMIT YOU ARE DELIBERATELY TRYING TO AGGRAVATE SOMEONE DON'T COMPLAIN WHEN THEY GET AGGRESSIVE.
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  2322. FOR EVERYONE - This documentary on Tax Evasion showed up in my recommendations last week. YES, the YT Algorithm had a day off or something because its brilliant. It highlights the real problem isn't Tax Evasion its what they call Tax Avoidance. As one person in the doco says these people can afford the lawyers and accountants and auditors to operate in the grey space between what's legal and what's illegal. Its long but worth the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6O3US9IE4
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  2323.  @kk-wh3hb  Its not just Americans. Those types are EVERYWHERE its just that America likes to celebrate them with fanfare.
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  2324. You've actually described something I wished a lot more people would consider. I have lived in Fremantle WA and Aspendale Victoria both located right next tot he water and BOTH get a seas breeze that's as regular as a clock. It might vary in strength but you can't prevent the basic physics of what happens due to the temperature differential between the land the the water. ANYBODY with a solar system in that sort of location has an inverter system sitting there with LITTLE or NOTHING coming in as the sun goes down. All you need at that point is a SUITABLE wind turbine with an output compatible with the solar inverter. There is a company in Iceland that has done this but they are horribly expensive but then they are built for Icelandic conditions. I actually think there is a small market for low cost VERTICAL wind turbines. They are cheap, they are simple and they are quiet if they have decent bearings. The biggest issue with small HORIZONTAL turbines is the noise they make. One of the small Scottish Islands has a couple of small HAWTS and they generate more power than the Island needs. They are as loud as hell but they are way out town. In built up areas like Fremantle an Aspendale you can't have them. It will only take 1 neighbor to complain and out they go. Against it is the misconception of efficiency. People see the lower efficiency of VAWTs and immediately dump them as no good. But if you've already paid for the solar inverter and its only working 8-12 hours a day depending on the time of year and you can extend that to around 20 hours a day (and possibly 24 at times) then you are raising the overall system tremendously. The fact you have done this and proven that in a decent location IT WORKS is music to my ears.
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  2325. That is a great description of what he does. We used to think that flat earthers and similar people who denied reality were a fringe. Trump and the misinformation outlets (Fox, OAN, NewsMax,...) not only embraced these delusions they encouraged it and worst of all NORMALISED it. Its now NORMAL for people to believe what's convenient and disregard what's fact.
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  2326. As an outside observer (I'm Australian) its incredibly sad to see this train wreck unfolding. Sadder still is this was all easily predictable. Its a brutal lesson and one I keep trying to tell Australians we need to look out for because we can do this too. America has never held its elite people accountable. It really started to go bad in the late 1960s. People like Kissinger were NEVER held accountable for things he did like the crimes in Laos and Cambodia that he instigated. Just the other day it was disclosed that Elliot Abrams who instigated and help train death squads in central America in the 80s has YET AGAIN been appointed to a senior government position. NONE of those who actually instigated the illegal invasion of Iraq have ever been held accountable. Yet people prance around these days chanting "Rules based order!" and call for Vladimir Putin to be held for war crimes. TO BE CLEAR I have no problem with anyone wanting to put Putin on trial, but by the same standard so should Bush, Cheney, Tony Blair (Brit), John Howard (Aus.), Wolfowitz, MacGregor and all the other clowns who made the invasion of Iraq happen. When you don't hold people accountable it never ends well. Look at where letting these things go for so long has got America. I'm Australian and we have genuine war crimes on our plate too over some of this stuff.
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  2327.  @johnstallings4049  Sadly I have to agree. For example. Merrick Garland might be an honest man and a good lawyer, but the fact he has put protecting the reputation of the Office of the President from bad press means that Donald Trump has gotten away with ridiculous things. Americans are so quick to howl about the slippery slope when certain subjects on freedom and liberty are raised. How come they never speak about what happens when you put reputation above the Law. Aren't you then on the slipperiest of slopes?
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  2328. NEVER holding Trump accountable for his lies is what's lead to this. BUT THEN never holding a lot of other politicians accountable for their lies lead to Trump.
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  2329. Here's 2 more classics from Isaac. “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” - Isaac Asimov, Newsweek “They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.” - Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky
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  2330. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  2331.  @sg-vp2qg  Don't worry a lot of us were. We all assumed we had moved on from this sort of stuff. Most of us might have but a chunks of the developed world didn't.
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  2332. Its very simple at the moment. He's trying to sell a book and MAKE MONEY. If he does interviews and promotes it he MAKES MORE MONEY. If he testifies to congress he makes NOTHING unless he lies in which case he gets charged with perjury.
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  2333. Listen to what Prof Mark Blyth has to say on the requirements for office, its something Trump realised and others too often don't apply. This is time stamped to a question on Elizabeth Warren after a lecture about Global Trumpism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s And Isaac Asimov put it this way. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  2334. AEROSPACE ENIGNEER HERE and here's my top 6 risks from AI. 1) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from the AI industry. 2) The ignorance of the general population to actually understand what AI is and how it works. 3) The over reliance on AI as a "fix all" for too many problems that it can't fix. 4) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from the scammer industry. 5) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from politicians. 6) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from the media. Disclaimer - I might have items 4, 5 & 6 in the wrong order, but I am fairly certain of the first 3.
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  2335.  @SR-lh4rm  Your half right, particularly the point about Biden. Goldman Sachs might not have been responsible for the GFC but they were right there in the middle of it. They were notorious for handing out bonuses even when they lost money and had to be bailed out by the American tax payer. AND YET Steven Mnuchin formerly of Goldman Sachs became Trumps Secretary of the Treasury. Biden has followed that by hiring 2 more GS goons along with a Blackrock and a McKinsey. That should not scare people, that should not bother people, that should enrage people, because they just voted against that crap. edit - Rubin is a brainless mutt. If by chance he says something that's sensible its either extraordinary luck or he's repeating someone else.
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  2336.  @Echo81Rumple83  Its what we have in the British legal system (which includes places like Australia, Canada,... etc.) for describing fatal accidents where the dead person voluntarily took risks and there's no other explanation. Eg. A rock climber falls to their death and there's no other factors like equipment failure. A scuba diver drowns because they didn't pay attention to their tank. A pilot does aerobatics they aren't trained to do and crashes. Misadventure 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  2337. IN REPLY TO TED CRUZ - Off course Ted Cruz stands by Pittsburgh its a modern city WITH ELECTRICITY.
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  2338. That's an awesome quote and 12 months later even more pertinent. Its amazing you only got 4 other replies and 171 likes (now 172).
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  2339. That's about as logical answer as anything.
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  2340. Yeah every so often he proves that he knows what he's doing. Which also means that when he has those SHlTFESTS where people just scream at each other he KNOWS they are meant to be SHlTFESTS.
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  2341.  @indigobluu  Sorry to burst your bubble but there's millions of people of working in crap conditions so that you can have access to computers like the one you are on right now. Go look into Tantalum its one of the key minerals that are required to make key components that you find in every mobile phone, iPad, laptop and everything else with a computer chip. Tantalum is NOT used to make computer chips its used to make the tiny capacitors that sit beside the computer chip to help it work. I'm Australian and we have a couple of the largest tantalum mines in the World. They have NOT been very profitable because the main competitors are regions of Africa where civil wars are funded by Tantalum. The mines are some of the worst in the world. There was a documentary made about it called "Tantalum Wars."
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  2342. This is one of the classic traits or narcissistic politics no matter if they are from the Far Right or Far Left. "What we do is perfect and in the best interests of society. Whenever anyone else does the something similar or even exactly the same its the worst crime imaginable and we have to exterminate it." Orwell perfectly described this sort of behavior in the book Animal farm: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
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  2343.  @misterx6490  Well said. There was a very interesting comparison between his trial and the one in Georgia over the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. In Wisconsin the prosecutor made it a case about race and in Georgia they just went straight on the facts. I also think they made a huge mistake in Wisconsin. They should have just stuck with the most basic facts. He travelled to another state with a gun he wasn't allowed to have. He then acted in a way that scared people enough they tried to take the gun off him and 2 people were killed. The whole world saw the footage of him playing GI Joe and saw how he was talking before the shooting. They should have charged him with man slaughter. Yes that's not as serious as murder but any half reasonable defense lawyer would have negotiated a plea. How would they have defended it. He travelled across a state border with a gun he should not have had and 2 people died as the result of him creating the circumstances. PLUS everyone involved in creating that circumstance - his mother, sister, sister's boyfriend and all the people in the car he travelled there in should have also been charged with some form of criminal negligence charge that involved prison time.
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  2344. I tried tolerating this stuff for almost 1/2 an hour. I tolerated his excusing of Donald Trump's behavior only because he pointed out the most obvious thing that BOTH SIDES of the political establishment have become (as he put it) ossified. I HATED his excusing of Donald Trumps convictions for fraud. Trump made millions of dollars committing CRIMES. It doesn't matter if it was a type of crime that's rarely prosecuted Trump WAS LEGALLY CHARGED and got a FAIR TRIAL and was FOUND GUILTY. Like any other person he has the right to appeal his conviction. HOWEVER HIS LIES ABOUT THE LA FIRES IS JUST DISGUSTING
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  2345. And there you go ruining their buzz with FACTS. Superman had kryptonite, Trump supporters have facts. I just argued the other day when a clown demanded the right of a candidate (as in Trump) to have a recount. When I pointed out how SCOTUS overruled the Florida recount mandated by law in a narrow result the clown went nuts. The basic recipe for a temper tantrum is: 1 pound of Trump supporter; 1 ounce of fact; Mix gently to avoid an explosion instead of a tantrum.
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  2346. Well your fellow countryman is also utterly ignorant of the fact the Biden is a long way behind the spending of Bush and Obama. Bush spent trillions on war and trillions more trying to avoid the GFC. Obama spent just as much carrying on those wars and bailing out the top 1% from the GFC. Biden has a long way to go before he matches either Bush or Obama.
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  2347. But what is your definition of "true democracy." I did a few classes in classical civilizations in college as part of a humanities sequence. Ancient Greece (particularly Athens - the birth place of democracy) was not even close to being fair but they elected their leaders. Of note Russia, even during the Soviet era, still had elections. Iraq under Saddam Hussein had elections. Democracy is fundamentally where leaders are chosen by a vote. There's nothing in it fundamentally that says it has to be fair or equal or just.
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  2348.  @ishaq24722  Good comment 👍👍👍
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  2349.  @TimothyCHenderson  Yeah but what type of Republican was she? I'd bet on a Reagan type because that was her era. Trump Republicanism is something sort of new. Its not that it hasn't existed its just never had power before. Its further right and more Libertarian than Reaganism. Thom Hartman talks about this often. Charles Koch's brother actually ran against Reagan for a VP spot on the Libertarian ticket. He thought Reagan was too soft and wouldn't go far enough which says a lot about their view of the world.
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  2350.  @cisco8650  YES HE DID - Great reminder 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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  2351.  @robertjenkins6132  The problem you have with all of that is the basic meaning of the world communism which comes from the word communal as in the entity is owned by the community. Walmart is NOT owned by any community its a privately owned entity. I don't know what's happened to American education but there was a time when you guys knew this stuff.
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  2352.  @robertjenkins6132  Do you actually understand the meaning of words and how they are derived. Socialism comes from the world social as in a society will do something together. Americans get way to confused with what the Russians, East Germans and others did. They used labels like "communism" "socialism" and "democratic republic" to hide what they were - totalitarian states. Go look at the actual name of North Korea. DPRK stands for Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In what way has North Korea ever been a democratic republic? If you want to go down a path of something really odd that American corporations have done look into where HR came from. Most people are unaware that the prototype for HR was the Soviet Political Officer that every factory had, that every office had and that every military unit had. Remember the guy Sean Connery killed in the first few minutes of "The Hunt for Red October" - yeah one of those. The purpose of those people was to keep everybody COMPLIANT with party doctrine. What's the purpose of HR - keep everyone compliant with management. Americans - you're always looking for the secret stuff when it right in front of you. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2353. Almost a brilliant idea. Its should have been ALL political leaders across the world NOT just American presidents.
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  2354. Next time drop the "white" reference. I get it but its the sort of remark that people are offended by. Other than its racist its also inaccurate as there are plenty of African Americans and Hispanics who voted Trump. This clowns skin color isn't relevant but his stupidity and actions are.
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  2355.  @knowthispodcast9182  Next Question. How does anyone know your Mexican?
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  2356. That's a very similar argument that's been raging here in Australia for most of the last 30 years. Under the mantra (and its only a mantra) "ALL FOREIGN investment is good" because its CASH coming into the economy. The banks love it because they get the currency transfer fees. Where this has been a disaster for us is that we have become a great place for people to hide money in housing properties (both houses and apartments). That has jacked up the price of housing to insane levels. The banks love it (as said) BUT - so do the real estate agents because they get bigger fees. - so do the people who are selling especially retirees who are cashing out their investment properties. - so do the developers of large apartment complexes. For everyone else its a farking nightmare because BOTH rental prices are soaring and house prices are soaring. The catastrophe that' snow beginning to unwind is that people can NO LONGER take out loans because they just can't afford them. Then there's 1,000s of people who bought when interest rates were low but they bought at premium prices and now that interest rates are rising they many of them are under immense mortgage stress. PLUS we have between 5 and 25% increase in electricity due to 20+ years of stupidity (FYI - I'm an engineer) that's hammering every part of the economy because every house and every business (largest to smallest) need electricity. This stupid policy of "All foreign investment is good" is killing my country just like its killing other countries.
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  2357. FOR ANYONE INTERESTED THE LINKS TO THE AUSTRALIAN INTERVIEW ARE HERE This is the interview -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk The rest of the links to that entire program (2 parts) for which she was interviewed about Rupert Murdoch's and Fox News' links to Trump and promoting the "Big Lie" see my main comment.
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  2358. This shite isn't limited to America. I'm Australian and we have the same kinds of nutters here preaching the same sorts of garbage. We might not YET be as bad as this but we are getting there. These type of people might not be as prevalent but through social media they are generating more and more followers. If there is one thing about these people that seems to be common they are attention seekers.
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  2359. And the silence on this subject from the NRA is deafening. What happened to their: "the way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"?
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  2360.  @menudobucket9837  My comment was more a general comment in line with yours that you started this thread with. The fact DeSantis was at Gitmo as a lawyer when these interrogations were taking place is enough to raise serious concern over his ethics. Then there's the whole bit about what his actual role was because its not clear who he was actually representing.
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  2361. The best comment I saw anyone make was during the last phase of the Bernie versus Biden contest. "Joe Biden is the normal that got Trump elected" It was a great line and I wished that I had noted who said it. It perfectly describes what Biden represented - a step backwards in a world that's going forwards.
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  2362. I remember a story from when the Taliban first came to attention (a couple of years BEFORE the 9/11 attacks). It told of how they tried, convicted, gang raped, and executed a woman for being a nurse. In their view a woman with a job outside the home was a harlot and blasphemer deserving of the harshest penalty. Anyone who funds, supports or assists those kinds of people doesn't deserve much in the way of anything except the harsh hand of justice. What I would like to hear about is how the Taliban got funded this time. This many guns and bullets cost a lot of money - where did it come from?
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  2363.  @ProfSteveKeen  Here's another example of somthing I just saw. I just saw a BBC "ooh look at this wonder tech" story of direct CO2 capture and storage in Iceland. The title of the story is Inside the hidden carbon plant pulling CO2 from thin air | BBC News in that story the CCO of the company straight out says it will cost $1000 per ton and that through scaling it will get down to $300-400 per ton to capture and store. Currently there's 2.5 Trillion addition tons of CO2 in the atmosphere and by the mid 2030s it will be 3.5 TRILLION tons. At $1000 per ton it will cost $3.5 QUADRILLION to remove the excess carbon in the atmosphere. At $300 per ton (their lower estimate) it will cost $1.05 QUADRILLION to remove the excess carbon in the atmosphere. The BBC promoted that story as a "wonder tech" story. Can you see why I find the media and so many other people so frustrating.
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  2364.  @ProfSteveKeen  These are the things I really wanted to talk to you and Mike and Daniel about. Part of it is what I now call Energy Economics and the other part is what I now call Planetary Economics. You already have a basic grasp of both from that data you had on GDP & Energy. Quite simply energy is not only going to be the thing that kills AI because of how much it needs, but its happening at a time when there's energy shortage caused by the neoliberal economic policies. AND because of that ideology they wont let anyone else speak. That recent CSIRO report on nuclear energy had nobody but economists on the team. Have you seen the interview. Its here on YouTube "Are politicians listening to the science in the energy debate? | Insiders: On Background | ABC News" NOTE how the title is about listening to the science and there's only economists involved in the report. BUT WAIT IT GETS WORSE. They modelled nuclear power on 30 year life and 50% Utilisation. Calder Hall the very first commercial nuclear plant and regarded as Gen 1. Its therefore not as good as the current Gen 3+ and Gen 4 Reactors, but it did run for 47 years and get 79% Utilisation (also called capacity factor). So not only was that report NOT written by scientists it was written by liars. We really are running straight at the cliffs edge and most of what people are hearing is nonsense and they don't have enough tech literacy to understand it AND the worst part of the nonsense is that it wastes time discussing the things we NEED TO DO.
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  2365. Even scarier is that they are just handing the White House back to Trump. The Democrats are on the way to becoming the most inept party in Western politics. The GOP are ruthlessly cynical about things like tax cuts for the wealthy which they always spin as beneficial for the working class, but at least they do something. Every time the Dems are in power they just stumble along only 1/2 doing anything.
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  2366. Yeah I would agree but then what would you say about America? Because America since the end of WW2 repeatedly overthrown democratically elected governments and replaced them with dictatorships when those governments wouldn't do EXACTLY what America wanted. Here's 4 examples - Iran, Guatemala, Chile and Indonesia. FYI - I'm Australian. I love America. I went to college there on a sports scholarship, but American's are very badly informed on what some of America's 3 Letter agencies have done. Usually at the request of American business interests. Its something a lot more Americans need to ACCEPT and start dealing with. Most people around the world have no problems with the American people or their culture. Hey my team the 49ers is in the Superbowl this Sunday. BUT when it comes to what America does to other countries the American people are badly informed. You know how many Americans have this innate (almost insane) mis-trust of the US Government? Simple question -> How do you think the rest of us feel? Because we often wonder - who controls the CIA? Is it the US Government or the American billionaires? Don't forget George H. Bush was not only an oil tycoon but also head of the CIA at one point.
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  2367.  @theprimevegan5410  You forgot to add that the documentary "Oufoxed" should become compulsory viewing for everyone who wants to have an understanding of how America got to this point.
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  2368.  @theultimatereductionist7592  From an engineering perspective about 98% of the humanity shouldn't be allowed access to about 99% of modern technology. If you knew how much time we have to spend keeping you safe, warm, supplied with fresh water, while taking away the shit you produce you'd be a bit more grateful instead of being an arrogant clown. Feel free to get off the internet and stop using all the other technology we have provided you with. Thank You.
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  2369.  @nrotko  On America's ability to sort out its problems. There's a famous line by Winston Churchill "You can depend upon the Americans to do the right thing. But only after they have exhausted every other possibility." My way of describing America is: If procrastination was an Olympic sport America would win all 3 medals even if they weren't competing. Other than climate change which is a big issue America is 1) 24.5% of the worlds economy so if it sneezes the rest of us catch a cold and 2) the US dollar ($US) is still the World's reserve currency and that isn't going to change no matter what the BRICS do because its simply impractical. So the bottom line is the rest of us just can't afford to have America act like a drunk, belligerent, spoilt Ivy League frat boy who's never been told "NO" and who's daddy has bailed him out of every stupid thing he's ever done. Most of all NOBODY can afford another such person to be President again.
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  2370. Who needs to imagine it when we've all seen the headlines they scream and rant.
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  2371. Interesting side story to this Marxian Professor Richard Wolff accepted the challenge when Jordan Peterson said "No Marxist would debate me?" After arrangements were made Peterson pulled out. The claim is he wouldn't debate Richard Wolff without getting paid. Richard Wolff made several videos regarding Peterson's claims and the outcome of the proposed debate and they are here on YT.
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  2372.  @HeavyDanger  Go back and check there was a time on the 90s when they hoped Russia would be come part of NATO. Just remember that the reason why Russia has 4 year terms for president is because their post Soviet constitution was based in part on America. Don't forget that one of the reasons Russians like Putin and hate America is because of the economic situation Russia went through in the 90s. FOR SOME Russians the 90s was a gold rush but for most it was worse than the Soviet era. They went from being assured of a job to nothing. Yeah sure those jobs weren't great and every factory had political officers to watch over everything but at least they had jobs.
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  2373. As an Australian let me correct and clarify some of what David said. He's right this is a huge change to Australia, but its NOT as big of a win for the Australian Labor Party. Its a massive slap in the face for the centrist right Liberal Party. However almost half of their loses did NOT go to Labor as normally happens they went to the "Teal Independents" Stephanie mentioned (6:03). Teal comes from the colour of their T-shirts, hats, etc. (light blue). The Teal Independents are RIGHT LEANING PROGRESSIVES which is why they beat out many Liberals. YES progressives can be right leaning. Go watch Sagaar Enjeti (Breaking Points) or his friend Marshall (the Realignment) as they are both right wing progressives. Remember the basis of being progressive is you want to see progress. Just like left wing progressives they value Health Care, Education and the Environment BUT they want to see a sound financial plan BEFORE it starts. Left wing progressives wany it to start but put less emphasis on financial planning and its where they come unstuck. Where Teal Independents weren't the option the Green Party who are very left have done amazingly well. What SUBURBAN Australia has really voted for is a financially sensible approach to climate change and rejected the do nothing but talk about it Liberals. Remember Trump called them the "do nothing Democrats" that's exactly what the Australian Liberals became with respect to a number of important topics like climate change and its been REJECTED. RURAL Australia is different. David didn't mention (and he might not know) to the right of the Liberals are the very conservative Nationals who like the Republicans have most of there base in rural areas. They actually IMPROVED their primary voting numbers, LOST NO SEATS and might have picked up an extra Senate seat. What has driven that is Australia's 2 main rural industries farming and mining. So diesel tractors and diesel trucks are very important to them. They are scared that there is no plan form them and they will just be stomped on like our car industry was. That is where the Left has failed miserably for several elections - a plan where our farmers and miners are LISTENED TOO and included in the plan.
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  2374.  @randiken  Exactly, the first few comments were totally agreeable then it just started sliding and never stopped. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2375. As an aerospace engineer I am disgusted at this PR garbage. TED & TEDx have become a PR organisation for Elon Musk. FYI - Jennifer Heldmann is NOT and aerospace engineer she's a geologist. Has SpaceX done some good? Absolutely. They have literally saved the US manned space program with Crew Dragon and Falcon, but this idiotic hype with Starship needs to stop. Most of its technology is YET to be proven to do anything in space. Most importantly re-fuelling in space is unproven especially at the levels it needs. Just as importantly Saturn 5 could lift a similar payload into Low Earth Orbit and the WITHOUT REFUELLING go tot he moon. Also there was a variant of the Space Shuttle called Shuttle-C which could also lift a similar payload to low earth orbit.
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  2376. What do you mean by "our government?" I'm Australian - do you think we are any different? I was working in Canada a couple of years ago. When it came to politics it was like living in Australia only with snow! 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Go watch DW or BBC and its the same everywhere across western democratic societies.
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  2377.  @simonfarre4907  There's no Western Government that's not bent and twisted in some way. Its just way more obvious in some countries than others. The Nordic countries seem to have it less than many others. We are certainly not as bad as many but not as good as others. I think New Zealand by virtue of its size is less corrupted than us, but it still has issues. Canada and Australia are very close in population size, both are resource rich and both being exploited by locals and foreigners. The nest few years will be very interesting.
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  2378.  @brokeandtired  Great reference but the Uhu was actually the 219 not 217 -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_219 And the Uhu really was a "whatif" and if anything British Bomber command, who lost so many crews, were blessed to not lose more if it been produced in any effective number. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fowOHJRDl14
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  2379.  @hotmetalslugs  Yeah sort of maybe. You can and can't really apply percentages to criminal trials. I'm an engineer not a lawyer but I once had a lawyer explain a very simple fact about the difference between criminal and civil law. Criminal law is absolute black versus white in that you are found through a trial either guilty or not there's nothing in between even though at times people think there is. Civil law is shades of grey where they try and assess to what degree you are responsible. Look at the OJ Simpson cases. In the criminal case he was found NOT guilty and that was absolute. He wasn't found partly or mostly or sort of responsible BUT in the civil trial that followed he was found to be PARTLY responsible and in a very large financial way. This is where I think Trump and his cronies are making huge mistakes. They have gotten use to handling civil law. Trumps been sued 100s of times but that was all civil law and this is criminal law. There's no judgement on how much Trump will have to pay its a judgement on TIME and where he'll spend it.
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  2380.  FPT Bot  Its not that it doesn't exit, but like so many things the people screaming the loudest are opportunists NOT victims. Good example - Ted Cruz, who's Princeton and Harvard Law educated and married to a Goldman Sachs senior manager. He doesn't play the victim but the champion of the victim FOR POLITICAL REASONS. TC's far from alone in that. There's literally 100s if not 1000s of cynical political actors playing the "champion of the victim" routine and when anyone digs a little its hot air, PR and illusion.
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  2381. Peter is quite right about how NATO accepts new members and that Moscow has only itself to blame for those nations wanting to join NATO. Moscow treated those nations like SHlT for decades. BUT There's no doubt that America went back on the assurances that NATO would NOT EXPAND Eastwards into the previous Soviet block nations. It was never written down as a formal treaty but there is NO DOUBT what the Americans promised Gorbachev because its there in the records from those meetings regarding the German Reunification. PLUS America and Americans need to be careful with this stance because Washington (and I say Washington quite specifically) has treated many of its allies with contempt and as well preaching democracy to the 3rd world before supporting some of the worst dictators the world has seen in recent centuries.
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  2382.  @saxonderohan9723  No surprises there except that Bartiromo earns more than Tucker. I wonder how he feels about that 🤬😡🤢😨👺 or maybe💩 I have heard Alex Jones makes around $50M a year of his name brand products. Maybe the Russian had something when they said America was a decadent society.
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  2383. That's a great point which should have had everybody jumping on the claims from the first moment these guys started making claims. I think they confused (we'll go with confused for the moment) a lot of people with the military angle. Their claim was basically "This was banned because the US military wanted to keep it to themselves." That's a good technique if you trying to get people to wonder why? Its a believable line because any tech that gives the military an edge they don't generally allow out in the real world for others to copy or use.
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  2384.  @dennishassler605  Buddy I am an engineer and don't be stupid. You have to compare like for like. Houses are affected by land prices so the same house in different locations are different costs. Different cars cost different money. These aren't different anything THEY ARE THE SAME ITEM. Estimating projects and managing them IS WHAT I DO FOR A LIVING. Nothing makes sense in this stuff unless you include staggering incompetence and Everest sized fraud. We are being taken to the cleaners, like we are with other projects. The Frigate contract we have with BAE has just jumped 50% form $30 to $45 Billion without any explanation. There hasn't been a 50% change in the cost of anything. What we have are clowns going down the options list ticking boxes and the sales monkeys laughing as the costs explode. Its not just military projects either its civilian infrastructure and private industry projects that are blowing out. I am aerospace engineer but have been working in the mining industry because we looked like going to the moon to mine it a while back. I have watched world class mining companies waste money by the billion all of it on stupidly poor management and mountains of advice from greedy consultants. We have a plague in BAD project management in Australia. Mostly caused by consultants, but also by the Think Tank brigade.
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  2385. Its the fundamental problem with western politics these days. Its all about screaming and yelling at the other side. Its got NOTHING to do with getting ANYTHING useful done. All these bad faith actors (from all sides and corners of the politics) and trying to win political points in the next news cycle. Its why no country has even begun to truly address our major issues of wealth disparity, climate change, food security, water security,.............
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  2386.  @roberta4760  This interview was part of the second part. See my other comment above for all the links.
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  2387. In George Orwell's 1984 all of the Ministries (government departments) were abbreviated and the words "Ministry of" was shortened to "Mini." So the Ministry of Peace was referred to as Mini- Peace and it conducted War. The Ministry of Love was referred to as Mini-Love and was where they tortured people. That's the core of Orwellian logic and doublespeak is the language of opposite meaning. That's why he called it doublespeak - everything has 2 meanings and those meanings are the opposite of each other. That's Orwellian logic. Its when you CLAIM one thing but actually MEAN and or DO the complete opposite and yet you're still telling the truth because you are using the opposite meaning.
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  2388. How many American crime dramas or movies have shown that under American Law that if you participate in ANY WAY in the organization and/or process of a crime then you can be held accountable for ANYTHING that happens during the crime. The classic example is the get away driver. If someone in the bank suffers a heart attack and dies EVEN though the driver never set foot in the bank or held a gun or touched anyone they still go down for felony murder. American Law has many flaws (like all other systems) but it does have some good things too.
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  2389. Interesting quote. I've not heard it before. Do you know where it actually came from? Was it an essay or book or lecture or something else?
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  2390. To Quote 6 time Superbowl winning head coach Bill Belichick - "Do Your Job"
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  2391. Australian here - This is NOT good News because she could end up anywhere now. She could be the next Secretary of Education and finish off Betsy DeVos's work; or She could be the next Secretary of Transportation and help Elon and Boeing get rid if the FAA; or She might even be the next Ambassador to Australia just to make AUKUS feel even worse. Sorry but if she'd won we'd at least know where she'd be.
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  2392.  @miapdx503  There's a part of me that would love to say that last word is wrong, but sadly it isn't. Its certainly not applicable to all of Trumps base, but without doubt it applies to a significant section of that base. I had an argument here on YT with a Trumpster back in 2019 about Trumps behavior. I claimed that one of the fundamental tasks of POTUS was "to unite the American people." Fundamentally that's one of the prime tasks of ANY political leader. There's a tradition that no matter what happens during an election once its decided the person who wins represents the ENTIRE electorate. People like John McCain made that point repeatedly. The Trumpster argued back that I was wrong. In their brains they think POTUS is for them and them alone. Its part (emphasis on part) of why they are so freaked out. This is where Trump really did a lot of damage that wont be fixed easily. Trump, FOX, OAN, and others got them into a mindset where POTUS is either 100% for them or 100% against them. Either America finds a way to heal that divide or the 2nd American Civil War is inevitable. In fact ideologically its already started.
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  2393.  @FullCircleTravis  And we both like shootin and eatin 'em. One of my favorites is "kanagnaise" which is bolognaise made with kangaroo mince. I use port instead of red wine and plenty of chilli and its awesome. Gotta be careful with most Australian wild meat. Its very lean with not much fat at all so if you get it wrong it becomes stuff so tough you can make mountain climbing boots out of it. So its either a quick sear served rare or a very slow vey low roast or combined. Kangaroo also makes for great leather. Super soft and super long lasting.
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  2394. Your right but then Peter's not always on target with technology & engineering issues. He's close on most things but typical on non-engineers he gets his information twisted around at times. On things like political strategies, politics and demographics he's a wiz.
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  2395. Professor Mark Blyth from Brown U. (who I wish Rising would have on) has several times commented that CNNs business model has been "Trump Bad." They aren't alone in that. What do they have now he's gone? These people milked the Trump Presidency for 4 years, just as bad as Fox, OAN & Newsmax did.
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  2396. Nope that's what's called being honest and you were reasonably polite doing it. There's certainly others way more blunt.
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  2397. She claims Facebook has a narrative but she has a narrative. Like all these people how is it that their narrative is right and everyone else is wrong when they can't provide any facts.
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  2398. Here's what was said by Vice POTUS Wallace 2 years before Trump was born at the time when Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were all in power. Note what it says about method and patriots. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  2399.  @sukhvindermangat1087  On Murdoch please feel free to do whatever you like to him. Most Australians wont care. We tried warning the Brits what he was like when he moved there BUT THEY DIDN'T LISTEN and they have regretted it ever since. We tried warning you Americans what he was like AND YOU DIDN'T LISTEN EITHER So don't complain about him. Deal with him. He's made a complete mess of politics in 3 countries and interfered in a few others. We have 9 of the top 10 most poisonous snakes in the world as well highly poisonous spiders, spined fish, poisonous jelly fish and even a poisonous ant, BUT NONE of them are as poisonous as Rupert. We have a joke that a poisonous snake once bit Rupert. The snake had to be put down out of mercy.
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  2400. Yeah and Kyle's forgetting what Jesse Ventura told them a few weeks ago. Remember what Vince McMahon told JV at the start of his commentating career "Reality is what you say it is!" Trump learned that and has exploited it for almost 7 years now. That's why his base behave as they do. Its likes an extreme version of mob psychology. Its not just getting a mob to respond to an event. He's getting the mob to respond to political spin. Everyone should go back and re-watch that interview. JV actually explained so much of how Trump operates. Trumps rallies are straight out of the Vince McMahon wrestling promotion playbook.
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  2401. You are so right. I have seen her discuss Putin and Russia and without any doubt she's got a better handle on this than most others.
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  2402.  @thomasskokan2001  I wouldn't doubt any of that because I have seen that sort of stuff everywhere I have been. We have parts of Australia just like it. We have country towns where I woudln't dare take a person from another country even if they were white. We also have parts of every major city I wouldn't go IN BROAD DAYLIGHT and at night our police are in full body protection. We don't like to put that on tourist brochures but everywhere has "Those places!" I was in central Saskatchewan a couple of years ago for a project. Loved it. Beautiful country and beautiful people. Then one day one of the guys from Regina warned me about a couple of nearby towns to where we were working. Clan towns he called them. When I asked WTF he meant he said there's a section of Sask that even the rest of Sask avoids. Its the sort of place a guy like Greg Abbott would be right at home. Every country has "Those places!"
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  2403.  @SuperCroc69  Good of you to point out Grenfell because THIS IS NOT AN AMERICAN PROBLEM. Here in Australia we had to evacuate 2 apartment blocks and neither was old (Opal Tower and Mascot Tower). This is going on EVERYWHERE. A few years back I saw a story on Spain where along its Mediterranean coat apartment blocks were going up at a staggering rate AND MANY WERE NEVER APPROVED let alone inspected. This is where this clown is so utterly ignorant of our current society. Remember Ronald Reagan's famous "government isn't the solution its the problem." Yeah well thanks to 40+ years of libertarian crap like that we now have government agencies that barely exist let alone exist well enough to be effective. I'm just blown away by the arrogance of them "finger pointing" about ineffective government when they were the ones who made it ineffective. Saddest of all they NEVER GET HELD ACCOUNTABLE. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2404. TO ALL - Some Perspective. I'm Australian and I went to college at U. Illinois do I know the Midwest fairly well. If you combine the populations of Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana it total 25.2 million which is fairly close to Australia's 25.6 million. Yes there are significant geographical differences in size and in weather (like the difference in winter conditions). BUT none of that explains the following facts. Australia has 908 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana have over 28,000 (and counting). Australia has just over 1,400 active cases while Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana have over 520,000 active cases as winter sets in. On the table at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Australia is 54th in population, 85th total fatalities, 113th in active cases and 129th in Fatality rate (Deaths per 1M pop). If Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana were a country they would be 14th in total fatalities, 7th in active cases and 6th in Fatality rate. Nothing actually explains or excuses that. Australia does not have any special magic juice or anything else. No doubt our geography helped but it can't explain that level of difference. We've had outbreaks in fact around 700 of our fatalities came from a single outbreak in my home state of Victoria. We have an outbreak right now of abut 20 cases in Sydney and its caused people to stay home and stay safe. America is not alone either Sweden has basically admitted they got there Herd Immunity plan horribly wrong. If Australia had done as Sweden did we would have around 20,000 fatalities instead of 908. Sure our economy is a mess and it will take years to fix, but we have started on that already. Sure our libertarians have screamed about their rights and freedoms. Right now they get told STFU, the rest of us have work to do and want to get through this. To all - Take Care & Stay Safe.
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  2405. I'm Australian and totally agree with you. My answer to Thom's question Will The Davos Billionaires Team Up Mean The End Of America? Is NO - they will NOT mean the end of America they will be the end of Western Civilisation. Just as America calls it Reaganomics and the Brits called it Thatcherism we had our version of Neoliberal economics called Economic Rationalism. I had a boss try and explain it to me back in the 1990s and he said the bizarre joke was they called it rational and there was nothing rational about it. My old boss used to ask: "What's rational about making slabs of the population unemployed by sending their jobs to China?" It didn't mean much to me in the 1990s but it means a lot these days.
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  2406. You do realise that the most basic task the army has is to take young men and teach them to kill a designated enemy? It might surprise you but teaching people how to kill has side effects.
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  2407. No, No, No. Goodfellas make a hit obvious. they do it to send a message. This was done with finesse. Sure we all know what it was but the evidence says it was probably suicide. My joke has always been. What did the MI6 assassin say to the CIA assassin? "You're tying the knot wrong." To which the CIA assassin said "Just shut up and hold him still. Remember no bruising or they might get suspicious." Then the Mossad assassin at the door told them both to be quiet because the guards were only paid to be gone for 1/2 and hour.
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  2408. Extend that to never trust ANYONE who ignores common sense and rules via an ideology. You can take any of the worlds "isms" and they all seem based on some basic sensible proposition. But if you let ideologues run rampant with it without any restraint then you get Stalinism, Reaganism, Thatcherism, Maoism, Feudalism. As a thought go and look at the worlds major environmental catastrophes and you get things like the Aral Sea, the destruction of the lower Colorado River, the mass destruction of Chinese Water ways, the depletion of the Southern California aquifer, destroyed rivers and other waterways across former Soviet Eastern Europe. And that's just looking at water. That's not even going near forest destruction, land degradation, toxic waste dumping or climate change let alone any of the social issues.
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  2409.  @charsibaba6960  Thanks - it just blows my mind how ignorant and stupid so many people are these days. The saddest joke about Afghanistan's opium trade is that it was part of the story to the 1987 James Bond film "Living Daylights" Look at the 5th & 6th paragraphs of the plot summary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_Daylights#Plot I find this story perplexing because the BBC is usually a lot better with how it presents information. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  2410. His channel has always been a reaction channel.
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  2411. She supposedly finished a college degree. According to her bio she graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1996. That must take some brain function to do. She needs to be seriously and publicly confronted over this stuff.
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  2412. ​ @ju4408  That's interesting. I wasn't quite certain how it works in America. Here in Australia (as far as I know) so long as parliamentary privilege id declared and what's said or shown IS ONLY inside the house, they're reasonably safe. Its rarely used because it can backfire and backfire badly. Its a while since it happened but we had a politician a few years ago who made the mistake of repeating what she had said inside the house to the media outside and got her ass sued stupid for it. Its meant to be used so that politicians can ask sensitive questions during inquiries without the threat of recrimination. They do have to use it carefully because as I said it can backfire with serious consequences.
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  2413. Australian here - I have watched his channel from almost the beginning.
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  2414. Welcome to the pandemic of ignorance we now live in. Its not an American thing. I'm Australian and we have it at plague levels down here right now. Facts and reality are whatever people decide they are to suit whatever whim they have and no amount of evidence has any effect.
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  2415. I get that. Anybody who has seen up close (and I have) a close friend or family die of cancer of other terminal illness knows there is a place in medicine for these drugs. But what Purdue, the Sackler family and their lackeys did was indefensible and they need to go to jail for a damn long time. If the US Courts wont do it then maybe people need to use the International court and charge them with crimes against humanity. Even if the US wont hand them over a conviction there would freeze or strip their assets around the world. It would also take away any places for them to flee to or hide.
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  2416.  @AlE-kc7yw  Actually you are very, very wrong. Most of the Christian world has NEVER seen a depiction of Jesus where he's got dark hair and an olive complexion as you'd expect from someone born in the Middle East or Eastern Mediterranean Region. The only depictions in paintings, stained glass windows, television and film has him as a fair skinned European. For most there's never been a choice because there was never any discussion. People can only choose something when there is actually a choice on offer or a discussion being had. You seem to be oblivious to history. For most of the last 1,500 years people were TOLD what to believe. There was never any choice or discussions.
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  2417.  @goncalovazpinto6261  That happens. I remember that after one of the San Francisco earthquakes there was a baby boom 9 months later.
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  2418. I don't know if you support these clowns or not but you are certainly on the right path. If you are going to target MSN (who are horrible) don't leave out FOX who are just as disgusting when it comes to lies and propaganda. The mainstream media on BOTH SIDES of pumping their opinions as fact for decades. It certainly goes back to before any of us were born.
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  2419.  @shacktime  Go back and look at his college lectures. If you want to talk about the difference between then and now fine but don't be an idiot, the world has an oversupply of them already.
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  2420.  @mggailitis7231  I don't think its that we hate each other so much as I think its more like we hate the fact that we feel the world is unjust and no matter how hard we work or how hard we try we just know that it more often than not it wont matter. We see the world we live in as unjust and watching a criminal get executed brings back a sense of justice. I think we are a frustrated species with the state of our own affairs and public executions have been a way for societies to collectively get a sense that justice is being exercised in a world we feel is inherently unjust. It something like that or we really are a deplorable species racked with sociopathic behavior. I'd like to think we are worth redeeming, if we can find a way to do it before we kill the planet (which we are doing). Mark Blyth the Socio-economist from Brown U. and Erica Lonergan just wrote a book called Angrynomics. They were looking into the current world state where so many people are just angry. They have this idea/notion/concept that we (the bulk of us) are angry that the figurative 1% have gamed the system so far that they can't lose and we can't win. Its as if they have us trapped in a casino where we are forced to play and all the games are rigged. We know its rigged but we also know the 1% occasionally let some of us win, so we keep playing.
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  2421. As a counterpoint and some perspective. I'm Australian but went to college at Illinois so the Badgers are a rival. I went to Wisconsin a few times and there's nothing fundamentally wrong with Wisconsin or Wisconsin people. Every nation, state, tribe and village that's ever existed has had its idiots and at times let those idiots be in charge. We've got them here in Australia and we 've elected them to office too. We've done the "I don't like this person or that person so I'll try this person over here who's at least saying something different." YES - we do stupid things too. Here's a reason why Wisconsin is worth saving - the Green Bay Packers. Look across American pro-sport and there's this one anomaly. In stead of being the private property of some millionaire or billionaire there's this one team that's just owned by "normal people" (if you can call Packer fans normal). Do you know that's WHY the Packers have fans across the world? The Packers are the one club in America that people around the world can relate too. Its the one American club that's like all their clubs. If I put all the NFL fans in Australia in a room by far the biggest group are the Packer fans. Other than the Packers, the cheese isn't too bad and by Australian Standards at least Miller Genuine Draft is drinkable. American beer is so "not good" that Americans drink Mexican and Canadian beer when they can. So for Wisconsin to have made one of the very short list of American beers that's drinkable should be considered a plus.
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  2422. That's such a stupid meaningless comment considering the subject. What are you claiming you wont change your mind about?
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  2423. WHY? Its a part of Western culture so ingrained its almost a genetic trait.
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  2424. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  2425.  @laurenwalker1048  I was wondering that myself but 2 other YouTube Channels (David Pakman and Brian Tyler Cohen) have already shown the Sidney Powell interview or parts of it. Sadly none of them have said that it was part of a more in depth look at the link between Trump, Murdoch and the "Big Lie." Its one reason why I keep giving people the links.
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  2426. I'm an aerospace engineer and that's about the best layman's description of the situation I've seen in a while.
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  2427.  @brindlebucker4741  I was actually referring to the comment by DancingCactus. As an engineer (and I am not alone) I'm tired of trying to explain why Mars is unrealistic and why we haven't been back to the moon and why a moon base right now is almost impossible because we really are missing a number of key technologies. Most of all I am tired of uneducated social media clowns making great pronouncements. I do actually like the fact that SOME of them are standing up and calling out the (what I call) the Space Industrial Complex (Boeing, Rockwell, Thiokol,.... etc.) who have sucked up billions to NOT deliver. There's plenty of examples. BUT I hate with a passion the ignorance many of them then spout often in the next breath. Angry Astronaut is a perfect example of people who do this. He'll call out companies like Blue Origin for not delivering and in the next breath BS on about Mars colonies as if they were a finger click away. Almost 20 years ago I met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) who told me to check out Helium-3. So I went off to the Australian mining industry to learn about mining. I get a hell of a reality check on just how difficult it is. Better still I got a monster reality check that would scare Godzilla on what it takes to support a workforce in a remote location. I can tell you from what I know has been published that NASA has no clue on remote construction or that kind of remote operations. A while back I was sent the official notes from a lunar conference hosted by NASA. Out of 170+ pages there was 1-1/2 pages on maintenance. I can tell from real experience that if there was 170 page compendium on potential lunar bases it SHOULD have at least 120pages on maintenance. For every 1 page on what you might deploy would need at least 4 pages on how you intend to maintain it. Anybody who has ever really been on a mine would know that. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  2428. As an Australian who went to college in America and who has worked in Canada, yeah every time they try and fully privatize our Health care system it gets hammered into nothing with people screaming and pointing at the American example. Seriously the only politician who even suggests that we do the American thing is only doing it for LOTS of money, because even the mention brings down a mountain of shite on them.
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  2429. You are absolutely right but NONE OF IT MATTERS. So long as Ukraine has a disputed border irrespective of it being with Russia or anyone else, it CANNOT join NATO. Its a basic rule of joining NATO all borders must be settle and not even 1 inch in dispute.
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  2430.  @coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13  Well its actually very important. If it was natural we need to know the source. If its from a lab we need to know how to NOT do it a second time. Think about the Boeing Max-8 should they have simply kept flying or should they have found the problem?
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  2431. Before Ivanka runs for anything she will have to fend of all the accusations of corruption and quite possibly criminal charges.
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  2432. Its not a matter of qualifications. ITS A MATTER OF EXPERIENCE Go check here bio she's qualified - Duke University (BA) and University of Michigan (JD) This is a classic case of being promoted by connections rather than record of good work. Its something that has infected governments, institutions AND the PRIVATE SECTOR since the start of civilisation. Its a form of nepotism where people with connections get promoted IRRESPECTIVE of the merit or experience of others. In Judge Cannon's case (and this is on her Wikipedia bio) she is a member of the Federalist Society. She is NOT a judge because she has shown she's proven herself as a capable lawyer in cases. She's a judge because she's a member of a "club" and has friends.
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  2433.  @heatherjovero9379  Their networks in the UK and Australia are called Sky and Sky News. The parent organisation is News Corp and they own TV, Radio and Newspapers all over the world and many are called Sky "something" like Sky Italia. But most of what they have in America is under the Fox name, so many American's don't equate things like Sky News to Fox News. Also of interest is that James Murdoch, one of Rupert's sons is a director of Tesla and been implicated in one of their scandals for Solar City. Public figures have learned to be very careful with the Murdochs. Rupert in particular is incredibly ruthless. He operates at the same level of ruthlessness as historical figures like Stalin, Hitler, Caligula, Genghis Khan,...
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  2434. I agree that decent public debates need to be had on all manner of subjects, but NOT worthless debates that take 4 hours to go nowhere with people who can't ever solve any of the issues. I'm an engineer and left a lengthy detailed response to this in the Lex's pinned comment at the top.
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  2435.  @freyathewanderer6359  Australian here and YES we HAD some serious issues with Police and high intensity confrontations where they shot and killed too many people. We chose to NOT go down the American path and ended rethinking and then retraining every officer in the country on how to deal with high intensity situations. Even after all the effort we've made things still go wrong every so often, but at least we have nowhere near the issues America has. We don't have cops choking people to death in the street as people film it on their smartphones and our children can go to school and not get shot in a rampage.
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  2436. I'm Australian and we are OVER THIS CRAP. I can explain why at least 20 countries if not every country in the entire Western world has a VALID reason to take this clown out. You see like it or NOT this affects our LONG TERM trade and our LONG TERM security and if you guys don't deal with this clown then sooner WE WILL. And it wont be some angry frustrated reaction it will be a cold simple matter of trade, security or BOTH. I actually went to college in America. I love the place, the people and the culture BUT the toxic politics America is running on needs to stop. The billionaires need to be put in their place and all the old geriatrics need to GET OUT and let people who actually want the world to be a better place get on with dealing with real issues that affect real people. If you all want to say Australian politics sucks and has some serious issues fine, because it does. Just like Canada, Britain, Japan, South Korea and all of Europe WE HAVE OUR ISSUES, BUT NONE of us have issues like the crap that's going on right now in Washington! AND YES I am well aware of Tommy Tuberville holding up over 300 military promotions. AND YEAH that's a damn serious security issue to America and Australia and all of our allies.
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  2437.  @Jessica-gy6kr  I actually don't like it because it means that some average person who should just be getting on with their life and being with their friends and family isn't. This is what I truly hate about Tucker he is victimising people who don't deserve it. if you look at him, he's NOT the schoolyard bully. He's the cheap piece of garbage who hides behind the schoolyard bully and goes around starting trouble and then revels in the trouble they start. Think about the school bullies you remember and then consider the sneaky pieces of crap that hung around them. There was always at least one who was good at starting trouble and enjoyed the chaos they caused. Yeah that's what Tucker is.
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  2438. You're absolutely right, but there's one problem and its called the 1st Amendment and it allows every American to voice their opinion no matter how stupid, no matter how idiotic, no mater how repulsive it is. As I understand it short of specifically doing something or specifically saying they are going to do something then its really hard to prosecute anything like this in America. I'm Australian but went to college in America and I find it so sad that one of the greatest gifts any nation ever got gets abused so badly. I did engineering but some of my mates were pre-law and we discussed many times the differences between Australian and America. These days I am convinced America has the best constitution of any country, except for one flaw. Its possible (almost too easy) for people like these to take advantage of it. For sure we have idiots like this in Australia too. Go watch some of our recent anti-mask, anti-vax and COVID denier protests had. We're still hiding our heads in shame over that. But this stuff where people are calling government officials and harassing them is handled differently. It can be very serious trouble in Australia to harass government officials particularly if they have just been doing their job. If a government official does wrong you can call it out, but you can't threaten or harass them like this. We have most of the same freedoms to speak out just like America does, but we don't allow people to use free speech laws to harass others like this.
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  2439. Actually its even simpler than that. EVERY POLL said his base was shrinking for 2 years before the election. So where did the extra 11 million people that voted for Trump come from. He got 11 million more votes than 2016, where did they come from? Every poll (even those from FOX) coming into the election indicated he should have got less than 2016 - SO WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?
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  2440. It actually goes a lot further pack than McConnell's deals with Trump. It goes all the way back to Reagan and Reaganomics. According to Brown U. Prof Mark Blyth (who 's seriously smart) our current issues really started with Reaganomics which was just the American version of what he calls neo-liberalism and that was all about crushing the working and middle classes it just took 40 years to get there as the top 1% made off with around $50 trillion. He has this great lecture on how it all happened -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE If you don't have time the basics are 3 times last century we had giant economic shifts due to various events. Every economic model runs its course and then needs a reset. We should have had a reset after the 2008 GFC and it didn't happen, because people like McConnell just kept doing as they do and not caring. 12 years later none of the real issues facing most people (like jobs and wages) have been solved. The frustrations that have been building for decades allowed a narcissistic sociopath like Trump to take advantage. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️
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  2441. I gave them a couple of chances. Both Ryan and Emily had sat in for Krystal & Saagar at times and not catastrophically crashed. Then they did couple of really lame efforts and it was bye bye. The one the broke it was a piece on Dr. Fauci claiming that 2 videos showed he absolutely lied and they just simply don't. I actually pointed out the flawed logic - the 2 points in the videos are NOT mutually exclusive. As such I basically said they hadn't proved anything. The result was that BOTH the pro-Fauci and anti-Fauci culture warriors screamed at me. These new clowns are playing culture war garbage. I watched K & S because the were AGAINST the culture war NOT stokers of it.
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  2442.  @jamtaco2667  Well I am actually trying to get the Dems to wake TF up and start giving people A REASON to get out of bed, go done the street and vote. Remember when Hilary didn't got to Michigan because she was too busy doing a fundraiser in NY? Did that tell people "I care and you should get up and come down and vote for me." OR Did it tell people "I don't need to care about you because I have all these millionaires giving me money."
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  2443.  @MFYouTube683  No problem. I found it by accident when Milo was making headlines (an ass of himself) last year.
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  2444. I'm Australian. YouTube and Twitter just banned a couple of clowns from our media and 1 sitting member of our parliament for posting false and misleading information. I know Sagaar Enjeti at Breaking points brought that up and he was WRONG on several key points. Kyle Kulinski also discussed that issue and he is also WRONG on several points. Spreading misinformation about vaccines and COVID is NOT a matter of free speech it is a matter of PUBLIC SAFETY. We just had a healthy 27 year old die suddenly in Australia from the Delta strain. He was on day 13 of a 14 day isolation. He was unvaccinated he was being monitored at home which we do in Australia for home quarantine. He suddenly just went down. That news is fresh its shocking. We had done such a great job isolating our entire nation and now we have Delta on the verge of being out of control. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUNxzMad3ts
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  2445.  @teetee19700  I'm Australian I was in Canada a couple of years ago when they started looking into that stuff. It sounded similar to what we had with the stolen generation of indigenous Australians. New Zealand has just recognized some of their past with Pacific Islanders. The fact Canada & New Zealand are trying to deal with their pasts is a lot better than other nations still hiding from theirs.
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  2446. Somebody needs to ask him what was in his emails that got hacked that made him change his views on Trump.
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  2447. If you consider that new Texas rule where social media platforms cannot de-platform people there gets to be an interesting possibility. What if a porn producer, Muslim, Hindu, atheist or even a evolutionary professor posts a video or podcast on a Christian platform. According to the Texas Governor they wont be able to delete those posts or de-platform those people. These people are simply nuts.
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  2448. Exactly OXY IS AN OPIOID and every opioid ever disseminated legal or illegal has been addictive. Its utter garbage to think it wouldn't be addictive.
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  2449. I'm Australian and have a similar assessment.
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  2450.  @carolbostrom593  Careful on that. As an Australian we have our versions of Ted Cruz. You've probably never heard of Graig Kelly or Pauline Hanson. They are just 2 of more notorious political clowns. I was in Canada for work in 2017 they have there's as well. EVERYONE has them. America's problem is that it has a huge population so the difference is that America has millions of people who listen to them. Trump got 74million votes that's almost 3 times the population of Australia and more than double Canada. Like many people around the world TRULY hope America can find a way past this point and rid itself of this ignorance.
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  2451.  @lowandodor1150  Tom Walker the English actor and comedian who portrays the fictional political commentator Jonathan Pie made the point in an interview that at times we need to shut up and listen tot he other side. I first watched KKs speech on his channel and then followed it back to Oxford to see WHAT THE CONTEXT WAS. Even though I found most of these 8 speakers crap from the start I sat through it all. Because every so often you need to shut up and and listen to people you don't agree with. Every so often they have facts you need to hear. People need to look up and check what people are actually saying a lot more instead of this echo chamber mentality so many have. Sometimes people you can't stand will say something you need to hear. Ugly as it is you'll find out what some basic truths are and/or you'll find out how facts are being manipulated and there's a staggering amount of manipulation going on these days. Its made so easy because people choose to live in echo chambers. Learn to sit through some of talks you don't like and fact check. Yeah it can be damn frustrating but you wont be ignorant of what some people are up to. .
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  2452. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  2453.  @HaleyMary  The main difference between MTG and an amoeba is that amoeba's have a higher IQ.
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  2454. Lets not forget that America still hasn't asked itself the question if getting several hundred thousand people killed during the invasion and occupation of Iraq was worth all the money made by the shareholders of all those companies that sold services and stuff during that clusterf*ck. FYI - I'm Australian and absolutely think that we should have held our political leadership should have been held accountable for their part in that disaster.
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  2455.  @Dumbrarere  And they usually are that petty. 🤷‍♀🤷‍♀🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  2456. I'm Australian and the RAAF has purchased the EA-18G Growlers which are the Electronic Warfare variant of the F-18F Super Hornet. Why didn't the RAF redevelop the Tornado into something similar? I have a degree in aerospace and I know wings and the life of wings tends to define aircraft life times more than anything. Why couldn't they drop the swing wing for a fixed wing (saving weight) and load the plane up with electronics as needed. One of the biggest issues with any new plane these days is just getting the airframe & wing designed and then making it just fly as needed. The whole start from scratch thing is just so damn expensive. You could simply tweak what needs tweaking and re-task the airframe, which is basically what they did with the EA-18 Growler? I just curious on your thoughts?
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  2457.  @Jon-es-i6o  I'm well aware if the speeds they could do and well aware of why that became less of an issue with the generation of jets that followed. As part of a high school careers thing I interviewed an aeronautical engineer who worked on F111s. It was circa 1981/82 and I asked why there weren't any 3 engine fighters a 'la the Battlestar Galactica viper? His answer was they would be worthless because they couldn't carry enough fuel. Going supersonic in almost anything except a couple of planes is so fuel consuming that the plane is a glider in minutes. He told me the F111 on full afterburn drains its tanks in around 4.1/2 minutes. Its one of the things that made Concorde so extraordinary. It wasn't that it could go Mach 2 it was that it could do it for a couple of hours. It was why supersonic air travel died - the fuel cost is so high. Drag like lift is a squared law. Double the speed means 4x the drag. Its why commercial planes fly at 35,000ft the air is so thin the drag drops back down.
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  2458.  @darthvader5300  Yeah, I doubt many will disagree, particularly with the NIH mentality. Just look at the claims made in thumb nails here in YT. A staggeringly high percentage of YouTube developers rely on ignorance in that people IGNORE the reality of their basic claim. Case in point the title of this video.
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  2459. As an aerospace engineer this totally craps me out and for a slightly different reason than most here might think. My gripe isn't so much that these things (like Hyperloop) are garbage its that they are preventing people from SpaceX and Tesla form appreciating the incredible achievements of others. There are some great people in these companies doing great work and getting no recognition or credit. At Space X the achievement of actually getting a rocket that can fly humans into space (Crew Dragon & Falcon 9) is extraordinary. If you compare it to Boeing's effort with Starliner and take into consideration the resources and experience Boeing has access too then it really is an extraordinary achievement. BUT THEN Elon comes along with the idiotic garbage of going to Mars on Starship. I don't understand how it can be the same company. On transport its the same. I spent many years in the Australian automotive sector and for Tesla to actually have the effect it has on the entire car industry is borderline miraculous. Yes there's some issues with the cars, but then every major manufacturer has had recalls. Tesla's a long way short of the VW diesel fake engine emissions fiasco. The fact Tesla is manufacturing and selling several 100 thousand cars each year is incredible and it has changed the world. Unless you have a actually been in the industry its hard to explain just how hard it is just getting a new model into production. One of the main companies I worked with was Hella and the effort it took just for a new headlight & taillight on an EXISTING car was a huge effort. So taking a completely new vehicle and getting it into mass production is an extraordinary achievement BUT THEN Elon comes along with a truck he claims will pull a load from 0 to 60 mph in 6.5 seconds. AND THEN Elon comes along with driver less cars, taxis and trucks. AND THEN Elon comes along with Hyperloop, a 118 year old idea (Robert Goddard 1904) and claims he thought it up. AND THEN Elon comes along AFTER Hyperloop is exposed and NO its not trains in tunnels its cars in tunnels. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️
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  2460.  @andrewfranklin4429  Dude I am an engineer and have the 2nd highest qualification possible for safety engineering. I w as certified by TUV in functional safety after going through a formal course. Don't you dare lecture me on a subject you know nothing about. If you are so stupid to try and compare this to s subway then you run headlong into the reality it can't move the number of people to make it viable. idiots like you forget that as engineers we have to justify the expenditures on EVERY project. AND there's nothing in this that adds up. At every step of the way form the very first moment Elon opened his mouth and started crapping on about transport in tunnels HE HAS BEEN WRONG. Its not new. Robert Goddard 1904 (118 years ago) Its been through the engineering viability dozens of times over the decades since. IF IT WAS VIABLE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DONE DECADES AGO. As I have said many times now. I really do like the things Elon and his companies have actually achieved like Falcon and Tesla, but I damn well can't stand the garbage he spews out about things like Mars, Starship and Hyperloop.
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  2461. I don't know about an award but it should never have dragged out this long. Just like how our government dragged its boots on Australians at Guantanamo its keeps trying to play nice with bullies. Most humans know by about the time they reach 12 years of age that you can't simply negotiate with bullies.
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  2462.  @sifibruh7055  I don't have the specifics at hand but she went right off at her mothers behavior as Trump's Press Secretary. I faintly remember her daughter tweeting stuff. It was part of the reason given KAC quit the role. There is stuff in this part of her Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellyanne_Conway#Personal_life
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  2463.  @kevinpedz  Dude that is one of the best summations yet.
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  2464. I'm Australian so I am on the outside looking in on this. We went through a whole era where we dumped PM after PM. It was so bad at one stage the New Zealand PM publicly joked he'd like to call Australia to talk about Pacific issues but didn't know who was PM this week. Its bad enough when the All blacks belt us, let alone their smartass attitudes but that was a new low for us. Rishi Sunak wont call a general election because even though British Labor is a the joke that got smashed by Boris "the buffoon" Johnson when their strategy included hiring some of Hilary Clinton's team, he knows he'd get smashed right now. He's not stupid but then anyone wanting to be British PM right now either wants to do something specific or they're a fool.
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  2465.  @serendipityshopnyc  It was the question about Israel that no matter how he answered he was done. And I can understand why a lot of people didn't take that campaign seriously because he wasn't really a New Yorker. Even though I spent my college years in the Midwest I heard numerous times how New Yorkers saw themselves and how they saw others.
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  2466. The thing is a lot of other reporters in other countries would like to report similar but they just can't for political reasons. I'm Australian and anytime any of our public figures or journalists say anything they don't like and they go crazy. Everything has to be done their way and by their I mean the Chinese Communist Party NOT the Chinese people. I've been to China for work and the Chinese people are fine, good, decent, hard working people. It was only a short working trip but I enjoyed my time there. But at the higher level the CCP is almost impossible to work with.
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  2467. Is it just me or is a guy WITH A BEARD selling razor blades a bit odd. Maybe he's a cyclist and shaves his legs. Maybe he's a swimmer who shaves his body chasing those extra 10ths. Maybe he's got a kink thing?
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  2468.  @Crusde  Your spot on, and there's a lot of people here who have been warning for years that we had/have become too dependent on exporting raw materials to China. if the Chinese property market crashes and with it the Chinese construction industry then Australia is screwed. But if the CCP put some sort of restriction or blockade at the southern end of the South China sea then it would be major league chaos for Australia, Japan, South Korea and a several others.
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  2469.  @aarondavenport3143  How much of this did YOU ACTUALLY WATCH. Because if anyone looks at that section with the clown around 9 minutes it certainly looks like HE's doing a good job of explaining his views which include cutting heads off if you disagree with him.
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  2470. The precursor to that is when they say that's a "great question" and then DON'T answer it.
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  2471.  @trinidad17  I don't agree from the simple standpoint that, (as the person who started this thread points out) he's not shamelessly plugging garbage or hype or both. He's just not perfect - so what.
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  2472.  @gorey4more837  Firearms here is pretty simple. You can own anything you like if you can get the license for it. We just make certain licenses very very difficult so that we don't have people owning things just to make themselves "feel something." It all changed after the Port Artur Massacre which involved military grade weapons and at the time was the world record for fatalities in a gun rampage. Normally Australians love it when one of us breaks a world record, but no that day. The worst of it was the Mikacs, a mother and 2 young daughters (6 & 3) simply executed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia)#Toll_booth_murders_and_carjacking We said never again. Our government bought back any guns people didn't want and there were millions. Oddly before that buy back we had won just a single Olympic medal in shooting sports in 100 years, since then we have won 10 including 5 gold and 2 of those by girls. Restricting our guns hasn't hurt our aim, it hasn't hurt gun clubs or hunters. We just don't let idiots who want to play tough guy be stupid. Our attitude is pretty simple: If you want to play with big powerful guns join the army. If you want to hunt then aim straight because you're not getting large magazines or automatic self loading rifles or shotguns. If you want to win Olympic medals you'll get all the ammunition you need to practice. If you have a "special need" then fine but you will be asked to justify that need. Anybody who owns a gun accepts that they will abide by the rules placed on them or they lose their privileges. Because in Australia gun ownership is a privilege NOT a right.
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  2473.  @shiftyjesusfish  On top of a degree in aerospace, 30+ years in control systems and automation I am formally trained in Safety Related Systems. So I have a pretty good grasp of redundancy when it comes to safety. In fact if you want I can explain why the only thing the MCAS system was ever guaranteed to do was crash a plane. On top of that I have a pilots license with aerobatic endorsement. So yeah I've got a pretty good idea of what your talking about and YES YOU ARE RIGHT. You are so spot on that you're either qualified like me or have been around someone qualified like me or your unlike most people on social media and actually LISTENING to people qualified like me. After the Max-8 NOBODY anywhere is going to let this thing be used for commercial passenger travel around the world. Without a full program of flight testing where they DO EVERYTHING this thing will never be cleared for what they are suggesting. Who's going to pay for 100 or more certified test flights of this thing.
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  2474. To the West Virginian. I saw this vid recently and the panel has 2 University professors. 1 is a progressive political economist and the other teaches Marxism and BOTH have justified why certain demographics voted Trump. The link is to a specific point where Richard Wolff (the Marxist) uses West Virginia as an example of how the Dem Establishment has abandoned parts of America. Here's the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s I just want to know are they right? Is it a case that many people from places like West Virginia have been voting out of frustration that they have been ignored by the establishment?
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  2475.  @meechisminners  Thanks for that. I think you're absolutely right it is complicated and there isn't any simple answer even when there are a number of common things. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship. The vast majority of my experience in America and with Americans since are all positive. There are exceptions but I can say that of Australians as well. I was in Canada working a few years ago and that was the same. I've worked with plenty of Brits, New Zealanders and South Africans and its all the same. But what I have seen in America these past 4 years (in fact last 20) is painful to watch. Its like watching a good friends tear their life apart. If there is one thing that does bother me its there isn't a lot of effort to understand WHY. America is an awesome country, but it has its issues (as we all do) and there are so few people asking WHY. Instead there are so many people just righting off entire slabs of the country as irredeemable. We have similar problems here with basically elitist snobs who think the rest of the country is beneath them and some so far beneath them it would better if we built a fence around them and never let them out. I think Biden will be a lot better in simply being more rational, but I worry he wont deal with some of the real issues because they are hard and they are difficult and to people around him solving those things won't win the next election. Thanks for the reply - Take Care & Stay Safe.
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  2476.  @pure_2xXS  I just watched last nights version of Media Watch and you've described Australia's media fairly well.
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  2477.  @dumcasta9327  Duh - I watch it regularly. In fact if you want tp get a decent assessment of American issues it does it better than almost any American show does. So it does not surprise me the American commenting here don't get it. Plus if you take this interview in isolation from all their other interviews it looks bad, because it was soft. And all that's irrelevant because Jon Baron never gave Bolton even one "rope question" let alone a trap door.
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  2478. YEAH - Anything that was good under me had nothing to do with the previous President, but EVERYTHING good under the next President was because of me. Well we know one thing for certainty about this president, his narcissism really does have NO limit.
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  2479.  @savanahmclary4465  Really after the rambling heap pf garbage you started with you're now trying to claim intelligence. To claim "nothing is true" is utter bullshit. If you want credibility then don't start with rambling garbage and don't then claim obvious bullshit.
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  2480. Its proof yet again that no matter what your tribe, culture, nation or political system - there is no greater threat to any society than its own fanatics.
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  2481.  @geezzerboy  OH HELL YES THEY DO. The ramifications are massive and nobody knows what any of it might mean. You'd be right if you said they didn't WAN'T to care or if you said a large chunk of humanity doesn't care, but anyone who's awake is scared because of the effects and consequences.
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  2482.  @michelforever6301  All 3 of your points are invalid for the simple reason they IGNORE other factors or facts. - Starlink needs a customer base, which is rule number 1 of any product or service. Go watch a few episodes of Dragons Den and you'll get that. So WHO actually NEEDS Starlink? NOT who wants to feel cool about having there phone link to a satellite but who ACTUALLY needs it AND will WILL PAY for it. Go ask Iridium how their business is going with a 2019 profit of NEGATIVE $162 million. 5G mobile is going to hit the same wall. Who ACTUALLY needs those download rates to a phone. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ - Vertical farming. Not certain why you have even mentioned this but just go do some real investigation into the subject and you'll find the people doing it have actually done their market research. Water & power aren't just an issue for vertical farming they are an issue for EVERY business going forward. Water & power are one of my pet subjects to beat the crud out of people with economics degrees and greenie brain-space clowns who haven't a clue what it takes to make modern societies actually function. - Hyperloop, just don't bother. It was bullshite when Elon started claiming it as an original idea and its been bullshite ever since. The fact you tired to argue the temperature expansion issue at all shows you're NOT an engineer. Maybe your a physicist like that Romanian moron Sebastian who thunderf00T exposed. That clown has to be the most embarrassing failure the entire physics profession has had in decades. He publicly confused the formulas for thermal expansion (a material effect caused by a temperature change over TIME) with thermal conductivity (energy transfer caused by a temperature differential across a medium).
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  2483.  @theultimatereductionist7592  Yeah I get that more than most. The entire concept that we "must become a multi-planetary society to survive as a species," is as much of a fantasy as claiming the earth is flat. Its not based on anything factual. Its just a claim made to justify something certain people WANT not what we the human species NEEDs.
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  2484.  @michelforever6301  Now your getting even dumber because you clearly have NEVER BEEN on a farm. A whole slab of my mothers family are farmers. 1) Of those 570 million about 500 million of them are subsistence farmers in the 3rd world. So they aren't going to be clients ANYTINE soon. So that a BS argument and plenty of people have pointed that out. 2) Most of the farmers in the developed world are close enough to mobile services so they DON'T need it either. 3) You just admitted your NOT an engineer. So just stop lecturing a person who is. Because in your ignorance you fail to realise that continuously welded rail systems which are used extensively in the Australian mining sector where I have worked need CONSTANT maintenance from the effects of expansion & contraction due to environmental heating & cooling cycles. YES - YOU REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT
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  2485. Do you know that when they first used the guillotine people complained that it took away from the spectacle AND SKILL of using an axe?
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  2486. ​ @PlanetEarth3141  Sorry but your not quite right. I am an engineer and there simply is no one single technical solution for the world. Solar and Wind can do a great deal of the power supply for those countries that have great locations for wind or solar and a few countries have both. But there are many countries that don't have great solar or great wind and some don't have either. Solar and wind are also great for load following but they struggle to supply base load power at large scale for larger populations. Nuclear is expensive but its also great for base load but struggles with load following. For many developed societies we actually need BOTH nuclear and Wind/Solar, but we also need better energy storage as well as more efficient use of that energy. For many less developed nations nuclear is out of the question because you need the skill set to maintain it so they will need to develop using wind & solar. I'm really sorry to the Greenies but you are going to have to face the reality that wind & solar CANNOT DO EVERYTHING. I'm really sorry to the pro-nuclear camp that they too will have to face up to some harsh realities about costs and time frames, which Sabine has got spectacularly wrong.
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  2487. The right don't care and really don't want to know what the truth is. I'm Australian - you know that place where Rupert Murdoch came from. We warned the Brits what he was like when he went there - they didn't listen. We warned America what he was like when he went there - you didn't listen. His talent (evil superpower if you like) is recognizing that most of humanity doesn't want to hear the truth. They prefer having their preconceptions reinforced and Rupert has always been good at working out what people wanted to hear and equally good at finding people willing to push that message.
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  2488. Well the Egyptians rose conquered the known world, then slowly fell apart to where they are today - in turmoil. Well the Assyrians (as in Modern Syria) rose conquered the known world, then slowly fell apart to where they are today - destroyed by civil war Well the Babylonians (as in Modern Iraq) rose conquered the known world, then slowly fell apart to where they are today - destroyed by war Well the Persians (as in Modern Iran) rose conquered the known world, then slowly fell apart to where they are today - isolated Well the Greeks rose conquered the known world, then slowly fell apart to where they are today - bankrupt Well the Romans (as in Modern Italy) rose conquered the known world, then slowly fell apart to where they are today - also bankrupt. Well the Mongols rose conquered the known world, then slowly fell apart to where they are today - also bankrupt and stuck between Russia and China Well the British rose conquered the known world, then slowly fell apart to where they are today - a bunch of money launderers who can't make anything anymore. Well the Russians rose 1/2 conquered 1/4 of the world the known world, then slowly fell apart to where they are today - fukd with a maniac in charge of nuclear weapons. America. In 1969 they put men on the moon after starting from a blank sheet paper less than a decade. For most of the last decade they had to hitch a ride on Russian Rockets to get up to the space station they built only to be rescued from that by an IMMIGRANT who actually took twice as long to get 1/2 as far as NASA did 50 years earlier! Through the 1970s, 80s and 90s America lead the world in computer manufacturing technology and now its all made in Taiwan or China. Through the entire post world war 2 era America lead the world in aircraft with companies like Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed, Martin, Gruman, Rockwell and Fairchild. Now there's just Boeing and their last plane was the Max-8. According to a recent Rand report America's top 1% extracted $47 Trillion (with a T) in value form the lower 99% between 1975 and 2018. Americas infrastructure is in disrepair, its political parties dysfunctional and the country has been divided by an self delusion orange clown who gave that top 1% the biggest tax break in history despite that fact they pay almost no tax anyway. I don't know if America is fixable. I'd like to hope that it is. I'm Australian and went to college in America. America's a great country, with great people but its being lead by people in politics and business who just don't care how much harm they do.
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  2489.  @CB-hb1jv  I'd agree with that assessment on the basic numbers except 71 million out of 333million is ~21.3% not 40% but that is still a scary concept. I might be taking an optimistic view, but I'd like to think that a sizeable part of that 71million were protesting the establishment rather than vindicating Trump. Don't forget Biden ran on nothing more than a platform of "back to normal." Fine but WTF was "normal?" There's a recent Rand study that said the top 1% of America extracted $47 Trillion (with a T) between 1975 and 2018 from the bottom 99%. They have taken at least another $10 trillion since. That means "normal" for the last 45 years has been the top 1% taking everything they could and giving nothing back. Its not an American thing either its right across the developed world. Prof. Mark Blyth the political economist from Brown U. pointed all this out. He was the one who predicted both Brexit and Trump 2016 based on just how fed up people were with "normal." I'd like to hope a big chunk of those 71million were just angry with "normal" and then got caught up in the insanity. Because if all 71million truly believe Trump is the Messiah then America is already gone. If he wins 2024 its over and that's a terrifying concept for Western Democracy. As an Australian I truly hope America finds a way forward.
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  2490.  @TheScotsalan  Yeah it was something I saw only a few hours ago and the change between what I last saw him do as a historian & documentary maker to now is WTF in giant letters stuff. I think its kind of sad to see someone with his intellect throw it away as he has for this kind of rightwing hysterical nonsense.
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  2491. The only question left for Junior is: Does he get his drugs from the same guy Hunter does?
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  2492. NO THEY WERE ALREADY RADICALIZED First by decades of cold war propaganda, then by decades of Reaganism, then by decades of radical televangelists combined with decades of conspiracy garbage. All Trump did was turn up the volume to 11. The First Amendment is an amazing gift granted the American people that NO OTHER SOCIETY HAS EVER BEEN GRANTED. But that gift has been wasted through nothing more than a combination of pure selfishness and basic stupidity.
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  2493. They all do it. And then a year or 2 later, when everyone thinks they've moved on, they get even by knifing a few people in the back. Its called modern politics.
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  2494. Actually go back and listen to some of his interviews where he's speaking about football. I checked to see if there were any noticeable signs of CTE (as in degradation). I saw an interview form about 6-7 years ago and the difference between then and now is staggering. His CTE issues are very serious and he should be in the care of people who know how to handle CTE patients. Certainly he should not be running for public office in any jurisdiction. The people who are pushing his candidacy should be outed for just how depraved they are.
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  2495. No but they are like every other educated society in the world right now. Fed up with the establishment. Apathetic to the Establishment. Totally pissed of with the establishment that has one common policy across the western world "What do the billionaires want?" What drove Brexit? What did Trump exploit to get elected? What happened in the last European election for the EU parliament?
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  2496. Considering that Hawaii was an independent sovereign nation that America INVADED and took over then yeah maybe that's reasonable. Now there's these other people that have names like Sioux, Arapaho, Lakota, Apache,.... etc. who'd also like to hear what you have to say. And while your at it if America and for that matter other nations (Australia, Canada,....) settled by Europeans were to be handed back then where would all those people of European descent go? Be careful in trying to fix one thing that seems so simple but actually isn't.
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  2497. ​ @avesatanae  100% Dead right on the first point BUT NOT the 2nd point. I'd agree to RESTRICTING how much residential property people can own but not an outright ban or you'd kill the rental industry. Remember there's always that fraction of society who can't own and that might be for any of dozens of reasons. A college student can't afford to own but they probably need at some point to RENT an apartment. Somebody might have a temporary job for a few months or a couple of years and they RENT. People are not always ready to buy and settle somewhere so they need to RENT. BUT where you are damn right we need to stop the maniacs like the Larry Fink at Blackrock or his buddies at State Street and especially maniacs like Trump from owning massive amounts of housing.
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  2498.  @teax25  You're right the whole story is laughable, but they are screaming about corruption and demanding justice. This is one of the things where the American right has totally lost its nut. Their concept of what is REAL is so warped they can't even understand basic concepts anymore. Remember when Rudy had is MOCK hearings - people thought those were real and the evidence was real and the outcomes were real.
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  2499.  @020Dutchy  What's the difference between Lauren Boebert and Monica Lewinsky? Who paid the laundry bill? Yeah you thought the answer was something else didn't ya!
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  2500.  @zachgates7491  Applications to what? Zach and JDs school of self taught ignorance and arrogance. Did I get it right that you guys are calling it the Superior Hegemonic Institute of Trolling? You could have football games against PragerU. in the Poison Ivy League 😂🤣😂🤣
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  2501.  @MexicanMarxist-Leninist-Maoist  Sadly true. Not long after 9/11 I saw a documentary on where Al Qaeda came from. the interesting thing was that one of its core philosophies was that Western Democracies would eventually fail because all that people voted for was there own selfish desires. Around the same time there were groups of American scholars also formulating an idea that they needed to limit and control what people were democratically doing because they thought Western Democracies would eventually fail because all that people voted for was there own selfish desires. Those Americans eventually became the neo-cons and they (just like the founders of Al Qaeda) had at their core the same basic belief and that to save their societies they had to be in control. Nobody else, no dissent, just them in absolute control saving us from ourselves.
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  2502.  @pe4153  Yeah and WE are called Australia and yeah a sizeable chunk of OUR population is very, very proud of their ignorance. And they live on both the left and right of out politics. Asimov's quote works just as well for US Australians as it does FOR ANY OTHER COUNTRY. In fact Asimov could or should have said. There is a cult of ignorance in human society, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural lives, nurtured by the false notion that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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  2503. Yeah Peter Zeihan has EXPLAINED that several times. Its got to do with certain historical strategic locations that the Russians like to control for security reasons. Ukraine isn't one of those locations but its on the way to 2 of them in Poland and Romania.
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  2504.  @sheshotjfk8375  Yeah but DlCKHEAD 99.999999999% of all the technologies that have been in sci-fi were: 1) Never developed, and 2) Never possible in the first place. Arthur C. Clarke in one of his non-fiction books called "Profiles of the Future" went at length to explain that. Science fiction does NOT have to make anything work it just has to do things that help the narrative.
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  2505.  @ZenOfMKVLI  Agreed, sadly we sold our soul back in the 50s and 60s.
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  2506. If you want a good idea of what's happening go watch Konstantin Kisin on Triggernometry. He's a Russian born Brit who's a native Russian speaker. He's got family there who he's in contact with. He knows the culture. The other person to check out is Julia Ioffe who was just interviewed by PBS Frontline. She's a Russian born American who also knows here stuff.
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  2507. I agree. While killing COVID time I recently downloaded and played all of the Uncharted series including "Lost Legacy". I'm a huge fan of "The Last of Us" and I did had an ND retro bit of fun. Yeah the games have dated but what I loved about the game was the characters and the story lines. There's also lot of great interviews some playthroughs with Nolan North, Emily Rose, Claudia Black, Troy Baker and Richard McGonagle. What's fun to watch is how easily they flip into those characters and that's partly because Amy Henning gave them the freedom to own these characters which is your point. Maybe the Scotsman missed that this story is timed BEFORE Unchartered 1, which is why Elena Fisher isn't there because he Nathan met her yet and why Sully & Nathan are so much younger. At least Sophia Ali has the right looks for Chloe Frazer.
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  2508. That's very accurate. I was in China 3 years ago for work and the Chinese people are just like every one else. They go to work every day trying to provide for their families and make their lives better. It really is that simple. The interpreter we had told me something very interesting one morning at breakfast. We talked about job loses to China and she told me that China didn't have to take any jobs, Western Companies came looking for cheap labor where there were no unions. BUT the real eye popping thing she told me was that Chinese workers are scared of losing their jobs to even cheaper labor in Africa. That process has already started with companies leaving China for Africa.
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  2509. We have very similar issues in Australia. FIRST - fire is a natural part of all forest environments and many species of plants and trees REQUIRE fire to germinate. We have a number of plant species that can't germinate unless the fire gets hot enough to crack the seeds. WHAT'S CHANGED is the size and ferocity of these fires caused by fuel build up AND how often we have bad fire seasons. Its not just mismanagement its a combination of factors. What climate change does is amplify the natural swings between wet and dry conditions. When its wet its really wet and when its dry its really dry. After years of drought we had the wettest of wet years in Australia, while Europe where its normally wet had the driest of dry summers. So here in Oz we should also expect incredible growth in the next year or 2. When the next drought comes it will dry all that growth out and build a massive fuel load. Combine that with another of our issues - being able to burn off safely and we have trouble ahead. The "Goldilocks" period when we can set things on fire because its not too damp and also not too dry that our forests are like rocket fuel is getting shorter and shorter. I expect our next fire season or the one after it to be the worst of the worst.
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  2510. How do people have faith that the electoral process works - charge the liars with sedition. Get them in a court and ram it home that these people LIED and that those LIES had consequences. The capitol was stormed, a police officer was killed, the flag was torn down and replaced by another flag. ALL BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE LIED and those LIES should HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
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  2511. From Australia "G'Day China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From America "Hi China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From Japan "Konnichi wa China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From Britain "Good afternnon China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From France "Bon jour China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From Italy "Ciao China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From every factory worker in the Western world who lost their job to China over the last 40 years. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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  2512. Your right she's done some good interviews and monologues in recent months but this was shit. How can the people of Guam and other US territories NOT be allowed to vote on POTUS and NOT have actual Representation in congress. Did you know that the population of Puerto Rico is larger than the populations of 20 mainland states and yet it has only 1 congressional representative WHO CAN'T VOTE and NO senators.? Click the tab on population to list the states in order of population -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population America promoted itself across the world all through the Cold War as the World Leader of Freedom and Democracy but denies the people of Puerto Rico, Guam and other territories democratic representation.
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  2513. And this continuous sniping is going to end in something ugly. Putin and his KGB boys must be scratching their heads at the moment. They wasted decades trying to destroy America when all they had to do was WAIT & WATCH.
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  2514. @MIKAEL S1 No its simply impossible to fake those kind of results from places like Princeton and Harvard. He (or others) might be lying about them but that would have been called out. How would you fake being on the Harvard team representing America at a World Debating Championship? This is what makes Ted Cruz so reprehensible. With that kind of education and ability WHY DOES HE DO WHAT HE DOES? You just made another comment about something being broken in him. I think that's the best summation on Ted Cruz yet - there's something broken in him. Just like there is with the entire GOP. At one point Lincoln was the GOP man. He freed the slaves and united (or tired to) America under incredibly difficult times. By current definition he was a "Progressive" in that he wanted America to make progress and go forward and develop. The GOP have their base trapped in a 1950s fantasy that's so broken they nominate people like Lauren Boebert and have people like Ted Cruz being anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti-progress and anti-democratic all while he flies his family to Mexico (Cancun) for safety. Seriously not even the most drugged up delusional Hollywood maniac soap opera script writer could have written this shite beforehand.
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  2515.  @fredsanford1437  Well done you've given one of the few sensible comments in this clusterf*ck of a discussion.
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  2516.  @maedesmond2461  yeah that Henry Wallace quote gets mentioned occasionally but never enough.
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  2517. Great point and there's another one and why I no longer listen to him on anything. For anyone who wants to go back and check it out. Sam Harris did a podcast AFTER the 7/10 attacks and went at length to describe that there was "No moral ambiguity!" regarding Hamas and he went right into the "death cult" explanation. That's fine as any reasonable person should agree with Sam's assessment that there was no moral ambiguity regarding what Hamas did. I want to know why Sam doesn't apply the same "moral ambiguity" analysis to Benjamin Netanyahu? Because we can argue about any of the stats about Gaza but one of them stands out and that's the now more than 16,000 children who have been killed. Among those children the ones who could have been school teachers, nurses, doctors, engineers, artists, mechanics, welders, plumbers, famers or any of 100s of other professions will now never fulfill whatever notions of a future they wanted or dreamed of. I'd like to see Sam put his "moral ambiguity" analysis to that and explain why those children needed to die.
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  2518. Its far more difficult than just simply a road or rail project. I actually spent 9 months up that way on a mine site during the mining boom. It amazed me how little I actually knew about Australia's far north and how the place works and what the conditions are like. Most Australians have no idea what its actually like. The distances and conditions are so radically different to the southern states. You can't just simply build roads and rail up there because of the wet season. I was there through a wet season and its just so different to anything else I'd ever experienced and it included a cyclone. At one point everything was under 30-50cm of water which made the entire place lethally dangerous because of the snakes and crocs. Then there are the current issues with the over use of ground water in other parts of that region. People have been putting in mango plantations and mangoes need water 365 days a year. That can be difficult in a place where it rains for 6 months and then doesn't rain for another 6 months.
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  2519. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I'm fairly much in agreement with you. Like most of the Western World, America is our most important trading and security partner. None of us can afford an malfunctioning America. Thanks to the globalization they promoted and we agreed to our economies are now so intertwined that a malfunctioning America is a very serious issue. I know there's a lot of Americans wanting to tell us to FK-OFF, but if we did that would also mean we stop buying F35s and other stuff. What would happen if then? Go through any scenario you like. If everybody stopped buying American hardware it ends up with unemployed Americans which could easily dump America into a devastating recession with almost no way out.
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  2520. At some point people are going to start screaming back at these people. They already have 6 of 9 judges, what more do they want? How much is enough for these people? A pack of their Senators said in 2016 you cant allow a new SCOTUS judge in an election year and then did EXACTLY that in 2020. This incessant lying and hypocrisy is only going to end in 1 thing and that's people screaming that they have had ENOUGH. Look what happened with BLM. Millions of people stood together and said "WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!"
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  2521. Just was obvious was the number of questions and time he was given during the debates. The scary thing in this is if the establishment Dems don't wake up they are going to create the exact same conditions that got Trump elected in the first place. Honestly I have no idea what its going to take any of the political establishments anywhere in the western world to wake up that there are massive slabs of our populations in revolt against them. Brown U Professor Mark Blyth calls it Angrynomics and wrote a book with Eric Lonergan about it. I don't think Biden's team realise that they are on a knife edge of America falling into another civil war or a second revolution. A civil war will be way worse, but a revolution won't be good either. One thing I feel for certain is if Biden tries to simply wind the clock back to 2012 then it won't go well.
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  2522. Never forget the FOX-TRUMP base DOES NOT CARE. They don't watch Fox to be informed they watch Fox to have their beliefs reinforced.
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  2523. Your right for what the world currently has. I'm 50+ and can remember when it wasn't about the next news cycle and it wasn't endless cycles of vindictive point scoring . David Pakman had a great term for it "toxic sport politics." He was the 1st person I heard call it that and I think its a great description of what we now have. Its toxic, its all about points scoring and winning the next news cycle and every 4 years theirs the championship. It has nothing to do with running ANY western democratic country, they all suffer it to certain degrees. FYI_ I'm Australian but went to college in America. I was in Canada 3 years ago and other than the snow the news was almost identical to here. Every part of Canadian politics is just like Australia what separates us from America is scale and how much better at it Americans are.
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  2524.  @GerardoFrancisco  Thanks. Its something that totally infuriates me and a lot of other engineers. Even in industry we have the same issues. I have worked on several mining and resource projects where the incompetence of senior management was staggering and $$Billions were wasted. Worse - Project management is such a simple thing to do if you plan well. You don't have to plan perfectly you just don't have to ignore things and/or dismiss them as "somebody else's problem." If you haven't watched the 4-corners on the consultants its a MAJOR PART of the problem. They have so utterly infected government, the military and the private sector that it will take decades to clean them out. The only real skill they have is sucking money out of projects.
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  2525.  @culturekingsboy6555  In some ways I don't disagree as there are so many engineers who get promoted by sucking up rather than doing the job properly, but you are picking a fight with the wrong engineer. I'll agree any day you like that there are too many engineers who don't know what they are doing and don't have enough practical experience BUT DON'T YOU DARE try and claim that labourers don't screw things up. The amount of stuff I have had to personally pick up tools and fix because some smartass thought they knew better is staggering. In fact there's way too many project mangers who aren't engineers at all making idiotic decisions that people like me have to clean up and I've had to clean up a lot of their SHlT in my time.
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  2526. The best assessment of the pros & cons of Warren was by Mark Blyth in July 2019. He was one of the very few who predicted both Brexit and Trump 2016. During the Q&A after a lecture on Global Trumpism (which is totally worth spending time on) he was asked about Warren. The link is time stamped to the question on Warren. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s
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  2527. That's a great answer on predicting all the scenarios. I'm an engineer who works in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. There's so many misconceptions among the general population about technology and its because of clowns like Elon Musk and the media people who over-hype technologies. And some of it is truly ridiculous. On your point My way of getting people to see how ridiculous Elon Musk is about FSD is to ask them how many objects they can see as they drive like just down a suburban street with trees and houses. There's basically millions and millions of objects. Think of leaves and bricks and other stuff. This is the truly amazing thing about the human brain. It can almost instantly discard millions of objects by grouping them into irrelevant clumps and then discarding those clumps. We don't care about the leaves they are part of the trees and the tress aren't moving. The same with the bricks - they are part of the houses. Its actually an amazing ability that every human being has. We can discard millions of items by clumping them together and bring our attention down to a few and do it dozens of times each second. if you've ever wondered what makes some sports stars do amazing stuff, this is part of it. Its this ability to eliminate useless information and process the important information, but they do it faster than the rest of us. This is what your talking about with scenarios. A human brain can not only consider scenarios but consider scenarios its never seen before through intuition and interpolation. This is why the Tesla's do stupid things at times like trying to turn left through a van. The can't adapt to through intuition and interpolation the same way a human brain can to new situations.
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  2528. I was wondering what to say and I would have to say something very similar. Another thread above included that they got taken by the propagands despite thinking they were immune to that, but if there is only one view you are hearing then that's the only thing you can believe. Its what political people rely on. Paraphrasing Orwell if you repeat something enough times you can make it the reality people believe. Look what Trump does, he kept repeating "Fake News" until he got people to actually distrust all the news services so much that now millions of people have almost no grasp of reality.
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  2529. FYI - I have seen a couple of Lina Khan's interviews recently and she might be the first Ivy League graduate in a while who has both a spine and a brain. Somehow she managed to slip through the IL system with both intact.
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  2530. NAME the states that did not follow their laws? DESCRIBE how the did not follow their laws? Otherwise STFU.
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  2531. If everything goes as it has for 4 years Trump's gonna sack him tomorrow.
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  2532. Thanks as an aerospace engineer I HATE clowns who don't go and ask before they make an ass out of themselves. Here's the basic problems of trying to militarise the moon (with current and foreseeable technology) 1) Its going to cost 100s of billions of dollars. The ISS cost $120 Billion to construct and has so far cost around another $80 Billion to maintain and that's only been possible by sharing those costs among nations. 2) If you did build a military base on the moon then everyone will know because they'll all see the rockets launch and be able to track them from the telemetry. Even if the telemetry is encoded to such an extent it cannot be decoded everyone will still know where the transmission point is coming from and therefore still be able to track it. 3) If you did launch a weapon from the moon it will take 3 days for it to reach Earth giving everyone plenty of time to deal with it. Because everyone knows where you are (see item 2) then they'll know where to be watching as well. As for resources, the only known resource on the moon that's valuable enough for a viable base is Helium-3 and that's only valuable if there are fusion reactors capable of using Helium-3 and no commercial fusion reactor of any type yet exists let alone one built for Helium-3.
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  2533. You might try and point people to the interview he gives and get them to look at what he says at 7:28. Apart from punctuation and putting 'I' for 'i' this is from the transcript. "I am very calculated with what I say and so I'm very aware very self-aware I don't say things that I couldn't fight for if they sued me. I say things that I have verifiable evidence or eyewitness testimony or pictures or a background and a narrative too. I'm a little smarter than a lot of people give me credit for." 1) Why is he concerned about being sued if he is a truth teller, which he claims just before saying the above? You CANNOT be sued for telling the truth no matter how vile it might be. 2) After claiming all the evidence he has (but never produces) that he says he has "a narrative too." If his evidence so so sound and absolute then why does it need a narrative? Never give up hope that you can get people to stop and think for a moment. if you can get someone to think for a moment you have a chance which at times is simply a matter of the right question at the right moment. Remember all these people rely on their followers NOT QUESTIONING the narrative. I have also heard this guy has been caught with a couple of more recent scandals.
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  2534.  @kimlee4010  I'm actually Australian but went to college in America, which is why what I see bothers me a lot. And its not just what's happening to a great country that I love, but America going this way threatens both the financial and security of my country as well as many other countries. That said and so you know you aren't alone, we have huge issues in our legal system with large corporate clients either smashing smaller litigants or delaying so much for so long they win by attrition. I once asked a friend who was a lawyer how they get away with it and she said its easily the worst aspect of our legal system. About every 5 to 7 years 60 minutes or someone similar does this giant revealing story on that sort of case AND NOTHING EVER CHANGES. Sorry to be glum but I just wanted you to know yours is NOT the only court system with issues.
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  2535.  @DissectGibberish  its gonna be so funny if daddy throws him under the bus and he goes to the "big house" for some time out. I wonder what the Vegas odds are right now?
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  2536. Try forever. When has he ever had anything but a softball interview? Why don't they ask him a real question like his social life with Jeffery Epstein???
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  2537. Its even simpler than that and KYLE IS 100% WRONG The most basic part of gun safety is: If you pick up or are handed a gun it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to check its status. What anyone else has done is almost irrelevant. THE MOMENT you take possession of a gun you are responsible for what happens until someone else takes possession of that gun. There is no way around this point.
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  2538. Actually it should become an Olympic Sport. Just imagine how much of a ratings winner it would be.
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  2539. @gridsleep Agreed - and lets face it he deserves a break after dealing with Trump. Just imagine spending your entire career doing what he does and then ending up with a boss like Trump.
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  2540. Agreed I've watched a bunch of here talks. The first time I saw her I thought she was nuts but then did a podcast with Mark Blyth on her book "The Deficit Myth" which I finally got a hold off and have just started. I liked how she started with admitting that even she thought it was nuts until she hit the question "where does the money go?" I'm an engineer and I like the logic of what she's saying which is why people like Larry Fink hate MMT. As she says in the government spends $100 taxes back $90 then there's a $10 deficit. She asks where's that money and what did the government GET FOR IT? That's what Larry hates, he doesn't want people to know where that money is or who's benefiting from it.
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  2541. That's a fair call against America they have interfered in many countries and broken many laws and rarely been held accountable. Now can you answer any of the 3 questions asked, because Mr. Wang didn't? He avoided, he dodged and he lied. 1: How is the Hong Kong national security law democratic? 2: How is the internment of up to a million Uyghurs in Xinjiang justice? 3: How are unilateral Chinese actions in the south china sea peaceful?
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  2542. ​ @Cincy32  To back up what you've said my brother and his family went to to Vietnam for a holiday years ago and came back telling everyone just how much we misunderstood their situation. The Vietnamese dislike of the Chinese goes back centuries. They might not like America (and with good reason) but the Chinese thing is huge. AFTER the end of the Vietnam War the Chinese actually invaded Vietnam in the first of several conflicts. In the west we don't hear much about this because what we do hear is from the American view. The Chinese don't talk about it much because the Vietnamese stomped on them. Its all wrapped up in the Sino-Soviet split. the Soviets backed the Viets and the Chinese backed the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and Viets and Cambodians were already at war. So rather than being a Capitalist West versus Eastern Communist conflict it was a Commie versus Commie conflict. Its just one of the things we don't hear much about. Its like asking a Dallas Cowboys fan if they care who wins a game between the New York Giants and New York Jets.
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  2543. No they did try something. They tried to convince an entire nation that there was hope for some positive changes that would help every person in that nation. And by the way (and this is a message to America) you can substitute references to EVERY Western nation in the above statement.
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  2544.  @charisma-hornum-fries  Good and valid point.
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  2545. I'd agree with that but Obama was "the straw that broke the camels back." I just saw some of his public campaigning over the last few days and there's no doubting he's an incredible public speaker. If you compare him to the Democrat candidates it really makes you wonder what's happened to talent in America. That says a lot because the GOP has even less talent than the Dems. Therein lies one of the biggest issues in world politics right now. The money men behind the candidates have spent so much getting ignorant puppets in place that there's not much for anyone to be inspired by let alone vote for. Its even worse in some of the less than democratic places like Russia and China where they have actually jailed and in some cases killed any talent off. If Putin goes tomorrow who's left to make a deal with? If Xi goes tomorrow who's left to make any sort of deal with?
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  2546.  @NefariousEnough  I DON'T NEED TO Every time David or any of the other harp on about Walker they need to do a comparison and tell people what Warnock HAS DONE. THAT'S THE POINT.
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  2547.  @susanford2388  I didn't know that about Brexit. Its a wonder the NO Brexit people didn't take it to court.
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  2548.  @susanford2388  I'm Australian but went to college in America. Australia, America and Britain all suffer because our political leadership all come out of a couple of extremely elitist universities that have made it part of their identity to produce those leaders. In America its Harvard & Yale, in Britain Oxford & Cambridge and in Australia its Melbourne Uni and Sydney Uni. Yes we were less creative with the names. Yes, in each country there's a few other that are closely associated but those are the prominent ones. On one hand it sort of makes sense that you want your leaders to go to the best schools. On the other hand elitist mentality has always lead to arrogance and arrogance of that type leads to ignorance in the form they start ignoring obvious things because in their arrogance they think those things don't matter. I don't know the details but I'd bet most of the developed world is similar. And in a nutshell that's why we are all so FCKD. We are in a weird combination of meritocracy and oligarchy. As Orwell said in 1984 _"Imagine a boot stomping on your face for 1,000 years"
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  2549.  @PaulZyCZ  That's a great point I have tried to make in Australia. We have this new push for SMRs going on right now by one side of politics. Its mostly a political bat to bash the other side with, but considering our power issues its also a valid point. The problem is that even if we did say YES lets build nuclear we don't have a single person in Australia (as far as I know) who has actually built a nuclear reactor. Also considering some of the issues we currently have with concrete structures (go look up the Opal Tower fiasco) I would NOT want a nuclear plant built WITHOUT proper regulations in place.
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  2550. There is actually a part of this "thing" that is based on a sound engineering principle which is vacuum distillation. They use the lower boiling point in vacuum to boil liquids. Its used in some water desalination processes like multi-stage flash distillation (see below) which is sometimes referred to as vacuum vapor compression or vapour compression. The desalination plant I worked on for a mine site had 2 of those types of unit and the supplier called it mechanical vapour compression and yes that confused everyone. BUT it's a totally different process because its salt water. And those systems use part of the process to recycle the heat so they have quite a high thermal/energy efficiency. Their downside is they operate at 1 speed. Reverse osmosis can be adjusted vacuum systems can't. Thunderf00t is totally right this thing is busted. Like Waterseer (stolen from Star Wars) and Theranos (stolen from Gattaca) they are preying on people who here things like "space technology" and "space vacuum" and think this is some NASA derived tech. On the other hand if they marketed this thing as just a very compact clothes dryer for people with few things and not much room then it might have been a good product. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-stage_flash_distillation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor-compression_desalination
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  2551.  @purplepill2024  I had a boss back in the 90s who tried to explain to me what was being pushed as "Economic Rationalism." I didn't pay much attention at the time out of a lack of interest but it was coming from BOTH SIDES of politics. Among its major tenements: - With the exception of 3 specific things Government can NOT do anything right while the private sector does everything better. Those 3 things are DEREGULATE, LOWER TAXES and PRIVATISE. - DON'T stop telling everyone that "competition provides better services at lower prices." So that nobody will see you are allowing large foreign investors to MONOPOLISE your basic services. - All forms of organised labor and unionism are WRONG, WRONG and WRONG! - Consumers will be better off when we send all the manufacturing jobs to countries with lower wages because despite NOT having a job they can buy cheaper goods. I didn't grasp at the time what my boss was trying to tell me but his words have come to haunt me. Its all the same sorts of things that I hear people describe from all over the world. I just watched Gary Stevenson (a Brit) do a 1 hour podcast with James O'Brien on the YT channel LBC. I've just started watching a Christopher Sweat talk to Mark Blyth & Sven Steinmo and they are dissecting Neoliberalism like Hannibal Lector.
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  2552. If you go back to the Dem primaries there were moments when she looked to be one of the smart ones. She had the experience of being in the war, she had experience of meeting people like Assad and she spoke on some of those topics quite well. Between then and now its like she had a serious head injury and lost her mind.
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  2553.  @510SPINESPLITTA8  I haven't heard them say Nile to Euphrates but certainly have heard them say coast to the Euphrates. My question is do the Lebanese, Syrians, Jordanians and Iraqis KNOW what is meant by "Greater Israel?" Go look at the Wikipedia page on Greater Israel and use the link to the "Brook of Egypt" that's in the comments for the map. It explains where and why they think that is.
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  2554.  @510SPINESPLITTA8  YEs and that's an awful lot of Lebanese, Syrian, Jordanian and Iraqi territory. Plus a bit of Egypt just to make it interesting. And AGAIN I am still wondering if any Lebanese, Syrian, Jordanian, Iraqi or Egyptian people KNOW?
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  2555.  @george2113  Really baseball & softball are tedious?? WTF do you call golf then? Even the commentators in golf sound like they start the day by dropping half a dozen quaaludes.
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  2556. Yeah, yup, duh - facepalm. I saw an interview the other day with Edward Niedermeyer by Nathan Robinson at Current Affair who Kyle just panned over his comments on John Fetterman's campaign strategy. the Interview was 7 Months ago. The book "Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors" was published in 2019 and its been ignored until recent months. I'm an aerospace engineer who works in control systems and automation and its pretty clear to every respectable engineer on the planet that Elon's full of shite. Most engineers have met people like him and they are usually salesmen who can make any promise they like to get the deal SIGNED but don't have to deal with the issues of DELIVERING that deal. One company I worked for we (the engineers) knew when we were screwed because the sales manager made more noise than usual about how great of a project he just sold and how "we'd enjoy the challenge." Elon does exactly the same thing. He did it with driverless cars, electric trucks and hyperloop to name a few. His people joke about it calling it "Elon Time."
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  2557. Prof Mark Blyth (from Brown u.) mentioned in a recent podcast the recent sudden change in Fox anchors. He reported that Biden or someone close to Biden called Rupert Murdoch directly and bluntly said "Its your people dying. What do you want to do?" I think even Rupert Murdoch understands that dead people don't buy subscriptions. Why did Trump suddenly talk about getting vaccinated recently? Maybe someone told him dead people don't vote and his base dying. Irrespective of those stories, what does anybody actually expect considering how tribal this has become?
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  2558. Am I like so many others and just tired of this idiotic and ridiculous crap? Isn't the world stressed out enough with all this piled on top?
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  2559.  @arxsyn  You mean the BFF who's company got paid over $20million for her part in the inauguration with the imaginary crowd? or are we discussing the other stuff Ivanka was involved in and got deposed for last week. I remember a documentary on the grifting and war profiteering that happened during the Invasion of Iraq. The Trump's might not have ripped America off as badly but as for bravado, audacity and simply not giving a f--k they are the double Olympic Gold Medal Champions of bullshit and grifting.
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  2560. Like every US Presidential election there will be a list of names NOT JUST 2. Also Americans DO NOT have to vote. Yes the American system is flawed but then nobody else's system is perfect either.
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  2561. I also have a background in engineer (control systems) and some of the stuff being spruiked by the pro-5G crowd are just idiotic. The stuff about building efficiency is already being done via control systems inside the buildings and via the NBN. 5G wont make a micro-gram of difference. As for the driverless cars that's simply BS. All the major manufacturers sold off their stakes in that technology over recent years once the worked out how much it was going to cost to make it work. Then there's the reality of having a computer powerful enough to run it successfully that would fit in a car. Even Uber gave up on that before this program was first aired. I actually find some of the garbage being spruiked by these people to be incredibly dishonest.
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  2562.  @gerryblais6786  That's call "promoting your product." The stupid thing these people do is scream, rant and yell about crazy idiotic stuff when all they simply need to do is ask back - WHY DO WE NEED IT? Who actually needs to be able to download a movie onto their phone in 2 seconds? How does that actually make our society function better? The stupid thing is nobody seems to be asking the practical questions, like - WHY DO WE NEED IT?
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  2563. As an Aussie who's spent some time in California, I'm really surprised California would do this because they are so pro-pot. Of all the Americans I met Californians are the most laid back and if "Its not harming me or my family then leave people alone." I wouldn't call Californians libertarian but I would call them free choice advocates. That's because I see libertarians as the right wingers who want the liberty to strip others of their liberty like the current SCOTUS. Californians always seemed to me to be more nuanced when it came to this sort of thing. So what's changing?
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  2564. Australian here and sad to say to you all but Trump DID NOT commit treason. YES - we have asked this because if one of ours did what he did they'd be gone for life by now. In many countries Trump and his lackies would have been executed by about February 1st 2021. The thing is when your founding fathers wrote the US Constitution, which I genuinely think is one of humanities finest achievements, they chose to NOT include a few things. One of those things were the wide ranging abilities of Kings, Queens and their agents to use treason and sedition laws to execute people without trial. Basically since the dawn of civilisation treason or sedition has been used as a very quick way to get rid of people. Your founding fathers (and this is why I think they really did do something brilliant) basically said "NO we are putting an end to that nonsense and we will have a Government of the People, by the People, for the People." The tragedy of what's happened is that the system has gaps that can be taken advantage of and too many people thought the system of "checks and balances" would deal with them. America has never really found a way to deal with people like Nixon, Trump,....etc who take the gaps in your system and abuse their position. That's the real challenge for America - how do you find a way to get back to a Government of the People, by the People, for the People instead of the corporatized mess you now have where money is everything. Don't misunderstand I am not against capitalism but I am about having balance and YES we are having similar issues in Australia where corporate interests come first and "we the people" don't matter. FYI - I went to college in America on a sports scholarship. I genuinely like America, its people and its culture, but your politics has taken a nasty toxic turn that you need to deal with. Best of luck.
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  2565. AEROSPACE ENIGNEER HERE and here's my top 6 risks from AI. 1) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from the AI industry. 2) The ignorance of the general population to actually understand what AI is and how it works. 3) The over reliance on AI as a "fix all" for too many problems that it can't fix. 4) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from the scammer industry. 5) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from politicians. 6) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from the media. Disclaimer - I might have items 4, 5 & 6 in the wrong order, but I am fairly certain of the first 3.
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  2566. Exactly - look at the sign that clown is holding in the thumbnail. Its the same for the right EVERYWHERE. Whatever they scream and rant and yell and complain abut THEY DO TO EVERYONE ELSE. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️
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  2567.  @blkmiker403  I agree with you on that, except if the republicans had their way it would be $20-- per person and $20,000 for each corporate donor. I maintain a comment I made the other day that if Biden wanted to stomp on the GOP his first executive order would have been for the treasury to allow everyone to register a bank account using the SSN with the government and simply transfer the $2000. Its how the rest of the world does this stuff and it would save millions in printing and mailing costs. Seriously mailing checks - WTFU America its 2021.
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  2568.  @jwatson181  I know you're ignorant and devoid of conscious thought, but which part of reading escapes your brain?
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  2569.  @nicholas8739  Congratulations you at least admitted 2 out of 3 facts. Plus I have never said the first thing is absolute other than the fact 2 people are dead and they shouldn't be dead. Just like so many other cases we all seem to forget the injured parties. FYI - I do know what its like to be the injured party of a violent crime and be treated like irrelevant shit by a PUBLIC PROSECUTOR because other things were more convenient.
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  2570.  @wontonsamurai6248  Just take your delusional right wing ignorance of reality and go hide under your bed.
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  2571. She's got the brain of one, so are you surprised?
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  2572. Yeah your not alone in wondering when someone is just going to get so fed up with this garbage that they snap. Consider what the Sandy Hook mother said to Alex Jones in court the other day. "You might not believe in what you say but there are people who listen to you and do believe." Imagine how many people there are who have someone they care about who's gotten wrapped up in this stuff and can't get them free of it? Look at Alex Jones he just got smashed in court and he's straight back peddling this nonsense. I can easily see someone saying they've had enough of watching people they care about being twisted by these people.
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  2573. Way back in the 90s the discussion about the death penalty came up at work and someone mentioned a British documentary where a couple of film makers just looked at the facts. They did not go either pro or con on the subject just what the facts were. Where the methods came, how long they take, how many are botched and in what way they are botched. I found it at the video rental store (it was the 90s) a few weeks later. What stunned me was how little I actually knew about the subject. Like how long various techniques take. It was a long time ago but I remember a couple of things. 1) The worst was electrocution which most people have the idea that its a pulse of volts and bang no heartbeat. More often than not the person does not die from the voltage but from the internal damage done from burning which can take almost an hour in some cases. 2) The cocktail being used at that time (mid 90s) for lethal injection was developed by 2 Nazi doctors who experimented on mentally retarded orphans. The information was recovered in the aftermath of WW2. 3) If hanged and the hangman got the drop right and the knot in the right place it was near instant from the neck being snapped. If not the person could either strangle slowly taking up to several minutes or be decapitated as happened in Iraq with Saddam Hussein's half brother. 4) Stoning, which is still practiced in a few countries can take hours. 5) Beheadings are either instant or so ugly it can't be described. 6) The firing squad is either instant or so ugly it can't be described. The ugliest fact however was during first 90years of the 20th century less than 10% of all people formally executed by "the state" (as in any nation, state or jurisdiction) were charged with a crime and given a trial. Over 90% of all the people formally executed in various nations and states were never charged with any crime let alone given a trial. They did not go into how many people were later found to be innocent.
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  2574. People like this need to realize just how easy it is to check up on things. Quick check on Wikipedia and it shows a lot of stuff including she's the current director of the Hoover Institution. Click on that and the first sentence says: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is a conservative American public policy institution and research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government. Note those last 3 things economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government. They are the calling card of Libertarians, but wait, it gets better go and look down the list of people associated with the Hoover Institution and names start jumping out. H.R. McMaster - I remember him from documentaries. He was one of the military architects of the Invasion of Iraq. Thomas Sowell - Well know climate change denier among other things. John Yoo - the lawyer who wrote the torture memo that lead to atrocities with prisoners at places like Abu Ghraib and Bagram Air Force Base. They're 3 that I recognized at a glance and I'm certain others will be known to you guys. These are the sort of people Condolezza Rice doesn't just work with but directs at an influential think tank. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  2575. Same here, I have been around guns for many years and even used to compete in rifle. KYLE IS 100% WRONG The most basic part of gun safety is: If you pick up or are handed a gun it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to check its status. What anyone else has done is almost irrelevant. THE MOMENT you take possession of a gun you are responsible for what happens until someone else takes possession of that gun. There is no way around this point.
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  2576. As an Australian watching this from a long way off I can see something VERY VERY UGLY about to happen. Either the judge needs to slap this clown so damn hard he does not get up or its going to end by other means. I went to college in America and I know that American history has an incredibly long history of vigilante justice. This clown is NOT Donald Trump but thinks he can get away with stuff as if he is Donald Trump. To be fair he and so many others have been allowed to get away with a lot of shitty behavior, but this Sandy Hook thing is so different. These people suffered an incredible loss and he has not only rubbed their faces in it but made millions off of that tragedy. Somebody will break and then things are going to go kinetic to say the least. If I can see this from the other side of the planet I don't know why the judge can't.
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  2577. Well actually it doesn't matter if you believe in science or religion - We are not alone in the universe. According to science we now know that almost every star has planets and that many of those are in the habitable zone and that life exists. What form its in is the question. On the other hand every religion has spirits, angels, demons and other non-human beings. Either way we aren't alone and what we should be asking is: Where are they and can they help us with the mess we are in?
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  2578. You've all quoted properly (for a change) valid biblical points and its impressive. Summarizing: Here are the top 5 reasons Jesus could not be a modern Republican. 1) He believed in universal health care, irrespective of a persons wealth or social status. 2) He believed in helping people who had no food by giving them food. 3) He defended people from unjust treatment, even those in questionable professions like tax collectors & prostitutes. 4) He believed in free public education. Shown when he gave FREE sermons like the famous one on the mount. 5) He didn't believe in profiting from religion. Shown when he threw the money exchangers out of the Temple. But there's also 2 practical reasons why Jesus could NOT be a modern Republican. Where among them would God find 3 wise men let alone a virgin?
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  2579. I'm a white Anglo-Saxon (descent) Australian who went to college in America. I'm an engineer but my mother was a high school teacher who wanted me to understand history. One of the key things about being honest about history is just how brutal EVERY tribe and nation has been at times. Every tribe and nation ahs at one time or another practised some incredible brutality. Slavery was practiced by EVERY tribe and nation and anytime slaves revolted it was put down with staggering brutality. The Romans had that great slave revolt lead by Spartacus and it wasn't the first time. Do you know that for 1000s of years there was no difference between the concept of slaves and employees that there weren't 2 words. That's one of the confusing things about the Bible's use of the word slave. In the older languages the word slave could mean a person you owned as well as a person you employed and paid wages to. One of the things rarely spoken about by African Americans is how the black slaves were captured in Africa. If you go and watch either the 1977 or 2016 versions of "Roots" based on Alex Haley's books, Kunta Kinte was captured by a rival African tribe and sold to the white slavers. Just as happened in so many other places it was people of rival tribes or factions within a tribe who did the initial enslavement. Its right there in Jewish history how Joseph's older brothers sold him into slavery out of jealousy -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_(Genesis). Most Australian's watched Mel Gibsons "Braveheart" and cheered on the Scots and derided the English until they realised it was their ancestors who were the English and hand drawn and quartered William Wallace. But then on the Scots side they laud Robert the Bruce but he was also a total psycho who murdered any all challengers to his throne. In one case he threw a baby against a rock wall to kill it, because that baby was related to him and was in the line of succession to the Scottish throne. Its why the Bruce royal family died out - he killed them all off. EVERY tribe and nation has its dark past including racism and EVERY tribe and nation tries to hide it or deny it.
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  2580. Go and see what the CIA did in Iran, Guatemala, Chile and Indonesia to name a few. Chile is a particularly ruthless case. I just watched a vid the other day about neoliberalism and they showed photos of Milton Freidman meeting Pinochet. The Iranians still hate America for what they did in 1953 and many will never forgive America for it. The democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh who had made the stupid move of nationalising the Iranian Oil Industry.
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  2581. Yeah I've pointed out the same book. You might have seen this book talk Rick gave -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIiaFMOfbwY I'm just linking it so others can see it.
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  2582. CORRECTION: They are planning to build modular nuclear reactors in the early 2030s. Here's a recent lecture by Rolls Royce Engineer Tom Peacock. Notice what he says at 15:22. Technically you are quite right. They are based on what's in the nuclear subs and we should be able to do this by now, but thanks to some of the accidents and how nuclear energy is portrayed there just hasn't been enough investment in the development of SMRs for non-military applications.
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  2583.  @slightlytwistedagain  The title of the Tom Peacock presentation/lecture is CSAR lecture: Tom Peacock "An Overview of Rolls-Royce SMR"
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  2584.  @luchi.el.zorrito  Well DK-head cannibalism and systematic rape are not as uncommon as many think. Cannibalism is far less but systematic rape was well practiced in may cultures. Genghis Kahn was well known for systematically raping all the women of towns and cities he captured. Its one of the reasons why there is so much physical similarities in people across the Asiatic region. He wasn't alone in that the Vikings raped everything they could and others weren't any better. In other ancient cultures girls spent time in the local temples as prostitutes most notably in fertility religions. It was how the temples earned money and was better than being sacrificed. Go look in the Bible and check on term - "temple prostitutes." In a lot of European cultures they may have avoided cannibalism but they reveled in human sacrifice in the form of judicial punishment. Almost every European culture had some form of horrendous punishment that was mainly a form of entertainment. I'm of Anglo Saxon descent and "hung, drawn and quartered" was more for entertainment than justice. Executioners used to be valued for how long they could keep a person alive not how swiftly they could behead them. Way to often cultures forget their own history.
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  2585. I actually agree with most of what you are saying especially the part "Christianity isn't a requirement for Social Justice. Everyone can fight against the causes of poverty, It shouldn't take religion to make people do good deeds." But I don't agree that is what JBP is actually saying. If you are claiming the Big L for TYT is their smugness or self righteousness then I'd agree on that also. Ana and Cenk are well known for railing against the self righteous attitudes of the right. This is the first TYT I have clicked in a while and the main reason I stopped watching them because they can be just as self righteous. They aren't dumb people but they have the terrible habit of falling into the same gutter that they claim to be against.
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  2586. ITS WORSE THAN KYLE IS SAYING I have been trying to highlight this report for over 6 months ago when RICHARD WOLLF mentioned it. The report was published in SEPTEMBER 2022 nearly 10 months ago. Anyone can find the report just google "congressional budget office family wealth" and the actual home page for the report should come up. On that page you can not only download the report but an Excel spreadsheet with all the data in the graphs. Here's some facts from the data of the very first graph in that report which is the one shown by Kyle at 4:26. From that graph you can not only get the effect of the 2008 GFC by comparing the 2007 data to 2010 but also the recovery by comparing the 2007 data to 2019. Adjusting for population and averaging the data on a per person value: The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 21.1% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 4.6% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were STILL 21.8% BELOW their 2007 value. So after the GFC that they caused the Top 10% got around US$4 Trillion from Bush and another US$4 Trillion from Obama and have since recovered and by 2019 were US$20 Trillion ABOVE their 2007 value. Estimates have them at least US$8 Trillion above that during the COVID Pandemic. The current collective value of the Top 10% can be estimated to be above US$90 Trillion compared to an estimated collective value of US$2.5Trillion for the 165 million people who make up America's Bottom 50%. This is neoliberal economics in overdrive. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America on a scholarship this is my gift to you all. Apologies if its blunt, but I do love America and the American people. I do want to see America back at its best and right now America is NOT at its best. And so you know this sort of neoliberal brain virus is doing just as much damage in Australia. We are in the midst of a full blown double crisis of housing and energy and our genius economists have said things like "its just the markets adjusting."
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  2587. 1 and 59. Even the New York Jets are feeling good about themselves with those numbers.
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  2588. This is the 3rd of your fraud videos I have watched (along with Rogue Traders & Ponzi) and its amazing at what people ARE ALLOWED to get away with. Elizabeth Holmes technology was obviously bullshit. Her father was a VP at Enron. The flags should have been out from day 1 that it was bullshit. All of these had warning flags that they were bullshit. I saw your vid on Greensill because that is news here in Australia AND THAT had warning signs. I saw this the other day and I love your opinion on water trading. ->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oyFRoxuf4g Note" The renowned guru who fathered our water trading scheme "trained at Harvard" the same place with the professor who built the Texas power system. It took me 3 goes to get through that doco because its so upsetting. I expected it to be a doco about global water issues and instead it was all about how Australia is doing a Texas Power Grid on water and then selling that scheme to the world. The farmer on that doco is a dairy farmer. Since since 1985 our population ahs grown from 15 to 25 million and we now have huge export markets to China (for baby formula) and Japan (for frozen cream & other products). So demand for dairy production has skyrocketed. Its outpaced out nations needs with the exports. Yet in 1985 we had over 22,000 dairy farmers and now have less than 9,000 dairy farmers. I am an engineer and did Economics 101 as an elective. What they taught me was that when demand goes up prices go up (basic supply-demand concepts). People have to produce more to meet the demand. Dairy farming should be one of the greatest and safest jobs in Australia and yet they're going out of business. I'm just the ass hole engineer you're the financial wiz can you explain it? Can you explain when dairy farming should be a boom industry instead its a nightmare.
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  2589. Yeah but maths is a subject where people learn about LOGIC and REASON. You can't win this garbage if people are thought to think logically.
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  2590. That's maybe as good as any statement so far. For 2 years all we heard was how Trump's base was shrinking AND THEN an extra 11 million (over 2016) turned up and voted for him. That's not a simple 4 or 5 point error that's closer to 20%.
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  2591.  @timmy7201  You lucky bugger. In all my time since graduating I have never got to work on satellites. I have been off doing other things. I haven't had that exact problem but know what those sorts of problems are like. Every step forwards feels like your dragging a truck up hill. Most of the time your on the edge of going postal. Best I can suggest is have the whole team go and do something totally unrelated and totally trivial. Go bowling or something. One of you has the answer you just need something that gets your brains unfocused so that it can get out through the noise. I did a control system project on a sheet metal machine back in the 90s that had this insane problem we'd never seen before and couldn't work out WTF was going on. It wouldn't be there, then it would and it was NEVER the same. The solution hit me in the gym one afternoon. In the middle of a set of reps suddenly there it was - No joke. I was n the gym and pumping reps and bam I knew what was going on. Next morning I put in the code and bam problem solved. If its driving you nuts then get out and away from it or the noise in everyone's head will keep drowning out the solution.
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  2592. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law. I had studied Orwell in high school (Animal farm and 1984) and I used to argue that ANY country or nation could fall into an Orwellian nightmare if it was NOT careful. They used to argue that is was technically impossible in America because there were too many checks and balances. As an engineer I'd describe them as safety functions. What we never discussed was what would happen if somebody took out one of the safety functions. My friends assured me that one of the main safety functions was SCOTUS. Alan Dershowitz on Fox pointed out they are out of control as they are not adjudicating on cases they are just throwing out precedents. If you are wondering this should concern other nations? Because its destabilising America and making America an unreliable partner. Please don't take that as a slight on the American people, its not. I know from my friends that the vast majority of Americans either don't believe this garbage or don't understand the consequences. But here's where Australian, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Britain and all the other countries who TRADE with America or have SCURITY agreements with America or BOTH have an issue to consider. WHAT DOES a destabilised America mean for our trade and security? WHAT DOES a destabilised America mean for any treaties that America has signed?
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  2593. @Winston It started with Reaganomics and Thatcherism, better known now as neoliberalism, which promoted corporate monopolies. It didn't do it openly or as a stated goal, but the policies and actions did exactly as planned. Its why we have "To Big to Fail" banks and other businesses.
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  2594. Some call it "political cynicism" others call it "political opportunism" either way its been around since the first 2 politicians faced off against each other several 1000 years ago.
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  2595. Just a heads up guys. I had my other Google account kicked off YouTube (it under appeal) for comments less aggressive than these. I am not disagreeing with anything you guys have said, but be careful which streams you comment in/on. There are Trumpists who wave the "you're cyber bullying" flag in a heartbeat despite they themselves writing some truly idiotic and radical garbage. Understand Google only responds to complaints. If a Trumpist complains about you Google are likely to simply cut you without any explanation as they did to me. Understand the Trumpists are TRYING to shut down anybody they can.
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  2596.  @classydave75  Skylon is an interesting one. The idea that they could cool that much air that quickly always struck me as a bit odd. There was something not well explained about that engine.]io890 A pointy nose really is a bad thing for re-entry type flight. A blunt nose produces a detached or bow shock wave and it effectively produces a protective layer. The vehicle still cops a hammering but its just not as bad as as pointy nose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_shock_(aerodynamics) A pointed nose has the shock attached and that means the tip gets the full blast of re-entry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_wave
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  2597.  @LennyAllen-cp9cl  You're partly right and definitely on the right thinking process. If you look at the basic tasks for going to the moon or mars. You have 3 basic tasks. Get up and back from the Earth. Get to and from the Moon or Mars. Get up and back from the Moon or Mars. You don't need to be an engineer to realise those are 3 fairly different tasks. That's why Apollo worked, they actually broke the mission down to manageable tasks. You are quite right Star Raker (if it can work) would be great for one task but lousy for almost everything else.
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  2598.  @LennyAllen-cp9cl  That's not a bad thought except that starship itself is a compromised design that's trying to do too much in the first place. That's the real problem with Starship its trying to be too many things. This is a common trait with almost everything in engineering. Here's an example. One of the fundamental criticisms of the F35 is that its trying to be so many aircraft that it simply fails in certain aspects. In ground attack and close in support of ground troops its Ok but compared to the A10 its hopeless because the A10 is dedicated to that role. I am no SpaceX fan but its why Crew Dragon is such a success. I know CSS wont agree but it simply is a success. The last US seat on a Soyuz mission cost $80 million. Currently crew Dragon costs $70 million for 4 people or $17.5 million per seat. That's better than a 75% saving. But then what else can Crew Dragon do other than get people up to the ISS and back down from the ISS? Not much. What's needed then is a vehicle that just goes to and back from the Moon or Mars and then another to get down and back from the Moon or Mars. Because if you try and combine those tasks you start making compromises and in the end that wont work as well.
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  2599. As an Australian I can say that's as much of a possibility with Rupert Murdoch as anything. His business plan is simple: Pump the rage and pump it hard. If it meets resistance pump it harder. If the other side makes a point throw in a misdirection and pump that and don't stop yelling until you blackout.
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  2600.  @mr.giggles4995  Then why say it was on a podcast. What it shows is that NOBODY checked. The main complaint of many podcasters and YouTube commentators is that the main stream media DOES NOT FACT CHECK, but then they do the same.
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  2601. I'm Australian but went to college in America and I agree. Peter is far less pragmatic and filters a lot with respect to America than he is with other countries.
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  2602. And her arrest on conspiracy and fraud charges is scheduled for January 21 as one of the 1st items on the new AGs list. I'm not a lawyer but I keep hearing that she's violating the Hatch Act by also being an advisor to Trumps Campaign. If she's been receiving money from the campaign that's been raised by these false claims then that's money obtained through fraudulent statements and I think that's a crime????
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  2603. Here's the link to the guardians series on Pegasus -> https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project
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  2604. Among the debunking of flat earthers I have commented that there are 3 types of flat earthers and it applies to these people as well. Type 1: The delusional - for what ever reason these people actually believe what they say. Type 2: The gullible - who are those who for various reason were unable to think through the information they had and see it for what it was. Type 3: The snakes (named after snake oil salesmen) - who are the people who KNOW what they are saying isn't true. They have 2 motives - power and money (sometimes both) There's next to nothing anyone can do with the first type other than not aggravate them and make it worse. The second type can be reached but it requires patience and you need to find a way to break through with something they can't deny. Not something you know as fact but something they can't deny. A good one with Trumpists is too ask why he NEEDs donations when he's got so much money. Emphasizing the word NEED. Just keep asking "Why does he NEED your money, when he's go so much?" It has a chance of eventually breaking through. The third type (the snake) is best dealt with by EXPOSING THEM to their audience and followers. Its no use talking about them among the people who know they are frauds. These people DO NOT CARE about your opinion. They only care about the gullible and delusional who they can make money from or have power over.
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  2605. As an engineer who has looked at this Peter has actually done a very good job of summing up where this is headed. What AI already does are tasks that are repetitive and well defined. If you think of something out of the image matching field like fingerprints. Any person can look at a finger print and then start comparing it to other finger prints on file. The task isn't to match it perfectly but to match it well enough. So that's a well defined task that has to be repeated. In stead of a person taking a couple of seconds to do each comparison you have a computer running an algorithm and its comparing 1,000s of images per second. Facial recognition is similar just a bit more complex. Another area which is also a well defined repeatable task is personal tax returns. Irrespective of how many receipts a person might have or how much they earned they all have to do a 401K or what ever your country uses. Another area that's similarly well defined is stock analysis and its bedmate economic analysis. As an engineer who detests accountants and economists because they just can't stop interfering with everyone else's business I look forward to seeing them wiped out as professions. 👍😅
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  2606. I think we've got a case of brain dead people claiming dead people are voting.
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  2607. The problem with a pardon is that the person receiving it has to accept that they are guilty. This has been well explained recently with respect to certain people Trump pardoned. However - you are absolutely right that there will be women who do not seek medical help during pregnancy and that can be disastrous.
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  2608. Of course Jesus was too woke for them. He believed in free public health care. He believed in free education. He believed in paying your taxes to the government. He believed in feeding people who had no food. Most of all he actually cared about people and especially poor people.
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  2609.  @davidlafleche1142  Yeah don't mention that to a Trumpster they might have a brain seizure.
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  2610.  @EaglePicking  Yes that's a fair criticism that Phil doesn't do as many videos on OTHER people as he used to do. BUT THEN Elon is so overplaying his hand these days and its such a huge thing if Tesla goes under. I don't think it will, because I think other people will step in and dump Elon on his butt and then make what's left work. Most of all Tesla needs to be re-evaluated to what sort of company it actually is AND people like Scott Galloway have pointed that out several times. Tesla has so far traded as a "Technology Company" but its also an "Automotive Manufacturer" and those are 2 very different kinds of stock/shares. They trade differently, they operate differently and they attract different investors who have different strategies. Also SpaceX (being an aerospace company) is another thing all together.
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  2611.  @EnigmaHood  I largely agree with most of your comment, but if we are going to talk PERSPECTIVE then SPR didn't glamourise war anywhere near as much as what Hollywood has done in the past or continues to do - note Top Gun and its sequel or many other recent films as examples. Also it at least showed Americans willing to commit war crimes. For instance towards the end of the beach landing there are Germans fleeing the bunkers and they get caught in a trench. They stop, put their hands up and surrender, The Americans simply shoot them anyway. By CURRENT standards that's a war crime and is one of the VERY FEW TIMES any major Hollywood film has shown that. Also on the glamourising of War - How is Vin Diesel lying in the street bleeding to death asking for help and holding a letter he wrote to his father asking to make sure his father gets it glamourising anything? - How is any of the others in Tom Hanks troop dying glamourising anything? You're right its called PERSPECTIVE.
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  2612. Ask almost ANY American what any word that ends in "ism" and they don’t have a damn clue. At its most very basic concept ANYTHING that a "society" collectively owns and pays for is a socialist or socialized function of that society. Police, basic education, roads, and many other GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS are socialist functions. Politically on the FAR LEFT there's PURE 100% socialism where society owns and pays for everything and on the FAR RIGHT there's PURE 100% Capitalism where individuals own and pay for everything. Every society exists somewhere between those 2 extremes. More often than not every society has a mixture of those concepts for different functions of that society. I'm an engineer and understand those concepts. How TF all these clowns with arts degrees in Political Science can't explain that is staggering.
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  2613. There are 2 basic facts in this disaster that NONE of US should forget in the morass of specific incidents. 1) October 7 was a horrendous crime and those responsible should be pursued and held accountable. 2) Killing 15,000 children in response to October 7 is ALSO a horrendous crime and those responsible should be pursued and held accountable. We can say all that we like about anyone of 1,000s of other things or specific incidents BUT in BOTH those CASES those responsible should be pursued and HELD ACCOUNTABLE. To NOT hold those responsible accountable might be as bad as the crimes themselves because all it will do is encourage others. Maybe the next worst part of this is the UGLY indifference the celebrities at the Met Gala showed. If we ever wondered if the the sanctimonious self righteous garbage so many celebrities pump out regarding various causes they claim to believe in then this proved that when it comes to publicity versus morals & ethics celebrities will put publicity before anything.
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  2614.  @craigcrawford6595  Certainly "whataboutism" is a recent term. It mainly applies to misdirection and avoidance of answering a direct question. I think Tu Tocque more refers to the hypocrisy, like Ted Cruz recently making claims that the Dems would be doing the bad things (like stacking SCOTUS) and they were the same things the GOP had been doing. Brian Tyler Cohen did a good vid on what Cruz did.
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  2615. For anyone interested here's the Wikipedia page on CRT -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory
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  2616. I was trying to figure out what to say. 👍👍👍
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  2617. Nice gaming reference.
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  2618.  @RobertSmith-lg7jp  3 Magicians are in a bar bragging about the tricks they have done. The first magician says "I once made an elephant disappear and the audiences were so stunned none of them could speak for a week!" The second magician says "So what, I once made a jet airplane disappear and the audience were so stunned that some of them needed hospital care of whiplash!" The third magician says, _"Oh yeah, I once made a New York Skyscraper disappear and the audience were so stunned they forgot to breath and half of then dropped dead!" The bar tender who'd overheard this started laughing and then said, "Donald Trump made 7 billion IQ points disappear and the audience were so stunned they made in President!"
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  2619.  @derekcoaker6579  As I have said in several comments ITS NOT POSSIBLE to hire impaired people as AT Controllers. One of the fundamental requirements to EVEN APPLY to work and start training as an ATC is that you already hold a pilots license and you can't get a pilots license if you are impaired in the ways he claims.
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  2620. As an aerospace engineer compared to the crap level being produced these days about space flight its so much better that its like comparing Will Smith in Shark Tale to a Jacques Cousteau. Some of the garbage being sold to the public these days is so pathetically far from reality that its possible to claim fraud on several organisations. Just ask any engineer how many times they have had to correct family and friends on reality, because somebody saw something on YouTube, TV or a movie?
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  2621. That's a great point I just made in a reply to another comment. Nuclear powered ships and subs don't emit much once built, but getting them built does. I used to work in the auto industry building manufacturing cells and lines. A little understood fact about motor vehicles is how much energy (with the emissions) is required to make a car. Depending on the type of car and how its used it can be anywhere from 15-25 years of operation before a car on the road emits as much CO2 as their is emitted making the car. People forget just how much it takes to get the metal out of the ground and get it processed and then made into parts and then assembled into a car. Then there's all the plastic components. And recycling doesn't help that much because recycling also uses energy and if that energy is carbon fueled the re-cycling is also an emitter.
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  2622. The EV is not dead but Tesla is in a huge amount of trouble. If you compare their share value to other car companies and look at how many cars they sell the valuation makes no sense at all. Tesla's share value should be about 1/10th what it is. So most of Elon's wealth is from hype not value. I'm an engineer and Elon's actually done 2 things we all should be grateful for. 1) He gave the rest of the car industry a monster kick in the butt which they needed. 2) He gave the aerospace industry a similar well deserved kick. Here's the really stupid thing. IF (and its a big if) Elon had simply accepted what he'd done as good and NOT gone overboard with all the hyped up crap and BULLSHlT sci-fi fantasy nonsense then his wealth might be a lot less but it would be a lot more secure AND there wouldn't be so many people hating him.
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  2623. There is one other thing that almost all Americans seem unaware of and that's any country that trades internationally. Ever since the 1944 Breton Woods Agreement the US Dollar has been the reserve currency for the world. YES Breton Woods no longer exists as an agreement as its been replaced, but the US Dollar's position still remains as the reserve currency and its stability is vital to world trade. YES people trade in all types of currency and they shift in value constantly, but at the center of trade is the US Dollar. SO ANY THREAT to the stability of the US Political System is also a threat to the stability of the US Dollar and with it a massive threat to world trade. So if you want to know who might want to assassinate Trump there's a rational reason for almost every country on the planet. FYI - I'm Australian and if the US Dollar goes off the rails all our trade with Japan, China, South Korea and the rest of Asia goes off the rails because most of its done in US Dollars. Even the stuff that isn't done in US Dollars, requires currency and in the international realm currency trading revolves around the stability of the US Dollar.
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  2624.  @yvonneplant9434  So was anti-slavery with that guy called Lincoln.
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  2625. Engineer here: On the base load side of the energy equation its called nuclear. On the load following side of the energy equation its called wind and to a lesser extent solar. A major problem is the pro-nuclear people and the pro-wind/solar people keep whining and finger pointing AT EACH OTHER instead of realising that BOTH are needed. Part of it comes from an odd fact I heard recently. Through the 1960s and 70s nuclear was steadily growing and REPLACING fossil fuel power stations as it did. When the Green transition started RATHER then replacing fossil fuel it started replacing low emission nuclear. Despite all the wind & solar installation there's been very little reduction in emissions because its been replacing nuclear or just increasing the supply to meet demands from growing populations. PLUS into that mix ahs been the stupidity of the nuclear industry with accidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima which have been used by the fossil fuel industry to scare the crap out of the general public. One of the most notable examples is Germany where they spent a reported €1.3 Trillion on renewables then TURNED OFF the low emission nuclear and TURNED UP the old high emission coal fired power stations. The result was that after spending €1.3 Trillion emissions went UP not down. IT WAS IDIOCY AT A STAGGERING LEVEL. We can do the energy transition, but the first thing we need is for all of the special interest megaphones to STOP so that us engineers can explain what we NEED to do and I emphasize the word NEED.
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  2626.  @jwn0be  WTF drugs are you taking. I do live in a country where voting is compulsory. I went to college in one that doesn't and its now a mess because of complete moronic DK-HEDS like you think they know what they are talking about.
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  2627.  @nozecone  Well there's a lot of anger and frustration and its being fueled by a maniac called with the initials DJT. I think Twitter should pull his account NOW and not wait until January 20.
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  2628.  @janicefarmer2387  As an outsider (I'm Australian but went to college in America) who does care about America's future its damn near horrifying to watch this. When I went to college in the states a lot of people did nice things for me. Being young and stupid I didn't appreciate it then like I do now. I have tried to repay that by being kind to Americans I meet here. I genuinely care about my friends and that includes America and its future. That's the personnel side but as an Australian, America is our biggest security partner and biggest trading partner. Trump has thrown that all to the wind as he has done with other countries. I was in Canada 3 years ago when he just tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs. The Canadians are the most polite people in the world and they lost it. For what I know of America I can't believe the sh-t he's been allowed to do. When I was in college I I would have been laughed to suggest half of what he's done. My frat brothers explained HOW the American system of checks and balances would never allow it. BUT one thing my frat brothers and the founding fathers never allowed for was Mitch McConnell. He has corrupted the Senate and with nothing to check his behavior the world now has a rogue POTUS. Michael Moore (love him or hate him) warned months ago "Trump will have a plan," but I doubt he saw this coming - no one did.
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  2629. The one thing EVERYONE should know about the Bible is that it warned against FALSE PROPHETS. It warned about them again and again and ALSO explained how to identify them. Go have a read of Matthew chapter 7. Its the last of 3 chapters that cover the Sermon on the Mount. Chapter 7 is entirely about WARNING of and IDENTIFYING false prophets.
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  2630. If you look at the time stamps she just talked for almost exactly 2 minutes to NOT answer a YES/NO question and avoid dealing with a subject. I wonder how long she would take if asked about insider trading?
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  2631.  @Muggashyte  yeah mate with you on that. Besides I'm a Niner fan and there's this kid out of Iowa State who's doing just fine by us.
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  2632. I'm Australian and was doing some work in Canada late 2017 early 2018. I loved the place and loved the people. Yeah I head lots about JT and most of it sounded exactly like we say about our politicians and I can understand ANY Canadian wanting to see that last of him. But Kevin O'Leary - seriously. He's a farking clown of epic proportions with a string of business failures. He promoted the hell out of crypto and then blew a mountain of money on crypto.
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  2633. NO its NOT Justice YET It will be justice only when he has been charged tried, sentenced, all his appeals have been dismissed and his sentence has FINISHED in around 3,000 years.
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  2634. You're the first person down the list who has started a thread with the right thing to discuss. A couple of days ago Konstantin Kisin a Russian born Brit was pointing that out. He's a co-host of the Triggernometry channel and worth the time. He's been trying to explain the culture and where it differs from what we think is normal behavior. The other person to check out is Julia Ioffe who was interviewed by PBS Frontline. She's a Russian born American and also a native Russian speaker like Konstantin and they have both pointed out failures in some of the translations. BOTH have discussed and explained the problem of backing Putin into a corner. Konstantin has explained why we must not push him and Julia has explained how he's already boxing himself into a corner. if you want to get your head around this stuff then go and listen to those sorts of people who know the language and culture.
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  2635. We could be having the EXACT same discussion here in Australia. Its what I like about this channel they have RELEVANT discussions.
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  2636.  @tonalharmony9266  Well if we are all wicked then please explain to all of us "misinformed" how killing 17 people including women and children gets pardon while at the same time your great President is the first President in 130years to execute people during a transition denying the incoming President any opportunity to review those cases. Would it have anything to do with the FACT those 4 MASS MURDERERS happen to work for the brother of Trumps Education Secretary. That's before we discuss the jobs given to Jared & Ivanka. That's before the pardon he also granted Jared's father. That's before we discuss the $170,000,000 million Jared funneled out of the campaign through a shelf company to members of the family. That's before we discuss the $135,000,000 million Jared & Ivanka made while they were working in the White House. That's before we discuss the lies Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and others has been spouting to raise over $200,000,000 from donation's AFTER TRUMP LOST THE ELECTION. Lets not bother with those and the countless other things lets just deal with YOUR EXPLANATION of why those 4 men who murdered 17 innocent people including children get a free ticket.
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  2637.  @kevinjones6328  Yeah its what happens when journalists shut up and let experts talk. As far as rethinking goes the entire Developed World is about to have a massive rethink on a whole lot of stuff. I have been listening to Peter Zeihan recently and he's a geo-political strategist who's very good at demographics. He's pointed out one of the main factors on why Russia invaded. Like most of the developed world they have a shortage of 20-25 year olds. It got too expensive to have kids in the 90s. Go look here and click on any country and scroll down to their population pyramid. I just checked Australia, UK, Canada, America, Russia, China and India. Look at how some taper at the bottom but check the massive dents at 20 for some. https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries That's happened because there were recessions in the West and the Soviet collapse. People just couldn't afford families. The Russian military is shrinking because there's not enough 18-20 year olds. If they didn't invade Ukraine now they wouldn't be able to in 5 years. Its the same for China and Taiwan. 30 year olds don't like fighting wars they want jobs and families. Russia can't rebuild its military unless its a high tech military like America's is and they've never done that EVER. Their military has always been based around having more tanks, more planes and more men. To go high tech they need engineers and skilled technicians BUT like every country in the developed world there's a shortage of those because they are too expensive to train according to economists. That's why western economists moved all the manufacturing to China. It wasn't just cheaper labor it was also a massive cost saving in training and paying technical people. Go to any university or tech college and engineers and technicians cost at least twice as much to train. They need labs and workshops and those are expensive to buy, own and maintain. All this BS economics (Thatcherism, Reaganomics, etc.) that's rules our lives for almost 40+ years is about to come crashing down around us and there is no easy fix because 20 year olds take 20years and 9 months to make.
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  2638. To All - Here's David Dunning (of Dunning-Kruger) explaining why ignorance can't recognize itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErkhYq13VVE Its worth watching if you want to understand why people like this cannot not see what they are doing or what they are saying is wrong.
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  2639.  @nickgangone9541  Or at least the after effects of too much crack in his past.
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  2640. You're not alone making that point. Lets see what the judge says.
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  2641.  @thehumanity0  It all depends on how Yang pushes this new party. If he takes a leaf out of the Tea Party playbook and makes it a pseudo faction of the Dems then that's a very different thing than a whole new party. The other thing he could do is form it as a re-imagined 21st Century FDR Bull moose Party. The idea you can't have a 3rd party just flies in the face of reality. America has had numerous other parties in its history. Plus the Dems and Republicans have swapped places. It was the GOP lead by Lincoln who were the egalitarian leftists and freed the slaves while the Dems were the party that created the KKK. Even in the Regan years Regan had to fight against the Libertarian Party to get the GOP nomination. Its all a matter of how its sold to America. If he could muster the progressives who are already in congress and then its actually foreseeable that they could have what other countries call the "balance of power." Its when a major party doesn't hold enough of a majority to pass legislation in their own right and requires a coalition partner to get things done. Its effectively what the Tea Party did. Go look at Israel, its perfect example of that.
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  2642. Yeah its a great idea. In fact its a brilliant idea. Now explain what you are going to do about Pelosi and the other Dems who trade stocks with inside information? Because when they listed the top 25 in congress for insider trading the top 4 were GOP *BUT there were more Dems on the list than GOP. Pelosi was the top Dem at #5.
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  2643.  @keirfarnum6811  I'm actually Australian but went to college in America. It was a huge part of my life and there's a bunch of people there that I care about. Plus America is still Australia's most important partner (economically, socially, strategically,.....). So watching America is important for Australians but for me there's also people I care about. But I also get to watch it from the outside (at a distance), which Americans don't get to do. Your right America's politics is crazy but that doesn't mean the rest of us don't have crazy as well. There's a massive slab of Russia who think Putin's is their savior the same way Trumpists feel about Trump. Its the same in India with Modi, Brazil with Bolsonaro and many other places. Why do you think Trump got on with Kim Jong-Un. He saw the incredible power a cult of personality has and copied parts of it. Consider the North Korean policy "anybody against us is an enemy of our nation" and consider what happened on Jan 6th. We all just saw the footage of the Oath Keeper claiming they were there for "citizen arrests." What were they going to arrest people for? When did "Doing their job as per the constitution" become a crime? When it comes to crazy politicians with conspiracies as their platform we have them to in Australia. Go look up Craig Kelly or Pauline Hanson, they are both bananas to say the least. If you've seen Rand Paul try and argue expertly with Dr. Fauci compare it to this effort of brainless ignorance from Pauline Hanson -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k870cg2E4LM That's not to say Dr. Fauci hasn't got serious things to answer for or that the Australian Navy isn't bullshit free, but we all have these people that NOBODY can explain how they ever get elected and yet they not only get elected but they KEEP getting re-elected. People actually keep these people in government ON PURPOSE. To show that here's Pauline Hanson for years ago with arguably her most famous quote "please explain" form a 60 minutes interview in 1996 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01_rmxSKys here's the original full interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU5mt7oAqH0 So people here not only elected her back in 1996 but have kept electing her again and again for the last 25 years. So what you will find is that a lot of people looking at America thinking its just totally bonkers and then they'll look at their own government and realise its not much better and in some cases WORSE. Its like there's a competition for who can elect the craziest nut job 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2644. I was about to ask "Does anyone know where there is a clip of him saying that?" and I found this -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjTmUhcRX3I I found it with the YT search "trump I'm rich" Pass it and other links around. The more times Trumps supporters see it the better the chance a few might start thinking.
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  2645. NO the jokes on all his fans who BELIEVE he's an intellectual.
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  2646. I don't know about calling her evil. CERTAINLY DELUSIONAL - that dumb grin shows she has no idea who her audience is. So can't call her evil but certainly I'd agree she knew what she was doing and looking to provoke a response.
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  2647.  @shadyd2544  I agree except its gone further than most people realise. 30 or 40 years ago had we started changing we might have had a chance, but the feed back loops in the climate have started and they are very complex and very, very difficult to get back under control.
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  2648. They are both going to need to be more careful. Its one thing for them to pull this crap in America but to start doing it in another country this brazenly. That's asking for very serious trouble.
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  2649. This subject is just another example of the horribly tribalized public discussion environment we now find ourselves trapped in. It seems that almost every public discussion these days is getting hijacked by clowns. I just saw a vid over on Majority Report about Tucker Carlson raging about hormone treatments for children. He doesn't care about those kids its just a stick for him to beat his drum with. Look at all these clowns David is pointing out here. Covid vaccines are just a stick to beat their drums with. I'm an engineer. We can't have any sensible discussion on energy right now because the moment anyone tries we get all these tribalized clowns beating their drums and screaming at the world. None of them can build any sort of power station or fix anything with energy but they just keep preventing anything from getting done. Its costing everyone higher energy bills all over the world. My parents were high school teachers and its the same in education. Look at how certain people weaponized the CRT issue. Its NOT FORMALLY TAUGHT in any high school anywhere on the planet and suddenly it became a howling scream shitfest for no other reason that a few clowns thought it would get clicks or votes or both.
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  2650.  @Sabundy  I'm an engineer. Its hard explaining how ridiculous Hyperlolypop is. If you haven't heard it was first written about back in 1904 by Robert Goddard who is the father of modern rocketry. Its about as sensible as saying I have this amazing new way to power vehicles using grass as the input fuel and water as the lubrication system - I call it the hyperhorse.
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  2651. Its a nice idea, but NO. Go and look at the number of people it takes to operate an LA Class (129). On one hand it does look sensible as the USN is about to mothball a couple of them. But we have NOBODY who is trained on operating them. I'm an engineer, I work in industrial control systems and automation. A once worked with an electrician who's first career was in the US Navy as a nuclear power plant operator in aircraft carriers. It was 5 years of training to get qualified and that was on similar gear to what's in an LA Class. We could do it but for about 10 years we'd have to PAY for US Personnel to be on our boats. The other massive issue with the LA Class is they have a very large crew (129). originally the Collins was only 24 then upgraded to 58. The French sub is 60 while the British Astute is 98. The German 214 is only 27. Our real sub problem isn't what we can buy its how many submariners do we have to operate them. Right now we only have enough for 4 of the 6 Collins we have. So at best we could have maybe 2 LA Class or maybe 3 Astutes at a stretch. Navies around the world are having the same problem. NOBODY wants to be stuffed in a tin can and send underwater for 3 or more months with zero contact home. There's a joke in the US Navy. "If you want to get rid of a wife join the submarine corps!"
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  2652.  @zroku123  Please tell me your under 15 years of age. Because space elevators are impossible for the Earth. There's enough debunks around with details but here's the main points. Arthur C Clarke was one of the early proponents of the idea and then did some basic math and basic math crushed it 30+years ago. Even if we had some magic hyper-fibre strong enough for the job there's the issue of building it. And then even if you could build it there's the issue of air drag and weather. And after that there's the issue of powering it. For Earth its impossible but for the Moon its another thing entirely. No air means no drag. Low gravity makes everything more practical. Best of all, there's no existing society that you might drop it onto. As an aerospace engineer I find it frustrating that people keep bringing up debunked ideas. So please don't waste your own time let alone others on stuff like space elevators.
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  2653.  @barzillaiconcorde685  WTF are you talking about? If its about trying to build a space elevator then like the other fool you have never considered all the factors in volved. I have no idea why anyone is even trying to push this fantasy. Arthur C Clarke who was on the people who actually wrote about it also DISMISSED IT. He wrote a NON-fiction book called "Profiles of the Future" in which he discussed a number of technologies that science fiction writers (including himself) had used in their fictional stories. H goes over the practical aspects of whether they are practical or possible and if possible what sorts of technologies we'd need to develop. The space elevator was a technology he covered and he DISMISSED IT as simply impractical even if some magic fibre could be developed that would handle the loads.
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  2654. Your right but "Citizens United" fixed that issue. Just 2 years after this story (in 2015) it was reported that Wall St bonuses topped $28 Billion while the entire minimum wage bill for America was $14 Billion. In the years since there have been no major anti-trust cases to break up the "too big to fail" crowd. In fact the DOJ has not pursued any major anti-trust case for decades. In the years since there have been the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers and most recently the Pandora Papers and no major player has been charged. The whole world saw the January 6 attempted coup and everyone's wondering what's happening because no major player has been charged. Watching Lanny Breuer give nothing but cowardly excuses explains why nothing is being done about ANYTHING to do with Wall St, Trump, The Trump family, any of the people linked to Jeffery Epstein (including Trump, Bill Clinton and others). What this shows is that the cancer in the DOJ goes back well before Trump.
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  2655.  @-astrangerontheinternet6687  Typical of right wingers if you can't deny it then claim its irrelevant or fake. You people are so pathetically predictable it should be classified as a form of psychosis.
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  2656.  @bladewars7889  Are you saying Emma wasn't rational? Cos if you are then you need to go and check out what being rational means.
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  2657. Loved him "The Count of Monte Cristo" and in "Person of Interest" but this guy is barely recognizable as the person who made those. Looking at his bio I think he has become what some people call Charismatic Catholics who have combined a lot of ultra conservative Catholicism with Southern Evangelical practices. Catholics I know think these people are totally nuts.
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  2658. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Why is David Cameron getting a knighthood? Isn't he the clown he kicked off the whole Brexit disaster? In the past clowns like him who did that much damage didn't get a knighthood they got their heads chopped off.
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  2659.  @hugoepcastro  Have a look through some of the other comments. The ignorance and stupidity of so many people made this the disaster it is and that same ignorance and stupidity is going to drag this out for longer than necessary killing a lot more people as it happens. What angers me is that a lot of good people have already been hurt or died and a lot more are going to be hurt or die because of the SELFISH ignorance and stupidity of people who should just shut up. Its just a shame COVID doesn't selectively attack dumb people or it would have been a blessing.
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  2660. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and 30years ago I was concerned that America was heading down a path to self destruction. There were 2 give aways. One was that education at the high school level was sliding. If you don't educate the next generation as well as the current one your society will slide backwards. That's sociology 101. Secondly Americans were incredibly ignorant of the rest of the world. That came form 2 things the failing education system and the highly partisan media which has only gotten worse and worse. FYI - Australia is now headed down a similar path. I really do hope America gets past all this sh-t and gets back on its feet. Take Care & Stay Safe.
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  2661. Go and watch the video by Rick Reilly who wrote the book "Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump (2019)" Its a video titled "Sportswriter Rick Reilly On Donald Trump's Golf Cheating" on the New York State Writers Institute channel here on YouTube. Its all about how Trump has lied and cheated in golf and how it explains his behavior. Its kind of funny but also scary. AND YES - Trump has been called out for cheating at golf and he has a standard reply for it.
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  2662. Aerospace Engineer (with a pilots license) here: I watched a few videos from the channel "Rebuild Rescue" about an abandoned twin engine Cessna 401 and the guy running the channel is just another attention seeking social media clown. Myself and others tried making helpful comments about that plane. NONE of the concerns raised by ANYONE were addressed. The Cessna 401 for its time (1966-1985) is a seriously complicated plane and NOT something amateurs should be touching at all. Other than being a twin engine its also a got a pressurised cabin meaning you can't just go and fly the thing. You have to be specially trained for it. Its engines are also turbocharged and turbo charging an aircraft engine is NOT the same thing as turbocharging a car. Its NOT done for power its done to keep the engine supplied with air equivalent to sea level so there's no power drop-off as it climbs and the C401 could go to almost 27,000 ft because of the turbo charging. So its a very complicated plane requiring mechanics who know what they are doing. People tried telling this clown these sorts of things and a lot more. I could tell by the details in the comments many of them were coming from professional people wit a lot more knowledge than I have AND HE LISTENED TO NOBODY.
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  2663. JUST LIKE Iran, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan under the Taliban, except there'd be crosses.
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  2664. Good comment. You've described just 1 out of dozens of issues people like Robert Zubrin prefer to ignore. I am an aerospace engineer and he's been pretty much dismissed by the entire sector. He created a lot of enthusiasm when he started the Mars Society and got people to start redressing some of the failures of NASA, ESA,... but it didn't take that long for it to revert into a delusional club where science fiction mattered more than actual science.
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  2665.  @harrycollins3248  Thanks, I've been trying to let Americans know these issues aren't just American. I did a few months work in Canada back in 2017 and if it wasn't for the snow and accents I would not have known I wasn't in Australia. We had a bunch pf people caught up in the Panama Papers. Canada had a bunch caught up in the Paradise papers. We had political scandals and rampant media bias so did Canada. Trump tore up NAFTA and hit Canada with tariffs. Trump then started a trade war with China and threw us under that bus. YET in both Canada and Australia there were people who cheered for Trump as if he was their savior. 🤷🤷🤷
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  2666. What's truly staggering is if put ion that mix Ted Cruz's education and achievements at college. Cruz graduated cum laude (at least top 30%) from Princeton University and magna cum laude (at least top 15%) at Harvard Law School. In 1992 he won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship and finished top 4 at World debating Championship. He's seriously smart which begs the question: WHAT do they have on him to act so stupid?
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  2667. The only question left for Junior is: Does he get his drugs from the same guy Hunter does?
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  2668. No they don't need to lose their jobs they need to be PROSECUTED.
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  2669.  @neirinski  SIMPLY based on your last very snide remark F⋃CK OFF. Go back and read what I ACTUALLY SAID. The problem is NOT Sam's arguments of what IS and IS NOT morally ambiguous or morally absolute. The problem is Sam applying to one side AND NOT THE OTHER. You cannot honestly say that killing 1,200 people is morally reprehensible in absolute terms and then dismiss killing over 16,000 children and maiming 1000s more as morally ambiguous. That is not only a hypocritical position that is MORALLY DISGUSTING it is the same sort of argument the Nazis used and other psychotic leaderships that went on rampages have used.
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  2670.  @marcob.7801  Yep there's some great quotes about the cost of war going a long way back. Here's one from 2,400 years ago. “War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.” - Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
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  2671.  @gamers-xh3uc  And WTF is your point? This is the first step in any engineering project. Get an estimate of what its going to take. It doesn't have to be hyper accurate but it needs to highlight the basics of the task. I'll give you another example: Right now here in Australia there's a huge argument over nuclear power and the Australian Liberals have identified 7 sites BUT THEY ARE CLAIMING they don't have the costs yet. I happen to know those sites because I have been trying to get people's attention about our power sector ever since I had a small consulting job back in 2016. If we were to choose European EPR2 Reactors we'd need 1 reactor at each of 4 sites and 2 reactors at the 3 other sites. Based on Hinckley Point C an EPR 2 costs AU$35 Billion so 10 reactors is AU$350 Billion and it takes about that long to have an estimate on the costs. If we were to choose American AP1000 Reactors we'd need 14 reactors across those sites to generate a similar amount of power. Based on Vogtle AP1000s cost AU$26 Billion and those 14 reactors would cost AU$364 Billion and that's about how long it takes to get a second estimate. Sorry mate but engineers have to do estimates all the time.
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  2672.  @antonygraham3001  Yeah and that only makes the claim he's the best journalist in the UK even more poignant. If you want to see hp good Tom Walker is then go watch some of the times he spoken publicly. I have watched a couple of his talks/interviews and he's incredibly astute. His grasp of British politics is better than mainstream journalists. But then so is Jon Stewarts in America and others around the world.
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  2673. Australian here: When you guys hear people talk about "The American Taliban" this is what we are talking about. And if any of think we will be joining in some Holy Crusade into the Middle East. NO
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  2674.  @AdrieKooijman  My bet would be they tried to do too much. In B2 they tried to create a complete micro world with all sorts of climates and conditions. My bet is we'll actually go with a much narrower focus on the environment and accept at the start it will need constant monitoring and maintenance. Think about a garden even a small one or somebody with a few plants. They need constant monitoring and maintenance. Evn on the most modern farm the farmer has to watch the crops and do maintenance as needed. In biosphere 2 they just expected things to work and nature to find its own balance. That's maybe its one great addition to out knowledge base. We need to be simpler and we need to maintain it.
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  2675. Australian here: - This is similar to what's been happening here too. In May 2019 we had a federal election won by the conservatives and in December that same year the British conservatives also won. There were some distinct similarities to the losing campaigns of Australian Labor and British Labor to Hilary Clintons losing 2016 campaign. When I asked a Brit it they told me that some of the same campaign people from Hilary's campaign had been involved in BOTH Australian Labor's and British labor's campaigns. This is something people don't realise is going on. There are American campaign consultants going all over the world and getting involved with other people's election campaigns. Right now we are having a referendum to change our constitution to give the first nations people a "Voice to Parliament." Its similar to the system used in the Nordic countries with the Sami people. A year ago it had massive support, but that has been eroded by an American style campaign of lies and garbage pumped out on social media. JUST LIKE WHAT HAPPENED WITH BREXIT. In the case of Brexit Cambridge Analytica who ran the Facebook campaign of conspiracy theories and lies was owned by American LIBERTARIAN Billionaire Robert Mercer who also owns Breitbart News. The No campaign here is being lead by a couple of first nations people who are LIBERTARIANS and work at or have worked at Think Tanks with links to American Libertarian Think Tanks. You can easily check this. The Institute of Public Affairs one of Australia's most influential think tanks has a page here on YouTube - check the links it has on their homepage here. You'll find the Heritage Foundation and CATO Institute and others American LIBERTARIAN think tanks listed. Very shortly if they are NOT careful America is going to be told to FK-OFF and stop interfering in our nations.
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  2676.  @kiwihib  You know there's over 5,000 years of recorded History and for all but the last 120 years women were never allowed to vote ANYWHERE on anything. 2 of the first countries in the world to give women the vote were New Zealand and Australia. So there were some hangovers. So there were some things that weren't fixed straight away.
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  2677.  @rasheed7934  Well actually there has always been various societies through history where women were given a say in decisions. In fact a little known thing about European history that you seem unaware of is that women arranged many of the prominent marriages and therefore had a lot of quiet political power. It was their daughters who got used to cement various treaties and alliances, so they had some interesting power. Besides that I have NO IDEA what you comment has to do with this conversation anyway. I didn't bring up the subject of women that was clown from New Zealand who's contribution was how we arranged our drinking establishments back in time. Plus it was the same arrangement as they had in Britain for several hundred years. But then some people just want to say irrelevant stuff rather than actually deal with issues.
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  2678. I'm Australian and Every country has SHlT people including Australia, but damn Charlie takes being a SHlT person to a whole new level. Charlie's so bad that you guys ALMOST need to consider re-writing the American Anthem because that whole "Land of the free and the home of the brave" really doesn't fit too well with people like Charlie saying stuff like this. I actually went to college in America (late 80s) and used to be so impressed by how well Americans understood their country and how it worked. That was a time when EVERY American studied civics in high school. There were times I used to feel embarrassed at how little I new of my own country by comparison. I was stunned to find out a couple of years ago that George Bush defunded it. I'm of the opinion that Australia SHOULD introduce an Australian version of that old civics program because I can see the difference between having and NOT having it. I think some of the things we do in Australia are dumb but getting rid of that civics program might be the dumbest thing I have seen any country do in my lifetime.
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  2679. ​ @lawrieyoutube4375  You are 100% on topic the real debate now is unregulated versus regulated capital. I was on the Steve Keen and Friends podcast last night and the guest brought up the subject of Good and Bad regulations. I agree with him that we must get rid of bad regulations, but he's also a CATO Institute guy and people like Charles Koch want to completely dismantle all regulatory systems so they can do whatever they like however they like without any consideration of the consequences to the rest of us. As an engineer who works within regulatory frameworks all the time I get this concept. They work well when they are sound and are a hassle when they aren't. Case in point the Boeing Max-8. I would actually re-phrase your remark to. The current conflict is between 2 ideologies where one side believes in sound regulatory frameworks that need to be flexible so they can adjust to changes in society and/or technology VERSUS those who would destroy all regulatory frameworks because they see any restrictions on their desires as inherently evil. They aren't wrong when they claim bad regulations hurt society, but their answer means anarchy and they'd happily let chaos decide the fate of humanity. You can quote me on that if you like. Just give me credit
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  2680.  @andrewpearson5504  As I keep telling people. We WARNED the Brits what Rupert was like when he moved there and they didn't listen. We THEN WARNED the Yanks what Rupert was like when he moved there and they didn't listen EITHER. If either you Brits or Yanks want to deal with him and I suggest you start with watching the God Father for inspiration then GO FOR IT. About the only correction I'd give you is that it didn't start with Rupert. Politically orientated media goes back centuries, BUT Rupert certainly took it to a whole new level. In terms of spreading garbage propaganda he is maybe the only private citizen in history that can compete with the great empires.
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  2681. Is it just me or is a really dumb tactic that when your facing legal challenges that you start by letting all the lawyers know you wont pay them?
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  2682.  @zxyatiywariii8  Thanks, people need to keep reminding everyone that it doesn't matter which ideology they rant about extremists FK everything they touch.
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  2683. Do you get the worst part of that interview and this law suit? Go back and check her interview with 60 Minutes Australia, that broke this whole story. She gave him an easy way out. During the interview she said words to the effect that Epstein might have been blackmailing him (who knows???). Irrespective she gave him a reasonable way out and instead he did the dumbest thing possible. Its part of why she ended up suing him. But just think if he'd have taken a completely different line. He could have said that his marriage was over (true) when he was introduced to this beautiful young lady by someone he thought was a friend and that he thought she was about 21. Who could have argued with any of that. He could have apologized and set up some sort of fund for her kids and supported her charity. Yeah people would have called him stupid and a few other things, but he wouldn't look like a criminal or a sleazy ignorant spoilt brat.
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  2684. I'm not defending what he's become, but Jimmy seemed to be fine up to that point where the Squad didn't force the vote. Something in Jimmy broke and he's just gone of the rails. Jimmy was always on about being progressive and at its heart progressivism is about change. Jimmy used to interview people like Mark Blyth, Richard Wolff and others who are saying the world needs to change. When the Squad did nothing to force change I think Jimmy saw it as a complete betrayal and it broke him. Jimmy's still about change its just that he now wants to do it with a wrecking ball named Trump.
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  2685.  @itssteve6018  Hooray for you. WHAT ABOUT THE 5,595,495 WHO HAVE DIED? What about the millions who have been hospitalized? What about the 1000s of medical personnel who have died as a result of trying to help those people? If you don't like being called a self centered ignorant shite, then don't be a self centered ignorant shite!
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  2686. ITS ACTUALLY WORSE THAT KYLE IS SAYING Please encourage Krystal and him to interview Professor Mark Blyth from Brown about this. Recently he pointed out a Rand Corp study that said between 1975 and 2017 the TOP 1% has increased their wealth by $47 Trillion. For those interested here's the link to that study -> https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html And here is a Time article about that report -> https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/ Mark has also pointed out that in the last 12-18 months of COVID that has increased by at least ANOTHER $8 Trillion. Note that this include more people than just the billionaires like those poor sods only worth a few $100 million like Tucker Carlson, Kanye West,... etc. I honestly believe Mark would be a great interviewee for Krystal, Kyle & Friends. For those who don't know who Mark is he's a political economist. He doesn't just look at the politics of countries or the economics of the markets. He looks at how the economic systems and political systems interact with each other. He was one of the very few people who predicted BOTH Brexit and Trump 2016. He recently wrote a book called Angrynomics with Eric Lonergan which is about the general anger and frustration people have with the world these days. Here's the 3 minute primer -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY
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  2687. FANTASTIC COMMENT worthy a lot more than the single thumbs up I can give.
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  2688.  @johnlewis9158  Couple of things. 1) Trump himself is NOT traditional working class and never was, BUT he has reached out to part of America's working class and one it very effectively. Love it or hate it he has been very effective at getting people onto his side. 2) The working class is NOT traditionally nationalistic, BUT when motivated by populists can become nationalistic in very quickly. Robespierre did it during the French Revolution, Hitler did it (obviously), Stalin did it in his way and now Trump has done it in his way. 3) In what way has the Left co-opted anything in the media or the institutionally ANYWHERE. In terms of private ownership more media is now owned, operated and driven by right wing oligarchs than at any point in history. As for institutions, both the military and police are dominated by right wingers in terms of inside those forces and in politics. As for universities no doubt there is considerable Left wing influence in the social sciences but then why wouldn't there be. However the business schools and law schools are dominated by right wing money and its been that way for decades. 4) What new incarnation of the Left are you even talking about. That is such an idiotically garbage line. *What's new about people wanting health care or education or people wanting to join unions? All that stuff was around for decades until Reagan started pulling it apart. Buddy why don't you go see your doctor and get a bumper prescription of reality.
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  2689. Sorry, I do like David's commentary, but occasionally its gets almost as stupid as the other side. For sure this clown is overstepping the line of showing respect to both the President and the Constitution, but he hasn't threatened a damn thing. Yeah there's an implication that they'd make a stand and resist having their guns taken. And I do agree with Steven J in the next comment below yours that the Feds need to "have him in their office and have a nice long chat with him" and ask him to explain himself. But sadly this is the place America has let itself get to.
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  2690. Yeah Kyle just did a story of how $500 a month would help homeless people and this POS gets $9,000,000 for FAILING TO DO HIS JOB. Sagaar Enjeti over at Breaking points did a recent story about how one of the World Economic Forum's speakers was complaining about how a survey had revealed that the elites trust each other but the general population doesn't trust them at all. THIS IS WHY.
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  2691. Aerospace engineer here - and that's the sort of reply I wish we'd see more often. The best report on G0F I saw in the last 4 years was by DW (German). It still here on YT and titled "Gain-of-Function: Should supercharging viruses be banned?" They bring up what Ron Fouchier the Dutch scientist did with Avian Flu and it didn't take much to find out what he did AND HOW DAMN SCARY IT IS. Normally avian flu can't infect humans but the rare times it does its more lethal than Ebola killing over 60%. What was even crazier than making that variant of avian flu was that he wanted to publish how he did it. The Dutch government stepped in and said "NO". He took it to court and the court also said "NO" because like the Dutch government they knew there were people on this planet who'd use it. It was Fouchier's work that (in part) led to the moratorium on GoF, because NOBODY was really aware of what was being done in some of these labs. As an engineer I know quite well how very intelligent people can sometimes be utterly blind to the outside world and Fouchier is an example of that. It became well know that Shi Zhengli (the head virologist) in Wuhan was also like that. Plus Wuhan became the go to place where certain work could still be doen despite the moratorium. I'm amazed that after all that has happened we haven't had a proper public discussion on research funding and the oversight of research. I know there's stuff that's been going on in engineering research for decades that should either be shut down or NOT be funded because its either a waste of time and resources or that its too dangerous or that there's significant fraud going on.
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  2692.  @jefflane617  Agreed - scary, dangerous and NOT good either way its looked at. I see it as very much the like the story of the naked king. Who was imply told he looked fantastic and every one told him he looked fantastic and every one ended up believing he looked fantastic because he wore the finest clothes anyone had ever seen. Then one day a small child simply said "but he has no clothes!" Think about what happened with Theranos. Yeah the PR said it was amazing BUT being able to diagnose EVERYTHING from a single drop of blood was simply science fiction. I'm certain she even got the idea from science fiction (like the Hollywood film "Gattaca"). BUT all that was ignored and she was paraded as the brilliant young gifted entrepreneur who was also a girl taking on Wall Street and the patriarchy. Then one day someone finally said "It doesn't work!" I'm wondering when the same moment will come from AI. My fear it it wont come before doing a staggering amount of damage.
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  2693.  @jeromemanoharan7427  I have heard there are issue with Brazils stadiums but didn't want to comment on that as I don't know those issues like I know the others. My understanding is they are very similar to Athens issues. They just don't have the money to keep them. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship so I know what sorts of facilities American cities like LA & Atlanta have. I went to U. Illinois and I know Chicago could hold the Olympics in a heartbeat. Chicago just has that many stadiums as well as several large universities with their dorms. That was LA's huge advantage. They had UCLA and USC and all their facilities. Then they had the Rose Bowl and LA Coliseum and several others. Their biggest expense was paint and painters
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  2694.  CrasherXtreme  Yeah - well what would have to say about Kayleigh McEnany's bullshit for the last few years? TO be fair I think this comment is bit off, but if you compare Psaki's professionalism compared to McEnany's amateur reality denial game then Psaki is at least an improvement.
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  2695. Very astute. Here's a Henry Wallace quote a few people are posting. It was written/said 2 years before Trump was even born at a time when Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin were in power. Note what it says about method and patriotism. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  2696. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: and that's a damn good answer Below is the same answer I gave elsewhere. The difference is your only looking at dealing with what goes into the atmosphere each year, when there's already a massive amount in the atmosphere that needs removing. I'm Australian but did my degree in America (late 80s) and one Friday we had a NASA engineer do a special lecture on Terraforming Mars. We were kind of excited as at that time (despite the Challenger accident) we believed we'd be building the next space station in the 90s, back to the moon early on the 2000s and off to Mars in the 2010s. We were shattered when he started with: "Sorry its impossible and here's why!" He then went and explained how you need think when considering an entire planet. You don't need to be an engineer or geologist or atmospheric scientist just BASIC MATH WILL DO. Once you understand the actual scope of dealing with a planetary issue things like this are irrelevant. For example there's currently around 2.5 Trillion tons of excess Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere and by current estimates it will go past 3.5 Trillion tons by the mid 2030s. So to do a quick time estimate you simply divide 3.5 Trillion by 35,000 and get 100,000,000 years. So if you want to get that 3.5 Trillion tons out in something like 10 years you need about 10,000,000 of these plants built. If you want to do it 20 years then its 5,000,000 plants. As to the costs its even easier to estimate At $1,000 per ton 3.5 Trillion tons will cost $3.5 QUADRILLION tons to remove. 1/10th of $3.5 Quadrillion is $0.35 Quadrillion. So at $300 per ton its (3/10ths) which is $1.05 QUADRILLION And at $400 per ton its (4/10ths) which is $1.4 QUADRILLION So its reasonably easy to estimate that this method will cost between $1 and $1.5 QUADRILLION and that's provided we can find 5-10,000,000 SUITABLE locations and get enough materials to build those 10,000,000 plants. Then there's the small task of how do we power it, because power might be reasonably cheap in Iceland where they have enormous natural resources but what about the other 9,999 plants where are they going, how are they being powered and who's paying? By the way if every person on the planet planted 1,000 trees (seedlings) at a cost of $5 per tree. That would be 8 Trillion Trees and if each tree is capable on capturing 1-2tons of Carbon and sequestering it in the wood. Then we'd only need about 1 in 4 trees (~2.5 trillion) to reach maturity to capture that 3.5 Trillion of Carbon Dioxide. Yeah that would cost about $40 Trillion on basic costs which is a staggering amount of money until you consider the alternative is $1-$1.5 QUADRILLION, which is 25 times the cost at the low end. Best of all Trees don't need electricity they just need water and sun light and maybe some fertilizer. Once established their maintenance and upkeep costs are almost zero. If you plant trees that produce food and of building materials then even better.
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  2697.  @ShimrraJamaane  Thanks. I do think there are some important things in this to discuss BUT NOT RIGHT NOW. This is like wanting to discuss the garden as the house is on fire.
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  2698. Your sentiment is on the money but DO NOT lay the foundation of the next Trump Presidency by re-fueling the resentment that gave the world that last 4 years. ABSOLUTELY PUNISH those who stormed the capitol. They killed a cop and that MUST have consequences. Lets just sit back a moment and let the new AG Merrick Garland and the DOJ do their job. Don't forget the seeds for WW2 were laid in the treaty of Versailles which hammered the German people and created the resentment that Hitler weaponized. Trump did the same when he took advantage of people who had been left in the gutter by both parties. People seem to forget his base gave the middle finger to people like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush. No one should want to help lay the foundation for another Trump presidency (him, his son or his daughter) by creating more resentment. EFFING NAIL the scum who trashed the capitol and killed the cop, but avoid creating a platform for the next Trump.
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  2699.  @limedickandrew6016  Exactly f--king how? If you want to draw a distinction fine but don't make a lame no brain function comment. Here's my distinction. Charge the people who did things deserving of being charged including the politicians and others (like Giuliani) who incited this disaster. BUT DON'T dump a blanket over everyone that fuels UNECCESSARY resentment. The people who get charged and their friends will resent it, that can't be helped. But dropping a blanket over the entire South - C'mon man. The British, French and others tried that and it didn't work and we got WW2 and 50million dead to read about in history books and watch on film.
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  2700. Its technically impossible for Rudy Giuliani to fart - his mouth is never closed long enough to build up the back pressure.
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  2701. Best words Kyle has said in a while "the fact that this guy ever had any power when he's been wrong about everything is a true indictment on the system"
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  2702. ATTENTION ALL: I just checked through the last 10 Pakman podcast transcripts here on YT for the word "river" and its NOT THERE. So when was this comment made? I'll agree with a few of the negative comments about Pakman here. He can be smug and at times he has on guests who are there for no other reason but to back up his view of the world, but he also has on people he disagrees with. I can be critical of him in a number of ways including his relentless plugging of sponsors, but then that's his business model. What I did find was a video posted 25 Oct 2023 titled "A framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace." So if you actually want to know what his views are then I suggest you go watch and listen rather than rant about a comment that may or may NOT have been made because there's NO REFERENCE to when it was made.
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  2703.  @careylymanjones  Actually you can make a critical mass device from plutonium because like Uranium it also has a critical mass above which it can chain react. You can also (theoretically) use Uranium in an implosion device its just much harder to achieve. The fundamental reason they do implosion with Plutonium and critical mass with Uranium is that its just easier and more practical to make those types of devices work.
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  2704. Australian here - The world needs a LOT MORE Gary And a damn ton less of these other idiots especially that clown Abby Innes who just rambles on all through this with stupid irrelevant word play. We need so much less of word play and a lot more ACTION.
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  2705.  @Madamchief  I like that - we're like feral Canadians. Having been in Canada for work I know they'd like that too. You can also fell a little better after today. America finally found a way to hold one of your elites accountable. JUST DON'T LET IT BE A 1 OFF EVENT. Now go get the rest of them.
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  2706. The fundamental problem with AUKUS is not that it was an agreement between Australia the UK and America or that it was for nuclear powered submarines. I'm an engineer and the REAL PROBLEM is the project itself which is hopelessly conceived and its costs are mindlessly stupid which is par for the course with Australian military agreements. I'm 100% in favor of Australia getting nuclear powered subs but am 100% against AUKUS. Because of how much ocean we need to patrol we need faster long range subs and nuclear powered subs are over 50% faster than subs like the Collins and that's the first of several points. Here's my 2 main points on why AUKUS needs to be ripped up and started over. 1) The Virginia requires too large of a crew and there's just no way Australia can operate more than 2 of them let alone 3 or 3 + 5 of the AUKUS subs. This point has been brought up again and again and the RAN has never answered how they'd solve this problem. 2) The basic cost of a Virginia class is AU$5.5billion and the project is costed at AU$33.5billion per sub. NOBODY has explained where the other $28billion per sub is going. I have done some research and costing on this. I even constructed a project costing model and started plugging in numbers. I threw everything I could at this and then started doubling the cost of things and even tripled some and then added in an outrageous bonus system to get stuff built on time. With all I tried I could not explain where over AU$115billion might be going.
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  2707.  @abdalln8554  I'm Australian and you have just described the bulk of the population of the developed world. What Trump is doing is exactly what politicians across the developed world have been doing for decades in not centuries.
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  2708. I suggest you go and watch Glenn Kirschner's take on this. Among his career was time spent as a retired Federal Prosecutor. Its a really good analysis of the types of charges and what usually goes in front of a judge.
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  2709. YOU ARE DEAD RIGHT I'm Australian but went to college in America and first hear about this report over 6 months ago when RICHARD WOLLF mentioned it. The report was published in SEPTEMBER 2022 nearly 10 months ago. I went and checked it against the Australian data which is presented a little differently but tells the same basic story. Anyone can find the CBO report just google "congressional budget office family wealth" and the actual home page for the report should come up. On that page you can not only download the report but an Excel spreadsheet with all the data in the graphs. Here's some facts from the data of the very first graph in that report which is the one shown by Kyle at 4:26. From that graph you can not only get the effect of the 2008 GFC by comparing the 2007 data to 2010 but also the recovery by comparing the 2007 data to 2019. Adjusting for population and averaging the data on a per person value: The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 21.1% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 4.6% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were STILL 21.8% BELOW their 2007 value. So after the GFC that they caused the Top 10% got around US$4 Trillion from Bush and another US$4 Trillion from Obama and have since recovered and by 2019 were US$20 Trillion ABOVE their 2007 value. Estimates have them at least US$8 Trillion above that during the COVID Pandemic. The current collective value of the Top 10% can be estimated to be above US$90 Trillion compared to an estimated collective value of US$2.5Trillion for the 165 million people who make up America's Bottom 50%. This is neoliberal economics in overdrive and its made a mess of the developed world.
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  2710. Somebody needs to ask him what was in his emails that got hacked that made him change his views on Trump.
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  2711. Ask the Romans how that worked out - oh sorry they collapsed Ask the Greeks, Persians, Mongols, Egyptians how that worked out - oh sorry they collapsed Ask the Imperial Russians how that worked out - oh sorry they collapsed and got shot by their own people. Ask the Germans how that worked out - oh sorry they got bombed flat. Ask the Japanese how that worked out - oh sorry they got bombed flat and then got nuked. Ask the Soviet Russians how that worked out - oh sorry they collapsed. Ask the British how it worked out - oh shit that ended in the American Revolution followed by granting independence to Australia, Canada, New Zealand,......... You know there is one subject that Americans suck at worse than Geography and that's HISTORY.
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  2712.  @onsokumaru4663  Very well put. There was a great British TV Series called "Hustle" about a team of conmen, who do complex lomg cons like the one done in the film "the Sting." At the very end of the very last episode they talk to the audience about NOT GETTING conned. The make the point that honest people can't be conned. People looking for the easy way or people who cheat can be conned. Its right here at 49:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMisS2AjnYA
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  2713. Sovereign manufacturing has suddenly become a hot topic around the world. Here in Australia there are calls for our Government to simply build the factories the we need as a nation. And its not the first time either. Way back in the 1930s the head of BHP at the time famously got Australia its first steel mills. Had we had not listened to him then we'd have been overrun by Japan for the simple reason we might have had NO steel to make anything with. What COVID has done is expose one of the great flaws of neoliberalism which is based in Milton Freidman's claim that companies owe nothing to society and have no responsibility to society, they only have a responsibility to their owners. I call COVID Acid Flu because its stripped off all the bullshit veneer our business & political leaders have shoved down our throats for these last 40+ years. I was actually in Canada a couple of years ago for work and 1 thing I found out was how dependent on certain foods Canada is. Canada grows almost no lettuce and other leafy greens. Its mostly from California. I was there when Trump tore up NAFTA complaining about Canadian timber and putting tariffs on Canadian products. I was there as Canada pointed out all that they imported from America - like lettuce. FYI - Australia is world leader in Vertical Farming technologies and could easily help Canada free itself from America on things like lettuce.
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  2714.  @FunkyMonkey262626  Yeah and hate to break it to ya being the best at anything doesn't mean shite. For instance there was this Austrian who tried to drag the Germanic countries out of the Great Depression. For a while he was considered a genius until he started the Second World War and 73million died. There's still about 1.4 Billion people who think that guy named Mao was a genius, after all his most noted achievement was "The Great Leap Forward" except that as many as 55 million died from starvation. Or if that's too complex for your tiny brain how about something as simple as Lance Armstrong. Cancer survivor, hero too children, amazing sports achievements and a DRUG CHEAT. So what if Rogan's podcast is popular that doesn't mean SHITE.
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  2715. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powell interview. I have left a separate answer with additional background information about why Australia is so concerned about Rupert Murdoch's behavior in America. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powell Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  2716. Very good description of at least 50% of the worlds democratically elected government officials. Its a disease not particular to any party but it is way more prevalent in the established parties. Its also why many of the worlds democracies are having serious institutional issues. These issues differ from country to country or state to state but once you strip back the particulars certain commonalities emerge. Narcissistic people who know how to get elected by preying on public anxieties are incredibly common. They use emotional rather than rational arguments and campaign issues. Most of all they understand that big bold simple messages work, while complex policies for everything don't. The mistake others make with them is NOT confronting their lies head on with blunt reality. Raphael Warnock should have confronted Herschel Walker with very simple statement. "You paid for abortions and you lied about it." "You abandoned your children and you lied about it." Be simple, be blunt, be direct. Its how the GOP win. Its how Machin and Sinema win.
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  2717. I checked the actual MSNBC vid for the interview that's here on YouTube and at 6:35 they mute her. It has to be some of the crappiest journalism in the history of journalism. Do you think MSNBC would do that to Hilary Clinton????
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  2718.  @jl8942  I've seen Mehdi Hassan many times, but I am not a regular viewer and I have NEVER seen him do this before. And she wasn't ranting she was stating a list of facts. Also I am NOT a Marianne Williamson supporter. I'm not even American, I'm Australian but went to college in America. Irrespective of where I am from the most basic fact is that the world cannot afford to have America malfunction. America is 1/4 of the worlds economy and the US Dollar is the worlds reserve currency. Even a partial collapse would be a disaster for the world. Even the Russians can't afford to have America malfunction because a lot of their Oligarchs have their money hidden in Idaho, Texas and Delaware - 3 of the worlds premier places to hide money. I hate to throw it back at ya but America wanted to be the worlds superpower and with that comes RESPONSIBILITY. Right now America has 2 political parties with billionaire backers who are completely out of control. It cant end well for America and by extension that means the rest of the world too. Sorry for the rant.
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  2719. Yeah you are right his famous quote on American fascists is a classic. I have been pointing this out to everyone Last week Richard Wolff pointed the December Congressional Budget Office report on Family Wealth. You can find it easily buy googling "congressional budget office family wealth" Look for the link referring to Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth, 1989 to 2019 The main graph on the web page is interactive and you can see the data for any year. The report is downloadable as a pdf. This is not any professor playing word games or some media hype. This is as official as it gets. That main graph shows. The top 10% of America has a combined wealth of $82.4 Trillion The 51st to 90th percentile has a combined wealth of $30.2 Trillion The bottom 50% of America has a combined wealth of $2.3 Trillion (about 1/36th what the top 10% have)
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  2720. Yeah - did you notice how he deflected the question regarding if it was wise to shut of the nuclear power. Nuclear has its issues for sure but Germany's nuclear plants were fine, well maintained and produced next to zero CO2. If they had shut down the coal fired stations then Germany would be CO2 neutral or close to neutral already. I'm an engineer and this is the huge problem most non-technical people don't get. Not only do we have to transition away from fossil fuel but we have to do it in a way that doesn't bankrupt our societies. Germany had working operational CO2 minimal plants and turned them off instead of the plants that spewed out CO2 by the ton. Despite spending €1.3Trillion on renewable energy Germany's CO2 emissions went UP NOT DOWN. That's what this clown should have been asked to explain.
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  2721. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and you're right. Although the MONEY is just 1 of a raft of problems its possibly the biggest because its the most influential and what its done is like radiation poisoning. Its not obvious at first how much damage has been done but by the time you find out its a major problem because its shows up EVERYWHERE. I did engineering NOT law or US history but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they used to drag me into all sorts of their discussions. my political education was sort of limited to studying Orwell (Animal Farm & 1984) in High School. So I'd argue that any country can fall into a dictatorship if it wasn't careful. They argue back t=how that was impossible because of America's system of checks and balances. What the money has done is wreck that system of checks and balances and its done it through interferrence. The billionaires funding so much of it have simply got their politicians to prevent things from working. They have the mindset that government can't do anything right so they make that into a self fulfilling prophecy by interfering with any government agency like the EPA or IRS, that they can. I did aerospace engineering and I see it in the issues with the FAA and what's happened with Boeing and air travel safety in general.
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  2722.  @esecallum  Absolute bullshit. If you want to spout conspiracy garbage then just go over to the pro-conspiracy websites and leave those who want to hear reality alone. SERIOUSLY - we've all had enough of the Qanon, moon hoaxer, fake election results and all the other garbage that NEVER turns out to be true.
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  2723. From Australia - That's actually a bloody good idea. We'd do that here as well.
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  2724. I'm Australian and this election has always had huge ramifications for us like its had for some other countries. The democrats are plagued by a group of OLD PEOPLE who just won't accept their time is over. Jimmy Carter is one of the rare examples of a Democrat getting out of the road while helping when he can. The Bidens, Pelosis, Clintons and Obamas on the other hand......... The ramifications of that attitude is staggering. I've looked at some of the stats and one that I have NOT YET seen anyone discuss is the voter turnout and its the REAL ISSUE America needs to look at. According to the stats on Wikipedia almost every election gets a larger turnout than the previous one as expected from population growth. 2012 is a rare exception, but it doesn't compare to 2024 with over 16 million FEWER voters. EVEN Trump is DOWN by 800,000 over his 2020 result. When you consider that he picked up a slab of young male 1st time voters that means a couple of million of his base give up on his nonsense. Harris is Down by 12.4 million compared to Bidens 2020 result and that means a gigantic slab of the people who turned up in 2020 just gave up. Independents were simply annihilated. Anthony Scaramucci said something the other day about the options people had. Here's some to think about. 1) If you're a college student who wants the Genocide in Gaza to stop. Do you vote for Kamala who's helped support it or do you vote for Benjamin Netanyahu's choice for President. 2) If your a mother who's son is stuck in the basement vaping and playing video games. Do you vote for DEI Kamala or the felon who brags about grabbing women by the pussy. 3) If your a father who's daughter is worried about boys in the locker room. Do you vote for DEI Kamala or the convicted felon who would grab your daughter by the pussy. 4) If you vote 3rd party or independent what's the point of actually voting when you get NOTHING for it other than an opportunity to wave your middle finger at the Democrats and Republicans who don't care anyway. 5) If your Gen-X, Millennial or a Zoomer do you vote for the party run by selfish old people who don't care about your future or do you vote for the party run by a narcissistic sociopath, liar and convicted felon who's surrounded by other narcissistic sociopaths, liars and convicted criminals NONE of who care about your future. America has alienated so many of its people that 16 million who voted 4 years ago GAVE UP ON VOTING. Simply it doesn't matter if you're being asked to eat a BULLSHlT sandwich or a CHICKENSHlT sandwich you're still being asked to eat a SHlT sandwich. Sorry for the rant but what just happened has GLOBAL ramifications and America is functioning like NASCAR on 5 cylinders.
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  2725. For starters go and listen to those people who are Russian born, who understand the language and the culture. I watched a long interview of Julia Ioffe by PBS Frontline. I have also watched Konstantin Kisin a Brit who co-hosts the Triggernometry YT Channel. BOTH are Russian born, well educated and most importantly know what they are talking about. The rest, including David are only repeating other people's opinions on this one. Konstantin has explained a lot about Russian mindsets and that the last thing anyone wants is to back Putin into a corner. Unfortunately, as Julia has explained, Putin has started backing himself into a corner. This is the real risk right now. Go watch her explain what happened in a recent public Russian broadcast. I haven't seen or heard anyone explain Putin's recent actions better. There's way too much speculation right now. A lot of people got Putin's actions very, very wrong. There's a staggering amount of bad faith actors putting lots of stupid clips on Facebook, Twitter and Tik Tok making lots of idiotic claims. I have watched a couple of Americna channels that are usually pretty good and watched them get stuff horribly wrong today. If you want to watch a News service that's trying to fact check and get things right try DW (German).
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  2726.  @shunt5001  No DK-HED its bad for the entire human race if Putin loses his mind. Nuclear fallout doesn't care about borders.
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  2727. Nothing should surprise anything Trump does any longer. He has never been held accountable for anything his entire life. He's a narcissistic sociopath who thinks the rest of the planet exists to give him stuff.
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  2728.  @arthurcarr7364  I didn't say it was the same country. I said its got so many similarities its freaking weird. Like we both think the other has freakishly dangerous animals. When I was there they kept telling me how dangerous Australia was with snakes, sharks and spiders. We have koala's and they are good for tourist photos, while Canada has polar bears and they eat tourists. Everyone else has deer or antelope or gazelles and like Bambi they're cute. Canada has moose and they are the animal kingdom's equivalent of a bad tempered ice hockey player with 4 legs and 2 sticks, one mounted out each side of the ugliest head in the Northern hemisphere. There is one major difference our neighbors are New Zealand, who in general are pretty good. Canada has 330 million gun totting psychos with nuclear weapons for neighbors AND they like starting fights.
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  2729.  @arthurcarr7364  The country you didn't grow up in also perfectly describes Australia. Change is one of the things the older generations are handling very badly. if you look at history you'll see that society has always changed no matter what people did. What bothers people is uncontrolled change because it creates uncertainty. If you want to talk about what's causing all the stress of how societies are changing let me know. In a nutshell its due to how a very small number of hyper-wealthy people in their late 80s & 90s who refuse to concede their power and influence to anyone are behaving.
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  2730.  @macalister8881  I wouldn't say he's wrong more than right, what he does is repeat certain things that he's just wrong about. For example he's said repeatedly that the Russian Siberian oil fields have a huge problem because all the American experts have left. That totally ignores the common practice that engineers TRAIN THE LOCALS. He's right, that losing the American expertise makes things hard, but to think it leaves the Russians helpless is just wrong AND HE'S REPEATED THAT A LOT. Where he's very good is on demographics and how that affects things, but then that's his real area of expertise.
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  2731.  @macalister8881  The other thing to be aware of is there are a bunch of channels that cut and paste excerpts from his talks. Some of those are months or years out of date and they are posted as if he said them last week. I only spotted it after hearing some of his older talks. There's a couple of very sneaky and very shitty channels and its not just Peter's work they do this with. They do it to people who have given longish (1/2hr or longer) public talks with Q&As afterwards. Remember every time you click on a video the host of that page can earn money from the YT advertising. So there are people profiting from this cut & paste game and they don't care squat if what they are posting is accurate or not or if its out of context. They look for people. 1 I came across posts videos where he talks and asks questions and then pastes in comments other people made publicly to make it sound like its a real interview. Its very devious and misleading. SO CHECK OUT THE PAGES YOU ARE GETTING THIS FROM. They might be reposting old information that's out of date.
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  2732.  @macalister8881  Do you know or remember which specific video of his has peeved you so much? I don't know any commentator of I agree with 100%. Another person I've taken to listening to is Prof Scott Galloway, who's primarily an economist and he's agreed with some of Peters work but arrived at the same conclusions via economic and social analysis rather than demographics and geopolitics. I can say similar things about him especially on technology, but them I'm the engineer and they aren't. I've spent 30+ years doing automation across various industries and I know there's so much being said about automation, AI, robotics and engineering in general that is just hype or narrative that people keep repeating. There's so much stuff being said at times and nobody checks. Its only spotted if someone who actually knows what's true hears it. I'll give an example. Just recently there's the big news about a breakthrough in nuclear fusion. Out of dozens of reports I have maybe seen 4 that are close to accurate, because as an engineer I know how long it will take to build the power stations. For sure its a positive step but its just one step in a million step journey. So I'd advise you keep watching peter Zeihan because he's pretty damn good at the things he's good at. BUT be mindful that just as you should with all these commentators go and check things out. Ad doctors say, "get a second opinion!"
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  2733. You forgot that he also talks out of his butt as well. He just said Clarence Thomas the billionaires favorite buddy is the gold standard.
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  2734.  @drts6955  I'd agree with that but then mainstream media has been peddling a lot of crap for very long time. Here's a fairly famous quote: “… the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” ― Thomas Jefferson What I totally agree with is that new media and in particular social media is more out of control than anything previously seen. In that past it required lots of money for printing presses or radio gear or television gear. All that's needed now is a $500 laptop with a camera and you can start your own "news and information" channel and even better make money doing it.
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  2735. I guarantee one thing he wont make a scene out of and that will be how his Prison bunk buddy deals with him.
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  2736.  @spacespector  Yeah I think by this stage the only thing to ask Junior is what is he on and does he snort or shoot?
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  2737. Sadly true.
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  2738. When he's convicted and thrown in the big house!
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  2739.  @TheMisterGriswold  We'd all like that except I think we all collectively know Trump is like a bad fart in an elevator with jammed doors - there's just no way for the smell to escape.
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  2740.  @askmeanything8336  I know you understand how to highlight, but its a shame they didn't teach you grammar. School is AN institution. And if you think the state is somehow your mortal enemy then I suggest you immigrate. If its that bad just leave.
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  2741. Asking the question isn't a problem. IGNORING THE ANSWER because you don't like it IS THE PROBLEM. There's been this incredible flip from where education was about students asking questions so they could understand the world around them even if those answers weren't always nice. Now that's morphed into "Ask whatever you like but you can choose to believe which ever answer you like while ignoring those you don't like to make you feel good." Reality doesn't work that way.
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  2742. EXACTLY - Biden said he'd do it and then it happened and then American companies had no competition for their LNG.
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  2743.  A Rodriguez  That's been the great failings of so many issues with major criminal corporate failures. Big fines that share holders end up paying or paying for while the people who are actually responsible walk away with their bonuses. How many times do we need to see that repeated???
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  2744. And we can add 21 names to the list and probably more before the week is over.
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  2745. Its a great idea making the funding source known, but your idea of holding them accountable is a dangerous folly for the simple reason that such laws would allow any government to dictate its version of reality. That's exactly what Orwell warned about. The problem with problem solving is to have solutions that don't make the next problem or make the original problem worse. I'm an engineer and I've spent my life problem solving and it gets damn hard when you only have complicated machinery. It occasionally gets even harder when someone interferes. Trying to solve the problem if humanity is off the chart hard. Not only because its so complex but there always someone interfering. Further, that person is usually interfering with the INTENT of not letting the problem be solved. Its done around the world, but its nowhere more obvious than the American GOP and Mitch McConnell's Senate obstructionism. Its not as obvious in other countries but it does happen.
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  2746. Think tanks are NOT PLACES where anyone actually considers what is best for society or humanity or the future of the planet. They are where clever wordsmiths hangout to write wonderful lies to the benefit of their donors.
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  2747.  @devinspencer1678  Careful Pirro actually does have a JD (Albany Law School) and Rand Paul did complete his MD and residency (at Duke). He didn't complete his undergrad at Baylor. That's on Wikipedia and easy to check. Just remember its not what education people have its what they do with it that matters. For example Ted Cruz has an incredible education (Princeton & Harvard) and look what he does with it. With his education TC should have been POTUS and been one of the best ever. Instead he's a 2nd class suck up who let Trump insult his wife.
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  2748. Correct except its DU not PU (Pu is plutonium), but uranium's toxicity is something most people do not realise. On the Wikipedia page for DU it says DU is is about a million times worse than the radiation it might give off because it attacks things like the kidneys. Phil Miller is NOT entirely correct about a couple of things and most people get this wrong anyway. Depleted uranium DOES NOT come from spent fuel it comes from the enrichment process. I have worked in Australia's Uranium mining industry and part of that included a training course covering the basics of the Uranium fuel cycle from in the ground to back in the ground. Sorry for the math below but this the basics of what happens. Uranium has a number of isotopes the main 2 being U238 and U235. Its the U235 that is good for power stations and bombs. The problem is naturally occurring Uranium is about 99.3% U238 and only about 0.7% U235. To be useful you need to enrich the uranium. Its incredibly difficult to completely split the U235 from the U238 but its practical to divide any quantity of uranium where the U235 is in one of the divisions. Here's some math. If you start with 1,000kgs (1 metric ton) of Uranium its going to be roughly 993 kgs of U238 and 7kgs of U235 with a few grams of other things like plutonium. If you separate that 100kgs into 2 piles one with 100kgs but all 7kgs of the U235 and the other pile with 900kgs of U238. What you now have is 1 pile that has in now richer in U235 one one that's depleted of U235. What's more that enriched 100kgs is at 7% U235 which is suitable for use in a power station. Its reasonably easy to calculate how much depleted Uranium you get for various levels of enrichment. If you made 7kgs of pure 100% U235 its pretty easy to see you'd have 993kgs of DU. Depending on the grade you want also decides how much DU you are left with, but at 7% its pretty easy to see that every 1kg produces 9kg of DU. America has about 80,000 tons of spent fuel sitting in large pools of water underneath its reactors which sounds like an awful lot of nasty stuff to have AND IT IS. Its also means there's a lot of DU that was created in making that 80,000t. If all that 80,000t of spent fuel had been 7% then that would have created 720,000t of DU. For the 20% enriched uranium (EU) they commonly use in military reactors it creates almost 28kg DU for each 1kg of EU. For weapons wanting enriched grades over 70% U235 its over 100x. Once you understand that its pretty easy to see why Wikipedia says America has 460,000 tons DU in its stockpile and other nations also have substantial amounts of DU stockpiled. DU does have a couple of practical uses the most notable being as radiation shielding and if the future does include Small Modular Reactors then I would expect them to utilise a lot of that DU in their shielding. If nuclear Fusion ever works it will also need massive shielding. The most important thing is that we stop using it for bullets.
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  2749. ATTENTION ALL: I just checked through the last 10 Pakman podcast transcripts here on YT for the word "river" and its NOT THERE. So when was this comment made? I'll agree with a few of the negative comments about Pakman here. He can be smug and at times he has on guests who are there for no other reason but to back up his view of the world, but he also has on people he disagrees with. I can be critical of him in a number of ways including his relentless plugging of sponsors, but then that's his business model. What I did find was a video posted 25 Oct 2023 titled "A framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace." So if you actually want to know what his views are then I suggest you go watch and listen rather than rant about a comment that may or may NOT have been made because there's NO REFERENCE to when it was made.
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  2750. WELCOM TO THE CLUB DAVID I got called a commie yesterday by a clown in a thread on your vid Republican Declares Trump "Absolutely Guilty" of Crimes I pointed out the simple fact that _"In any other country Trump & friends would already have faced trial, been found guilty and sentenced. In more than a few countries the ringleaders of January 6th would have been executed."_ One of the notable aspects to the culture war is that the culture warriors paint everything in absolute terms. There are no nuances, or shades of grey or colors everything is black & white. Leftist culture warriors see anyone NOT in 100% agreement with them as a Right wing racist religious authoritarian fanatic. Right wing culture warriors see anyone NOT in 100% agreement with them as a pinko commie socialist authoritarian fanatic. The common thread with culture warriors on BOTH SIDES is they scream at anyone not in agreement with them and accuse them of being the worst of the other side including claims of being authoritarian. Early in the COVID pandemic there was a comment attributed to Jonathan Haidt that went like "There's this cacophony of noise where the Radical Left and Radical Right just scream at each other while the rest of us trapped in the middle are just exhausted."
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  2751. Actually you could have put the words "Every developed democracy other then America" instead of Northern Europe.
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  2752.  @geoeconomics3067  Learn how to write a coherent sentence before you start trying to criticize others. Clearly English isn't you native language so I doubt you understood what I wrote anyway.
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  2753.  @freemanol  Do you know that both the American neo-cons and the founders of Al Qaeda both believed that democracy was flawed because people would vote for their perceived interests (as in be selfish) rather than vote for what's best? It was one of those bizarre things that surfaced after 9/11.
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  2754. I'm an Australian engineer (educated in America) and you are 100% RIGHT. Apologies for the rant but your point is as valid here and America as it is everywhere. I have been forced to look into economics because of a small project I had back in 2016. During that project I found out how badly managed Australia's energy sector is. For years I had heard how ineffective Australia's energy policies were. Its a common news story, but then I found out the details of just how bad it is. When I looked around I found the same or similar problem across most of the developed World. Its fairly simple. Ever since the start of the industrial revolution and even more so since the end of World War 2 we have needed more and more energy to grow our economies. America did Tennessee Valley, Australia did the Snowy River Scheme and others did their equivalent. THEN starting with Reagan and Thatcher ECONOMISTS like Milton Friedman stepped in and claimed that "governments were the problem" and free market economics was the solution WITHOUT ANY REAL UNDERSTANDING of how INDUSTRIAL societies actually function and are dependent on basic infrastructure working. Their solution was to privatise anything and everything because in their ideology the private sector does everything better. There was never any real proof to that claim it was just their opinion. What I have found is economists have NO IDEA how infrastructure needs to work so that businesses can function, make money, employ people and those people to have decent lives BUT THEY KNOW HOW TO SQUEEZE MONEY out of infrastructure. AND it has NOT mattered if it was American neoliberal capitalist economists, Russian socialist economists, European mercantilists, Chinese neomercantilists or any other variety of economist. They have all FUBARD their infrastructure because they're economists not engineers and its all falling apart. Here's some examples: America has over 30,000 bridges that need major repairs or outright replacing. China has wrecked over 25,000 rivers, streams and waterways which is why their food is full of toxins. Russia destroyed the Aral Sea. Britain has utterly wrecked their water infrastructure after selling it to Australians while Australians sold their energy infrastructure to whoever would buy it and its now totally FUBARD. And all economists can tell us is how great the FARKING stock market is.
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  2755. This is exactly why the Republicans have confidence they will be back in absolute control of BOTH houses in 2022. Its the same for other left or leftish wing parties in places like Britain, Australia, Canada, ALL of Europe,..... They get a result in an election and then turn on each other. The only difference is that if its a good result they wait a little longer before starting this crap. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2756.  @markfish8403  We have major international companies buying farms like mad in Australia for nut farming as well and its causing huge issues with our agricultural water supplies. Large nut farms need constant water 365 days a year. Many years a go an American came to Australia and set up what is now one of the worlds largest Pecan nut farms. He was looking for cheaper land and plentiful water. WHEN HE SET UP here it was fine as back then we had plenty of suitable land and enough water that it didn't stuff things up. BUT NOW we have all these others trying to cash in and we don't have enough water to go around and its causing chaos. At some point we are going to have to tell these big corporations and their bonus chasing CEOs ENOUGH.
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  2757. This is exactly why people have switched off main stream media. How many times have we heard -> we have confirmed from a source familiar with the situation And its turned out to be BS.
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  2758. NOTE TO ALL: This clown fails in his own admission at 1:48 "the attack by Hamas would not have happened if Iran did not okay it Maria and that is the link that has to be established" (that's a direct cut & paste from the transcript except for the capitalization of names) WHY DOES A LINK HAVE TO BE ESTABLISHED? If he is such an expert on Iran & Hamas and so certain that Iran is sponsoring this violence then how come he needs to establish a link?
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  2759. Its not just American hyper-patriotism is hyper-patriotism anywhere. Remember what the Germans in the 1940s did when they let hyper-patriotism run rampant? Remember what the Japanese in the 1940s did when they let hyper-patriotism run rampant? Remember what the Serbs in the 1990s did when they let hyper-patriotism run rampant? Remember what the French did during their Revolution when they let hyper-patriotism run rampant and when that wasn't enough they let another clown named Napoleon take it even further? And dozens of other countries all through history. I'm Australian and we have people like this, we just don't have millions of them BUT WE HAVE THEM because every one has them. We even have our own version of Trump. Go look up Clive Palmer.
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  2760. NAME the states that did not follow their laws? DESCRIBE how the did not follow their laws? Otherwise STFU.
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  2761. Yeah this is something that might be a really serious issue. As a guy I had no idea how many fertilised eggs self abort until a friends wife told me one day. I was staggered at how little I knew about this. Its not just a matter of sperm meets egg, the egg has to attach properly, the woman's body chemistry needs to be right, etc. This is just one of the reasons that MEN need to stay the hell out of women's health issues unless they are a properly trained medical professional in the area that's being discussed. I can see this is going to end in tears someday.
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  2762. DW News did a really great short doco on Gain of Function a few months ago. Alina Chan was one of the experts interviewed as part of it.
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  2763. Australian here: I spent time in Canada a few years ago. They are great people with an actual sense of humor. Other then adding "eh" to the end of every sentence, they have the quaint quirk of saying SORRY for almost everything. They'll even say sorry to the rest of the world for how Americans behave. Why? I don't know. Sorry Canada, but this time you really do have something to apologise for. DON'T PANIC here in Australia we are about to officially prove we have a significant racist element by voting down a referendum on a Native "Voice to Parliament" that has been several years in the making. AND just to prove how stupid we really are the NO campaign is being lead by 2 Native Australians who both just happen to work for Right Wing Libertarian Think Tanks with links to America's Right Wing Libertarian Think Tank system. Despite all the SHlT we have been through and all the advances we have struggled to make with our history we are about to flush to whole lot down the drain.
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  2764. According to America Iran isn't allowed nuclear weapons because of the political influence of hyper-conservative religious fanatics who are so disconnected from reality they would use them. Exactly what's the difference between the American right and the Iranian fundamentalists other than the meat they eat and the language they speak?
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  2765. HEY DAVE INSTEAD OF YET ANOTHER LOOK HOW TERRIBLE HERSCHEL WALKER IS VID. How about you show just one video of something or anything Raphael Warnock has done or said. Your the guy who raged about "toxic sport politics." So why don't you do something, anything positive.
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  2766. The problem isn't if tactical nukes are practical or impractical its a matter of will Putin use them.
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  2767.  @waltergrace565  Which bit do you thinks hilarious? I don't think there's any part of what Trump has done is hilarious, but I would accept that its so exhausting it might feel like one colossal joke or that people now feel the US Justice system is one colossal joke.
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  2768.  @waltergrace565  As I hinted at I can understand you thinking its a joke, but unfortunately 63 million people handed that joke control of nuclear weapons and then 4 years later another 11 million people joined the chorus and thought he should keep control of nuclear weapons. You're right nobody should be falling for any of his bullshit whether they are ranting for it or ranting against it. I agree its a joke in some ways, but in others its just isn't.
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  2769. How does anyone know or trust a thing you just claimed? You haven't mentioned a country, a state or hospital. Considering the amount of willful and deliberate misinformation being spread you should shut your mouth unless you are willing to put up some VERIFIABLE DETAILS.
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  2770.  @paulstandring5269  But if you listen he repeatedly says consult your doctor. Some older people who are frail should probably NOT be given a vaccine in case of a reaction. There are probably younger people in the same boat. So then what do we do with them? Where do we hide them to keep them safe? Or do we just let them be exposed and hope for the best. FYI - THAT DIDN'T WORK TOO WELL IN SWEDEN
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  2771. And there's a video here on YouTube that tells you how to pronounce Languedoc and its titled "How to Pronounce Languedoc? French Region Pronunciation"
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  2772. SHlT-4-BRAINS if you are going to do a serious story on a subject like this then leave out all that hyped up drama nonsense in the introduction. Nuclear War is as serious as it gets AND NOBODY NEEDS ANY HYPE.
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  2773.  @jamesclapp6832  Oh dude what's the emoji for that? 😵‍💫🥴😵
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  2774. As an aerospace engineer I am disgusted at this PR garbage. TED & TEDx have become a PR organisation for Elon Musk. FYI - Jennifer Heldmann is NOT and aerospace engineer she's a geologist. Has SpaceX done some good? Absolutely. They have literally saved the US manned space program with Crew Dragon and Falcon, but this idiotic hype with Starship needs to stop. Most of its technology is YET to be proven to do anything in space. Most importantly re-fuelling in space is unproven especially at the levels it needs. Just as importantly Saturn 5 could lift a similar payload into Low Earth Orbit and the WITHOUT REFUELLING go tot he moon. Also there was a variant of the Space Shuttle called Shuttle-C which could also lift a similar payload to low earth orbit.
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  2775. True people I wonder if he's aware of the Apache, Iroquois, Mohawk and all the other peoples who were in America prior to Pilgrim Fathers? “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980. "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ― Also by Isaac Asimov
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  2776. Yeah 2 weeks later how do you feel? Go watched the other video where Konstantin Kisin sits opposite his mate Francis and explains Putin's speech where Putin claimed that Ukraine should not even exist. Nigel Farage as usual showed he actually hasn't a damn clue. Remember back when he won his precious Brexit vote. Forgetting if it was right or wrong, the FACT is he immediately resigned from the team. What that meant was that (1st) he didn't expect to win and (2nd) he had NO idea what to do if they won. He had no plan, no ideas and simply threw 67million Brits under his Brexit bus. Like Trump he's another walking talking lump of populist garbage who has no solutions to ANYTHING and creates disasters for other people to clean up..
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  2777. Just for different take. Are any of you aware how big of a deal this is for the rest of the world and particularly ANY country that has significant trade and security arrangements with America. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they liked discussing the Constitution with me. I'd studied Orwell (Animal Farm & 1984) in high school and argued that ANY country could fall into an authoritarian nightmare if it wasn't careful. *They always argued that it was impossible for that to happen in America because of the "checks and balances". As an engineer I'd call them "safety functions." What we NEVER discussed was the possibility of someone (like Mitch McConnell and the Federalist Society) set about corrupting one of the main safety function, like SCOTUS. This is like pulling the wrong tile out of a Jenga stack. it might not bring it all down buts its making the system UNSTABLE. Yes we all know this is more important to the American people, but its also very concerning to others as well because how do we deal with an unstable America. What if somebody like Lauren Boebert or Marjorie Taylor Green is Trumps next running mate? They might end up with control of nuclear weapons. That's NOT a joke that's a damn scary possibility.
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  2778. This is just one of several great comments on how ridiculously wrapped up in his own celebrity Bill Maher now is. He's now a character of the type he so often rails at. Maybe there should be a "New Rule" that says "Members of the general should be allowed to b*tch clap any celebrity who thinks their opinion based on NOTHING but their celebrity is more important than actual facts."
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  2779. Yeah - a millionaire telling people with NO MONEY, NO FOOD AND NO FUTRE that they don't need any help, because they need to keep that money for the next Wall Street Bailout. Maybe someone should help him brush up on some history like the French and Russian Revolutions. And lets not forget that other one that happened, where the distant absent minded King had his minions F--K the population over. I forget the name, it was called the "something Revolution" and it was all about free speech and guns and if the King could just take your stuff. Maybe you can all help me remember what it was called. I think it started in 1776?????
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  2780. Great quote. I started reading "the Prince" a while back. Niccolo was pretty astute at a time when narcissism was currency. It'd be damn interesting to hear what he'd say about our time.
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  2781. I really like Prof Wolff, because he's at the very least giving an educated alternative opinion on economics, but there are times he lets brain take it too far. To call Capitalism unstable is to ignore what the terms stable and unstable actually mean. I'm an engineer and we have to learn and understand what stable and unstable actually mean because otherwise the modern world can't exist. Power stations and the power grid wont work, your car wont work and airplanes will tear themselves apart mid-air- that kind of stuff. Sorry this is a longish explanation. This is basic high school science level. Something that is naturally stable is something that will self correct from a disturbance. An example of stable system is a ball in a bowl. If you bump the bowl and the ball moves, it will eventually settle back down to the bottom of the bowl. An unstable system will not recover from a disturbance. If you balance a broom stick on its end. Any disturbance and it will just fall over. HOWEVER if we stand the broom stick upright on our hand and move our hand to correct for disturbances you then have something not entirely stable or unstable. We call that "artificially stable," as in there is something else keeping the system in a stable state. In engineering we have many systems that are artificially stable and quite often there's a combination of stabilisers. The suspension in your car has shock absorbers that allow you to hit bumps and not have the suspension bounce around. There's also the tires and suspension geometry. A main part of it is the drivers brain which makes corrections like steering inputs. One of the incredibly important concepts of artificially stable systems is that the stabilisers have limits and if you exceed those limits the system can break or fail. If 1 of the shock absorbers fails and reduces the cars stability. If the car hits a big enough bump and shock absorbers reach their limit. IF driver's brain cannot compensate then the car crashes. Modern capitalist systems are "artificially stable." There are shock absorbers and adjustments that governments use to keep there economies stable. Part of that system are interest rates, but there's also government spending (via policies and projects), the rate at which they print new money, bond rates and the regulations they place on private industry (like banking rules). The real problem is we are now bumping into the limits that our economic stabilisers can handle.
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  2782. I'm wondering if this is all just one giant joke like an SNL skit. I will not be surprised if he just turns around in the next few weeks and says: GOTCHA I wont be surprised if he's making a film titled "Politics: It's really this Stupid!"
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  2783. I've been wondering the same thing. What would happen if there was an Amazon protest where people said "NO - not until you provide PPE, stopped the idiotic pressures on staff and paid at least $15/hr to all staff." What Bezos would lose in a couple of days would cover those costs for a year.
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  2784. I'm an Australian aerospace engineer who's spent 30+ years in industrial control systems, robotics and automation. In 2016 I had a small project into Australia's energy sector and was horrified to find out what our situation was. When I looked around the world I found similar cases all across the developed world. When I look for the cause I found it was ECONOMISTS and they faulty thinking. Unfortunately there is NO free market solution for base load energy, which is that fraction of the energy supply that has to be there 24hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks each year and do that year after year (see below). Eventually I heard Steve Keen the contrarian economist say that "Economists don't even include energy in their models." THAT STUNNED ME. I am now a very active participant with Steve's Weekly podcast. I have also recommended Steve have Gary on the podcast. Below is something I have been working on for a while. This is an abbreviated version Since you're an econ teacher I'd like you're feedback. --------------------------- WHY there is no free market solution for base load energy, but an incredible one for state owned entities. First you need to understand that energy generation is similar to comparing cars, trucks & ships. They all do the same basic task of transportation but do it differently and those differences are required. Cars are good for transporting people about. Trucks are good for transporting goods around. Ships are good for moving large amounts of raw materials and goods between countries. Over in energy generation base load power stations are like ships they tend to be very large with massive turbines delivering massive amounts of energy day after day. Load following which is the amount we need to cover the swings we get in energy demand every day is mor like trucks Smaller than ships but also more flexible. Peaking plants are exactly like they sound they are for those short term peaks in energy demand where there's sudden changes. There's a massive difference in the size of these 3 types of energy supply. Base Load power stations are the largest of power stations. Typically they have individual generators of 100s of megawatts and the power stations themselves are often capable of delivering gigawatts of power. Base load plants are therefore built to deliver massive amounts at almost constant levels and the favored means for that is things like coal, hydro and nuclear. These are power stations that you can't just turn off and on as needed. Some of the larger plants can take several days to come up to power from a cold start. Load following is what it sounds like. Each day as people wake up there's a massive surge in demand that lasts several hours as people turn on factories, offices and other businesses. That settles during the day before another massive surge in the late afternoon early evening. Load following power stations follow that requirement. Because these power stations are generally needed twice each day they tend to be smaller than base load and must be capable of being turned off and on as needed and most importantly be able to respond as the power surges rise and fall. Peaking power stations are similar to load following but are specifically made to turn on from zero quickly in response to rapid demand changes. There's many causes of rapid demand changes but one of the more famous is when the British TV show Coronation Street ends and several 100 thousand people turn on their electric kettles to make hot tea. In the space of several minutes it hits the British energy grid with a massive short surge. There's 2 major groups of issues with all these power stations. - planning, design and approval - costs & construction time. For any investor the costs and construction time are the make or break. Like any investment it all comes down to how long it takes to pay off the investment and profits to start. For peaking those time frames are short and its viable. Peaking is where some of the new mega battery systems are proving to be incredibly good investments because the construction times are short and the pay-off times are short and the profit margins are high. Load following can also be reasonably profitable but its not as good as peaking. It costs more money takes longer to build and longer to pay off. However for base load there's no viable "free market" solution. If you look at Hinkley Point C in Britain as an example. It took 7 years to design and approve. Longer if you consider some of the preliminary work. It will take another 10-12 to build at a cost of £41-48 Billion with a pay-off period of around 10 years depending on market costs. Considering that executives capable of approving multi-billion pound/dollar/euro investments are in their mid 50s. Asking them to bet £41-48 Billion on something that wont pay profit until they are in their 80s is laughable. So there is fundamentally no "free market" solution for TO BUILD base load power in a modern society. HOWEVER If you privatise a state asset like a base load power station its an amazing investment because there's no approval, design or construction process. Those things are already done. You hand over money one day and start making money the next day not in 15-20years. Plus you don't need to find customers as they already exist. So then the question is who can invest in such power stations where they do have to go through design approval and construction and what do such investors get in return? The main investor in Hinkley Point C is the French Government via the state owned entity EDF. Hinkley Point C is expected to run for 60 years with an option to be extended to 80 years. The most well understood long term investors are banks for home loans and they basically expect to double their money on a 30 year loan. So if they loan someone £500,000 then 30 years later they expect to have back £1,000,000 of which £500,000 is the original loaned money and £500,000 is from interest on that loan. Even though bankers do think in 30 year time periods they are not really set up to consider 60 year time periods where they could expect the money to quadruple. So in the case of Hinkley Point C the French people via EDF can expect £4 back for every £1 invested but it will take 60 years to get that £4. That might not work for a commercial or private entity but EDF is not private its state owned and they have to consider their owners needs which is the French State. Right now the French State need to build new power stations to replace the old ones. Mr. Macron has ordered 8 reactors or the equivalent of 4 Hinkley Point C power stations. Hinkley Point C will not only eventually pay back its construction costs but the French state has a reasonable expectation that it will also pay for 6 of the French EPR 2 reactors ordered. If Hinkley gets an extension and runs for 80 years the French will have enough money to pay for all 8 reactors Mr. Macron has ordered PLUS enough money to decommission Hinkley Point C and clean up the site. Basically it might seem like the French People are gifting the British people a free power station as their government does not have to spend any money building it. The truth is the British people will end up giving the French people all that money back and enough EXTRA money to pay for 3 and possible 4 power stations in France. So there might not be any free market solution to BUILD, Own & Operate base load power stations but there certainly is a case for STATE OWNED entities to make long term strategic investments to BUILD, Own & Operate base load power stations.
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  2785. @@user-ih4hq I would have thought in Florida it was his long lost cousin Alligator McCoy.
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  2786. YOU COULD BUILD A WALL! According to 74,216,154 Americans a wall is what you need to stop illegal immigrants from jumping across your southern border. FYI - I'm Australian and was in Canada for a work a couple of years ago. I loved the place, so build the wall and stop saying "Sorry" for everything. And if your southern neighbors ever threaten anything just remind them that for every 50 Americans theirs a Canadian Ice Hockey mum waiting for them. Personally I think that's still unfair odds.
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  2787. You want some real perspective on minimum wage here is Brown U. Professor Mark Blyth explaining an interesting statistic. Its actually during a post-Trump win analysis in 2016. The link is time stamped to the right moment -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmBG3Z4DI&t=1104s Its part of where the anger that Trump tapped into came from. It also explained in part how Trump blew past the other Republicans on his way to the nomination. The Trump bit might be less of interest right now but the fact remains that Wall St has been ass-FK-ing the daylights out of the American working class and getting away with it for a long time.
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  2788.  @Bluebelle51  Isn't it priceless. I don't knw how much blunter he can be. Eventually when you strip the population of their wealth and opportunities they revolt. Look at all the notable revolutions of history, French, American, Russian to name a couple all had 1 thing in common - People got fed up with being FKD over by people with so much wealth they didn't know what to do with it. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2789.  @Bluebelle51  I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and even back then there were people who simply didn't get that concept. My line on that was "A starving man wont care about the million dollars you have in one hand, but he will kill you for the hamburger in your other hand." Have you seen any of Marks interviews with Albena Azmanova about what she calls Precarity Economics. ->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq67zwxylm4 Mark has his example/model of a computer that should have been updated after 2008. She's arguing that the software was actually patched and its now running with this updated form of neoliberalism where the top 1% keep the general population trapped in a precarious state. There's a constant threat of what you can lose - your job, your car, your house, your family,......... AND ITS NOT an AMERICAN THING either. Its everywhere across the Western world. And its like a repressive form of extortion that no matter what the bully and his henchmen are coming to rip from you.
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  2790. Go watch the other Vice News on sovereign citizens it has footage on that.
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  2791.  @ericbitzer5247  As for David Straight if you're that stupid and believe garbage like that, then don't complain when I.C.E. throw your ass in jail for being an illegal alien.
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  2792. You forget that there is one Trust fund baby who does work -> Tucker Carlson. I'm using work in the context that he turns up to a building where he gets paid to do things.
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  2793. I still can't wait to see Politicon have Dave Rubin debate Charlie Kirk on what sort of sex is acceptable for Republicans. We all know Charlie is obsessed with the subject of sex these days. Maybe Dave can help sort him out on a few things.
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  2794. I think Sean Hannity and the rest of these clowns need to very seriously start thinking about there personnel security. They are all on the public record telling LIES, LIES and more LIES. SOONER OR LATER someone is going to take more than just basic offense at this crap. I think its going to be very sad when some poor soul goes to prison for having shut one or more of these clowns up. For sure there are some truly foul people on the far radical left, particularly among the SJW crowd, but they don't have the resources of the billionaire class to ram this garbage down the throats of society. This sort of hypocrisy can't end well. It never has.
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  2795. First part absolutely right. Like Trump U and Prager U this place should be called out for what it is fraud. On the second point Rogan is NOT the center of these people. The IDW was actually labelled by Bari Weiss and it listed Rogan as one of them, but that list also included Dave Rubin who's as intellectual as a door post. If Rogan is a central figure then it only because he has an insanely popular podcast which does allow many of the Bari Weiss types a place to promote their stuff, but Rogan also has a other people on so its unfair to label him as the center mastermind. Also on the horse doctor claim - don't go there its BS. He only took the human variety of Ivermectin and it was under medical supervision. If you go back through David's vids on the Rogan Ivermectin case David very quickly changed his initial stance before he got sued. David was quite right to roast him over his video, because Rogan didn't clarify that he was under medical supervision until afterwards. Its totally irresponsible for ANY CELEBRITY to just say what they are taking without clarification. Its why celebrity endorsements cause so much trouble.
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  2796.  @iericgaisie3700  As an Australian who went to college in America I can give you sort of an answer to that. It DOES NOT explain everything but it might explain some of it. The first Europeans to settle in America at the Plymouth Colony left England because they felt persecuted. The Americans who revolted against English rule did so because they felt persecuted. So when Americans study their history its first few lessons have the narrative. _"We were persecuted and had to fight for our freedom." If you then keep looking into American history there are waves of other people who went to America because back in Europe "they were persecuted" or that Europe "was ruled by an unjust aristocracy." So, distrust of government and powerful elitists is ingrained into American history. In fact if you look at the first Amendment and pay attention to the very last part it you can see that its an implied statement of "you can't trust the government, so speaking out against it must be protected." In that environment anything that starts with the basic premise of "we aren't like those with power" combined with "you can't trust the government and others with power because they hide stuff from you, but here's the truth and we'll help you understand it" has a lot of appeal. I now suspect that Qanon is or was a smoke screen to get intelligent people to NOT look into the influence of billionaires by having the craziest people scream endlessly "look at this." Just the other day one commentators pointed out that America 465 billionaire collectively spent almost $900,000,000 (million) on this campaign season. Of that $900M most of it came from about 25 of them. Since its not something that can be easily hidden an easy way in America to get people looking the other way is start a brainless conspiracy of a secret cabal and make it so outrageous that most people dismiss the idea.
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  2797. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I love the enthusiasm you have for science and technology but I am sorry to say that we are in the deep crap zone a lot further than people realise. As an undergrad back in 1987 we had a special guest lecture one Friday. It was an Alum who worked at NASA and had just completed a project on the feasibility of terraforming Mars. He started with "Its impossible and here's why!" He introduced 2 things which I now call "Planetary Mechanics" & "Planetary Dynamics" Planetary Mechanics is simply the calculation of what you need to do. Like to put a 1km thick layer of Earth normal air around mars is a pretty simple calculation and it give 178 Trillion tons. At that point you suddenly realise how big the task actually is. Planetary Dynamics is how you make things like water cycles, oxygen cycles, thermal cycles,.... work. AND NOBODY has come close to succeeding at that. When you apply some basic planetary mechanics to the Earth it gets kind of staggering. The Earths surface is 510 million km2. If you look at just the first kilometer above the Earths surface you can basically say there's 500 million CUBIC kilometers of air. Also to get 400ppm of CO2 which is 0.04% down to 300ppm of CO2 which is 0.03% is 0.01%. So when people talk about direct air capture you have to think in terms of: "How do you process 500million or 1/2 a Billion cubic kilometers of air and extract/separate about 0.01% of that?" How do you think ANYONE is going to do that? For some of these DAC systems people talk about: - How do they process that much? - How much machinery does that take? - How to they power that much machinery? If your wondering. These are all the sorts of questions you have to ask if you are going to build a moon base, which was my goal in life.
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  2798. You should do a follow up book. "The Other Echo Machine: How Left Leaning Clowns Helped Create a Post-Truth America."
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  2799. To All - Here's David Dunning (of Dunning-Kruger) explaining why ignorance can't recognize itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErkhYq13VVE Its worth watching if you want to understand why people like this cannot not see what they are doing or what they are saying is wrong.
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  2800.  @commonsenseskeptic  On another note I'd love to help you do a debunk of space mining. I did a degree in aerospace (late 80s). I've worked mainly in automation, robotics and controls systems. In 2002 I met Harrison Schmitt who was here in Oz to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Apollo 17. I wanted to discuss with him satellite maintenance. Everything from my background said it was an industry waiting to boom. He quashed that quick by getting me to answer why nobody has done it? He then told me look up Helium-3. That meant mining and by chance Australia was just starting a mining construction boom to feed the Chinese beast. It too some time but I got into mine site construction and operations. Unlike all the fanbots and schemers I actually have worked on mines and helped build them and get them running. I can tell from basic numbers just how ludicrous some of the proposals are. Forget the money the tonnage is the reality. For example I worked at the Tom Price Iron Mine at one point. It produces 20MTA (million tons per annum) and its perfect for the basic numbers. Good iron ore is about 70% iron content. Lower grades are 55-60% and the really high grades are up to 95% (basically iron filings with some dirt thrown in). So for every 20 tons of iron ORE we get about 14 tons of iron. Which just so happens also is the landing capacity for the Space Shuttle. So it would basically take 1,000,000 Space Shuttle flights to handle the what just 1 iron mine does each year. Australia doesn't produce 20MTA it produces over 800MTA of ORE and China produces over 1,200MTA of ORE. Other than for incredibly rare and hyper value substances that the entire world demand is under 100tons per year will ever be feasible. Your mate Angry Astronaut just last week just pointed out the potential to mine nickel from the moon. One of my construction projects was Nickel mine. Global production of Nickel in 2020 was 2.5 million MTA (of metal). Which if we got from the moon would require about 178,000 space shuttle flights to land it here on Earth. What about Copper that's about 20MTA a year (of metal). In a way I like Anrgry because he stands up and calls out a lot of things that need calling out. BUT THEN he states some idiotic garbage and does it regularly. People can scream and yell all they like AND THEY DO. The fanbots scream at me all the time. Even if we suddenly got a Space Shuttle with 10x the capacity it still doesn't make sense. Except for incredibly rare ultra-high value substances NOBODY will be space mining anything anytime soon. So if you do want to do a debunk on the whole space mining thing let me know.
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  2801.  @zachthamm9595  True, but I think it goes further than just blue collar who only vote on a couple of very narrow points. I went to U.Illinois an one of my frat brothers was from Alton, just across the river from St. Louis. I recently saw an Episode of "Abandoned" about St. Louis. St. Louis has gone form the heydays of the late 80s early 90s where it had a population over 650,000, was growing and had major manufacturing plants for companies like McDonnel Douglas to the current state of about 300,000 and has fire sales where they sell entire schools (as in the buildings and land). How the fuck does a city that once held the Olympics fall so far? And its not the only one, we all know about Detroit and other places. Then there is the Opioid Crisis. Seriously the Sackler's thought they could sell an Opioid that wasn't addictive, when every other opioid is addictive. I Saw this recently and its shameful -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG0nqRXLDOg Watch this if you have time if you don't at least watch the part after 52:40 where Richard Wolff uses West Virginia as an example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc Its still freakish to hear a Marxist justify that those people were voting in their best interest with Trump. This is where the monumental problem actually is. Everybody on the other side simply dismissed these people and let Trump radicalize them so far that they now do what they do. So what does America do with them? These aren't 74million radicalized Muslims in another country with Ak47s. These are 74million radicalized well armed Americans inside America with a giant stockpile of ammunition.
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  2802. You're not alone making that point. Lets see what the judge says.
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  2803. That's only if can find a way to rationalise that combining arrogant stupidity with narcissism is somehow equal to bravery.
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  2804. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I spent one of my Spring Breaks doing what us Australians call "walk about." In 9 days I did about 2,000 miles. I started in Illinois went down to Texas across to New Orleans, Alabama and Florida before heading back to Illinois. It was the late 80s and I never saw any of this stuff down there. All I met were decent friendly people who thought my accent was funny and wondered if I was Crocodile Dundee's cousin. There were hints that there were people who thought a little this way. The televangelists like Jim Baker were ranting and raging before they all got caught in sex scandals. BUT NONE OF IT WAS THIS BAD. Most of my experiences in America were really great. This stuff isn't the America I remember and I really do hope you guys can start finding some political leaders who actually care about America rather than playing these culture war issues. And so you know we also have some of this culture war nonsense but not this bad. Yeah I know Rupert Murdoch is partly to blame and we are sorry for his existence BUT THEN we did warn you like we had warned the Brits what he was like.
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  2805. That's a fairly astute comment and I think a little bit better balanced than Mark Felton has been in this video. He's British and if anyone cares to take a look at how the British Empire behaved for several centuries which included numerous accounts of genocide. They basically treated anyone who didn't speak the King's English as an inferior species. FYI - I'm Australian and we are still dealing with our British Heritage and YES I am of Anglo Saxon Heritage. All our countries have things we should be ashamed of. Mark mentioned the bombing of civilians, which Britain and its allies did a lot more of against Germany than Germany did to Britain during WW2. Go an check out the tonnage of bombs dropped by the allies compared to the tonnage of bombs dropped by the Germans on Britain. PLUS there is the outright crime that was the fire bombing of Dresden for which Arthur "Bomber" Harris and others were never held accountable. ALSO when it comes to the issue of using people as live test subjects anytime a Brit wants to discuss the British Nuclear tests in Australia when the Brits KNOWINGLY IRRADIATED Adelaide and Melbourne LETS GO.
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  2806. I don't know about dystopian but its certainly delusional.
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  2807.  @lisanidog8178  Your comment about generalizing is maybe one of the smartest comments on this subject I have seen. That's because like so many other complex topics that people try and generalize or simplify, it just doesn't work without context. Added to that. As a man, now with a some life experience, I find it utterly ridiculous for men to be telling women what they can and can't do medically. No man would allow a women telling men we can or can't have a vasectomy or prostate exam or anything else specific to men. Its why I wont comment on your experience because I have nothing to base a comment on - no experience and no understanding. Right now the 6 men on SCOTUS should simply recuse themselves on the grounds they're men. Forget every other argument and just go with the simplest thing - "We're men and we're staying out of this!" I don't have a daughter or wife but I do have a niece and she's been one of the most wonderful things to happen in my life. So to me, the idea of a man treating her like an item to be owned and controlled makes me want to pick up a bat.
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  2808.  @pansepot1490  Considering you can't even spell Krystal's name right I don't where the F--K you're coming from. Criticism of what Sagaar said and Krystal added to is fair, but gaslighting them isn't.
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  2809. Can you and all the other YouTubers STOP POSTING things like this that imply this is about to change the universe. You aren't dumb but you are acting dumb. Rolls Royce, GE and others had the hydrogen issues in the engine all beaten back in the mid 1990s. So why haven't there been any hydrogen powered airliners? No engine will be any sort of "game changer" so long as there isn't a fuel supply.
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  2810.  @brucelytle1144  Thanks for the sentiment but we sadly live in a world that feels like an asylum run by the patients. Here in Australia we are having this huge public debate over nuclear versus renewable power AND NOBODY in the media is asking any engineers. We just had our premier science organisation release their nuclear energy report and it was written by economists. Could you imagine if NASA was taken over by economists? I have been looking into this for a couple of years and I have found that its hardwired into economists that they believe that all other professions are problems that they have to manage. How many times has history shown that if you don't listen to people who have BOTH expertise and experience that it tends to go wrong? No one seems to learn that lesson.
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  2811.  @belladonnahigh9206  Total BS. Like many others I am damn tired of IDIOTIC MORONS claiming their side did nothing and its all the fault of the other side. The Republicans, Democrats, the British parties, the Australian parties, the Canadian parties and ALL THE OTHERS all do the same shite and their moronic supporters all do the same thing. "Your side is corrupt and my side is the savior of humanity." You scream and rant about Biden, MSNBC, CNN and others while ignoring how corrupt Trump, Fox, OANN are. You scream about Hunter Biden and a laptop NOBODY has seen. Fine he used daddy's name to get a job and that's shite. Now when are YOU going to admit Jared & Ivanka are as corrupt as all hell. I've had a gutful of shite people LIKE YOU ranting about the other side while ignoring your own side.
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  2812. I'm Australian and grew up in Victoria (South East) which is a similar climate to parts of Europe. In 2005 I went to work in our mining industry. I'd experienced hot days before but it was nothing like what I experienced. The air is so hot and dry it just sucks the water from your body and its dangerous. My first major project was in the area where they filmed Crocodile Dundee (far North) and it was either hot and dry or hot and humid. Unless you know how to handle your hydration these conditions are incredibly dangerous. Its incredibly easy to think that just drinking anything will help and in some cases it is, but over days and weeks it isn't. Things like sports drinks and fruit juice can be lethal because of the sugar content. In the Australian mining industry we get told these things all the time: The number 1 choice is plain water - drink lots, but women need to be careful because older women can end up over hydrating and causing other issues. The number 2 choice are the actual specifically designed re-hydrating formulas. NOT Sports drinks or powders as those have sugar. The specifically designed formulas all carry warnings on how much you can have each day. Like some things a little can help but too much can cause issues - its a balance thing. The number 3 choice are "low joule" cordials which have little or no sugar, but don't over do it. We get told if we want a bit of flavor do it as little as possible like 1/2, 1/3 or 1/4 strength. Most of all look at your urine color. The more colour it has the more water you need to drink.
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  2813.  @marvinmartin4692  It might sound like a great idea but the last thing anyone should wish for is a peasant revolution. They tend to get very destructive and out of control very quickly because they involve so much rage and anger. Go look at the French & Russian examples.
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  2814. What does anybody expect from a McKinsey brat? Go listen to anyone who's had to deal with them. They're overrated, overpaid and underworked. Common story is how they arrive, make lots of noise, get other people to do the actual work and then package and present it to management as they tell everyone how amazing and fantastic they are. Have any of the rest of you heard that? And lets not forget McKinsey's greatest gift to all our lives and fortunes - Human Resources.
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  2815.  @JesseJames-vc2bm  I can see your point if you cherry pick certain events, which to be perfectly clear on face value do seem at times absurd. But to use those few examples to say they are NOT being denigrated is equally absurd. This is one of those subjects that people love to over simplify or cherry pick points. Its neither a simple subject nor one where cherry picked items are helpful to anyone.
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  2816. Thank you so much. Being an engineer and NOT a student of political theory, (in fact I generally hate such people, for the utter garbage they sell society) I normally run from such people and any of their advocates. Its taken only a few minutes of looking through other quotes to see mister Wolin is a great thinker who has seen through the smoke and mirrors. Most interestingly (and unlike so many others) he seems to like pointing out historical facts from Athenian and Roman societies which oddly I studied in college as humanities options. Please don't hold it against me that I hadn't heard of him, but I come from a different path. Here's another of his quotes from the same book that immediately struct me as the privatisation of Australia is such a hot topic for me. “The strategy followed by privatization’s advocates is, first, to discredit welfare functions as “socialism” and then either to sell those functions to a private bidder or to privatize a particular program. A traditional governmental function, such as education, is in process of being redefined, from a promise to make education accessible to all to an investment opportunity for venture capital.” ― Sheldon S. Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: And this one which when put into the context of "Citizens United" and the current makeup of the ultra pro-corporate SCOTUS is chilling. "When power is organized in the form of an economy based upon private capital and the division of labor, then ipso facto the lives of most persons will be directed by others. Dependence is thus institutionalized as inequalities of reward and, consequently, of power.” ― Sheldon S. Wolin, Democracy Incorporated:
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  2817.  @paulhargreaves1497  Yes agreed
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  2818. I'm Australian, I went to college in America (U. Illinois) and was working in Canada 3 years ago. About 10 years ago after a couple of medical scandals we looked at other nations and investigated America, Canada and Britain to name a few. So not only have I personnel experience with the American system Australia has done the research into other health care systems. If we add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25.2 million compared to Australia's 25.6. Yes there is massive differences in geographical size and population density. The winters are very different. BUT the medical technology, education, manufacturing capability and transportation are near identical. Australia has 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin have 33,435 COVID fatalities. (sourced -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) In just the last 7 days (4-1 thru 10-1-2021) just Illinois with less than half the population of Australia has had 971 fatalities. Illinois is a Blue Democrat State and the Country has been run by Red Republicans so neither side can blame the other for this tragedy. I can personally testify that the people of those states are mostly decent, honest and hard working. They don't deserve this. I am currently in the city of Brisbane. We just came out of a 3 day lockdown because of 2 cases of the new British strain turned up and they don't how how 1 of those people got it. There is now mandatory mask wearing in all public places along with enforced distancing regulations until the 20th. That's just while they work out how we got 2 cases of the British Strain!!! Australia *DOESN'T have some magic Kangaroo juice or any other magic medical technology. Our leaders have their flaws and they do make mistakes. So how else can anyone explain what has happened in places like Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin other than a catastrophic failure of leadership?
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  2819.  @aworldwithoutsin  Its not just an American thing - its a world wide thing. its just a lot more blatant and in your face in America. I think after some of the idiotic judgements, appellate decisions and jury decisions of the past 30+ years have made prosecutors reluctant to try on anything but slam dunks, but that's not a reason to not try.
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  2820. Prof Mark Blyth Mentioned in a recent podcast the recent sudden change in Fox anchors. He reported that Biden or someone close to Biden called Rupert Murdoch directly and bluntly said "Its your people dying. What do you want to do?" I think even Rupert Murdoch understands that dead people don't buy subscriptions. Why did Trump suddenly talk about getting vaccinated recently? Maybe someone told him dead people don't vote and his base dying. Irrespective of those stories, what does anybody actually expect considering how tribal this has become?
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  2821. Hey Kyle if you try and get into the mind of a person like this you need the following minimum equipment. 1) Full vacuum space suite with radiation shielding. 2) Safety rope so others can pull you out. 3) High Def GPS so you can find your way out in case the rope breaks.
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  2822.  @neworder736  WTF does that mean? Do you even know how to write English?
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  2823. I can see the day when people like LK step out their front door to a very ugly moment when some poor guy simply says he's had enough of being trampled on. If you kick a dog enough times it will eventually bite Sooner or later the American public is going to respond just like a dog that's been kicked too many times.
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  2824. Better question: What have they (the Trump side) claimed that Hilary actually did that she needed to be jailed for? I'm no Hilary fan and I've heard Kyle repeatedly mention Libya and Iraq but if the world was to start prosecuting politicians and their staffers and the MIC executives and the MIC private contractors for war crimes then we'd actually need to start a moon base or simply take over a massive slab of the planet somewhere, because there is not a single prison anywhere that can hold that many people. That's not to say we should not pursue these people. Half the reason Libya ad Iraq and Afghanistan were the disasters they were was because NOBODY AT THE POLITICAL LEVEL among Western nations was never held accountable FOR ANYTHING since the Nuremberg Trials. Sure a few Yugoslavs and African leaders were charged with crimes but WHO out of the Western Political system ever got held accountable? I'm Australian and do ANY OF YOU realise that John Howard the Prime Minister who signed us up to Iraq is a Lawyer who just seemed to conveniently forget all that he had learned about international law. How about Tony Blair who was the British Prime Minister at the time. He's also a lawyer as is his wife who is actually a notable human rights lawyer. Cherie Blair actually came to Australia to argue a human right case and was told to FK-OFF until she sorted her husbands crap out. On the "lawyers who should have known better" the Gold Medal performance goes to John Yoo. He was the clown who wrote the memos that allowed water boarding and stress positions as part of the "Enhanced Interrogation" program. You remember that stuff everyone else calls torture. The federalist Society even gave him an award for his service. He's now a tenured professor teaching law at US Berkley. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo
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  2825. As an Australian I find this almost hilarious and sad at the same time because we have found out that our Labour Party has the same basic attitude. We voted them in 18 months ago to FIX all the crap and nonsense our Conservatives had dumped on the nation for 9 years and so far they have done didley squat. The problem is they all went to the same universities and learned the same economics. They come at economic issues from slightly different perspectives but the solutions are the same: - Hire more consultants; - Tax cuts for the rich; - No changes to existing programs or introduction of new programs that might actually help; - Hand out exorbitant juicy contracts to corporations who donated to their campaign. SOUND FAMILIAR???
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  2826.  @drunklerob225  Well way to prove your ignorance and stupidity. Get your head out of the OAN, Newsmax and FOX echo chamber. When did BLM, ANTIFA or any one else STORM CONGRESS and demand that the government IGNORE democracy and IGNORE the constitution? That's right NEVER.
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  2827.  @sylvialedwig6964  Why TF are you asking about my family? What does that have to do with this subject or my comment? Because is some cultures that sort of question can be taken as a threat. So you need to be clear in what you mean.
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  2828. The Republicans in the House can file it. As far as I know anyone in the House can file for impeachment.
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  2829. Its a combination of both. There's the scar of Mao's past and the behemoth of climate change about to smash them. I have heard that China might lose 50% of its agricultural capacity. There are reports that (through mismanagement) they have severely damaged or destroyed 1000s of rivers. Sometimes with pollution, sometimes through irrigation and sometimes both. Go and look up the Yongding River as an example. But that water mismanagement isn't just a Chinese issue. There's almost not a single country anywhere that does not have water issues.
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  2830. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Just some perspective on Crew Dragon and SORRY that this is long. First I absolutely agree that there's massive issues with Elon Musk and how he does business that's perfectly obvious. There's also no doubt the Gwynne Shotwell has said some dumb things which Thunderf00t and others have pointed out. I am also of the same opinion that both Starlink and Starship are doomed to fail (see below). If we are going to fairly judge Falcon9/Crew Dragon then it needs to be compared against its actual competition. You pointed out that a Falcon9 launch costs $67 Million. I have seen Crew Dragon costed at $70 Million. Crew Dragon delivers 4 people to the ISS on each flight making it a cost of $17.5 million per astronaut to the ISS. The last seat an American had on Soyuz has been reported at $80 Million for 1 person. The Space Shuttle cost $350-450 Million per launch and despite its ability to carry up to 8 people it only ever delivered 3 to the ISS for a crew rotation but the others on a flight did stuff while there so its harder to cost but its safe to say it cost over $80 Million for each astronaut who stayed and did a stint on the ISS. However the Space shuttle could also deliver at the same time 16 tons of cargo to the ISS and that's basically 4-5 times Cargo Dragon. So when you consider the Space shuttle on each flight did the equivalent of 5-6 Falcon 9s its in the same ball park as Falcon 9. Here's the ugly comparison - Boeing Starliner the Boeing Max-8 of space flight. The Boeing Starliner which has had more than $550 Million in US Government money ($92M in 2011 and another $460M in 2012) for development is yet to fly successfully. According to Wikipedia Boeing has incurred costs between 2020 and 2022 of $883M and considering its cost plus contracting the US tax payer will eventually cop those costs. So for more than $1.3 Trillion (with a 't') the Boeing Starliner has flown twice for 1 failed mission and 1 partly failed mission. Basically Crew Dragon is NOT a major step forward or a revolutionary rocket. It is however an improvement on what NASA had especially following the demise of the Space Shuttle. Importantly compared to its main opposition (Starliner) it "looks" pretty magical but that's because Starliner really sucks. Crew Dragon is a step backwards so that NASA can go forwards. Thunderf00t has been around enough engineering project and research work to know that at times you simply have to step backwards because you've run into a wall. Going back to the SPACE SHUTTLE and heads up I did a comprehensive review of its history several years ago as part of the lessons learned section of a proposal. Its basic dry weight is 75 tons. So before you even give it people and cargo you have to lift 75t around 200km and then accelerate it to around 25,000 kmh. Those numbers get bigger going to the Space Station which is why its LEO payload is listed as 30t and its payload to the ISS is listed at 16t. So that 75t is a massive cost but it was sort of offset by reusability, but even that had issues. On top of those fuel costs the Space Shuttle required a lot more manpower to service it than first planned. Its one of the main reasons manned space flight stalled. All the things needed to go further and do things like build a lunar base needed people working on the technologies needed. Not only did the Space Shuttle consume money it also consumed the time people needed to do other things. THAT'S what made the Space Shuttle a failure. Technically it was an amazing achievement but for manned space flight it cost us 30-40 years. STARLINK It will fail just like the Iridium satellite phone system failed. Its a solution to a problem that does not exist. This is what kills many (what people think are) great ideas. If you are in a remote location it might provide a service but for anyone with an easy link to broad band then what does it offer? Plus the optic fibres that broad band is based on don't need to be replaced every few years in the same way the Starlink satellites drop out of orbit. Plus if you want to upgrade your broad band system Bob the Builder's mate Eric the Electro-tech can drive to the network hub and swap out the nodes. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂ STARSHIP Not long after the Soviet Union collapsed the Russians released a trove of information on their lunar program based around the N-1 rocket. Go have a look at the arrangement of the motors in the N-1's first stage. YES Starship has a similar arrangement and when you know what the issues with the N-1 were, which I have known for over 20 years having read reviews on the N-1 back in the 1990s. The big problem the N-1 had was if they had a motor failure in the outer ring they needed to shut down the motor directly opposite or the off centre load would make the rocket uncontrollable. The Soviets had a system to do that automatically but it failed to work properly and the N-1 did a very similar thing to what we saw with Starship. Starship not only has the same inherent issue of the N-1 their control system for handling engine failures has the same issues the Russians had in the 1970s. Clearly that first flight showed it does NOT have the control range to handle the sorts of failures it had. But that's nothing. STARSHIP LAUNCH SITE. I have spent most of my engineering career in industrial control systems which has included safety systems. I had the second highest qualification available in that area at one stage. SO I AM FORMALLY TRAINED in assessing sites and systems for hazard identification, risk assessments and risk mitigation strategies. That launch site should never have been approved. for use. 1) The launch pad had no thrust diverter and when you consider the mass flow out of those engines (~26 tons per second at over 3.2km/s) and its just slamming into a flat surface. Look up the Wikipedia page for the N-1 and look at the size of the 3 exhaust tunnels. No one should have been surprised that the launch platform failed and chunks of concrete were ripped up and tossed 100s of meters. 2) Right beside the launch pad are the rocket fuel and oxygen storage tanks. If you look at the photos it had a small deflection barrier less than 1/2 the height of those tanks. That barrier means they expected rocket exhaust gases to head towards those tanks and they were left seriously exposed. On basic safety grounds that site should never have been allowed to be used for such a launch and quite possibly ANY LAUNCH. For anyone who wants to hold Gwynne Shotwell to account this is your opportunity. As the Chief Operating Officer and a highly qualified engineer she should KNOW BETTER should be held personally accountable. I have a pilots license and that's the sort of thing that gets airlines grounded and in some cases LOSE THEIR OPERATING LICENSE. SORRY to all this is as long as it is. I mostly agree with Thunerf00t and others like Common Sense Skeptic but I also think that a few things need better context. Especially that applies to comparing Crew Dragon to its competition which in the case of Boeing Starliner its a lot better than some people think, but I'd agree with anyone who says its neither revolutionary nor an ideal solution BUT IT DOES WORK.
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  2831.  @skie6282  Pennsylvania was the one court case they won and what the court said was they had to stick with the time limit for people to confirm their ID on postal votes. The election officials went to extend it because of the large number postal votes but the court said NO they had to stick with the time set out in the state law. It cost only a small number of votes and those mostly DEM. It didn't alter the outcome.
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  2832.  @thedissidentleftist6997  Agreed on that, their reporting system is a joke. My bet is that unless enough people hit the same report button in close timing then it does nothing. To me its all part of "the machine system" we now live in. The annoyance is that none of us asked for this. The internet was supposed to be the way to "democratize information" and instead it only seems like its democratized ignorance.
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  2833. Go look at her wikipedia bio, it makes for interesting reading. She was born in Russia and is a native Russian speaker who after her family immigrated studied Soviet history at Princeton. I have also watched Konstantin Kisin who's a Brit with a similar background. He too has been incredibly informative in recent days. Most notably neither of them needs an interpreter when Putin is speaking they can understand what he's saying. Konstantin has already pointed out that some of the news channel interpreters are slanting some of the definitions and not fully conveying the meaning of some of Putin's statements. That's their real value to us all right now. They can both explain what's being said because they are both native Russian speakers.
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  2834. Brian hasn't yet commented on the new Trump phone call but David Pakman did earlier today -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ya7Sx6y8k8 Just listen to the complete lack of reality and overstated claims. When a political movement doesn't have at least a reasonable grasp of reality its either one of 2 things. Incredibly delusional or Incredibly dishonest BUT BOTH are incredibly dangerous. For the entire cold war it was "Oh the Russians,......... this" and "Oh the Russians,......... that," but we knew about the Gulags and the KGB and other things. For the past 20 years its been "Oh the Muslims,......... this" and "Oh the Muslims,......... that," but we know SOME of that was true after because we all saw 9/11 and some of them made no secret about suicide bombing and other atrocities. But with Trump and his supporters there's almost NOTHING anyone agrees with. But then Trump himself sees everything as some sort of business deal where bluff and bluster ARE THE ONLY FACTS THAT MATTER.
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  2835. Engineer here 1) There's nothing that says AI drones would work at anything. You're simply reading way too much into the RIDICULOUSLY OVER HYPED capabilities of AI. 2) The entire AUKUS program is ridiculous and not because its nuclear. I have supported for almost 20 years that our next submarines should be nuclear. In 2006 I had a technician who was an ex-US Navy nuclear power plant tech/operator who'd worked on aircraft carriers which have exactly the same nuclear reactors as the subs. There'd been some news story on what Australia should have after Collins and he simply crushed the stupidity that Australia should have diesel electric subs with the amount of ocean area we have to patrol. The 2 best reasons AUKUS is ridiculous are: 1) The cost. At $268 Billion for 8 Subs that's $33.5 Billion each over their lifetime. The basic cost of a Virginia class is $5.5 Billion. So where is the other $28 Billion going? No one is even asking that. So I did some research 2 years ago and even building and maintaining all that I could find listed and then multiplying the costs the closest I came to $268 was around $155 Billion. I have discussed this with other engineers and there's at least $100 billion none of us can work out where its going. 2) Crewing the Virginia class Virginia class subs need almost 140 submariners while the Collins requires 60. Australis has struggled with getting enough submariners qualified to operate 4 of the 6 Collins class subs we have. Just to crew 2 Virginia class subs would take MORE THAN the current RAN Submariner corps. Who's going to crew the other 6? An ex-RAN Submarine commander was asked about this on 4-Corners and his answer was: "We'll have to do better." YES that was his answer. Nothing about how. Nothing about training. Nothing about where these people would come from. He had nothing, nada, zip or diddley squat AND THAT'S THE BEST ANSWER SO FAR.
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  2836. 2 Extraordinary quotes in this. The obvious one is his tweet and the way he describes doing it, but before that is another: Starting at 2:34:25 "That's why today, I believe that America, and for sure American democracy, is at risk, because those representatives whom the founders completely understood would tend to act in their own self-political interest rather than the interest of the country, the founders believed that the system would constrain them. Today proves that the founders, as wise as they were as to that, were mistaken." FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineer but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and we used to discuss these sorts of things. I'd studied Orwell (Animal Farm and 1984) and used to maintain that any country could fall into a totalitarian dictatorship if it wasn't careful. They used to say that can't happen in America because the Constitution was built to prevent that happening. Basically it had safety functions that would not allow any person or small group of persons to do take over. One thing the founding fathers didn't consider is the influence of lobbying. UNELECTED groups and organisations who would seek to influence the operation of government for their own gain. Organisations the unelected Federalist Society, unelected Heritage Foundation and unelected CATO Institute. Then there is the extraordinary influence institutions like Harvard, Yale and U. Chicago have had spitting out and endless supply of acolytes who end up in all sorts of places of INFLUENCE. Do you know 14 of the last 18 SCOTUS Judges including 8 of the current 9 studied at Harvard or Yale where the Federalist Society was started. The next SCOTUS Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson studied at Harvard or that 5 of the 7 named to replace Judge Breyer were either Harvard or Yale. That's an extraordinary level of power concentrated among a handful of people and totally against what the founding fathers set out to do.
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  2837.  @thengine7  Awesome proverb. I'll file that one away.
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  2838. 2 words - ELECTION FRAUD In most places in the world if you falsely fill out a ballot its called ELECTION FRAUD
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  2839.  @johngallagher912  True the fake electors were not the organizers but in a conspiracy EVERYONE involved can be charged with ANY & EVERY crime committed by ANY member of the conspiracy. Even if all someone di was go to a couple of meetings and did something as simple as go a buy a couple of the phones used and never even went to Washington. *BAD LUCK for them as they were part of it and as such can be charged with everything. Several legal channels have covered the topic of conspiracy law. At the most basic you need 2 or more parties and an overt act. Quite often they go after small fish first to get them to flip on bigger fish. Maybe that's what's finally happening smaller fish are spilling on bigger fish.
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  2840. Considering she's a neo-con I wouldn't claim she's an ally of democracy. The keystone of neo-conservativism is that democracy is doomed to fail because people don't vote for what's best, they vote for what they want. Its based around what the University of Chicago poly-sci people call "realism" which is based around accepting humans for what they are and part of that is being selfish. Its totally narcissistic. What she ISN'T is a pro-authoritarian maniac. She's just a normal neo-conservative authoritarian, who's smart enough to know that these clowns are wrecking her chance of getting the neo-cons back into power. Even if the neo-cons get back into power do you really think they want to share power with these idiots?
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  2841. Please learn how to read, write and spell in English before telling the rest of us what to do.
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  2842. Trump reportedly made $1.6 Billion in the 4 years he was President - He's not short of money. Possibly short of cash because a lot of that might be asset growth. Jared and Ivanka were also reported to have made about $400 Million in those 4 years.
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  2843. Its called tribalism and its effectively the new norm. David's recent interview with Vincent Racaniello on COVID was pretty good but it did have 1 really bad mistake. I don't know if he just made a mistake or if it was deliberate, but he did say the Chinese were NOT working on these viruses and that's just wrong. The Chinese were publishing their research. For simply fact checking and providing evidence people went crazy with one calling me a commie Putin supporter. This is the problem we now face. If anybody dares fact check any claim the tribe doesn't like they get screamed at by the tribe. Its why we aren't making any progress on some serious world issues - climate change, refugees, food shortages, economics,.... etc. and that list is only getting longer. Certainly we are going to struggle with COVID because of stupid people being tribal.
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  2844. I am an aerospace engineer and I am fed up with the clowns who call themselves "science communicators." Most of them have utter zero STEM education and next to zero STEM literacy. Most just regurgitate the published PR as their script. One of the best I know for "dramatic regurgitating" is the channel Dark Skies. I was watching one vid and checked the Wikipedia page and he was just reading straight off the Wikipedia page like a high school clown from drama class. I don't think any of them actually deliberately mean to do wrong or cause confusion, but that is what they so often do. Neil De Grasse Tyson did a great explanation of what can happen a few minutes into this -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S58vlJwhwDw
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  2845. You have actually hit an important point. Thinking through what you really expect out of a project and then HONESTLY evaluating if it will deliver. I'm an engineer and its not simply a matter of what worked and what didn't work in China its a matter of what were they actually doing with these projects in these countries. Were they actually building stuff that would help or were they building stuff that would be a series of debt burdens? This is something all countries have to deal with at times. I'm an Australian engineer and we have lists of projects that were great successes and lists of stuff we'd really not want anyone to know about. I did my degree in America and its the same there. If you dig around you'll find it in every developed nation. The difference usually comes from POLITICAL DESIRE. What are the politicians looking to do. Most of the time its attention and prominence. As an engineer I can tell you there is nothing more profitable than a clown with other people's money who wants to put their name on brass plaque and nail it to some edifice.
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  2846. The great quote in this is at 14:20 "this thing didn't even survive the most superficial scrutiny" I'm an aerospace engineer and the number of times I have had to answer similar questions and answer them more than once is baffling. Its simply staggering how many people think Hollywood is based on fact. Worse is how utterly ignorant our mainstream media are of technology. When I was in college they made me do some humanities so that I'd be more "well rounded." I'd like to start seeing every arts degree include a basic engineering course so that when all these clowns talk at least there's a chance the noise coming out from their mouths has a chance of being based on fact.
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  2847. I'm an engineer and look at this a while back. In America places like Diablo Canyon are just sitting there with tons of high level nuclear waste. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant In Britain they spent over £200Billion (that's British pounds) cleaning up all there existing sites. It was originally budgeted at about £40billion. It took around 20 years of work to clean up some sites. Its very slow and very expensive and now they are building 8 new nuclear plants to replace the older ones. The clean up in America is a very big discussion that nobody yet wants to talk about, especially nobody in politics.
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  2848. Ever since David first brought it up I have been ramming it down there throats when they make stupid comments. I even got one Google account (others have reported the same) when I pointed out and entire channel was a Trump backing scam. Yes there are channels here on YT that were set up for people to scam Trump supporters. The guy who got my account canceled had a series of vids claiming to all how Trump won this and that and how he needed money to keep spreading "the truth" (sound familiar). The there are the evangelists that David pointed out yesterday. Trumps not the only one cashing in on these people.
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  2849. Sorry, but I am an engineer. How TF does a penthouse weigh 400lbs? That's bits of this I can easily say are flawed but if you are going to be critical get you stuff right.
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  2850. David Pakman, who was born in Argentina and knows the situation in Argentina as good as ANYBODY in the media had a great take on this. His vid is titled "Trump-like lunatic defeats corrupt demagogue in Argentina presidential election" Pakman described the 2 options as "worse" and "even worse" but then couldn't say which was which because they were so bad as candidates. This actually has parallels to America, and most of the Western World, where the choice we are being given by establishment political parties is between a bad option and a worse option. Look at Britain right now their choice is between incompetent and more incompetent. The only question is which one is more incompetent. FYI: I'm Australian our parties are no different. They both put up incompetent candidates who have a terrible record of getting elected and then causing SHIT STORMS.
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  2851.  @simonmasters3295  There's a few clowns in this thread but you've managed to point out the problem of water mismanagement is a GLOBAL issue and goevrnments everywhere have screwed up. Anyone whos being watching the water issues around the world knows this is a global issue. DW News have done a number of stories on this. America has 3 mega issues about to smash it. First is the Southern California Aquifer which has been drains so much that sea water is starting to soak through the ground and wells closer to the ocean are already turning brackish. Then there is the insane abuse of the Colorado system that's most obvious from the record low levels of Lake Mead (behind Hoover Dam). After that are the issues with ground water depletion across the great plains (Nebraska, Oklahoma,...etc.) I'm Australian but went to college in America so I know what Americans can be like. Meanwhile in Australia we have the Murray-Darling system which has been so badly mismanaged we pump water back up the darling via a pipeline (from the Murray) to make up for stupidity on the Darling. Back in the 1950s we did the Snowy Mountain scheme where we dammed the Snowy River which had the highest flow of any river in Australia and diverted it through tunnels and pipes into the Murray. We generated electricity and provided a massive amounts of water for irrigation. The Murray joins with the Darling our longest river. Those 3 rivers combined no longer flow into the ocean because we extract so much water from them. In Australia I first heard about this project a couple of years ago (see below) in a general news story about water management issues around the world and there are a lot of water management issues around the world. The problem for Beijing is that its main water supply the Yongding River was damned upstream for irrigation and now its dry. They built a dam on the Yongding to store and provide water for Beijing. Its never held a drop of water. This is a similar to the stories about the Aral Sea, the California Aquifer, the Hoover Dam, the conflicts developing over the Nile, the issues with the Jordan and the Dead Sea, the issues with over irrigation of the Tigris and Euphrates and then there's the mega issue of depletion of ground water across many parts of the world. This stupidity in China is being repeated around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongding_River https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/worldtoday/china-claims-new-project-will-revitalise-the-yongding-river/10548942
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  2852.  @alexwarner6111  As an Australian I can tell you we all thought Rupert had 5 years left 15years ago and wished he had 5 years left 97 years ago. Go and check his response during the phone tap scandal when after yet another "I wasn't aware of that" answer one of the MPs quipped that maybe he then shouldn't be running a major public company any longer. Rupert snapped back and for the briefest of moments the world got to see behind his mask. All I remember is the ferocity he said "NO" with. He might be old but DO NOT think for a blink he's not terrifyingly dangerous. As for Lachlan we might just have to deal with him sooner that he'd like.
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  2853.  @ColaSpandex  If you think that any new law passed anywhere in the Western World is going to threaten Rupert Murdoch then you don't understand Rupert Murdoch. He is a pure narcissistic sociopath. He has no empathy and cares for nothing but what he wants. We all know he can't be reasoned with and that the general well being and future of society is meaningless to him. He's far from alone in that. Go and look at Charles Koch, he's just as bad. We tried warning Britain what he was like went he went there and NOBODY listened. We tried warning America what he was like went he went there and NOBODY listened.
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  2854.  @lolicantthinkofabettername3437  There's nothing new in the He-3 discussion. I actually met Harrison Schmitt back in 2002 when he was in Australia for the 30th anniversary of Apollo 17 and he was pushing for a $20 Billion mining project for it on the moon. It was one fo the main reasons I went off to the mining industry so I could get some practical experience with building and operating mines. The biggest issue with mining ANYTHING in space (including He-3) is the NONE of the promoters have any idea what it takes to build a mine, operate a mine or transport the mines products to where they are needed. A lot of what's proposed is so ludicrous and idiotic its not even worth calling science fiction.
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  2855.  @yourhuckleberry6757  Yeah where did you learn to spell? I've heard of encouraged, but WTF is incurageged. Is that some new poly-sci term that hasn't reached the normal world?
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  2856.  @Analysta654  Great point. I've asked where did they get the money? That many guns and bullets isn't cheap. And then there's the question where did they get them? This isn't a truck load or 2 this is convoys of trucks and cars. Where did all their equipment come from? With all the satellite tech and drones and other stuff where did they hide all this stuff? There's a whole pile of questions NOBODY seems to be asking. Possibly nobody wants to ask incase the answers aren't what certain people want to be made public. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2857. I'm an Australian who went to college at U. Illinois and I had some great times in Wisconsin. Its really sad to see this guy as one of their representatives. To be fair Wisconsin isn't alone in having these types. We have some of them here too and nobody ever seems to know how they get elected. Look at what just happened in Britain. Its almost like the entire Western World has become addicted to electing clowns and idiots.
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  2858.  @goodo4668  What do you think is wrong with the Costello remark? He and Keating weren't that different. They might have described things differently but they didn't act differently. labor and Liberal have been very close on economics since the 80s. Did you forget that Keating once railed against John Hewson's GST and then brought it in himself. Keating never once stopped a manufacturing sector go under. and then Costello came along and declared manufacturing was a sunset industry and we would be moving towards a service based economy. Labor with Keating kicked of the privatisation era and the Libs with Costello finished the job. Costello just put a different colored badge on the same policies. About the only difference was Costello didn't hide the fact he didn't care about the unions.
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  2859.  @stylembonkers1094  Did you ever take a class in even basic economics? The market price is what people are agreeing to buy and sell things at a given moment in time. It changes with supply. It changes with demand. Sellers always want it to be higher. Buyers always want it to be lower.
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  2860.  @lostbrewerycavesrecoveryte3423  Actually Elvis Costello would have done a better job or even Lou Costello for that matter. In fact that party even had an Abbott (Tony Abbott). I never knew why nobody made the connection.
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  2861.  @krisushi1  I think your right on most points, On the ownership of the bases, maybe not. The land might be Australian but most of and maybe NONE of the hardware on those bases is NOT. Especially the base on the North West shelf that has the coms for the US Subs in the Indian Ocean. That base is one that most Australians are simply not even aware of. On the first strike and what I call zero strike. That tern zero strike is one I came up with to describe to people just how high of a priority Pine Gap would be in a US v China or US v Russia event. I don't know if you have seen it but the YT channel Real Life Lore did a great video that highlights the importance of Pine Gap. Just search ""real life lore pine gap" and you'll find it. About 7 minutes in they chow a diagram of the area that 3 satellites cover and that region goes from London to Alaska. So it covers all of The Middle East, all of Russian and all of China AND Pine Gap is the ground station for those 3 satellites. So if the Turks, Saudis, Iranians, Russians, Pakistanis, Indians or Chinese do anything. Pine Gap is the first place that knows. So for any of them especially Russia and China that if they want to do anything they need to deal with Pine Gap. Sorry but that's something anyone should understand and why I call Pine Gap a Zero Strike target.
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  2862.  @krisushi1  On AUKUS, I am NOT (and keep saying it) against it in principle. I am against the terms of it. Here's an allegory. Imagine you are selling the next generation of giant dump trucks to BHP or Rio Tinto and YES your trucks are the best. They use less fuel, they require less maintenance and they have all round better features. Plus your company has a long history of making good quality trucks. As part of the contract that you put in front of BHP/Rio Tinto you ASK B.H.P./Rio Tinto to PAY YOU MONEY to fix YOUR factory because after years of neglect by your management its starting to break down and cannot deliver the trucks its supplying to other people. Do you think that's a contract BHP or Rio Tino would sign knowing that among their shareholders are smart people who would understand how stupid that is? We (as in Australia) are sending $3 Billion to upgrade the Huntington Ingalls shipyards at a time when they can't even deliver submarines (as well as ships for that matter) to the USN Navy on time. If that makes sense to you then I have no answers for anything else you might ask. Then there's the fact we hired a pack of Americans on monster pay packets starting at about AU$1.2 Million a year to tell us this garbage plan made sense. Here's an additional point of grievance I have. I recently found that one of the Australian Think Tanks (ASPI) not only gets money from the Australia Government to advise it, but also gets money from the US State department. Its there on their website which they have to do by Australia Law as a think tank & lobbyist. SO WHY TF is the US State Department funding an Australian Think Tank that's consulting to the Australian government even if its in unrelated material? More importantly WHY TF hasn't anyone in the media made a fuss about it?
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  2863. EVERYONE - search for "porky's tallywacker scene" For millennials and zoomers go ask your uncle or aunt about it. I just want to here MTG say the words "incriminating mole" and "I'd recognise it anywhere!"
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  2864.  @onepeace1274  Like any crop Poppies don't grow everywhere, but like coca it seems to be grown in poorer countries. As for the rest of your argument just go away with the stupidity. I'm tired of worthless morons throwing their hands in their howling "just let them all do it" Very rarely is that a worthwhile point and you case ITS NOT.
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  2865. I would add 2 words to the end of that "and preferences" Look at his argument on tax relief for home loans. He's ok with tax relief on home loans but not college. That's a preference nothing more. He's not judging it against what has the best outcomes for society- its just a preference. This is what makes libertarians so childish at times. At the end of it all it comes down to what they want without any real consideration of what others need.
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  2866.  @Imperial-Socialist  When I was there in 2017/18 I had the impression that Canada was in a similar situation to Australia. There were things we could be doing better but at least we were doing things while many other nations were still in denial. America and China being at or near the top of that list.
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  2867.  @chriszanf  100% agreed on that and YEAH I know what the French Reference means. Have you ever seen the TED talk "Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action" by John Perkins or any of the other talks he's given? Eric Prince is what happens when people don't agree with the options people like John Perkins gave them.
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  2868. Australian engineer - the problem is that most people have NO IDEA what efficiency means. For engineers its simple we have equations and data and can make calculations. However there's also the issue of effectiveness. You can have the most efficient engineered system in almost any field but if it doesn't work or costs too then its NOT effective and that's a problem. For things like government efficiency its the same as any other office in industry. Its totally subjective and what 1 person sees as efficiency another sees as waste and a lot of people in between have no idea or just don't care. The only real measure is effectiveness and it is possible to put some comparative numbers to that. For an organisation like USAID their effectiveness could be measured by: - What's the GDP growth if you're an economist? - What's the growth in wages and/or wealth for various segments of the population? - What's the number of people finishing school compared to previous generations? - What's the percentage of the population LEAVING a particular country or region compared to other nations?
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  2869. I'm Australian this is NOT and American problem its an EVERYWHERE problem. Go look at the news from Britain or Europe. We are at the end of an economic era its happened 2 times in the last century - the Great Depression and the Stagflation & Energy crisis of the 1970s. What's different this time is we should have had a reset after the 2008 GFC except we bailed out the billionaires. 14 years later we are reaping the effects of that failure.
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  2870.  @roseromans8497  The most disturbing aspect of Trump is the silence of other Republicans. They are paying for having pandered to ignorant fundamentalism for so many years and then losing control of it to narcissist.
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  2871. Its very simple at the moment. He's trying to sell a book and MAKE MONEY. If he does interviews and promotes it he MAKES MORE MONEY. If he testifies to congress he makes NOTHING unless he lies in which case he gets charged with perjury.
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  2872. Well actually Trump made a deal with the Taliban. So WTF are these clowns claiming. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2873.  @edwardmullendore2007  2 Comments both with misspelled words. Yeah buddy you're one of Trump's favorites. 👍😉
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  2874. I think we all understand that sentiment but there is no proof that Flynn is Putin's agent and there never was. There's no need to overblow the Flynn situation he is now in so much trouble its not worth mentioning. I suggest everyone reads up on what sedition is. --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition Flynn's problem is that his is military and his oath is for life and sedition is specifically described under the UCMJ and I think he can still be court martialed. I have previously asked Glenn Kirshner who has been both a JAG and Federal Prosecutor about clarifying treason & sedition. He has a channel here on YT and has been clarifying many of the recent legal issues, including Michael Flynn's and other pardons. Here is a link to his most recent comment on Flynn. Flynn's pardon is already being challenged . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlFCJzL8W0 Lets not be like Trumpists. Lets just give these rats lots of rope and let them hang themselves. So far they are doing just fine at that. In the mean time don't forget COVID is out of control, so to all TAKE CARE & STAY SAFE. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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  2875. Welcome to Republican Doublespeak. Its almost like they can channel George Orwell at times.
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  2876. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980. And few more: "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ― Isaac Asimov “Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” ― Rod Sterling in his introduction to the Twilight episode “The Obsolete Man” originally aired on June 2, 1961 on CBS. “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche “I think it would be very, very, I think we’d have a very, very solid, we would continue what we’re doing, we’d solidify what we’ve done, and we have other things on our plate that we want to get done” ― Donald Trump answering the NY Times on his 2nd term agenda. August 2020. And a classic I recently re-discovered. “Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a state of utter confusion.” ― Colonel Flagg of the CIA From the TV Show MASH sometime in the 1970s.
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  2877.  @tammyboon6259  I don't know what to make of Liz Cheney as she has such a chequered family history. Her father is a disgrace who should have been pulled back into line long ago. He pushed the boundaries on behavior and corruption that made it so much easier for others to go even further. He was without doubt one of the key players that started America down the slippery sloped it is on right now. That not only has a profound effect on every America, but also to the rest of the world. Sorry fo the long answer below and you might already know this. I keep trying to tell people the giant threat America poses to the world is the US Dollar is the worlds reserve currency. Most people don't know what that actually means. In 1944 at Breton woods 44 allied nations agreed that the $USD would be the reserve currency. Yes - Breton Woods has been replaced but the $USD is still the reserve currency. Part of that is ALL of US store some of our gold reserves in New York at the Federal Reserve (hence the name "reserve"). Remember those giant piles of gold in Die Hard 2?? Yes - that place. When countries trade or need another currency to do some business people go into that vault and move gold bricks from pile to pile. Even countries that hate America (like Russia, Iran,...) have gold there because its how the world economy works. When they say they are freezing a nations assets what they mean is nobody is touching your stack of gold in New York. So all of the worlds trade, even when people use other currencies all relies on the Unites States of America being a RELIABLE and STABLE nation. Sorry for the long answer but I hope it explains why the rest of the world is more nervous about America than China and Russia combined.
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  2878. Somebody needs to ask Mark Levin the following Question: When did BLM, ANTIFA, Democrats, 1960s counter culture hippies, tree hugging Kumbaya singing environmentalists, Occupy Wall Street, Lafayette Park or any other protesters storm the capitol, kill a police officer, tear down the American flag and replace it with another flag? For anyone interested please feel free to copy that question and post it anywhere you like. Someone else first directed me to this quote by Vice POTUS Wallace, who was alive when Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin were in power to personally see what those sorts of people are like. the 2 highlights about method and patriotism are mine. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  2879. TAKE NOTE THESE 6 WORDS - Al Capone Tax Evasion 7 Years. They never got Capone for murder, racketeering, bootlegging, assault, extortion or anything else BUT he went to jail and died there FOR TAX EVASION. Do you think they will put this guy in the cushy little country club that they put Charles Kushner in or do you think they'll dump this mutt in gen pop? Ask Wesley Snipes about it -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Snipes#Income_tax_conviction
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  2880. If it was a sniper then there's even less of an excuse. They have look through a scope and can see their target clearly. I know it sounds cold, but she was shot in the face which means it was a head shot. Its rare for military snipers to target the head unless they have a clear shot. In general they target the chest because its a bigger target. Since she was wearing a vest (the thick blue jacket) the sniper would have first looked at the chest area where the word "PRESS" is. That's why the media do put the word "PRESS" across their chest and back in big bold letters its so anybody looking down a scope will see it. We don't know all the details yet, but those we do are damning.
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  2881.  Michael Shlomo  For starters your making 2 claims. As to the Russian attack on America's 2016 elections, attack is the wrong word and I would use the word interference instead. There was lots of evidence to the use of cyber-bots on places like Facebook as it was also found for Brexit. What many people forget is that the Russians became very adept at misinformation during the cold war. What they never had was the mechanism for widespread misinformation campaigns. There's a great interview with a KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov on the subject from 1984. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI If you listen to what he's saying it becomes clear that the techniques he describes failed back then but have succeeded on social media. One thing he points out is that American's do most of the damage themselves. I think he exaggerated his claims a bit for 1984, but if he was making them today he'd be understating them. On the subject of anti-Semitism, I can't recall any specific anti-Semitic remarks on any of Kyles videos and I have certainly NEVER SEEN him support or encourage anti-Semitism. I did report recently a person on an unrelated video who kept using the word "Lews" and it was obvious they were being ant-Semitic. I'm not Jewish but I have good friends who are and I took offense and reported that person. I'm not really interested in the slightest getting into the subject because of the entire Israeli-Palestinian catastrophe. If you say anything pro or con about EITHER side you're quickly labelled anti-Semitic or anti-Muslim. So I'm not interested in getting into that subject any further.
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  2882. No what should be sinking in is that HE IS FOLLOWING the Constitution. These people are nutts. As for those on the plane guess what - they will not be flying ANYWHERE EVER AGAIN unless its in some private context. ALL THE AIRLINES share data on disruptive passengers. I have a private pilots license and in getting even my private pilots license I had to learn and pass an exam on air law. Not as complex as a commercial pilot but the basics are that BY LAW the pilot in command has almost unlimited power to safely complete the flight. Every pilot of any plane these people attempt to board in future can simply refuse to have them on board for safety reasons and there is nothing they can do.
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  2883.  @Muldoon111  Which part of blaming the LA fires on personnel don't you get. Those disgusting claims claims by right wing fanatics have all been answered and dismissed.
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  2884. Kyle Kulinski covered this guy the other day over the same sermon this guy is a genuine threat to public safety. How anybody can follow this sort of obvious garbage defies any rational explanation.
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  2885.  @nancyross7935  There's an amazing thing about the 2nd that has been totally lost in the hyper BS marathon of garbage. Prior to the 2nd, every nation in history policed its people via its military. Irrespective of the existence of sheriffs and marshals and constables in various places the actual footmen with weapons were the local military. Either the local lords of the kings/emperors/regents men. No matter where in the world it was if they wore a uniform they answered to the ruler of the land. That part about the "well organized militia" is the first time any nation anywhere put the local security and policing of the population under local civilian control. What the entire western world has in terms of police forces all stems from the introduction of the 2nd. If you look at just the first 4 amendments there are key thigs every developed modern western nation now has in some form. 1) You have the right to speak out and inform people and petition the government with your grievances. 2) You and your community have the right to organize their security or at least have a say in it. 3) The government cannot simply take your property or use it or your land without compensation. 4) The government can't just search you or your property because they feel like it. They have to have or prove cause. The next 6 are basically about due process and equal/fair/reasonable treatment. Every nation takes these things for granted but it was America that actually wrote them down and said we will never be unfairly treated or dominated again. That's what makes it so tragic that the top 1% have finally found ways around it and flipped it.
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  2886. NO ITS NOT Unlike Gerard Holland who's background is in accounting I am an engineer and have know about Australia's energy situation since doing a project on Australia's future energy needs in 2016. I am utterly disgusted with how public discussion has been dominated by UNCHALLENEGED claims from BOTH SIDES of the energy debate. BOTH SIDES LIE just as Gerard has done here. And so you know you can read my formal challenge to him on this page.
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  2887. Andrew "what a huge disappointment" Yang either just proved he was never ready to be president or perfect to be president. Its a matter of where you stand on reality.
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  2888.  @lesliestenta3084  I don't think he was a fake or a phony. I think he was well intentioned but totally out of his depth. He had a couple of great ideas but had no idea how to proceed with them. That's why I say he wasn't ready. This proves that. But there are also political manipulators that just love elected officials who are out of their depth. He was totally lead astray by Bloomberg's people. They set him up with that Israel question and destroyed his mayoral run. The disappointment I see is he HAS NOT LEARNED from those experiences. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  2889.  @DianeHasHopeInChrist  That might be your opinion but considering the circumstances its also a very ugly, disgusting and ignorant comment.
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  2890. I saw this the other day and he sliced and diced this clown like a master sushi chef on a tuna.
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  2891. AUSTRALIAN HERE - How do you think we see this considering the agreements we have? We are in the process of throwing in our hand 100% with an America that is growing more and more politically unstable due to the cowardice in Washington to deal with this clown. You guys should have locked him up January 7th 2020 and NOT LET HIM OUT EVER. In any other country he would have at least been arrested and charged and face trial. In many of those countries with the leaders he likes he would have NOT only been convicted but also executed by now. I was actually working in Canada on a project when he tore up NAFTA. I got to watch the Canadian reaction first hand and if you think Canada is going to trust America again while clowns like this are running about NOT BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE. I really like America and the American people. I went to college in America and loved it. But America has a problem with holding its highest officials accountable for a long time. Its not like Australia is any better because we aren't but then we aren't a super power with nuclear weapons. I was there during the Iran-Contra affair and NOBODY was held accountable. Bush & Cheney lied about WMDs and dragged us into the mess that was Iraq and NOBODY was held accountable. Then there was the Abu Ghraib fiasco where a few underlings but NOBODY senior was held accountable. Trump near tore America apart and only a few of the poor dumb bastards who believed his crap have been held accountable. As I said Australia isn't much better at holding its political elite accountable but then we aren't a superpower with nuclear weapons.
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  2892. I'm Australian and this is amazing because not because he's GOP or American its because we are having the same sorts of issues here. This is now rampant across the entire Western Democratic World and its why NOTHING is getting done. Go look at almost any Western Democracy at the moment and see if you can find REAL CHANGE happening in areas that actually matter like housing, banking, water or energy transition. There's all these committees doing all these investigations, hiring consultants, doing inquiries and tabling reports AND NOTHING HAPPENS.
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  2893.  @Woodbug-b7t  Pretty damn close. As an engineer who went to college at the place where the first web browser was developed (U. Illinois) I feel a little guilty. The guys just down the street (and I do mean they really were just down the street) meant well in that they were making computers and information access so much easier. Unfortunately nobody could have predicted (at the time) social media and how that let the journalists forget how to be journalists despite making fact checking 1,000,000 times faster and easier. Plus nobody had a clue that it would also let the village idiots of the world gather together and share their stupidity to a wider audience.
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  2894.  @whatsername123  If you've watched a few of Glenn's recent videos on the stuff that's been surfacing its getting worse and I would suspect that even Jim Comey will be changing his assessment shortly because I do agree with Glenn. Trump and others need to be charged and prosecuted and sent to jail. BUT I would guess Comey would also want it to be quick and simple and with very little spotlight. I personally think Comey is broad thinker who looks ahead at the potential outcomes. If you consider some of the alternative outcomes in 2016 with him coming out and saying they found more emails. There's a Russian commentator Masha Gessen and Masha was interviewed on the Australian show "Planet America" and asked about Putin and interference in 2016. The assessment was interesting. Putin is NOT the strategic mastermind most people think. He's pretty smart and very ruthless but he's not the mastermind Sun Tzu type strategist. In Putin's brain elections are decided well in advance and the outcome is assured well in advance, because that's his experience with Russian democracy. So Putin expected Hilary to win and win easily and if that's basically true then what was he really up to. That gets to an interesting conclusion. Putin hates Clinton as she was instrumental in the sanctions against Russia. its pretty simple he expected Clinton to win and he wanted her at war with the Republican controlled House and Senate. Just imagine if Comey had kept quiet and Hilary had won and then after the election it came out that there were other emails and they kept it quiet. Just imagine how the conspiracy nutters and rest of the Republicans would have responded. Imagine how Trump would have responded. They would have screamed "collusion" they would have screamed about how the head of the FBI covered up. It would have been the Salem witch trials all over again. They would have impeached Clinton and Comey and thrown them in jail. I personally have no doubt Comey made the right call. As bad as it was the alternative could have been far worse and considering what Putin wanted a Clinton White house would have been a disaster. What Putin didn't plan on was that Comey would do the right thing because in Putin's world people in those positions are loyal or dead. What he got instead was the Trump WH and that's been almost as destructive on America. American politics gave Putin a win win 2016 and a repeat win win in 2020.
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  2895.  @whatsername123  Without clarification, your right. But if you listen to what he's describing. Kyle dos an NRA move by focusing only on the final few words. Not good on his part. Comey doesn't dismiss going after Trump he puts emphasis on prioritizing "things that are gonna matter over the next 4 years". Right at this very instant (forget everything else) what's more important than getting the $2K out to desperate people and getting COVID under control. Why are they even fucking with checks (or cheques if you spelling is different). Why not just allow people to use their SSN and some ID to register a bank account at ANY Federal building. Go in with a piece (or pieces) of ID, an SSN and a bank account. it should not take more that 2-3 minutes to check the IDs and SSN. And with modern technology it should not take more than a few seconds to transfer money and let people buy food. Most people should have the $2K before they leave the building and start towards the supermarket. Modern data bases can check (almost instantly) if ANY number (SSN, drivers license, car registration, power bill account, phone number) is used twice. Its called modern technology. Trump can wait. Starving cash strapped Americans with an out of control pandemic cant.
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  2896.  @whatsername123  Your dead right the Senate will don nothin more than disqualify him from further office. What congress needs to do to ram it home is also impeach people like Sean Spicer, Kellyanne Conjob, Bull Barr, Jared & Ivanka, who by having official positions can also be impeached and convicted and disqualified. I think that's maybe more important because they need to send a message to people who will facilitate things like what Trump did.
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  2897.  @UFOUAPMagnet  There was a great comment early in the pandemic about how the radical right and radical left just scream at each other while the rest of us are left trapped in the middle and that its exhausting.
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  2898.  @UFOUAPMagnet  Yeah and you are far from alone.
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  2899. yeah they are 10 out 10 perfect score looking after their ethics. Its just their definition of ethics not ours.
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  2900. What you're forgetting is that Thatcherism and Reaganism smashed the power of the unions around the Western World. What you might not know or have forgotten is that a lot of people welcomed it. I'm Australian and we got tired of Unions holding society to ransom with opportunistic strikes. Every holiday at least one of the unions threatened some sort of industrial action. Baggage handlers, air refuelers, airline cabin crews were among the worst. Over in the building trades we used to have all sorts of actions. One year back in the 1970s the electricians simply went on strike and just waited until the power stations shut down.
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  2901. Here's the link to the guardians series on Pegasus -> https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project
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  2902. Australian here - and there simply is no winners in this disaster and it was predicted. Way back in 2010 Jon Stewart interviewed King Abdullah II of Jordan. It was one of 2 interviews JS gave that I feel should have changed the world and NOBODY was listening both times. King Abdullah WARNED AT THE TIME that if the Palestinian problem was NOT dealt with it would take another generation before another opportunity would come along. He warned that the fanatics on both sides would take over and it would only be a matter of time before it collapsed into something really bad. It took 13 years but that day might have finally arrived. Around the same time there was the wife of a senior British politician who caused a complete shitstorm of controversy when she referred to Israel as "that shitty little country." The remark wasn't aimed at the Jewish people but that the situation in Israel that caused so much grief for the rest of the world. And for reference the other interview Jon Stewart gave was to a guy Obama appointed to control CEO & Executive bonuses to bailed out companies after the GFC. At the time "The Guy" was labelled "the most evil man on Wall St" in the financial media. It was part of the response Obama gave to the car companies after their executives arrived in Washington on private jets begging for money. Obama's response was (paraphrasing) "Fine you can have a $$ Trillion, but until you pay it back this guy decides the wages in your companies." "The Guy" limited all wages to something like $200K or $500K. It was way above average pay packets but it stung the executives real damn hard. It overrode any any contracts and bonus agreements. I remember Jon Stewart asking how much had been paid back. "The Guy" answered it was over 90% and when asked about the other $7 Trillion handed out by Bush and Obama he said something like 4%. It should have set a precedent for every handout by any and every nation since. Here in Australia we bailed out QANTAS for the COVID shutdown. After resuming flights they have made over AU$1.4 Billion and have refused to pay any of the AU$480 million back including a $24 Million bonus to the CEO and that was after he publicly stated QANTAS would not exist without the bailout. 2 LESSONS NOBODY LISTENED TOO.
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  2903. THAT'S BECAUSE BOTH SIDES OF THIS ARGUMENT LIE. Unlike Gerard Holland who's background is in accounting I am an engineer and have know about Australia's energy situation since doing a project on Australia's future energy needs in 2016. I am utterly disgusted with how public discussion has been dominated by UNCHALLENEGED claims from BOTH SIDES of the energy debate. BOTH SIDES LIE just as Gerard has done here. And so you know you can read my formal challenge to him on this page.
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  2904.  @stephenbrickwood1602  I went and checked his background and he's an accountant. As an engineer I am tired of his type spewing out garbage on energy. I don't care if they are pro-wind, pro-solar, pro-nuclear or anything else. ITS AN ENINGEEIRN TASK and if they are NOT and engineer then they can STFU.
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  2905.  @eltorocal  Your absolutely right on that. But don't lose sight that for the corporate part of the Dems they don't care anymore than the GOP. They talk the talk but never deliver anything. Its also why the traditional left wing parties across the rest of the Western World have also lost favor with the working classes. There campaign advisors and party managers simply look at where the money comes from. If you want to go into it - Obama ALMOST broke the cycle when he won off a base of small donations from millions of people and no major corporate donors. Its arguably his biggest failure - promoting that politics does NOT need big corporate donors. Instead he fell in lie with the corporate types and became just another hack. Trump tapped into the same anger of the working class but from the right. The difference was he was already a corporate vulture. At least for a Obama started with some principles. Trump never had any to begin with. Even if the GOP had a few molecules of morality and ethics left after the Bush years Trump sterilized them of those.
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  2906.  @dooval434  Great point. I think the people who actually want to see the GOP destroyed are missing the point that if its destroyed America becomes a 1 party state. And that's a disaster anyway you look at it. So I think that despite their flaws (and they have plenty) people like Duncan are Adam Kinzinger are incredibly important to a stable America. I can also see Trump, Bannon and the rest of that brigade of clowns going after them with real ferocity because nothing the Dems do or say is as much of a threat to their power as these people are. It was a point Orwell made time and time again. The proletariat are never the threat, your political opponents are never the threat. The real threats are on your side of the political fence.
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  2907.  @tomsochy1238  HEY - We tried to warn you what Rupert Murdoch was like when he moved to Britain and you just thought another loud mouthed colonial who could play cricket was on his way. YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  2908. For starters most people don't realise that critical thinking is NOT abut criticizing or working out what's most important, its about critiquing (as in evaluating) something in a way that allows people to reach sensible conclusions. Very importantly its about re-evaluating as new information comes to hand. Think about any of those classes you may have taken where you do look at something and evaluate it. It can happen in almost ANY CLASS. It can happen in Science, Politics, History, Social Studies, Engineering and even Music. You might consider different perspectives and then re-evaluate. You might add a fact and then re-evaluate. You might drop a certain pieces of information that are found to be wrong or irrelevant and then re-evaluate. If you want an example go watch any of Rick Beato's "What makes this song great." They are all about listening to what's there, analyzing what's played, considering how things combine and reaching conclusions. Its fundamentally about evaluating information and reaching sensible conclusions. Its also about being able to re-evaluate as new information comes to hand and be willing to change your conslusions.
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  2909.  @Darkpara1  That's actually a great thing to point out. If you type "Useless degrees" into YT search there's a bunch of people talking about that subject. 1 on that list points out the $118k useless degree in drama. The counter to that will be the Hollywood millionaires, but then how many have degrees in drama. Interestingly I checked out Matt Damon, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and all 3 are pretty successful and all 3 DROPPED out of Harvard. Hmmmmm.
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  2910. Australian here and although that stuff is all well before my time I have met older Australians WHO STILL RESENT the American GIs that came to Australia. There was a perception that they were lazy and instead of fighting the Japanese they were here shagging our women, which to some extent was certainly true. One thing that didn't help at all was Eddie Leonski an American GI who beat and strangled 3 women in Melbourne. Oddly he was tried, convicted and hanged under American law. We just provided the rope.
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  2911. You con only examine something if it exists to be examined. Lindsay Grahams morals are like the square root of -1 an imaginary number.
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  2912. HEY THOM You really need to bring Professor Robert McChesney in on discussions of the media and how its been slowly eroded over decades. He was one of the people who helped make the 2004 documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" He's actually a professor from my Alma Mater, but joined the faculty after I graduated. Circa 2008/09 he was here in Australia on a book tour. I caught the 2nd half of one of his talks on TV. At the time I didn't realise who he was, but I do remember an incredible point that he brought out. After WW2 most American newspapers had people around the country and the majors had people around the world. Journalists actually went out of the office and met people. So if you heard on the radio or read in the newspaper and they quoted someone it was because a journalist had gone and met that person and asked questions and written down their replies. The stories that weren't done that way were about actors, sports stars and businessmen which involved PR people. I remember that after Robert McChesney explained how journalists used to work he then explained that there were around 4 or 5 journalists for every PR person AT THAT TIME. Then when news papers, radio and TV started to merge into larger and larger conglomerates that ratio of 5 to 1 started to change. Shareholders didn't care about facts. They wanted dividends. Into that environment came people like Rupert Murdoch, Robert Maxwell and others. By the early 2000s that ratio of 5 to 1 had flipped to 1 to 5. Journalists didn't go and meet people. They stayed at their desks pumping out story after story chasing clicks. Information in stories STOPPED coming from research and started coming from PR people. Journalists shifted from doing research and investigating to "cutting & pasting & posting" from what the PR people handed them. Think about how many news stories in the media (all types) are just like an advertisement. I'm certain you already know some of this. But you should really try and get Robert McChesney on. he's done a couple of interviews for people like Paul Jay (the Analysisnews)
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  2913.  @Lucien86  You misunderstood my reference comparing Stockton Rush to Elon Musk. It has NOTHING to do with things like Falcon or Falcon Heavy. It has to do with Elon the PERSON not handling people who disagree with him for which there's a mountain of evidence. You don't have to lecture me on Falcon I actually defend that part of Space X. There's a contingent of people who just love to bash Space X along with Elon and they hate it when I correct them. Falcon has been a staggering success. YES it is NOT the mind blowing leap forward in rockets that Elon harps on about. In fact most of what it does was done long before Elon or Space X ever existed. I regard the Space Shuttle as a successful failure. It was successful in that they made it work. It was a catastrophic failure in that 2 crashed and its costs were nothing like that promised. What SpaceX has done is take a step back, a step sideways and a step forward. So its no giant advancement but it is something that has allowed NASA to get back to having its own system. Also Gwynne Shotwell gets a lot of flack and occasionally its warranted when she parrots Elon. The basic reality is that her and her team have built a reliable and reusable rocket. They have then got it man rated and successfully sent people into space. What the SpaceX detractors seem to ignore is that without Crew Dragon NASA and the Western Partners in the ISS are at the mercy of the Russians and the Russians were upping the price. Also the Elon detractors who bash SpaceX never hold Boeing to the same scrutiny and their system deserves to be panned. Boeing got a lot more money than SpaceX to develop a crew system. They took a lot longer and so far there system has being Boeing Reliable which is now a meme. So understand I am a huge fan of Gwynne Shotwell and her team and the Falcon program. Yes they took a lot longer to get up to Crew Dragon compared to what NASA did in the 60s but then they had staggering resources during the 60s. People forget just how many people they threw at the Apollo program. I think it was around 400,000 and they weren't just who you could find and recruit they were the best of the best that America had. On the other hand I can't stand Elon Musk and his BS. He does have 2 talents that he's seriously underestimated on. 1) He knows how to get non-technical people to respond to an idea. As in he can sell an idea to an audience like he has with Starlink which is just another "who really needs, other than the people selling it, technology." 2) He can also identify technical people who can get a task done which he's shown at SpaceX. On that in particular he's seriously misunderstood. BUT when he forgets to get the right people or he ignores them like he did at Neuralink, Hyperloop and a few other places it becomes a disaster.
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  2914.  @crabbcake  Can people like you WHO KNOW NOTHING just please stop making asinine comments. What do you even know about rocket engines other than they power rockets? 1st: What actual engine did Elon actually "create" that you think can be refueled on Mars? 2nd:Nobody has proven they can make rocket fuel on Mars, let alone refuel a rocket on Mars? In fact NOBODY had proven that we can even re-fuel a rocket in space. 3rd: What type of fuel are you even talking about because there's more than 1 kind of rocket fuel. About the only thing SpaceX did that was innovate was the switch to methane as the primary fuel. All SpaceX has really done is combine ideas and concepts and make them work. AND SO WE ARE CLEAR I think that's incredibly impressive because just taking all those technologies and combining them and making them work is incredibly hard. Just keep it in perspective.
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  2915. IF THERE WAS A REAL STORY to the Hunter Biden laptop then it would have been exposed BEFORE the election. NOT AFTER IT. As for Elon everyone knows he's in financial trouble from the purchase of twitter. So how much is he getting from the GOP billionaire backers?
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  2916.  @grahvis  Similarly look at Mao and the Kims of North Korea. These were communist countries in name only. Seriously look at North Koreas official title. It claims to be a democratic republic. East Germany did the same. These are just labels that occasionally describe where a regime started. This is why so much of the screaming of socialism and capitalism is just plain wrong. The people screaming have next to no idea what they are screaming about. I just watched a couple of podcasts of "the realignment" that had Eric Weinstein on. He made a couple of really interesting points. First - All these very old clowns who wont retire, wont leave the world alone and most of all wont let anyone change anything - NEED TO RETIRE. Biden, McConnell, Pelosi, Trump the whole lot of them can JUST GO AWAY. Second - all the idiot children need to shut up. At some point we need to stop these endless circular discussions that go nowhere and solve nothing. Here's a link to one of them -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSLQ8YWUN-E
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  2917. No the real joke is that the Chinese have actually built a replica or updated version of the MIR Space Station. The 5 port ball shaped docking port on one end with the robotic arm for moving modules around and the 6th axial port at the other end is the same configuration as the MIR core module. In some ways it makes a bucket of common sense. Why reinvent when you can do what the Chinese are best at COPY what others have done. Plus MIR proved it was fundamentally a good design that did what it was meant to do. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ So on one hand its pretty damn impressive in that they have built and launched a modular space station. But on being a technological breakthrough - NO, not even close.
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  2918.  @sammendy138  Go ask the Africans on that one. One of the great claims the CCP makes time and again is that they don't interfere like the Russians and Americans. That's only true in the methods they employ. As far as interfering goes they are just as bad as any empire has been.
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  2919. You are so right. I have seen her discuss Putin and Russia and without any doubt she's got a better handle on this than most others.
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  2920. So in other words Fruity Pebbles and Captain Crunch only held the title of "Worlds Dumbest Public Statement" for a few days??
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  2921. About the only smart thing Tucker can do right now is up his security. History keeps telling us that when rich brats keep poking and kicking at society then eventually someone snaps. I really don't want to see some poor bastard go to jail for 25, but I can see it coming. At some point someone is going to lash out at this smug arrogant spoilt brat. I just hope that person gets a descent lawyer.
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  2922. Your half right as in you forgot the second half. Everything the Right disagree with now is just "like the Holocaust" and is going to end in socialism. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2923.  @DarkPuppy9  AND SO WE ARE CLEAR I happen to think the US Constitution is one of the greatest achievements in human history. Thanks to all those discussions I had with friends when I was in college in America I got a very good appreciation of it. Its a far better constitution that the patched together mess Australia has that includes all sorts of crap inherited from the British. Despite the flaws Americans should be grateful for what they have instead of thinking its a club to bash each other with.
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  2924. AEROSPACE Engineer here and I've heard some similar stories regarding many technologies like: 1950 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1960 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1970 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1980 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1990 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2000 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2010 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2020 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. By chance can you guess how far away nuclear fusion will be in 2030? I'm Australian but did my degree in America. I was doing my degree in the late 80s and we EXPECTED to build Space Station Freedom in the 1990s and then be back on the Moon by 2001 to start setting up a lunar base that would be the start of a permanent settlement AND YES we took that date from the film. THEN the Challenger accident happened and as we know it was because of poor decisions being made by the wrong people. That has been followed by several 1,000 poor decisions being made by the wrong people and we are no closer to a permanent lunar base than we were January 28, 1986 when Challenger happened. I have spent the last 30+ years working across a variety of industries doing industrial control systems and trying quietly to learn from these industries how we might do stuff on the moon. So long as we have the combination of the wrong people making bad decisions in combination with the unrealistic promotions (and at least Cold Fusion does but "providers" into the story) of effectively vacant over rated (and often over hyped) "future technologies" that will re-shape humanity we wont (as a species) move forward because too many of the basic things like food, shelter, clean water, clean energy and a few other things are NOT DEALT WITH as a priority. I have spent most of the last 20 years working on construction mines in remote locations because it presents the same sorts of issues building a lunar base has. Everything is at least 3 days away, the environment is hostile and you have to build all the basic infrastructure any modern society needs including housing, food storage, food prep, clean water, waste water, power (including power distribution), roads and very importantly workshops for maintenance. While we have story after story of the latest break though technology we are also surrounded by crumbling infrastructure. Go and look at any modern society and you will find major infrastructure issues. They might differ from country to country but we all have them. Energy infrastructure is the major issue that most have and its a serious issue because everything needs energy.
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  2925.  @radicalraccoon  Good comment. I'd however use the word viability rather than efficiency in the middle of the first paragraph because that's what your talking about with things like "ease of production." On your second paragraph however is that your 1/2 right in that some parts of the chip manufacturing will be the same or similar. In particular mounting the chip into a substrate and attaching the pin connections and then encasing it should be reasonably close if not identical. BUT if you have ever looked at how they actually make the actual chip in terms of the layering then this will NOT be the same. If it was then these chips would be on their way to market and they are still years away.
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  2926.  @bhadanisandip  🙂
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  2927.  @DarthObscurity  Are you referring to Germany where they turned off the nuclear power stations instead of the coal power stations? Because that didn't make sense to anyone with a functioning brain. The aim was to reduce emissions and the increased them.
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  2928. The Polls were wrong in 2016 The Polls were wrong with Brexit The Polls were wrong in 2020 (as in Biden should have won by more the Dems would have gained in the house and won the Senate) The Polls were wrong in Australia, New Zealand and Britain in recent federal elections. The Polling companies have lost what ever credibility they ever had. SO WHY TF SHOULD ANYONE BELIEVE THESE POLLS.
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  2929. WTF do you mean by MOST diseases and WTF do you mean by reverse? What an absolute BULLSHlT claim with no substance and no reality.
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  2930. You're right that's priceless and one to keep in the file of 2020/2021 quotes.
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  2931. @ that's a comeback Jimmy Carr would be proud of
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  2932.  @pphil1267  In what way have I ever excused the behavior of the Bidens? You are so typical of tribal morons who howl and scream "my tribe is pure & innocent while their tribe is evil & gulity" Sure I agree Hunter Biden should be fully investigated for what he's done. RIGHT AFTER they investigate Jared & Ivanka, who made $400 million working inside the White House.
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  2933.  @mrror8933  Thanks. It still comes back to some odd questions. What's his goal? What does he want? Why was he here in Australia on a speaking tour? Brexit isn't our issue so why was he even here? Other than wanting attention I can't see much else. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  2934.  @ResurgentVoice  Best to ya. Take your time processing and its not a crime to back over stuff and check what was said.
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  2935.  @8088I  thanks
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  2936. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS when an arrogant smug clown opens his mouth thinking everyone in the room thinks he's a genius and forgetting that NOBODY in the room except his idiotic fans thinks he's anything but an arrogant smug clown.
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  2937. That's actually a very good comparison. Sadly there is a very real chance that some of these auditors ARE ALSO Flat earthers.
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  2938.  @Thunderf00t  I don't know if you saw my last comment on the other video, but I do control systems and one of my main projects between 2006 & 2011 was an industrial bio-conversion plant in Perth, Western Australia that processed Municipal Solid Waste (NSW). As a Brit I'll assume you know where Perth is. Sorry if this is a lengthy reply but if you want any further material I'll see what I can get you. Keep up the good work. I just hate technology scammers. I don't know if in your work you've had to deal with a control system engineers but I have to deal with all types of engineers and technologists - mechanical, chemical and in that case microbiologists. Early on I asked what made their process special so I got an personalized education in the microbiology of composting. My job wasn't to make the bacteria do its funky stuff it was to build a control system that included the tools to let the microbiologists make the bacteria do its funky stuff. So there are many details about the bacteria I never was privy to. It was just this stuff they called "water" except it was dark brown and smelt awful. I'd describe it as biologically active liquor. Their process was pretty novel in how fast it worked (21 days). In the natural environment composting can take anywhere from months to years depending on all sorts of factors - the microorganism types (worms, slugs, etc.), bacteria types (single cell bugs), temperature, moisture, oxygen levels, existing soil type, light or lack of light,.... etc. The list is quite lengthy. That's not that great for industrial processes where they want consistency. Most of the OTHER processes developed did things like heap up the compost into mounds out in paddocks and left to ferment in situ. That releases lots of stuff (CO2, CH4,.... etc.). Other places simply dumped it into an unused quarry or open cut mine and cap it with a giant rubber sheet and tap the gas as its produced. Other processes munch/mince it all up and put it into silos so they can tap off the combustibles like methane. If not watched those silos can get so hot they catch on fire. In these processes you do get more than methane. I know I had to engineer the electrical system to handle hydrogen. There wasn't much of it but there was enough to influence the electrical design because hydrogen ignites so easily. And yes many of the clowns promoting hydrogen have no idea. Mostly those systems that put compost into silos and leave it alone take 60-90 days (not hours) to decompose a batch into compost. The variation mainly comes from the time of year. Municipal waste has EVERYTHING we put in the wheely bins - food waste, cloth, plastics, metals, grass clippings, leaves,.... etc. So just giving people the impression that Lomi can provide "composted" material in 4 hours is pretty much garbage. The company I was working with had come up with a way to handle the seasonal changes and make the process extremely rapid by tailoring the bacterial decomp. They could do a batch of the organic fraction of municipal waste in 21 days complete cycle. Raw waste came in and was smashed in a giant tumbling garbage smasher. Almost a Lomi on Superman level steroids. After that the metals, sand, glass and plastics were removed and finally it was loaded into a vessel (about 4-5 stories high) where it was introduced to the bacteria. At that stage there was oxygen and the process was aerobic and produced CO2. After the vessel was full it was sealed and once the bacteria had finished consuming all the oxygen was when the real magic started. Certain bacteria are not like mammals, birds, etc. When the oxygen runs out they don't die they switch their metabolism. In a sealed container that process is gradual and we could watch it happen on the gas analyzer data. The bacteria would start consuming organics and oxygen producing C02 but as the oxygen ran out it would switch and start consuming organics and CO2 producing methane and a few other hydrocarbons. Eventually the bacteria would consume all it could. We'd see that on the gas analyzer as methane had stopped being produced. After that we reintroduced air and with it oxygen. Since this step was abrupt rather than gradual the sudden introduction of oxygen would kill the bacteria. After a few days of aeration all that was left was sterile very high quality compost. All Lomi is, is the first step in a process like that. Its just a smashing and grinding machine. *Laughably you can do the same thing with an old blender or nutri-bullet for a lot less than $500. Just blend up your scraps with some water and put it all in a cloth bag. Squeeze out the water and/or hang it somewhere to drain like they do for cheese making. Put the drained off water on you plants because it will have all sorts of organics. Then put the mashed up stuff in a composter and let nature do its stuff. That or spend $20-40 million and build a system like I worked on.
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  2939.  @how2pick4name  Yeah right now at this moment but wait until grandma's phone answers with a metallic twanged voice saying she's not available.
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  2940. Watching Steve Bannon try to be logical with Alex Jones is like trying to be interested in watching paint dry. I had to stop watching because I felt the risk of brain damage was too high.
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  2941. FROM THE TRANSCRIPT AT 0:26 "it is interesting to see how under scrutiny when people really take the look at these bills how brilliantly the single-payer plan stands out" The highlight is mine and I deleted the 2 "uhs" to make what she said clear.
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  2942. Some one should ask him if he can put the words "head" and "crack" in the right order?
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  2943.  @The1Elcil  NO its not about being PROFITABLE. For fark sake can everyone get over this nonsense that everything has to be done for profit. That's that Milton Freidman nonsense that needs to be stomped out of existence.. We need to start thinking in terms of ECONOMICALLY VIABLE. You can't ignore costs. That's just as stupid as insisting on everything being profitable. There used to be this expression "value for money" as in "We bought this for $X and we got good value for the money we spent." If you're a town, city or even just a house then you have to ask: What gets you the most reliable energy for the money you/we can afford to spend on energy? If you start every conversation with: What's going to get the shareholders the most profit?. Then you you are farked before you even start.
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  2944. Imagine of there were some space junkies who didn't make ridiculous claims every time they opened their mouths and made another video of hype and nonsense. I'm actually an aerospace engineer and think Falcon Heavy is fabulous but I had to stop listening to this diatribe of hype and nonsense at 38 seconds. Starship is folly and totally unnecessary when you have Falcon & Crew Dragon combined with Falcon Heavy. You have the means to put serious chunks of hardware into orbit at an affordable price as well as get people up and down. Starship has just been a colossal waste of money and time. New Glenn (or whatever Bezos is calling it) is also a similar colossal waste of money and time. They should have learnt from Apollo and the Russian N-1 that big rockets can only work with a small number of super powerful engines. Otherwise its so complicated that even a minor failure is fatal.
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  2945.  @thelosthippie1969  I spent 4 months in Saskatchewan a few years back - loved the place. Go Roughriders. They claim America is an experiment in democracy. In most experiments there's a "control" which is usually an untainted batch to compare the experiment too. I think Canada is the control batch for the experiment that's called America where that experiment is: "What happens when you give a large group of idiots the freedom to do whatever they want without any restraints, logic or sensibility."
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  2946.  @geoffdyer1150  You, me and about 20 million other Australians. Why do we hate Sydney siders? A: Because its a cheap way to keep warm in winter.
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  2947. Actually its closer to the next 24 countries on military spending. In terms of GDP America (~8%) is about 4 times higher than the rest of the Developed World (~2%) on military spending. But then America by itself is about 24.5% of the Worlds total economy. Its that last part why America's divisive politics are now a serious threat the even its closest allies. I'm Australian and like many other nations we now have to seriously evaluate our security and trade arrangements with America. The F35 (which is a key part of our security) has parts made in 46 of the lower 48 states. Some of those states are run by maniacs and we need to consider (no matter what assurances are in place) that we can get spare parts. The same goes for Canada, Germany Japan, Britain and others. America needs to pull some of its whack jobs into line.
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  2948.  @Sublime_1  You are totally damn wrong about the American slave trade. For sure there is stuff that's rarely talked about like the fact that most African slaves were first captured for the trade by other African people as part of tribal conflicts. But make make no excuses those slaves transported were FORCIBLY TRANSPORTED. There was nothing sweet or excusable about it and THAT'S FACT. If some were fortunate to have owners that didn't treat them as property to be bought and sold and treated as anything but human those are very rare cases and EXCUSES NOTHING. Your banal attempt to whitewash the subject is disgusting.
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  2949.  Seiki  Well I'm Australian and briefly worked in China and I never saw a Muslin restaurant ANYWHERE. As for the labor camps. The western world ahs a history of bad behavior INCLUDING labor camps. So we know what it is we can see in the photographs. This isn't about avoiding our past and our bad behavior its about pointing out a RACIST GENOCIDAL PLAN. Nobody likes having their bad shit thrown back at them, but every so often you need reminding that what you have done or are still doing IS WRONG.
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  2950. Actually the title of this is video is WRONG. Tim pool does in fact know a couple of things about women: 1) Women make babies. 2) Women aren't men. 3) Women don't like certain kinds of men. The short list of what Tim Poole does NOT understand about women includes: 1) Tim doesn't understand why no woman wants to make a baby with him. 2) Tim doesn't understand why nobody with a brain function wants to hear his explanation of why women aren't men and men aren't women. 3) Tim doesn't understand why he's one of the poster boy's for what women don't like AND just as importantly WHY a lot of men (including myself) can't stand his crap because it makes the rest of us men look like crap. So for all those girls out there who hate Tim's crap, the rest of us men aren't on his side and we aren't the enemy and we'd happily rearrange Tim's reality on your behalf.
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  2951.  @shannansmith2188  I'm Australian but went to college in America and have been to Texas a few times. Had good experiences always so I know he DOES NOT represent all of you. 👍
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  2952. I have the same question for you as a lot of other people. What do you think America's Middle and Working classes feel about all this "American Imperialism" stuff? I have a fairly long comment addressed to Ben regarding the US Congressional Budget Office report from September 2022 on Family Wealth. I think you and a lot of others need to have a look at what that report is actually saying about what has happened to the bulk of the American population over the last 40 years and particularly since the 2008 GFC.
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  2953. NO ITS NOT Unlike Gerard Holland who's background is in accounting I am an engineer and have know about Australia's energy situation since doing a project on Australia's future energy needs in 2016. I am utterly disgusted with how public discussion has been dominated by UNCHALLENEGED claims from BOTH SIDES of the energy debate. BOTH SIDES LIE just as Gerard has done here. And so you know you can read my formal challenge to him on this page.
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  2954.  @stephenbrickwood1602  GREAT POINT and yes I agree we need to make use of the existing grid but we MUST accept that our grid was built for about 20million people and we are now 26 and headed for 40. The same goes for water and roads and rail, schools and health care.
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  2955.  @dickpark9807  Seriously I'm not interested I any conspiracy shit. Sure the CIA do bad stuff and lots of it and having been doing bad stuff for decades. BUT they do not magically control America as part of some Deep State bullshit. While people yell and scream conspiracy garbage all it does is create masses of confusion and the result is that NO ONE is actually dealing with the real issues. There's just super wealthy people with too much influence. There is no Deep State just loose groups of very selfish people like Charles Koch, Rupert Murdoch, Robert Herring (owner of OAN), Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Peter Theil,.....etc. They want what they want and the rest of us can go f--k ourselves. What Americans need to realise is that you are the pawns in a war between loose groups of Oligarchs. On one side are the old money oil, gas, coal, newspapers, rail roads,...etc. People just like Charles Koch and Rupert Murdoch who will do anything and say anything to keep the world just as it is. On the other side are the new tech billionaires like Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk,.....etc. There is no Deep State just feuding selfish billionaires who don't care a flying f--k about you or me.
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  2956.  @dangerzone007  WHY DOESN'T RUSSIA HAVE TO NEGOTIATE?
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  2957. ACTUALLY KYLE: this government is a REFELCTION of the American people - THEY VOTED FOR IT Sorry buddy, but you can spin it anyway you like and it still comes back to the fact that this is what the American people VOTED FOR and the same thing can be said of EVERY other developed nation with a democratically elected government. The British people can complain about Brexit all they like but they VOTED FOR IT. The Canadians, Australians, Italians, Japanese, French,.... can all complain about the governments and what those governments fail to do for them but they VOTED FOR IT. We all have 1 option and that is to VOTE OUT the clowns who don't get the job done and VOTE FOR people who will get the job done. Sadly that never seems to happen anywhere including Australia where I am.
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  2958. No shite. I think it was Kyle who said or repeated that Gerald Ford was first canned over the end of Vietnam. Ford's polls/ratings tanked and then a few months later his ratings were not just back they were better because people woke up to the reality that they were finally out. And being out meant no more body bags. My bet is that in a few weeks we'll see these same a-holes praising how Biden got America out. When that happens watch for the back flip of all back flips when Trump will claim its was all his work and that Biden messed it up. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Interestingly - Prof. Mark Blyth (the political economist from Brown U.) pointed out that now America is out the Taliban are now the problem of Pakistan, Iran, Russia and China. The Chinese made a deal with the Taliban a few months back BUT the Chinese have also been treating the Uyghurs of Western China (who are Muslims) like garbage. If the Chinese think the Taliban wont defend or give safe haven to Uyghur separatists they are in for a rude surprise.
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  2959.  @Rkenichi  great point. I've heard that many journalists (using that word in its broadest context) are judged on the clicks their articles generate. Back in the day all journalists got collectively judged on how many newspapers got sold. Now they can each be judged individually on clicks. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2960.  @markmac2206  Great idea but water boarding only works when the "water boardee" has something useful to tell us. What possibly could a Republican have to say that the rest of us might find "useful?" The only useful thing I can think of are those details like HOW MUCH they got (or get) paid to keep doing certain things, which secret offshore bank accounts they do it through and who's specifically paying.
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  2961. This is what people look like when they have no moral or ethical compass. Their life is about "What do I want right now? Yesterday is irrelevant and I'll do tomorrow when I get there." Once you accept what these people are its kind of depressing but it also makes them predictable.
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  2962.  @meowismeify  Well sorry but you just claimed that if someone kills a 2 year old they deserve to be executed but if you murder 14 innocent civilians in a gun battle you get a pardon. You mention that Alfred Bourgeois killed his 2 year old daughter in horrendous circumstance. What he did clearly met the description for depraved indifference. But if he met that requirement for depraved indifference THEN SO DID THE BALCKWATER 4. I'm NOT arguing that Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard weren't executed as per American Law or that justice wasn't served. What I am arguing is that its depraved for Trump to take political advantage of the transition and its outrageously depraved to pardon the Blackwater 4. It just shows how depraved Trump is and if you can't grasp that then you're just as depraved as your cult leader.
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  2963. Not when you have a country that denies reality when ever they don't like something.
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  2964. In simplest terms: YES Its as much about controlling the semiconductor industry as anything else. And you're right about the brining back to America of semiconductor manufacturing BUT IT WILL TAKE TIME and there's no doubt the visit is being done to aggravate the Chinese as a way to justify the spending on manufacturing. This actually is game of thrones stuff, except its not an imaginary world its in the real world and real people will end up paying the price for this game.
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  2965.  @Cowz19999  I do understand that. What I am pointing out that there is an anomaly between what he's saying and what I have seen. There might be a really straight forward explanation for that. And the anomaly isn't between high school and specialised education its between secondary and tertiary, because all of the Germans I have ever met with tertiary qualifications were incredibly well educated. Most I meet are engineers but I do meet others.
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  2966. As another Australian I second that motion and request it be tabled in the official notes.
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  2967. Everyone needs to take this story with a bit of skepticism or at least some of the details. The Chechens are Muslims who have been fighting a separatist war AGAINST the Kremlin for decades. These are people that the Kremlin calls terrorists. Chechens were involved in acts of terrorism against Russians like the Moscow Theater and Beslan school. In response the Russians have pounded them for years. Why would any Chechens be helping Putin? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War_crimes_and_terrorism
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  2968. There was this radical a while back who actually gave out free health care. He also talked about paying your taxes, education and equal and fair justice for all. The conservatives of the day thought he was so radical and so much a threat to society they dragged him in front of the local court accusing him with sedition. Despite no evidence they demanded justice and the the radical was sentenced to death for his sedition. The radicals name was Jesus and he was from this small town name Nazareth. You might have heard about him.
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  2969.  @georgedragich6056  A couple of weeks back I saw British Comedian Tom Hardy who plays the spoof journalist Jonathan Pie do an interview where he said you have to take the time to listen to the other side or you will never understand their issues or how they see them. So I listened to a Dave Rubin podcast were he hosted 3 others for a discussion panel. I even watched it twice to check what they were saying. One of them made a really good point. He said when they yell at us "your fascists" it doesn't help anything. And he was right. there's nothing to be gained when 2 sides just scream at each other. So don't tell me I haven't listened to your side. My question back would have been: "How does screaming socialism at people help anyone?" or it might have been "How does screaming about teaching CRT at a local school board meeting when CRT is NOT taught in any high school anywhere in the world help anyone?" or it might have been "How does storming the capital building to prevent the lawful duty of legally elected officials doing their constitutional duty help anyone?"
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  2970.  @dunning-kruger551  Sorry missing the point. What's exactly ground breaking new about the Raptor engine? Not saying that it isn't a step forward or an improvement but its not earth shattering innovative either. Its one thing in engineering you learn after a while there's not a lot of truly innovative technology these days. I did a fairly serious proposal recently and part of the historical material for justifying it was part of the X-15 program that never happened. Most people don't know that the X-15 had at least 3 more variants on the drawing board. A 2 seater, a delta wing and a SCRAMJET powered model. So in the 1960s they not only had plans for a scramjet powered plan they had even proven supersonic combustion. Little known fact and very rare paper by Billig (it was part of my literature search in post grad) was on the first confirmed supersonic flow combustion. Before him it was only theory. From memory that paper was from 1967. So when people harp on about SCRAMJETS my first question is what are they doing that's actually innovative? It never gets answered. Just imagine where we might be today if they had continued that X-15 program for those 3 proposals and made them work. It really is one of the great "What ifs?" We might have had working SCRAMJETS 50 years ago. Instead we got the Space Shuttle. As I said it was an incredible technical achievement but also a failure.
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  2971.  @operasinger2126  So do Xi, Kim, Netanhayu AND ESPECIALLY the Saudi's.
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  2972. As an Australian (like many from other countries) we are getting seriously concerned about this. For sure its America's business but America is also our most important trading and security partner. All anyone see's is expert after expert making claim after claim AND NOTHING HAPPENS. I see the comments and know this frustrates the hell out of you guys but it also scares the crap out of America's allies. Like several countries we've put the F35 as one of the main parts of our security future. Our submarines use American Mk 48 torpedos and our Navy is due get Tomahawk cruise missiles. I was actually working in Canada at the moment Trump just tore up NAFTA and hit them with tariffs. If Trump would do that to Canada and NOBODY did a damn thing then what next? We all know Trump tried to blackmail Ukraine and we all saw Jan 6th and we all saw Mitch McConnell NOT HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE. What if Trump or whoever comes next just decides we can't have something or he decides just to start bombing somewhere? That whole Iraq thing was bad enough for us all to be dragged into. So what's next? We all know Trumps an American problem, but it goes further.
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  2973.  @j.d.schultzsr.9215  great comment and totally understandable. Even if any of us understand what's going on what can anyone actually do anymore. Its not just America either its everywhere. That feeling that no matter what anyone does the Oligarchs just have too much money and power - yeah its pretty much everywhere.
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  2974. The bit that shites the rest of the World is that George "Dubya" Bush removed America from the International Criminal Court when he signed the American Service-Members' Protection Act in 2002 to protect American service panel from being judged by others. Obama never redressed it and Trump gave it the middle finger. Here go look at the map and take note that BOTH America and Russia were (past tense) signatories but are not now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court After you check the map look under the heading "Opposition to the Court"
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  2975. I'm Australian but went to college in America and that infatuation is arguably America's biggest problem and its been a problem that has been coming for decades. I did engineering but had a bunch of college friends were pre-law and they loved dragging me into discussions particularly on the Amendments. I have eventually concluded that the Bill of Rights is one of the greatest achievements in human history. For the first time ever a nation CHOSE to enshrine certain basic rights for every member of its society. The tragedy of the that accomplishment is that it never placed the slightest onus on RESPONSIBILITY and how these days so many people seek their OWN SELFISH advantage. Look at how some people argue their right to say whatever they want. Many claim that you can say whatever you like so long as its not a threat, but what about the garbage COVID claims that are killing people. The brilliance of the 1st is that it guarantees that people can openly speak their grievances with the government. Yet so many 1st advocates haven't stopped pursuing Julian Assange for years. Look how the 2nd Amendment people talk. Their right to own a gun outweighs the basic right of people to send their children to school in safety. I'm not arguing their right to own guns that's enshrined but they have taken the arguments into stratospherically stupid levels. Look at the 3rd Amendment where Americans are guaranteed that if the government uses their property or land they have to be fairly compensated. Look at all those Amendments about basic legal rights. That limit the authorities to search your person or residence. The right to fair and speedy trials. The prevention of unusual or cruel punishment. AND YET America has in recent years given extraordinary levels of access to its security agencies. Even this comment can be logged, a file started and all of our computers scanned WITHOUT a warrant. America has tortured people at various sites around the world for most of the last 20 years and or held them in secret prisons without charges let alone trials. I'd venture that many of my old college friends would be very concerned about where America is these days considering what we used to talk about. It does amaze me at times the changes that have happened because Americans used to be so proud and so adamant about those rights.
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  2976. I think the other line about this is: "The village idiot used to be confined to their village. Now thanks to social media they have been able to share their stupidity across the world." Isaac Asimov had these 2 great observations “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980. "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ― Isaac Asimov Then there are these and yes I now have a collection - who doesn't. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ “Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” ― Rod Sterling in his introduction to the Twilight episode “The Obsolete Man” June 2, 1961 “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  2977.  @lordsamich755  Actually you are quite wrong there. Sorry if this is a bit long, but there have been dramatic changes in what we now know about the financial aspects of renewable energy. The Germans spent €1.3 trillion on renewable energy and did NOT the outcomes they expected. I'm Australian engineer and I've worked with German engineers and they are bloody smart and they worked out some things. The first thing they realised is that wind and solar are most reliable at different times of the day. Solar is obviously best when the sun is up. Wind is most reliable in early morning and late afternoon, because its driven by the different rates the land and oceans heat up and cool down. What the Germans worked out is that if you balance the amount of wind versus solar efficiency you can save around 23% in outright costs, because you don't need to install as much to get the same delivered power. Normally you need to install about 2.2kW of renewable power for every 1kW of coal or nuke you turn off. With a balanced wind solar system the Germans claim that can come down to about 1.7 kW (about 23% less). That saving on wind turbines and solar panels can go into storage where there is an even bigger advantage. The Germans worked out that FINANCIALLY the worst thing for renewable energy is the exact opposite of what most people thought. Its not when there isn't enough wind and sun its when there's too much, because it overpowers the grid. Basically if you inject to much energy into a grid the voltage climbs and stuff starts melting. From a financial investment point if your renewable energy system has to be disconnected or locked out. The its NOT making any money when it should. Even worse is if you have to pay someone to burn the excess off and that's happened in Germany. With storage you don't lose that excess energy you get to sell some of it when the wind & sun die down. In the system described here instead of earning nothing for that excess energy you get $0.70 of it back (he said its got 70% efficiency). The Liquid air battery being developed in England only gets 60% but it can be massive and can store for longer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMLu9Dtw9yI That's the really big lesson from the Germans. A smarter design that balances the wind, solar & storage costs less and works better and EARNS MORE. I hope that helps - sorry if its a long answer.
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  2978. As an aerospace engineer compared to the crap level being produced these days about space flight its so much better that its like comparing Will Smith in Shark Tale to a Jacques Cousteau. Some of the garbage being sold to the public these days is so pathetically far from reality that its possible to claim fraud on several organisations. Just ask any engineer how many times they have had to correct family and friends on reality, because somebody saw something on YouTube, TV or a movie?
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  2979. You are almost spot on. Its not simply capitalism its the version of capitalism we are now running. Prof Mark Blyth from Brown U. points out that there have been 3 major versions of capitalism - the gold standard, Keynesianism and Milton Freidman's De-regulated Free Market. He describes it like computer systems that need to be upgraded every so often. We should have had a major economic rethink after the 2008 GFC but there were a very small number of people with way too much power making too much money and they would not let go. What's happened since is that instead of having that upgrade we got a patch and the patch has not fixed the inherent issues. Go and have a lock at what happens when the Ruling class tries to hang-on in times like this and the peasants eventually flip out. There's plenty of examples. The British Revolution where they chopped Charles the 1st's head off. The French Revolution where they chopped Louis and his wife's head off as they trashed the country. The Russian Revolution where they shot the Tsar, his wife and their kids as they trashed the country including some of the worlds worst environmental disasters like they did with the the Aral Sea.
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  2980. Hopefully she will be charged with Sedition by the next AG.
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  2981. Yet again even the slightest knowledge of Jesus and the Bible CONDEMNS this. You DO NOT have to believe in God or Jesus or anything else to go and fact check this. Just go and google "Jesus money changers" and you'll get references to the famous incident where (its claimed) Jesus threw out the people who were making defrauding people at the temple (see below). This is actually one of the main reasons Jesus was handed over to the Romans and executed. He was outspoken AGAINST these sorts of practices. This is yet another example of how far off the rails religion is these days. So called "believers" wont even believe the sacred words of their own sacred text. In the New King James Version (and other all say similar) this is the passage reads. (Matt 21:12-13) Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
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  2982.  @vardekpetrovic9716  Hyperloop wasn't even an original idea and it failed for all the same reasons it had not been adapted on previous occasions.
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  2983.  @smcdonald9991  Reopen Trump University - farq off Trump Build the Wall Fund - totally and absolutely farq off Trump Ministries - call Elon Musk and book a ticket to Mars or anybody else who can get us off the planet. Please don't suggest that again how are people meant to sleep with that in their skull. 😲😳😨🤪
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  2984. I agree that Ukraine matters but back up your truck on the figures. In most cases world production of anything is dominated by 2 or 3 countries and after that the rest are minor. I'm Australian and work in our mining sector. Your mining claims are mostly ridiculous. Ukraine's 2017 iron production was 60.5 MTA (million tons per annum). Ours is over 880 MTA and we are a long way behind China's 1,200MTA. We have individual mines in Australia that produce over 50MTA. I have worked on some of them. I have also worked in Australia's Uranium sector and Ukraine is a minnow at best in that game. I checked you claim on corn (or maize) and yes Ukraine is #5 but its production less than 1/2 of #3 Brazils production and not even close to 1/10th of America's production. As for your claim of producing food for 600million I know that's BS. Australia's a major food exporter and we only produce food for about 75million. I expect when you check you'll find you hit the '0' key and extra time. NO DOUBT Ukraine is important for the production of numerous raw materials, food and products. But any losses are mostly covered by other countries without great difficulty. The real reason that the world should be concerned is where does Putin stop? Just over 80 years ago an idiot with an over rated ego wanted to reclaim what he felt was his countries property. After he took each piece he kept saying to the world "This is all I want." He waited and then took the next piece and again told the world "This is all I want." The real concern is do we learn from history or do we repeat it.
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  2985. Republicanism 101 A) If we win it was fair and free. If we lose they must have cheated. B) Any law we enact if for the best. Any law enacted by others is for the radicalization of the nation and a grab for absolute power. C) All political donations to us are legal and fine. Any political donations to others is corruption. D) Reality is what we say it is. E) Ragan said government is the problem and we are the government so we should know that he was right. F) George Orwell was brilliant when he showed us how to do A, B, C & D whole convincing our base that Reagan was a genius.
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  2986. You just hit the other nail on the head. Go see the comment by Curran Lakhani who pointed out that Bernie would have made them work. When you look at who the industries that support the DNC and GOP it comes down to 2 sets of oligarchs. On the GOP are the Carbon Oligarchs who basically make billions from extracting, refining and burning carbon based resources. On the DNC side are the Silicon Oligarchs who basically makes billions from technology, computers and industries that rely on computers. Yes there is a lot of crossover between the Carbon and Silicon camps, but the Oligarchs on the DNC side have a lot of interests in industries (notably medicine & pharmaceuticals) that a guy like Bernie would have clashed with. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  2987. There is a very, very, very good description of what crypto currencies are by somebody who actually knows what he is talking about. In 2019 during the Q&A after a lecture on Global Trumpism Prof. Mark Blyth was asked about crypto here is the answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4673s Remember this definition -> "Digital gambling asset" Following his answer on Bitcoin he gets an interesting question on Elizabeth Warren. (Remember this was July 2019)
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  2988.  @patriciaguerin3663  Sorry for the long answer but you might find this interesting. About 25 years ago I met an American, Doug, over hear through work and we became good friends. He eventually went back (~2 years) but came back for a visit about a year after that. This was around late 1999 (all pre-9/11). We were at my parents and they were retired school teachers. Out of nowhere he made this extraordinary statement "We don't need our guns anymore." We were WTF and asked what he meant. He said something like "We've lost sight of what our founding fathers wanted us to be" which only made the WTF go deeper. He was trying to point out that a major underlying concept of the US constitution was about enabling every citizen to become what they wanted by providing a FREE, SAFE and FAIR society. I don't know what had made him reach that conclusion, but something had changed his perspective. I think someone had asked how he survived in a country without the freedom to own guns. Which is wrong as we can own almost anything if we can justify it. It prompted him to do some research and he found out an amazing thing. ALL (as in every country) modern police forces are derived from the 2nd Amendment. Prior to that time all governments used the military to enforce security and police the population and importantly keep them under control. And it was like that for 1000s of years and through dozens of empires. Both my parents were teachers and my mother was very keen on history. She thought about it and concluded EXACTLY the same thing, which still freaks me out 20+ years later. In among everything else the Founding Fathers had said "NO the federal/central government will NOT use the military to police the civilian population. We will do that through well organized militias under local civilian control." We all concluded that the US bill of Rights was an extraordinary framework that had allowed America to be FREE, SAFE and FAIR, so its people to could flourish. Yeah its not perfect and the journey has had its some big bumps and bangs, but very few countries have come close to America. Nobody else sent men to the moon just because it was there to be done. What Doug was super concerned about was Americans were losing grasp of what it meant to be American - FREE, SAFE and FAIR. I think what Doug was on about was that you have to balance what's free, safe and fair. If one dominates then the others lose out. 22-23 years later and you know what scares me? Australia is going down the same path. We have people protesting and screaming about their freedoms, but none of them are protesting about SAFE & FAIR. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  2989. The funny thing is Jesus condemned adultery and also said "pay Caesar's what's owed" (as in pay your taxes). Trumps cheated on all 3 wives and (we now know) doesn't pay tax like the rest of us. YET somehow people like John Voight are claiming Trump is sent by God as some sort of anti-left messianic figure. This is one of the biggest issues in the world today blocks of people who will not accept any reality other than what they want.
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  2990. For everyone interested here's the full Henry Wallace quote from the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  2991. And that's because the Catholic church has not simply condoned those things but actually supported them.
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  2992. Elon's got serious issues with both Tesla and SpaceX. I'm an engineer and he's quite typical of the tech salespeople who chase the deal with the sound knowledge they don't have to do any of the work to deliver that technology. It way more common than people think. The people who sell projects to both government and industry often make promises or agree to terms that no sensible person ever should but they are salesmen and salesmen are in general willing to tell any lie to get the deal signed. With Tesla he promised some things like driverless cars and the trucks With SpaceX he's promised to take people to Mars and start a colony. In both cases Elon was selling his companies techno fantasy future dreamscape to potential investors. Where Elon differs form many of the other fantasy sellers, is that he's very good at identifying technologies AND technology people that he can exploit. Part of that is his ability to use existing technologies that WORK (but developed by others) to sell "possibilities" and "potential" and promote his techno fantasy future dreamscape to potential investors.
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  2993.  @everyonesinsane883  Cheerleader to what? Anyway you put it they were committing a felony and a cop died? Sorry but felony murder is or should be on the table. Maybe not for all but certainly for some.
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  2994.  @ebperformance8436  Great points. More than anything I just want to see these people face a judge and get forced to accept reality. If there is one thing I think people are getting fed up in the world (not just America but across the world) its clowns getting away with serious crimes while others do time for simple minor stuff. These people stormed "The Building" where a government operates. In almost any other country these people would already be in jail and in many countries they would already be dead. Go look at how China executed people after Tiananmen Square.
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  2995. I'm an Australian engineer and just adding to the effects of Human Resources. Its been devastating to the engineering profession. Irrespective of what you do or don't like about engineers we built the modern world including its good and bad things. There is almost not a single thing in your life we don't have a hand in. Everything you have that has metal or plastic or if it went through a factory involved engineering. That includes all the obvious things but also many less obvious things. Almost all of the food consumed in the developed world involves engineering from the tractors, plows and harvesting equipment though the processing, packaging and delivery systems as wheel as the refrigerated storage you all rely on. Similarly almost all of your clothing involved engineering and that again starts in the paddock, goes through the factories that process fibre, weave cloth and then make your cloths you wear. TO BUILD the modern world you all take for granted INCLUDING the computer you are on RIGHT NOW has taken generations of SKILLs and EXPERIENCE and TO KEEP THAT WORKING also requires SKILLs and EXPERIENCE. So when HR arrived and threw away skills and experience for their psychological profiling that was aimed at weeding out anyone who might question management that emphasis on SKILLS and EXPERIENCE went out the door. It gave the world horrible cases like the Boeing Max-8. I did my degree in aerospace engineering. I'm also formally trained in backup safety systems like the MCAS system that flew those planes into the ground. That system broke so many basics it still staggers me anyone thought it was safe and YET all those engineers that HR claimed were the right people in the right place for the right reasons did what they did and all those people died. For decades Boeing (like other companies) had built up systems based on SKILLS and EXPERIENCE and they built damn good airplanes. For decades driving a car has been more dangerous than flying at speeds in excess of 800kmh at altitudes so high that if a person was exposed to the outside conditions they'd die in seconds. So if the great claim of HR is to "put the RIGHT people in the RIGHT place for the RIGHT reasons" then how did the Boeing Max-8 happen? Think about this question next time you get in the car or on a train or on a plane. Did the HR person who picked the engineers to build that car, train or plane have any idea what it takes to make SAFE cars, SAFE trains or SAFE planes or where they like the HR at Boeing?
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  2996.  @InternetMameluq  Well actually a staggering number of people ARE NOT. You might be, a lot of others might be, but its pretty stupid to assume that "that everybody is aware of that fact." And considering that Obama didn't get America out of both of those wars or close Camp X-Ray at Gitmo or seek legal justice for those crimes and at least 81,283,485 Americans either forgot or simply ignored those facts, I'd say your assumption is pretty pathetic.
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  2997.  @cliffgaither  Simply no idea - you'd need to ask him. On Truman here's Prof. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) answering questions after a lecture on Global Trumpism. After the basic answer on Warren he gets to describing Truman. Its pretty interesting. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s
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  2998.  @cliffgaither  Prof. Richard Wolff who did a panel with Mark Recently (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc) which is quite long but very interesting. He pointed out that the economy was in free fall before COVID really took off. The economy tanked in February and COVID hit in March. Listen here at around 2:00 ((https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwO2qx1z1UU) ) So even without COVID Trump was in trouble. What COVID did was exacerbate the economic problem and turbo charge it and instead of it sliding down a slope its fallen off a cliff. Is if fixable? Yes but only if Biden is willing to make some hard decisions and just recently he hired 2 Goldman Sachs, a Blackrock and a McKinsey. As if Steve Mnuchin wasn't bad enough. 👉🤯
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  2999.  @cliffgaither  Dude you don't need any math skills to see that the lump of money in your hand is smaller than you need. When I was in college in America in the late 80s I used to argue with my frat brothers at times on the subject of what poor people would do. Before going there I had read Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 in high school. In 1984 the reason given that the "prols" (proletariat or working class) would never rise up against the inner or outer party (the elites and their educated minions) was that they were too ignorant to understand their situation. That's the exact point that People like Wolff and Chomsky are now arguing these people ARE NOT STUPID, but they are lashing out in frustration. I used to argue with my frat brothers all the time that if you hold a gold brick in one hand and a burger in the other a starving man will simply kill you for the burger and ignore the gold bar. Biden need to get some better advisers or he to will be a 1 term President. If he continues the Clintonesque neoliberal version of Reaganomics what follows his Presidency might be far worse and far more radical than Trump. Here's Chomsky in an interview from just the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huy82PVaCzs And note the $47 trillion he mentions that's been stripped is not the $35 trillion he mentions that's been hidden in tax havens. There might be some overlap, in fact there has to be. Since you say I am better at math let me describe it this way. Imagine your typical Div 1 college football stadium of about 70,000 has every seat occupied by a Jeff Bezos clone and that all the staff, water boys, coaches, players are also Jeff Bezos clones.
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  3000.  @cliffgaither  Have you watched the Chomsky interview yet? It raises a lot of serious questions about where Biden will take America. Certainly stepping back from Trumpism is good but going backwoods deeper into the neo-liberal black hole will only guarantee the next Trump.
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  3001.  @cliffgaither  So right on so many points. The only word of caution I have and I'd love to discuss this with Pro. Wolff is that if you take any "ism" to far its bad and that the real solution lies somewhere in the middle. He keep pointing out that countries like the Russians started down the path to equity but then stopped stagnated and collapsed. So pure Marxism is not the solution anymore than pure capitalism or pure communism or pure socialism is or any of the others are. A while back I concluded something that a few here in OZ agree with. A the core of progressives right now are 5 subjects. There are others but these 5 prevail above the rest - Education, Health Care, Environment, Economy & Industry. Education - it costs too much it doesn't deliver the skill base we need, we need to get everyone the skills they need to have a good life. Health Care - even before COVID that was a catastrophe waiting to happen in America and a disaster every where else. Environment - pretty simple humans need oxygen, water and food to survive. If we don't stop doing as we are we'll lose our life support system. Economy - its has to exist for our society not just 1% Industry - it has to provide places for the skills we have, with reasonably stable careers that supports and funds the other systems. The interesting thing is that different progressives prioritize those 5 things differently. Krystal and Saggar on the Hill are perfect for explaining this. She's a mother of 3 so her priorities are different to Saagar who's a right leaning technocrat. They are both progressives but those 5 things can be ordered 120 different ways and different progressives arrange there priorities differently BUT they all agree those 5 things are at the top of the list. I put it to other Australians and asked what would happen if a NEW party ran on those 5 as its platform. Not one person said it wouldn't or couldn't win in fact they all said it would be a landslide. One exception - many said the top 1% would kill us if we tried.
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  3002.  @cliffgaither  This is part of what Orwell was really on about with books like animal farm and 1984 its not the ism it those who use puritanical forms of them to abuse there nations. Puritanical Religious Movements are the same as the political machines but by a different mechanism. Even Trump falls into that category in a way. Back in 2016 why he got the support in the first place was because he was willing to discuss real practical issues with people who had been screwed and ignored by the elites of BOTH parties.. He did it with the subtlety of a sledge hammer, but then he almost immediately flipped by hiring every sycophantic suck up he could and now the entire thing is collapsing around him. Biden's got a huge risk because the DNC hierarchy simply hate the Progressives. They want shit to stay exactly as it is no matter how much it stinks. That can only fail because on one side there are 10s of millions or progressives who want real change and on the other are 10s of millions of disenfranchised working class people who ALSO want change and coming over the top is climate change.
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  3003.  @MattZaharias  In th emodern American context your right, but in the historical context its a bit more complex. In the basic definitions its confusing as its both anti-communist and anti-conservatism. There seems to be only a few things everyone is consistent on - its authoritarian, its on the far radical right and its bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#Definitions If you go into it its quagmire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism So I think we should keep it simple - its authoritarian, its on the far radical right and its bad. In the mean time I'll leave you that whack job "Wutsa hammerfir" and his delusions - good luck and don't forget: “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain Here's a few other quotes you can ram down their ignoant throats - enjoy "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ― Isaac Asimov “Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” ― Rod Sterling in his introduction to the Twilight episode “The Obsolete Man” aired on June 2, 1961 on CBS. “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche “Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a state of utter confusion.” ― Colonel Flagg of the CIA, MASH sometime in the 1970s.
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  3004. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ENEMY BUT THEY ARE CERTAINLY NOT ON OUR SIDE.
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  3005. Well done I think you've made the important distinction. American G.I.s didn't believe Tokyo Rose but a fair number of the 74 million who voted for Trump think everything out of Tuckers mouth is gold. I wont be surprised if (and or when) he's named as Trumps VP running mate.
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  3006. 74 million people will disagree with that. For sure he's bad leader in almost every way imaginable, but don't mistake that he wasn't a leader and don't mistake that he's gone or that he's left a legacy that America will be cleaning up from for decades.
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  3007. Following on the theme of another person in these comments. This stuff is making South Park look like a documentary series.
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  3008. Great quote.
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  3009. TO ALL: The combined populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin is 25.2 million, which compares to Australia's 25.6million. Australia has 908 COVID deaths while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin has just over 28,000 --> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ Right now Australia has just over 1400 active cases while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin have over 520,000 active cases as Winter sets in. In the last 2 days Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin had another 643 fatalities. On October 14 we had 5 die and since then 4 more. --> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/ We currently have a cluster with over 20 cases reported and its major news. Yesterday Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin reported over 16,500 new cases. Sure Australia is an Island and it was easier to isolate ourselves early on and we got very lucky regarding big crowd events when it first arrived here. We cancelled the Grand Prix and other events that could have been disastrous. We didn't have things like college and high school basketball going on which were just perfect for spreading this thing. We also didn't have any magic potion that a few conspiracy ass holes claimed at one point. But what we do is isolate when we get clusters and stop them getting out of control. Most of our 908 dead came from one cluster breaking containment in my home state of Victoria. Just to show we have idiots as well - we have people still complaining about lockdowns and isolating clusters DESPITE the fact we know that works and we know it saves lives. We had people screaming at one point we needed to be like Sweden, but its now obvious that Sweden go it wrong. Its costs 1000s of lives and didn't save their economy. What we can say now with a fair amount of certainty is that what we did in Australia has hurt our economy for sure and it will take years to recover but it has saved at least 20,000 lives (based on parts of Europe) and as many as 28,000 lives (based on parts of America). Like many Australian I want to see America recover from this. Wherever you - Take Care & Stay Safe.
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  3010. DO the CRIME do the TIME He should go to jail. It would send a clear message to all the Social Media Influencer clowns that there are limits.
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  3011.  @simonhagfalk  What are you a contractor to the NSA?????
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  3012. I was wondering what to say and I would have to say something very similar. On the propaganda proof, its pretty simple. If there is only one view you are hearing then that's the only thing you can believe. Its what political people rely on. Paraphrasing Orwell if you repeat something enough times you can make it the reality people believe. Look what Trump does, he kept repeating "Fake News" until he got people to actually distrust all the news services so much that now millions of people have almost no grasp of reality.
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  3013. Sorry buddy but on the aerobatics planes you are totally wrong on several points. Your a pretty smart kid and you do some great videos but occasionally get stuff 100% wrong. You really need to occasionally go and ask people about these things. I am an aerospace engineer with a pilots license and have flown competition aerobatics. Planes like the Extra 300/330, Yaks, Edeg450 and others mostly use a symmetrical wing sections so they have the same characteristics inverted as well as upright. That's needed for things like inverted spins and negative flick rolls. Learning to fly for me was incredibly humbling because I had to start listening a lot more to a lot of people. I've become more used to ordering electricians and junior engineers about, which happens after 30+ years. It became even more so when I took up aerobatics. Suddenly I was the student with a head full of nothing. Power to weight ratio and stability (YES STABILITY) are more important than anything else. The power thing is fairly obvious but ALL of the current aerobatics planes are very stable in flight unlike planes like the Pitts which are super manoeuvrable but also very twitchy. Its maybe the thing I find so technically impressive about those planes. They not only have incredible response to inputs but also high levels of stability. They stay where they are pointed. Scoring in aerobatics is about how clean you fly the manoeuvres NOT how many Gs are pulled or how fast you roll or how clean your aerodynamics are. The scoring system is quite similar to gymnastics and diving. Judges don't score according to how hard a figure is they score out of 10 (with 1/2 marks) for how well its flown subtracting points (& 1/2 points) for mistakes. Its about how round a loop is or how straight a line is flown. The difficulty of a figure is covered by a degree of difficulty that we call the "k-factor" which is based on summing up the various parts of a figure. The area of competition flying where this stuff is most likely to find a home is in gliding. if you want to ever go and see where the future of high efficiency aerodynamics is headed then go watch some of the gliding channels here on YT.
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  3014. Its simpler than that, its the answer all those with wealth give for the problems of the poor -> Its their fault for not working hard enough or its their fault for not going to the right school.
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  3015.  @Sol-Invictus  Good points all round. 👏👏
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  3016. You do realise that if you compare someone who got a score of 2 out 10 on a test to someone who got 1 out of 10 on the same test you'd be able to claim that the first person did twice as well as the second person and FALSLEY ASSUME the first person was fantastic for doing twice as well. But 2 out of 10 as a test score is a FAIL. Biden might be twice the human being Trump is, but that doesn't make him a successful POTUS who deserves a second term.
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  3017.  @robinsss  1: Knowledge of government contracts. 2: Knowledge of changes to law. Its why most developed countries have strict laws regarding what politicians can and can't do with what they themselves do with stocks but also what information they pass on BEFORE public release. Famous case in Queensland Australia with politician who made a 6 million percent profit on using his power in government. And he tried NOT to pay tax on it as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen#Conflict_of_interest,_party_revolt
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  3018. The most important question in America right now is: WHERE are they getting these claims from? As in someone is telling these people these things. Things like those comments about Nicaragua and the Sandinistas are NOT simply coming out of thin air. There are people somewhere pumping this stuff out to a receptive audience. America needs to get on top of this very quickly before it gets truly beyond saving the situation.
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  3019. Yeah your Canadian and you have the opposite issue to Australia where I am. I'm an engineer and was in Canada for a water treatment project in Saskatchewan (late 2017). I fell in love with Canadian football but that's another story. What Canada's water issue is, is the snow melt each year that dumps all that snow into the Canadian landscape. Since you have also grown by over 10 million people recently you also have an extra 10 million people flushing toilets and washing cloths. So there's a lot more water for the local waste treatment plants to handle. Because the tradition method is large ponds where the water moves every slowly allowing mother nature via sunlight and bacteria to break it all down to where it can simply be discharged into the river systems. The problem Canada has is those systems are not having to handle too much inflow and the water in those ponds is moving through them at a higher flow rate and that means mother nature hasn't had time to clean it. So when the snow melt happens its now flushing those ponds with only partially treated water into the rivers. Sorry but Canada need to do more of what I was doing, which was increasing the capacity of those waster water systems with newer technology. I made the most advanced waste water plant in the world work in Sask and within 6 weeks the local clown in charge let it freeze and wreck the whole place. I hadn't been fully paid when the plant was finished and NOBODY wanted to pay me to fix it because they were all too busy blaming each other. So I understand the Canadian issue quite well. Having been caught up in the middle of it.
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  3020. If anything as an elected official he should have been held to the highest of standards not given YET ANOTHER Mulligan.
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  3021. It has been prevalent for 1000s of years and for 1000s of years its been ignored. The kings, emperors, caliphs, dukes and politicians have NEVER CARED about the soldiers they send to war or the consequences that it causes. They look at the win-loss columns and territory they gained or lost and nothing more.
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  3022. You left out the a couple of others, the most important of which is when a political party just does NOTHING for people and utterly fails to deliver. The great failure of leftist or left leaning parties across the entire Western Democratic world is that when they are in power they just don't get much done. They all fall into this "lets form a committee" mentality and all they do is investigate and discuss and waffle on. It frustrates people and frustrated people can sometimes react badly. The link below is to one of the Michael Brooks tributes. Its time stamped to a part where David's old economics Professor Richard Wolff explains part of what happened in 2016. One of the others in that conversation is Prof Mark Blyth (Brown U.) and he gave one of the best comments about America just after Trumps 2016 win. That's the other link below. In case you don't know or don't remember Richard Wolff was interviewed by David (Oct 2020) and not for the first time. David was also interviewed by Richard Wolff over on his channel "Democracy at Work" (Dec 2020). Richard Wolff is a Marxist Economist, he's about as far left as you can get when it comes to economics. Richard Wolff -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s Mark Blyth -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmBG3Z4DI&t=1104s If you've watched those links you'll get the idea that many people who voted for Trump didn't vote against their interests they voted with their frustration and rage they had against the establishment. A lot of people forget Trump smashed a bunch of GOP favorite sons on his way to the nomination. Trump supporters rejected the GOP just as much as they rejected Dems. Richard Wolff says they're doing it in a impetuous way. What he doesn't say is just how much of a vile opportunist Trump is.
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  3023.  @afry6400  LIKE WHAT? Come on - put some fact where your mouth is. The world is getting seriously tire of knuckle dragging throw backs like you. What is thinking too hard? Anything you don't like - misinformation. Anything you don't understand - misinformation Anything you can't argue - misinformation
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  3024.  @Zazz_Blammymatazz  If you go to Canada, Britain or Australia (where I am) where there are Labour Parties which started in their union movements, they've also lost connection with the working class. Here in Australia our Labour parties (Federal and State) are full of lawyers, economists and accountants. They are just lawyers, economists and accountants with left leaning ideas. They are highly "solve by committee" orientated and anyone who has ever seen a committee try and solve any sort of problem knows it doesn't work. The freakiest answer I got was after the last British election. I asked a Brit why British Labour had run a losing campaign like Australia's Labour had done which was like Hilary's losing 2016 campaign. They told me that people of Hilary's campaign (advisers and strategists) had advised BOTH Australian Labour and British Labour. So when you say they Dems have lost touch with the working class - YOU ARE RIGHT. But its the same problem across the entire Anglo-American world.
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  3025.  @jamespower5165  AS I JUST SAID TO ANOTHER CLOWN - IT DOES NOT MATTER Gun safety is gun safety - real or replica it does not matter. If you had bothered to pay attention to the people who make movies they they all talk about how they put the actors through basic weapons training so they look like they know what they are doing on in the film. That means they all get basic gun safety BEFORE the start of filming. Its just amazing how ignorant of basic safety principles some people are.
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  3026. Its the corner stone of Milton Friedman's "Greed is Good" ideology. You know the stuff that was the core of Reaganomics and Thatcherism that we now call neo-liberalism.
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  3027.  @WillBravoNotEvil  Have you seen any of Stephanie Kelton's explanations for MMT? At first I thought she was bat crap crazy and then eventually realised she was right. Mark Blyth consistently reminds people that our debts are the banks assets. Things like our home loans are on the DEBT side of our balance sheets BUT those loans are on the ASSET side of the banks balance sheet. Its all a matter of perspective. Stephanie Kelton did this really simple demo where she showed that government deficit (& debt) is also PUBLIC SURPLUS. its just a matter of who's balance sheet you look at. What she's pointed out is that the government isn't like us as it can print money. Its controversial because it shows how much we've been lied to these last 40+ years by the neo-liberals, their elitist money and their neo-con jackboots. The neo-cons weren't really new they were just neo-liberals stormtroopers in disguise. I have thought about her demo and its quite explaining the basics. What she didn't show was HOW & WHERE that surplus mostly ENDS UP. That's what the elites really don't want people to figure out let alone understand.
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  3028. No need its already done for. Best get yourself a boat, anchor offshore and watch the place sink.
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  3029.  @cypriano8763  Sad but true. Sometimes you need logic and reason. Sometimes you need a cattle prod.
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  3030. Yeah good old Mr. Free Speech himself Elon Musk, who also a couple of years ago pumped Bitcoin.
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  3031. THE COUNTER TO THE HEALTH CARE CLAIM IS from Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton who's research showed that if America was to simply adopt the Swiss Health Care System it would save every American US$3,000- and give them 5 more years of life. YES - America's health care costs Americans US$1 Trillion more than it should and it shortens their lives by an average of 5 years. There's numerous interviews Angus has given here on YT. I heard about this via the Rhodes centre Podcast hosted by Mark Blyth the episode is titled "The Rhodes Center Podcast: An Immigrant Economist in the Land of Inequality."
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  3032. Actually its not that new. Sanctions on Japan was one of the key factors in what drove them to attack Pearl Harbour.
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  3033.  @jonnyhatter35  About 18 months ago I saw a vid here on YT about a British environmentalist who was taking a trip to Greenland with his grandchildren. He said in the 1990s they weren't pushing things as hard they could because they thought climate change would not be a problem in their lifetimes. Greenland is now where they thought his grandchildren would have to deal with it. Its not simply years ahead of where they thought its decades ahead. One of the biggest issues was China's growth and use of coal. There coal use is now MORE than what the entire planet was burning the early 1970s. BUT what is not in the data is the amount of coal that was simply burned in the ground. What most people DO NOT realise is that as soon as you expose black coal to air (oxygen) it begins to react and form CO2. If you aren't careful it simply ignites and starts burning. For over 20 years the Chinese were burning as much coal in the ground as they were in power stations. That's why its gotten so bad so fast. We are now starting to suffer the consequences of stalling any action that Exxon, Charles Koch and others have pushed since the 1980s.
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  3034. Next time you sit down with a pack of brainless millennials why don't you ask them why the rest of us think they are a bunch of spoilt selfish dropkicks who can't be told the word NO without freaking out?
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  3035. I suspect there's a bit more than just middle Pennsylvania where the words wife, sister and daughter all have the same meaning.
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  3036. That's a very valid point. One of the odd things is how rarely strategic missiles of ANY KIND have been used by developed nations. Yes there's been lots of bombs and rockets but not a lot of what might be called strategic missiles where they are targeting from range a specific thing like the Ukrainians are doing at ammo dumps right now. There's been a lot of RPGs and in a few cases missiles like the stinger that are fired from MAPADS or off the shoulder. There was a lot smart bombs dropped in Gulf War 1 and a few other places. Other than the Falklands where the Argentinians used the Exocet to great effect the only other times I can think off hand where a lot of missiles were used was Gulf War 1 where the Iraqis shot SCUDs at Israel and Gulf War 2 where America used a lot of Tomahawks for strategic strikes before sending in troops. Because of air combat there's been a huge number of air-to-air, surface-to-air and air-to-surface missiles used, but in terms of surface-to-surface tactical missiles there's not been that much. There's probably a few other cases but I can't remember when 2 sides with lots of missiles faced off. In Ukraine BOTH sides have lots of missiles and they also have guided artillery shells which have been used to devastating effect. HIMARS has been staggeringly effective. In fact so effective quite a few nations are now ordering it or increasing their order. I'm Australian and we have lots of Navy issues being discussed right now(???) and what sorts of missiles we are wanting to get like Tomahawks and LRASMs. In looking into that discussion one of the very odd things I found was how little there's been of naval conflict since WW2. Other than the Falkland's when 5 ships (4 Brit & 1 Argentinian) an older sub were lost by the Argentinians and a few other smaller boats were lost there hasn't been much. There's been a few missiles like the USS Stark in 87 and the Moskva. One of the really odd things is how few torpedos have been used. In WW2 torpedos were fired off by the 1,000. Since WW2 the number is 10 fired by submarines and I only know of 1 fired by and aircraft. There might be more. Wikipedia only lists 7 on its main page fired by submarines. I found 3 more fired by an Argentinian sub during the Falklands at what they thought was a ship and they think it might have been a whale. And just now when I was looking for details on that I found a British Lynx helicopter launched a Mk 46 torpedo at the ARA Sante Fe but failed to hit.
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  3037.  @colico14  I recognize the gentleman from the fine State of Consciousness and 2nd his motion that the idiot Rand Paul shall pay double taxes for being twice as stupid as a normal congressman.
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  3038. Did you not listen? Old people die, its called old aged. He's not claiming when old people die it means nothing. He's saying he's not concerned in the context of the COVID vaccine effectiveness. Do you know that about 40,000 children die every day from simply NOT being fed. Or that about 50,000 die from simple infections and ailments because they don't have access to basic medicines that many take for granted. 1000s of people die every day simply from old age. All he is saying is that with the vaccines its back to normal and that does sound cold, but its also simply life as we know it.
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  3039.  @krook5158  In Australia we call them sheeple. That section of any group of population (people) who act like sheep and just follow what the dog barks at them including the path to the slaughterhouse.
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  3040. One thing that wont be under speculation is the Defense Lawyers wanting money up front.
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  3041. Go watch the Jesse Ventura interview Kyle did with Krystal last week and pay attention to what JV says about what Vince McMahon's instruction was on switching to commentary. Once you get it you'll see exactly where Trump gets his game plan from. The staggering thing is 74 million people thought he was a good option for another 4 years.
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  3042. This is nice and wonderful. Its simple and logical and a complete waste of time when such a massive block of the American population DON'T CARE. They are totally trapped in the rhetoric of a tiny handful of people who have complete control of what they hear. Until the Western World (not Just America) takes back control of the media from a handful of billionaires humanity is doomed.
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  3043.  @aydenxavier1535  No prob - just pass them along. The more who know the better.
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  3044.  @lindalee-brown5539  He smells money. Look how much they gave him after he lost - it was over $200 million.
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  3045. AEROSPACE ENIGNEER HERE and yours is a very good answer but it comes out of my top 6 risks from AI. 1) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from the AI industry. 2) The ignorance of the general population to actually understand what AI is and how it works. 3) The over reliance on AI as a "fix all" for too many problems that it can't fix. 4) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from the scammer industry. 5) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from politicians. 6) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from the media. Disclaimer - I might have items 4, 5 & 6 in the wrong order, but I am fairly certain of the first 3.
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  3046. HEY MENTOUR I normally love your channel but if you don't limit the number of those annoying adds for those free game then I am giving up on your channel. 1 or 2 ads might be acceptable but this time I have had at least 6 before finally getting tired of it. The DISLIKE I ticked is not for your content but the ads.
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  3047.  @hanqingli6532  Mid 50s with a degree in aerospace engineering and 30+ years in control systems. So yeah I was there when America lost Skylab and the Russians deployed MIR. You do know that trying to be more ignorant than the Americans isn't very smart?
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  3048. That is an outstanding summation. Here's something that's happening in Australia One of our billionaire funded think tanks the Lowy Institute has decided that they are more important than our elected government in respect to foreign affairs including Ukraine. We have an journalist organisation called the National Press Club and they host televised public talks with Q&As almost every week. A couple of months ago the Director of the Lowy Institute was the talker. He described how they had hosted foreign diplomats. That drew attention because he wasn't talking about retired diplomats but actual serving diplomats and that begged a very important question: Who's acting as a diplomatic service representing Australian interests? AFTER THAT TALK: the Lowy Institute hosted Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a televised talk. Again the question needed to be raised: Who's acting as a diplomatic service representing Australian interests? You are absolutely right, we have a number of unelected millionaires and billionaires who have taken it upon themselves to act (at times) as if they are the voice of reason or as representatives at very high diplomatic levels. I actually don't mind them voicing opinions, everybody is entitled to it, but when they are using their money to leverage political power on the world stage that's unacceptable.
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  3049. I'm Australian and so far we haven't had a huge wave of Fentanyl overdoses yet. But I was in Canada for work in 2017 and they were having a massive problem with it. This stuff is horrendously bad. What still confuses me is that its totally synthetic (man made). So why is anyone even making it in the first place? Whatever excuse any of these companies that make it have, there's no justification for it.
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  3050.  @yawningkitty457  Go watch the video I linked it has accounts from the Hornet test pilot, which are worth hearing.
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  3051.  @casinodelonge  Considering the short range of the spitfire ad the losses bomber command suffered the questions simply is WHY wasn't it used an escort fighter? The only answer I have is in the video where they talk about the engine being better at low level. Escorts had to fly as high as the bombers. But that beggars the question why didn't they make a batch of these with Merlin engines? Night fighter is a more difficult question in WW2 as they didn't have radar in the planes until late in the war. Surprisingly the Boulton Paul Defiant was reported to do all right as a NF because the pilot only had to find the planes he didn't have to line up on them. I also think there might have been a Mosquito variant that was good at NF. I guess we can ask this 70 years after the fact and people will probably still be asking 170 years after the fact. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3052.  @ivancho5854  Most likely your right. Think about the basic math. 2 Merlins in 2 single engine fighters means 2 planes fighting the Battle of Britain compared to 1. It also doubled the engine & prop maintenance keeping that one plane flying. Its probably what kept the Hornet out later in the war. Even these days single engine planes out number twins by orders of magnitude. For private owners it simply doubles the engine & prop maintenance costs. Its why airlines prefer 2 engine planes over 4. They have half the engine maintenance costs.
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  3053.  @herrschaftg35  YES - I am well aware of the IEA data and have been following their reports for a few years now. That's NOT the point the point is the cost of the NEXT GENERATION of power stations NO MATTER WHAT THEY ARE is going to be astronomical. PARTLY because material shortages are going to keep prices high. PARTLY because the corporations who build large scale stuff are completely out of control on standards, profits and tax. PARTLY because the giant wealth shift of the last 40 years has broken every economic system in the developed world. PARTLY because we have driven 80% of our populations into Universities instead of balancing our education across the skill base we need. WORST OF ALL - a whole bunch of nations are going to try and do this at the same time which will send specialist labor and material costs even higher. Do you get where I am going? There's a bunch of factors coalescing into a MEGA-SHlTSTORM because of 40+ years of "Greed is good" stupidity. I tell my fellow Australians that we don't have any of the people we'd need to build just 1 nuclear power station let alone the 8 or more we'd need and their answer is just like its been for cars, TVs and mobile phones - "We'll buy from overseas!" PROBLEM IS EVERYONE ELSE is also in the same situation and they need their people at home doing the work they need done. Simon Michaux who I mostly agree with until it gets to the subject of what to do next recently said and I AGRRE 100% with him on this point. He basically said: "Its not that we can't do the energy transition but we need a better plan."
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  3054. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 - “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection." Just so you all know those words were said 2 years before Donald Trump (1946) was born. It was also said by a man who personally witnessed the chaos and insanity of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin.
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  3055. OH HELL NOT ANOTHER Simon Whistler channel we he rants on about stuff he doesn't have a damn clue about. HOW MANY OF THESE CHANNELS ARE THERE AND HOW MANY DO I HAVE TO BLOCK
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  3056. Dude he did have a plan. Its practiced by children all the time and its called "If I can't have it nobody can."
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  3057. I recently saw Van Jones do a TED talk and it was arguably one of the best commentaries on the American situation ->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w This is similar except for one thing and as a qualified lawyer Van Jones should know - this is not treason. Van Jones should know the legal definition in America of treason and that it is a very narrow definition compared to the dictionary. All the talk leading up to this is SEDITION not treason. These acts are all sorts of things, destruction of government property, trespass, assault, theft, BUT none of it is treason and as a lawyer with a very high public profile VAN JONES - SHOULD DO BETTER. In Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution, treason is specifically limited to levying war against the US, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_States
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  3058.  @jamesfranksain3227  Your right all the speech leading to this was sedition but these acts are other things like insurrection, destruction of public property, theft in the case of Pelosi's hard drive. In fact these acts make charging many people with sedition easier. There was that Jody Foster film based on a real event where the guys who goaded on people during a rape got charged and convicted. I hope that in the wash up that the scumbags who talked the talk that caused this get fairly charged, fairly tried and fairly convicted.
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  3059.  @bullydwilliams6785  Exactly he isn't president AND he isn't employed by the US government in any capacity AND he doesn't work INSIDE the White House.
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  3060.  @bullydwilliams6785  And just a minor point has anyone seen him since that art fiasco? I've seen lots of stories but I haven't seen him. Its as if Daddy put his wayward son somewhere safe where he couldn't do any harm to himself or others. I might be wrong but that sounds like RESPONSIBLE PARENTING!
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  3061. Would doing your BA at Yale and your JD at Harvard qualify as being among the elite?
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  3062. I haven't heard or seen anyone describe it better that that. I wish I could give more than 1 thumb.
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  3063.  @zachthamm9595  Yeah I saw what happened with the Regan vote. I was there in 87 and watched the primaries first hand. The Blue Collar industries have been hammered across the Western World by the insanity of the business and political elite. I'm an engineer and you can't keep a society functioning without the skills needed to maintain it. Consider power stations they are big complex and need to be maintained. Forget if they are private or government owned it does not matter. They need maintenance and eventually need to be replaced. For a modern society you must have enough welders, mechanics, machinists, electricians and others or it eventually breaks down and you get major systems failures no matter how many engineers you have. Over in medicine you have to have enough nurses, lab technicians, cleaners, food prep people and others or your hospitals will break down no matter how many doctors you have. The person I hope becomes education secretary in America is Andrew Yang. I saw him talk last year and numerous times this year and he is one of the very few politicians anywhere in the Western World who has descent grasp of the issues. He's really impressed me on that subject.
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  3064.  @RilianSharp  No - his kind believe THEY are entitled to everything THEY WANT but don't believe they have any responsibility to ensure or help or assist that others get the same entitlements. He's a pure self centered narcissist. If you have ever wondered what PURE narcissism looks and sounds like THIS IS IT.
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  3065.  @RilianSharp  Fark mate I am not going to go around in circles EITHER you get it or you don't and clearly YOU DON'T. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3066. Sorry Caitlin but that is totally untrue. Trumps supporters follow Trump and anything he says. If they ACTUALLY CARED about the constitution and the institutions of the American nation then they would honor and respect the election laws. Do you realise that its Republican appointed Judges who are making many of the judgements AGAINST Trump and his idiot lawyer Giuliani? Trump and Giuliani's rubbish isn't about trying to overthrow the election its about raising money to pay of campaign debts and start his new TV Channel. This is one of the greatest con-jobs in history. Seriously WHY does a billionaire need donations?
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  3067.  @itsmeGeorgina  I saw an ex-military guy interviewed a while back (I think he had been a general) and he said Flynn could be recalled and charged. He also said that Flynn had spent much of his career in military intelligence where the rules don't apply like they do in other areas. So he's operated with out restraint for much of his career. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3068.  @itsmeGeorgina  I don't really worry about the bulk of the trump supporters. They are more angry and frustrated with the political establishment than anything else. I saw this today, sorry its long but its something EVERY American should listen to. Its a lecture by Andrew Bacevich he gave at McMaster U. in Canada 2019. He's a historian and he fills in a lot of gaps what's actually happened in America since WW2. The actual lecture begins after 5:45 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VnSnMpxpH0
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  3069.  @itsmeGeorgina  Thank you, for being civilized on social media - there's not enough of it. 🙌👍🙌👍🙌👍🙌👍🙌👍🙌👍🙌👍
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  3070. KYLE IS 100% WRONG The most basic part of gun safety is: If you pick up or are handed a gun it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to check its status. What anyone else has done is almost irrelevant. THE MOMENT you take possession of a gun you are responsible for what happens until someone else takes possession of that gun. There is no way around this point.
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  3071.  @Thomamps  That's a great point about where things get made. One of the things for any ship or tug boat is the engine and I just checked a couple of the smaller classes the USN navy has. Its latest tug-salvage-rescue boats the Navajo-Class has Wartsila Diesel engines which are Finnish. My bet would be is you'd find similar if you start going through the other classes. There'll be bits of stuff from all over the world. I'm actually Australian and have been looking at what our Navy is up to, which is how I know about the Navajo-class. One thing I picked up is the propulsion unit on the Virginia-class submarines is actually British. So your point about trucks is just as valid for ships.
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  3072. Yeah but he's spent most of his career in intelligence and counter intelligence where the "normal" rules you had to follow DON'T APPLY. That was brought out a while back when his behavior was also questioned when he used the word coup. To people like him, things like honor, respect and truth are all subjective and open to interpretation depending on the situation. His career and your career had only one thing in common - the uniform. Its clear from your remark you wore the uniform for one reason. You need to accept his reasons are/were different. PS. A couple of my frat brothers were marines and to the best of my knowledge they served like you did and would be disgusted with Flynn.
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  3073. As an aerospace engineer you've basically hit it 100%. This could have and should have been a great tool for the development of systems and knowledge on how to do this off world. The fact it didn't deliver anything usable as in it didn't answer the questions that need to be answered. The biggest question of all isn't how do we replicate the Earth but rather how do we replicate a "Bit of the Earth" that can work as a stable biological system that can in part sustain an off world base. They kept trying to be too complex and maybe that is an answer but it didn't answer: "What can we do that works?" If you think back to Apollo there were a lot of different mission profiles suggested and rocket designs proposed but in the end they went with something they could get to work. Its the advice I give to many younger engineers. Look through the requirements and specifications and sort out "what's necessary" from "what's glitz"? Ask yourself how many sports cars looked incredible and were failures because they had crap suspension, crap engines, crap transmissions,.....etc? I bet you've seen the same thing or something very similar in environmental science projects.
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  3074.  @joe78man  I know its not a crime. There's a great doco called "Trillion Dollar Island" about the Cayman's and in it there's a banker who explains why off shore banking is a necessity for international trade to function. So I do accept that there is a genuine requirement for off shore banking. The problem is that its been out of control for decades and instead of being a positive function that allows trade to go smoothly its this abomination that's been exploited by the rich and powerful.
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  3075.  @ld3511  Somebody did a vid story on tax evasion and hidden money in America around the time they slapped sanctions on the Russian Oligarchs after Russia invaded Ukraine. It might have been Thom. They pointed out that Delaware is the world capital of shelf companies. Its the easiest place in the world to set-up a company and avoid tax. After Delaware, Idaho is the next easiest place to set up a company and its even better because its incredibly easy to hide who owns the company. They think there's several Trillion dollars in Russian monetary assets that were taken out and washed through the London Laundromat and then deposited into the Idaho blackhole of financial secrecy. So sorry to disappoint but as far as I know Texas is (at best) number 3.
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  3076. Well how do any of us know you or any of the other clowns pumping Ivermectin are not invested financially or invested by other means in Ivermectin?
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  3077.  @tgwcl6194  JUST GET LOST WITH THAT CONSPIRACY GARBAGE - EVERYONE WITH A FUNCTIONING BRAIN HAS HAD ENOUGH
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  3078.  @tgwcl6194  Yeah - who's the one who's come here with nothing but UNSUBSTANTIATED conspiracy garbage and crap. You're not here to learn or be updated or or be informed or anything else other than wasting people's time with brainless stupidity. YOU WOULD NOT KNOW A FACT IF IT BIT YOU so just crawl back under a your rock.
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  3079. Actually there's serious question about who is daddy is. Look at the family. They are all blond and fair skin. Ivanka looks like her mother while Eric, Tiffany and Baron look like dad. Junior has dark air, olive complexion and doesn't look anything like dad or mum. A while back someone said (and its unconfirmed) that Ivana had an affair with Vince McMahon (the wrestling promoter) and he could pass for Juniors dad. Go on and look at McMahons 2 kids Shane and Stephanie and ask yourself which family junior might belong to.
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  3080. Welcome to the world of idiotic tribalism where there are people who will claim anything so long as its against the other side.
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  3081. I actually came to this channel from Sub Brief.
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  3082.  @robertsharp3238  Yeah, I think that's pretty obvious. Its basically Australia's Humvee and it wasn't that long before a civilian version of that became available.
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  3083. GREAT VIDEO PETER Z I'm an Australian engineer who's been highly critical of Peter's takes on various technologies, BUT THIS VIDEO is why I put up with that stuff BECAUSE this is where his real expertise is - EXPLAINING geopolitics and geopolitical strategies combined with demographics. I actually went to college in America (late 80s) and was there for the 87 primary season which was bonkers. I love America and the people and especially college sports, but American politics has been on a long slide into dark place for several decades. Having studied Orwell (1984 & Animal Farm) in high school, part of my education was (paraphrasing my teachers) "If you don't look after your society and maintain the functionality of its institutions then ANY NATION can collapse into a totalitarian dictatorship." To be clear they weren't saying all collapses end in totalitarian dictatorships, but they were saying it was a likely outcome because that was what Orwell warned us about.
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  3084.  @Rain-Dirt  Its called being a narcissistic sociopath - extremely self centered with no empathy for others. I think your right on Biden all he ever was, was the DNCs way of keeping power among the elitists of the party. Did you know the 2 places most mentioned in the DNC email hoard were Martha's Vineyard and the Hamptons followed in 3rd place by New York. Both Clintons and both Obamas are Ivy League. The upper echelon of the DNC is so stuck up themselves with this insane elitism. Biden was a way to keep the progressives out. Nothing more. The best line I saw on him was: Joe Boden is the normal that got Trump elected. IF THE DNC DOES NOT WAKE UP they are going to hand America back to the Trumpists in 2022 and then the White House in 2024. It might not be Donald but it could be something worse. What might go against that is Trump himself tearing the GOP apart.
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  3085. Actually NO. Bernie needs to take on the role of the elder wiseman and guide the next generation to NOT make the mistakes he made and get better outcomes. Bernie's too old and he's had his go. What he should have done AFTER 2020 was grab the younger people like Ossoff, Warnock, Padilla and get them organised to do stuff in the Senate. Bernie should have dragged Andrew Yang away from the corporatist scum in the DNC and guided him. Yang was lead to the slaughter house by the DNC. That question that killed his New York run was a setup. Bernie should have jumped in and helped Warnock smash Herschel Walker. That race should never have gone to a run off. At the first go that should have ended in complete humiliation for the GOP. Bernie can't be president but he can be the Bill Belichick who coaches and guides a team.
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  3086.  @Brainfryde  What's your background, because you sound like an economist. An awful lot of blah blah blah about things you clearly don't understand. Do you even grasp what I am actually saying? Myth #1 is a myth because we were always going to have to build new power stations BECAUSE THEY GET OLD & WEAR OUT. No amount of maintenance will keep them running forever. The current need to build new power stations has NOTHING to do with environmental issues. Its simply a matter of relacing them. The only question is what with. One thing that has to be considered is population growth. The US population was 180.7 million in 1960, 205.1 million in 1970, 226.5 million in 1980, 250.1 million in 1990, 282.2 million in 2000, 309.3 million in 2010 and 329.5 million in 2020.
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  3087.  @jonathanchang1574  That's a great point and it goes right to the core of when ideology overrides common sense.
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  3088.  @buddygrimfield7954  Agreed. They aren't the same thing but they often go hand in hand. I'm an engineer who does control systems and have worked in water treatment. I find this incredible. When you're working on the waste water side its different. Even if its not working at 100% you are at least cleaning the water to some extent. Also waster water treatment plants are usually part of the process. Either your recycling back into a process plant or discharging into a settling pond system and as long as you're doing enough its reasonably fine. But when you're in potable water systems its another game entirely because people will be using that water to clean their clothes, shower, bath and most seriously drink and cook with. So if you are just off a slight amount you are putting people at risk.
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  3089. Yeah he needed this on the first day Trump trashed him not after he's lost.
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  3090. Someone else just pointed out on another of Kyles vids. These people are currently passing laws to REGULATE who can vote, despite the 15th Amendment, but at the same time claiming nobody is allowed to REGULATE who can own a gun or what types of gun they can own.
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  3091.  @gzoechi  Very valid question, but also NOT a straight forward answer because it depends on the battery type. ceticum's original statement just said "batteries are very toxic to the soil" NOT sodium batteries. Its a vague and ambiguous comment typical of social media clowns who just type vague crap they think is smart. So here's a couple of points: 1) the lead in lead acid batteries is toxic. Also the acid isn't good for anything other than being used as an acid. This is why the disposal of lead-acid batteries has always been problematic. 2) the cadmium in Nickel-Cadmium batteries is a heavy metal and is toxic. 3) the sodium in sodium batteries can be incredibly dangerous in its raw metallic form because of how reactive it is BUT once in solution or a compound like it is in salt water its reasonably harmless unless you ingest a lot of it. 4) Lithium like sodium is also highly reactive in is raw metallic form and dangerous to handle but like sodium once in solution or in a compound like a salt then its like sodium reasonably harmless. That's the problem with vague blanket statements. Nobody knows WTF your talking about unless you explain it. FYI - I'm an engineer and I see this in STEM related commentary all the time.
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  3092.  @gzoechi  That's a good summation of the problem. I keep seeing tech story after tech story and the people speaking are journalists, economists, people in the street and ANYBODY else who is NOT an engineer. Its infuriating to watch them make mistake after mistake.
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  3093. Have you seen (ex-Republican) Adam Kinzinger's description of it?
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  3094.  @dokktordon  I agree there's a lot of good factual reporting on RT. But you still have to be mindful that RT is owned and operated by the Russian Government just as you have to be mindful that Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch who has his agenda and OAN is owned by Robert Herring with his agenda and Prager U. is owned by Denis Prager with his agenda. The same goes for NYT, WaPo, MSNBC and all the other networks and media that present opinions as facts. I really do like what Jesse is saying but that RT Logo will end up getting him and what he's saying condemned by many Americans.
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  3095.  @OceanofMaya  Go watch the doco Outfoxed and you'll know all you need to on Rupert Murdoch and how he operates. I'm Australian we knew what Murdoch was like long before he moved to London and then America. One of the amazing predictions in that was they said Fox was dragging the other main networks down their rabbit hole of "opinion presented as fact." MSNBC now has people like Rachael Maddow and Chris Hayes. CNN has a business model that for the last 4 years was "Trump Bad" and now they are lost and have crashing ratings. RT is Russia's answer to those networks. Do you really think the Russians want to see America get out of the mess its now in? BUT right now RT has the best propaganda they can ever have - TRUTH. JV is speaking simple Truth and if you read my comments you KNOW I keep saying that. The problem isn't what he's saying its the simple fact many Americans wont listen and just see him as some sort of Russian agent. If your wondering why an Australian would care its for the simple fact that America getting past this mess and functioning as a responsible nation is in our best interests. In that we aren't alone. Canada, Britain, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and others like us - America is an important trading and security partner. I bet like most Americans you have no idea about Pine Gap. Its vital to America's & Australia's security. We can all scream about what previous generations left us but its what we have got - our futures are linked.
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  3096. Actually David's former professor Richard Wolff gave a very clear reason what attracted people to him. He doesn't excuse them, but he does explain it. Watch this starting at 52:44 where he uses the example of West Virginia -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s But note one thing before you scream at me - he says they are giving the Dems the middle finger in an IMPETUOUS way (55:07). IT DOES NOT EXCUSE what Trumpists have done, but as Prof Wolff and Prof Mark Blyth point out (in that video) the DNC have literally written chunks of America off as irrelevant. Its not the fault of most Dem voters or supporters but it is certainly the fault of the elites in the DNC who have treated the progressives just as bad. Go listen to Kyle Kulinski, Krystal Ball, Sam Seder, Jimmy Dore or any of the other progressives and THEY ALL scream about the DISCONNECTED ELITES who run the DNC. Joe Biden has an almost impossible task, and I do wish him well, but he has to LISTEN LESS to the Ivy League and Goldman Sachs brigade and PAY MORE attention to the working class of America or all he will do is fuel the next Trump like character and that will be a true American tragedy.
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  3097. Yeah - have a look at the tree and the stump. That's a clean cut from something like a chain saw and look where its actually located. I just went and checked using the location on Wikipedia. Its way out in the country side. This was not some disgruntled teenager. This was planned. The question is who are they and what do they want.
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  3098. NEWS FLASH - Its also being reported in Europe by DW (German)
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  3099. Sadly this is all true and as several other people have commented in the list here various countries have found ways around sanctions for decades. Marc Rich the founder of Glencore and pardoned for tax evasion by Bill Clinton was famous for sanction busting. During World War 2 there were British and German companies still doing business through Switzerland and Spain and Sweden. The same sort of stuff goes on with tax evasion and money laundering. The average person in the street doesn't care where there gas or fuel or energy comes from. Even the greenest of the green movement will turn on a light and not care if the electricity was generated using coal. If you look at the chaos in Sri Lanka, does anyone believe those people on the streets care if the oil comes from Saudi, Iran, Russia or anywhere else.
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  3100. Yes plenty of fundamentalists until they find out he has a husband. Apparently Dave thought being gay, having a husband and adopting a child wasn't going to be a problem with the "traditional family values" minded fundamentalist majority on the right.
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  3101. Eventually one of them is going to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and say the wrong thing and then there is going to be one of the grandest butt kicking's in Australian history. When they get out of hospital there'll be no end of their whinging about it. Eventually there's going to be some blowback from this narcissistic garbage.
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  3102.  @TheNaldiin  Good answer.
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  3103. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  3104. If you have seen the reports on how much money she has made from just campaigning and selling books its pretty amazing, until you compare her to others who have already been elected or have cashed in to an even greater extent. The money is now the greatest threat to Western Society - not just America, ALL of Western Society. I'm Australian but went to college in America and I find it very sad to see the state America is in. And so you all know we are following you down the same path. Australian politics is an ugly heap of identity driven dog whistling garbage where money rules and substance is irrelevant.
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  3105.  @joeinamillion8991  that's a fair assessment it just wont go down well with a few people.
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  3106.  @uriahheep5665  Don't we all just love picking on Eric. I wonder if Lara complains about getting the dumb one behind his back. 😂🤣
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  3107.  @lizetteperez1469  If that's to Eric and studying for a prostate exam its actually a variation of a Joan Rivers line. She once said Bo Derek was so dumb she would need to study for a pap test.
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  3108.  @timgosling6189  I saw a series of documentaries comparing various WW2 systems and how their OVERALL effectiveness matched up. 2 in particular I remember were comparisons between the Sherman & Tiger and Hurricane & Spitfire. They both gave odd results. The Sherman vs Tiger came out on the Sherman for the simple reason that they were so easy to produce and could simply overwhelm the tigers. Interesting they interviewed both Sherman & Tiger people who managed to survive the war. They BOTH agreed they would have preferred to be in a Tiger for the simple reason that a Sherman could only disable a Tiger with a shot to the engine, but that a Tiger would destroy a Sherman with one shot and kill all on board. Until the Firefly and others came along the German crews usually survived. The Hurricane Vs Spitfire was really pertinent to the F35 discussion. In the air the Spitfire was clearly superior and could outclass the BF109. BUT in terms of keeping them flying the Hurricane was way better. ANY DAMAGE to a Spit usually put it out for at least 2 days, because it was all metal with flush rivets needing specialized skills. The Hurricane was mainly cloth over wood (which is why so few have survived) and the local carpenters could fix them over night. It could go against the BF109 but not as well as the Spit, but it was fine against the bombers. Because is was easier to keep flying some of the squadrons with foreign pilots REVERTED back to the Hurricane after getting Spitfires. So their conclusion was that the Hurricane was more decisive in the Battle of Britain because it was able to fly more often and put more bullets into more bombers and eventually the Germans ran out of bombers. I knew a Spit pilot and brought this up with him one day and he was blunt that NO PILOT would trade a Spit for a Cane in NORMAL circumstances. It was quite simple the Spit TO FLY was better all around. So I asked about the maintenance issue and HE AGREED that the Cane was much easier to maintain. He thought the analysts were wrong because without the Spit the Canes would have had to take on the BF109s a lot more. So in hindsight neither the Hurricane or Spit could win the Battle of Britain but together they could. And that's where I think the F35 is a mistake. Its too complex and too hard to maintain and its trying to do everything.
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  3109.  @jacobmccandles1767  Model or the real thing? If its the real thing he flies arguably one of the best engineering achievements of the last 70 years. The A-10 is a lesson in project management that all engineers should study.
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  3110. Its a great thought but its not going to happen anywhere in the world. Arguably one of the greatest things America ever did was the 1st Amendment where they enshrined the freedom of the press. Unfortunately it was freedom not freedom to be honest and truthful. How could the founding fathers ever expected the rise of people like Rupert Murdoch or that he and others would exploit that incredible gift to do what they do. Rupert's not unique there are dozens like him and millions who believe their garbage because its convenient.
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  3111. That's just such a stupid comment. Fine its bad behavior, bad police practice, bad everything,.....etc. AND HE SHOULD FACE DISCIPLINE. But I bet you can't even confirm if he is married or not or if he's ever hit a woman. Why make such an idiotic comment when we should all stay on topic. This is bad policing - period.
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  3112.  @kevinphiggins  Yeah that's part of the problem for sure and maybe the biggest part, but it was also a cop who ended it. So to say "just cops" isn't 100%, but its a number that's unacceptably high. Other than the NRA being conspicuously silent the other big question is see not being answered is: "Will this finally change the way America see's guns?" If you go to Wikipedia there is a whole page dedicated to just listing the school shootings in America. In the 2000s there were 68 of which Virginia Tech with 33 dead is the worst followed by Red Lake with 10. In the 2010s there were 230 of which Sandy Hook with 27 is the worst followed by Parkland with 17 and then Roseburg and Sante Fe with 10 at both. So far in the 2020s there's been 74 with Uvalde being the worst at 22 dead. That's a hell of a price so Wayne LaPierre and others can fly around in private jets wearing expensive suits.
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  3113. From Australia "G'Day China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From America "Hi China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From Japan "Konnichi wa China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From Britain "Good afternnon China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From France "Bon jour China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From Italy "Ciao China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From every factory worker in the Western world who lost their job to China over the last 40 years. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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  3114. Prof Mark Blyth from Brown U. has repeatedly pointed out how CNN has a business model summed up as "Trump bad" They offer nothing else. Trump made CNN, MSNBC and others more profitable than they had been in years. Is Trump a threat to not only America but the rest of the Western world? Absolutely but nothing will get fixed when all that the media does is point fingers and scream at each other. Kyle's assessment of Jake Tapper not being able to get around his own narrative was spot on. Listen to what Kyle says about rejecting the establishment and what Richard Wolff (who teaches Marxism) said during this part of one of the Michael Brooks tributes. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s Just consider that's a Marxist defending why people voted for Trump because of how fed up with the establishment they were. 🤷🤷🤷
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  3115. SORRY BUT - I went and checked this and maybe Thom could have done some checking too. There definitely is a direct link from Cannons husband (Josh Lorence) to John Rosatti, but there's not much of a link between John Rosatti and the Colombo crime family and nothing to suggest he's actually a mobster. According to FBI informant and former Colombo captain Salvatore "Big Sal" Miciotta "in late 1993, Victor Orena asked multi-millionaire businessman John Rosatti to provide cars from his dealership to be used to carry out murders, Rosatti declined and instead handed over $50,000 to Orena." (source Wikipedia on the page about the Colombo Crime Family). So there's no actual claim anywhere that Rosatti was actually a mobster just a claim that a mobster approached him at one time and the implication he paid money to NOT be involved.
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  3116.  @Sharon-dw7wc  The reports so far is that they were selling merchandise and had NOTHING to do with anything but selling merchandise. They were not delegates not he rally. That said there's still the issue of the atmosphere Trump has created that leads to this sort of thing.
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  3117.  @MM-qp4pd  Did you see the interview Adam had with Dr Daniel Swain recently?
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  3118. VERSUS EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE NUCLEAR WHIC HIS DO BELIEVE WE NEED Unlike Gerard Holland who's background is in accounting I am an engineer and have know about Australia's energy situation since doing a project on Australia's future energy needs in 2016. I genuinely believe we need to have nuclear sensibly discussed as part of our energy future but we FIRST have to get the clowns like Gerard to STFU and let the engineers speak. AND its not just the Political Right but also the Political Left who need to STFU. They have BOTH screwed up Australia so bad its going to take a massive effort to fix. I am utterly disgusted with how public discussion has been dominated by UNCHALLENEGED claims from BOTH SIDES of the energy debate. BOTH SIDES LIE just as Gerard has done here. And so you know you can read my formal challenge to him on this page.
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  3119. Yeah that bit is a bit stupid. Trump tore up NAFTA in a heartbeat screwing the Canadians and Mexicans. I was in Canada when that happened and it makes me wonder how we can trust the Yanks going forward. Most of them are fine its the nutters that worry me. Then there was that little lie about WMDs where they dragged us into a war. As for the Brits we have totally forgotten that back in the 1970s they totally FUBARd us when they joined the Common Market. Before that they abandoned us in WW2 while they demanded we help them. Before that they sacrificed a generation of Australians on the beaches of Gallipoli and the fields of Flanders. They also used us for nuclear testing in the 1950s and have refused to clean up the test sites. Why anyone thinks they can trust either the Brits or the Yanks long term is kind of ignoring history.
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  3120.  @Physicalchemistry15151  The other day someone said that Canada has no gun massacres, which I knew wasn't true so I looked it up. Here's the list of ALL types of massacre in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Canada They have had 10 since 1985 with 7 of them being guns. None of them as bad as the Port Arthur massacre we had in Australia that triggered our changes in gun laws. Here's the American lists (plural) on JUST gun related massacres. Its lists 14 this year and its only 14 because of how they categorize the term "mass shooting". The other day on PBS Brookes and Capehart they said there were 3,000 so far this year but I think that includes all gun related shootings with multiple victims or injured. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
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  3121. Go look at Krystal, Kyle & Friends interview with Jesse Ventura from some weeks ago. In one part he goes into the time he commentated because he was injured. Vince McMahon told him to run with the idea "If you believe it, then its true." The Wrestling fans went bonkers on his commentary. He then explains how Trump has copied that concept and people like Lindell are now running with it. As a concept its fine in wrestling because that's just a form of fantasy driven entertainment, BUT THIS IS THE REAL WORLD where real damage is being done.
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  3122.  @ngrey5092  Good point its in that area of metal shaping but its closer to folding and what's done in a press break. They are all part of the same basic principle of cold forging thin sheet.
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  3123.  @HingleMacCringleberry  There's also another Edge Precision vid where he starts with a 930lb blank that machines down to a 133lb part. That's 797lb (over 85%) of the raw material is removed as waste. the title of that vis is "830 Op 1 Cad Cam" The waste isn't a problem its a matter of what they do with it.
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  3124. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law with a few becoming lawyers. They love doing hypothetical arguments with me about the Amendments. These days I think they did it at times just to hear a different view. Either way I got a odd education in the US Constitution. 1) I think you are absolutely right about the hero worship factor and it blinds people. We have it hear too. I think every nation does to some extent, but America seems to amp it up a bit above average. Look at the current Trump, Biden, Bernie & Hilary problems. They all lack substance and in Trump's case morality and ethics, but to their devoted bases they are infallible. 2) I think his hole "substantive due process" is utter bunk. If his argument holds then all those people who hide behind the absolutism of the 1st Amendment would lose their right to say what ever they like. Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, OAN and ALL the "news" outlets who push "opinion as fact" can get shut down. Alex Jones and all the other conspiracy clowns are gone as well. All the TV evangelists who promote some truly insane stuff gone as well. All of the infomercial people gone as well, in fact most of the advertising industry gone. Basically anybody who currently uses the 1st to do what they do irrespective of reality are gone. All anybody would need to do is declare them a public nuisance. 3) He goes on and on about "due process." He should have been asked about his role in founding the "Federalist Society" and the LACK of due process in allowing other opinions on the SC. If you actually consider what the Federalist Society is and its aims it exists for one thing - to circumvent the due process of allowing a broad range of opinions the represents ALL of American society on the SC. What about the due process for all those other people with other views? 4) Finally - Look at the political dodge where he was questioned about what's legal. "I don't have public opinions on what's legal." WTF. Go have a look at some of the recent comments. There's a lot of the hero worship for a guy who did one of the best ever political dodges on a straight forward question. I think you've hit the subject right on the tip. Americans are too willing to hero worship people who are at best fallible.
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  3125. Yeah its bit obvious. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3126. Famous saying "The first casualty of war is the truth!" Another famous saying "Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms!" And lets not forget the Neo-cons, who's goal is to change every country in the world into a copy of the "America Liberal Democratic Fantasy" also gave us wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maybe they think it'll be 3rd Time Lucky
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  3127. LOU DOBBS GOT FIRED 😂🤣😅😺😂🤣😅😺🤬
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  3128.  @user-yb8vr2ip2t  His Wikipedia page already says "former television host" (past tense). He's 75 and in normal polite society we'd show an elder some respect. Na-uh I hope his retirement is what he deserves - alone in the poor house wondering where is next bowl of soup is coming from. 😂🤣😅😺😂🤣😅😺🤬
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  3129. If you have a look at the table of US states & territories look where Puerto is on the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population America should be grateful that many other nations are too stupid to realise how many of America's citizens are denied basic representation.
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  3130. COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE It might have gone longer than 19 seconds and given someone a brain aneurism.
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  3131. He's dead - that's the only thing we know for sure and probably will be the only thing we will EVER KNOW FOR SURE. Clinton partied with him, Trump partied with him, and a boat load of other powerful people partied with him. None of them want you, me or anyone else to really know what happened and they have the power to keep it that way. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3132.  @davidcobble2050  That would be a convenience no one would buy. The fact is she has names and dates and places in her head that some very very powerful people do NOT want heard by anyone e-v-e-r.
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  3133. I'm Australian what direction do you think we are going in. I went to college in America what direction do you think they're going in. A couple of years ago I was working in Canada what direction do you think they're going in. 🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷
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  3134.  @LifeisaHorrorMovie  Well fark if your that simple minded then what's the point of trying to explain something as complex as a justice system or complex as a political system or as complex as constitution. Nice try, so what's next in that pedantic brain or do I need to cite a paper about pedantic brain function and behavior.
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  3135. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  3136. I'm Australian and before that shit he pulled at the UN he had a decent reputation from the first gulf war. Maybe not perfect, but Gulf War 1 was over and done in a month and then everyone was out. Instead of it becoming Vietnam 2.0 the US and its allies were out. Saddam had is ass kicked, Kuwait was back in the hands of Kuwait and no one was bogged down in some endless disaster. So by about 2003 EVERYBODY WANTED TO KNOW how Gulf War 2 had become the disaster it was. Everyone wanted to know how the same people who did Gulf War 1 screwed up so badly with Gulf War 2. America's own PBS delivered and in 2004 gave the world the documentary "Rumsfeld's War." I first saw it in Australia in either 2005 or 2006 when it was televised on free to air by SBS Australian one of our 2 public broadcasters. Here it is on YT -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPEWIDBrKyM So yeah a lot of people KNOW and have KNOWN for around 16 years, (I have known for at least 14years) that: - Powell LIED to the UN and knew he was lying. - Powell told Bush in a private dinner NOT to go into Iraq and that Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others were wrong. - Powell, Shinseki and others were shut out of the planning by Wolfowitz on Rumsfeld's direction. Before any of you tell me (an Australian) to F--K off let me tell you something. The Australian Prime Minister at the time John Howard is/was a lawyer, which means he knew the basics of International Law and that its a crime to invade a country that has NOT committed an act or acts of war against you or your allies. The invasion of Afghanistan was legal as the Taliban Government by supporting Osama Bin Laden had attacked Australia's ally on 9/11. But Iraq was NOT legal and our PM knew it wasn't legal and we helped destroy that country and and played our part in the deaths over over 100,000 innocent civilians including the 14 killed at Nisour Square by the Blackwater 4 that Trump just pardoned. So before we all go condemning Colin Powell for his part in the Iraq clusterf--k, just know that a lot of other people were involved and very few have ever been held accountable.
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  3137.  @jamesmccormick875  I have no idea why any respectable journalist would even put her on unless their aim was to expose her for the brainless clown she is. Just hearing this crap makes me feel like I need a shower.
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  3138. As fellow Victorian who also went to college in America its incredibly sad to see what Trump has done to America. Its damaged the lives of many people I care about and many ,many others beyond that. One thing Americans should know is that when (and there were mistakes made) the virus got out of control Daniel Andrews the Premier of Victoria (equivalent to a US Governor in terms of role) was totally panned by right wing media particularly Murdoch's Sky News. .Everything they could throw at him they did, but they are pretty quiet now except making claims Trump will still win. I went to college U. Of Illinois on a sports scholarship and I find it incredibly sad to see that over 13,300 people have died there out of a population half the size of Australia (12.6 million to 25.6 million) where we have 908. We had 2 deaths on October 28 and 1 on November 30 and none in between. During the same time period over 3000 people died in Illinois, with the BEST day when only 25 died. On other days it was over 100, with 266 on December 2. Having been there for 4 Thanksgiving holidays I can see it is about to get very very bad and then even worse after Christmas when winter is in full swing. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ This isn't just sad or tragic its something else.
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  3139.  @Lankpants  Your absolutely right but the problem is Murdoch and his people are NOT stopping and there base is getting more and more radicalized every day. Alan Jones now has a base of American supporters - just look at the comments he gets. Sadly they have a base and its not shifting. IN part that base exists because the rest of us left them behind and disenfranchised with globalization and other things. Murdoch and his minions have taken advantage of that disenfranchisement and weaponized it. Scarier - I hear Murdoch junior like Trump Junior looks like taking over and being even WORSE.
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  3140. As Gordon Dugan put it in the top comment above. There is one thing more dangerous than Tucker Carlson, ...and that is his viewer base.
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  3141.  @felixcosty  Another vid on the channel Bog Think with a guy named Agustin Fuentes titled "The problem with reductionist science - and how to fix it" just popped up.
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  3142.  @Dingdongwitchisdead  It didn't improve the collective IQ of the planet either.
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  3143.  @bjre.wa.8681  You are so close to the truth. I am an engineer my actual working life involves technology. I love sci-fi but hate futurists and there is a difference. GOOD sci-fi gets people to think and examine potential futures and what potential future technologies might mean. BIG word is potential. Futurism is uneducated opinion masquerading as if a possibility ALREADY EXISTS or is just around the corner and its going to be brilliant and all of our lives are about to be magically transformed into a utopian society. Futurism is actually an offshoot of the utopian dream philosophy/fantasy. Its quasi religious. Its actually not too far off what Qanon people believe with Donald Trump or what Elon Musk's fanbase believes about their future on Mars. Its just another form of: "If only some magical (or brilliant) person would just walk in and fix everything then life would be beautiful."
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  3144. FROM THE TRANSCRIPT AT 0:26 "it is interesting to see how under scrutiny when people really take the look at these bills how brilliantly the single-payer plan stands out" The highlight is mine and I deleted the 2 "uhs" to make what she said clear.
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  3145.  @JoaoMariaNunes  WTF are you rambling on about? Its pretty simple if these people had anthrax they have symptoms consistent with anthrax. Symptoms like the black ulcers.
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  3146. I heard that America's financial situation is so bad Ted Cruz can't afford to fly his family 1st class to another country the next time the Texas power Grid fails. Instead they'll have to go coach and he's uncertain how his kids will handle the trauma. Ted Cruz is proof a Princeton & Harvard education does not include a sense of humor, morals or ethics.
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  3147.  @MattH-wg7ou  I have about 350 hours. How much do you have? Don't worry about the answer. One of my Frat brothers who did his back in college as over 22,000. I hadn't chatted with him for years. It was humbling when he told me what he'd been up to, but he was super encouraging to keep going.
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  3148.  @MattH-wg7ou  absolutely and totally understandable Have you seen Ward Carroll's YT channel? He's an ex F14 RIO.
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  3149.  @MattH-wg7ou  What makes it a great channel is that it sticks to its area of expertise. So many channels get side tracked in stuff they just shouldn't. The other great aviation channel is Blancholorio with Juan Brown.
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  3150.  @MattH-wg7ou  What he doesn't do which should be a lesson to ALL JOURNALISTS and public commentators is NOT embellish on known facts. Any opinions he gives he's clear about that they are opinions. As far as I'm concerned people like Juan are real journalists. He presents the known facts and explains what he can about them. He doesn't make up crap or try for any grand standing attention seeking nonsense.
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  3151.  @Kineth1  I'd forgotten the CF bomber. Love that comment form the other pilot to "get back in it"
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  3152.  @mescko  I once heard Mario Andretti (I think) describe Colin Chapman's ideology of race cars. If a race car is built right it falls apart as it crosses the line. If the car crosses the line and can do another lap its too heavy and needs to be lightened. If it breaks and fails to finish only then can you add weight.
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  3153.  @EamonnG76  Year I know that. Odd thing on my college transcript. Navigation 101. I needed some extra time my last semester and friends had introduced to me sailing and I found this ROTC course. So with bunch of future navy officers I did classical navigation right back to star fixes with a sextant. It was one of the best classes I ever had. I also have a pilots license and airspeed is still in knots too.
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  3154.  @soundmapper  I still see those older threads in air fittings like BSP threads. You also see Whitworth threads on things like farm machinery, older trucks and those sorts of older machines that never seem to wear out in factories (like power presses).
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  3155.  @bladerunner3314  I missed your comment about looking up Peter Popoff. As I said earlier I went to college in America in the late 80s and could barely believe what they were doing then. Here in Australia we get a bunch of them every day on our secondary channels spewing out their crap. They have been doing it for a long time as well. Even before I went to America there were a couple here. They weren't the real heavy handed types back then but they are now. The strangest one I've heard about of the current breed is Creflo Dollar who actually preaches this weird wealth doctrine. Apparently God was mistaken when he said that the "love of money (as in greed) was a problem." According to Creflo - God was brilliant at all those other formulas that hold the Universe together but when it came to those other symbols $, €, £, ¥, %,... God needed Creflo to help him out. At least back in Popoffs day they at least pretended they were real. Creflo and others don't even try.
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  3156.  @patriciawright8786  As I said to Blade Runner this stuff ahs been going on for decades. Sadly its now part of the fabric of society. Its like a cancer that has been allowed to metastasize.
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  3157. Yeah a good way to put it.
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  3158. Actually corporations do have beliefs. Here's there top 5. 1) Profit before quality. 2) Profit before value 3) Profit before customer satisfaction 4) Profit before employees 5) Profit before society
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  3159. Interesting question but I think you'll find your question isn't correct because the 2 answers are not a perfect complimentary pair where the negative of one means the other is true. That's because laws aren't perfectly black and white. Its like the terms guilty, not guilty and innocent. People think being found not guilty means being found innocent and that's not true. You can be innocent but found guilty and be guilty and found not guilty. Ask any lawyer and they'll tell you law isn't about right and wrong its about arguing perception of what is right and wrong. I'm not a lawyer but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and loved twisting people's heads inside out with that stuff. You have asked a good question though.
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  3160.  @BrianLowen  So how do you think Elise is going to go with all those men at the UN?
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  3161.  @christinesmith1499  You are absolutely right, but unfortunately when there are podcasts willing to take money for content then he will have access to public discourse.
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  3162.  @thetruthchannel349  Unless they can get quantum processors to work its all BS. Derek at Veritasium did a great vid on the rebirth of analog computers recently (link below). It highlights the problems there in that they can be great once trained but then they are great for that one task and one task only like image analysis. The real problem for true AI is that nobody can actually define in an engineering sense what intelligence is, let alone things like morals, ethics, empathy, etc. Then there's the problem with what would an AI actually do once it became self aware. The only honest TV or Hollywood portrayal I ever saw was an episode of "Person of Interest" where Harold explained what he did to make his "machine" work without killing everyone on the planet. He was trying to warn the creator of another AI to not do it how he was doing it because it would simply enslave the human race or exterminate us. Its one of those near insane philosophical arguments about what would you do if you were a hyper intelligent all powerful entity trapped on a planet with 7.8 billion idiotic clowns that like destroying everything they can and who particularly react badly to hyper intelligent all powerful entities that they can't control. Do you exterminate us or enslave us or flee the planet? Veritasium vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVsUOuSjvcg
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  3163.  @mikelomez9313  There's a series called "How to fix Democracy" and the second season focused on economics. Some of the people, are really good, some average and a couple of WTFs. One that really caught me by surprise was the one below. First Sir Angus Deaton won the fake Nobel in Economics. That raised a red flag for me because most of the winners are scumbags, like Milton Freidman. Plus that prize was NEVER approved by the Nobel Family. Its real title is "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel." Its funded by the Swedish Central Bank as a very sleazy way to promote Economists and their their field as a "science" which it isn't. So I thought this guy was going to speak crap and got a shock. Apparently the committee lost their minds at least once and actually awarded this to someone who actually cared about the human race. The real shock in this is what he says at 4:30. Start listening at 4:16 and wait for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM0BYPf2BcM According to the transcript he's talking about a guy named Kanigher but I can't find anything. But if that true that back in the 1950s and 60s they proved a for profit health care system can't work then WTF happened?
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  3164.  @cooldrop02  You learned about cocaine from watching Die Hard?????
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  3165. Well you can go to college and pay to listen to this or you can be here and get it for free. I like Prof. Wolff because at the very least he gives a rational alternative perspective. Where l'd disagree is that Marxism is the answer, because the countries that went down that path had their own catastrophes and that included economic catastrophes, environmental catastrophes and social catastrophes. I think he might agree as he has pointed out in other talks how Russia, China and other failed that the solution isn't a puritanical 100% Marxist state anymore than it is a puritanical 100% Capitalist state, but that the solution lies somewhere in between. Many point to the Nordic models where they have incredibly strong socialist systems wrapped around democratic and capitalist systems. The Norwegians instead of wasting their oil & gas wealth as others have did an almost communist thing by pooling the income into a sovereign wealth fund that they then used capitalist methodologies to enhance.
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  3166.  @xelakram  The great eye opener on economics was an exposé by the BBC program Panorama years ago when they were investigating some of the American banks and how they influence politics. What they found was that professors at Harvard, Yale,.....etc. were on huge money to write papers that helped of promoted what those banks wanted. If you tell a politician "A study by Harvard Business school has found....." or "A recent paper out of Yale Business school says....." that carries serious weight and people pay attention. The Banks found that if you wanted to influence monetary policy it was A LOT CHEAPER and MORE EFFECTIVE to pay-off "the prestigious" professors to write what you wanted. In the Panorama program the confronted one professor with how much his base salary was to how much the banks paid him (it was like 4 or 5x as much) and how many pro-bank papers he was writing and how they influenced policy. Instead of defending his work the professor off with "how dare you this,... how dare you that,.... I'm the chair of blah blah blah." It was really telling that he never defended the work he'd done. Being truthful the engineering research I encountered was just as bad. The entire process is never about results its about doing enough to get the next grant. Its a fundamental reason we haven't solved nuclear fusion or been back to the moon. We've spent billions in research but produced very little, as most of that was about getting the next research grant. I actually did Economics 101 as a humanities option. I remember asking the professor about 2 weeks in when we would see a formula, because all he was showing us was graphs with different shaped supply & demand curves. He laughed at me and told me economics wasn't about numbers. Numbers were for accountants and actuaries. But my real disdain for economists are the insane lies they tell, like "consumers will be better off." What it really means is that consumers will see lower prices because we just sent jobs to a place with lower wages that help with profit. For the consumers who still have a job its better but for the poor bastards who no longer have a job its BS. In Australia we have something even worse. Basic supply-demand economics says that if demand rises prices should as well if supply cannot match the new demand. Australia's population has gone from 15million in the 1980s to 25million so the demand for dairy products, have also increased. Plus Australia now has enormous markets in Japan and China to supply dairy into. Chinese demand Australian produced baby formula is insane. Chinese students in Australia fund their education by mailing the stuff home where it can double or triple in value. Its got so bad that there are now limits on buying baby formula in our supermarkets. In any reality dairy farming and dairy manufacturing in Australia should be profitable if not super profitable, but the number of dairy farmers has crashed from over 22,000 to under 8,000 and we are closing down manufacturing plants. I love throwing that at people with business or economics degrees the stunned looks are brilliant.
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  3167.  @xelakram  Not certain of your age but I am a md 50s Australian who went to college in America in the late 80s. So I was there to witness Reaganomics first hand as well as the rise of televangelism. My college the U. of Illinois was a center of the worlds current computer technology. The browser you are using right now is inherited from the work of 2 of my fellow Illini who were there at the same time. They decided that the text based paging of the Plato System sucked so they came up with a GUI based program called Mosaic -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen#Early_life_and_education Because I was over in the aerospace department at that time and there'd been the soul searching after the Challenger disaster. Then there was the end of the cold war and with it the end of Reagans Star Wars program and my aerospace degree went from hero to zero in a blink. After that I did a few years of University based research back in OZ and that's when I got first hand experience with how dirty that world is with the "the purpose of this research is to get the next grant culture." Like many I had little idea of the monster that big pharma or big ag was until more recently, but because of my background I was not surprised by it.
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  3168. Great observation. I'd forgotten how they always used to pump those memes of hippies and nerds.
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  3169. Yeah this guy was totally confused by his own arguments. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ If you want to criticize TYT that's SO EASY - all Cenk & Anna do is scream & rage at the world. Whatever they may have offered in the past all they do now is scream & rage. In some ways I get their frustrations but when you are a broad caster you need to keep perspective and they have lost their perspective. If you look at how they went off at Jimmy Dore (not that he's innocent) and Aaron Matte it wasn't rational, it was just screaming at someone who's reporting you didn't like. For a "news & opinion show" they did NOT offer any arguments, counter points or evidence they just blew fuses and screamed. Kyle Kulinski did a good vid on it.
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  3170.  @unluckygamer692  He's actually a stand-up comedian who started doing political humor and he's been really good at making fun of not just politicians but also journalists. He's also done some really good light hearted interviews with really smart people like Mark Blyth that was great because it allowed those people to be heard to a wider audience in a wider context. But more recently he's let the frustration boil over and he's become a bit of a rage merchant for want of a better description. Instead of making fun of political journalists and political journalism he's more raging and venting at them. Which to be honest they deserve, but its also exhausting because you can only scream at the world for so long. I empathize with Jimmy's frustration but I also need a break from it. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ TYT is close to being a lost cause just like the GOP its so driven by ideology it can't handle anything even slightly of line to the narrative its projecting. Its actually a shame because Cenk and Anna have done good work in the past. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3171. AUSTRALAIN HERE: How the F⋃CK are we or Canada, Mexico, Britain, Europe, Japan, South Korea,..... OR ANYONE ELSE supposed to have faith in America as a reliable partner in trade or security when your Supreme Court is out of control? Considering agreements like AUKUS which we are spending several hundred billion on or any of the other treaties that other nations have. How do you expect us to respond? You just had Julian Assange held in custody for 5 years because he disclosed American troops committing war crimes. You have had dozens of other people taken from OTHER COUNTRIES transported across international borders and held at Guantanamo Bay a location the rightful owner (The nation of Cuba) has told you to leave. Many of those people are (years later) still to be charged with any crime. MEANWHILE the commanders who oversaw torture and murder at places like Abu Ghraib and Bagram AFB have never been charged with anything while the soldiers underneath them who followed their orders have served lengthy jail sentences. The whole world watched Donald Trump tell a crowd of people (that he invited to Washington) to "Go down there and stop the steal!" We all saw him send his mob to attack the capital. In any other country he would have been arrested that day and NOT given the slightest leniency. In most countries he would have already faced trial, been convicted and sentenced. In some countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea,.... he would already have been executed.
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  3172.  @waltergrace565  Well then you should know exactly what people like DeSantis are up to. Have you read Angrynomics or watched any of the discussions on it?
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  3173. This is NOT simply a GOP thing, this is an everywhere thing. As in it goes on EVERYWHERE. Remember the Panama Papers that detailed how the rich and wealthy from dozens of countries used a Panamanian financial services firm to setup tax evasion schemes? Everything was detailed including documents with signatures, bank account numbers,...etc. NOBODY's been charged ANYWHERE over that. That was followed by the Paradise Papers and it was the same outcome - NOBODY's been charged ANYWHERE. That was followed by the Pandora Papers and it was the same outcome - NOBODY's been charged ANYWHERE. Wake up, all this stuff by the top1% is not an American problem, its not a Swiss, Canadian, British, Australian, Dutch, Irish or even a Russian/Ukrainian problem - its an EVERYWHERE problem.
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  3174.  74 Rowe  What most people don't realise there isn't a Deep State because its right out in the Open for all the world to see. There's not a giant conspiracy either its just a loose collection of incredibly selfish people with extraordinary amounts of money and power and they will do anything to keep their money and keep their power. Go watch some of George Carlin he described it as good as anyone.
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  3175.  @404Xyz  Where do you get that figure from?? Didn't hear that it was doing about 8kms. That's around Mach 23.5 and there's nothing we have that flies that fast and certainly not at 100k feet. BUT the 550km orbit where Starlink flies has an orbital speed of 7.6kms which is probably why Destin first thought of Starlink.
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  3176. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Thom you are wrong on where the Australian Liberal party is on the political spectrum. They ARE NOT far Right but Centre right. However they have been steadily moving to the right for the last 25years or so. Economically speaking they are almost identical to America's Democrats. The National party of Australia which forms the junior partner of the Liberal-National Coalition is further to the right and is closer to the rural conservatives of the American Republican Party. In recent years we have had some smaller parties emerge that are VERY FAR Right like Clive Palmer's United Australia Party which is just one of its names. Clive is like Trump a billionaire of dubious means and with questionable business practices. Clive's ideology is almost identical to people like Charles Koch and his Party is similar to the American Tea Party. FYI - I went to college in America and even though I did engineering I am reasonably familiar with the differences between the American Liberals and American Libertarians. The way I would describe that difference is as an outsider looking in is: American Liberals believe that individual Liberty is best defended by a healthy set of regulations and laws upheld by a functioning court system and effective government so that no individual can be stripped of their basic rights by another person or a corporate entity and that they can get restitution through the courts from injury. American Libertarians believe that individual Liberty is best defended by removing any and all controls the government has except the protection of the state from foreigner nations, the protection of individual property through the police and that the main purpose of the courts is to uphold contracts. That was expressed by Milton Friedman many times.
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  3177.  @jimnkor  Was he ELECTED by the British people to represent them to the European parliament or NOT????
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  3178.  @MrPiccolop  Yeah once we point out what these people were way back in school it becomes pretty obvious they have never changed. I bet there's some guy who he was merciless too as kids and is smiling right now.
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  3179.  @sandpiperr  He reminds me more of the bully's sidekick rather than the bully. Bullies operate on the principal of force and intimidation. Their sidekicks like to bluff, annoy, aggravate and as you put it needle people into reacting. This guy doesn't surprise me because politics seems to attract them like SHlT attracts flies.
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  3180. I am an engineer and you are one of the few people I have seen who gets that basic reality. At Liddell in NSW they are replacing a 2,000MW coal fired power station with a 750MW battery. Those batteries are super profitable and pay off in as little as 18 months. But 2,000MW of GENERATING CAPACITY has gone. At full power a 750MW battery pumping out at a rate of 2,000MW is fully drained in less than 23 minutes. As an engineer ITS INFURIATING that so much of the public discussion on energy is presented by incompetent media who keep putting microphones in front of clowns and there are clowns on EVERY SIDE of this. Will that battery at Liddell be worth it? Absolutely, but people need to be properly informed about what it means. It will help buffer the wind and solar systems BUT IT WONT SOLVE THE OVERALL PROBLEM. As engineers we can solve these problems but all the clown brained media hacks, the vested interests, all the charlatans & scumbags out to make a quick $$$, all the self interested twats who just rant about crap and all the rest of the ignorant clowns NEED TO STFU and let us do our jobs.
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  3181. In Australia we shutdown and we limited the disaster. We also implemented a payment system called "job keeper" to keep people employed. Did we get everything right - absolutely NOT. We dropped the ball at one point and it cost over 700 lives about the same as 2 fully loaded 747s crashing. Did certain businesses and industries get "special treatment" that was unwarranted - absolutely. Our construction industry was allowed to continue business as usual. Our professional sports found ways to get exemptions as if they were "essential services." So NO we did not get everything right. These people can scream all they like what we did worked and what America, Sweden and others have done didn't. FYI - I went to college in America (U. Illinois late 80s). The combined populations of Illinois (12.6), Wisconsin (5.8) and Indiana (6.7) is 25.2 million to Australia's 25.6 million. Australia has 908 COVID fatalities while the combined Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana total is 25,006 (as of 10/12/2020) Australia has 1429 active cases compared to Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana who have 486,173 active cases. For roughly the same population Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana have over 25 times the number of COVID deaths. ANYBODY WHO THINKS THAT IS ANYTHING LESS THAN A CATASTROPHE IS A MORONIC CLOWN. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  3182. Engineer here - You are right but this whole story gets more complicated than that. As usual Peter is right about most geopolitical things but when it comes to engineering he makes mistakes and makes them often. I wished he'd hire an engineer to help with these things. For those interested I have left a rather lengthy comment on this page that includes things I was told back in 2005 when I was working in the Australian Uranium industry and at that time Iran and its program were in the news.
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  3183. Aerospace engineer here - loved it and despite seeing the issue with the second 1/2 of the quarter mile that you mention in the Edit #1 - I agree its a fair assumption. Your NOT trying to be exact your trying get a basic estimate that says YES or NO. Which is an damn important thing too many engineers NEVER Learn. Way to often I see or hear claims that it takes very little to disprove and Elon Musk provides many opportunities. Sorry if this is a bit longish but you'll get that what you've done is actually GOOD ENGINEERNG PRACTICE. My favorite example is terraforming Mars. Way back in 1987 when I was doing my final year we had a number of guest lecturers. One of those was an Alum who worked at NASA and had just completed a study into what it would take to terraform Mars. So we were damn keen to hear about it. His opening remark was (paraphrasing) "Sorry its impossible and here's why." The basic answer is that Mars like any plant is a damn big object and way bogger than we normally realise. He introduced us to 2 concepts. They didn't have labels back then so these days I call them Planetary Mechanics and Planetary Dynamics. Planetary Mechanics is just like what you've done here. You don't try for exact details you are just asking "what does this take?" Planetary Dynamics is all that stuff like making a water cycle work or an oxygen cycle work as well as keeping the planet within a suitable temperature range. Yeah that stuff we all know about but nobody knows how to actually do it. On basic planetary mechanics its sort of as simple as understanding the volume of a spere (v=pi*r^3). Even simpler is just to take the surface area of a planet and change km² to km³ because that's a very close approximation to the volume of a 1km thick layer around something as large as a planet. Mars with a surface area of 1.4437×108 km² which means a 1km thick layer is about 1.4437×108 km³ in volume. That volume with Earth standard air (sea level, pressure & density) is about 178 Trillion (with a 'T') tons. Despite Mars being a lot smaller than the Earth its still a planet and planets are big, damn big. So before we even try and think about water, oxygen, nitrogen and other cycles we'd need to figure out were we get the air from and its a lot of air. Sorry to bore you with my story but I really like this video and what you have actually shown. Its good engineering practice.
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  3184. Actually, there's some veracity in that. I'm Australian but in the aftermath we an English Historian explain WHY? It turns out that Bush Senior and Bin Laden Snr did oil business together and to help that they set up their sons to do some business together. So Dubya owned a business 50/50 with a Bin Laden. Its been many years so I might have some details less than perfect. Osama wasn't the Bin Laden Bush did business with that was another of the 17 (or so) Bin Laden boys. Osama was way down the Bin Laden list. His mother was Lebanese?? and became wife number 4 via a business deal. Osama's older brothers used to give him crap so he became the "better Muslim" and to prove that joined the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan to fight against the godless Russians. That 1 brother who was in business with Bush supposedly told Osama "I get what your doing and its commendable. If you get in trouble call me, my business partner's father is ex-CIA and now Vice POTUS." Osama goes to Afghanistan where they are getting hammered by the Russians with their helicopter gunships. Osama calls his brother who calls Bush Jnr who calls Bush Snr and Osama gets stinger missiles and lots of Russian helicopters get shot out of the sky. That brother who supported Osama gets whacked by a Saudi Prince who then takes a chunk of Bin Laden enterprises for himself. Osama calls George Bush Jnr and says something like "We have to get this Saudi Prince" to which Duba says "*NO WAY* we do business with him!" Osama does NOT take that well. In his brain that's a kind of super-hyper-betrayal and decides American has to be punished and we know how that went. Again I might have some details wrong but my understanding is that it was super personal with Dubya over the murder of his brother by a Saudi Prince.
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  3185. "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ― Isaac Asimov
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  3186. "Word has it" journalistic lingo to let you know what's about to be said has NOT BEEN FACT CHECKED.
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  3187. I remember Simon Sharma in one of his History of Britain Series pointed out that every British Town on the Eastern Half of Britain that ends in the letters "by" was settled (or named) or taken and then renamed by the Vikings. Apparently it means "village" so Whitby is White village, Northby is North village, Southby is South village,...... etc. There's also the Shetlands which still have various Scandinvian festivals was once Pictish but the Vikings took that as well. And they now know as Peter describes traders as well as raiders and set up trading posts all across Britain and Ireland and traded with people as far away as Spain and North Africa.
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  3188.  @ExpectDragons  We hav'em in Australia too mate. Worse we also let them vote, drive cars and breed.
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  3189. Sorry but I almost forgot their other rules Starting at the 4th rule. "The Government must provide a police force to protect us from other Americans without making us pay for it." And their 5th rule. "The Government shall provide an Army, Navy and Airforce to protect our overseas investments without making us pay for it." And their 6th rule. "The Government shall provide a secretive organisation to infiltrate other nations so that we can strip those nations of their resources without making us pay for it." And their 7th rule "We get everything we want. You get whatever we leave you, including any mess we make."
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  3190. Yeah we sacked our coaching staff and BEFORE THEY LEFT they sold the star quarterback, the All Pro running back, the All American linebacker and others to other teams. The offensive and defensive coordinators took our playbooks including the signal systems and sold them on the open market. Meanwhile the office staff did a dodgy deal with all the merchandise while the CEO signed the worst stadium deal E-V-E-R!!!! We now have no players, a shite stadium deal, can't make anything from merchandise and the first game is next week. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3191.  Doug Parker  SORRY BUT WHAT? Are you really that stupid, that ignorant, that dumb or some combination of all 3? SCOTUS threw it out because there were NO MERITS and as such THERE WAS NO CASE, that's what NO STANDING MEANS. ITS OVER - TRUMP LOST 🤐
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  3192.  Doug Parker  Again with the Blah Blah Blah. We all acknowledged days ago that the one case Giuliani and Co have won was in Pennsylvania with the election officials being told they could NOT extend the deadline for confirming the identifications on mail in ballots. Now why don't you acknowledge the other 58 cases that were forfeited or thrown out for a lack of evidence or as with SCOTUS a lack of standing, which meant Texas had no right to lodge the case. You lot are madly screaming at everyone about the constitution and fraud and dead people voting. Why don't you get out of your own echo chamber and do some actual listening. They did find a dead person who voted in Pennsylvania except it was for Trump not Biden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr1Z6ls4Tew 🧏‍♂️🧏‍♀️🧏‍♂️🧏‍♀️
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  3193. The difference between Elon and a douche is that at least douches at least have a use.
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  3194.  @thinking6307  Yeah sure its objective. Its just objective from a very narrow and specific viewpoint of reality.
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  3195.  @christophergreen6595  Have you seen or heard Mark Blyth's (Prof at Brown U.) explanation of the 3 versions of capitalism we have been through? Once you se/hear that you'll realise its NOT capitalism, but the version of capitalism we now have. We should have upgraded and re-booted after the 2008 GFC but instead did a patch job. FYI - I'm an engineer so that computer analogy Mark gives makes perfect sense to me.
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  3196. Haven't you heard of contraception or did you do it on purpose???? Either way love to see you back doing stuff. Just so you know I am an aerospace engineer who had the long term plan to go to the moon and set up the first mining operation there. Your video on the Johansson gauge blocks is something I beat other engineers around the head with. You see if we are ever going to set up a moon base the fact is we just can't send all that we need to make it viable. From the very start we need to make stuff up there. One of the most important items in setting up a lunar base will be the set of Jo Blocks because they will be needed so that parts made on the moon will match parts sent from Earth. You do some really great work - keep it up.
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  3197.  @lim4275  Thanks but it wasn't meant to be an essay. More a "Hey America you do have friends and they do care about your future." Unlike a lot of people I still think America is a great nation with a lot of great people (I have a lot of friends there), BUT its also in a fragile state racked with mindless tribalism right now. in the middle of it is Rupert Murdoch who was born in Australia. There's no simple answers and too many people wanting or chasing simple answers. I can say the same thing about Australia too. We just don't have it as bad YET. I was just watching the latest interview on the Analysis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXb5IJiEeI) and that covered a lot of stuff going on in the US military. I thought it can't be that bad until they played a voicemail (just after 23:30) that's just scary. There are Americans both in and out of the military who want some weird neo-Christian version of Iran where they can simply hang who ever they dislike. In that interview they mention people wanting to go to Canada, Australian and New Zealand. I can tell you from first hand experience all 3 of those countries are going down the same path. We just aren't as far down that path as America.
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  3198.  @lim4275  Thanks. And I do mean it when I say I want to see America get past all this garbage. Its actually really important for the entire Western Hemisphere, because if America continues down this path and keeps dragging us all with it then we are all finished. Best wishes to you. Stay safe COVID's not done with us yet.
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  3199. So you all know this story has gone around the world and with it the stories of how Trump has pushed through 2 executions and scheduled 3 more. What's odd about that is that its the first time in 130years that a President has gone forward with executions during a transition. For 130 years Presidents have let the incoming president handle it. So there is a massive double standard going here and the WHOLE WORLD KNOWS. I'm Australian and all our news services have reported this. The BBC have reported this. Just Google it and you'll find just how big of a news item this is.
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  3200.  @insightfulhistorian1861  After the dot.com bubble and before the GFC I saw a British BBC Panorama special on Payments to college professors for publishing pro-business papers. What they uncovered was a system where banks like Goldman, Credit Suisse, HSBC,.... etc would fund professors to write papers that favored what they were lobbying for. The lobbyists could present those papers to lawmakers claiming "see here's what Harvard says" and we need to make that happen. It wasn't just Harvard either it was all the top Universities. You see its a lot cheaper to bribe professors and manufacture consent than fund political campaigns. It was a long time back but I remember them confronting one professor who became indignant and claimed "how dare they question the integrity of the chair of..... at ......" I remember because he snapped that anyone questioned his integrity or the merit of his work. Basically a lot of these economics professors are actually PR for business interests. And lets face it the PR from a Harvard boy is worth a lot more than a professor at Bumblefuk U.
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  3201. Oh no - they didn't think he was intelligent they thought he was a VISIONARY GENIUS the likes of which only come along once or twice a century. I will grant to any of his fans that he does have some talent. in particular he's able to identify opportunities in technological sectors and occasionally he's able to get the right people to exploit those opportunities. For instance (and I am an aerospace engineer) Boeing, Rockwell and others had become incredibly lazy and greedy and milked the daylights out of NASA. So there was an opportunity ADN there were also a lot of disgruntled aerospace engineers who wanted to do things differently. So for Elon it was a good combination that he could milk public perception on SpaceX. Don't get me wrong I think SpaceX have done quite well with Falcon and Crew Dragon especially when compared to Boeing and they Starliner program. BUT THAT is coming all unstuck with Starship because Elon himself is running that show. Elon also lucked out with Tesla because the founders had started with a clean sheet unobstructed by corporate clowns and built a car they wanted and didn't have any Detroit legacies in terms of design ideology. So at a time Elon found a market ready for a specific type of technology and a company already to run with that technology. So he's very good at identifying technical opportunities as well as identifying start-ups that can exploit those opportunities. What he sucks at is getting out of the road and letting the talented people he's funding do their stuff without interference.
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  3202. You forgot to add his main technique is "doubt" and this is something he and others have become extremely good at. AND ITS NOT and American problem its across the world. Trump wasn't the first to use it. The Tobacco industry started that with the endless claims there is no proof of a direct link between any of the chemicals in tobacco and cancer. From a straight chemical formula that's still true, but from all the evidence its totally false and misleading. They have done the same type of arguments with climate change. Being 99.9% sure means being 0.1% not sure and they focus on that 0.1% and make that 0.1% the entire discussion. What Trump did was weaponize "doubt" and hammer away with it to the point where its almost impossible to have any rational discussion. The talking over and cutting in is key part of that strategy of "weaponized doubt." "Weaponized doubt" fails under logic and sensible discussion. You can't have a sensible discussion when the other person keeps interjecting. Notice how they don't stop people finishing sentences. They just cut them into pieces so that people don't here a sentence they hear fragments that they then have to piece back together. All while the discussion is progressing. Its very deliberate and it makes it very hard to follow what someone is saying.
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  3203.  @Skylancer727  You have very accurately summed up many of these so called "science educators." I started with a degree in aerospace and work in automation, robotics and control systems and like many STEM educated people have had enough of the fantasy promoters. We (as in the entire human race) have some really serious issues to solve in the next 10 or so years and none of us can get a seat at the table because there are so many clowns confusing the daylights out of every one. We spend more time explaining basic things rather than working on solutions.
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  3204.  @cragnamorra  That's a good point on the drones. What he may have meant was that the drones would run out of range. Either way its an incredible brain fart on his part and as I said the fact NOBODY called it out is even more damning.
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  3205.  @cragnamorra  You'll love this bit on my first nav class. As it was a military class the moment the teacher walked in the guy nearest the door called "Officer on deck" and all the ROTCs snapped out of their seats to ramrod attention. The Lieutenant slowly walked up the aisle towards the front and suddenly stopped next to me. I was still seated wondering WTF was going on. He looked down at me and very seriously said "You must be the civee. We get your type doing this class every so often." It was kind of intimidating, but that was probably the point. By about the 3rd or 4th class I had joined in the stand to attention. Eventually he again stopped by me and told me I didn't need to stand at attention. By that stage I had picked up a little on the language and simply said something like "Sir. If they have to stand so will I. Sir." I didn't try and make a thing off it as I was just trying to fit in. What I found out later was how well that simple act was appreciated. After that both officers who taught us and the ROTCs all treated me well and it ended up being one of my favorite classes to look back on and I wished I had been able to do another semester and do the second nav class (there were 2).
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  3206.  @CoffeeAndPaul  Good comment. I've done some work in Australia's oil & gas sector and all you've said about refineries lines up with our situation. The problem I have had with Peter is that he's making a huge claim that significant parts of the Russian system will fail because the American and other Foreign expertise has left. There's no doubt that if any technological sector suddenly has a bunch of people leave (especially when they are from the higher levels of expertise) that it has a negative effect, but that negative effect is also countered by what the local people have learned from those experts. I work in control systems and no matter what industry I have been in I've had to help train the "natives" who will spend their lives working on the pile of stuff I've delivered. I know from experience that if you don't want ugly phone calls in the middle of then make sure the locals know how to diagnose things and where possible FIX things. I just find it totally implausible that the Russians have NOT learned from those Americans and others who've been there for most of the last 20 years. The question should be HOW MUCH they have actually learned and HOW WELL they can apply it? I can't answer that but you probably can.
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  3207.  @cragnamorra  Yeah it was a simple thing but the respect that I got back left an impression that has stuck. On the course I did. We started with a lot of basic chart work and plotting courses around harbours. We then did a pile of celestial navigation. Our main project was plotting the course using basic principles from New York harbour (or the Chesapeake??) to just off the coast of Britain. That included using a Great Circle Chart to get the intermediate positions and then translate that onto the Atlantic charts. We had to pre-prep a couple of star fixes as well. When I went to the chief and asked why the emphasis on celestial when GPS was at that time accurate to about 1m for the military (there was no actual admission but it was certainly under 10m). He said something I have never forgotten and its an incredibly important thing across ALL OF THE ENGINEERING FIELDS - Calibration. He said "The stars don't move." Yes we know they shift but his point was we know exactly where each star is and will be for 1,000s of years to come. What he explained is that the stars are 100% reliable while sensors and computers can make mistakes. He then pointed out "If you have to fire off a nuclear armed weapon you better know where its going to go and to do that you need to know where you are in the first place." He told me that ANY SHIP armed with nukes checked its GPS against the sun & stars every 4 hours, while the rest did it 1 or twice a day (I forget which). As I said it was one of my favorite classes, because of how much I ended up learning.
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  3208.  @JB-zs1oq  Sorry but the correct statement is that he is NO LONGER an Australian Citizen. Hate it all you like but Murdoch was BORN HERE. Just because the Brits were stupid and gave him a passport and then the Americans were stupid and gave him a passport doesn't change the fact he was born here as well as his 2 oldest kids. Yeah it sucks, but its also the facts.
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  3209. Go look at the US pardon Law it does not apply to people who are impeached. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_pardons_in_the_United_States#Constitutional_provision Forget the 25th he needs to be impeached, that way he's not only out but he can never get back. Further if they impeach Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and all the others who hold official position so none of them can get pardons is also important.
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  3210.  @ralphbernhard1757  First statement about billionaires is fine but your are utterly ignorant of how international money works so don't waste anyone's time with stupid statements. Plenty of people are claiming things about the worlds reserve currency but most are so brainlessly wrong is sad because its so easy to find out how it works.
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  3211. I'm Australian and ole enough to remember when Ken Warby did what he did. It actually caught everyone by surprise because nobody thought this guy could actually do what he did. I remember in seeing a doco on the whole thing and one for the things nobody could believe was how little of the boat was actually in contact with the water at speed. I think it was something like 18 inches but can't remember if that was length contact area. I remember that he had to stop one of his attempts because another boat had driven through the area before the run and despite the lake looking like glass there was still these tiny residual ripples that upset the boat. It was apparently so close to the edge of taking off that almost anything could set it flying. I always thought he might have been exaggerating that a bit, but looking back at it now its amazing what he did and maybe even more amazing that he lived.
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  3212. Simplest and most accurate statement on this disaster. But there is one huge question NOBODY seems to be asking. Where did they get the money? Guns and bullets cost money. Lots and lots of money. Where did it come from and where did they buy that many guns and that many bullets?
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  3213.  @franklinwilkerson2061  That's actually a damn good way to put it. When the cold war ended so did a lot of American military spending. I'm Australian but did aerospace engineering in America. I finished late 87 went back to Oz did some post grad and then wanted to go back to America. I called up my old professor who I'd worked for in his consultancy my last year. It was circa 89/90 and he told me to forget it as every contract that had been in place for Reagans Star wars had been cancelled. On top of that many other government programs were cancelled. What few people understand is that key to breaking Soviet Russia was Reagans Star Wars. It scared the Russians into spending more than they could afford and it broke them. On the flip side of that it almost broke America too. Reagan spent around 20 years of R&D money in 5 at the same time he lowered taxes to the rich. It was why America's debt blew out and Bush was forced to go back on his word and raise taxes. Gulf War 1 actually saved the American economy because the Saudis spent huge with REAL cash through the 90s. It also gave America a new boogey man in Saddam. Now that he's gone and America is out of Iraq & Afghanistan they need a new boogey man. Look at how much money the US arms industry is making already from Ukraine. When Biden says here's a $ Billion in aid what he means is we'll spend a $ Billion in our own economy, on our own manufacturers and send you the products they make. Here in Australia we're sending them our Bushmaster vehicles. Its boom time for the company that makes them. Your dead right Putin is the next cash cow for America's main industry.
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  3214. Exactly - If Americans believe in democracy its a no brainer. Did or did not the American people introduce POTUS as "Leader of the Free World" and the "Champion of Democracy" for the entire cold war and afterwards? Funny how America fought Wars in Korea and Vietnam and other places in the "Name of Democracy" and yet have denied democracy to Puerto Rico the entire time AND STILL DO. Maybe the rest of the world should put sanctions on America unless they give Puerto Rico FULL democratic representation. There are 20 mainland states that have less population than Puerto Rico and yet they have full representation.
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  3215. I'd never heard of him until a couple of years ago when he was interviewed on Australian television. He must have thought it was going to be easy because it was a morning TV show, but he didn't count on a couple of the girls being a fairly serious and decent journalists and they took took him to task about being disingenuous and not having any responsibility. He defended himself by proclaiming as a "provocateur" it wasn't his job to be responsible. You can see it here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ef7Us0zw8Q
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  3216. That's a really great comment. Its highlights the whole problem of modern polling and surveys. The people who write the questions can create the result before they even question anyone. Anybody who did Psych 101 on college gets at least 1 lecture on mob psychology. Pre-ordained (as in loaded) surveys do nothing more than tell those in power HOW to deliver information so that they can get the outcomes they want. The same happens with advertising and marketing.
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  3217.  @dannyvanhecke  Really funny was it??? This from a guy who abandoned the people of Texas and fled to Cancun with his kids while other people's children froze to death in their beds. Yeah TC's a laugh a minute.
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  3218. HEY PETE, Love the troll advice and love the update - great points on the dam. I'm an engineer and I have disagreed with some of your engineering assessments but this time I think you are 100% right. It broke right in the middle of the turbine house. Can you also get one of your staff to help get YouTube to shut down the channels that plagiarize material you did 2 or 3 years ago and post it as if you said it yesterday. I'm tired of trying to block those channels.
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  3219. Can we all simply agree that Charles Koch is a $100Billion Dollar monster. There's that wonderful philosophical hypothetical - If you could travel back in time who would you kill or eliminate for the good of humanity. Charles Koch might not be at the top of the list but he's on the list. Go watch the Axios interview where he claims that politicians he helped elect should do what he wants ALL THE TIME. For anyone doing psychology or even a class in psychology its an interesting case study. 🧏‍♂️🧏‍♀️ Maybe the next Godzilla movie should be - Godzilla V Koch, Battle of the Toxic Giants
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  3220. Will The Davos Billionaires Team Up Mean The End Of America? NO - they will NOT mean the end of America they will be the end of Western Civilisation.
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  3221. One of the parents at Uvalde recognised what was left of their child by the green sneakers they wore. (edit) That was the most chilling story out of it I heard. Matthew McConaughey mentioned it in his address.
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  3222.  @sammavitae114  Its called facing the reality of a billion dollar law suit. Why Sidney Powell was this stupid to let a journalist into her house and sit in front of a camera defies logic and rational behavior, but then logic and rational behavior aren't on her agenda.
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  3223. Yep - Kyle's forgetting what Jesse Ventura told them a few weeks ago. Remember what Vince McMahon told JV at the start of his commentating career "Reality is what you say it is!" Trump learned that and has exploited it for almost 7 years now. That's why his base behave as they do. Its likes an extreme version of mob psychology. Its not just getting a mob to respond to an event. He's getting the mob to respond to political spin. Everyone should go back and re-watch that interview. JV actually explained so much of how Trump operates. Trumps rallies are straight out of the Vince McMahon wrestling promotion playbook.
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  3224. News flash: This even made the news in Australia.
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  3225. HEY DAVE INSTEAD OF YET ANOTHER LOOK HOW TERRIBLE HERSCHEL WALKER IS VID. How about you show just one video of something or anything Raphael Warnock has done or said. Your the guy who raged about "toxic sport politics." So why don't you do something, anything positive.
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  3226.  @GruntoSkunko  How is it clickbait? Can you name a single exo-planet that we KNOW is habitable? I MEAN KNOW NOT conjecture NOT theory NOT Hollywood sci-fi or media hype BUT ACTUALLY KNOW
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  3227.  @Teasehirt  I didn't fail to register the topic I just think its too narrow of a topic and it ignores the fact the other side of politics is just as guilty of the same activities. Its called context. Its a debate worth having BUT NOT if you are going to ignore the context. That's the one thing I found they all failed at - giving context to the debate. A couple tried but failed because they again ignored to many relevant facts of the subject. They all treated any inconveniency as something to be ignored rather than dealt with and that's maybe the biggest failure of all 8 of them.
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  3228. ​ @Teasehirt  I certainly agree with those who think there is way to much LEFT ideology in education BUT do not mistake there is also a huge influence from the RIGHT in education. People forget the incredible levels of indoctrination that goes on in the private high schools and private universities around the world. Its most notable in economic policies. All of it has tragic consequences that we are now becoming aware of. Sorry if this takes some explaining. I'm Australian and BOTH my parents were high school teachers and most of their social circle were also high school teachers along with one of my cousins who was a high school principal. So I'm pretty well informed on was happening through the 70s, 80s, 90s and early 2000s. In my home state of Victoria we had 2 high school systems that ran in parallel. The standard high schools which were like everywhere else and technical schools. My father taught in the tech school system for decades. It was orientated towards giving boys the skills to work in industry. They did a lot less of history, geography, etc. and lot more of industrial trade skills like carpentry, metal work, tool making, plumbing,... etc. One of my fathers best friends taught panel beating and car repair. He and the mechanic teacher used to buy 1 Ford and 1 GM (Holden) from the wrecking yard each year and then have the students completely rebuild/restore them. They'd sell them at the end of the year and use that money for the next 2 cars the next year. That tech school system produced generations of people who went onto to complete apprenticeships in all sorts of trades. Then in the 1990s it was totally destroyed by a pack of Left wing clowns claiming it was too "male orientated." It was done by our Labor Party that was founded among the Trade Unions. BUT BY THE 90s the Labor party leadership went from working class trade unionists to University educated theorists driven by ideology. Our RIGHT LOVED IT because it helped undermine our trade unions and allowed them to send our manufacturing overseas. By the 2000s we had a problem. The Chinese demand meant building new mines and we didn't have the welders, plumbers, fitters, electricians,... to get it done and had to import massive amounts of skilled labor. Its been insanely destructive. It was all done to support and idiotic Leftist social agenda supported by the Right and their equally idiotic economic agenda.
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  3229. Actually the mix that America used to use came from the Nazis. It was developed by a pair of doctors who experimented on orphans an mentally ill patients as part of finding a cleaner more efficient way for the "final solution." There was a documentary put out by a couple of British Journalists in the Early 90s. It wasn't pro or con it was about simply informing people what various nations do and where it came from and some basic stats like the average time it takes to various techniques to do the job. As part of that they described where the idea/concept of the lethal injection came from. Being German those doctors wrote it all down and sent their data to Berlin where it was found after the war.
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  3230.  @bigmike6461  Your right it Trump is the sitting President trying to prevent a legally elected person taking office after a fair and free election. The problem is that right at this moment Trump is still the legally elected President and Biden isn't anything. Until the Electoral College votes he's not actually the president elect. We only assume he is and that the EC will vote in good faith. For Trump to commit treason at this moment he would probably need to do something really stupid or drastic or specific that gets American civilians injured. That hasn't happened yet and we should hope it doesn't This is why accusations of sedition are easier right now because they are attacking and UNDERMINING an institution of government. Its all fair that Trump askes for recounts where its close or challenges if there is "real evidence of fraud," but there isn't. The Republican observers have said there isn't evidence of fraud. The international observers have said there isn't. The Trump appointed election security experts have said there isn't. Even a Trump appointed judge along with 2 other Bush appointed judges said there is no case in Georgia. Most of all his own AG has said there is no evidence of wide spread fraud that could overturn the election. So for minions like Giuliani to keep pushing this false, fake, invented, conjured narrative that undermines confidence in the function of the government and do it publicly - THAT'S SEDITION. For someone like Flynn who should still be under the UCMJ as an ex-military officer he should in big trouble. My bet is that's why Giuliani wants the pardon up front. If Flynn's lawyer has a brain they would get him to recant and apologize ASAP because his pardon does NOT include this shit.
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  3231.  @susanfox2443  Possibly not Trump at the moment because he is still the legally elected POTUS. But Giuliani, Flynn and others sedition should be possible, but I am not a lawyer and would really like to hear one speak up on it. Flynn's of special interest as he is ex-military and that might mean its possible to get him under the UCMJ.
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  3232.  @jasonwalker3599  I get your point and infrastructure is damn important. There's a 60 minutes episode here on YT from 2014 that highlights a the bridge problem quite well. I bet America would easily be able to afford the infrastructure (like bridges) and fight the war if TRUMP HADN'T GIVEN THE TOP 1% a $3,000,000,000 TAX BREAK. That's 3 TRILLION in case your having trouble counting that many zeros. If you want to point these costs out then fine I will agree with you that its stupid. BUT DO NOT BLAME 1 PERSON when its the fault of so many.
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  3233.  @russcarvertruthjedi259  Our political chaos is nothing like America's but its on that same path. We even have a rogue billionaire by the name of Clive Palmer who has simply copied Trumps 2016 playbook and going with it. The difference here is our system is set up differently. Our House of representatives is similar to the House in America but our Senate is completely different and its where minor parties get representation. Our Senate is selected by a "single transferable vote system of proportional representation." Hypothetically if a state has 10 senators and your minor party can get 10% of the basic vote you get 1 senator and if you get 20% you get 2. So its easily possible for a minor party to get what we call "the balance of power" which is where NEITHER of the main parties wins an outright majority and needs other people to pass bills. If we get a responsible minor party it works fine, but as has been shown in places like Israel, Greece, Italy and other places if the "balance of power" is held by a nasty pack of ruthless selfish rats its chaos. You don't need to tell me about American history, I wasn't a 1 semester exchange student I was on a sports scholarship and was there 3-1/2years (7 semesters in all). Among my frat brothers were a pack of pre-law students and they used to drag me into all sorts of hypothetical arguments over the Amendments. Mainly #4, then #1 and occasionally others. So I got this unusual education in the US Constitution and I can out argue most Americans on it because I was surrounded by people training to argue it. I am certain these days they dragged me into those discussions because I threw different perspectives into the mix. You don't need to explain things like the F15. I did aerospace engineering and understand all that stuff pretty well. And I can explain the state of NASA in more detail than you can. I was in Orlando in 12 January 1986 and watched Columbia take off. We were 60 miles away and it looked like it was next door. 16 days later me and my classmates went to our first class of the day and before it ended Challenger exploded and with it all that we expected to do. And we expected to build the new space station then called "Space Station Freedom" and then go back to the moon before going further. My aerodynamics prof lost a friend on Challenger so that hit us real personal. If you want to do a podcast on it I can explain where it all went wrong. When I put forward my proposal for an Australian space program I detailed why Apollo was an incredible success and the shuttle a failure that NASA has not recovered from and what we needed to do to avoid the same failures. I can explain IN DETAIL how Jeff Bezos is an idiot over his claim to shift all the heavy industry into orbit and how Elon Musk is even more full of shite than Bezos. The amazing thing about SpaceX is that Falcon is an incredible success and Starship is a brainless fantasy. Where do you want to start?
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  3234.  @russcarvertruthjedi259  If I sound knowledgeable its only because I have MADE an EFFORT and started listening to people who know what they are talking about. Right now I'm listening to another podcast Eric Helleiner did on the history of Neomercantilists. Its got most of the same slides he used with one of his talks with Mark Blyth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bixjqUKovA The more I listen to it the more I am understanding there's a 3rd area of economics other than Marxism and Liberalism. Marxism with its class struggle sadly produced its ugly twin political sisters communism and socialism that rather than addressing class issues entrenched them in totalitarianism. Liberalism brought many freedoms and blessings before it too birthed its only child neo-liberalism and like all "only children" its an infinitely selfish child that can never be satisfied. Then there's the 3rd system Mercantilism which cam out of Britain's industrial revolution and a host of similar but slightly different children called neomercantilists which to get a grasp on you need to watch these Eric Helleiner vids or buy the book.
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  3235.  @russcarvertruthjedi259  I am of the opinion like many others that America is ALREADY a fascist oligarchy. On oligarchs this has just been put on YouTube about the expansion of JBS meats into Australia. JBS is a Brazilian company owned by 2 brothers and when you see this your first question will be where did that much money suddenly come from? Then it will be How TF are they not in jail? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYfIXLkoB68 What you should ask is where did they suddenly get enough money to by Swift Meat in America. The Brazilian Government doesn't have that much money to just hand out to buy American companies - SO WHERE DID IT COME FROM? Who in South America has billions and billions of dollars in cash and needs legitimate businesses to wash it through?
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  3236. I'm Australian bit went to college in America. Id id engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers did pre-law and they used to drag me into discussions on the constitution. Time and again they assured me that NOBODY could ever do the things Trump has done, because one of the key parts of the American system was the checks and balances by the Senate. The President nominates people for key positions and SCOTUS and other courts and the Senate checks them out. The House passes laws and the Senate checks that the "i"s got dotted and "t"s got crossed. The Senate is not meant to drive policy or shape the courts, my frat brothers explained that 30+ years ago. Yet look at what McConnell has done. Everyone thinks Trump was the problem (and he was) but he only did what he did because the system that was meant to keep him in check wasn't working. Then there is the bigger issue and that is all the judges that the American Bar Association says are "Not Qualified". Try explaining to anybody from any other country how America has judges overseeing cases that aren't qualified. Go and look up Glenn Kirschner's YT channel he's an ex-JAG and ex-Federal Prosecutor. He's talked about this a lot in recent months and what it will take to fix. All this stuff McConnell enabled and stifled and interfered with has obvious ramifications for America and Americans, but it also has ramifications for America's allies and for the world in general. Most of the worlds business is done in $US and we can't trust that currency as much as we have done for decades. For countries like Australian, Japan, Britain and most of Europe America is a key trading and security partner and we can't trust that as much as we have. That's all because McConnell enabled Trump to do the things he's done.
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  3237. Awesome we now have an explanation for why Trump supporters keep running toward a destructive clown instead of away from him - Cordyceps infections. That's so much better than thinking they did it willingly!
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  3238.  @usleadershipareliars  Pretty much right on all points although I might have written parts of it differently. You left out an really important point. SCOTUS might not make laws but it sets the standards or limits for how they are used. On the "all anybody does is rant" - absolutely and its not an American issue, its an everywhere issue. I'm Australian but went to college in America and I hate what is being done to America. Not only is it a country I like, but its also Australia's (and many other countries) most important security and trading partner. Yeah China is great for trade but totally shite on security. I'm certain most American's don't realise how much of a big deal all this nonsense in Washington (including SCOTUS) means for the entire world. Don't forget all our economies are now interlinked. Bush Snr introduced it and then Clinton went on his globalization crusade. The NYSE had a fall this week. Then our Stock market had a heart attack and so did a bunch of others. So when these billionaires like Elon Musk, Robert Mercer, Charles Koch, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Bezos & Suckerberg do things that affect Americans then it affects us as well. This is where SCOTUS scares us. Things like Citizens United that gives the US Billionaire class even more power has global effects. For sure its not immediate, but over time those billionaires get LEVERAGE on other nations through their companies, through their lobbyists and through the diplomatic channels. Despite our laws they find ways to PAY our political parties for influence. This group of hyper-right wing judges are bad news for all of us.
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  3239.  @usleadershipareliars  Your spot on - its the hyper clowns at each end of the spectrum ripping nations apart. There was a great quote a while back that went like. "There's this cacophony of noise where the radical left and radical right just scream at each other, while the rest of us trapped in the middle are simply exhausted by it." Hang in there the world MUST change, the only question is do we go through a global version of the American, French or Russian Revolutions or something less destructive.
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  3240. There's a saying that basically goes. The village idiot used to be restricted to the village, but now thanks to social media they can gather together and spread their idiocy across the world.
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  3241. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  3242. I'm Australian but did my degree in aerospace at U. Illinois (2hrs from Indianapolis). I ended up working the Australian iron ore industry. Back around 2002 I met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) and at that time he was a proponent of Helium-3 mining on the moon. So I went off to our mining industry for experience at building & operating remote mining sites. Around 2010 there were people trying to fund a pig iron smelter in Australia's lesser known iron ore region - the Gascoyne in Western Australia. The Kimberly region further north is where most of those Japanese, Korean and Chinese cars start. The Kimberly is known for very high grades of iron ore while the Gascoyne has lower grades. This company had come across a new version of pig iron manufacture that was suited to lower ore grades and they were telling people that the future of pig iron looked very promising because they predicted a shortfall in supply particularly in high quality pig iron which this new process was for. So I know there were some people talking about the future of pig iron at least 12 years ago. The problem was it was during the aftermath of the 2008 GFC and the industry was trying to deal with the issue of no money for anything and low prices. There were several major projects (port & rail) in the Gascoyne that died. On growth when I first went into our mining industry (circa 2005 - yeah it took time to get there) there was a growth spurt going. They wanted to increase the output from about 200 Mta (million tons per annum) to around 400 million tons. By 2005 they were up to 250+ so it finally made it possible for me to get my chance. We are now producing OVER 800 Mta. In fact in 2017 it was 885Mta. I think its back around 820Mta at the moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emm5aHAifMg So on growth you're 1/2 right. People thought it was bonkers when they wanted to double our output. We are now more than double that and showing no signs of stopping. In fact with Ukraine off line its the best we have ever had. This is the first I have heard anyone discuss pig iron in a while. It does and doesn't surprise me. It surprises me that nobody listened 12 years ago because it made sense and doesn't surprise me that nobody listened because who listens to common sense. And yes I do have some very blunt discussions with the clowns who want to mine asteroids. They're so dumb. They really can't tell the difference between science fiction and science fact.
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  3243. Like a few others here to same the same thing about the Fox courtroom defense. On the Notes - I believe it was Kayleigh McEnany who made reference notes a White House Press Conference Standard Operating Procedure???????
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  3244. EXACTLY - Biden said he'd do it and then it happened and then American companies had no competition for their LNG. Nordstream was US$20 Billion in damage.
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  3245.  @AntiAntiAntiFa  I don't know but maybe there should at least be a meme. Maybe it could be 2 photos - 1 with seals clapping and one with Musk, Trump or clown brigade clapping and a comment like: "when one of these groups claps there's brain function involved" OR "one of these groups knows why they're clapping" I'll work on it.
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  3246. In so many ways its kind of sad to see where JBP is these days. If you take the time and watch any of his lectures from when he was teaching and before he became famous he was a pretty good teacher. I don't know if it was the fame thing that started him on a destructive path or the drugs but he's a sad reflection on what he once was.
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  3247. Its called only hearing 1 voice. Look at the age group she belongs to and what she's saying. My bet is she gets all her news from Fox. (edit) by news I mean her narrative that makes things like twitter memes somehow factual. I'm Australian and I know we can't apologise enough for Rupert Murdoch, BUT we tried to warn you what he was like. We warned the Brits and they didn't listen, then we warned America and you didn't listen either.
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  3248. It all depends on their ACTUAL versus PUBLICLY STATED goals. If B&R is about helping nations develop and making money from it then they will continue but maybe with better planning. However, if B&R is about political influence which I have always suspected it was (or at least in part) then what the Chinese do next might be very different. What I so rarely hear is how the United Nations General Assembly is like the US Senate except each nation state gets 1 vote instead of 2. What that means is that 1.4 Billion Chinese people get 1 vote just as some of the smaller Pacific or European nations get 1 vote. In fact 447 million people in the 27 states of the European Union get 27 votes. BUT if a bunch of those small Pacific, Asian and African states vote with China because they are subservient to Chinese loans then 1.4 Billion Chinese might control a lot more of the United Nations General Assembly than people realise. That might not mean much now but if China wants to formally absorb the entire South China Sea and all those islands they have constructed and that goes to a UN vote the answer might surprise Europe, America, Japan,... etc.
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  3249.  @Momofukudoodoowindu  I think your 90% right, but my point includes the other 10%. Kyle attaching ANYONE at all to Trump who has nothing to do trump and would never have anything to do with Trump is just wrong. In politics these things aren't funny, because mud sticks and leaves stains and people respond to stains. Its the sort of stupid scapegoating that right wing clowns are know for and Kyle rages against constantly do. Tim Poole, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Dave Rubin,... etc do this all the time and Kyle and others rage at it. He just did a video on Shapiro today. Kyle can't claim Shapiro is wrong and then do the same thing. Throwing any innocent 3rd party under the bus is WRONG. It doesn't matter who you are or what your affiliation or beliefs or motivations are. ITS WRONG.
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  3250.  @Macachee  Congratulations you have just made yourself the EXACT equivalent of Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin, Candace Owens and the rest of that pack.
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  3251.  @Momofukudoodoowindu  Its one of the cornerstones of Orwellian Logic - If you repeat anything enough times it becomes fact. These days we call it narrative. Its what Fox News does brilliantly. You can hate them all you like, but they are the world champions at it. And even before Fox became Fox there were public narratives in almost every country in the world that weren't based in fact. Here in Australia (Yes I'm 1 but I went to college in America which is part of why I'm so interested in America) we were told as kids the native Australian Aborigninals were primitive and had no culture. That was told to generations of Australians and it was only a few who had close ties to that community who started to say, "NO that's not right!" Its taken over 50 years of plugging away at that narrative to start to break it down and start to make amends. Australia also had waves of migration after WW2, first from Europe, then Asia and now the middle East and Africa. Each time a narrative developed and took hold. If I told you some of those narratives and the language that's been used, just using those words would get me thrown off YT & Google. We are no different to every other society. Societies like to construct narratives. The Russians are doing it right now to Ukraine and Ukraine is doing it to Russia. This was one of the things Orwell warned us about and one of the things everyone ignores because we all like to think. "NO, its the other guy and his gal who's wrong!"
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  3252.  @Samortez  Actually I do. I just hate when they waste time posting this sort of crap. I have actually unsubscribed from a bunch of channels for the simple reason ALL they did was this sort of video theme of "Look how bad they are!!!!" There's a great line by Jeff Daniels in the first season of the News Room where he's asked why America is the Greatest and he lashes out at everyone. Part of his diatribe is to slap Liberals with "If Liberals are so smart then how come they lose so often?" I'd answer that with" Because they are so easily distracted by stupid remarks from the other side instead of staying focused on things that are important. It should not take ANYONE more than 2 or 3 minutes to slap down a Tim Poll comment. 16+ minutes is a waste of time and explains why Liberals lose.
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  3253. ITS NOT TREASON Stop saying that - you sound just like the idiots who are backing Trump and his garbage. Look at Lin Wood claiming that of Mike Pence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_States In Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution, treason is specifically limited to levying war against the US, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. If you look at the dictionary definition yeah sure you can make that claim. I'm not a lawyer or law student BUT my understanding is that according to he constitution of the United States of America nothing that Trump or his clown brigade have done so far publicly would come close to treason. Sedition on the other hand is another thing. In almost any other country in the world they would already be in handcuffs facing court and being convicted. Just the lies about election fraud would be enough in some countries but the calls for martial law is a trip to jail in most places. Mike Flynn is in really serious trouble because he can be recalled to active duty and charged under the UCMJ for Sedition or Conduct Unbecoming as several people (of credibility) have pointed out. Lin Wood, Sidney Powell and others might well be facing disbarment for their frivolous law suits as several people (of credibility) have pointed out. Hypothetically and this is my question for all the lawyers and law professors - Isn't what these nutters in congress are doing is conspiring to deny people their 15th Amendment right to cast a vote and isn't that a crime they can be impeached for? Then there is the possibility that individual states might charge these people and that would mean Trump cannot pardon them. Simply drop the Treason line, its a waste of time when their are real charges that can be brought on these ass holes. Remember Elliot Ness got Al Capone on Tax Evasion. It wasn't murder as I am certain he would have liked, but Capone went to prison and died there. Best Wishes - 15 more days and Trump is gone.
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  3254. AUSTALIAN HERE: In future if you are going to have people on who make claims about other countries can they just get their facts RIGHT. Is it just too much to ask they get the basics right. Nauru was a BRITISH not Australian protectorate and it was a British company that strip mined the island for phosphate. That had nothing to do with Australia. It was Australia that helped Narau get out of that hole with the court cases. It was Australia that helped invest the funds from the settlement with the British Phosphate company. It was Australia that helped set up their international banking sector which then helped rich Australians avoid tax. Narau DID NOT cede a part of their country to Australia for handling the illegal arrivals. That whole case of the ILLEGAL (and they were illegal) immigrants included a massive multi-national criminal people smuggling system that was insanely exploitive of the people trying to find a new home. In all the years since when people have complained about what Australia did we ask 1 question. WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE TO STOP THE CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION that was going on? Nobody ever has a practical answer.
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  3255. I've never understood why anyone watching other people react to watching something is entertaining. Think about the logic - there are people who think its entertaining to watch other people watch other people do stuff. I see the fact this is even a thing as an indictment against the human race.
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  3256.  @Canoby  In Australia we have a TV show called gogglebox and it basically shows different groups of couch potatoes watching last weeks TV. Its so woeful that I feel embarrassed that 1) its made in Australia and 2) its popular, which means these way more dumb people in our country than we realise. I'm certain it came from 2 guys daring each other to produce the dumbest thing they could imagine and seeing if they could convince anyone it was a good idea.
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  3257. I'm an Australian aerospace engineer and went to college in America. When I was an undergraduate Ronald Reagans Star Wars was at its spending height and my degree was a golden cash cow on steroids closely followed by degrees in physics. THEN the Cold War ended and aerospace degrees and physics degrees went down in value like a cement balloons to where they were before Star Wars. After than I sort of crash landed in industrial control systems and automation and had to basically learn another field of engineering. I have been there since working across various industries and through 30+ years haven't stopped learning because there's always something new coming out - new tech or upgrades. Somethings change very little over time and others change dramatically. Anyone who thinks that they learn all they need to know in a 4 year undergraduate program is doomed to failure. Industries change, technology changes, society changes and every time change happens you need to learn and adapt to those changes. Climate change is about to thump the daylights out of humanity. The countries (or societies) that will do best will be those who LEARN to ADAPT. There are a number of countries that have become stuck in their ways and they are going to fail and fail damn hard. And yes Australia is currently a very good chance to be near the top of that list.
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  3258. ​ @soulslip  I'll give you this explanation and sorry if its a longish. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they used to drag me into all sorts of discussions probably because I could throw in different perspectives. I uses to argue all the time that any country could fail and fall into a totalitarian dictatorship because that was the main lesson I got from studying Orwell (Animal Farm and 1984) in high school. I didn't mind Animal Farm but 1984 was a headache for teenager but these days I'm grateful. One thing people sometimes miss with Orwell is that he wasn't really anti-communist but anti-dictatorship and dictatorships can be Left (like Soviet Russia, Communist China,...) or Right (like Imperial Russia or Imperial China. Iran is an interesting case because before its current Right wing RELIGIOUS dictatorship it had a Right wing monarchy. The point Orwell made was that dictatorships can take almost any from from almost any political system. People forget the Adolf Hitler and his Nazis were elected. As was Mussolini and his Fascists. My friends used to argue that I was wrong. America could NEVER FAIL because America had this system of "checks and balances." It was hardwired into the American system with multiple layers - POTUS with executive control, The House who write laws, The Senate who make certain bigger states don't dominate an SCOTUS who check those institutions are doing things in a lawful way. What NONE of us every discussed was what might happen if that system of checks and balances was undermined by very determined people with enough money to get what they wanted. There's a great PBS Frontline on Citizens United. Its here on YT and EVERY person who lives in a democracy should watch it. Its title is "How the Citizens United Decision Changed U.S. Political Campaigns" About 20 minutes in they interview the lawyer who won Citizens United. His name is Jim Bopp and he started as a pro-lifer and wanted abortions banned. To get what he wanted he had to be able to make money work how he wanted it to work. It was also exactly what some of the Fossil Fuel billionaires needed to get what they wanted. I once had the term "High Machiavellian" explained to me. Machiavelli has been wrongly credited with approving of "the end justifies the means" when in fact he was describing how certain people operated. Its important to understand this isn't about how people "act" but how they "operate" because operation implies planning and goals rather than just responding. If you watch that documentary Jim Bopp is a "High Machiavellian" and that means he truly believes that he has to do whatever it takes to get the end result he wants and any collateral damage is irrelevant. So when he says Citizens United was necessary to democracy he really believes it because the consequences to other people is irrelevant because his task was to rid America of "Roe V Wade." Nothing else mattered to him and his people. At the same time its also allowed the billionaires who backed Jim Bopp to get the people they wanted elected to congress and put on SCOTUS so they could dismantle the IRS, FBI, EPA, FDA, FAA and any other 3 letter agency that restricted their profits. The craziest aspect of throwing out "Roe V Wade" is that its also thrown out the right to privacy over medical records that were (past tense) covered by the 4th Amendment. Go look up the Wikipedia page on Roe V Wade. One of the main arguments was the right to privacy between a medical practitioner and their patient. Remember how on all those TV crime shows like "Law and Order" where they'd go to a doctor and ask for something and the doctor would say "Go get your warrant" and the judge would say "give me a GOOD SOUND reason or go away." Yeah sorry mate but that's gone. Because when Jim Bopp finally got what he wanted he also threw out you basic right to privacy over your medical records. America is now a lesson to the rest of the Western democratic world that if you allow High Machiavellians to go unchecked they will eventually do staggering amounts of damage to your nation and society that CANNOT be easily fixed. Sorry for the length of this but I have a soft spot for America and wished I did have magic wand to fix it. I really had a great time going to college there. The vast bulk of Americans I met are good people and they deserve better than the situation they now have.
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  3259.  @sandybarnes887  Yeah but according to P, Q, R, S and T everything is on Hunter's laptop. - Proof that the every election since the end of WW2 was rigged just to keep hillbillies from their sisters; and - Proof that Saddam did have WMDs, but the CIA stole them; and - Proof that Hilary is the hybrid offspring of the lizard people and Chelsea is to become the next queen of Atlantis; and - Proof that the Earth is flat and that the moon is a big lamp put there by NASA to fake the moon landings; and - Proof that Hitler is still alive but only comes out of his hibernation cocoon every few months to check on things; and - Proof that Joe Biden is a robot made by the CIA; and finally (or maybe cos who really knows) - Proof that Trump is in fact the descendent of Jesus and is therefore the Messiah come back;
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  3260. Actually Kyle is not being not sensible here. I saw that video and the #1 comment was people saying they were UN-subscribing. Sorry but it makes perfect sense for the Hill to get rid of it. As for Rising it has new hosts Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky, who have both been fill-ins in the past. They did their first radars today and both did reasonably good jobs. They picked decent topics and discussed them well. BUT they don't have that chemistry and edginess Krystal & Sagaar have. If they want people to re-subscribe they will have to earn it. But you have to understand that the Hill is a business and if they don't earn $$$ they cant pay people.
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  3261. Australian here: What Elise Stefanik (and others are doing) is what David Pakman labelled "toxic sport politics" which is where a politician DOES NOT care at all about what they are saying. All they care about is what will score POLITICAL POINTS right at this instant in the current news cycle and enable them to claim some sort of political victory. Although it might be most visible in America it is NOT simply an American phenomenon. We see the same sort of garbage from our politicians here in Australia and see it in other nations via the news. The rhetoric is similar, the behavior is similar, and the lack of caring at all about the consequences is similar and most importantly these sorts of politicians DO NOT CARE about the actual job they were elected for which is run the country (or state, or city or town) they were elected to run. I hear reports all the time how the current US House of Representatives has passed a record LOW number of bills and this its not simply low but less than 1/2 the previous record. This is NOT isolated to America either. We have the same sort of issues here, where promises to take things from policy to actions and/or legislation simply never happens. Go look at the complete disaster that Brexit has become for the British people. The failure of our political parties should be one of the most pressing issues across the entire Western Democratic World. At its core is the insane influence peddling of the super wealthy. Thom Hartman reported a while back that someone analysed the funding from billionaires in the 2022 American Midterms. America has over 500 Billionaires (by some reports). They collectively spent over $900 Million supporting candidates and of that money over $800 Million came from a small group of about 25 people. Here in Australia we less than 1/13th the population of America and as such have fewer billionaires. But our super wealthy and/or their companies have learned from your super wealthy on HOW TO INFLUENCE POLITICS. So we too have influential think tanks that they fund and other organisations that peddle various causes. I keep seeing here on YouTube short blurbs that support various mining interests and its pitched as if we all benefit. Notably Glencore the Swiss based multinational is one of those peddling political influence campaigns. Glencore might be Swiss but it was founded by American Billionaire Marc Rich who was pardoned (by Bill Clinton) for tax evasion, wire fraud, racketeering, and sanction busting. I would also warn any American about complaining about foreign influence to any British person. Many of them know the disastrous Brexit vote was influenced by the work of Cambridge Analytica which was funded by American Billionaire Robert Mercer. This is the major problem of our time. Garbage politicians only interested in toxic sport politics who are funded by the super wealthy to keep our governments from functioning properly.
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  3262. You need to remember HOW nations went about punishing people in the past (and you don't have to go back that far to see ugliness). The British used to not simply just hang people they used to make it a public spectacle designed to put fear into the population as in - Do what the King and his agents say or this is what we will do to you. Go back and look through European history and its ugly. Executioners weren't usually valued for how quick they were many were valued for how long they could make it last. When the French first started using the guillotine the crowds booed it because instead of the theater and entertainment they got quick, efficient and boring. For centuries the Europeans used to work for 6 days and on the 7th they went to church in the morning and the executions in the afternoon. Before the NFL Sunday afternoon entertainment used to be the hangings, chopping and whipping and gutting and castrating and all the other shit.
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  3263. Do you really think there is a chance of being realistic with these sorts of people? Its about the game of toxic sport politics. It has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with keeping their political base in a constant state of outrage AND THEY ALL DO IT.
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  3264. The guy Kyle mentions is Rutger Bergman and here is a link to the Speech he gave at Davos in 2019 where he slammed the tax avoidance industry. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paaen3b44XY He was also famous for being cancelled at Fox when during the pre-taping for an interview with Tucker Carlson he told Carlson to his face he was a "millionaire paid by billionaires." The interview was never aired but was leaked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nFI2Zb7qE
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  3265.  @godamid4889  Yeah absolutely, but that does that make him a political animal or a business animal that influences politics? And don't forget neo-conservatism is a political ideology while neo-liberalism is an economic ideology. They go hand in hand like non-identical twins. I'm actually an engineer and I spent a chunk of my COVID time looking into economics because I'm tired of economists interfering in projects. The person I found easiest to understand was Mark Blyth who's a political-economist. I'd always though that politics and economics were separate areas of study. In Academia they mainly are but in between them are these people who study them as 2 parts of a whole. its a far more holistic view and that suits my background a lot better. The engineering equivalent is like looking at a motor and gearbox. They are 2 things that do totally different jobs, but in the real world they combine into a working unit. The main CPU in my Laptop and the graphics processor do different jobs in vastly different ways but they are both processors AND you can't have one without the other. So I see neocons and neoliberals the same way I see a motor and gearbox. 2 parts of the whole.
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  3266.  @godamid4889  Before you spout anymore about this. I'm Australian and we know a lot more about Rupert and his family and their history and what they get up to than any American ever FKNG will. We tried warning the Brits when he moved there and they didn't listen. Then we tried warning America and you didn't listen either. AND NOW YOU"RE STILL NOT LISTENING.
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  3267.  @Chris-is6xb  Got to agree there. Over the last 20+ years we have had a number of people who's only purpose in parliament was to trash the other side at every opportunity irrespective of how childish or trivial it was. Chief culprit - Christopher Maurice Pyne.
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  3268. As an engineer I am READY TO SCREAM AT PEOPLE WHO BLAME THE WAR IN UKRAINE FOR ENERGY PRICES. Energy prices across the world have been rising for years all that the war in Ukraine has done is exacerbated the situation. The reason why every economist on the planet keeps claiming its the war is because they don't want to admit it was the widespread privatisation of energy assets that they championed during the 1990s that's caused this. I have spent a lot of time over the last few years informally studying economics so that I could make the argument for what they did. Prior to privatisation when governments built big massive energy projects like Tennessee Valley (America) or Snowy Hydro (Australia) or the nuclear programs in Canada, Britain, France, Japan they had 2 main metrics - GDP growth and Employment. It was a fairly simple concept they built the power stations ahead of the demand created by population growth. It created lots of extra energy so that factories and businesses could be started and they'd have cheap power making it easier to EMPLOY people and be profitable. When the flipped to privatised power ALL OF THAT WENT OUT THE DOOR. Private companies have no social responsibility to GDO growth or employment. Milton Freidman said "There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits..." Its just taken 25 years for the privatisation nightmare to get to this point where we are shutting down older power stations NOT because they have emissions or they are nuclear BUT BECAUSE they are just so old they can't keep running. Just this week in Australia we shut down the Liddell power station which just adds to our list of power stations we have shut down. We have built out a huge amount of solar and wind but NONE OF THAT is BASE LOAD POWER which is what industry needs.
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  3269. ​ @rftulie  A couple of years back I saw a doco (or news item) on the effects of what the GOP did way back in the early 90s with removing or downgrading campaign finance controls. The GOP did it to enable them to tap into their wealthy fossil fuel donors with less restriction. It worked then it rot started to follow. By the mid 2000s most elected officials in Washington were spending at least 20 and many over 40hours a week trying to raise money to defend their seats at the next election IRRESPECTIVE of how many years away it was. During the Obama years they passed LESS legislation than any other time in the modern era. What it pointed out was they are spending so much time raising money they aren't spending the time doing the job they were elected to do. The concern is that political parties in other countries like Australia have tried to go down the same path. Half the problem is that ALL MAINSTREAM media promotes or lobbies or advocates this position because they see the advertising dollars.
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  3270.  @rftulie  We got the story here in OZ about the time American politicians were spending raising money when some of ours tried to do the same here with campaign finance laws. So many of these stories are mirrored across the entire Western World. A few years back when the Panama Papers broke and it included around 1200 prominent Australians we all waited for the hammers to drop. They never did. In 2017 I was in Canada for work and the Paradise Papers created an almost identical (except for the accent) story. The hammers never dropped there either. My time in Canada was at times so weird because the politics was so identical in terms of news cycles and point scoring. If it wasn't for the snow and accents I would have been truly confused by it all.
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  3271.  @patyson11262  Fine I'm sitting what have you got to offer?
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  3272. Don't forget that little miss self righteous herself was right in the middle of the F35 contract as Tony Abbotts Chief of Staff. There was no tendering or competitive trial, they just bought a plane that was from day 1 a questionable outcome. It costs way more than it was meant to, it horrendously expensive to operate and there's very serious issues with spare parts. I do think she is quite right about many points on the submarines, but its a bit rich when she was involved in something similar.
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  3273. Brian's actually crossed a line in this and a very dangerous one - and he should know better. If you are going to be a media commentator then you have to have some disconnection or you are just another propaganda outlet. If you think through this then its actually not a good thing. Notifying people of this fund is one thing. Promoting or supporting it is very close to the edge of being propaganda. BUT setting it up when you are a media outlet/producer is over the line. His hearts in the right place and getting rid of McConnell is a good thing for America and Western Democracy in general. There are other people in other countries doing the same (or similar) thing McConnell does. Getting rid of these people is good for the world, but its no good getting rid of them in a way that ends up helping the next McConnell get elected. Just think how many times Trump screamed about biased media and his base lapped it up.
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  3274. Either do I. A couple of Weeks ago Konstantin Kisin (YT Channel Triggernometry) said almost the same thing on BBC Question Time. He actually argued with people and said NO we need to negotiate with Putin, because to force him out of Ukraine or force him out of power in Russia would be a disaster. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DXwlqoSF70 Then on Mar 25 Yanis Varoufakis said almost the same thing again on Democracy Now. Only a few minutes in he pointed out Chinese military philosopher Sun Tzu said to give your opponent a way out when to trap them means utter destruction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su4czYxGYxo So why are people going nuts at Chomsky, while other people are saying the same stuff? I think this is more of the petty ignorance of Americans who think they understand the world AND JUST DON'T.
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  3275. I'm in Australia and PWC, KMPG and EY have all been named with respect to auditing and allowing multinational companies to avoid BILLIONS (with a 'B') to go untaxed via places in Europe. Its the same companies doing the same stuff all across the world and countries Luxembourg, Ireland and Holland are right in the middle of it acting as the money conduits.
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  3276. Its not a war crime, because there is no war on America's Southern border. But it is a potential crime. Just think if some kid does a "Kyle Larson boy scout with a gun" and kills someone he suspects is an illegal immigrant. It shouldn't matter if they are or aren't illegal immigrants, if some idiot follows her advice and does something Lara "I married the dumb one" Trump might be in a lot of trouble and Jeanine Pirro "the lawyer & judge" might be too.
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  3277.  @Xetan123  Your right on that conservatives think there is, because that's all they hear. Act of terror - NO. Incitement to violence - Absolutely. Like 1000s of others be careful with the frustration. We all do it and its totally understandable with the endless stream of lies out of the pro-Trump camp. Worse than Lara Trump is this other item David covered because this just feeds the disconnection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNIRgG6X9jM
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  3278.  @Xetan123  Yeah on that it would at least be on table. But then America has issues with handling domestic terrorism. That's the consequence of letting groups like the NRA have their way for decades. Its distorted all the public discussion to the point where reality isn't even discussable.
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  3279.  @Xetan123  That's the hypocrisy of the right shining through. What they advocate is perfect and just while everything else is criminal. If Joe Boden had orchestrated the assassination of the Iranian General Qasem Soleimani they would be screaming for Biden's head. Just think Hunter Biden is a criminal for taking a job at $600K a year in Ukraine, but Jared and Ivanka can work in the White House earning around $100 million a year. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3280.  @Xetan123  I loved the televangelist who called the 1st Trump indictment the "Jew Coup" ignoring the fact that Jared's a Jew and Ivanka is a Jewish convert. Its simply staggering how moronic some of these people are. I don't know what's worse - the fact they say this crap and expect people to believe this crap OR the fact that there are people who actually believe this crap.
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  3281.  @Lerian_V  You keep spouting of complete garbage, but if the question you refer to is "what reality" the try these. 1: The REALITY that Trump Lost a legal and fair election that was observed by many Republican officials. 2: The REALITY that Trump's "legal super team" LIED repeatedly about the voting machines and fraud when in public. 3: The REALITY that Trump's "legal super team" had many of their cases rejected for lack of any evidence. 4: The REALITY that Trumps supporters got conned into believing in the claims of fraud and handed over over $200 million. 5: The REALITY that many Trump supporters are now facing serious jail time over the capital riot. 6: The REALITY that Right Wing media outlets repeated the lies of about voter fraud and gave air time to people like Giuliani to repeat those lies with out any factual evidence just idiotic claims by unreliable people. 7: The REALITY that many Trump supporters like your self are still deluded. I'll stop there so I don't overload you ignorant brain too much with REALITY and I say ignorant because you seem to like ignoring REALITY.
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  3282. I was enjoying this right up until the moment you started harping on about WeWork. Yeah we all get that YouTubers have sponsors but damn can any of you also show some spine and not recommend things that have the sour taste of disaster. WeWork was a disaster orchestrated by a narcissistic sociopath. Here you are talking about men's issues and then you start promoting the nonsense from one of the worst examples of men in the last decade.
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  3283. I'm an Australian who went to college in America (late 80s) and have been warning that this is a huge issue to Australia, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Britain, Europe, the Philippines and many others. For so many America is our most important trading partner and MORE IMPORTANTLY our most important security partner. Like others we've staked our security future on things like the F35.
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  3284. That's pretty spot on.
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  3285.  @MrKennyBones  I'd agree with all of that. The whole concept of "social media influencers' is simply idiotic crap. If your car has a problem do you call the plumber or the mechanic? If your house blows a fuse do you call the local MCDonald's or an electrician? One of the really insidious aspects of anti-intellectualism is that it denigrates training, qualifications and experience - all the things that make up a persons expertise. Look at how the climate change denial industry operates. Look at how many political movements operate - including ones that at least superficially have good motives. They don't appeal to any logic they play emotional cards. Its not just here its all through industry and business as well. Look at HR and how they operate. Nobody's experience or skill matters anymore. I'm an an engineer and I can tell you that's right at the core of how Boeing went wrong with the Max-8. Go back through both Space Shuttle accidents and right there at the core of both was the dismissal of experience. In those and other cases they threw out skills, experience and knowledge and went with the "happy face" that sucks up to management. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Yeah I've had too much time to think on this in 2020 & 2021.
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  3286.  @bessieking3797  What are you trying to claim? If you are trying to claim that a prosecutor or judge in one case is guilty of corruption because another prosecutor in another state on a completely unrelated case did something. That's an absurd argument. Have you ever heard of EVIDENCE?
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  3287. As far as I know the first time it was said was in the British comedy "Black Books" as an insult to the French. It might have existed earlier. Either way its strongly advised, you don't say it to a Frenchman unless you can run damn fast or have serious backup.
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  3288. Well actually his base cares and they keep electing him. So until his base get effectively informed, which is a seriously hard task considering they have had more than 2 decades of FOX rammed into their skulls, he will keep getting elected. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3289. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  3290.  @AL-hk3oo  being honest EVERY COUNTRY has corruption. The only difference is by how much, the type and how its policed. Anybody who thinks their nation is free of corruption is either ignorant or lives on a remote island that has no resources for others to take.
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  3291. Its called being tired of hearing them whine and complain about their rights as they don't give a damn about anyone else's rights
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  3292. Awesome line. Is that yours or is it a quote. Either way great line.
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  3293. Why is Gary interested in a fairer tax system? Because Gary has enough functioning brain cells to understand what the consequences of what's happening are and more importantly he has enough character to care. Arguably the biggest issue the world has with the super wealthy is that they just don't care about the consequences of what they are doing. So long as their investments keep earning and they don't have to pay tax they don't care. Have you ever considered that when a government borrows money where it comes from? Like we hear how America is $30 Trillion in debt. Have you ever wondered who had $30 Trillion to lend to America or who had the billions of pounds Britain now owes?
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  3294.  @Jeff-q4u  I've watched a few Chris Norland vids over New Years. I'm not that impressed. He seems a typical American analyst in that he repeats a lot of what other people are saying and his vids often have click bait titles.
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  3295.  @ConsciusVeritasVids  According to Wikipedia he's married with 4 kids, but who knows what the rest of his life actually is when all he does is lie.
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  3296. Damn I just had my BULLSHIT-O-METER recalibrated and now its broke again.
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  3297.  @luchi.el.zorrito  When did they assault innocent people? Everyone is getting tired of the whataboutism of the right. We're tired of every answer to every issue starting with "whatabout" - just FK-off The world needs SOLUTIONS not "whataboutism"
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  3298. That's a sensible comment and its a discussion that's worth having. But understand: Its also exactly the same argument the NRA use that resulted in Columbine, Sandy Hook, Uvalde,... Its also exactly the same argument the tobacco industry used for decades resulting in millions of deaths. Its the same Libertarian argument that has resulted in so much harm around the world. Every freedom the world has ever known has been exploited by at least 1 person at a cost to others. We call such people greedy, selfish or describe them as narcissists or other psychological terms. The problem with all freedoms has never been the benefits they brought any person of any society. They were simply grateful to be allowed to do something whether they did it or not. That's called the freedom to choose. The problem has always been those few who take that freedom wrap it around a big stick. They then beat the rest of society with that stick extolling their virtue: "Look how great freedom is. I am free to beat you with my stick."
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  3299. There's not too many places on the planet where it can't be used these days. I don't know it that's poignant, ridiculous, plain sad or just a sorry indictment on the human species.
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  3300. Yeah but it will go nowhere, because politics is NOT about facts, good ideas or even being qualified for the job and never has. Any politician has their base of true believers, but that rarely gets them elected. Politics is about convincing other people you are their champion even when they know you aren't.
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  3301.  @abexx8485  I think you are absolutely dead right. To her her base it will sound like the sweetest honey, but winning elections isn't about your base its about getting other people to vote for or support you. The is the problem with a lot of people on both the Left and Right. On the Left there are people who think if you have a few good ideas, hug some trees and sing Kumbaya in harmony then others will go "Yeah that's the answer" and join in. On the Right there are people who think if you call out to their savior whether its Jesus, the Prophet or Money with the right amount of passion and conviction then others will go "Yeah that's the answer" and join in. This is why Reagan won, Bush won, Clinton won, Bush 2.0 won, Obama won and I hate to say it but why Trump won. It wasn't that they appealed to their base. They were able to appeal to other people well enough to win. This is something that Hilary Clinton FAILED TO DO. Instead of going to Michigan and meeting people and at least implying cared. She stayed in New York and did fund raisers with the executives who made the decisions to move factories out of Michigan, Ohio & Pennsylvania to China, Mexico, Texas and other places. Anyone who was awake could see how that was going to work out. If the results of Michigan, Ohio and Penn are reversed then Hilary wins.
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  3302. HEY DAVID, Just yesterday you said that Raphael Warnock did not do that well in the debate YOU SAID " Raphael Warnock didn't do particularly well. He didn't come across as particularly passionate. He didn't come across as particularly prepared...." So when are you going to a stories or interview on why people SHOULD vote for Warnock? The whole planet knows that Herschel Walker is not suitable for public office anywhere, but that's not how American elections operate. Voting is VOLUNTARY and candidates have to get people to take time out of their lives, turn up and vote. We have heard and seen dozens of examples on why nobody should turn up and vote for Walker but almost NOTHING on why anyone should turn up for Warnock.
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  3303.  @jakeslater6836  I remembered there was a UN convention on the rights of children. I checked and its called the "Convention on the Rights of the Child" and was brought into being in 1990. I remembered it because it was signed by many nations with great fanfare BUT there were journalists and activists pointing out that although it said much there was no body to administrate it or even money to run it. When I checked I found something very interesting. On Wikipedia look at the map (upper right) to see who has and who has never ratified that convention. Then scroll down to the section on America to see which President promised to ratify it and then never sent it to the House or Senate.
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  3304. Who are the clowns that have screamed and ranted for the last 2 years about "you must turn up in person on the day and vote?" These are the same people who scream about and demand their freedoms and rights and then strip 1/2 the population of their basic medical privacy rights. Is there any limit to the hypocrisy of these people?
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  3305. Australian and that's the problem with ESTABLISHMENT parties across the World right now. They'd rather hold onto CONTROL of their party than let anyone else have a go. They'd rather lose than let someone else from their side win.
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  3306.  @joythought  I think you meant defund not refund the boat operators. Actually they don't care about those boats. One reason why so many of those boats are in bad condition and sink is because they are the older boats that are ready to retire. A boat load of refugees is an easy way to pay for a new boat. Since the money is paid upfront they are guaranteed that new boat even if the one they put refugees onto sinks or is taken by authorities. The whole boat smuggling thing is that insidious.
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  3307.  @mypillowguy445  And plus I never saw anybody waving those links about at anytime during that last 12-18 months. Where were the people calling out "what are these projects the NIH funded?" That's right they weren't because it would have been news around the world. "America funds Wuhan Lab" would have been headlines everywhere and it wasn't. So FK-off.
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  3308. Just so you guys know this isn't strictly an American problem. When we all went down the globalization path we just didn't globalize trade. We globalized EVERYTHING, including stupidity. These garbage people spouting garbage to groups of garbage idiots are everywhere. I'm Australian and went to college in America and I never thought American politics could get this bad BUT our politics is going down the same path of stupidity. We are at the end of week 2 of our official 6 week federal campaign season before the next election and people are climbing the walls already with the tidal waves of stupidity being thrown at us. Its BOTH SIDES too.
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  3309. AEROSPACE ENIGNEER HERE and here's my top 6 risks from AI. 1) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from the AI industry. 2) The ignorance of the general population to actually understand what AI is and how it works. 3) The over reliance on AI as a "fix all" for too many problems that it can't fix. 4) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from the scammer industry. 5) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from politicians. 6) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from the media. Disclaimer - I might have items 4, 5 & 6 in the wrong order, but I am fairly certain of the first 3.
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  3310. YOU AR E RIGHT and ITS ACTUALLY WORSE THAN KYLE IS SAYING I have been trying to highlight this report for over 6 months ago when RICHARD WOLLF mentioned it. The report was published in SEPTEMBER 2022 nearly 10 months ago. If you listen to some of the rebel economic people like Mark Blyth we should have had a major re-think of economics AFTER the 2008 GFC made it painfully obvious the Chicago School Neoliberalism had failed. Because there were some people who were too busy enjoying their money that didn't happen. Anyone can find the report just google "congressional budget office family wealth" and the actual home page for the report should come up. On that page you can not only download the report but an Excel spreadsheet with all the data in the graphs. Here's some facts from the data of the very first graph in that report which is the one shown by Kyle at 4:26. From that graph you can not only get the effect of the 2008 GFC by comparing the 2007 data to 2010 but also the recovery by comparing the 2007 data to 2019. Adjusting for population and averaging the data on a per person value: The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 21.1% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 4.6% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were STILL 21.8% BELOW their 2007 value. So after the GFC that they caused the Top 10% got around US$4 Trillion from Bush and another US$4 Trillion from Obama and have since recovered and by 2019 were US$20 Trillion ABOVE their 2007 value. Estimates have them at least US$8 Trillion above that during the COVID Pandemic. The current collective value of the Top 10% can be estimated to be above US$90 Trillion compared to an estimated collective value of US$2.5Trillion for the 165 million people who make up America's Bottom 50%. This is neoliberal economics in overdrive. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America on a scholarship this is my gift to you all. Apologies if its blunt, but I do love America and the American people. I do want to see America back at its best and right now America is NOT at its best. And so you know this sort of neoliberal brain virus is doing just as much damage in Australia. We are in the midst of a full blown double crisis of housing and energy and our genius economists have said things like "its just the markets adjusting."
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  3311.  @andreasgregorfrank9057  You are so right on that. ASML is the main ticket, but I doubt the Chinese can simply gain the experience in 24 months for the really advanced chip designs. Its like so many things in science and engineering that last 10% is harder than the first 90% and the last 1% is harder than the first 99%. Remember the Americans have decades of experience at solving problems in chip design. Experience like that is hard to replicate in any area of technology. For a comparison look at how companies with incredible levels of technology go into Formula 1 and just can't match the top teams. That's always been the problem for the Chinese. They can buy or steal or the technology they like but you can't buy or steal experience.
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  3312. YES PLEASE!
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  3313.  @dominicfucinari1942  Its a nice statement but a lousy question because its so obvious. Did you see Kyles latest Rick Wiles or the dog shite clown? They pretty much answer the question - "They are ignorant narcissistic self indulgent clowns."
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  3314. IT DOES NOT MATTER Unless he says these things in court. The evidence has been presented, both sides have stated there final arguments and the case has been handed to the jury. At this point unless he says these things in a way that the jury can hear them and cause effect on their deliberations then IT DOES NOT MATTER. All Trump is doing here is winding people up, both his supporters and his detractors. Look at David and others on the American Left. They are all wound up over these comments and it doesn't matter. That's Trumps goal - CAUSE CHAOS. Nothing more. Nothing Less.
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  3315.  @lil-g4879  Yeah that's part of the tragedy. At one point the Republicans lead by Lincoln were one of the brightest lights in the world. What are they now, other than despotic scum hell bent on power for the sake of power?
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  3316. Australian here - For starters we can get all the self-righteous Leftists TO SHUT UP. They keep annoying the crap out of people so much they end up SO FRUSTRATED that they vote for maniacs just to stick it to those self-righteous Leftists. Think about all the people Hilary Clinton called "deplorable" and then waved the middle finger at her. There was a great line in one of these discussions recently on what happened in 2024. Someone who voted for Trump said they "knew Trump was crazy but crazy doesn't look down on you." The implication being they were tired of being looked down on. This is NOT an American issue either. Its rampant across the developed World. Leftists are always playing the moral or intellectual superiority cards (or both) and then wonder why when people flip the middle finger at them. They have this stupid concept that complex policies mean people should vote for them. HALF the human race has an IQ of under 100 and they don't have the capacity to understand complex policies. So when self-righteous Leftists shove it in their face they don't like it and they end up reacting to it.
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  3317.  Dustin Stich  You're not wrong. I do agree with what Jesse is saying but that logo on his jacket will get both him and what he's saying condemned with many Americans. I think its sad that he feels going on RT is the only place he can say what he's saying. "if you can't live on a $1 million a month then WTF is your problem." That's not something that should be said it should be screamed from the roof tops.
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  3318.  @maryhalverson5713  I'm not debating that RT has stories that other main stream outlets wont play. I'm not debating if they are balanced or not. What I am debating is something you and others refuse to accept. Many, many people around the world they will NOT accept anything from a Russian Government news service not matter what it is. That goes for any news services irrespective of the credibility of any story they present. For anyone who thinks there wont be people who would go nuts if they saw ANY AMERICAN with that RT logo on their jacket is living in a fantasy. There are people in both the Dems and GOP who would scream treason at this. That's the reality and shame of it because what he is saying SHOULD be said and it SHOULD be heard and it SHOULD be discussed.
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  3319. SORRY BUT - I went and checked this and maybe Thom could have done some checking too. There definitely is a direct link from Cannons husband (Josh Lorence) to John Rosatti, but there's not much of a link between John Rosatti and the Colombo crime family and nothing to suggest he's actually a mobster. According to FBI informant and former Colombo captain Salvatore "Big Sal" Miciotta "in late 1993, Victor Orena asked multi-millionaire businessman John Rosatti to provide cars from his dealership to be used to carry out murders, Rosatti declined and instead handed over $50,000 to Orena." (source Wikipedia on the page about the Colombo Crime Family). So there's no actual claim anywhere that Rosatti was actually a mobster just a claim that a mobster approached him at one time and the implication he paid money to NOT be involved.
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  3320. Again about as exiting as watching paint dry BUT also incredibly informative. I've seen Chamath Palihapitya splattered across the internet as some sort of super guru and as they say in the classics "if it sounds too good to be true it probably isn't." I couldn't see why he was promoted the way he's been, but suspected something wasn't right. Thanks for explaining WTF this guy is being promoted for, which is basically he's the front man for hedge funds having guaranteed returns. They're playing 3 handed poker where 2 players know what each other is doing and the other guy is the sucker. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3321.  @NYCBG  WTF are you talking about? Somebody's masking my comment. As for "psychopath" and "sociopath" yeah I do know the difference. In a nutshell. Psychopath is the guy with a definable mental condition. Sociopath is the guy who doesn't care about anything he does to others. Trump's technically a narcissistic sociopath and has been most of his life. If he truly (as for real) believes the delusion he's peddling ad that he's still the legitimate President and was cheated then he probably has some psychopath in there as well because that's mental illness with destructive behavior. But I only did psych 101 so someone like David should really have a professional on to explain it all.
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  3322.  @NYCBG  Something strange BOTH my replies are being masked????? It says there are 9 replies and I can only see 6. So at least 1 other person is having their comment masked as well.
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  3323. I can see my last one but no the other 2??? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ Somebody else pointed out to me a couple of days ago that the YT algorithm was hiding their replies. I'll look again tomorrow In the mean time I don't think it matters all that much what DJT is diagnosed with I expect his cult will still vote for him.
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  3324.  @jameytechsan7622  Your right we all knew it came from bats for some time. What NO ONE has put up on social media (that I have seen) is PROOF that the Chinese were researching these viruses or that America was involved in the Chinese research research. Its publicly available and was probably straight forward to find IF you know what to ask the search engines. That's actually one of the skills researchers develop over time - the right question to ask a search engine. They are great things but can either they drown you in leads or get you nothing. Plus most of the search engines (like google) are paid to list (& promote) specific things.
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  3325.  @jameytechsan7622  Yeah, but its amazing how many people with absolutely no idea how to research a topic try and tell those of us who do - how to do it. Worse they even try and tell us they know how to do it when they clearly don't. Flat earthers being an example. As are people like Rand Paul, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity???????????
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  3326. Your probably right, but I bet if they had a grocery store that served underage girls easily impressed by money then he'd buy groceries all the time.
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  3327. When they are in power they are!!!
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  3328. For the nation that spent the last 70+ years calling itself the "champions of democracy" and POTTUS "leader of the free world" its certainly looks incredibly stupid. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship and its so sad to watch America do this to itself. In a way I am not surprised as I saw the foundation of this being laid in the 80s with Reaganism and Televangelism going unchecked. Right now in Australia this scares us, because America is our most important trading partner and most important security partner. That goes for other nations as well. Because of Trump's trade war we are in a conflict with China right now. A malfunctioning America is not in our best interests or Canada's or Mexico's or Europe's or Britain's or Japan's or a lot of others best interests - except for maybe Russia, North Korea and a couple of others. As an Australian its shameful that another Australian (Rupert Murdoch) is right in the middle of this reeking havoc. Every nation has its handful of people you wished had never existed - Rupert's one of ours. I wish I could say more than sorry for what he does.
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  3329.  @rezakarampour6286  The best line I ever heard on the Saudi Royal family was in a newspaper article about 20 years ago on the PR firms that do damage control for them. One thing you might know about that other don't is how there's something like 3,500 princes now. It came from the Saudi king back in the 1920s marrying a wife from every other Arabian tribe in an effort to unite them. He had over 50 sons and they did similar. Hence there's 1000s of them now and some of them (like other spoiled rich brats) do stuff and they need PR damage control people to clean it up. That's what this news paper article was about. The comment was from a PR guy who did NOT work for the Saudis, cos they don't speak publicly at all. On working for the Saudis, he said: "I'd prefer to work for the Nazi Party and I'm Jewish."
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  3330.  @NicodemusT  Go back and check the comment by a person called "tik" about Kyle interviewing Sam Harris years ago and then note Kyle's comment just before 9:00. This is as much about Kyle not liking Sam Harris as it is about anything else AND I remember that Sam Harris interview where he said Hunter Biden really could have done serious criminal stuff and it would be irrelevant. There was no mistaking what Sam Harris meant in that comment at that time. He was simply pointing out how IRRELEVANT the Hunter Biden Laptop story was. Hunter Biden was NOT the President, NOT running to be the President and was neither a threat to the world nor democracy and yet the right wing media were paining him that way. What Sam simply said was Hunter Biden is so IRRELEVANT to the big picture he really could have been as bad or even way worse than what was being said at the time compared to how much of a threat Trump was. Every so often Kyle (like every other media person) forgets what the actual subject is AND even worse forget that people have memories.
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  3331. Be careful there are people dumb enough to think that saying Canada loves poutine means they support Putin. Remember that wonderful scene about Americans and maps (it just never ages) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
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  3332. My parents were teachers in Australia and through the 1970s and early 80s a lot of American teachers came to Australia. Some for a time and others stayed. So this treatment of teachers cuts deep and especially so because an Australian and his son, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, allow or actively promote this garbage.
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  3333. It time that politics and big business across the entire world had a decent clean out. Go look at how many seriously influential people in both the business sector and political sector across the world are in their 70s, 80s and 90s. Warren Buffet, Charlie Munger and Rupert Murdoch are all in their 90s. Go look at American politics and there's a hoard of 80 somethings in the House and Senate. Its not much different in other Western Democracies. They might not appear to be in "leadership positions" but they tend to be on committees with serious influence. Nothing against older people but there is a time to simply retire and move on.
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  3334.  @desertegle40cal  It was in the Foundation novels, which he started writing as short stories in 1942. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series Its in one of those stories where a person from the Foundation ventures back into the remnants of the Empire. They get to a planet where things are starting to fall apart and they talk to "the engineer in charge" who is only the engineer in charge because the father was the engineer in charge. The term engineer had become a hereditary title NOT a qualification. I remember that because I was doing my degree in aerospace engineering at the time. It was in those stories Asimov developed the term "psychohistory." Which is basically a statistical method of predicting what a society will do based on emotional inputs. It was an extension to mob psychology where the accuracy was a function of the size of the mob. Hari Seldon (the lead character) wasn't dealing with just a mob he was dealing with millions of planets with billions of people on each, which made his calculations even more accurate. A couple of years later I was back in Australia doing post-grad studies. I was in the library one day looking for a specific journal as part of a literature search and stumbled across volumes of the "Journal of Psychohistory." That was circa 1988/89. So by the end of the 1980s what Asimov had written about starting in the 1940s had become a real area of science that people were doing serious academic work in. Have a look at the first subject under the heading similar concepts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional) Now you know a bit more of HOW and WHY they (our political masters) do what they do in campaigns. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3335.  @desertegle40cal  Well you hit an obvious Asimov fan. Beyond what he was as a novelist - I think he was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. Its a shame we can't get his take on the Trump era.
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  3336. Trump cheats on his wives, cheats on his taxes and cheats at golf. Despite the laws on giving jobs to family he gave Jared & Ivanka jobs in the White House where they made a reported $400 million. He got impeached twice and got bailed out (despite overwhelming evidence both times) by his partisan buddies. There are photos of him socializing with convicted pedophile Jeffery Epstein. He told an agitated mob to "go down there and stop the steal" that then rioted, trashed the capitol, stole government property AND chanted for hanging the VP. Trump's gotten away with everything he has ever done and never been held accountable. Why wouldn't he think he could just claim he won and think he'd get away with it. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3337. The real question to ask -> Is Matt Gaetz trying to set himself up to be Donald Trump's 2024 running mate?
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  3338. This wasn't a Hail Mary. A Hail Mary is when you actually get on the field or court and actually make a play. In this case the referee (SCOTUS) called time and never even let the play go ahead. They were denied even being allowed to argue the case.
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  3339. AUSTRALIAN HERE: After the 2019 British election where Jeremy Corbyn got spanked by Boris Johnson in very similar fashion to the way Australian Labor had lost earlier the same year I asked a Brit Why did British Labor use the same losing strategy Australian Labor used which was eerily like the same strategy Hilary Clinton had failed with in 2016? I cannot confirm their claim but it made sense. British Labor had done the same thing Australian Labor had done which was employ campaign advisers (strategists) who had been on the Clinton campaign. Its NOT JUST Hilary but its that whole Ivy League Elitist Liberal crew who run the DNC.
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  3340.  @opcn18  Good point but then the people complaining are all "Elon devotees" who think he's going to whisk them all off to Mars.
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  3341. I'm here in Australia and I know a couple of Philippino's one recently asked me to check a map and see exactly where these Spratly islands are. They are literally nowhere near China and right near the Philippines. Also that's a huge statement out of New Zealand because the Chinese have kept them quiet with economic pressure for a while. New Zealand has developed a huge dairy products export industry and its biggest customer is China. What the Chinese don't get is that Australian and New Zealand have lots of history with Hong Kong going back decades. We know what the Chinese have done there.
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  3342. It would be nice to hear Levin explain EXACTLY which government decisions George Soros influenced in his favor and then explain all the decisions Right Wing Billionaires have gotten in their favor like the stacking of the Supreme Court.
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  3343. He's actually pointed out on of the real problems "the Radical Right." We hear about "the Radical Left" endlessly and how they interfere with everything like education. But we don't here about "the Radical Right" and how they interfere with politics, the media AND education. I think the criticisms of "the Radical Left" are fare. They do have too much to say in education, particularly social sciences but then so does "the Radical Right" who have ridiculous influence over business and legal education. I do think that "the radical Left" are borderline insane with their approach to climate and energy (I am an engineer) but then "the Radical Right" ARE WELL OVER THE BORDER INSANE when it comes to climate and energy. Between the Radical Left and Radical Right the rest of us are screwed.
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  3344. A week ago McConnell basically said he has no "moral red lines" which means he has no morals.
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  3345.  @charleswomack2166  Do you know that 14 of the last 18 judges on SCOTUS including 8 of the current 9 are Harvard or Yale? Did you know that 5 of the 7 names put forward to replace Breyer including Ketanji Brown Jackson were Harvard or Yale. Do you know what the intention of the "Federalist Society" has been since it was founded in the 80s at Harvard and Yale? Go and check - its all there on Wikipedia for anyone to see. McConnell's not the real problem he's just another symptom.
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  3346. Aerospace engineer here: Look I'll grant the other ideas may or may not have validity and Ryan would know them better than me. BUT FARKING DON'T WASTE PEOPLE'S TIME WITH CRAP. If you want responsible use of space then DON'T MAKE IT A CONTESTABLE SPACE. Why do people like you have to make everything some fantasy battle ground. I did my degree during Reagan's Star Wars and the department was flush with DARPA money. It didn't take anyone long to realise it was all nonsense but when DARPA is literally shoving money down your throat you don't spit it out you swallow and ask for more. Oh yeah and while you'd be spending TRILLIONS doing this the rest of the US economy would slide into a hole it would not get out of.
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  3347. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did aerospace engineering but a pack of my frat brothers were pre-law and several are now practicing lawyers. They used to love bouncing my head off the walls with hypothetical discussions on the constitution explaining how great the constitution was. Years later I believe that without doubt the US Constitution is one of the greatest achievements in human history, but this is its greatest challenge. One of the things my frat brothers never backed down on was the "that can't happen here" stance. They explained to me time and time again how the system of checks and balances could never be breached. I think a couple of them dragged me into those discussions because I would challenge them with questions no American would think to ask. But neither they or the founding fathers ever considered someone like Mitch McConnell doing what he has done. Blame my frat brothers all you like, but they explained to me just how important the Senate is as the check and balance to the President and Congress. McConnell subverted the Impeachment with no witnesses, no evidence and even allowed senators to not even be there to hear what was presented. I knew that would come back to haunt America. What McConnell did was subvert the one thing that could keep a rogue POTUS under control. As a result Trump was never kept in check. His children (Jared & Ivanka) were not kept in check. His minions (Giuliani, Ellis, Powell,....et.c) were not kept in check. Mike Flynn advocated for martial law only a few days ago. I don't think Biden or his team yet realise just what they face or what it will take to fix. Absolutely Trump has to be removed, but so does McConnell and the others who enabled this to happen. Its important they are all impeached as that will prevent any future POTUS pardoning them. Start with Trump, but don't stop there. Get all of them for what they have done to a great country and America is a great country despite some of what its done. Just know that America has a lot of friends and we do want to see you get past this.
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  3348.  @FakingANerve  A lot of people are watching Glenn's channel and another one called Legal Eagle because they are simply clarifying what the law actually says rather than people screaming nonsense.
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  3349. And that explains exactly why the establishment didn't want her in congress. They DON'T want people with intelligence let alone ones who can think and will challenge the status quo. And this is NOT and American issue either. I'm Australian and went to college in America. I can barley believe what is politically happening in America and even more stunned that we are following America down the same path in Oz. But then I was in Canada for work in 2017 - guess where they're headed? We get a lot of British and European news here in Oz - guess where they're headed?
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  3350.  @hrbeta  Nice try at being logical but Nigel has been found out. In fact for anyone paying attention he was found out when he didn't have the guts or brains to see the Brexit negotiations through. Of all the BS from both sides about Brexit that was the MOST PATHETIC of all.
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  3351. Not when your in the top 1% like Tucker where you get all the juicy benefits. Like being bailed out when the stock markets crash or not having to pay tax.
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  3352. I agree with all that you say, except that with the mass shooting people are NOT like the rest of us. They simply aren't so we can't use our own personnel experiences with video games or any other media or sports or games or simulations or police or military experience to compare anything to these people. I've played Assassin's Creed, Modern Warfare, Unchartered, Last of Us (1 & 2) and some others. I'm reasonably proficient, but I KNOW ITS A GAME. You know its a game. Others know its a game. The problem is there is that 1 in a million who already has issues and sometimes the game makes their problems worse. For whatever reason these people CAN'T rationalise information they way the rest of us do. Most of us can conceive of horrible things to do to other people who upset us or harm us, but we can rationalise other alternatives. These people can't rationalise their feelings or experiences the way the rest of us do. There's been some really good doco's on this subject but I haven't seen one for a while. In a nutshell nobodies ever found that any media (games, movies, sports, etc.) flipped a normal person into a rage killer. BUT if somebody was already sick or had become disturbed then it MIGHT (as in maybe) contribute. As far as I know that's all that's ever been proven. It MIGHT contribute to a sick persons state.
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  3353. Considering the pictures of Trump partying with Epstein, trump along with the Clintons and Brits are the main suspects in his demise. Its only my opinion based on the historical precedents of powerful people "whacking" liabilities, but the only real question about Epstein's death was whose assassin did the job. Was it Trump's assassin, Clintons assassin, the MI6 Assassin or one of the other possible contenders. There is also the real possibility that it actually was suicide, maybe they gave him an option go quietly or go badly its what the Romans used to do.
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  3354.  @MatthewSummerton  Great point
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  3355.  @Knight-Bishop  That's a damn good description of RB's current state of brain function.
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  3356. ​ @MarcyStuart5x5  Without any doubt you are right on that point. 74,223,744 voted for Trump. A massive slab of them actually think they got cheated. They most likely own at least 1 gun and there have been reports that stores are running out of ammunition supplies. Plus they are being goaded on by a pack of narcissistic ass holes who only seem to care about the money they are raking in. The danger factor in that combination is very high and all it need is the right ignition. I find it staggering that Biden is quietly hiring Goldman Sachs & McKinsey people. That's what got Trump elected in 2016, the DNC thinking that the only opinions that matter are IVY League Opinions. Mark Blyth mentioned the other day that someone did an analysis/survey of the most mentions places in the leaked DNC emails. #1 Martha's Vineyard #2 The Hamptons and #3 New York. Biden needs to be focused on the immediate threat 74million well armed people present, not sucking up to Wall St.
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  3357.  @PhotoTrekr  GO LOOK AND LISTEN. Its after 6:45 and its a fists in the air YES MOMENT. It might not be the best news but its pretty damn good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeXRLBuzrDA
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  3358. You actually hit the nail on the head - its about doubt, manufacturing doubt, promoting doubt and disseminating doubt. There's a really great documentary about "manufacturing ignorance" by DW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5UPnuSTRjA Just after 16minutes when they are talking about how the tobacco industry dealt with the cancer issues. They talk about an internal memo from 1969 listen for what it says. Then realise that the Koch brothers fund the Heritage Society as much as any other think tank in respect to climate change. That's the same Heritage Society Phillip Morris used to do its dirty work.
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  3359.  @patmahinie5728  Actually read my comment and actually think this time. I never said the administration or campaign was free from collusion. I'd agree that I don't think Trump himself was directly involved in any collusion, but that's more a gut feeling that Trump's too arrogant to think he'd need help. As for others in his campaign team that was never cleared up. Even Steve Banon publicly discussed how Don Jr and others who were in the meeting with the Russian who offered material pointed the finger at Manafort. Manafort was a seasoned campaigner he should have dragged them out at the first suggestion. Why he didn't has never been clearly answered. As for the abuse of power, the phone call with Ukraine was "absolute bullshit" and Trump should have been found guilty. EXCEPT Mitch McConnell decided to prove he's the most corrupt politician in American history. As for Bill Barr he lied to congress about the Mueller Report and the "memo" he relied on. A Federal Judge has already been over that and told the DOJ to release it. We'll have to wait to see where that goes. As for Giuliani he'll probably plead innocence by mental illness as in "please Mr. Judge I'm old and senile and have trouble seeing reality." As for your claim that people are using social issues to provoke civil unrest - what brainless bullsh1t. The only provoking of the January 6 riot where 5 people died was from Trump and his team. What's provoking people is the idiotic delusional garbage people like you keep pushing.
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  3360. I think you have summed up our society quite well. We are all so exhausted from the relentless hammering the media handout these days. There's times I just want to grab some of these media people who just demand non-stop attention and "old school" throttle them. There's a comment just above this one that starts "I think a lot of men have rejection fatigue." I think its more like we are all collectively suffering from "media fatigue" where they just pound stuff at us. Its just noise and we have no time to process anything before they ram the next thing at us. For example TV programs would bring on an expert to describe or explain something and then they'd move on to the next item of news. These days we get the expert and then follow that with 20 different NON-EXPERT opinions and whatever was the point and/or the facts about the point get lost in the noise.
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  3361. As a pilot, we don't get psyche tested, that's covered by the instructors simply denying to give lessons, but WE DO GET SECURITY CHECKED. Unless you're only flying at a club with its own field and you never leave that clubs designated area, you pretty much need a security clearance anywhere in the world. Its a consequence of 9/11.
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  3362.  @SimonTBam  Then you should be able to explain it a shit load better than my poor aerospace engineering brain can. They taught me logic and reasoning and complex system analysis. We didn't have a lot of time for the subtleties of philosophy and the illogical nature of politics was too much to take in those days. On Italian, if I hadn't played Assassin's Creed my ignorant hide wouldn't know the difference between merde, fanculo and cazzo. My favorite Italian word is andianmo - its just got this enthusiastic ring to it that just yells "let' go."
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  3363. Great answer. Clarke wrote about it, because as it was a novel tool to use in science fiction. There's a great non-fiction book he wrote call "Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible (1962)" There's a 1984 version, which I read during my college years. Its basically a series of thought exercises in what's practical. He did discuss the space elevator but the one I remember better was "Could Da Vinci have mad a mechanical television?" His answer was YES, but also totally impractical. And that was the theme he repeated, what's doable versus what's practical to do. Yes space elevators are doable, but for the Earth totally impractical.
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  3364. You would be too if you were a Russian in the Russian government. Its no different to man many people in governments across the world, if you don't tow the line you go to jail the only difference is that in some cases their might be a court that might listen.
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  3365.  @lucasgrey9794  Best description yet. 👍👍👍👍👍👍😂🤣😂🤣
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  3366.  @clownanaround7996  That's not what I am saying. McConnell isn't simply a threat to American democracy he's a threat to western stability. McConnell HAS TO GO. But its not smart to hand ammunition to your opponent. Especially when your opponent is as cynically ruthless as the American Right are. They'll see this as left wing media bias and proof of the fake news AND WILL scream it at their base. DO NOT forget that there base DOES NOT care about reality.
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  3367.  @insightfulhistorian1861  Really I would have thought Bannon was a Mad Dog 20/20 boy. Although looking at his face you might think methanol rather than alcohol is his favorite juice.
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  3368. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Emma is in part right but also very, very WRONG on what people mean by sophistication of IEDS. She's RIGHT that they do not have the same level of sophistication as something like HIMARs, but that doesn;t mean they are not sophisticated in other ways. I'm not military but have worked with people who served in BOTH Iraq and Afghanistan and when they said (10+ years ago) that they knew Iran was involved it was because of the sophistication of the IEDs. This is the explanation they gave me. After the first couple of years in Iraq and Afghanistan there was a significant change in the IEDs. Initially they had been crudely patched together explosives. What changed was the packaging and deployment. So instead of just burying a pile of explosives hoping to make a big hole and damage whatever was overhead they started packaging things so that the entire blast went straight up with the aim of doing massive damage to whatever was overhead. They also started burying armour piecing shells in ways they were far more likely to damage armoured vehicles. What they meant by "sophistication" was that people with a knowledge of explosives and armour and military tactics were helping them make MORE sophisticated versions of IEDs.
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  3369.  @maxjoechl5663  Thanks - that's exactly the sort of things these guys said to me. The point they all made was that the changes showed their were people with BETTER KNOWLEDGE of what worked against specific types of targets. They sort of described it in terms that it had gone from backyard/garden shed hobby level up to engineered solutions. FYI - I do know what shaped charges are and other anti-armour technologies. Way back in college I did some work for my professor on the Abrams APDS projectile.
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  3370. KYLE: Next time you want to discuss this sort of stuff get Peter Ziehan in to point out these things. Geopolitics is his area of expertise. He was interviewed by Saagar and Krystal a while back so don't say you can't get him on. And yes he did cover the Mexican cartels in detail recently.
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  3371. Yeah others are asking similar questions. This might get the web forum hosts out from under that stupid law that says they ARE NOT responsible for posts on their servers because they aren't the publisher. Maybe that's why the lawyers are saying that the users still own their content.
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  3372. TO ALL -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  3373. Its called the James Web Telescope and its just started taking its photos.
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  3374. There's extremists both Left and Right and in every religious flavor you can name. Every tribe, state and nation has them. The difference is in most cases the bulk of the population doesn't listen to them and generally isolates them. Now that we have the internet and social media they can share their garbage and vilify others to wider audiences. Politics, the military and police services are places they love to move into because it gives them a power base to operate from. Its one of the reasons why (despite all its flaws) democracy is the best system we have because every few years we have the chance to clean them out of government and then clean them out of the services..
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  3375. It goes back much further. He was the guy who gave Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz the plan for invading Iraq that ended in disaster. Its all detailed in a 2004 PBS Frontline called "Rumsfeld's War" I started a thread with a brief summary.
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  3376. Congrats you're one of the few people I have seen comment on that why has it RIGHT. Glenn Kirschner did a whole video on that and explained the Michigan SecState has to, BY LAW accept whoever parties put forward for their primary ballots. He said the Dems could put Obama on the PRIMARY ballot if they wanted despite the fact he's ineligible to be POTUS because he's already served 2 terms. So many people have seemed to forget that a PRIMARY is NOT an election to hold public office.
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  3377.  @davidsa76  Its the Wizard of Oz having the curtain pulled back or the Emperor being told by a child his new clothes don't exist and he's actually naked. Take it a step further what do the 2 establishments (dem & GOP) in America want more than anything else? Would it be that nobody pulls back the curtain and shows that they are both as bad as each other and that all the media theatrics really is just theatrics. What do you think the case is in Canada, Britain, Japan, China, Germany, Australia, Russia and everywhere else. Is it possible that the entire planet is just some weird collection of FKD up versions of Oz?
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  3378.  @anthonytwohill9726  Not a simulation but a Public Relations machine that acts like one.
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  3379.  @anthonytwohill9726  About 12 years ago Prof. Robert McChesney was in Australia on a book tour. I caught half of one of his televised lectures on the decline of journalism. The most amazing fact that he spoke about was the complete flip of the ratio of journalists to PR people. In the 1950s it was about 4:1 and by the early 2000s it was 1:4. We now live in a world where more of our news was prepared by PR people than we realise. Some of it is blatant like the news stories touting some new product. If it feels like a promo, that's because it was prepared by PR. Look at all the spin doctors in politics - more PR.
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  3380.  @anthonytwohill9726  If you have time here's a recent interview with Robert McChesney about the decline of American journalism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZdxwP6PZk4
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  3381. This actually made the news in Australia. I know because its one of the first stories that popped here this morning.
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  3382.  @knockknock1246  What crap is that??? Our media is no more pathetic than anyone else's. Rupert Murdoch has done that for us.
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  3383. Yeah but just as there are 2 sides to every story Palki is ignoring WHY these former Soviet states wanted to join NATO. She's quite rightly pointed out many historical facts and she's dead right about most them. But she's leaving out some important facts, like WHY do all these countries want to join NATO. NATO didn't go recruiting those nations, yes they left the door open and yes they didn't keep their agreement on expansion. However those nations APPLIED to NATO. Ukraine applied in 2008 and it was NATO that stopped expanding at that time. That's been left out of her monologue. What's more NATO even left the door open for Russia to join NATO. As to WHY these smaller ex-Soviet states applied to NATO look at the history she's NOT talking about. In her time line she left out the entire Soviet era between WW2 and 1989 when the Soviets installed and supported some of the worlds most repressive regimes in those countries. To be fair on that subject America did the same during the same time period which is something most Americans are clueless about. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I know from first hand experience how blind Americans are about international affairs and the dictatorships they supported. Americans who've actually lived outside America have a better understanding just as the Russians who live out side Russia have a better understanding. Palki is usually very good on these sorts of discussions but in this case she's leaving out some important things.
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  3384.  @fork9001  Sorry but Shuttle C is in the same class of heavy lift launchers but it is at the bottom end of the scale. To LEO Falcon Heavy 63.8t Shuttle C 77t Starship 100t Saturn V 144t All of the rest are basically below 30t and most not much over 20 like Falcon 9 FTs 22.8t. And almost anything that can get a payload into orbit can also get something to the moon, its a matter of how much.
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  3385.  @fork9001  Lets get one thing straight starship for the moon is a joke and its an even bigger joke for Mars and its a joke if you think Elon has any grasp of reality. If his garbage about driverless cars, electric trucks and hyperloop weren't enough to convince you he' doesn't know what he's doing then there's nothing to discuss. If you want to know here's the answer. Orbital mechanics relies on velocity and being able to change velocity and we call that delta-V (as in change in velocity). Until we have magic star trek massless propulsion all delta-V will require the burning of fuel or the ejection of mass. As a result of that having ANY vehicle with unnecessary mass is a problem. Buzz Aldrin's Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR) won that argument over Walter Von Braun's Earth Orbit Rendezvous (EOR) in the mod 1960s. It was why Apollo worked. They didn't carry any stuff to and from the moon they didn't need to. Its why as each part of the rocket had done its job it was left behind. With chemical rockets you simply don't have the fuel. Then comes Elon "the inventor of everything" Musk with no training and no understanding and he say's NO. We will go back to EOR with a concept from 1950s sci-fi. Its about as smart as saying we will get rid of all the modern container ships and go back to wooden sailing vessels.
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  3386. TO ALL: I am an Australian engineer and there is some very concerning stuff here and some stuff that really doesn't mean anything. The cruise ship stuff doesn't really mean anything. It might be something that's easily explainable. In any form of engineering there are parts that can be used almost anywhere. The fact that somebody used the same generators and pumps off a cruise ship might not look good to the average person but it means nothing compared to the FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATIONS and REQUIREMENTS. The "what does it have to do" stuff. For any engineered system the first question that should be asked is "What does it have to do?" followed by a string of questions regarding how well it has to do it. So for emergency generators and pumps it starts with things like: How fast does it have to respond? What's the minimum amount of time it has to be able to run at full power? If its a generator what's the power does it has to deliver? If its a pump how much water (flow rate & pressure) must it be capable of pumping? HOW RELIABLE DOES IT HAVE TO BE? Those answers become the Functional Specifications and Requirements. It may or may not include the specific industry. What can happen is that devices made for one industry are well enough designed to meet the requirements and or standards of other industries. An emergency generator for a cruise ship would have to have very high reliability because part of its specification would be the ship is at sea, in a storm and help is days away. Forget nuclear power station and cruise ship and think - its an emergency system so when its actually needed ITS AN EMERGENCY. I work in control system and part of that are the control circuits behind those big red buttons with EMERGENCY STOP written on them. You'd be amazed how many people, including other engineers, who just forget that the reason someone actually presses and E/STOP is because something bad is already happening. The REQUIREMENTS for any EMERGENCY device isn't what it has to do when everything is normal. It has to do its job when the shit has already hit the fan and being thrown everywhere. So the cruise ship stuff is meaningless BUT the failure to perform as SPECIFIED and REQUIRED is absolutely scream as loud as you can stuff.
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  3387.  @insightfulhistorian1861  It seems to be that so many people these days don't understand basic legal terms. I'm an engineer not a lawyer and these are basic things everyone should know.
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  3388.  @insightfulhistorian1861  Your 100% right. First degree murder includes pre-mediation, as in you planned and went somewhere with the intent of killing someone. How many times do we need to see in the media someone explaining how case went wrong and after a guilty person walked???? Prosecutors need to prosecute the crime NOT the public opinion of a crime.
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  3389. I know this sounds crazy, but the Biden team has to at least go through the discussion. David and others a right he shouldn't pardon Trump. I saw Kyle Kulinski's piece on this yesterday and he has the same message. But as David points out 74million people voted for Trump and many of them have been weaponized. They are frustrated and angry and and already have lashed out and rioted once already. So Biden has to have answers for the country. He (or his people) have to be able to answer the questions that will come. Yes its sucks to say they should consider pardoning Trump, but they need to go through the exercise so they have those answers. Think about yesterday's press conference with Joe Biden's White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and what was refreshing. WE GOT ANSWERS. For the first time since Sean Spicer's insane "biggest crowd ever" stupidity, the WORLD (not just America) got to hear some honest answers from the White House. BUT At some point in the near future someone will have to stand up and not just say NO TRUMP PARDON and explain WHY and then answer the questions that will follow.
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  3390.  @robynhope219  Maybe not all of the population but certainly the vast majority. We always find it fun to see how many countries they can name on a map.
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  3391.  @marypetrie930  This is a repeat of a previous comment and I already answered that. So if your not listening then FK-off. The percentage is irrelevant. We didn't have any excess population to lose in the first place let alone the bulk of an entire generation of young men. At that point in Australia history we couldn't lose that. We certainly couldn't lose them the FK-wit British Aristocratic Generals who sat on the beach sipping tea as they let the peasants be slaughtered.
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  3392. I wouldn't call Jimmy narcissistic. Trump, Bannon, and many others in politics and business are narcissists. But without any doubt at some point last year he lost grip with reality and just started screaming and ranting at things. He went from somebody making decent public comment about things going on. He did some decent interviews with people like Mark Blyth. Then around the middle of the year he just started to slide into mindless rage. I stopped looking at anything he produced months ago.
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  3393. I suggest everyone reads up on it. --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition Flynn could be in big trouble because he is military and its specified under the UCMJ. I have previously asked Glenn Kirshner who has been both a JAG and Federal Prosecutor about clarifying treason & sedition. He has a channel here on YT and has been clarifying many of the recent legal issues, including Michael Flynn's and other pardons. Here is a link to his most recent comment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlFCJzL8W0
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  3394.  @christopherbrown1848  Good point and that might play out when Barr isn't AG.4 At the moment Flynn has retweeted a call for martial law and that is serious as he's military and their oath doesn't simply end when they finish their service. Its why I want to hear from someone like Glenn Kirshner. He started as a JAG before becoming a federal prosecutor. If anyone knows its someone like him. Here's his 2 latest on Flynn & Co and pardons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlFCJzL8W0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XNPc3qvmAM
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  3395.  @revealingserendipity9840  That's great to hear from another lawyer. I'm an engineer and I like how he logically explains things. I'm watching him almost everyday at the moment for that simple reason I know I am hearing from an expert. He reviewed one of his cases recently and I looked it up and found the actual official final report which I linked in a comment and got a "thank you" from Glenn. I really want to hear him explain the differences between treason and sedition, because right now that's so important for everyone to understand. Flynn is military Glenn was a JAG and the UCMJ has specifics about what military and ex-military can say about the government. Flynn jus re-tweeted a call for martial law. I want to hear a JAG (or ex-JAG) on that, because all I have are opinions he has genuine experience. In the mean time COVID is out of control so take care & stay safe. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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  3396. ITS NOT JUST REPUBLICANS There's Dems with blood on their hands too. They just don't advertise it as much.
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  3397. You're absolutely right but lets not forget Jared & Ivanka made made over 100 times what he made AND they did it from the White House. WHAT HAS TO BE ADRESSED is how and why he got that job just the same as how and why Jared & Ivanka got their jobs.
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  3398. Mike Pence has less spine than an octopus.
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  3399. Yeah its one of the worst kept secrets in the world that Jared used US intelligence resources to play various Arab states off against each other to save his families real estate business. In most Western Countries he would have already been charged and jailed for corruption. Plus its widely known that when Jared & Ivanka went to Israel for the opening of the new US Embassy in Jerusalem that they also signed an agreement for a new Trump resort. It was news around the world when Jared & Ivanka visited the site where the resort would go. Again that would have blown up in any other Western Country as corruption. Plus its widely known that when she was in China for US Government business Ivanka also secured all of her trademarks in China. Anyone who's seen any of the stories about China and trademarks knows that's a process that takes months not a day. FYI - I'm Australian and we all know about this stuff. By any standard measures Jared & Ivanka were 2 of the most corrupt government employees in recent Western History.
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  3400.  @andrewreaney  I agree with your first paragraph but not the second. The simplest fact is that ANYTMIE any US politician opens their mouth they make the situation political. Trump amplified everything wrong with Western Politics There's so much hypocrisy from all sides. Look at Pelosi's hypocrisy. Last year Kelly Loeffler was caught insider trading and should have gone to jail. This year Nancy Pelosi says its all fine when politicians do it. Trump and the GOP scream about Hunter Biden but wont even discuss Jared and Ivanka. Just imagine how Trump and the GOP would behave if Joe gave Hunter a job in the White House?
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  3401. If you take the basic premise that Michael Knowles and his people are pushing which is "We don't want our children exposed to things we don't want them exposed to." That's fairly understandable because parental rights are understandable. THE PROBLEM with these people is that they don't see that other people don't want their children exposed to what they are pushing which at its core is a ruthless extreme version of Libertarian narcissism. I sum them up with their basic mantra of: "I demand the Liberty to strip others of their liberty!" Because that's basically what they want, which is the right to be free of any rules that society agrees on so they can be free to enforce their own set of rules on all of us.
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  3402. What to you expect they are owned by Murdoch.
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  3403.  @godamid4889  Yeah, that tanks thing is so damn bad its beggars belief how TF anybody could consider it.
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  3404. HEY KYLE Here you are going on about misinformation and false narratives and you just repeated one of the worst. You said from 9:33: "The mainstream opinion even by our own government agencies like the CDC for example, I mean they originally thought oh if you get the vaccine it it like stops the virus dead you can't even get COVID and you certainly can't pass COVID to somebody else. That was a mainstream position when it came to the vaccine originally." That is totally untrue and that's because NOBODY who knows even the basics of medical science knows there is no such thing as 100% in any area of medicine. That's why when they talk about vaccines there is this thing called efficacy as in how effective it is and its NEVER 100%.
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  3405.  @caked3953  Great point and it why the Elon fanbots (what I now call his fanboys and fan girls) dismiss the food, water and oxygen discussion with "we'll just use hydroponics or aquaponics" without any understanding that NOBODY yet knows how to make it work. There is actually an obscure corner of the aquarium hobby brigade who specialize in these minimal input tanks. I don't think they have an actual solution for taking to space because it does not involve food production but they have a sound understanding of what it takes to maintain those sorts of systems. But as for creating actual soil to grow things and create a functional environment - these fanbots are truly ignorant of reality. If you try and discuss these things with them they think you're barking mad and start howling. Elon has done a great job of creating a personality club around himself. Its going to get very interesting when that bubble bursts.
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  3406. MAJOR CORRECTION to one of Amy's comments and a statement in the video description. At 7:23 she implies that Watchtower is part of these political programs. In the video description there's the remark "...Watchtower, which aims to rally voters around opposition to transgender rights." I can tell you all from my involvement with JWs that BOTH her implication and the comment in the video description are 100% WRONG. Please note Andy Kroll makes no mention of them during the interview. The only person who mentions them is Amy along with the claim in the comments. BACKGROUND: The Watchtower is the corporate & legal arm of Jehovah's Witnesses that was first setup by their founder Charles Taze Russell. It and its branches only exist for legal purposes of doing things like owning property. They own properties for their offices and facilities all over the world and to own those properties a legal entity has to exist. This is no different to all sorts of organisations. For example Greenpeace owns boats like the Greenpeace Warrior and those boats have to be registered and for that a legal entity has to exist. The same goes for many sporting clubs and organisations and the properties they own. There has to be a legal entity to won the property. So there's nothing nefarious in the existence of the Watchtower. As to the claims of political activity and funding of campaigns. HERE'S SOME FACTS JWs do NOT participate in politics anywhere in the world. They do not shun governments or see them as illegitimate as some claim. In fact they believe all governments are legitimate and been ALLOWED by God. For example: When Jesus was asked about paying tax to Rome he gave the famous "Pay Caesar's things to Caesar" remark. So in general they pay their taxes and obey the laws as best they can, because there's a clear direction from Jesus to do so. HOWEVER they also follow another direction of Jesus which is to be "No part of the World." In that context of that comment other passages its a reference to politics. This is why JWs DO NOT vote in elections or run for political office. However, so long as it does not conflict with their beliefs they will accept government appointments. So the implication they are working with these other Christian Nationalist groups in political activities is 100% WRONG. The claim that they are trying to sway voters on transgender rights is also 100% WRONG because that means breaking their political involvement beliefs. HOWEVER there may be individuals engaging in these activities BUT they would be acting on their own behalf and those people would be 100% responsible for their own actions just as I am for my comments here. YES I have checked and there are various claims by people regarding transgender issues and how JWs see them. Those are social and belief discussions rather than political and any discussion here distracts from the political implications Amy has made. My comments here are to correct the implications made by Amy which I know are 100% WRONG.
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  3407. I agree Kanye is barely functioning as a human being. He is beyond the stereotypical celebrity who's been told how magical they are so many times they think EVERYTHING they say and do is magical. Nick Fuentes is just a piece of garbage who goes out of his way to aggravate people as much as possible. I don't know about other people but I can see a moment coming when he steps in front of somebody who's simply had enough of him and it gets damn ugly.
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  3408. I think you just hit the nail on the head MONEY IN POLITICS And so you all know its not just an American issue. I'm Australian and its a huge problem here too. Its just not as blatant here. If you watch any international news these days its a problem across the entire developed democratic world.
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  3409.  @empirei8513  Yep the current SCOTUS is going to haunt America for at least 2 if not 3 or more generations. When history is written Mitch McConnell and his friends in the Federalist Society are going to look very good.
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  3410.  @bp6421  Do you know how accurately that describes the Australian Political Parties (Left & Right)???? And if you go and watch anything on British Politics it fits there too???? I don't come from a poly-sci or economics background. I'm an engineer so its kind of in my nature to ask WHY something is what it is because that's the basis of problem solving. Pretty much all engineers, physicists, chemists, mathematicians,.... are all fundamentally inquisitive people who like solving problems. What's amazed me is how SIMILAR the problems are across the developed world. - Politicians who can't make decisions and INSTEAD they pay consultants ridiculous money to justify why they can't do anything. - On the RARE times politicians make decisions the same wealthy people always benefit while the rest of us pay for it either in money or blood. - Economics that no matter who's in power the wealthy get wealthier and the rest of us pay for it. 90% have to face being dumped in the street while billionaires just wait for the eventual bail out. - Nobody can curb energy costs, or pay for health care or fund education but we EVERY government can still find the next BILLION for the next military toy. It all traces back to an inflection point centered around 3 people and a crisis. Back in the 1970s there was stagflation and up popped Milton Friedman. Then came Ronnie Reagan and Marge Thatcher who bashed their nations senseless with Uncle Milton's "Greed is Good!" mantra and acted as if rapacious greed was never going to bite. It was a dumb as swimming with rabid piranhas and expecting not to be eaten. Yes there were many other events in history but almost everything we are dealing with right now passed through that inflection point. You can look at things like Citizens United and trace that back to Reaganomics which was based around the idea that "Government isn't the solution. Government is the problem." Brexit can all be traced back to Thatcherism. Here in Australia our issues with energy, manufacturing, banking and our massive issue with consultants all trace back to 2 key Treasurers (our equivalent to the Secretary of the Treasury). Paul Keating came from the Left and Peter Costello from the Right. They slowly demolished our manufacturing sector and sent it piece by piece to China, while employing an endless list of consultants who sold off our national assets and de-regulated anything and everything. DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR?
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  3411. That's exactly what I was thinking. Here's a couple of other points. 1) I'm Australian but went to college in America (let 80s). I used to feel embarrassed how well informed my college friends were when it came to how well they understood HOW America FUNCTIONED. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they used to drag me into various conversations. I got an interesting education in arguing points about the US Constitution. What I remember more than anything else was how well informed they were about their own country and that was irrespective if they were pre-law or anything else. The reason was they had all done CIVICS in high school. 2) Because its surprised me how that's changed in the last 20+ years - I ASKED PEOPLE WHY. The answer I was told was George Bush and Dick Cheney defunded Civics in the early 2000s. 3) SO YOU KNOW - As an outsider who has seen the difference between having and not having an effective civics education I am a advocate of Australia doing an Australian version of the old US civics program. To put that in perspective if you asked the average Australia about copying anything from the US Education system you'd get laughed at or told to FK-OFF and yet I'm saying we should do our own version of this one thing.
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  3412. As a vet can you explain (or at least confirm) what was mentioned in respect to Mike Flynn. It was said (and I am paraphrasing) the the military oath to protect the constitution does NOT expire when you're discharged and remains in place until you're 85. Anyone can be recalled to active duty and charged under the UCMJ, which does not provide much 1st Amendment protection. I'm not a lawyer and have never been a member of the US military. If you can clarify this even a little it would help everyone.
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  3413.  @davidhenry5128  I'll give the same 2 questions EVERY engineer gets asked for every proposal they have. What's the business case for that? Who's going to pay for it?
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  3414. You are right about flying to hubs but only 1/2 right about Concorde. Yes its was fuel hungry but then going fast in anything is a fuel consumption issue. If you use basic high school science class then you'd know from kinetic energy that going twice as fast requires 4 times the energy because its a squared law. Drag is also a velocity squared function so going twice as fast means 4 times the drag. It does get more complicated at supersonic speed but going those speeds is very fuel hungry. On the other hand Concorde ran very profitably and for many years was British Airways most profitable division. There's a great documentary made after they retired Concorde that was made with a lot of BA Concorde pilots. Its actually a great case study in effective market analysis. After BA realised Concorde was losing money they told the pilots they were going to shut it down. The pilots said it shouldn't be losing money because the planes were basically full for every flight. The BA board challenged the pilots and said if they could get it to make money they could keep flying. So the pilots checked the ticket records and found that the most frequent users were a bunch of bankers in New York, London and Paris. They found out that these guys were doing work where people still had to meet and sign contract papers. So for them being able to zip across the Atlantic sign some papers and zip back was brilliant. When the pilots asked the bankers what they thought the tickets were worth they got a monster shock - none of the bankers knew because their travel was always done by their secretaries. So they asked these bankers what a ticket was worth to them in terms of their time and got an even bigger shock because it was $1000s more than the actual ticket price. So the pilots upped the ticket price to what the bankers believed they were worth. People kept flying Concorde and they made heaps of money. The pilots kept the board to their word and the pilots ran the Concorde division for years and kept it very profitable. What hurt Concorde in the end was Osama Bin Laden because something like 100 of Concorde's most frequent flyers died in the 9/11 attack because they worked in the World Trade Center.
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  3415. You forget Glenn was a huge backer of Garland's appointment so your comment is pretty ignorant.
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  3416. I guess its like crypto. Not every Crypto is a scam as some of them are Ponzi schemes while others a pyramid and airplane grifts. Not every Lambo driving wanker and his McLaren driving tosser bro-mate are lying scammers some of them are just simply wankers and tossers.
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  3417.  @johnmatthews3427  I've wondered for a while - maybe Trump is so convinced things happened because HE WAS CHEATING and still didn't win. Every audit they do seems to go Biden's way. How is that unless there was stuff going on. Maybe Trump knows there was cheating and in his brain only another cheater can beat a cheat???????
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  3418.  @johnmatthews3427  I've wondered for a while - maybe Trump is so convinced things happened because HE WAS CHEATING and still didn't win. Every audit they do seems to go Biden's way. How is that unless there was stuff going on. Maybe Trump knows there was cheating and in his brain only another cheater can beat a cheat???????
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  3419. Sorry to break it to you Thom but this Rabbi is just doing what so many other people have done. Rabbi Kulka, like others, is trying to fit text written 1000s of years ago in an ancient language to suit their narrative. Anybody who has ever taken a simple honest examination of the first chapter of Genesis knows that what he is claiming about Adam being androgynous is complete nonsense. Its just as stupid as so many other clowns who try and fit some part of the bible or any other religious text to their narrative.
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  3420. There you go putting logic out front of a discussion where logic was the thing that didn't exist. I'm an engineer and we have standards for reasons. So what you're saying makes perfect sense to me. But I also have to work around people with degrees in economics, business management and law. Its seems like they are trained and take classes classes in "How to get around rules, regulations, standards, guidelines and practices" plus anything else that they perceive as obstructing what they want. In engineering the best example of this was the Boeing Max-8, where for that sake of sales bonuses they threw the Boeing system and FAA regulations into a bin, then set the bin on fire before dumping it in the Ocean. FYI - my degree is aerospace and I have qualifications in safety engineering. The Max-8 will be the case study in standards and regulations engineers study for decades into the future.
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  3421.  Frank Last  Well in that case your being an ignorant POS, because you can't rant and rage on about just one of them being senile when they ALL SUFFER some form of mental illness, just their supporters do. Isaac Asimov said it best about your kind. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  3422.  @marquisdemoo1792  Well there is the problem with Thatcherism it was NEVER BALANCED. It was the British version of Reaganomics and both were based around what Mark Blyth calls neo-liberalism. At its core was the work of people like Milton Friedman who's bullshit was always going to end in tears. "Greed is good" - yeah that was always going end well like it had so many other times in history. Go watch this and you'll get the basics of what Mark Blyth is talking about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY The longer version is below. Watch it and you'll understand that at the time Thatcher and Reagan came along change was needed. I was alive in the1970s & 80s and remember how destructive Australia's union movement was and they had to go. BUT we didn't need that neo-liberalism bullshit where the economists and bankers destroyed our manufacturing, ruined our education system, killed off our skilled labor base and then privatized our infrastructure telling us "it would be better for consumers." The problem was neoliberalism was never the solution to the post war Keynesian model, which time has proven. Neo-liberalism was based on greed and the top 1% have made off with around $50 Trillion USD as they slowly strangled the Western middle classes. If you want to understand this stuff watch this. FYI - Mark Blyth is a professor of political economics at Brown University. Mark Blyth - A Brief History of How We Got Here and Why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE
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  3423. Peter Zeihan was asked in one of his interviews about what John Mearsheimer had said about giving Putin what he had asked for. Peter Zeihan pointed out that Putin wanted to be able to write the security policy for almost 20 sovereign nations with a combined population of over 270 million people and they would not have a say about that. Has America mishandled the the Ukraine situation over the last 20 years? ABSOLUTELY Has America mishandled the expansion of NATO? ABSOLUTELY Does Putin get that most of the people in those surrounding nations hate his guts and want nothing to do with Russia because of the 40+ yard of Soviet rule? NOT IN THE SLIGHTEST. And there's the real problem. Between the leaders of 2 belligerent superpowers 270 million people are cannon fodder in their shitty games.
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  3424.  @jonathanstein5049  This is what people like John Mearsheimer don't talk about. They're highly critical of what is being done but their alternative is a nightmare for almost 20 sovereign nations that share a border with Russia or that the Russians want to control again. Its just back to the same crap fest of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s. I lived through some of that crap and now we know just how close it came a couple of times. Yes this war must end but in no damn way to we let a psychopath like Putin get his way. And at the same time the insanity of the American hegemony needs to be told to FK-OFF as well.
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  3425. ​ @bionicloaf  At the time I was there over 700 cities and towns across Canada, not just Saskatchewan need to upgrade their water treatment facilities. On top of that there were 100s of smaller 1st nations settlements to get better waste handling. The people I worked with spelled it out to me (when I first go there) how much of a business opportunity there was. I was 100% in and at one point ready to relocate. Unfortunately my boss in OZ was an idiot and only had eyes for China. He just couldn't get how difficult it is to do work with people who speak another language. He ended up screwing the Canadians about and didn't pay me either. Then the local engineer wrecked the plant by letting it freeze. The 6 or 7 Canadian Insurance companies involved then spent a year screaming at each other. I did some of the best work I have ever done only to see it trashed. I really like Canada and Canadians but the whole experience left me very bitter with just being an engineer.
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  3426. Somebody quotes that to me about 12 months ago and I have been quoting it ever since. All I new was that it was out of Newsweek, so thanks for a few more details. I'm Australian and to be fair we have some idiots down here so dumb they really belong in Texas. In light of that I updated/paraphrased Asimoves quote to the following so that it applies to all of the planet. “There is a cult of ignorance within humanity, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that ignorance is just as good as knowledge.” And if you like Asimov there's also this which should be the epitaph of January 6th 2021. "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ― Isaac Asimov
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  3427. If you have ever had a person who's a narcissistic sociopath in your life you'd recognise what's happening. Unfortunately I had a friend back in the 90s who went this way. For the first year or so he was fine, fun, helpful on a few things, but eventually just became overbearing to me and others in our circle. He started to interfere in our affairs and become divisive. Once we realised what was going on we flicked him off and that's when things went this way. The single biggest stressor to narcissists is REJECTION and losing the 2020 election was something a person like Trump could never handle. In these circumstances they become destructive. Its only a matter of how destructive and in what ways they become destructive. PLUS Trump has never been held accountable before or at least not like this. Having experience this (even in a far smaller way) I can see the same things - Trump blames everyone else for his own actions and lashes out at anyone who questions him and throws them under the bus. Hilary Clinton who's also a narcissist (just not as bad) couldn't handle losing to Trump and was still blaming others years after the fact. She lashed out at Bernie Sanders claiming he cost her the election despite the fact he'd campaigned for her after she got the nomination.
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  3428. No once brain damage of that type is done its DONE. Its like the NFL & NHL players who had repeated concussions. He could be as clean a snow and its irrelevant. This guy's brain is damaged or he's a pure narcissistic sociopath. Either way people need to get in his face, because Bannon isn't stupid and knows how to manipulate people. One of Hilary's (and her team's) biggest mistakes was underestimating Bannon.
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  3429.  @ThomasNeal  I think you meant mental asylum for the criminally insane. That or he's trying to sell his life story to DC or Marvel for movie series. He's already a comic book villain.
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  3430. That's a great sentiment but there are these things called "practical limits" and unfortunately guys like Elon have little regard for them. Bezos is another such person. He wants to do things like take all of the heavy industry off earth into orbit where there is unlimited energy from the sun to do whatever you want. But the practical limits are on how many rockets you'd need to fly a single boat load of iron ore up to orbit. I did aerospace engineering and after a chance meeting with Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt who wants to mine the moon for Helium-3 I went off to the Australian mining industry to get some "practical experience." Helium 3 mining is practical because the tonnage is in the 30-50tons per year rage for the entire earth. But iron ore moves in boat loads of 80,000 tons and places like Port Hedland do over a dozen boatloads some days.
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  3431. Here's the link to the guardians series on Pegasus -> https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project
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  3432.  @thesauceman8457  Considering how many times he's gone the sex & depravity angle it makes me wonder what his REAL ISSUE is.
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  3433.  @washablejunk281  Actually Dominion doesn't need any evidence, the whole planet knows what Giuliani said. Giuliani made the comments and made them publicly and now he has to defend what he said. He now has to provide a basis for his claims and even if he provides evidence of the form "this person said" or "this person wrote/published" Giuliani stood up in public and repeated it and NEVER RECANTED ANYTHING. The real killer is that Giuliani NEVER repeated any of those claims in a court in front of a judge. Did you even listen? Go back and hear what the guy on the right said about 3rd party labs having all the source code and hardware after 20:30.
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  3434. Yeah but the right will be screaming "socialism" and "free loaders" and "waste of MY tax dollars" as they demand a reduction in all government spending EXCEPT the military (go see Kyles other vid today on the Rooftop Republicans). A while back there was a billionaire on one of the financial shows who was in favor of major tax changes and other stuff. He made the claim that management needed to start seeing everyone as "stake holders" which flies in the face of Milton Freidman's "the only obligation of corporations are share holders." During his comments he mentioned that corporations need to include the poor and homeless as potential stake holders. He said words to the effect that lifting them out of poverty and including them in the economy only had positive effects on the economy. It sounds so logical and simple that is barely comprehensible that people can't see it. If anybody knows the vid please put up a link. It was one of the Wall st new/panel shows about 2 years ago (before COVID). I think Kyle covered it at the time because he got into an argument with the hosts over what he was saying.
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  3435. What else do you expect of a graduate of Harvard Law? Its the world champion of treating ethics like golf - the lowest score wins. Its also the place where the Federalist Society started.
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  3436. As an Australian let me answer -> Like the complete fat orange turd that he is. That trade war he started with China. The Chinese have turned that on us at significant cost. Trump stalling any efforts on climate change gave our right wing all the fuel they needed to fark our situation and our situation isn't good. I was (by chance) working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs. I can tell you they went from being very very polite into psycho hockey rage mode faster than anything I've ever seen. I know there's plenty of Americans who think Australia should shut its mouth and be like a South Pacific Puerto Rico. We cop enough shite from other countries as America's 51st state because we always vote with America at the UN and that when America invades somewhere we go along like we did in Iraq and Afghanistan. But we have also tied our entire future security to America with programs like the F35. My favorite question to other Australians on the American subject is: Is it in our best interests that America is a healthy functioning nation. Even those Australians who really don't like America answer YES to that. But we all agree America isn't healthy or functioning as it should. We think of America more like a good old American Muscle car - A big V8 with crap suspension and lousy brakes that's great in a straight line until it hits a bump or bend in the road. Right now we see that V8 as only firing on 5 cylinders, the brakes are shot, the shocks are shot and its approaching a bumpy swerving road at 125mph. Oh and the driver is half asleep and tanked on Jack Daniels! FYI - I'm one of the Aussies who does like America. I went to college there on a sports scholarship. So I have a lot of friends there. I have a lot of great memories form my time there. It shites me what Trump has done and is still doing to a great nation. I'm very concerned that Biden isn't capable of solving the issues that need to be solved and that will hand America back to Trump in 2024.
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  3437.  @Campbellteaching  Hey dude for all your good work you missed something interview. Right at 1:22 she labels it a super variant. YOU SHOULD HAVE CLARIFIED THAT Nobody yet knows what this variant is or isn't, its been labelled a "Variant of concern" THAT'S ALL It might be the worst, yet it might be nothing or it might be something in the middle. You can't let journalists make statements like that. There have been other variants that were labelled "Variants of concern" and subsequently downgraded to "variants of interest" while others got dropped form that list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variants_of_SARS-CoV-2 You had a great opportunity here to clarify what is of concern and instead allowed a journalist to label it a "SUPER VARIANT." I'm an aerospace engineer and I hate it when journalists exaggerate and use words like "super" and "amazing" and other idiotic statements that are not factual. You should have clarified her remark.
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  3438. Actually its standard practice for most political leaders throughout history. When your nation is in trouble and the population is agitated FIND SOMEONE ELSE for the peasants to be angry at. America is in the midst of yet another overhyped stock bubble and they have just re-elected the most corrupt politician in American History who's already been found guilty of 34 felonies and responsible for a sexual assault. Rory Stewart (the ex-British MP) calls it the "dead cat" strategy. When things look bad or you are in trouble then "throw a dead cat on the table." Its called a distraction and America stirring up trouble in Asia is simply a distraction for what's failing in America.
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  3439. Its even easier when your a multi-millionaire trust fund baby. Have you seen or heard the vid Kyle did on the un-aired Tucker video where the historian Rutger Bregman called him (and other Fox presenters) out as a millionaires funded by billionaires to promote what the billionaires want? Here's Kyle's vid -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF0gdRZM70c Here's another vid on that interview -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nFI2Zb7qE
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  3440.  @johnstallings4049  Yes sadly and it needs to stop. I went to college in America and in general I love the place and its people but damn some of the rotten eggs you have need to be dealt with. AND YES - I know we have our problem people too and YES we aren't dealing with them well enough either.
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  3441. I absolutely agree with your sentiment, what she did met the "depraved indifference" clause of US Law. My problem is with how Donald Trump has behaved with these 3 recent executions. I don't have a problem with any nation or state executions for crimes they mandate for crimes beyond what society will tolerate. I do have a problem when any state steps outside that mandate. Because once that happens, justice takes a backseat to politics and executing people for political gai is one of the most disgusting things ANY NATION does and it is done way to often. In my home state of Victoria Australia the last man executed WAS DONE for political purposes. It was well understood that Ronald Ryan did not shoot and kill George Hodson. The ballistics proved it and the main witness lied, and both those points were understood at the time. Henry Bolte the State Premier at the time faced an election and told people that the hanging would help get him re-elected and it did. You can look up Brandon Bernard, Alfred Bourgeois & Lisa Montgomery and all their crimes were depraved. I don't have a problem with their trials, their sentences or the outcomes. In Montgomery's case a few have pointed out she went with clamps and others tools that showed she at some level knew what she was doing. Was she mentally ill? Absolutely - no sane person does what she did. My problem is Donald Trump who lost his mandate to make these decisions. For 130 years American Presidents had delayed all federal executions after the election. Once the election is held the American people have spoken and handed the mandate onto the next President. Americans are very quick to speak about "the will of the people" and on November 4 2020 the American people spoke and Donald Trump lost his mandate. Lets not forget one other thing. As Donald Trump sent these 3 to the chamber, he pardoned the Blackwater 4 who killed 14 people and injured 17 others in the Nisour Square Massacre. That included a 9 year old boy. That crime also met the requirements (at least in part) for depraved indifference. But the Blackwater 4 had Erik Prince as their boss. Erik Prince is the brother of Betsy De Vos, Donald Trump's Education Secretary. Donald Trump executed 3 and let go 4 others all for political gain and that stinks.
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  3442. Is it just me or can anyone else see TC getting the crud hammered out him (or worse) by some father or uncle who lost someone? Lets not forget while children froze to death in their beds Ted took hi family to Cancún. Imagine being on his secret service security team and dealing with the threat level right now?
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  3443. Yeah - I can just see all the right wing conspiracy clowns screaming about "Bill Gates trying track everyone with the microchips he's installed in the ID cards." What will be fun is when their brains get fried trying to resolve how it would stop lefties voting and allowing Bill Gates to track them.
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  3444. Republicanism 101 A) If we win it was fair and free. If we lose they must have cheated. B) Any law we enact if for the best. Any law enacted by others is for the radicalization of the nation and a grab for absolute power. C) All political donations to us are legal and fine. Any political donations to others is corruption. D) Reality is what we say it is. E) Ragan said government is the problem and we are the government so we should know that he was right. F) George Orwell was brilliant when he showed us how to do A, B, C & D whole convincing our base that Reagan was a genius.
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  3445. Aerospace Engineer here: I might be Australian but I absolutely understand that sort of logic as I have seen it done. I actually work in industrial control systems which has enabled me to work across several industries giving me in experience of many of the things needed to do things like build a lunar base. So I have been involved in manufacturing, mining, water treatment, power reticulation and even done a power station project. I also have certifications in both Functional Safety and Hazardous Areas (Explosive gas & dust). So I am more qualified than Sabine to talk about Hydrogen and have commented previously on her remarks regarding Hydrogen. SHE IS WRONG it is the way forward because there is nothing else that can do the job Hydrogen can do. There is no battery system that can be large enough because there isn't enough Lithium. Simon Michaux (who I don't always agree with) is 100% right on this point. In fact there isn't enough lithium to make 1/3rd of the batteries needed for all the cars in the world let alone the trucks, buses, laptops, mobile phones and especially not the mega batteries Elon Musk and others sell. Using Hydrogen as a buffer between renewables and the power gird makes sense. The Electrolysers are getting more efficient with some experimental ones reaching 94% efficiency. There's a new generation of gas turbines coming out. Both Siemens and GE have been selling mixed fuel Gas Turbines for a few years now. These can run AS THEY ARE WITHOUT MODIFICATIONS up to 50% Hydrogen. There are numerous power stations around the world that can be replaced by these. For example: In Australia we have 2 older gas thermal power stations (Torrens Island & Newport). Torrens (built in the 1970s) puts out 800MW which is the same as the largest Siemens & GE turbines. At best Torrens was about 35% thermal efficiency when new and likely less than 30% now considering the state of other old power stations we have (and had). At better than 64% Thermal efficiency one of these turbines would use less than 1/2 the natural gas for the same power. If it also then used Hydrogen that was produced from excess energy on days when the wind blows hard and the sun shines bright then we'd have an even bigger saving on natural gas and with it even lower emissions. The problem I have with Sabine talking this way is that she is NOT a project engineer and does NOT understand that project engineers have to be very pragmatic with their decisions. As a theoretical physicist she can ponder about things. As engineers we can't. Engineers have to solve the problem that exists in front of them and that gets damn hard when other voices who DO NOT know what they are saying wont STOP SPEAKING. SHE IS RIGHT that Hydrogen is difficult to handle, but scaremongering about the Fukushima explosion is exactly the sort of nonsense nobody needs. I am qualified to talk about the safety requirements needed around hydrogen because I have been trained for it and had to deal with it in projects. The moment its known to be of noticeable quantities in a process everything changes. Hydrogen has a very low ignition energy and that included thermal ignition where simply being hot enough causes ignition. Go and ask any engineer who works in the selection of electrical equipment for use in Hazardous Areas and they will tell you hydrogen is a hassle. For those reasons: I DO NOT want to see hydrogen used in cars and busses. If there is an accident its going to be horrendous. Sabine is right hydrogen explosions are nasty because of how much energy can be released and because of how easily they ignite. HOWEVER as a buffer to the worlds energy systems Hydrogen makes a lot of sense if we are going to have a future dominated by renewables (Wind & Solar).
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  3446.  @brianwall9592  Yeah I started reading him back in the late 80s at college. His brilliance in the Foundation series is still unparalleled. And parts of it are RIGHT NOW incredibly relevant. I'm an engineer and there's a huge issue with engineering education. They graduate all chipper in CAD and 3D-printing and precision machining centres, *but they have utterly no REAL grasp of what it actually takes to build anything. There's an incredible array of fundamental things they just have NO GRASP OF. I think its in the second Foundation novel one of the people from the Foundation goes to check out some nearby planets. Most are wrecked but there was one still with power stations and what looked like a technical society. BUT then it became obvious that all the people called engineer, doctor, dentist, etc. were NOT educated at all and their job was actually an inherited title. It was actually one of Asimov's key points that if education stagnates or declines then your society WILL FAIL because you wont be able to maintain its basic services. I can absolutely confirm that one of the biggest problems facing the Western World right now are power stations closely followed by water treatment (clean and waste) systems. WHY? Because all the decisions are being made by people with NO EDUCATION on what it takes to build maintain and replace those systems. Asimov was RIGHT.
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  3447.  @brianwall9592  The worst of the worst are HR who are basically people who only just got into college and were so far down the food chain they did HR because on day 1 they got told that they would have control of the careers of all the talented people who got real degrees. If you want an interesting read try: Angrynomics by Mark Bluth and Eric Lonergan.
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  3448. I'm an Australian who went to college in America (late 80s) and have been warning that this is a huge issue to Australia, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Britain, Europe, the Philippines and many others. 1) Don't be ashamed to be an American. Be ashamed of SOME Americans. I have gotten into some arguments that America doesn't lack for good leaders. It lacks for them in positions of power. America's real problem is the combination of the stagnant, decrepit duopoly that is the Dems & GOP. Its not one or the other ITS THE COMBINATION. 2) Also realise that for so many countries, America is our most important trading partner and MORE IMPORTANTLY our most important security partner. Like others we've staked our security future on things like the F35. I was actually in Canada (for work) when Trump tore up NAFTA and hit them with tariffs. How TF do you treat your neighbor like that, that's without even considering its Canada the one of the politest countries in the world.
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  3449.  @terrymyre8815  I spent 4 months in Sask a few years ago and loved the place. I even got used to the cold. Go Roughriders.
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  3450. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  3451. To bad they're now on every channel.
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  3452.  @brassman7599  I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sport scholarship (late 80s). I love the place and the people but HATE the politics. I did aerospace engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they used to drag me into their discussions. I knew stuff all law and politics but I had studied Orwell (1984 & Animal Farm) in high school. So i used to argue as Orwell warned that if you aren't careful ANY NATION could fall into a totalitarian nightmare because that's what Orwell warned. They used to argue that it was impossible because of the System of Checks & Balances. We never once discussed what would happen if that System of Checks & Balances was subverted because that concept simply did not exist in the late 80s. No matter how many times I argued what if people didn't care they'd answer we're "Americans and we do care!" Maybe after Trump, Elon and the other Oligarchs have stripped away enough stuff and broken enough stuff that America will care again.
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  3453.  @victoriawilliams2786  Every country has them, its just they are a lot louder in America.
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  3454. Then how can we see it??????
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  3455.  @MoKingson  It will be very interesting to see what they do. But if the military have any common sense they will deal harshly with Flynn, because if you let a general get away with that what dose it tell the country?
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  3456.  @raidermaxx2324  Dude, we all get the sentiment but there's no need to say stuff like the Trumpists do.
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  3457.  @MoKingson  When history is studied one of the great questions will be: What were the consequences of Mitch McConnell letting Donald Trump off without any accountability from the first impeachment despite overwhelming evidence?
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  3458.  @MoKingson  What a lot of people seem to have forgotten was the great strength of the US Constitution was the system of checks and balances and the main component of that is the Senate. The president makes a nomination and their job is to check that person out and make sure they haven't put a maniac on the Supreme Court. The House passes a Law and their job is to check it out, ask questions and assure the American people it will do what it is supposed to do. Something happens and the American people want answers (good, bad or indifferent) its the Senate that holds the hearings and gets the answers. The Senate is the main check and balance, and McConnell has just weaponized it for his own ends. Chuck Schumer's REAL TASK is not getting control of the Senate its actually restoring it.
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  3459. All he's proven is that America is ruled by selfish greedy disconnected old people who all should have retired long ago and don't give shit about the future. The same can be said of a few other countries, but its most prevalent and most obvious in America.
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  3460. There are several answers to this. What do you call a lawyer with morals and ethics? 1: Santa Claus, because its something we tell children exist so they have a sense that if they do good there is fairness but all the adults know the truth. 2: A Unicorn, because they are a cool animal that we wish existed. or my favorite. 3: I don't know, I've never heard of one.
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  3461. When they graduate what do they give lawyers? a) A certificate to put on the wall. b) A coupon for the spine removal. c) A red pill that helps them deny reality despite any amount of evidence to the contrary. d) All of the above.
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  3462. A bus load of lawyers goes over a cliff. What's the tragedy? The fact there was at least 1 honest hard working person on board who actually was paid what they are worth - the bus driver.
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  3463. I absolutely agree with your sentiment, what she did met the "depraved indifference" clause of US Law. My problem is with how Donald Trump has behaved with these 3 recent executions. I don't have a problem with any nation or state executions for crimes they mandate for crimes beyond what society will tolerate. I do have a problem when any state steps outside that mandate. Because once that happens, justice takes a backseat to politics and executing people for political gai is one of the most disgusting things ANY NATION does and it is done way to often. In my home state of Victoria Australia the last man executed WAS DONE for political purposes. It was well understood that Ronald Ryan did not shoot and kill George Hodson. The ballistics proved it and the main witness lied, and both those points were understood at the time. Henry Bolte the State Premier at the time faced an election and told people that the hanging would help get him re-elected and it did. You can look up Brandon Bernard, Alfred Bourgeois & Lisa Montgomery and all their crimes were depraved. I don't have a problem with their trials, their sentences or the outcomes. In Montgomery's case a few have pointed out she went with clamps and others tools that showed she at some level knew what she was doing. Was she mentally ill? Absolutely - no sane person does what she did. My problem is Donald Trump who lost his mandate to make these decisions. For 130 years American Presidents had delayed all federal executions after the election. Once the election is held the American people have spoken and handed the mandate onto the next President. Americans are very quick to speak about "the will of the people" and on November 4 2020 the American people spoke and Donald Trump lost his mandate. Lets not forget one other thing. As Donald Trump sent these 3 to the chamber, he pardoned the Blackwater 4 who killed 14 people and injured 17 others in the Nisour Square Massacre. That included a 9 year old boy. That crime also met the requirements (at least in part) for depraved indifference. But the Blackwater 4 had Erik Prince as their boss. Erik Prince is the brother of Betsy De Vos, Donald Trump's Education Secretary. Donald Trump executed 3 and let go 4 others all for political gain and that stinks.
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  3464. I absolutely agree with your sentiment, what she did met the "depraved indifference" clause of US Law. My problem is with how Donald Trump has behaved with these 3 recent executions. I don't have a problem with any nation or state executions for crimes they mandate for crimes beyond what society will tolerate. I do have a problem when any state steps outside that mandate. Because once that happens, justice takes a backseat to politics and executing people for political gai is one of the most disgusting things ANY NATION does and it is done way to often. In my home state of Victoria Australia the last man executed WAS DONE for political purposes. It was well understood that Ronald Ryan did not shoot and kill George Hodson. The ballistics proved it and the main witness lied, and both those points were understood at the time. Henry Bolte the State Premier at the time faced an election and told people that the hanging would help get him re-elected and it did. You can look up Brandon Bernard, Alfred Bourgeois & Lisa Montgomery and all their crimes were depraved. I don't have a problem with their trials, their sentences or the outcomes. In Montgomery's case a few have pointed out she went with clamps and others tools that showed she at some level knew what she was doing. Was she mentally ill? Absolutely - no sane person does what she did. My problem is Donald Trump who lost his mandate to make these decisions. For 130 years American Presidents had delayed all federal executions after the election. Once the election is held the American people have spoken and handed the mandate onto the next President. Americans are very quick to speak about "the will of the people" and on November 4 2020 the American people spoke and Donald Trump lost his mandate. Lets not forget one other thing. As Donald Trump sent these 3 to the chamber, he pardoned the Blackwater 4 who killed 14 people and injured 17 others in the Nisour Square Massacre. That included a 9 year old boy. That crime also met the requirements (at least in part) for depraved indifference. But the Blackwater 4 had Erik Prince as their boss. Erik Prince is the brother of Betsy De Vos, Donald Trump's Education Secretary. Donald Trump executed 3 and let go 4 others all for political gain and that stinks.
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  3465.  @tosspot1305  Thanks. There's a great military quote and I think its by an American General or Colonel (I cant find it at the moment) about killing. The gist of it is that taking a life is the most serious thing anyone can do and it should NOT be taken lightly. If we look at Trump these last 4 years - what has he taken seriously that wasn't in his own self interest? Emsie76 who started this is 100% right - the focus should be on Bobby-Jo and her child. But in what way does a self centered liar like Donald care about that child, when he just let 4 men go free who murdered 14 including a 9 year old. And that's before we get the other things he did last week.
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  3466. NOBODY Should forget that Australia was involved and was equally stupid in these decisions. As an Australian with a degree in aerospace engineering the capability that we threw away for no other reason than political ignorance and cowardice was ridiculous.
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  3467.  @levondelite4072  Yeah, Just thought from the tone of the conversation that it needed saying. Best to ya mate. 👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
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  3468. Dr. Michael Osterholm (the director of CIDRAP) addressed this exact concept a couple of weeks ago in his podcast (see below) giving plausible arguments both ways. He pointed out that Wuhan just like Atlanta (home of the CDC) is a major transportation hub. If an outbreak of something happened in Atlanta most people would look at the CDC just as quickly as people are looking at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He then points out that the CDC has had a lot of incidents. He's quite open that there are people pushing research that's dangerous and its not being scrutinized or properly governed. Your analogy is quite right if there's a chocolate spill in Hershey Penn there's an obvious place to look. But what if there was a Cadbury truck passing through town on the day of the spill. Yes your suspicion is right, but then you have to investigate further to make sure. I did aerospace engineering and Boeing claimed there wasn't a problem with the Max-8 it was probably pilot error because every plane incident involves pilots AND THEN on further examination we found out there was problem with the plane. On the virology side there's a division starting to become more publicly known between those who like modifying viruses to see what they might become in future and those who are saying "No, that's dangerous and it doesn't produce results." There's a great short documentary by DW News on this subject (see below). It has some really good input from experts regarding what some researchers have been up to, including the Chinese. Going back to your analogy. It would be like after the Spill in Hershey Pen. the company says "Nothing to see here, there was a Mars Bars truck in town." AND THEN later we find out they were doing risky things in ways others have warned could lead to a spill. Is it conclusive? NO, but it should make us look closer at the evidence. AND as Dr. John points out here the Chinese aren't letting anyone investigate let alone see the evidence. Dr. Michael Osterholm -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYNfScnnDVU&t=2610s DW Documentary -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0nuyPQzU18
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  3469.  @WhatCanSmith  Well moron this guy doesn't recommend that and hasn't recommended that at any point during the pandemic. Plus he's been more accurate than most since it started. Plus he has said repeatedly he wants to get us past this so we can have our lives back. BUT its DK-heads who WONT listen and WONT do as they are told and wear masks or insist that they be allowed to party or who go to Spring Break who are dragging this on and on.
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  3470. THERE'S ONE GIANT PROBLEM with all of this. The Democrats (or should we call them the DUMOcrats) were so stupid they lost to "they're eating cats and dogs" boy. That's 2 out of the last 3 elections they have lost to a clown show. IF YOU WANT TO SEE STUPID - A bunch of Harris-Walz campaign staffers were interviewed on Pod Save America a few days ago. NOT ONE of them accepted any responsibility at all. FYI - I'm Australian and in 2019 the Australian Labor Party ran a similar Hilary Style campaign AND LOST. Later in 2019 British Labor did the same thing so I asked a Brit (one of Thunderf00ts countrymen) WTF was going on. They told me staffers from the Clinton Campaign advised BOTH British Labor and Australian Labor in 2019. THAT'S 4 Major Campaigns in 3 countries these people have lost in 8 years and sat there on Pod Save America and simply refused to accept any responsibility for anything. Trump didn't so much as win. The DUMOCRATS ran a campaign so hopeless that even Japanese Kamikaze pilots would not have joined it.
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  3471.  @Account.for.Comment  Yeah I know both their backgrounds. I loved the book and the talks they gave. I just found their attitude to taxing rich people to be poorly explained. Do I think taxing the rich will be easy? Hell no. They're fundamentally selfish and will fight back, but to just say its too hard to try is kind of poor. There's a report from the American Congressional budget office on family wealth from 1989 to 2019. When you compare the data from 2007 to 2010 you get the effect of the GFC. When you check the data from 2019 back to 2007 you get the recovery. If you want I'll explain the details. In a nutshell - the people who caused the GFC got hit but they got bailed out and have since made OVER $30 Trillion. Meanwhile the people who DID NOT cause the GFC and got smashed harder than anyone else STILL HAVE NOT YET RECOVERED. The Bottom 50% (165 million people) got smashed and have less combined wealth than they did in 2007 with a combined wealth of $2.3 trillion (2019) compared to the 33 million with a combined wealth of over $90 Trillion (2022 estimate) and smart people like Eric and Mark are saying they can't be taxed more. THAT'S BULLSHlT
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  3472.  @segalliongaming8925  I'm Australian and what you just said about America is IDENTICAL to the attitude we have in Australia. The problem is there's - 1) Not enough skilled tradesmen being trained across the globe. 2) We have all these people who are against immigration. 3) When Western nations do take tradesmen from poorer countries we are actually stripping those countries of the very people they need to develop and grow their economies.
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  3473.  @scottthewaterwarrior  WTF????? WTF does "But money!" mean.
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  3474. Somebody needs to ask him what was in his emails that got hacked that made him change his views on Trump.
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  3475.  @shewolf2584  I find it hard to believe they could lose their minds over Hunter because that implies they still have their minds to lose. The MAGA Republicans are now so far gone we have to start seeing them in terms of being a genuine threat to civilised society AND NOT just American society but Western society. I'm actually Australian but went to college in America. I love the place and MOST of the culture. I love college sport, NASCAR, the NFL, the NHL, Cubbies Baseball and American slow cook barbecue just to name a few things. I tend to think these people are a mostly and angry frustrated minority who have been dumped on for so long they don't care anymore BUT they are now so far gone we have to see them as a threat to everyone.
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  3476. ​ @shewolf2584  I am not surprised in the slightest. Despite all we have tried to accomplish here in Australia we still have some very ugly stuff happen AND it comes from all directions. Racism is not simply a "white thing" its something every tribe an nation does at some point. The problem for European societies is the colonial era was so well recorded and its not so far in the past that its ancient history. I studied engineering but my main humanities string was classical civilisation and I ended up doing 3 classes on ancient Greece which we often see as this enlightened society where democracy and philosophy were born and nurtured. Go read up on their wars and their politics and you get everything that's wrong with humanity. We have a lot of Asians in Australia these days and WOW do they have some history between each other. I have worked with both Indians and Pakistanis and their feelings to each other are unbelievable. I was in Canada a couple of years ago and like Australia and New Zealand they are also trying to deal with their colonial past. I think New Zealand is ahead in that process and the 3 of us are well ahead of most other nations BUT that's like saying we are clever because we have done the first mile of a 1,000 mile journey while others are yet to start. I often remind Australians that were aren't better because we have started the journey because its going to be a very long journey and we have a very long way to go. I think America's biggest problem right now is the super wealthy and especially the OLDER wealthy who just wont accept they don't need to keep earning millions each year. Warren Buffet's 93 and Charlie Munger is 99. There are a bunch of them of similar age. WHY are they still working? WHY are they still interfering in politics as much as they do? America (and a few other countries) desperately needs a younger leader to stand up an be counted and look at the future instead of being scared by it.
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  3477. Who else has started getting bombarded with add after add about this fantasy?
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  3478. How did Lindsey Graham put it? "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it."
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  3479.  @gpaull2  Because other engineers and pilots can tell if they are speaking crap by how they USE various words and terms. Its the same with any profession. Its also how people can tell if someone IS NOT trained or qualified. They misuse words and terms.
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  3480.  @derekmason5931  its not just Dore and TYT fans - ITS ALL OF THEM. This is what happens in a culture war. People don't look at facts they listen to their sides argument, treat as gospel and scream at anything that doesn't agree with them. Its called group think. The strangest thing about the term "group think" is that their is very little thinking and an awful lot of blind sheep following the barking dog. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3481. Do you even know what that means? At its most basic it means that there are functions of a society where its been decided that everyone should collectively pay for it. Like a basic public education system is actually a social function and because its paid for collectively its socialist in nature. The same can be said for the police, army, fire brigade, sheriffs offices, garbage collectors,.... All those things can be privatized and through most of history WERE privately owned or privately controlled. Think of the Lord of the manor and his men at arms just like Game of Thrones. Communism at its most basic is the collective ownership of assets. Not state ownership but collective ownership. Things like tractors, trucks, grain storage facilities. Capitalism at its most basic is the right to own an enterprise for the purpose of making money and gathering wealth through trade. The blacksmiths of history were all capitalists who took raw materials added value through work and sold it at as products at prices with the intent of making money. The real problem with the concepts of capitalism, socialism, communism,.... etc. which have been practiced in various forms for 1000s of years is when they switch from being functions of society to functions of government. Because at that point it always ends up with a tiny minority having all the power and all the wealth. Half the problem are the experts who twist this stuff into unintelligible brain wipe. Both my parents were high school teachers and I used to hate when they explained all this shit to me.
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  3482. ​ @dmcentYT  problem is the first show would rate the house down and everybody would have a great laugh and be repeating lines from the show in bars. The 2nd show would be so so By the 3rd show people would be like - "Uh did we really elect this person?" By the 4th they would all be looking over their shoulders at the rest of the world laughing AT THEM NOT WITH THEM and realise just how much of an embarrassment she is. After that????
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  3483.  @ralph3428  Yeah well he said he'd get America out of Afghanistan it was Sleepy Joe Biden who got that done. He said he'd replace Obama Care and that didn't happen either. He said he'd Make America Great Again and America just got its ass whipped by a bunch of Pashtun hillbillies. Yeah Trump got a whole lot done - didn't he? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️
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  3484. That's a great point. Better still is why did Trump hide that fact for so long??????
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  3485.  @Deeplycloseted435  Yeah I know I did engineering and we have lots to say about those who graduate with arts degrees. Some of my favorites. They teach people with arts degrees to wash their hands after using the toilet. In engineering we learn logic and don't piss on our hands in the first place. If engineers are so logical then why do they make so many dangerous things like cars, planes, bombs, guns,... etc? They're all ways of controlling the population of arts degrees without letting them know what we're really up to. Engineers build things like MacDonald's restaurants so that arts degrees have somewhere to work.
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  3486. I don't have your skill set, I'm an engineer. First thanks for the explanation between local and global brain injure. I have a nephew who was born missing a language link. He knew what he wanted to say but the link between his thinking and speech didn't exist and with a lot of therapy he developed the link. So I understand what you meant by that. I did like your comment there's just a couple of things I feel you oversimplified. I don't know if I can completely agree or dismiss your assessments of Biden or Feinstein. Both of them are old Feinstein is 89 and Biden is 79 and old people decline. I can't speak for Feinstein but anyone can see Biden is not as sharp as he was in his VP & Senate days. BUT WITHOUT a detailed examination nobody can just say he has dementia. If you were to say. Biden's showing signs of decline and some of those signs are indicative of or match up with early onset dementia then that's a comment I can take 100%. And you probably can list or explain those signs better than I can. My family missed my grandmothers signs and we only put it together after she died. Herschel Walker is easy to see. If you watch the PBS Frontline documentary "League of Denial" it has interviews with NFL players before and after their decline. I saw a Herschel Walker interview from 7 years ago here on YT and the difference between then and now is almost identical to what is shown in "League of Denial." I think too many people are throwing simple one word answers at everything they can these days. I get that as an engineer all the time where people want a 1 word answer to a 10,000 word explanation. The energy crisis is a prime example there. Everyone wants to hear how we'll get cheaper cleaner energy and its just not that simple. We are trying to clean up 45+ years of bad decisions and there is no 1 word or 1 sentence answer.
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  3487.  @thatindiandude4602  yeah kinda pretty much!!
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  3488.  @ThePunk01  I'm aware of that, but it still surprised a lot of people. The only person I heard warn about it was Chuck Roca the advisor from Sanders Campaign, who is Latino. He tried telling the Dems that there were different cultural groups within the Latino communities who had quite different views. Its one thing Trump exploited.
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  3489. ​ @NCandHR  Yeah I went to U. Illinois and what still stuns me to this day was how Walter cut through the race barrier. My frat bothers treated it like a sacred duty that they teach me all about Walter and all the bad years he and the Bears has struggled through. It was his EFFECT on other people that makes me consider him one of the finest human beings of my life time. Its an odd thing but most people don't seem to realise that the MOST prestigious award in one the biggest sporting competitions in the world has NOTHING to do with anything that any player does on the filed. As a genuine question do you realise how profound that is, that a major sport has as its highest honor nothing to actually do with the sport?
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  3490. What an idiotic and ignorant comment. Anybody who knows anything about the space stations that have been built so far can see this is a version of the Russian MIR station. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ That shouldn't surprise anyone because the entire Chinese manned space program has been based on Russian technology. Their first missions were all done using Soyuz based technologies.
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  3491.  @A_kiwis_view  The problem is the higher the pressure on society before it snaps the more brutal the response. Look at the French and Russian Revolutions for examples. Prior tot he French Revolution the French were the technically dominant society on the planet. They lead the world in math, chemistry, astronomy and engineering. its actually staggering where they were and most of it ended up in the hands of the English. I don't think that America is going to simply lose I think they are going to lose huge if they don't stop going down this path.
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  3492.  @brando7266  Absolutely. If they released Idiocracy now it might get nominated for an Academy award for best documentary.
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  3493. I'm Australian and all what they are saying is going on EVERYWHERE. We are living in an age where the whole "kick the can down the road" policy of government has finally arrived at the inevitable pile of cans. If you kick all the cans in the same direction it will eventually pile up. Go watch a few episodes of Yes Minister or Yes Prime Minister and you'll quickly see that the purpose of government is to hold the staus quo on everything until it becomes someone else's problem. All the stuff that hasn't been fixed or hasn't been done has finally come to a its inevitable conclusion. Anyone who actually tried to fix anything got screamed at or got swamped in committee meetings. Anyone who actually succeeds at getting things done is labelled a heretic.
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  3494. Its technically impossible for Rudy Giuliani to fart - his mouth is never closed long enough to build up the back pressure.
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  3495.  @Kthb80  I hope you are being facetious, with that last part "After an hour...". Or you need to be clear about what you mean.
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  3496.  @JackieLombardi  I'm waiting for the NRA to make some stupid claim that they meant ONE good guy not 5 or 10 or 20 "sort of" good guys. I went to check how many officers actually turned up. There's a NY Times story titled "No Radio, Old Tactics: How the Police Response in Uvalde Broke Down" It reports a staggering number of agencies started to turn up once it got out what was happening and that at one point there was 140 officers from local, state and federal agencies. They had everyone except the National Guard turn up with a tank.
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  3497. Just consider the basic premise. WHY does anyone involved need American approval for Nord Stream? Its not in America. Its not in American territory. It has NOTHING to actually do with America. So why does anyone involved need American approval?
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  3498. Before you start a panic with conjecture he's how it was reported in Australia where they are starting to roll out the Pfizer vaccine. https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2021-01-18/cause-of-pfizer-covid-vaccine-norway-deaths-not-clear/13067588 Note: that it says "In Norway, approximately 400 people die in an ordinary week in nursing homes. It's not yet clear whether the reported deaths following COVID-19 vaccination are simply a function of age and declining health, or whether the vaccine may have played a role."
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  3499.  @doodmonkey  Your 1/2 correct. Yes putting in a fibre to Alaska is NOT easy, but you don't have to put a massive broad network to support a data centre or 2. You basically need a single main undersea link from Seattle to Anchorage and then go overland to Fairbanks because that's the largest most northern city of any size and you'd want to put it somewhere where it can be serviced when needed. You can back that link up via satellite and/or microwave. We have already done something similar in Australia. If you go and look at where Perth is and where the towns of Newman and Tom Price are (about 1500km North). Those 2 towns are 2 of the main centres of our iron ore industry. The mine sites themselves are operated remotely from Perth. That requires a very reliable high speed connection. The main way its done is with fibre optic backed up by satellite and microwave. I am a control systems engineer and have worked in our iron or industry which is how I know about that. And yes I do appreciate we are talking about data links with a lot more capability but the fundamental tech already exists and more importantly WORKS.
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  3500. Just so you know what's being reported across the world is that not only has he let those 4 mass murderers go but they are employees of the brother of his Education Secretary and that's in stark contrast to his "hard justice policy of executions." He's not only broken a 130years old practice of NOT executing people during a transiting he's done it twice and plans 3 more. HOW DO I KNOW this is being reported across the world? I'm Australian and here's 3 different Australian news services reporting on this. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-12/another-us-execution-donald-trump-presidential-transition/12978184 https://www.9news.com.au/world/trump-administration-plans-2nd-execution-in-as-many-days/94f56c16-1594-4d21-bc14-542f1078b706 https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-speeds-up-pace-of-executions-before-biden-inauguration-20201208-p56lgv.html And if your wondering a quick google search gets this from the British BBC, one of the most trusted news services in the world. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55236260
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  3501.  @Junksaint  You might like this its got a lot of background information on what happened in Iraq. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qguxykM2c8Q
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  3502.  @duncanbryson1167  I've never been asked if I was from Scotland but I shared a house with a Glaswegian once. One day we were watching the Rugby World Cup and during the post game interviews he was the interpreter. And that's note a joke he really did have to interpret. Noa Jimmayyy ee rilly dud. 😉🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘👍
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  3503.  @7yep4336dfgvvh  Get your facts right sunshine. The Viet Cong were never funded by the US. They were communists fighting against the South Vietnamese regime that was supported by America. I think you go you groups muddled up on that one. As for the Taliban. Certainly the US funded the mujahedeen and supported them against the Russians back in the 1980s. Osama Bin Laden joined the mujahedeen which was where he gained popularity. His greatest aid to that was an almost direct line to the White House courtesy of his brother's business relationship with George W Bush whose father George H Bush was POTUS at the time. That was how the mujahedeen got their hands on US made Stinger AA missiles to shoot down all those Russian helicopters Osama and others then linked up with Al Qaeda after the Russians left and he had issues develop back in Saudi with the Saudi king. Al Qaeda's origins go back long before Osama joined them. They were active in places like Morocco and Egypt years before. The Taliban came later and formed with money and support from Pakistan. I can guarantee you the Americans knew about that Pakistani support for the Taliban. A few years ago I worked with a young Pakistani engineer. We were discussing this one day and he told me I didn't know shite. His father was in the Pakistani government and he showed me photos on his phone of him, his family and US diplomats having dinner at his house. He then told me how his father had him sit in on several meetings as part of getting experience. And that's as much as I can tell anyone. So I can pretty much guarantee the Americans knew about the Pakistani support for the Taliban. But as for America directly or indirectly funding the Taliban I doubt anyone actually knows.
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  3504. On "all that evidence" so far MOST that's been publicly presented is circumstantial rather that presentable exact fact. We all seem to forget that the DOJ has a lot to handle right now. Other than the Gaetz stuff there's the insurrection with 400+ cases to handle and the rest of the Trump garbage and what ever else the DOJ was prosecuting before it all started. There's an awful lot of yelling and foot stomping and demands for court cases but consider how long it took for the OJ trial to actually happen and there was a ton of evidence there. The killings happened on June 12 1994 and the trial didn't start until January 24 1995 (over 7 months later). And with all that time they still lost the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case Other than asking for updates (which is fair) people need to either join the DOJ and help out or shut up and let them do their jobs.
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  3505.  @BlackIce3190  So what - telling the truth to a blackmailer DOES NOT absolve him of criminal conduct. You don't have to be a lawyer to understand that.
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  3506.  @BlackIce3190  Sorry but flying a 17year old out of the country for sex is a crime DK-head. Which particular crime is debatable, and how it should be prosecuted or punished is also debatable BUT ITS A CRIME.
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  3507.  @BlackIce3190  Sorry but did they flew an imaginary girl around or was it a blow up doll.
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  3508.  @BlackIce3190  Like Trump's tax returns it never happened. 😂🤣😂🤣😂😂
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  3509. In George Orwell's 1984 all of the Ministries (government departments) were abbreviated and the words "Ministry of" was shortened to "Mini." So the Ministry of Peace was referred to as Mini- Peace and it conducted War. The Ministry of Love was referred to as Mini-Love and was where they tortured people. That's the core of Orwellian logic and doublespeak is the language of opposite meaning. That's why he called it doublespeak - everything has 2 meanings and those meanings are the opposite of each other. That's Orwellian logic. Its when you CLAIM one thing but actually MEAN and or DO the complete opposite and yet you're still telling the truth because you are using the opposite meaning.
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  3510. I just did a basic check on DeSantis by checking his Wikipedia page. Guess what he did his undergraduate at Yale and JD at Harvard. Ted Cruz was Princeton and Harvard (JD). The Obama's are both Harvard and the Clintons are both Yale. 8 of the 9 SCOTUS judges are Harvard or Yale. Barret did her JD at Notre Dame. WHEN IS AMERICA GOING TO WAKE UP and realise that places like Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the University of Chicago pump out an endless stream of narcissistic sociopaths who cause nothing but trouble for the world.
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  3511.  @Carapendy  Jen Psaki running rings around Doocy junior isn't a resume topping item. Doocy's so far down the food chain there are dogs that tickle his ribs just to watch his leg twitch. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/awesome-far-side-gary-larson-coffee-435177839
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  3512.  @godmakesallthingsnew2626  What a load of ignorant idiotic garbage. Go ahead ignore reality its your people who are dying.
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  3513. Remember Obama's most fateful words - "Voting for Hilary is like voting for me." He was so concerned about "his legacy" that he's lost sight of the reality that no body believes his crap any more.
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  3514.  @niu9432  There's a great doco on Fusion I think its called "Star in a Bottle" or similar. I saw it a few years ago. There's a French Canadian guy near the end whose into fusion using lasers and he makes a great point about ITER. Its totally impractical as a power generating plant, BUT we need it for the answers it will provide. Just think he's into a completely different technique and yet he's saying we need it. I haven't found that doco on YouTube sadly. I think he's right. If you look at the costs and time taken its simply not practical. But with its power it should give people the answers they need to make other technologies work. I think the Stellarator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarator) is the best candidate at the moment because it can operate continuously. But that can change.
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  3515. Australian here: If you DON'T put him in charge then please find a way to convict him of stealing a loaf of bread and send him here for the rest of his life. We'll even pay for the boat ride.
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  3516.  @skiddybop780  In what way would Britain become Venezuela? That's just an idiotic claim. Venezuela is being run by a Bus Driver, NOT a London School Of Economics and Oxford graduate who KNOWS WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT.
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  3517. ​ @justadbeer  Your right to some extent. What your forgetting is that America made the rest of the world dependant on it and in particular security but it wasn't the only thing. You should go and listen to Peter Zeihan who's a geopolitical strategist. I don't agree with all that he says particularly when he talks technology, but then I'm an engineer. People like yourself are quite right. The rest of us all run to America when there's a problem. But then a lot of those problems were in part caused by various American entities in the first place. Lost in the disaster of Ukraine are a string of broken promises that America made to Russia after the fall of the Soviet System. Then there's all the economic interference that Americans advised Russia on that lead to the rise of the Russian Oligarchs. I recently heard Jeffrey Sachs, whining about how the Russians didn't listen to their advice. BS - the Russians are in the mess they are in because they DID LISTEN to American advisors who told them to sell of all their state assets. What your also forgetting is that BEFORE WW2 was even over there was the Breton Woods conference. Where America with its staggering gold reserve basically forced the rest of us to accept the US Dollar as the future worlds reserve currency. Along with that (as Peter Zeihan points out) American basically promised the rest of us it would keep international trade safe. With that we all agreed to be the cannon fodder between American capitalism and Soviet Communism. Peter even points out that China would never have had the chance for its economic growth without America keeping the world's trade routes safe and open. So there's been a lot of benefits and costs to all of us. The bug in that whole system is that certain American's learned how to take advantage of the system and these people are now a problem for ALL OF US. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I'm a very rare person in that I'm a huge fan of the US Constitution. I often say that I believe its one of the greatest achievements in human history AND I REALLY DO BELIEVE THAT. However the US Constitution is not perfect and the institutions it birthed are now failing. Without doubt SCOTUS is one of the most important institutions in the world and its been so badly corrupted that its almost non-functional and that has some incredibly serious consequences. No matter what the rest of us feel about any particular American or the nation, American is still 1/4 of the world's economy and almost all international trade is reliant on the US Dollar. Either that trade is done in $US or the transactions are done via banks that operate in $US. That's what it is to be the World's reserve currency AND NONE OF US ASKED FOR IT - we inherited it and a dysfunctional America is a nightmare. So you might think that Russia is the topic but in fact America is ALWAYS the topic. America wanted to be number 1. Well you got there and with that comes responsibility and if America has an Achilles heel its responsibility. None us are really good at it, but we aren't the World's reserve currency. Our Economists don't trapse around re-organising other countries. Our agencies don't sneak in and overthrow governments so our companies can come in and strip those nations. Most of all we don't have an arsenal of nuclear weapons to wave at people like its a giant middle finger. Apologies for the long rant.
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  3518.  @ronschafer4533  Short, blunt and also sadly true.
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  3519.  @justadbeer  If you look through the comments you'll find there are a lot of Australians and others watching people like Thom. I don't think Americans really get how scared we are of an American collapse and I don't just mean financial. Trump has tapped into a staggering amount of anger and frustration that IS LEGITIMATE. Richard Wolff who's a Marxist economist had this great comment about West Virginia in one of the Michael Brooks tributes (panel 3 just before 35mins). He points out how much the Dems & GOP have screwed those people. Trump gave them an alternative to being screwed yet again. I keep pointing out to Americans there's Congressional Budget Office report Bernie Sanders had updated on Family Wealth 1989-2019. If you just look at the first graph it shows how screwed 50% of America really is. Even when the economy has been better they haven't been better. The Top 10% have got it better the middle 40% have had it reasonable but the bottom 50% have been screwed and screwed and screwed. I've checked what I can of Australian data and its the same basic story. It should be because many of our top economists went to Harvard, Yale,.... etc. Trump and people like him aren't the problem. They're symptoms of a much larger economic issue. Thom is one of the very few with even 1/2 a grasp of it. He understands what the Neoliberals have done. What he might not realise is that they have done it across the entire Western World. But here's the issue. If Australia collapses, then so what? We won't take the world down with us. Neither will many other countries. BUT if America collapses we all go down. Global trade relies on the US dollar because back in 1944 at Breton Woods we all agree it would be the World's reserve currency. So if the US dollar breaks the worlds economy breaks. We can't afford 4 more years of either Biden or Trump, but especially Trump. I can give legitimate security and financial security reasons to at least 100 countries to give him a Chitown love tap. FYI - I went to college at U. of Illinois so I know what a Chitown love tap is. And I do mean that we really can't have Trump 2.0.
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  3520. When your $50million a year enterprise has a competitor why are you surprised.
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  3521. HEY KYLE: Here's another case I have seen of this. Peter Zeihan is a popular geopolitical analyst. I'm subscribed to his channel and watch his daily video most of the time. I also watch the longer talks he's given at conferences that people have on their channels. HOWEVER I have noticed a staggering number of channels with Peters older material being re-cut and re-edited and then presented as NEW MATERIAL. It feels like every day another 1 or 2 NEW channels with clear copyright breaches pop up in my recommendations every day. One of them even used Peter's name in the channel name, when I checked that channel was hosted by someone in Pakistan. Another time a similar channel was hosted in India. I keep hitting the "don't recommend this channel" button and its like whack-a-mole. As fast as I can "don't recommend" a channel 2 more pop-up. Also I get "sponsored" advertisements that are obvious AI generated voice overs. I'm in Australia and other than the Elon Musk versions I get 1-10 a day with Australian mainstream media personalities, which is how I can easily spot they are AI generated.
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  3522. I call them Republicrats they are half in both camps and totally in the pocket of the billionaires.
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  3523.  @pamsimth8018  I'd agree she's speaking the truth but she's delivering that message in a ridiculous almost hysterical manner. This is when people need to be very clear and concise about FACTS not emotions.
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  3524.  @dohlecarnett1866  Well Germany did invest heavily in renewables. €1.3 trillion is the number I heard. But they didn't have the energy storage to go with it. Some of the detractors of what happened like Michael Schellenberger have also stupidly missed that the German engineers did learn from what happened. One thing they learned is that of you balance the wind and solar installations better you can save as much as 25% on what you need to install to replace the coal and nuclear that's turned off. That 25% can go into storage and that makes for an even better system. I find it frustrating that so little of this gets discussed, but then that's the big problem. All the vested interests including the Greens are so busy hoggin the microphone that the engineers never get heard. You are right to say its not just the Greens but they are a massive part of the problem because they wont compromise and help with planning the transition. Worst of all they wont listen to the engineers. The nuclear industry isn't much better. I'd slap them if I was allowed. But the coal industry is the worst by far.
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  3525. "Word has it" journalistic lingo to let you know what's about to be said has NOT BEEN FACT CHECKED.
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  3526. How much will you make them pay for it?
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  3527.  @piyispiy  Good points have you looked the vortex generators that this is based on? I can across them as an alternative for cooling or heating electrical cabinets.
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  3528. The village idiot used to be confined to their village. Now thanks to social media they can gather together, reinforce their stupidity and spread it across the globe. FYI - They might not be as numerous or as loud in other countries but EVERYONE has them. I'm Australian and we have them. We've even been stupid enough to elect some of them. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️
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  3529. Well said. Way too often what people think the law is and how it actually does operate are 2 very different things. Last year people were screaming "treason" (many still are) and I have seen people quote the "DICTIONARY" definition of treason. If Webster's was the law Trump would already have been hung, drawn and quartered. BUT Webster's is *NOT the law in any nation. The law in each country is what the governments and/or people of those nations chosen the law to be and they vary from the completely crazy to the absurdly cruel to the radically insane to the justly unfair. Somewhere in the middle most nations try and find an island of sanity and occasionally they seem to stay there long enough to be free.
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  3530. I was about to say the same. If you can find it there's a video from when Phil Donahue interviewed Milton Freidman and questioned Friedman on "greed". Freidman basically argues that everything that's good in the world has come from people being greedy. The arrogance with which he delivers it is legendary. It's the classic "I'm the professor (with a Nobel prize) and your just little people beneath me." FYI - I'm an aerospace engineer and he was talking about technical innovation and claiming its always been via greed, which I know as an engineer to be total BS. He mentioned Henry Ford as on innovator. Henry Ford paid his workers TRIPLE the standard wage and the rest of the business community went bonkers. Henry Ford's claim was they'll work better and more importantly be bale to buy the products they make. Nick Hanauer (the billionaire) talked about in his TED talk "Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming" back in 2014.
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  3531.  @thomasjohn6041  Actually I agree and it does not relieve me at all. So what's your point? I have said for well over a year that Joe Biden and the corporate Democrats where never going to be the solution America needs. And by extension its the same problem facing every other developed nation. We all suffer from these corrupted political establishments that are owned by various factions within the billionaire class. I describe American politics as Carbon versus Silicon not Right versus Left. Look at the billionaire supporters and where their main assets are. Its not 100% true in all cases as there's lots of crossover. The billionaires who back the GOP are mainly into the exploitation of carbon assets and processed carbon while the bulk of the billionaires who bac the Dems are from the tech industries which are based on silicon. Either way the bulk of the American people are trapped between billionaires like mice trapped in a room with 2 bull elephants fighting for supremacy.
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  3532. All that said the most important 2 years in American history is about to start. Either the Democrats take a seriously hard look at themselves and honestly ask: 1) How it ever got this close to having candidates like Herschel Walker being elected (and he still might)? 3) How did candidates like Lauren Boebert and Marjorie green ever get elected? 2) How do they actually get the job done of rebuilding a broken America? OR they are only delaying the inevitable takeover of America by fanatics. Because they didn't do any review at all after the 2016 debacle and they didn't do an honest review after 2020. Biden might have won, but they lost seats in the house, didn't win the Senate outright and lost in the state houses. They might have done all right this time but they should be steam rolling the GOP into oblivion.
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  3533.  @randiken  Yeah, she might be a good appointee but she hasn't helped her case that much here. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3534. Don't forget the Democrats never did any intel on their opponent. Plus the media don't seem to have checked him out either. It seems like NOBODY checked this guy out.
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  3535.  @hotmetalslugs  The need to have the Al Capone mentality. It doesn't matter what the charge is anymore just that they get him on at least one send him to jail. Not home detention but actual jail. Anything else is a disaster and quite likely spells the end of America as we know it.
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  3536. There is one comment in this that I do find insanely offensive and that's the remark by Konstantin Kisin at 1:08:20 when he starts talking about the philosophy of progressives "does not believe in the existence of bad people" would have to be one of the stupidest things I have heard any commentator make in recent years. Other than being wrong it flies in the face of reality. If he wants to deal with the radical far left social justice warriors then fine I'll hand him a club to beat them with. BUT for farksake don't go labelling broad slabs of society as mindless radicals with no grasp of reality. I have never heard any progressive ever claim bad people don't exist.
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  3537. HEY THOM. Can you please interview Prof. Mark Blyth from Brown. Several times he ahs brought up a study that says if America triple glazed its office towers which use massive amounts of energy it would no t only reduce America's energy needs which would then reduce prices because energy demand would reduce (as per Econ 101). Also it would save so much energy that it would put America well on the way to meeting any of the 2050 emissions targets. Its easy to find studies and articles on this via google. In particular all those monstrous class towers that clown brained architects have been designing since the 1970s EITHER get incredibly hot and need cooling OR they get cold and need heating. I am an engineer and this is a no brainer. Its not common knowledge outside the engineering space but people have discussed these sorts of things for years now. Its almost like a standing joke about how INEFFICIENT those pretty class towers are.
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  3538.  @piotrjasielski  That's a very pertinent point. Think about how many gas guzzling cars that existed before the energy crisis. Look at that graph at 0:40. You can see the massive dip in the early 1970s. Then there is a steady rise through the 80s, 90s, 2000s,.... until another dip that coincides with the GFC. You also have to consider that the biggest user of energy in America was manufacturing and that steadily declined all through the 80s, 90s,.... Most people don't realise it but there is actually more energy used making a car than there is operating one for around 20-25 years depending on the type and how its used. One of the best and most environmental ways to save the planet is make people KEEP their existing cars and just replace the drive trains with electric or hybrid systems. The overall energy requirement for getting cars off fossil fuel is massively reduced.
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  3539. If you watch the whole speech he starts with some simple facts he was born in Uvalde and his mother taught kindergarten only 1 mile away. This is not simply his home town, this is where he grew up and his mother was a teacher. Its 2 minutes in -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqx4wfnCD4w
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  3540. Your right except its not a matter of what he actually is. What matters is what his base thinks he is and what he can motivate them to do.
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  3541.  @saxonderohan9723  I have heard several time about Alex Jones and every time gone WTF and then realised they are talking about the over rated OVER PRICED merchandise he sells. As for Tucker I'd just like to see his face if some one dared ask why he earns less than half what Bartiromo does.
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  3542. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  3543.  @dennishassler605  If you are talking about America's Foreign Policy then go back and watch Peters commentary on that. If you're talking about Australia's foreign policy then sorry but that was how it was reported back in 2018. As for the submarine deal that we have been massively screwed on. That backlash is coming no matter what you think. The US Navy pays the equivalent of Australian $5 Billion per Virginia class sub plus operational costs. We are being asked to pay over $20 Billion per sub before we even get to use them. Yes there are people on our side who need to be charged with treason/fraud/piracy but we'll deal with that. Would you buy a car for 4 times the price you can get it down the road? Would you pay 4 times the price for ANYTHING if you can just go down the road and get it somewhere else?
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  3544. ​ @jeffyoung60  I spent 4 months in Saskatchewan building a water treatment plant back in 2017/18 so I am fairly well aware of how Canadians feel about America. They especially made those feelings known when trump tore up NAFTA and smacked them with tariffs. YES - I was there when that happened. But I agree on the 51st state thing. Its a joke Australian's like to tell regarding Australian foreign policy. A few years ago when Australia was nominated for a 2 year stint on the UN Security council those who opposed it simply said "Why should we bother they'll only vote how America tells them to vote!" Our answer to that was "That's outrageous the American's never tell us how to vote. Our diplomats sound out suggestions and then wait for the Americans to nod." Actually we knew full well we had been annexed during the war. There was actually a lot of tension at times between American servicemen stationed in Australia and the local population. There were a lot of Australian men overseas fighting and a lot of American's here chasing their wives and girlfriends. It didn't go down well. Its not something you hear much about these days except from older people. As for NOT bullying Canada and Australia please go and check out trade negotiations. When NAFTA was re-negotiated the Canadians were very seriously bullied into accepting the deal. It wasn't that Canadians were against re-negotiating the deal. When I was there and Trump tore up NAFTA they weren't upset with that. They were pretty logical abut it. They knew American industry was hurting and their needed to be re-negotiation of the trade agreements. What they objected to was being made the scapegoat. Right now if you are not aware of it there could be a monstrous backlash from the Australian population against America. There's a lot of American soft influence going on. Its mainly through consultants like McKinsey, EY and KPMG. Right now PwC has been outed as having screwed Australia and that should end up in criminal convictions. On top of that its been revealed that a bunch of retired American Navy men have been here since 2012 consulting on the submarines and other Navy purchases. Most of them have salaries over $$$ million and their advice is turning out to be the same sort of worthless shite that American 60 Minutes recently showed regarding the US Navy procurement system. Right now it feels like every Australian issue involves overrated overpaid American consultants for crap advice. We do need to accept responsibility for hiring them but the backlash is coming.
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  3545.  @joe.oneill  I hear that Ted Cruz just bought a new car with a special exhaust so that when he pulls up at the lights it goes: "whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout....." Josh Hawley and others have their on order.
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  3546.  @mohwe1007  never forget that what you think you said might NOT be how others see it and especially how others might hijack it its what makes any references to Hitler or religion especially dangerous because its so easy for people to read it the wrong way or use it the wrong way from what you intended Social media has only made the problem worse. It didn't democratise information it democratised misinformation.
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  3547. I've heard some people make comments on Australia and this is easily one of the worst. The Ord River Scheme has been an extraordinary success. Yeah it had failures with cotton but then cotton has failed in so many places that its almost considered an economic suicide crop. Go ask the Russians about the Aral Sea on that one. Its staggering just how badly some people put out crap on YouTube. You need to do more than just look up Wikipedia and take what's there without any further research. There's an idiotic claim there about only 260 jobs, which is total BS because it only includes jobs on the farms. It doesn't include the sorting, packaging and export related jobs. I know how big that business is because my brother used to work for VISY one of the main suppliers into the packaging. Also your claims on particular crops which is just plain wrong doesn't include the huge cash crops of melons, tomatoes and other vegetables that are exported to Asia. I know about those because one of my previous neighbors was a seed merchant whose main business was in the Ord River Scheme. He once showed me a bag of tomato seed that cost more per kilogram than cocaine. If you actually knew anything about Australia its our other major water scheme "The Murray-Darling" which is one of the worst cases of government water resource mismanagement anywhere on the planet. Its a national embarrassment ad disgrace.
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  3548.  Jack Strawb  That's arguably one of the great problems across the entire Western World - the lack of accountability of BOTH elected and unelected officials.
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  3549. HOW LONG BEFORE ROBINHOOD gets hit with a CLASS ACTION in the BILLIONS. If they prevented people trading how they wanted to trade because a client stepped in and caused those people losses then OOPS. RH have 2 problems. First its called market manipulation and that's illegal anywhere in the world. Second there willful actions caused legitimate traders losses - class action. Finally can someone call up that idiot Keith Olberman and inform his ignorant brain about the CIA and what they did in places like Iran, Chile, Guatemala and Indonesia where they helped overthrow democratically elected governments. Yeah the whole world knows that the 2016 American election was interfered with, but many people across the world laughed at it because its what America has done to others and now America got to find out what it feels like.
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  3550.  @Arrogan28  Its actually some of the most blatant corruption ANY Western nation has seen since WW2. Its not just how blatant it is but its the size and scope of it. They scream about Hunter Biden maybe making a few million and for sure there's some shite there, BUT ITS NOTHING compared to what Jared and Ivanka were up to. I'm Australian and we know what they got up to. We know about Ivanka securing here trade marks in China when she was supposed to the there on official US business. We know about Jared using US government resources to play the Arabs off against each other to rescue his families business. We know about Jared and Ivanka's securing land for a new Trump resort in Israel when they were there for the new US Embassy opening. Yes America the whole world knows that those 2 got up to including the estimated $400 million they made in those 4 years.
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  3551. We'll know which days he got rid off stuff. We'll just have to check for the days they called a plumber to unblock the toilet.
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  3552.  @chiefgilray  Yeah I agree. One thing we do need is to tell the Americans to back off a bit and the biggest problem I see us having with American's isn't their culture or their people its their politics and economics (as a combination). Sorry if this is another long reply, but it will explain part of why everyone needs to tell America to back off. I actually went to college in America and did aerospace engineering (U. of Illinois). I was there during the 85 (mid-term) & 87 election (POTUS) election seasons and it drove me so nuts I never wanted anything to do with ANY politics again. BUT these days we don't have that luxury and we need to consider how American politics and economics function. Its one reason why I think a lot of people are watching people like Peter. They want to understand this stuff. Right now one of the biggest issues in the world is that there's a difference between How America is supposed to work and how it is working. No matter how much we might like or dislike America, its still 1/4 of the worlds economy and the US Dollar is still the worlds reserve currency and America still has so much military firepower it can smash anything it wants. The SOURCE of that problem is most American's no longer have a good understanding of: 1) How their own country actually functions versus how they think it functions; and 2) How the rest of the world actually functions. When I was there in the late 80s EVERYONE had studied (what they called) Civics in high school. It was where they learned how America functioned and I wished Australia had its version of that. It used to embarrass me how well informed they all were on things like the US Constitution and how their system worked. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and were right into that stuff. They dragged me into their discussions all the time. So even though I didn't like their politics I did got informed on how America was SUPPOSED TO FUNCTION and yes I love to catch up with a few people and ask a few pertinent questions. What none of us knew at that time was that a group of people out of the U. of Chicago (UoC), Harvard and Yale formed what we now know as the Federalist Society. People are starting to finally working out who these people are and what they have been working on for almost 40 years, which is tearing down and then re-building America into THEIR VERSION of what America should be. Its very much like what the Ayatollah's did in Iran but from an economic standpoint. People need to realise that these 3 Universities are PRIVATELY OWNED. So they make their own rules. Plus UoC was founded (in part) by John D. Rockefeller and although I can't say with 100% certainty, my conclusion is UoC was set up to find ways to re-build the entire world into a Rockefellian system. One its most prominent professors, Milton Freidman, basically said "Government is hopeless and we (the private sector) should run everything." Out of UoC also came James McKinsey (professor of accounting) who founded McKinsey Consultants and kicked off the consulting industry after which is now a cancer on our governments. From UoC's political science department we got wonderful things like "Offensive Realism" and the Neo-conservative movement that gave us the 2 longest wars (Iraq & Afghanistan) since WW2. But most of all out of UoC came Neoliberal Economics (Friedrich Hayek, Milton Freidman, Ronald Coase,....) that's dominated world economics since Reagan gave us Reaganomics and Thatcher gave us Thatcherism. Its resulted in the greatest wealth transfer in history and if you doubt that go and look up the report Bernie Sanders got the US Congressional Budget Office to update on "Family Wealth." Almost nothing has been said about this report in ANY media including social media. Just look at the 1st Graph on that report and it tells you that 50% of the American population has GONE NOWHERE in the last 30 years, while the Middle 40% has had some gains the TOP 10% have gained about $60 Trillion dollars in Wealth. That thin brown line across the bottom of that graph now represents 165 million people who are not only impoverished, but to get out of that poverty need to spend staggering amounts to get educated enough to get out. I have checked the Australian data which is presented a little differently but it tells the same basic story. Go an watch some of Gary Stevenson the young British Economist. In his 20s he became a multi-millionaire and became Citibank's top trader in the world and he did it betting AGAINST the Brits recovering from the GFC. He's now saying the same sorts of things about Britain. Sorry for the long reply, but its stuff I think people should know about and be discussing. The American people are NOT the problem their politicians, economists and the people who back them ARE the problem.
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  3553. ​ @mapper7310  I'm An Aussie and that is the point I keep trying to tell people. These issues are WORLDWIDE. I'm an engineer and my interest in economics came from a small project I did in 2016 into Australia's energy sector. Its way worse than ANYTHING the Australian people understand. When I look about the world for similar information I get the same story again and again and its all the fault of economists. I even heard the other day companies are leaving NZ because of energy costs. It took me a couple of year s to get an understanding of the cause and its 2 things. FIRST - economists think the rest of the human race are a problem they have to manage. SECOND - economists don't understand how economies actually function at the nuts & bolts level. They know how markets function because that's WHAT they are trained in. What they don't get is that market solutions don't work for certain basic requirements. They don't get that every business and household needs things like energy and water AND if you screw those things up then everything suffers additional costs. That's why their market solutions don't work for education, health care, infrastructure in general and PARTICULARLY ENERGY. They don't understand how that stuff functions and supports society. I watch people like Gary because it helps me understand how mainstream economists think and operate. His video on "Why are economists always wrong?" is something EVERYONE should watch because it explains so much. He's not perfect but the value of his information is staggeringly high.
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  3554.  @juliewake4585  Well then take out Jaimie Oliver's name and put in Gordon Ramsay or someone else if you like. Besides you need to be WAY MORE CONCERNED about the nutter Nickie Aiken. That "small government low tax conservative" nonsense is 100% far Right AMERICAN Libertarian ideology. I'm actually Australian but went to university in America. I know what that stuff is it where it leads. Before you ask. My concern with the British economy is that we are busy forging closer trade and military ties with Britain after you dumped us in the 1970s and went all Euro. That's all Ok but in the middle of it is this monster multi-billion dollar submarine deal. We can't afford Britain to malfunction at the moment or in the foreseeable future. Because the only viable place to build those subs is in Britain. Building them here is out of the question. The set-up costs are astronomical. If we build them in Britain it can save us around $55 Billion. You Brits would get lots of jobs and we save a mountain money for stuff we need. ITS A WIN WIN But we can't have any ding-a-lings in the mix.
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  3555. As soon as one of these pro-business libertarians clowns explains why the rest of the human race had to bail out the billionaires in 2008 I might listen to what they have to say. Libertarian economics can be simply summed up: "I want what I want and you can go f--k yourself"
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  3556. What a great quote.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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  3557. We not only chose to ignore the science our governments and the people who voted for them chose to listen to the same people who LIED and LIED and LIED and LIED about tobacco. The world never held any of the liars who campaigned for tobacco accountable and we are now paying for that mistake.
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  3558. This could just as easily BACKFIRE on the GOP because a massive chunk of their base are poor anti-government types who might just as easily not pay their fines.
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  3559.  @susanstraitfox  Until the Wade Nichols article (see below) a few weeks ago and the subsequent evidence people have posted, there wasn't anything beyond conspiracy stuff that was so badly presented anyone with a brain simply dismissed it. That was the thing the Chinese and Partners and main stream media took advantage of and used to at least downplay the lab leak. I'm Australian and we heard nothing of his links outside of the far right conspiracy channels. They were all so anti-China and ranting that it was impossible to take anything they said seriously. Then the Wade Nichols article came up and caused a lot of discussion. Another person put up the 3 links below that shows without any doubt NIH money was helping fund COVID research in China. A few weeks back Fauci answered Rand Paul (who is a total complete asshole) that there was no NIH money funding "gain of function" in Wuhan. That might be absolutely true, but Dr. Fauci NEVER explained what the NIH money WAS doing in China. He kept saying what it wasn't doing BUT DIDN'T explain what the NIH money was doing. He never came out and said something like "I know this lab and its doing COVID research which they have to do after the SARS1 & MERS Outbreaks. We are involved in that research because its in our interests incase another variant jumps to humans. We need to be ready for that possibility." My question for Dr. Fauci is:- Why didn't you simply say something like that? Wade Nichols Article -> https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/ NIH Project -> https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9491676 NIH Project -> https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9819304 Chinese Research in part funded by the NIH -> https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698 Note: On the first 2 Peter Daszak (named in the Nichols article) is listed as the Project Leader. If you look at the 3rd scroll down to the part listing who funded the research - its around the middle.
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  3560.  @majiclamp4857  Yeah what would you get if Rupert Murdoch spawned child with Ghislaine Maxwell (daughter of Robert Maxwell)? You'd get Elliot Carver the guy EON made a documentary narrated by Pierce Bronsan called "Tomorrow Never Dies."
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  3561. The village idiot used to be confined to their village. Now thanks to social media they can gather together, reinforce their stupidity and spread it across the globe.
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  3562.  @rolandgirouard5914  So basically its a collage of memes. I heard there are people who want to change the last line of the anthem from "O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave" to "O'er the land of the slave and the home of the corporation" But the rhyming just didn't work with the rhythm of the music.
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  3563. Aerospace engineer here - WELL DONE.
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  3564.  @shafsteryellow  You've basically described what the Europeans did all over Africa. The problem is HOW would you go about fixing all the African borders back to their pre-European tribal boundaries AND NOT START a series of Horrible Wars? This is a fundamental issue with the entire world right now. Every patch of land in the world has been claimed at times by various peoples, tribes and nations. How far back do we actually go to redress things? I'm Australian with British ancestry and that includes parts from all over Britain. Then there's the Roman, Viking, French, Spanish and German heritage in that mix. Go anywhere in the world and its actually quite rare to find people how DON'T have a mix of racial heritage mostly because in the past people moved about a lot unless they had reliable water and land to cultivate like the Egyptians did beside the Nile.
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  3565. AUSTRALIAN with an outside view: 100% of the blame goes to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and their advisors. As President and Vice President it was their sworn duty to protect and uphold the constitution AND THEY SPECTACULARLY FAILED AT THAT. Forget the political aspects and delicacies they should have stood up and said "NO, we will not stand-by and let someone try a coup." There were retired military officers who stood up publicly and said that ex-military people like mike Flynn should have been re-called to active duty and court martialled AND NOTHING WAS DONE. Trump famously referred to the Democrats as the "Do Nothing Democrats!" and that behavior of *"do nothing and hope somebody else does something" has now come back to bite the entire Democratic world. OH YEAH - a message to all those American campaign advisors and consultants. Australia has a federal election next year. If ANY OF YOU from either side come down here you can EXPECT a HOSTILE reception. Before you think about it go and look up on some of our animals. We have 9 of the 10 worlds most poisonous snakes, salt water crocodiles, great white sharks and some of the worlds most poisonous fish species including jelly fish, fish with spines and a wonderfully colorful octopus called the blue ringed octopus. After that we have spiders and ants. YES ants. Plus we have stingrays like the one that got Steve Irwin.
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  3566. I hate to say it BUT BOTH are to fragile for it. I like both because MOST of the time they will say a lot of things that need saying or at least discussing. This is one of those cases where they have avoided a hard truth. Joe Rogan is one of the people Sam Harris is talking about
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  3567.  @entertain7us148  Kyle has this real bug up his keester about free speech. He's says it repeatedly that so long as someone isn't encouraging violence against others they should be free to say whatever they like. I strongly disagree with that, because it doesn't include those who promote or preach HARMFUL speech. I'm Australian but went to college in America and met people like this. Its an ideological stand on his part not one based on critical thinking or considering the circumstances of a specific case. In Oz right now we are battling to contain the Delta strain and these idiots at Sky hurt that cause and we just don't have time for their garbage right now.
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  3568. Yeah the same sort who failed in 2016 with Clinton and her $2 Billion war chest to a sociopathic grifter with a team of clowns. The same sort of American consultants who went plying their trade around the world and helped Australian Labour lose an unlosable election. The same American consultants who turned up in Britain for both Brexit and British Labour (and lost both times). And lets NOT FORGET the same pack of consultants who only just got Biden across the line, while losing seats in the house and only barely getting a draw in the Senate. If these people were coaching a professional sports team (of any sort) they WOULD have been sacked and never allowed back in the building.
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  3569.  @matthewingerson  Calling Thom Hartmann a right winger is about as stupid as it gets. He's certainly not as Left as prof Wollf, but he's no right winger. Can people just stop trying to paint everything black and white. Humanity is 7.8billion shades of grey.
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  3570.  @matthewingerson  Long comment and I agree on most of especially the fact that America does not have left and right parties America has right and far right parties. The Democrats have none of the basic history of parties like the communist and socialist parties they have in Europe or the union derived Labor parties found in the British commonwealth countries. Plus America allows certain things in its politics like insider trading and unlimited political funding that no other country has or wants to have.
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  3571. Blind faith is blind faith NO MATTER if its for religious or political ideology. Pence is doubly condemned and doubly pathetic because he's blind BOTH politically and religiously.
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  3572.  @lindas-k5766  Pretty much YEP. Its more aimed at Doocy. Like all the Fox people he's on serious money to play this endless bad faith talking points game. All the Fox program hosts, like his father, are on 7 digit contracts. So any of their talk about money is bad faith. I suspect the only reason he gets to even ask questions is so Fox can't rage about being denied in these briefings. Remember Trump just simply refused to admit any outlets he didn't like to briefings. If there is one thing that's really starting to where thin its the relentless HYPOCRISY of the right wing media. Word is that Biden or somebody close to him in the WH finally had enough of the Fox BS over vaccines and they called Murdoch directly and put it too him it was his PAYING customers who are dying because they aren't vaccinated. Suddenly Fox changed tune a few weeks back, but on that the damage is done.
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  3573. What makes you think its just Americans?? I'm Australian and at times it feels like 2/3rds of the country has lost its mind. We may not have gone as far off the deep end as America but it feels like we're trying to catch up.
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  3574. Congrats your the first person on the list I have seen mention the stable border issue. Prof Mark Blyth explained it the other day. (about 20min in) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oT5yedE65k So long as Russia pushes the Donetsk issue and creates a disputed border then Ukraine CANNOT join NATO and they can do that for the next 1000years. I wonder how much of this is being pushed by a bunch of hawks looking for the next war to cash in on?
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  3575.  @EtherealAriel  Agreed, his sentiment is right but the terminology is wrong. It might be the mentality of a police state run but a dictator but that's a different thing to what we have a in Western police forces. The mentality is very typical of extreme Machiavellian politics. Machiavelli actually didn't believe that the "end justifies the means" but he was the most recognized person for writing it down. At the extreme end of that are the narcissistic sociopathic people who think "anything is acceptable if the get what they want." Trump's one of the better examples of that kind of person. Mob bosses and totalitarian dictators also fall into that category. Look at Kim Jong-un his favorite method of execution is firing squad using anti-aircraft guns and he murdered his own brother with a VX nerve agent in a public space. The fact this guy has this term "escalation dominance" and uses it as easy as he breaths oxygen should scare the shite out of everyone.
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  3576.  @MentourPilot  This is some ways reminds me of the Dallas Fort Worth Crash of Delta 1141 which was covered in "Aircraft Investigations." That incident also came back to not following procedures and being distracted, but at a different stage of the flight. The pilots being momentarily distracted at the wrong moment forgot to set the flaps and slats for take-off. There's actually an interesting thing that came out form that regarding checklists. NASA did a study and if you look hard you can still find it. I have a copy somewhere. I found it really interesting because my day job includes writing procedures for commissioning industrial plant. What NASA found was that people have a tendency to skip steps or assume answers if lists are either very short (<8 steps) or if they are too long (>12 steps). They also found its important to have it all on the same side of the card or sheet of paper. In the Dallas crash the co-pilot called the flaps & slats which were the last item on the page and turned it over. The pilot was momentarily distracted by ground radio. because the page had been turned the assumption was the step had been done. Their procedure was over 30 steps. You might or might not notice that many of your procedures are broken into groups with 8-12 steps. That way you can complete a group and then move on. You should also have most procedure groups on the same side of the card or sheet and your training is NEVER to turn to the next page without confirming the END of the procedure with the other pilot as parts of CRM training. Most pilots don't know the history of the 8-12 step procedure or that it came via NASA or that it has affected other industries. Its not infallible but its greatly reduced errors.
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  3577.  @KrazyVideoChick  2 years before Trump was even born. The question is: Who or what did he see back then? Either he had a time portal to look into or there were Trumpists back then. I don't think Trump was the aberration many thought. He was the inevitable conclusion of ignoring a serious flaw in the system.
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  3578. ​ @stoogefest16  Thanks for the correction. I knew it was the Mongols, but had also forgotten they tried twice. Another one was the Spanish Treasure fleet. When I went to check the date I found 2 interesting Wikipedia pages. The first was for the Spanish Treasure Fleets (plural) and in the section "Famous Shipwrecks" it lists 4 major storms that hit those fleets. I was thinking of the 1715 because that's the one featured in "Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag" and also in the TV series "Black Flags." Its also central to the films "Fools Gold" and "The Deep." The other page on Wikipedia is titled "Pre-1600 Atlantic hurricane seasons" and lists too many to mention. For a judge Janine Pirro is neither a judge of facts nor history.
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  3579. There's actually a very simple philosophical/logical discussion point on "Are We Alone" It doesn't matter if you believe in creation or evolution the answer is the same, with one tiny exception. If you believe in God or Gods then you you also believe there are non-human beings who have at various times interacted with humanity. Therefore you believe we are not alone. If you believe in evolution than as we no know almost every star not in a galactic core has planets. So for every billion stars there's between 5 and 10 billion planets and the Milky Way (our galaxy) has between 100 and 400 Billion stars. Therefore you believe their is life somewhere and we are not alone. The rarest of all people are that tiny minority who truly believe we are alone. The real question isn't are we alone. The real question is "Where are they and can they help us?"
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  3580.  @insightfulhistorian1861  That's without doubt the biggest issue in the world right now. How do we fight idiocy in a world where the media pump out nonsense constantly? In the film "True Lies" Tom Arnold's character tells Arnold Schwarzenegger's character that his daughter's real parents are Axel Rose and Madonna and that the few minutes he spends with her each day can't compete. For every YT channel, news paper and media outlet that tries to tell people the basic facts of modern society there's 10 or more channels telling nonsense. David keeps saying we need to teach "critical thinking" in schools. I agree and the first thing to teach people is that the word critical in that context does NOT mean "to criticise" it actually means "to critique" and that's quite a different concept. To critique things is to asses information and judge it for value against a known standard. Anyone can say they don't like something. But making sense to other people why they don't like something takes effort.
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  3581. AUSTRALIAN HERE with an outside perspective. That's actually the thing the entire Western World needs to thank him for. On the flip side of that he is also responsible for choosing Merrick Garland who has been a total failure as AG. What people missed is that Garland is Federalist at heart and also a firm Institutionalist. Garland is one of those who believes in protecting the INSTITUTION of the Presidency as paramount. As such he also believes its wrong to prosecute a President or former President as it would harm the INSTITUTION. So you are 100% right we all need to be thankful he ended Trumps Presidency but that needs to be tempered by the fact he never dealt with Trumps criminal behavior and allowed SCOTUS to go so far off the rails its going to take a generation to fix.
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  3582. Sorry if I am going to be a spoiler in this but Viking is playing a hype game. Yes this would be great for Australia IF IT HAPPENS. I am a Melbourne born lad and WOULD LOVE TO SEE this happen. I am also an engineer and I have 30+ years of experience in control systems, automation and robotics. I worked in the manufacturing sector for over a decade including in Melbourne but have spent most of the last 20 years in the mining and resources sector. There are some things to this that have me very concerned especially since the collapse of the Sun Cable project near Darwin. That project had a well credentialled team and backing of 2 billionaires AND IT STILL COLLAPSED. There are some monstrous issues with power generation and distribution around the world AND THERE ARE NO SIMPLE FIXES TO ANY OF IT. So here's my list of things to be cautious about. 1) Why is Viking claiming that NOT using Nickel or Cobalt awesome when Australia produces both? We are the 3rd largest producer of Cobalt, 5th biggest Nickel producer with the 2nd largest reserves of both. So how is NOT using what we have in abundance a good thing? What has Russia or China got to do with any of that? 2) David Collard might be a local Geelong boy who's done very well in New York and made partner at PwC but his degree is in accounting NOT ENGINEERING. There is NOTHING that says he knows anything about manufacturing. I'd expect any body with his sort of background to know there is a huge undersupply for batteries and energy storage. They should also be able to work out there is NOT enough lithium supply to do both the cars and stationary storage. That's NOT and Australian thing that's a world thing. 3) Recharge Industries has NOT PRODUCED ANY BATTERIES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. That's one thing Viking has right, they are a start-up. That's not necessarily a bad thing but it is something people should be aware of. 4) Citing Robyn Denholm as an authority on ANYTHING is not wise. Go and look up the Channel "Common Sense Skeptic" here on YouTube. She was sued by the Tesla shareholders over the Solar City fiasco and ended up settling out of court with them. CSS goes through her court testimony and its pretty clear she's nothing but a professional boardroom sitter. She's very good at getting appointed company boards. 5) The Recharge CEO Rob Fitzpatrick also has NO obvious EXPERINCE in manufacturing but sits on or advises many company boards. His LinkedIn page shows 14 in just the last 10 years and he is still on several along with Recharge. I am warry about this with good cause having been burned on a couple of start-ups and watched other engineers get burned on start-ups. I'm NOT saying don't work for these people or get involved. Just realise that even with billionaire backers projects can fail and fail in the blink of an eye. Just look at what happened with Sun Cable.
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  3583.  @blackknight4996  Collard is promoted as a successful PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) guy. Just today one of their ex-people was caught leaking confidential government information back to PwC. That's before we get to the subject that PwC are one of the worlds "Big 4" auditing firms who OK all the tax avoidance of major corporations around the world. Being successful at PwC might mean anything from shyster to outright thief.
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  3584. great point
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  3585.  @8ojack  That exact thought has been repeated and repeated in the last few hours. The question is will it actually make a difference.
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  3586.  @mtn1793  Adam Tooze the Economics Historian in a discussion with Mark Blyth called them the GOP a "ruthlessly cynical political actor." They'll scream and yell about the Dems doing something and when they do exactly that things telling everyone its something else entirely. its seems to be a very right wing thing EVERYWHERE. Here in Australia, we just voted them out of power and no sooner had they been booted out they started screaming about holding the incoming Labor Party government accountable. Just this week we found out the previous Prime Minister (Scott Morrison) secretly breached our constitution. Plus their spokesman on the military blasted off about solving our navy's submarine problem when he'd had 8 years to fix it AND FAILED. There seems to be this incredulous hypocrisy with right wing parties these days. How often do we hear; "We are the party of Law and order" and we see them break laws. "We are the party of a strong military" and we they make stupid military mistakes and solve them with more spending. "We are the financially responsible party" and we see them pander to the banks and spend like drunken frat boys. I'm not saying the Left in any country are innocent of political shitfuckery (as we now call it) but the Right everywhere seem to have taken it to new levels in recent years.
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  3587. GO CHECK Mar-a-Lago I here they find lots of government paper stuff there.
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  3588. If everything goes as it has for 4 years Trump's gonna sack him tomorrow.
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  3589.  @bink6778  Sadly you're right and that will cost a lot of lives. That's 7 weeks (about 50 days) and at roughly 2000 deaths a day, that's a lot of hurt. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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  3590. What do you mean headed for? We have had inflation going on for the last 40 years, it just hasn't been in the consumer goods part of the economy. Its been one of the great manipulations of the worlds business sector. The cost of housing has skyrocketed across the Western World along with power and water and lets not forget the stock markets. Just a few days ago in a thread about the cost of power a guy from Romania was howling how his power bill had gone up 53%. What he was describing was EXACTLY what's happened in Australia where I am. It also fits with every other developed nation in the world as we have followed the neo-liberal mantra of privatize everything. What's been different is that inflation has always been linked to the cost of basic staples - food, clothes and sundry items (eg. pens, pencils & paper). Houses and stocks are considered assets so instead of inflation its called GROWTH. THERE HAS BEEN INFLATION. Its just been done in ways that we don't normally associate with inflation.
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  3591. For anyone interested here's the Wikipedia page on CRT -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory
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  3592.  @6789uiop  Problem with the corporate media that's driving the right is that its owned and run by sociopaths who just don't care. If you have a look at Murdoch's history it was ugly long before he left Australia. If you look at the guy who owns OAN he's even worse. if you look at people like Charles Koch it gets even worse - Kyle did a piece on part of his Axios interview that was downright scary.
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  3593. And neither did anyone in his audience BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER when the world is driven by NARRATIVE.
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  3594.  @gusolsthoorn1002  That's the problem I see as an engineer. Sure its been studied and that's fin an great, BUT has it been calibrated. I remember the results for the shroud of Turin and they had the 3 best labs in the world get 3 different results. 2 were sort of close to each other and the other was over 10% different. Which begs the question HOW? Its fairly simple they are testing very small samples and at the actual stage of measurement you don't have to do much with the sample to get different answers that can be significant. As a tool I think radiometric testing has been profound in helping understand the history of our planet. But it still has to be understood as just another measuring tool and like all measuring tools it has limits to its accuracy.
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  3595. It would also help if the Dems actually run a candidate against her. She won her seat unopposed because the Dem candidate withdrew before the election.
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  3596.  @SuperCroc69  Fun and games. Sorry for the longish reply but as a Sydney sider you and others should be asking the RIGHT QUESTIONS in the RIGHT PLACES. FYI - I'm an engineer with 30+ yrs in automation, robotics and control systems. I started with a degree in aerospace but we don't have a space program YET. I ended up in the mining sector as most of us now do and did about 15years there. Way back around 2010 the civils got all "concerned on a project I was on." It turned out that they had found out WHY a lot of new buildings fell down in the previous Chinese Earth Quake - sub-standard reinforcement bar (rebar). The Chinese had developed this idiotic "scam" called thinning. They would take standard rebar and stretch it SO FAR that it would NOT spring back. Just like if you take the spring out of a pen and pull on it to hard. They'd cut it back down to length and sell the excess for scrap. The new piece of rebar would look just like a perfectly good piece except it was just slightly thinner (hence the label - thinning). There's 2 monstrous issues. First its now NOT the same mass of steel providing strength. Second because it was stretched so far its LOST MOST of its TENSILE STRENGTH. That's super important in reinforced concrete. You see the concrete itself is brilliant at handling compressive load (as in when its squeezed) but has crap tensile strength (as in when its stretched. The job of rebar is to give the concrete structure tensile (stretching) strength. BUT if its Chinese Thinned rebar ITS GOT STUFF ALL TENSILE STRENGTH. I learned all about this stuff back around 2010. When I heard about it I asked our civs and they had (by that time) confirmed NOE of it was in the mine site works. I asked a mate of mine who does structural engineering about this stuff and he could barely believe anyone would be that stupid. JUMP A HEAD TO 2019 and after I saw the 60 minutes on Opal Tower my brain was WTF did they use Chinese rebar. I waited for the report and there is NO MENTION of rebar. Jump ahead a few months and at a bar-bi-q I meet this guy who says he's one of those guys who installs rebar. So I ask him about my concern with rebar and wonder if someone was using cheap Chinese rebar. YES, Australia does import cheap Chinese rebar and YES it was used throughout Opal Tower. How did he know that? Because he worked on it. How did he know the Chinese rebar was crap? "its light and flimsy" his words and I never prompted him for a description. The question isn't was Opal Tower made using sub-standard materials critical to its safety the question is HOW MANY OTHER BUILDINGS does Australia have with this crap in them. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3597. There's actually a "List of nuclear close calls" and despite what happened in 1973 being way too close there's a couple of others that got closer. There's also one close call that's NOT on that list and that's the one where a software engineer loaded up a simulation into the BACK-UP system (I think on Friday) and didn't tell people that it was ready to go. While that software engineer wasn't present the main system faulted and the back-up system kicked in and started running the simulation AND NOBODY KNEW it was a simulation. They apparently got within seconds of pushing the button when someone realised that it was running the simulation that they were planning to run in future.
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  3598. David is partly right and partly wrong here. He's very wrong in trying to dismiss the concerns over superbugs in hospitals. I'm Australian and our health care system is miles in front of America (sorry but it is) and the place you are most likely going to get a golden staff infection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staphylococcus_aureus) is in a hospital. Its a very serious issue and needs to be discussed. As for the over prescription of anti-biotics and over use in agriculture in causing super-bugs that's also a major issue that needs to be discussed. As for the over prescription of opioids and anti-depressants, ADHD drugs and other things - does anyone think those aren't issues? BUT where David is absolutely 10,000% right. THIS IS NOT THE TIME and IT IS DANGEROUS to bring this up right now. The timing is idiotic right now and Brett Weinstein should KNOW THAT. Jordan Peterson should also have enough knowledge, education and experience to know this is NOT the time to discuss these issues. We need to get through the Pandemic first.
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  3599. In almost any other country in the world Trump and his minions would already be in jail. In many countries they would have already been executed. The answer to "WHY NOT?" is very simple. The founding fathers in response to how the British Authorities had behaved prior to and during the Revolution chose to do certain things. One of those is the first amendment that specifically protects the right to challenge the government for "redress of grievances." Other things include very narrow definitions of sedition and treason that makes it very hard to charge or convict anyone of those crimes, even when they are 100% without doubt guilty. People like Glenn Kirschner and Legal Eagle (both with YT Channels) and others have explained these things numerous times. The American Founding fathers wanted a nation free of all the issues that were entrenched in Europe. In granting that future to every American citizen they also created a system where, IF THEY CHOSE, American people would be free to elect a narcissistic sociopathic clown like Donald Trump and have him rip the system to shreds.
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  3600.  @Taxthechurch  That's an interesting question because while the Right are quite easy to identify because they are often loud, the left are harder to point at. Also the Right tend to be narrowly focused on money, race and religion while the lefties cover wider raft of subjects - economics, social issues, environmental, health care, education etc. Its pretty easy to point at particular Right Wing identities an describe them accurately because they only want 1 or 2 things most of the time. Its a little harder on the Left because there's more lot more variety. Here's one of the odd things. The really radical Leftists are almost impossible to identify. Look at movements like Antifa, BLM and the Woke & MeToo groups. There's not a clear leadership let alone a specific leader to any of those groups. There's people who speak at times and that's about all. Among some groups there are some clear leaders but there not groups I'd not classify as radical. Yanis Varoufakis has started Diem 25 which he does describe as a radical organisation BUT their focus is largely economics and I would NOT call them radical either except maybe from an economic standpoint. Greta Thunberg has been labelled a radical young Greenie, but again I don't find her particularly radical other than how young she was when she started. What's radical about a younger person saying "we want a future" and "your economics of infinite growth are ridiculous" I'd suggest you go and look up people like Yanis Varoufakis or Richard Wolff who are are both hard left on economics, but not politics, but then they are both economists. Yanis did a really great interview with David Pakman a while back. I have referred people to it a lot because he points out some basic truths and why we need a significant change in economics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0lNnXAiL0 There's bits all through that interview that we could discuss for hours. Richard Wolff did a really good series on who Marx actually was and what he was on about. From a basic history lesson its really good. I watched it out of curiosity and was really surprised to find out that Marx was primarily an economist and NOT a political theorist. Its 4 short episodes, its interesting and it sort of explains why Marxism failed which was because it was so easy to hijack by politically motivated bad faith actors like Stalin and Mao. Here's a link to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rvhcQxKsa0 There's a YouTuber named Vaush who claims to be a pure socialist. He's been on both David Pakman and Kyle Kulinski. When they asked him about things like property ownership and business ownership he was pretty open but from my view also naively ignorant of how people basically operate in large modern societies. Like a few others his ideas might work in small isolated communities where group survival takes precedence over personal accumulation of assets, but in modern developed societies those ideas just don't work.
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  3601.  @EricHamm  I think your right that its been sort of obvious in hindsight. But nobody has said it out loud which in hindsight makes me wonder why? I think it was lost in the noise but then that's the purpose of political noise. The problem for De Sanctimonious (damn I love that tag) is that he's upset so many people that its gonna take some major rebuilding for him to win anything outside Florida. PLUS even of Trump is eliminated through the courts then he's NOT going away and narcissists like him tend to get very destructive lashing out at everything they can MOST of all people who have the attention they believe they should have. So in that scenario I would not be surprised that De Sanctimonious fails even worse because Trump wont take it well.
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  3602.  @crymsondynaguy  Your comment to x7y2k12 about Obama and Trump being the revers of each other. First reaction was WTF and then NO. I think your fairly close on that assessment. Obama ran on a very simple platform "Hope and Change" while Trump ran on MAGA. Both were light on substance and huge on the way they motivated people. We tend to forget that Obama came from the fringe and relative obscurity compared to Hilary Clinton. She had the huge political machine and he had his ability to speak publicly in a way that motivated a chunk of the electorate. Trump did very much the same thing. He came from the fringe against the establishment and was able to motivate a chunk of the electorate. Both ended up being huge disappointments. Neither could end the war in Afghanistan. Neither could close Gitmo (the prison part). Both failed to reign in government spending or the debt. Both ended up doing things that were in the best interests of the establishment donor class. The hard core supporters of both are irrational when it comes to any critical discussion or assessment about them.
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  3603.  @crymsondynaguy  its an interesting point that I'd never thought of before. Although Mark Blyth talked about it in July 2019 after a lecture on Global Trumpism. The actual question is about Elizabeth Warren but he incudes descriptions about both Obama and Trump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s
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  3604. At last count I believe there were 74,223,975 confirmed cases of concussion injuries recorded in 2020 up from the 62,984,828 confirmed cases recorded in 2016. Doctors are monitoring the situation but due to a lack of funding and high treatment costs doctors feel helpless to deal with this epidemic.
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  3605. IN REPLY TO TED CRUZ - Off course Ted Cruz stands by Pittsburgh its a modern city WITH ELECTRICITY.
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  3606.  @ProjectFarm  Simple question. Why didn't you test the Lincoln 191C its a far less expensive welder and more likely of use to the amateur or than the 210 which is without doubt a professional welding unit that no amateur is likely to buy unless that have some massive job like a big boat. Or maybe its possible to test the Lincoln 191C against other Mig/Tig/Arc multifunction units???
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  3607.  @mannacler  Nor his business savvy or much else.
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  3608. 1st question I'd have is: What's it like to win the "FAKE" Nobel prize? 2nd would be: Were your born this arrogant or did you take classes? 3rd would be: What makes you think sending 50% of the population backwards, keeping 40% of the population stagnant, letting 9% be reasonably well off and letting 1% run off with everything while paying no tax and collapsing the American manufacturing is sound economics? The only favor Milton Friedman ever did the human race was stop breathing on November 16, 2006, which was 94 years overdue.
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  3609.  @candorsspot2775  Yeah its real funny how you narcissists always have the same answer. FK-OFF and take your sociopathic narcissism and get the FK out of our lives.
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  3610.  @motorlife7037  Since we are so full of truth we'll add some spelling as well. Its Pravda with a "V" not a "W." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda
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  3611. Does it really matter when its really gonna come back to 1 important question. Does it have any DlCK pics? Yeah that's how much of a joke this stuff is.
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  3612.  @jacobr5627  Like a couple of others that's a great way to describe Rogan. He's like leaf on the wind. Which ever way its blowing at that instant, that's the way he floats.
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  3613.  @TheLocoUnion  I'm Australian and you are almost right. Without doubt we'd back the Americans but how far we'd go is another thing because China is our biggest trading partner. BUT THIS IS WHERE It GETS COMPLEX - Japan and South Korea are also 2 of our 5 largest trading partners depending on the season. There is no doubt the South China Sea is CRITICAL to Australia's economy and at times I feel like the Americans and others do not get that. Most of what we export are commodities - iron ore, coal (both thermal and metallurgical), LNG and food. Everything that leaves via the East Coast goes straight North and none of that goes via the South China Sea. EVERYTHING out of the West Coast of Australia and a lot of what goes out of the North goes via the South China Sea to China, South Korea and Japan. Through that sea lane 100% of our iron ore and most of our LNG as well as a lot of food travels to those countries. This is actually the real reason we need nuclear powered submarines. Freedom of navigation through the South China Sea is critical to our economy. Our current subs just can't be there and offer anything. Its more to do with range and speed than anything else.
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  3614. That's actually one of the few sensible rational comments in this. The initial claims that it was a bio-weapon were totally idiotic and there has never been any evidence that it was ever a weapon. But a lot of evidence has turned up that shows the possibility of a lab leak is very real. The problem is the media and politicians have made a mess of the public discussion making it very hard to know what's fact and what's not. The fact that the Chinese openly published their research is absolutely conclusive that it wasn't a weapon. Nobody develops weapons and the tells the world how they did it - that's simply idiotic. That would be like developing the next -gen stealth fighter and then putting the design on Facebook. Dr. Michael Osterholm (the director of CIDRAP) did a great analysis of this mess and how the media has handled it in a recent podcast. This link is time stamped to that part of that podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYNfScnnDVU&t=2610s Note that he honestly points out the issues the CDC has had and how many incidents the CDC has had. Note how he explains that Wuhan and the Wuhan Institute of Virology might just be a coincidence because like Atlanta (home of the CDC) its a major transport hub. Go watch this from DW News that sheds a lot of light on what the Chinese were actually doing at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It DOES NOT conclude it was a lab leak, because nobody has conclusive evidence, but there is a lot of evidence that a lab leak was possible. What it also highlights is that the Lead Scientist in Wuhan Dr. Zheng-Li Shi WAS MODIFYING Bat Corona Viruses, but by the definition that she and others use it wasn't Gain of Function. What they show in that documentary is that there is division among virologists over what research is safe to do. They highlight the hyper deadly variant of H5N1 Avian flu that came out of a lab in 2011. Here's the DW documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0nuyPQzU18 Here's an example of what the Chinese published out of Wuhan. Click on the authors names and you will see where they work. You can also see that the lead scientist in Wuhan mentioned in the DW documentary is also one of the authors of this. -> https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698
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  3615. There's a great part to this discussion I wished you taken further and that is the ridiculous number of flights required. Its also part of the reason why we are never going to mine asteroids for Earthside consumption. Its also why we are never going to take mineral processing off world as Jeff Bezos and others have publicly discussed. Just consider the energy burn-off in the atmosphere and you quite quickly get to the conclusion we'd be burning the atmosphere literally off the planet. Until we find some magic Star Trek stuff nobody is going to be taking that much mass up or down.
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  3616. I agree that decent public debates need to be had on all manner of subjects, but NOT worthless debates that take 4 hours to go nowhere with people who can't ever solve any of the issues. I specifically agree on the money. Lomborg and others like Alex Epstein are well paid through fossil fuel think tanks. The guys on Triggernometry just had Marion Tupy on a few weeks ago and he admitted working at the CATO Institute. They never challenged him on that. Its well known that Charles Koch (the fossil fuel billionaire) is one of the main funders of CATO. The fossil fuel money is never questioned enough. I'm an engineer and left a lengthy detailed response to this in the Lex's pinned comment at the top.
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  3617. FOR EVERYONE - This documentary on Tax Evasion showed up in my recommendations last week. YES, the YT Algorithm had a day off or something because its brilliant. It highlights the real problem isn't Tax Evasion its what they call Tax Avoidance. As one person in the doco says these people can afford the lawyers and accountants and auditors to operate in the grey space between what's legal and what's illegal. Its long but worth the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6O3US9IE4
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  3618. Yeah that's what everyone said when Trump nominated. The Trump years should have ingrained in us by now - don't make political predictions in times like these. We live in an incredibly uncertain and volatile time period. Plus the polling companies and experts who try and tell us what nations are thinking have been so wrong in recent years its absurd to take any of them seriously.
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  3619.  @kazupemaruta6990  He probably means the thick lined pants that they only wear outside when its 20below.
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  3620.  @goncalovazpinto6261  Yeah there might be quite a few around the world for that matter.
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  3621. Yes, oui, sì, jawohl, да and every other language on the planet. Everything that people think is wrong with feminism is summed up Hilary Clinton's BEHAVIOR.
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  3622.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  Well summed up. There are people who believe stuff no matter how stupid for no other reason than they want to believe that stuff. And they always demand other people prove what they believe.
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  3623.  @dreamersruleNOW  I was just back here to reply to another comment and saw your comment. That's a really good point. If Biden does not have a standard normal public inauguration there will be people claiming its all fake. Further they would probably go on and claim Biden's speeches and TV appearances are all fake and that he died of COVID months ago. These are people so drunk from Trumps cool aid fountain of reality disconnection that they will believe almost anything. Arguably Biden's biggest challenge will be reconnecting staggering chunks (as in there are more than 1) of America back with reality. Great comment. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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  3624.  @dreamersruleNOW  You are absolutely right. What I would ad to that is the first thing Biden must do is re-engaged Trump's base. if all anyone does is keep that block isolated and disenfranchised then one day they will get back in power with Trump or something worse than Trump. Biden's thankfully said as much NOW he has to DO and that needs to start ASAP. They are 74million upset frustrated gun owners and if Trump keeps winding them up then something very bad will happen. There was just a case where some maniac declared (in the writ) the existence of "New California" and "New Nevada." These people are crazy and need to stop drinking Trump's cool aid. You have hundreds of millions of guns. The gun shops have never had it better and report running out of ammunition to sell. Its like the population is doused in gasoline and wants to play with matches. Biden must come out and defuse this.
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  3625.  @dreamersruleNOW  Sorry but it will have to be a COVID-19 masks only event. To give you perspective on where America is at right now and how truly awful it is. I'm Australian but went to college at U.Illinois UC so I have some very personnel feelings on what's happened to America. If I take the populations of Illinois Wisconsin and Indiana its 25.2 million which is very close to Australia's 25.6 million. Australia has 908 dead from COVID-19 while Illinois Wisconsin and Indiana have over 25,700 (as of todays counts). Australia currently just over 1400 active cases while Illinois Wisconsin and Indiana have over 550,000 active cases (as of todays count). Yes Australia is a lot more spread out and is an island, but nothing can explain away that sort of difference. What's worse is those states are about to head into winter and I know what those winters are like. What's happened so far is not simply tragic its a catastrophe. A big crowded inauguration would be just another very stupid thing to do. America has 6.5 million active cases and a vaccine will not help any one of them. Vaccines only work BEFORE you get a disease. Another 241,000 NEW cases were reported yesterday and a vaccine wont help them either. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ I'm truly afraid that America is about to implode. Yesterday America went past the 300,000 dead count. I truly hope America can get past this and Trump and many other things and that I will see my all my friends again.
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  3626.  @mikek9297  Not really???? What planet are you living ON. Trump 2016 he was supposed to lose to Clinton. Brexit the Brits were supposedly staying in Europe. Australian Labour was supposedly outing the Liberal-National Coalition and didn't British Labour supposedly outing the conservative Torries and didn't FOR 2 YEARS EVERY POLL said Trump's base was getting smaller and 11 million extra people voted for him. The Dems were supposed to sweep into power in the Senate and only just got a 50/50 split. WHICH OF THSOE FACTS DID YOU NOT LISTEN TO???????
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  3627.  @jonathandnicholson  You absolutely right except for the fact that it was the survivors of war who most often got to breed. And they tended to be the violent ones or the ones who could be violent. Do you know Genghis Kahn and his men used to shag every woman in the cities he captured. They spent days after battles just shagging everything. As a result its something like 1 in 4 Asians are direct descendants of him and his family. On your last part about method. I've seen a couple of documentaries on the subject. (Sorry if this is a bit lengthy) One of them made by a couple of Brits in the 90s just simply went through what various states did and the most horrendous was actually electrocution. But their most interesting point was that in the first 80-90 years of the 20th century only 1 in 10 people formally executed by states was even charged with a crime. What I got from that documentary was that the path leading up to an execution is just as important as anything. Making sure you are doing what you are advocating and doing is justified. As the Americans keep demonstrating its too easy to execute someone for the wrong reasons or a lack of conclusive evidence. The other documentary I saw was also by a Brit after more recent calls for reintroduction of the death penalty in Britain. When he looked into the current and previous methods they all had issues, including the availability of drugs. So he looked at how industry deals with animals and he found the calmest way that they kill animals is with CO2. They simply put them in a chamber and flood it with CO2 and they just fall over. There was the Lake Nyos disaster where CO2 basically wiped out an entire town -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster So there is no doubt that you could reuse the old gas chambers and instead of Cyanide use CO2. The executed would simply get light headed and go to sleep. The Journalist took that concept to the chief medical officer in America for executions and said "Here this could work and replace lethal injections and it would be painless and very quick." The reply was staggering - "NO, its not meant to be pleasant its a punishment." The concept of using CO2 was dismissed because, it was too nice and not a real proper punishment. I changed my stance a bit on capital punishment after that line. I still see it as a necessary option but only in the most extreme cases and ONLY when we are absolutely certain. Then its about being clean and quick.
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  3628.  @mggailitis7231  I think you just hit the nail on the head - People who exploit situations. America right now is the perfect example. They are drowning in misinformation by people only trying to exploit the situation. Did you know there are people here on YouTube with channels dedicated to promoting the election fraud issue and that Trump can still win. Do you know they have PayPal and Patreon accounts asking for money? And they are clever they don't say they are asking for money for the legal challenges they are asking money so they can "keep telling the truth." They are running the same scam that televangelists do - "Please donate so we can keep doing this great work." It really is a case study in exploitation that could end in catastrophic destruction of a country with nuclear weapons.
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  3629.  @mggailitis7231  You've hit on something where you are half right and half wrong. You are absolutely right on how deplorable people like Trump are. They exploit the disenfranchisement of so many people. Its the exploitation that sh-ts me. BUT on the concept of the people who vote for them voting against their won self interest you aren't wrong but you aren't right either. If you look at those people and we have a few million of them in Australia and we have politicians who take advantage of them. Have a look at this its a recent discussion that includes Richard Wolf and Mark Blyth (the Scotsman). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc Wolf is an unapologetic Marxist who teaches Marxism and other stuff. Blyth is a socio-economics professor who predicted Trump would win 2016 6-months before hand. They both condemn the DNC for ignoring the plight of working class Americans. I know its a long video but at least watch the few minutes starting just before 53:00 where Professor wolf talks about West Virginia. Have a listen to Mark Blyth at 59:30 about how the DNC simply wrote off 80million Americans as irrelevant. Just think on that a Marxist professor and a left leaning professor are defending why those people vote for people like Trump. The Labour Party in Australia has done exactly the same thing they are describing. They used to be the unionists and working class people now they are a pack of overeducated lawyers and activists who have also written off the working class. They even use DNC election advisors and then wonder why they lose. What everybody has forgotten is that Trump wiped the floor with a pack of elitist snobs in the GOP before he smacked another elitist snob in Hilary. This is one thing I really hate at the moment. The Elitists who dominate our party politics (in the west) have the ugly habit of ignoring or righting off slabs of working class people and that just leaves those people open to following after people like Trump. As Prof Wolf says they know Trump is an ass hole but at least he doesn't ignore them. Biden's biggest challenge by far is re-engaging those people and that's a monumental task because he is surrounded by elitist snobs while they are being goaded on by a narcissistic maniac. He's in a shit situation and nobody should envy him.
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  3630.  @mggailitis7231  Same to you mate. Its nice to get away from all the screaming and yelling that's flooded social media these last few years. Social media should have been something good in the world. Allowing people to share and communicate. Unfortunately its been a mechanism for ignorance and strife. The village idiots used to be isolated in their villages now they have a way to get together and spread their idiocy across the globe.
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  3631. No she is actually one of the clan. And if you are wondering how TF she got elected you only have to go and look where the 14th district of Georgia is. Its the far north west corner (hillbilly country) of Georgia. Go have a look at the results she won by long long long way.
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  3632. Yeah - well I'm an engineer who's worked in industrial control systems, robotics and automation for 35+ years and I have no doubt Automation impacted your business BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT ITS MEANT TO DO. You should know better than most that NOBODY goes and spends money on upgrading unless there is PROFIT TO BE MADE and I am certain that some fraction (possibly small) of those profits have ended up in your bank account.
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  3633.  @rpg9392  I have just listening to this -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYby-07rEKU No point in giving to your relatives but the first few minutes should interest you.
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  3634. Its now almost 325,000. --> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ TO give you all some perspective on the American situation. I'm Australian and I went to college at U. Illinois so I know the Midwest fairly well. If you combine the populations of Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana it total 25.2 million which is fairly close to Australia's 25.6 million. Yes there are significant geographical differences in size and in weather (like the difference in winter conditions). BUT none of that explains the following facts. Australia has 908 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana have over 28,000 (and counting). Australia has just over 1,400 active cases while Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana have over 520,000 active cases as winter sets in. On the table at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Australia is 54th in population, 85th total fatalities, 113th in active cases and 129th in Fatality rate (Deaths per 1M pop). *If Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana were a country they would be 14th in total fatalities, 7th in active cases and 6th in Fatality rate. *
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  3635.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Look calling JBP a loon only makes you look and sound like an SJW idiot in the context of his previous free speech efforts. In terms of his comments about Australia - he's simply just wrong, but then he's been dead wrong about other things like how we transition away from coal. I'm an engineer and I have called that out previously only to be met by a wall of anger from his supporters. Which is part of my argument now about tribalism. Getting in the road of sensible discussion. In terms of COVID numbers yours are simply wrong as well. I am Australian but went to college in America and have been monitoring the region where I went to college (U. Illinois). If I add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its almost identical to Australia's population. Other than the winter weather the land area and urban spread (if you understand the layout of Australia) isn't as different as people think. They have over 50,500 dead compared to Australia's 1116. Alternatively had we done what Sweden did we'd have around 36,700 dead. So I agree that JBPs comments on Australia being a police state are loony and he needs to be told to F-off like a few others on that subject. Every time someone does try, we simply ask that idiot to tell us which of 30 or 40 or 50,000 Australians we should just let die. They usually shut up at that point.
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  3636.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  There is one good thing about what people have found regarding the Chinese Research and I wish the people who are screaming it can't be a lab leak would see this. COVID was NEVER a bio-weapon and the conspiracy clowns were just. Oddly the NIH links and the research that's been published proves this. If it was a weapon why was it being done in a lab where Americans were present? If it was a weapon why were they publishing papers on what they were doing? Weapons are developed in secret places and you never tell the world what you did. That's the good news. The bad news is that there's a lot of people who wont listen or examine what has been found. The Conspiracy people hate me because I've disproven their garbage and the other side hate me because they wont admit there is the possibility of a lab leak because that fractures their tribal reality.
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  3637. Australian here - You have just described BOTH sides of Australian politics, but more so with the Left. We have Australian Labor on our Left and the Liberal National Coalition on the right. Australian Labor do this sort of self destruction thing every time they get into power. They let ideology take over from common sense and of course they never ask if their ideology actually makes sense. Historically Australian Labor like British Labor was started as a political party OUT OF the union movement. It wasn't like the European Communists in France or Italy that came from political movements. The Australian Unions funded the start of Australian Labor and the ACTU was the main force in Australian Labor. That changed with the introduction of neoliberal economics. America had Reaganomics but we called it Economic Rationalism. Our Unions self imploded with stupid strikes either became irrelevant or corrupt. Into the power vacuum on the Left came a herd of Leftist Intellectuals. In America you'd call them Liberal Elitists and just like the Clintons and Obamas they have MBAs, PhDs and Economics degrees. Only 2 Weeks ago Australian Labor self imploded in one of our State Elections. We don't hold all our elections at the one time like America does. Anyway they Labor ran a campaign so like the Democrats you would think that they hired the same campaign strategists. The LNP conservatives ran with "youth crime out of control." Yes there's been a slight uptake in youth crime but if you look at the last 25 years we were at historic lows and its just crept up a bit. It was just like the GOPs adds on crime rates in America AND IT WORKED. Kyle is dead right on his comment about red meat. Right Wing parties like the GOP and LNP understand very clearly that HALF of the population have an IQ under 100 and they DO NOT CARE ABOUT POLICIES. They do no vote intellectually they vote emotionally and the LEFT JUST DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT.
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  3638. ​ @timandrew4515  Josh Frydenberg, did just as Gary is explaining - he magically pulled money out of thin air. To my recollection the main chunk was that $38 Billion for job keeper but I expect it goes much further and nobody really wants to tell us the truth. I'd love to see an Australian version of Gary step forward. We need to finally get past the economic rationalism which was just our version of Reaganomics and Thatcherism that the financial wizards Keating and Costello dumped us with. I'm actually an engineer who started looking into economics BEFORE the pandemic started out of frustration from dealing with idiots waving economics degrees as they interfered in projects. One fo the things I found was that economics is taught from a very narrow set of concepts. Most of the text books come out of places like Harvard, Yale, Oxford,.... etc. or are written by people who went to Harvard, Yale, Oxford,.... etc. So there is almost ZERO lateral thinking in economics. If you have ever had the feeling it doesn't matter who gets elected we (the general public) will still get screwed. Well YES and there is an explanation. Any of our politicians who studied economics at any level and all their advisors and all their consultants and all the lobbyists, bankers, journalists, business leaders, managers ALL LEARNED THE SAME STUFF. You could ask 1,000 economists on almost any subject and they all have the same answers because they were all taught the same stuff. There are a few mavericks like Gary. One of the very few in Australia is Steve Keen. he has a channel here on YouTube but this is a recent interview he gave -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsHQ_O-op8s
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  3639.  @kevincowan2639  If you have enough money then YES. I'll assume you're not Australian by the question, so here's something. We have a banking sector addicted to foreign investment. It sis the cash cow that never stops giving. The love it because they get transfer fees when the money comes in. They also get another set of transfer fees when the money goes back out and its usually more money so the fees are bigger. Anther economic addiction we have is the housing sector which is a major employer. That sector doesn't care where the money comes from, but they love foreign money because its raised prices which means the builders got more money for what they built. Anther economic addiction we have is the real estate sector and the more expensive housing gets the more money they make from commissions. This is why our property sector is incredibly over inflated at the moment and we are OVERDUE for a major correction. We had a stupid government under a clown named Jon Howard who gave tax relief to investors and the older baby boomers loved it while the rest of us got smashed. that system has to change we just haven't worked out how to do it yet. If you are a foreigner and want to invest here you better have EXCELLENT 1st CLASS INFORMATION or you will get destroyed. Understand that we have had people here selling scams to people overseas. Its the same type of scam that was done in Florida and California in the 1920s. Sometimes the first we hear about them is when some person gets off a plane and asks where their house is. So by all means invest here. If you have good advice it will be good for you. BUT if you are not careful you'll get burned.
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  3640. Exactly because they enable people to understand the world. Go and look at what happens during ANY revolution irrespective if the revolution is Leftist or Right Wing. Certain groups of people are immediately targeted for termination. After Lawyers, because they can argue the law, the next most often targeted group are teachers and especially College professors because they challenge people to learn how to think for themselves. Journalists like to make out how they are targeted, but in actual fact they are #3 on the list. Shhhh don't say anything journalists like to think they are #1.
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  3641. Peterson is in a profession (psychology) that has a very high proportion among its practitioners. Peterson himself literally disappeared for a year and it emerged he had gotten addicted to drugs. I find it a bit of shame because even though I vehemently disagree with a lot of what he says these days when he was a college professor he was a quite decent teacher and had decent things to say. When he made that protest about the Canadian language Law he was making a valid point that you can't force people to use certain words because it doesn't work. He had the incredible interview with the British Journalist Cathy Newman that's still available to watch. She was horribly trolled after that and Jordan Peterson was among the first to condemn those who attacked and trolled her. Now JBP is an interesting case study on what happens when you let politics and social media rot your brain.
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  3642. Actually Giuliani's work ISN'T worthless - its worth $20K A DAY. It might be worthless legally speaking but since their game is fundraising its actually worth a lot. Its called mob psychology and the way you drive a mob is with emotion not fact. So you know - Hunter Bidens $50K a month translates to about $2.5 a day or 1/8th of what Giuliani gets.
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  3643.  @laurenwalker1048  I actually went to college in America on a sports scholarship. I got a great degree in aerospace engineering. I met a lot of great people and its part of saying thanks. So share the links as much as you like. Besides which there's an Australian named Murdoch lurking at the center of this like some form of poisonous swamp beast out of a B-grade teen horror flick. Sooner or later we'll need to deal with him. It wont be a matter of should or might it will be a matter of necessity.
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  3644. The main reason they must keep a second pilot is REDUNDANCY. I have a degree in aerospace engineering and a private pilots license but I work in industrial control systems. I am formally trained in programmable safety systems. So I am formally trained in WHY WE USE REDUNDANCY for critical safety functions. When we are talking about "critical safety functions" these are for ABNORMAL events. We start with the premise that no system is perfect and will eventually fail if put in service long enough. This concept causes a lot of conflicts with other engineers because they don't like being told their work is not perfect. Its actually not easy to get them to grasp that once they are not involved (as in the plane has been delivered to the customer) they have nothing more to do Risk Assessment not only includes people but their training & competency. Redundancy can also include operators. For complex and heavy aircraft the second pilot is a key part of the safety strategy. Their fundamental job is to reduce the workload on the pilot who is flying the plane. One of the key parts to that strategy is CRM (Crew Resource Management). And the key takeaway that other industries have adopted from CRM is "agreement." Its not a matter of one person checking another persons work. Its a matter on them agreeing its been done correctly. After the fiasco of the Max-8 this should NOT even be a discussion any longer. I can explain in detail that the Max-8 was always going to have those sorts of fatal accidents because it was a single point failure system. The Max-8 will be a case study in "What not to do!" for generations of engineers. Boeing are not alone as Airbus also have had some shocking accidents to overreliance on automation. Any engineer who thinks this can be done clearly has no cockpit time and no proper training in safety systems or safety management and NEEDS TO BE RUN OUT OF THE INDUSTRY.
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  3645. ​ @caronadams4486  You forgot to add the 4th point or maybe add to the 3rd. Instead of "and that's the point" you could add: ... forget all of the economic indicators that prove neoliberalism is failing and just blame anyone and everyone you can EXCEPT the billionaires who keep telling you how great the economy is as they wash down caviar and truffles with champagne while watching you and your family starve.
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  3646.  @geraldmeehan8942  You miss the point - Ukraine is NOT part of NATO and can't become part of NATO because of Donbas (its spelt with an 'n' too). There's no treaty for anything. Putin knows it, Europe knows it, Everyone on the planet who's paid attention knows it - there's nothing NATO can do. This isn't like it was in Kuwait 1991. Except that its still about fossil fuel, just this time its about gas not oil. After all the BS of WMDs in Iraq is anyone outside of Washington really going to believe the US State Department or the Pentagon?
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  3647.  @geraldmeehan8942  I just saw a news story a few hours ago and they interviewed Ukrainians on the street and none of them seem all that concerned.
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  3648.  @geraldmeehan8942  Both valid points. No doubt he wants NATO to at least back off. Have you seen Paul Jays interview with Larry Wilkerson on NATO? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fefdgeyNrM
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  3649.  Harold Webb  I agree on all of that. The fundamental difference between America, China and Russia is that the American people can get rid of the leadership. I'm actually Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship. So on one hand I love the country and its people, but on the other hand I can't stand their politics or their economics. I'm not against democracy or freedom or even capitalism, but I am against extremist ideologies. These days America has this insane ideology that if the top 1% are doing well then everyone is doing well. Its idiotic at best and dangerous if followed and America has been adept at exporting insane ideas like "Greed is good." Your right following America is a lot better than following China or Russia (that's obvious), but BLINDLY following America is stupid, destructive and dangerous.
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  3650. ENGINEER HERE: Sorry for the long comment. 1) There was always going to be an energy transition. Ever since the industrial revolution we have had some sort of transition (or major upgrade) around every 50 years because that's the approximate lifetime of most large scale energy systems like power stations. Nothing we built lasts. When it wears out it needs replacing. Normally transitions happen when we build the next power station or next fleet of trains or ships or planes. For example there was the transition from coal to diesel for trains and ships. After WW2 there was the transition from piston engines to jet engines in the airline industry. Bottom line is we don't build what we did 50 years earlier. So there's always the transitions going on. 2) This transition is vastly different from previous transitions because we have had a lot of INTERFERENCE. The worst have been ECONOMISTS mostly operating out of central banks and think tanks. Economists have been closely followed by Lawyers and Greenies. Lawyers because they interfere in anything and everything they can and Greenies because even though they mean well they are basically ignorant of what's PRACTICAL. What none of the Economists, Lawyers or Greenies get is that their interference HAS DELAYED the transition and during that delay all the energy infrastructure including the power stations got older and older. Power stations are physically big complex lumps of hardware that cannot simply be replaced by dialling up Amazon. Most take close to a decade to plan, design, approve and construct. nuclear power stations are even worse. Hinkley Point C in Britain took 7 years to design and approve and will take another 10 to construct - 17 years in total. Here in Australia we have done what other places like California, Britain and Germany to name a few places. We have been turning OFF OLD power stations (6 so far). We have not replaced 1 of them and have not a single plan to replace them up for discussion. You can't simply go putting up windmills and solar panels to replace that stuff. You can't simply say build nuclear as many have been saying. YOU HAVE TO PLAN IT or it becomes the stuff ups we've all been experiencing. This is the real reason for the energy crisis. The interference by Economists, Lawyers and Greenies in moving forwards. And so we are clear the lawyers and economists are bought and paid for by various business interests. 3) We simply don't have enough stuff to do the energy transition. Engineers like Simon Michaux and others have tried explaining this people. We simply don't have enough of what's needed (Lithium, Cobalt, Copper,... etc) to replace the 1,500,000,000 (YES 1.5 BILLION) cars that exist in the world. PLUS making a car requires a lot of energy. You have to dig stuff out of the ground, then process it, then send it to a refinery, then send it to a factory or to a string of factories as it progresses through the supply chain. Cars are made of various metals, various plastics, different cloths and glass AND ALL THAT STUFF REQUIRES ENERGY. After the 1.5Billion cars there's the trucks, buses, ships and airplanes. After all that there's still all those consumer good you all want. Like the computer you are on RIGHT NOW. Because of all the interference, some of it by well meaning people, we are not getting through this.
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  3651.  @gabrielproulx6316  I absolutely agree America does not have a Left as everybody else does. It has a party that is "Left of" the other party which is now so far right its barely even comparable to everybody else's right. The party that is to the left (the Dems) is now so far right its what everybody else calls a right wing party. FYI - I'm AUSTRALIAN and have been trying to explain what a real left is to Americans for 30+ years. Ever since I went to college there on a scholarship. Sorry for not mentioning that but you don't need to explain Britain which we are so closely linked to we may as well still be a colony at times. I have actually worked in Canada and was there when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on them. What blew me away about Canada was just how close of a mirror image it is of Australia with the exception of the snow. Americans fundamentally don't understand the actual origins on both their parties (compared to other western democratic systems) OR how they have shifted over the decades AND ITS WORSE NOW than I have ever seen it. America started sliding with Reagan into their version of a fundamentalist theocracy like Iran did. The reason most people have missed this was because of how slow and gradual it was done. 2 things have prevented it going further than it has. First - there's still enough functioning educated humans involved to stop it. And Second the American Constitution exists. I now consider it (I didn't back then) one of the greatest achievements of human history. The USC only has 1 critical flaw and its the flaw all others stem from -> The founding fathers falsely assumed that all future generations would ACTUALLY value it from a sensible rational educated standpoint and protect it. They hoped (sort of 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️) that future generations would not twist it into a tool (or weapon) to subjugate or force their views on others. For example the NRA have not subjugated anyone but they have forced their view on American society by twisting the 2nd into an abomination it was never intended to be. It was intended to provide security under the control of the civilian populace. The tragedy is the USC 2nd Am. is the first time in history that a population was given the right to control its own security and safety. Prior to that and still in most countries the government has absolute control of public security and safety. For most of the 30+ years since I was in college I have seen Australian governments get away with stuff that no American could (or should) BUT in the last 20+ I have watched America slowly GIVE IT AWAY. The freaky thing is the most vociferous people on that subject (the GOP) have done the most damage. For example Trump signed off on the most intrusive surveillance of people's online activities - HOW DID that happen with the 4th Amendment? When ever I ask an American about that they have no answer. Some try but end up mumbling stuff. I do hope America can find a leader who will restore common sense and clean out the grifters and husslers and schysters.
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  3652. I think your right, Chomsky is assuming that these people will act responsibly when the simple fact is that there are people who howl about "their rights" who NEVER GIVE a DAMN about anyone else's right. Its like the pro-gun people who demand their right to won a gun AND DON'T CARE about the safety of other people. Before COVID Measles had not simply reappeared it had made resurgence and that was all due to anti-vaxxers. The simple reality is that society has always had those people who demand they be allowed to do whatever they like irrespective of the damage or threat or inconvenience to the rest of us they are.
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  3653.  @snapdragon9300  Your spot on. We all have these problems its just a matter of what degree. The Americans as usual do it loud or louder. As they showed "This is Spinal Tap" they wind it up to 11.
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  3654.  @markskeldon1347  Its easily one of the most annoying things about being an engineer these days - having our experience and training discarded as irrelevant.
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  3655.  @markskeldon1347  That's describing a very subtle from of the Dunning-Kruger syndrome that's pervasive through the corporate world these days. There's a staggering number of people who think they are better and more knowledgeable than they actually are VESUS a massive slab of people who have a better perspective with understanding there's a lot they don't know underestimate themselves. Unlike, say Flat Earthers with no science education at all who claim to understand physics better than physicists, in the corporate world the people who overrate themselves actually are well educated. They just aren't as well educated as they think they are. My particular peeve is with economists who all went to college and did 4 year degrees. They think, because they can use computers and did a science class or 2, that they understand things like infrastructure, mining & manufacturing. Worse they think they know what it takes to build and maintain these things AND THEY DON'T. Trying to tell them that they don't is just like trying to explain the Earth is a globe to a Flat Earther.
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  3656.  @markskeldon1347  "How many purchasing agents, lawyers, economists ect. have ever developed a product from raw materials to it's completion?" NONE, UTTERLY NONE.
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  3657.  @markskeldon1347  Saying your grandfather was a tool & die maker, tells me why you understand this. I started with a degree in aerospace but have worked for 30+ years in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. I have worked with REAL PROPER tool makers like your grandfather. Trying to explain the difference between tool makers and machinists to an economist or lawyer is like trying to teach a dog quantum mechanics. Its theoretically possible but first you have to genetically re-engineer their brains.
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  3658.  @jeffbybee5207  It comes from looking into economics. I basically got tired of clowns with economics degrees interfering in projects. What I found is that Economics is dominated by a very narrow set of ideas that started as Reaganomics and Thatcherism but we now call neoliberalism. Sorry for the longish explanation. All the time we hear about Leftist influence in education and I will agree with the criticism there. Both my parents, their friends, a cousin and some of my friends are (or were) high school teachers. So I know about that stuff. What we never hear about is the Right wing libertarian influence in Economics and Law. SCOTUS currently has 4 Harvard, 4 Yale and a Notre Dame. The nine before them included 6 Harvard. Out of the 18 before the current 9 ONLY 1 did not go to a private college for at least part of their education and most were Ivy League. Its an incredible concentration of ideological power. The other place it shows up is in economics. Where Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton,.... business graduates dominate Wall St. and banking in particular. They have subsequently funded those places with "donations" to train more of what they want. It actually started with John D Rockefeller when he helped establish the University of Chicago, which is where McKinsey taught before founding McKinsey Group and where Milton Freidman taught for decades. All around the world economics students have text books out of U. Chicago, Harvard, Yale, Princeton,... or text books written by people who went to U. Chicago, Harvard, Yale, Princeton,... So almost anyone with an economics degree is braindead, brainwashed or clueless. And the lawyers aren't any better.
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  3659.  @markskeldon1347  I recently picked up a copy of "Wealth of Nations" printed by Capstone. It has a Preface by Dr. Razeem Sally of the LSE and an Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon who graduated from the LSE. just reading those 2 is interesting because they have quite different takes on Smith. I got the book on a whim because Mark Blyth keeps mentioning him all the time. I finished "Angrynomics" a while back and and reading Stephanie Kelton's "the Deficit Myth." I am as Mark Blyth puts it "NOT a proponent of MMT but am sympathetic to what they are saying." Which means we really do need to start looking at Economics form other perspectives because what we are doing right now is insanely destructive. Mark does podcasts for the Rhodes Centre out of the Watson Institute at Brown where he interviews people who have written books. They are great at getting an introduction to what some fairly smart people are trying to tell the world.
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  3660.  @TheAginG420  Well said.
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  3661. Here's a great quote from former VPOTUS Henry Wallace. Its significant for several reasons. It was written 2 years before Trump was born so it wasn't written about him but it perfectly describes him. Look at what he said about method and then consider what Trump has done for 4 years. Not only was it said by someone alive when Mussolini, Hitler & Stalin were alive it also means they saw Americans like Trump in their day. That means America has dealt with Trump like clowns before and found a way to get past them, fix the mess they leave and move on. Here's the quote, someone else shared it with me, so share it around and let people know America has dealt with Trump like clowns before. Best to all. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  3662. WHY IS ANYONE SURPRISED. Look at the people who he is talking to. Its the Federalist Society. This is a group that at its core DOES NOT BELIEVE in DEMOCRACY. At its core it believes they they the true protectors of the the constitution and they alone should appoint all of the Judges in America including SCOTUS. They started at Harvard and Yale and 14 of the last 18 SCOTUS Judges are from Harvard (10) and Yale (4). Look at Biden's short list - 5 of 7 are Harvard or Yale. Are there no other Law Schools in America that matter including the others in the Ivy League?
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  3663.  @bryanleggo3489  Among all the Rogan comments that is actually a fair comment. He is far from the worst, but he is one of the most prominent podcasters in the world and like all celebrities he at times thinks his opinion has MERIT because of his celebrity. You're right he's not the worst but that doesn't mean what he does sometimes is acceptable.
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  3664. Australian here and since you're from California I have a question. What would you say to a Newsom-Harris ticket where Kamal stays as VP? Because as an outsider looking in I can't see Kamala winning. She's terrible on the Campaign trail as was shown 4 years ago when she could not even win California (her home state). HOWEVER her coming on as Newsom's VP it gets past the funding issues that I keep hearing about and Newsom is a lot better of a campaigner. Is age also would get past many of the issues the Democrats now have. FYI - I went to college in America on a sports scholarship (U. Illinois) and spent 2 of my 3 summers in California. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they used to drag me into their discussions. So I got an unusual education into how the American system is supposed to work but that's a longer discussion. But for this question just assume I have a reasonable understanding of American politics and how it works and I am genuinely interested in what you think of the possibility of Newsom-Harris ticket.
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  3665.  @clementvining2487  I HAVE SPENT MOST OF THE LAST 20 YEARS IN THE MINING INDUSTRY SO STOP PREACHING TO ME. I know more about the logistics of mining than you do. Its what gets me angry about clowns who try and preach to me about it. Unlike so many of the clown brigade I went and got real experience. So stop preaching to me until you go and get real experience too.
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  3666.  @bristoled93  Yes I know who Isaac Arthur is and he way too often confuses science fiction with reality, but then so many of the so called "science communicators" are guilty of doing that.
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  3667.  @clementvining2487  HERE'S SOME EXPERIENCE. In 2013 I worked for Rio Tino on the Mount Tom Price Mine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tom_Price_mine If you or any others look at the satellite you'll see there's no airport at the town of Tom Price. You actually fly into the airport at Paraburdo and you fly there on one of the last fleets of Boeing 717s because 737s are too heavy for the runway. HOW DO I KNOW THAT? Because I have worked there. If you google earth the coordinates in Wikipedia the red marker is right on a straight line (going left to right). That's the conveyor for the reclaimer to the north of that is another parallel line that is the conveyor for the stacker. In between is the high grade fines stockpiles. North of that is the high grad lump stockpile. That line of divots are because it load the trains with a series of chutes under the stockpile. I could describe that site in detail. BECASUE I HAVE WORKED THERE. I can describe other mines in Australia because I have worked on them.
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  3668. ​ @bristoled93  I gave up watching his channel a while back because it was to much futurism and I have a very short fuse with futurists. They push conjecture and ideas as if they will be fact in the near future. They have a terrible way of grabbing public attention that the media then latch onto and then engineers spend months unravelling what they set in motion. The mainstream media like to have futurists on because they can spout almost anything and the media can stand back and claim "we didn't say it that person did." They then repeat that and repat it and repeat it and eventually it goes from being an idea to accepted reality. And university professors are among some of the worst at that. Most people don't realise that academics have to fight for funding. So they often promote "imagine when we have....." AI is arguably the worst example. A staggering number of people actually believe we have computers that can think. When we can't actually explain what thinking actually is. What we do have are algorithms that can mimic a human for specific well defined tasks. Its why it works so well with image analysis in areas like facial recognition. Space mining is another futurist fantasy promoted by people trying to raise cash. Most people have no idea what mining is about, other than it involves digging and they know even less about space.
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  3669.  @bristoled93  Buddy I was in college when Challenger happened. Before that reality slapped us down our main topic of discussion was how we would be build Space Station Freedom and then head back to the moon. A few years down the track one of my class mates was helping build the ISS. We actually had a disagreement circa 2000 about how that was proceeding and she slapped me down with some harsh reality about what it took to build in space. So I know what getting slapped down with reality feels like. She's now one of a group of people that if you don't have her approval your stuff doesn't go to the ISS. We went to U. Illinois and down the street from our building was the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). A couple of after we were there some of those guys as a side project did the Mosaic program. That became Netscape and then Internet Explorer. So don't lecture me about space stations or the Internet. I know more about both than you ever will for one basic reason. I LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO KNOW MORE THAN I DO. Its how you learn stuff.
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  3670.  @seyedmortezakamali2597  Yeah right we'll just see if we can get Wile E. Coyote to design that system right after he finally catches the road runner.
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  3671.  @The1stMrsO  Its still a ridiculous statement and that's what I am really getting fed up with in the woke public discussions. There's just so much hyperbole and bad faith claims from BOTH sides. I don't know about you but I an getting fed up with the endless discussions when we have some far bigger issues to deal with. I'm an engineer and the energy crisis is only going to get so much worse than it is because there's been so much public BS that the real issues are being lost in all this endless cacophony.
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  3672.  @kidShibuya  I wouldn't say its over yet, but I'd say its bigger than we think. From the Chinese perspective its certainly convenient to get everyone looking somewhere other that Taiwan.
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  3673. I was doing my degree in aerospace when that happened. I was actually in Florida only weeks before and watched the previous mission take off from about 60 miles away. Even at that distance it was impressive. A year later when I was working in the summer for my professor in some of his consulting work I walked into his office one day to see him head in hands. When I asked, all he said was "They're going to do it again." He'd actually been at Morton Thiokol the day before to meet with the engineers from Lockheed to discuss their simulation results on the redesign for the SRBs. My professor's specialty was the structural analysis of axisymmetric structures using computers. What we call Finite Element Analysis (FEM). At the time he was one of the top 2 or 3 in the world on the subject. He was so dismayed by the behavior of the people involved that he predicted they'd lose another Shuttle. The SRBs didn't fail the second time but the ATTITUDES of people making decisions certainly played a major factor in the loss. So you know - the engineers knew within a few hours that there had been a significant strike to the wing. They had requested it be examined by re-tasking a spy satellite to take photos. They were overruled because someone decided they couldn't do anything anyway and that the photo would cost too much money. What that did was take away ANY OPTIONS. By doing stupid things LIKE NOT having a backup ROV on the support vessel Oceangate took away ANY OPTIONS that might have existed once they started getting into trouble.
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  3674.  @nicklanfear4303  Go look up McArthur’s Universal Corrective Map of the World You're the ones who are down under.
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  3675.  @dixonhill1108  FYI - I am an engineer and did a project in Canada in 2017-18 in Saskatchewan and loved Canada. Other than the cold it was so like Australia in many ways. Canadians are as sports mad as we are, just in a Canadian way. One of the weird things is that Canadians talk about Ottawa and its bureaucracy the same way Australians talk about Canberra its bureaucracy. There's an Australian show called "The Hollowmen" which was a spoof on it. I bet if you ran the same scripts but with Canadian actors and Canadian place names nobody would spot it.
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  3676.  @dixonhill1108  I forgot to mention my favorite Canadian joke. What do you call an American who is polite, can think and understands basic geography? A Canadian.
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  3677.  @dixonhill1108  That looks like your trying to explain parts of Australia with different names. The most significant difference is we don't have 330 million clowns with nuclear weapons for neighbors. Although we do supply those clowns with their most important satellite base that lets them see most of Europe, the entire Middle East, all of Asia and importantly all of Russia.
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  3678.  @gregallen485  yeah Illiza's pretty awesome. The world needs more girls like her.
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  3679.  @razaparalarepublica8336  Exactly. They scream about "inconsistencies" yet during the official election count BOTH sides had representatives present and there were 1000s of independent foreign observers present as well. So why are these audits "LOCKING OUT" other parties. Isn't that being inconsistent. Sadly I can see something ugly happening before long. And by ugly I mean very, very ugly. Historically when the left snaps they don't simply yell and scream, they burn countries to the ground. Its one lesson the right always seem to forget.
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  3680.  @dx1450  Go have a look at some of the more notorious cults like the Manson family and see how they dealt with people who left, especially people from the upper echelons. A truly notorious example was Kim Jung uncle who was responsible for putting him in power. He had him executed by Anti-aircraft cannon. And lets not forget his brother (who didn't bow) in the airport. Cults that rely on illusions cannot have anybody questioning anything, especially from the upper echelons.
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  3681. That's actually not that abstract and you are on the right path. What you are basically saying is that you want the wage floor to be at a point where everyone has the opportunity to gain. I might re-define that slightly as: A prosperity wage enables a worker the ability to provide a family with equal opportunities to use their abilities as far as practical. I say "as far as practical" because you have to set practical boundaries. That's the giant failure of Milton Freidman's idiocy. Its doesn't take any genius to realize what he preached was lunacy. Corporations have no other obligation but to deliver for their owners. Just think through that - all of society exists for the financial benefit of the corporate owner class WITHOUT LIMITS or BOUNDARIES. There's another word for that its called "serfdom" and serfdom failed to grow any nation any real true wealth for 1000s of years. Freidman just wrapped serfdom up in a nice piece of pretty silk that we called Reaganism, Thatcherism or neo-liberalism. His claim to fame was the Nobel Prize for Economics. Its not even a real Nobel Prize. Go check it it was NEVER sponsored by Nobel or his family. It was sponsored by a Swedish bank to raise the public image of economists like Freidman. Its a PR device used to drive governmental policy and in that it has been incredibly effective. You must listen to this person because he won the Nobel Prize for Economics. Freidman's lunacy is why we've had no wage growth for 45years while the cost of living have gone up and up. Mark Blyth had a cracker that he gave in the analysis of Trump's 2016 win. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmBG3Z4DI&t=1104s Based on what Mark Blyth said the money exists for paying what you call a prosperity wage. Instead with Milton Freidman's greed is good serfdom that money goes to a tiny minority in the form of bonuses. More recently Mark Blyth pointed out the Rand study that says the top 1% has made of with $47trillion between 1975 and 2018. That's only grown since. Here's the time article on the Rand Report -> https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/ Here's the actual Rand report -> https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html I'm an engineer with Economics 101 as my 1 and only class in business and I can see how obvious this stuff is.
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  3682.  @pakese30  Have you ever seen the 1984 interview with Yuri Bezmenov the ex-KGB guy who defected? He gives this chilling description of what phycological warfare is. He's totally wrong a several points but his description of what it does to people and their ability to accept what they can see as reality is scary. About 1:20 in note what he says about being able to reason on evidence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI
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  3683.  @jamtaco2667  Which idiots are you referring to? The GOP idiots who think a brain damaged football player is a good choice? OR The Dem idiots who think the best strategy is say nothing of substance.
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  3684.  @jans6406  Yeah there's narcissisms on the left but by any comparison they are so far behind the right at the moment its like comparing throwing a pebble and firing a canon. Just F-off with the hypocritical stupidity we're getting tired of it.
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  3685.  @MFYouTube683  it was on a Channel 10 show called "Studio 10." Listen to how he describes himself - note the narcissism. The blond with the short hair who takes him to task is Jessica Rowe. I don't think he liked being questioned by a girl with brains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ef7Us0zw8Q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Rowe
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  3686. What the GOP KNOW and the rest of the Planet doesn't get is that the Trump base DOES NOT CARE. There heads are so full of the echo chamber they can't conceive of anything else AND their leadership KNOWS THAT. They know the base does not care and is not interested in hearing anything outside their delusion. Someone pointed out that this goes back tot he "Red Scare" of the Cold War that produced Reaganism and this is what's happened since its gone unchecked. Rupert Murdoch must love the fact that reality has been replaced with Opinion and if the Dems don't start waking up and getting America back to reality then America really is finished.
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  3687. I AM UNSUBSCRIBING NOT BECAUSE I DON'T AGREE 100% with what Kyle is saying. I'm just tired of his whinny little bitch attitude to EVERYTHING. He's not the first Leftist I have unsubscribed from and its the same reason. Go watch Jeff Daniels explain it in his famous why America is Not the Greatest slam dunk. Why do people hate Liberals? Because they're losers. If they are so damn smart how come they keep losing.
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  3688. Do you know the Puritans in Britain (the people who became the pilgrim fathers) had Christmas cancelled in Britain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_controversies#Puritan_era
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  3689.  @perthdude21  Good points and that is the thing that separates out some countries from others - How much power they give these clowns. America is at the top of that list after Trump. Closely followed by Russia China and Brazil with Britain, Italy and France fighting over 5th spot. But Australia has 1 flaw in its system and that's a little thing called balance of power. The greens and Democrats have held it at times and used it responsibly in that they never screwed the entire country up. All any group of clowns needs to do is get enough people to have the balance of power and they then can exert extraordinary influence. Don't forget we ALMOST gave that power to Clive Palmer and he's trying to do it again. We already have the Nationals with too much power now. Imagine what it COULD be like if enough idiots (and we have plenty) vote for his Graig Kelly led disaster.
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  3690. There's an obvious narcissistic hypocrisy to them as well. In their view NOBODY is allowed to do anything that has consequences on their life and yet they demand to be allowed to do things that have consequences on the lives of other people. Charles Koch is a classic example of that mentality. In his Axios interview he claimed any politician he financially supported had to do what he wanted. The people who actually VOTED for those people had no right to ask the promises made get delivered.
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  3691.  @johnkosowski3321  You have half made a reasonable point in the claim that greedy capitalists shouldn't risk there in investments. BUT THE REALITY is those peopel are also RISK TAKERS. Further they are people willing to risk other people's lives and wealth. This is the complete bullshit of libertarianism. They DEMAND others do not interfere with their lives yet also DEMAND the right to take risks that affect other people. You final remark about a failed regulatory system is true in that the system failed, but you are staggeringly IGNORANT that regulatory systems are failing because libertarians have been dismantling them for the last 40-50 years. CASE IN POINT - the FAA which instead of certifying the Boeing Max-8 let Boeing do it themselves and OUT OF GREED they delivered a substandard airplane that crashed twice. DON'T be so stupid and idiotic to claim something has failed and and then completely ignore the reason WHY it failed.
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  3692.  @johnthompson6374  I think its been an opportunistic thing Putin's has done in claiming Ukraine had a Nazi problem because almost every developed country in the world has a Nazi problem. I'm Australian and we have them. I know Britain and America has them. In WW2 every country the Germans invaded had German sympathisers like the Vichy in France. EVERY tribe nation and society has those ultra extremists who claim to be the protectors of their culture and the purity of their race. Even Russia has them. They just put different labels on them. Think about it Russia has ultra-nationalists who think they should go back to the Soviet system which was socialist or they at least claimed to be socialists. Do you know what you get when you have a person who's both a nationalist and a socialist? By chance would it be a national socialist and what do we usually call them??????
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  3693. Its not a mater of him being or not being an ophthalmologist that matters - its how he's behaved that matters. If you step back a bit form all the partisan crap there are some things that Dr. Fauci needs to explain better than he has. Below are some links that I got from other people and they clearly show that the NIH was funding research via Peter Daszak (and Ecohealth Alliance) in China. The 3rd link below is to a recent DW (German) short doco on Gain of Function and it includes a number of top US experts on virology research. What they explain is that there are a huge issues WORLDWIDE with infectious disease research. There aren't consistent or clear definitions and there aren't consistent and clear standards. Where Rand Paul has been a total failure and ratbag maggot of a human is that he wasted the opportunity to simply ask Dr. Fauci what all this stuff is about. He has enough of an educational background to dig deeper than most of us in a SENSIBLE MANNER that helped everyone understand. Instead he played total crap partisan politics. The claim he made about not being a career politician was just utter garbage and that needs to be held against him. Wave his qualifications back at him and ask how did he not get the answers we all need. https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9491676 https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9819304 DW News on Gain of Function -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0nuyPQzU18
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  3694.  @anticorporatists9959  Try writing clearly. If your going to make accusations then lay out the points. I think I know what your trying to say but its hard to follow when its just a string of phrases.
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  3695.  @steveallen648  Well you should have been clear about that instead of waffling on with a pile of nonsense.
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  3696.  @Jon-es-i6o  Actually I heard they called it the 3 second plane because they have about 3 seconds to correct anything or the aerodynamic forces can turn it into confetti. I did aerospace so I understand how those inlet nozzles work. In basic terms they move back & forward so that the shock wave just touches the lip of the nacelle. If the shock doesn't intersect either inside or outside there's significant loss of power. Its a bit like a 2 stroke engine in having a narrow power band and its what makes supersonic flight so tricky. I heard a pilot once describe what he called "losing the shock" as in the shock detaches from the nacelle lip. Because the engines are out in the wings it puts a huge yaw on the plane and they have only seconds to correct it or its confetti time. The more I find out the more and more I am impressed by Kelly Johnson and his skunk works team. Back in 86 when the whole do we or don't we replace Challenger debate raged on. Kelly Johnson said "NO, lets spend the money and do something better." He was ignored and these days I really wonder "What if the decision makers had listened to him."
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  3697.  @Jaredscott89  Sorry but bullshit. The costs are idiotic. They are also irrelevant as is the screaming and yelling about nuclear powered subs versus conventional. The real issue is the case for 12. Here's the link toe the actual white paper. Look for paragraphs 8.39 & 8.40. https://www.defence.gov.au/whitepaper/2009/ $90 Billion and the justification is WHAT EXACTLY. Nobody is asking how we expect to crew 12 subs when we can only just crew 4 and the new subs have a bigger crew. Its all bullshit and proves that in Australia military spending is a sacred cow that must not be questioned. We could easily save over $60 billion by simply buying 12 Barracudas of exactly the same spec as the French Government.
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  3698.  @carpediem44  You're about 90% right. There's a line I heard a while back about Government needs to lead and do the things industry can't and then hand on what it can. You're absolutely right that there are things that government should just not do and history bears that out again and again. BUT then there are things that industry needs to let government do without interference. As an aerospace engineer NASA is the best example I know. As part of the Apollo program they developed all sorts of new technologies and then handed them on for industry to take further. I was in college when Challenger happened and in the aftermath there were all kinds of "we must abolish NASA" sentiment. But the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics published a rebuttal. They commissioned and auditor to estimate the financial benefits of NASA. Just from the tech spin-offs and the taxes paid from sales the US People had made back $9 for every $1 spent on Apollo. AND THAT'S STILL GOING. If you're wondering the single biggest pay-offs have been in metal alloys and computers. People forget that before Apollo computers were monstrosities the size of houses. Apollo needed one the size of a shoe box. The lap-top I am using right now including its software systems can have its history traced back to Apollo. BUT THEN if you look at NASA after Apollo its this endless story of industrial interference via political lobbying.
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  3699. @kyle Thanks. It started for me with this odd little consult job I had on Australia's future energy needs. I was shocked (and still am) at how old our list of power stations is. I was even more shocked to find that many engineers have tried to point these things out. Every time we do the economists just parrot back "What's the business case for that?" or "Who's going to pay for that?" Our answer is always "Do you want the lights to stay on?" and that's when we get told to leave. It's just like the film "Don't look up!" Every politician in the world who's been told has simply ignored it and hopes some engineer will magically appear out of the mist like Aladdin's and solve the problem.
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  3700.  @zwerko  Take that down. That's not funny and is as stupid as you could possibly be. If you use non-specific words like temple or altar you are not being specific to anything other than how stupid Elon's followers are. Doing what you did links Elon to a specific religion and that's stupid. If you don't like being spoken to as if you're a child then don't act like one.
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  3701.  @davidsmith-ih2kk  Good point to raise. You're not the first and shouldn't be the last. The idiotic lack of safety should be rammed down the throats of the fool supporting this.
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  3702.  @rjung_ch  You are right nobody really needs an Aston Martin. But the people who make them and the people who make all the bits that go into them do need somebody to buy them. You'd be right saying they could be doing something else, but if you don't have those few companies pushing the technology limits then development can simply stop. We wouldn't have things like safety cells, airbags, and ABS brakes if there weren't companies like Aston Martin. The problem isn't there are Aston Martins. It isn't even the person who can afford one. Its the people who can afford 1 for each day of the year. The Sultan of Brunei is rumoured to have a bunch of Ferrari F40s. Not a bunch of Ferrari's this is a bunch of just 1 type and most have barely been driven at all. That's simply absurd. The real problem are the super rich who collectively hoard TRILLIONS of Dollars, Euros, Pounds, Yen and other currencies in tax havens.
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  3703. Its America NOT France. The French had a rule that if the guillotine blade stuck then you got to go free. It was sort of God's choice. Unfortunately it was a very rare thing.
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  3704.  @bobcornwell403  Correct on both points. Methane is the most (in terms of percentage of atoms) the most hydrogen rich hydrocarbon at 80%. For anyone asking yeah I checked. Remember High School Chemistry - alkanes, alkenes & alkynes? The alkane series is the most and has the formula CaH(2a+2) where a is the number of carbon atoms. As to energy efficiency, Political Economist Prof. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) has on multiple occasions said that the infrastructure project America needs to do is building renovation for efficiency. Someone (possibly an engineer) estimated that if the American government paid to upgrade all the skyscrapers then: i) 10s of 1000s of Americans will have work for the next few decades (it really will take that long); ii) America will meet its CO2 reduction obligations easily; AND iii) American business will reap mountain of cash by the reduction in operating costs; BUT iv) the energy production industry will get a hammering in that energy demand will drop massively. The same should work in any developed nation provided 1 thing happens. They (the Government) solves the corporate tax avoidance issue that plagues the entire World. In that case its a win-win-win for everybody except the energy supply sector. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3705. You are absolutely right, but do not for a moment think these people don't know what they are doing which is tap into the anger and frustration boiling in America's middle and working classes. Sorry if this is a but longer. A coupe of weeks ago Richard Wolff (David's old professor) mentioned a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on FAMILY WEALTH. Its easy to find with google with a search for "congressional budget office family wealth." What it says is damning and If you ask why David, Jessie, Sam Seder, Kyle Kulinski and all the other Lefty commentators are NOT howling about this report, I have no idea why. The very first graph of that report compares the wealth of the top 10%, middle 40% and bottom 50% of America from 1989 to 2019. The bottom 50% of America has effectively gone nowhere in terms of family wealth while the middle class has had reasonable growth while the top 10% have soared. I crunched some of the basic data of that first graph and looked at the recoveries from the GFC. Comparing what they lost after 2007 and comparing it to the 2019 valuation. ON AVERAGE: The Top 10% lost 11.1% in the GFC but have since recovered to be 21.7% ahead of where they were in 2007. The Middle 40% lost 13.6% in the GFC but have since recovered to be 4.6% ahead of where they were in 2007. The Bottom 50% lost 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC and have so far recovered some of that but are still 21.8% BELOW their 2007 valuation. That means 165 million Americans are NOT even back to where they were in 2007, while another 132 million Americans have only just recovered. This data is out of the Congressional Budget Office so there is no denying the reliability of the data. That's where a lot of the frustration that people like Kari Lake, Steve Bannon, Mike Lindell and others tap into. This is also where AOC, Marianne Williamson, Bernie Sanders, etc get their support from. When main stream establishment political parties FAIL to address real issues for real people those people will turn to others.
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  3706. I watched Dr. John Campbell for a long time during the pandemic. Would I say he gets things wrong at times? Absolutely. I'm Australian and on several occasions he got things WRONG regarding Australia. They weren't dramatically wrong but he consistently made small mistakes like he wasn't fully checking his vids before posting. BUT at no time did I see him doing what you have claimed, which is that he did all this to build a cult following. And I have no idea how you can claim he's doing this for personal gain.
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  3707.  @susemcx  People keep making the claims of "personal gain." How and where did he make money from these vids? I think people are confusing what a few influencers make with reality. I think you'll find its like a few other industries (like acting and modelling and race car driving) where there's a few people at the top making mountains of cash while most others are poor and broke.
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  3708.  @LRRPFco52  Good point - Peter has explained that numerous times. They just don't have the range. What I am talking about is the ability of the PLN to block the southern part of the South China Sea where there's the sea lane between Vietnam and the Philippines. Go look at where the Spratly Islands are.
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  3709.  @ernstraedecker6174  Sorry my mistake I it was over 10 years ago and I thought it was the country Charles Taylor was in charge of which was Liberia. It was definitely West African and it was definitely the French who left.
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  3710. You got it in one go. McConnell has simply admitted that he has NO MORAL REDLINES at all or at least if he has one there is actually NOTHING on the other side of that line.
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  3711.  @benjaminrickdonaldson  Do you have any idea how far off we are with a surface base for the moon? Here's one interesting fact the day on the moon is 14 days of light followed by 14 days of darkness. Kirk Sorenson (the guy in many of the Thorium reactor vids) worked at NASA on powering a lunar base. The conclusion around 20 years ago was that you need something other than solar for the primary supply to a lunar base. Solar can be used to supplement it but solar can't be the primary supply with out a damn big battery and that would be very heavy and at about $200 to 400,000 per kilo landed on the moon very very expensive. Its a big problem that no one is close to solving and until they do a lunar base is out. A reusable habitat for crews to use for 10-14 day stints is a realistic proposition.
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  3712. THIS IS NEWS FROM DAYS AGO Good way to keep up Kyle.
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  3713.  @TechySeven  As others have said this is nothing like many of his other busted videos, which is why I don't think its really a busted video.
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  3714. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. It used to stun me how well educated EVERY AMERICAN was on basic civics. By comparison it was almost embarrassing how well Americans understood their nation. Its not that those sorts of classes weren't available to me in Australia but they were optional and I was a math science geek who ended up an engineer. But these days I am stunned how badly Americans understand their nation and their constitution. I have been told George Bush 2.0 cut all the funding for civics AND IT SHOWS. And before you ask - YES we have some of these problems too, but not to this extent, but we are getting there.
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  3715. You're wrong its 2 liars fighting over who can lie better. Ted Cruz - Supreme Court did I her that right? Yeah I know he did Law and Harvard but WTF - In what universe of stupidity is that supposed to happen.
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  3716. Yeah I kind of agree. As the saying goes if you lay with dogs expect to wake up with fleas. He chose to work for Trump, he wasn't forced and I don't hear him accepting a lot of responsibility.
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  3717.  @gorey4more837  If you want proof Australia has them I have just been arguing with an Australian anti-vaxer who's criticizing a British health care professional whos done nothing but be as accurate as he can be through the pandemic. His names Dr. John Campbell and has a PhD in training nurses. He's done nothing more than collate and present data and summarize what's been happening around the world and all of a sudden the anti-vaxers (including some Australians) spotted one of his vids and they are trolling him like mad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHH1vWD19Fw I'm wondering what's worse the COVID Pandemic or the Stupidity Pandemic? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Stupidity is not supposed to be contagious but it certainly seems like it is.
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  3718.  @gorey4more837  There's been a lot of talk lately about how in the past that news services at least agreed on basic facts even though they differed on the interpretation of them. This is the real damage people like Rupert Murdoch brought to western society and what Trump has used so effectively. Giuliani said it best "Truth isn't truth!" I read Orwell in high school, hated it, but now I wished I could call up my old teachers and thank them. I can see what Orwell warned us about with absolutism and totalitarianism. Totalitarianism more than any other ism relies on people believing what they are told NO MATTER HOW OBVIOUS ITS WRONG. And these days its those very people who scream at the rest of us that we are blind sheep. Their best claim is that "ANTIFA is made up of Fascists." Which is pure Orwellian doublespeak.
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  3719. I wished I had found this when you first posted it. I am an aerospace engineer and this is by far the best retort and explanation of the basic reality of AI. I work in industrial control systems and automation. There are some things I have done and code I have written that I can describe in ways that would make the average person think I work in AI. Nothing I have done is AI but I can describe it as if it is. So to see someone of Feynman's repute explain this in the way he has and do such a good job is a pleasure. Thanks so much for the post.
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  3720. EVERYBODY STOP AND NOTE WHAT Kevin McCarthy actually says. I cut & past this form the transcript of the video. The punctuation is mine. Starting at 1:24 "Despite these serious allegations. It appears that the president's family has been offered special treatment by Biden's own Administration. Treatment that not otherwise would have received if they were not related to the President. These are allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption and they warrant further investigation by the House of Representatives." Think about what that actually says. 1) There's allegations NOT EVIDENCE. 2) There's appearance NOT EVIDENCE. 3) Regarding the allegations of favoritism to family members, maybe he can explain how Jared & Ivanka were given positions in the Trump Whitehouse despite having NO RELEVANT Experience for those positions. 4) Regarding the allegations of abuse of power, maybe Kevin McCarthy can explain how the GOP ignored what Trump did with his "perfect call" to Ukraine during Trump's 1st Impeachment. 5) Regarding the allegations of obstruction, maybe Kevin McCarthy can explain how the GOP ignored Trumps obstruction with counting votes on January 6th during Trump's 2nd Impeachment. 6) Regarding the allegations of corruption, maybe Kevin McCarthy can explain why there has been NO Investigation regarding Jared Kushner's use of government resources to play various Arab states against each other to secure several hundred million dollars to bail out his family's investment in the New York office tower 666 Fifth Avenue OR How Jared Kushner was able to get $2 Billion from the Saudi Arabian Sovereign Wealth Fund as he left the Whitehouse. OR How Donald Trump's golf courses made millions of dollars because he spent so much time at them as President that countries were forced to rent suites and villas at them to hold meetings. PLUS the US government had to pay for the rental of suites and villas and golf carts and food at those golf courses for Whitehouse Staff and Secret Service agents.
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  3721.  @shiftyjesusfish  Also Elon's a charlatan for sure, but he's a different kind. Elizabeth Holmes and others never had anything it was all just a fantasy and many of them snatched their ideas from sci-fi. Elizabeth Holmes got her idea from Gattaca. The water from the air thing is from Star Wars - as in Uncle Owen's moisture farm. Elon's difference is that he has actually lucked onto a couple of things that were real and could be exploited. He lucked into Paypal. He never did any of the coding for it, but Elon was able to exploit it. He lucked into Tesla. He had nothing to do with the original development. I've been in one and they are fantastic and Elon has been able to exploit it. He lucked into SpaceX because he found a team that knew what they wanted to do and he didn't get in their road (or they just ignored him). Falcon is a great success, especially when you compare it to other systems. The last NASA flights on Soyuz cost $90M a seat. Falcon 9/Crew Dragon is $70M for 4 seats. Its been an incredible success and Elon has been able to exploit it. Your dead right Elon's a charlatan but he's very cleverly (or by luck) put himself in the place to claim other peoples work as his own or imply he was the driving force behind their work.
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  3722.  @shiftyjesusfish  You've summed up his attitude pretty well. Go look you the channel "common sense skeptic" he pulls Elon's crap apart quite well. There's an extensive set of vids on the Solar City debacle. Somehow it seems Elon has slipped out of that one but who knows what the Tesla investors will do next. On rocket fuels, it really depends on which rocket fuel is being used. Liquid Oxygen (LOX) is one common common oxidiser but it can be mixed with refined Kerosene (RP-1) like it was with the Apollo Saturn V first stage or the with liquid Hydrogen as it was with the Space Shuttle or Methane like Elon's using. The space shuttle main engines just produced water vapour, it was just damn hot and moving really fast. the Methane engines produce mostly CO2 and H2O. RP-1 gets a little bit more weird as it has fractions that aren't healthy. Some of the solid propellants aren't so clean either, but overall if we try and point the finger at the rocket industry as spoiling the planet its like yelling at an ant while you ignore a herd of elephants. Don't worry about FKING up other planets. Either we learn how to look after this one or there won't be any of us left to go FK-UP anywhere else. We really don't have a lot of time to sort out how to live sustainably. Mother nature is just like a mistress. So long as you treat her right she will provide you with bounty, but if you don't she will wreck your life.
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  3723.  @shiftyjesusfish  There's a little known subject in that some call "planetary mechanics." Its sort of the first step in any ideas about terraforming. Its about raw numbers regarding how much stuff you need. Your not worried about the dynamics of the planet as it rotates about the sun (or a star) its just about how much stuff you need. Mars has a surface area of 144,000,000 km If you consider it like very big ball with 144,000,000 cubes stuck on the outside year sure there's gaps but then some of those cubes will have mountains inside. In quite simple terms you can approximate that to 144,000,000 cubic kilometers of AIR if you want to make the surface of Mars habitable. That's just the most basic thing getting enough air. Atmospheric air at sea level is about 1.2kg per meter cubed at around 20C. So that 1 kilometer or air around Mars would weigh something like: 1.2 kg/m3 * 144,000,000 km3 * 1,000,000,000 m3/km3 = 172,800,000,000,000,000 kilograms of air. Or dropping some zeros 172,800,000 Mega tons of air. To put that in perspective the entire world production of iron ore is about 3,000 Megatons a year. So its an extraordinary amount of air and its not simply locked up in rocks or ice. Were talking about going comet hunting for suitable sources of Oxygen and Nitrogen. If your wondering why this might seem crazy you'll now know why we don't discuss these things much. It just confuses people, but the most basic thing to realise is that planets are bloody big objects.
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  3724. All those clowns from Harvard's Medical School need to do is walk a few yards over to the Harvard Business School and they'll get the answers they seek.
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  3725. ​ @ramonaboggio7402  I'm Australian but went to college in America. So I know what we have down under and I have some experience of being in America. We also hear lots about places like Canada and Britain. My father also had a heart attack while visiting Italy so my family has seen their system in action. No one has the perfect system BUT the one thing I can state with absolute certainty is that NOBODY in the world wants to copy what America has right now. The problem for America is how do you change a system with 330 million people in it. Australia has 26 million and we struggle to change things. So changing the health care system for 330 million people is going to be unbelievably difficult and anyone who simply says _"Lets just do A, B, C..." is talking out their butt. I can't see America moving to a British NIH type system but maybe you could move to a system like Australia which has BOTH public and private systems running in parallel OR maybe something like Canada has which is sort of part way between Australia and Britain. The one thing I think America could do which would be a massive step in the right direction is to control the prices a lot better. We hear of some of the prices you guys pay and fall over in disbelief. At the core of it America's real problem isn't capitalism its the type of unrestrained capitalism that's running right now where profit is the only measure of economic value. Your lobbyists, Think Tanks and Super Pacs are simply out of control. Looking back the stupidity and ludicrous nature of the Citizens United, that decision has to be overturned. Until that's fixed there's almost zero chance of fixing anything in America because whoever has more money to lobby with and spin the public narrative with wins.
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  3726. Hey Slap great to see you watching other stuff. I might be Australian, but I love your channel, because its one of the truest sports channels I have ever seen. I hope you win the battle to save the home town short tracks including Greenville Pickens. I genuinely think its an important battle in the commercialisation of sport. Its like so many things these days. Yeah we all need money to do things but if you make money the only purpose of doing something you wreck Its like college education and I went to college in America and did post grad here in Oz. All through the 90s they said "Universities needed to be more business like." More business like does not mean the #1 goal is be a business and make money. The purpose of college is education, but if you can add some business savvy then it helps run things and do what you intend. NASCAR's priority should be as a sport, but also realise that it needs to have some business savvy. If you ever do a "foreign import" video don't forget that Marcus Ambrose is still the most winningest Non-American in NASCAR history. My opinion is that if he'd had a bit more luck would have won a lot more races. He owned Watkins Glen and Sonoma owed him. I'd have loved to see him do more, but then he's opened up the door for other Australians to have a go. I know your a short track fan, but you never replied to my comment about using your local airport as a possible road coarse and hosting a dual NASCAR Xfinity and INDY LITE weekend.
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  3727. Update - Trump supporters don't drink kool-aid laced with cyanide, they lace theirs with bullshit and chug it. I know its a subtle difference but it important we get the descriptions right or they'll cry about it. Maybe you can confirm this rumor (that I just made up) that Trumpists have a new favorite cocktail called the Donster. Its a can of Monster Energy Drink mixed with 3 shots of rocket fuel and 2 shots of pure methanol. 3 things are guaranteed, you'll get wasted, you'll get brain damage and your farts will flame-off.
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  3728.  @uacbpa  Good point, a lot of people have forgotten about those who deliberately or recklessly spread HIV, which is still being spread - ask Charlie Sheen.
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  3729.  @meechisminners  I did aerospace engineering at U. Illinois. About 18 months ago I saw a great TEDx by another aerospace engineer who made as much common sense as anyone I have seen on how to discuss climate change. Her name is Emily Calandrelli and she would have to be one of West Virginia's finest. Hyper smart and a brilliant public speaker (link below). If you have daughters or nieces she's a role model for them. In 15 minutes she made more sense on how to publicly discuss science than a plane load of NASA & NOAA boffins combined. The Pentagon report she mentioned is public for anyone to see -> https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jan/29/2002084200/-1/-1/1/CLIMATE-CHANGE-REPORT-2019.PDF Any state that can produce girls like this NEEDS to be saved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9haKpJakU4
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  3730.  @meechisminners  We have very similar issues with our coal industry here in Australia. We vie each month for who's the biggest exporter of coal with Indonesia. The difference is that Indonesia only exports thermal coal where ours is split 50/50 with thermal and metallurgical. We have the single largest ultra high grade reserves of metallurgical coal in the world. I actually helped commission a new metallurgical coal mine 5 years ago. That part of the coal industry isn't going anywhere. If you need high quality steel you need high quality coal to make it. Plus that same high quality coal is what you make carbon fiber, carbon nanotubes, graphene and all the other high end carbon products out of. So that part of our coal industry isn't going anywhere and they know it. The thermal coal industry other hand is zombie technology. Its dead but just refuses to stay dead. Wanting to keep it alive as one of our primary power sources is like not wanting to have mobile phones or only have 3-5 TV stations and never have the internet. As for people who vote along a single subject we have those as well - EVERYONE does. Its not just on the right either - look at the Greenies for example. They scream "we must save the planet" and I support that, but after that they haven't a single conscious thought. Ours here made huge news when they went into the coal areas to protest before the last election. NOT ONCE did they propose ANYTHING to do after the coals mines close. So when you say WV got nothing to replace coal mining, we have EXACTLY the same here. As Richard Wolff said these people are not stupid, they know answers like becoming coders is bullshit. Plus WV is home to Marshall U. most well know for its football team but its also well known as a first class engineering college. Places like Australia, America, Europe need to be smarter. We live in uncertain times and people NEED answers and if they don't get them they will turn to people who at least recognize their plight and as history keeps proving that's dangerous.
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  3731.  @meechisminners  Its not a lot more than simple common sense, which sadly we don't use enough. On re-tasking people. There is actually so much work to be done across the Western World its staggering. You mentioned roads, that's just the start of the infrastructure thing. Basically the entire Western World started to slow down then stop building its basic infrastructure in the 1980s when the world shifted its economic focus. Prof. Mark Blyth has talked about this a lot. Here's a link to a lecture he gave July 2019 its reasonably understandable if your interested in how the world has gone through different phases over the last 100 years and why the world is working as it is now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE He recently wrote a book with another guy called "Angrynomics" and instead of looking at all the BS they simply go into what's happening these days and why so many feel feel the world isn't working properly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJH0LIKdC-A He also in another online panel mentioned that in America just upgrading the buildings so they use less energy, things like windows is a massive task that would employ 10s of 1000s and cut greenhouse gas emissions significantly.
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  3732.  @meechisminners  No problem on Krystal, I think she's one of the smartest commentators (male or female) in America. I saw this piece as the Hill is one of the Channels I watch regularly. I remember last year there were people commenting that she would make a great White House Press Secretary in a Sanders Admin. I can't say I disagree with that sentiment, but as history has written a progressive WH is still only a hope for America. Saggar is a hit or miss with me. When he's preaching right wing ideology (mild or otherwise) he tends to drop reality. When he's being honest about RW politics he's at times brilliant like he was about the Gamespot story. On that "smugness" of MSNBC its pretty revolting, but then the DNC corporatists have utterly failed to get clear messages across. You look at that Fox News Poll and what you find is that the DNC elite are utterly disconnected from electorates they don't like. I just found out that the crazy Q-Anon bimbo in Georgia won because the DNC candidate withdrew before the election. To not even try and just right off an entire electorate and let a Q-Anon maniac represent them in congress with out any effort is just disgusting. Here's Mark Blyth's latest talk on Angrynomics and he yet again points out how the DNC put a fence around 80million working class & rural Americans and simply wrote them off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meJD04IwUlA The crazy thing about West Virginia is that it does produce the high quality coal used for steel manufacture. That part of the coal industry isn't going anywhere because that's the same stuff they make carbon fiber, carbon nano-tubes, graphene, carbon filters and other stuff out of. WV has one of the best engineering colleges in the world in Marshall. So they have all they need to develop new carbon industries and the jobs that go with them. I keep pointing out the same thing to parts of Australia, because we have lots of high quality coal too. 🤚😉✋
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  3733. What's truly staggering is if put ion that mix Ted Cruz's education and achievements at college. Cruz graduated cum laude (at least top 30%) from Princeton University and magna cum laude (at least top 15%) at Harvard Law School. In 1992 he won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship and finished top 4 at World debating Championship. He's seriously smart which begs the question: WHAT do they have on him to act so stupid?
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  3734.  @dukeblair7792  Yeah but in a hyper-tribal partisan environment facts, common sense, logic, truth and reality just DON'T matter. It might be more obvious in America but its a growing issue around the world. Americans seem to forget (or not realise) that Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi and others have been hammering societies across the globe with hyper-tribalism for decades now.
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  3735.  @dukeblair7792  And not just an American thing. Its being done across the entire Western World. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I love the place and its people and hate what's being done. If its bad for America its also usually bad for America's allies, trading partners, friends,.... After the last British election where the British left got smashed I asked a Brit why British Labour had run an almost identical campaign strategy to Australian Labour who had also lost an election the year before. What they told me still stuns me. People involved in Hilary's losing 2016 campaign then went and "helped" Australian Labour's loosing campaign and then went and also "helped " British Labour's loosing campaign. So the same American (& others) campaign strategists (both right and left) are travelling the world these days. DOING the same shite everywhere.
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  3736. That's the most obvious question in this. If you claim your not the citizen of a nation YOU HAVE NO SAY in that nation. You can petition, you can claim, you can say all sorts of stuff BUT YOU CAN'T TELL that nation what to do.
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  3737.  @saintsone7877  Its been law since the very start. Its why its so important for companies to get into the ASX 200 and stay there. My fathers stock broker explained it to me circa 1998 when we were investing in Oxiana Minerals. Haven't you ever heard the term "institutional investors"? In Australia those are the corporate super funds and the regulations (laws) require them to have a certain percentage of their "funds under management" to be in the ASX200. Where they put it is their choice.
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  3738.  @archelonprime  I know comparing then is like comparing a Formula 1 to truck. One needs a team of mechanics doing service every hour then other just keeps going. I saw a doco comparing them years ago and there conclusion was that the Sherman was the more effective tank. It was cheaper and easier to build and you could throw 1000s and 1000s of them into the fight rather than just a 1000 temperamental lumps of moving metal. But at NO point did anyone want to be in a Sherman when a Tiger was involved.
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  3739. ​ @jjamo1225  You need to put a fire extinguisher emoji on the end of those sorts of comments or you risk frying computer chips from the burn.
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  3740. It has been suggested numerous times that he can be re-called to active duty and court martialed for sedition and conduct unbecoming. What he's doing isn't treason because America has a very narrowly defined law for treason. In many other countries it probably would be treason but not America. In a US civilian court it wouldn't even be sedition because again America has an unusual definition plus the 1st Amendment. The EXCEPTION is for military personnel because they all come under the UCMJ where sedition is clearly defined and the 1st Amendment does not come into play. I'm not a lawyer but people like Glenn Kirshner and Legal Eagle explained that stuff last year.
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  3741. EVERYONE Go and watch Sports Writer Rick Reilly's talk about Trump and Golf for his book Commander in Cheat. Its here on the YT channel New York State Writers Institute and titled "Sportswriter Rick Reilly On Donald Trump's Golf Cheating." Its hilarious except for the fact Trump wants his hands on nuclear weapons again.
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  3742. I am an engineer and we live that precariously in almost EVERY business we work for. After 30+ years I have very little to recommend that anyone go into any form of engineering right now and yet in some ways its never looked more promising. The amount of infrastructure that needs upgrading (roads, bridges, power stations, power grids, water (both clean and waste), etc. is staggering. Forget the energy transition just go and look at how many rapidly ageing (as in how close they are to end of life) power stations there are across the developed world. That's the actual cause of the energy crisis under supply, but trying to get the economists who lead us to this point is damn difficult.
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  3743. Your on the right path. The problem isn't that there is a death penalty there is the way its used and how inconsistent its used let alone how many mistakes are made. For sure there are those people we can all admit the world is better off without. As for most we can all debate how they are dealt with, but if we are being honest there are those very few that we collectively all agree they need to go. The debate is where we draw that line. As for the rest of these people the inconsistencies are staggering and that is something I rarely see discussed. Last year Trump during his lame duck period sent 3 men to the execution chamber. For 130 years NO OTHER president did that. Once the election was over they handed those cases onto the next President. Among those 3 was Alfred Bourgeois who committed horrible crimes against his young daughter including killing her. We could endlessly debate the right or wrong of that execution, but what should have been debated was what Trump also did. After sending Alfred Bourgeois to the execution chamber Trump pardoned Nicholas Slatten and 3 others of the Nisour Square Massacre. Slatten had been convicted of 1st Degree Murder by an American court for his actions that got 17 people killed in Nisour Square, one of which was a 9 year old child. How does anyone correlate executing 1 person for killing a child at the same time they pardon another person for killing a child and 16 other innocent people? How can anyone say these laws are fair when they can be acted on so inconsistently?
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  3744. Well actually Planet America is in some ways a half-Parody of serious news or did you not here the name of the show is "Planet America." One of the compares has a background in political comedy and was the famous "dressed as Osama at the APEC conference" stunt. The interviewer here is John Baron who's normally very good, but this is easily one of his worst interviews ever. I love the show but hate the fact that every so often they let people off lightly or as in this case simply have someone on that they just shouldn't.
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  3745.  @dumcasta9327  I agree, there's a lot of ignorant sepos commenting here. But to be fair interviewing Bolton isn't that smart unless you're going to hit him with a least 1 tough question.
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  3746. AUSTRALIAN HERE: I am not going to apologise for this cretin. He's simply reiterating in a very blunt way the same garbage that Larry Summers said to Jon Stewart recently about needing to sack lots of workers. Its also the same sentiment the new head of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Michele Bullock said on her first day in the job. For those who don't know the RBA is Australia's equivalent of the Federal Reserve in America. Its our Central bank and Michele Bullock's position is very similar to Janet Yellen's which is also a job Larry Summers held. Economically this is the neoliberal pro-privatisation brigade of economists trying to hide the fact that their policies of off-shoring and global supply chains with NO back-up capacity that's caused the inflation. Current inflation has been caused by interruptions to fragile supply chains coupled with ruthless opportunistic profiteering. Its had nothing to do with working class wages or employment rates and that is being found out EVERWHERE not just America or Australia. FYI - I am an engineer who used to work in manufacturing so I'm very familiar with HOW supply chains actually FUNCTION and OPERATE. I can state very clearly that economists haven't any idea about how to manufacture or build a damn thing other than the bank balances of the top 10% of society.
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  3747.  @savanahmclary4465  Well maybe you should have started with that instead of the idiotic rant that you did. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3748. There's a great quote from the film Crimson Tide when Gene Hackman's character describes horses to Denzel Washington. It goes "horses are fascinating animals. Dumb as fence posts but very intuitive. In that way, they're not too different from high school girls. They might not have a brain in their head but they do know all the boys want to f-ck 'em." Its the same thing with people like Matt Walsh, Dave Rubin, Tim Poole and others. They are as dumb as fence posts but their intuition of what their audience responds too is spot on. Their intuition screams that truth, facts, reality, history and a lot of other things are irrelevant to that audience. This is why the Left lose so often. They think politics is an intellectual process and it just isn't for most people. Trump realised that. Do you remember what Jesse Ventura told Kyle & Krystal a couple of years ago about his time as an announcer and what Vince McMahon told him?
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  3749. Great points but Americans don't like to discuss them much. Bottom line is the country that has promoted itself as the great leader in "Freedom and Democracy" has denied all of the people of those territories there basic democratic rights. None of those people have any representatives with voting in congress or have any senators and they do not vote on the president. Puerto Rico has a population of almost 3.3 Million and that's more than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, Hawaii, West Virginia, Idaho, Nebraska, New Mexico, Kansas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Nevada, Iowa, Utah. Each of those states gets 2 Senators and at least 1 and as many as 4 House of Representatives. The combined population of North Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska and Wyoming is less than 3 million people and yet they get 8 Senators and 1 representative each in the House. While Puerto Rico, just like DC and a few of the territories gets 1 representative in the House who can't vote. By Population alone Puerto Rico should get 2 Senators and 4 House Reps. USVI, Mariana, Guam and American Samoa and DC has a combined population of just over 1 million and Each of them get 1 House Rep who can't vote. Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Delaware each have less than 1 million people and each of them get 2 Senators and a House Rep who can vote. And if you want the more satirical view of this look up the YouTube channel juice media for the Honest Government ad on Puerto Rico.
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  3750. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  3751. Give him credit he's off the downers. Unfortunately he's switched to uppers.
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  3752.  Cuck Baldson  Well that just makes you and your pastor a pair of idiots. Republican appointed judges have been throwing Trump's legal challenges out. So far Giuliani has such a bad win-loss ratio he's making the Jets look like Superbowl contenders. Anybody can claim whatever they like but its in the courts where legal issues are settled and so far Trumps LOST over 45times.
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  3753.  @Rob_Cary  It wasn't rigged against Bernie, it was arranged. You see arranged is where you do xyz instead of abc and don't do the other thing but do do the thing you said you wouldn't do because that's what others get caught at and your the honest guys and not those other people who do that stuff and get caught. Oh f--k it you're right and no amount of spin can save the mongrels - they did rig it against Bernie. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤪
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  3754.  @Ragnaroz6000  I could easily be price dumping and it could just as easily be that Boeing and friends who have had a stranglehold/monopoly/cartel on access to space have been over charging for decades. I suggested in another thread the other day that possibly Elon lucked out with who he first got into SpaceX. Someone came back with 3 names and when I checked their bios they were seriously impressive. So at least at one point Elon attracted a lot of talent to SpaceX. Falcon 9 is now man rated. Boeing have had how long to get their system ready? With all of Boeing's history, experience, knowledge and resources they should easily beaten SpaceX. Instead Starliner is YET to do even a single successful flight. I don't like Elon Musk very much. I think he's an opportunist who's very good at hype & PR. BUT SpaceX (or at least the Falcon program) is first class. Starship is another matter entirely.
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  3755.  @grahamstrouse1165  Exactly and its what drives real tech people crazy. We end having to explain why its garbage again and again and again. Watch for the clowns who call themselves "futurists" I am yet to see or hear one of them with an actual technical background AND they all speak Elon type garbage. Unfortunately the media seems to think they are all tech savvy.
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  3756.  @candidaprout560  You to. Take care & be safe latest warning from the head of CIDRAP Michael Osterholm is that COVID-B117 (the British variant) might be about to hit America big time.
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  3757.  @oxoalan1  I'm born, bred & raised in Melbourne, but went to college in America on a sports scholarship (late 80s). What I saw going on in America with the blind tribalism back then is now here. Graig Kelley and Paulin Hanson are just 2 examples. We are behind where America is but we are catching up rapidly. On ABC journalism, its had its trips and stumbles for sure but under the circumstances its one of the few places journalism is still practiced. At the very start of Outfoxed the speaker is Bob McChesney. I am fairly certain he is the guy who was in Australia circa 2008 for a book tour. He was saying that one of the dramatic changes in information since the 1950s is the swap in ratio of journalists to PR. It was 4:1 in the 50s but by the early 2000s it was 1:4. He was pointing out that the bulk of what we read or hear is NOT produced by journalists researching something and gathering information and presenting it in a balanced way but by PR people pushing their interests. The people we call journalists are in a way editors of PR whose sole task is generating interest which is now measured in clicks. It was pointed out that journalists just don't have time anymore to fact check or filter out garbage and hype. SO yeah the ABC and 4C do have the occasional stumble, but they (along with a few others) are also the last vestige of what we think is journalism.
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  3758. I'm Australian and during the aftermath it was revealed that many of the bombs & missiles fired did not explode. The most famous case was the HMS Sheffield where the Exocet didn't explode but the rocket motor kept burning and started the fire that eventually did so much damage the Sheffield sunk. There's a quote about it by Lord Craig on the Wikipedia page: "Six better fuses [sic] and we would have lost"
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  3759. Yeah - Just when you think Americans can't get any crazier another one comes forward to go even deeper into the abyss.
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  3760.  @MattCasters  Buddy EVERY ENERGY SECTOR is subsidised in some way. Here in Australia the oil & gas people scream and screech about subsidies and programs for solar and wind BUT DUE TAX CONCESSIONS the LNG export industry has NOT PAID a cent in tax on around $400 Billion in profits over the last decade. Yes they get no subsidies just the greatest tax break in history. Our coal industry has also had similar tax concessions through its entire history. THEY ARE ALL SUBSIDISED ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
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  3761. Well what he should do is go and have a serious look at the French or Russian Revolutions or any of the other revolutions. Because it never goes well for people like Josh. In fact it usually ends with something going click. Like the click of the release on a guillotine or the click of the release on a trap door or the click of a trigger.
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  3762.  @aceboogisback9946  What did he do that was undignified? And I mean at the start when they ignored YET AGAIN.
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  3763. You've made the most important distinction there is - the difference between people who check and think and those who don't. I've just in a conversation with an idiot over on a thread on a Kyle & Krystal piece about Jon Stewart schooling a misinformation expert. The idiot who commented back to me said (in part) "kyle trying to put down a health expert in his title shows his hypocrisy about misinformation". The health expert he was referring to is Dr. Joan Donovan who Jon Stewart interviewed. It took me only seconds to check that Dr. Joan Donovan is NOT a medical doctor but a professor at Harvard. Putting her name into google and the first link was to her home page at Harvard Kennedy School where she's the Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Arguably one of the biggest issues in the world right now is the incredibly high percentage of society who just accept whatever is convenient as fact. That's not a problem with those on the right or the left, its a problem across all of human society.
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  3764.  @Chriscraft50  Spot on. Narcissistic sociopaths don't feel anything at all including embarrassment.
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  3765. I turned this garbage off after 4-1/2 minutes because it was just a waste of time.
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  3766.  @CB-hb1jv  Sorry but No. When I said America is a great country with great people I meant the other 90% you never hear about. If you are going to judge America go there and meet them. The other 90% are decent hardworking honest people. Don't judge them on Hollywood, Washington and a handful of billionaires and special interest groups. If you want to criticize America for one thing its letting their country be hijacked by those billionaires and special interests. But EVERY COUNTRY is doing that right now. I'm Australian and we are letting the same shite happen here. Almost every political decision made in Australia is dictated by billionaires and special interest groups. Right now as I type this 60 Minutes Australia is telling us about the level of money laundering within our gambling industry. Its not that surprising its going on, but nobody can do anything because of how powerful that industry is. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3767.  @mikesbruv  have you seen any of the interview Your Bezmenov gave way back in 1984? He's totally wrong on how effective Soviet influence was at that time. We all know it was the Soviet system that collapsed on a few years later. But if you take what he said an apply it to the social media era then its terrifying, because social media is a perfect delivery system for psyop work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI He's a thought on Qanon. If you're the billionaires who fund massive amounts of political influence it's impossible to hide. There's no way to hide the think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and CATO Institute. There's no way to hide that the Federalist Society has picked most of SCOTUS. There's no way to hide that fact that there's 4 SCOTUS judges form Harvard, 4 from Yale and the other from Notre Dame is a known Federalist or that the judge who's been favoring Trump in Florida is also a known Federalist. So what can they do? Consider the saying "You can't see the forest for the trees!" What if you flip that into "You can't see particular trees because of the forest!" What do you have when you have millions of clowns all screaming and ranting "Look at this. What about that." Who cares what "this" or :that" is when anyone trying to have a reasonable public discussion about the influence of the billionaires sounds like a crazy person. And when I'm talking about billionaire influence, its not just America I'm talking about the entire Western Hemisphere. I can't say who started Qanon or why they did it. I don't even think anyone can call it an orchestrated psyop. But its been a giant distraction from discussing the billionaire influence in politics and other important subjects.
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  3768. At least Oz has a grasp of the English Language and can put coherent sentences together. Imagine this guy having anything to say with the use of nuclear weapons.
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  3769.  @psychonautpupildiallater7734  There's a farking difference between a couple of words and EVERYTHING. There's a difference between being old and having BRAIN DAMAGE.
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  3770. Classic - David P brings back the infamous "Dr. Yes." He was called that from the famous James Bond character Dr. No, because his only answer to the Bush White House was 'Yes - you can do that." I'm Australian and even we have heard of this guy. He's famous/infamous for writing the legal opinions that allowed Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld to instigate water boarding and other "stress techniques." His opinions should be standard reading in ethics classes around. There were documentaries (as in more than 1) on the Abu Ghraib case and his legal opinions were shown to the world. Australia was one of the very few supporters of the Iraq invasion and this guy made us look like the big bully's nasty little side kick. Seriously if I ever found him in Australia I drag his ass off to the nearest police station and have him charged with crimes against humanity. Before anyone says that's ridiculous look at Wilkerson's comment -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo#Federal_tort_suit
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  3771. I'm Australian and you just described the issue we have had with Indonesia. Why do you think we started our zero tolerance policy? For sure its ugly, and possibly one of the ugliest things we've ever done. But the people smuggling had to be stopped. They were using the oldest and most worn out fishing boats to do the job, which made it insanely dangerous. Most of the boats were barely able to stay afloat. The boat owners never cared if we burned them afterwards. The Indonesian fishermen used their old boats to make money to buy new boats. They weren't the worst people involved. The worst were a handful of Pakistani middlemen who made millions. They ripped off everyone. They ripped off the people they smuggled. They ripped off the Indonesian fishermen. They never cared who go hurt in the process. For sure our policy was ruthless (and still is) but if we didn't they would still be putting people in very dangerous boats and people would still be dying.
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  3772. As human beings we should all feel embarrassed by this. Nobody needs to be of any faith, belief, ideology or race to be embarrassed by this, because this is embarrassing for our species. Hypothetically it doesn't matter if you believe in God (or Gods) or evolution we are not alone in the universe. If you believe in God (or Gods) then there's God or the gods, angels, demons, cherubs, seraphs, etc. and we aren't alone. If you believe in evolution then somewhere else there is life. Either way we aren't alone. As to why we don't see or hear from any of the "other's" we share the universe with? That's simple. Look at people like Kenneth Copeland and maybe they just don't want to have anything to do with us. Put it this way if you were God or the Superior intelligent space alien and you were seeing this. Would you want to have anything to do with us or would you be planning on what to do with a dangerous irrational destructive invasive species? Not wanting to talk to us is the good answer. The slightly less bad answer is they will only cull us down to a reasonable number. The really bad answer is they are planning on exterminating us from the universe.
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  3773. Yeah lets go and ask a guy who gets punched and kicked in the head for work about international politics. Its even better when he's confused between Ukraine and Arkansas. Maybe he didn't get the message -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
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  3774. Your actually very close to the truth. If you simply group the top 1% then sure the Dems and GOP are on the same side. AND ITS NOT AN AMERICAN PROBLEM. I'm Australian but went to college in America and we have the same type of problem here. I was over in Canada a few years ago and it was the same there. I was talking to a couple of Brits last year and its the same there. All across the Western Democratic world every major party has 1 common policy. "What to the billionaires want?" Where its gets odd and America is the most notable case is the top 1% are split between the old money that includes a lot of fossil fuel money (or assets) and the new money of the tech billionaires.
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  3775. What's the legal issues of beating the living garbage out of a public figure making absurd claims by claiming that you were protecting your friends and family from a threat to their wellbeing????? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ (edit) let me clarify - can someone beat the shite out of TC and claim self defense or the defense of their children. After all he is inciting people to attack others on a FALSE BASIS.
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  3776. I think the legal cases are now 1 and 49. Its so bad the NY Jets are afraid they'll lose first pick in the draft.
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  3777.  @michaelj6486  You're not even Australian are you? That much is obvious because of how IGNORANT you are. Nobody's been coerced with some bullshit law, because no bullshit law actually exists. Its just a bunch of anti-vaxxer clowns and other radicals who'll protest anything. It doesn't matter what government the rest of us elect the same pack of clowns turn up and protest. FK-WITS like you have no idea what you're talking about and the rest of us are getting tired of your crap, your stupid arguments and your idiotic claims.
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  3778. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  3779. @bobby sternlicht Wasn't so much correcting but letting people know who he was talking about. Its really easy for people to say stuff these days but get a small detail wrong and then every one dismisses what might be good information.
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  3780. @tubewatch59 Fine but when did BLM, ANTIFA, Democrats, 1960s counter culture hippies, tree hugging Kumbaya singing environmentalists, Occupy Wall Street, Lafayette Park or any other protesters storm the capitol, kill a police officer, tear down the American flag and replace it with another flag?
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  3781.  @DoctorHouse999  Mainly just before and after the second world war, when they flipped and used the "New Deal" as a platform. There's a lot of vids on it here on YT just search "history of the democrats"
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  3782.  @anthonyc8927  Are you that stupid to not realise what those judges meant by throwing out cases for a LACK OF EVIDENCE Sidney Powell is already in the process of being sued out of existence for her lies. Maybe the hint to people like you was when Giuliani, Trump and others distanced themselves from her.
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  3783.  @limitlessapocalypse2702  Actually you're wrong the Democrats and Republicans did flip. The Democrats were founded in the South and supported slavery. The KKK were a militant offshoot. They went through a change after the great depression, that really took hold after WW2 and they slid to the left supporting the "New Deal" but only far enough to get support from workers and unions to win power. The Republicans started in the North. Lincoln was a Republican and he freed the slaves and now white supremacist's support the party who fought against slavery. One day I really want to see a Klansman explain how they went from being Democrats to supporting the party that "freed the slaves." The Republicans actually started sliding to seriously to the right during the Reagan years when the evangelicals of the South shifted and began supporting Reagan. The most bizarre claim made during Reagans time was by David Koch one of the 2 Koch brothers. He ran against Reagan on the libertarian ticket claiming "Reagan was too far to the left." Its people like the Kochs who have dragged the Republicans further and further to the right. Charles Koch the other brother was interviewed recently and complained that politicians who he put in place would NOT DO AS HE WANTED. Its not the only case in America of a political entity doing a 180flip. The NRA before the early 70s supported gun control. They used to hold the competitions that selected US teams for the Olympics and World Championships. They were against the madness we see today. In the early 70s the gun lobby got tired of them and funded a new group to get control of them. It worked, they got control, flipped the NRA and voila no more of those pesky gun control people. The NRA went from being a sports association to a political machine. I don't know if they even hold competitions any more.
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  3784.  @limitlessapocalypse2702  Aaaaand your ignorance of actual history is so staggering it barely deserves a reply, but for others I'll try. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Emergence_as_Republican_leader) and these days White Supremacist's back the Republicans like they did with Kelley Loeffler. Take your pick from this list. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kelly+loeffler+white+supremecist The first grand Wizard of the KKK wanted to overthrow Republican governments. "Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest was elected the first grand wizard, and claimed to be the Klan's national leader.[35][74] In an 1868 newspaper interview, Forrest stated that the Klan's primary opposition was to the Loyal Leagues, Republican state governments," Cut & pasted from -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan#Creation_and_naming Here's one of many videos on how the democrats changed -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6R0NvVr164 The NRA flipped in the 1970s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association#History Pay attention to their shift in activities from being a sport association to a political movement in the section 1970s-Present. Here's a short vid on how it happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03zyVprh4f0 Now if you want to be ignorant (and ignorant means to ignore) and stupid (as in you don't think) then bother someone else. In the mean time do some real study of history or go back to school and next time listen to your teachers.
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  3785.  @russlehman2070  Rudy's so deep into making up stuff I doubt he remembers what lie he told 5 minutes ago, let alone the pile of lies from last week, let alone the mountain of lies piled up from 7 months ago. Whatever it is that's going through Rudy's brain these days it isn't truth or fact.
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  3786.  @teax25  You're right on every point but Trumps base don't operate in the same reality as the rest of us. That's America's real problem right now. How do you reconnect tens of millions of people to reality. I hoping people will simply start calling people out publicly to their face about the lying and propaganda. Did you see (or hear) the released interview of Rutger Bergman's stoush with Tucker Carlson a few weeks back, where he said Tucker was a millionaire funded by billionaires to to do PR for them? Tucker flipped out and its got to happen more often. The question I want asked is - who is Don Jr's real father? Both his parents are fair haired & fair skinned as are Ivanka and Eric. YET he's got olive skin and dark hair. I know its games of thrones stuff but it makes ya wonder. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3787.  @rgood1591  You're probably right. Either way its just a giant mountain of political hype.
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  3788. I'm Australian and I can tell you bluntly that it NOT ONLY hurts America it hurts all of America's allies both militarily and financially. The security is fairly obvious but the financial issue is way bigger. I can give almost any country in the world a sound reason to "take Trump out" just on the security threat. If you add in the financial threat they'd pool their efforts and make a time travel machine and do his father so he was never born. In December 2022 the Bank of International Settlements in its quarterly report had a paper on the issue of FX Swaps (Foreign Exchange swaps). There's now over $100 Trillion (with a 'T') in FX swaps and because of how these are recorded by accountants NONE OF IT is on any balance sheet anywhere as the accountants record them in notes at the bottom of balance sheet reports. Most of these FX swaps are held by "non-bank" entities, which can make sense for companies that trade internationally but most of it is people betting on currency markets and most of it is in $US. So if Trump or any other radical American nut case destabilises the $US then it might blow up the worlds currency markets.
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  3789.  @zachgates7491  Subjects like what? If you want to make claims like that against 2 RESPECTED intellectual giants you need to back it up or FK-OFF. The world has an over supply of ignorant clowns these days.
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  3790.  @ebrennie  I agree with everything you said except for 1 point. In the first paragraph you said "They didn’t have degrees or research experience in all the things they were invited to lecture on. That suggests some of their knowledge was attained in an echo chamber" First part true, second part false assumption. I don't think either of them ever spent anytime in echo chambers. Bothe were smart enough to know where there expertise was and wasn't. So the safer assumption is they at least checked or researched a topic before commenting. One thing you'll tend to find with smart people is they tend to stick to topics they have at least researched or spent some time trying to understand. You are quite wrong on them being autodidacts. Asimov BSc, MSc, PHd all in Chemistry all at Columbia. Chomsky BA, MA at U. Penn. and a PhD at Harvard. I don't know who told you they were self taught but both were highly educated. Very few people realise that what you do when you are doing postgrad is that you "practice learning". You do incredible amounts of reading, absorbing information, dissecting it into useful, less useful and worthless. AND ITS NOT DONE IN A VACUUM.
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  3791.  @JD-gw3fp  Moron - I never said anything regarding if people could or could not self-educate. I responded to claim that Chomsky and Asimov were self-educated WHICH THEY WEREN'T. I put in some of my course to highlight that when you do a degree you don't just study a single set of subjects. Its apart the requirements of all college degrees across the world - to do other stuff in fields outside of your own. For instance Engineers have to take some humanities and some other technical electives. But if you and the other clown were college educated you'd know these things.
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  3792.  @JD-gw3fp  Debating what's there to debate. You make statements with no foundation. And when you are cornered on those claims you make claims about other people that you yourself do REPEATEDLY. SO WHAT IS YOUR EDUCATION All I have said is I don't think you went to college because you don't seem to know what people do at college. I didn't say being self educated is worthless - it was Zach who put that forward. It was Zach who said we shouldn't listen to Chomsky or Asimov about topics they were not formally educated or qualified in. If you want to debate then start with getting your facts right.
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  3793.  @BellicoseNation  The answer to the first point is EVERYWHERE. EVERY nation, tribe, village, state, commune, principality that has exist and or still exists has people who value their ignorance over knowledge. Political leaders (of every type ) rely on it to stay in power. As for Intellectuals being disconnected. I'd agree that their disconnection is a massive problem. In fact its the same problem from a different view. When intellectuals IGNORE other people who they think can't have relevant knowledge WHICH THEY DO. Then in that moment they are the ones valuing ignorance over knowledge.
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  3794.  @dontworrybehappy4569  Well that all depends on your idea of what "liberalizing" means. There’re 2 main schools of ideology battling it out in America right now (and by extension most of the developed world) - Liberalism and Libertarianism. Both those words come from the root word liberty and both those groups want liberty they just want it for different reasons in different ways. Libertarians want no government with no rules, so they have the LIBERTY to force themselves on society. Liberals want a government with laws in place protecting LIBERTY so people can think and do freely (so long as it harms no one else) from those who would force themselves on society. Liberalism requires consideration of others and thinking ahead of the consequences caused by the side effects of their choices and it's their under and over considering side effects and consequences coupled with doing everything by committee where they get lost and confused. They fail to deliver beneficial outcomes irrespective of intentions and as a result they are seen as unreliable. Libertarianism requires no consideration of others, other than "are they obeying the instructions fed to them by what they perceive as their benevolent overlords." Because their decisions are consistent, they are seen as reliable even when society knows they don't care. People follow libertarians because even though they will be enslaved they at least know they will be fed even though they know one day the food will run out, but that day isn't today or tomorrow. With liberals who knows what will happen today and we might all starve tomorrow. That's why Libertarians win elections and Liberals never learn from their mistakes to get things done.
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  3795.  @alexbaxter2267  I didn't Isaac did. The crazier thing about that quote is you can almost substitute any country into it these days. I'm Australian and it describes us, we just don't make it as obvious as America does.
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  3796. YYYYYEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS Along with a few other comments here.
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  3797.  @livingholistically1485  That's NOT a red flag that's a GIANT RED FLAG on STEROIDS and back lit with fireworks with Jon Williams and the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing the Star Wars "Imperial March" with a couple of thrash metal guitarists adding that bit extra. Who TF were these guys so when I need to hide that spare billion I might have one day?
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  3798.  @nata7536  Yeah - have you seen the vid they just posted on the Right Wing goon from the Heritage Foundation. Its not simply repugnant its stratospherically higher. In fact it might be so high that its gone into space.
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  3799. Soon??? I'm Australian - we are in the middle of 1 in a 100 years floods after 1 in a 100 years fires as part of a 1 in a 100 years drought. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ AND we still have the Murdoch press telling everyone that climate change isn't real. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️
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  3800. Slightly rephrased. -> "It doesn't make them look like idiots. Its makes it undeniable that they are idiots."
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  3801. What's crazier than this is how NOBODY seems willing to call her garbage out to her face? There was that one question the other day where she appeared with Matt "how old was she" Gaetz but even then it didn't seem like they went after her. One of the reasons school yard bullies are school yard bullies is they are allowed to get away with being a schoolyard bully. People who behave badly tend to keep behaving badly when nobody stops them.
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  3802.  @georgemiller6765  If they don't then this garbage never gets called out. All propagandists rely on one thing above all else - Nobody questioning what they say. When lies aren't called out then they have the ugly reality of becoming accepted truth.
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  3803. The fight is far from over. I'm just watching this on voter rights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc2PE7_4Y14 That's happening in the country that waltzed around the globe PREACHING for that past 70 years as the champion of freedom and democracy.
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  3804.  @rylian21  Wasn't that in Georgia?
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  3805.  @AdrianLeeMagill  I was actually in China for some work a few years ago and one morning I discussed some issues with the interpreter. We got to the point where I told here it would get to the point where we simply could not buy Chinese goods because, because unemployed people don't have money for anything. First point she brought up was that China didn't need to steal jobs because western executives simply made those decisions. THEN she really surprised me and told me that the Chinese workers were getting worried that those same companies were starting to move to Africa for the next source of cheap labor. So it would not surprise me in the slightest they are also moving to India and Vietnam.
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  3806. Nope - Geraldo is the epitome of a clock running 20s slow each day. He's right about once every 12 years.
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  3807. Exactly - The Presidential pardon power he has does NOT include impeachment.
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  3808.  @smcdonald9991  As an Australian you are partly right. On point 1 the unusual thing is that for federal elections each state decides what it will do and that really comes from how America was founded. In Australia all elections are run by the AEC (Australian Electoral Commission) they are independent, they control the voting rolls, they print the ballots, they count the votes, they handle any discrepancies and recounts and finally they certify the results. We don't have a President, like Canada we have a Governor General who has very limited executive power, absolutely zero policy power, The GG's main job is ceremonial. They pin medals on people, they visit hospitals, open new schools and do a couple of functions government functions but they are procedural. We don't have this insane lengthy lame duck period. I actually went to college in America (U. Illinois) and I think the real problem in America is that too many people have learned how to "game" the system and cheat. I personally think the Founding Fathers constructed one of the great achievements of human history with writing the Constitution. What they never counted on were people like Mitch McConnell, and organizations like the Federalist Society and the NRA.
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  3809. @Craig Norris I don't think charging them for simply lying would benefit anyone. Especially when "we the people" elect them knowing that at least in part they lied to us or at least made promises they can't keep and "we the people" accepted it. BUT once they take office and swear an oath they have to accept they are accountable. The real issue right now is not that these politicians lied, its that they lied to such an extent that very bad things happened. They need to be HELD ACCOUNTABLE for taking it TOO FAR. Think about a football game. Players commit fouls and most are benign and a yardage penalty is sufficient. But then you get idiots who target other players and do things so grievous that they get ejected. These politicians have likewise done things that are so grievous they also need to be "ejected."
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  3810.  @CuriousKey  Yeah I'd mostly agree on your assessment of a law degree, but then that less narrow education might also explain why Carter was so much better in is post-presidency time than Obama or Clinton. Its a good point you raise.
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  3811. ​ @CuriousKey  I absolutely agree with that. I recently checked something. Bush 2.0 went to Harvard for his MBA Clinton went to Yale as well as Hilary for their Law Degrees while Al Gore went to Harvard for his BA. Obama went to Harvard as well as Michelle for their Law Degrees. Trump went to U. Penn another of the Ivy League colleges. Of the 9 SCOTUS judges 4 went to Harvard and 4 went to Yale. The other (Amy Barrett) who is also a Federalist Society member went to Notre Dame. Do you see the pattern? FYI - The Federalist Society was started by students from Harvard, Yale and the university of Chicago. In Britain the vast vast majority of government control in both the parties and public service is held by Oxford and Cambridge graduates. In Australia its less obvious but we have the same issue. Its not just a case of very narrow education (as in Law degrees) but also the concentration of power among graduates of a small number of select universities. This also explains that no matter which party is in power in our nations nothing seems to actually change. Either the elected members are lawyers or they have a legal advisor or they are economists or have an economics advisor and in both the Law and Economics the education is highly concentrated to a few colleges. I am actually an engineer and have been looking into the economics issue because of the incredible amount of interference in the engineering space by economists. That's how I know their education is so narrowly focused.
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  3812. I'm wondering if this is all just one giant joke like an SNL skit. I will not be surprised if he just turns around in the next few weeks and says: GOTCHA I wont be surprised if he's making a film titled "Politics: It's really this Stupid!"
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  3813. HEY SCOTT ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE THE TIME TO WORK OUT HOW BADLY YOU and all the OTHER LIBERAL INTELLECTUALS GOT THIS WRONG Here's a start go back to your comments with Jessica Tarlov about how you supported Benjamin Netanyahu's prosecution of the Palestinians in Gaza. Because that coupled with YOU'RE ENDORSEMENT of Kamala Harris helped drive the Muslim Community in Michigan to endorse Trump. Maybe if Liberal intellectuals across the World would stop undermining things with arrogance and ignorance of the plight of other people less fortunate than themselves then those people would NOT REVOLT against them. HOPEFULLY NOW The Liberal Intellectuals of the World will finally take an honest look at themselves.
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  3814. Yeah I watched that video too Everybody who wants to know what's going on should watch it.
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  3815.  @jenkem4464  I'd agree on that. But for most things they aren't too far apart. Last year Kelly Loeffler and other were called out of insider trading and only days ago Nancy Pelosi said it was fine for politicians to do what would send the rest of us to jail. But then you're right on the bigger picture the GOP has just amped it up another level and the hypocrisy is mind boggling. My favorite comparison are the kids. Sure Hunter Biden traded on daddy's name and position. He made a few hundred grand in Ukraine and a few million in other places and his painting stuff stinks. But compared to Jared & Ivanka actually working in the White House as they averaged $100 million a year for 4 years leaves Hunter as a sad pathetic amateur when it comes to corruption.
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  3816.  @danielmoskowitz3060  Right on all points. There's a huge issue with tailored media. People only here the view they want to hear and it just reinforces their view of the world. No one should be surprised that BOTH sides have issues. It might be a lot worse on the right but make no mistake the left is guilty of echo chambering. It was actually a major point that they tries to explain in the 2004 documentary Outfox. Other media would end up following Murdoch's business model. As for consequences its largely driven by big business. Mark Blyth pointed out that it used to be "Bail Fail go to Jail and its now Bail, Bail nobody goes to jail." Basically in the past you might bail someone out ONCE, but if they then cheated and failed again you put them down and down hard. Every since the bluff of "too big to fail" (and it is a bluff) the big end of town has gotten away with stuff that would put you or me in jail for centuries. THAT MUST END or we end up in a revolution.
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  3817. I think this is one of the very few times I have heard ANYONE point out the obvious flaw in hammering the crap out of the middle class in a consumer economy. If you rely on consumption you need a population that is financially capable of consumption - DUH In what PRACTICAL UNIVERSE does that not make common sense? BUT according to Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman corporations have no other responsibility than to their share holders. I'd love to see any economist explain how destroying the market you sell your goods and or services into serves the best interest of your share holders?
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  3818. Well if you actually look at it Peter hasn't been all that flattering about Vladimir Putin and he does take out people. He's also been less that flattering about Xi Jinping and he doesn't just take out people he takes out entire cultural groups. "fun times ahead" might be the understatement of the decade. My suspicion: If MBS tries to mess with global supply he'll get a dose high velocity lead poisoning very quickly. The more interesting question is who's finger will do the squeezing, because that's a long list.
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  3819. Its the second week of January 2021 and America is about to go past 400,000 dead just as Joe Biden takes the oath of office.. A few weeks ago Michael was warning about how bad the Christmas - New year could be. I'm Australian but went to college at U. Illinois. I've been watching Michael since the early days, because it was clear he was one of the very few who was being honest with us. He was even interviewed a few times on Australian TV. Like many others from around the world I have followed his updates over much of the last year -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg If you actually add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25.2 million which compares to Australia's 25.6 million. Yes I know quite well there are significant differences in geography, population density and winter conditions, but in terms of medical technology, transportation and technical capability there's zero difference. We got very lucky with the initial spread. We cancelled many events and had NO crowds at all our major sports for the year and all that resulted in us not spreading it. But none of that explains the staggering differences. Australia has a total of 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin total over 33,812 as of 12/1/2021 In the 7 days from 4 to 10 January 2021 Illinois had 971 COVID fatalities. In one week Illinois with half as many people as Australia had more deaths from this than Australia has had in 12 months. On the main table at -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Australia is 54th in population and 86th in COVID fatalities. If Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin were a country they would be 16th. Illinois by itself would rank 21st in the world. New York by itself would be 14th. In terms of death-rate (deaths/1M.pop) Illinois, Indiana & Wisconsin would be 4th (at 1342). 3 American states (New Jersey, New York & Massachusetts) have a higher death-rate than any nation or independent state in the world. For whatever luck and other things that may have favored us, nothing explains that discrepancy other than a complete failure of leadership.
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  3820. As an Australian who was working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on Canada I can vouch for that. Canadians are incredibly polite except when they're playing hockey or talking about Trump. I bet that anger is still there and just as fresh.
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  3821.  @supertrendymoneymaker0722  Just looking at this and a couple of other comments. Ron Paul - sorry but if you saw him get numb nutted by Dr. Fauci you would not want that clown deciding anything let aloe government policy. Warren was her own candidate, but she did sabotage Bernie with that bullshit liar claim. She actually blew here own chances with overly complicated financial polices that only economists could understand. Professor Mark Blyth (Brown U.) who has a lot of street cred as he was one of very few to get both 2106 and Brexit right said here polices were sound but too complicated for politics. As for Warren being their to purposefully sabotage Bernie, that's a 50/50. I think she was more a convenience to the Obama/Clinton camp they took advantage of rather than something deliberate. As for MSNBC sabotaging Andrew Yang again, that's almost a guarantee. In fact they will sabotage anyone who does not fit their version of mild right politics. Being honest America does not have a real left it just has people who aren't as whacked out far right as some. It just has shades of right going from the Progressives with their faint hints of leftism the the mild right Dems to the basic right establishment corporate Dems to the almost understandable establishment corporate Repubs onto the seriously f--k-d up Fundamentalists & Trumpists. You only have to watch about 30seconds of Rachael Maddow or about 60secodns of Chris Hayes to realise that MSNBC and Fox are like comparing Budweiser and Miller. Its still beer and if you drink too much it will f--k you up kill your brain cells and leave you with a hangover. MSNBAC and Fox are just brands for the same product type and the product is biased corporate establishment political bullshit.
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  3822. When the French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracuda and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered Barracuda - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT?
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  3823. I AM LIKE Marc Andreessen in that I am ALSO an engineering graduate (aerospace) of the University of Illinois. I graduated the year before Marc Andreessen started his degree in computer science. So I never met him BUT I DO KNOW the environment into which he was able to develop his skills. In the late 80s UIUC was the World Center of Computing. Cray Supercomputers had moved the head quarters to Champaign and UIUC had NOT 1 but 3 Cray Supercomputers at that time. It was also heavily funded by both the Illinois State and the US Federal Government. UIUC hosted the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). On top of that UIUC hosted the core of the PLATO System which was a forerunner of the Internet. We also had rooms full of Apple, IBM and other desk tops we could just use however we wanted AND THAT'S the SHORT story. So for anyone doing a degree in computer science it was one of the best places you could be AND AT THE RIGHT TIME. When I was there the Plato system was a text based system which you are all lucky to have never used. So they was an opportunity to make this awful system look like and be user friendly like the Apple Macs we used to do our term papers on. Marc Andreessen stepped into that opportunity and developed (along with Eric Bina) the Mosaic program which was the first practical web browser. They renamed it Netscape and eventually sold it to AOL for $4.3 Billion. I do not begrudge Marc Andreessen for his success or wealth. He had an opportunity and made it work and with it helped to make the Internet function. WHAT I OBJECT to are his public stances on funding education. He got what he got because the State of Illinois and the US Federal Government FUNDED the university where he got that opportunity. So for him to come out and denigrate the US Federal Government as he often does is INCREDIBLY NARCISSISTIC and UNGRATEFUL. Marc Andreessen has what he has because the American people helped to fund his opportunity. To try try and deny similar opportunities going to others is disgusting.
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  3824. My first thought from the thumbnail was "Gee - she likes that mood lighting that trims away a couple of years!!!!!" Irrespective it makes you wonder how much is AI and how much is real person?????
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  3825.  @davidadiwego4608  Your second comment is as ignorant as your first. 2 Comments and twice you attack simple basic UNARGUABLE SCIENCE. Like all your kind all you can do is bullshit and lie. YOU"RE DISGUSTING.
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  3826. First half absolutely yes, Second half utterly and idiotically stupid and ridiculous or do you need reminding of Jared Kushner's heritage. I suggest you think about an edit or deleting your comment before YouTube bans you.
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  3827. If he had that much to spare why wasn't he smart enough to see it was a SCAM. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3828. Australian here - I actually went to college in America in the late 80s and was there for part of the 87 primary season. So I have seen American politics up close and at distance and this is the SMARTEST thing I have seen anyone do in American politics in 37years. Considering what the next POTUS faces and YES these things are HUGE for America but they are also incredibly important to the rest of the planet because we have to deal with these issues. - An out of control SCOTUS, which is bigger than most Americans realise because it affects how we do business with all you companies. - An out of control Israel and that has global ramifications AND NOBODY wants the War with Iran that Netanyahu wants. He's only doing this to delay facing criminal charges. - An out of control Russia and if this goes wrong nukes will fly. - The out of control billionaire class tearing the developed world apart and YES its not just the American Billionaires. We all have them and they are all just as bad, but in America they are organised. I just watched Legal Eagle's vid on Project 2025. THEN after the politics there's monstrous issues with: - The 120million (and climbing) people who are displaced in the world; - The insane wealth disparity that' destroying the developed world. - The insanity of the multi-nationals destroying any chance for the developing world to actually develop. AND FINALLY CLIMATE CHANGE.
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  3829.  @kidynamite58  Way to many people in the DNC have NOT YET acknowledged that a lot of people in the swing states voted Biden and then down ticket voted Republican for the House, Senate and State legislatures. They should have that rammed down their throats. Then there is the issue that Trumps base increased from 62,984,828 in 2016 to 74,223,744. That's over 11million when the polls for 3 years said his base was shrinking. That's over 8million more than Hilary's 2016 (65,853,514). Anyone who thinks 74million pissed off people who have been told they got cheated are going away is an idiot. How many of that 74million own at least 1 gun? Consider that and the reports that gun stores have run out of ammunition to sell. The DNC needs to get there heads out of there asses and do something very positive to calm those people down. I think it was Jimmy Carter who warned George Bush that it would only take 1 bomb to start the 2nd Iraq War but it would take 1000s and 1000s to end it. Joe Biden needs a similar message shoved down his throat. For starters he can stop hiring Goldman Sachs and McKinsey people - that DOES NOT send a positive message.
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  3830. It might not be treason because that would mean he's trying to overthrow the existing government and Trump's still the legal POTUS. But Sedition is another matter --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition Flynn's problem is that his is military and his oath is for life and sedition is specifically described under the UCMJ and I think he can still be court martialed. I have previously asked Glenn Kirshner who has been both a JAG and Federal Prosecutor about clarifying treason & sedition. He has a channel here on YT and has been clarifying many of the recent legal issues, including Michael Flynn's and other pardons. Here is a link to his most recent comment on Flynn. Flynn's pardon is already being challenged . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlFCJzL8W0
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  3831.  @andrescosta2992  Be careful on that second part. Let the law deal with him and he is in enough trouble. This call for martial law puts him in a troublesome place. He's ex-military and the UCMJ has specific rules about military personnel and sedition even if they are ex-military. I have been watching Glenn Kirshner explain stuff surrounding this. He started as a JAG before working as a federal prosecutor. Here is hi latest explanation on pardons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XNPc3qvmAM
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  3832. Well actually Comey didn't say anything but "consider" and that might be just a warning that Joe Biden needs to have an answer ready. Those millions of Trump supporters aren't simply going to disappear or be silent. They will likely be demanding pardons in future. But in the American system pardons have a catch and that is - accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt. Glenn Kirschner (retired JAG & Federal Prosecutor) just today did a vid on this catch with pardons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baWkPCQzgoQ
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  3833.  @PostcardCathy  If you separate the concepts of wisdom and intelligence you're absolutely right. Wisdom is basically the ability to apply knowledge and experience of which intelligence is only a part. Almost everything about Trumps presidency screams a total lack of political wisdom. Remember his classic on health care when his attempt to repeal Obama Care fell flat - "who knew health care would be hard." I forget the exact words but at the time its was a monumental WTF. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3834.  @cjvaye99  You've hit the nail on the head. TOO MANY people know her for what she is. They've seen through the hype. Hopefully the Trump supporters will eventually see it too. America needs somebody who's not a washed up baby boomer with something real. Almost anything real will do. Trump hit a raw nerve with part of America that felt left out and he tapped that. Fake as it was the alternative was Hilary and they'd had enough of that. The next POTUS will either save America or oversee its demise. Like other great empires and federations it will fracture into chunks. The real question is how many chunks?
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  3835.  @kimlee4010  Sorry but that's a fairly shite comment that has so little meaning its not worth anyone responding other than to tell you to think better. 1) Everyone likes to say they'll sue but unless you have the money to litigate you can't unless you can find a lawyer willing to risk it. 2) Most people who'd like to sue also find out that its never as easy as idiots claim. Especially when it comes to you having to prove your case.
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  3836.  @obelic71  You and others are right, but more than anything it depends on the specifications. Don't forget there are plenty of power stations that have been decommissioned in recent years. I work in the Australian mining sector and we reuse power transformers all the time and they come from all sorts of places. Remember they are basically a big lump of iron and copper than has no moving parts. The only thing that wears out are the cooling fans. If you're unlucky the oil might be contaminated, but even that/s not much of a problem. If there's a potential big problem it will be in the switch gear. Getting that stuff might not be so hard but you need a specific skill set to install and commission that stuff. I work in control systems and automation so I'm only the periphery of that stuff. The people who do it tend to be quite specialised. They have all sorts of sayings but one of my favorites is: "High voltage takes no prisoners."
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  3837.  @ignatzmeyer1978  IT DOES NOT MATTER Real or replica, gun safety does not change. By the way it was a real gun, in case you missed that point.
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  3838. ENGINEER HERE: So we are all clear. Depleted Uranium is NOT produced from spent fuel its a by-product of the enrichment process. Natural Uranium is approximately 99.3% U238 and 0.7% U235 or about 7 grams per kilogram. Commercial grade nuclear fuel rods start at between 3 and 8% and to get to that higher concentration its enriched. What enrichment does is split the raw uranium into 2 parts, one with a higher concentration of U235 and one with a lower concentration of U235. For example If you take a kilogram of natural Uranium it would have 7 grams of U235. If you split that into 1 part with a mass of 120grams but has 6 of the 7 grams of U235 that 120grams has a U235 percentage of 5%. That's fuel grade and can go into a reactor. The other part with a mass of 880 grams with the last 1g of U235, would have a U235 percentage of 0.11% which is down from the original 0.7%. That's why its called depleted Uranium. which is down form 0.7% and that's why its called depleted uranium. Its been depleted of U235. U238 does not have many uses. Its very good for radiation shielding because of its density and can be used to make glass (see Wikipedia). However U238 is fantastic for making armour piecing bullets because when the bullet hits the armour it doesn't simply smash into the armour it literally explodes in an exothermic (heat generating) reaction that literally burns through the armour. Even if it does not go right through the armour it can generate enough heat so that the armour on the inside of the vehicle melts and spray around. So depleted Uranium rounds are fairly horrendous things.
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  3839. This is like watching a pile of horseshit arguing with a pile of bullshit over who has the better flies buzzing overhead.
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  3840. Metrics conservatives get HIGHER numbers that more liberal states & nations across the developed world. teenage pregnancy incest missing fingers unreported wife bashing accidents involving guns high school drop-outs and illiteracy
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  3841. Just a note of caution the RT network is funded by the Government of Russia. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network) Not I saying I disagree with what JV is saying at all in what he is saying, in fact I think he's is absolutely right. If you can't live on $1million a month then you have a problem. BUT that RT logo on his jacket is owned by the Russian Government.
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  3842. @gridsleep Yeah but somebody had to say it. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Someone else just pointed out Fauci will just get a short holiday from Trump before re-starting on January 21.
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  3843.  @mrm7058  Many places have issues with Gerrymandering. Its not an American issue its done all over the Western World. Most of the political issues America has right now are being played out everywhere else. Its just that America has its issues fueled on a combination of crack cocaine and self righteousness all dip coated in media madness. I'm Australian but went to college in America and it infuriates me to watch such an great nation be ripped apart the way it is right now. BUT when I turn around I see the same sort of shite happening here its just not as rabid yet. We have some world class garbage politicians. Not many of them but the ones we've got are on par with anyone else's. Go look up Pauline Hanson or Craig Kelly or Clive Palmer. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3844. I sort of agree but there's a lot NOT being said about Powell in this sort of discussion. Other than admitting what he said at the UN was wrong. Powell actually tried to stop the invasion, which is not as widely known as it should be. Its all covered in the 2004 PBS Frontline episode "Rumsfled's War." I saw it here in Australia circa 2005/06 and it blew the lid of who the people who'd caused that mess. A lot of finger pointing was at Powell because of his UN speech but that's only 1 part of it. Powell tried his hardest to get Bush to back away. He even had a private dinner with Bush and bluntly told Bush that Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bolton and others were NOT military men and weren't experts in military matters while he and others were. That's why a lot of the political people ended up hanging Powell out to take the blame. The one military guy who is NOT mentioned enough is a Colonel named Douglas Macgregor who had made a name for himself as a tank commander in the first Gulf War at the Battle of 73 Easting. People like Powell and Eric Shinseki said invading Iraq would take several hundred thousand TO SECURE THE COUNTRY. Macgregor told Rumsfled, Wolfowitz and others that was nonsense and it would only take around 80,00 because the Iraqi was weak and disorganised from the sanctions. In that Frontline episode he's actually interviewed and says that. Powell, Shinseki and others tried to tell Bush and Congress that wasn't the point. The point was SECURING the country AFTERWARDS, which we know was a disaster. The Iraqi militias raided the military supply depots because there just wasn't anyone there to stop them. I hate the fact that despite making some mistakes that its ignored that Powell tried to stop the invasion. These days I find it despicable that Macgregor has NEVER been held accountable and these days he's trotted out as an expert by various think tanks and parts of the media.
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  3845. Reasonable Republicans is a contradiction in terms like military intelligence, miniature giant, jumbo shrimp, colorful shade of grey.
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  3846.  @bobpeters61  Yeah Christians have a problem with that 3rd Commandment, Especially the Catholics and Eastern Orthodox churches. That includes all of them who wear a cross around their neck. Exodus 20:4 You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them;... There's a crystal clear warning by John at 1John 5:21 Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. Many translations have the word "guard" instead of "keep." There's also a great line somewhere in the OT about how people will take a piece of wood and carve 1/2 of it into something sacred that they pray too, while they cook diner with the other 1/2.
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  3847. I know this will sound callous but they are using the wrong gas. They should be using Carbon Dioxide (CO2). Please bear with because there is a shocking part to this story. A number of years ago when the types of drugs being used were under question a British Journalist did a straight forward "what are the alternatives" documentary. I saw it on the website for the Melbourne Age (part of Fairfax media) in Australia. After evaluating all the different ways that animals are disposed of and humans are executed the most reliable and least invasive and least cruel method this journalist found was carbon dioxide. Above a particular level CO2 simply knocks a person out after a brief moment of euphoria (light headedness). Its very quick as was shown with the Lake Nyos (Cameroon) disaster in 1986. A cloud of CO2 was released from the lake and it swept downhill and wiped out several villages. They could see from the footprints that most people were knocked out instantly with only a few taking a couple of foot steps. THIS IS THE SHOCKING PART. When the journalist presented what he found to the doctor in charge of executions in one of the US States (Sorry I forget which one) that doctor replied that he didn't care and said (paraphrasing) "Its not meant to be nice its a punishment." Just so we are clear my issue with the death penalty is not that it exists. There can always be some argument made that person 'X' did crime 'Y' and its so egregious that they deserve death. My problem with the death penalty is THE ATTITUDE of those pursuing it. As in are they pursuing justice or something else like vengeance or political gain. In my home state of Victoria (Australia) our last execution was Ronald Ryan a small time criminal who was convicted of killing a guard during a prison escape. There were numerous flaws in the evidence presented with at least 2 witnesses lying. The ballistics made it almost certain the guard was accidentally shot by another guard in a tower on the prison wall. Government papers from meetings that were only released only a few years ago have made it clear the government of the day were fully aware of the actual facts (the lies and the ballistics). Its in the record that when presented with these facts the Victorian Premier Sir Henry Bolte was noted to have said words to the effect "We have an election to win later this year and this will make me look tough on crime." They went on to win that election in a landslide.
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  3848. Same answer I just gave someone else. Australian here and from the OUTSIDE looking in America has done this to itself just like the British did with Brexit and we are doing with AUKUS. On face value there was never a lot wrong with Brexit or with AUKUS or with the concept that Merrick Garland had which was "Its political so let the American people decide it at the ballot box." The problem is Brexit was motivated by stupid opportunistic selfish people who didn't think through what Brexit actually meant or how to get it done. The problem with AUKUS isn't we are cementing our international relationships or getting nuclear powered submarines its the insane cost that's being drive by some stupid opportunistic selfish people who don't give a damn because they are in it for the money. The problem with Garland was he never considered that stupid opportunistic selfish people would take advantage of the situation. Can you see the common thread. Gatez and Trump are just symptoms of a more pervasive disease.
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  3849. You forget that the drugs she's on must cost a fortune. They are so good she doesn't have red eye's, or sniffles, or any of the other usual symptoms. That means she's on the "good stuff!" You know the "stuff" us normal people can't get.
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  3850. Yeah its amazing how people post photos and make claims like "here, check for your self" and they know they are posting photos from other sources and other events. What's truly crazy is that people claim they can't trust the media but they can trust Facebook and Twitter.
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  3851. Its called having a brain AND USING IT!
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  3852.  Polar Per  Thanks, its called 30+ years of experience, which is rarely respected in any profession.
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  3853.  @insightfulhistorian1861  Have you read or looked at the book "Angrynomics" by Mark Blyth and Eric Lonergan? A lot of it goes into the angry state of the world and the different types of anger that we see and how its been driven by economics. The stagnation is endemic to the entire Western developed world. Its just a little different from place to place. How the anger manifests is also different from place to place depending on what sort of events trigger it and or what sort of people are adding to the stress. Your right America is incredibly complex but its got a combination of agitators pushing agenda's coupled with the gun culture and that's like a bottle of nitroglycerine on a barb-e-que.
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  3854.  @purplepill2024  Follow up. I just started listening to another Mark Blyth podcast (quite recent too). Its on the YT Channel "Social Europe" and titled Mark Blyth: The crisis of globalisation, Brexit and other disasters waiting to happen. About 4 minutes in he's asked the same basic question you asked and his answer is textbook for what Australia did under the label Economic Rationalism.
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  3855. ​ @robinbreeds9217  If you thought that whole "service based economy" made no sense to you then how about the way it was sold to Australia? We were told we'd be following the British example. No really we were. No joke - Peter Costello actually told us that we'd be like Britain.
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  3856. There was a group of people who did EXACTLY the same thing regarding what they thought was a case of corruption. It happened January 6th 2021 in Washington. Its not simply a matter of storming the palace. Its a matter of storming the palace FOR THE RIGHT REASON. Never forget that no matter how righteous your fight is the other side always sees you as the villain set on the destruction of their lives.
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  3857. Granted its no much but its a better prize than claiming you're a Trump Republican.
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  3858.  @elizabethellis9062  Keep going and going. History tells us that political leadership has been nothing but one long progression of the worst of humanity. Occasionally someone pops up who honestly tries to make their nation/state a better place for everyone, but the sad fact is politics attracts the worst of humanity like a dog turn attracts flies. It might be the one thing Trump said that we can all agree on. Washington is a swamp, but then so is Moscow, Beijing, Riyad, Tehran, London, Paris, Brussels, Canberra, Ottawa and every other political centre.
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  3859.  @drsrsv8884  Its not so much capitalism but the version of capitalism we are now running. The whole Chicago School neoliberal ideology that Reagan and Thatcher force fed to the world has to go. Just like Keynesianism before it had had its day this shite that Reagan and Thatcher started has had its day. In fact it should have been done with after the 2008 GFC and instead we got the mess we now have.
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  3860. Why is it that F⋃CKWITS like you always bring anything to do the SCOTUS back to the gun issue??? Are you so insecure that you need an AR15 to define yourself??
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  3861. As an engineer I absolutely get where you are coming from BUT just saying if they don't support nuclear they are a fool and liar is being just as ridiculous and pig headed as the anti-nuclear Greenies. Everybody needs to stop making ridiculous claims how this or that technology is the only solution. You mention options which is great. The first thing you need to understand with options is that what works in one place might not work anywhere else or it might work in many places or it might be the WORST option in some other places. This is the basic thing that infuriates me as an engineer. There's all these people who are not engineers making all these claims that might be true in some instances and totally untrue in others. In Canad hydro is great they have lots of water and suitable valleys, but its basically useless for solar. Over in North Africa hydro is useless they don;t have any suitable rivers but they have lots of wide open spaces and endless sun for solar. The most important thing going forward is that all non-engineering people need to SHUT T F UP. Either that or they can all go off to college for 4 years bust there ass learning what they need then spend a decade or 2 learning how to do projects and build stuff and then they might start being worth listening too.
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  3862. And then he'll come back screaming how its a political witch hunt and how unfair it all is. Banning Trump might be worse than most people think. Back in late 2019 early 2020 Michael Moore made remarks that Trump needed to be crushed. He said that a narrow win might be worse than him winning. He REPEATEDLY warned that Trump would have plan to win or cheat. Those words are almost prophetic right now. Look at what has happened from Biden NOT having a decisive win. Look at how Trump has been able to seize the public narrative, raise money and mobilize his base since that time. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  3863.  @nolandclark653  Depends on which facts you talk about. When she was talking about veterans affairs and the Middle East she was so much better than the other candidates, which is why some of her more recent stuff has been so damn strange. Some of the stuff that's been highlighted where she was on Fox pandering to right wing conservatives has been tragic. She's gone from being very relevant on some quite important subjects to a joke.
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  3864.  @originalsinquirls1205  You're argument isn't without merit but you are seriously underplaying Elon's motivations and behavior. What ever you like to claim at the end of the day its about Elon being center stage (as in he's a narcissist) and about having power, which is starting to become more and more obvious in how he deals with people. Go look at any of the financial analysts who have looked at the value of Tesla. Forget the people who just don't like him because there answers are obvious. Listen to what the analysts are saying and they are all saying (if they have a brain) "Don't buy Tesla, because its massively overvalued." But then several of the major Gig-economy tech stocks are also seriously overvalued and they all work the same way. Almost 20 years ago my fathers stockbroker explained to me the concept of price earnings ratio. A bunch of these tech stocks don't have a PER because they have never paid any dividends. They trade on their price going up endlessly and that has NEVER worked - Real Estate is the classic example. Its traded as always going up, but long term history says that every 80-120 years housing prices collapse and lose 90-95% of their value. Occasionally its only 20-30% (like 2008). There were a few mavericks who study that stuff desperately trying to tell the world that BEFORE the 2008 GFC. Some of those people are saying it again now, because housing prices are now even higher than it was in 2008. We just saw what happened to the fantasy land that was Crypto. Before too long the fantasy that is Gig-Tech is going to suffer the same fate.
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  3865.  @rlh12345  Absolutely, its one of the things that separates Elon from other scammers. He actually has some very good products to sell. I try and make the point that he is a great technology promoter and maybe is the best person we have ever seen at it. Jobs and Gates were good but I think Elon's better than both of them at promoting technology. For example: Tesla that car would never have been where it is without Elon's ability to promote it. Also SpaceX has blown Boeing away on getting people into space. The last time an American flew to the ISS on the Soyuz it cost $80 million for 1 seat. SpaceX with crew dragon costs $70 million for 4 seats. I get into arguments with BOTH sides of the Elon argument. I hate the fanbots because they believe everything Elon says and take it as techno-Gospel. I argue with the debunkers because they ignore the things he has gotten right. Like getting an electric vehicle into the main stream market when the car industry said it was impossible was world class and deserving of praise. He smashed that class ceiling. What SpaceX has don in saving the US manned space program is also deserving of praise. BUT and its a damn huge BUT Elon's success does not give him the right to lie and bullshit people with garbage or rip off share holders with selfish deals, like he did with Solar City, Hyperloop, driverless cars and this idiotic nonsense with Starship. I am an aerospace engineer and Starship is a delusional ego trip. He has Crew Dragon and it works. He has Falcon Heavy and it works. That means he has BOTH a taxi to space and work truck to space. Shit that's 100% of what you need to do serious stuff. Instead of finding ways to go to the Moon or Mars he's off in the sci-fi section of Egoville.
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  3866. WTF are you talking about? When has Thom EVER supported American Imperialism?
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  3867. Yeah why is this even a news story other than to confirm EVERYTHING people were saying BEFORE he was elected. Was Biden a better option than Trump? Yeah Was Biden ever going to deliver what the younger generations need for a future? NO, NOT EVER. Biden is just another Baby Boomer who won't retire and just away. Look at the worlds leaders (both political and business) and see how many are 70, 80 and 90 years olds WHO SHOULD RETIRE and GET OUT OF OUR LIVES.
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  3868. I was on a podcast last night Steve Keen & Friends that covers topics on progressive economics. About 3/4 of the way through Steve Keen pointed out one of the biggest issues facing humanity. Too many of us DON'T want to discuss or hear SERIOUS TOPICS or TRUTH and that's whether its economics, science, religion OR POLITICS. People aren't interested in serious topics because then they'd have to actually think and who cares about thinking? Why are more people watching highlights of the NFL play-offs than watching anything serious about our world?
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  3869.  @Dmarcoot  Tribalism is going to turn out to be the destroyer of Western Society. It took centuries to recover from the Dark Ages. This idiocy is taking us straight back to times when rumor and ignorance were the law.
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  3870. This is not simply an Arizona thing. I'm Australian and we have been also letting this stuff happen. We have the Saudis, Canadians, New Zealanders, Brazilians, Americans, British and others all active in our agriculture sector and they are all buying up water rights or dominating the water auctions. And we let a Harvard educated Australian economist do to our water market almost exactly the same thing as another Harvard economist did to the Texas energy market. All through the influencers and lobbyists on government policy you will find Harvard, Yale, LSE neoliberals pushing that the best way to distribute resources is via sophisticated free markets. The issues with water supplies being bought by corporations who then rape those resources for all they can is a worldwide issue. This year Australia has lots of water. We are right now having our 9th or 10th flood depending on who's counting. Before that it was 5+ years of brutal drought. Next year it might be more floods or the start of the next brutal drought. Either way we will be farked if we don't regain control of our water. This neoliberal nonsense where the economists run everything to the benefit of their backers has to stop. Sadly I think its going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
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  3871. Who else has come back to watch or re-watch this after Jan 6th 2021?
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  3872.  @elbruces  He's let fly a few times more recently. Did you see the one about the "depravity" of those pardons? Glenn Kirschner also let rip about that.
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  3873. Its January 26, 2025 less than 2 years after this was posted and Trump just said he'd support a massive boost to AI. Yeaaahhhhhhhh. I have no idea which emoji sums this up 🙄🤥🥴😵😝
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  3874.  @justmeandthethree  Really "schadenfreude" - do you watch Mark Blyth too?
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  3875. Here's the link to the guardians series on Pegasus -> https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project
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  3876. David Pakman and some others covered it as well and have covered him in the past. This guy is truly off the deep end.
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  3877. Sorry Comrade Billy-Bob but you got sold out a long time ago.
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  3878. Gotta love the judge who called Tucker Carlon's speech as "bloviating" I checked here's what's on Wikipedia for Bloviation. Bloviation is a style of empty, pompous, political speech that originated in Ohio and was used by US President Warren G. Harding, who described it as "the art of speaking for as long as the occasion warrants, and saying nothing". His opponent, William Gibbs McAdoo, compared it to "an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea." That means a judge has declared in a judgement that Tucker Carlson blows because that's the root word for bloviating similar to blowhard. If Tucker were state that he doesn't blow then that means he would have refute the judgement in his favour and Karen McDougal might have grounds to appeal the judgement.
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  3879.  @Everything2A  If an individual holds a person responsible for their actions its labelled revenge, even when they sought justice. If society holds a person responsible for their actions its called justice, but its also a form of mob vengeance.
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  3880. I thought of something to bring some perspective on the Gaza issue. There are approximately 1,800 people working in the Whitehouse. If each of them were to go out and shoot 8 children they would in total kill 14,400 children. Can you imagine the reaction that if ONE person who worked in the Whitehouse suddenly killed 8 children. Maybe it wont be that much. After all the everyone seems to have forgotten events like Columbine, Georgia Tech, Sandy Hook and Uvalde. The Israeli Defence force has killed more than 15,000 children in Gaza. Nobody will know what any of them might have become. Any that might have become doctors, teachers, engineers, fathers, mothers or any other normal occupation or endeavor will NOT. We'll never know just as we'll never know what those children from Columbine, Sandy Hook or Uvalde might have become. Maybe we have become so accustomed to the slaughter of children that another 15,000 doesn't matter so long as the right political messages are sent and the right companies can make money from it.
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  3881. You're FORGETTING HE'S NOT INTERESTED in YOU. He's only interested in pandering to his base and billionaire financial supporters. This is the biggest issue in Western politics. Politicians you just don't care about anybody except those who fund and vote for them. Its not an American problem either. I'm Australian and we have these types. Go check out Graig Kelly or Pauline Hanson. Go look at Europe they have them everywhere. We are now in an era where radical populists are finding ways to get elected. Most of them are attention seeking narcissists like Trump. They don't care squat about the trouble they cause or the institutions they wreck. As to why they are getting elected that's pretty simple. People are tired of CAREER POLITICIANS who do nothing but look after the billionaire class that fund their campaigns and the status quo that they want. The Billionaires have had 40+ years of incredible wealth gain. A recent Rand report described in a Time article said the top 1% of America had taken $50 TRILLION (with a 'T') from the bottom 90%. The billionaires want that to keep going no matter how unsustainable it is. The billionaire class don't care who gets elected or how they get elected so long as their interests are protected. https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/
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  3882. I will grant you and millions of people that is true, BUT Hilary Clinton needs the SHUT UP AND GO AWAY. Like so many others in US politics she has had her go and had her time and SHE NEEDS TO GO AWAY AND STAY AWAY and NOT COME BACK.
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  3883. Actually Trump was questioned by a White House correspondent a couple of years ago about his relentless "fake news" repertoire. He replied that his intent was to so discredit the media that NO ONE WOUDL BELIEVE ANYTHING THEY PRODUCED. This shit was his intent from at least 3 years ago. Fox and others should feel shame for what they enabled.
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  3884. That's a reasonably nuanced answer with merit but what we are talking about is a group of people who claim to be the ONLY GROUP capable of interpreting something written by people who are no longer alive. This is not simply a problem with the US Constitution its a problem with so many social & political institutions and the dogmas created by people in these "We know the truth!" groups. On another subject but equally plagued with dogma is economics and that currently has an incredible effect on our lives. There's the 2 competing ideologies of capitalism that came from people like Adam Smith and David Ricardo versus the socialism & communism that came from people like Karl Marx. Right now we are dominated by Chicago School neoliberal economics that was formulated by people like Hayek and Freidman. Most of us have NO IDEA what any of them were on about. We rely on people interpreting what they meant. There are 100s of acolytes who will all happily explain the virtues of what Smith, Marx and Ricardo wrote and champion their causes AND they will do it no matter what evidence there is that the systems they put in place HAVE FAILED. The pure socialism and communism of Eastern Europe FAILED, but you can't tell that to a Marxist Lefty. The pure capitalism of America and the West is FAILING but you can't tell that to a Freidmanite Capitalist. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I think the US Constitution is one of the greatest achievements in human history BUT BECAUSE of these people who claim to be the true interpreters its now regarded as a joke around the world. I think the original Bill of Rights (the first 10 Amendments) is sublime genius but its been trampled on by packs of ideological M0R0Ns who act of of pure selfishness and arrogance.
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  3885.  @Zackaryyrakcaz  AND YOU WIN TODAYS MOST AWESOME COMMENT.
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  3886. I'm Australian and Nigel was here a few weeks ago asking people to PAY to hear him talk crap and nonsense. I don't know how it went and don't care so long as he stays the hell out of my country. I have no idea how anyone gives him the slightest credibility. He won the vote and then immediately resigned and left the mess he created for other people to deal with. That showed he had no plan and didn't believe the vote would go as it did. I think he's one of these pompous clowns who uses some perceived grievance to rally people around. A classic populist. I don't think he really wanted Britain to leave because while it stayed he had his soap box to stand on and could blame Brussels for anything and everything. Suddenly when he was confronted with responsibility he ran away.
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  3887.  @sebraven  Its the wonderful vagueness between reality and the law.
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  3888. HEY ERIC - why don't you go do a quick history review of the Capets of France, Romanovs of Russia, Ceaușescus of Romania and al-Tikritis of Iraq When you are an autocratic family of spoiled brats who treat the country like shit it sometimes goes real bad and ends with bullets, blades, rope and wooden box. 🖕
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  3889. You think its maddening???? I'm Australian and we have just made the most massive commitment in our nations history to the AUKUS Agreement which includes spending more money than ANYONE can afford AND THIS IS WHAT'S GOING ON IN AMERICA. Do any of you think this looks like the people we want to hand a couple of hundred billion dollars too? Other than the WTF security thing. No matter what anyone likes or dislikes the $US is still the worlds reserve currency and America is still 1/4 of the worlds economy. NOBODY and I mean NOBODY, NOT EVEN the Russians, North Koreans, Iranians or a bunch of other miscreant nations run by recalcitrant clowns can afford America to f*ck up like this. Remember that line from the film Full Metal Jacket "Soldier unf*ck yourself!" Well I think its a fair call to say "America unf*ck yourself!"
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  3890. Yeah I just watched Kyles other video and there's some genuine insanity going on here. I'm actually Australian and from the outside it looks like America has lost its mind. ALTHOUGH when I look at our politics its not much better. This seems to be the real issue with politics everywhere. There's no common sense, there's no being reasonable and almost every discussion descends into a shite storm.
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  3891. Actually this is some of the worst I have seen him do. WTF did climate change have to do with any of this debate other than ABSOLUTELY NOTHING? But then he was better than James Lindsey who was just a pompous clown. I started watching Triggernometry about 2 years ago and I thought it was pretty damn brilliant. They had on a variety of (as they put it) "interesting people for interesting conversations." How I found the channel was their talk with Mark Blyth the Scott who's at Brown U. in America. A couple of months back they had on Andrew Doyle who spoke about the "Language Puritans" and that was awesome. There's some of the woke stuff I find repulsive but Andrew Doyle simply cut it to pieces. I'm pretty much agree that Wokeism (as it is at the moment) has gone too far or at least some within that side have gone too far. Especially with those who are trying to force language, like Andrew Doyle pointed out. So why TF has Konstantin gone off on this climate change thing? And its not the first time I have seen him take cheap shots at Greta Thunberg. I don't know what his bug with her is but trolling a teenage girl is fairly SHlT behaviour. And you need to ask WHY?
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  3892.  @ericaeli3807  I totally agree on t=your James Lindsey remark. His talk was just utter nonsensical garbage. He was just as bad if not worse than Tommy Nguyen who's speech could have had ever instance of woke & wokeism replaced by right & rightism and NOTHING would have changed. Both of the gave almost 10 minutes of tribal political clichés. If this is where Oxford has gone too with debates, then Oxford has become the pompous clown house of elitist snobs that many think it always was. If I was scoring this it would have been a nil-all draw. Even when a couple of them made valid points they then threw away the chance to actually score. It was almost an hour and a half of what-a-bout. Nobody had a solution to anything and they all acted like excuses equate to substance.
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  3893. This is just one of several great comments on how ridiculously wrapped up in his own celebrity Bill Maher is. He's now a character of the type he so often rails at. Maybe there should be a "New Rule" that says "Members of the general should be allowed to b*tch clap any celebrity who thinks their opinion based on NOTHING but their celebrity is more important than actual facts."
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  3894. Very sad and sadly very true.
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  3895. PS lets not forget these people have been drowning in misinformation. Even David's a bit guilty of that here - He says (4:33) "The idea is the flu vaccine prevents flu in some and in others it makes it less severe. But the flu vaccines are not nearly as effective as these coronavirus vaccines are." Where does he get that last part from because we only have trial data so far on COVID vaccines. Plus there's many flu vaccines for different strains just as there's different COVID vaccines. NO ONE should be comparing efficacy between flu and COVID vaccines, unless they're an epidemiologist and can answer questions and explain the differences. In refuting the sort of ignorance that's here David AND ALL OF US need to be careful we are NOT making it worse. The best weapon against ignorance are straight forward facts not embellishments. We all need to watch what we say because right now its so easy to slip up and make mistakes. Best wishes to all. (edit was for a typo)
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  3896.  @daveg2104  I'm Australian too mate. I went to college in America. I think David's one of the few people commentators who's fairly well balanced, but he does slip at times. And with this stuff you have to stay on the ball or its too easy for detractors to run off with minor mistakes. As I just pointed out on another page the difference between Australia and America with respect to health care is monumental to say the least. I went to college in Illinois and the combined population of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin is 25.2 million to our 25.7. We have 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin have over 42,000. I know those 3 states damn well and Australia being an island and spread out does not explain that level of difference. America's COVID response is a disaster of incredible proportion and they are not facing up to it well. Its not like 9/11 where they could blame someone. Its very sad, but it is a disaster of their own making.
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  3897.  @daveg2104  I'm a Victorian who was caught out of state and been stuck in Queensland since this time last year. Hopefully once the vaccine reaches me I can get back to what I was up to. But you're right David isn't that great on the COVID analysis. Generally I think his political commentary is pretty good. BUT I think he's way to soft on critiquing the Biden administration. He's got a soft spot for Jen Psaki which is totally unwarranted considering some of her public comments in the past. She is certainly a giant leap forward from Kayleigh McEnany but then a mangy lost dog could do that.
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  3898.  @daveg2104  I'm did aerospace engineering in America courtesy of a sports scholarship and have a classmate very high up at NASA. We had a very interesting "exchange" abut 20 years ago arguing over how the ISS was being built. I was coming at the problem from the industrial "get it done" mentality. Putting it mildly got put in my place. I was informed NASA does not actually decide much of what it does, the senate committee overseeing NASA does. NASA proposes and they select and once you understand that many things you wondered about these last 50 years become quite apparent. When you wonder why didn't they simply do X instead of Y and you get the answer "how was that going to win person Z votes in their state." When you ask why did the spend so much doing..... and the answer is it got a lot of people employed where Senator Z is their representative. Similarly when you look at the nightmare disaster the F35 supply chain (not the plane, the supply chain as in where all the bits are made) is you understand it was done that way so that almost any US senator who questioned it got a tap on the shoulder from the boss of a company in his state telling him how many jobs could be lost. Going back through our military spending, there's been some good decisions like the Mirage and F111, but since the early 90s its been a lot of ugly questions nobody would want to ask publicly but they should be. Lets not mention the Super Seasprite. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️ So our subs are just another disaster in long, long, long list of engineering disasters,
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  3899.  @daveg2104  I only know what I know about NASA from that class mate and these days she very high up in ISS management. I didn't know the buried the F-111s. You'd hope somebody would be smart enough to scrap them for the raw materials. They don't get made out of cheap stuff.
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  3900. ENGINEER HERE: It doesn't matter because once the Australian people realise just how badly this disaster has been put together they are going to go nuts. 1) The Virginia-class is simply not suited to Australia's navy. yes the technology is arguably the best there is but the Americans have a different philosophy to other nations. Not only do they build large but they have large crews. The Virginia-class has a basic crew of 140, the Astute is 100 and the French Barracuda is 60 like the Collins-class. The German 212-class which isn't nuclear but is Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) has a crew of 27. Singapore has a variation of the German 212. We don't have enough submariners to crew 2 Virginia-class subs let alone 5. 2) We are being taken to the cleaners on the costs. When you look at what these subs have as delivered (as in what the US, British or French navies pay) then we are being screwed to a level of absurdity that should horrify people. Its not the only Australian Navy Contract that needs to be publicly questioned. - The Arafura-class offshore patrol vessels are more than 10 times the cost of the Armidale-class boats they are replacing. Plus the need 30% more crew and weigh over 5 times as much meaning their operational costs will be much higher. - The Hunter Class Frigates are over 3 times the price the British Navy is paying for the same vessel. There is nothing in the variation or that they are being made in Australia that can justify that. I have actually done a ALTERNATIVE project costing on the submarines. I have 2 Astute-class variations and then 4 AUKUS with 6 German 212s. that would be a sub fleet that would be VERY HARD for Australia to crew. - The nuke boats are all built in England with an Australian work force on site of 6,500. The first 212 would be built in Germany with an Australian workforce of 1,000 and the last 5 built here in Australia. - I have included some borderline outrageous bonuses for the Australian people working on them overseas as a means to getting it done on time and on budget. - I have included costs for port upgrades in both Western and Eastern Australia based on publicly available information. - I have included costs for disposal of the subs after their service using parts of Olympic Dam in South Australia. Why because its already a site with 30% of the World's known Uranium. It can't be contaminated any worse than it already is. I have TIRED to OVER COST things and am still AU$115 Billion *UNDER the lower AU$268 Billion we are being told it will cost Even if I stick a AU$50 Billion contingency on top of all the other contingencies I already have in the project I still can't explain where AU$65 Billion let alone AU$165 Billion is going. MAYBE THIS IS WHY ACTUAL PROJECT DETAILS ARE HARD TO COME BY.
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  3901. Aerospace Engineer - Your 100% right on the first point and sort of maybe on the second. Like Thunderf00t I had my time in Academia but actually walked away from my PhD Scholarship in disgust at the behavior of my supervisors. Mine just simply admitted to financial fraud to my face one day. I've spent the last 30+ years in industrial control systems and automation across a bunch of industries mostly manufacturing and mining. On one hand I absolutely agree that Elon Musk is a techno-charlatan BUT the reason he's got away with it is because he's actually done a couple of good things. I spent a chunk of my career building small production cells for the Australian automotive sector and I can tell that entire sector needed a super monster kick in the arse. In some ways its a brilliant industry and in others its easily one of the worst run industries on the planet. Mining is worse by the way. Sorry to all but, its an inescapable fact, that Tesla has shaken the automotive industry and given it the kick it needed. Love him or hate him it can't be denied, but that doesn't mean Elon is innocent either. All the stupid claims about FSD technology and other stuff was crap and garbage and he deserves all the scorn he gets for it. On the SpaceX front there's also a giant hit and miss. The Falcon rockets which Elon had effectively zero to do with have been a gigantic success. Its even more obvious when its compared to Boeing Starliner which so far has had 2 partially successful uncrewed test flights. Despite being originally scheduled for its first crewed flight in 2017 is yet to fly a person anywhere. Meanwhile Crew Dragon had 3 successful test flights followed by a manned test flight followed by 9 successful crewed missions a with 2 more crewed missions currently attached to the ISS. On the flip side just to show Elon is stupid. He's had little to do with Falcon & Crew Dragon, but been heavily involved with Starship and that's almost as bad as Boeing's Starliner. I wont go into it because its pages long. I'd say Elon has 2 things he very good at. 1) Identifying people who are technically very good at their job. Without that Tesla and SpaceX would have nothing. 2) Identifying what the non-technically trained general public will latch onto as the next super technology. In that respect he's like PT Barnum, the Warner Brothers, Walt Disney, Vince McMahon and many of the other entertainment industry leaders have been like - Elon knows what the general public will buy into.
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  3902.  @blue-calla  I'd recommend to everyone to do it every so often as it has several advantages. 1) You are hearing them speak uninterrupted rather than punctuated with other opinions. Its gives you better context. 2) Whenever you are challenged you can throw back that you have listened to them and explain why you reject them. 3) Sun Tzu said you need to know your opponent. Sam and others might be good at their jobs but to rely 100% on them to know these people is foolish. Its means you can't honestly reply to other peoples challenges and you become the drone that others accuse of being. Tom hardy made the point that we have lost the ability to debate. All we do now is scream at each other or sit in a circle of like minded people and reinforce our own ideas. neither solves anything and these days there's a lot of things to fix.
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  3903.  @superchuck3259  Yeah you are partly right, but the Russians developed that stuff well after Reagans Star Wars had ended. But a couple of things did come out of Star Wars like the Patriot anti-missile system. The Russian response is the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal which we've seen in Ukraine. The Russians are sort of lucky. They already had the Mig-31 which can not only fly very high (up to 70,000ft) but also very fast when its up that high (M2.8). How high they are for launch is unknown. Higher means less air density which means less drag. Altitude also helps getting up to those speeds as you are going downhill. Irrespective of everything at those speeds its bound to have serious ground & bunker penetration. Its pretty simple what the Russians did. Make seriously fast air to surface missile that's damn hard to respond to. Just don't be surprised there's stuff in the sales pitch that's not true.
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  3904. What rhymes with burito?
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  3905. POTENITAL Future phone call: Hey Trumpski, its Vlad. Good to see you got my girl through her confirmation. Don't know how you did it but well done. _Why don't your boys come to Moscow so we can discuss the future Trump Odessa gold club. _
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  3906. Not saying she didn't but I don't remember her defending Assad. I kind of took that meeting as "she was willing to go meet difficult people face to face in difficult circumstances." I actually had her marked as a potential Sec State after that because she was willing to go to a difficult place and meet face to face with difficult people. But right now - ABSOLUTELY NOT. We can all excuse lots of people for lots of stuff but excusing Vladimir Putin for the chaos he's causing is brainlessly idiotic.
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  3907. I agree. If there is a similarity they both let their frustrations with the DNC to get anything done. I haven't watched Tulsi much but Jimmy just lost it when the progressive block didn't force the vote last year on Build Back Better. The collapse of that block to get anything done at all seemed to fry his mind. Prior to that he made no secret of his scorn for the Elites who run the DNC, but when the AOC group folded and just fell in line he just lost it. On Tulsi there are people who claim she was always a fake-left pro-right wolf in sheep's clothing. I can see how the utter failure of the Pelosi-Schumer leadership to get anything substantial done may well have fried her brain as well. I think that when history gets written the Pelosi-Schumer leadership will be described as one of the greatest failures of Western (not just American) democratic leadership in human history.
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  3908.  @guccidonbuzzflightyear4440  That's only 1/2 true. Yes without any doubt the use of fossil fuels has allowed SOME PEOPLE to have a very high quality of life BUT FOR MANY OTHERS its SUCKED. The coal miners who got black lung didn't have a very good quality of life outcome. All of the people who died in the oil & gas industry through various accidents over the years didn't have good quality of life outcomes. All the other people who suffered because of petrochemical contamination of water supplies and got cancer or some other malady didn't have good quality of life outcomes. There's a lot off people who didn't have good quality of life outcomes because of the fossil fuel industry, BUT THEN who cares about those people!
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  3909.  @TheeQuirkyPanda  Yeah we get it. Corruption and politics are the same everywhere. We all hope we don't have any and yet sooner or later we find we do. FYI- I'm Australian and our most obvious corruption has to do with our coal industry followed closely by our water resources.
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  3910. NO IT SHOULD NOT Unlike Gerard Holland who's background is in accounting I am an engineer and have know about Australia's energy situation since doing a project on Australia's future energy needs in 2016. I am utterly disgusted with how public discussion has been dominated by UNCHALLENEGED claims from BOTH SIDES of the energy debate. BOTH SIDES LIE just as Gerard has done here. And so you know you can read my formal challenge to him on this page.
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  3911. No, there are others who can't grasp reality either. There's those who claim the earth is flat, NASA didn't go to the moon, 5G gives you cancer while tobacco doesn't and 100s of other basic facts.
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  3912.  @jujutrini8412  Yeah but not many Americans know about it. You have to remember that most American realise that America is NOT the centre of the universe the rest of them DO and that crowd are both noisy and they vote!*
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  3913. I don't know about best in the world as that's subjective BUT WITHOUT DOUBT this network is one of the few willing to challenge China. If an Australian (where I am) published or presented this story there would be chaos. The AUKUS agreement which we just signed with Britain and America for new submarines isn't expected to deliver its first submarine before 2040 (19 years away) and they went berserk. A Chinese Professor was interviewed on Australian television and he told us that we had lost preferred status in NOT being targeted with nuclear weapons. So for buying the submarines that we need to patrol our waters which are extensive across the Indian, Southern and Pacific Oceans we get nukes pointed at us. If we ask the Chinese about Tibet - they tell us to mind our own business. If we ask the Chinese about the Uighurs - they tell us to mind our own business. If we ask the Chinese about any human rights issue - they tell us to mind our own business. If we ask the Chinese about the islands they have snatched in the South China Sea - they tell us to mind our own business. If we ask about where COVID came from - they TOLD us to mind our own business AND HIT US WITH TRADE SANCTIONS. When we buy submarines of a type that ACTUALLY make sense for the area of ocean we have the Chinese point nukes at us. Meanwhile the Chinese have been building the biggest navy in history with now over 500 Ships and Submarines. More and more this guy is looking like a Chinese version of Donald Trump.
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  3914.  @pavel9652  You are absolutely right. That ship that was stuck in the Suez Canal was a Golden class container ship with a capacity of 24,000 TUE (20ft equivalent). Some of the longest trains in the world EVER are the iron ore trains in Australia and they have have 300 carriages. Even double stacked that's only 600 containers. Even if you doubled that again by using wagons capable of 40ft (or 2 x 20ft) that only 1,200 containers which would be 200 trains per ship. Imagine trying to do a couple of boat loads each day. Simple fact most people have NO IDEA how much stuff moves every day in the global economy.
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  3915. Its got nothing to do with ex-Presidents and everything to do with a DOJ that has been inept for decades. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). There used to be this pride among Americans that bad people would go to court and be prosecuted. Now the only threat to some is becoming the subject of an episode of Law & Order. Just recently PBS reposted a 2013 episode of Frontline about the 2008 GFC. Go watch Lanny Breuer make excuse after excuse because he was afraid to lose. Go and check the comments and see how stunned people are 14 years later. There's a real problem with the DOJ going back decades. First they stopped prosecuting Anti-Trust and now the world has Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and others who pay almost no tax anywhere are global monopolistic powerhouses that only exist as they do because of the DOJ. Trump wont be charged by the DOJ unless its a 100% slam dunk and even then they might not out of fear of losing. And before anyone asks - YES we have the same problem here in Australia. We had a Royal Commission into our banks and found them totally out of control. They committed so many crimes we could have easily charged them under our equivalent of RICO. Nobody was charged, nobody went to jail and they just carried on as if nothing happened. Afterwards there were changes recommended and they successfully lobbied to have those dismissed. About the only thing that happened was they had to return money STOLEN from accounts. Yeah they actually STOLE money out of peoples accounts and nobody got charged. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  3916. I hate to bust Thom's and everyone else's balls but Kamala Harris is a terrible campaigner. She DID NOT WIN California in the primaries AND THAT SHOULD RESONATE. OR are you NOT OLD enough to remember Dan Quayle, who was mocked brilliantly by Robert Redford. Like Kamala he was a lawyer and was smart enough to get into and finish Law School. BUT he was slaughtered in debates and mocked relentlessly. There was the gaff that went around the world over his Murphy Brown snipe. I'm not saying Kamala isn't intelligent or that she has good ideas but her political savvy is terrible and it shows EVERYTIME she gets away from scripted speeches.
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  3917.  @WolfGamerBohumin  Yeah I know that and how many 2 pole motors are sold compared to 4 pole motors these days? In 35+ years I can't remember a single project where one was used. I've done projects in both mining and oil & gas with 100s of motors with nothing but 4 -pole motors. I did over 15 years in manufacturing doing heaps of motion control and robotics projects. We used a lot of servo motors but no 2-pole motors. There's no need for them. If you actually need the speed you just wind the VSD up to 100Hz and most can do 400Hz these days. I did an industrial front loading washing machine back around 1995 and that went over 3000rpm on the spin cycle, but we had the VSD at something like 240Hz. I don't remember that motor being a 2-pole.
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  3918.  @MissJensk1  Yeah, I'll never forget the attitude of that doctor or the way he threw it back at that film maker "Its a punishment. Its not meant to be nice." I remember another documentary and they estimated how many people had been formally executed by "a state" under the laws or government of that state during the 20th century or at least up until about 1990. It was a number in the millions but that wasn't the craziest part. Less than 10% of those people had been charged with a crime.
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  3919.  @dustinbasham393  Yeah MTG yet again proving that Pamela Anderson was never the dumbest blond on the planet.
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  3920.  @SeaTravelr123  Just so you know she's seriously UN-popular internationally. When she was UN Secretary she tried to bully the UN and waved her finger at everyone one day basically saying if you don't do what we want you'll pay for it. NOBODY HAS FORGOTTEN IT. So if (hypothetically) she won and tried to get international support for something she might get told to FK-OFF, because not only has everyone NOT FORGOTTEN her little outburst but NOBODY has FORGOTTEN that pile of lies the GOP said to get us into the invasion of Iraq.
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  3921. Yep commercial media showing JUST HOW PATHETICALLY GUTLESS THEY ARE.
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  3922. ​ @sisuguillam5109  Yeah I am now of the opinion that it was a good thing for me to do some non-engineering courses in college. I am now finding them useful. I am also ADAMANT that all the people getting arts degrees need to do a couple of basic engineering classes. The amount of ignorance with respect to technology is staggering and also incredibly frustrating. I am also just as ADAMANT that teaching Political-Economy has to become a core subject at high school and college. Understanding that government and economics are 2 parts of the same system is incredibly important. I think its why economists are now so out of control. In recent years I have watched an awful lot of Mark Blyth (Brown U.) who talks about Political-Economy a lot. So I checked to see if Brown has a course like Pol-Econ 101 like there's Econ 101 or Psych 101 or Sociology 101. No such course exists. Recently I stumbled onto a set of guest lectures for a class Stephanie Kelton teaches at Stonybrook HIS 396. Mark did one of the guest lectures. Stephanie Kelton stressed to Mark at one point that her students in that class were history majors NOT economics majors. I fell like our universities are teaching this highly compartmentalised set of curriculums where they have the appearance of teaching lateral thinking and being open minded and its in fact the opposite. ESPECIALLY IN ECONOMICS.
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  3923. Yeah as an aerospace engineer, let me say that Elon is on one hand fantastic in that he's upset the status quo of the aerospace industry and started forcing a lot of people to wake up and that's been fantastic. On the other hand some of his garbage PR work is going to come crashing back down on his ass. When I saw the title of this vid I thought WTF is she doing. Thankfully she's just done a lot of people a huge favor and pointed out how ridiculous the concept is. FYI - When I was doing my degree we occasionally had guest lecturers. One time we had an alumni who was on the team that did the X-29 forward swept wing which was damn good. Another time we had a NASA guy who had just completed a project evaluating the potential for terraforming Mars. Their conclusion in 1987 was its impossible with any current technology or proposed technology. The reasons Sabine just highlighted were pretty much the same as I heard back in 87. One thing Sabine did not mention that I remember from 87. Planets are big complex semi-stable systems that do not respond to being forced into a new state. They have developed over millions of years into the state they are in. If we try to change it will not just simply let us change it. As we are just starting to find out from Earth if you try and change a planet's characteristic behavior (like any system) it will try and restore its equilibrium. We barely know how to alter Earths systems except through colossal ignorance and stupid behavior. Anyone who thinks they can actually change Mars into something habitable in less than a few million years is either delusional or idiotically delusional.
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  3924. I'm Australian and went to college at U. Illinois, so yes I was taught to see Ohio (or at least Ohio State) in a less than flattering light. I also got to spend a pretty fantastic Thanksgiving in Cincinnati one year. Plus I did aerospace engineering and Neil Armstrong came from Ohio. So I had to accept that Ohio's best are among the best ever. In fact I would challenge all the descent people in Ohio, that if you can produce someone like Neil Armstrong who can do what he did (yeah he wasn't perfect but who is) then where's someone, anyone from Ohio who can stand up like he did and be counted. And yes right now, here in Australia we are being challenged just like that. In 6 weeks time we get to choose a new government or not. And most of the campaigning so far has been about character.
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  3925. As far as I know the first time it was said was in the British comedy "Black Books" as an insult to the French. It might have existed earlier. Either way its strongly advised, you don't say it to a Frenchman unless you can run damn fast or have serious backup.
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  3926. That's the calling card of the Right. "What we do is fine and justified what anybody else does is criminal." 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3927. AUSTRALIAN HERE - After our last major bushfires in 2019-20 the Right Wing scumbags at Murdoch Media did the same sort of crap and garbage. The smoke hadn't settled and they started making all sorts of claims especially arson and it wasn't just their Australian people. There's an infamous Tomi Lauren rant where she literally screeches that Australia is a nation of arsonists. Due to all the claims a full police inquiry was held. Sort of like one of your congressional hearings. Out of the 30+ major fires they investigated NOT 1 was found to be arson but a couple were inconclusive. Most were the result of lightning strikes combined with high fuel loads. YES in the end it was found that the severity of our fires in 2019-20 were compounded by several good years of growth from higher rainfall followed by several years of drought that dried it all out. Additional to that is that Australia's most common native tree species are Eucalyptus varieties which contain high amounts of natural oils. Go and watch either of the interviews Daniel Swain gave Neil DeGrasse Tyson or Adam Conover in recent days here on YouTube. California has been through an almost identical few years to what Australia had experienced. PLUS the native scrub in California is also like Australia's Eucalyptus high in oil content. What's going on with these Right Wing nutcases in America right now is the same garbage we had to deal with in 2020. At some point someone is going to lose it with these people and their garbage.
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  3928. Glenn Kirschner gave this lawyers strategy that goes like: When you have the truth on your side pound away with the truth. When you have the facts on your side pound away with the facts. When you DON'T have any facts or the truth then pound away on the table saying anything you can to confuse the jury (or judge or both).
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  3929. Best words Kyle has said in a while "the fact that this guy ever had any power when he's been wrong about everything is a true indictment on the system"
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  3930. Do you know who this guy actually is? He's one of the main proponents of "offensive realism" out of the University of Chicago the home of the neocons and neoconservative ideology. He represents THE OTHER SIDE of American political ideology - American Realism as opposed to American Liberalism. I saw one of his lectures a couple of weeks ago that he did at Yale in November 2017 and it was BRILLIANT. I have never seen anyone explain why a particular political party did or was doing what it was. For anyone who wants to know WHY Ukraine eventually happened, it was the 2nd of 3 lectures on Liberal Hegemony November 2017. BUT and this is the GIANT BUT I have with this guy. His side gave the world the Invasion of Iraq for which there was no reason other than the neo-cons (his people) wanted regime change in the middle east. That cost America over a trillion dollars and cost 4,431 American lives. That's over 1,400 more than died on 9/11. It might be more pronounced in America but there's a horrible fact about Western politics that's become pervasive. and its best summed up by "What my side does is righteous and what their side does is wrong." Its an infantile selfishness that's making a mess of the world. Its like 5 year olds fighting over a sand castle. I'm Australian and we have it here, its just not as bad as America. Trump just declared everyone who didn't vote for him "the enemy." How infantile is that. Donald Trump called over 180 million American citizens "the enemy" of America. Mearsheimer's description of the American liberals is flawless and his criticism warranted, BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE if Biden was a Republican neo-con he'd be singing how righteous America's response is.
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  3931. Good point the actual divide in American politics IS NOT left versus right its the corporate establishments of both parties versus the rest of society. Its one thing so few on the left have worked out. Trump took over the right by appealing to the trampled mass of the Republican base. In terms of basic economics and life options for the Republican base are the same as the Democrat base. They have been bashed for years, let down by elected officials for decades and simply got fed up with hearing from yet another group of corporate Republican goons like they were presented with in 2016. People seem to forget Trump smashed his way past 16 (or so) corporate hacks like Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz. The fact they responded in such a crazy way is another thing and the fact they have kept chugging down Trumps Kool Aid is a disaster. But that's populism.
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  3932. I hear Yoda sent a message "Strong is Bullshit with this one it is."
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  3933. Your absolutely right and its all BS. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) pointed out that during the recovery from the 2008 GFC $17 Trillion in cash was injected into the worlds banking systems and it did not create any inflation at all. Right now I am reading Stephanie Kelton's book "The Deficit Myth" and only last night was reading the chapter on inflation and what drives it. This John Hopkins clown has more shite between his ears than a sewage treatment plant. He's just spouting the same basic crap many economists do because they don't want to admit they have it wrong. I'm Australian engineer and pent my COVID time looking into economics, because I'm tired of clowns with economics degrees interfering in projects. We now have the same student debt issues here in Australia because we've followed the same economics. This student debt issue along with others in the supply chains and energy production are all the result of bad economic policies. These bad policies are prevalent in various forms across the entire developed world right now. Go listen to the Europeans and you'll here similar stories with similar explanations.
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  3934. Here's some quotes to all that others have provided me in that last year. The first is by Isaac Asimov and even though its aimed at American society it can be just as easily applied to EVERY SOCIETY that has ever existed on this planet for the simple reason that every society has what we call "the village idiot." the second is by Vice POTUS Henry Wallace and is so accurate in describing the behavior (as in method) of Donald Trump it almost proves time travel was possible in 1944. The others are ones I have picked up an seen others quoted a lot lately. Enjoy them and share them with others as they were shared with me. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.” “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain “I think it would be very, very, I think we’d have a very, very solid, we would continue what we’re doing, we’d solidify what we’ve done, and we have other things on our plate that we want to get done” ¬― Donald Trump answering the NY Times on his 2nd term agenda. August 2020. "He's America's colonoscopy – it’s all on camera, you don't wanna watch, it helps to be sedated for the whole thing and it’s a huge pain in the ass!" ― Stephen Colbert Sept. 2020
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  3935.  @colonelautism9957  Half and half. Like so many things its not black and white. Half the problems in the world right now is that too often people people demand black and white answers to grey problems. I'm an aerospace engineer and its CRITICAL across most of engineering that engineers follow "the book." Its how we avoid Boeing Max-8 like disasters and when people don't follow "the book" you do get Boeing Max-8 issues. But on the flip side of that if you DO NOTHING but follow "the book" then you kill innovation. Its like everything if you don't balance out things and skew everything blindly towards a specific ideology you eventually get disasters. The Russians and others drove left wing ideology TOO FAR and it destroyed them. When we think of environmental disasters Westerners think of disasters created by greed and capitalism, but capitalism had nothing to do with the destruction of the Aral Sea or the destruction of the Yongding River in China. I like Richard because he is at least willing to call capitalism out on its failures. But he also ignores or sidesteps the disasters of the Marxist states. the simple fact is when put blindly put ideology in front of reality you eventually destroy your own nation. It just took America longer than it took Russia and the Chinese are not far behind in trashing their own nation.
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  3936. With all that has happened these last 12 months I doubt anyone needed this story. This just might be one of the sickest stories of our generation. Surely you would think in this day and age that our government agencies can find out who is funding this - someone has to. Guns & bullets aren't free.
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  3937. AND EXACTLY THE SAME CAN BEEN THROWN BACK AT YOU. This brainless silicon valley hype was always going to break like so many other things out of the tech industries that were based on falsehoods. Just like the Crypto bubble was always going to burst because of the fundamental reality of what they were peddling. The idiotic idea they could just create money out of the digital ether was M0R0NIC. Currencies work because they are backed by nation states. No stupid little pack of clowns out of Silicon Valley can change that reality.
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  3938.  @petermcculloch4933  Its very very simple and engineers learn this in their first year. If you lift the temperature of water, even when its below boiling point you increase the evaporation rate and add water vapour to air layer above the water. Its effectively transferring thermal energy into the air. If you do that for the worlds oceans, that's a lot of additional water vapour being pumped into the atmosphere that eventually forms clouds. That's why we can expect MORE rainfall and MORE snowfall. So when we get major storm events (rain, wind, hail or snow) they are more likely to be more severe than normal because there's more water vapor in the atmosphere to come down on our stupid heads.
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  3939.  @petermcculloch4933  I've never understood what was hard about it. Higher temperature means more evaporation More evaporation means more clouds More clouds mean more rain and snow. Its just a matter of where it falls. Climate is like pushing a kid on a swing. Normally its just a matter of nudges to keep it going, but if the nudges are just a smidge harder at the right timing then the swing starts going higher and higher. Eventually you either stop or launch the kid into space. I did aerospace engineering and we once had a NASA guy visit who'd done a project to estimate what it would take to make Mars liveable. Basically we can't for a pile of reasons but the best one was that planets don't like being changed unless its very gradual over millions of years. Its just like suddenly pushing that kid on the swing with one enormous push. Sure they'll zoom away as you expect. Maybe it will just keep going and the kid will fly off but then maybe it'll swing back and smash you in the face. Either way wont be a good outcome for you or the kid.
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  3940.  @Jboooy18  AWESOME comment 🙌🙌🙌🙌
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  3941. Yes credit must be given when deserved, and she deserves a lot of credit for standing up.
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  3942. I did aerospace at Illinois (late 80s). One day we had an Alum visit who had just completed a study on terraforming Mars. his conclusion was forget it. Planets are just massive systems. We just forget that the Earth is so big that it looks flat from most perspectives. He introduced us to some basic concepts that I now refer to as planetary mechanics. Kind of nuts and bolts stuff. Like how many tons of air do we need to cover Mars in a layer of air 1km thick and then warm that much air form -60C to +20C. Its the kind of stuff before you consider the dynamics (how stuff works over time) of the planet rotating and absorbing heat from the sun and discharging it out into space. Just before COVID I was at a space conference (in Australia) where there was a senior Bureau of Meteorology scientist who told us that at 1.5C we will have to start geoengineering. That snapped my brain back to 1987 in Champaign where I was told that's impossible. I got his card and called him a few days later. Yes we have inadvertently geoengineered the plant. Where that takes us is not sure. What the NASA guy said 35 years ago is that planets are semi-stable systems that have their own natural rhythms and they don't like being pushed out of those rhythms. Think of it like pushing a child on a swing that has a set frequency and amplitude and you try and force it abruptly into another frequency and amplitude - it will resist and push back. I'm Australian and this year after several years of drought and bushfires we are now experiencing our worst flood year ever. We've had some towns flooded 3 times before even starting winter. Some say its normal, others the apocalypse. Me I see it as the planet pushing back against what we're doing and the harder we push the harder it will push back and its roughly 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (21 zeros) of rock doing almost 30,000 meters per second around a star. Its a big object and its going to do what it wants. We can either stop pushing or get rolled. My prof was a Boilermaker.
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  3943.  @Hotblackdesiato4242  Its actually how I found the channel. The YT creator who recommended Sal is Ward Carroll and ex-USN Tomcat RIO
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  3944. As a small business owner you also probably face the same issue as every other small business owner in the Western world. You can't afford the legal team to get away with this 100s of times per day.
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  3945.  @EngineeringwithRosie  As an other Australian who has worked in the Australian nuclear industry on the mining side the short answer is: Yes we will need to have nuclear power in future. The long part of this discussion is why and its probably a whole series of videos on the subject starting where the hell are we going with energy generation? Easily the biggest part of the problem is that there are a staggering array of technology promoters all spouting that their solution will save humanity and everything else is worthless. news flash every one of them is WRONG and also partly right. None of them are going to save humanity or the planet, but some of them will play a part in our energy future and if we get very lucky we might save the planet. I did an odd little consult job about 5 years ago and during I discovered just how old our power stations are in Australia and just how big the problem is of replacing them. When I checked around the world its just as bad and in some countries worse. The problem started about 25 years ago when planning for new MAJOR power stations effectively stopped and then construction with it. By "major" I mean Giga Watt class stations of (1,000MW or larger). The problem has been partly masked by the massive rollout of rooftop solar. In the 80s & 90s when our population went from 15 to 20 million we built a bunch of new stations. in the 2000s and 2010s our population went from 20 to 25 million and we built NONE. Anybody who ever took a class in economics knows what happens when demand goes up and supply doesn't match it. Prices go up and that's exactly what's happened. Australia has a huge problem and nobody wants to publicly talk about it. (edit) I had a typo it was supposed to say 25 million not 50
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  3946.  @danyoutube7491  It surprised the hell out of me when I first found out. When raised it with another engineer one day telling him the issue was: "We had a power system built for 20 million and a population of 25" he called me out for BS. Then I showed him the list of our main power stations and when they were built and he freaked out with "Why aren't we building power stations." Then it hit him - politics and money. That was nearly 4 years ago and NOTHING has been started. There was a burst of consternation a few weeks ago when they announced one of our largest would be closing AHEAD of schedule. Not only has that concern died but the stories totally ignored the fact of how many stations have already shutdown without being replaced and how many are going to shut down in the next 3-5 years WITHOUT any plans to replace them. Did you ever see the hare and greyhounds scene from the film "Snatch"? We are the hare and we are "Proper farked"
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  3947.  @GreenStarTech  Thanks I missed that it was supposed to say 25. And yeah I know its almost 26. My big concern is that there are economists and bankers who want us to get to 50 or 60 million and nobody is asking where we are going to get the power or the water for that many people or handle the waste that many people produce? I was in Canada a couple of years ago for work on a waste water treatment plant. Their problem is they have too much water in they get 6ft (2m) of snow each winter and then it melts. There population's gone from 25 to 38 in the same time ours went from 20 to 25. Those extra 13 million take showers and flush toilets. That's overloading their systems and when the snow melts it flushes the sewerage ponds into the local rivers and creeks. To say they are in the sh*t is pretty accurate. We are going to have similar problems with Sydney and Melbourne before too long. Half our problem is the bankers who want all those extra people because it means all those juicy home loans. They don't care about water and power that's someone else's problem.
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  3948.  @acmefixer1  Stop trying to argue with an engineer - its annoying. PAY ATTENTION. The Hornsdale mega battery in South Australia has 193.5 MWh (Megawatt hours). The Torrens Island gas thermal power station currently has 800MW capacity down from 1,280MW since they decommissioned the oldest part of it. PAY ATTENTION. 193.5 divided by 800 equals 0.24 or just under 1/4. That means that battery can back up the main power station for the South Australia for less than 15 minutes. Elon's mega battery and all the others like it are good for very fast but very short surges. THAT'S ALL. THEY ARE USELESS for the early morning and late afternoon surges that all modern cities demand. THEY ARE USELESS if a main power station fails. Are they helpful? YES, providing grid stability is a very good thing. Are they good for the long term? NO DAMN WAY. Power stations are needed for at least 25 years. How long does it take before the battery in your phone or laptop starts to show degradation? 12-18 months and they are throw away objects within 5 years. That's because Lithium ion batteries degrade. Hornsdale no longer has 193.5MWh and its getting worse everyday. They need to replace the battery packs every 3-5 years. The current type of Lithium Ion battery cell is NOT SUITABLE FOR GRID LEVEL STORAGE AND NEVER WILL BE. Its great for cars, phones, power tools and other stuff but not grid power. Besides we need that Lithium in our cars, phones, power tools NOT ON OUR WALLS! If you want to ask questions fine but don't try and tell me how to do my job.
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  3949. To ALL: I think David is partly wrong here because he's comparing the term "civil war" in the frame work of a the classical concept of war - this side from this place versus that side from that other place. In the modern context however civil wars are not that, they are something else. Thomas started this with the words terrorism and insurgency and if you look at the most recent major civil war in Syria both of those things were and still are present. Its a civil war for sure but it is not a classical civil war of this side from this place versus that side from that other place. I met a Syrian taxi driver in Sydney Australia a few years ago and I asked him if that I was right that "so long as other countries like America and Russia were involved the Syrian people could never solve their own problem." He told me yes except I was totally wrong in that it wasn't just America & Russia it was at least 8 countries including Iran, Saudi, Turkey and Israel all in there supporting different factions. Plus in the middle of that was Isis. So the civil war was not one of 2 distinct identifiable sides. For sure every faction was either pro-government or anti-government but in the middle was Isis who were anti-everybody. That will be the problem if there is a civil war in America. It wont be a simple this side from this place versus that side from that other place. It will be a mish mash of factions in various locations. Some with strong links to others while some will have no links to anything else. If it really descends into chaos don't be surprised if there are so many sides no one knows what side they are on or who is the enemy. The only thing anyone will know for certain is that if America descends into chaos the only 2 people we know who will be happy are Trump and Putin. Trump because he's a selfish narcissist who has the childish mindset that "If I can't have it, I'll smash it so no one else can." And Putin because he's also a selfish narcissist who blames America for the fall of the Soviet Empire which is BS because the Russians did it to themselves just as America is doing this to itself. To All - Take Care & Stay Safe.
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  3950. Go and listen to Prof. Mark Blyth from Brown. He explains why Austerity is a bad thing when done at the wrong time. He wrote a book on it. He's done lectures on it. He did Q&As over the book. Its all free here on YouTube.
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  3951. No they aren't, they aren't even close. Its more like they're playing standard chess and America is playing checkers. America has gotten caught in the myth of its own exceptionalism and has not realised the rest of the world can do anything America does and in many ways DO IT BETTER.
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  3952.  @abdelwahabnassim6281  WTF is that crap about - it doesn't even appear to be taken in America, let alone Washington. 🧏‍♂️🧏‍♀️
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  3953.  @StephenJohnson-jb7xe  Well explained.
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  3954. Somebody needs to ask Mark Levin the following Question: When did BLM, ANTIFA, Democrats, 1960s counter culture hippies, tree hugging Kumbaya singing environmentalists, Occupy Wall Street, Lafayette Park or any other protesters storm the capitol, kill a police officer, tear down the American flag and replace it with another flag? For anyone interested please feel free to copy that question and post it anywhere you like. Someone else first directed me to this quote by Vice POTUS Wallace, who was alive when Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin were in power to personally see what those sorts of people are like. the 2 highlights about method and patriotism are mine. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  3955. Actually your second point about data collection was part of the focus by a recent ABC Australia expose about Tik Tok. Here's the specific part -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhLQv5MzNj0 Here's the extended story -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwu5C8JWO_k I'm an engineer and if I just consider some of the basic functions of Tik Tok like location monitoring, microphone access and camera access you get to a chilling conclusion. Its a portable version of the surveillance system that George Orwell described in 1984. There's a horrifying aspect to Chinese Corporate Law that came up during the 5G debate when Huawei was trying to tell everyone their data was safe. Under Chinese law any corporation registered in China MUST COMPLY with all information requests from the Chinese Communist Party. Its actual Chinese law that if the CCP wants the data Tik Tok has on a user then Tik Tok MUST hand over the data. So if your the parent of a Western teenager with Tik Tok on their phone then the CCP already has a data file on your family.
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  3956.  @piotrtrebisz6602  I'm an Australian engineer and one of my past employers was the local agent for Kuka Robots. I could not believe the recent news that Kuka had been sold to a Chinese company. I was also stunned to learn that another company that makes CPUs was also sold off to a Chinese company. So the Chinese don't steal everything. Sometimes people are just idiotically stupid and sell off all the IP and all the assets as they chase a bonus. I am staggered that sale was ever allowed to go through. What happened to German pride in their engineering? The stupidity, short mindedness and greed of the Western business class is going to end our countries.
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  3957.  @piotrtrebisz6602  Damn - I didn't know that. Yeah like so many other things people never considered what might happen in future. In Australia all major purchases of Australian assets by foreign entities is supposed to be independently checked and approved by a special board. We have found out in recent years its totally useless. 2 of our major ports are now controlled by the Chinese. People who should not be allowed to own our farms are being allowed to buy them without any restraints. The Americans have started to find out that the 1st Amendment was a beautiful gift to their people from the founding fathers, BUT they never considered Rupert Murdoch or Fox News might one day exist. its amazing how many things are done where nobody considers the consequences.
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  3958.  @jacobbell422  I have a few times for stuff that was so out there it needed to be pointed out. I suspect one of those got my account scrubbed claiming I was harassing them. I actually think a couple of the channels supporting Trump are fake in themselves. They claim to be raising funds for the fight but they way they word it means they (the channel) get 100% of all donations, subscriptions, etc. If you think about it there are 74million who voted Trump so you only need to get a few 1000 sending $5 or $10 via Patreon and its a fair chunk of money. They look and sound like televangelists and moon hoaxers and there's a lot of money pandering to ignorance.
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  3959.  @jacobbell422  I did aerospace engineering and the moon hoax is a pet peeve. I worked out a while back there are 3 kinds of people who follow that sort of garbage 1: The delusional. Not much can be done about these except patience and gently coaxing them out of their delusion (if possible). 2: The gullible. People who simply can't think fast enough or reason well enough to assess what they are presented with. These can be helped and should be helped whenever possible. I count a sizeable chunk of Trump supporters in this category. 3: The snakes. I call them snakes because they poison people and they are just like old fashioned snake oil salesmen. These we have to keep exposing if we want any chance of dealing with the world we now have. Just like real snakes they come in all manner of size, color and shape. Some like rattle snakes are pretty easy to spot others blend in so well you have no idea what your dealing with until its trying to kill you. And some of the political snakes we have these days would scare any nest of vipers, cobras, taipans or mambas. There's people like Rupert Murdoch and Charles Koch who are abominations - there's no other word I know to describe what they have done.
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  3960. And you wonder why Nancy "miss corporate" Pelosi kicked her off committees????
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  3961.  @bjornyesterday2562  Despite the cynicism your pretty right on point with that. KP has been sidelined (taken off committees) by the corporate Dems. Its Pelosi and the others she should be screaming at as much as anybody.
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  3962.  @LennyAllen-cp9cl  This is in reply to your nuclear thermal engines comment. They were first proposed back in the 1960s and this is a classic case of people looking back at old ideas who don't ask the most important question: "Why didn't it work back then?" Yes there is the possibility NT engines will offer an improvement, but nobody has even proven they can actually work. Its a classic case of people confusing ideas with reality. Sometimes even great ideas just don't work. Proverbially speaking 99.99% of all technology ideas never go anywhere for one or more basic reasons. When engineers do projects they generally look at dozens of solutions and end up dismissing all but 1. Its not that the other ideas were bad or would not work they just choose the best option for that CIRCUMSTANCE. Here's one of the best examples I know of. Its a 2011 TEDx Talk by MIT postgrads Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie about Waste Annihilating nuclear reactors. At the time it was genuine 1000% game changing technology and it wasn't from some flunky amateur. These were 2 super smart MIT kids with a brilliant idea. Here's their 2001 TEDx talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAFWeIp8JT0 When I checked where they were at a couple of years ago they had folded the company after spending over $100 Million in funding. They made all their research and development free for the world to use. Way back at the very start they had missed a very basic item that they had taken for granted and their method was NEVER GOING TO WORK in the way they conceived it. Its a lesson for all the people who dig up technologies from the past. You MUST ASK: "Why didn't it work?"
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  3963. ​ @ivannoreland5656  And which one has FLOWN. NOT a test on a stand but an actual flight. Yeah dude anyone can look up and find they built Kiwi, Phoebus, NRX/EST, NRX/XE, Pewee, Pewee 2, and the Nuclear Furnace BUT they never got close to an actual engine that could be flown. If you want to claim its yet ANOTHER "what might have been if we hadn't wasted money on dumb stuff!" Then I will back you any day of the week. If you want to complain about some of the programs that were never followed through on. Then even better. I'll lead the protest march on that. Go look at the X-planes for the number of projects that were cut right when they started to produce results. 2 of my favs are the X-33 and X-38. Do you know they had 3 more X-15 variants on the drawing board. There was a 2 seater, a delta wing and a scramjet powered version of the delta wing. They'd already proven by that stage they could do supersonic combustion. I read and quoted the paper by Billig on the first successful SSC experiments in my masters thesis. If you look through the list of lost opportunities it gets pretty frustrating.
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  3964. Because its the 21st Century despite the best efforts of Elon, Trumpelstiltskin and others to take American back 300 years to when Debtors Prisons actually existed.
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  3965. ​ @wgowshipping  On your next video you should highlight the failure test of carbon fibre and glass fibre hulls that Carl Ross posted 10 years ago. He posted 2 videos titled Collapse of Composite Submarine Pressure Hulls Collapse of Carbon & Glass Fibre Tubes under External Hydrostatic Pressure. I have no idea who Carl Ross is (or was) but there's 2 things to note about those videos. 1) How sudden the failure is. If you look at how titanium fails its much like any other metal there's deformation eventually followed by failure. I am an engineer (aerospace) but did my first year in mechanical and we did that stuff in the lab. Most of the failure videos of things being crushed or bent in a hydraulic press show that but they also often show the sudden failure of carbon fibre composite materials. So you and other are most likely right the people in Titan probable had no warning it was all about to fail other than hearing a lot of cracking. 2) the Carl Ross videos show very little damage to the Carbon fibre tube other than what looks like a crack down the side. What people need to understand is that it was done in a small pressure test rig NOT the open ocean so there was very little water to keep applying pressure once the tube failed. I have done work in the petro-chem industry and other places where they pressure test pipes with water. If something does let go during a hydrostatic test there's no explosion of water because its incompressible. That test cell Carl Ross used has very little water in it so there's not a lot of volume to rush into the test model and do lots of damage. It just had enough water to break the cylinder.
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  3966. To ALL: I found that article about Constance Wang that Patrick flashed up at 10:01. Its easy to find with a google of "ftx credits suisse" and that article had a link to an interview she gave and its here on YT (see below). There's 2 main things to look at. First the comments are pathetically pro-crypto sadly laughable. Second, right at the start of the interview she says. "I moved to Hong Kong from Singapore in early 2019 to work on FTX together with Sam and so far it has been fantastic. So before that I was in credit space for two years doing a compliance management training program which I didn't really like so that's why I moved away from it." Maybe this explains a lot. When you have someone with about 7 years of experience after college handling over $10 Billion in assets as Chief Operating Officer and they don't like managing compliance. You can hear her say it: -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDc1QAOcc-0
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  3967.  @maxmeier532  Its pretty simple the TRUE VALUE of anything is what another person will pay for it. You can put whatever number you want on anything you like and it means nothing unless someone else agrees to that number. The only value that ever matter is the buyer not the owner. This is a common misconception because owners are always telling other people what their possessions are worth. Last week people would by the FTX tokens because they valued them collectively at $32 Billion USD. Today nobody will pay anything for FTX tokens because of how toxic they are and that makes their collective total vale ZERO. This is not a new thing. Its what happened to Theranos shares and plenty of others.
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  3968. ​ @yvonneplant9434  That's actually a very good question and there's an answer. Sometimes you have to listen to the other side and give them their moment to state their case. I recently saw an interview with British actor/comedian Tom Walker who plays the character Jonathan Pie. He made this incredibly valid point that if you don't listen to the other side you can never deal with what they are saying or doing. If you have watched this video you can now tell other people you have actually heard and interview with Peter Navarro and seen him dodge the question on proof the election was stolen. NO TRUMP SUPPORTER can now say you haven't listened or tried to listen to their claims. Thom challenged him that all the Trump Team have done is a marketing campaign where if you tell a lie enough times it becomes the public narrative and eventually accepted truth. David Pakman has had Mike Pillow on several times including today. It was bonkers and aggravating and annoying and ridiculous BUT AT TIMES WE HAVE TO HEAR THESE PEOPLE so we can then answer other people's questions.
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  3969. Yeah I watched that video too Everybody who wants to know what's going on should watch it.
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  3970. Forgetting whether the discussion is about Hunter, Jarrod, Ivanka or any other adult children of the last 2 presidents ONE THING is crystal clear. The MAIN reason that NO COUNTRY should want political leaders in their 60s, 70s or 80s is because at that age, they have adult children active in the business world. Even if they are the sweetest angel there will be people who try to exploit who they are for political or business advantage. But if they have issues like Hunters drugs or Jarrod & Ivanka's lack of ethics then its a real problem. Just recently when the Diane Feinstein health issues emerged it also came out that her primary care giver is Nancy Pelosi's daughter. Does anyone really think that either George W Bush or his brother Jeb would have ever been elected if they hadn't been able to trade on their fathers name???? Does anyone really think that RFK would be given any attention as a presidential candidate right now if his family name was Smith???? In general its collectively called nepotism and its been going for centuries.
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  3971. Don't be too hard EVERY COUNTRY has them. Its just that America celebrates them while the rest of us apologize for them. FYI - I'm Australian and we have people like Clive Palmer, Craig Kelley and Pauline Hanson who would fit right in at these events. Seriously go ask the Canadians, New Zealanders, Brits, Irish or anyone and they have them. We all have them, we just feel shamed by them.
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  3972. Australian guy here (who went to college in America) - YES. But it gets a bit more complex than a simple yes, because saying yes doesn't explain WHY? I'm an engineer and there's a very simple engineering principle that separates repairing from fixing. If you don't understand WHY something broke the only thing you are REPAIRING is something that will break again. If you find out WHY you can FIX the problem so that it doesn't break again. We have techniques called RCA (Root Cause Analysis) which is where you don't stop at the first explanation you keep digging until you get the WHY, as in the root cause. Go watch a few episodes of Air Crash Investigations to see it in action.
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  3973. if you want a comparison between those 4? Listen to this. Its a question asked after a lecture on Global Trumpism by Prof Mark Blyth from Brown that was given in JULY 2019 Its time stamped to the right part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s
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  3974. Check their bios. He has a college education and 2 Masters Degrees (YES 2 an MBA from Connecticut and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard). He's gonna drive the anti-education faction completely of their rocking chairs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman The big question will be -> How will the Senate handle logical arguments instead of political opportunism?
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  3975. The only thing fascinating about Sarah Palin is how any rational human being thinks she is worth listening to.
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  3976. I'm also an aerospace engineer, but I have spent the last 35+ years in industrial control systems. I'm Australian but did my degree in America and unfortunately Australia's engineering policies like everywhere else are a joke which is why I have done other things. I sort of fell into energy after doing a small consulting job in 2016. *The energy issue is way bigger than anyone realises and because there have been too many people speak without understanding the problem we are all for a rough time. The real problem is NOT technology but ECONOMICS and the interference of economists. However on the technical side YOU, SABINE and others like Simon Michaux ARE WRONG for one simple fact. What else is there because NONE OF YOU are offering anything??? We do not need anymore people telling everyone what NOT to use or in their opinion that's a stupid idea and THEN NOT OFFERING a viable solution. In Australia, we have one pack of clowns screaming we need nuclear and another claiming we can do it all with wind and solar. BOTH ARE WRONG. Too much Wind & Solar causes grid instabilities. Go watch the vid on Real Engineering he explains it well. Nuclear, although fantastic in the long run has no viable private sector business model but does have a fantastic state owned business model. Its problem is it takes so long to build and thanks to the clown brigades we have in Australia we don't have the time needed because we need at least 4 major power stations in the next 3-5 years. Both Siemens and GE have a new generation of Gas Turbines that with combined cycle units can get almost 65% thermal efficiency AND THEY CAN RUN ON UP TO 50% HYDROGEN. This is what gets me damn angry. When we have days when there's lots of wind and lots of solar we have to lock down wind turbines and disconnect solar farms and lose 100% of that potential. Latest gen Electrolysers get over 90% thermal efficiency and we'd lose some in pumping the hydrogen to the power station BUT SO WHAT. We'd recover at least 50% of that energy that otherwise never gets produced and is LOST. Go and look at the Wikipedia page for Hinkley Point C which is getting 2 EPR 2 reactors which are Gen IV reactors. EPR 2s have a thermal output of 4,524 MWt and an electrical output of 1,630 MWe for a thermal efficiency of 36%. CAN YOU AND SABINE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY we are supposed to spend billions and wait 15 years to get power stations that run at 36% when we can get turbines in less than 2 years that get almost 65% that can also be used to recover giant amounts of excess Wind and Solar energy that would otherwise be lost.
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  3977. I think we've now reached a point where its not a matter of IF but when one of these CEOs gets violently attacked. All through history we have seen examples of what happens when the peasants, serfs or slaves are whipped one too many times. Go look at the story of Spartacus or any of the peasant revolts in Europe. What concerns me is that once it starts its going to go from a spark to a blazing inferno very quickly.
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  3978. When you build your business on a foundation of garbage and nonsense you can't complain when it all collapses under the weight of your stupidity.
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  3979. No it wont. Sorry but the shipping through there will do nothing compared to the worlds power industries. You can actually expect that somebody will start claiming it will help reduce climate change before long. They'll claim that using less fuel will help reduce Green House Emissions. Just wait for it.
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  3980. ​ @qiqi2692  I think you are mostly right. Peter is certainly biased towards America but considering how many Americans think he's NOT as biased as most Americans are. He certainly doesn't promote American Exceptionalism BUT he does avoid a lot of American issues. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and America has certainly slipped in terms of education and I saw some early signs back in the 80s. I'm just surprised that so many American's just don't get it and they certainly don't get what the long term effects are. For example I used to be amazed how well Americans understood their constitution and how the government institutions worked. These days I fell like I know more than the average American does. It stuns me how ignorant so many of them are when they speak. Its NOT the America I went to college in OR AT LEAST it seems that way. PLUS In a well educated society Trump (78) and Biden (81) would NOT be competing to be President. Younger more energetic types with a some sort of future vision would be there. Keir Stammer (Britain) & Anthony Albanese (Australia) are both 61. Emmanuel Macron (France) is 46. Justin Trudeau (Canada) is in between at 52. Claudia Sheinbaum who just won the Presidency of Mexico is 62 and the outgoing President Andrés Obrador is 70. Americans can be so IGNORANT (as they ignore things) when it comes to problems within America. Its a lesson to other nations.
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  3981.  @PaulBrown-uj5le  You me and about 81,283,485 others.
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  3982. Another Australian here - just like the Germans are still apologising for WW2 we are going to end up apologising for Rupert Murdoch for generations. Australia's current bill EACH YEAR for climate damage is AU$8 Billion. The last Hurricane to hit Florida is expected to cost over US$14 Billion. That was just from 1 storm. The mutt that Rupert has who's complaining about politicians speaking about climate change and dead school children needs to WAKE TF up because I can see the day coming when people have just had enough of the lies and BS and people like him get dragged from their homes and find out how bad events like the French Revolution actually were OR they should look at what happened to William Joyce better known as Lord Haw-Haw. The Brits didn't care of what he did or didn't actually do they just had, had enough of him.
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  3983. DON'T DO COMPLETE CRAP THUMBNAILS and other CLICKBAIT CRAP Its hard enough being an engineer day to day dealing with all the misinformation and garbage that morons produce. I am unsubscribing from your channel NOT BECAUSE OF CONTENT BUT BECAUSE OF CLICKBAITING
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  3984.  @kevinathans4191  I agree with all of that, although I wouldn't describe religion as a conspiracy theory but would describe conspiracy theories as pseudo religions because they have common fundamental threads: a) People looking for a convenient answer (or answers) to life and death. b) People following an ideology because their family follows that ideology. c) People following an ideology because it makes up for their social position. They know something others don't and it gives a sense of superiority or control of their own destiny when for other aspects of life they have none. d) Once people have settled on their chosen ideology they will follow it blindly to destruction. e) These ideologies are dominated by people who range from good to fantastic at public speaking and public debate. In particular they are able to stir crowds up and get them moving in a desired direction. They have a feel for mob psychology rather than a technical understanding of it. They are extremely Machiavellian in that they don't care in the slightest about what the consequences are so long as they have attention, power, money or all 3. They are opportunists rather than strategists, of which Trump is the perfect example these days. I went to an Australian private high school and we studied various religions and one of the odd things is that most of the worlds religious movements were started on some basic simple truth. The founders may have had faults but they founded things on some basic realities. Martin Luther is a good example in that he put out a pamphlet listing a bunch of basic truths regarding the Catholic Church. Mohammed pointed out that neither the Jews, Christians or Zoroastrians could be the "true religion" because of how they treated their own people. Which is odd considering how conflicting Islamic groups now treat each other. But common to all these groups is that once the founder was long dead and those who had actually been around that founder were also long dead then others hijacked that ideology. Christianity is a great example of that. By the time of the counsel of Nicaea in 325 they were so far off the basics Jesus wouldn't have recognized himself. Look how rapidly Trumpism devolved from his original message which was "I'm not part of the establishment." He now is the establishment and its all happened in a couple of years and even with footage of what he and others said only a few years ago. His latest asking for $45 flies in the face of his claims back in 2015 that he was incorruptible because he was rich and didn't need anyone's money. If he's as rich as he claimed in 2015 why does he need to ask for money. I think the biggest issue with humanity right now are people blindly following what is most convenient to them without any understanding of what is and isn't fact.
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  3985.  @kevinathans4191  In respect of your reply to jim bob about Americans living in poverty I saw this YouTube a while back. It backs up you point with some harsh reality -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG0nqRXLDOg
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  3986. Well how do any of us know you or any of the other clowns pumping Ivermectin are not invested financially or invested by other means in Ivermectin?
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  3987. That's maybe on of the best 1 line comments I have seen these last 12 months. My other favorite was from about 6 months ago during the primaries. - "Joe Biden is the normal that got Trump elected." On lessons learned its a very BIG IF. It was revealed last week that Biden hired 2 Goldman Sachs, a Blackrock (the hedge fund) and a McKinsey. Yeah that did not look good, for real change. America's finances have gone from the control of Steve Mnuchin (of Goldman Sachs fame) to a group of Goldman Sachs, Blackrock & McKinsey advising the millionaire Janet Yellen. Is that a WTF, a shrug 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ a pondering moment 🤔 or simply time to surrender ✋😲🤚
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  3988. Exactly - If Americans believe in democracy its a no brainer. Did or did not the American people introduce POTUS as "Leader of the Free World" and the "Champion of Democracy" for the entire cold war and afterwards? Funny how America fought Wars in Korea and Vietnam and other places in the "Name of Democracy" and yet have denied democracy to Puerto Rico the entire time AND STILL DO. Maybe the rest of the world should put sanctions on America unless they give Puerto Rico FULL democratic representation. There are 20 mainland states that have less population than Puerto Rico and yet they have full representation.
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  3989.  @countchoculitis1528  Fair point. But then Bernie did say he'd fight for Medicare for all and in the end he DIDN'T When he backed down he also dropped ALL of his campaign promises. Make of that what you will, but its at least a fail if not an outright betrayal of his base. Certainly he's not in the same realm as Trump or Clinton but he broke his promises.
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  3990. Over 20 years ago a couple of us at work were discussing exactly the same question. One of the people present mentioned that a couple of British Journalists had done a documentary of capital punishment. They didn't argue if it was right or wrong they just presented the facts of how capital punishment was practised so that people could decide for themselves. I have seen that documentary and its got some brutal facts. 1) In the first 90 years of the 20th century less than 9 out of 10 people formally executed by nation states were NEVER charged with any crime, let alone went to court or had any from of legal representation or right of appeal. They were simply accused and then executed. Don't forget we had 2 World Wars and several ugly revolutions. 2) The times various methods actually take to kill a person is far higher than most proponents are willing to admit. In some cases the so called "clean & quick" can take minutes and in some cases 10s of minutes before the body of person being executed gives out due to the injuries. Among the worst is electrocution which can take around 30 minutes before the internal damage from the shocks finally causes death. Go look at what happened to Ethel Rosenberg wife of Julius Rosenberg, electric shocks do not necessarily stop a human heart. 3) The actual chemical mix used in America (at that time, mid 90s) was developed by a pair of German doctors during the Nazi era. There task was to find a "cleaner more efficient" method for the "final solution." Those 2 doctors experimented on orphans and mentally ill patients with various cocktails before they came up with the desired effect - quick & clean.
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  3991. It started long BEFORE he bought twitter. Tesla stock was seriously over priced. There have been people pointing out for some time that the market value (share price multiplied by the number of shares) of Tesla was more than the 10 largest car manufacturers. Tesla makes a few hundred 1000 cars a year while those 10 manufactures make millions of cars. Each car only makes so much money. The analysts have NOT been saying the cars are poor but they are saying the stock is massively overpriced. I'm an engineer and have ridden in one and they are good as any other car I have ridden in. In the trip I took they only noticeable thing was charging. Its not like filling a car at a station. You plug it in and go away for an hour or so. If you time right you go for lunch, do some shopping or have a meeting. On Elon's other stuff. I'm an aerospace engineer and the Falcon part of SpaceX is excellent while Starship is a fantasy. Things like Starlink, Hyperloop and Teslabot were doomed before they started. Starlink will go the same way as the Iridium phone system because who really needs it? Hyperloop wasn't his idea. It was first written about by Robert Goddard over a century ago. As for Teslabot go watch the footage and compare it Boston Robotics.
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  3992. Rogers is another insanely privileged football brat who's only ever been told how great he is. Its not uncommon among elite athletes, actors, singers,... etc. Its just that some people take it further than usual. Although there are parts of this that are worth SOMEONE SAYING. The part about where Aaron says its crazy to just go along with the party position is 100% right. The part where Bill says your medical choices are yours and its not for others to judge, especially non-medical people, is 100% right. BUT THEN David shows with these 2 guys and the mish mash are NOT the right people to be publicly discussing these things because they haven't the nuance. These are complex issues and they need to be discussed by people who understand the complexity and NOT generalise or OVER SIMPLIFY issues complex issues and do stupid cherry picking as Aaron did about a clown at a basketball game.
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  3993. Because even when they are pressed they can answer as this clown did and the Fox audience will lap up the answer. Its called whataboutism and is one of the main methods radicals of BOTH Left & Right persuasions stay in power. They answer with "whatabout" to almost everything. Its why so many of our worlds problems are NOT being addressed let alone solved. Their audience - the people who blindly follow radical political ideologies aren't interested in reality or actual solutions all they want to hear is how the other side is bad and their side is good. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  3994. You misunderstand the GOP ARE the party of Law & Order. In fact they ARE the #1 Law & Order Party in the entire Western Democratic world - just ask them! You've just misunderstood that they want EVERYONE ELSE to OBEY their Laws and their Orders. You've misunderstood that they are EXEMPT from those laws and those orders by virtue of their high morals and ethics. You must learn to understand this important distinction when dealing with people of such high moral and ethical character. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤬
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  3995.  @Pllayer064  Good point but I'd sort of go further with the second type who are pretentious. I've been having a bit of a rage fight with some on a David Pakman vid about the Fauci emails. I tried to get people to see that there was a discussion that we should have had 12-15 months ago. There was a lot of publicly available information that WAS available about NIH funding of research into COVID viruses in China. It was NEVER discussed because people took sides and started howling at each other. There was a great comment last year (I forget who first said it) but it goes like: "There are the radicals on the left and the radicals on the right who just scream at each other and the rest of us trapped in the middle are simply exhausted." Your right there are these 2 groups and they have trapped themselves (and us) in this raging culture war. On one side there's no brain function and on the other is pretentious brain function. How the fark we get out of this is the real problem?
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  3996. To the West Virginian. I saw this vid recently and the panel has 2 University professors. 1 is a progressive political economist and the other teaches Marxism and BOTH have justified why certain demographics voted Trump. The link is to a specific point where Richard Wolff (the Marxist) uses West Virginia as an example of how the Dem Establishment has abandoned parts of America. Here's the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s I just want to know are they right? Is it a case that many people from places like West Virginia have been voting out of frustration that they have been ignored by the establishment?
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  3997. You forget - he can't at the moment and quite possibly wont. He's lost a lot of his power to Trump and this might be away to deal with that. It might also be a way to get a few others back under his thumb. After all people like McConnell don't like losing power and he's lost a lot.
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  3998. Australian here - perfect description. I can't wait for the episode where Cartman becomes Kash Patel'd FBI Assistant Director and he struts arounds howling "You well obbb-aaayyy maa o-thora-tay!!"
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  3999.  @rodneyhenchliffe754  I don't disagree too much on that. If you now look at the cost of these French subs its gotten ridiculous. Imagine if you go into a car yard and agree to by a car for $55k and when you go to pick it up they tell wait, your couple of options now make it $90k. Who wouldn't scream at that. If you divide 55 by 12 its 4.6 well an Astute is currently about $3 billion. So we could have 12 Astutes for a bit under $40 Billion. I'm an engineer and these days I'm asking who TF is doing the math because there's something not right with the costs. I have worked on a few multi-billion dollar resource projects and I can tell you BHP, Rio and others don't take very kindly to getting farqed on price. Just look at the French unit price for the nuclear version -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracuda-class_submarine_(France)#Conventional_variant €1.32 billion is just over $AUD 2 billion So where is the extra cost? 90/12 = 7.5 So where is the extra 5.5 billion. There is something in this project that stinks.
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  4000. Peter Zeihan the geopolitical strategist/analyst had an interesting take on this. He said recently that America political parties have gone through a number of major changes. For instance at one point it was the Republicans under Lincoln who were on the Left side of American politics doing things like abolishing slavery, while the Democrats were the staunch Right side. He pointed out that these changes are generally messy affairs lasting 8-12 years and right now America is only about 6 years into one of these changes where one of the main parties reshapes itself. In fact if you consider the rift between younger progressive Democrats and older corporate Democrats there's massive changes coming there too.
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  4001. Yeah - how do you think us Australians feel. We just staked the next 50years of our security (the AUKUS Agreement) on a nation that has 74million people who not only believe this garbage but actually voted for it and will vote for it again. I actually went to college in America. I love the place and its people (or most of them). I have hope that the rest of America will really start to see what a threat Trump is too our collective future. People like Bannon went round the world preaching this crap all through the Trump years and they now have support everywhere. For sure we all have our own list of issues and some of those issues are damn serious. We have our own version of Trump a total POS named Clive Palmer who's running the same playbook. ALL of our countries have long lists of issues but this form of ignorant populism is a problem to all of us.
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  4002. Its a great idea and could be done all across the world EXCEPT All of our financial controls were effectively privatised via the consulting industry.
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  4003. Even Joe Manchin went for that and he's the most corporatized (or at least one of the most) politicians in any Western Democracy (not just America) on the planet.
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  4004.  @rjung_ch  Well said and explained which for social media isn't done enough. There's a lot more than Switzerland nervous. Ireland, Holland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, most of the Caribbean, the Channel Islands, the state of Delaware and a few other tax havens.
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  4005. This guy went to Harvard for pre-Law and Yale for his JD. Either the education at Harvard and Yale sucks so bad he doesn't know the constitution, OR; He's a NARCISSISTIC LIAR.
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  4006.  @richardpatterson302  Yeah but they are much smaller than the CANDUs. The video "Small Misunderstood Reactors" with James Krellenstein has some great info on that particular site.
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  4007. As usual with issues that matter - NO WHERE.
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  4008.  @smartyyoung7319  Careful comments like that can get you kicked of YouTube. We all get the sentiment. Just be careful YT is kicking 1000s off and suspending accounts. They are still letting a lot of channels pump out total garbage, but those people make money for YT. 🤫🤔🤔
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  4009. To both comments here. 1) Sorry, but it is a historical document. Its her application of that document that is insanely out of touch with reality. 2) The wording has not changed since it was originally written and that has been proven by things like the Dead Sea Scrolls. However, THE WAY people like her have APPLIED and INTERPRETED those words has changed countless times over the centuries. The WORST of their behavior has been the double standards of applying them harshly onto others while letting it skip over them and their friends. The crazy thing about people like her is that the Bible REPEATEDLY WARNS about people like her. It tells the rest of us to watch out for these people and the best example of that is from Jesus himself. Most people have heard of the Sermon on the Mount and that its about treating people with decency and respect and having empathy and caring about them. That's what's found in Matthew Chapters 5 & 6, but Chapter 7 is all about how to identify the frauds and recognise them for what they are. If you ever want to slap down a self righteous Christian then ask them to explain Matthew Chapter 7 and why Jesus is pointing a finger at their behavior and UNDERSTAND Jesus doesn't condemn them as people, he condemns their BEHAVIOR.
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  4010. There's one important point you raise - he has insight into these issues. In particular he has been inside the cesspool that modern politics has now become AND its NOT an American problem. I'm Australian, but went to college in America and got to see America up close. Back here in Australia one of my best friends USED to be involved in student politics here. The things he told me about how disgusting that environment is still dumbfounds me. Here in Australia our parties see student politics like a version of the Hunger Games where it a frenzy of vicious backstabbing where the survivors get to move into real politics. As a result we have these narcissistic clowns in our politics who think their job is to do nothing but attack anyone who doesn't do what they want done and that includes people in their own party. They all talk about the future but don't care about any future or past event unless it helps their argument RIGHT NOW. When I look around the world I see the same thing EVERYWHERE.
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  4011.  @garufia  I absolutely agree. So many of them are so far gone its hard to see a way back for them, BUT for those who aren't that far gone or want off the crazy train making them see something they can't refute might just save a few. Its what makes knowing about Matthew 7 so important for people on the outside. Its one of those things people on the inside can't easily dismiss. Its not one of the Apostles or other people saying something. Its actually Jesus himself WARNING against false prophets and specifically people like Trump and these religious leaders who fawn over him. I'd like to think that deep down a lot of these people know Trump is a fraud and they are just lashing out at the political class, which is totally understandable. They just need a decent reason to get out. If you have ever seen any of the documentaries on Jonestown then you'll know a lot of people wanted out of that place but just couldn't find a way. So if you ask them to explain how Trump's NOT the type of person Jesus warned about then 1 of 2 things will happen. They'll dismiss you in which case they really are gone OR you just might get someone out of Trump's cult and I hope you see that as a good thing.
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  4012. There's one thing you didn't point out about Colonel Douglas Abbott Macgregor Ret. and that's his involvement in the Invasion of Iraq (Gulf War 2). There's a PBS Frontline documentary called "Rumsfeld's War" (October 2004) that's mostly about Donald Rumsfeld's conflicts with the Pentagon when he was Secretary of Defense with Paul Wolfowitz as his deputy under George W Bush. There's at least 1 copy of that documentary here on YT. When the Neocons first wanted to invade Iraq and remove Saddam from power which had nothing to do with WMDs or 9/11 as it was purely ideological thing where they simply wanted regime change. They went to the Pentagon and asked "How many troops?" The answer from people like Eric Shinseki was "several hundred thousand" while others had said 560,000. The reason Shinseki gave was with respect to "post hostility control over a piece of geography that's fairly significant with the kinds of ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems." This is all covered in the PBS documentary with footage of Shinseki saying that to congress. Those are direct quotes from the documentary. It also shows Wolfowitz who had zero military experience telling congress that it was hard to imagine that it would take more people to secure the country than to fight the war. This is when Macgregor stepped in with his genius. He's actually on the documentary saying how he laughed at the number 560,000 and said no you just needed 50,000 in a rapid deployment. Just rush up to Bagdad and remove the Iraqi Government because the Iraqi military is weak. He then wrote the battle plan for the Invasion. They even show the cover page for Macgregor's plan in the documentary. The simple fact is Macgregor DID NOT LISTEN to what others were saying. It wasn't about taking Bagdad it was about SECURING the country AFTERWARDS. YES Colonel Douglas Abbott Macgregor Ret. is the architect of the Invasion of Iraq that ended with the exact sort of disaster that others had predicted - ethnic tribal warfare. Thanks to this clown giving a group of idiotic politicians what they wanted to hear he helped destroy a country that, cost 1,000s of American and allied lives, several 100,000 Iraqi civilian lives and cost America and its allies well over a $$$TRILLION. Noone should take this clown seriously and yet he's rolled out again and again as an "expert."
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  4013. I was just about to comment when I saw your comment. That is the problem the entire developed world is suffering from. I'm Australian and that is our biggest problem by so far nothing else is worth discussing except maybe the Think Tanks which are basically the PR organisations behind the lobbyists anyway. Any good idea that doesn't benefit their money backers they stomp on.
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  4014. Someone else just pointed out on another of Kyles vids. These people are currently passing laws to REGULATE who can vote, despite the 15th Amendment, but at the same time claiming nobody is allowed to REGULATE who can own a gun or what types of gun they can own.
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  4015.  @cherylklassen7500  I'm just watching this on voter rights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc2PE7_4Y14 That's happening in the country that waltzed around the globe PREACHING for that past 70 years as the champion of freedom and democracy.
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  4016. If you have seen any of the previous stories about this guy like when Kyle covered part of the Axios interview he did where he said politicians he paid for should do as he wants, then you'd know he's a total sociopath. He's the oil, gas fossil fuel, petro-chem version of Rupert Murdoch. This guy is a monster and one way or another he needs to be dealt with and do it while we can still deal with the damage he's doing.
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  4017. 5 Reasons why the BRICS currency will fail. B) Nobody trusts Brasil economically because they keep flipping from radical Left to radical Right presidents. Despite some fairly decent development and technological advancements their main industries are soccer players and ripping down the Amazon rainforest for cattle to make McDonalds hamburgers. R) Nobody trusts Russia to do anything economically or much else. There main industries are resources and selling the worlds most popular form of population control - the AK47. I) Nobody trusts India economically because they are a giant basket case of corruption. C) Nobody trusts China and their economy is a bigger basket case that anyone else's and the environmental damage is disastrous. They have damaged or destroyed over around 30,000 rivers, creeks and waterways. S) Nobody trusts South Africa because they are so hopelessly corrupt. BONUS REASON - The Bank of International Settlements which is the bank where all of our central banks settle out all the foreign currencies they hold reported in December 2022 that there are now over $100 Trillion in Foreign Exchange swaps being held by various banks and non-banking entities. A massive amount of that is not only in US$ but those US$ are held by NON-Americans who trade internationally in US$. Does anyone actually think that all those people who have relied on the US$ for international trade for 70+ years are just going to swap 10s of Trillions into a currency run by the Brazilians, Russians, Indians, Chinese or South Africans when those countries have the issues they have?
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  4018. Its called NARRATIVE and that's what all of our politics is now about. AND MAKE NO MISTAKE: This is NOT just an American thing its going on everywhere. I'm Australian but went to college in America, which is part of why American politics interests me. Plus it has serious ramifications for Australia as does British politics and few other things. Our politics is almost as bad as this nonsense and we even have a couple of Any Biggs types. JUST YESTERDAY (less than 12 hours ago) I saw one of our conservative politicians interviewed and it was 101% narrative garbage. Up until 18months ago we had 9 years of conservative governments and all she said yesterday were effectively complaints that the new government had not fixed the issues her government had left behind EXCEPT none of it was her parties fault. On the flip side of that our Leftist parties are almost as bad. Their narrative is "these things are too hard" and they are partly right and were left with a mess BUT they also won't LISTEN to actual solutions. Politics is NO LONGER about doing anything. Its all about narrative.
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  4019.  @heatherc2939  In the 2004 documentary "Outfoxed' one of the warnings was that Rupert Murdoch would drag the rest of the media down into the gutter along with him.
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  4020. WHY DOES DAVID - Who is supposedly an intelligent guy keep speaking that crap about wind turbines having a high capital cost. Its a meme that the fossil fuel clowns started and its sadly become an accepted meme among the LEFT MEDIA. I AM AN ENGINEER and this is so annoying to keep hearing. The capital cost of wind depends on a number of factors. 1) Is it in a easy to access site? Offshore is obviously NOT because you need a special jack up barge to do the installation. The top of some hills which are more productive might be harder to access with cranes and other heavy equipment. 2) is it close to an existing grid connection. No matter what type of power anyone builds it has to be connected to the power grid and that is NOT as simple as some wires. As Australia his finding out the Snowy 2.0 project (pumped hydro) has almost tripled in price because its in a very awkward location to connect to the grid. 3) Capital cost must also be measured against the time taken to start earning money which includes the construction time. Hinkley Point C (a nuclear plant and one of the few that ) has an estimated build time of 10 years at a cost of £33B (~$42B USD). That is a staggering amount of money to spend and then wait a decade before you start earning money followed by the years breaking even. Wind turbines take weeks to construct and connect. 4) Similar to the length of time to construct is the question - Can the wind turbines in the wind farm be connected to the grid BEFORE completing the entire wind farm. For both wind and solar it is often possible to connect each wind turbine as its completed or each solar array as its completed. In such a circumstance the wind farm or solar farm is ALREADY earning money before completion and therefore does NOT NEED as much capital to complete. This is almost NEVER possible with coal, hydro or nuclear. If you are building a modular gas turbine power station then that might be able to operate each turbine as its commissioned. This is also one of the things that make Small Modular Reactors practical. There's just the problem that SMRs wont be commercially available until the mid 2030s. So can everyone please stop repeating these ignorant memes about what certain things cost.
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  4021. You should be very well aware of the old saying that "The way to make a pile of money in aviation is to start with a mountain of money." In other words what ever you are going to invest in aviation you are not going to make as much money as the hype suggests. HOWEVER that does not mean you can't make money. There's a really great documentary that was put out after Concorde was retired that was done with the help of the pilots. I'm an aerospace engineer and a pilot so I found the technical stuff pretty interesting, but what EVERY business or economics student should do as a case study was how the pilots saved Concorde. Sorry for the long answer below, but its actually an important part of aviation history. The first few years Concorde was terrible financial losses. There was no way to make money and they were about to shut it down. The pilots responded by telling management how that wasn't possible because the planes were full on almost every flight. So British Airways management challenge their pilots to run Concorde and if they didn't make money it was over. The pilots then did one of the greatest examples of customer/market analysis ever. They looked at their users and found this odd group who dominated ticket sales. They'd fly across the Atlantic and then almost immediately fly back with some doing it several times a week. So they asked who these people why they used Concorde that way. It turned out they were mostly lawyers working for major banks and corporations. This was BEFORE the internet and big contracts needed to be done in person. Just as the internet sped up how we all communicate now, Concorde sped up the work of these people enormously and they put a premium value on it. The pilots asked these people DIRECTLY (not via intermediaries but direct) what they thought a ticket on Concorde was worth and 2 things stunned them. First these people had no idea what the tickets cost as their secretaries were the ones arranging flights and purchasing the tickets. Second the value they came back with stunned everyone. if you go look back at the ticket prices there was this massive jump in the early days and every one said it would drive away the customers. IT DIDN'T because the main users valued the tickets that much. The pilots then asked what would make these customers business even better. The result was installing nice highly secure offices for people to meet in the terminals. So these frequent users could fly across the Atlantic, meet their clients in the terminal without having to go through customs and then fly back. For about 25 years Concorde was British Airways most RELIABLE and profitable division. It simply didn't matter what the economic situation in America or Europe was those contracts had to be negotiated and Concorde was the most efficient way to get that done. What killed Concorde was a combination of the Internet, Osama Bin Laden and Airbus. The internet reduced the amount of work needed to be done in person. On 9/11 Concorde lost around 50% of some of its most frequent users because they all worked in the towers. Airbus hated the Concorde and wanted people focussed on the A380. As owners of the Concorde Intellectual Property they simply refused to service the aircraft. Richard Branson eve offered to by the fleet and keep it going, which means he knew it could make money. Airbus said "NO!" When they stopped flying most of the Concorde fleet had flown less that 25% of their design lifetime. Again sorry for the long answer but the story of Concorde needs to be told. You probably have a way better chance of meeting those pilots than I do. If they can correct any of what I've written I will defer to their knowledge of what happened.
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  4022. Following but less about Concordes history. After I graduated I did 2-1/2 years of research into ramjets & scramjets (Mach 2 -7 flight). Some of the first papers I read were on the Concorde SNECMA Olympus engines and their inlets. Those inlets were a masterpiece of 1960s technology. Even by todays standards they are brilliant. Consider that nobody has done better. In college I did classes in aircraft propulsion and inlet design geometry. The simplest way to put it is the inlet makes the engine work and that includes bot subsonic and supersonic. Its the inlet geometry that affects the air flow before it reaches the first of the compressor stages. Its a lot like racing cars. Those guys spend massive amount of time & effort getting air into the engine. I've been around those guys and they describe it like "if you can't get the air into the engine nothing else matters." Jet engines are the same. If you have a look at your 737 engines you'll notice the inlets are flat along the bottom edge. That's NOT for ground clearance. If you look closer it also has a different profile than the top and sides. That's to prevent compressor stall when you pull back on the yoke at take off. The top and sides are optimised for cruise at altitude. Everything about that part of of the inlet geometry is about minimising drag and getting the air into the engine at exactly the right pressure for the fan to operate at maximum efficiency. I did my degree in the late 80s just as CFD was becoming available. In fact my college the U. of Illinois was a world leader as we had CRAY Supercomputers. There were 2 areas for aircraft the postgrads were into and that was wingtip design for drag reduction and engine inlet design for efficiency. And fun fact the speed limit for the Concorde of about Mach 2.2 wasn't an issue of aerodynamics or engines it was limited by aerothermodynamic heating of the air frame. If they went much above Mach 2.2 the metals the plane was built from risked degrading to the point where it could fail. Go check a lot of the fighters form that time period and they too had the same limits. If you look at the Mig 25 Foxbat that could go faster. They basically had to rebuilt the engines after going above Mach 2.7 on any flight. Its one of the things that made the SR-71 so incredibly special. You might actually find the speed limits of the Sonic Boom have more to do with aerothermodynamic effects on the airframe than they let on. Even Carbon fibre and the resins used get effected by temperature.
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  4023.  @ckdigitaltheqof6th210  Sorry but there's a monumental difference between what the X-15 needed for thermal protection and what anything coming back from orbit needs. I get where you are coming from but its just not the same thing. The X-15 was a ballistic vehicle NOT an orbital vehicle. There are some small sounding rockets that can lift over 100kg to 500km which is higher than the ISS but they can't put anything into orbit. To go into orbit is a matter of velocity as well as altitude. On coming down that velocity shows up as kinetic energy and its that kinetic energy that burns up satellites, meteorites, etc. Its why the Shuttle needed that tile system. Its a cute idea to bring the ISS back, but its also totally impractical.
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  4024. To all of David's American viewers wait to you see the totally bonkers interview Trump endorsed Republican (for Arizona governor) Kari Lake just gave Australian 60 minutes that was shown on prime time Australian public TV only hours ago. ITS WORSE THAN THIS. Its already lit up Australia's online media. I expect David will cover it shortly, so brace yourselves. On a 1-10 scale for embarrassment its a 25. Australia just spent most of the last 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan supporting America. When you see the interview ask yourselves how we might feel right now. FYI - I went to college in America and have many American friends. I understand the reality of the relationship - America is our most important trading and security partner. But many Australians we are very concerned (as other countries also are) that America is NO LONGER a RELIABLE PARTNER. How is anyone supposed to have confidence when America can't hold any of these people accountable?
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  4025. WATCH HER BODY LANGUAGE. The crossed arms - defensive but with the smug smile also PROUD that she's gained attention The way she leans back as she holds her hand over his notes at 4:50 I am NOT a body language expert by any means and her signals are so obvious that she simply DOES NOT CARE. She is a malignant attention seeking narcissist.
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  4026.  @kevinjones6328  Yeah who's going to forget the 40km long convoy that ran out of fuel and then ran out of food. I don't think the current guided munitions are coming in much faster than anything previously. What they are coming in with is accuracy. Did you see that BBC video showing the accuracy from 40km? The best description I have heard is that the Russians have the best military for fighting a 20th century war but unfortunately is the 21st century and a bunch of tech geeks with access to a toy store are a serious threat.
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  4027.  @Winters004  That's a great point. There was the USS Stark incident where the defense systems didn't pick-up the incoming Exocets. Then there's the Russian Cruiser Moskva and there's reports that its defense system either failed or was not even turned on. That's always been an issue with RADAR. When it works is great and when it doesn't it just lets everyone know exactly where you are.
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  4028.  @Abdul-Akeem_Akinloye  So what do you think I should send Dave the study notes???
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  4029. You're right, but just remember you're on social media RIGHT NOW. The problem isn't social media. Just like cars, guns and many other things aren't the problems we may think. ITS THE WAY PEOPLE USE THEM or should I say the way people ABUSE them that's the problem. There is something completely lacking today and that's a sort of social contract with responsibility. By virtue of the way our societies function we all (depending where we live) have certain freedoms and obligations. The problem with some of those freedoms like social media is there is NO obligation to use it responsibly. Remember we get a car license that allows us to drive. If we abuse that then we can have out license taken away.
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  4030.  @scifirealism5943  Having spent time in America I'm well aware that's one of the main factors but not the only one. But it goes further than that. Americas punitive damages system is another major factor as it pushes insurance through the roof and those insurance costs end up getting paid by consumers. I did aerospace engineering and that same system ruined the American aircraft industry particularly light aircraft like Cessnas. There's always the question why do Cessna (and others) still build the same planes they built decades ago and the answer is the insurance on a new design costs too much. So all they do is modify what they have. I seriously believe if they limited the damages for medical accidents NOT wanton negligence but genuine accidents and they do happen. Doctors cant do miracles and people do die. But I believe if you just limited the punitive damages then the insurance costs would drop dramatically and than would help immensely. Whether or not Americans would give up their right to sue for all hell to get cheaper health care is a question I can't answer. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4031.  @iamdanyboy1  Good points and its driven by the fact America runs a "for profit" health care system not a "for health and well being" system. Don't misunderstand that. I do believe all those WHO WORK in health care have a right to make a decent living. That's just simple common sense. I honestly don't care how much money they make so long as they aren't hurting people or society as they do it. That goes for all corporations and even billionaires. I don't have a problem with Jeff Bezos being worth what he is BUT when he does it by paying minimum wage and forcing neo-feudalism on his workers SORRY BUT NO THAT's A PROBLEM. When corporate profits, shareholder dividends and executive bonuses are put before the welfare of the population then its a problem that only goes one way. Here's one of Amazon's early major investors talking about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8
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  4032. Dude I love that you guys are promoting STEM topics but please get your facts right. NASA is NOT just experimenting with hydrogen fuel cells it was what they used in the Apollo program to go to the moon. NASA picked the hydrogen/oxygen fuel cells so that the Astronauts had water supply. If they had done as the Russians proposed with Soyuz, which used solar panels to generate electricity then they would have had to carry all the water that the astronauts needed. It was one of the Oxygen tanks in that Apollo system that exploded on Apollo 13.
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  4033. ITS JUST A THOUGHT But maybe on the application form to run for office there is a clause (like in a contract) where you agree (and sign for and its witnessed) to abide by the voting regulations and the count of the votes. That would include your right to ask for a re-count because that's in the regulations, but at the end of the process you MUST ABIDE by the official count OR you are in breach of your written and signed for contract with the state and are therefore punishable by the state. Now maybe that is already there in which case its NOT BEING enforced or its NOT written well enough to make it enforceable.
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  4034. How do you know they haven't allowed this just to convince you they don't have the control they actually have.
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  4035.  @Weaseldog2001  Buddy that's not a slight exaggeration that's a 99% exaggeration. Nobody learnt much about hydrogen in High School other than it combines with almost anything to make all sorts of compounds. If you were lucky the occasional teacher would show easily it can go bang with oxygen.
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  4036.  @fighterck6241  I'm Australian and we studied British History because ours is so short and British History is the history for most of us. If you go back through British History its littered with examples of what's going on right now. Edward Longshanks was named the hammer of the Scots and made infamous in the film Braveheart. Go look at the shite he actually did and you'd think Trump was his direct descendent. Edward Lonshanks might have been his generations destructive POS but he was just one of dozens of European maniacs. Trump might be our generations destructive POS but he's also far from alone.
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  4037.  @sarchisi  Yes you might be right, BUT IT DOES NOT LET HIM OFF FOR HIS OWN DECISIONS. Nothing excuses the murders of civilians, just as America & Allies should not ever be excused for their murdering of civilians in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Using mercenaries like the Wagner Group is also inexcusable just like it was inexcusable for America to use Blackwater. Russia has to accept that most of the countries who joined NATO did so because THEY WANTED PROTECTION from Russia because of what the Russians did all through the cold war. America has to also accept that people in countries like Iran hate them for what they did during the cold war. This is the problem with BOTH the Russians and the Americans. They wont accept responsibility for what they've done in the past and continue to do.
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  4038.  @theMosen  No disagreements on any of that. Like any person in any field you are responsible for the consultants you hire. You are also responsible for taking their advice. Your also right in that he stopped doing what had gotten him as far as it did. His biggest mistake was thinking he could be "part of the club." Taking on those people was a mistake. Listening to them was even worse.
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  4039. I'm an engineer who's worked in industrial controls systems, robotics and automation for 35+ years. I have NOT worked in the the sort of automation you are talking about but your argument holds true across every other industry I have worked in. Its NOT impossible to install automation into existing systems but it can be a lot harder. I know because I have done those sorts of jobs. Its always better to start with a clean sheet. The other thing you are right about is that automation rarely eliminates the need for workers. In many cases automation is used to do those repetitive jobs that people don't want to do because they are so repetitive OR because they can be damn dangerous OR bot repetitive and dangerous which can be a very bad combination.
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  4040. To All - Here's David Dunning (of Dunning-Kruger) explaining why ignorance can't recognize itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErkhYq13VVE Its worth watching if you want to understand why people like this cannot not see what they are doing or what they are saying is wrong.
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  4041.  @alicspellman6938  Good follow up point.
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  4042. As an aerospace engineer that's a good explanation. I see this guy as yet another person trying to fit and adjust terminology to suit their argument. I don't know about you but I ma getting tired of them for the simple reason they create confusion among the general population. He's trading something that's NOT even good enough to be called a theory. Its a hypothesis and very typical of philosophy students. They do one thing better than engineers - get air time. We just don't seem capable of getting air time. Its one of the major issues I have with media people - they just don't care about accurately informing people.
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  4043. What's that old saying about the "insane running the asylum?" America has just redefined example for the term oxymoron its now: "Tucker Carlson supports media accountability."
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  4044. EXACTLY. Here in Australia we knew or heard about most of this sort of stuff 2-3 years ago. We knew Ivanka did a deal with the Chinese for her trademarks while she was there on official US Government business. We knew Jared Kushner used White House resources to play the Arabs off against each other to save his family's business. We knew that many countries were leasing expensive suites at his golf courses so that they could get access to Trump on his "golf days" We knew that the reward for moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem was land for an new Trump resort in Israel. None of this stuff is new most of it is widely known around the world. The only things that might be new are the specific details. Americans -> 🤔🤐🙄😳😱😣 The rest of the world -> 🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷
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  4045.  @kaptnpee8572  That's a valid point, which highlights the biggest issue that's emerged in Western Politics in recent decades. Its not an American thing either. Almost every Western democracy now has sides that simply scream and yell at each other while ignoring or covering up what their own side does. Its fueled by a media that eats, breaths and shits political conflict. CNN, MSNBC, NYT have as their basic business model "Trump Bad, Biden Good" At Fox, OAN, Newsmax ... etc. its "Trump Good, Biden Bad" Its moronic and destructive.
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  4046.  @richardkjelsrud242  Good point but never forget rich men buy power, justice and judgement EVERYWHERE. This is NOT and American thing. Its just that America has a current massive issue that's being played out in public.
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  4047.  @ProjectFarm  Good effort to try this, but dang this is something really hard to do without some serious testing jigs. There were some obvious flaws in this and to be fair its a very hard thing to do. On the taps you really needed to use a guide and keep them straight all the way through the hole when your testing for the torque. Its simply way to easy to get a tap out of alignment. At 9:33 its obvious the Pittsburgh (on the left) was not straight. If you do this again I'd suggest finding a way to use a spring loaded guide. On the Dies and Nuts you cant just simply put a die in a vice as you did with the Draper (13:55). No matter how you set it up it will deform because its designed to deform. The fundamental difference between a nut and die is that split in the die allows the die to be compressed and cut deeper. In the proper handle you can start cutting a shallow thread with a die and then cut deeper by compressing the die. Putting that die in a vice compressed it and that's why the rod was so lose in the nut In all the tests I have seen you do this was probably the hardest to do. So you get an A+ for attempting it and trying to be fair to the products.
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  4048. You are so right - he's an incredibly intellectual man. Harvard educated and a University of Chicago Law Professor. He was also utterly useless as a President. - He had a super majority and couldn't get healthcare reforms passed except for the one written by the Heritage Society for Mitt Romney. - He won the Nobel Prize for Peace and yet couldn't end either the War in Afghanistan or the War in Iraq. - He had incredible support from younger Americans and yet student debt is higher than its ever been and there's a culture War raging in America mostly between the younger generations and the older generations. - Remember his great line about how voting for Hilary would be like endorsing his presidency. HOW TF DID THAT WORK OUT? I will grant to any of his supporters that he was (and still is) a brilliant public speaker and vastly more capable than most people, but those aren't the requirements of being a great President. AND BEFORE you ask he was still INFINITLY BETTER than Trump. What the Bush, Clinton, Obama and Trump families as well as people like Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and others PROVE BEYOND ALL DOUBT - America needs to start looking OUTSIDE the Ivy league for its leaders.
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  4049. Actually you misspelled it. Its actually "Hyperlolypop" because it sucks. For some strange reason people keep leaving out the LYP in the middle.
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  4050.  @YaMumsSpecialFriend  Co-crewing would be the only way possible for Australia to operate LA Class or any other American submarine. I saw an awesome documentary years ago on WHY Iraq was going bad. It was by PBS Frontline and called "Rumsfeld's War" and you can still find it here on YT. About 1/2 way in a retired former general describes the 4 key points of the Powell Doctrine. I'm an engineer and those 4 points translate perfectly into engineering project management and I have used them ever since. One of those key points is Resources (men, machines and money). First we never could afford the ridiculous costs of the French Subs. Were were going to pay 3 times more for a downgraded version than the French Navy's nuclear powered version. PLUS we never had enough submariners to ever crew 12 of them. 60 x 12 is 720 and these days we barely have 250 and most of the time struggle to have 4 Collins in the water. The other 2 are in dock with no crews. Anybody with a brain who could do basic math knew it was crap.
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  4051.  @TT-nk5hi  You're absolutely right. If China, America or any of several Asian nations ever wanted to invade Australia there's nothing we can actually do to stop them taking over our country. Its comes down to numbers. There's 25 million of us and hundreds of millions of them. Its the same for any smaller country. However there's the cost, as the Americans found out in Afghanistan and Iraq and as the Russians are finding out in Ukraine. There's some really smart people with military backgrounds commenting sensibly on what's happened in Ukraine. In less than 100 days the Russian lost over 200 tanks and keep losing more every day. Australia has 59 M1 Abrams tanks with an $3.5Billion order for another 75. The Chinese PLA has over 4,600 main battle tanks of various types. Sadly Ukraine cannot win, they just don't have the numbers, but they can make Russia pay a price they can't afford. As America learned form Afghanistan and Iraq, invading is one thing, controlling a population that hates you is another thing entirely. I recently heard an American analyst call it a "Strategy of Denial". Its where you have enough in place that the other guy with the massive military is always asking "What will it cost to start a fight?" So its NOT a matter of Australian being able to do anything to anyone else its a matter of how much do we need so that others wont do anything to us.
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  4052. That's only the first question in a long list of questions like: How did the GOP end up with a clown like her running in the first place? What was the vetting system the GOP used to even allow her to run under their name? Maybe now the GOP have had the disaster of losing 3 Senate races in a row to the Dems they will start to realise that nominating clowns only guarantees a circus. The American people also need to ask themselves some damn hard questions because the quality of any government is limited to the quality of people you have in that government. That's true for EVERY sort of government. Both Russia and China are now suffering from 2 leaders who spent that last 20 years eliminating anyone who questioned anything they did. Britain is another country also suffering because of a while in power Boris Johnson pushed out any sensible people who could actually do any job. That was how they ended up with the insane joke that was Liz Truss. Its not uncommon to have this go on in any government. Get rid of the good people so those in charge can stay in charge. It never works out well.
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  4053.  @bsslayer7623  Great comment. It deserves more than the 1 thumb.
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  4054.  @dudeman5303  Your right - its the whole confirmation bias issue that's the single biggest issue with social media when it comes to social and political issues. One of the big problems for most people is they either they wont take the time to think about issues or they don't have the ability to think through complex issues. So they tend to look for people who will summarize things for them. That leaves them wide open to being manipulated by BAD FAITH ACTORS. History is littered with such people, but what makes our time so more volatile is the BFAs never had a platform like social media. In previous generations people like Tim Poole would have been lucky to speak to several hundred people. In the era of radio he might have reached 1,000s and TV 100s of 1000s. But now people like him can reach out to millions. That makes the possibility of them reaching out to an already disturbed person a lot more likely. This is my real problem with the Tim Poole's of the world THEY DON'T CARE how biased their crap is or who it affects. This is the real flaw in the Ayn Rand "me, me, me, before anything else" nonsense. You end up with people like Tim Poole having influence over disturbed people and when it goes wrong they blame everyone else. And never underestimate that BFAs can come from any direction - left, right, up down and any color of the rainbow.
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  4055.  @desmondbrown5508  Dude humanity has been a for-profit society since we discovered gold and diamonds, what makes you think it will change anytime.
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  4056.  @boneseyyl1060  Your absolutely right and I have argued those very points a lot during the 18 or so months. I studied both 1984 and Animal Farm in high school. I hated 1984, as a 16year old it was just ghastly, but thanks to Trump its useful. I have mentioned the French, Russian, Cambodian and American revolutions often. They all have one thing in common in that they were fundamentally peasant revolutions as in the farmers, & laborers rose up and threw of regimes that operated in absolute terms. Most Americans disagree that the American Revolution was a peasant revolution like others because America is a very right orientated nation, but if you look at what they were against and why the Bill of Rights has what it has and is what it is the American Revolution was fundamentally a revolt against right wing totalitarian rule. There's actually a good example of it in the film "last of the Mohicans" where the colonel Munro's daughter argues with about the fate of Hawkeye who's been condemned to hand for sedition. She said "you haven't given him a trail" ha basically answered. "I'm the kings representative and my word is absolute. He went against my word, that's sedition and he'll hang." Sadly most revolutions end up replacing one bad thing with something worse. The French let Robespierre lose and he gave them the "Reign of Terror." The Russians got rid of the Czar and got Stalin. China, North Korea its the same story again and again. Human politics really is a place of "wash-rinse-repeat". America nearly broke that cycle with the Constitution and for 240 years (1776-2016) that had it. I actually think (even as an Australian) that the US Constitution is one of the greatest achievements in human history. Every other constitution has baggage like ours is full of old British crap. The founding fathers were brilliant in all they did except for 1 thing. The y never considered that Mitch McConnell would exist. The House runs the Country, The Whitehouse is the executive and the Senate is there to CHECK that the other 2 are doing things in a proper way. Look at what's happened since McConnell got unlimited power and subverted what the Senates job is. The Supreme Court has been undermined, the rest of the judiciary has been undermined and since Trump was let off from his impeachment without even a wave of a finger he's been out of control and its cost 1000s and 1000s of lives. I really do hope America gets past this without too much damage.
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  4057. THERE'S A PBS FRONTLINE DOCUMENTARY CALLED: Rumsfeld's War Copies can be found on YT. Anybody wanting a history lesson will find it incredibly informative. During the documentary they discuss the "Powell Doctrine." Ret. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph P. Hoar gives the basics. 1) Congress must give the military clear and realistic objectives. Congress and POTUS cannot simply say go there do stuff. 2) Congress must authorise the forces and manpower that the military say they need to do the task assigned. 3) The action must have the support of the American people. 4) There must be an exit strategy. Put simply get the job done and then get the troops home. ALL 4 must be in place BEFORE committing the military to action. This process was developed after Vietnam and was employed in Desert Storm (to get Iraq out of Kuwait). This part of the documentary detailed how this was NOT DONE before the Invasion of Iraq after 9/11. If you watch the documentary note item 2 and what Paul Wolfowitz told congress. Do you think the Russians did their homework any better than America and its Allies before Iraq? You would have thought would be superpowers had learned by now.
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  4058. Australian here FYI - I went to college in America on a sports scholarship and love the place, the people and especially college sport, BUT your politics is disgustingly toxic. Ours isn't much better but at least we have rules or at least believe in them. The problem is that we have all played this game where we believed we lived in a World with rules, when the reality was the rules were always pretty vague. The fundamental problem is the entire developed World is riddled with dysfunctional parties who only seem interested in the current news cycle. That's compounded by all these parties being overly compromised by money or special interests as well as reacting to endless polling pumped by the media.
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  4059.  @kallekas8551  Unfortunately (and I do means this with some sadness) the best you could call it these days is the SA "States of America" because the word United has LEFT the building. It might even be argued that it left the building some time ago and I genuinely mean that saddens me. I had a fantastic time going to college in America and its sad to see what's happened. And if you want to blame Australian born Rupert Murdoch, then fine. We tried to warn the Brits and America what he was like neither of you listened. But feel free to deal with that problem. I'd recommend the Dirty Harry method.
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  4060. Insanely old people with billions of dollars are the real problem in America and other countries. Its just more pronounced in America. The number of people in incredibly important positions (both in politics and commercial) in the 80s & 90s is staggering. Warren Buffet is 92, his offsider Charlie Munger is 99, Rupert Murdoch is 91, Barre Seid is 90/91 while Charles Koch at 87 is almost young by comparison. If you look at the US Senate Feinstein and Grassley are both 89. Sanders & McConnell are 81 & 80. Then there are 30 more senators between 70 & 80. Over in the house of Representatives they have 12 Reps over 80 and 60 reps between 70 & 80. The incredible mistake many make is that they are baby boomers. Some are but most are War Babies, born before, during or just after WW2 before the baby boom started. The older ones in particular seem psychologically scarred by their childhood and cannot accept that any generation after them is capable of taking over and running anything let alone the planet. Even the earliest of the Baby Boomers (those over 70) who grew up being terrified of Nuclear War seem incapable of handing on power. As children in school they were shown "Duck & Cover" films. We see those films as jokes, they were force fed fear and its left a terrible legacy.
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  4061.  @notaspeck6104  Absolutely. 2 of the things that annoy me because at the very least we don't have answers: 1) John Howard is a lawyer (as are many others in federal parliament) and I find it damn hard to think that he never did a class in international law and as such WHEN did he know the invasion of Iraq was ILLEGAL under International Law? I keep hearing that we prescribe to the "Rules Based Order" but what is that exactly and what treaties and laws are we obliged to abide by? 2) There's footage the ABC showed of one of the "wrongful deaths" in Afghanistan. You can hear the stress in the Australian Soldiers voice. He's all but out of control with stress and its ugly. It has NOT come out just how stressed those guys were due to the time they spent there. Was what happened wrong? YES, but why were our soldiers there for so long that they ended up so stressed they did those things?
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  4062. To all of Thom's watchers. Trump endorsed Kari Lake whos running for governor of Arizona had a train wreck interview with Australian 60 Minutes that was broadcast free to air only hours ago. Before she stormed out she abused the reporter and gravely insulted Australia. FYI - I am Australian, I went to college in America and this might blow up. This wasn't some silly rant by some clown on YouTube this was a Trump endorsed candidate going off the rails. Don't forget Australia, Britain Canada and others just spent most of the last 20 years supporting America in Afghanistan and Iraq. It wasn't popular anywhere, but we stood by America. I was in Canada for work when Trump tore up NAFTA and hit them with tariffs. How do you all think this makes us feel about America? We are all now asking if there is anyway we can believe that America will be a reliable trading or security partner going forward.
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  4063. Its NOT our reliance on fossil fuels that is blocking humanity's future. ITS THE RELIANCE of POLITICIANS on the fossil fuel money they use for their campaigns that's the problem.
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  4064.  @hugoepcastro  No probs. You sounded like you could do with some encouragement. We got very, very lucky in Australia. When it arrived we were just about to have our grand prix and start our football seasons. They all got cancelled or postponed and that saved us. At one point we let our guard down and 700 died in 1 outbreak. If we had not got lucky that could easily have been 20,000 or more.
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  4065.  @somersoguilty4225  Yeah in what way? The easiest way to tell a social media moron is they just make claims. No facts, no evidence they just switch the brain off and say shite - like you.
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  4066. NAPOLEON For all interested a free translation of Sun Tzu is available here -> http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html I recommend to all that you take note of the advice regarding protracted wars in the 2nd second section. For a person who never lost look who he basically says don't drag out conflicts, get in, do the job and then get out before it drags you down (compare the 1st & 2nd Gulf Wars). I suggest that's how Trump gets dealt with. Go after him, go hard, be ruthless and when he hits the mat be just like a UFC fighter, pounce and don't stop pounding until the ref drags you off. Don't file one court action and wait to see what he does - file everything you can, in every state you can, all in one go and overwhelm his legal defenses. Its just how I think Sun Tzu would do it. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4067. You mean Lois Griffin on crack and LSD don't you?
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  4068. Aerospace engineer here - well summed up. Companies like Koenigsegg and Mercedes have been announcing all sorts of advances in electric motors. None of these motors or the technologies are really new but they are advances/upgrades on previous generations of electric motors.
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  4069. To all you Americans who care. This was just shown Australia regarding Rupert Murdoch and Fox -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Its the 1st of 2 parts and the 2nd wont be shown until next week. It includes interviews with ex-Fox presenters who detail what happened inside the Murdoch/Fox Empire with regards to Trump. Its been done by ABC Australia (our equivalent of PBS) on a program called "4 Corners" (our equivalent to PBS Frontline). You can expect the Australian Right Wingers to go completely unhinged. Murdoch's Australian operation is called "Sky News Australia" (if you didn't know). Their Equivalent to Hannity is a guy named Alan Jones, but he's just one of a group of narcissistic liars. So watch out for ANYTHING done by Sky News Australia. Murdoch has been trying for more than 20 years to get the ABC dissolved (as in completely annihilated). The right wingers claim the ABC is leftist and the left wingers always claim they are pro-right. The fact is the ABC is publicly funded but under its charter its programming is independent, including its news and current affairs. SO it reports what comes across its desk. Does it get shit wrong at times? ABSOLUTELY, but its also a place where we can still get HONEST in depth investigative journalism. We can never let the ABC go just the same as America must never let PBS go. If you doubt that watch this Frontline from 16 years ago when all this idiotic shit in Iraq and Afghanistan started. For that question of how did this all happen? Here are the answers. For anyone who's forgotten what people like Paul Wolfowitz did to make this shit storm happen. Here's what he and others said -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byu9Yhr0Q_0
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  4070.  @squoblat  I got a blunt lesson in these practicalities circa 2002 from a classmate who at the time was in the ISS construction program. These days she's at a level where if you don't have her signature your stuff isn't going to the ISS. At that time my idea was satellite servicing. There was $14 Billion in functioning satellites being dumped into the ocean each year for no other reason than they'd run out of fuel. At that time I was doing automation systems for manufacturing and the best and most reliable money in that game isn't installing robots and programing them its maintenance. My proposal wasn't new. I was actually rehashing previous proposals. She quite bluntly crushed it with the reality that we didn't have the life support or propulsion to do that task. I know it was circa 2002 because around the same time I also met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) who was here in Australia for the 30th anniversary of his mission. I got to talk to him and told him what I had discussed previously with that friend at NASA. He crushed it with another reality - launch access. if you want to work in space you need launch access and servicing satellites instead of replacing them would smash the launch industry who are the very people you need launch access from. Then he told me something else _"Go have a look at Helium-3. Right at that time Australia was just starting a decade long boom in mining construction. So I had the brilliant (or not) idea that if I combined actual remote mine site construction experience with what I already had the consortium wanting to build a lunar Helium-3 mine they'd see that experience favorably. What I got out of it was a brutal set of practical lessons and to this day (as far as I know) I am the only aerospace engineer to have ever worked in that environment. Remote mines have several stages of life. 1) Remote survey by satellites and airplanes. 2) On the ground survey. Usually a couple of geologists with a 4WD, some shovels & picks. 3) Drill program where they send out a drilling rig, drill rig team, support hardware and do a drilling program. 4) Site construction 5) Operations I can tell you that Apollo was the equivalent of stage 2. A couple of guys doing a site survey and picking up some samples to test back at the lab. I can tell the amount of hardware needed for stage 3 is staggering. At stage 2 you only need something like a Toyota Landcruiser. At stage 3 you need Mack trucks and 3-5 of them at least, plus a few Landcruisers. You need to set up a place for the crew to live for 3-4 months, that includes toilets, showers, food storage, communications, fuel storage,.... AND A SUPPLY LINE because you keep consuming water, food & fuel. Then if a mine is going to be built BEFORE you even start you have to build a camp for the 100s (maybe several 1000) workers to live in. At that point you are now talking things like a power station, air field, fuel dump, mess hall & kitchen, fresh water treatment plant and a sewerage treatment plant. At that point you haven't even started on the actual mine. the actual first thing that has to be built is the workshop, because the moment you start the actual site construction (the hole and the dirt processing plant) you have bulldozers, diggers, cranes and all sorts of hardware doing work that requires maintenance. Nobody has even done a drilling program to actually ascertain what resources are available or even considered how that would be supported. Just a basic workshop to support the basic work means several tons of hardware launched off the planet flown to the moon, and landed on the moon. Just trying to cover these basic concepts with the sci-fi fantasy league is so frustrating. I spent a chunk of my career working some real crap places so I could actually answer questions like "What are the basics of the task of setting up a moon base?" Sorry for the long answer, but I think your one of the few people who can grasp this stuff.
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  4071.  @TheBeeFactory  No disagreement on anything you said but add in most of everyone else, because the vast vast majority of humans don't care about nuance. Its one of the great contradictions of our times. Its never been more important to understand what's going on while at the same time the vast bulk of humanity is too busy to stop and care about what's going on. AND on those rare occasions they do they are usually stuck between 2 clowns screaming at each other.
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  4072. Attention All: David's old Professor Richard Wolff who David has interviewed on this channel and David was interviewed on his channel had this take on why people voted for Trump in the first place. It certainly does not excuse WHY they have kept following him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s What he's talking about is what other countries call a "protest vote." Its basically where you vote for anyone else as a way of protesting against a party. A recent famous case was in Australia where the Prime Minister John Howard lost his seat to an independent back in 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard#2007_election The voters went back to normal a couple of years later, but the message was if you annoy us enough we wont care and simply throw you out. Its something many radicals do around the world. They get people to vote for them as a way of protesting/ What Trump did in 2016 was create a massive protest against the establishment. What he's done since and more recently is inexcusable. His followers need to accept that they made a significant protest against the establishment, but its now time to move on.
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  4073.  @nn-hx8oe  Well DK-HED she was born in Russia and speaks Russian. What part of that don't you get? If you want to talk about lies and propaganda - how about Putin changing the law so that news outlets can't call it a war. I think we all know who you work for. And for the record we've had enough of Putin and his BS. We've also had enough of some other people like Trump, like Biden and all the others who lie about everything and cheat everyone.
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  4074. I'm an Australian who went to college in America and this disturbs me at several levels. 1) It angers me that these clowns are wrecking a country and people I love. 2) It scares the crap out of me because like Canada, Britain, Japan and others we are getting further into deeper security ties with America and NOBODY can tell us with this going on that out main security partner is being overrun by crazy people who don't care about right and wrong. 3) No matter what anyone does or does not think about America the US$ is still the worlds reserve currency. Despite that the Chinese and Russians are pushing the BRICS currency nobody is buying it because who can trust any of the main players? The Euro is only as reliable as the weakest economies in the EU and some of those are seriously unreliable. So no matter what almost all international trade is still going to depend on the reliability of the US$ for a while. If these clowns destabilise America and the US$ with it then the entire planet is in trouble including the Russians and Chinese who both have massive investments in America. So no matter what NOBODY on the planet can afford this sort of nonsense. It goes well beyond America's borders and beyond the American people. You wanted to be the worlds dominant player well that comes at a cost and the cost is RESPONSIBILITY.
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  4075. NO KYLE YOU ARE WRONG MTG is NOT a victim, she violated the terms of agreement between herself and her social media providers. Its a simple breach of contract and they have terminated the contract - case closed. She might feel victimized but that is not mean she was victimized.
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  4076.  @velikovskysghost  I just hope they got that sheep into therapy.
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  4077. Current COVID-19 count is 288, 883 DEAD. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Trump needs to have everyone look in another direction while he grifts the daylights out of his base. Osama Bin Laden killed 2997 and America dragged the entire western world into a war that's still going. Trump has overseen nearly 100 times that and 74 million people wanted to have him for 4 more years. That's 12 million more than 2016. I've seen reports that around 50million Trumpists actually believe (truly absolutely believe) he was cheated. They are angry, wound up and most likely own at least 1 gun. The real question everyone needs to ask is how do we get them to calm down and accept the result.
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  4078.  @AndrewAMartin  😀😅😂😆 Oh snap that is a great line.
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  4079.  @Crissy_the_wonder  That's a different take than has been argued, but thanks for the input. You sound like your a Brit? So far the only clowns I've heard be pro-CANZUK are a few Australians and Canadians. And its all for military reasons???? You make a good point as far as the British see it militarily, which is not at all. My argument is that the Commonwealth is 2.4 billion people and CANZUK is a way of telling 2.2billion of them to FK-off we don't want anything to do with you. How stupid can people be? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4080. To All - just to give a different perspective on a person mentioned at one point in this. Jeff Greason is mentioned several times in this video. He was a founder of XCor which has CSS rightly points out went bankrupt. Anyone can check that on XCor's history on Wikipedia. I'd just like to point out something that anyone can also check on Wikipedia. You'll see that XCor was closely associated with Burt Rutan who designed and built the X-Prize winning Space Ship One. Yes XCors entrant in the X Prize (the Lynx) failed to fly but then so did all of the other contestants. Peter Diamandis the person who ran the X-Prize also tried to get the Rocket Racing League started. He chose XCor to build the prototype for the Rocket Racing League. That prototype not only flew but once flew 7 times in a single day and to the best of my knowledge that has never been equalled or surpassed by anyone, government or private. I just wanted people to know that in his day Jeff Greason was one of the top aerospace engineers in the world. FULL DISCLOSURE - I had some limited contact with Jeff regarding his rocket motors circa 2018. I've had no contact with him since. At that time he seemed a reasonable person and very knowledgeable, which makes my quite surprised to see him associated with these people. If he does reply to CSS I hope that CSS will give him a fair opportunity.
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  4081. And for anyone who's interested. As an engineer I agree 100% with CSS's summation of the NASA assessment of OAC's CLD proposal. My bet it took more time for someone at NASA to write up the assessment than it actually took to reject the proposal. Also CSS's assessment of the docking issues are spot on as are the balance issues he points out. This is exactly the sort of thing I wished more people in the media would point out regarding space subjects. My pet subject for unrealistic space issues is space mining and here's the basics of why. I'm Australian but did my degree in America. After meeting Harrison Schmitt in 2002 who spoke about mining the Moon for Helium-3 I went into the Australian mining industry to learn how to build and operate remote mines. I have over 15 years of first hand on site experience building and operating mines and I can state in all honesty that even the boffins at NASA haven't got a clue. I written to several people who have done TEDx talks on space mining and the one who did reply was actually an architect. He is actually a decent person who did the TEDx as a public speaking exercise. He was quite honest that he didn't know the subject that well. He sent me the main source of material for his talk which was the published papers from a NASA Conference on future lunar activities. It included quite a bit on mining and I can tell you all the NASA people need to actually spend some REAL TIME on mine sites seeing how they actually work. The biggest giveaway for anyone interested is to look at how they plan to do maintenance. If they say nothing then that shows they know nothing about mining and if they say robots then they know nothing about maintenance of heavy duty machinery. At its most basic mining is about getting what you want out of rocks. Just digging rocks and dirt out of the ground puts wear and tear on the machinery. After that you smash those rocks into smaller rocks and in some cases into powder. Yeah - at its most basic mining is about smashing rocks and that is incredibly hard on all the machinery. Anyone who thinks there's no maintenance is delusional and anyone who thinks it can be done with robots is ignorant of heavy duty machinery. And if CSS wants me to help on a "Why space mining is bunk!" video - then YES I WILL HELP IF HE ASKS.
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  4082.  @commonsenseskeptic  Case 2 of Space BS: Mining Asteroids Part 2 - Maintenance Iron Ore is about the simplest thing we mine. Dig it up crush and screen it down to size and put it on the train to send to port. If its a poor grade or you want to value add then you put a wash plant between the crushing & screening and the stockpile. A wash plant is pretty simple. You mix the ore with water and let gravity separate the iron from the dirt because iron is heavier than clay and dirt. So you have diggers, truck, crushers, screens, conveyors, stackers that make stockpiles, reclaimers that reclaim ore form stock piles and train load outs. No mater how well you blast it (or not) just digging up iron ore puts wear and tear on the digger. No matter how hard and tough the teeth and leading edge of diggers are they will wear and they will need replacing. If you are drilling for blast patterns then those drills will wear and need replacing. Having 100s of tons of rock and ore dumped in the back and then sliding it all out at the crusher puts wear and tear on the trucks. Plus they go through a set of tires every 3-4 months. Plus they need fuel, oil and general maintenance. Conveyor belts wear and need replacing water pumps, slurry pumps all wear. Even if you are mining with space lasers things will still wear out, because there will always bee some sort of processing. Even if you start chasing after rare low volume high value resources you will then need even more complex processing equipment will require even more maintenance. The moment you start dealing with rock things start wearing, because rocks have this one quality - they're hard. No matter how large or how small they are hard. It will never matter were you go the moment you start mining for resources is the moment you start wearing out equipment that will need replacing and or maintenance and that leads to the NEXT PROBLEM. Go an ask any mechanic if any 2 engines were identical in what they needed to repair or maintain? Go ask any electrician if any 2 machines with wiring issues were identical in what they needed to repair or maintain? Go ask a plumber if any 2 pipes were identical in what they needed to repair or maintain? Go ask any carpenter if any 2 pieces of wood are identical? Robots are exceptional if the task is REPEATABLE. Maintenance is never exactly repeatable because every maintenance task has its own unique differences. IT CAN BE similar but NEVER identical. I have worked in industrial robotics in the past and its hard trying to explain to people that robots excel at doing the same thing a million times in a row. They do not handle a million similar tasks well, because every time a variation that's outside the norm happens they crash, they stop or they crash and stop. One of my bosses used to say "automated machines are great at finding bad parts and lousy at handling them." The origin of this issue is that NASA does not do maintenance except for stuff they have on earth or for software. Once they lite the rocket fuse there is NOTHING any NASA engineer can do to except software. So there is almost zero experience in off world maintenance except from things like the MIR Space Station, The ISS and the Hubble Space telescope AND NOEN of that involved smashing rock. Basically if any of the space mining people don't mention maintenance then they are delusional and if the claim they will use robotic maintenance they are ignorant.
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  4083. Did you not listen? The vaccines are not killing these people. What he said was that old people die its called old age and it can be anyone of dozens of reasons. If you take 1000 or 10,000 or a million people of any age group then you expect that a certain amount will die each month from all sorts of causes. What he has said is that out of the vaccinated older people is that the death rate is NORMAL. This is actually how they now how devastating the COVID pandemic is. There's the normal death rate and there's 2020 which is above normal. Some of those can be directly attributed to OCIVD because they tested for it. Others they are not clear on because testing wasn't done. Around July August last year the death toll in America that was above normal was about 220,000, but only about 170,000 of those were confirmed COVID. Working out the causes of those 50,000 will take time and in some cases we will probably never know for certain.
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  4084.  @CR-yn5sy  Well considering how stupid a large percentage of the population keeps proving then everything seems fishy. Trusting the instincts of ignorant people isn't a solution its a return to the dark ages. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4085.  @kevinrusch3627  Your 1/2 right the Russians initially needed outside assistance in WW2, but once they got their industry up and running in Siberia the Germans were done, because they just couldn't stop the Russians from supplying the front lines. I'm an aerospace engineer and the Russians didn't have the best planes but what they did have was numbers and reliability. The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik might not have been brilliant but in the ground support role it was outstanding. The Yaks and Migs might not have been as advanced as the P-51 and Spitfire but they got the job done. Also the German pilots had to be very careful with which Yaks they encountered. The Yak-3 below 5,000m was lethal and the Luftwaffe ordered pilots to avoid them. I remember a documentary on WW2 tanks and there was a German General who after examining a T34 noted that if the Russians could build enough it was over. The T34 had many common parts to their trucks. It was simple while the Tigers were complex and needed a team of mechanics to keep running. Simplicity was also what made the Sherman effective. I'd agree that early on the Russian's were in trouble, but nor so much later.
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  4086. ​ @shawnlund  Your RIGHT, Sam has NOT defended the atrocities aimed at Palestinians. He's simply remained silent on it and THAT'S the point. Sam Harris came out and slammed Islam (as in 1.3 Billion people) as subhuman animals because they DID NOT condemn Hamas and that there was nothing "morally ambiguous" about that. Its his words on his channel. I absolutely agree 100% with Sam's position on Hamas and that his condemnation of them has no morally ambiguity about it. What they did Oct 6th and have been doing for years is disgusting. BUT - You can't claim there's no moral ambiguity on condemning the slaughter of 1,200 and then REMAIN SILENT on slaughtering over 16,000 children. And if you can't see the hypocrisy in that then you need your moral compass checked because its broken.
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  4087. @Dikke Snikkel On the Subject of blm that is a totally unrelated subject but I will try and tell you what I know. *Every American (black, white, brown, red, yellow) should have got their $1200 stimulus cheque. But it wouldn't surprise anyone if some people who need it more than most missed out. I don't know why anyone did miss out. What I do know is there incredible disparity in America. Mark Blyth the Professor from Brown U. reported weeks ago on a study from Boston that said the average white person in Boston had a net worth of over $240,000 while the average black person in Boston had a net worth of $8. I saw this recently and it highlights just how disadvantaged some Americans are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG0nqRXLDOg Words don't define how disgusting that is in a country of America's wealth. That's way more embarrassing than anything Trump has done. BUT claiming "10 billion $$ to blm" is absolute complete nonsense - that's just bullshit. If you focus on why black people didn't get their stimulus cheques or the insane wealth disparity you'll get lots of people agreeing. But if you spout idiotic garbage then don't expect anyone to listen.
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  4088.  @jboyer1435  I did a quick check because I knew the quote but wasn't certain. Everywhere I looked it was patriotism not patriotic. I think the better Asimov quote is: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. At that time I was reading Asimov's Foundation series (the one Apple+ just made into a series). Interestingly in the books one of Hari Seldon's principle reasons the Empire was going to collapse was because education was failing. Its not explicitly said but its obvious from some from some of the stories in the books. A few 100 years after the collapse a few people ventured out from the Foundation to try and re-establish the knowledge that had preserved. Most planets they found had totally collapsed into dystopian disasters, but one still had functioning power and utilities. When the person from the Foundation questioned the chief engineer of a power station they discovered that they were uneducated and that the society had regressed into a form of techno-feudalism where titles like "chief engineer" "chief surgeon" "chief judge" were inherited and NONE of those titled people were actually educated. Even back in the late 80s there were signs that America was in trouble. They weren't as obvious as they are now, but they were there. What bothers me is that Australia like most of the Western World is going down the same path. Our education systems are going backwards. You might think that with all the advances in technology engineers would be better trained now than in the 80s and you'd be wrong. There is a distinct lack of practical knowledge in fresh graduates these days. Their computer skills are staggering by comparison but their engineering skills suck. There are some very serious issues with Western society these days, not just America, and it all centers around education.
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  4089.  @kegsofvomitspit  You are spot on, except its not an American thing. It happens everywhere. I'm Australian but was in Canada a few years ago. Go ask them if Justin Trudeau would be PM if he had a different family name? Go ask the French if Marine Le Pen would be taken seriously if she had another family name. What do you think would happen if someone with the last name Churchill popped up in Britain? Politics hasn't been about credibility for a while. Its about the appearance of credibility and about the "appearance of doing stuff.* Like so many aspects of life these days its not a matter of who does what its about who ahs the best PR and media coverage. Business and the Stock Markets are the same. Share prices are more influenced by PR than they are by returns. Companies like Tesla, Uber and Meta are proof of that.
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  4090.  @louisgiokas2206  Further to that. I have been writing industrial code for 30+ years. Its completely different to the code for a PC or the internet. In that sort of work you are reading real world data from sensors in real time and responding to that information in real time. I've seen a lot of people from other fields try and FAIL. The difference in programming for data processing and programming for real time real world is radically different. The only other people I know who do that sort of stuff work on things like avionics and medical systems where they are also dealing with real world sensor input and responding to it. The channel Real Engineering did a great video explaining respirators early on in the COVID pandemic when there were lots of people from all sorts of backgrounds slapping together all sorts of stuff to construct makeshift respirators. He pointed out some fundamentals that I understood because of the similarities and I could easily see why these people (however well meaning) were going to kill people with makeshift respirators. I think this is a major problem with the AI people. They're very smart, very clever but they have almost zero experience outside of their field. As such they're going to get stuff WRONG and in the real world getting stuff wrong kills people. Its NOT X-box or Playstation where there's do overs and resets. Its real people.
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  4091. ​ @louisgiokas2206  Your example sounds like that probe they sent to Phobos the moon of mars where they got metric and Imperial mixed up. The big problem that IT people have when the come into control systems is they are taught and trained to think that global variables are WRONG because you can have multiple software blocks writing to the same data variable which for analytics is a disaster. Unfortunately all almost all control system programming is done with Global variables and that's because the sensors and actuators are connected by wires and those wires are connected to a specific addresses. PLUS a massive amount of our work is BIT logic as in things that are either ON or OFF. PLUS and I can't stress this enough when we turn ON or OFF a BIT in a word it can have damn serious consequences. That bit might be a software interlock that prevents something in the real world turning ON or OFF or it can be an actual device in the field like a valve or electric motor that suddenly starts or moves. IT people can be extremely dangerous in my field because they just don't get that when they do something real things in the real world MOVE.
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  4092. And you can expect the Murdoch's people in Australia will start denying it has anything to do with climate change from tomorrow. We had a once in 100 year bushfires as we experience a once in a 100 year drought and now a once in 100 year flood. Rupert Murdoch's a once in 100year piece of crap.
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  4093.  @Aa-ron01  Actually it is important on calling out bullshit when its bullshit. Whether your dumbing it down or not you do need to factual. The denier clowns out there jump on anything and everything they can. Anything that they can scream and yell about they do. If you look into any of the crazy claims made about stuff these days there's 3 types of people making them. Flat Earth, Moon Hoax, Climate denial you name the crazy and there's 3 basic types. 1: The delusional true believer who simply can't be convinced of reality. 2: The gullible ones who for whatever reason will simply listen to what ever is convenient. 3: The snake oils salesman, who knows he's selling snake oil but just doesn't care because he's only interested in making money off of the delusional and the gullible. I know there is nothing to be done with the delusional ones. But you know we can save the gullible form the snakes., but to do that we have to keep with facts because the snakes rely on doubt. The most powerful thing they have is doubt. because once they get you to doubt then they can spin the narrative into what they want. Look at any of Rupert Murdoch's people some of them are extraordinary at it. Trump's another master of it. So you have to call bullshit out when its there to be called out. Otherwise Murdoch and the rest of the billionaires will kill us all as they make money.
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  4094.  @jmjw00  Fair enough, good clarification.
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  4095.  @computernerdtechman  Yeah somebody else has pointed out that. This whole thing is garbage behaviour by garbage people and the best way to stomp on their behaviour is by being very clear on them. If there is one thing bad faith actors can't handle in any argument its SIMPLE DIRECT FACTS.
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  4096. Australian here: He could almost have used the same script to describe Australia's last election. The difference was Australian Labor didn't win that well as a significant amount of seta went to the new Teal Movement who are basically well educated middle class women with many being mothers who just fed up with the men on the conservative side or Australian politics. If they play their cars right over the next year they could easily end up with a significant share of power.
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  4097.  @Robertlynschultz  Its called spin-off technologies and NASA has been doing it since the Apollo program. The computer you are on right now can trace parts of its history back to Apollo. Actual digital computing was given a giant kick start via Apollo. Many of the manufacturing techniques and methods can trace their history back to Apollo. On local transportation anything to do with aerodynamic efficiency that's prevalent in trains, buses, trucks, modern jets.... etc can trace its way back to NASA and its predecessor the NACA. There's a staggering amount of modern alloys have history in NASA. For American industry and the American economy NASA has been the gift that keeps on giving. It just doesn't advertise it well.
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  4098.  @Robertlynschultz  I remember the "NASA Tech Briefs" and the system they had. It was brilliant until it wasn't. So I absolutely agree with your point that that tech pipeline has slowed (and possibly stopped) BUT THEN that begs the question. WHY? If there is something that needs asking is WHY has the tech pipeline slowed or stopped? Scott Manley did a great video on the absurd situation with SLS and the 2 teams doing the same job because 2 senators want to keep those jobs in their states. If they'd stop and think then NOBODY would need to lose their jobs just re-assign them to other tasks. Right now one of the main reasons nobody has been back to the moon is because there are so many technologies that are NOT ready. So does NASA need to rethink what it does and how it does things? YES, YES and YES a 1,000 more times.
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  4099. Yeah but in this job trading on information that none of the rest of us have is LEGAL. They are doing stuff that would get any of the rest of us a jail sentence for insider trading. This is legalized corruption that most other countries have already banned and in some cases DECADES ago.
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  4100.  @BRobertSock  It can always be worse just as easily as it could always be better. We fucked up and it cost 700 lives and that is nothing into be proud of. That's like crashing a couple of 747s, because you forgot to put fuel in the plane. Getting it back under control and limiting that damage is worth being proud of, but we still have people whinging.
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  4101. I'M UNSUBSCRIBING FROM THIS AND OTHER CHANNELS LIKE THIS What's the point when the Legal profession is such a corrupt pile of garbage? Lawyers all over the developed World as part of getting their licenses stand in court and swear to UPHOLD the Law and all we have seen for several decades now is Lawyers trampling all over the Law. GO AND CLEAN UP YOU OWN HOUSE BEFORE POINTING ANYMORE FINGERS AT THE REST OF US.
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  4102. As a counterpoint. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I have the greatest respect for the US Constitution and the Founding Fathers who gifted America with an extraordinary legacy. You are GUARANTEED certain protections that no other nation existing today or existed in the past have been granted and YET as a nation you have let people from within your own communities abuse the legacy again and again and again. My question to Americans on this subject usually goes something like: "Why should we respect America when Americans don't respect the incredible legacy they were gifted?" I know that is a blunt as fuq slap, but seriously when America going to put some emphasis on respecting the constitution instead of trampling on it. Since my college days in America I have watched Americans elect President after President and others to congress who have trampled on the greatest of gifts. Why do you (as a nation) continue to let it happen?
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  4103.  @RunD.Ones1s  Be very careful on how you say that - IT DOESN'T GO DOWN WELL ANYWHERE. I know full well that (in general) when American's are faced with any opinion from another country they usually reply just like that and its damn FUKKING INSULTING. When American needs allies for UN sanctions or dirty little wars - who they ask? My Australian tax dollars have BEEN SPENT sending Australians to Afghanistan and Iraq. We had troops in Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Korea and other places before that. The Brits, Dutch, Italians, French, Canadians, New Zealanders and others have all sent their people to stand side by side with America. Don't dare disrespect that which too many Americans already do. That little trade war Trump started. I was in working in Canada right when he hit them with Tariffs. They are not going to forgive that easily. Right now Australia is getting hammered by China on trade, because they're upset we stood with America on COVID. That's why this whole Fauci and Peter Daszak business matters to us. Treating your friends and allies like shit is like kicking a dog. One day it will turn around and bite. America needs to stop kicking its allies like a dog.
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  4104.  @kennethcook9406  I'll pass that. Its so deserving of many many thumbs.
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  4105. Long comment but it reads just like a few other comments I have written and others have written in recent years. If you go back and look for an interview Yanis Varoufakis did on the David Pakman Show (here on YouTube) he makes a really interesting point at one stage. Yanis (paraphrasing) said that Capitalism worked while Social Democracy worked because SD kept capitalism civilised and kept it in check. With no outside threat America lost its mission which was to beat Russia and because there was no "what do we do when its over" plan its ended up in this mess where the oligarchs are out of control and those oligarchs like funding the populist clowns like Trump, Marjorie TG, Lauren "happy hands" Boebert and Mike "chosen by God" Johnson and others because they keep everyone DISTRACTED. I think Richard is right about a lot of things, BUT ALSO he's so into his Marxism GOOD Capitalism BAD thing, that he occasionally blinds himself to certain realities. Like BRICS being a solution - its NOT because BRICS is a NOT a real thing. Its a term invented by an American economist/banker to describe those countries. They might be forming a lose organisation now but they simply wont go far because all of those countries have massive structural issues. Both Russia and China have massive demographics problems (see Peter Zeihan on that). India unfortunately has a number of major cultural issues that makes a lot of development difficult and also quite destructive because they also want a coal based energy economy. Brasil and South Africa are both rife with corruption and structural issues as well. The Middle Eastern Oil States that are joining in are also rife with corruption. On Marxism Richard also ignore the following 2 points. 1) Some of the worst human rights abuses in all of human history happened in the Marxist regimes of Soviet Russia and Maoist China. He never talks about that. 2) Some of the worst environmental disasters like the destruction of the Aral Sea, the toxic waste dumps of Eastern Europe and the destruction of the Chinese water ways did not involve a single capitalist. He never talks about that. A lot of Richards analysis and criticism of capitalism are VALID and its why I listen to him BUT he rarely puts his alternative Marxist systems to the same scrutiny and the few times I have heard him do it he's been dismissive of the reality and just criticised the leaders of various nations.
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  4106. ​ @emceeboogieboots1608  My brother called us the 51st state every chance he had. On being aligned with America has kept us safe for 70+ years. Yes we have had to go to the occasional war but security is never free. I don't think Australians think we are better than Americans on a person by person basis but most of the Western World is better than America on things like labor standards, gun control and superannuation. On education and Healthcare its a split decision because for those Americans who get both they get fantastic in both. But for the majority of the US population we beat them by several miles. Its actually the greatest risk there is with America at the moment - the cultural divide. Eventually they are going to work out that the real divide is NOT between Left & Right which America actually does NOT have. American has Diet-Lite Right and Hard Core Right. The real divide in America is the Rich and the Rest. Right now its easier to go from being a millionaire to billionaire than it is to becoming a millionaire in the first place. They've geared the economic system in favor of those with money and they keep everyone else trapped in a fictitious culture war hoping they don't wake up. As George Carlin famously said "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe in it." The saddest thing is Australia is so hell bent on following the American lead we are in serious danger of ending up like them. We have seriously well funded think tanks and lobbyists here pushing damn hard to do EXACTLY what America has done.
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  4107.  @emceeboogieboots1608  Absolutely correct. Politics has become even more tribal than sports and a whole lot more vicious. Its not an American thing either. Its being played out all across Europe. Brexit being the most notable case.
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  4108. There's a line towards the end of this (15::56) that should be put on posters "Onecoin has exposed some glaring faults in society. Technology is developing so rapidly that is difficult to keep up. This can generally be a great thing though on the flip side many people can be fooled into believing in technology they don't understand. Especially in this day and age with so many sides to each story and the emergence of fake news surrounding the Internet. It's easy to get lost in an echo chamber of confirmation bias." (punctuation mine) I'm an aerospace engineer and some of the nonsense being pumped out in respect of space exploration and space commercialisation is infuriating because to discuss anything other than the narrative how how its great is to be treated exactly with the same DISMISSIVE rhetoric as the Irish woman at 13 minutes. It also goes with almost everything else in engineering these days. The way the uneducated dismiss the education and experience of others. It goes right to the heart of the current 2022 energy crisis. Engineers have been trying to warn the world for years now that the infrastructure couldn't keep going with the lack of maintenance and lack of investment. But who wants to hear what 99% of the engineers have to say when everyone can listen to the latest maverick visionary.
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  4109. Yeah WTF is this all about. Yeah us men have issues and some of us have some damn serious issues and others have issues at a level that's terrifying but this sounds like a heap cultural mansplaining instead of the actual issue. The Uvalde shooter was known to enjoy killing animals and posting it online. That came out day 1 and that's 1 of the key indicators of psychopathy. I might have only done Psych 101 but even I know that. Trying to re-explain this as some male cultural issue isn't going to help anything. The kid had issues letting those fester wasn't good. Letting have a gun was a disaster in the making.
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  4110. @Dempsey Wilson I get what your saying but its like when when a football team KEEPS running the ball at you because you have a pass defense on the field. Do you simply keep the defense as is or do you wait until the other side starts throwing. So long as the DEMS do nothing then the RGOP will just simply stick to their basic game plane. - scare the crap out of old people; and - say you'll ban abortions; and - claim you'll protect jobs; and - increase spending on the military. Sorry but than wins elections. So unless the LEFT confronts it and deals with it nothing will ever change.
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  4111.  @JacobiMeyers-z1y  There's actually a bunch of similar quotes like that. Von Clausewitz had a bunch like "War is the continuation of policy with other means." He also said "war is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means," There's web pages dedicated to discussing it. There are people in the military who make careers out of discussing these things.
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  4112. That's a great point. I'm an Australian engineer and work in our mining sector. I followed what Lynas Corp our biggest rare earth producer was doing. I was working out of Perth when they made their announcements for mining and the construction of a processing plant in Malaysia. The plant in Malaysia was built because the Malaysians subsidised it. It was built was going to cost a lot more in Australia because we have environmental laws. The local Malaysians are trying to close the plant because its so bad and there's a lot of arguments going on. When Lynas were pushing their promos for investors they described a lot of what had happened. One of the biggest and richest RE deposits in the world is the hills behind Los Angeles. But it ended up in temporary shutdown because of low market prices, which is very common in the mining industry. The Chinese bought the processing machinery from that mine and took it all too China. That's also not rare in mining. Quite often people buy mines so they can move all the hardware to another mine. There are people who specialise in dismantling mine sites and selling the stuff item by item. So the Americans let the Chinese take the hardware, because they knew full well how worn it was and that the actual reserve in California would still be there for a future time. So Peter's quite right about most f this, but he misses a few details, but then I 'm an engineer and he's not.
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  4113. Way to put yourself out there for the world championship of BS. Keep going and Rupert Murdoch will give you a job.
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  4114.  @randybong5578  I'm Australian but went to college in America. I utterly hate that its another Australian (Rupert Murdoch) who's driving this disaster. He's an embarrassment to our country and he's made mess of the politics in 3 countries now - Australia, Britain and America. He did it all to make money and have power & control. He's a pure narcissistic sociopath which was made evident during the British phone tap scandal when he was called to testify. At one point he was playing the innocent older business man and claiming "He didn't know.... He didn't know.... He didn't know.... " It was then suggested that maybe he should step down from a public company and for a moment the mask slipped and he snapped back "NO." It lasted for about 3 seconds but anybody who ever saw that footage saw the monster underneath and he's effing terrifying.
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  4115.  @agentsituation1034  Don't go down that path and start making excuses. There was so much done wrong across the board. I am fed up with all the bullshiters pointing fingers at this government or that person. If any of these a-wipes think they can do better then they can run for public office and DO BETTER. That or STFU.
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  4116.  @agentsituation1034  Well that depends on what you're talking about and mostly what I am seeing from you is speculative bullshite. If you go and meet 100 people that WANT to believe garbage then they'll think you're a genious. Whoopi do. Try speaking facts and the other 99.9% of might start thinking you're not a clown with an attitude problem.
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  4117.  @GolDRoger-fx2fp  When you want to say something coherent and logical that's worth discussing let the rest of us know. Otherwise take that religious nonsense and go away.
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  4118.  @bobkoroua  You are 100% on target. Consider just 1 thing - Climate change is a massive task and without America and its technical capabilities and wealth to make things happen the task becomes monstrously difficult. Imagine trying to fight a war and 1/4 of your army just walks away and its the 1/4 with the best equipment. AND THAT DOES NOT MEAN we should sit back and wait for America to do something. That's a major part of the reason the world is a mess. Everyone has to do their part.
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  4119. Actually as an Australian I find the fact that an American thinks our Army made a sensible decision instead of just buying "the American Thing" like we did with various jets (F35🤔) and other stuff as genuine WTF moment. As an example of Australian Military logic I have this. A number of years back I worked with a young engineer who'd served in both Afghanistan and Iraq in the Australian Army. He got a phone call one day asking that he return a pile of money. The reason was someone had re-classified his time as not being in a "combat zone" and that he was ineligible for the extra pay that came from being in a combat zone. They clamed because he was just an engineer working in a compound fixing or modifying vehicles and equipment to suit rather than serving in a combat unit that he wasn't in a combat zone. From memory I think he went back to his commanding officer and eventually got it sorted out. Our military doesn't have a great reputation for logical thinking. So hearing an American say we made a good choice is a head scratcher.
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  4120. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  4121. I was starting to read the Wikipedia page, was about to start commenting when I heard Kyle. Something he missed was the "subordination of individual interests for the good of the nation and race" What other description would you give the revoking of Roe V Wade and suppression of women's rights?
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  4122.  @JCAtkeson3  Yeah there's some weird ideology among some of these tech-bros. Some of us read sci-fi and think "that's an interesting concept." Others read sci-fi and think "I will become Anakin"
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  4123.  @wet-read  If you go and google that comment by LG you'll still find it on his twitter account. I just checked and he tweeted that 7:03 AM · May 4, 2016 All I had to google was "lindsey graham if we nominate trump" no caps no punctuation it came up #1.
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  4124. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Playing a little bit of devils advocate and NOT defending the BULLSHlIT. Elon has done a couple of very good things BUT THEY DO NOT excuse all this nonsense and garbage that just wastes everyone's time. 1) TESLA has dragged the car industry off its collective butt and made them move on from ICE (Internal Combustion Engines). Having worked in the automotive industry they are an industry that is incredibly slow at innovation. That comes from how much it now costs to develop any new car. A previous client of mine was Hella the head and tail light manufacturer. Just the tooling for things like head lights can run into millions of dollars. Its why they quite often reuse one cars headlights or tail lights on another car. A famous example of that were the Toyota Corolla tail lights on the Lotus Esprit. So for ANYONE to get the main stream auto sector to shift is nothing to be belittled. THAT SAID - Elon has also MONSTROUSLY MISLEAD people over things like self driving cars and whether its even possible to make enough batteries to replace 1.5 Billion ICE cars with hybrid or electric or the 500 million ICE trucks in the world. 2) SPACEX has similarly dragged manned space flight out of the multi-decade failure of the Space Shuttle. YES the Space Shuttle might have been an amazing technical achievement but it was a long term disaster because of how much it sucked up in both in money and manhours. That's why going back to the Moon hasn't happened. The Space Shuttle consumed the money and instead of people doing lunar projects they were working on keeping the Space Shuttle flying. If you want to fairly compare Crew Dragon then compare it to Boeing's Starliner which was funded in parallel to Crew Dragon. DESPITE the same level of funding and development time Starliner is yet to fly a single crewed mission, while Crew Dragon currently has 4 active vehicles C206 Endeavor (4 flights), C207 Resilience (2 flights), C210 Endurance (3 flights) and 212 Freedom (2 flights). Despite the fact that Crew Dragon is not very innovative and can even be considered a technological step backwards from the Space Shuttle it also saved the manned space program from OBLIVION, which is more of an indictment on the entire program than it is a gold star for SpaceX. On the other SpaceX's Starship, that really is the joke that Thunderf00t and others describe. As for Elon's Mars proposals they're so bad they make the worst 1950's sci-fi films look like inspired documentaries. If Thunderf00t did wants to do a video with me on the whole "Can Mars be terraformed?" subject then I'm IN, because despite the fact I will defend a couple of Elon's successes I am farking tired of his nonsense. FYI - back in 1987 a NASA engineer gave me and my fellow classmates a special lecture on the project he'd just finished at NASA on terraforming. YES back in 1987 NASA had worked out how much bunk terraforming Mars was and I'd be happy to explain what he said.
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  4125. NO GARY (from Australia) THANK YOU. For helping the rest of us better understand how the system works and how it works against us.
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  4126. Nice analogy except brick walls are most of the time useful. At what point in her life was Candace every useful? Go look at her career ->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Owens She is a narcissistic opportunist who takes advantage of any situation that might further her position. Its behavior she's repeated again and again. If she's successful its by pandering to the worst aspects of selfishness.
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  4127.  @george11419  NO the problem is there are good politicians. Its just that the rest of the animals in politics prey on them because for those animals there's nothing more dangerous than a person with morals or ethics who might expose them for what they are. I have a friend who was once very involved in politics while at university. What it took for him to escape with his self esteem intact is a long story. But he and his mentor were both chased out because they actually had good intentions and understood that morals and ethics matter.
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  4128. Me neither but then I think I might have been caught on this one too, because its a very fine line between 2 almost identical examples and unless you get BOTH questions up front it could (not would) be easy to jump on a simple answer like JP did and then get caught out. I'm Australian and really proud that Jim Jefferies has asked such a brilliant pair of questions. The British lawyer Jeffery Robertson used to come to Australia and do these hypothetical discussions with panels of people and this was his stock & trade. Ask the first question with the aim to get a simple straight forward answer and then flip it on its head with the follow up question. If you take that first question in isolation and say forcing (through law) a business to serve a particular person is authoritarian. Being honest its the government asserting its authority to make and enforce rules. So such a rule is authoritarian, but the point Jim makes is that Governments can make rules & laws that are good for everyone. This something people on the Right and especially Libertarians can't grasp. When they make a rule or law its NEVER authoritarian because in their mind they are preserving liberty and WILL FORCE that rule on everyone as they are doing in America with the abortion laws (and yes that's a big deal around the world). BUT WHEN other people make rules and especially rules or laws they don't like then Right Wingers scream foul and Libertarians being even further to the right go off their rockers. JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW - American Libertarians are pushing their agenda's across the world right now. Here in Australia we just failed to pass a referendum that (in part) would recognise that Australia's Aboriginal peoples (First Nations) in the constitution. The No campaign which was straight out fee mongering, was lead by people (including Aboriginal people) who are involved in Australia's Right Wing Libertarian Think Tanks and those Think Tanks have links to America's Right Wing Libertarian Think Tanks. FOR PROOF - go and look up the Institute of Public Affairs here on YT. The IPA is Australia's most prominent and vocal and well funded Think Tank. If you scroll down their home page to "Other Organisations" you'll see the links to Heritage, CATO,.... etc.
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  4129.  @surfwriter8461  I could not have said any of that better, especially the warped sense of individual liberty the libertarians have. If you don't you should watch Thom Hartman on libertarians. He doesn't hold back on discussing where their nonsense came from. The other person to check out is Peter Zeihan. In several of his longer presentations he discusses that this is the 6th or 7th time America has gone through a major political shift. he says its never smooth and usually takes around 8 years before settling back down and we are only at year 4 maybe and maybe it will take longer if Trump gets a 2nd term. From the outside looking in - America's biggest problem seems to be that older generation (over 75) made up of the older 1/2 of the baby boomers and the survivors of the silent generation. They just wont let go and retire. That includes both the political and business leaders.
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  4130.  @aaronburtram3175  I know the Chinese better than having worked there. The Chinese people are fine but the Chinese Communist Party are something else entirely. The concept of being wrong or making a mistake does NOT exist. I watched a series on China over the weekend and all of China's problems with demographics, environmental damage, trade and foreign relations all have 1 common thing. The CCP not being able to ever admit something isn't working or is wrong or failed. Most politicians everywhere can't admit they made a mistake but the CCP takes it to another level. Even Trump is second rate to them.
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  4131.  @laurendaryani4893  Sad but fair description. I think the heart of the problem is the DEM-vs-GOP culture war. Its tribalism at its worst. Facts and logic mean nothing. Group/tribal identity and allegiance to the group/tribe has become everything. I have watched a lot of Mark Blyth these last 2 years. Its concerning and quite scary where its heading.
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  4132. My thought exactly and why TF is this any surprise. Its been obvious for weeks that Kari Lake was angling to be Trumps VP. Ever since the loss in Arizona its been PAINFULLY obvious she had this in mind. The only person on the planet who'd be surprised is Marjorie Taylor Greene who's probably sulking in a dark corner somewhere weeping "Why. Why. Why. It was supposed to be me."
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  4133. I have a friend who was in the military and one of his favorite sayings was: "Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
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  4134. One of the things rarely discussed is the influence of big corporate money over business colleges. We hear all about the lefties running rampant at colleges and universities. I'd agree there are some absolute nutters in the social sciences, but we rarely here that other side where right wing money is. In the Early 2000s the BBC Program Panorama (The British version of PBS Frontline) did an expose on the money being paid to professors in business colleges. They started with the question: Why are politicians from either side in almost every western country using policies that are so pro-banking and pro-business? They found lobbyists presenting politicians with papers written by professors with claims like: "You Mr. Politician should legislate as per this paper by distinguished professor ABC at University DEF. Here go and ask your advisors." What wasn't being said was these professors were being funded to write these papers promoting what the businesses wanted. First - these weren't average professors these were people at places like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, and other highly rated universities. Second - Some people advising the politicians had had these professors in college or used their text books or read their works. So none of this information being presented as "independent study" was independent. The reason nobody hears much about the right wing money in business colleges is the people funding it have enough money to keep it out of the news. Its why the only place I have heard about it is from public broadcasters like PBS, BBC, etc.
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  4135.  @mckenzie.latham91  Yeah well you pretty much said his mouth is well ahead of brain function because all that sort of stuff is so easy to check. I don't give much of a damn about RB. He claims to care about society and other people but he keeps making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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  4136.  @greedo2660  I forget if it somebody else quoted it to me or provided a link to it because it was a few months ago now. It was a freakish quote then but right now its almost scary just how accurate it is. A more interesting question is who or what did he see back then that has simply been ignored or forgotten or both. We have Murdoch and he had Hurst, but I have no idea who he saw that was his era's Trump.
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  4137.  @jimreynolds2399  WHAT TF????? Are you claiming Joe Rogan is so uneducated he can't argue with a clown claiming 1 x 1 = 2
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  4138.  @maumor2  Go watch this. Its Prof Mark Blyth from Brown giving a talk about populism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0 In the first few minutes he explains there is NOTHING NEW about what Trump, Bannon and others have done. That talk was in July 2019 and what's changed since is just how far Trump and his pack of clowns have taken it. They really have taken it to another level. Add into that mix the insanity of a club of geriatric billionaires who just wont let go of any of their power or money and we have this recipe for disaster. Fox News was actually the FIRST news service to call Arizona. The staff that did that have been dumped. Trump flipped out and his base flipped out and started leaving Fox for OAN & NewsMax. So Murdoch made a business decision to support Trump's claims that the entire Western World is going to pay for. Here's the 1st of a 2 part special by Australia's ABC about what Murdoch did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o
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  4139. The fundamental problem with AUKUS is not that it was an agreement between Australia the UK and America or that it was for nuclear powered submarines. I'm an engineer and the REAL PROBLEM is the project itself which is hopelessly conceived and its costs are mindlessly stupid which is par for the course with Australian military agreements. I'm 100% in favor of Australia getting nuclear powered subs but am 100% against AUKUS. Because of how much ocean we need to patrol we need faster long range subs and nuclear powered subs are over 50% faster than subs like the Collins and that's the first of several points. Here's my 2 main points on why AUKUS needs to be ripped up and started over. 1) The Virginia requires too large of a crew and there's just no way Australia can operate more than 2 of them let alone 3 or 3 + 5 of the AUKUS subs. This point has been brought up again and again and the RAN has never answered how they'd solve this problem. 2) The basic cost of a Virginia class is AU$5.5billion and the project is costed at AU$33.5billion per sub. NOBODY has explained where the other $28billion per sub is going. I have done some research and costing on this. I even constructed a project costing model and started plugging in numbers. I threw everything I could at this and then started doubling the cost of things and even tripled some and then added in an outrageous bonus system to get stuff built on time. With all I tried I could not explain where over AU$115billion might be going.
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  4140. You make a valid point about Brandis (or any other politician) helping themselves, but the espionage charge has nothing to do with what Julian Assange's nationality is. The girl beside him, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, has the best point I have seen anyone make in a while. The Oxford definition of espionage is: the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information. How does what Julian Assange did fit that? FYI - I'm from Melbourne but went to uni in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends we pre-law and we used to discuss the US Constitution a lot. So I know that in a sensible court this would get thrown out on 1st Amendment grounds in about 5 minutes. Its also not just the free press thing either. That final part of the 1st says ", and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." So what do you call the things Julian Assange uncovered like the helicopter gunship shooting innocent civilians and prisoner abuses other than grievances? I'm actually stunned its gone on this long.
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  4141. Actually Kyle is 100% WRONG. If you look at his argument on attacking Cheyanne or Nebraska he leaves out 1 point and its right there on the screen at 13:47. In clause 3 it says "a national emergency created by an attack upon the United States, it territories, POSSESSIONS, or armed forces" Sorry but its the usual legal & political machinations that take advantage of vagueness. Certainly the Houthis are no threat to America or its territories so it comes down to possessions or armed forces. Its arguable that the Houthis shot missiles at American Warships or they were just in the vicinity at various times. So it comes down to the word "possessions." Like if there's American cargo on any of those ships or cargo that could be claimed by America's allies then yeah sure there MIGHT be a claim of possession. What isn't in doubt are the freedom of navigation rights. Those rights are well established and the Houthis are violating those rights, but I will grant anyone that America (and others) bend those rules to suit what they want all the time. I suggest you all look at the YT channel "What's going on with shipping?" hosted by Sal Mercogliano and watch the various video's he's done recently. Just the other day Sal pointed out an Iranian registered cargo ship called the Bershad which for a cargo ship just goes up and down a part of the Red Sea and never goes into port anywhere (Yeah its a spy ship). It can see and spot anything going SOUTH out of the Suez canal into the area where ships are being attacked by the Houthis. So the Houthis SHOULD (depending on what the Iranians tell them) know which ships they are attacking. I get Kyle's passion and he's 100% right on the slaughter of innocent civlians in Gaza. He's also right how America let the Saudis also get away with wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians in Yemen in recent years. I just watched the Scott Galloway talk with Ian Bremmer about the worlds "2024’s Top Geopolitical Risks" and in that Scott pointed out the fact that America invaded Iraq and got over 400,000 innocent civilians killed AND NOBODY WAS HELD ACCOUNTABLE. As Joseph Stalin is reported to have said "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic".
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  4142. I'm Australian and have had no real contact with Finnish people but as an observation there's a few of note in car racing and they make for an interesting analysis. In Formula 1 Finland has had 3 World Champions and arguably a 4th and a bunch of other successful drivers. Their world champions are Keke Rosberg, Mika Häkkinen and Kimi Räikkönen. The sort of 4th is Keke's son Nico Rosberg who was born in Germany. The one thing that commentators noted about ALL OF THEM was their ability to tactically out think others and win championships with strategy rather than outright speed. Eddy Irvine who was Schumacher's team mate at the time talked about it in several interviews with respect to Mika Häkkinen. Another point of interest is the Rally of Finland also known as the 1000 Lakes Rally. First run in the 1950s it wasn't until 1990 when Carlos Sainz won that a non-Scandinavian won. It never seemed to matter what the cars were or what rules they raced under non-Scandinavians always struggled. I remember a driver (sorry I forget who) saying that they grow up in those conditions and just understand what it takes to do things there. Also there's a video here on YT about an incredibly successful Finish sniper from the Winter War. He didn't use a telescopic sight because they fog up. He just used iron sights and was a nightmare to the Russians. So if you add this up (and YES its limited information) what you have is a nation that can think strategically at a high level and know their environment in a way nobody else seems to.
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  4143. No next he can actually quote what Michael Moore warned "Trump has a plan." He warned more than anything else that America was not ready for what Trump would dream up. He suggested a few things, some practical and others impractical but his main warning was that Trump would do almost anything to stay in power. And in basic concept he was a shit load more accurate than Saagar and a lot of others were, and still are.
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  4144.  @AmazingArends  Its NOT mechanical at all, but I get the point. BUT its because it can be the type of system that can play chess as to why it can also take lots of jobs. At any given moment in a chess game the player can chose any of 16 pieces (or less) to move and the available moves are finite. In fact some pieces might not be able to move at all. So the task of choosing the next move becomes definable. As I just described in another comment tasks like image processing for fingerprints and facial recognition are "definable tasks" that by the repetitive nature are things AI is well suited to. Then there's the cases of call centres for things like customer support where there's already stories of job losses.
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  4145. I'm Australian and we just won the 2032 games. NO ONE ELSE BID and nobody is asking why? We have plenty of idiots celebrating and making it out to be a good thing. Some of those idiots a have even started the lies. The worst is the claim that 80% of the venues are already built. That's just idiotic garbage. I am currently in Brisbane. I have lived here previously and there is NO WAY they even 25% of the venues and those they do have will need major upgrades before 2032. If Japan is a massive financial failure it only joins the financial failures of others. As a kid I watched the 1976 Montreal games. To the best of my knowledge they have never recovered the costs. 1980 in Moscow was a success because they had cheap labor which also gave Seoul in 1988 an advantage. LA & Atlanta were held in cities with massive sports facilities and massive universities with huge dorms they could use for the athletes village. Barcelona already had a couple of major stadiums. London already had all those football stadiums and the rest of the facilities. Beijing like Seoul and Moscow just had all that cheap labor to build what ever they wanted. Brisbane has 2 main stadiums the Gabba (oval shaped) at 42,000 and Suncorp (rectangular) at 52,500. Neither of those are up to Olympic standard which needs to be around the 80,000 mark. Brisbane held the 1982 Commonwealth games and did a great job. Every since they felt that justified they could host the Olympics. Brisbanites TOTALLY ignore all the extra sports the Olympics have and all the extra athletes and support staff and the extra media. They are planning to spend $1Billion upgrading the Gabba from 42,000 to 50,000 and don't get that's a joke by Olympic Standards. PLUS there's the lesson of Sydney they have already forgotten. It still hasn't been paid for and will most likely NEVER recoup the money spent. Why did one else bid for 2032? Because they were awake.
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  4146.  @jeromemanoharan7427  Don't go down that fraudulent election crap or there's no chance of any rational discussion. I was a swimmer which is how I got my scholarship and I know people who went to LA, Barcelona, Seoul and Atlanta. As far as 2032 the rest all pulled out. We won by default. The size of America the size of American capability is one thing Australian's never seem to understand unless they have spent time in America. I wasn't there for 1 semester I was there 3-1/2 years and did a lot of travelling in the summers. I went to school in Illinois and if you take the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin you have almost the same population as the whole of Australia. California and Texas have bigger populations than Australia and yet we have almost the same land area as mainland US. American's don't get how much open space we have and Australians don't get how many people America has.
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  4147.  @jeromemanoharan7427  Good points. I'm actually from Melbourne but am currently living in Brisbane. Your dead right way too many people go for holidays and visit places and then think they know those places. It took better than 2 years for me to start understanding America and even then I sort of only understood parts of the mid-west. I'd say America's education system still has parts that are as good as any and a few better than everyone else BUT across a broad spectrum its clearly sliding. BUT then I also look at Australia and can see the signs of the same. I did engineering and the skills I see young engineers graduating with these days are 2nd if not 3rd class to what I graduated with. And its mainly in the very basic skills which surprises many people. Their ability with computers is staggering but their math skills are shite.
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  4148.  @jeromemanoharan7427  Both my parents where high school teachers. Most of the social circle consisted of other teachers and a couple of my friends are also high school teachers. I'm pretty well informed on the subject and that information covers most of the last 50+ years. The problem with certain technologies is they make people lazy. Just as Microsoft word has made spelling a lazy subject for many people, AutoCAD has done the same in engineering most notably in mechanical engineering and to a lesser extent in civil and electrical. The problem in engineering is that if you can't draw its very hard to communicate your design. Technical drawing is to engineers what grammar is to a writer or journalist.
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  4149.  @jeromemanoharan7427  SQRT(1) <> 1???? That's bound to be interesting to a math theorist/geek. As an engineer I'm fundamentally an applied mathematician as in I take already proven math and apply it to real world problems.
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  4150. You are actually very close its NOT the Bible per se its the MISUSE of the Bible that's the problem and the same can be said of almost any book or writing. Look at the Bill of Rights. I happen to think its one of the most brilliant constructs of human history (and I am Australian), BUT the MISUSE of it has been a disaster. Look at how the NRA focus on just the very last phrase of the 2nd Amendment to justify everything they want while they ignore the parts on "well regulated" and "security." I remember reading an article years ago on misquoting and how many common sayings are actually misquotes of the original. The #1 misquote in that article pointed was a line from Romans 12 that is shortened to "Vengeance is mine, says the Lord." Its been used as the excuse for "God said I can seek vengeance and do..." for centuries. Here's the full quote from Romans 12:19 (NIV) Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. You can look at almost any translation and it basically says "NO - you cannot seek and take revenge on someone. The Lord will deal with it." Its identical to the police telling people. "Don't take the law into your own hands. That's our job." So the Bible per se is NOT the problem is these delusional self-righteous clowns who use it to bash people that are the problem.
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  4151. To be fair the left wing media aren't good either. Certainly they aren't as bad but people like Rachael Maddow and Chris Hayes are pretty poor characters. What about Andrew Cuomo giving his brother all those softball interviews? Yikes. If you go all the way back to the documentary Outfoxed there was a warning that Murdoch was dragging the entire media industry down into the gutter. In fact you can now watch it for free -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P74oHhU5MDk It might be a bit dated but its still worth reviewing to see how Murdoch & Ailes corrupted the entire media landscape.
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  4152. Ukraine can't become a NATO member because in the NATO charter there's a clause that states new members CAN'T have borders in dispute. That's why Putin started the breakaway regions - Crimea & Donetsk (in Ukraine), Transnistria (in Moldova), Nagorno-Karabakh (in Azerbaijan),... etc. It prevents those countries joining NATO. I'm Australian and I know this how come most of the news service don't mention it.
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  4153.  @rdu239  Well that's going into the whole "cost of health care in America" issue. I'm Australian but went to college in America, so I know first hand how big that issue is. If I told how our system works you'd simply break down and cry. I hate what the dialog in America has done. I have people in America I genuinely care about. I also care about the country in general. Its such an awesome country and its being wrecked by selfish ignorance. You might have seen or heard the recent comments by Ted Cruz and Candace Owens that went down here like baseball bat to the nuts. What's worse is the people who believe their crap. Yet on the flip side America has people like Dr. Osterholm who is recognized AROUND THE WORLD and they're being widely ignored in America. He's the sort of person Kyle, Pakman, Sagaar, Krystal, etc. should be having on regularly to discuss these issues and they aren't. WHY? We had a big teleconference for virologists a few months ago on what we need to do to get past COVID. It was covered by most of our media. He was one of the key note speakers. America has some of the best health care people in the world and they gate ignored. WHY?
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  4154.  @RC-ll7hk  Absolutely, that's why a lot of people call him a fake. If you look at what he campaigned on in 2016 other than MAGA it was "Drain the Swamp" Remember that claim? What does drain the swamp mean other than "I'm not part of the establishment and I'm going to go in there and sack them. Your right the moment he was in he jumped into the establishment. He had people like Newt Gingrich on his team. Gingrich was one of the greatest swamp beats of all time. It just came out recently that he was having an affair while he went after Bill Clinton over his affair.
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  4155. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. I am an engineer, I work in control systems and this is my main beef with the pro-AI crowd. What most people do NOT understand is that AI is a fallacy. There is no logical explanation for what intelligence actually is and by logical we can't write out a general algorithm or set of formulas for what intelligence is. What we have algorithms that mimic specific human tasks that are basically repetitive. These claims that they learn are simply garbage. You've hit the next major issue and that's calibration. All engineered tech needs to be calibrated either by actual testing or against an accepted standard. There is no standard for social media algorithms. There is no standard test for social media algorithms. We are just expected to accept what is being forced on us. As an engineer its actually infuriating to watch people shamelessly promote imaginary technologies that don't exist or don't work and will never deliver as promised. Yeah we get called boring because we can actually use basic math for real world problems. The best PR & BS I have seen recently is Elon Musk's Starship, which he claims can take 100 people at a time to Mars. Problem is that NASA has already worked out the minimum volume needed in a space craft per person for that kind of travel. When the simple arithmetic is done Starship has barely enough space for 17 people not 100. It really would be a sardine can in space AND YET 1000s of people still believe Elon is going to whisk them off to Mars. The volume of techno PR garbage these days is staggering and yet so many people just suck it up as if its gospel fact.
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  4156.  @ReIigionlsForIdiots  Who broke the rules - David P or Michael Osterholm? Neither broke the rules. They reported on what others had said and explained how it was WRONG. Debunking misinformation isn't spreading it.
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  4157. Dr. Michael Osterholm (director of CIDRAP based at the U. of Minnesota) said in one of his podcasts before Delta emerged that this virus was NOT doing the sorts of things that other viruses like flu did. He pointed out that it wasn't linked to the seasons other than in colder weather people were more likely to be indoors breathing each other's air. The other thing he pointed out that COVID doesn't seen to die out in the population between waves. He basically said that once established in a population it lingers between waves just waiting for an opportunity to surge again. His often repeated description of COVID is that we are not taming this tiger we are riding it and it will do as it pleases. So none of us should be surprised that we have had to change tact. For anyone interested here's the link to the CIDRAP podcasts ->https://www.youtube.com/c/OsterholmUpdateCOVID19
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  4158. Oh, dude you are playing with fire while standing in lake of rocket fuel. Best of luck dude. You'll need it. You're also 100% right.
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  4159.  @nickj1968  I 100% agree when he talks technologies and engineering subjects, but on geo-politics and demographics I am yet to see anyone prove him wrong on anything. I have seen had people claim to me that he sucks at both geo-politics and demographics but when I have asked them on what part they never reply.
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  4160.  @PirateRadioPodcasts  great question and its needs to be dealt with
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  4161.  @jamstagerable  No argument on that. You can take almost any issue from any country at the moment and there's similar issues in dozens of other places. About the only real differences are in how obvious some countries make those issues known. America's issues with the far right intermingled with anti-vaxxers and other conspiracies are just out there for all the world to see. We have the same issues here in OZ. Mostly they have been quiet compared to America but this last week they sort of exploded in our face. Boeing's Max-8 and the failure of regulators who are too easy goes right in line with our building industry, our mining industry and our gas industry where we have had too many close calls. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♀️
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  4162.  @marybrown7203  I have several times. Glenn's mentioned the word sedition several times. The best so far on Flynn was a retired Colonel who on MSNBC confirmed Flynn can be recalled to active duty and then court martialed. He was on MSNBC who I don't trust and interviewed by Chris Hayes who I can't stand, but he is a retired colonel and he has the credentials to back what he said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xARYtEal-g
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  4163.  @terrier53  Go listen to the retired Colonel Chris Hayes interviewed. I don't find MSNBC very reliable these days and particularly people like Chris Hayes, but the Colonel he interviewed has credibility by virtue of his rank. He said Flynn can be recalled to active duty and then court martialed for sedition under the UCMJ. I am hoping that someone like Glenn Kirschner who was a JAG before he was a federal prosecutor will clarify this in more detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xARYtEal-g
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  4164.  @terrier53  GO LOOK AND LISTEN. Its after 6:45 and its a fists in the air YES MOMENT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeXRLBuzrDA
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  4165.  @marybrown7203  Glenn Kirschner said that he would follow up on the Flynn stuff. If you just go on what has been said in the last 48hrs Flynn is in trouble. It might not be until January 21, but who cares so long as he gets this stuff shoved back down his throat.
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  4166.  @middleagedjabroni  What part makes zero sense to you? The part where I sad Biden is simply staying out of the road; or The part where Elon Musk can't get out of the road?
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  4167. Its not a matter of how many brain cells they have its a matter of how many of them actually function. And the answer is - NOT MANY.
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  4168. On one hand we should give people a round of applause for wanting a better life for their family. On the other hand nobody has the right to simply enter another country without a valid reason. In very basic legal terms its called trespass. I don't like anybody who thinks they are simply entitled to cross these borders and walk into other countries and demand anything. Yes in those cases where they are fleeing persecution we should help, but too often it gets ignored that these people do what they do for economic reasons. The developed world did not develop overnight, it took generations of hard work making many mistakes along the way. Should we do a better job of helping other countries develop? Absolutely, we would NOT have these issues if these countries were more developed and worth these people staying there and if there is one thing these people can hold against the developed world its been our continued support for corrupt and or failed regimes. For that we do have responsibility.
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  4169. The late great Joan Rivers said of Bo Derek "She's so dumb she'd need to study for a pap test." I wonder what Joan Rivers would say of Tomi Lauren, because Tomi makes Bo Derek look like a genius.
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  4170. What you have highlighted are 2 good examples of a nasty aspect of the culture war. Whatever someone on one side does that side will defend it to the last breath while those on the other side will scream murder about it to their last breath. Facts and reality HAVE NO place in such culture war discussions. The most basic meme of this stuff is: "If my side does something its Ok, but if their side does THE SAME THING its a crime."
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  4171. Don't forget Charles Manson although he did listen to a Beatles Album. Last I heard neither Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao nor Hitler played video games, listened to rap music, or blew fuse during a COVID lockdowns and they killed millions. Going back in history I never heard that Attila the Hum, Caligula, the Vikings, the Mongol Hoard or any other prodigious mass murdering maniacs played video games, listened to rap music, or blew fuse during a COVID lockdowns. Then maybe I missed that part in history class????????
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  4172. Who else has started getting bombarded with add after add about this fantasy?
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  4173. Well put. You could add to that Not being able to afford - honesty, compassion, brain function, heart, spine, balls, thinking and a lot of other stuff.
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  4174. Lindsey Graham did say, "if we nominate Trump, he'll destroy us and we'll deserve it..."
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  4175. Yeah didn't you know its part of their business model. If you invest in military manufacturing you need your own country and other countries to buy your guns, bullets and bombs. Every aborted foetus was a potential soldier who couldn't be supplied with a gun, bullets or bombs. How do you expect them to make money if the soldiers they need are never born????? And yeah I know that's almost insane for how cynical that is. Its also true.
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  4176. That's EXACTLY the point I have been trying to make for weeks. What needs to be said and said quite LOUDLY is how bad the Democrats are for letting this get this far. Some of the Dems really need to take a damn hard look at themselves. Forget how bad Walker is they need a BETTER message than dogshit.
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  4177. I think its more like South Park on a combination of crack, acid, meth and magic mushrooms.
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  4178.  @frosksdeadteeth5163  Not certain what you're specifically trying to point out because your comment flips back and forth between fact and contradiction. Or is that what you are trying to show because I found ALL of the 8 speakers to contradict themselves or go wildly off topic at times. Why did Konstantin Kisin rant on about climate change, when that has zip to do with wokeism? I totally agree with your last line that they need to read a lot more history. I'm Australian in my 50s (early Gen-X) and in high school we all did 4 years of history classes that went from Ancient Egypt through Sumerian, Greek, Roman and British history all the way to modern Australia. So I learned that events are affected by preceding events and that historical events have context. That's not done anymore and I see Millennials and Zoomers with almost no ability to put things into historical context and when they do try its often a face palm moment. This whole debate seemed riddled with bad context even though a couple did try.
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  4179. That's actually a very good observation of key failures and stupidity from both sides. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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  4180. I'm an engineer and have worked on mining sites where they used anhydrous ammonia for parts of the process and that stuff is actually damn dangerous. On a ship where there's so many places that it can get trapped it might even be worse. This ship might novel but its far from a solution. I checked and its carrying capacity is 2,100 TEU (20ft equivalent units). The Triple E-class ships that Maersk has 37 of are as much as 20,000 TEU.
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  4181. Try any other country in the world right now. Your comment would fit anywhere these days. I'm Australian and its EXACTLY the same here. We get the news from all over the world and this stuff goes on EVERY WHERE. This accusation of disastrous candidates goes on here all the time. When they start the analysis of an election loss ITS THE SAME lets not get into the blame game attitude. Seriously if it wasn't for the accent I would not know if Ronna McDaniel was talking about the losing party (Left or Right) in any of the past 20 Australian state or federal elections. For major parties its the same set of excuses every time. Its "Lets not get into the blame game until we have analyzed what went wrong" and no one EVER hears what that analysis was because it NEVER happens.
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  4182. I'm an aerospace engineer and there's 2 points I like to remind people of just so the Muskrats don't go screaming and howling and claiming we are BLIND. And being fair there is a very mixed bag when we objectively look at Musk and his companies. 1) SpaceX did an amazing thing in breaking through the barriers to the space launch business that companies like Boeing dominated. We tend to forget that Boeing got more money to help develop Starliner which is yet to have a 100% successful flight. Crew Dragon in my view is a very good success. Its not ideal but it did get NASA back into flying its own astronauts from its own facilities back into space without having to fly via the Russians. HOWEVER that success does not and will never excuse Elon's stupidity over the Mars fantasy or idiocy on other space related things like Starship. YES my view of Starship is the complete opposite of Crew Dragon because Crew Dragon fulfilled an actual need while Starship does what other than pump Elon's ego? 2) Tesla did an amazing thing by becoming a successful EV manufacturer. I have worked in the Auto sector and getting that sector to change anything is staggeringly hard and yet Tesla go that entire industry to change. HOWEVER when you look at Elon's actual involvement in the development its been disastrous. There's a court case between Martin Eberhard one of the actual founders (with Marc Tarpenning) that's been covered by the YT channel Common Sense Skeptic. The really obvious thing is Cybertruck. That's not something Elon can blame on anyone else. The real tragedy in my view is that there's some fantastic engineers in both SpaceX and Tesla who have done some amazing work. Unfortunately its likely they will never get any credit because Elon will take that from them and once Elon does trash his empire the reputation of those people will also be trashed.
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  4183.  @dogwalker666  Thanks I agree 100% with TF00t about Elon and his nonsense BUT I wished he'd show a little more perspective on the other people at both Tesla and SpaceX who have done good work. Not all of them deserve to be painted with Elon's brush. I know TF00t has had several goes at Gwynne Shotwell (SpaceX) and for sure she's said some dumb things. But she has also lead a team that has dramatically outperformed Boeing on getting Crew Dragon and other things working. The craziest aspect is that if Elon just got out of the road and let his people get their jobs done without interference then where would these 2 companies be? I think after he's wrecked both companies then there's going to be some of the greatest bargain investments in history because there's IP in both that's worth a lot.
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  4184. But I can see a lot of others handing theirs back. Would you really think its a great item on your resume when Rush has one?
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  4185. As an engineer I can say that's so damn true. I'm Australian but did aerospace at U. Illinois just over the border from Indiana. By chance in 2002 I met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) and he was pushing to mine the moon for Helium-3. So I went off to Australia's remote mining industry for experience. One of the major learning lessons from that was how to do basic engineering in remote places. One of my personal is "How do we build a workshop & foundry on the moon?" The simple fact is we never built a moon base because its just to damn hard to fly everything there. Its at least 10x the cost to land anything on the moon. It really comes down to some incredibly simple things like How do you make pipe on the moon? How do you make electrical cables on the moon? How do you get the raw stock from local ore to make pipe, cablesand other stuff? To actually get information on the subject I have taken to watching the amateur machinists here on YouTube, because they have to make do with less than what the professionals have. I watch the pros as well because they show how to do stuff properly, but its the amateurs with little hobby lathes & mills I watch the most. At the start of off world their will be people doing things like black smithing because we just wont be able to take the processing hardware. We just wont be able to take an industrial lathe or mill or the tooling or a blast furnace. All the skills the amateurs with help from the pros have kept alive will enable a moon base. NASA are skull stuffed on the subject, while Musk & Bezos are so far into fantasyland it makes you wonder what drugs they're on.
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  4186.  @TybudX  Interesting while I was there (late 2017) I heard nothing about salmonella outbreaks. Not surprising about the regulatory issues. If you get into any of the current discussions regarding the legacy of Reaganomics and Thatcherism (what's called neoliberalism or libertarianism) one of its trademarks is de-regulation. Reagan famously said government is the problem not the solution. Its now pretty much accepted that he was not only senile he was an idiot as well. Don't forget he was the actor made famous for doing the "duck and cover" commercials for handling a nuclear attack. If there is a scary thing about Reagan its that some claimed he wasn't far enough to the right. One of the famous Koch brothers ran against him claiming he Reagan was too LEFTIST and wasn't libertarian enough. With COVID I have had some time to look into where its all gone wrong. Partly we are living in the last days of an economic system that's failed. Prof. Mark Blyth has been talking about this for a few years and been trying to tell people we are at the end of the Reaganomic era. Here's his primer on it -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY Here's a lecture he gave on it (2019) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE Part of the reason its getting really bad is that we should have had a system upgrade after 2008 but it didn't happen and now the system is just falling apart. I've seen/heard reports that the US Economy actually started falling BEFORE COVID-19 really struck and they what COVID-19 actually did was push it off the cliff it was already falling over. I call COVID "Acid Flu" because more than anything else it has exposed the flaws in our current economics. I don't think a radical leftist agenda is the solution but we need a completely new way of running the worlds economy because this idiotic shit we're doing now is killing us. What you've pointed out with the salmonella and no way to regulate what these companies do is just another symptom of the disease. I just watched a vid story about an Australian swimmer (I used to swim) who got caught with Ligandrol in her system. Ligandrol is one of the current FAD drugs among gym junkies. Its actually experimental and not yet approved for human use. How the farq is it even available and yet gym junkies are claiming its easy to get? Same disease, different symptom - a lack of regulations and enforcement of regulations. We've just had ANOTHER major building project in serious trouble. We almost had a brand new massive apartment block collapse a couple of years ago. Same disease, different symptom - a lack of regulations and enforcement of regulations. What did Reagan and Thatcher and the others want? Those farqers might be gone but we've been left to clean up the mess.
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  4187.  @TybudX  When you get time watch the Mark Blyth stuff. I know its long but worth the effort. There is something he doesn't really address and that's the underlying reason we didn't have a reset after 2008 and that is because the elites have such an incredible strangle hold on the political system. He recently wrote a book with Eric Lonergan called "Angrynomics" in one of the book talks he mentioned a report that said during this neoliberalism era the top 1% have made of with $55 Trillion. That's $55,000,000,000,000. I'm an engineer and engineers like finding ways to visualize numbers and here's mine on that. In Australia we used to have a quiz show "Who wants to be a millionaire" it was the same as other versions around the world. It had a clear box on it with a million dollars in it and it was approximately a 1ft cube. A 20ft container at about 1140 cubic feet is roughly $1 Billion dollars so the worlds largest container ship the Emma Maersk can carry away $11 Trillion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit). It takes 5 Emma Maersks to carry off what the top 1% have done the past 40 years. So they really have made off with boat loads of cash. That's unsustainable and will break the system. Its not the first time a ruling Elite has broken a system. Look what the Capets did in France and the Romanovs in Russia and neither of those worked out.
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  4188. If you go back far enough you will find that is what made kings kings and emperors emperors - THEY FOUGHT IN THE FRONT LINE. Eventually they learned it was more profitable to have others die for them.
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  4189. Actually you have his label wrong is "McKinsey Pete" not "CIA Pete" If your throwing political mud throw the right type - it sticks better.
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  4190. Glenn Kirschner the lawyer pointed out a while back some basic courtroom tactics. When you have evidence on your side, then pound away at the evidence. When you have the truth on your side, then pound away at the truth. When you don't have evidence or truth on you side, then pound away on the table claiming anything you can and keep pounding in the hope that everyone gets worn down and eventually gives up in exasperation.
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  4191.  @jl8942  DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA AT ALL about where America sits economically in the world? If America has another event like it did in 2008, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE RAMIFICATIONS ARE? Have you ever heard of the Bank of International Settlements? BIS for short. Its where central banks like the Fed and the European Central Bank and the Bank of England go to settle things like all the foreign exchange that goes on from trade and tourism and people moving money about. Their December 2022 quarterly report had a shock in it. If you look it up it starts on page 68. In a nutshell they have reported there is now $100 Trillion in off book FX Swaps (Foreign Exchange) which are a form of derivative trades. Its basically gambling on exchange rates. Most of these swaps are NOT held by banks but other businesses AND NONE of it is recorded on any balance sheet anywhere because of how accountants record these sorts of "financial tools." Below is the opening summary of that report. And note that 25 + 35 = 60 and that's just the short term. In total (short + long term) its around $100 Trillion and most of it is in US Dollars. TAKE note of the last 2 words - that's a reference to all this stuff being OFF BOOK. If America sneezes and the US Dollar suddenly jumps then it will be bit more serious than 2008. This is the opening summary from that report. _"FX swaps, forwards and currency swaps create forward dollar payment obligations that do not appear on balance sheets and are missing in standard debt statistics. Non-banks outside the United States owe as much as $25 trillion in such missing debt, up from $17 trillion in 2016. Non US banks owe upwards of $35 trillion. Much of this debt is very short-term and the resulting rollover needs make for dollar funding squeezes. Policy responses to such squeezes include central bank swap lines that are set in a fog, with little information about the geographic distribution of the missing debt"_
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  4192.  @ShellsGhost1  I get your point BUT THE FACT IS THEY DO NOT APPLY THIS FAIRLY
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  4193. Your right, and I'd like to see him bring on people like Mark Blyth and Stephanie Kelton to discuss the economics. FYI - I'm not an economist I'm an engineer and used a chunk of my COVID time to work out how & why the economists think (or don't think) because I'm tired of their obstruction and interference in projects. What I found was (as one person put it) "economists all think they know how economies work and they just don't." Not only do I think and others need to do these sorts of interviews they need to do more than just 20 minutes. David was on Triggernometry a few weeks ago for just over an hour. David needs to do that sort of thing occasionally. This talk with Jonathan Haidt could have easily gone for an hour and it would have been great. I think his idea of having people confirm an identity to open an account that allows comments is gold. I don't know if his rating system can work because that means grading content and that's 1/2 the problem these days - who's grading content and filtering what we can say.
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  4194.  @lunarmodule6419  I haven't come across either actually but on a quick glance certainly Keen interests me. Anyone who's being criticised by the "Austrian School" deserves to be LISTENED to. Its pretty obvious he's been screaming about Australia's housing bubble for a long time. As an Australian he should be a household name and isn't which says heaps about our media. I know nothing about Werner but anyone who gets an award from the WEF raises my suspicion meter to the red zone. If a truly unfortunate accident happened at Davos one day it will always be weeks, months years too late.
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  4195.  @lunarmodule6419  Following on my biggest concern is that our banks who are now so addicted to home loans that they are driving us over a cliff from which we wont survive as a nation. Every time a home is bought with a new home loan or transferred loan they get fees and commissions. If a home sells for $100K they get a percentage If it then sells for $200K they not only get another set of fees but the commissions are double If it then sells for $400K is yet another set of fees and again the commissions double It just goes on and on and on. Its actually in the interests of the banks to keep approving larger and larger loans irrespective of TRUE market values. Add into that mix are the 400,000 new Australians each year. Using the nuclear 2.2 family that's something like 100,000 new loans for either owner occupiers or rental investments. Either way its in the banks interests to have mor people here taking out more loans they can convert into profits. Add into that mix are the idiotic energy and water policies we've been running for the last 25 years and made even worse by the last 8 years and there's a supply crisis. Consider what happens if the energy sector tanks and companies start closing and people stop paying their home loans. The banks get hit with a double avalanche of failing business and home loans. What happens if all this perfect storm crashes into us?
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  4196. Have you seen the stories of them doing that in India? I saw a recent story about it and they have been having great success with putting solar panels over irrigation canals. I'm an engineer and it helps in a couple of ways. First it reduces evaporation and second the solar panels work better because it keeps them cooler. From what I remember they started doing it because of a lack of land - as in solar panels require land, but its had these 2 bonuses.
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  4197. WHAT PETER and EVERY other person who thinks the countries that gave up their manufacturing to China does not get is that manufacturing NEEDS ENERGY. As countries like Australia (my country) allowed manufacturing to end we didn't need the energy things like our (then 4) car plants and all the component suppliers needed wasn't needed so among other things people STOPPED building power stations. The last time Australia built a new power station capable of over 1,000MW (megawatts) of base load was 1993. I suggest you look up the list of power stations for your state or nation on Wikipedia and look for power stations over 1,000MW. Note that things like the Alta Wind farm in California don't count because even though its 1,400MW is wind which is great but its NOT baseload power, its intermittent power. So the real problem with things like Bidens Chips Act is not building the chip factory its powering them and the same goes for any other manufacturing. Yes this is a major issue in Australia where we have NOT THOUGHT through the issues.
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  4198.  @tonl4738  If you haven't seen the other explanation FROM A REAL DOCTOR then just don't bother. Clearly something happened an we don't know the details yet. To not expect that there will be some people with reactions is almost idiotic. People have allergies or are they a conspiracy as well? You don't know if the vaccine caused this any more than I do. So stop making claims you CAN'T VERIFY.
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  4199.  @cobra02411  Good comment all round. I see that channel as just another "hey look at this" channel that's highly misleading about what they are doing. I used to have this great bonus edition of the film "The Running Man" and it had this short film on reality TV. It turned out one of the people involved in making that film was also involved with the very first series of the TV show "Survivor" and he basically said the whole thing was scripted, but not scripted like a film where its down to the most minute detail. Its more like pro-wrestling where the outcome is determined and there's a guy ringside who's directing what's happening. Sadly, I lost that dvd so I can't reference it properly but its stuck with me how these people who produce these so called "reality shows" actually go about it. Everything is about audience engagement and in particular keeping people engaged whether they are 100% in support or 100% howling against. The audiences feeling don't matter just the fact they are staying engaged. And yeah there is no better proponent of that than Mr 45.
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  4200. @RetreadPhoto Yeah that's a problem across so many fields right now. People can watch a few YT videos and read a couple of Wikipedia pages and think they are an expert rather than being grateful they now understand something better. I'm a big fan of the game series Assassins Creed and in Black Flag there's a point at which the lead character says to another that he finally understood the creed wasn't knowledge in itself but the start of gaining knowledge. Yeah I know its kind of cheesy to quote from a video game but the concept is so true and I was told something similar in one of my first interviews after graduating. I was told my degree wasn't a license to work but a license to learn more. It took a long time for that to really sink in.
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  4201.  @cobra02411  Here's my problem with them working on something like a C401 AND NOT having a proper licensed mechanic on hand to guide them. 1) It gives the impression anyone can do it as its just another piece of machinery which is NOT only a bad impression to give but might lead to others thinking they can do the same. 2) ITS ILLEGAL TO FLY SUCH A PLANE without it being signed off by a licensed mechanic. The fact they NEVER mention that is idiotic and they should have been saying it from the start. The fact that somebody is now dead is a tragedy BUT NOT unexpected.
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  4202.  @adlucem9845  OK DK-HED we all get that its all corrupt. If its not the Americans going in and supporting some regime then its the Brits, the French, the Russians, the Chinese. THEY ALL DO IT - OK The difference is who's BS we ignore and who's we scream and yell about. DO YOU GET IT
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  4203.  @mikejohnson555  A better description might have been "when they make quantum computers work." First if you want if mention NASA & supercomputers together, I did aerospace at U. Illinois where they had access to the first generations of Cray supercomputers as I was doing my degree. All that fancy CFD you see these days was started by one of my professors. I knew a guy via the swimming team who was doing his masters on compilers for parallel processing systems. These days I work in industrial control systems and robotics. So I am fairly well aware of where we've been and what we now have and what the advances have been. There's a couple of great vids on why they believe quantum computers will change everything. Compared to even todays supercomputers they'll be so far ahead in data processing throughput its almost impossible to compare. Its like comparing an abacus to the latest CPUs. What made the Crays so powerful in their day was the parallel processing in conjunction with vector processing. Todays CPUs have inherited those methods but they are all limited by physical constraints that doesn't apply to quantum processing. As for AI that's fantasy. There has been so much idiotic crap put forward via journalists and other proponents that they deserve to be slapped. Yes they have lots of sweet and interesting algorithms that mimic various human traits but as for anything like actual intelligence its idiotic. Go look for the honest TED & TEDx talks on the subject. There've been plenty of people in that field coming out and trying to tell people what AI is and what its not. In engineering we use words from the common lexicon that mean things in our field but the meaning just not the same. We talk about "teaching a robot" where we teach the robot where we want to it move. We talk about process controllers (PID & Fuzzy logic) that "learn" how to run the process better over time. BUT those things are totally different to teaching and learning in humans. I have actually done that kind of work, including at the code level. I find it quite annoying that people have blown what AI is out of all proportion.
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  4204. I don't know the nature or wording or even the existence of "threat laws" in America, but in Australia if you make a threat to harm or kill you are facing up to 8years.
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  4205. TO ALL: That Goldstone report can be found by googling "goldstone report 2009" It came up first link for me. It looks like and odd link because Google says it has no information on the web page, but that's because the link is to the report which is a 452 page pdf document. For reference the report number is A/HRC/12/48 dated 25 September 2009. The file is a-hrc-12-48(dot)pdf
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  4206. Lest face reality anything other than total compliance upsets the CCP. China invades Tibet - The CCP says mind your own business. China kills 1000s after the Tiananmen Square protests - The CCP says mind your own business. China takes over 100s of small islands across the ocean - The CCP says mind your own business. China locks up an entire cultural group and starts a program of cultural genocide - The CCP says mind your own business. The Chinese steal every bit of technology it can - The CCP says mind your own business. The Chinese people forge, copy and fake 1000s of products violating copyright - The CCP says mind your own business. The Chinese burn more coal than the entire planet did in the 1970s accelerating climate change - The CCP says mind your own business. The Chinese promise to allow Hong Kong to go on as a democratic society and then DOESN'T - The CCP says mind your own business. Australia does a deal for submarines and China complains. Message to China - MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
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  4207. ​ @taranullius9221  Careful because although you are right about many things and that fact our immigration camps left a lot to be desired they were never close to concentration camps. I'll agree any day of the week we could have done better and should have done better. Many years ago when there were similar issues with Ethnic Vietnamese fleeing southern China, by chance I met a lawyer who handled some of those cases. She couldn't tell me anything about any case but I asked the general question of why these cases take so long. I think at the time they were taking 3-5 years. She basically told the single biggest problem is these people carry no identification. The first thing they do when they start to their journey is destroy everything that might link them to anything. That way they can't be sent back to anywhere because NOBODY knows where back is. This is why they get caught in limbo. They can't prove their claims and nobody else can prove or dis-prove anything. I also just checked what I could and Statista has a graph showing that at 2000 the number of displaced people in the world was less than 25 million. By 2014 it was over 50 million and by 2018 it was over 75 million. Its a gigantic global problem that nobody can fix because there's too much money for various people. From the corporations who pillage the 3rd world by supporting dictators to the arms traffickers who supply those dictators to the smugglers transporting people. THEY'RE ALL MAKING TOO MUCH MONEY to want to do anything.
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  4208. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  4209. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  4210.  @macalister8881  I don't know where you got those numbers from but they are totally bogus. China is actually the largest wheat producer and Russia produces more wheat than Ukraine. Even if you look at export numbers your numbers are not even close to realisy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wheat_exports
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  4211.  @macalister8881  You know about the FX swaps????? Your the first person I have seen comment on them. The YT creator I heard from was George Gammon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLGMxH9KFa8 I checked that BIS report and found ANYONE can freely download it as a pdf without even having to sign on. Its that easy to get a hold of. Actually George did make a mistake he said the paper is on page 76 when its actually 67. But then nobody's perfect. What's bugging me is that 4 weeks after that report and *NOBODY is speaking about it AND I really mean nobody. None of the usual business channels none and none of the commentators. You really are the first person I have encountered to make a comment on it. But then until I saw George's video I had never heard of the BIS. How is it that this thing exists and NOBODY outside of the central banking system knows about it? Its like the BIS doesn't exist and yet its where all our central banks do their stuff.
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  4212.  @macalister8881  Oh yeah when we talk about energy its in Joules with a Capital 'J' not the little 'g' that's for grams. and the little 'm' is for milli as in 1/1000th. Its the big 'M' for mega which is for 1,000,000 (million). I'm Australian and grew up with metric. When I did my degree in America I had to explain metric so many times I should have charged money. Oddly I am also one of the few Australian engineers left who knows how to work in imperial.
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  4213.  @macalister8881  Yeah that whole bit on fusion was BS. Its an important step, but its 1 step in a journey of a million steps. Go get some sleep. The world wont end because you or anyone else gets 8 decent hours, but it might if someone is sleep deprived and they make a mistake.
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  4214. The stop listening and take your conspiracy ladled brain somewhere else.
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  4215. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Sorry for the length of this comment. YES - we sadly have these types here too, but please note he is basically saying EXACTLY the same sort of nonsense that Larry Summers told Jon Stewart a few months ago and EXACTLY the same thing the new head of the Reserve Bank of Australia (our equivalent of the US Federal Treasury) Michelle Bullock also said her first day in the job, which is we need to RAISE the unemployment rate to counter to inflation. YES - we also know that inflation is being driven by supply chain issues, but just like all over the developed world economists and business leaders like Tim Gurner, Larry Summers and others DO NOT WANT TO ADMIT that the economic policies they pushed for the last 40 years (like off shoring production) lead to this situation. YES - Australia runs very similar economic policies to America because America got very good at exporting its ideas and this is most evident in economics. I'm actually an engineer and have been informally studying economics for a couple of years so that I can make better arguments regarding project management decisions. One of the things I have found is that Chicago School Neoliberal Economics has become the core of all economics curriculums across the developed world. Even at universities that teach some alternative ideas (like MMT). They have at the core of their curriculum Neoliberal Market Fundamentalism and its narratives that government is incompetent, that unregulated markets are the best decision making processes, outsourcing is brilliant, privatisation is best practice and consultants need to run governments rather than governments governing their nations. In various countries these issues manifest in different ways but they all come from the same school of ideas which is America's robber baron based Libertarian movement. NOTE - Chicago School is a reference to the University of Chicago where James McKinsey, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Ronald Coase and others all taught. That university was in part founded by John D Rockefeller the biggest of America's robber barons and an ardent Libertarian. YES - America does export things and among them some of the WORST ideas in human history. Right now in Australia our major issue is consultants who have cost us over AU$20 Billion in fees that we know of and badly messed up our government institutions as they have done it. At the core of the current scandal is PwC who while advising our tax office on closing corporate loop holes were selling that information to their corporate clients so they could avoid tax by other means. Basically we are looking at the Australian equivalent of a RICO case against PwC. So far the enquiries into the consulting industry have heard of endemic fraud among the major players including KPMG, Deloitte and EY. McKinsey and Boston Group have so far avoided allegations. SO YOU ALL KNOW - property developers like Tim Gurner are considered among the lowest life forms we have in Australia. When driving a car we might swerve to avoid a snake but always plant the right foot for a property developer. We've had so many scandals in this industry news reports of "another property developer goes bust" are a cultural cliché. They all operate on business models that would make America's Sackler family (Purdue Pharma) proud and just like America is yet to reign in the Sackler's, Australia is also yet to reign in the property developers despite all the things they've done.
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  4216.  @sdfswords  We actually have a combination of several things including parts of the English caste system. We don't lack entrepreneurship at all. We have all 3 basic types. 1) Scam artists who want to take all your money; and 2) Narcissists who actually have something but still want to take all your money; and 3) The incredibly rare who not only have something BUT WANT to take others along for the ride. Like everywhere else in the world we have too many of the first 2 kinds and very, very few of the 3rd. Australia's biggest issue is the insane concept that economists know what they are talking about. Its NOT a matter of what's the missing magic, but a case of what's the shite in the system. 1 Word -> Economists. We have taken the worst stupidity of the clown brigade out of places like Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge and the LSE. Like in other countries, they have levelled chunks of our industrial base, smashed our energy industries, destroyed our river systems and effectively nuked our housing sector. One of our worst is an Australian born Harvard educated clown who did EXACTLY the same thing to our rivers & water systems as one of his fellow Harvard clowns did to the Texas energy sector. You know the most energy rich state in the world where children freeze to death in their beds because they don't have the energy to warm their home. We also imported a Yale to head the economics department at one of our top Universities. She's an outright sociopath as well as a fraud and liar. How economics is practised and how its taught is going to be one of the biggest shitfights of the next few years and maybe one of the biggest ever.
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  4217.  @luiscrawford1249  That's a brutal and sadly accurate assessment of our media. My biggest complaint with our current media landscape is that its dominated by attention seeking clowns who are ruled by a gaggle of narcissistic sociopaths drunk on Milton Friedmans "greed is good" jungle juice. Sorry for the longer reply but this is WHY I hate economists and journalists. I'm actually an engineer and a few years ago I did this odd little consult job on Australia's power industry. What I found shocked me because we are headed for an economic collapse. When I looked around I found the same problem everywhere I looked. Like everything else power stations wear out and need to be replaced. Big populations require big power stations underpinning their economies. Everybody stopped building big power stations in the 1990s with almost none being built after the year 2000 anywhere in the Western world. A lot of smaller power stations have been built, plus lots of wind and solar installed, but they are only HIDING the problem. The economists don't want to admit they gave bad advice and the journalists aren't interested in telling anyone that much bad news. Here in Australia we are planning to turn off 5 of our biggest power stations over the next few years because of age. Several were built in the late 60s early 70s. They are that old that there's just no way to keep them running. We have already turned off one major and 4 more minor power stations because of age. Most of the big power stations we do have broke down at various points this winter causing all sorts of chaos. AT THE MOMENT WE DO NOT HAVE EVEN 1 PROPOSAL ON THE TABLE. I recently checked California and France as part of a discussion and its a similar same story. Britain is at least building one but it wont be ready until around 2028. This is why I hate economists so much. They are doing all that they can to hide the fact their advice played a massive part in creating the energy crisis. What I hate about journalists and the media is they won't talk to anyone who might actually tell people what's going on let alone discuss solutions. Between these 2 groups of people the general population of the planet is confused and exhausted and no solutions are being presented. This is an accurate summation of the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKnX5wci404
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  4218.  @drts6955  Its like crypto. To its fans its the greatest thing to have ever existed offering all sorts of freedoms and convenience. Bugs aren't bugs, they're features that the rest of us just don't get because we lack the vision. Its brilliant and wonderful and amazing UNTIL IT ISN'T.
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  4219. FROM AUSTRALIA: As I was watching this I clicked onto our news services and there was Marco Rubio (LIVE) going on about his family's experiences with the lead up to and the outcome of the Cuban Revolution. That was from one of the clowns who has supported and supported and supported Trump. He was one of those Senators who voted "innocent: at Trumps impeachment. Does he not realise the whole world watched what he and others did to fuel this? Trump might be embarrassing America everyday but so are all the people who MADE THIS DAY HAPPEN by enabling this lunacy. To all the sensible Americans - know and understand that you have friends in the world who want to see this end and America be what it can be. My one great fear is that Biden only wants to take America backwards in stead of forwards. The Oligarchy has to end and he has to re-engage and look after the other 99%. To all Take Care & Stay Safe. 👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
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  4220.  @k53847  Your close. Its only been the recent generations of nuclear powered Navy reactors that use the HEU fuel. Older generations like those in the LA class can go 10 years between re-fuels NOT 18 months. The 18 months applies to the civilian power generating systems. It all depends on the fuel grade (% of U235) they use. That's one of the major unanswered questions on SMRs which also plan to use HEU. WHERE ARE THEY GETTING IT?
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  4221.  @catharinaholm6035  I'm Australian and yes we know about bushfires and some of us were well aware of the Siberian fires in 2019. I remember stories from that time about the effects on land from the permafrost melting. This is one of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npvK2L_tHoE What got little attention at that time is that a couple of the Russian Oligarchs have been cutting down the northern forests faster than any land clearing in known history. They use slave labor from North Korea and sell all the timer to China so there's almost no coverage of this. Then there's the Aral Sea, but that was mostly before Putin's time.
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  4222. ​ @catharinaholm6035  If you want a really interesting thing to watch in retrospect of how war goes horribly wrong when you have bad reasons for starting one. There's a PBS Frontline Episode called Rumsfeld's War. Its all about the inside conflicts between Rumsfeld and Powell over the Invasion of Iraq. Its amazing to find the difference between what the public is getting told and the actual facts of what's being discussed behind closed doors. Even years later its worth the time just to see where we were and where we are now. Its amazing how over time, some of this stuff gets forgotten or re-written. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byu9Yhr0Q_0 Very similar to it and covering some of the same ground is another PBS Frontline episode Truth, War and Consequences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMSNUX3n6yA
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  4223.  @jaeger251  Just as valid a point as anything
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  4224.  @jaeger251  Look at America and ask what's missing? Its on the list in the subsection "What civilised nations do!"
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  4225. ATTENTION ALL: I just checked through the last 10 Pakman podcast transcripts here on YT for the word "river" and its NOT THERE. So when was this comment made? I'll agree with a few of the negative comments about Pakman here. He can be smug and at times he has on guests who are there for no other reason but to back up his view of the world, but he also has on people he disagrees with. I can be critical of him in a number of ways including his relentless plugging of sponsors, but then that's his business model. What I did find was a video posted 25 Oct 2023 titled "A framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace." So if you actually want to know what his views are then I suggest you go watch and listen rather than rant about a comment that may or may NOT have been made because there's NO REFERENCE to when it was made.
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  4226.  @gametrailercentral3666  That's a very good way to put it. In fact I'd stretch it a bit further to any hero's in the media. Sooner or later they are forced to compromise some aspect or they will simply disagree with your own view on something. Its one of the problems with people lionising and making hero's of people who are NOT perfect.
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  4227. AUSTRALIAN HERE There is no doubting one sleazy damn fact about America culture. No mater how immoral or unethical or miserable a situation is there's always some PIECSE of SHlT sneaking about the situation trying to make money our of it. Do you guys all realise that when Superman used to announce that he was there for "Truth, Justice and the American Way" that that implies that the "American Way" does NOT include either truth or justice? There's something seriously WRONG in the minds of a nation that creates a BULLSHlT character like Superman to convince themselves they are somehow better than any other nation, tribe or culture on the planet. FYI - I went to college in America and love the American people and MOST but not all of their culture. But this aspect of American Exceptionalism is a cancer that has metastasised into the malignant narcissism that is Trumpism.
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  4228.  @Junebug89  Yeah but that doesn't mean Seder doesn't make an ass out of himself on a regular basis. I know his fans wont like that but they ALL make asses of themselves at times. The better ones just do it less often. the clowns like Rubin do it so regularly you wonder if its on purpose. I can't say I agree with Sam Harris on a lot of things, but for Seder to take the cheap shot he's taken is unwarranted and leaves him open to the same claim.
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  4229.  @leahsander5490  Clearly your a fan of Seder. I'm not but am neutral. I click on him at times to hear what he and his team have to say. I'm not a fan of Harris either and find him to be a bit of a smug prick at times, btu I can say the same of many others these days and would expect some to say that of me. Another person poitned out his view on torture so I googled "sam harris torture" and got a link straight to ho 2006 essay "In defense of torture" AND READ IT. Its a confronting essay that does NOT simply say yes to torture but actually condemns it by pointing out the incredible hypocrisy of warfare. Halfway through it he condemns what happened at Abu Ghraib and other places. What he's actually doing is making people face an ugly reality and think about it. We condemn torture but tacitly support bombing innocent men, women and children and blowing them to bits. Is Sam Harris a smug prick? YES, but so is Sam Seder.
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  4230. I did aerospace engineering in college but did 3 of my humanities in classical civilization's (ancient Greece, Greek & Roman Mythology and Greek & Roman Sports). I always thought it was useless until recent years. Now its really useful. In the first Greek/Athenian Democracy the only people who got to vote were Athenian Citizens. THAT WASN'T EVERYONE. In fact it was a small percentage of elitists. Because only the educated elite knew how to run things. You know just like the Harvard/Yale/Princeton meritocracy.
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  4231. That's a prevailing thought across the entire Western World. It hasn't really mattered how people voted for at least 30years, because they have all pandered to big business and what they wanted like globalism. Call it neo-liberalism or the technocracy, or the plutocracy or the oligarchies it hasn't mattered. No matter who has been in power the same top 1% have made off like the bandits they are. Trump had his Goldman Sachs boy Steve Mnuchin. Biden just hired 2 more Goldman Sachs as well as a Blackrock and a McKinsey. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4232.  @kacie1661  That's a good summary. I don't think he's a bad person at his core, but he's been dragged into the Trump cult like so many others. It makes you wonder what the family and friends around him are doing or not doing. He's now just a sad example of what Trump does to people. Imagine where we'd all be right now if like Mitch McConnell or Merrick Garland had simply done there jobs and dealt with Trump. I see that BOTH the Dems and GOP have failed on dealing with Trump and the carnage Trump's wrought will take years to fix.
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  4233. It incredibly important we DON'T FORGET what these people did or we will be destined to repeat it.
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  4234. Quite possibly but then maybe not. McConnell and others have lost a lot of power and they are the type of people who DON'T like losing power. They might see this as an opportunity to put a few people back in their boxes.
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  4235.  @g6ter1  I've brought it up previously a few times and you're the first person to actually point the finger at someone. The rest of the comments are either "WTF" or I should be hunted down mercilessly. But I think its a ANOTHER valid point to raise when Trump is playing games with reality and truth. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4236.  @leahryan5560  Its all a possibility, but in the generation he belongs to he's a very odd sheep in a paddock of goats.
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  4237.  @makeamericagreatagain3401  I hear your "babe" isn't doing so well in the count. If your lucky you can get in quick and be the shoulder she cries on. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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  4238.  @page8301  Oh dang-it that's a vision I will take time and therapy to get out of my brain. But yeah I get where you're coming from on that.
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  4239.  @roguewave1060  Agreed the CEO's got away with heaps but Forkner's not just any mutt from middle management. You clearly have no understanding of the significance what his role was.
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  4240. Do I hear a cheer for Milton Freidman and the Reaganomics he inspired in that? Is it just me or do you think if we had access to Dr Who's Tardis that Milton would be at or near the top of the hit list.
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  4241. Its not party (singular) its parties (plural) as the Dems are facing a similar schism. Here's 2 FACTS that will hurt the Dems. 1: Despite all evidence that Goldman Sachs is a disease that infects American economics. They were in the middle of the GFC where it was disclosed they defrauded customers on an industrial scale. Then Trump hired GS goon Steve Mnuchin as Secretary of the Treasury and just recently Biden hired 2 more GS goons plus a Blackrock and a McKinsey. What message does that tell the world -> Wall St. will do what it wants and no election can change that. 2: Despite all the promises made for $2000 stimulus checks to gain those 2 seats in Georgia and gain control of the Senate Biden has already started to voice that down to $1400. Even before he was took the oath he proved his word was worthless. And those are before we get to the subject of how they cheated Progressives in 2016 and 2020 and simply demanded they tow the line and vote blue.
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  4242.  @DoesntMatter23  Actually "speech suppression" is a pretty good way to call it. Its certainly a better description rather than a buzz phrase.
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  4243.  @tocreatee5736  a better question might be how much has been pulled out. As far as I know there's Russian money in London property and a few soccer clubs, but the bulk of the Russian money goes through "the London laundromat" on its way to other places like Delaware, Idaho and the Dakotas.
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  4244. @Dor Dor Great information. All those people who claim that real estate property always goes up over the long term totally ignore historical FACTS and how it unfolds. I'm Australian and In the aftermath of 2008 a documentary that HAD WARNED 2008 was going to happed was re-aired. In it was a German economist who had housing data for various European cities going back 400-600 years. He pointed out that every 80 (or so) years housing markets collapse almost back to zero. Irrespective of economic system people invariably put money into property it increases in value until it causes a system collapse. 2008 should have reset the Western Economic system and instead we bailed out the banks who then doubled down. Crazier the Chinese followed what the West has done with a real estate boom. In Australia (my country) the main markets of Sydney and Melbourne are now so overpriced that they cannot do anything but collapse. Houses that only 20-30 years ago cost $300,000 are now costing $1.2 million and they are impossible to pay off. Our banks are addicted to the profits from home loans and because interest rates are so low, they have to loan out more money to make the same profits. Its incredibly simple math. The interest on $300,000 at 8% is the same as the interest on $1,200,000 at 2%. This is also why 0.5% interest rate increase is so harmful. Going from 8% to 8.5% on $300,000 is $1,500. Going from 2% to 2.5% on $1,200,000 is $6,000. Its staggering how much people don't understand the practical nature of this symbol -> % Add into that increases in power & water and household spending collapses, WHICH WE ARE SEEING. Our retail market has been under stress for 20+ years. Their incomes are falling as their rents go up because of the higher energy prices. THAT'S EASY MATH. What might save Australia is that we're a massive exporter of raw materials, energy and FOOD. BUT that only works if other countries can pay us.
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  4245. And lets NOT forget that over 50million of the 74million who voted for him BELIEVE the election was stolen. They are angry, wound up and should be expected to won at least 1 gun. I have seen stories of gun shops and ammunition traders at gun shows running out of ammunition to sell. Consider the 2 options on December 14. 1: The Electoral College confirms Joe Boden as President 2: The EC votes bad faith and re-elects Trump. EITHER WAY there will be a massive crowd of people who will be very angry and feel cheated. One of those groups being heavily armed the other group just being mildly armed if such a term exists. There is a way to avoid a civil war. Pelosi calls an emergency session of the House and Impeaches Trump, Pence, Giuliani, Ellis, Sydney Powell and Lin Wood of Sedition. Add to that an Impeachment against Lindsay Graham for perversion of the course of Justice over his plans to prevent confirming an AG who would investigate Trump WH abuses and crimes. NOTE: Pardons don't count with Impeachment proceedings. (edit) go and watch Legal Eagle and/or Glenn Kirshner for explanations on the law, I'm not a lawyer they both are. Legal Eagle on can the president pardon himself --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNZc9H54eBI Glenn Kirshner --> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrWmonkmTk5NbvmVnc7f70w
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  4246. ​ @dolemites_chain  Its a money thing for some and a power trip for others, but by far the worst are the ego trippers because they can't be bought to do what's wrong and they can't be persuaded to do what's right. They are trapped in their own self importance or their life mission or both.
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  4247. This illustrates how the Western World is handing the developed world to the Chinese. The Chinese come with "Belt & Road" the rest of us come OR CONDONE "Belt & Bomb" FYI - I'm Australian and we have been there as a loyal little b-tch for Washington for the last 20years. I actually went to college in America (U. Illinois) and I don't consider that Washington represents the American people or the best interests any more or any less than Canberra represents the Australian people or their best interests. I was working in Canada a few years ago and I'm pretty sure Canadians feel the same way about Ottawa. And I'm pretty confident than many other people around the world feel the came about their capitols. Please don't misread that as any endorsement of what happened on January 6th. People have aright to throw off their government when their government fails but being stupid about it doesn't solve the problem. And January 6th wasn't about throwing off stupid government it was about keeping one in power.
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  4248.  @neliborba101  You made sense except for that absolutely ridiculous and idiotic comment about abortion.
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  4249.  @user-xr4bo3ln6f  I think what he means is they don't even try and hide it anymore. Governments used to say they were "for the people" or at least since things like the American and French Revolutions. But right now if you tried the "for the people" line you'd get laughed at.
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  4250. CORRECT - sometimes its important to let the other side speak. Its often referred to as letting them hang themselves. I believe Vivek Ramaswamy is trying for the number 1 position in the rankings for that.
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  4251.  @Rundvelt  Well we have ideologies, its just some of us are honest enough to realise that ideologies can also be insanely stupid and irrelevant. Only the truly stupid believe their ideology is infallible. Take Dave as an example. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4252.  @markfish8403  AT least one of the new players in Oz is Canadian. The Saudis are also major players in our agriculture along with Brits and Americans. I don't know about others. We keep doing stupid things when it comes to foreign investments. We have a banking sector with TOO MUCH SAY in too many things. They are addicted to cash and they don't care where its from. One section of that sector has as its mantra "foreign investment is good." They NEVER allow anyone to question if any particular investment is good. Its an ideology that must not be questioned not a sound economic principle.
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  4253. Well there was that little thing called "Russia Gate." I'm not saying the Russians weren't because the evidence for their interference in both Brexit and the US 2016 elections is overwhelming. But the actual collusion was basically bullshit. The problem for both CNN and MSNBC and some others is that their entire business model was "Trump bad." Not that he wasn't bad, but when you are a news service your task isn't humping opinion its PRESENTING NEWS. Way back in 2004 the documentary OUTFOXED warned that Foxes business model was starting to be copied. The emphasis on opinion over substance had already started, now its so prevalent across the western world we can barely tell the difference.
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  4254. And in case you want to watch OUTFOXED (its freely available) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P74oHhU5MDk
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  4255.  @sugadagud3093  That's now almost endemic across the Western world. Everything for a lot of our politicians is abut claiming the next news cycle. They don't give a damn about actually doing anything. Just before last years last years US election an Australian TV unit visited Pennsylvania and a middle age guy made one of the great comments where he said "I just want to see the career politicians go away." That's Western politics in a nutshell its riddled with people who's career is about winning news cycles by what ever bullshit works. That really is their career winning news cycles. Look at the claims made by Madison Cawthorn's claim "I have built my staff around comms rather than legislation." WTF does that mean other than "winning news cycles." This is why nothing is getting done about real problems and EVERY country on this planet has real problems.
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  4256. On the 1st part - Yeah we know. On the 2nd part - My bet is the Secret Service assigned him at least twice the normal contingent the day after the election. They just kept quiet about it.
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  4257.  @aliamjon2550  Just remember he's only POTUS for 17 more days after that he will need real lawyers. Because after the 20th he loses his immunity and at that point he'll need someone way better than Giuliani who's lost or forfeited over 50 cases in the last 2 months. I don't know about you but if I was facing the wrath of the the American legal system for all the corruption and fraud and tax evasion Trump is facing then I'd want a better lawyer than that loser Giuliani. And as far as security goes whose supporters have been buying guns and stockpiling ammunition?
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  4258. Your 100% right. I'm Australian and despite having an extraordinary amount of space most of our farmlands are not very fertile and require vast amounts of fertilizer. But then we also have some staggering issues with river management and there's no way to get into fixing that because there's too many vested interests with staggering amounts of money behind them. To deal with the shortages in potash that Peter has mentioned on several occasions we have re-opened several potash mines here. We also have a massive deposit in the Norther territory that's untouched. I know about that deposit because I have worked in our mining industry and the company with the rites to that deposit was at one time in the office next to where I worked. Overall Australia's land management is an ongoing cluster f*ck that we should be ashamed of and instead we do the collective ignorance routine and just hope someone will magically fix it. On the New Zealand side I don't know that much other than seeing a story a couple of years ago about how their rivers and creeks are suffering a huge amount from their intensive dairy industry. The ground is so lush there they can put a lot of cows in paddocks and cows pee and all that cow peer filters down and ends up in the rivers & creeks which now have very high levels of ammonia that's causing huge amounts of damage.
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  4259. They have hit the same problem that has hit many Western societies - the cost of raising a family and the cost of education.
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  4260.  @Jedda73  Yeah, they'll be on next years Christmas wish list along with knives hand carved from tusks. the new thing for girls will include light wispy scarves, incredibly bright blue contacts and no makeup at all for the all new "rustic desert vibe".
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  4261.  @raykirkham5357  When it was all being spoken up during Trump's WH and John Bolton was waving his neo-con flag I went and did quick check just so I wouldn't look stupid. Iran has over twice the population of Iraq and historically they are a warrior culture as the Persian Empire. Geographically the south is sandy desert and the North is impassable mountains making the logistics beyond a nightmare and you'd be playing in territory the home team has held for well over 2000 years. Like Afghanistan, its not a place where technology wins by default or hasn't that lesson been learnt? If Afghanistan is where superpowers go to be humiliated what do you think Iran is when the only person to have successfully invaded was Alexander the Great? Even Genghis Khan went around them. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4262. @David Rosenberg Mark Blyth the Political Economist from Brown U. and many others are calling it "Socialism for the Rich and Capitalism for the Rest of us." I suspect the next group of billionaires who cry poor and call for assistance are going to be met with some ferocity not seen in decades. I truly hope I am wrong but I suspect next time it wont be "Occupy Wall Street" it will "Burn Wall Street." I truly hope I am wrong but I think we'll see mob violence not seen since the French Revolution. I won't be surprised when they drag lawyers and bankers and stock brokers out of their offices and hang them from the nearest tree.
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  4263.  @taranullius9221  Couldn't have said that better. Although I generally point out that WE WARNED the Brits about what Rupert was like when he moved there and they didn't listen. THEN we warned the Americans what he was like and pointed out what he'd done here in Oz and then in Britain. AND the YANKS DIDN'T LISTEN EITHER. One of the odd things for me about Outfoxed is that one of the leads Robert McChesney became a professor at the same university I went to - University of Illinois. Unfortunately he started there after I graduated and long before he helped make Outfoxed. If your wondering he's the guy who explains the scene from the Godfather Part 2.
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  4264.  @OMGAnotherday  Fair comment up until you did the racist thing. Her first husband was Pakistani, her second is from San Diego. There's nothing in her immediate family that says Israel. So your comment is totally shit racist stupidity and you should delete it ASAP. FYI - I'm neither Israeli or Jewish. Its just a stupid racist comment.
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  4265.  @durshurrikun150  If your referring to the Dems and what they were before WW2 and how the KKK was their making, then don't bother being a smart ass the world has an oversupply already. If your referring to the GOP who claim to defend democracy as they strip it form others then remind them that Lincoln was a Republican and he freed the slaves. If your referring to the Founding Fathers I never claimed they were perfect and nobody should ever claim they were perfect, but they did create a magnificent (but flawed) construct with the Bill of Rights. What certain people need reminding of is the Bill of Rights is not for white fundamentalist people only. What other people need reminding of is the Bill of Rights is NOT the property of minority groups with idiotic selfish narrow minded agendas.
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  4266. TO ALL: Prof Mark Blyth has been speaking about this stuff for years now. Here's a snippet out of one of his talks from 2013 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6748QARegxU In more recent times he's mentioned the elephant graph Branco Milanovic put together as part of his explanation of "Angrynomics" Here's an explanation of that graph. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1oHJezqBYU
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  4267. Way back in 2004 there was a documentary called "Outfoxed" one of the warnings in that documentary was that Rupert Murdoch was dragging the entire media industry down into his gutter. Almost 20 years later that warning has become prophecy come true. Here on YT, you can check what's being said across the entire world and its the same everywhere. The complete breakdown of our media is arguably the biggest threat to humanity there is for the simple reason: "How can any of us make any sensible decisions when we are being drowned in hype, garbage, misdirection?"
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  4268. Actually you are 1/2 right. The initial claims that it was a bio-weapon were totally idiotic and there has never been any evidence that it was ever a weapon. But a lot of evidence has turned up that shows the possibility of a lab leak is very real. The problem is the media and politicians have made a mess of the public discussion making it very hard to know what's fact and what's not. Dr. Michael Osterholm (the director of CIDRAP) did a great analysis of this mess and how the media has handled it in a recent podcast. This link is time stamped to that part of that podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYNfScnnDVU&t=2610s Note that he honestly points out the issues the CDC has had and how many incidents the CDC has had. Note how he explains that Wuhan and the Wuhan Institute of Virology might just be a coincidence because like Atlanta (home of the CDC) its a major transport hub. Go watch this from DW News that sheds a lot of light on what the Chinese were actually doing at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It DOES NOT conclude it was a lab leak, because nobody has conclusive evidence, but there is a lot of evidence that a lab leak was possible. What it also highlights is that the Lead Scientist in Wuhan Dr. Zheng-Li Shi WAS MODIFYING Bat Corona Viruses, but by the definition that she and others use it wasn't Gain of Function. The fact that the Chinese openly published their work is absolutely conclusive that it wasn't a weapon. Nobody develops weapons and the tells the world how they did it - that's simply idiotic. That would be like developing the next -gen stealth fighter and then putting the design on Facebook. What they show in that documentary is that there is division among virologists over what research is safe to do. They highlight the hyper deadly variant of H5N1 Avian flu that came out of a lab in 2011. Here's the DW documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0nuyPQzU18 Here's an example of what the Chinese published out of Wuhan. Click on the authors names and you will see where they work. You can also see that the lead scientist in Wuhan mentioned in the DW documentary is also one of the authors of this. -> https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698
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  4269.  @damionalbarr7961  I went to college in America on a scholarship. I love the place, I love the people, I just love the entire college sports system BUT I HATE WHAT THESE PEOPEL ARE DOING TO A GREAT COUNTRY. No need to remind me Rupert Murdoch is at the center of this. Every country has those few it wishes were never born. Rupert is one of ours in that category.
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  4270. For start its Marianne NOT Miriam. Your right however as Yang proved - zero political experience doesn't work. Look at his NY Mayor run. He got sucked into having a couple of Bloomberg's DNC people and they dumped him in the fryer with that Israel question. That was a stone cold set-up by the corporate Dems and he was a lamb to a slaughter. As for the Justice Dems, Kyle has explained again and again how they got hijacked by clowns. Kyle brought up one of Krystal's tweets the other day about the CIA manual. It was really interesting to see that the Left, including progressive groups implode through the same stuff again and again AND what causes it. What I hate about SOME progressives is the claim that progressives are Left and only Left and in most cases RADICALLY far Left. Its totally NOT TRUE. Go have a look at Saagar or Marshall they are both politically Right and yet both are progressive. its the same for Conservatives and Regressives they aren't all on the Right. Look at the old school communists in Russia who want the Soviet system back. They are as Left as you can get and they're considered Conservative or Regressive. Progressives can be both Left and Right because all Progressive means is you want to see society make progress. Conservatives want things conserved and Regressives want to go backwards to some past state. I hate people who claim that certain things have to be Left or Right because it immediately excludes good ideas. Idiots on the Left will exclude any discussion on certain things because those things are considered Right and do exactly the same thing with ideas they consider Left. ITS STUPID, because good ideas are good its what makes them good ideas.
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  4271. What is not being asked is where did Trumps extra 11 million votes come from. EVERY POLL said his base was shrinking for 2 years before the election. So where did the extra 11 million people that voted for Trump come from. He got 11 million more votes than 2016, where did they come from? Every poll (even those from FOX) coming into the election indicated he should have got less than 2016 - SO WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?
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  4272. Same reason Lindsey Graham and others stopped talking negatively about Trump. B-L-A-C-K-M-A-I-L or its simply that he doesn't want to end up like a lot of other people who have crossed Trump.
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  4273. I'm Australian and about 10 years older than you. You have perfectly described what myself and a generation have endured under what we now call neoliberal economics. I am about 10 years older than and by dates am supposedly of the boomer generation. But I HAVE NEVER identified with the boomers at all. I actually went to university in America and at that time we all called ourselves Gen-X. After graduating and getting back to Australia I landed right into the start of a recession that the Australian LABOR Treasurer Paul Keating described as "the recession that we needed to have." That recession absolutely crushed the majority of people who graduated from the late 80s to the late 90s. Even though the 2000s were great due to the mineral boom to feed the Chinese beast were great we'd LOST a decade of decent earnings that we have never recovered from. Keating was followed by the Liberal (our version of the Tories) Kevin Costello who was even worse because he crushed the entire manufacturing sector. Because like Keating he was a student of Thatcherism and Reaganomics he valued the services sector as the future. So we had 2 (one Left and one Right right wing) Treasurers in succession who were right out of the Blair, Cameron, Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale mold espousing what we now call neoliberalism. AND RIGHT NOW both sides of Australian politics can't understand why we hate them. From what I know of what's happening in America - same thing.
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  4274. Great sentiment but its not going to happen of Biden skimps out and cuts the $2000 Stimulus checks down to $1400 or $1200. They campaigned on that to win the Georgia run-off. If they skimp it will be telling the American people "thanks for the votes, now F--K Off and let our big money supporters screw you AGAIN." That's exactly the crap that got Trump elected in the first place.
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  4275.  @DevilJin01  Considering the ACTUAL situation on the ground that anyone can find out about - any of them who think they can downgrade that payment is nuts. Any advisor who tries a "what if" or anything else just simply should be fired. 424,000 and counting with over 3,800 yesterday. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ If Biden had really wanted to secure his place in history his FIRST Executive order would have been to get those checks out ASAP. In fact if he was really serious he'd allow every American to register a bank account at the local court house or as Mark Blyth has kept telling people open a treasury account, so the government can just tap the keyboard and send it. No mail, no paper, no delay, just instant down a wire "bingo." For any of them NOT to want this ASAP its political suicide and considering the real stresses on people outright dangerous. Desperate people (no matter how passive they are) will eventually lash out if they get pushed too far.
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  4276. I'm an engineer who does support the use of nuclear energy BUT IT HAS TO BE FOR THE RIGHT REASONS. And for the rest of us (as in everyone on the planet) to pay for these power stations JUST SO BILL GATES and the rest of the AI brigade CAN MAKE EVEN MORE MONEY is NOT the right reason. I'm Australian and we are also having nuclear shoved at us right now and every so often the proponents slip up and in among all the things they claim that will benefit are "data centres." This is one of the things that people don't yet realise. Not only do these people need our data (in staggering amounts) to make the AIs work BUT THEY WANT US TO PAY THEM TO POWER IT. We are being sold one of the biggest lies in human history.
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  4277.  @cg5860  Take your conspiracy garbage elsewhere or YOU will be the one getting reported.
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  4278.  @evaluateanalysis7974  I suspect he/she is a total fraud. If the claim had any validity then they could have easily just said which country or state. They could have quoted a case or event or something and COULD NOT. This is actually a good example of how little people are willing to think. 663 have liked this and I wonder if any of them even questioned if this person what they say they are? Look at the claim there aren't a doctor or nurse they are claiming to handle medical records. WTF does that even mean? Its actually a massive claim that plays right into anti-vaxer sentiments.
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  4279. Very interesting opinion and I think you're absolutely right they could be more reliable than Saudi Arabia. The question is after demonizing them for that last 40years after having supported a repressive regime since the 50s that the CIA helped put in place via a coup that overthrew a democratically elected government and then after Trump simply tearing up a treaty in a combination of tempestuousness, childishness, stupidity and lies - WOULD YOU TRUST ANY AMERICAN DEAL IF YOU WERE THE IRANIANS? Lets not forget Trump also whacked a national hero who was on a peace mission at the time or forget that Trump tightened sanctions at the moment Iran was getting hit by COVID or forget the deal Reagan made where he got them to keep Americans hostage to help win an election. I don't doubt your claim they would be a better partner long term, but if you're the Iranians what deal can you make with America that you can trust? Sorry but this is the legacy leaders like Trump & Reagan left America with.
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  4280.  @progressforward  I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship. I find it very sad to see a great country being dragged down by a very selfish minority who have learned how to manipulate large slabs of a population into believing garbage. Both the DNC and GOP are guilty of that. We don't openly talk about it much here but we do have concerns for our long term security. We just backed our future on the F35 and a few other toys. What if another Trumpist (from either side) gets in and starts tearing up treaties? I was in Canada (for work) when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on Canada. No one and I really do mean NO ONE outside of Trumps circle got what that was about. Its Canada the most polite nation on earth and Trump just turned around and kicked them in the face. There are enormous American investments in Canada. The infamous far right Koch brothers are THE MAIN player in the Alberta Oil Sands. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4281.  @progressforward  Yeah and America exported it to the rest of the western world world. In Australia right now we have a overly influential pro-China lobby. They are either miners selling raw material, importers importing crap or housing people selling housing. They make so much money, they will do anything to keep the cash rolling in. If you strip away the the surface its almost identical to the American oil money in terms of influence. I just saw a graph yesterday. In 1921 (100 years ago) America lead the world in iron ore production with 21MTA (million tons per annum). We currently mine over 850MTA most of which goes to China. Just like America has people saying that America needs to break its addiction to oil, our people are saying we have to break our addiction to Chinese trade. AND its the same reason - that addiction produces incredible levels of corruption.
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  4282. AUSTRALIAN HERE with an observation. Britain has 1st past the post and Australia has a preferential voting system. In our system all those votes from down the list would have been switched to their secondary preferences. This is how this might have gone with our system. I suspect all the Reform UK who are all 100% Brexiteers would have put Liz Truss as their second preference. So on that her vote would go to 21,175. I have no doubt the Greens would vote Labor (as they do here) taking their vote to 13,685 The real question is what the Independents & Lib Dems would do. In Australia the sorts of people who vote for minor parties at #1 tend to be swing voters with their preferences. They typically give preferences to the existing government if its doing well and against if its not. With this clearly being a protest vote AWAY from the previous election where Liz Truss got 26,195 votes I'd expect those people would have also voted Labor on their preferences making Labor's vote 22,585. So under a preferential system I'd expect the same result but with a bigger margin. Another question that could be asked is what happens if you have something like Australia's compulsory voting system. You only had 59% turnout in this seat meaning about 30,000 didn't vote at all. In Australia those people tend to do some interesting things. If they are unmotivated they do what's called donkey voting and either they just put 1,2,3,4,.... down the list or do something so that no vote is counted at all. My brother used to add his football team to the list and vote for them and of course such votes don't count. But one of the massive benefits of compulsory voting is that when our governments screw up (and they do) these people tend to do massive protest votes. So in this case I'd expect MOST of those people to vote Labor as a way of flipping the finger at Liz Truss and this would have been a massacre not a narrow loss. FYI - There was an American political analyst in Australia during one of our elections and she said that if America switched from first past the post to preferential AND made voting compulsory then it would re-shape America for the best. Preferential but NOT compulsory has been tried in a couple of states with significant changes. Her main reason for wanting both is that it prevents parties from having a "culture war" mentality because they have to engage with the general population not just those motivated to vote. And if you put that into the context of where America has gone in the last couple of years I think she had a valid point.
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  4283.  @johncarr2333  Yeah it makes you wonder WTF this clown is a CEO of??????
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  4284.  @anthonymartelli6091  HOW ABOUT all those files marked TOP SECRET that he was NOT supposed to have. Its called the law M0R0N.
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  4285. SORRY PETER BUT YOU DESERVE SOME OF THE CRAP YOU GET WHEN IT COMES TO SUBJECTS LIKE THIS I have pointed out some of your faults on engineering previously but you keep repeating the similar mistakes. First - as an engineer who does projects I can tell you that you can't talk about percentage of life time costs when the technologies are so different and the construction costs are so radically different. You DO NOT NEED 100% up front capital for a Wind Farm or Solar Farm. This is because they are fundamentally different to something like a Coal or Gas fired plant and especially a nuclear plant. You have to build 100% of a nuclear, coal or hydro plant. You can't build part of one of those plants BUT YOU CAN build a fraction of a wind farm and get it making money before being 100% finished. Yes you need a higher percentage of the life time costs up front but its a much smaller number. Its like 99% of 10 (as in 9.9) is a smaller number than 50% of 50 (as in 25). 99% of 10 is even smaller than 10% of 100 because 9.9 is less than 10. You might be right that the percentage is higher but the actual capital cost is much lower. In terms of a real world comparison for plants under or near construction RIGHT NOW. Vogtle in Georgia and Hinckley Point C in Britain are 2 nuclear plants for which data is readily available (see Wikipedia). Vogtle has 2 x Westinghouse AP1000 reactors with a CONSTRUCTION cost of of US$34 Billion for 2.2 GW (Gigawatts). Hinckley Point C in Britain with 2 x EPR 2s has a CONSTRUCTION cost of £32.7 Billion (US$ 41.5B) for 3.2 GW. THESE ARE UP FRONT COSTS Vogtle has up front costs of US$15.46B per GW and Hinkley has US$12.97B per GW. SunZia at US$11B for 3.5GW is US$3.14B per GW. For comparison Snowy 2.0 In Australia which is a massive pumped hydro plant with estimated costs (so far) of AU$15B for 2.0GW. That's about US$5B per GW but I'd also warn that those costs might blow out. I am Australian and despite that I think it will eventually prove worthwhile that project is a dumpster fire in terms of project mismanagement. NOW BEFORE ANYONE SCREAMS - Yes I know 3.5GW of wind is NOT the same as 3.5GW of nuclear, gas, coal or hydro. The general rule is that it takes 2.2 times as much capacity to produce the same effect as coal, nuclear, hydro,..... The Germans proved that with a better mix of wind & solar that number can come down to as low as 1.7. It might come lower with bulk storage and by bulk storage I don't mean batteries even mega batteries. Bulk storage is when you can supply from storage at least 1 day if not 2 of reliable. Australia has a planned Mega battery on the site of a recently decommissioned coal fired plant. At 750MWH it sound impressive but the power station was 2,000MW and that 750MWH is about 22.5 minutes worth of power. So by current general practice SunZia has costs more like $6.9B per GW, but that might be lower with the right balance of wind & solar coupled with a bulk storage system. Irrespective US$11B its a lot less money than the US$34B that's been paid for Vogtle for a similar amount of power.
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  4286. You can also add she has a disdain for truth, reality, honesty, ethics, morals and probably a few other things. Years ago somebody described to me the concept of "High Machiavellians." They're people who take the concept of "The ends justify the means." to an extreme level where things like truth, reality, honesty, ethics, morals and the law just do not matter at all so long as they get what they want. These are people who aren't simply narcissistic or sociopathic. These are people who want what they want (narcissism) and don't care how they get it (sociopathic), but they ramp the volume up to 11.
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  4287. In what way? This is Lyin' Ted here sunshine. You know the COWARD who fled with his family to Cancun as people in Texas froze to death.
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  4288.  @zasterheffor  Great comment - you've hit one of the major problems in the world right now. We are overly dominated by economics and economic thinking AND the problem with that is how the majority of those people with economics degrees are taught. I spent a chunk of my COVID time looking into economics because I'm tired of having idiots with economics degrees beat me down with "What's the business case for that?" or "Who's going to pay for that?" I just wanted to be able to counter their arguments and what I found was there's an entire different school of thought lead by people like Mark Blyth, Stephanie Kelton, Warren Mosler, Peter Zeihan, etc. When I first heard Stephanie Kelton I thought "this chick is bonkers mad" and then Mark Blyth interviewed her over her book "the deficit myth" which I finally got hold of recently and have just started after finishing Angrynomics. They are right we have all been bluffed by a magical shell game where the top 1% get everything they want and the rest of us pay for it. To get that done 3 colleges dominate the Western world Harvard, yale & U. Chicago with assistance from places like Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford and here in Australia - Melbourne U., U. Sydney and ANU (in Canberra). In the 90s we started privatising our energy industry and its ends up delivering the energy crisis we now have. We outsourced our manufacturing to China and during COVID we couldn't get stuff. Our water market was converted in an auction based system that has dramatically favoured corporatized ag and smashed traditional farm owners *and that was all DESIGNED by an Australian Harvard graduate who's a professor at Adelaide U." You are so damn right the education system is geared to indoctrinating (not simply teaching) people with neo-liberal economics. And because all those people have ended up ADVISING governments everywhere its infected the entire Western World like a virus that induces cancer. Ask yourself - How many people the US congress (both fed & state) have Harvard, Yale, U. Chicago graduates or people whose teachers were Harvard, Yale or U. Chicago on their staff? Jamie Kirchick graduated from Yale as did both Clintons. Ted Cruz and both Obama's are from Harvard. 14 of the last 18 SCOTUS judges are Harvard or Yale as is the next judge. America's real problem is the ugly triumvirate of Harvard, Yale and U. Chicago.
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  4289. HEY JORDAN: I normally love these interviews you do but sometimes you NEED TO PUSH BACK instead of just agreeing with everything. This is one of the great failings many people like yourself. Its great that you have people like Marc on to discuss their thing but for things this important you NEED A COUNTERPOINT. FYI - Just like marc I did my undergraduate at the U. of Illinois except I was in aerospace and a few years ahead of him. I was there when they were going through the "what do we do with this" phase of large data bases. We had a system called Plato which was a pre-Internet information system AND IT WAS AWFUL to use. When PCs arrived Apple, IBM, AT& T just dumped machines with various departments. In aerospace we got a truckload (about 50) AT&T PCs with Unix operating systems. They had a amazing computational capacity compared to both the IBMs and Apples but that version of Unix was so damn horrible to use these machines were basically useless. I knew a guy who was working on the Cray Supercomputers it was pretty interesting to here the technical details of what they were dealing with. I have spent 30+ years in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. Mostly I have worked in manufacturing and mining but also water and waste water treatment, energy systems and gas plants. I have seen a lot happen in that time and I can tell you from that experience that Marc is simply dead wrong on a number of topics. No doubt on these AI platforms he knows more than I do but by the same token I know a lot more than he does on industrial issues. In industry we have had so many tech clowns form the IT industry waft in an make pronouncements. What the IT people NEVER UNDERSATND is that industry does not play games with software or any of the technology. When you are working on multi-billion dollar lumps of stuff you just can't take the blasé attitude of the IT industry. these are lumps of stuff that you just cannot have data errors and software crashes. In my field we pay attention when ever the IT people are close because they JUST DO NOT GET WHAT WE DO. You'd be amazed just how lacking in knowledge other engineers are of what control system people do. IT people are just worse than normal. Putting it mildly without control system engineers writing incredibly stable software the world as you know it does NOT EXIST. You wouldn't be reading this now because you wouldn't have electricity. We keep society as you know it working NOT the Marc Andreesens of the world. His claims AI will be running everything are just FALSE. I assure you he has no idea of what we do or he'd never make those claims.
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  4290. Lindsey Graham tweeted "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it. 7:03 AM · May 4, 2016" That is still on twitter. I cut and pasted the quote, time and date on 31/12/2022
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  4291. The Panama papers were released and NOTHING happened and NOBODY went to jail. The Paradise papers were released and NOTHING happened and NOBODY went to jail. Anybody who thinks anything will happen or if anybody will go to jail with this load is just wishful thinking.
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  4292. Yeah somebody needs to tell MTG about that heretic form Nazareth who not only believed in free health care, free education and feeding the poor and needy BUT ACTUALLY PRACTICED THEM according to his reputation.
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  4293. The answer is Vice President Henry Wallace who said in the New York Times, April 9, 1944. "The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  4294.  @grobozo  You right and its about time people started thinking that way. How does America deal with 74million most of whom think they got cheated, have lots of guns and been stockpiling ammunition for months. A few things for certain: 1: Joe Biden needs to STOP hiring clowns from Goldman Sachs and McKinsey, 2 of the biggest contributors to the disenfranchisement, that lead to Trump in the first place. 2: The DNC needs to start listening to people who live outside the Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard and Wall Street. 3: The DNC needs to start hiring people from outside the Ivy League. 4: The American People need to tell the Federalist Society (that was set up at Yale) to F--K OFF and let others have some say in SCOTUS.
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  4295.  @bobfg3130  Yeah but that means the US classified cryptos in a similar way but with different words. Remember commodities trading is in many ways another form of gambling. The main point is that at the level of nation states they DO NOT consider cryptos as money or currency.
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  4296. I'm Australian and we have seen a number of documentaries on the destruction for the Aral Sea. I find it truly staggering in this entire video DOES NOT MENTION the destruction of the Aral Sea. Those Soviet era dams built on those 2 huge rivers (Syr Darya and Amu Darya) destroyed the Aral Sea. That destruction is one of the greatest MANMADE disasters in history. Prior to its destruction the Aral Sea supported an enormous fishery that fed millions. That is all gone -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea The other thing he does not mention is that those enclaves were deliberately created by Stalin. He did it to create the sorts of situations we now see all across the ex-Soviet Republics. He literally grabbed chunks of populations and swapped them to create these enclaves. These enclaves didn't "naturally" develop over centuries they are a fairly recent (in terms of history) Soviet construct designed to displace people from their traditional homelands.
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  4297. Go look at his technological issues on some of the debunk channels and you'll find he's NOWHERE near as technically savvy as he claims or his fans promote. On the flip side to that he's done some great things. I'm an aerospace engineer who works in other industries and I honestly think that what he's done for breaking the lethargy of the auto industry moving to electric and hybrid vehicles is utterly outstanding. Since busting my butt to get my degree what he's done with breaking the stranglehold Boeing and others had on NASA is the best news I've had in over 30 years. BUT on the negative side his stupidity of promoting technologies that were NEVER going to work the way he claimed like driverless cars, hyperloop and his Mars colonisation was at a level that's only going to harm the entire STEM community and technological progress. For anyone who doubts that go look at what happened with SolarCity. I think Kyle's right we need to wait and see what he does with Twitter, but considering what's recently happened in the judgement against Elon over SolarCity I wonder how he's even able to this. The Common Sense Skeptic did a series of videos going over the transcripts and judgement.
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  4298.  @7heHorror  Simple question - name a billionaire who likes being criticised for their shady deals? Hint - Elon just lost a massive court case in Delaware over his interference in the Tesla bailout of SolarCity. Common Sense Skeptic did a whole series going over the trial transcripts. Look at the table at 1:08:30 - adding that up is almost $11 Billion in damages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1uqlAAxF9k Right now do you think Elon needs good publicity or bad publicity? That's all before we get to a real evaluation of tesla stocks.
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  4299.  @Wolfsheim23  Please just take your ignorance and go bother someone else.
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  4300. NOTICE there is a very fine line DeSantis is treading. He said to Piers Morgan that he did NOT authorise forced feeding because he wasn't senior enough. So what he's claimed is that he did NOT make the decision or give the order. What he said in the video from several years ago is that he ADVISED as a lawyer what the commanders could do. So its the 2 statements are NOT incompatible, because giving the order and advising on what orders can be given are 2 different things. What this actually shows is just how sleazy lawyers can be because what DeSantis is actually saying is they he's NOT responsible for decisions made based on his advice.
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  4301. Until idiots like you realise that it will end up costing staggering amounts to fix what burning Gigatons for a century will cost to clean up. I recently saw a BBC news story on a system in Iceland for direct carbon capture at $1000 per ton. They hope to get that to $300 per ton. Even at the lower price it will cost over $1 QUADRILLION to draw down all the excess carbon in the atmosphere and that's NOT including all the stuff we keep adding. Also thanks to scaling Wind & Solar are NOW cheaper than Coal.
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  4302. Its called Dunning-Kruger Syndrome. These politicians all think they are smarter than they are and none of them realise it.
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  4303.  @sanji572  1st off the Russians did that for decades across Eastern Europe and thought it was a good idea to start putting nukes in Cuba until it wasn't 2nd NATO isn't hesitating over either Georgia or Ukraine. There is a rule in NATO that to consider any new member they must NOT have any disputed borders. Both Georgia and Ukraine have disputed borders, so they can't even be considered. It would be really smart if people go their facts right.
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  4304.  @jasonmackay9133  I'm Australian and was in Canada working 3 years ago when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed sanctions. Canadians went from sweet & polite to full clear the benches hockey rage. I've never seen a nation blow their collective fuse like that. For a moment they even forgot to hate Justin and his family of swindlers. If he'd have picked up his hockey stick and screamed I want Trump it might have been real interesting. 🤫😉
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  4305. Australian here: I went to college in America in the late 80s on a sports scholarship. I had a fabulous time with my only regrets being that I was too young to really appreciate it at the time and that I have lost contact with many of my friends there. I studied aerospace engineering but a bunch of those friends were pre-law and often dragged me into their conversations. So I got a unusual education into the US Constitution. Prior to that my only study into political systems was Orwell (1984 & Animal Farm) so my only argument was that ANY country could fall into a totalitarian dictatorship (Right or Left) because that was Orwell's warning. It doesn't matter if you go to far Right or too far Left its the same result. My friends used to argue (and they always won) that it was impossible for America to fall because it had a system of "Checks & Balances" built into the system that would never allow such a thing to happen to America. We never discussed the possibility that the system could fail, but then we never we never considered what the Federalist Society planned and executed. The American POLITICAL system revolves around the 3 pillars of the Executive (including the President) the house and the Senate. The American LEGAL system relies on the various layers to make sure that EVERY American is equally treated under the law. The idea or concept that a small group created out of students at 3 universities (Harvard, Yale and U. Chicago) could (overtime) completely subvert the Supreme Court and use that along with there big money supporters to undermine the System of Checks & Balances and then re-write the Constitution wasn't simply unthinkable it wasn't even a concept under consideration. Here's the crazy thing. The Federalist Society was founded in 1982 and it was already underway BEFORE my friends and I had any of those conversations. We didn't even know it existed let alone what its plans were, let alone that it would find billionaires willing to fund what they wanted. Until America is willing to accept that it has been hijacked by a tiny group of people who have managed to suck tens of millions of people into their web of lies then America will remain a foundering ship in danger of sinking. The problem for the rest of the world is we, the human race, face some very big issues like climate change, wars, food shortages, water shortages,... etc. We DO NOT NEED America to solve these issues, but it becomes so much harder when America is what it is now. Sorry for the long comment. I do believe American Constitution is one of humanities finest achievements but right now its being undermined by some incredibly selfish people and it has global effects.
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  4306. Here's the link to the guardians series on Pegasus -> https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project
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  4307. NEWS FLASH - The Left wing Labor Party incumbents just LOST tot he Right wing LNP in Queensland Australia (where I live). The LNP ran a shitty "scare the old people" campaign about out of control youth crime and no doubt youth crime is a problem. The LNP had no actual policy they just said youth crime is out of control and pumped it as many times per day as possible. The stupid stupid stupid Labor clowns acted just like the Democrats in America do and FYI I went to college in America. Love the place, love the people, love the culture - HATE the politics. They did this we are so smart and our policies are so awesome that everybody will just see how fantastic we are and want more of us and they will just turn up and vote for us. That attitude was why Hilary lost in 2016 to a narcissistic Donald Trump, why Australian Labor lost to a narcissistic Scott Morrison in 2019 and why British Labor lost to a narcissistic clown in Boris Johnson in 2019. HOW MANY TIMES does the Left have to LOSE by assuming people will just love their policies and vote for them BEFORE THEY GET IT????????
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  4308. For anyone who hasn't seen the TED interview its truly disgusting. TED & TEDx was (past tense) great and it allowed many very clever people to explain things to a wider audience, but these days its just a platform for fringe techno-fantasy charlatans and spruikers. The TED Musk interview was simply PR for Elon and for anyone who likes commenting DON'T on that page unless you like kicking nests of hornets.
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  4309.  @herpderpherpd  Yeah BBT has its fair share of BS, but if you've ever been around University research which I have its not that far off the reality of how crazy it can be. I don't mean all the personal stuff I mean the stuff they did around the university. I means things like the internal jealousies, competitiveness, fights for tenure, fights for offices, fights for budget, etc. Some of that stuff I've seen first hand but without any of the humour. The bit right before they won the Nobel prize where the other guys had lied about their research that's way more common than people realise. One of the reasons I left the research field was because of the level of fraud both scientific and financial.
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  4310. Aerospace engineer here - this is one of the most annoying subjects wasting out time these days. There's no real need to go into the technologies. You can kill this entire argument just by asking how they'll process 1 Billion cubic kilometers of air to remove 2.5 Trillion tons of CO2? Here's the explanation. FIRST - the basic task comes from the fact we have (since the start of the Industrial Revolution) put an extra 2.5 trillion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere with 1.5 Trillion Tons of that being just in the last 80 years and at current rates we'll add another 1/2 a Trillion tons by the early 2030s. Way back in 1987 as an undergraduate (in America) we had a NASA Engineer (as a guest lecturer) explain to us why terraforming Mars was utterly impractical. He'd just completed a project for NASA on what it would take. It was simply the amount of stuff needed to do the job. Before you even get to the subject of making things like water, oxygen and carbon dioxide cycles work you need to just get enough air and water. Its a subject I now call Planetary Mechanics which is doing basic calculations on volumes, mass and energy. He showed us just the basics. From that its relatively easy to calculate that to give Mars a layer 1km thick of Earth standard air requires 178 Trillion (with a 'T') tons of air. Plus you need to raise its temperature from -60C to +20C and that's a lot of energy for that much air. And you'd need a lot more than just 1km to make a planet viable. The related subject is Planetary Dynamics which is how you make things like the water and gas and thermodynamic cycles work which is incredibly complex. Planetary Mechanics is reasonably easy for anyone to grasp except for how big the numbers are, because its mostly just being able to calculate volumes and what mass it takes to fill that volume. That's how you get 178 Trillion tons of air. So coming back to Earth. Earths surface is just over 500,000,000 km² so in the first 1km above the Earths surface you have about 1/2 a Billion cubic kilometers of air. Its actually about 2% more than that. But its just easier to use 1/2 a Billion. Because if you want to consider the first 2km above the Earths surface its about 1 Billion cubic KILOMETERS of air and that's where most of the excess CO2 is and there's 2.5 Trillion tons of it we need to remove. So how do any of these clowns with plants that can do 1,000 tons per year plan to remove 2.5 Trillion tons? How much will it COST in BOTH money and materials to build all these plants? How much CO2 will be produced getting all those materials and building all those plants? How much energy with it take to just build those plants and then operate those plants? You don't need to explain the technology, because just the scope of the task rules it out as impractical. If you want to know why an aerospace engineer is interested in all this stuff its pretty simple. My goal in life was to build a moon base. You then start with a couple of very simple issues. How do you build a volume of space that you can seal so that you have somewhere to live? How do you fill that volume with air? How do you get enough water to sustain life, because water is life? How do you create just enough of biologic systems that they can become reasonably close to self sustaining so that you have enough air and food to survive? I think creating a 100% self sustaining system is impractical so the actual task is how close can you get for it to be practical in that it doesn't require too much effort to keep functioning. THEN FINALLY - how do you power it all? This is where Kirk Sorenson got to when he was at NASA and re-discovered molten salt reactors. If you want to do a video on this stuff let me know.
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  4311. The one thing that almost every right wing government in history has UNDERSTOOD is that the left think politics should be FAIR. I know its about America but Jeff Daniels famous answer applies to almost the entire Western World these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIpKfw17-yY Every country has good things about it but also some damn ugly realities they'd prefer NOBODY to speak about. I'm Australian and we love to brag to the world about how beautiful our reefs & beaches are and how amazing our wildlife is, but we are also the world champions of species extinction. The Great Barrier Reef, one of the worlds greatest treasures is, along with our river systems, under threat from mismanagement and greed. We are also right up there with uncontrolled land clearing. We keep voting in Right wing governments because they understand how people vote. The ugly reality is that people vote AGAINST what they are SCARED of or what they are ANGRY about or who they can BLAME.
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  4312. If you are American DON'T play the indigenous card in any way shape or fashion unless its in the most humble of ways. Of all the places where Europeans expanded, settled and/or colonized no matter how brutal it was in NO OTHER place was biological war used in an effort to completely exterminate the indigenous population. In America they laced blankets with small pox and then handed out the blankets. I am not absolving anyone else of their behavior. I'm Australian and we have some seriously bad history with our indigenous peoples. For sure anyone can scream at the Canadians (and others) for their treatment of indigenous populations. Anyone can scream and howl at the European atrocities across Africa and parts of Asia but there was only one place where biological warfare was used as part of an extermination program and that place was America. I'm not saying don't bring it up, I'm just warning that like many countries America isn't perfect and has some very dark historical moments.
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  4313.  @SStupendous  I saw an interview with Megyn Kelly (on Triggernometry) today. Its from a few months ago. I certainly don't agree with all she said, but she made some great points about how badly the media has failed everyone. Added to that she pointed out that its now almost impossible for anyone to do an effective job in politics because of how tribal the environment has become. No matter what you suggest there's always someone screaming back at you as they rile up some crowd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7zemtYf0Vw Sagaar & Marshall on the realignment interviewed Amy Chua about tribalism as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djn_bZu2B98
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  4314. Yes I agree the title of this is misleading, but then that's typical modern media they think we are all uneducated and ignorant.
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  4315.  @anhiirr  That's being said more and more often in various forms - "socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest of us." In fact some are putting it as "rapacious capitalism." I fear that the next time ANY western government goes to bail out a rich banker that its going to erupt. It wont matter how calm and civilized a nation is. If pushed to far anyone can explode. What so many forget is that ALL OF US have ancestors who were brutal ugly killers who found all sorts of ways to survive and breed and we all have their genes.
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  4316. I'd agree on most of it but, please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  4317.  @ericbitzer5247  Dude if you had any CT skills you'd see David Strait for the lying snake of a conman that he is. As for that vice video and I am assuming its this one -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5a7CV8U6vM The guy at the start of that video Tim Colburn, who had his child taken away. I really feel for him because THAT'S WRONG. Sure he did something wrong and deserved to be punished, but to then take a child from its parents like they have THAT'S WRONG and it doesn't matter what your beliefs are *THAT'S WRONG*. BUT what I hate even more is a con man taking advantage of it. THAT'S DISGUSTING and VILE Look Tim Colburn's claim at 2:49 in that other video "Instead of being a U.S. citizen I'm going to be an American national and it's going to have limited diplomatic immunity." THAT'S IDIOTIC. He has no idea of what diplomatic immunity is or why it exists. Diplomatic immunity can only be granted by a sovereign nation - period. It also requires the nation in which the person with that immunity is operating to agree to that immunity. No person can simply claim they have diplomatic immunity from a nation's laws. THAT'S RIDICULOUS THINK. If it were true then Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy or Jeffrey Dahmer could have claimed diplomatic immunity. If it were true any criminal could simply claim diplomatic immunity. Wake up dude you're being conned by a very clever liar.
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  4318. Australian here - this is one of the problems with progressives WORLD WIDE. In what is basically a war of ideas progressives KEEP LOSING with BETTER IDEAS. Here's WHY by illustration. I'm an aerospace engineer who works in industrial automation. A number of years ago while working with a German Robotics engineer I asked about something and he replied "Its in the manual." When he noticed that I was laughing he then said "Yes, I know our manuals are crap." So despite having one of the best industrial robots ever the manuals for helping people to use them were garbage AND THEY KNEW IT. This is exactly the same problem with progressives. They have better ideas but their messaging is so damn awful that nobody bothers with them. I just watched a video titled "The Two Economic Ideologies Dividing USA explained by Heather Cox Richardson" and she explained how the US Economy RIGHT NOW is the best its been for decades and better than most of the world AND YET TRUMP JUST WON THE ECONOMIC ARGUMENT. if you take the "ive" of the end of Progressive your left with progress. Try as a starting point progressives are about everyone making progress. Whether the discussion is crime, education, environment, economy,..... make the discussion about PROGRESS. Throw down on the conservatives "How are you ACTUALLY going to make this persons life better?"
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  4319. I'm Australian and been trying to tell people this stuff is going on EVERYWHERE. This is one aspect of the global economy - we all have the same sorts of issues. Reality denial, economics, housing, climate, political corruption, wealth disparity, cost of education, cost of living,... You name the problem and we all have some local variant of it.
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  4320.  @Gaeldx  Public Relations also known as corporate propaganda, spin or advertising, but more complex. PR departments make up ALL the stuff that is fed to the public via the media with the intent to create a narrative.
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  4321.  @davemould4638  Sorry but NO - it had ZERO effect on NASA or NASA contracts. You've missed the point. None of the Indian companies were in the mix to compete with NASA contracts and therefore had nothing to do with anything at NASA.
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  4322.  @JoeLancaster  if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and swims like a duck its probably a duck. How come people can't do that for scams?
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  4323. You have hit on part of the problem with conspiracy clowns. When one fact is dismissed they move onto the next claim totally ignoring the previous fact. Look at Marjorie Taylor Greene, she howls about pedophiles and then travels around the country with a person accused of sex trafficking a minor. Its what makes dealing with these people almost impossible. You can only teach reality to somebody who wants to understand reality in the first place and these people just aren't interested in reality.
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  4324. You're absolutely right and I agree with all the comments that YT lets me see. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). It greatly saddens me to see where America is right now, but when I look around the rest of the world is doing the same sorts of things. We have tighter rules but still have too much money in our politics and its getting worse. I was in Canada for work a couple of years ago and the political stuff going on there was so like Australia that if it hadn't been for the snow and accents I would not have known I was in Canada. I just watched a DW (German) report on industrial avocado farming in Portugal and they have the same problem as we have with industrial nut farming and California has with industrial farming. The big money outfits pay-off the local authorities with CAMPAIGN MONEY to get access to water AND Its the same story and same sets of excuses: "We are investing jobs." or "We are investing communities." AND there's a common result. All the local existing famers get starved out of water with the infrastructure gets privatised. Its short term gain irrespective of long term pain.
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  4325.  @thesun6211  Buddy every time they try those sorts of Laws ANYWHERE they mysteriously get shelved. Here in Australia we have been trying to get those laws for decades and every time someone finds out big money might be getting favors the other side of politics proposes them and we all go "Yeah we should have those sorts of laws." And that's the last we hear about it until the next time. In recent years BOTH sides of Australian politics have been getting buckets of money from Chinese businessmen. We don't have the foreign money laws America does. It turns out we have had the same from the British, Americans and Japanese as well FOR DECADES. Every time its gets talked about we all agree that we should have laws against foreign funding of Australian politics. And that's the last we hear about it until the next time. I bet you'll find every other democracy on the planet has similar campaign funding issues and everyone agrees to fix it and nobody fixes it for the same reasons. The political establishments need that money to pound us with their crap.
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  4326.  @wwetnabamafan194  Yeah, you're right. Think about your college football stadium and just imagine if somebody killed every one in the stadium and then did the next week and the week after that. These people who have down played the size and scope of this tragedy are simply disgusting. I do hope that a way is found to hold them accountable.
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  4327.  @bobbafett1849  Like several other replies I agree. If he's smart enough to go to Harvard and then Yale and do law he's smart enough to know he's speaking crap.
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  4328.  @noel7777noel  And although I agree YT needs some better filtering all their efforts so far have been abysmal failures. I have seen people get videos taken down for debunking false claims because those vids mentioned certain words too many times.
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  4329.  @lnsflare1  That's a fair point and its just a fair that others might have photographed them. Every smartphone has a camera. I'd also take that tweet about the CIA claim that agents are dying with a tone of scepticism until the Director of the CIA stands in front of a microphone and says it. Twitter is not place where facts thrive.
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  4330.  @Amick44  And he wasn't the first. There was the spoiled son of a Texas Oil Billionaire who at one stage had a serious drug problem and was basically out of control. After getting clean and becoming quite religious he became the governor Texas before becoming America's 43rd President. He not only illegally invaded another country (Iraq) in violation of international law he convinced other countries to join in. That resulted in at least 170,000 innocent civilians dying and by some estimates over 1,000,000 innocent civilians dying in the ensuing violence. Neither George W Bush nor any of the others involved have ever been investigated let alone charged or been held accountable in any way over the invasion of Iraq or any of the atrocities that followed. Notably one of the main protagonists in that, John Bolton, is these days travelling the world freely under the protection of a US Diplomatic Passport.
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  4331. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and also have worked in Canada (awesome country by the way). I can remember telling my friends that America could not keep going down the path it was on. The signs were subtle but if you looked you could see they were on a slippery slope. The unrestrained free-market capitalism they advocated was obviously flawed if you scratched beneath the surface. Don't get me wrong I am NOT against the free-market as its shown for mass produced goods with many suppliers, variety of options and a broad end user base its fantastic. BUT for things like this drug where there is only a single supplier (as in a monopoly) or limited supply it just doesn't work. There's an odd flaw in American society and that is they can't grasp well the idea that something that works well in one place might not work well in other places. I don't think that's unique to America or Americans but they certainly seem to do it worse than most other people or at least louder than other people.
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  4332. Well actually Comey didn't say anything but "consider" and that might be just a warning that Joe Biden needs to have an answer ready. Those millions of Trump supporters aren't simply going to disappear or be silent. They will likely be demanding pardons in future. But in the American system pardons have a catch and that is - accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt. Glenn Kirschner (retired JAG & Federal Prosecutor) just today did a vid on this catch with pardons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baWkPCQzgoQ
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  4333.  @melodyyoung9640  Australian here and following my earlier comment I can say the same thing about Australia that you just said about Canada. I was in Canada for work late 2017 and it was bizarre how similar our countries are. They way Canadians speak about Ottawa is identical to how we speak about Canberra. We get a lot of British and European news here and I think we can say similar about London, Brussels, Berlin Paris, Rome and the rest. I know enough about America (I went to college there) that Americans feel the same about Washington.
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  4334.  @melodyyoung9640  I spent 4 months in Saskatchewan in late 2017 early 2018 so I know full well about some of the views people have there. I was quietly warned to be very careful about certain subjects in rural areas. Other than that I loved the place, loved the people and sorry but I am now Roughrider fan. I just found their way of speaking about Ottawa so similar to our way of speaking about Canberra.
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  4335. What's also in this is how much of a complete suck up Chris Anderson the Founder of TED & TEDx and how much brand damage that's doing. if you go a few years back there were some great TED & TEDx talks but I haven't seen a lot lately. I have these bookmarked for reference. 2013 Don Pettit's "The tyranny of the rocket equation" 2014 Nick Hanauer's "Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming" 2017 Lera Boroditsky's "How language shapes the way we think" 2018 Emily Calandrelli's "Making science nicer, stupid" One of my favourite speakers Dr. Jonathan Trent has a bunch of TED/TEDx talks going back over decade but NONE for over 5 years. Go look at some of the stuff they now do. It comes across as a techno-hippie convention.
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  4336. Its November 2022 and "Here we are again!" FTX another bunch of people in roughly the same age group. Look at the attitude he displays just 2 minutes in. Look at the attitude of senior people who should have known better.
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  4337. HEY KYLE. If you claiming to be DIFFERENT to main stream media then STOP putting up misleading titles. You capitalise the word "FORCES" when that is untrue. Putin's done exactly what other political leaders have done. He's the same thing America did in WW2, Korea and Vietnam. America forced people to pick up a guns and kill people. As for the nuclear option SMARER people than you have been discussing this aspect for months.
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  4338. That's an idiotic statement the deserves all the scorn on the world when THE REAL REASON WAS COST The French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracudas and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered equivalent - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT? It was like asking someone to by a Renault or Peugeot for $75,000 after selling the same car with an upgraded engine $20,000. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4339.  @cero2277  Yeah sure! Sadly for ignorant trumpheads like yourself the rest of us have ACTUAL FACTS to go on. These are ALL official US Government websites. You might be just a bit anti-science but before you scream about NASA and NOAA why don't you explain to all of us how the Pentagon has publicly told the entire world about the extra money climate change will cost in maintaining all its bases? NASA -> https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ NOAA -> https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide Pentagon -> https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jan/29/2002084200/-1/-1/F1/CLIMATE-CHANGE-REPORT-2019.PDF
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  4340. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980. “Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” ― Rod Sterling in his introduction to the Twilight episode “The Obsolete Man” originally aired on June 2, 1961 on CBS. “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ― Isaac Asimov And 2 of the best: “I think it would be very, very, I think we’d have a very, very solid, we would continue what we’re doing, we’d solidify what we’ve done, and we have other things on our plate that we want to get done” ― Donald Trump answering the NY Times on his 2nd term agenda. August 2020. “Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a state of utter confusion.” ― Colonel Flagg of the CIA (M.A.S.H.)
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  4341.  @zachthamm9595  For starters America has NEVER had a true working class party. Both Parties started among elitists who thought they knew better. The Dems only started adopting the working class when they went with the "New Deal" tracking back to their earliest days you get a pack of pro-slavery white supremacists. Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and others have Labour Parties that started among the trade unions. Yes in recent decades they have dropped that for the "New Labour" which is basically a pack of elitist over educated wankers singing versions of Kumbaya, but at least they have some foundation in the working class. The rest of Europe is similar and actually have Communist/Marxist parties that aren't the repugnant Stalinist Totalitarian pieces of garbage the Russians served up across the Eastern Block. But even they have gone through a variation of "New Labour" and are no mainly overeducated wankers as well.
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  4342.  @lorenzoblum868  I saw you other comment and it made sense, but why is "Stupid people in large groups." an Oxymoron? Considering Hitler's use of rallies in the past, North Korea's "Massed Games" and Trumps use of rallies them now. It seems more likely than not that stupid people like to gather in large groups and reinforce each others stupidity. Particularly if their leader is in politics. If your looking for a real oxymoron try this: "Honesty in politics"
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  4343.  @TheMercilessEye  She's been doing some really great long interviews here on YT lately. She's really worth watching.
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  4344.  @darlenenapoletano5072  That's simple there was no amendment in the constitution for the protection of common sense like there is for free speech and guns.
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  4345.  @chaserofthelight1737  Yeah and you don't need to give me credit. No one can take credit for common sense, but you can spread it around. No one can take credit for basic facts, but you can tell others what those facts are and NOT embellish them or take them out of context.
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  4346. If AOC has any brain function at all it would be to run from the Lincoln Project so fast she could qualify for the Olympics.
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  4347. Half the problem in this is that there are some very serious issues that need to be asked of Dr. Fauci on the subject of what was actually going on at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and what involvement other nations including America had. Sagaar Enjeti (at the Hill) raised this article the other day that was done by Nicholas Wade. Its very well done, but its a longer article than most people will read. -> https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/ In a nutshell: - There was "gain of function" research going on in Wuhan. - There was research there being funded by other nations including America. - One of the main people investigating Wuhan with the W.H.O. Peter Daszak has an obvious conflict of interest. As a result we DO NOT have a fully detailed account of what was going on in Wuhan. From that article and other professionals I have heard, I do NOT think it was a genetically engineered weapon. Most likely it was something that became modified or enhanced in the lab that got out into the general population. How it became modified or enhanced is something NO ONE has answered. Its possible it was from deliberate "gain of function" research. Its also possible it just came from an accidental mutation in a petri dish. We just don't know and one of the principal investigators has a serious conflict of interest. BUT Rand Paul is the worst kind of opportunistic maggot politician to be asking anything of such a serious subject and we wont get the answers we need with a clown like him running the show. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4348. Scrolling down the list of comments yours is the first one I have seen with any sort of balance or nuance. Well done.
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  4349.  @RunForPeace-hk1cu  Your on the right track as a few others are concluding. The rational sensible discussions we should have had 12-15 months ago didn't happen because it all got dragged into the DEM-vs-GOP culture war. Hopefully people will start realizing just how destructive the culture war actually is. Its cost 10s of 1000s of lives and that's just the start of what its done.
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  4350. For everyone interested here's the full Henry Wallace quote from the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  4351. When I first read you comment I was about to explode then saw your point and its tragically accurate. I'm Australian but graduated U. Illinois (please don't remind me of Kelly Loeffler either). If I add up the populations of Illinois, Wisconsin & Indiana its 25.2 million which is very closely to Australia's 25.6 million. The data below is from -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Australia has 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Wisconsin & Indiana have over 32,000 COVID fatalities Australia has over 1,800 active cases (which is actually climbing) while Illinois, Wisconsin & Indiana have just under 440,000 active cases (but its a falling). Illinois, Wisconsin & Indiana had 272 die yesterday. At that rate each week Illinois, Wisconsin & Indiana have more people die than Australia has had in the entire Pandemic. I was born in Australia I went to college in Illinois I know both places and the differences in geography and population concentration and the winter conditions and NONE of that explains those differences other than an absolute failure of leadership. Just so you and other Americans know, you do have friends in the world and we do care and do want to see American get past this mess.
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  4352. Her bio makes for interesting reading. Particularly her activism before getting elected and who she wrote articles for. She's been at this a while and I have no idea why it surprised Kyle why she sees herself as a VP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene#Early_career_and_activism
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  4353.  @davehendricks4824  What DOJ? You know that thing that criminals used to be scared of? Yeah - That DOJ!
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  4354. To All: We have had similar problems in Australia. We have done very well in containing the virus, but it has come at a huge economic cost that we are starting to come out of but we do have some industries that will not recover quickly. Our international tourism and international student industries will take a long time to recover. Just as this guy pointed out "essential services" we've had some of the same. We shut down many many industries but strangely construction and mining were somehow considered essential and allowed to go on. Our major sports codes were somehow considered "essential" and allowed to restart without crowds, just like the NFL in America and soccer in Europe. From what I have heard its been similar in other countries where strangely some industries got exemptions. FYI - I went to college in America. You are a great country with great people. I genuinely hope you guys get past this. The world has stuff we need to get on with. After COVID we still have climate change, the middle east, refugees and other issues. We can't deal with these bigger planet wide issues without America on board. Where ever you are - take care & stay safe. 👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
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  4355. Good reply. Thom is right about many things in this but the Bible does NOT have abortion other than to mention that if you injure a pregnant woman who then miscarries from that injury you can be held accountable. On the subject of slaves the word in the bible for slaves also means EMPLOYEEs. The actual word for employee and the modern concept of employee is very recent in terms of history. There are so many ideas and concepts in the bible that have been misrepresented and misconstrued by organised religion it staggering that anyone even links the bible to religion any more. that moment when Trump held up a bible and it was upside down was maybe one of the most accurate representations of religion ever - they have it upside down.
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  4356. Sadly there are porn stars, hookers and junkies with more self respect than Kayleigh McEnany. She is actually the mother of a daughter who claimed that Trump was a leader for her daughter to grow up under. Somehow she thinks a guy who's cheated on all his wives is a good role male model for a young girl.
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  4357. As an Australian I do understand your sentiment and we are having serious public discussions here right now about our future, but the British Royal family is not even close to a fraction of 1% of the problem. Do they represent a part of the problem? Absolutely and that's a significant part of our discussions - hereditary entitlement. Don't forget the British Crown was clipped of a lot of its entitlement with the Magna Carta. Yeah for centuries people claimed to do things in the name of the crown, which a major talking point here in Oz right now, but the actual King or Queen had NOTHING to do with any of it other than sign stuff they were told by the British Parliament to sign. If you have a look at it the Magna Carta is lauded as this "landmark of rights" document and it actually wasn't. It was this landmark "we the aristocracy shall have the real power while you the clown with the crown shall sign for everything." The current oligarchs are just an updated version of the old feudal aristocrats. Look at Trump and his kids. they are perfect examples of hereditary wealth and entitlement. Also, in case you missed it, during the last time Australia had the discussion Charles actually said that the rest of the commonwealth needed to grow up. He wasn't blunt about it, but tactfully said something like "reaching maturity" or "now that you are mature nations you should reconsider your positions."
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  4358.  @marybusch6182  I don't think it was 29 trillion but it is was in the trillions, but you'll love this comment from Brown U. Professor Mark Blyth during a wash up lecture after Trump won in 2016. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmBG3Z4DI&t=1104s In finding explanations for why people voted for Trump he and others have pointed out just how bad BOTH the DNC and GOP establishments have treated a massive slab of the American population. Here's Richard Wolf on it and he's a professor who teaches Marxism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s Just the other day as I was watching a vid bagging Trump (again) there was this image of Trump supporter at a rally holding a banner that said "Deplorable Lives Matter." That's very telling in an odd way, because what its saying is that "you elitists have thrown us into the gutter and we don't deserve it and we do deserve some dignity." No one can condone or excuse how the Trump base has behaved, its just shite, but that one guy had a valid point: "You can't just dump people in the gutter." And both the DNC and GOP are guilty of that.
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  4359. Best words Kyle has said in a while "the fact that this guy ever had any power when he's been wrong about everything is a true indictment on the system"
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  4360. Australian here - He learned a very valuable lesson from Rupert Murdoch. selling rage is profitable. Prof Mark Blyth (Brown U.) pointed out a while back that the Murdoch's main product was rage. He went on to explain how they keep their audience entrapped by being outraged at what they keep hearing. It doesn't matter if a story is true or not so long as the audience is outraged.
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  4361. Question to Americans - Do any of you know that there were 1,000s of foreign observers at the 2020 election? There's nothing unusual about that as it happens at almost EVERY major election in the world. In most cases those observers are not there see if things are wrong BUT to see if they can improve their own systems. I'm Australian but went to college in America and it pains me to watch all this nonsense and even more so because the Murdochs (who are Australian) are involved. I'm just wondering because I have NOT SEEN any American comment on this. Australia like many other nations had observers there in America in 2020 to see what we might learn and then run our own elections better. As far as I know NOT ONE foreign observer from any nation has reported ANYTHING unusual as having happened in 2020. Where there are questions is on voting eligibility as in, which we normally reserve for 3rd world dictatorships. Is every American who can legally vote and who wants to vote being allowed to vote? Yes we know that in America voting is NOT compulsory like it is here in Australia, but WE ALSO KNOW that way back in 1999 Jeb Bush had 1,000s of names removed from voter registration roles in Florida and that the system used to remove those names was biased towards African Americans who (at that time) tended to vote Democrat. WE ALSO KNOW that it was the Roberts lead Supreme court who decided the outcome of Florida in 2000 NOT the voters of Florida.
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  4362.  @tokenetta8070  Look at what you just said. Sorry but you are WRONG for people like Megyn and AOC and the Kardashians and every other media PRODUCER being the center of attention is EVERYTHING. For that other participants like we are, we are just players putting out hands up to be heard without necessarily engaging anyone else. They actively seek to engage an audience we don't.
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  4363.  @bernlin2000  That's a good summary. I've seen her talk quite intelligently a few times AND THEN just when you think "maybe, just maybe" she falls straight back into that (as you put it) "politically dogmatic bullshit." Its like she has a few braincells that work and every time they rise above the noise the rest jump up and drag them back down.
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  4364.  @blackknight4996  There's a really smart sensible TEDx done by another engineer Emily Calandrelli called "Making science nicer, stupid" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9haKpJakU4 Yeah I know the whole "T" for technology in TED/TEDx has deteriorated in the last couple of years into fantasy futurism crap, but that talk is from when it still meant something and they had quality people on. Emily pointed out that one of the biggest issues in the world right now is STEM literacy coupled with STEM people NOT talking sensibly to the world. these days I get way more frustrated with the techno-promoters than almost anyone. Every time some techno-promoter says something that the media jumps onto it can take months if not years to straighten out. Look at Prof Wolff's comments on automation, robotics and AI. He's just repeating what so many have said. Here's a perfect example of the garbage about automation and if you tried to remove this item of automation from society 1/2 of the developed world will simply kill you. Its called the clothes washing machine. Prior to it, women had to wash EVERYTHING BY HAND 1 item at a time. There was a TV series back in 2000 called the 1900 house. They took a typical family of 5 (2 girls and 1 boy) and put them into a 1900 tenement house where they had taken out EVERYTHING made after 1901. I only saw a few episodes but there was 1 where the wife explained laundry. After explaining how much time it took, she said "No wonder girls didn't go to school!" So when people bash automation I like to tell them "Fine lets start with washing machines, so that girls DON'T get to go to school and learn how to read an write and when that special time of the month comes around there wont be any modern products for that either." People forget all the automation in their lives that make things easier and better.
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  4365. Well pointed out this is not simply a matter of definition its a matter of public confusion because of partisan politics. I'm an aerospace engineer who did post graduate research. What angers me so much with this argument is that we are NOT getting a clear picture of what the NIH was doing in Wuhan. I remember that May 11 confrontation, because it was just after the Wade Nichols article, and yes I know there's been some debunking of that article. -> https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/ But following on from that article others posted links to these NIH project reports which clearly show NIH funding to Ecohealth Alliance and managed by Peter Daszak for Corona virus research in China. https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9491676 https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9819304 I'm not a virologist or epidemiologist (an most of us aren't). I do know what researchers can be like. At times very fine details and definitions are incredibly important because they can be doing work that is right at the balance point between 1 definition and another. For anyone who has never done research or development that's more common than you think. I did a water treatment plant a couple of years back where we had to be EXTREMELY careful about everything we said or wrote in emails and reports because there were 2 competing companies, both with patents pending that were very, very close in what they claimed as original work. Its quite possible that how researchers define Gain of Function and where they draw the line between it and other methods might not make sense to the rest of us but makes perfect sense to them. We DO NEED is clarity from an expert in the field as to why certain research is regarded as Gain of Function and some is NOT. I don't want to hear from any more commentators or politicians about this - I WANT TO HEAR FROM AN EXPERT.
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  4366. I'm Australian and I'd never heard of this until today. I'm an engineer and this is a truly incredible achievement just to get it this far.
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  4367. You know what the difference between a rattle snake and Ted Cruz is? One makes a loud noise to scare you and if that doesn't work it'll bite and poison you. You might not die but you will feel like shit. The other one is a snake and actually does have a backbone.
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  4368.  @janetsmirror  Yeah Glenn Kirschner pointed out recently the shift in Lindsay Graham and linked to the hacking of his email accounts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbaXO_Ogw4I Its all circumstantial but very compelling. And notice what the subject of Glenn's vid actually is -> Why Is Lindsey Graham Saying Biden's AG Must Not Investigate Trump? You're absolutely right except its not just Ted Cruz and I don't think its limited to Lindsay Graham. I know people like to go on about the Russians but look back and you'll find this is exactly how J. Edgar Hoover operated for years with his "private files" that were shredded the day after he died.
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  4369.  @johnasbury9915  That's the original Watt micrometer. Its scattered across several videos starting with the one on the "Origins of Precision" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNRnrn5DE58 He actually made one here's part of the build -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVROA6UZxNg And did a whole video on it -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K_NQlmOwqM
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  4370. What a complete waste of 5 minutes and 47 seconds of everyone's time. As is we all didn't know that Biden Presidency would not involve a hoard of Globalist Elites. For "F" sake Saagar try telling us stuff we don't know - that's called journalism, the process of spreading relevant information.
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  4371. He's actually crossed a line in this and a very dangerous one - and he should know better. If you are going to be a media commentator then you have to have some disconnection or you are just another propaganda outlet. If you think through this then its actually not a good thing. Notifying people of this fund is one thing. Promoting or supporting it is very close to the edge of being propaganda. BUT setting it up when you are a media outlet/producer is over the line. His hearts in the right place and getting rid of McConnell is a good thing for America and Western Democracy in general. There are other people in other countries doing the same (or similar) thing McConnell does. Getting rid of these people is good for the world, but its no good getting rid of them in a way that ends up helping the next McConnell get elected. Just think how many times Trump screamed about biased media and his base lapped it up.
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  4372.  @lynnmeyers4642  Yeah nut most of the internet ISN'T impartial. I don't have a problem with any of them being biased. Sure its annoying, but so long as they DON'T actively set up things like this they can at least claim they have some level of impartiality or integrity. This is the great claim FOR & AGAINST Fox. They claim to be "Fair & Honest" and to their supporters they are, but anybody with brain function who KNOWS how Rupert Murdoch operates KNOWS they are NOT fair or honest. One of the things Murdoch and his minions are incredibly good at is dragging opponents down to their level and using it against them. I like BTC, he does some great interviews and his analysis is straight forward. I'm just worried this will get used against him.
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  4373.  @3natey  Oops! Be careful to speak against the Clintons is asking for trouble. there are many who still think he was a genius and she's a saint who was bullied by a pig.
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  4374.  @leightonemitchellify I am hoping that he's got his people dotting every "i" and crossing every "t" so that slippery orange clown doesn't slip by a third time. Lets not forget that 74million voted for him and the only way they MIGHT accept it is if the evidence is so overwhelming that they have to accept it. That's not going to be easy considering how little they can grasp facts now. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4375. To All Americans: DO YOU RELIALIZE HOW BIG THIS ISSUE IS FOR ALL DEMOCRACIES? I'm Australian and this affects EVERY DEMOCRACY. America spent most of the last 75 years calling itself the "Leader of the free (as in democratic) world" as opposed to the NOT FREE Communist/Socialist World. The entire Puritanical Ideology of the RADICAL American Right threatens everybody's freedom in every democratically free nation. This behavior of NOT ACCEPTING and election result is what 3rd world dictators do. It was most recently done in Myanmar and Sudan. How many of you know that in many of those counting rooms there were International Observers as there always is for major elections? Most of the developed world INVITE people from everywhere else to show them HOW they conduct free and fair elections. When we have elections there are American Observers here. They don't come here looking for illegal stuff they come to watch, to sometimes advise, but mostly to see how we do it. We also sent observers to America in 2020. NOT 1 International Observer from ANYWHERE has made any claim or even questioned the integrity of the 2020 US General Elections. Yes America its not just the Dems and judges and a few Republicans saying it was fair and free. It is also the opinion of accredited observers from all over the world. If all of you want America to survive and I hope you do then STOMP on this garbage once and for all. There are real issues in the world with economies, refugees, famine and the biggest of all CLIMATE that is almost impossible to handle with America malfunctioning.
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  4376.  @belladonnahigh9206  You just started by contradicting your first comment. You say its not your side and you took a side. People like are so full of shite and you don't even know how full if shite you are. You said I'm from California. What a bullshit assumption. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in Illinois on a sports scholarship. I utterly HATE what the Dems, GOP and media have done to America. I hate STUPID people like you because you take these idiotic stances of "my side is perfect and their side is corrupt." We have the same stupidity here but NOT YET as toxic despite people trying. I just watched an interview with Rick Wilson on DW where he goes on about how Trump is so corrupt and how toxic the GOP now is. What's foul about his claims is that he was one of the main architects of over 1,000 toxic GOP campaigns and that's his OWN ADMISSION.
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  4377.  @Angel-te2jt  Thanks and your right its all gone tribal. Have you listened to Mark Blyth? In writing the book Angrynomics with Eric Lonergan they both talk about sports fans and in particular football (soccer) fans because when they're in the UK they go to matches. Apparently at one such game they realised where the anger was often aimed. It wasn't at the other side or the other fans or the referee or even their own team. Most of the anger is fans against other fans in their group for insufficient loyalty. He talks about it often here's one example at 29:35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJH0LIKdC-A What are we seeing right now among Trump supporters and the way they react to each other and the rest of the conservatives? Look at the threats they throw at each other and usually its over loyalty to "the team."
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  4378. @Hellig Usvart I haven't copied or pasted a single thing DK-HED. Like all your soft cok kind you can't handle facts.
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  4379.  @menzicosce  Great way to describe them "anyone whose dream in life is to be in power over others should be naturally suspect." I wonder if that is considered an characteristic of narcissism or a consequence of narcissism?
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  4380.  @menzicosce  I had to check the reference. I like PF a lot but never had that album. And you are dead right - the opening verse. Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere And build them a home, a little place of their own. The Fletcher Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings.
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  4381. In Australia we are trying real hard to get there 2. We had some idiots drop the ball and delta got lose.
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  4382. Sorry but AI will already be using it as a data source for WHAT NOT TO DO. Everything that is digitised as data including our comments right here right now is food for the AI beast. I am an aerospace engineer so you might expect I am pro-technology because that's how I make my living. I am 100% against AI for some simple reasons. 1) We DO NOT NEED IT despite all the promises and claims we DO NOT NEED IT. Yes, there are some things that it will help speed up but WE DO NOT NEED IT to get any of those tasks done. 2) Its a technology that has been massively over played on its capabilities and what it can actually do and most importantly HOW IT WORKS. AI for all the claims DOES NOT THINK and NEVER HAS. It calculates statistical probabilities based on the available data. Its just doing it in such a complicated way and considering so many variables that it appears to be thinking. 3) It has been proven time and time again that BAD DATA makes for bad simulations. Almost every engineer is told the simple thing of "garbage in, garbage out" when it comes to any and every form of simulation. The great problem of AI right now is that its being trained on public information WITHOUT first being trained on what the some concept of a FACT is. 4) The most egregious aspect of AI is that we have unleashed a technology that few understand and without any consideration of the effects whether they be short term effects or long term effects. Its being driven by technology obsessed narcissists who believe they know what you want, what you need and how you should think. Many years ago back in High School we studied a book that was as boring and depressing as any book any kid in High School ever read. It was about a man named Winston who lived in the middle class of his society. He had a good job for that society and even found a girl and fell in love with her. But it was a society where EVERYTHING was monitored and facts were what the ruling party decided what they were. One day Winston in his job came across a photo that he should not have had because it contradicted the facts as the ruling party had decided they were. Unfortunately took Winston down a fateful path. Eventually he was taken by the ruling and tortured. Eventually he broke and betrayed the girl he loved. Right now someone's AI is reading this and that AI is also noting that you have read this far. That book I studied in High School was George Orwell's novel "1984."
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  4383. Why don't you go an try the simple logic on a fan of Sky NEWS and see how they take a dose of reality. Be warned they take logic, common sense and reality like a feral cat with a tooth ache.
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  4384.  @ivovlot4094  Health care professionals??? That must be interesting. I know Florida has been one of the hardest hit states. They must be having issues with the response and the wild claims. If they are well educated then there's a real chance that they will be faced with something they can't deny. Be hopeful for it and be ready when it happens. Quite likely they'll need support. Sooner or later Trumps fantasy will crumble. When it does there'll be a lot of upset and angry people. They'll all need support.
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  4385. It wasn't so much Air France but Airbus who held the rights to the engines and airframe maintenance. They refused to keep the planes serviceable. It was done to help sales of planes like the A380. There was a really good documentary made just after the retirement of Concorde made with the British Pilots who flew it. It went into all sorts of things about the running of the British Airways Concorde division.
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  4386.  @matthewfusaro2590  US tanks are not the only things that fire depleted uranium slugs and anyway anyone wants to try and explain it is irrelevant. Like several other things they should be outlawed - period. You are quite wrong kids don't play with them. They get fired at such high velocities that they disintegrate on impact with anything, which is worse because then then an entire area is contaminated with almost no way to ever clean it up. Its possible fragments might survive but in general there isn't anything left but microscopic bits.
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  4387.  @Kiljaedenas  What??? Are you trying to tell me that was a movie. WTF - we all thought it was a documentary. 🤷🤷🤷
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  4388.  @Kiljaedenas  🤐 Got it.
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  4389. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  4390.  @djluminol  You forgot to mention that it was said in 1944 and Trump was born in 1946 and Reagan only cam to power in 1976. Because the valid question is: What and/or Who did Henry Wallace see in 1944 that made him say that? That's something no one has answered. Either Henry Wallace had a time portal to look into or in his day there were Trumpists. Trump wasn't an aberration he was the result of ignoring a problem that was coming like a freight train at a level crossing - big, huge, easily seen and has its horn blasting out as a warning as it gets closer and closer. And all America did was park the family car on that crossing looking out the window wondering what that big, huge thing with the horn blasting at them is. The real question is - will America learn that getting hit by a train as you sit on a level crossing ignoring reality isn't smart or will they simply park the next car on the same spot and wait for the next train?
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  4391. Having worked in the Australian auto sector in the past the one thing management no longer wants to EVER hear is problems. Half the reason we have the supply chain issues we have is because a new management strategy emerged in the late 90s, festered during the 2000s and metastasized in the 2010s into the current shitfest. Its called the "Unless you going to tell me how I will get my bonus this quarter you're fired!" management strategy. It hasn't worked out well for anyone.
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  4392. Aerospace engineer here - GREAT COMMENT.
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  4393. There is NOTHING NEW about this and its NOT an American thing either. Here in Australia we have this done by both side of politics in the past. At one point the state of Queensland used to have the joke that sheep voted because the gerrymandering was so favorable towards farming areas.
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  4394. @@MilesjDoyle You have NOT done God, Jesus or the Bible any favors with that rant. And before you reply go and read as in ACTUALLY READ Matthew 7 and have a good hard think about WHAT SORT sort of person is being spoken about. For those unfamiliar Matthew 7 is the last of 3 chapters covering the Sermon on the Mount and its a chapter of the Bible that many many people wished wasn't there because Jesus not only says there would be FALSE prophets who would claim to be his most devout followers and do amazing things in his name but he described how to spot them.
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  4395.  @Boris80b  That was sort of obvious. I have a few friends who after spending time in Australia and then going back had mind flips. It was similar for me. After 3-1/2 years at Illinois I saw Australia in a different context. You might like this, its a context shift of a fun kind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64mWOoj68qo
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  4396. Can we simply accept that Hunter Biden is NOT WORTH DISCUSSING??? If Ivanka and Jared earning $400 million while they WORKED in the WHITE HOUSE isn't a talking point then Hunter Biden isn't either.
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  4397.  @postmodernmarxistnihilist4282  I seriously hope you are right and that its not as big of a percentage as some have previously estimated. Don't forget the most recent estimates were that over 50million of the 74 believed the election was stolen and that electoral fraud did happen. That's 15 million more than the entire population of Canada. That's DOUBLE the entire population of the New York statistical area. nearly DOUBLE the entire population of Texas and over 10 million more than the entire population of California. 50 million pissed of well armed people with stockpiles of ammunition is an incredibly dangerous reality that's only more dangerous because they have just had 10 weeks of bullshit rammed down their throats by a narcissistic sociopath who's only intent was making as much money as possible to pay off his campaign debts. ANYBODY who thinks this isn't still an insanely dangerous situation and will remain that way for some time is being foolish. Do you think they will just un-Trump themselves and simply hand over the guns and ammunition so that the rest of America can feel safe?
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  4398. 🤫🤫🤫🤫Shhh - we want him to forget we exist.
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  4399. ACTUALLY - Milton Freidman broke a lot more then the American Economy. The neoliberal economic model was exported via the text books written by professors from Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge,... and published by Harvard Press, Yale Press, Oxford Press, Cambridge Press,... and extolled by the graduates of Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge,... I'm an Australian Engineer who's been trying to the real reason behind the energy crisis. Sorry if this explanation is longish. I found out a few years ago that Australia had a very serious energy issue that NOBODY wanted to publicly discuss in any sensible way because it was actually caused by economists. What I found is we have NOT built any new large scale bulk delivery power stations. These are the ones called "base load" power stations. These keep society running 24/7. They are typically big generating over 1,000 Megawatts. But being big they do not respond to the power grid's daily fluctuations and cycle. That's why there's the other type of power station called "load following" or "on demand." They're smaller and are purposefully designed to respond to the power grid's daily fluctuations and cycle. Modern societies need both types to run effectively. There is no problem anywhere with the load following systems. Being smaller, cheaper and quicker to build they are relatively sound investments for the private sector. Base load power stations tend to be massive investments taking years to plan, approve, build and then pay off. Try telling a board they will spend over $10 Billion and not see a return on investment for over 20 years. I recently calculated that the Hinkley Point C power station in Britain will take over 30 years before being paid off an start to return on the investment and that was based on the £26 Billion it was quoted at NOT the £35 Billion its estimated at right now. Governments can build large bulk baseload power because governments are NOT judged on profit. They are judged on GDP and employment numbers. Big power stations with regulated prices help grow an economy. New or expanding businesses can be assured they will get cheap reliable power. Its pretty good for a politician when GDP and employment grows. The only way private enterprises can build them is with massive government subsidies and tax benefits. HOWEVER - Private enterprises love buying EXISTING large base load power stations from governments because they don't have to spend years waiting. They buy them and start making money the next day. Then they start cutting any and every cost they can to make as much profit as possible. AFTER THAT comes the market manipulation. It takes several years but by NOT building any other new base load power stations INCREASED DEMAND via POPULATION GROWTH eventually flips the market from over supply to under supply and when that happens the market surges and profits surge with it. Private business DO NOT CARE about GDP or employment. As Milton Freidman said "There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits..." When I looked around the world there's been almost no large base load power stations been built anywhere in the developed world since the 1990s. This is why so many developed economies are failing. One exception is Texas but then Texas has few regulations allowing companies to cut corners which is why their grid failed when it got cold. Energy has been steadily climbing ever since the great Privatisation push in the 1990s. The War in Ukraine had nothing to do with the fundamental problem of the energy crisis, but it has made it worse. Everywhere people were promised that competition would provide better services at lower costs. WE WERE LIED TO Sorry for the long answer, but if you guys want I'll happily contribute to a video story.
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  4400. What's truly staggering is if put ion that mix Ted Cruz's education and achievements at college. Cruz graduated cum laude (at least top 30%) from Princeton University and magna cum laude (at least top 15%) at Harvard Law School. In 1992 he won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship and finished top 4 at World debating Championship. He's seriously smart which begs the question: WHAT do they have on him to act so stupid?
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  4401.  @craiggallagher7292  I agree on all but he should be able to twist a clown like Carlson inside out while asleep. So I'm wondering WHY? His wife works at Goldman Sachs and would be on huge money. So it can't be for money. My bet is he's done something or his wife did something and they hold the key to it. If you or someone else has a better explanation why someone with his abilities gets cucked the way he does - go for it.
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  4402.  @jimreadey2743  Considering the subject - WTF sort of narcissistic crap are you on about?
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  4403.  @dpmjole  All American personnel are protected by the Bill that Bush put in place. There's details about it on Wikipedia. For Biden to do anything he'd have to get that Bill overturned and then resign America to the ICC. If there was even the slightest suggestion of ANY American official trying to promote that there'd be 2 sharp pops. 1 pop as the bullet leaves the gun and a 2nd pop when it enters the head. There's too many people in America with "questionable events" in the backgrounds to let that happen.
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  4404.  @dpmjole  That sounds like stuff written by John Yoo who was the Lawyer who authored the infamous "torture memo" Go read the Wikipedia page for him. There's comments there about him and others how they should never leave the protection of the US. But the best is that he's now a tenured Law Professor at UC Berkley.
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  4405.  @Old_Hippie  I'd agree with that except Fox has a lot more than just 3million viewers. As for the something else there's a bunch watching the same sort of culture war stuff in other places (YouTube included). If there is a difference there's a lot of Fox people who have their TVs run NOTHING ELSE and have those TVs on 24/7. So even when they aren't sitting there watching its in the background. Its as if they are addicted to the rage.
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  4406.  @AndyFromBeaverton  Is that possibly the Lotus with the double chassis?? There's vide here on YT about it.
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  4407.  @Attaxalotl  It simpler than that to throw back at them with this basic question. When did BLM, ANTIFA, the Democrats, the 1960s counter culture hippies, the tree hugging Kumbaya singing Greenies, Occupy Wall St., Lafayette Square or ANY OTHER protesters STORM the capitol, TEAR down the flag and REPLACE it with their own? I'm Australian but went to college in America and I can't believe that ANY AMERICAN tore down ANY American let alone the flag over the capitol. These people scream, yell and rant about being patriots - well how is tearing down the flag being a patriot? These people scream, yell and rant abut upholding the constitution - well how do you do that while refusing to accept the results of an election that has been certified by all 50 states, certified by the House, Senate and VPOTUS and backed up by state, federal and Supreme courts? Here's a quote given to me a while back by Henry Wallace from 1944 (2 years before Trump was born). It was written when Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin were in power. Just look at what it says about "method." Best to you - Take Care & Stay Safe. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  4408. Somebody needs to tell MTG about that heretic form Nazareth who not only believed in free health care, free education and feeding the poor and needy BUT ACTUALLY PRACTICED THEM according to his reputation.
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  4409.  @karmehed  For one the Vatican is NOT a national church it is the control center for the entire Catholic system. I think that $100 Billion is a number you've pulled out of your ass. They have no where near the assets the Catholic church has around the world or even the assets they have across America. With only 16.5 million Mormons compared to 1.3 BILLION Catholics who have been gathering land and wealth for 2000 years not 200 there's no comparison. Sorry, but I think you need to open your eyes a bit wider.
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  4410.  @karmehed  Well if you want to get narky then let me be blunt. Your entire assessment was ignorant idiotic crap. As in you IGNORED basic facts. You started with a claim the Mormons were 2x *as in twice) as wealthy as the Catholic Church. So how did you value the Catholic church at $50 Billion, when you also said "it is impossible to calculate all the wealth of the catholic church world wide" Oh that's right you didn't you just pulled that out of you ass. Why do you think I first suggested you had the comparison wrong??????? And Vatican is spelt with a C not a K. So I think its also pretty fair to call you out of everything. If you don't like being called out then don't spout out idiotic garbage in the first place.
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  4411. I'm an engineer and some of the crap and garbage I hear coming via the media and advertising is so damn ugly. Its actually infuriating. I did my degree in aerospace but work in control systems and automation. Most of the claims I hear about AI in industry and how automation will change everything is just utter garbage. In so many ways engineers are to blame because we have allowed so many people to exaggerate for so long OR engineers have actively exaggerated certain technologies in an effort to gain attention or funding or both. Just last week I watched the head of Australia's CSIRO make an ass of himself on national TV over a question on AI and the journalist hosting the discussion panel make idi0tic claims about automation and driverless cars. Its maybe the worst aspect of allowing everyone to use technologies like computers and smartphones and GPS systems. They all think they are technically literate. Its almost a form of mass Dunning-Kruger syndrome.
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  4412. Who else would get advice from regarding the behavior of a sociopathic warmongering maniac than another sociopathic warmongering maniac. Does American media have any other sociopathic warmongering maniacs at hand??? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  4413.  @thedissidentleftist6997  I now the report system but hadn't realised they added a "misinformation" button. I'm surprised it hasn't melted already. I wonder what the current ratio of misinformation to actual relevant facts is? <100:1 >100:1 or simply uncountable.
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  4414.  David McConville  I was in Canada 3 years ago and it was so like Australia with snow. Its was like somebody just put minus signs in front of the numbers of the weather report and the accents were different. I loved the place and almost moved there - Go Roughriders. Canada like Australia has certain things that even the most idiotic politician wont touch - like Medicare. Every so often one of our lefties throws the claim at the right that they want to change our Medicare and it causes chaos. What most people completely miss with American politics is that they NEVER HAD a real leftist party. Unlike Australia, Britain, Canada and others America never had its Labour party that started in the Unions as a true working class political party. The Democrats actually started in the South and were so right wing racist they started a civil war. People forget that Lincoln (the man who freed the slaves) was a Republican. The KKK actually started among the Democrats. Its only been in the post WW2 era that it changed and particularly under Nixon and then Reagan (especially Reagan).
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  4415.  @janefreeman4121  Why Americans can't see or understand how other countries have national healthcare systems and THEY WORK, is one of the greatest con jobs in history. Sorry if this is a little long, but its hard to discuss any of this without first discussing how certain words have been twisted into odd meanings. Sadly or well intentioned my High School English teachers one year chose 1984 as a book and it was horribly cruel on 15/16yr olds. George Orwell famously said if you tell a lie enough times it becomes fact and sadly Americans have been told certain things so many times its actually redefined words. Most notably "socialism" which comes from the word "social" as in "to do things as a society." I'm an engineer but both my parents were high school teachers and years ago they explained what certain terms actually meant. There's a subtle but discernable difference between the nature of government and government functions. The nature is things like how its chosen and organized - democratically elected versus hereditary, upper & lower houses, executive branches,.......etc. But also you can have descriptions of behavior like authoritarian and totalitarian or the opposite free & open. On the flip side the government functions are the organizations and departments it operates - police, army, education, parks, fire, roads and in some countries healthcare. What many people don't realise is that capitalism, communism and socialism are words that describe functions of government and not really the nature of government. What we actually see are governments hijacking labels to mask their true nature. Look at East Germany and North Korea they both labeled themselves as "Democratic Republics" yet neither was democratic and North Korea is now a absolute hereditary monarchy in everything but name. What confuses so many is that most governments mix these things together, but use the label that their population finds acceptable. If they privatize something and allow private citizens to make money doing that function then that something is functioning as a capitalist function and the private operators can make as much money as regulations allow. If the government allows groups of people to collectively do something in a communal way that's communism (in its rawest form). In a very basic way the share markets (emphasis on shares not stocks) are a combination of capitalism and communism. Its capitalistic in that its private ownership and communistic in that its communities of people co-owning entities. Socialism is where a society collectively agrees to fund & operate functions - police, armed services, education,....... and in some cases health care. It actually has nothing to do with the nature of any government. Any government can call it self anything it likes but if it collects money or resources from its society to do something then that something is a socialist function. Half the problem is that besides not teaching people about the world they live in is that we have political players both inside and outside government that literally drown us in misinformation and redefining terms. Trump famously told a journalist a few years ago he wanted the media so discredited that his people would not believe anything they were told. Stalin was great example who claimed he was a socialist when in reality he was a narcissistic sociopath who ran a totalitarian dictatorship. Any political analyst or the Russians or any one else can claim what ever they like, use any label they like and it wont change anything. The USSR was never politically communist or socialist under Stalin it was a totalitarian dictatorship. Americans can say whatever they like about socialism but it wont change that they operate many parts of their society as socialist functions - police, army & education being 3 notable examples.
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  4416.  @mykehog6646  FYI I'm Australian and its almost our greatest shame that he was born here. He is proof that no matter how well intentioned or free a society is you can always produce something that you wish you never did. We just had a report that said our elite special forces murdered several dozen civilians in Afghanistan and its horrendous and shameful. But I still think Murdoch is worse because he's poisoned (in terms of brain function) entire societies.
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  4417.  @roypitta3459  You absolutely right. How Reagan is held in the esteem that is the greatest PR exercise in history. Second place is Margret Thatcher who did the same in Britain. Just last week in some discussion about the Regan era somebody pointed out SCOTUS judge Gorsuch's mother. She's one of the best face palms ever. She sacked 100s of EPA inspectors and regulators and the few she replaced were all industry hacks. It reads like sacking the FBI Organised Crime division and re-hiring a bunch of mobsters and wise guys to police the Mafia. Trump wasn't the first to pull that crap he just copied Reagan. Somebody needs to write book about the effects and consequences of what Reagan, Thatcher, Freidman and others did.
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  4418.  @3DLasers  Yeah those final words are seriously scary. Konstantin Kisin emphasized on a BBC panel that the last thing we should do is back Putin into a corner right now and she's saying he's already backed into a corner of his own making. That's not good for any of us.
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  4419. The shuttle was horrendously bad on expenses but it wasn't that bad. The overall mission costs for each flight were about $350-450 million depending on the mission because the mission costs includes the payload costs. But that doesn't take away form the fact the shuttle cost too much to operate. I am an aerospace engineer and I do try and explain to people that the Space Shuttle was BOTH and amazing success and horrible failure. It was a success in that it actually worked. Despite all the interference from the USAF and CIA they actually made something that worked. If you go through the technical developments they got through it was extraordinary that they even made it work once let alone 130+ times for only 2 losses. It was a horrible failure in that its COSTS were so over what was intended. From the outset it starved other programs of money and people. You are right the refurbishing of the motors between flight was a major part of those costs but not the only costs. The heat shield was major hassle as well. Because of the insistence the shuttle be used it also meant the ISS cost a lot more than planned. All those costs have added up and all the people required to get it done is the main reason we are still yet to go back to the moon. Just so you all know I was doing my degree when Challenger happened. I was actually in Florida only 16 days earlier and watched Columbia take off. Up until the day Challenger happened all of my classmates and me expected that we'd build Space Station Freedom in the early 1990s and be headed back to the moon circa 2000-2002. And yeah that wasn't a good day. One of my aerodynamic profs lost a friend on that flight.
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  4420. Maybe somebody should tell him that that basis for the decimal number system that we all use today came from the Arabs along with a bunch of scientific knowledge in science and medicine that came back to Europe following the Crusades. In fact its arguable that the renaissance might not have happened had the crusaders not brought back the decimal system, because that was what allowed the banking families like the Medici to develop their book keeping systems and gain the wealth they gained and do the things they did.
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  4421. Know better all modern police forces teach their recruits THE LAW. Its fundamental to doing their job. As a n FBI agent he's been formally trained in FEDERAL LAW as its fundamental to the job. For his lawyer to try and use that as a reason to trust him is so illogical that this really is another of those "Only in America" moments.
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  4422.  @fabiopilnik827  Good points. Have you seen what Mark Blyth and others have said about the Rand Report that says between 1975 & 2018 the top 1% gained $47 Trillion (with a T). They have gained at least $8 Trillion since the start of COVID. Time did an article on it. Here's both https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/ https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html
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  4423.  @12time12  That's harsh but probably very true for few of them.
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  4424. Australian here: I spent time in Canada a few years ago. They are great people with an actual sense of humor. Other then adding "eh" to the end of every sentence, they have the quaint quirk of saying SORRY for almost everything. They'll even say sorry to the rest of the world for how Americans behave. Why? I don't know. Sorry Canada, but this time you really do have something to apologise for.
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  4425. I just wonder if its a getting to the point where its not a matter of IF but WHEN somebody puts a piece of metal into Charles Kochs skull l at high velocity. If you've seen any of the excerpts from his interviews (like the recent Axios one), he's a monster. He genuinely believes that any politician who he helped financially should do what he wants and they are not allowed to use their conscious or morals or ethics.
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  4426.  @josha136  Your right Russia is desperate to still be regarded as a super power. Any reasonable check into Putin's background and what you have is a person who's addicted to power in a very bad way. But do be careful about the EU being fantastic as it has a number of problems that could easily lead it to collapse. The most obvious is that the member states have no control over their own individual currency. That concentrates a lot of power in Brussels and that level of concentration never works out well in the long term because it also concentrates influence peddling and corruption. Look at Washington. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4427.  @josha136  good points all around. My main point was be careful holding any system up TOO MUCH above another without considering the flaws. No one has a perfect system, everyone has some level of corruption, its just in some its more obvious. Arguably the biggest issue we all have is the pandering to the wants of the top 1% irrespective of the system. I'm Australian and I joke that down here BOTH sides of our politics have a common policy called "What do the billionaires want?" Its less obvious here than in America but its here and we cant avoid it. If there is one thing Western Democracies do have is that if we get sick of one side we can throw them out and let the other side have a go. You can't throw the Chinese CP out. Its almost impossible to get Putin out. At least (for the moment) Europe and others can still throw people out of government.
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  4428. Well there's actually a problem that David does not go into hear about educating yourself. The first guy talks about the World Economic Forum. I'll be honest until recently I thought the WEF was similar to the G20 except more inclusive of more nations. Then recently Sagaar Enjeti (Breaking Points) did a video on what the WEF calls "The Great Narrative" and he highlighted an outrageous statement by a New Zealand born economist. He did get 1 thing wrong it was from last November not the more recent WEF event. What's important is that he pointed out the WEF is not like the G20. Its the creation of a German industrialist who sell access to world leaders via the symposiums he sets up in his Swiss Tax Haven. That first talker isn't wrong about some basic facts but he's totally off the monkey bars on details. This is one major problem people like David never seem to discuss these people start with some basic fact and then start running away with mindless garbage. The question with them is how do we (if we can) get them to separate the garbage from the reality. I'd like to see David talk more on that and possibly get some experts on to talk about countering it.
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  4429.  @timvala7577  Look for the preppers, they all have them.
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  4430. I would have thought Tulsi Gabbard would have been a well received pick for this considering what her military service included. But then maybe she has trod on too many toes so far.
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  4431.  @crysstoll1191  I think Gary's channel is one of the most underestimated YT channels there is. I stumbled across him when he was interviewed by another channel. The actual channel is called "Garys Economics." He hasn't done anything for a couple of weeks but all the stuff he's done previously is worth watching.
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  4432.  @iAmTheSingularity  I don't think people are discounting the risk or the possibility. And if you look at Weinstein and his wife said, they were following the science and the possibility that its manmade should NOT have be dismissed and until we know more should not be dismissed. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGWLLDSA3c
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  4433.  @EmeraldMara85  Gone and done a bit more checking and watched what they said again. Brett Weinstein says he's 90% certain it came out of a lab. I think its the other way round and its only 10% likely it cam out of a lab (at best). It goes to what others said last year there are things about COVID we don't know how to do or at least in published research we don't know how to do it. I think their claim it had to have come from a lab because it is mutating is fundamentally flawed because we see viruses like flu mutating naturally every year. That leaves it as a natural freak meeting in a wet market or a natural freak meeting in a lab. Could it have come from a lab? Maybe but unlikely for the reasons given by other people. The ugly flip of that is that if it did come from a Chinese lab, it wont matter if it was an accident or anything else. The world will retaliate and the Chinese wont take that well and we'll possibly have WW3 to deal with.
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  4434.  @a-walgames1350  Well for both of you his name is spelt S-A-G-A-N -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
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  4435.  @Machistmo  Sorry but I missed the episode where he gave his son in law free reign over the security apparatus of a nuclear armed state, while is daughter pranced around the world at tax payer expense doing deals and pretending to know how international diplomacy works. Which season was that?
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  4436. ​ @richardferguson6893  I can't disagree with that because if you look at what I am saying I agree with you. YES we (Australia, Canada, New Zealand,....) are NOT doing everything that we could or should be doing and there are some terrible things still going on. BUT COMPARED to other countries we are doing better because at least we are doing somethings. That doesn't give any of us any reason to be proud of what we are doing because there's still so many bad things still happening. Its like saying on test you get 4 out of 10 and the passing grade is 5 out of 10. 4 out of 10 is still twice as good as 2 out of 10 BUT ITS STILL A FAIL. SO I am NOT CLAIMING that Australia, Canada or New Zealand gets a passing grade. I am saying that we are at least doing better than most. Consider the situation of the Uyghurs in China, the Palestinians, the Yezidi's who were massacred by ISIS in Iraq or even the native tribes in the USA. Do you know that some native tribes in the USA and its territories were used medical experiments and nuclear testing? Go look up the Bravo nuclear test for people on the surrounding islands. Even decades later the US government refuses to accept what happened.
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  4437. They are just another example of how many opportunistic scumbags we have in human society and how they have flipped the "information age" into the "disinformation age." In times past people like the village idiot were kind of restricted to the village now thanks to social media they can gather together and reinforce each others idiocy. What's added to that are narcissists who know they are speaking complete nonsense but they get their jollies off but creating chaos. Some of these people are attention seekers and others like to sit back and watch the chaos. They are like pyromaniacs except they like setting society on fire. Think back to grade school and high school and there'd be that nasty little rat who'd tell 1 or 2 people lies just to get them into a fight. Now give some of those people access to social media with no restraint.
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  4438.  The Creature  Its pretty much an irrelevant subject for the fringe. Trump's a narcissist and I doubt he ever respected anything about Putin except that Putin was just another business opportunity. I think too many people put way too much emphasis on certain things and as a result missed the obvious things going on right there for all to see. Trump mad millions renting villas at his resorts to other governments. Javanka used what ever they could to make as much money as possible AND it never mattered who from. MSM & CNN had everybody looking at Russia when the real grift was in Washington. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4439.  @TruthrConsequences  I don't know about Oklahoma these days or what drives them.
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  4440. Here's the link to the guardians series on Pegasus -> https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project
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  4441.  @Liftheavyrustylbs  Its one of the problems people like her have. Once stuff is in the public electronic social media space its almost impossible to delete. So if you want to be a public bullshit artist like she is there's going to be footage and somebody somewhere WILL keep a backup. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4442.  @MrRaulstrnad  Their is a thing that really annoys me about the technological ignorance among educated people. In universities around the world ALL engineers have to take some humanities classes/courses to make them "well rounded." I did Psych 101, Economics 101, a couple of classes in sociology and a couple in classical civilization. They are even useful in todays climate. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ BUT not 1 university anywhere makes any arts degree student take or require as part of a curriculum a single engineering class AND YET they all live and work in a world built by engineers. Engineers built the roads, power stations, internet, water systems, factories and everything else. In Australia I know of only 1 item you can buy that doesn't involve engineering - GENUINE (not counterfeit) native Australian Art, because they go out themselves and gather the materials. People forget that if it involves machinery of any sort then it involves engineers and that includes food production. If it has any metal or plastic or paper/cardboard then its an engineered product.
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  4443.  @shinobione2575  Standard power station life cycles are something like. 25 years then 1st major rebuild 15 years then 2nd major rebuild 10 years and that's it. ALL UP 50 years of life and then its over. Usually after that amount of time the next technology should be ready to go. As an engineer I can tell you there has been a real change over previous generations. At the very top there are people so invested in old tech they don't wont change to new tech. That's odd when most of them made their money on what was at the time new tech. This is why I try and tell people one odd thing about the Dems and GOP. They are supported by 2 different groups of billionaires. The GOP is supported by billionaires who want things to stay as is like the Kochs. The Dems are supported by billionaires who want change like Musk, Bezos,....etc. There's other factors in there, but a chunk of it is change versus no change. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4444. Go look up a Russian born Brit named Konstantin Kisin. He co-hosts a YT channel called Triggernometry. He's been trying to explain to the Brits that the ONE THING that must not happen is to push Putin into a corner. He understands Russian culture and is a native Russian speaker. He's one of several native Russian speakers who have pointed out that some of the main stream media language interpreters are NOT properly conveying what Putin is saying. On the Triggernometry channel page is an excerpt from a BBC panel that he was on. I highly recommend people watch it. He explains a couple of important points about Russian culture.
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  4445.  @carolineatkins2900  YEAH lets go from a Failing Brain to a Worm Brain!!
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  4446. I'm Australian and we've had a problem with illegal Indonesian fishing in our waters for decades. Mind you we've also had huge problems with illegal fishing boats from China, Japan and South Africa as well. And then there are our own homegrown issues with environmental vandalism and our companies acting like shit in other countries including Indonesia (like Santos).
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  4447. AUSTRALIAN HERE - we had the fact his hotels and golf courses made staggering amounts during his presidency. Because he played golf so often and did so at his own golf courses many foreign governments started renting out rooms and condos at his courses so they could get access to him. We had this reported years ago and how they mostly paid full rates for these rooms and condos. Because nobody knew which course he'd play at next some nations did this at multiple courses. I honestly don't know how this is more widely known in America.
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  4448. There are eels dipped in oil that aren't as slimy as McConnell. There are strippers who get smothered in oil and wrestle in jelly who aren't as slimy as McConnell.
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  4449. American libertarianism is best described as: "We want the liberty to strip you of your liberty!"
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  4450.  @dnyhan  This is only the first time I have heard him speak and I thought he had some form of systems analysis education in his background. So your comment doesn't surprise me. Its the fact he considers side effects and the consequences of those effects. Systems analysis actually started among the ICBM engineers but came to the fore during the Apollo program. The craziest thing is the industry that created it occasionally doesn't use it resulting in things like the Boeing Max-8.*The idea is SA is to solve the problem WITHOUT creating the next problem.* With the Max-8 they solved one problem only to create an even worse problem. If you consider what Gary is saying in this video its the same sort of negligence. And so you know we did similar here in Australia. Our government pulled $38 Billion out of thin air and just handed it out to Australian businesses during COVID. The average pay of executives of the ASX 200 (the top 200 companies on our stock exchange) reached a new record - $9.8million. That's just their basic pay NOT including bonuses and other allowances.
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  4451.  @mgc7199  I'm actually Australian and I used to argue with my brother that we had to keep a manufacturing industry. That needed more automation not less. On one hand that was to be competitive, but more to the point not everybody can be a programmer. The idea that some have expressed that you can just retrain factory workers to code is utter nonsense. What the economists never worked out (because they are all taught the same stupid nonsense) is that every factory worker is a value adder. We used to have a lot of talk about value adding in Australia until the service industry hawks grabbed the microphone and started yelling. They wanted everyone to become coders and stock traders and other "what they perceived" more useful professions. It was a totally delusional standpoint and we have paid a staggering cost for that delusion. its what we got for sending some of our people to places like Harvard, Yale, Cambridge and Oxford.
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  4452. This is what people look like when they have no moral or ethical compass. Their life is about "What do I want right now? Yesterday is irrelevant and I'll do tomorrow when I get there." Once you accept what these people are its kind of depressing but it also makes them predictable.
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  4453. I love Peter's work but there is something in this he has gotten tragically WRONG. The part about Asian nations NOT having a history of going to war is 100% WRONG. It might not have been like Europe with large scale uniformed armies on open battle fields with cavalry and pikemen where its semi-organised but there are rivalries and blood feuds going back centuries. I'm Australian and because we have sizeable communities of these people we occasionally get to see it first hand when groups of particular cultural descents clash. Plus we trade with all these nations. These rivalries and feuds are not talked about a much because it can get sensitive. Go and look through the Asian news services and you will find story after story of fighting between various clans. Sometimes those clans are in different countries and it drags others in and sometimes its within a country. In recent times we have seen that with the Rohingya crisis in Burma, but there have been similar feuds in the Southern Philippines, Sumatra versus Java (in Indonesia) and between Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese.
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  4454.  @nicholasmaude6906  Yes and I just watched Peters follow up.
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  4455.  @pugthepug7910  Anything and everything they want. That's how childish and selfish narcissists work. They want what they want and change their minds in an instant. If they do something its fine but if others do the same thing its a crime. Take your pick what they'll take, but be assured of one thing THEY WILL TAKE WHAT THEY WANT.
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  4456. The first victim of war is always the truth. Hitler lied when he invaded Poland. Saddam Hussein lied when he invaded Kuwait. George Busch lied when he invaded Iraq. Its always the same stack of crap. They aren't invading they are liberating. Putin calls it a "special military operation" to defend and protect.... The invasion of Iraq was called "Operation Iraqi Freedom" and it was good that at least 170,000 innocent Iraqi civilians got their freedom in the form of a grave. These people are always claiming they are bringing freedom as they put body after body in the ground.
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  4457.  @L4JP  Agreed it does NOT engender any sympathy whether he's just trying to be a smart ass or if he actually believes that crap.
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  4458.  @ccibinel  Its hard not to agree. There's something 125,000 tons of spent fuel rods in water tanks under reactors around the world of which around 80,000 tons is in America. if there is one fundamental technical detraction its that like all Fission Reactor types they take a damn long time to build. The world should have had a way more sensible discussion on nuclear energy some 15 - 20 years ago, BUT the emotion of what had happened at Chernobyl and then Fukushima killed any rational discussion. For too many people they just hear the word nuclear and they lose their minds and you can't even get to a discussion on any of the alternative technologies like SMR, CANDU, MSR, Thorium or things like safety systems including fail safe systems.
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  4459. You're 100% right. But with AI and more powerful algorithms ITS NOT IF BUT WHEN
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  4460. Also I read a sci-fi book a number of years ago (sorry forgot the title and author) but as humanity started to explore the wider galaxy all they cam across were commercial AIs. The premise was that any society that could develop an economy and technology would eventually hand over financial & commercial control to their AIs which could just do everything in the commercial space so fast that no sentient species could match them. The problem gets exacerbated when they just keep producing more and more powerful AIs to out compete the other AIs. Eventually the original sentient species was no longer in the equations and simply died out. So no matter where the humans looked they kept encountering these AIs hell bent of dominating economically and then wiping out anything that was sub-par and that meant sentient species because robots don't need food or water and can work 24/7. The algorithms are already winning its just a matter of time before they rule over everything. Robert Mercer the American Billionaire who has a PhD in computer science has a Gold Club hedge fund that in a bad year makes around 39% and in better years makes around 80%. Do you think he's doing that with a slide rule and graph paper?
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  4461. Yeah its a very difficult interview to sit through. His utter contempt for anything he doesn't like is telling. Less than 10 minutes in he's praised his ability to get Trump to tear up the Iran Nuclear Treaty which makes him one of very very few who thought that made the world safer. Plus he claimed Bernie Sanders is so far left he has no respect for institutions in the same manner of Trump. Bernie Sanders was ACTUALLY cheated out of the Democratic nomination TWICE (2016 & 2020) and he accepted the judges (as in the DNC) decision. Then there was that comment about Al Gore and what he did in 2000. ITS ACTUALLY LAW that in elections that close its MANDATORY to recount until they know they have it right. The actual people who broke the law back then was SCOTUS who overruled the election laws. So to claim Al Gore set America onto a negative path for doing nothing more that following the law just shows how much of a narcissist this guy is. And that's just in the first 10 minutes.
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  4462.  @bammmyouuu7752  good point
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  4463. News flash he was always an elitist. I'm Australian and was in Canada a few years ago for work and he came across as a total elitist. The weirdest bit of the 4 months I was there was that your politicians came across EXACTLY how ours do. A pack of spoilt disconnected idiots who actually think they know what we want. No matter what side of politics they are on they are just a giant collection of elitist snots. AND ITS THE SAME EVERYWHERE. I was just watching a vid on France 24 (English) about an author describing parts of Paris and how disconnected the French political class are and he may as well have been describing any of Australia's major cities. Every country has these political clowns who think everything they say is gold and we should just believe everything they say. Even before COVID we were getting stressed out by it all. NONE OF THEM are actually solving any of our real problems, whether it be job security, food security, education, health care, climate or any of the other pressing problems. AND ALL OF THEM keep standing in front of TV cameras telling us how wonderful they are and how amazing their policies are and yet our lives are NOT getting better. COVID has had nothing to do with any of it other than expose and exacerbate the situation.
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  4464. Very very true.
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  4465.  @PhilLesh69  Lord of War as actually based on a Russian guy named Victor Bout. I think there was a documentary about him called "the man who armed the world." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Bout About the Pakistani involvement. I worked with a young Pakistani engineer a few years back. We talked about this stuff one day. He bluntly told me I DIDN'T know shit and then let me know that his father was a Pakistani politician. He showed me photos of US Diplomats in his house for a diner and meeting. His father had him sit in meetings occasionally for the experience. I can't tell you all he told me but he was blunt about 1 thing. The US knew exactly what the Pakistani government was doing and approved most of it. He was dead right about 1 thing. I didn't know shit.
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  4466.  @petercase7697  Since you want a view on how others see America lets start with basic education. You have basic spelling, grammar, and other issues that only prove that others consider America's education system is falling behind or worse collapsing. I find that particularly grating because I'm Australian but went to college in America. My degree in aerospace engineering which I worked my ass off to get is losing value on nothing more than the PERCEPTION that American education is crap. America's problem starts with the idiotic partisan toxic politics its developed. Facts don't matter. Reasoning on anything is almost impossible because of the insane tribal nature of all public discussion. You bring up the "Hang Mike Pence" chants. That's great example of the insanity of American politics. People screaming about defending the constitution chanting to hang the VP for doing his duty under the constitution. If you think that type of stupidity is an American only thing - you're wrong. Idiotic partisan politics is part of every nation. Its just more obvious and more rampant in some countries.
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  4467. That's the Dems and their inner Ivy League coming out. Do you know that someone did an analysis of the DNC Emails that were hacked in 2016 and they looked at place names. The most mentioned place in those emails was Martha's Vineyard followed by the Hamptons and then New York in 3rd place. The DNC is almost entirely made up of disconnected Ivy League types who have no idea WTF the rest of America thinks or feels. Just consider the fact that Trump lost but the rest of the Republicans won. They won back seats in the House. They didn't lose the Senate (Yet). Lindsay Graham got more than twice as many votes as he did in 2014. AND the Republicans won in state legislatures. Other than Biden's win the Dems got hammered. There were Republicans who voted Biden over Trump and then vote Republican everything else. Lets not forget the biggest statistic that ALMOST NO ONE is talking about. For the last 3 years every pole said Trumps approvals and base were declining and YET 12million more people turned up and voted for him than did in 2016. If those poles were even close then where did those 12 million people come from and WHY did they turn up? UNLESS the Dems work out WHY there will be another Trumpian back in the White House in 4 years time.
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  4468.  @jiancao1523  Yes and no. Its damn hard to get to either but then its also damn hard to protect them as well.
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  4469.  @brendanalfo411  And one of the few operating mines outside China right now is in Western Australia (Lynas Corp) in the same region we dig up all the iron ore.
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  4470.  @daniangoodman-jones3931  Your right my mistake. Sorry. I do remember Keating doing something that he'd railed against in that almost bizarre contest he had with John Hewson who pushed for a GST. There was that debate where Keating just Howled 15% at every comment Hewson made. It might have been that he didn't bring in the GST but he flipped on part of it. Let me know if you know what it was.
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  4471. ​ @dilligaf8349  Your 100% right that its all a game - an economics game that nobody asked for. Do you know the new head of the productivity commission is an economist? Do you know the guy put in charge of rebuilding Australia's skill base is an economist? Do you know that the guy who designed the system for how our water is distributed is a Harvard Trained Economist? Gigi Foster the famous UNSW economics professor proclaimed on ABC QandA she had the "empirical data" that proved the government's efforts only saved at 10,000 lives during COVID. SHE LIED the real number was at least 50,000 and if you want I can explain what she did to create that lie. Can you see the pattern? Economists can't stop lying and they can't keep out of everyone's business and we (the general public) are the ones paying for their games.
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  4472.  @edbalboni  Absolutely correct. That's something Jim Comey pointed out when he was here in Oz in 2017. He said the trust in among a lot of the security people went very, very deep and NOT even Trump would be able to mess it up.
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  4473.  @daniangoodman-jones3931  Yeah the more I look into economics the more I realise that economists don't understand economics. They are like those sports administrators who don't understand sport.
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  4474.  @evanburrows1697  Thanks there's also some really good other comments in this too. So check them.
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  4475.  @LackofFaithify  Yep, that's almost identical to what someone said to me about it way back in the 90s. I think they said something like "what's rational about sacking people and telling them they are now better off because they can by cheaper stuff made in other places." There's a really great point made Nick Hanauer in his TED talk "Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming" when he talks about Henry Ford bringing in a $5/day which was DOUBLE the prevailing pay rate of the time. Henry Ford pointed out to others that his workers could now buy what they produced. His factories were more productive. His workers were better off. His sales went up and he made lots of money and for a while the Rust Belt wasn't the rust belt it was an economic power house.
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  4476.  @TestMeatDollSteak  She's college educated. So unless she really has lost her mind there has to be a reason. Just recently Adam Tooze was in discussion with Mark Blyth (2 people everyone needs to listen to and David should interview BOTH) described the GOP as a "ruthlessly cynical operator." Its sort of the thing everybody hopes isn't true but the world is starting to accept. The GOP will do and say A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G to stay in power. I came across this interview with an ex-KGB guy who said some super interesting stuff way back in 1984. He's totally wrong on a few points like how successful they were and we know Soviet Russia collapsed not America. BUT on the subject of brainwashing and getting people so disconnected they can't reach sensible conclusions he's totally right. The entire Western World missed it hasn't been the Russians or Chinese brainwashing chunks of our populations. Its been people like the GOP, Televangelists and Rupert Murdoch. Just listen to what he says about reaching sensible conclusions -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI Now consider what MTG, Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson, Hannity, Lauren Boebert and all the rest are doing. Brian Tyler Cohen did this vid yesterday -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtFJPFy7L3E
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  4477. We actually had the same fear in Australia with what we call "Native Title" which had a landmark decision in our courts called Mabo (pronounced mar - bow). It started a whole process called Reconciliation. Is it a long slow process that most Australians would like to see go faster? Absolutely. Has it been messy at times? Absolutely. Have the fears of people had of being kicked of their land or home happened? NO Has it helped our whole country be a better place? YES, a 1000 times YES. Do we still have a lot of work to do? YES. Check New Zealand and Canada they are 2 other countries that are also well down similar paths to reconciling their pasts.
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  4478.  @davea136  My background is a degree in aerospace but I work in control systems and in that have qualifications in safety systems. If you want I can explain in detail Boeing and after that scare you stupid with how much other stuff is just as bad.
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  4479.  @onepeace1274  Well moron if your going to be IDIOTIC about a subject like this then don't whine about being called a moron. I only thing ANYONE needs to understand about your opinion is what it says about YOU. The world has 2 pandemics these days COVID and self absorbed smart asses who think they're clever. One of them has caused several million deaths the other will probably cause several billion more in the next decade.
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  4480.  @sandyunderpants4376  All true to more or less extent but its still a matter of preference. This is my main fault with Libertarians they have there preferences and NEVER consider consequences. Thom Hartman recently read a list of "wants" from the American Libertarians and one of those was for the abolishment of the FAA. I'm an aerospace engineer with a pilots license and that's insanity for insane people. Has nobody learnt from the Boeing Max-8 fiasco. If they got their way no foreign airline or person would buy another American airplane and no country would allow an American Airline to fly into their airspace. I'm sorry but Libertarians are just selfish clowns. After you strip away their rhetoric it comes down narcissism. They want what they want and don't give a damn what it costs anyone else short term or long term. The only difference between Libertarians and 2 year olds is that 2 year olds grow up.
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  4481.  @robinsss  yeah so Why don't you next explain what Neil Gorsuch is doing to the EPA???????? Yeah sure they aren't whack jobs.
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  4482. This is a cut and past of another comment I made but its inline with what you have said. Its about presenting people with something to vote for and not something to vote against. HEY DAVE do you see now why I have been trying to point out that you need to be doing a lot more reporting the Democrat candidates instead of story after story of "Look how bad Herschel Walker is!" or "Look how bad Dr. Oz is!" or "Look how bad this terrible GOP candidate is!" Jeff Daniels famous "America is not the Greatest" comment as the character Will McAvoy in "The Newsroom" includes a swipe at the liberals as losers when he says "if liberals are so f--king smart how come they lose so goddamn always?" The answer to his question is they are so transfixed on bad GOP candidates that they ARE NOT presenting reasons for people to get out and vote. They have to present things for people to vote for NOT vote against. Consider how the GOP have all those cringe adds saying they will protect people's 2dn Amendment rights. Yes they are cringy and at times disgusting, but they are messages to people that: IF you want "this" whatever "this" is then vote for me. The Democrats are like a football coach obsessed by the other teams offense and defense and pays little or no consideration to his own teams offense or defense. This is why Hilary lost on 2016 and why Brexit went how it did and why Australian Labor and British Labor both lost in 2019. All 4 of those losing campaigns were "Don't for that" but had almost nothing that said "If you want this then vote for it."
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  4483. Oh Sh*t dude - do you really want to open up that can of worms????
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  4484.  @Imperial-Socialist  yes but we must never forget that we can do better. And also on the flag wavers (and we have so many in Australia) they can stop bashing everyone with guilt trips and help move things forward.
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  4485. Go back and watch the documentary "Outfoxed." It might be from 2004 but its actually important for people to realise what Rupert Murdoch is about and what he ahs done with Fox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outfoxed Best of all its available right here on YouTube for free, so nobody has any excuse for not informing themselves. OUTFOXED -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P74oHhU5MDk
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  4486.  @Jonathan.D  Yeah its just another case of seeing it in sci-fi and then claiming its real. Single drop of blood - Gattaca Water from the air - Star Wars (Uncle Owen) Hyperloop - Space 1999, Logans Run Donut shaped space station with artificial gravity - 2001: A Space Odyssey Star Force - Star Wars, Buck Rogers, Battle Star Galactica, Moonraker (the James Bond sci-fi) and a few others.
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  4487.  @Jonathan.D  Yeah all around. Except can we call it a scam when people are so stupid they think sci-fi is real? The best one I heard recently is that David Icke the British conspiracy theorist got his lizard people schtick from the original version of "V" On Elon Musk here's financial analyst Patrick Boyle. He's pretty smart, his analysis is very good but he's about as exciting as watching paint dry. This is his take on Elon Musk (note the title): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXxeyOVpnCU
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  4488.  @Jonathan.D  Moors - who do you mean. I know historically who the Moors are Muslims in Spain, but I'm not certain who you are talking about.
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  4489. That is such a great line and the full quote is even better "a scream of defiance against weaponized stupidity and the influences of ignorance." I'm an aerospace engineer and the staggering amount of ignorance in the media on reporting almost everything in technology is staggering. I'm Australian but did my degree in America in the late 80s during the Reagan Star Wars era. We worked out back then that the whole energy weapons zapping ballistic missiles was NEVER GOING TO WORK. The classic was that lasers bounce off shiny surfaces. Even if you can deliver the energy required you have vehicles moving at insane speeds and the task of being able to identify track predict and target accurately anything is incredibly hard. Yet just recently here in Australia the head of our "space force" announced they would be pursuing "soft kill" technologies for satellites and the media jumped on it like they have with the word "hypersonic." The ignorant mass of Australia egged on by the clickbait brigade in the media are preparing to spend several billion dollars on junk science that CANNOT EVER WORK. And that's just one of the idiotically stupid things we are up to. Every other developed nation is also doing similarly stupid things. Other than the media a major problem is the consulting industry who just drown the business world and governments under mountains of BS. Go look up British-Italian economist Mariana Mazzucato who's recently written a book called "the big con" about the consulting industry. There's a bunch of talks she's given here on YT about the subject of the consulting industry and how pervasive it is.
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  4490.  @notrombones5041  Lets also NOT FORGET that he took a $4.5 million dollar pre-payment for a book deal with Harper Collins which is owned by News Corp and controlled by Rupert Murdoch. That was the deal that lead to his resignation. Then there's the fact that while going after Clinton for Monica Lewinsky he was having an affair as well. Newt Gingrich is a pure SHlT of a human being. In fact its hard to use the word human with respect to him.
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  4491.  @Terra_Lopez  Way too easy these days we are forget what some of the mutts did back in their days. That Harper Collins book deal was so bad even other GOP people abandoned him. It was so blatant that it made news around the World. I don't know how old you are or if you remember it but the whole Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was a 24/7 media frenzy AND then suddenly there was the book deal. What we didn't know about for 20+ years was the Newt was also having an affair with a much younger woman. Anyone who thinks the Murdoch's didn't know about that is a fool. There really is no limit to their hypocrisy.
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  4492.  @Terra_Lopez  Yeah, Yeah, Yeah and Yeah. Newt Gingrich is one of the greatest hypocrites in history. He represents everything that's wrong with politics and organised religion. There are plenty of people who can do 1 or the other, but good old Newt can do both AND do it with a multimillion dollar sized slab of of outright corruption easier than you can put 1000 island on a side salad.
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  4493. Almost every label in politics has been abused, misused and misrepresented so often these days almost NOBODY knows anything anymore. I'm an engineer and spent most of my COVID downtime looking into economics because I'm tired of having economists scuttle proposals. I've tried to learn their language so I can talk to them. What I found is that most economists are so confused over what economics is and how it works because so many professors and commentators have no idea what they are saying or teaching. The best comment I saw was recently when someone said: "most economists think they know what economics is, but almost none of them have any idea how it works" Politics is even worse. When you combine the 2 you have the mess we live in.
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  4494. Yes its surprised me he doesn't do more interviews because he's actually good at it. I have repeatedly referenced the interview he did with Yanis Varoufakis. I think that was one of Yanis's best interviews or talks.
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  4495.  @iller3  Sorry you misunderstood I don't think Elon will kill or hurt Twitter. I think Twitter will hurt Elon a lot. Basically Elon needs to raise $44 Billion and he might have that in stock value but not in cash. Its costing too much so he wont get a loan for it and will have to sell stock or something else. If its Tesla stock, he will have to pay tax on his capital gains and his capital gains in Tesla are massive. So he's going to have to sell a lot of something. One of his problems is some of the things he owns aren't worth squat. Hyperloop, the Boring Company, Teslabot and Sun City aren't worth didley. Even Tesla where there is value is on shaky grounds because its been overvalued. 1/2 of SpaceX has real value but the other 1/2 is garbage. Analysts like Patrick Boyle covered this stuff in detail weeks ago.
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  4496. Unfortunately people like her will NEVER win any position of importance in ANY western democracy for the simple reason that it would be a match of common sense versus the emotions of a riled up mob. All modern politics is fundamentally about mob psychology NOT rational thinking and common sense. Prof. Mark Blyth gave a great description of politics in answer to a question regarding Elizabeth Warren after a lecture on Global Trumpism. If anyone has time the whole video is worth the time but the link is direct to the question -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s
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  4497. One likes fairly attractive blond women and the likes blond powder. Both have issues with history and reality. Both think they are victims. So there are some similarities.
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  4498.  @123thesophster  You absolutely right on the production of meat over vegetation for food. The productivity per square meter is barely worth comparing. Across the world companies like McDonalds, Monsanto,.... etc. have a lot to answer for in terms of how they have affected agriculture. They do it either by how they source their raw food or by how they produce it or affecting how others produce it. The mismanagement of water has been one of the incredible trademarks of governments of all types. In America just look at the Colorado River that no longer even flows into Mexico let alone reaches the sea. In Russia there is the disaster of the Aral Sea, that even if it can be recovered will take decades if not a century (or more). In China there's the Yongding, which was the main water supply for Beijing for centuries and has not flowed through Beijing for over 30 years because of upstream irrigation schemes. I'm Australian and we are on the verge of collapsing our entire main eastern river system the Murry-Darling and that is purely from unbelievably bad management. Its so bad it borders on treason.
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  4499. Hey David, Start showing some vids on what Warnock actually stands for or including some of it in these vids. Or even better interview him. You keep saying people need to turn out and vote. SO GIVE THEM A REASON.
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  4500. No you are wrong there actually 2 tribes run by separate groups of oligarchs. One tribe is ruled by oligarchs who are Carbon owners - oil, gas coal, etc. The other Tribe is ruled by Technocrats who are into science. At the moment they are in conflict over who gets to supply societies energy in future. The simple fact is that the group who controls energy production controls everything, because everything we have in the modern world needs energy to make and in many cases to use it. The computer you are on right now requires energy to dig the raw materials out of the ground. It takes energy to process those into raw materials for industry to use. Takes energy to transport those raw materials to the manufacturers who then use energy to convert those raw materials into the computer in front of you. The there is the energy used to transport that computer to you. And finally there is the energy used to power it. If you can't guess it I am an engineer and this is a topic find myself having to explain again and again. We are at a transition from paradigm based mainly on carbon to one mainly based on renewable energy production technologies. The existing old school Carbon People are simply fighting like all hell to make as much out of their assets as they can. They always knew the end would come because the coal and oil and gas will eventually run out, they just never thought it would end this soon and they are pissed to be loosing so much profit.
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  4501.  @beeinthehive  See the reply I gave Samuel Ross it should clarify part of what I am saying. You're basically right and its a hours, days, weeks discussion on "Are we living in a Plutocracy or an Oligarchy - and does it matter if we are screwed either way?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy I have listened to a lot of Mark Blyth these last 18 months. He makes a lot of sense of these things and how we got here. He did 3 lectures in Canada last year and they are all still worth watching if for nothing else but the background information. The Q&A session after the Trumpism one will be studied for years. The one on how we got here basically explains what's gone wrong since the GFC - no new model (software & hardware). Trumpism -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0 How we got here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE Can we have it all -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOGc6XZwVxA
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  4502.  @yogeshcyr31  Agreed - good comment.
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  4503.  @anonymouslyopinionated656  Good point - she is at least honest that its her opinions. I'm Australian and a couple of times she's been on the edge about Australia but she's always fair about it. She doesn't go into hyperbole like so many others. Its more like "here's a fact, here's my opinion, deal with it."
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  4504.  @nealdip22  As an Australian. 1) Yes here are some war crimes that happened in Afghanistan and 1 is currently in trial right now. 2) Yes we have mistreated islanders in the past BUT THERE WAS NEVER the torture you mention. 3) Yes there are Australians who are racist AS THERE ARE IN EVERY COUNTRY.
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  4505.  @nealdip22  If anyone wants to see a demonstration of racism ask an Indian about Pakistanis or Nepalese or Chinese. Its real easy to see racism first hand in Asia and Subcontinent just ask anyone about another people. Racism is rampant across the entire region. The difference is we are trying to deal with our issues you people are still in denial. Nobody from Indian Cricket ever publicly apologised to Andrew Symonds for what was done to him. Most wont even admit it ever happened.
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  4506.  @patrick9445  Which if these is more likely to be fake - bravo561 or patrick9445???? Yeah a claim of being fake from something just as likely to be fake??
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  4507.  @sandraritchie1568  IT MUST NOT BE FORGOTTEN And pretentious scumbags like Hannity (all of them) need to be held accountable for their part. This "I'm innocent" routine of his and others) is just disgusting.
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  4508. I think someone should send him a bumper supply of lube and maybe some mouthwash too. He'll need it where he's going! 😳
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  4509.  @bowdennthani732  Spoken like a true lawyer. Also technically correct. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4510. You are referring to the "Gimli Glider" and that was actually a mistake by an air re-fueler. But it is the pilots responsibility to make sure the plane is ready for flight and they got that part wrong. As for using dip sticks - ALL PILOTS CHECK THE TANKS with DIP STICKS before flight. Gauges can fail dip sticks can't and its a way to check the gauges before the flight starts.
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  4511.  @TheEvertw  Sorry, but you clearly don't understand the FMEA processes. I wanted to avoid any lengthy discussions but your reply needs it. FYI - On top of the degree in aerospace qualifications I have formal qualifications in functional safety, 30+ years of experience and a pilots license with an aerobatic endorsement. So on top of my engineering I have formal training in handling and recovering aircraft from unusual attitudes. On top of that one of my frat brothers is a senior instructor on 737s with a major airline who was tasked as part of a team to go to Boeing and help get the plane recertified. Your assumption is wrong from the start. Even before they made the system more aggressive it had issues that were found in the flight simulator in 2012. See that part of the video around 18:20. I'll grant you have a point, EVERY form of analysis (not just FMEA, but HAZOP, CFD, FEA,....) have their limits. Even when you go into a lab with the most accurate equipment conceivable there's no such thing as perfect. Second to that is the reviews that need to be done regarding action items. HAZOPS/FMEAs always bring up action items. If they don't that's as much of a concern as if they do. What so many people misread in HAZOPS and FMEAs is that the analysis is only the first step in an iterative process. You analyze, you act, you review and if necessary go back and start again. If the action items that are identified are not handled and reviewed then things get missed. You are almost on point regarding the software change that contributed. What you miss is that ANY CHANGE to a safety related system including software parameters requires reviewing and redoing/rechecking the specifications, FMEAs and anything else deemed relevant. This is a process required for ANY complex system. I have seen what can happen when a control room operator makes a change just to see what it does. Here's a basic run down of part of safety engineering. FIRST and FOREMEOST all functional safety is based around 3 fundamental concepts. 1: Any component WILL eventually fail if left in the field or in service long enough. 2: Any failure that can be reasonably assumed to potentially occur will eventually happen without maintenance and or replacement. In that definition maintenance also includes calibration (and re-calibration). 3: Fail safe which basically means that a fault of the safety function puts the system into a safe state. The absolute opposite of fail safe is fail dangerous, but you can get circumstances that are not exactly either. The problem with aircraft is they have only 1 fundamental safe state, which is secured on the ground with no fuel, no power and no people on board. Anytime an aircraft is in the sky its not in a safe state, but there are states more dangerous than others and states safer than others. Its also highly dependent on the aircraft type. I did my basics in Cessna C152s where stalls are fairly benign. I did my retracts and constant speed prop. in Mooney M20s where a stall is very serious issue. I did my basic aerobatics in R2160s and its stall is in between. The other fundamental to understand regarding safety functions is the MooN concept which stands for "M out of N." Its a reference to how many sensors out of those available are required to trigger the safety function. The common variations we see in industry are 1oo1, 1oo2 and 2oo3. A 2 out of 3 system requires 2 out of the 3 sensors to report a value that triggers the safety function. MCAS for this part of its functionality was a 1oo1 system. It had one sensor and if that 1 sensor said the AOA was too high MCAS forced the nose down. 1oo1 systems are pretty common but not generally for CRITICAL safety functions. They are almost exclusively used in fail safe functions which makes then totally unsuited to aircraft critical safety functions. Most engineers don't like dealing with safety engineers because we start with that first fundamental which is their design will eventually fail. Its a psychological barrier not an engineering one. Nobody likes being told that their design will fail. I've been in meetings where engineers have literally melted down at that, but if you don't go through the process you risk not uncovering flaws. For a system like MCAS (and most safety related systems) you start with the sensors because that's where your software/computer gets its real world information. There are fundamentally 2 types of sensor the type that is either on or off (which we call digital) and the type that sends (or transmits) a signal representing a value (what we call analog). Yes there are all sorts of ways they can connect to the computers including redundant wiring and include diagnostic functions including fault detection. I build and design systems with these functions. At the fundamental level ALL analog sensors have 4 basic failure modes that apply to any industry and any application. 1: Fail Low - when the fault sends the signal to its lowest value. 2: Fail High - when the fault sends the signal to its highest value. 3: Fail Steady - when the fault freezes the signal at a value. 4: Fail Erratic - when the fault makes the signal randomly behave. FORGET all the arguments over which component does what. This is the basic starting point. For a system like MCAS you want to concentrate on what makes it trigger and what doesn't. So for the anti-stall ONLY I would modify the above with basic replies: 1: Fail Low to minimum AOA sensor value -> No action required MCAS anti-stall will not trigger. 2: Fail High or Fail steady above the MCAS trigger point -> MCAS will continue to push the nose down until the flight terminates. 3: Fail Steady below the trigger point -> No action required as MCAS anti-stall will not trigger. 4: Fail Erratic -> MCAS might Trigger, then de-activate then re-trigger as the signal oscillates. That's about as basic as anyone could ever put this and it immediately provides 2 Action Items, the first of which guarantees a fatal crash because its a 1oo1 system that does not have the diagnostics to detect the fault and automatically ignore the sensor and as we now know is exactly what happened. This is so basic to safety engineering its the sort of stuff you do on day 1. The fact every other anti-stall system including the one Boeing uses on other aircraft uses at least 2 sensors and in some cases is linked to the rest of the aircraft sensor suite to check the validity of the information this system SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED OR ALLOWED ON ANY AIRCRAFT. Way back in college long before I did any industrial control systems we had an alum do a guest lecture. He was one of the lead aerodynamicists for the X-29 forward swept wing demonstrator. All that plane really wanted to do was rip its wings off and to prevent that it used computers. It was one of the first planes ever to use this kind of pilot augmented software to this almost extreme level. EVERYTHING was at least triple redundant. It actually had a massive effect on industrial safety with the advent of what are called TMR (triple mode redundant) systems like the Triconex safety platform. As someone who came from an aerospace background who does work that has its foundation in the aerospace industry I'm stunned it was an aerospace company like Boeing that did this. I expect mining companies and manufacturers to behave like this. Even the oil & gas people who have a terrible track record now generally do better than this. Boeing lost their way and I don't know if keeping people who contributed to that will help them find their way again.
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  4512. Outside of the specifics of this case you have hit the ugliest nail in the house on the head. The Panama Papers came out and detailed how people from all over the world were involved in industrialised tax evasion and money laundering. So far NOBODY ANYEHRE has been charged with anything let alone gone to jail. After the Panama Papers came the Paradise Papers detailing more of the same and the result was the same. Then came the Pandora Papers a they detailed even more than either the Panama Papers or Paradise Papers and so far the result has been the same - NOBODY ANYEHRE has been charged with anything let alone gone to jail. Now with the crackdown against the Russian Oligarchs the truth about London's Money Laundering industry has been exposed and along with it the all places where all this wealth is being hidden. There's a lot of talk these days about wealth inequality but what few want to discuss is the even worse situation with inequality in the justice system.
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  4513. That's an incredible way to describe it and horrendously TRUE. It begs the question: When did we put the polls (and polling data) in front of people? I used to watch the West Wing and it never occurred to me until recently that at every moment of decision they'd run a pole. If the answer back wasn't good they ran another pole BUT with the question reframed. One of the biggest issues in the world is polling and how the questions are asked. I worked out that more than anything Politicians commission polls to find out HOW to sell a policy or HOW to attack an opponents policy. Polling is not about finding out what the public thinks or wants. Polling is about how formulate their political strategy.
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  4514.  @daveduncan9005  Wake up Ukraine applied to NATO started talking to NATO in 1992 and started the application process in 2008. Its past tense mate. Most people are so stupidly ignorant listening to their favourite echo chamber they don't even realise that NATO left the door open for Russia to join back in the 90s.
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  4515.  @roseromans8497  Before Trump won in 2016 a few very smart people called that Trump would win because what it was was a form of protest from a massive chunk of disenfranchised people. Everyone seems to forget that before he steamrolled over Hilary (who was a sad joke of a candidate) he steamrolled over Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush and a bunch of other favourite GOP sons one after another. If he had been the joke all those GOP stalwarts claimed then how did he smash them all so easily? Could it have been that Trump just tapped into a very raw nerve among a large group of people who had been disparaged and disenfranchised by the endless wave of globalisation? Yeah I think a lot of them knew Trump was FOS and even today know he is still FOS, but the alternative is to go back to being hammered and smashed by the GOP and DNC who don't give a damn. I think a lot of his support comes from people want to tell all the professional politicians in BOTH the GOP and DNC to FK-OFF. Its the same thing that drove Brexit and other populist election results around the world.
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  4516. THERE'S A PBS FRONTLINE DOCUMENTARY CALLED: Rumsfeld's War Copies can be found on YT. Anybody wanting a history lesson will find it incredibly informative. During the documentary they discuss the "Powell Doctrine." Ret. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph P. Hoar gives the basics. 1) Congress must give the military clear and realistic objectives. Congress and POTUS cannot simply say go there do stuff. 2) Congress must authorise the forces and manpower that the military say they need to do the task assigned. 3) The action must have the support of the American people. 4) There must be an exit strategy. Put simply get the job done and then get the troops home. ALL 4 must be in place BEFORE committing the military to action. This process was developed after Vietnam and was employed in Desert Storm (to get Iraq out of Kuwait). This part of the documentary detailed how this was NOT DONE before the Invasion of Iraq after 9/11. If you watch the documentary note item 2 and what Paul Wolfowitz told congress. Do you think the Russians did their homework any better than America and its Allies before Iraq? You would have thought would be superpowers had learned by now.
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  4517. Did you like that entrepreneur with the hammer cocked Glock pointed at his nuts at 0:30? I bet he's a real smart one to invest in.
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  4518.  @JimBananas  That's why I keep telling people to watch Glenn Kirshner. He started as a JAG before becoming a federal prosecutor. He's actually argued cases before Judge Sullivan who is the judge in the Flynn case. Here is his latest explaining how pardons work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XNPc3qvmAM He's done several other vids on the Flynn case. There is also another lawyer on YT called Legal Eagle who's pretty good on explaining general topics, but he's also done a couple of pieces on the elections. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpa-Zb0ZcQjTCPP1Dx_1M8Q
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  4519. I can see some very ugly confrontations happening. The one thing right wing people are extremely good at (in almost any topic) is provoking everyone else. They are just like that brat in school who was always poking & prodding at the "quiet kid." Remember - no matter how many times they were told to stop they just kept at it until the "quiet kid" snapped because they'd had enough. That's actually incredibly common through history. Go and look at any of the peasant revolutions. It was always people saying they'd finally had enough. What happened with BLM? People finally said "enough." What was the rights response to that? More provocation, more finger pointing and more of the same crap. I can see a moment where the insane hypocrisy of the political right provokes the rest of the population 1 too many times and then there's an ugly backlash. What worries me is that this backlash will be worse than anything anyone can imagine and that's because there's so much stress on society already.
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  4520.  @nedludd7622  Actually you are very very right except on the final point. The most important function of the second Amendment was providing SECURITY of a free state. There is NOTHING about the government. A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. What many Americans don't realise is that first part A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State,... had incredibly profound effects on the world. Prior to the American revolution most societies had people like sheriffs, marshals and bailiffs BUT NONE of them had a civilian police force separate from the military. All those sheriffs, marshals and bailiffs used regular military units or special units of the military like the Praetorians of Rome for enforcing government rule over civilians. EVERY country was (to some extent) a military dictatorship. When Pilot sent his men to get Jesus they were Roman soldiers, not police officers. The concept of what we now call a police force didn't exist. Then one day a group of people decided they'd had enough of that threw out their king and his soldiers and started this country called America. After deciding that (like the Athenian Greeks) every citizen could help choose the government they decided every citizen had some basic rights. The FIRST right was citizens could believe what they wanted, say what they wanted and most importantly tell the government what they didn't like (as in their grievances) and not be publicly executed for it. It was a truly revolutionary concept that most of the kings and emperors since have come to regret. The SECOND thing they decided was that it would be local citizens under local control who would supply security for the villages, towns and cities of this new nation. It was a revolutionary concept the federal government would not use the military to rule over the population and enforce laws. That task would be done by a "well organised militia". They went even so far that local people could not only vote on who would be their sheriff but who would be the lawyer responsible for trying criminal cases. Not every country since has taken it that far, but every developed nation since that has a civilian police force TOTALLY SEPARATE from their military owes that to the Founding Fathers of America. FYI - I'm Australian and studied engineering in America (late 80s) and a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and used to drag me into discussions on the Bill of Rights. So I had a fairly unusual introduction to American civics.
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  4521. It has been prevalent for 1000s of years and for 1000s of years its been ignored. The kings, emperors, caliphs, dukes and politicians have NEVER CARED about the soldiers they send to war or the consequences that it causes. They look at the win-loss columns and territory they gained or lost and nothing more.
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  4522.  @cynthiaswingle5134  Its like a few other things I've had lots of time these last 2 years to work some stuff out. The trick is finding reliable people to listen too. Part of my trick is to Wikipedia them. Generally you'll get a reasonable idea of who someone is especially if they are in the media or politics. A really good thing to look for is their education. Its tells a lot of about what influenced them.
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  4523. Exactly - If Americans believe in democracy its a no brainer. Did or did not the American people introduce POTUS as "Leader of the Free World" and the "Champion of Democracy" for the entire cold war and afterwards? Funny how America fought Wars in Korea and Vietnam and other places in the "Name of Democracy" and yet have denied democracy to Puerto Rico the entire time AND STILL DO. Maybe the rest of the world should put sanctions on America unless they give Puerto Rico FULL democratic representation. There are 20 mainland states that have less population than Puerto Rico and yet they have full representation.
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  4524. Is it just me or can the rest of us see the day coming when TC opens his front door and something very ugly happens. I'm not hoping for or encouraging anyone to do anything. Its just that I can't see how somebody isn't going to snap at TC or one of these other bad faith actors.
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  4525.  @alanpaulsen6174  You'll love this one then, it was said 2 years before Trump was even born and at a time when Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin were all in power. Look at what it says about method and patriots. Try not to fall off your chair. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  4526. Did we all really hear that you didn't know who Neil Young was?? Maybe you slow down a bit Max and stop being such a millennial and do just a bit if history reading. I notice you haven't done anything on Mark Blyth's assessment of Bitcoin either????? If you want people to take you seriously then don't act like a pretentious millennial, the world has a plague of those.
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  4527. Sorry Sabine, but you are being INCREDIBLY DISHONEST about current construction times and costs. You are playing a statistical data game and that is totally unnecessary. I believe we will need nuclear for practical reasons and there is NO NEED TO MISLEAD PEOPLE. FIRST - I'm an aerospace engineer and nuclear power is the answer to a moon base and that's part of my interest. I work in industrial control systems and automation. I'm also TUV certified as a Functional Safety Engineer so I have a better understanding of what it takes to make industrial plant safe than you do. My reason for being pro-nuclear power for other than a moon base is based on practicality. Power grids need 2 types of generators - base load and load following and I EXPECT YOU and most of your viewers KNOW THAT. I am actually of the belief that we'll need a mix of nuclear, hydro (where it can be practically done) and renewables (wind & solar combined with storage). In most cases that mix will depend on skill sets and geography. You need the skill set to do nuclear and wind, solar and hydro are all dependent on geography. The reason I believe we'll need a mixture is because Nuclear is great for 24/7 base load but struggles with load following while wind & solar struggle with base load but are good for load following because they can be switched in and out. Hydro can sort of do both, but despite the claims there are 1,000s of places we can do new hydro most of those sites are impractical because of how far off grid they are. Snowy 2.0 in Australia (my country) has gone from an initial AU$2 Billion to more than AU$12B and most of that is the grid connection. The greatest advantage of nuclear however is it can be built on the sites of de-commissioned coal fired power stations and take advantage of the existing grid infrastructure. So I am pro-nuclear because I believe it fills a particular requirement in modern energy grids. SECOND - you are being incredibly dishonest with the construction times because you are ARE NOT DISCUSSING THE TYPES of REACTORS that people are building NOW like the American AP1000 by Westinghouse or the European Power Reactors (EPRs) like the one recently completed in Finland or the 2 under construction at Hinkley Point C in Britain and Flamanville in france. The 2 AP1000s at Vogtle in Georgia took 9 years and the 4 AP1000s in China took 9 years. The EPR in Finland Olkiluoto Unit 3 took 18 years to start producing commercial power, but it had some interruptions. The 2 EPRs at Hinkley Point C are expected to take 10 years with first power in 2028. The EPR at Flamanville (Unit 3) was started in 2007 and is currently expected to be commissioned in 2024. Sure anyone can look up the Japanese reactors and find out things like SHIKA-2 took 4 years to build but its Operating Factor was only 47%. You can also look up the Illinois Energy Prof here on YouTube and see his explanation of what went wrong with Fukushima. They were storing the spent fuel ON TOP of the reactor instead of under it like everyone else because it saved money and time on construction. So when Fukushima blew its lid, and yes Illinois Energy Prof explained it was a chemical (hydrogen) explosion it blew up the spent fuel and scattered it across the site which is why it was so contaminated. So the current GEN IV reactors are taking at least 9 years and as much as 18 years to construct and commission. THIRD on costs you claimed that a nuclear power station in America costs between $5 and $10 Billion. Forgetting the explanation you gave you should NOT have said anything when people can get on Wikipedia and find that: - The 2 AP1000s at Vogtle have an estimated cost of US$34 Billion (see Wikipedia). - Hinckley Point C with 2 EPRs currently has an estimated cost of £32.6 Billion. - Flamanville 3 (another EPR) was originally quoted by EDF at €3.3 billion. By 2012 that cost had escalated to €8.5 billion and by 2020 its cost was estimated at €19.1 billion. All of this data is easily available on Wikipedia and other places for anyone to look up. So please don't quote nonsense numbers because its easy to get into trouble. FOURTH I know you're a theoretical physicist and its OBVIOUS you have no experience in complex construction projects. Your explanation for labor costs and productivity is just repeating what ECONOMISTS have been claiming for years and THEY ARE WRONG. This is NOT a nuclear industry thing either. Its across every industry. I do have experience in complex construction projects courtesy of almost 20 years in mine site construction. By chance in 2002 I met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) and he told me about mining Helium-3 on the moon. So I went to Australia's remote mining industry for experience and stayed a bit longer than planned. What I got was some profound experience in the economics of large complex projects and how contracting companies operate. When economists put profits above everything else one of the side effects was how the contracting industry operated. On large long term projects the contractors employ all their people on hourly rates. The more hours you can charge the more profit you make. So the incentive is NOT on getting the job done but booking as many hours as possible. So the incentive is to hire SLOW & LESS PRODUCTIVE people because they are more profitable. Also claiming that it takes longer because of regulations is a great way to blame someone else why your people are slow and less productive. When I hear people like you REPEAT these claims by economists I literally want to scream. You have no idea what can happen if you actually want to do a job properly or on time or just do a quality job. I have been kicked of projects for getting the job done. I've actually given up on safety engineering because having those qualifications make me almost unemployable thanks to these types of cost adding behaviors. Safety and regulations do NOT cost money. Bad incentives, greed and things blowing up costs money. Summing up: The biggest enemy nuclear power has IS NOT THE IDI0T Greeny who's so stupid its amazing they don't need reminding to breath. Its because of videos like this which are full of basic errors and repeating nonsense that can be refuted easily just fact checking on Wikipedia. MISINFORMATION IS WHAT'S KILLING NUCLEAR and a lot of it is coming from pro-nuclear people. I hope you are going to do a correction video after this.
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  4528. That's actually what the Christian fundamentalists did to the GOP. I'm Australian and about 12 ago we had some real issues with what we call "branch stacking." Its where you deliberately relocate people so that you can win control of local committees by weight of numbers. We've had it happen on both sides of politics and in our unions. We actually have laws against it. They are not easy to enforce but the threat they impose keeps it under control. BUT about the time Sarah Palin was forced on John McCain some Christian Fundamentalists started pushing people here. They were accused of "branch stacking" and during the subsequent investigation a "training tape" emerged. We know it was American from the accents and things we don't do that it discussed like electing District Attorneys and Sheriffs. What it describes is how you slowly over time get control of local political committees and gain control of the NOMINATIONS. Its a question around the Western World - How do these people get elected? And the answer is that "SPECIAL INTERESTS" get control of the nominations and once nominated the federal or state party machine gets behind the nomination with finances and it helps get the local clown elected. The main parties have to go with it or they wont win the seats they need to have power. Where the main parties have lost control is that they never minded the 1 or 2 "odd ones," but now its NOT 1 or 2, its dozens. Its blocks and those blocks are big enough get what they want.
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  4529.  @nancystowell4877  For examples of countries who have recently prosecuted leaders and jailed them. Malaysia Bolivia Peru
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  4530.  @tammyboon6259  He was democratically given the arse but it was for multiple breeches of the rules. He was at least held accountable.
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  4531.  @tammyboon6259  Your right on all accounts about Lindsey Graham, which should make everyone wonder what blackmail Trump has that he flipped so hard. if you go even further back LG was one of those very few GOP boys who spoke out against the Bush Whitehouse and the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. Around that time LG had huge street cred with other nations. Now he's just sad. On Bannon, never underestimate that snake and never just dismiss what he says. He is one of the most dangerous and poisonous political snakes on the planet. He's a lot smarter that his detractors claim and a way better strategist than many realise. He has one weakness - arrogance. Bannon is insanely arrogant, but that stems from the fact that so many of the poisonous snakes in American politics there has been no accountability of people in that environment. Once Ford pardoned Nixon when Nixon hadn't even been charged with a crime it basically said to those political snakes "Go ahead and do whatever you like because nobody is going to hold any of you to account."
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  4532.  @fionad6338  Yep you got it pretty simple and straight on that, but then when has politics either been simple or straight forward??? More importantly when has politics ever NOT been infested with ulterior motives.
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  4533.  @LegalEagle  Can you please answer or explain one of the seriously important questions right now - treason and sedition. Many people are making treason claims while others claim sedition. Many are claiming Trump and others should be tried for treason, but I have seen people claim than under American law treason only applies in time of war and if you aid the enemy. I do now sedition is difficult in America because of the 1st Amendment which actually exists because of how the British used sedition laws against the colonial population. BUT for people like Mike Flynn the UCMJ has a different definition and it "possibly" applies even for ex-military because their oath to uphold and defend the constitution does not simply end when they retire. I am not a lawyer, I'm an engineer trained in logical thinking not legal thinking. So please can you clarify the issue.
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  4534. Your half right on the uneducated, have look at his Bio -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lindell College drop out, drug addict, dubious business practices. Reads just as you might expect from someone associated with Trump.
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  4535. There's a lot of comments about his behaviour and I'm not seeing much of it at all. Your saying he wasn't looking at the screen - SO WHAT! Have you never seen anyone trying to think about what they are about to say. Do I think Kyle did a good job of pressing him? Absolutely and it certainly made him uncomfortable - that's obvious. But then if you go back to the famous JBP - Cathy Newman interview JBP made it a point that journalists should push. He also said the same to Joe Rogan one time I saw. There's also something that came out here NOBODY is discussing. That's the medical industries view that this subject is a "growth" area for them to exploit. No matter what side you're on that should be a concern to everyone. because that raises a great question. Are there doctors exploiting vulnerable people for money? So I don't think it was as explosive as the title makes out. It was a good interview, but I'd give a warning to Kyle on his promotional attitude. Kyle Krystal, Saagar, Pakman and others are all saying how they are different to main stream, but are they when they title their vids the way they do?
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  4536. Yeah its been amusing how the Trump comparisons have moved from Hitler the Nero. The funnier thing is that every time someone calls Trump "Nero" Ivanka keeps having to tell him that its "Nero" not "Hero." Even dumber he still thinks its a positive because Nero was the Emperor who rebuilt Rome and made it great again. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤬
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  4537. The only question left for Junior is: Does he get his drugs from the same guy Hunter does?
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  4538. Here's the link to the guardians series on Pegasus -> https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project
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  4539. Welcome to modern politics in every developed country in the world. I'm Australian and the number of lawyers in our politics is over the top terrifyingly scary. All they are trained to do is argue semantics and its why they can't get a damn thing done. Did you know Biden, both Obamas and both Clintons are all lawyers along with Ted Cruz? Those are just the few I can name of hand. And just like ours all any of them can do is argue semantics the rest of us don't care about. Maybe after the next revolution we put a tariff limit on the number of lawyers allowed in society.
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  4540. I'm an Australian engineer and have tried to warn our authorities about our power grid's vulnerabilities. Its not an American problem is a problem in every developed nation on the planet. The very nature of how this stuff is built and laid out. PUMPING GIGAWATTS of power around generates heat. High Voltage Transformers need to be out in the open air so they can be cooled. Power lines need to be out in the open air so they can be cooled. Things that are out in the open are vulnerable and can be open to some very simple attacks.
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  4541.  @gammagongetya8967  And again as has been said many many times - preaching isn't the same as practicing.
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  4542. HEY AMERICA - do you know why Starbucks failed here in Australia? Because we already had populations of Italians, Greeks, Turks, French and other Euro-Mediterranean cultures who could make us a better cup of coffee for the same money. We just didn't need Starbucks and their crap. Maybe you Americans need to realise that all over America you have people from the same Euro-Mediterranean cultures who can easily make you a better cup of coffee AND GREAT cakes & pastries to go with them. Anyone who's ever been to America knows there's good pie in any diner. Just sayin' dudes you can all walk a few steps almost ANYWHERE in America and get something better than Starbucks.
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  4543. You are right but the issues go much deeper because the privatisation cancer started back in the 90s and we now have 25+ years of idiotic policy. If you are interested I have written a lengthy comment on this page describing what I know as an engineer.
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  4544.  @Psyxic_Crimes  A couple of years nobody used the word neoliberalism or called people neoliberals much at all. Feudalism is a word I hadn't used since high school history class. Now we use these words as easy as we breath oxygen.
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  4545. That and the fact Biden is not the man he was 20 years ago when he could go face to face with people like this. This was always the risk of nominating a person of his age. The GOP will be in the same spot of the nominate Trump again. If the DNC put up someone with a spine who can debate Trump to his face they'll be in the same spot.
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  4546.  @Napoleonic_S  By chance have you ever seen the TED talk that Nick Hanauer gave titled "Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming"? Its here on YT and in part of it he explains what Henry Ford did with wages for his workers. Its something you will NOT here from most of todays business leaders.
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  4547. Good other people spotted that.
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  4548.  @josiplilic3384  You need to slow down and read through your comments before hitting "REPLY" and learn to use the space bar. Its hard to tell what you mean at times. I think you meant the fundamentalists who adore trump are incapable of thinking dialectically. Dialectical thinking is defined as seeing things from multiple perspectives. Trumps supporters are NOT capable (or incapable) of seeing anything except what Trump says. Its why they can't see that he's lied about the election result. The neoliberal status quo is not just an American problem its a global problem. Americans tend to forget that the American super wealthy (what some call plutocrats and others oligarchs) do not just operate in America they operate all over the world and have partner ships with similar people from other countries. Main stream media is a gigantic problem world wide. Its no so much they are to blame for Trump but that allowed Trump and others like him to exist. If you want a good idea of how the world is working, look up Prof. Mark Blyth. He's originally from Scotland so he talks like Shrek, but he's fantastic at explaining how politics and economics work. He's coined the term "Angrynomics" which is what we see when lots of people don't feel like the system (politics and economics combined) don't work properly and people get angry. Here's his 3 minute introduction to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY
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  4549. I believe you are describing the rats leaving the sinking ship.
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  4550.  @hillclimbracingfan5821  I think it might have been that because it was an Impreza. Your right it was footage you could barely get your head around.
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  4551.  @breenwalshe7667  Sad, but I can hear the comment "he was doing what he loved"
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  4552. I'm an aerospace engineer welcome to the club of people who know how full-of-shite Elon Musk is. There's literally 1000s of engineers and scientists who have been trying to tell the world he is not some techno messiah who's going to take a chosen few to the promised land on Mars. What he is (and many underestimate this) is an extremely good promoter of technology to the technically illiterate. Several of his techno companies have failed and failed spectacularly and yet even to this day his fans deny they were failures. Most notable in that group are Hyperloop, the Tesla truck and Suncity. SpaceX on the other hand has been a fantastic success and that's a long explanation if you're interested. But then he lucked out with SpaceX by getting a team of incredibly talented people at just the right moment in space flight history. He was also assisted in the abysmal failures of some other programs. Tesla (the cars) are an amazing achievement. Although Elon had NOTHING to do with the foundation of the company it is only what it is now because of Elon's promotional skills. Again, like with SpaceX, Elon was very lucky with timing. Tesla was a company founded by some very smart people who had solved most of the technical issues well before Elon arrived with cash and bravado. With Twitter however he might just have finally let his mouth go too far.
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  4553.  @psycobleach46  Well done you just pointed out why this mess is as bad as it is. Mitch McConnell had the chance to put limits on Trump at the Impeachment. He could have done as they did with Clinton. Yes you Mr. President you did as you are accused but we consider it a mistake rather than a deliberate act and will allow you to stay as President. They never said it openly to Clinton but the message was clear - "Behave or we will throw your ass out." And that's McConnell's true failure - NOT putting a leash and muzzle on Trump and look at what has now happened.
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  4554.  @psycobleach46  Its actually very important that people get things right at this point. There will be no justice if people keep screaming idiotic garbage. I forget which film it was but it was bout the Nuremberg trials and one of the lawyers had doubts. And his commander told to go into court, stick to the facts and explain that what these people did was wrong and WHY. Right now Trump can write out a swath of pardons. He can then resign and wave the middle finger at everyone. Impeach him just for his comments at the rally as sedition. He could be gone by lunchtime and it can be done in a proper way that he can't get out of. Then Giuliani, Ivanka, Jared and the rest have no where to hide. And what can the Republicans claim? Fair simple trials, kept it factual, keep it simple and send'em to jail.
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  4555. AND ANOTHER THING REGARDING THIS BIMBO. Check her Wikipedia page. She graduated from Lakeridge High School a public secondary school in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She then went to UCLA also a public education institution, where she did a degree in philosophy. Its a bit rich to have benefited from first class public education to then to deny it to others.
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  4556. CAN SOMEONE please tell these CLOWNS who have ZERO technical background to stop making grand proclamations of technologies that NOBODY NOT EVEN engineers, mathematicians & scientists can predict what will and what wont be available. FYI - I am an aerospace engineer and I am damn tired of non-technical people telling everyone what technologies we will and wont have in future. AND YES I know there's plenty of STEM people adding to the noise.
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  4557.  @flothus  What your missing is the 8+ years I have been studying economists and how they behave. I haven't gone and done ay courses. I have been listening to them and their critics and there is now a lot of criticism of economists. I am more convinced than ever that economics is an incredibly important subject. The problem is economists are NOT trained to understand how economies work. They are trained to understand how MARKETS work. So they frame everything in terms of markets. They have absolutely NO understanding of how things like education systems, health care systems and energy supply systems actually work in a modern economy. This is why energy is such a mess. All the decisions (or lack of) are being heavily influenced by or MADE by economists. One of the things they really can't understand is that any society needs certain things in place NOT for the purpose of making money but so everything else can make money. Roads don't need to every make money but they need to be there so everyone else can move stuff and make money. Education doesn't need to make money it needs to supply business and industry with a workforce so they can make money. But if you try and explain to an economists 99 out of a 100 will have a melt down. Here's the even bigger problem. IT DOES NOT MATTER if you have Lefty clowns howling renewables or Right Wing nutters howling about fossil fuels, THEY ALL LEARNED THE SAME ECONOMICS. Every politician in the developed world is either an economist or have an economics advisor and they all studied similar text books written by professors at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge... or written by people who went to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge... AND in many cases those text books are printed by Harvard Press, Yale Press, Oxford Press, Cambridge Press... Its a major problem and why no matter who gets elected these days nothing changes. This is why so many populations are getting frustrated. Economists have stuck their noses into everything in the belief that "the rest of us are problems they have to manage." (Mark Blyth) Right now in Australia (my country) there's a massive debate raging about nuclear power. So far I have only seen 1 engineer interviewed and he was a university professor who said NOTHING because all he was asked about was the economics. We have 2 reports. One by the political Left who claim science is on their side and nuclear can't work in Australia because of the economics. The other report by the political Right claiming that science and economics says the only way to save Australia is to go nuclear. YES both reports in Australia were written by economists for economic arguments. NO engineers were involved in either report. Both reports should have been printed on toilet paper so we'd know what to do with them. I'm NOT arguing Hydrogen on economic grounds or Nuclear for that matter. I'm for Hydrogen right now because I can (as an engineer) make it work in the time frame we have been left with by the stupidity of economists interfering for the last 30+ years. You have no idea how close to an energy collapse Australia is or a few other countries for that matter. Right now Hydrogen is the answer for a lot of countries IF WE CAN GET THE ECONOMISTS and ACTIVISTS and SPECIAL INTERESTS to GET OUT OF THE WAY. In the longer term a lot of countries NEED to have sensible discussions on nuclear and that can't happen while these clown fests continue.
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  4558. Not certain on the racist angle but certainly partisan. As Dr. Jha says people's opinion is based on which party they support. I'd agree that some of it is racist or at the very least anti-China. For another expert in this field you can try Dr. Michael Osterholm director of CIDRAP at U. of Minnesota. This is a link to his latest podcast and he covers the lab leak in depth starting around 43:30 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYNfScnnDVU&t=2610s Note he points out that if this lab had been American then America would have most likely been less forthright with information. What we have are experts telling us the obvious - WE DON'T KNOW.
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  4559. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powell interview. I have left a separate answer with additional background information about why Australia is so concerned about Rupert Murdoch's behavior in America. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powell Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  4560. Are they kidding? NO THEY ARE SERIOUS? Watch the body language from 7:23. A while back I watched a body language expert pull apart the body language of one of the main flat earth protagonists. This reminds me so much of that video. I am no body language expert but there is something totally off with that guy. Think about the times you know somebody was bullshitting and you knew they were bullshitting just by their mannerisms.
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  4561. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE - Sorry Sal but you have gotten your nuclear reactor COMPLETELY BACKWARDS. To all the reason aerospace engineers understand the nuclear options are because we'd like to build a Lunar Base. It was an aerospace engineer Kirk Sorenson who used to work for NASA and who was tasked with working out how to power a Lunar Base. From that Kirk kicked off a massive part of the nuclear discussion with his advocacy of Molten Salt reactors and Thorium fuel. I have also worked in Australia's nuclear industry on the mining side and as part of that we did an induction course that covered the full nuclear energy cycle from ore in the ground all the way through to spent fuel buried back in the ground. Also one of my workmates used to be a US Navy nuclear power plant technician/operator on aircraft carriers. FOR SHIPPING there is currently only 1 option and that is civilian versions of existing naval nuclear reactors. So for American commercial ships with nuclear power THEY WILL HAVE to use a CIVILIAN VARIANT of the GE Power reactors currently used in US Navy submarines and aircraft reactors. ALSO most of the Small Modular Reactor technology is based on Naval reactors. ALSO until the money is spent to actually develop commercially usable Molten Salt Reactors then just like with SMRs people need to stop making STUPID claims about using them. Sorry mate, I love your channel and watch it all the time but on this you are 100% WRONG. I you want I would happily do a video with you explaining these technologies.
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  4562. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Got nothing but applause for that!
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  4563. SORRY BUT - I went and checked this and maybe Thom could have done some checking too. There definitely is a direct link from Cannons husband (Josh Lorence) to John Rosatti, but there's not much of a link between John Rosatti and the Colombo crime family and nothing to suggest he's actually a mobster. According to FBI informant and former Colombo captain Salvatore "Big Sal" Miciotta "in late 1993, Victor Orena asked multi-millionaire businessman John Rosatti to provide cars from his dealership to be used to carry out murders, Rosatti declined and instead handed over $50,000 to Orena." (source Wikipedia on the page about the Colombo Crime Family). So there's no actual claim anywhere that Rosatti was actually a mobster just a claim that a mobster approached him at one time and the implication he paid money to NOT be involved.
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  4564. As an avid sci-fan I'd like to point out the original 1975 version of Rollerball (not the 10,000% crap remake). If you pay attention its a society where there's NO government and the world is ruled by corporations. Note the repeated references to cities being energy cities or food cities or some other industry. Part way through the film there's a video conference (yeah 40 years before skype and other systems) of the corporate heads to discuss the problem of James Caan's character Jonathan E. During it John Houseman's character describes how the purpose of Rollerball was to promote teamwork over individual achievement and that Jonathan E. threatened that system. So they plan to kill him during a game to prove their point that striving for individual achievement does not work no matter how good you are. On that think about what the basic purpose of Human Resources are. Deal with and weed out anyone who will not tow the company line or shows any form of dissent. And if you didn't know HR we in part based on the old Soviet era "political officers." I'm surprised more people don't reference the film as a case of what could happen when corporate greed and power goes too far.
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  4565. I thought America had laws for lewd conduct in public places????
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  4566.  @Cedarlick  This whole thing makes you wonder that when Lauren worked as an escort if she was making money hand over fist.
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  4567. Australian here. Not certain where you are from or if that is a quote but its a damn good summary of these people.
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  4568. ​ @janecreek681  I though it sounded Orwellian. As an Australian kid who went to high school in the 80s I studied BOTH Animal farm and 1984 and hated both at the time. NOWDAYS I want to go back and thank my teachers for making us understand how democracy dies. Interestingly even though I did engineering (U. Illinois) a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they used to drag m into their discussions. I think it was because I could be relied on to put in odd or unusual ideas. One thing I used to always argue (mainly because it was all I had) was the Orwellian idea that ANY democracy could fail. They used to argue back that America could NOT fail because of how it was structured under the constitution. There are the 4 pillars (The House, The Senate, SCOTUS & the Whitehouse) and as such it was impossible for anyone of them to gain enough power to overrule the others. So I have had the American system of "Checks & Balances" explained and argued by a bunch of people many of whom are now practising lawyers. *What we never discussed, because it was never considered possible, was what would happen if a Mitch McConnell type simply refused to do his job like he did with BOTH Trump impeachments. the first impeachment was more obvious that Bill Clinton's penis being in Monica Lewinsky's mouth. The 2nd Impeachment was even more obvious than the first and BOTH time McConnell simply refused to do his job and Merrick Garland has since refused to step up and do his job as well. On Jan 6th. If anybody tried that in any other country they would have been in prison that day and in many countries executed shortly after the very short trial. So these days I am pretty amazed because the one argument I used to make and always had shot down is now what's happened.
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  4569. Actually the British were at Gallipoli and in fact their losses were greater than the ANZACs. In fact there was one quite special regiment that was annihilated. There was the Sandringham Regiment that came from the farming families that worked on the King's estate at Sandringham. There was a film made about this called "All the Kings Men (1999)." NOTE: that film was heavily criticized because it had some scenes for which there was NO evidence ever produced. But the loss of that regiment through incompetence by the British officers was something the British could simply hide. They were not simply soldiers from somewhere else, they were young men the King actually knew because they worked for him on the Kings farm. Its only an idea, but the loss of the Sandringham Regiment MAY have had something to do with the British getting out of Gallipoli. The reason the British losses are less known is because to the British Gallipoli was just another part of the War. To Australia and New Zealand this was everything because our entire force was sent to Gallipoli. I don't know if you've been to Australia or not but in many small country towns there are WW1 monuments that list all those from the area who lost there lives. We had some towns that lost EVERY young man at Gallipoli and families who lost all their sons at Gallipoli because in those days we put brothers and cousins and neighbors in the same unit. We trusted the British and they threw away 1000s of lives including many British. One thing we never heard much about until recent years were the Turkish loses. With the increase in Australians visiting Gallipoli, the Turkish government also pointed out the Turkish losses. I never really knew until recently how bad they were. What that's done is give many Australians a better appreciation for how pointless the Gallipoli campaign was. There's an Australian film about the campaign called "Gallipoli." Its famous as one of Mel Gibson's first major films. Its goes into how stupid the whole thing was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_(1981_film)
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  4570. Yeah, you'd think DW had moved on with technology.
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  4571. Actually it was his lawyers or the Fox lawyers. I forget which specifically. I can see the day when he steps out his door and finds out there's a flipside to the 2nd Amendment. I don't think it will be a very good day. It will be like standing in a lake of gasoline and somebody lights a match.
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  4572. That's a fairly good summation mate. I'm an engineer and I totally support any nation that is building out its infrastructure BUT as many countries have found out if its not done right then what should be an investment in a nations future prosperity becomes an anchor around its neck. I'm actually Australian and we have had some great projects we've all benefitted from and also some utter catastrophes that people should have known were going to be catastrophes. I did my degree in America and that have lists of great success and lists of catastrophes too.
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  4573.  @GardeningZ  I get your point, the problem is its so hard for engineers to get heard by political leaders. When there's a difference between what's best to do technically and what's best to do politically politics wins every time. I have proposed to my own government (Australia) projects that its own consultants said were good or high priority and for political reasons I got nowhere. I did my degree in America and saw the same thing happen there. This happens all over the world and China is finding out (like many others have) that when you put politics ahead of reason it does not work out well.
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  4574.  @GardeningZ  I have been watching a few of Mariana Mazzucato talks about her new book "The Big Con" regarding how consultants like KPMG, McKinsey, PwC,... have done insane levels of damage to how our governments operate. I think she's absolutely on the dot. About the only thing she doesn't go into much is the insane behavior of the media. She does mention it but doesn't put it in the same category of importance as the consultants, while I think they are just as important as the consultants because the consultants can't be what they are without the media.
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  4575.  @GardeningZ  Yeah well that just proves one of the greatest issues of our time - journalists who have no idea how to be journalists. The other day a friend said to me: "Journalists used to present us with facts and let us decide what they mean. Now they present us with opinions and expect us to work out what the facts are."
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  4576.  @GardeningZ  That's NOT a Chinese lesson that's a lesson that's been REPEATED by almost every society that ever developed trade. Eventually somebody gathered all the wealth to themselves and the rest rose up and took it from them. French Revolution, Russian Revolution and American Revolution were all poor working class people fighting back against a tyrannical regime. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and we had many discussions about why the US Constitution is the way it is. This is why I am so frustrated with America these days. The American people have forgotten who they are and why they threw the British out.
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  4577. Trump is right about one thing and that's America isn't a great country anymore. Because any country that elects a clown like him to its top position isn't a great country.
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  4578. This is one of those where Kyle should have shut up after about 2 minutes 10 seconds. Its one of those moments where the rest of us should stand way, way back and get clear of the blast zone. I'm not Jewish but a few of my college friends and people I know through work are. This is the sort of thing that unites and Trump is playing one of his classic divide and conquer moves. As tactic it can backfire and against certain cultural groups or social circumstances it doesn't simply backfire it unites people into a mobile block of concrete they will then attempt to run you over with. It might not backfire on Trump and it might just blow up so badly that they annihilate him.
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  4579. HEY EVERYONE - CALM TF DOWN. No country talks about its death statistics every day. With the exception of the road toll and COVID when was the last time you heard a news report on how many people die from something? Occasionally you hear about cancer deaths or drug overdose deaths or teenage suicide. The fact is humans die every second of everyday and NOBODY wants reminding of the fact we all die. So this is a story we should all expect. Further its damn easy to make any story you want from the statistics. I just watched another video painting a horrible view of Australia's COVID response. They pointed out Australia now has a higher incidence of COVID confirmations than America. I checked the date and to my surprise its true. Australia currently has 393,872 cases per million of population. America currently has 294,874 cases per million of population. Then I remembered we're still testing and reporting our cases while Donald Trump cancelled testing because it was making him look bad in the lead up to the election. If Australia had the same mortality rate as America we'd have 5-1/2 times as many dead. That's 82,000 dead instead of 15,000 or in other words 67,000 Australians are alive because we weren't like America. Sorry but its pretty damn easy to paint any story you want if you know which stats to quote.
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  4580. Just imagine how nuts it might be if its from COVID or if someone claims it was COVID. A few weeks back (in a similar vein) somebody commented publicly that their bigger fear wasn't if he ran in 2024 but if he lost in 2024. What would that do to his supporters?
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  4581.  @Soleilune1995  I truly get the gist of what you are saying but that's got to be the last thing you want to have happen. On the other hand how you re-connect these people with reality is going to be hard. They are lead by a complete sociopathic narcissist in Trump. The best hope is Trump does something so stupid that people just stop because they can't deny what's happened. There was that bit Kyle highlighted about Rick Wiles after My Pillow accused him of conspiring with Biden. Is own word were "if this guy is this wrong about this then how do we believe anything he said." That's the sort of thing that needs to happen. It almost did when Trump turned on Fox for a few weeks. Murdoch is the key to it. Find a way to expose him and you find a way to get past this.
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  4582.  @Soleilune1995  Yo what????? Hoping that's tongue in cheek or you need some new drugs.
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  4583. I just checked its 5-Sept-2021 a few weeks later and they still haven't given the official cause which might explain it.
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  4584. CORRECTION TO THIS - Nuclear like EVERY energy source we use has a carbon output. No matter what anyone says or does it is simply impossible to get the Carbon Output to zero. We can start with the simple reality of extracting Uranium Ore form the ground AND BEFORE ANYONE ASKS I have actually worked on a Uranium Mine (ERA Ranger in Australia). So I know how that part of the process works and YES it has carbon emissions. PLUS every engineered installation on the planet needs maintenance and the replacement of parts. That's an ongoing process and those NEW REPLACEMENT PARTS, irrespective of what material they are made from involve carbon emissions. So lets just be factual and say there is NO such thing as the ZERO Carbon system here on the Earth. What we actually need to be working towards is a SUSTAINABLE CARBON CYCLE. Before the industrial revolution there planet had its own stabilised carbon cycle. Since the Industrial Revolution "WE" (the human race) have thrown that carbon cycle out of whack and we now need to un-whack it. Will nuclear power help us un-whack the carbon cycle? ABSOLUTELY, but its NOT the only thing we need to do. Sorry if this next part is longish but it actually links up with your video on the AC system the ex-NASA engineer has done. The biggest thing by far will be energy efficiency. We have to be more efficient with energy. So you understand there's a direct correlation between GLOABL energy production and GLOBAL GDP. If Global GDP keeps increasing we will get to the point where global energy use literally cooks the planet. Forget greenhouse effects energy use alone will do the damage. The energy issue has been ignored by mainstream economists for decades but has NOT been missed by a few economists, engineers, physicists and other scientists. The core problem is energy efficiency. If you look at the energy efficiency through the entire process then what you use for things like kettles, TVs and the computer your at right now is as little as 5% and for most things across the developed world less than 10% efficient of the actual energy used. This comes from 2 simple realities. One there's the energy consumed for raw materials an infrastructure. Two there's the basic efficiency with which we produce electricity which is only about 35-36%. Go look at the basic data for the EPR 2 reactors at Hinkley point (36%) or the AP1000s used at Vogtle (35%). They're no different to coal fired power stations for the simple reason they boil water and the Carnot efficiency (1 - Tc/Th) for steam turbines is limited to about 36% because of the boiler-turbine-condenser combination. It can be raised to about 42% with high temp high pressure flash boilers but that's NOT as easy as it sounds or it would have been standard practice. The reason why Gas turbines get around 45-46% efficiency is because they operate at a better Tc/Th ratio (eg 1700-800C at 45.6% versus 500-225C at 35.6%) It also why cogeneration works so well because IF your gas turbine exhaust is 800C you can use that to boil water. Yes there's some losses but you can boost the over all efficiency to around 64-65%. The GE 9HA in cogeneration gets about 64.5%. Then there's the losses with the high voltage transmission to your local substation, then the losses of transforming to medium voltages and transmitting that through the local grid and then finally the local transforming down to the low voltage at your house and the power loop through your house back to the grid. So the electricity you use at your computer is lucky if its arriving at the power point at 20%. Then when you look at how much of the energy in a computer is lost as heat in the power supply and chips and you are lucky if your above 10%. This is why technologies like the AC technology from the ex-NASA engineer I just saw in another of your other video are so important. Across the board we have to be more efficient with energy. Another example are buildings as in large office blocks and towers. Prof Mark Blyth (Brown U.) has several times mentioned an engineering study that said if America triple glazed all of those glass clad towers in major cities then America would meet its carbon reduction requirements for the Paris Agreement AND IF THEY DID IT the operational cost reductions would greatly enhance the profits of the owners of those buildings. Plus all the work needed to get that job done would keep 1,000s and 1,000s of people employed for at least a decade maybe 2. But then America just re-elected Captain Greed and his army of Planet F⋃CKING Maggots. So your guess on what's next is as good as mine.
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  4585. ​ @izalman  Thanks and its NOT that I think they are bad its the unnecessary advertising hype and it makes the rest of the energy discussion so much harder. How do you discuss nuclear at ~35% or combined cycle gas turbines at ~64% when people are hyping on about heat pumps at 300% or 400% or 800%? And that's before we get to actual discussions of costs and pay-off time and all the other things. What all these other clowns don't get is that people like you and me have been in those meetings where the clowns with economics degrees throw back at us: "What's the business case for that?" or "Who's going to pay for that?" or "What's the benefits of that?" or maybe "I heard that I can get blah blah blah from this technology. So why aren't we doing that?" Even when that technology is utterly irrelevant or its been considered and found unfeasible. We've all been in that and none of us need those discussions to be harder than they already are AND SIMILARLY we don't need any of the public discussions we need to have to be MORE difficult than they already are.
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  4586. Australian here looking at this from the outside. The craziest aspect of the American-Israeli thing is the GOP's near fanatical pro-Israeli stance, because one of the core fundamentals of GOP ideology is the complete dismantling of social welfare including public education and publicly funded health care. This is all summed up in Ronald Reagan's infamous "Welfare Queen" remark. Heres' the thing. Israel is now politically dominated by the ultra-orthodox Jewish population and they don't work at all. Their men sit in Yeshiva's all day long and study the Torah. Their women mostly stay at home and raise their large families. They get their food, rent, power and medical all paid for by the rest of society and its all underwritten by the American tax payer. Up until recently they rarely served in the military. So how does the GOP support the State of Israel with tax payer money that has a welfare system that they would NOT TOLERATE in America?
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  4587. Fun fact Ted Cruz, Ron De Sanctimonious, Barrack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hilary Clinton, Josh Hawley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ben Shapiro and a whole bunch of others are Harvard, Yale, Princeton,... LAWYERS. Plus on SCOTUS there's 4 Harvard and 4 Yale trained lawyers who are mostly their because of the Federalists Society which was formed by Harvard, Yale and U. Chicago students. Americans need to realise that America is run by a club of Ivy League brats.
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  4588. Australian here - you are 100% right. NOBODY can support either what the Israeli's have done or what Hamas is doing right now. People on the Left have in recent years have totally ignored so much of what happened in the last century. Socialism and Communism FAILED and failed horribly. Its the same thing with the Capitalists and Free Marketeers who ignore what's gone wrong there as well. In so many ways people are screaming and yelling about what others do while completely ignoring what their side does. I think it was Jonathan Haidt who said "There's this cacophony where the Radical Left and Radical Right just scream at each other while the rest of us trapped in the middle are simply exhausted."
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  4589.  @stevenr5149  Have you ever heard the expression "Hope for the best but plan for the WORST" 74,223,744 million people just voted for Trump that's 11 million more than 2016. Do people like you stop and THINK how that happened when every poll on the planet said Trumps base was shrinking? Have you considered for even a minute those people are the most well armed civilian population on the planet and they have been stockpiling so much ammunition that the gun stores have run out. There's NO WAY Trump should be pardoned that's common sense. BUT Biden has to go through the process of what might happen if he does and what might happen if he doesn't. SO THAT HE HAS THE ANSWERS. If Biden DOES NOT pardon Trump he has to be able to tell 74,223,744 people WHY - so that they don't start a civil war. If Biden DOES pardon Trump he has to tell 7.5 billion on this planet WHY yet another war criminal gets away with it - so they don't start a revolution. *WHY DON'T YOU LEARN THAT. IS IT EVER POSSIBLE THAT PEOPLE LIKE YOU CAN JUST THINK WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN AND PLAN FOR IT*
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  4590.  @whatsername123  Actually the Impeachment wont be so symbolic if they prevent him from running again. Its actually one thing I hope they continue with on the other rats. If they let the courts deal with those who facilitated this mess or were simply corrupt in their own right then a future President can pardon them as Trump did with Jared's father. Yeah - a lot of people forgot that Charles Kushner was tried and convicted and sent to prison for campaign finance violations. NO President can pardon someone convicted by Impeachment. So if they impeach Ivanka, Jared and all the others who held official positions they can then ban them from future official positions. That's not as trivial as it sounds. For starters it would keep them out of politics and official positions in future. It would also stain there careers and could prevent them from all sorts of roles. It would certainly set a president that if your going to be corrupt then you will get dealt with and that has sadly NOT been the case for many decades. Lets not forget that people like Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz got away with mass murder, torture and other stuff that should have put them away for centuries.
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  4591.  @Boomslang55  I have absolutely no disagreement on Suckerbergs money in Democrat politics or the disgusting bias of the pro-Democrat media. THEY ARE JUST AS BAD as the oligarchs supporting radical GOP maniacs. I have very much upset a lot of lefties when I tell them they are just as partisan and just as biased as the right wing maniacs they are screaming about. If there is a difference its the amount of money being pumped into the radical far right of American politics. If you actually watch this documentary they weren't attacking Democrats they were attacking Republicans. Starting at 25:45 the guy they are speaking to John Ward is a REPUBLICAN and look at how they attacked him. Your are absolutely right Suckerberg's $400 million is a disgusting amount of influence peddling and CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post,... can all be AT TIMES as garbage as Fox, OAN and Newsmax. If there is a difference its the shear amount of money being pumped by some very nasty people like Charles Koch, Robert Mercer and Barre Seid and how utterly ruthless they are. What the average American conservative in the street needs to realise these people care even less about you than the Left does. To them you are just a lump of talking meat to be pumped. The corporate backers in the Dems aren't much better but the lesser people on the Left want you to have health care and your kids to get a good enough education to get a job.
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  4592. SURE THERE IS AND MEXICO IS GOING TO PAY FOR IT
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  4593. As an outsider (Australian) looking in - YES, not prosecuting Trump over January 6th has been incredibly damaging to America's image and reputation. IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD - Not only would Trump and all those who spoke at the rally but anyone who entered the capital on that day would have been in custody AND NOT RELEASED as fast as they could have been captured. In ANY OTHER COUNTRY they would have received lengthy jail sentences and in more than a few countries MOST of them would have been EXECUTED. The Chinese executed people after Tiananmen Square. The Saudis and Iranians execute anyone who protests their regimes. The Nigerian government executed Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 others for protesting against the environmental damage of oil companies. Trump's buddy Kim Jong Un would have executed ALL OF THEM in a heartbeat. When American history is studied in future Merrick Garland will be viewed in similar context to Benedict Arnold for the betrayal of the office for which he was entrusted with. When he was first appointed an people cheered that justice was coming there were a few people pointing out that he was also a known member of the Federalist Society and warning that he'd do nothing.
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  4594. I hate to bust your dreams but: WHEN Bush & Cheney can invade a country unlawfully and end up getting a million people killed and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN people like Donald Rumsfeld and those underneath him can order the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Bagram AFB and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN John Bolton can ADMIT PUBLICLY to staging coups and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN Obama can use drone strikes in countries he has NO AUTHORITY in and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN Trump can wind up the drone strikes including the one in Syria where he had NO AUTHORITY and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN Trump can assassinate an Iranian General when he has NO AUTHORITY to do it and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN Trump can stage an attempted coup and OVERTHROW the US Government and is NOT arrested, NOT charged and NOT held accountable. What makes you think any American can hold a Foreign Leader like Bibi Netanyahu accountable?
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  4595. What do you expect from people who's central them is: "We demand the Liberty to strip other people of their Liberties." Fundamentalist ideologies NEVER WORK because they can NEVER adjust to ANYTHING they haven't considered. It doesn't matter if they are religious fundamentalists, military fundamentalists, economic fundamentalists or any other form of fundamentalist ideology. And the reason is very simple. They refuse to accept any of the things that cause them trouble even exist. Economic fundamentalists ALWAYS fail because they assume that the markets can solve any problem by SUPPLYING a solution but the concept that markets CANNOT supply a solution does NOT exist in their brains. I'm actually an engineer who's into energy economics at the moment. It started when I discovered how precarious the Australian (my country) situation is. You see to replace all our ageing power stations is an engineering task NOT an Economic task, but Libertarian Economists can't see that. AND SO WE ARE CLEAR - there is almost no Economists on the planet who are NOT Neoliberal Libertarians because they all do the same basic education program at university. They all study the same text books published by Harvard Press, Yale Press, Oxford Press, Cambridge Press,...... etc or their text books are written by professors at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge,...... etc or they are written by people who went to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge,...... etc. That's why Javier Milei has so many fans among Western Economists. They are all taught the same stuff and believe the same stuff. Its only a matter of how far up they have the volume knob and Milei has his wound up to 11.
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  4596. Same here.
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  4597. TO ALL: That Goldstone report can be found by googling "goldstone report 2009" It came up first link for me. It looks like and odd link because Google says it has no information on the web page, but that's because the link is to the report which is a 452 page pdf document. For reference the report number is A/HRC/12/48 dated 25 September 2009. The file is a-hrc-12-48(dot)pdf
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  4598.  @fboomerang  WTF are you claiming, because if you're claiming Norm Finkelstein has tossed human rights out he window THEN YOU ARE AN IGN0RANT M0R0N of Olympic gold medal class.
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  4599. EVERYONE - JUST STOP going on about policies Robert is 100% RIGHT. The average voter NEVER walks into a voting booth thinking about policies especially things like foreign policy. They want something simple like Obama's "Hope & Change" or Trumps MAGA. Go and watch Mark Blyth explain why someone like Elizabeth Warren DID NOT win the nomination in 2020 despite having the best understanding of banking reform that any politician might ever have had. Its here on YouTube just search "mark blyth trumpism" posted by McMaster Humanities. The video is titled "Mark Blyth - Global Trumpism and the Future of the Global Economy" and the question is at 1:19:54 YES its from 2019 but its themse are just as important now as they were then. If you are interested in how the world works then the whole video is worth the time and there's a brilliant explanation of why Bitcoin is a joke just before the Warren question. Listen carefully to what he says and you'll see why Trump's COVID response ended his presidency. All Biden had to do was say "I'm not that stupid!" Harris NEEDS to have 1 BIG SIMPLE SLOGAN which right now is "We aren't geriatrics! and we want to do stuff" which has a lot of people excited. Obama's was "Hope & Change" which people wanted but he failed at. Trump's was MAGA which tapped into how a lot of people felt and why his followers still believe in him. Bidens was "I'm NOT Trump" which tapped right into the suburban housewives who hated Trump. Harris & Walz need something very simple like "Our NEW future" or "A REAL Future" with an emphasis on "we are here for YOU" If they want a "lets go Brandon" they could go with "FTO" as in F--K the Oligarchs. It doesn't matter what they actually say just so long as people have something to chant.
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  4600. Only 750+ likes in 6 hours. I think people are so surprised they have forgotten to hit the button.
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  4601. this is only the second comment on this page I have found that is sensible there's a 3rd below this one. GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I'm an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  4602.  @irenefunn4261  If I have to explain that your in her 1/2 of the population.
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  4603.  @raptorhandz  No, its less than 1/2. Remember some of them are so stupid they barely turn a light on let alone a computer and use an app, let alone find YouTube.
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  4604. Out-voting them only pushes the problem back. America has to fix the problem and that's the misinformation that these people get their heads full of. I'm actually Australian and hate the fact that an Australian, Rupert Murdoch, is right in the middle of this. he could have simply had his people at Fox tell the truth and Trump would have been finished after January 6th. Yes there are other people like Mitch McConnell and some of his billionaire friends could have ended this on January 7th 2020, but they are all 100% American born bred and raised, while Murdoch was born in Australia. We knew what he was like long before he moved into the international market. We tried to warn the Brits what he was like and they didn't listen. We tried to warn America what he was like most of you didn't listen either. A few Americans tried to warn America about what he was doing when they made the 2004 documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" but even that went unnoticed. America has to find a way out of the misinformation storm or its over.
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  4605. The lack of accountability goes back to the Invasion of Iraq, the abuses at Abu Ghraib, the renditions (which qualify as kidnapping) and the torture of prisoners. One of my favorite people to point out is the lawyer John Yoo who wrote the infamous torture memo that didn't just condone what happened but JUSTIFIED IT. Instead of being held accountable he now is a tenured professor teaching Law ay UC Berkley. Trump isn't the problem. He's just the latest and most blatant case of the lack of accountability in respect of political leaders across the Western World. The greatest joke of all right now is all the talk of the "Rules Based Order." What rules are they talking about?
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  4606.  @blogintonblakley2708  I get your point up to a certain degree. I'm an engineer and work in automation - robots & production machinery are among what I have done for a significant part of my working life. I have had that bullshite line that people like me cost other people their jobs. At times YES, when you upgrade a production system there might fewer jobs, but that is not always true. WHEN companies do upgrade and INVEST its very rare that they then shut shop and go somewhere else. The jobs that remain actually become more secure. If you are a worker in any western company for the past 40 years and management DOES NOT upgrade. Then your job is at risk. if you are in a company where they are investing in new automated plant automation then your job is usually secure. Most job loses were through retirement or attrition (people who just moved on). Plus most of the tasks that get automated away are jobs people don't like doing. Tasks that get automated are tasks that are repetitive. Where there is a real problem with automation is the utterly false assumption by managers that workers need less skill. They actually need to LEARN more skills. The easiest example to give from my experience is welding robots. I can program robots to do almost anything. My grandfather taught me to arc weld when I was about 13. BUT I CAN'T out program a welding robot compared to someone who was formally trained as a welder. NONE of the robot engineers can. So what happens with robotic welding is that the welders have to learn the basics of programming or at leat how to adjust exisitng programs. They don't need to learn how the robots communicate with master control systems that's my job. The don't need to learn how to configure the robot to do welding - that's my job. But when it comes to getting the robot to weld parts together so that the new part is what its supposed to be - THAT'S THEIR JOB. So there's a lot of misunderstanding about manufacturing and jobs. There's also another aspect. When companies don't upgrade to maintain their production machinery, which accountants love to do because they just hate letting engineers spend money, one of 2 things eventually happens. 1) It breaks down and broken machinery costs money. Wages still have to be paid, bills still have to be paid and there's the cost of fixing things. And if companies are stupid enough (and many are) machinery eventually catastrophically fails and it can't be fixed. 2) Other manufacturers will simply pass you by with more efficient production and just as likely higher quality production. Its sounds obvious but you'd be amazed how many economists, accountants and business managers don't get is that newer, upgraded or well maintained machinery makes better parts.
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  4607. Jeff Daniels in the famous "Newsroom" debate -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIpKfw17-yY
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  4608. Its NOT that I'm against his analysis or what his Cuban friend is saying but I think he and many others are ignoring a massive reality of the American situation. I have the same question for you as a lot of other people. What do you think America's Middle and Working classes feel about all this "American Imperialism" stuff? I have a fairly long comment addressed to Ben regarding the US Congressional Budget Office report from September 2022 on Family Wealth. I think you and a lot of others need to have a look at what that report is actually saying about what has happened to the bulk of the American population over the last 40 years and particularly since the 2008 GFC.
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  4609.  @stephenbrickwood1602  What do you think you'd get for $40Billion? An AP1000 (based on Vogtle) is $28.3 Billion for 1,100MW (1.1GW) An EPR2 (based on Hinckley Pt. C) is $41-47 Billion for 1,600MW (1.6GW) So just to replace Hazelwood (1.6GW) & Liddell (2.1GW) the 2 big coal plants we have already shut down with equivalent nuclear would be 2 x AP1000s at Liddell and an EPR2 at Hazelwood, for a cost of $97-103 Billion. That just replaces what we had. it doesn't take care of the other 22+ GW of coal we still have and it doesn't take care of the fact we need MORE power for our expanding population. And those coal plants are going no matter what anyone say because like all machines they wear out. You have to remember as engineers we can't just make up numbers. We have to present numbers we can say with some level of certainty. Do you notice how this clown and all the others like him NEVER PUT UP a list of details of where their numbers came from????? Remember Snowy 2.0 started at a cost of $2.0Billion. It went to $4 Billion during design and $5 Billion before they even put the ceremonial shovel in the ground. Its now estimated the dam, tunnels and power station will cost $12 Billion. BUT WAIT the geniuses behind that clown show never included the cost of the power line to connect it. That's now estimated at $8 Billion. SO HOW TF did that project go from $2 to $20 Billion???? What makes anyone think we can build nuclear and keep it within budget???? The Summers plant in North Carolina was budgeted at US$9B for 2 x AP1000s and they stopped when it blew out to $25B. Vogtle with 2 x AP1000s ended up costing $36.8B. Hinckley Pt C was expected to be £31–35 billion in 2015 prices and is now £41.6–47.9 billion in 2024 prices (see Wikipedia). These people are idiots.
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  4610.  @stephenblack8804  I'm an Australian engineer who did his degree in America and I don't think you are very well informed. One of the main design points of the Westinghouse AP1000 like the 2 at Vogtle in Georgia and the 2 unfinished ones in South Carolina and the 4 in China was that it was a consistent design to be replicated with minimal changes from site to site. Its almost impossible to exactly replicate any major processing plant of any type because they are basically handmade, but you can get a lot of replication. One of the other features of the AP 1000 design was that large chunks it if could be made offsite at a common construction plant and taken to site on barges. That couldn't be done for Vogtle which caused some problems. But the overall idea of the AP1000 and French EPR 2 was to keep building the same design in place after place to reduce those design costs. I'm not against nuclear power as like any decent engineer knows we need to replace our older power stations across the entire planet with newer ones. That's simply a matter of the fact that things wear out. So no matter what everyone is now trying to work out what they do for their next generation of power stations. That depends on a bunch of factors including geography. One of the few things anyone can say with certainty is that we are all moving on from fossil fuels and in particular coal. As an engineer I don't have to care about what people want me to build. I don't care if its wind, solar hydro, nuclear or any of the other low emissions systems. WHAT I DO CARE ABOUT is the public discussion STOPS BEING A POLITICAL and/or IDEOLOGICIAL DISCUSSION where people are deliberately presenting misleading information. For that to happen the slimy pieces of garbage like Gerrard Holland who is nothing more than an accountant have to SHUT THE F--K UP
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  4611. ​ @stephenbrickwood1602  You've summed it up quite well. The real problem are ECONOMISTS. When I started it simply got to WHY? Why aren't nations and states building new power stations and it doesn't matter what politics are present. There's just a complete failure of maintaining the existing energy infrastructure and upgrading it as needed. The answer came back - ECONOMISTS. FIRST - there's a pervasive view among economists that everyone else is a problem they have to manage. That's why we see economists interfering in education, health care, infrastructure,... etc. There's a PBS Frontline documentary on the 2008 GFC and in it Lanny Breuer the Assistant Attorney General at the time charged with prosecuting the wrong doers was asked why NOT 1 CEO was charged. His answer was "We had to consider the economic effects!" So in their minds we are all incompetent idiots who they have to manage. SECOND - Economics education is incredibly and narrowly focused on the Milton Freidman Chicago school free market model where "Greed is good" and CEOs have no responsibility other than profit. All the text books are written by professors at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge,... All the text books are printed by Harvard Press, Yale Press, Oxford Press, Cambridge Press,... All the economic departments across the World are run by people who went to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge,... THIRD - Government decisions are dominated by economists. Every elected official either studied the same Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge economics or has an advisor who studied the same Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge economics. Then there are the consultancies who advise governments like McKinsey, Boston Group, KPMG, EY, PwC, Deloitte,.... who are full of economists who went to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge. Then there are the Think Tanks like the one support Gerrard Holland who mouth off endlessly and they studied the same Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge.... economics. No matter what the subject is, if it involves government policy there's an army of economists telling the government WHAT TO DO or WHAT NOT TO DO. Its the main reason why people across the world are so frustrated with governments. No matter who anyone votes for there's an army of economists making sure NOTHING CHANGES. If your interested in finding out more about the issues with economists. There are some "Rebel Economists" who have been fighting against mainstream economists for a while and in some cases decades. One of the best is Steve Keen who like me is Australian. There's a podcast here on YouTube. Another is Mark Blyth who's Scottish and based at Brown U. in America. He not only predicted the 2008 GFC but also that Trump would win in 2016 and that Europe was headed for a crisis. Another is Gary Stevenson who's young but also incredibly smart. He worked for Citibank and was their top trader by his mid 20s. He then realised that his success came from betting against the British economy.
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  4612. GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  4613. This is not simply an Arizona thing. I'm Australian and we have been also letting this stuff happen. We have the Saudis, Canadians, New Zealanders, Brazilians, Americans, British and others all active in our agriculture sector and they are all buying up water rights or dominating the water auctions. And we let a Harvard educated Australian economist do to our water market almost exactly the same thing as another Harvard economist did to the Texas energy market. All through the influencers and lobbyists on government policy you will find Harvard, Yale, LSE neoliberals pushing that the best way to distribute resources is via sophisticated free markets. The issues with water supplies being bought by corporations who then rape those resources for all they can is a worldwide issue. This year Australia has lots of water. We are right now having our 9th or 10th flood depending on who's counting. Before that it was 5+ years of brutal drought. Next year it might be more floods or the start of the next brutal drought. Either way we will be farked if we don't regain control of our water. This neoliberal nonsense where the economists run everything to the benefit of their backers has to stop. Sadly I think its going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
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  4614. Just to let you all know this issue with nurses spreading misinformation isn't an American thing. One of the biggest proponents of 5G misinformation in Australia is also a nurse - Naomi Cook. She was highlighted in this program last year -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxPWXVFopjQ (starting after 20:00) That program was done by the same people (ABC Australia's "4 Corners" program) David highlighted recently about the Sidney Powell interview she walked out on recently.
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  4615.  @dooval434  Are you including me in the vitriol? I copped a blast for actually saying he deserves some respect for at least standing up to Trump. That's a risky move. Other than the political cost it also a genuine risk of violence to him or his family. And yeah I didn't miss that he was plugging a book. I also David missed a real opportunity to have him actually explain what these "conservative values" are. We here that claim all the time and yet never really here what people mean by it. As in what specific values are they talking about. The rare times I see people question on that these people get tongue tied very quickly. I think the claims of "conservative values" is just a vote snatching phrase. Say a certain phrase and certain people will vote for you no matter what you actually do. The obvious one of those is the 2nd Amendment rights that so many mouth off about (on both sides) and NEVER do anything afterwards.
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  4616.  @Nope2022HugeTheWarningFan  Due please don't just cut and paste what people say its kind of annoying because its harder to what your point is. And its a good point you make. David does do good interviews but doesn't push enough at times when he should or at least just push a little.
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  4617.  @Nope2022HugeTheWarningFan  If that's your style that's your style. And you do make a point.
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  4618.  @Nope2022HugeTheWarningFan  I have noticed comments that make no sense because the comment they are replying to has vanished.
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  4619. GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  4620.  @sambelfield541  Go and look through the comments and you should find the challenge I issued unless they have YET AGAIN deleted or hidden it. Basically this clown is an accountant NOT and engineer. He quotes figures and costs that he cannot explain because he simply got them from a discredited engineer who pulled numbers out of thin air and presented them at a conference in 2022. I tracked down the information and can explain to anyone willing to listen WHY they are wrong. That's why I have labelled Gerrard Holland a coward. People like him will never debate someone like me because they know its an ass kicking.
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  4621. Great point and I think a lot of people have been wondering the same thing. I have seen lots of reports lately about the $5million figure and yet remember multiple journalists talking about him making over $50million a year from his merch.
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  4622.  @RigelOrionBeta  Valid point. Just likes it valid that many of those products have incredibly inflated pricing. There's been numerous news stories on the pricing of AJs in house products. Some of those have come from consumer advocates pointing out the rip offs. Add into that the ability for wealthy people to hide money in a digital world and I doubt ANYONE is close to accurately valuating AJ.
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  4623.  @intersanctum  That's a reasonable question, but what else does anyone have to go on? Remember he filed papers in court claiming he was worth about $5 Million. If he's lied about that then that's perjury. I think as others have pointed out - his store might sell $55 Million but that's sales NOT profit.
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  4624. EVERYONE: Go and look up "Convention on the Rights of the Child" on Wikipedia There is a UN Convention (like the Geneva convention on War) regarding exploitation of children. Scroll down to the part on the United States.
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  4625. ATTENTION ALL: List to what ex-KGB officer Yuri Bezmenov warned back in 1984 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI At 1:10 "in the language of the KGB or psychological warfare what it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves their families their community and their country" Now to be sure he was totally wrong on how far the Soviets actually got. We know the Soviets collapsed in the late 80s and America continued. What he was actually wrong about was what has demoralized western nations - globalism. I'm Australian, I've worked in Canada and met plenty of people from around the world and its the same story again and again. "We have no job security and if we can't pay our bills we get smashed while if big business fails they get bailed out." Note what he says at 2:42 about Americans doing this to Americans. You can say the same about Australia. Our worst enemy are the Australians who believe in things like Qanon. We almost gave political control (with the balance of power) to a narcissistic billionaire named Clive Palmer who's our version of Trump. I don't know if hearing from an ex-KGB officer about misinformation will help, but it might just snap some pf these zombies back into reality. Anyway we look at it the biggest problem facing the world right now is misinformation.
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  4626. Sooner or later worthless candidates will wreck any political party or movement. It does not matter which country, ideology, policy or anything else bad candidates are a bad idea.
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  4627. SORRY PETE I love your work, BUT I disagree on the conclusion it was the Russians who blew up Nord Stream. Gas and oil pipelines are giant money pumps and you know that. They might be expensive to install but once that's done they just pump money from one place to another. Rockefeller worked that out over a century ago. Even if the explosives are Russian it would prove nothing because there are so many places in the world that anyone could get tons of Russian explosives. Just look at all the countries they sell military stuff too. In any crime there's a thing called MOTIVE. Nord Stream is owned by a combination of Russian state enterprises and the Russian Oligarchs. Its a huge money earner for both. On the other hand the biggest critics of Nord Stream has been the America government. As you have highlighted repeatedly America has lots of gas out of North Dakota but can't sell it because it requires infrastructure. To sell it to Europe means liquifying and the shipping and that can't compete with a pipe. Then there's the German nuclear industry that was shutdown by the German Green Party. Funny how the Germans are now recommissioning those nuclear power stations to make up for the gas shortage. Then there's opportunity. To plant the explosives and blow up 50 meters of pipeline at the bottom of the sea requires underwater demolition skills. Yes the Russians most likely have those skills but so do the Germans and Americans. And lets not forget something else. America due to its recent 20 year war now has a number of Private Military Contractors available full of ex-US Military people who probably have the necessary skills. Plus PMCs are great for "plausible deniability." SO WHO'S GOT MOTIVE and OPPORTUNITY to blow up Nord Stream.
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  4628. Its called the "Meritocracy" and its built around the false premise that my merit by virtue of my outcome justifies everything. Megan and these other mutts, like so many in the media, are self entitled, self righteous ignorant clowns who have commentary and opinions on EVERYTHING and not a single SOLUTION to ANYTHING.
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  4629.  @junfaa  Who are you referring to? The person who started this thread or Megan and her neo-liberal the goon squad buddies. I wouldn't agree that "Most" people with business degrees end up with small businesses. I'd agree with "Many" but not most. Most end up working for the corporate goons either directly or though subsidiaries. On that subject of small businesses - you can go almost anywhere in the Western World and small businesses get ignored politically and yet their contribution to employment and the overall economy is significant. In Australia I know that just our farms and tourism operators contribute over $200 billion and employ over 850,000 people and that's for a population about midway between Texas and Florida. Most of those 2 industries classify as small businesses. I hear the same sorts of stories out of Europe and North America.
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  4630. 兵者，詭道也。故能而示之不能，用而示之不用，近而示之遠，遠而示之近。 All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Sun Tzu - The Art of War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War#English) My personal favorite part of the whole Art of War is the section on Waging War (https://suntzusaid.com/book/2). I'm an engineer and that concept applies to project management. If you let projects drag on, productivity slides because people get worn out and lose enthusiasm. Depending on the translation that section basically says "DON'T EVER let a war drag on and on and on as it simply saps your national resources." In other words 3000 years of history and this mutt still doesn't get it.
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  4631. Its nothing new. This scam has been going on for decades. Its just that Trump took it to a new level. Its not even an American thing either. The money raised by political movements is measured in the 10s of billions. There's an actual industry of campaign managers and advertising people who travel the world going from one campaign to the next. I'm actually Australian and after watching British Labor blow an easy win back in 2019 I asked a Brit why they ran a losing campaign strategy just like Australian Labor had earlier that same year which was eerily like Hilary Clinton's losing campaign in 2016. All 3 campaigns had an air of "we'll just win anyway" combined with a confusing mix of badly describe policies. I asked that Brit what was going because it was a WTF is going on moment. They told me some of the same campaign staff from Hilary's losing 2016 had been in Australia doing the same thing and then they turned up in Britain DOING THE SAME THING AGAIN. Its actually an industry worth 10s of billions that almost NOBODY in the media will talk about because they are part of that industry.
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  4632. I didn't enjoy this video Sal, because the topic is ugly, damn ugly and its ugly for several reasons. - There's no need and no gain for the Houthi to do these things. - There's no gains for anyone else to allow these things to happen. Its an ugly subject with innocent people getting killed for no reason. So I can't enjoy this video but that doesn't mean you don't deserve a thumbs up for showing us these facts
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  4633. CNN - the Crazy Nutter Network
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  4634. SORRY but a tesla Supercharger is just an outlet IT DOES NOT PRODUCE POWER.
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  4635. CAN YOU AMERICANS PLEASE TAKE A BASIC CLASS IN WORLD GEOGRAPHY AND LEARN WHERE PLACES ARE. The Australian base for submarines is over 4000 nautical miles form the South China Sea. Its in Perth way over on the far south west (lower left on a map) of Australia. The Philippines where America is re-establishing its naval base BORDERS the South China Sea. The Solomon islands is NOT in the Indian Ocean and you cant have a small island that's in the Indian ocean or the Pacific. There is an island that has shores in both the Indian and Pacific oceans. Its called Australia and its not small. In fact its almost the same size at mainland USA (as in the lower 48). We all know Americans are geographically challenged but do you have to be this bad. I did my degree in America and every time you clowns do this you make my education look bad. FYI - I did aerospace engineering and it was awesome.
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  4636. ​ @taranullius9221  I'd agree the whole AUKUS thing is a clusterf*ck. But then even before AUKUS the submarine program was a disaster in the making and almost as bad as the Collins project had been back in the 1990s. Our Navy's procurement program is out of control. The submarines are just part of it. The patrols boats and frigate programs have some insane costs Just to try and work out the sub costing I've done an alternative project costing of 6 nuclear powered subs built in Britain with an Australian task force of 6,500 and 6 German non-nuclear subs (1 built in Germany and 5 here). I have added in some staggering costs, incentives and bonuses and I am still over $115 Billion under the smaller estimate of $268 Billion. I have spoken to other engineers about it and we all agree the costs are insane. One of the best is the dry dock upgrade in Perth that was AU$4.3 Billion that's now AU$8 Billion. We've all worked on the large mining projects and can't understand how its costing more than AU$1.2 Billion. Oddly yesterday I watched the channel Sub Brief and he talked about the insane costs of the American dry dock program and pointed out how some of their costs have magically TRIPLED. He called it criminal. Somewhere someone is making a lot of money. I don't know if we'd spent billions on the French option but its certainly cost a staggering amount of money to get nothing done. You are right there's more posturing than practicality to the whole Navy subs and boats thing.
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  4637.  @taranullius9221  DON'T YOU FARKING DARE claim I said things I didn't say. I never said a damn thing about being able to or not patrol anything off the coast of Northern Australia.
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  4638. Well you can go to college and pay to listen to this or you can be here and get it for free. I like Prof. Wolff because at the very least he gives a rational alternative perspective. Where l'd disagree is that Marxism is the answer, because the countries that went down that path had their own catastrophes and that included economic catastrophes, environmental catastrophes and social catastrophes. I think he might agree as he has pointed out in other talks how Russia, China and other failed that the solution isn't a puritanical 100% Marxist state anymore than it is a puritanical 100% Capitalist state, but that the solution lies somewhere in between. Many point to the Nordic models where they have incredibly strong socialist systems wrapped around democratic and capitalist systems. The Norwegians instead of wasting their oil & gas wealth as others have did an almost communist thing by pooling the income into a sovereign wealth fund that they then used capitalist methodologies to enhance.
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  4639.  @Lucien86  And you are spot on 100% about AI. Its going to be the next great etch disaster. Its basically a solution to a problem that does not exist and might not ever exist. I've heard ChatGPT is losing $700million a month. When I checked I could not find that reference but I found claims it costs $700k per day to run. However I did find a report that said OpenAI expected to lose $5 Billion this year. Plus Altman is asking for $10 Billion form investors. So who knows what's really going on. One thing I can say is they have a massive issue with power requirements and energy is one of my pet subjects. There was a proposed server farm in one of the Carolinas (I think) where they needed 1Gigawatt of power. that's the same as an AP1000 nuclear reactor and they cost $17 Billion and 10 years just to build. The world already has an energy shortage and these clowns want the rest of us to pay for power stations so they can feed us their AI. They're utterly nuts.
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  4640.  @eelcohoogendoorn8044  All good points.
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  4641. Its already been tried. NASA adapted Hubble Space Telescope technology for the task but every time they pointed it at a politician the electronics inside the camera melted. At first they thought it was a design flaw in the lens before they worked out it was like a human eye looking directly at the sun. They are currently adapting other space telescope technology to get past this problem, but are having trouble getting congress to fund it. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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  4642.  @serenityb5816  Yeah I know about the emails. Comey came and said we looked and there's nothing there. WE ALL KNOW THAT. The scenario put forward is what would have happened had Comey NOT told the public BEFORE the election. Do you think the GOP and Trump would have let that go or do you think they would have ripped the country apart? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  4643.  @serenityb5816  DON'T START WITH ANY OF THAT machines were switching votes garbage. It never happened and none of you idiots have ever proven a damn thing. Don't waste your breath on any of that conspiracy garbage. You're all idiots. EVERYONE IS TIRED OF IT GROW UP OR GET LOST
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  4644. Looking forward to what you have to say on AUSTRALIA. Since getting the gist of what you mean by demographics and how that plays out I know Australia is in serious deep crap. But even with that there's some other mind numbing issues the top 2 of which are energy and water. We don't have enough of either because we have stupidly done some idiotic things. The most stupid thing we did which has caused both of these issues was following what we called Economic Rationalism which was the Australia version of Reaganomics and Thatcherism. We (all of us around the world) now collectively call this NEOLIBERALISM but its also called Chicago School Economics after the University of Chicago where Milton Friedman, Ronald Corse and other plotted the "Greed is Good" Era. ON ENERGY - we privatised everything back in the 90s under the standard claim that "competition would deliver better services at lower prices" and like everywhere else that PROVED FALSE. The real reason economists preached that nonsense wasn't because they thought that privatising everything would actually be better it was just standard neoliberal ideology. In the time our nation went from 10 to 20 million people we built more than 10 power stations across the nation with output power greater than 1,000 Megawatts (1 Gigawatt) with the largest over 3GW. These are the large bulk delivery power stations that supply the bulk of what's called BASE LOAD POWER. In the time our population has gone from 20 to 26 million we have NOT built a single power station over 1GW. So the backbone of our energy system is not only old but also smaller than it needs to be. So not only do we need to start replacing the older power stations but we need to replace them with even larger power stations. THIS IS ACTUALLY COMMON ACROSS THE WESTERN WORLD and if you bothered to be more engaging with engineers we'd tell you about this. The problem is we have about 22.6 Gigawatts of coal fired power stations to replace. This actually has NOTHING to do with climate change its just a fact that things get old and worn out and eventually need replacing. Right now people are sayin go nuclear, but based on the cost of Hinckley Point C in Britain (because its useable data) that would cost over AU$440 Billion. But based on population projections we'd actually need to double that and then almost triple it to supply all the electric cars, buses, trucks and airplanes that people want us to have. By the time you add in all of the required power grid upgrades that easily jumps to more than AU$2 Trillion AND THAT'S for a country that currently has only 26 million people. What's the bill for Europe, North America, Asia, India,.......? ON WATER - Australia is even in a worse state than most people realise. We are a dry nation and water is simply not as free to use as when we were 10 million which we only reached in 1960 and we were only 15 million in 1980. We are now 26 million and we haven't built any new major water supplies in decades. The projection is that we'll hit 30 million in about 2030 BUT NOBODY knows where those 4 million are coming from OR HOW we'll get them enough water or how they will be able to turn on the lights. He's what I really like about your work Peter. You've opened my eyes to demographics. If you look up the Australian Bureau of Statistics there's a page for the population clock and pyramid. Its got an interactive pyramid where you can see what's been going on since 1981 but with projections going onto 2071. When you use the interactive features of that page there's a really interesting thing that happens and I wouldn't know about it if it wasn't for YOU - so big thanks. Here's what I found In the data for 2022, which is based on the last census in 2021 (so its real data), there's a noticeable notch in our population pyramid for older teenagers (16-19). According to the projections (notice how the color changes) that notch magically disappears. That would mean Australia thinks it can magically pull 40,000 teenagers out of thin air. Which is odd because I thought to make a 20 year old took 20 years 9 months and 5 minutes if your quick and 30 minutes if you have some endurance.
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  4645. Rudy Giuliani and his lawyer have already been caught out and they are in trouble. They claimed he to ill to travel and he turned up on twitter having fun. They claimed that he couldn't fly and yet its turned up he's booked flights to other places including Italy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4arIcTixtSk
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  4646.  @earlyriser8998  Not certain who you're talking to but I have never heard anyone call it Factor of Safety. I have only every heard it called Safety Factor of Safety Factors. And that's by professors and 1000s of engineers across different fields. What bothers me about Boeing's design of MCAS was that it was obvious that the system had a failure mode that would only do one thing and that's fly a plane straight into the ground. For anyone who's had similar training to mine it really is that obvious. Boeing didn't simply ignore stuff. They took their own rulebook, standards and procedures and burned the lot.
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  4647. You haven't been watching. YES the Brits can provide protection cos they still have a Navy and an Army, but they sure can't provide money. Brexit has all but slammed their economy into deep deep hole from which they haven't a clue on how to get themselves out of. Rachel Reeves, their latest Chancellor of the Exchequer which is the equivalent to the Head of the Fed (Jerome Powell) is a complete Thatcherite nutter who's going to dig that hole deeper and deeper. Back in the 70s & 80s the Brits bought in so hard to the whole Thatcherism (what Americans call Reaganomics) so hard that it became utterly ingrained to both sides of politics. This is sort of what's happened everywhere and is why it feels like nothing changes no matter who wins an election. I'm Australian and its happened here.
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  4648.  @zibbitybibbitybop  good point They might have the reserves but NOT the production facilities and that would take years to put in place.
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  4649. Hey Saagar what he's just proposed is called SOCIALISM. Lets see how the rest of the Republicans for a program that socialists call for in every civilized country on the planet. 👍😀 And lets not to leave out the Lefty Feminists who are going to take $350 a month paying women to get pregnant is better than a college education and a career with a smile on their face NOT. And finally why don't you get it that the power at the top of the Dems is the same as the power at the top of the GOP and its called Wall St. No matter what anybody suggests as practical or good it never gets done with out the Wall St Blessing.
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  4650.  @callidusvulpes5556  Tucker and patriotism in the same sentence just seems wrong unless your considering contradictions in reality.
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  4651. I'm Australian but went to college in America and I was there during one of the primary seasons and its way worse than you think. On this thing about the elites picking their candidates he's 1/2 right and 1/2 wrong. If you look at the Republicans its a mob inspired chaotic mess like he describes. Just think back to 2015 and Trump just standing their and insulting their wives. The GOP is now ruled by Oligarchs. HOWEVER if you look at the Democrats its the complete opposite. The Executive of the DNC based around the Clintons and Obamas have selected the last 3 candidates - Hilary, Biden & Kamala Harris AND THAT'S been a disaster. The DNC is now ruled by their corporate funded clowns. What all of the commentators are failing at, because they each have their side, is that BOTH SIDES of American politics is in a terrible state of SHlT candidates being promoted by vested (usually big money) interests. As one of the very few neutral commentators put it a few weeks ago the Corporations LOST to the Oligarchs. If there's a scary thing then we all need to consider how many of our own parties have been killing the careers of anyone capable and replacing them with puppets. I know this is TRUE in Australia and all signs say its TRUE in Britain.
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  4652. THIS IS NOT GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH Because they changed the definition of what is and isn't GoF. REMEMBER the infamous Rand Paul versus Dr. Fauci when Rand Paul read out what Dr. Fauci had written and then Dr. Fauci said (paraphrasing) "That's the old definition." and then waved a letter signed by a bunch of people saying that the research being done funded in Wuhan was NOT GoF. Go and watch the DW short doco on GoF (here on YouTube) titled "Gain-of-Function: Should supercharging viruses be banned?" It mentions the work of Ron Fouchier, a Dutch Scientist, who made the most deadly virus human kind has ever known. YES - what he cooked up is even more dangerous than Ebola. It was a version of Avian Flu that is normally very hard for humans to get but on the very rare occasions it happens over 60% of people die. Without anyone knowing what he was really doing Ron Fouchier made a variant that was highly contagious to human beings. It was his work and the work of others that lead to the moratorium on Gain of Function Research. PRIOR to the Moratorium Gain of Function included 3 types of research. 1) Human lethality as in specifically making a virus or pathogen more deadly to humans. 2) Human to Human transmission as in making it easier for one human to get it from another human. 3) Animal to Human as in making it easier for a virus to go from the natural host to humans. This is the type or work Ron Fouchier was doing with Avain Flu and what they were doing in Wuhan with bat born Corona viruses. When they RE-DEFINED Gain of Function it only included the FIRST and SECOND of those types of Research. So a lot of the work involving animals and/or has nothing to do with TRYING to make it more dangerous to humans is NO LONGER considered to be Gain of Function. The aim of this Ebola research was NOT to make Ebola more dangerous to humans. Its to use it to study how it works and as such is by the NEW definition NOT Gain of Function. ITS A WORD GAME. Its a word game that has allowed many researchers to continue what they were doing and continue to be funded and the WORST OUTCOME is that it has prevented external OVERSIGHT of these research programs. Between the nonsense about a Chinese bio-weapon and a section of the research establishment making sure the concept of a lab leak was never properly investigated or sensibly discussed the discussion on oversight has NOT YET happened. Nobody knew what Ron Fouchier was doing until he told the world how clever he was. Nobody knew what they were really doing in Wuhan and we still don't. Who knew the Chinese were actually doing research with Ebola let alone re-engineering it? I actually believe there is valuable research being done in IDENTIFYING and CATALOGING potential future pandemic pathogens (viruses, bacterium and everything else) BUT its being done WITHOUT oversight to make sure its done safely and that's madness. Sorry to all for the long answer but this is the sort of discussion Kyle and others SHOULD BE HAVING in stead of ranting and raging because that helps NOBODY.
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  4653. I'm Australian and you just pointed out one of the major issues facing EVERY Modern Liberal democracy. The election of DISRUPTORS who get elected because people have lost faith in the establishment parties. The establishment parties are failing EVERYWHERE because they just don't get anything done. They have policies for everything and PLANS for NOTHING. People are simply exhausted and they do impulsive things like elect Trump or they do Brexit. When Trump labelled them the "Do Nothing Democrats" he wasn't wrong, BUT THE SAME CAN BE SAID of every major political party in the world right now INCLUDING the GOP. Both sides of Australian politics suck. All they do is argue, debate, point fingers and harp on and on about this policy and that policy but in the end NOTHING HAPPENS. The rich get richer and the rest of us pay for it and if we complain too much they start another war to thin out the herd while making even more money. The REAL PROBLEM is the interference of BIG MONEY through their Lobbyists and their sponsored Think Tanks who write all these BULLSHlT reports that are specifically written to promote something. The problem is when people protest against this at the ballot box its a coin toss if they vote for someone with a functioning brain or a brainless clown like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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  4654.  @DarkPuppy9  Yeah and which rules are those??? And who get's to enforce them???
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  4655.  @DarkPuppy9  Why what are you asking about? If you need something more clear then ask, but don't be some sort of smartass.
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  4656. My way of describing libertarian ideology is: "We demand the liberty to strip others of their liberty!" Mark Blyth the Political-Economist at Brown pointed out in an Economic History lecture to one of Stephanie Kelton's classes pointed out that at their core these minimalist government types want the government to do 1 thing and 1 thing only - protect their property rights or the right to protect their property by any means. It has its roots in nonsense of the American robber baron era where they just took what they wanted and cared nothing for the consequences to other people, but includes crap from people like Ayn Rand's and her philosophy of self interests before any one else. Its a sort of extreme Machiavellian concept of "if I get what I set out to get then nothing that happened getting there matters." Things like ethics and consequences mean nothing to these people. There's a great video by Simon Clarke (here on YT) about the lost decade where the interference by Libertarians was actually what cost us the battle with climate change when a couple of them in the Whitehouse scuttled all of George (the first 1) Bush's plans to battle climate change. It had little to do with fossil fuel and an awful lot to do with "the government shall not regulate" ideology of Libertarians.
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  4657. ATTENTION ALL: Just to prove how utterly ignorant this story is go and look up the List of nuclear weapons on Wikipedia and you will very quickly find out that the B61 was first put into production in 1967 and was in full production in 1968. There have so far been 13 variations. There have been 3155 made and the current cost of a Version 12 is $28 million. THAT TAKES MINUTES TO FIND Its not a new bomb its an update to a bomb that's been around since the 1960s. PLUS for the numerically literate. The Hiroshima bomb was 13-18 kilotons. The W76 from the Trident I and Trident II (submarine ballistic missiles) are up to 100 kilotons and a Trident I could carry up to 8 (800kt total) and Trident ii up to 14 W76s AND the Ohio-class can carry up to 24 Trident. BUT WAIT the Trident II missile can also use the W88 warhead which is up to 475kt but then the missile only can carry 8 of them. So a single Trident I can deliver up to 1400 kt or up to 107 times what the Hiroshima bomb delivered, BUT a trident ii can delivered as much at 5,700 kt of explosive power or over 316 times and maybe over 400 times what Hiroshima AND an OHIO-class can have 24 of those missiles.
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  4658.  @cromemako83  I recently downloaded Civ 6 (it was on special). I'd played Civ 1 & 2 back in the day but this was my first time at Civ 6. So far from what I have seen there is NO End of the World by nukes but there is an end of the world achievement I have heard of from climate change.
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  4659.  @da7me22  I don't think they'd run a brick phone for a month but the point you make is valid. A lot of people do not know how much power these larger systems actually require. Just recently in North or South Carolina they rejected a company wanting to put in a sever farm. People ranted about jobs until they realised 2 things. Once built the server farm would have ZERO permanent staff as they'd run it all form other places. SECOND it was going to need over 900 Megawatts of power. The latest AP1000 Nuclear power reactors at Vogtle in Georgia cost US$17 Billion EACH. and they put out 1100MW. YES Computing systems now require massive amounts of energy and a significant part of that is cooling. Iceland is currently hosting a lot of the crypto currency mining systems. Because every transaction needs processing and in Iceland they have an energy free cooling system called "a window" and they just open it. Our wonderful IT world uses staggering amounts of power and mobile phones are just one part of it. Each mobile phone in itself doesn't use much power but the billions we have use a lot of energy to charge and the networks use a heap more to operate.
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  4660. Australian here and this has to be some of the most bizarre garbage I have ever seen the American Right go with. I actually went to college in America in the late 80s and beck then there were a bunch of sex scandals among the Far Right Christians and the bizarre part of it was how dismissive of their own fallibilities they were and how their supporters gathered around them. Now that same section of America is doing this sort of thing. In a way I am not surprised because they have a history of this sort of vile behavior and it is vile. I know that for MOST Americans Simon Biles is a national hero and considered a role model for other girls. She would be a national hero and role model in almost any country, but not these sorts of people. What America needs to realise is that every country has these sorts of people AND YES Australia has them too. What we all need to realise is just how quickly these people can drag ANY society into a deep dark hole that's damn hard to get out of. I'm an engineer not a poly-sci but I did study Orwell in High School and that was the real message from Orwell. If you are not careful, people like this will steal your country out from underneath you in the guise of benevolence or patriotism or some other value and then put you under their boot.
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  4661. HEY THOM: Please interview Sir Angus Deaton on the subject of healthcare in America. I just listened to him with Prof. Mark Blyth (Brown U. and a person you should have on regularly) for the Rhodes Centre Podcast (here on YT). Angus has just published a book Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist in the Land of Inequality. Mark Quotes from the book "If you gave every person in America the Swiss health care system they would get 5 more years of life and a $3,000 check each year" and then asks Angus why nobody can do anything. That gets to your favorite topic (or one of them) on Lobbyists. I really do recommend you interview BOTH Mark and Angus. By the way I am Australian but went to college in America. Love your vids because unlike so many others your actually working to INFORM people. Also are you aware of the PwC scandal in Australia and what (so far) they have been allowed to get away with?
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  4662. “Power accompanied by arrogance is very dangerous. It’s particularly dangerous when men with no real experience have it – for they can abuse our great institutions.” George H. Bush in a letter to his sons Jeb & George W. as noted in the book “The Last Republicans (2017)” by Mark K. Updegrove. (Pg. 398) Not that I approve of either Bush Presidents or the things that happened during their administrations, but this description was telling with what the world has just witnessed.
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  4663.  @Londyn406  DlCKHEAD she is part of the US Congress in the House of Representative. Whether you like it or not the reality is she is the democratically elected representative of Georgia's 14th district. You and 81 million Joe Biden supporters can hate it. Another Billion or so people in other countries can shake their heads at it. But the facts are she is in the legal representative of Georgia's 14th district. If you dislike it that much then relocate to Georgia and run against her 2024.
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  4664. Whoever thought being a self indulgent arrogant hyper-smug stuck-up ivy league self promoter would be annoying? I'm shocked!
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  4665. Jon Stewart pointed out that Tucker has been sacked from EVERY job he's ever had for LYING and making stuff up.
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  4666.  @JonPais  I no longer care what they are about I just want these polling companies to stop. They have so much influence that politicians around the world wait until they do a series of polls to see how they present policy. Its farqing ridiculous. To me they are lite a secondary infection wrecking our societies. You know when any journalist is about to spin utter bullshit they start with "New polling says,..........."
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  4667.  @ThePrufessa  Really? When did Senator Nobody get elected and which state did he get elected from? Or is the GOP now the Nobody Party? 🤔
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  4668.  @JonPais  They listen to polls to get their excuses right. As for the things you mention UBI, M4A, etc... they listen to the poling of Wall St on those things.
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  4669. What the neoliberals have ever understood is that the majority of human beings have empathy for other people or at least some empathy at some level and that makes them consider their effect on others. Neoliberals are (at their core) Ayn Rand's ideal of "me before society" types. In fact I have seen Yaron Brook the current head of the Ayn Rand Institute argue that "society doesn't exist." According to him its just a construct. Milton Friedman made the claim that "There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits...." and if you put "milton friedman corporate social responsibility" into google you can actually find the FULL QUOTE (like at Goodreads) which is “There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud” On many corporate websites (like McKinsey) they will put a FULL STOP after the word "profits" to imply that Milton Friedman never said the rest regarding open and fair competition without deception or fraud. Yes Milton said don't be deceptive or fraudulent and they mis-quote him which is at least deceptive.
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  4670. Yeah - why is anyone shocked when YET ANOTHER celebrity faceplants on sex allegations, drug allegations or something else. These people are pumped up on their own hype and surrounded by minders, protectors, sycophants with an endless stream of delusion fans. When you look at some of the stuff that went on behind the scenes in those wholesome family sitcoms from the 60s, 70s, 80s,.... who's surprised these days. There's been plenty of documentaries and news stories about behavior in the film, TV, music and modelling industries and they keep telling the same sorts of stories of drugs and sex. Does anyone really think Harvey Weinstein was the only one?
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  4671.  @ChickensAndGardening  Not suggesting but stating it for a fact. The idea you could just move an asteroid from where they are to Low Earth Orbit is nothing but Star Trek fantasy. Here's something I tell people who go on about this nonsense. Jeff Bezos has claimed he wants to move the heavy industries like iron ore processing into Low Earth Orbit where there's lots of sun light 24/7 to use and you don't have to worry about pollution. One of the iron ore mines I once worked on has a capacity of about 20 million tons a year. Its a good example because the math is very easy. At about 70% iron by weight that produces about 14 million tons of raw iron a year ready to make stuff out of. The Space Shuttle could bring back from LEO 14 tons of payload which was about 13-1/2 tons more than anything else. So if you want to bring back those 14 million tons of iron ore from LEO it would take about 1 million Space Shuttle flights. Australia in total produces about 815 million tons of iron ore a year which would require over 40 million Space Shuttle Flights. Even if we made a new magic rocket that was 100 times better than the Space Shuttle that's still 400,000 flights a year. And so you know Australia produces less that 1/3rd of the worlds iron ore. Sorry but its 99.99% space fantasy nonsense. The other 0.01% is however very interesting. There are some very rare materials available from places like the moon where for those very rare substances the option of mining them in space is plausible. World Platinum production is about 215 tons a year and our needs there have been growing. If we can get a rocket that makes the logistics practical then that's plausible. If Helium-3 were to become the main fuel for nuclear fusion that needs about 5-9 Space Shuttle Flights to power the entire planet each year. But the issue there is nobody yet has a power station that runs on Helium-3. At the end of the day its just guys selling visions of the future.
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  4672.  @clementvining2487  1/2 Agreed and the 1/2 is for places like a moon base where the resources are right there. But asteroids for LEO are still an issue of fuel and delta-V. I don't know how many times we need to beat you clowns around the head with that. You cannot get around the physical laws of the universe upon which orbital mechanics and delta-V are based. Sorry but that's NO for a second time. Unless someone comes up with a truly revolutionary from of propulsion THEN ITS NO. And I don't mean some science fiction garbage either I mean something that actually works. You people need to learn the difference between science fiction and reality.
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  4673. No she is actually one of the clan. And if you are wondering how TF she got elected you only have to go and look where the 14th district of Georgia is. Its the far north west corner (hillbilly country) of Georgia. Go have a look at the results she won by long long long way.
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  4674. I'm Australian and mainly of Anglo-Saxon descent. The crazy thing about the Anglo-Saxons is that neither the Angles or Saxons are from Britain. The Angles are from Denmark and the Saxons from Saxony which is in Germany. I went snowboarding in Hokaido a few years back and they sell t-shirts there "Hokiado - its a dialect." One of the hotel clerks (who spoke excellent English) explained it to me one day. He said he's instantly recognized by his accent in Tokyo. He told me it was similar for the people form the far south like Okinawa. It was interesting to learn first hand that Japan has distinct cultural regions.
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  4675. EVERYONE: To give perspective of the hypocrisy of what Dave Rubin is claiming someone pointed out recently that of the 21 most recent appointees to SCOTUS the Republicans picked 16 and the Democrats 5. That's a ratio of 3:1 from a movement that preaches "fair and balanced." The main fault of the political right isn't so much their victim mentality but the insane childish selfishness of "If I don't get what I want then its NOT fair."* Because out of that insane childish selfishness stems everything else with their behavior.
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  4676. @ Yeah that was one of the other outcome scenarios that scared the crud out of everyone. Even a small limited space battle could render low earth orbit unusable for decades. But the biggest killer was the simple fact that eventually something would get through and it only takes a single nuke to EFF-UP your day. Ask the Japanese
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  4677.  @David-f5u6v  OF FARK - You have mistaken DELUSION for vision. Can people like you just stop making idiotic claims and for the record its spelt AI not A1 🤣😅😂 And that's before you realise that there's an international treaty that prohibits ANYONE from putting weapons in space. You can't hide either a laser battery or missile battery in space. EVERYONE WOULD SPOT IT FOR EXACLTLY WHAT IT IS.
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  4678.  @WilhelmSallsten  You're right on the atmospheric issue but anything in space is effectively a satellite. The thing people don't seem to get is that everything in space not only moves but moves incredibly fast. The Space Station goes around 28,000 kmh or about 100 times faster than a Formula 1 car. This is what I keep trying to explain. Its not a matter of AI or satellite tech or weapon types. Its just the basic reality of orbital mechanics. Its even hard for other engineers to understand because the math is so convoluted.
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  4679. Its not simply that they aren't prosecuting Trump the DOJ have a history going back decades of not prosecuting difficult cases against top people. Just recently PBS re-posted a Frontline episode form 2013 about the 2008 GFC. Its here on YT and you can watch Lanny Breuer make excuse after excuse to not pursue charges against the Wall St CEOs. They prosecuted around 3,000 lower ranked people. Do you see the similarity with Jan 6th. Go back a bit further and look at the prosecutions for prisoner abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan. There were many successful cases against enlisted men for what they did but none against senior officers. John Yoo the lawyer who wrote the infamous torture memo that set those abuses in motion was never charged as were all the other senior officials involved. John Yoo is currently a professor teach law at UC Berkley. Do you see the similarity with Jan 6th. Go back even further there were times when the DOJ used America's antitrust laws to break up monopolies like Standard Oil and Bell AT&T. How come they haven't even tried to deal with Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Walmart or any of the other monopolies. How about Purdue Pharmaceuticals - they only monopolized drug addiction. Has the DOJ done anything there? Can you see the pattern yet? The DOJ no longer pursues difficult cases that it might lose face over. Go and watch Lanny Breuer's body language. The cancer in the DOJ runs incredibly deep and it might be impossible to fix unless there is a President with enough backbone to get the job done.
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  4680.  @DianneMarian  If your going to write that much try using paragraphs, otherwise people lose interest immediately. It looks like a giant ranting pile of crap and like most people I am tired of people ranting. Make your point, back it up with a few facts, but don't try and drown people it achieves nothing. Hunter Biden did nothing illegal, but in political terms he used his fathers position to get work and earn a bucket of money. But yeah his bucket was at best a joke compared to the boat load Ivanka & Jared earned and they did it while working in the White House, which makes it even worse. The only reason I ever include him in the list is so that right wingers can't rant back. So I don't need any of that pile you threw. If you want to have a sensible conversation then fine, but be sensible, the world doesn't need any more rants from anyone.
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  4681. There's actually a specific terms used to describe the spreading around of military SUB-contracts that's done specifically for making the overall project hard to cancel by congress. They're odd military terms that make no sense when you hear them but what it means is if you spread enough of the overall project around different states then there are TOO MANY senators who would get a backlash on cancellation that they never cancel it. The basic concept is that a Senator will not cancel a project that then causes job losses in their state. The F35 was scattered across as many states as possible so that it didn't suffer the same fate as the F22. Here's a report from Australia (one of the F35's users) -> https://www.businessinsider.com.au/this-map-explains-the-f-35-fiasco-2014-8?r=US&IR=T
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  4682. Thanks for pointing out that RAND report. Just on a first glance its fairly damning and I agree that it looks like America was following that report/brief. HOWEVER you can take the Chinese being in control and shove that up or down which ever orifice you like. GO have an HONEST LOOK at China. Sure America is f*cked up right now but at least the American people can actually throw out the clown brigade in Washington. Try throwing out Xi Jinping and his gang and see what happens. You have obviously never done business with the Chinese. If you think the Americans can be arrogant and believe they are humanity's savior try looking into what the term "Middle Kingdom" actually means to the Han Chinese OR you could simply ask any of the non-Han minorities that have to deal with the Han Chinese.
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  4683.  @dutchdna  Agreed, but lets not forget every tribe, culture and nation has them. Its just that most of us try not to let them near a microphone or at least not to often and best of all not daily.
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  4684. Hey dude you forgot the ironic end to Mogami, its there on Wikipedia. During the Battle of Surigao Strait Mogami got heavily damaged and after the crew abandoned ship Mogami was scuttled by the destroyer Akebono using a Type 93 Long Lance.
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  4685. Go and listen to Richard Wolff's explanation of being challenged to debate Jordan Peterson on Marxism.
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  4686. That's NOT Peter that's every main stream economist on the planet. They are all taught and believe in what's called equilibrium economics where supply and demand end up balancing to an equilibrium state. ITS UTTER BULLSHlT BUT THEY BELIEVE IT ANYWAY because it makes their modelling easier. It also explains why their models all break down when a shock like COVID comes along.
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  4687.  @milesharbord9339  Your 1/2 right the really heavy crude that goes into making things like bearing grease and bitumen comes from Canadian Tar Sands but all the light stuff that makes gasoline, jet fuel and lighter fluid comes out of the shale deposits in places like South Dakota. America STILL has extraordinary reserves in places like California, Oklahoma, Texas and the Gulf of NOT Mexico. Its just down deeper than in the past. Its like the massive reserve Canada has under Saskatchewan which is also deeper than the fields in Alberta.
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  4688. Kyle - the description you are looking for is "SUGAR DADDY"
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  4689. No he supports the Old Oligarchy and not the New Oligarchy. And that's the real problem in America politics. The struggle isn't this Left versus Right as so many pitch it. Its the Old Oligarchy that's fundamentally based around carbon and the New Oligarchy that's fundamentally based around silicon. Think of it like an old dog who's had its way for decades fighting a younger dog for the same bone and the old dog doesn't like the fact that the new dog is just as powerful and in some ways smarter.
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  4690.  @matthewmorrison8611  We could send him the cheat sheet. 1: Check for a fresh glove. 2: Check for lube. 3: Since your brain is in your ass, relax to avoid further brain damage.
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  4691.  @garyb7193 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question
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  4692.  @hailandfire1822  Go and have a look at Isaac Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics. He wrote it decades ago and wrote sci-fi books that looked into the ways those laws might work. The most well known of his books on the subject is "I Robot" which is nothing like the Will Smith crapfest film version. Its a series of short stories that are in effect case studies of how AI might respond.
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  4693.  @estacion7386  If your trying to claim one of the 20th century's WORST mass murdering sociopaths somehow did the will of the people FK-off. Take your XD and any other moronic crap elsewhere.
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  4694.  @estacion7386  You'll take a psychopathic monster who murdered millions of his own people. That's sick and demented. What ever you are suffering from GO AND GET HELP
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  4695. As an Australian watching this from a long way off I can see something VERY VERY UGLY about to happen. Either the judge needs to slap this clown so damn hard he does not get up or its going to end by other means. I went to college in America and I know that American history has an incredibly long history of vigilante justice. This clown is NOT Donald Trump but thinks he can get away with stuff as if he is Donald Trump. To be fair he and so many others have been allowed to get away with a lot of shitty behavior, but this Sandy Hook thing is so different. These people suffered an incredible loss and he has not only rubbed their faces in it but made millions off of that tragedy. Somebody will break and then things are going to go kinetic to say the least. If I can see this from the other side of the planet I don't know why the judge can't.
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  4696. I had an answer before this even started and for the record this message could be sent to any of 100s of elected officials across the Western World. At some point its going to break and we are simply going to REJCT their bad faith. So here's my message to Lindsay and ALL the others like him. "Lindsay, When you actually and genuinely WILL, (not want), but actually WILL act in good faith and work for the American People. And that means ALL OF THEM, then maybe we'll want to work with you. But so long as you deny reality and act in bad faith, then there IS NO POINT in trying to deal with you. Trying to make any deal with people who behave as you have done recently IS POINTLESS. When you want to act like a decent responsible adult then call us."
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  4697. KYLE can you and EVERY OTHER media clown JUST STOP 1) Putting a microphone near Kanye West; and 2) Stop reporting on anything he says. He's mentally ill, with bipolar syndrome. The only reason ANYONE reports on Kanye is for the clicks.
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  4698.  @lawandacontreras767  Yeah but which year is he talking about now? 🤷‍♂️😅🤣😶‍🌫️🤷‍♀️
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  4699. It called neoliberalism and its what's being failing across the entire Western World for the last 40+ years. My first impression is that she's the granddaughter of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Cutting taxes hand in hand with deregulation could win the US Presidency as id did for Reagan, Bush 2.0 and Trump.
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  4700. YEAH - Because he obviously didn't learn a damn thing.
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  4701. Actually we know the original host of the virus - its a bat from Laos. And yes they had at least one of those bats in Wuhan. The record of it was found in a copy of the data base that foreign researchers still had. And there are researchers with incredible understanding of how viruses move from the natural environment to humans. That's been part of the problem. That sort of research has risks and the pathogen research establishment has been divided for over a decade on supervision and oversight. Back in 2011 a Dutch researcher announced he had made the worlds deadliest virus in his lab. It was a version of bird flu that's not normally contagious to humans but when it is its the worst thing - killing over 60% its more lethal than Ebola. He wanted to tell the whole world how he did it but the Dutch government shut that down before someone stupid got a hold of it. That's why there was a moratorium. Well before Wuhan there were people doing very high risk things without any oversight and the general public was oblivious to it.
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  4702.  @Skinflaps_Meatslapper  I'm actually Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. I was there when Reagans Star Wars was the big game in town. Most of us realised it wasn't going to work, especially the post grads, but they were on scholarships so they kept that part quiet and go there degrees. As an undergrad our focus was Space Station Freedom which we expected to build and then be back on the moon circa 2001. The first major hint all was not going well was when SSF got canned after the 3rd attempt. It 1st came in with a $20Billion price tag and VP Bush freaked out and said it had to cost less. So they came back with a redesign that had a price tag of $30 Billion and VP Bush went bananas and re-iterated "cheaper." On the 3rd attempt they had a price tag of $40 Billion and VP Bush said "FK-OFF." While we were pondering that Challenger happened. I'd actually been in Florida only 2weeks earlier and seen Columbia take off. Sadly we were 60 miles away but even at that distance it was spectacular. Probably the saddest part of the last 40+ years has been the exploitation of the research funding. If you look through the X-Planes there's a significant number of "never delivered" projects that really should have delivered. If you look at the X-38 crew return vehicle, what a wasted opportunity. Its compatriot the X37 ACTUALLY WORKS so why didn't they just scale it up and man rate it for 4-6 people? Its no different here in Australia. We finally got a Space Agency a few years back. One of its first publications was a "Road Map" for Australia's space future. The VERY FIRST item detailed was "Advanced Space Based Water Management" with the hope it would be available in the mid 2030s. So I spent my own time and money doing a detail project plan using air launched small satellites based on a scaled down Pegasus XL. Because funding here isn't that great I went with money I knew was available because there were a couple of very controversial over funded security contracts. I ended up with a budget of $720 Million and got told to go away. Then they gave our Air Force $7 Billion (10x as much) for a Space Program based around some of the ideas I had seen FAIL as part of the Reagan Star Wars program 35 years earlier. So I have a fairly nuanced (frustrated) and critical view of these matters of WASTE and STUPIDITY.
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  4703. Why are the Dems crap at politics - BECAUSE THEY THINK ITS ABOUT POLICY and INTELLECT (as in if you didn't graduate from Harvard you're crap). Listen to Prof. Mark Blyth answering a question about Elizabeth Warren back in July 2019. It was after a lecture on Global Trumpism which is worth watching if you have time. He just doesn't answer what Warren's pros & cons but WHY. Listen to what he says about Truman. The link is time stamped to the point where he's asked about Warren. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s The question that follows after the Warren question is really interesting to watch again considering all that has happened since, including the result in West Virginia.
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  4704. Donald Trump had Steve Mnuchin of Goldman Sachs fame as Secretary of the Treasury Joe Biden just hired 2 Goldman Sachs muppets to be part of his administration Yeeeeaaaahhhhh, HHmmmmmm. UUmmmmm. I got zip to explain what to make of that.
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  4705.  @kevinsmith9013  Actually Truman might be a mixed bag. I suggest you listen to Mark Blyth's description/assessment on him. He spoke about Truman in response to a question on Elizabeth Warren after a lecture on Trumpism. The entire video is worth the time but he link goes straight to the part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s
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  4706.  @kevinsmith9013  And yeah I do agree on your basic assessment of Truman, it just might be a bit more complicated.
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  4707. You make a great point - its predatory capitalism NOT capitalism that's the problem. I recently bought a copy of Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" it has 2 introductions. One it nuts the other is a brilliant essay by a professor from the LSE. He points out that Smith was concerned with EVERYONE in Britain having the opportunity to gain some wealth. Smith was actually reacting to the existing economics called "mercantilism" which was like predatory capitalism and resulted in entities like the British East India Company. We think Amazon and google are big. The BEI at one stage was 50% of the worlds economy. It took the British government 70 years to break it up and they only got there because they had a bigger army and a bigger fleet.
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  4708.  @tmcd5049  I mean why not according to the latest science fiction out of Hollywood its hypothetically possible. If Elizabeth Holmes can base Theranos off the film Gattaca. If Elon Musk can base Hyperloop from Logans Run, Space 1999. If Jeff Bezos can base his stuff from The Expanse. Then why can't Joe Rogan be a product of sci-fi too. After all according to Elizabeth Holmes, Elon Musk and J Jeff Bezos sci-fi is real?????????
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  4709.  @berekhalfhand4775  Which part the kangaroos or the wombats?
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  4710.  @SgtGod  Wot you mean somebody made him and the did it on purpose!!!!! Making him - sure I can see that. But making him as he is ON PURPOSE - Nooooo Wayyyyyy I believe you more if you claimed he was an experiment gone wrong. You know like a LAB LEAK
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  4711.  @travisgessler6283  Do you think its only an American problem? Its not, here in Australia we have our own versions of bad faith actors like Ted Cruz. We even have our own billionaire wannabe king Clive Palmer. He even ran adds that looked as if they were written by Steve Bannon. Every country's got them, its just they are more pronounced in America. Here's one of the better lectures on populists by Brown U. Prof Mark Blyth. Its from July 2019 so some of the Q&A afterwards needs to be seen in that time, but if you want to get a better understanding of populists and how they operate its a great start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0 If you want to jump ahead there's a great explanation of how politics operates when he's asked about Elizabeth Warren ay 1:20:00.
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  4712.  @VoidDragon82  That's a brutal but also fairly accurate description of American ideology. Let me relate an actual experience I had with American exceptionalism. I went to college there in the late 80s. At the time there was a 3 way treaty between Australia, New Zealand and America. In response to the French sinking the Rainbow Warrior the New Zealand PM David Lange declared NZ a nuclear free zone - as in NOTHING at all. Not even nuclear powered vessels were allowed. The Americans went bonkers. I had class mates who went nuts and physically poked me in the chest howling about how NZ could tell them what to do. Anytime I said "Its their country they can do what they like!" they went even more nuts. The fact that an ally would tell America what to do just freaked them totally out. Most Americans (not all) cannot handle anyone telling them they are wrong about anything. Its a combination of their politics, education and media (film, tv,...) that tells them they are the saviors of the world and the greatest country ever. One of the very few times that was challenged is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIpKfw17-yY
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  4713. WE HAVE KNOWN about the issues with excess CARBON DIOXIDE in the Atmosphere for over 120 years. Svante Arrhenius won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903 and won other awards for his work in this area. I am tired of these clowns and their lies and their BS.
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  4714. Go watch the interview that Kyle Kulinski and Krystal Ball had with Jesse Ventura and pay attention to the part where he started commentating and what his instructions from Vince McMahon were. Commentators like those on Fox, Newsmax, OAN are straight out of the same box. If the expert commentator says it then what he says is true. The commentators on CNN and MSNBC do similar but just to a less repugnant form. Remember the environment Jess Ventura operated in. There were the good guys and the bad guys and they each had their fans. That was Vince McMahons genius he recognised that both existed and you needed commentators who appealed to both sides and keep those sides screaming at each other. One of the best ways to do that was with goofball commentators who feigned respectability by turning to the ridiculous expert spouting nonsense. That's what Tucker Carlson is he's the goofball commentator who panders to the outrageous expert. American politics (including the commentary) is like the WWE/WWF on a combination of steroids, crack and ice.
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  4715.  Yee Tian  Well its pretty clear from your name where you are from. And how the hell do dare make that comparison. There are many Americans and British people screaming about the middle east situation. And how does that compare or excuse forcing people into labor camps or having women forcibly sterilized. Go have a hard look at yourself in a mirror and ask yourself some honest questions and see if you tell any honest answers.
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  4716.  @stevenpeng3  Well its pretty clear from your name where you are from. And how the hell do dare make that comparison. There are many Americans and British people screaming about the middle east situation. And how does that compare or excuse forcing people into labor camps or having women forcibly sterilized. Go have a hard look at yourself in a mirror and ask yourself some honest questions and see if you tell any honest answers.
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  4717.  Yee Tian  Well being from Canada should make you appreciate having choices and a government that can be held accountable. I'm Australian and there is growing anger over Chinese influence peddling here and across the Southern Pacific. We went to bolster our laws with foreign money in our politics after we'd finally had enough of the Americans, British, Israeli, Saudi and Chinese money in our politics. BUT only China complained and only China threatened us with sanctions. Anytime we speak China waves a finger at us and tells us to mind our own business and then they come down here and try and bribe our leaders. Trust me many many Australians are getting tired of China's hypocrisy. To be fair we've had enough of the hypocrisy of others as well and that includes our own leaders. If you really are in Canada you should be furious over the Fentanyl crisis that has devastated parts of Canada. I was there in 2017 when it was raging so I know it all comes from China and can only be exported out of China with the CCP letting it happen. There are many things abut Trump that were so bad and so flawed that its hard to start listing them. But one of his catastrophic failures was HOW he dealt with China. What he should have done was slap them with a CARBON TAX and used it to hammer them. Europe, Australia and others would have followed suit and then we might have a chance to save the planet. The CCP, GOP, British Tories and others better learn real fast that we all live on this planet and if it dies we die.
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  4718.  @shamanahaboolist  I think you need to do some research and check some facts. FENTANYL - is just one of several SYNTHETIC Opioids opiate and a lot of it is made in Chinese labs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid#Synthetic_opioids The majority of Illegal Opium until recent decades came from the Golden triangle which is in SE Asia. The majority of legally produced opiates for medications come from highly regulated farms in a number of places around the world.
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  4719.  @shamanahaboolist  Are you this ignorant or that uneducated? Opium has been smoked throughout Asia for centuries and they have had addiction issues FOR CENTURIES. Opiates as an addictive issue is NOT just a Western issue and NEVER WAS. The current issue with Opiate addiction in places like America with the massive over prescription of drugs like Oxycontin is nothing but the result of greed. They (the manufacturers) claimed Oxycontin (Oxycodone) was NOT addictive. That was a lie from the start. Its an opiate and all opiates are addictive. It has to be very carefully used for pain control and instead the Sackler family wanted to make money. Just go and learn what facts are before you make yourself look any more stupid than you've already done.
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  4720.  @shamanahaboolist  Well DUH. You mention the opium wars. Funny you know about the historical use of opium which which goes back a long time before the Opium Wars. Opium was already used in Chinese society BEFORE the Westerners arrived. How ignorant are you? So you're in the UK are you. Well then you should have gotten a better education than your ignorance shows. Or are you another one of these people who's immigrated to a Western country and then complains that you haven't been showered in gold. If Western society is so bad compared to wherever you came from then go back and have a better life. And what do you actually mean by pharmaceutical distribution? For all anyone knows your just a delivery driver. If you had any real expertise you would have said so. And considering your ignorance I doubt you're anything more than a delivery driver, or warehouse clerk.
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  4721.  @andresviveros3994  Your forgetting all the outcry for the Rohinga Muslims. And there's plenty of people in the west who are critical of Israel and its behavior. Yu have to remember that the Israel-Palestinian issue is super complex and has been a mess since they formation of Israel. People like you either forget or ignore that the British who controlled Palestine were part of the original 2 state plan back in the late 1940s. That plan was NOT rejected by the world it was rejected by the Arab League. The reason there isn't an Independent Palestinian nation isn't because of the Americans, British or anybody else. Its because the Arab League voted against it. Go check your history. Its not to say that since that time the West hasn't favored Israel because that would be stupid. What I find that Israel (and their supporters) should be condemned for is the basic way they see and treat Palestinians. They are people and like all people they deserve some basic rights. After all that is what the Israeli people have demanded for 70+ years - basic human rights. You can't demand basic human rights and then deny others of those same basic rights.
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  4722.  @SS-tr6ei  Careful there are some seriously nasty, ugly and racist pro-CCP trolls hunting on some of these pages. Notably the anti-BBC pages. When I mean racist I mean proper genuine racist.
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  4723.  Seiki  I can tell very simply why Australia is about to break a lot of contracts with China. We've caught them repeatedly interfering in our country. They are not the only ones to have done so. We had Britain doing it for many years. But then they joined the EU and told us to get lost. It almost bankrupted our economy. We have had the Americans since and the Japanese to a lesser extent. When we finally had enough of foreign money in our politics and went to tighten our Laws ONLY 1 COUNTRY PROTESTED - CHINA. The Chinese view of foreign affairs is we do what we like we do what we want and fuck the rest of the planet. Its not that far from the American or British or Russian policies of the past, but the fact is we don't live in the past we live in the here and now. When I was there I rode the maglev in from Shanghai Airport and rode the Fast Train back. China is NOT a developing nation it is a DEVELOPED NATION and can start acting responsibly as a developed nation. And the first step in that is they STOP interfering in other countries. The 2nd step is they stop the staggering environmental damage they are doing in that they burn half the worlds coal supply. The then STOP selling coal technology ad other damaging technologies to developing nations. The world cannot afford China or the way China does business. The Uighurs are just indicative of the Chinese Communist Party's view of itself and the world wont tolerate that much longer just as it wont tolerate American bullshit or any other bullshit either. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4724.  @diegomagellan  Yeah, I don't think that as many people who need to be very seriously concerned about this are actually concerned because its still seen as an internal to America issue and think that America will sort it out. The problem is that SCOTUS appointments are for life or until they choose to retire. So people like Kavanagh, Gorsuch and Barrett could be there for decades. In the meantime they can either block or enable all sorts of crap. This is not a trivial problem and will take a major effort to fix. Its taken decade for the FS to do this and it will take decades to fix it.
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  4725. Wont happen for the most basic fact of all - It would go against the narratives they have been spinning for years.
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  4726. HEY EVERYONE - Go check Wikipedia for what was going on in 1220. In Britain they crowned a 12 year old as King Henry III while Frederick II of Sicily tried to get his 9 year old son declared King of Germany but instead Frederick II himself simply ended up being crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope. In the Middle East there was the 5th Crusade where Christians were slaughtering Muslims when they weren't being slaughtered themselves by Muslims. (Sounds familiar) But I think what Michael Knowles likes best about 1220 was that Iran was invaded, except it wasn't by Americans it was by a mad man by the name of Genghis Khan and his family of what could be mildly called psychopaths. Among their favorite things was to kill every man and boy of a town or city and then rape all the women so that the next generation born would be Mongol sons and daughters. It was their version of "make the world Mongol" which is pretty damn similar to the current American philosophy of "make the world American." Yeah 1220 one of humanities favorite years to remember.
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  4727. ENGINEER HERE: Funny how the clowns in the media can do all these wonderful videos but can't spell out the basic problem. HOW MUCH LITHIUM DO WE NEED? There are 1.5 billion cars in the world, 500 million trucks and then mountains of "other stuff." Looking at just the cars because its simple and straight forward. The Tesla Model S uses 63kg of Lithium. So 1.5 Billion x 63kg = 94.5 Billion kgs or 94.5 Million tons. Currently according to the US geological society there's 21 million tons that we know of in the ground WORLD WIDE. By other estimates it might be 26 million tons WORLD WIDE. Simply put we barley have enough Lithium to do 1/3 of the cars and nothing left to do all the truck and "other stuff." Even if we build many of those cars with much smaller battery packs we still don't have enough. YES we can do the energy transition BUT WE NEED A BETTER PLAN.
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  4728. On the last question ZIP because its gold that is NOT being traded on the normal markets. If that gold does hit the markets through the countries that Russia has sent it to then that might be another story all together. On the production thing just remember this war started with America ALSO IN TRANSITION. One of the most noted cases was the Ukrainian consumption of Stinger missiles early on. Even though America sent them their oldest stock which in some cases was already marked for disposal - the Ukrainians blew through it. The problem is America was between generations of the Stinger missile and notably the guidance chips needed to make them operate. The old production line was already gone and the new one wasn't ready. So it wasn't simply a matter of making missiles there was a shortage of guidance chips that was expected to take 2-3 years to solve. Where that is right now I have not heard. The same sorts of production issues exist for EVERYTHING because everything just like the medical supplies during COVID and all the consumer goods after COVID has all been exposed - has gone to JIT (just in time) production.
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  4729. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I did my degree in the late 80s and during my senior year we had an alum who gave a special guest lecture on Terraforming Mars. We were all very excited to hear what he had to say. He started with "Sorry its impossible and here's why!" He then went on to explain just how big planets are and how much stuff you need to a job like Terraform Mars. The numbers are so large that its near impossible for people to grasp. Here's 1 simple thing maybe people can grasp. Imagine a dome (1/2 sphere) on Mars with a volume of 1km. Its about 1562 meters in diameter. So its not a small dome but is the sort of size you'd need for a colony its people, plants and animals. Other than all the materials needed to build that dome (which is substantial). You need 1.3 million tons of air to fill it. Most people don't think of air as weighing much. 1 cubic meter of water weighs a metric ton. 1 cubic meter of air weighs 1.3kg (sea level). There's 1,000,000,000 (billion) cubic meters in a cubic kilometer. So 1 cubic kilometer of air weighs 1.3 billion kilograms or 1.3 million tons. Now considering there's almost NO atmosphere at all on Mars let alone much Oxygen or Nitrogen to make Earth standard air from you have to ask: For the Mars startup colony where are they going to get 1.3 million tons of air from and how are they going to get it to Mars or produce it on Mars? Sorry to bust everyone's Elon Fantasy with math but then WTF I'm an engineer!
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  4730. A while back Mark Blyth pointed out the product that the Murdoch empire sells is rage. That's what Tucker learned from them. Facts, truth, honesty, morals and ethics are irrelevant to the business model. That's why he loves this because it suits the business model. The REAL PROBLEM is that its about the person who will get to control the worlds largest military and its arsenal of nuclear weapons.
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  4731. Really I though she was a halfwit?
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  4732. Are you talking about the people in Africa or the Tesla fans who think Elon is the Messiah?
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  4733.  @gertrudlehmann4869  Did he resign from and walk away from the negotiations???
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  4734. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  4735. Scott Galloway had this great comment a couple of weeks ago. "The only thing Biden is owed is to be buried in the same hole as Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Diane Feinstein." he went on to explain how these selfish geriatrics and their supporters did damage that will take decades to recover from. Remember Ginsberg was replaced with Amy Coney Barrett who was 48 when appointed. Barret is not only a nutcase member of a fundamentalist Catholic offshoot but she could easily be on SCOTUS for another 30+ years. The whole Feinstein case should have resulted in criminal charges for elder abuse and impeachment for the officials involved in covering up her state. More importantly going forward the Clinbamas need to be given their marching orders. If you look at the early days of the Kamala Harris & Tim Walz campaign it said more than anything else "CHANGE." This is the change form the old guard to the next generation. THEN the Clinbamas stepped in and hijacked the campaign doing things like bringing the Cheneys onboard AND THAT SCREAMED LOUD AND CLEAR - there will be no change, we're still in charge and it will be "More of the Same." They all forgot that Hilary lost in 2016 with "More of the Same" as her campaign theme. This is the real appeal of Trump to his voters. Even though the hard core of them are deranged many of them are just fed up with "Status Quo" economics. They are so tired of getting nothing and having no hope of change that they will vote for the Orange Gorilla and his wrecking ball. The real question is: What comes after Trump tears the system apart?
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  4736.  @AntoineLavoisier-y3e  have you seen the debate hosted by David Pakman with Destiny & Cenk Uygur?? You'll be amazed at what Destiny's position BEFORE the election was and WHAT it still is after the election.
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  4737. @ Just search "destiny cenk" its the one titled - Cenk EXPLODES vs Destiny: "You represent the LOSER WING!"
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  4738.  @stephenbrickwood1602  Thanks. I appreciate it might seem like I am spamming but it annoys the hell out of me that all the oxygen is being sucked out of the discussion by people who ARE NOT engineers and its engineers who need to be heard. AND ITS BOTH SIDES of politics I am angry at. They have both failed us with endless circular arguments.
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  4739.  @stephenbrickwood1602  On the governments need to change I watch America a lot because I went to university there. The reason Harris lost and Trump won was change. When first put forward Harris represented change. When she put Tim Walz as her VP she said we really are going to make changes. THEN When asked Harris said she could not think of anything she'd do differently. In that one moment she blew it and all Trump had to do was stand their and dance for an hour. A real question for Australia's parties is who learns form that? This is what faces both the LibNats and Labor next year. Which wants to make change, which wants to keep things as they are. There's the Teals who really do represent change BUT can they convince enough people of that. The Greens are now irrelevant because their hearts are in the right place but they have no idea how to do anything.
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  4740. ​ @stephenbrickwood1602  Great comment - What angers me is that the entire energy debate is now a purely political-economic-emotional discussion. No matter what's chosen its going to be engineers, technicians and laborers who build whatever we choose AND RIGHT NOW we are totally locked out of the discussion. The worst part is we were always going to need new power stations for the simple reason stuff wears out and needs replacing. PLUS our population has gone from 19 to 26 million since 2000. Forget climate, we were always going to need a SENSIBLE discussion on what to build next and that hasn't happened. There is actually a couple of points about nuclear that do make sense but the pro-nuclear clowns are just as stupid as the pro-wind/solar clowns. Once you start having lots of wind/solar you get into some really serious grid stability issues and its NOT just the base load it has to do with frequency stability. They have a major issue in Ireland right now. In previous eras what was taken for granted was the rotating mass of the large turbines which had a lot of mechanical inertia which holds the frequency stable and it doesn't matter if they are steam, gas or hydro. In Ireland they are considering a giant flywheel to spin up and hold the frequency stable. This is what annoys me. The pro-wind/solar people refuse to admit there's a problem and the pro-nuclear people are too stupid to say here's a solution. That doesn't mean we'd use it and there are other options, but its not even in the discussion because these people ARE NOT ENGINEERS and they wont shut up. This is all just politics at a time when we need to build power stations and we can't even get started because we can't even have the right conversation. Sorry for the rant but I think you get it.
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  4741.  @albertcosta2343  That's a half fair comment (about the character assassination). Its half fare because your right they do a chunk of character assassination. BUT Biden has a checkered past with supporting wars and going against universal health care. If you listen what they are really saying is that Biden has to deliver and in that NO ONE should envy Joe Biden. I think Joe Biden is about to inherit the worst mess in American history. COVID is so out of control America won't need to isolate the rest of the world will simply ban Americans. Then there is the economic nightmare. Then there is the oncoming freight train called climate change. Then there is the issue of wealth disparity which is so out of control it could easily lead to a revolution. Then there is the issue that over 50million well armed people who've been stockpiling so much ammunition that supplies are running out and they have been convinced he cheated. Plus the outgoing gorilla seems determined to leave him an even bigger mess - Russia, China, North Korea & Iran and what to do about them. I truly hope he does not crawl into a security blanket of Goldman Sachs & Blackstone Wall Street Clintonesque sycophants. That might go very badly for the entire Western World.
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  4742.  @tylabarros1506  To answer your questions its pretty simple - its profitable. Billionaires are usually billionaires because they are insanely greedy people. These are people who are not just interested in making their lives and the lives of their families & friends better. These people are insane with their greed. They can wrap it up in whatever way they like and it takes almost nothing to peel back a few layers and expose just how greedy they are. Look at the Koch brothers. The 2 maniacs Charles & David were both MIT chemical engineering graduates. You can't graduate engineering anywhere without brains let alone MIT. I know I am an engineer myself and yet they have been the greatest proponents of fighting against climate change initiatives, which is insane. They have spent over $125 million funding and setting up think tanks with labels like "Foundation" and "Institute" as if they are benevolent or academic or both. Look at what they do. The Heritage Foundation and CATO Institute are nothing but PR machines spouting an endless stream of misinformation. Its the main reason I don't believe in this Deep State garbage. They do all this out in the open, because they know most people can't or wont think though what's right there in plain sight for all the world to see. Do you know the F35 was purposefully designed to NOT get cancelled like the F22 was. The F35 includes parts from as many states as possible so that if any Senator ever questions it they will have to face job losses in their state. Its why the damn thing is overweight, slow, twice as expensive as promised and almost as expensive to fly as the F22. How did it happen? Simple - the military industrial complex wanted to make more money that they did from the F22. The reason the Deep State doesn't exist is because it doesn't need to. Its more convenient for most people to believe in a super secret conspiracy than simple reality.
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  4743.  @mrgoldigger9206  What did Trump ruin - Lets start: 1: He tore up NAFTA and ruined America's relationships with Canada and Mexico, but I'll guess you don't care about that. 2: He tore up the Pacific Trade Agreement and ruined America's relationships with Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the Pacific, but I'll guess you don't care about that. 3: He tore up the Treaty with Iran and now the rest of the world has to deal with a nuclear armed Iran, but I'll guess you don't care about that. 4: He tore up Obama's pandemic response plans and let 320,000 Americans die while he played golf, but I'll guess you don't care about that. 5: He failed to secure the vaccines that Americans need, which will lead to more deaths and suffering, but I'll guess you don't care about that. 6: He's claimed climate change is a hoax despite the Pentagon releasing a report saying its real and they will need more money to cover the extra costs of running their bases, but I'll guess you don't care about that either. And lets talk about the CCP payroll shall we. Who's little sister has been operating in China and making millions the last couple of years - Jared Kushner's little sister that's who. Who is that while she was on a diplomatic mission secured her Chinese Trade marks - Ivanka Trump that's who. Who is it that has bank accounts in China - Donald Trump that's who. And lets no forget who is the one American who has sided with Vladimir Putin when it came to anything like election interference and cyber attacks on US Institutions. Well according to Bill Barr its a guy named Donald Trump. I think he's out there on the golf course while America gets attacked and its people are dying from a disease he called a hoax. I'd keep going if you weren't so idiotically ignorant of reality.
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  4744.  @mrgoldigger9206  Well the word ignorant comes from the word ignore. As in an ignorant person is someone who ignores things and lets face it you ignore a lot of things. You claim you want discourse and then throw insults - that's being both ignorant and hypocritical. You've tried to claim Sidney Powell has credibility but: You IGNORE the fact she has either forfeited or had her cases thrown out for lack of evidence. You IGNORE the fact she's claimed Hugo Chavez somehow fixed the 2020 election when he's been dead for 7 years. You've IGNORED that fact that it was Trump appointed people who oversaw the security of the election. You've IGNORED the fact the Supreme Court has thrown out the cases and that the 3 Judges Trump appointed ALL voted to throw those cases out. That's why I can call you ignorant because you IGNORE THE FACTS. BUT WORSE THAN YOUR IGNORANCE IS YOUR HYPOCRISY. You're the one asking for discourse but then YOU start throwing insults. You're the one insulting the previous President calling him "o'bummer" and YOU'RE the one accusing the man that 81,283,485 Americans voted for is a Chinese puppet without any evidence. You accuse others of being in an echo chamber as YOU echo the same garbage from discredited idiots like Sidney Powell. That's the one thing everyone else hates about right wingers - you accuse others of things that *YOU DO and we are getting tired of it.
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  4745.  @mrgoldigger9206  WTF does that mean? If its a reference to our trade with China then get your facts right. They are slapping us with tariffs as part of Trumps trade war. So there is growing resentment towards those Australians who are heavily invested in China not caring about the consequences of sucking up to China.
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  4746. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk Below is more background information, some of which David P viewers probably know. And yes (like many others) I can write pages about this stuff. Australia's ABC is often claimed to be a leftist organization by Australian Right Wing conservatives. Its also claimed to favor the right by leftists when it exposes things the left get up to. The Murdoch's and other prominent media owners like the Packers and Fairfax's have wanted the ABC dismantled for decades, particularly the independent journalism. You can easily find this by looking for "Sky News Australia" which is Rupert Murdoch's Australian outlet and has its own versions of Hannity, Carlson,.... etc. As to why Australia is so interested in this. Its simple America is Australia's most important trading and security partner AND and Australian born business man is influencing America in a massive way. Yes, Murdoch also has huge influence here in Australia and in Britain buts its not as massive as it is in America. Here in Australia 2 ex-Prime Ministers (Rudd and Turnbull) have launched an inquiry into Murdoch influence in Australia. Rudd is a leftist and Turnbull is center right, so they represent BOTH sides of our politics. But note, Turnbull is seen as a pariah (and traitor) by the far right. Turnbull has also claimed that Murdoch was part of the "cabal" that had him dumped from the leadership. As a political position Australia's Prime Minister (like the British, Canadian,...... etc.) is more akin to the American "Speaker of the House." As such the PM can be dumped from that position at almost anytime. As a trading and security partner Australia is similar to a few other countries like Canada, Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines,.... etc. I was actually in Canada for work when Trump tore up NAFTA and saw their reaction (not pretty). America was the driver behind NAFTA and the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) and Trump tore both apart. Australia like a few others have staked their future security on the F35 Lightning II. Before COVID and before Trump we struggled to get our jets delivered and now struggle to get spare parts. In several ways Australia (like many other countries) just can't afford to have America be this dysfunctional. We have people who simply hate America and even they admit (when pressed) that "a healthy functioning America is in our best interests." Fox News with its influence is making America MORE dysfunctional. If you watch Part 1 (above) you'll see that Fox News was the first to call Arizona. People were then fired from Fox, for upsetting Trump and risking the business. It's not like the Western World wasn't warned about Murdoch. Here's where you can watch the 2004 Documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P74oHhU5MDk
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  4747. Fox News viewers don't understand statistics because they struggle to count to 11 when they run out of fingers.
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  4748. Prof Mark Blyth from Brown U. made a comment a couple of weeks back about a sudden and change in part of the the narrative from Fox. Apparently either Biden or someone else at the WH called Rupert Murdoch directly and bluntly told him "Its your people dying. What do you want to do?"
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  4749.  @jasonaslin1236  Sorry you misunderstood part of my answer. Dead people don't pay for subscriptions. It was as much of an appeal to Rupert's pocket as anything. Have you seen the Australian expose on the changes Murdoch pushed at Fox over the "Big Lie?" Fox was actually the first network ANYWHERE to call Arizona and Trump went nuts. Then Trump turned on Fox. Then Fox subscribers started cancelling subscriptions and taking up OAN & NewsMax subscriptions. Rupert then made a business decision and Tucker and the other clowns jumped back on board the SS Trumptanic. Here's the first part of 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o
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  4750. WTF - DOES ANYONE EXPECT. This stuff is going on EVERYWHERE because people have finally had enough of the very top 1% and to a lesser extent the next 9% pocketing ridiculous amounts of money and paying no tax because they can afford to hide it. The middle and working classes HAVE HAD ENOUGH of executives taking multi-million dollar bonuses and pay-outs while the rest of us suffer. Here in Australia ONLY WEEKS AGO Alan Joyce the out going CEO of QANTAS got over $20 million as a final bonus. By his own words QANTAS would not have survived the COVID Pandemic had not the people of Australia bailed them out. Worse his actions in dumping employees during that crisis has since been deemed illegal. Back in 2008 there was Branko Milanovic's infamous Elephant Graph that showed how the Top 1% had won huge while the rest of us suffered. After that there was the 2019 RAND Report that showed the TOP 1% in America had made almost US$50 Trillion since the mid 1970s up until 2018. In 2022 Bernie Sanders had the US Congressional Budget Office update its family wealth report and it now includes data up until 2019. That Report shows that not only have the Top 10% who caused the GFC and were bailed out HAVE RECOVERED and are now over 21% UP on where they were in 2007. MEANWHILE the BOTTOM 50% of America have not only NOT RECOVERED from the GFC they didn't cause they are still DOWN over 21% from where they were before the GFC. MAYBE and it sonly a suggestion that some of you analyst types NOT ACT SURPRISED when people finally go nuts after being treated like crap for 30+ years.
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  4751. Agreed and this is the same point I just made on another thread. I'D SUGGEST FOR EVERYONE WITH TIME - Go and watch the Common Sense Skeptics take down of Kevin O'Leary. He promotes himself via Shark Tank (Dragons Den in other countries) as a "Super Entrepreneur" but like Trump he's got tons of questionable outcomes. Now that they have actually got Trump and found him guilty on something they'll start going after the other great fraudsters on Wall Street. As a suggestion maybe they start with O'Leary.
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  4752. ENGINEER HERE - Absolutely 100% right. He's NOT alone in talking about things he knows nothing about but he's ONE OF THE WORST on YouTube. His gal pal Cleo Abram is equally as IGNORANT of reality, but know how to spin a good yarn.
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  4753.  @jeffsaffron5647  great comment.
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  4754. What a total load of horse shit this is. Its just a tech demonstrator and some designers idea of what might be. Anyone who's ever looked through the design studies for futuristic cars from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s NOWS that very very few ever go beyond a single design mock up. And all of them came with "the car of the future" tag.
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  4755.  @CombatMosquitoTrainer  That's is the most brutal label I have seen anyone put on any politician for a while. Be careful you might get in trouble for that one.
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  4756. I'm Australian and I absolutely agree. If anything what really aggravates them is that Taylor Swift has had enough brains NOT to have any scandals and repeat the mistakes of so many other celebrities. She hasn't gotten involved in any POLICY or the IDEOLOGY. Her crime right now is telling younger people be involved in your nations future. I think the real reason they hate her for what's she is doing is because she's too intelligent for them to rationally handle. When they say "guys aren't into girls like her" what they mean is they want a "Keep your mouth shut and have sex with me whenever I want it. Now go and cook me diner and do the laundry. " type.
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  4757. This is a better comment than some others. I do like David's commentary, but occasionally its gets almost as stupid as the other side. For sure this clown is overstepping the line of showing respect to both the President and the Constitution, but he hasn't threatened a damn thing. And absolutely the Feds ought to "have him in their office and have a nice long chat with him" and ask him to explain himself.
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  4758. On your next video you should highlight the failure test of carbon fibre and glass fibre hulls that Carl Ross posted 10 years ago. He posted 2 videos titled Collapse of Composite Submarine Pressure Hulls Collapse of Carbon & Glass Fibre Tubes under External Hydrostatic Pressure. I have no idea who Carl Ross is (or was) but there's 2 things to note about those videos. 1) How sudden the failure is. If you look at how titanium fails its much like any other metal there's deformation eventually followed by failure. I am an engineer (aerospace) but did my first year in mechanical and we did that stuff in the lab. Most of the failure videos of things being crushed or bent in a hydraulic press show that but they also often show the sudden failure of carbon fibre composite materials. So you and other are most likely right the people in Titan probable had no warning it was all about to fail other than hearing a lot of cracking. 2) the Carl Ross videos show very little damage to the Carbon fibre tube other than what looks like a crack down the side. What people need to understand is that it was done in a small pressure test rig NOT the open ocean so there was very little water to keep applying pressure once the tube failed. I have done work in the petro-chem industry and other places where they pressure test pipes with water. If something does let go during a hydrostatic test there's no explosion of water because its incompressible. That test cell Carl Ross used has very little water in it so there's not a lot of volume to rush into the test model and do lots of damage. It just had enough water to break the cylinder.
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  4759.  @Khalkara  Good comparison that few people are pointing out.
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  4760.  @justsaying14  What have I lied about DlCK-HED All I have said is maybe this is just a giant prank.
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  4761.  @destinal_in_reality  Yeah and that's part of the problem there's so much competition for clicks.
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  4762. They got Al Capone on tax evasion and that was all they ever got him on. Despite all that he did they could never get him on anything except what they had in a couple of ledgers. This was also on of the main themes of the John Grisham novel "the Firm" that was made into the film with Tom Cruise & Gene Hackman. They had NOTHING on the actual firm and its dealings which included money laundering, tax evasion AND MURDER, but they got them on mail fraud because they sent fraudulent bills through the mail and did it so many times it fell under the RICO statutes. A while back I heard someone point out that Trump has squealed about "How they are out to get him!" and that its true. YES its true WE ARE out to get Trump because he's a PIECE OF SHlT who's scammed so many people and lied so many times and done so much damage that I like many others don't really care what they do SO LONG AS THEY GET HIM THE F*CK OUT OF OUR LIVES.
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  4763. 100% agreement Go look at the Wikipedia page for "Northern Sea Route" and look at the Map. 1) Greenland or who owns it has ABSOLUTLEY ZERO EFFECT on the Northern Sea Route from Europe to Asia BECAUSE most of the that route travels through Russian Waters. Look at the Map. 2) If Russia or China suddenly got 100% control of Greenland then NOTHING changes because all of the traffic between America's East Coast would travel in Canadian Waters. Again go and look at the map. The entire premise of this argument is just BULLSHlT pretending to be political strategy.
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  4764. WHY WHY WHY You just answered it D--KHEAD -> The money has NOT gone out the door!!!!!! They didn't get $1400 or $1200 let alone the $2000 they were promised DU-UH How do people that stupid get a job hosting a news show or what masquerades as a news show.
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  4765. Its called mob psychology.
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  4766. I have been trying to explain to people for some time now that the fundamental ideology of American Libertarians is: "We demand the liberty to strip other people of their liberties." It lines up perfectly with the Christian Fundamentalist and what they want to do which is why Billionaires like Charles Koch fund candidates that will happily give him what he wants and give the fundamentalists what they want.. Go watch the video "This Billionaire Family is Suffocating Rural America" which is about Koch Industries trying to buy the fertiliser company that the State of Iowa helped fund to provide competition. Look for what Charles Koch himself explains about 5-1/2 minutes in. Take not of the innocent caring claim he makes about the government stifling innovation and causing inequality. Charles Koch is worth over $100 Billion and funds all sorts of think tanks like the CATO Institute to manipulate governments with false & misleading information. He does not believe in competition. He believes in the government getting out of his road so he can do whatever he likes which includes stripping away competition, egregious profits and stomping on democracy.
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  4767. I'm an engineer and WHY DON'T YOU consider what happens when it doesn't work or malfunctions. Because as an engineer I'm tired of all the ignorant technically illiterate clowns who think every bit of technology labelled as a "game changer" works exactly as the PR brochure says it does. I have seen enough complete screw ups in engineering to know that when ING0RANT people put blind faith in technology they have no understanding of that it rarely works out well for anyone involved.
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  4768. Now there you go being one of those howling radical woke maniacs BY SPEAKING TRUTH. Shame on you for speaking truth about the amazing and wonderful president Musk. How are we going to have peace across the Solar System when you insult the future Emperor of Mars?
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  4769.  @scottf3456  Yeah that was the coin from Trump 1.0. This is now Trump 2.0 and minting bits of metal doesn't make billions like meme coins do.
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  4770. So long as you have 2 tribes who think the other does not deserve to exist then you don't have much chance of a future. So long as the only answer to EVERYTHING starts with denial and misdirection then you don't have much chance of a future. When you multiply "not much chance of a future" with "not much chance of a future" you don't really have ANY chance of a future.
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  4771. AS AN AUSTRALIAN let me explain that this lit up Australia with the biggest WTF we've had in decades. Yeah we all heard her whisper "I say this in jest" but the insinuations and insults are going to stick. We all heard here claim she was getting her information from family and friends. We're pretty much of the opinion those family and friends can pack their bags and F--K OFF. We're also pretty sure her husband needs to be arrested for having sex with woman so mentally impaired there's no way she can legally consent.
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  4772. You and every other similar comment are 100% correct. But have a look who posted that first comparison video. You can see it clearly around 56 seconds. KYLE needs to NOT show ANY videos from people like Russell Brand. In these sorts of discussions CREDIBILITY matters and using an accused rapist as a source doesn't look good.
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  4773. It doesn't take fascism it simply takes narcissism. Go look at almost any political party in the world right now and they ALL have people who will do anything for their hold on power - its just that some of them don't care who sees what they do because they know their base will love it. Look at almost any populist leader in the world right now. They KNOW for sure that they can do whatever they like so long as they give their base that one thing they want. Trump played the Roe-V-Wade card right at the Christian Nationalists and they instantly didn't care squat over any of his moral shortcomings. Modi does similar in India with the Hindu Nationalists. Bolsonaro in Brazil gave the cattle farmers open slather on land clearing and they didn't care squat over anything else he did. Despite being a Communist Putin does it in Russia with the Russian Orthodox Church. I'm Australian and we have people on BOTH sides of our politics who will do anything and pander to anyone so long as they stay in power. I was in Canada a few years ago for work and some of their political scandals were almost identical to Australia. Contracts awarded to family and friends. Money hidden in offshore banks. Billionaires getting anything they wanted. Companies doing enormous environmental damage without consequence. If it wasn't for the moose and polar bears the stories could have been about Australia. Its the same everywhere. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4774.  @lurkalisk  On that you are right. America like it excels in so many ways seems to also excel in radical political thinking. There's a really interesting interview with an ex-KGB agent from way back in 1984. Yuri Bezmenov was quite wrong on a few points. Mainly that it was the Soviets who collapsed. BUT in terms of what he says about people being UNABLE to reach sensible conclusions despite abundant factual evidence is just plain scary RIGHT NOW. Even scarier is that by the early 80s the Russians had essentially stopped because they thought Americans were doing more damage to themselves than they could. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI What would he say right now if still alive, other than "you were warned." 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4775.  @Marijuanifornia  That's a very narrow line of thought. I am well aware of the "other" uses of hemp products. I've known about the rope for years and it was actually DuPont who lobbied for its outlaw to get rid of the main rival to nylon. I am well aware non-THC hemp is now used in clothing. You can also by Hemp protein why I add to soups and other drinks. But as a solution to everything your stretching reality - a long way.
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  4776. Kyle's forgetting what Jesse Ventura told them a few weeks ago. Remember what Vince McMahon told JV at the start of his commentating career "Reality is what you say it is!" Trump learned that and has exploited it for almost 7 years now. That's why his base behave as they do. Its likes an extreme version of mob psychology. Its not just getting a mob to respond to an event. He's getting the mob to respond to political spin. Everyone should go back and re-watch that interview. JV actually explained so much of how Trump operates. Trumps rallies are straight out of the Vince McMahon wrestling promotion playbook.
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  4777. Henry A. Wallace “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection." - the New York Times, April 9, 1944”
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  4778. Actually Dominion doesn't need any evidence, the whole planet knows what Giuliani and others said. Giuliani (and others) made the comments and made them publicly and now he has to defend what he said. They now have to provide a basis for their claims and even if they provide evidence of the form "this person said" or "this person wrote/published" Giuliani and others stood up in public and repeated it and NEVER RECANTED ANYTHING. The real killer is that Giuliani, Powell and all the rest NEVER repeated any of those claims in a court in front of a judge. That's clear indication they knew what evidence they had was bogus. Listen to what the Dominion lawyer says starting just before 14:00 about malice and good faith mistakes. Listen to what he says about discovery after 18:00. Go back and hear what the guy on the right said about 3rd party labs having all the source code and hardware after 20:30.
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  4779. I absolutely agree and I'm Australian and we've had a enough of them here too. this is what I posted as my comment and YES I really do want to scream. I DID NOT WATCH THIS. I DID NO TLISTEN TO THIS. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE ANY MORE STORIES EVER AGAIN ABOUT POLLS Polls are BULLSHlT. Polls are CRAP. Polls are just noise and waste everyone's time.
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  4780. Bullshit you're asking for a friend and yeah technically they can be deported as an undocumented alien but if anyone tried that all hell would be let lose.
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  4781. Actually David's old Professor from College Richard Wolff (who David's had on the channel and should have again) had a really interesting take on WHY some people (not all) flipped out in 2016 and went from voting blue to voting for Trump. And yes his answer does NOT explain how it became a cult, but it does explain its origins. The link is from one of the Michael Brooks tributes. The discussion also includes Prof. Mark Blyth from Brown who's also another Lefty professor. PAY ATTENTION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3171s Until the Democrats are willing to admit they have repeatedly let down the working class and the middle class by sucking up to their corporate backers the Dems will get spanked by the GOP because they will tap into public frustration like Trump did in 2016. By NOT acknowledging those mistakes and blaming everyone else the Democrats let Trump's nonsense fester into the cult it is today. You cant fix other problems until you fix your own.
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  4782.  @georgedragich6056  Ohhhhhhhhh BUUUULLLSHIIIITTTTTTT Its not even remotely close. When did Biden or Obama refuse to to accept an election defeat. Even Hilary accepted defeat, AS DID HER SUPPORTERS When did Hilary, Biden or Obama claim they were "the best ever" or "nobody knows it better than me."
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  4783. ​ @georgedragich6056  And as far as who's done what I have been challenged on that so many times its a farking joke. HERE's 3 Things trump got RIGHT. 1) He didn't start a NEW war. he might not have finished the old ones but he didn't start any new ones and people like Bolton wanted a war with Iran. 2) He tore up NAFTA. He did it ugly and stupid but NAFTA was hurting Americans and it need to be replaced. 3) He absolutely proved beyond all doubt that when establishments get LAZY then outsiders can win AND that is something the entire world can thank him for. HERE'S 3 things Biden got WRONG 1) He ran in the first place. He was never going to solve America's big problems. 2) He's let the corporate Democrats have too much say. His transition team included people from Goldman Sachs and Blackrock. 3) He didn't lock up Hunter soon enough. Have you noticed how Hunter hasn't been seen since the paintings fiasco? Daddy had is train wreck drug addict son locked away somewhere very secure he just didn't do it soon enough. HERE's something Biden got RIGHT that Trump totally FAILED at: He got American TF out of Afghanistan. Yeah it was ugly but he got America out of that catastrophe. Here's Trumps worst act: Trump divided the American people and sadly Joe Biden is NOT the solution to that. Bottom line is they both have done good and bad. Its just the Trump is a lot worse than Biden.
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  4784. THESE PEOPLE NEED TO BE CONFRONTED NOT VIOLENTLY, but every time they step out their front door into the public. There need to be people asking them: _WHY are you lying? WHY wont you accept the certified legal results? This is no longer simply a threat to American Democracy. Its a threat to the rule of law EVERYWHERE. Democracy has always been a challenge for any nation or society. It took effort to move beyond the authoritarian regimes of the past. It took effort by many people over many generations to get us to a point where "We the People" actually means something. There are so many things that can be said regarding the failures and shortcomings of democracy. and its shortcomings, but it has one advantage over all other systems that isn't mentioned often enough. On a regular basis, democracy allows a population to replace their government. That's the real threat people like Steve Bannon and Kari Lake are. They will strip us all of the right to say "NO, you are not in charge! We chose someone else."
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  4785. I'm guessing you have a physical disability. They have a mental disability. Its an inability to show compassion or empathy. Ugly and sad but that's the truth.
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  4786. But they have many plans to help themselves. If you really want to see where the Republican brain is PBS just re-posted there Frontline episode on "Citizens United" that they aired in October 2012 (10+ years ago). Its extraordinary to watch in the current circumstances. One of the most amazing parts of it 10 years ago was they didn't go after Democrats, they went after Republicans who wouldn't do what they wanted. If you want to see how the GOP morphed into the current nightmare its worth your time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xxiIejOmSo
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  4787. Its not so much a matter of corruption as bad practice. I'm an engineer and have left a lengthy explanation in a separate comment explaining how to NOT screw up projects.
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  4788. Apart form the typos you are 100% right these issues are all legal technicalities. Just the other day i saw an amazing documentary on tax evasion and tax avoidance (see below). In it they point out that most of the super wealthy are NOT committing any crimes. What they are doing is paying the very best in lawyers and accountants to sneak their money between the cracks. What you are saying is that Hunter Biden did the same thing. he didn't break any rules because there aren't any rules for what he did. Its exactly the same BS that allowed Trump to give Jared and Ivanka positions in the Whitehouse. they claimed a legal technicality that the executive branch is separate from the the government and the emolument clauses didn't apply. This is what the rich and powerful do everywhere. If their is no rule against something they will do it and if its profitable will make sure nobody introduces a rule to stop it. this is the tax evasion doco -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6O3US9IE4
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  4789.  @redrockcrf4663  Actually NO, Obama and Dubya will never be charged with anything no matter where they go because they travel on diplomatic passports. Further Dubya tore up America's signature to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and did it in a way that makes it almost impossible for ANY American to be charged with a war crime and held accountable under international law. Obama in his cowardice didn't resign America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court#Criticism_by_the_United_States_government That's why when Americans start harping on about Vladimir Putin, the Russians and War Crimes the rest of the world goes "WTF are you talking about?"
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  4790.  @redrockcrf4663  I think you'll find they all travel under diplomatic passports. John Bolton who is an out and out piece of human filth and should have been thrown in jail for several millennia travels on a Diplomatic passport. Plus we aren't talking about leaders from 3rd world banana republics. We're talking about Americans.
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  4791. I know these people are completely off the rails, but we also need to take a moment to realise just how bad politics has become to allow this sort of thing to happen. I'm in my 50s and all I have heard for the last 5 decades is how much politicians LIE and CHEAT. That's been backed up by scandal after scandal. Its not an American thing either its been going on in every developed country. I'm Australian and we've had so many scandals we've lost count. Meanwhile it hasn't mattered who's in power they suck up to the oligarchs and screw the rest of us. There was the Rand Corporation report into wages a couple of years ago that highlighted how the Top 1% had made almost $50 Trillion (with a 'T') dollars. Just recently in September 2022 the US Congressional Budget Office did a report on Family Wealth that shows that 1/2 of America is still to recover from the 2008 GFC while the Top 10% have made in excess of $30 Trillion (with a 'T'). Both those reports are about America but the trends they detail are being played out everywhere. No matter who wins the any election they do the same things to the general population because they are backed by the same oligarchs. On top of that there's the genuine threat of Climate Change and I suspect that most of the deniers are deniers because they just don't want another thing to deal with. Nothing excuses these people flocking towards such an obvious fraud as Donald Trump, BUT THE REST OF US need to acknowledge that these people had been beaten down by hopeless political leadership that delivers nothing for so long that it left them vulnerable to the narcissistic nonsense of a person like Trump.
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  4792. ​ @TeaLaRee  READ WHAT I SAID AGAIN I said NOTHING EXCUSES following after a fraud like Trump. The point I am making is they wouldn't have followed after him in the first place if there had been better leadership. Bad leadership is cancerous to any nation and leaves it vulnerable. Never forget 50% of the population has an IQ under 100 and they get to vote. Look at how many people don't want Biden to run again. Meanwhile Pelosi has just said she's running again. These people just don't get it and eventually people do look for alternatives. This is EXACTLY how Tump beat all those useless GOP goons before he beat Hilary. What did they offer other than the same D⋃MB SHlT they'd been doing? I'm Australian and we have the same problem here but in an Australian way. The Brits are a mess right now and even worse off than Australia or America because of the same same sort of idiotic garbage. Peter Ziehan has repeatedly pointed out how both Putin and Xi have their versions of entrenched crap. Your forgetting it didn't take many people to REJECT Hilary Clinton and NOT VOTE for Trump to win. There is nothing more dangerous to any nation than poor leadership.
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  4793. Did you not listen? Old people die, its called old aged. He's not claiming when old people die it means nothing. We've all lost parents and grandparents to various conditions. I lost one grandparent before I was born, another from old age, another from a heart condition exacerbated by surgery and the 4th from cancer. Its NORMAL that out of any population each month a number of people die. In fact if you take any age group each month a certain number are expected to die from any number of causes. What he is saying is that out of the vaccinated older group we are now seeing the NORMAL number of deaths. Medical people have to deal with death and they sometimes seem very cold about it. The oncologist who told me my mothers breast cancer had gotten into her bones and that she would die in 3 to 6 months said it as casually as describing the weather. My sister in laws father is a geriatric specialist all his patients die. He has years of practice at telling people their loved one is about to die or just died and he's got very good at it. I'm Australian but went to college in America. Last year I started equating the COVID toll to the size of US college football stadiums because I thought enough people had been to college and been to a game and had an idea what 50, 60, or 70,000 people looked like in one place. The largest football stadium in America is Michigan Stadium at 107,000. In the next week or 2 they will have gone past that number for the 5th time. How is anybody not meant to be a little numb at this point?
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  4794. Sadly true, but on the other hand can we all simply agree that Charles Koch is a $100Billion Dollar monster. There's that wonderful philosophical hypothetical - If you could travel back in time who would you kill or eliminate for the good of humanity. Charles Koch might not be at the top of the list but he's on the list. Go watch the Axios interview where he claims that politicians he helped elect should do what he wants ALL THE TIME. For anyone doing psychology or even a class in psychology its an interesting case study. 🧏‍♂️🧏‍♀️
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  4795. Bullshite - Trump never had an agenda, unless you consider running the largest con job in history an agenda.
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  4796.  @Charlemagnetheman  What? Do you mean that Trump is now just about his hurt butt over losing to Sleepy Joe? Are you saying he's so self centered that all that other stuff doesn't matter?
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  4797. Buddy about the only thing you have proven in this video is WHY WE HATE LAWYERS. You have taken 23 minutes and 5 seconds AND 4 YEARS to explain what almost 8 Billion people on this planet already KNEW TO BE TRUE. Is there anytime that lawyers can just DO THEIR JOB without trying to re-write human history?
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  4798. Aerospace engineer here and I am starting my comment with that so YOU KNOW I am well educated. I am UTTERLY DISGUSTED with one of your comments. I work in industrial control systems and automation and have several post graduate qualifications in engineering safety. I have been studying economics for almost 8 years after becoming incredibly frustrated with the INTERFERENCE of economists in engineering. Primarily they interfere with engineering and engineering projects via management consulting and secondly they interfere in the careers of engineers via their "work place compliance sociopaths" known as human resources who in particular take great offense to engineers who have opinions, which after 30+ years they tend to have. Its called experience by the way. What I have found is that economists not only interfere in engineering they INTERFER in EVERYTHING. Notably they interfere in political policy, education and healthcare and a major problem is that economists often have NO IDEA what they are doing. My interest in watching channels like yours is because I am interested in understanding WHY economists think, as Prof. Mark Blyth at Brown puts it "they believe that everyone else is a problem that they have to manage." One of the major problems are the academics like Milton Friedman and yourself is you have so little understanding of how the REAL WORLD ACTUALLY WORKS that your opinions are garbage. The reason I know you are a disconnected from reality garbage academic is your claim that banks want to work with people to solve their problems with their mortgages. GARBAGE - That statement is so far from reality that I want to scream at you. Due to an illness I got at work and the problems I have with HR I missed a lot of work and ended up behind in my mortgage. At the time I had almost 50% equity and the bank was neither interested in re-financing or working with me. I been on the OTHER SIDE. YOU HAVE NO DAMN IDEA HOW RUTHLESS BANKS ARE YOU HAVE NO DAMN IDEA OF THE SOCIOPATHIC LIARS AND THIEVES THE EMPLOY TO DO THEIR DIRTY WORK. Congratulations - You are now the poster child for garbage academics.
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  4799. Donald Trump had Steve Mnuchin of Goldman Sachs fame as Secretary of the Treasury Joe Biden just hired 2 Goldman Sachs muppets to be part of his administration Yeeeeaaaahhhhh, HHmmmmmm. UUmmmmm. I got zip to explain what to make of that.
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  4800. A) Mass delusion. B) A lack of education. C) An inability to collate information then think and reason on it. D) Basic stupidity. E) All of the above.
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  4801.  @swabby913  No not even if Trumps tax returns as well as his communications with the Saudis, Russians & Chinese. Not even if the P P tape was on there. Cos none of it would stand up in court, just as none of Hunter's Lap Top will stand up in court BECAUSE the worlds greatest lawyer Rudy Giuliani DID NOT SECURE ITS CHAIN OF CUSTODY.
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  4802.  @benji-pj4dp  I agree there's almost NOTHING being said about the atrocities in Yemen. If I didn't watch a few channels here on YT that do report on such things I wouldn't even know there was a war still going on in Yemen. I think the world is about to pay of staggering price for pandering to the worlds oil industry and the maniacs who control various chunks of it.
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  4803. Australian here We warned the Brits when he moved to London and they didn't listen until it was too late. We warned America when he moved there AND YOU STILL DIDN'T LISTEN. The main trust that controls the entire Murdoch Empire has 8 votes. Each of Rupert's adult children Prudence, Elisabeth, Lachlan, and James have 1 vote each and Rupert has the other 4. When he dies they each get 1 additional vote. But for now Lachlan has 100% of the power because he's daddy's boy. We already know what Lachlan is like he's worse than his father and FAR LESS COMPETENT at running anything. His first big venture was a failed telecommunications company called One Tel. At the time it was almost impossible NOT to make money from telecommunications and they blew 100s of millions and daddy had to bail Lachlan out. We've already heard here in Oz that Lachlan's already added former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to the Fox board. Abbott's nothing but a Rupert appointed stooge. He only got to be Australian PM because of Rupert's patronage and influence of right wing politics in Australia. So make no bones about Lachlan might have the title but daddy is still pulling the strings and will stay pulling the strings until he dies.
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  4804. FANTASTIC AND I AGREE 100% WITH YOU Now please kindly go and tell Sam Harris to GO F⋃CK HIMSELF ON HIS IDENTITY POLITICS Because Sam has played the identity politics again and again and again with respect to the Palestinians. Sam Harris can make what ever claim he wants about Hamas Jihadists and I WILL AGREE WITH HIM. But when he makes claims about "Moral Ambiguity" as in there is no moral ambiguity regarding how evil Hamas is for what they do and then he does NOT apply the same scrutiny to Benjamin Netanyahu and the radical Zionists who have (among other things) slaughtered over 16,000 children who had NOTHING to do with the October 7th Attacks then he is the person who is playing identify politics and doing it at a level that is disgusting. SO YES I WILL APPLAUD the end of Identity Politics, but it has to be all of the identity politics not just the parts we dislike.
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  4805. Dude you are usually very good on your technology - your video on ventilators was a 12 out of 10, not just a 10 or an 11 it was a 12. It shut up quite a few people who were building ventilators out of industrial components that WOULD have killed people. I do industrial automation and I know industrial equipment cannot work accurately enough to match the requirements you described. That video may well have saved lives. But on this one you have screwed the pooch a bit on the South Australian information. Like most industrialized countries its simply not accurate to say that power grids are designed. They don't simply design and plan power grids. The y are constantly being reviewed and added to and are better described as "evolved." South Australia's real problem was that they turned of both of their base load cola fired plants before they had *ANY alternative generation let alone renewable generation ready. As for the Tesla "big battery" it does NOT respond to frequency it responds to voltage. Possibly that was just a mind slip. What design there is in Power grids comes from the standpoint of where power is generated to how it is distributed. In Australia we now have a huge issue with WHERE our power is now being generated. In Victoria (where I am from) our grid evolved around 3 major coal fired units in the Eastern part of the state and we now generate vast amounts of wind energy from the Western side of the state. So our grid was designed to inject power in the East NOT the west. In South Australia there grid evolved around 2 coal fired units right next to each other in Adelaide. Now its generated 100s of kilometers away. Now one of our biggest problems is that where we generate the grids cannot handle the power we are trying to inject. On the liquid batteries this was fantastic. I have seen other vids on them and they are potentially a game changer. Having each house have its own battery is very nice for the shareholders of Tesla but its totally uneconomical for an entire society. We will move to large localized batteries in future, because most substations have room around them to do their job efficiently. The most important thing about batteries is that they stabilize the grid and with more and more small scale generation (including domestic solar) getting connected to the grid large local batteries (sometimes called community batteries will become vital for grid stability. BUT for actual backup power for grids batteries are unlikely to solve the problem. They are great for transient dampening but suck if you need to keep a power grid up for a couple of days. Pumped hydro is great for massive storage the Snowy 2.0 project is planned to have 7 days of energy reserve. BUT pumped hydro has 1 massive issue - you must have suitable geography for it. Hydrogen is a great possibility because if you can generate enough and cheap enough you can simply use it instead of coal in existing power stations. It has one huge issue and that is its basic nature. I work in automation and control systems. I'm trained and certified in EEHA and hydrogen is a bitch because you have to be extra careful because of how easily it ignites and how violently it explodes and hot hot it burns. Hydrogen really is a bitch to do any electrical work around. One technology I had not hear of until recently is the liquid air battery. I find this really interesting because it uses a lot of off the shelf technology that we know and understand. In automation we call that kind of design work "integration' where we take bits form other solutions and combine or integrate them into a new solution for a similar or unrelated problem. Here's a link to the vid done by Dave Borlace on his channel Just Have a Think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMLu9Dtw9yI In that system large chunks like the compressors, liquid air system and turbines are fairly standard items. The thermal storage part is the innovation. My opinion is that is a technology that should be pursued because it can provide several days of backup.
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  4806.  @t60-flying95  Great question. I have no answer as I'd not heard of them before your question. I am aware that there is underdevelopment at the University of Illinois- Chicago a Lithium-Air battery. Its advantage is that it uses the air around the batterie as the other half of the battery and has the potential for a massive change in storage density. The concept isn't new but they have struggled to make the membrane work. They did have a "break though" about mid 2018 and had batteries that they did something like a 1000 recharge/discharge cycles with. So there is a lot of work going on in the storage area. Elon's new battery is apparently a big step forward. Sandy Munro (here on YT) did an extensive vid on it and why its so much better.
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  4807.  @lordsamich755  Simple your statement "Any process to store wind or solar energy is going to increase it's cost. Any honest assessment of the full requirement. Is always going to place wind and solar energy as substantially more expensive that it needs to be; were it a truly viable option." Its fundamentally flawed because it does not consider the lessons learned by the Germans about renewable energy grid design. Its also ignores the facts that as renewable energy systems develop and production of those technologies scales up they are getting more efficient and less expensive. So the profitability is getting better all the time. I just had a face to face argument the other day with yet another old school pro-coal clown who whined about how it cant be done without subsidies. That's just so hypocritically ignorant and infuriating because it ignores all the subsidies and government handouts the carbon industries have had for decades. That said renewables CANNOT do everything and I argue that all the time with Greenies. We've always had a mix of energy sources and we'll continue to have a mix of energy sources. I don't know why people don't get that.
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  4808.  @lordsamich755  On your other question YES. Increased energy storage makes renewable energy more PROFTABLE. Its not so much that it reduces the price you just have more energy to sell from the assets you own. Think simple economics. If you have a wind turbine that CAN generate 100MWH a year but the network manager only lets you sell 80MWH then you didn't make as much money as can. I don't know about you but if I own a 100MWH turbine I'd like to sell a 100MWH of energy and make as much money as possible, but I also know that's not how energy markets work and at times the network manager will tell me to lock it down.. But if you can keep the turbine spinning and capture that other 20MWH with a liquid metal battery then at 70% you can then sell 14MWH later when the network wants it. Yes initial costs are more because you had to buy a turbine and a battery but you have more energy to sell and if you do your math and manage your assets you'll make more money. In future renewable Energy will be like any other commodity.
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  4809.  @lordsamich755  Red herring I can call that bullshit and say that all you are doing is arguing in circles. Its strange how you keep writing things that make sense and then you run off on tangents that make no sense at all. You say batteries are no good and then pumped hydro is the solution. You clearly haven't done any actual research because you just parroting stuff I already know. Yes Pumped Hydro exists and has existed for decades. A boss I worked for who had been in that industry explained that to me over 25 years ago. It has one huge flaw its limited by geography as all hydro is. Do you even know WHY it has existed for decades? Hmmm - Clearly you don't or you wouldn't be arguing nonsense. Hydro turbines take time to spin up and shut down they do not have a fast response like gas turbines and stream turbines. Once spinning and synched to the network the operators & owners don't like turning them off. So when demands drop they have 2 choices dump energy or recover it. That's why they have pumped hydro its a way to recover and store energy for when network demands rise. Australia is currently building the biggest pumped Hydro in the world Snowy 2.0. I argue with people all the time about how important it is. They think it will clash with the renewable sector when instead it will help support it, by providing the storage needed. Yes it has issues, but they'll get sorted out. Wind turbines matched with batteries is the same principle as traditional hydro & pumped hydro with but with different technologies. Now if you wan to learn something fine if you want to just be an argumentative clown bother someone else.
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  4810.  @lordsamich755  I am Australian you effing clown - how do you think I know about Snowy 2.0. I also know it has several major conceptual flaws that need to be dealt with but probably wont. Some of the stupidity surrounding it is so bad we should reintroduce hanging. But on the other hand if you actually understood the engineering issues with renewable energy you'd know its one of the most important projects Australia will do in the next 50 years. If you understood the issues with hydro it always comes down to geography. As for our rivers that's our saddest joke and its you New South Welshmen right in the middle of that screw up. Your governments corruption and mismanagement there is staggering. They bought back low class water at nearly 10x the value they sold it netting close to $50 million for a company based in a Caribbean tax haven. Then there's stupidity of the $470M NSW spent pumping water out of the Murray UPSTREAM to Broken Hill. Gladys Brainspace is arguably the stupidest political leader in Australian history, but sadly others are challenging her for that title. After the stupidity of water rights there is the straight out theft that's gone on because the NSW government disbanded the police unit set up to investigate water theft. And that's before we get onto the bullshit the Queenslanders have done which is almost as stupid and what the South Australians wont admit to which is equally as stupid or the issues Victoria ignores which are just as disgraceful. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-06/billions-of-litres-of-water-missing-from-murray-darling-basin/10873782 Don't tell me about the water mismanagement. Our space Agency commissioned the "Space Road Map" one of the few things they did well. Its first item was advanced space based water management but put it its delivery at around 2035.* My degree is in aerospace and I spent a year of my life working out how we could start to deliver that in 3 years. The Space Agency were so stupid they ignored their own report. They claimed it could no be justified and instead wanted to spend their money on GPS, because Suzie Super Brain and the rest of the millennials need to know the location of there mobiles to the nearest centimeter. Yeah - Our Ag and tourism industries which rely on water are worth over $200billion a year and employ over 850,000 Australians. If you want to ague that go argue with Deloitte and the Farmers Federation they gave me those numbers. I asked for $720million over 6 years (which was based on half the Manus Island contract) and that was too much but then they gave the Airforce $7 billion for a their version of Space Force and the navy $55billion for new submarines that's since blown out to $80 billion. That's why were aren't getting any major advancements in water management. The navy needs subs and the air force wants more toys and we know many other ass holes want their money too. If I sound like a pissed of frustrated angry engineer ready to tear the head off the next idiotic clown - FINE, that's what I am. As far as energy goes I scored a small consult job a few years back with a Taiwanese investment firm who handed me the 2016 clean Energy Council report asked me to make sense of it. Combined with PowerStation data (ages & commissioning dates) from Wikipedia the cost of kW for kW replacement of our aging coal fired power stations over the next 15 years was ~$80billlion. But from other research that needs to be multiplied by 2.2 and it jumped to ~$176 billion then you ad in the fact our population has risen from 20 to 25 million with out building a single baseload power station and its expected to rise to 35million by 2035 and that number is above $260billion. That's why arguing about semantics is fucking worthless. The idiots in Victoria turned of 3 power stations with no replacement and South Australia switched of both theirs without replacement. All that has been built is renewable and according to the clean energy council less that 20% of what has been turned off has been replaced. What's actually saved Australia has been the domestic solar which has installed so much its the equivalent of a big power station BUT WITHOUT STORAGE it creates issues. So those German engineers who were defending their work a few years ago while assholes like Michael Schellenberger played their misdirection games might just be able to save us a $30, $40, $50 billion or more. Go check the Clean Energy Council Reports and International Energy Agency reports because its not just Australia the entire world is heading into an energy crisis. It started 20years ago when we stopped building power stations while various groups squealed and screamed at each other.
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  4811. Fine we all get the question of how could anyone do this atrocious, horrible, evil thing. Why doesn't anyone ask the next question: How did anyone allow him to get a gun so easily? Or even better still: How does anyone STOP the next mentally impaired person getting a gun?
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  4812. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE - On the subject of accuracy with aerial bombing. When you get the time go and look at the YouTube of Ex-F117 Nighthawk (Stealth Fighter) pilot Thad Darger on the channel Air Zoo titled "Flying the Nighthawk with F-117 Pilot Capt. Thad Darger" 18 Oct 2022. About 38 minutes in the shows a couple of clips that show just how accurate the F-117 was and points out that this was in the LATE 1990s using technology that developed in the 1970s. At one point he hints/alludes/suggests that with that sort of accuracy there's no need to kill people when you can simply break the infrastructure and make it impossible to do war. This is sort of what the Ukrainians are doing to Russian tanks with drones. They don't need to blow the tank to bits with a giant bomb pr fancy missile they just need to damage it enough to disable it and remove it from the war. If you are accurate enough with a small charge delivered to the right spot you can simply break something critical on the tank OR on a ship OR some piece of infrastructure. We also watched the Americans drop smart bombs through sky-lights during the 1990-1991 Gulf War (also called the FIRST Gulf War). I remember Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf and his press conferences where he highlighted just how accurate the American bombers were. THAT WAS OVER 30 YEARS AGO. SO IN 2024 THERE IS NO EXCUSE TO NOT BE PRECISE. In fact its the level of precision that's available that makes what Israel's doing EVEN WORSE and EVEN MORE INEXCUSABLE.
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  4813. That's a reasonable comment except just check your history to see what happens when the Left go too far like they did across Eastern Europe. At the moment people are forgetting the Far Left can be just as insanely destructive as the Far Right. Some foe worlds worst offenders of human rights were Far Left governments. Look at China right now for their ethnic genocide of the Uyghurs. They are also among the worlds most destructive when it comes to the environment. Look at what the Soviets did to the Aral Sea. When it comes to propaganda and feeding an entire population misinformation look at North Korea or right now Russia. Look ay any authoritarian regime - Left, Right, Religious Theocracy, Military dictatorship, Oligarchy,..... etc and the first thing they do is restrict information to the narrative they want people to hear AND they will always claim THEY are the TRUTH SPEAKERs like all those goons across the Murdoch empire. Before he screwed up his brain on drugs and was still a reasonable person Jordan Peterson pointed out that it was easy to know when people had gone too far to the Right - they became racist. But there wasn't as simple of a marker for when people had gone too far to the Left. I think he missed the more generalised assessment that when people start to put their ideology (what ever type) ahead of common sense and allow it to HURT other people and/or DEGRADE their lives THEN they are going too far.
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  4814. No but irrational outbursts are.
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  4815. That's something a lot of these channels are guilty off all the time. On the flip side it also gives that choir the opportunity to reinforce their information. Don't forget its one thing knowing something and its another being able to explain it to others.
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  4816. Engineer here - I have worked for companies that deployed SAP and NOBODY I EVER MET liked it in the slightest. I would describe it as the most over hyped load of expensive crap I had ever seen. I know of a company that spent over $600 Million deploying it. What they never figured out was how much it was going to cost in people power to maintain it. SAP somehow manged to convince a staggering number of large companies that their software could track every expense down to the last nut bolt and washer and how long it took to buy, stock, design where it had to go and then install that bolt, nut & washer. IT WAS ALWAYS TOTAL COMPLETE BS because those systems end up becoming so huge they are insanely hard to maintain and keep up to date. YES it is possible to track every employee down to the second and account for every bolt, nut & washer BUT HERE'S THE TRUE FAILURE. What do you actually get in return for all that effort other than a giant pile of data that's impossible to effectively analyse let alone utilise?
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  4817.  @gaiustacitus4242  That's a great point.
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  4818. Yeah but he's also completely IGNORANT of what White Supremacy actually is. Its NOT the be all and end all of everything. As an African American I sure he see's it as the be all and end all BUT HE IS WRONG. Its fundamentally a racial superiority issue that EVERY tribe and culture has some version of it. Irrespective of if you take a look at ancient or modern history we see the same thing again and again and we have so many examples that HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WHITE PEOPLE. Thom's example of Korea is just one example of the entire Asian continent. Dig a little and you will find examples of this racial superiority in all of them and at one time or another they have all used to to do great harm to each other and there was not a WHIT PERSON ANYWHERE. FYI - I'm Australian and yes we have a serious issue with White Supremacists but we also have some other racial issue that HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WHITE PEOPLE. We have sizeable communities of Pakistanis and Indians and others form the sub-continent and you have to be damn careful what you say around them. Most of them are fine but like every culture there are those who have this racial superiority trait and they can fly off the handle. Another 2 groups we have to be very careful with are Vietnamese and Cambodians. There's several 1,000 years of conflict there and there is NOT A WHITE PERSON INVOLVED. This guys claim that the African conflicts are 100% the fault of White People is just nonsense. There are tribal conflicts going back 1,000s of years just as there is everywhere else. I can understand his point of view being African American but he's simply WRONG.
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  4819.  @DarylBark  George Carlin once said look at how stupid the average person with an IQ of 100 is and then realise that 1/2 the population has an IQ under 100. This is one of the crazy aspects of sending trying to send 80% of high school leavers to university to get a degree. In that model - out of every 100 high school kids 80 go to university and 30 of those 80 have an IQ under 100. Yeah 3/8ths of all the people who go to university shouldn't. This is why the drop out rate is so high across the world. IT DOES NOT mean they are stupid or worthless it just means they aren't suited to that type of study and there's a lot of other stuff they could do and trained people we do need. I'm an engineer and there's lots of technical jobs like lab technicians, welders, machinists, electricians and other technicians that don't require a degree but do require an advanced diploma or similar PLUS we are super short of them across a bunch of fields. Go ask any doctor about lab tests and they howl about the shortage of lab techs. Go ask the police about their shortages of forensic techs. Sorry to go on but its a favorite rant of mine. Even when we get away from the Wars and stupid politics there's stuff NOBODY is addressing and its slowly eating our societies.
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  4820.  @pete_lind  Actually they won 2 small ones in Pennsylvania and I think they then lost one of those on appeal. The one I think that has held was the one where the officials could not extend the deadline for confirming identifications ad they had to keep to what was in the statutes. I did not matter because Biden still won Penn by over 81,000 and it only affected a few hundred votes. Case: 602-MD-2020 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election
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  4821. Here's the link to the guardians series on Pegasus -> https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project
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  4822. FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NEVER WORKED IN RESEARCH The hint this was utter and complete garbage was the list of Authors for the paper shown at 0:20 There's been a major issue in university based research for several decades where professors and the colleges they teach at are judged by how many papers they publish. Quality has nothing to do with it just how many. There's 36 names there and they are NOT credited with 1/36th of a paper but each one of those people get credited with publishing a paper. So that paper will get credited by their universities a total of 36 times. Its the sort of thing academics do that impresses accountants. This is a paper where those 36 people put their names on that for no other reason than to be able to say they published a paper with their name on it. AND YES IT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ACADEMIC FRAUD
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  4823. You have it WRONG the correct slur is: Donald "ME FIRST" Trump. Because EVERYTHING he does is about him. If he thinks saying 'XYZ' one day will get him points/votes/applause he will say "I love 'XYZ'" and "Nobody knows more about 'XYZ' than me." BUT THE NEXT DAY he will dump 'XYZ' because he's onto the next thing that gets him the next round of points/votes/applause. He's a narcissistic sociopath who's addicted to BOTH attention and money. Like any addict he does not care what he has to do to feed that addiction or who has has to climb over to get it. He will throw anyone he has to under the bus and then back up and rive over them again to make sure. Nothing matters to Trump except what he wants RIGHT NOW even if that thing he wants makes no sense and that he is most likely going to flip on it tomorrow. Like SHlT attracts flies Trump has surrounded himself with a pack f buzzing clowns who all think they will be they one to temper and control his behavior AND as anyone who has ever dealt with narcissists knows, feeding their narcissism DOES NOT FIX anything. Maybe the most ridiculous thing is that despite Trump not paying his lawyers again and again more lawyers keep lining up to represent him just like flies buzzing around SHlT.
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  4824. The scary thing in all this is that the DNC have just spent the last month calling Trump and his clown brigade idiots and fools for thinking a US election could be rigged at all. Lets be honest those are 2 totally different systems run by completely different organizations using totally different counting systems. Besides all the Republican observers there were international observers who all said the POTUS election was clean. BUT what this does is give credibility to the Trumpists claim that the DNC Cheat. That right now is incredibly dangerous as it could send them into the streets with guns and they have no shortage of guns or ammunition.
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  4825. Hunter Biden might be a lot of BAD things. In fact I haven't heard any good things about him BUT if it is allowed that people who are POLITICALLY CONNECTED like Bannon, Giuliani and their associates to STEAL or ILLEGALLY OBTAIN PRIVATE PROPERTY and use it then we are all in trouble. There's a reason why the 4th Amendment exists, because governments and their agents all through history have proven they can't be trusted. PERSONAL DATA is PRIVATE PROPERTY unless its made it publicly available or handed it over to another party in which case its covered by whatever agreement has been made. The only rights Rudy Giuliani (who is/was a lawyer) and others had was to either return that laptop or hand it over to police. The fact that they copied the data onto other hard drives SHOWS INTENT. You can't inadvertently copy a hard drive, maybe some files but NOT an entire hard drive. I'm not a lawyer but I had a bunch of college friends who were pre-law and they used to argue this sort of stuff all the time. Hunter Biden MIGHT even have a claim that these people violated his civil rights by virtue of them violating his 4th Amendment rights. I'd like to hear a real lawyer on that. Even if it could be proven that it was abandoned and was free to take then there's the issue of EVIDENCE TAMPERING. Because of their wilful mishandling of this data NOBODY can use it in any court of law to prove or disprove anything. Its absolutely unusable in court because of their deliberate actions.
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  4826. It wasn't just Reagan it was an army of scumbags who supported him. And they didn't just do it to America they rammed their neoliberal doctrines down the throats of anyone and everyone they could. I'm Australian, we don't have the neoliberal disease quite as bad as America but we are going through a scandal right now involving PwC that's huge.
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  4827. Yeah great the IT clown brigade sold us all on the FREEDOM of the INTERNET and now they want to charge us to keep our data safe. Maybe if that disgusting pack of clowns had sold us software that kept data safe in the first place we wouldn't need to pay these scumbags. FYI - I am an engineer (aerospace) and I hate the IT clown brigade.
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  4828. ALSO for someone who does his research you didn't do a very good job. At 25:19 you quote someone's article as saying that each 1,100MW power plant will cost $6-9 Billion. That figure 1,100MW is pretty indicative of that they plan on using Westinghouse AP1000 reactors like the 2 at Vogtle in the US State of Georgia. The AP1000 claims to be capable of 1,117MWe. Vogtle Units 3 & 4 cost $34 Billion or $17 Billion per reactor or almost twice the upper limit you quote. The other 2 AP1000s that were under construction in America are at the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Power Station in South Carolina. The project is now known as "Nukegate" because of how infolded. Initially budgeted in the $6-9 Billion range, cost blew out and the project came to a halt at $25 Billion and the collapse of Westinghouse. So sorry buddy but that $6-9 Billion is a laughable number for anyone who's taken any sort of reasonable look at the current nuclear construction industry.
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  4829. Yet again there is a point where Kyle is so totally wrong and right at the same time regarding free speech. He makes the claim that if you believe in freedom you have to let these people say and do whatever they like. That's crazy because it means that ALL LAWS are wrong because ALL Laws restrict what people can do or say. Further if you don't believe in that then you are authoritarian. NO that's idiotic. I want a free society, but I also want some limits so people don't do stupid things that harm all of us. I certainly want political leaders operating under a legal tenement that holds them accountable. Being able to openly preach lies about climate change, economics, vaccines, political opponents, other nations or other societies HARMS HUMAN SOCIETY. What Kyle fails to grasp is that human society is NOT YET mature enough anywhere to have unlimited freedoms as he pretty much supports. The reality is all our societies have people who seek to dominate others by any means they can and multitudes of people wanting to be lead by what they perceive as "powerful people." Kyle ignores that reality every time he speaks about this. On the flip side he is totally right about profit driven corporations acting as the thought police. In light of the Donziger case and other things on social media that's the point he is totally right about. People like Suckerberg, Gates and Bezos can never be our "Thought Police"
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  4830. That is actually a fair claim and it should not be forgotten that she performed their wedding ceremony. Also I checked the actual MSNBC vid for the interview that's here on YouTube and at 6:35 they mute her. It has to be some of the crappiest journalism in the history of journalism. Do you think MSNBC would do that to Hilary Clinton????
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  4831.  @geekglasses4876  Sadly I agree and think you've summed it up quite well. Good intentions and politics don't go together as easily as leftists think. There's that great slap back by Jeff Daniels character Will McAvoy from the Newsroom about "America is not the greatest country in the world anymore." In the middle he says "You know why people don't like Liberals? Because they lose. If Liberals are so f*cking smart, how come they lose so god damn always?" Its brutal and blunt and so very very true.
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  4832. Your right and I hate to say it but he's not wrong that it could (and probably will) cause an attack of some sort. This family has wound up a massive slab of people to fever pitch for almost 6 years now. If you keep winding people up and stressing them sooner or later something will break. Go watch what the mother of the Sandy Hook victim told Alex Jones, "You might not believe what you're saying but there are people out there who do." I just watched Sam Harris on Triggernometry yesterday and he explains how much of a threat Donald Trump and his family are. Its really worth the time to listen too. People seem to forget that 74 million people voted for Trump in 2020. That's more people that the entire population of countries like Britain and France. In fact there are only 2 countries in Europe with more than 74 million (Germany & Russia). They are being wound up and wound up and wound up. I think its also reasonable to expect they are all gun owners. Guns and stressed out people is NOT a good combination.
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  4833. Yeah - professional sports like car racing and European Soccer. They brag about better conditions (better equipment, better facilities, faster cars,... etc.) and better pay and some of them even pay taxes except when they pay their employees so much money they run at a loss.
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  4834. Yeah but in their minds its NOT idolatry because Trump's been sent by God. What the real threat Taylor Swift represents is that she's a talented girl with functioning brain who's simply asking that her fans register to vote. The fact she's encouraging them to think is what scares them. I absolutely hate it when I see female commentators railing about the white male patriarchy because that white male patriarchy hasn't delivered a damn thing for me or most of the white population, BUT THEN people like Benny open their mouths and I have to admit they have a point.
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  4835. GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  4836. Its a great idea Sal. I just have 1 question how do I get my nephews and niece to read a magazine when they don't even know what a book is? Yes they're zoomers.
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  4837. And DO NOT forget the Democrats ALSO helped create Trump with their Status Quo agenda.
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  4838. Australian here and from the outside that is a damn good assessment of what's gone wrong in America. I actually went to college in America and was there for the 87 campaign season and I thought "this is crazy." At the time there was the hysteria over Gary Hart's alleged affair with Donna Rice. It was known he'd had affairs but the level of hysteria was the insane thing and Newt Gingrich later proved how insane it all was. Then during the whole Clinton "It wasn't sex just a blowjob" affair the whole world got to see how crazy and toxic American politics was getting. In contrast none of the major players from Iran-Contra got held accountable but Bill Clinton got a blowjob and the World's economy was forced to take a pause. YEAH that crap affected the whole world because we had no idea which way it would go at the time. Then we find out that Ken Star was NEVER given permission to investigate the "Lewinsky Affair." His job was too look at Whitewater and Ken Star decided all by himself to investigate that blowjob. It emerged a couple of years later what he did to Susan McDougal. Go look it up on Wikipedia, its disgusting and she was basically tortured. What I remember hearing at the time from human rights watchers, was that she was regularly body cavity searched and the claim was she was being systematically raped at the instructions of Ken Star. Even if that allegation wasn't true, at the very least her basic human rights were violated. Meanwhile the Speaker for the House Newt Gingrich was having an affair that even to this day he simply dismisses because he and his wife had an open relationship. And that was after we all found out Rupert Murdoch had paid him $5 Million in a book deal.
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  4839. Sorry but this is some of the most ignorant shit I have ever heard and I mean ignorant in that he ignores basic reality. He's IGNORING that he's describing and criticising EVERY socio-political ideology when they go too far. If you took this speech and replaced the words woke and wokeism with conservative & conservatism or left & leftism or right & rightism or ANY OTHER socio-political ideology its exactly the same speech. This is 9 minutes and 12 seconds of political clichéd BULLSHlT that could easily describe every political movement in history. For a couple of people who think this kid has a bright future look at the recently elected American George Santos who has lied about everything in his life. He won the election doing EXACTLY what Tommy Nguyen has done here take the standard tribal political line and tell it to a willing audience. What the real debate should be "This House Believes Political Tribalism Has Gone Too Far"
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  4840. 5 Reasons why the BRICS currency will fail. B) Nobody trusts Brasil economically because they keep flipping from radical Left to radical Right presidents. Despite some fairly decent development and technological advancements their main industries are soccer players and ripping down the Amazon rainforest for cattle to make McDonalds hamburgers. R) Nobody trusts Russia to do anything economically or much else. There main industries are resources and selling the worlds most popular form of population control - the AK47. I) Nobody trusts India economically because they are a giant basket case of corruption. C) Nobody trusts China and their economy is a bigger basket case that anyone else's and the environmental damage is disastrous. They have damaged or destroyed over around 30,000 rivers, creeks and waterways. S) Nobody trusts South Africa because they are so hopelessly corrupt. BONUS REASON - The Bank of International Settlements which is the bank where all of our central banks settle out all the foreign currencies they hold reported in December 2022 that there are now over $100 Trillion in Foreign Exchange swaps being held by various banks and non-banking entities. A massive amount of that is not only in US$ but those US$ are held by NON-Americans who trade internationally in US$. Does anyone actually think that all those people who have relied on the US$ for international trade for 70+ years are just going to swap 10s of Trillions into a currency run by the Brazilians, Russians, Indians, Chinese or South Africans when those countries have the issues they have?
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  4841. ACTAULLY NO THEY ARE NOT WASTING TIME -> They are OCCUPYING OUR TIME with worthless distractions, while feeding their base with outrage. I'm Australian and can see this coming from the other side of the planet. They are setting up the Democrats to make out that Biden is just as criminal as Trump and therefore if Biden can be President so can Trump. Yes the Dems impeachment failed in the Senate but if failed because of the SHlTFUL behaviour of people like Mitch McConnell who didn't care about evidence let alone right and wrong. There were times they didn't even turn up to hear the evidence. Can you imagine what would happen if a jury member in a real trial just got up mid trial one day and left to go shopping or run some errands? Trumps impeachments failed because the GOP failed America. There was evidence and the GOP didn't care. THIS TIME (so far) a Biden impeachment will fail because there is NOTHING to impeach him on. It will fail because of A LACK evidence, but that will not matter because it will give the GOP an "Ah Ha, see you guys who all claimed we were biased have just shown that you're just as biased and don't care about the truth!" This is NOT about impeaching Biden its a tactical ploy.
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  4842. As an outsider (Australian) what's utterly staggering is that her leading economic idea is tax cuts for rich people WHICH HAS NOT WORKED ANYWHERE in times like these. We are all coming out of a pandemic that beat the crap out of everyone. Putting the people who got through it best IN FRONT of those who were hit hardest is so utterly ignorant of reality. Before she became PM there were those who described her as a clueless Margret Thatcher wannabe who's changes her mind as often as Donald Trump lies. I thought they were exaggerating.
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  4843. How does anyone vote for ANYONE in todays politics? They are all hopeless. They tell nothing but garbage and spin and nonsense. If you were going to employ someone to manage your business or even just manage a project would you hire any of the politicians you know? I'm Australian and none of ours are worth employing for anything. We get the news out of Britain and Europe and none of theirs are worth squat. They promise everything and deliver nothing. The only difference between any of them is how convincing they can lie. I wouldn't trust any of them to put out the garbage mow the lawn or walk the dog around the block.
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  4844. I had never hear of this "abortion reversal" so I googled "abortion reversal pill" Yes its real and there is a treatment which the person off screen describes at around 4:30. The first Google link is from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and they have an article titled "Facts Are Important: Medication Abortion "Reversal" Is Not Supported by Science" The second Google link is to the American Pregnancy Association and they have details of what the process is and how it works and then describe what the proponents claim and what the detractors claim.
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  4845.  @mostly-harmless  Considering the utter ridiculous claims he's making I don't think anyone should be giving Robert Breedlove any credibility. Have you and others NOT learned the lesson from the "dot.com" bubble or other bubbles based on hope, conjecture or both? Mark Blyth is right at the core of state power (and thus the power of the top 1%) is the control of the production of money. Fucking with that is asking for trouble - very serious trouble.
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  4846.  @SaminHam  I would claim it as far right ideology, but it is certainly an ideology. Where it will come unstuck is that "printing money is the essence of state power" (Mark Blyth) and you don't mess with that. At some point governments will simply crack down on it, just like they did with the dark web market places where you could by anything.
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  4847. FINE DAVID NOW ANSWER THIS: How do the younger generations get rid of the entrenched corporate owned people in the upper echelon of the DNC who have shown they will also suspend democracy and go against the will of the people with the superdelegate votes THEY HAVE PAID FOR? When you are willing to answer that then you can play this card. AND never forget a lot of people who voted for Obama (twice) also voted for Trump. WHY WAS THAT?? Would it possibly be they are sick and tired of being dictated to by an entrenched group of autocrats IN BOTH PARTIES. By the way this is a common feeling ACROSS the developed world where the parties who have been in power for decades are being swept aside because of the recalcitrant behavior they exhibit where only their corporate donors matter. FYI - I'm Australian and we have this problem at a horrible level. No matter who wins an election here the corporations get what they want and "we the people" gets tossed in the gutter.
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  4848. LOU DOBBS GOT FIRED 😂🤣😅😺😂🤣😅😺🤬
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  4849. Yeah - I looked him up by typing "talk tv mike graham" into google. There's a Wikipedia page for him and it includes that story about growing concrete.
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  4850. Yeah we do and here's my reply to Gerrards pile of garbage and the LNPs garbage. Don't get me wrong Labor aren't much better and there's a serious flaw in their plan to. SORRY but GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  4851. What's anyone expect when you get 2 ignorant clowns in front of microphones who think they are way smarter than they actually are. Fine Joe Rogan knows how to get an audience, but that doesn't make him an expert in anything. Fine Aaron Rogers is an incredible quarterback, but that doesn't make him an expert in anything. The sooner the world wakes up to the fact that celebrities ARE NOT EXPERTS in anything other than being celebrities then maybe we can solve a few issues.
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  4852.  @rhysperegrine5100  Hostility towards expertise is not just a conservative technique although they are more prevalent at it. Go look what the Russians and Chinese did for decades and many countries still do. Go look at European history they did it for centuries. How did you think they kept feudalism in place all that time. When education and expertise allows the POWERFUL to stay in power they educate and promote expertise. When a LACK of education and turning away from expertise is an advantage then the POWERFUL disparage educators and experts. When that fails start the public executions, because being tough on crime has never failed. But pardon a couple of them because showing mercy is also good PR. The best line on politics I have ever seen was by President Snow in the "Hunger Games (Pt 1) when he explained why there's a winner. "A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine so long as its contained.... So, contain it."
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  4853. Yeah and maybe somebody should ask this clown why he didn't have a plan for Brexit? If he is so damn smart why didn't he step forward and help negotiate WHAT HE MADE HAPPEN? You should wake up that this clown has a lot of answers but NO SOLUTIONS. FYI - I'm Australian and this clown was here recently speaking more of his crap and nonsense. Do the world a favor and keep this clown in your back yard and keep him out of other people's business.
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  4854.  @panam4974  Yeah, I'd agree with that, but its starting point. Considering we have an African American harping on about CRT when he clearly doesn't know what it is then we all need to at least start with something. The Wikipedia page might be the be all and end all but at least people can start with a basic premise. Half the problem in the world right now with almost all political discussion is that so many discussions start with 2 sides who can't even agree on what the basic facts are. It used to be a case of people arguing over what the facts meant. Now we can't eve agree on what the basic facts are. The reason I put up the Wiki link was so that, even if we disagree on what CRT is, we can at least start with something common that anybody can look up. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4855.  @notme2day  Agreed and that is the crux of the issues. If you look at Trump's background he was involve din pro-wrestling which is all built around fantasy. Its fans all live in this fantasy world where its made out to be real. I think that Trump at some point realised he could use that to do more than just entertain. Look at his rallies and the style employed. Its straight out of the pro-wrestling handbook. I suspect that a lot of his base KNOW its bullshit but they are now so heavily invested in it they can't get out or they can't see a way out. Its that mob mentality where they follow the loudest voice even when that voice is running them off a cliff or as Jim Jones did to the Kool Aid bucket. The worst part of it is that Trump like others of his kind is so narcissistic that he doesn't care. He's literally drunk on the attention. Watch the body language - he's intoxicated by the attention.
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  4856.  @vampirehunterd2561  Understandable on everything. On the divisive nature of Trump I actually had an argument with a Trumpist about how he failed to be a unifying influence on America. When I stated that one of POTUS's principal tasks was to unite the American people they literally screamed back. That's a major issue when you have a massive chunk of a population who think their sides objective is to have a leader who dominates over the other side. That's been tried for centuries in the form of kings, emperors and chieftains AND IT NEVER WORKED. IT ALWAYS COLLAPSED INTO CIVIL WAR. Sooner or later the other side simply says they have had enough of being dominated and just revolts. Look at what's driving the shit Gaza right now. Look at what drove the French Revolution, the American Revolution, the British Wars of the Roses and going way, way, back through history. It may have been different flavors but it was the same short of shit again and again.
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  4857. Yeah I just saw a video the other day on spotting fake versus fraud Patek Chronographs and I was wondering if that was the same watch I saw in the other video. I'm not certain if that version is worth £100k or not
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  4858. HOW IS THIS A SHOCK???? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ Anybody with a functioning brain who was paying attention knew that treason was never possible because the US treason laws are so narrowly defined they don't apply. We also know sedition in America is incredibly hard because of the 1st Amendment, but that its much easier for ANYBODY in the military because they can be charged under the UCMJ. That's all common knowledge. What's also common knowledge is the charge of seditious conspiracy of which one way to be charged there is attempting to interfere with the government doing its job. Anybody can find these things out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seditious_conspiracy
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  4859. Right wingers are ALWAYS obsessed with other people's sex lives. Its probably because they're perverts as well as being hypocrites. Remember how Newt Gingrich was always going on about Bill Clinton and how he (Newt) was a stalwart "good ol' boy and family man" and then it turned out he had a very liberal open marriage where his wife let him have whatever affairs he wanted.
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  4860.  B G  As an Australian I can tell all of America (and I have seen many others from around the world say the same) "Citizens United" is one of the stupidest things any nation has ever done in all of human history. Its a self induced malignant cancer that is metastasising into a nightmare not just for America but the entire World. If you listen to the most recent vid Thom did with Richard Wolff he remined us all that 44 allied nations agreed at Breton Woods in 1944 that the US Dollar would be the worlds reserve currency and how that works. YES - Breton Woods has been surpassed by other agreements, but the US Dollar remains the worlds reserve currency. Even though it is being traded less and less the stability of the currency exchange markets still relies on the stability of the US Dollar. Even though that annoys the crap out of many people we put up with it because it works. However with Citizens United certain billionaires are now going UNRESTRAINED on what influence they can buy. People like Charles Koch and Robert Mercer who have unusual views on how they should run America. See Thoms other vids on Koch & Mercer if you haven't. What those 2 are working on should scare everyone. If that disaster of a Constitutional Convention Koch wants goes ahead America as we know it ends. That would be incredibly bad for America and likely end in civil war and or the complete break-up of the United States of America. For the rest of the world it would also completely destabilise the currency markets because we all have money in New York Federal Reserve as Prof Wolff Described. Think of the bank rush there'd be if nations panicked and started scrambling to get their money out and what that would do to the NYSE and with it the other major stock exchanges.
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  4861. I'm Australian how do you think we fell about our most important security and trade partner? We are committed to the F35 program as the key part of security for next 30-40 years? By the way we are still waiting for the spare parts needed to keep them flying or do we ask the Chinese to sell us some? I was working in Canada when Trump threw out NAFTA and hit them with tariffs - How do you think they felt? How about the Mexicans who Trump called rapists, murderers and drug dealers - How do you think they felt? How about Europe - what do you think they think or are they to busy dealing with their own shit? How about Japan, Taiwan and the rest of Asia who have China breathing down their necks while Trump cozied up to Kim Jong-un? That's all before we get into the subject that you LIED and then dragged many of us into Iraq & Afghanistan. Message to America - Its going to take a LOT MORE than Joe Biden to get anyone to trust America again.
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  4862.  @blueberryiswar  Go watch some of Mark Blyth's work on Angrynomics. There's a short intro video on it. He explains that Capitalism has been through 3 major phases and that we should be moving towards a new version and we are NOT. He uses the analogy of a computer. Eventually the computer develops bugs and you need to upgrade. What he points out is that in 2007-08 a major bug hit us and instead of a complete upgrade we got a patch. The problem isn't capitalism its the version we are running and its a patched version and the patch has now failed. On socialism - go and look at what happened in Soviet SOCIALIST Russia and then ask if you want to repeat that. You should have the same response to being asked about repeating any of the Fascist regimes. We need a completely new economic paradigm not a patched or re-hashed version of what's previously failed.
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  4863.  @d.w.stratton4078  Thank's I just watch Robert Reich (video titled "What the hell shoudl Democrats do?"") and some of his comments are ridiculous. Robert is normally a very smart guy especially on economics, but on his pandering to the mentality of the Democrats he's stuck in a mind warp. Way back in 2020 (before the election) when Biden had stomped all over Bernie Sanders by making deals behind everyone's backs a person (I forget their name) wrote this incredibly poignant comment. "Joe Biden is the reason why Trump got elected." It probably should have been written as "The Democratic Party Leaders are the reason why Trump got elected" Because its not so much Joe Boden but that whole clique that's centred around the Clintons and Obamas. Neither of those Presidencies were that successful. Clinton blew his up by getting blown and Obama (despite being a great orator) never really got anything done. He had a supermajority and got steamrolled on health care and tired nothing after that. Despite the Democrats having the White house for 20 of the last 32 years SCOTUS is now 6-3 maniac GOP symps.
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  4864.  @jamesmaddison4546  I agree Elon's a prick of a person, but I doubt you have any idea what an aerospace engineer is, what it takes to get a degree, or what engineers of any type do for work. To call Elon an aerospace engineer is an idiotic comment NO REAL engineer would make. It takes only seconds to check and find he has a B. Science in physics and a B. Arts in economics. Next time you want to make a stupid claim make sure its not so easy to fact check.
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  4865.  @georgia2727  Idiotic comments like that is why people call it the "Cult of Musk" Just go back to the Elon fan channels where you clowns can tell each other how he's going to save humanity.
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  4866. For everyone want to see how pathetic so many of the MAGA icons are go and watch this Vice News montage of them - its priceless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFUr6Px99aQ
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  4867. Don't you just love the denial. Shapiro's claimed there was no plan. I'm Australian I know about the plan. Its KNOWN around that there was a plan and they were acting on it. For those wondering WHY this is becoming more and more serious for the rest of the western world? Its real simple we all trade with America and many of us have security treaties with America. We're now well aware of the people and money driving this. We know how through the Federalist Society SCOTUS has been stacked with maniacs driving the social divisions even further while they rip apart incredibly important institutions like the EPA. Yes we are all concerned about China and Russia and what they might do next, but a destabilised America allows China and Russia to go unchecked. That combines into an incredible threat to world security.
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  4868.  @malin5468  The things that aggravate me as an engineer isn't just that people with non-engineering backgrounds think they are technically literate because they took a couple of science classes and can use a computer but they think they're also qualified to make technical decisions on things like energy. My main motivation on informally studying economics was so I could find a way to speak their language back at them as a means to stop them hogging all the oxygen in every public discussion. Between the idiots on the Left and the maniacs on the Right the rest of us trapped in the middle really are in serious trouble. There's a whole raft of things BOTH side of politics have done over the last 40+ years that are now coming into this perfect storm of complete crap BECAUSE they never consider the consequences. I did my degree in aerospace and we're trained different to all others because our systems have such narrow margins of failure. We HAVE to be mindful of effects and consequences. If we don't then stupid stuff like the Boeing Max-8 happens where the computer that was supposed to prevent accidents flew the plane into the ground. The idea of consequences seems to be devoid in economics. I was just pointing out in another comment how economists with their "Greed is Good!" mantra is one of the main drivers of the migration crisis. There's a great doco on tax avoidance here on YT called "The Silent Killer of the Middle Class." About 35 minutes in they describe how bananas bought from Guatemala are traded via the Caymans before being sold in Europe. They do this huge mark up trick in the Caymans that avoids tax being paid. The Guatemalan farmers get squat so pay little tax. The traders in Europe don't make much so they pay little tax. They estimated that a country like Guatemala is NOT getting about $400 Million a year in tax revenue. Just imagine what some of those poorer countries could do with that sort of money if it was spent on infrastructure, schools and health care. Why would people migrate out of desperation when their country actually has a future? This same stuff goes on for all sorts of stuff our corporations pillage from poor countries. Because those countries get no tax revenue they get no chance to develop and as a result the people in those countries try and migrate to Europe, America, Canada, Australia,.... I am very concerned that if the economists don't back off then its going to get very nasty. If you haven't heard we have a series of major scandals here in Australia with the big consultancies (KPMG, PwC, EY & Deloitte). Most of those consultants are economists. They've cost about AU$20 Billion in fees and we've got so many giant piles of crap to deal with we don't know where to start.
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  4869.  @malin5468  Explaining the Max-8 stall characteristics takes a bit so bear with. FIRST - I have a pilots license and an aerobatics endorsement and I have competed in competitive aerobatics. So I'm pretty familiar with stalls and spins. There was never an actual problem with the engines or the balance of the Max-8. It wasn't even a problem that it had a an abrupt stall characteristic many other planes also have abrupt stall characteristics. To make any plane have very low drag means the aerodynamics are generally fine tuned for level flight. As such there are many planes that you really don't want to ever stall. Like 1,00s of others I first learned to fly in Cessna 152s and 172s. The reason is simple they are super stable including a very benign stall. In fact you actually have to force a 152 or 172 to really stall and drop the nose. After the Cessnas I did my retractable undercarriage and constant speed prop endorsements in Mooney M20s, which is fabulous plane but also designed to be a low drag palne. The Mooney was designed with the aim of doing 200knots on 200hp which is not easy. HOWEVER to do that the Mooney has a very slippery full laminar flow wing that is brilliant in level flight but sucks if it stalls. AGAIN that's nothing odd and is characteristic of quite a few of the fast and slippery light aircraft are similar. But if you stall a Cessna you don't lose a massive amount of altitude. In fact if you recover well it might be as little as 50ft and if you really work hard and fully stall Cessna you can still recover in a few hundred feet. A Mooney however can lose 1,500feet in a stall and do it incredibly fast. Considering that the standard landing pattern is done at 1,000ft then its incredibly important to know and understand what a plane like the Mooney feels like as it gets close to stalling. AND YES I did a lot of that but up at safe altitudes. So please understand this. There never was anything wrong with the concept or design of the Max-8. Even the Airbuses and other similar planes like Learjets ALL HAVE nasty stall characteristics. Make no mistake no pilot ever wants to stall any of those planes, because they will drop their nose and try an punch a hole in the planet. The Max-8 was just a little worse than others so they decided that it needed more than just a set of alarms to tell the pilots to back-off. There's nothing odd about that either. The Max-8 was not the first plane with MCAS or similar override systems. Before I explain the problem you need to understand that in engineering redundancy means having backup. In basic terms a standard redundant system has 2 of something - 1 to do the job and 1 backup. A triple redundant system has 3 and can check them against each other. Its normal that in pilot assistance systems like MCAS they have redundancy. The MCAS problem was HOW & WHY IT WAS DONE. The WHY was to save money -> One of the issues with any new plane is pilot training. The competing Airbus had been done so well it was NOT considered an all new airplane and pilots didn't need extra training for it. It was regarded as an upgrade rather than new plane rather. that made it easy for airlines to buy. One of the genius sales monkeys at Boeing made a deal with one airline for 200 Max-8s. As part of that deal he made an agreement that if their pilots needed extra training then Boeing would reimburse them $1 million per plane or $200 million in total for that training. If Boeing had put in a fully redundant system then under FAA rules pilots would have needed extra training and on that one deal Boeing would have lost $200 million. THAT'S THE WHY. The HOW was by not installing a redundancy in the sensors. Unfortunately that meant if that one sensor faulted in the wrong way and said the aircraft was stalling it would push the nose down irrespective of what was actually happening. As part of the WHY above the pilots were given the minimum of information to also keep the costs down. That meant they were NOT fully informed about the MCAS system on the plane or how it was configured. Sorry if that's long winded, but the problem really stemmed from people who knew nothing about aircraft or flying aircraft making decisions.
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  4870.  @malin5468  Thanks. Just remember with your foils on your trimaran. ALL aerodynamic foils stall from angle of attack NOT speed. It doesn't matter if they are in water or air. What you can also get is stalling from what appears to be odd situations. You can have what you think is the AoA but that's NOT the actual AoA experienced. its also called the effective AoA. If you're into sailing you'd know that the sail doesn't have the AoA of the wind because the boats speed changes that and creates and effective AoA.
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  4871.  @dennism5731  Here too in Australia we went down the path of sending 80% of our people to university. Both my parents were high school teachers and in the 90s a bonus system for high schools was installed. For every kid they got enrolled in university each high school got a bonus. That made it untenable for any teacher to help a student get into a diploma coarse at what we call TAFE or do an apprenticeship or go into the military, the police or other similar government institution. That was coupled with the funding of our universities which were remodelled economically in the 90s. They were told to "be more business like" but that was taken as "be like a business" they flipped the priority from educating people into making profit. These monetary functions are just more symptoms of neoliberal stupidity. BUT the real catastrophe was the shortage of skilled and semi-skilled tradesmen. All through the 2000s and into the 2010s we had massive shortages of the people we needed to construct the mines and gas plants to feed the Chinese machine. It ended up adding BILLIONS to the costs. BUT the true stupidity of sending 80% of high school students to university is simple math. An IQ 100 is the average and if you have 100 people 50 will be an IQ of 100 or higher and 50 will be an IQ of 100 or lower. So if you send 80 out of every 100 high school students to university it means 30 of them have IQs under 100. Its genuine idiocy because instead of those people doing diplomas, or doing apprenticeships or something else they end up wasting time going to university which costs money. Many of them drop out because they can't do the work and end up with no qualifications or useful skills. The ones who do pass go into easier degrees that nobody wants or needs. Its madness.
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  4872. 9/11 2997 Dead -> 27/1/2021 3339 dead. 438,945 Dead in total, what can surprise anyone anymore.
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  4873. In almost any other country EXCEPT AMERICA, Trump and company would already have been charged, tried, convicted and started lengthy prison terms. Look at what Putin does to his competitors. In many countries Trump and the core conspirators would ALREADY have been executed. Look at what the Saudis and Chinese have done in recent years.
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  4874. ​ @tammysmith3551  I thought they looked like a bunch of assholes 5 or 6 years ago or is it just more obvious these days like some new level??? Do you think we need something like the Richter scale so we can have some way of describing the level to which they have descended??? Remember the Richter scale is logarithmic. each number is 10 times worse. 4 is ten times worse than 3, 5 is ten times worse than 4, 6 is ten times worse than 5,..... etc. Cos it really feels they have gone to some new level that people are finding hard to describe.
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  4875.  @insightfulhistorian1861  Its just amazing how stupid and ignorant some people are. Actually go and re-read what I wrote and go watch the documentary I linked. What I am saying is that NO ONE should be singling out Colin Powell. In fact I know that the documentary Rumsfeld's War targets Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz way more than anyone else. It really highlights how much of a complete maggot Wolfowitz was. In fact that documentary is the one that first pointed out that Powell told Bush in a private dinner that Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others were wrong. It actually makes Powell look far less responsible for Iraq than what Kyle is saying here. The people who really should be held accountable were the neo-Cons who wanted regime change in Iraq. This is where politics is murky. There is no doubt that Powell sat in the UN and told the world things that were simply NOT TRUE. Its debated that he may have been handed bad information that at that time he was not aware how bad it was. BUT he can't ever escape that he told the world things that were NOT TRUE. Equally there is NO DOUBT that Powell tried to talk Bush out of the invasion. So go back and re-read what I said and get your facts right.
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  4876.  @insightfulhistorian1861  That's 2 for 2 idiotic brainless inaccurate statements. Officially 81,283,485 Americans just voted for Joe Biden. That means that 81,283,485 Americans just ignored the facts that in the 8 years he was VP he: FAILED - To help end the war in Afghanistan; FAILED - To help end the war in Iraq; FAILED - To help close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp where the basic rules of law like Habeas corpus do NOT EXIST; FAILED - To help stop or limit the drone strike program that has killed 1000s of innocent civilians. So all of those 81,283,485 who voted Biden had to either ignore or disregard those FACTS. Is he better than Trump? Absolutely, on that there is no doubt. Is the best America has to lead it forward? Not a chance, he's a step backwards not a step forwards. The fact you don't get any of that shows just how stupid and ignorant you are.
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  4877.  @insightfulhistorian1861  Just go away and and try and get some perspective of reality. I can tell you didn't look because it included people like Wolfowitz testifying to congress that in "his opinion" experts like Shinseki were wrong. There's footage of Shinseki telling congress it would take a force of several 100 thousand to 'secure the country" because of the geography and existing tribal conflicts. Then there is footage of Wolfowitz telling congress that was ridiculous. That's a little thing called TESTIMONY. That documentary was put together to explain why Gulf War 1 was over in a month and Iraq had no end in sight. EVIDENCE - How about the fact that America and its allies are still there or does that FACT not merit evidence. ✋😲🤚
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  4878.  @cliffgaither  Dude you are arguing semantics because Obama as part of his campaign promised to do those things and as part of that team Biden wears part of the blame. If you want the jobs that carry responsibility you occasionally get it thrown right back at you. As far as pointing the finger at Biden or at Powell, its kind of stupid. I thought I made it clear that there were others involved and there are things people ignore. Its well known Powell tried to talk Bush out of going into Iraq because in part the system he put in place (the Powell Doctrine as its known) was being ignored. BUT he also sat in the UN and told lies. Now its possible that he didn't know the intel was tainted, but he was the one who sat there and told the world there were WMDs. If there are 2 things you can guarantee in politics its lying and hypocrisy. Politicians lie and their supporters will ignore it as they point their finger at the other side. Perfect example has been the Trumpists screaming about Hunter Biden getting a job off of daddy's name while they ignore the positions Jared & Ivanka got and made over 200 times as much. And it really was 200x as much - $50K/month = $600k/yr which is less than 1/200th of $135million. There's no point arguing it because the lies and hypocrisy is par for the course in politics. In fact if they didn't lie and be hypocrites we'd be confused.
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  4879.  @cliffgaither  Bro Bro & Bro - Did you just completely miss my original point which was you can't single out individuals in these political quagmires. Whether they are in the story or not you can't single out anyone in these clusterfux, and you can't leave anyone out. You made a great point on the use of the word failed in a political context, I'll remember that one. But after that its was mainly hot air except for the reference to Chomsky. And if you want to bring up Chomsky then you can't leave out his claim that every President since WW2 should have been charged, tried and jailed for war crimes -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ymbBY1BJI And that gets to the simplest of facts. Western politics might not stink as bad as Eastern Politics but it still stinks and very few nations don't have blood on their hands.
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  4880. One day the good people of Texas will suddenly wake up and realise just how spineless Ted Cruz is. We'll know when that happens because a lot of people will be swapping their hats for paper bags.
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  4881. ​ @slayerhuh404  ARE YOU SERIOUSLY THIS IGNORANT OF REALITY. What has Russia done? Where do you want to start and so we are fare YES America and the West are just as guilty of these sorts of things. But here's some things on Russia. HOW ABOUT smashing the SHlT out of Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1988. Why don't go and try and tell you nonsense to the East Germans, Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, Romanians, Bulgarians, and a few other places. HOW ABOUT all the dirty little wars they started or fermented in Africa, Asia, South America,....... HOW ABOUT the rape of the Southern Pacific Ocean fisheries all through the cold war era. HOW ABOUT there interference in fomenting and supporting dirty little shitfests across the Middle East. HOW ABOUT the gigantic flood of small arms across the 3rd world. Of all the WMDs that have ever been made nothing has killed more people than the AK47 and your friendly Russians dumped them everywhere they could often selling to both sides. And so we are 100% SURE YES America and its allies did and still do the same shitty things Russia has done and still does. And lets not leave out the Chinese of that crap either.
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  4882. One of Kyles vids - Republicans Wage WAR On Free School Lunch This vid - Republicans pay for supporters. So its Ok to pay for fake supporters but its not ok to feed children?????????????
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  4883. AS USUAL - Americas are trying to OVER ANALYSE an event. Simple - disturbed young man with access to a gun lashes out. The only difference was this time it wasn't a school. How many times does this need to happen before America wakes up? Scott Galloway and others have been harping on about the crisis in young men. They feel isolated, detached and with little or no future prospects AND THEY HAVE EASY ACCESS TO GUNS.
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  4884. AUSTRALIAN HERE - from the outside they do nothing different to every other non-conservative option in politics. THEY DON'T LISTEN and THEY DON'T LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES Go and watch a video of a lecture by Mark Blyth from July 2019 at McMaster U. (in Canada) during the Q&A after the lecture he was asked about Elizabeth Warren's policies. Its insanely accurate what he says. 1) He said Trump would win again if he didn't blow up the economy. Trump didn't blow up the economy COVID did and Trump botched the response and Biden won by default. 2) He said the strategy of the Democrats putting up candidates who they thought Republicans would vote for would NOT work especially if they alienated Bernie supporters doing it. Look what happened during the Harris campaign. It started with "we are changing to a new Democrat ticket" and then the DNC said "No you are NOT" and went straight to the strategy Mark Blyth described 5 years earlier, when they waved the Cheney's at them. Then you had people like Destiny openly tell the progressives NOT TO VOTE because we don't need you and we don't want you. Go watch the debate between Destiny and Cenk Uygur that David Pakman hosted. EVEN AFTER THE LOSS destiny was still holding onto blaming the progressives for the loss and admitting he told them NOT TO VOTE. HERE'S MY ISSUE 1) We (like a lot of other countries) now have to deal with Trump wo we know is a malignant narcissistic sociopath. 2) These Dum-o-crat campaign strategists and consultants work all over the world INCLUDING Australia and our Left (the Australian Labor Party) have used them in the past AND LOST (like in 2019).
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  4885. You are a combination of 1/2 right and 1/2 utterly wrong. Your are right the price increases are straight out because of privatisation. As Milton Freidman said “There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” As for the reliability of networks you are 100% WRONG. You can get just as much unreliability from private systems as from public. Look at what happened in Texas a couple of years ago. When 5 year old kids are freezing to death in their beds don't try and say private markets work like the M0R0N from Harvard did. You can also look back to Enron. What they actually got caught doing was an unusual form of market manipulation. They'd deliberately trip out a power station every so often. Usually in the late afternoon when there was the daily surge. What that did was spike the local power market at a peak time by causing an artificial supply shortage. Despite losing the income from that power station their other power stations would make a killing off what ever reserve power they had available. As for break downs. I'm an engineer and you can get slack people in both public and private sector employment. These days its a matter of rewards. Traditionally there were none in the public sector. They never tried anything like "If you guys keep the power on by keeping the system well maintained we'll give you a bonus based on performance." And so you know I don't know of many private sector companies that have reward systems for maintenance. I have done maintenance engineering and it sucks because all anybody in the accounting systems see are costs. They never see any benefits. The problem with maintenance is that the better you do your job the less evidence your doing it well exists. Poor maintenance has lots of evidence. Good maintenance has nothing. Famous example of that is QANTAS the Australian airline. Early one when they got their first 747s they had a corporate risk assessment done that said you can't EVER afford to lose a plane. So they built the best maintenance any airline had ever seen. it was so good other airlines took their 747s to it and IT MADE MONEY. After NOT having any 747s fall out of the sky and after having made money QANTAS sold off that division. That's what engineers get for doing maintenance properly.
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  4886. Its hard to tell if they are racing to be the lowest from of life on the planet or racing towards to top of the stupid scale. Its as if they heard a joke that said "being moronically stupid in front of a TV camera" is to become an Olympic sport and they're trying to make the team.
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  4887. To all of David's American viewers wait to you see the totally bonkers interview Trump endorsed Republican (for Arizona governor) Kari Lake just gave Australian 60 minutes that was shown on prime time Australian public TV only hours ago. ITS WORSE THAN THIS. Its already lit up Australia's online media. I expect David will cover it shortly, so brace yourselves. On a 1-10 scale for embarrassment its a 25. Australia just spent most of the last 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan supporting America. When you see the interview ask yourselves how we might feel right now. FYI - I went to college in America and have many American friends. I understand the reality of the relationship - America is our most important trading and security partner. But many Australians we are very concerned (as other countries also are) that America is NO LONGER a RELIABLE PARTNER. How is anyone supposed to have confidence when America can't hold any of these people accountable?
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  4888. I'm Australian and an outside observer to all this nonsense. Its pretty damn obvious all of the Hunter Biden & Joe Biden nonsense is simply a distraction from just how close this mess cam to ending democracy in America. I actually went to college in American. I did engineering but a bunch of friends were pre-law and they used to drag me into all sorts of their discussions. I had studied Orwell in high school (Animal Farm & 1984) so I used to always put forward that ANY DEMOCRACY could fall into a totalitarian dictatorship (Left or Right) because that was what Orwell warned about. People think Orwell was only about what happened in Russia and that's not true. His message was a warning against ANYFORM of absolute dictatorship. My friends used to argue that such a thing was IMPOSSIBLE in America because the US Constitution had too many checks and balances to get around. I am stunned at what's happening now because that system of checks and balances has failed. At the moment I put the blame squarely on 2 people in particular - Mitch McConnell and Merrick Garland. McConnell could have slapped down Trump at the FIRST impeachment the same way they muzzled Clinton with a "We aren't throwing you out but you are now going to behave and do your job." McConnell could have at the SECOND impeachment simply said "No this is too much. Get out and stay out!" Garland should have seen the failure of McConnell and done the right thing by simply charging Trump the moment there was sufficient evidence and there was enough. The fact he put his Institutionalist ideology in front of the reality of the situation will haunt America for generations.
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  4889.  @ewan.cartwright  Yeah but the current beetle has fuel injection, more power, lower emissions, and literally dozens of accessories. And that's before we cover the basic quality issues. It might still be a beetle but its not the same car. Similar Soyuz might still be based on 1960s tech and layout but its simply not the same rocket. In engineering there's a methodology called lessons learned. Its a post project or pre-project step AND ITS NEVER DONE WELL ENOUGH but some do it less worse than others. The Russians are sort of Ok at it, but NASA are almost totally hopeless at it. NASA's rover program being one of the few exceptions. In fact in that program they are outstanding.
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  4890. This is what happens when its censorship by algorithm. Ask any engineer who's done any sort of software can tell you (if they are being honest) algorithms are NOT perfect. Depending o who sets them up and who adjusts the parameters they use you can get almost any answer imaginable. Ask anybody who plays Xbox or Playstation about how software can just do crazy stuff at times. That's what algorithms can do, because they can't be programmed or tested for every possible instance.
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  4891. Yet again even the slightest knowledge of Jesus and the Bible CONDEMNS this. You DO NOT have to believe in God or Jesus or anything else to go and fact check this. Just go and google "Jesus money changers" and you'll get references to the famous incident where (its claimed) Jesus threw out the people who were making defrauding people at the temple (see below). This is actually one of the main reasons Jesus was handed over to the Romans and executed. He was outspoken AGAINST these sorts of practices. This is yet another example of how far off the rails religion is these days. So called "believers" wont even believe the sacred words of their own sacred text. In the New King James Version (and other all say similar) this is the passage reads. (Matt 21:12-13) Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
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  4892.  @BobBob-nr1zt  I wasn't even thinking about that but yeah one of my pet hates are the clowns who wreck a video with some crappy doomf doomf electro sound track with the volume wound up to 11.
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  4893. This might be one of the greatest pieces of elitist doublespeak bullshit speeches in recent decades. Ted Cruz is the valedictorian of a private high school, a graduate of both Princeton and Harvard. AND his wife is a managing director at Goldman Sachs. He is the poster child for the Elitist Meritocracy. Basically he's a book nerd married to a banker. The closest he ever came to "blue color" was a blue polo shirt at the golf club after splashing on half a bottle of Blue Stratos. Its all there in his "not so blue bio" bio -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
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  4894. When you have that much bone up there, there isn't much room for a brain in the first place. This is so staggeringly stupid, ignorant and illogical we almost need to wonder if he's playing a character.
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  4895. America is almost at 360,000 COVID Deaths and at the current rates it will be past 400,000 by the time Biden is sworn in. It would be interesting to hear what these people think what number they is acceptable and they will change their minds.
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  4896.  @dkf119  In Australia voting is compulsory for anyone over 18. Its rarely enforced however. The actual law isn't so much that you must vote, because there are many reasons why people do not vote. Its that you must be on the electoral role in the first place. Our entire system is also preferential, like they are trialling in certain American states. In fact that's so ingrained to our system we think its bonkers others do not use it. However we have always had a problem with what we call the donkey vote. That's where people simply go 1,2,3,4... down the boxes. So there's always fights over how voting cards are arranged. The one thing I think we need to change is actually take a lesson from America. I went to college in America in the late 80s. I was surrounded by people who had done civics in high school. I was constantly stunned how well informed Americans were. They knew how their country functioned and that protected America way more than its military or anything else. As an outside observer I see that as America's biggest single issue, because its allowed this nonsense to happen. America now has 2 generations of people who just don't know how their country works at all. This whole nonsense that an election could be stolen is ridiculous and can only happen because people just don't know how it works. In Australia we never had that type of civics education as a specific class. So in a way were less educated than America. Right now I'd say we are better educated and in light of what's happened in America I think we should do something to strengthen that.
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  4897. One's been to jail the other is on his way to jail.
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  4898. I'm Australian and if you changed the accents and people simply read the transcript NOBODY would spot it wasn't about England. I have friends in Canada and America. We get the news from New Zealand and Asia. We also get the British and European news and its the same SHlT EVERYWHERE. This is also why there's this massive shift to taking conspiracy theories as if they are fact. Out political leaders have become so hopeless at the jobs people have lost faith that they can do anything at all and are turning to alternative answers.
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  4899. I wondering when somebody is just going to get right in Peter Doocy's face after one of these. And I don't mean just get a bit in his face. I mean really get into him over this endless garbage.
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  4900. Its the second week of January 2021 and America is about to go past 400,000 dead just as Joe Biden takes the oath of office.. A few weeks ago Michael was warning about how bad the Christmas - New year could be. I'm Australian but went to college at U. Illinois. I've been watching Michael since the early days, because it was clear he was one of the very few who was being honest with us. He was even interviewed a few times on Australian TV. Like many others from around the world I have followed his updates over much of the last year -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg If you actually add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25.2 million which compares to Australia's 25.6 million. Yes I know quite well there are significant differences in geography, population density and winter conditions, but in terms of medical technology, transportation and technical capability there's zero difference. We got very lucky with the initial spread. We cancelled many events and had NO crowds at all our major sports for the year and all that resulted in us not spreading it. But none of that explains the staggering differences. Australia has a total of 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin total over 33,812 as of 12/1/2021 In the 7 days from 4 to 10 January 2021 Illinois had 971 COVID fatalities. In one week Illinois with half as many people as Australia had more deaths from this than Australia has had in 12 months. On the main table at -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Australia is 54th in population and 86th in COVID fatalities. If Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin were a country they would be 16th. Illinois by itself would rank 21st in the world. New York by itself would be 14th. In terms of death-rate (deaths/1M.pop) Illinois, Indiana & Wisconsin would be 4th (at 1342). 3 American states (New Jersey, New York & Massachusetts) have a higher death-rate than any nation or independent state in the world. For whatever luck and other things that may have favored us, nothing explains that discrepancy other than a complete failure of leadership.
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  4901. Yeah well his BS over Hyperloop is still ongoing.
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  4902.  @therealrobinc  I 12/ agree because there's a disparity among the services and that's a subject that needs addressing. Also holding senior political people accountable is also a serious issue.
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  4903. The corruption is debateable because there's always going to be the issue of who paid to get what done, BUT WITHOUT ANY DOUBT the narcissistic selfishness is the real problem. This is not just an American problem its starting to rise everywhere. I'm Australian and it might be more obvious that this sort of thing is happening in America but its actually starting to emerge across the developed world. There's been a failure of centrist governments everywhere because they have tried to appease everyone and ended up pleasing nobody. The more radical political people on BOTH the Radical Left and Radical right have seized on this. Its more noticeable with the Radical Right and they are louder and more vocal. The Radical Right also have a lot more political power and media power at the moment. There's no billionaire support for the Radical Left, but they are there and just as bat crap crazy as they have ever been. Where BOTH the Radical Right and Radical Left are going to come undone is the same reason they always come undone - their hypocrisy. Unfortunately we are heading towards a point where political violence is almost guaranteed. Just the other day I heard someone point out that we have forgotten that there were over 4,000 bombings on American college campuses in the 1970s and 1,000s of other protests (many violent) on other campuses across the developed world. I was young in the 1970s but I remember that there were times when it seemed like everyday there was another violent protest with a city on fire or another bombing or another hijacking. I don't want to see us go back to that part of the 1970s but I think its now inevitable we will because our political leadership is so poor and lets radicals like Roberts, Trump and others just get away with stuff.
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  4904. Its not hypocrisy its brainless stupidity. If they were chasing jobs and development then there's other uses for coal like water filtering, carbon fiber, carbon nanotubes, graphene and those are huge untapped and developing markets. BUT THEY AREN'T TALKNING ABOUT THOSE THINGS they are talking about industries that are already changing. I'm Australian we have EXACTLY the same attitudes here in our coal industry. We have people whose brains are stuck in a time warp where coal, steam and steel ruled the world. They can't comprehend or just don't want to deal with the fact the world is changing. They ignore the fact that once coal and steam arrived the days of horse and sail ended and it became steam ships and trains. The world is changing again.
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  4905.  @hiddenknowledge2012  Not as many as you think. When I helped build the Caval Ridge mine near Moranbah in Queensland we had a work force around 3,500. But the actual mine in operation is only about 600. Building mines is incredibly labor intensive, operating them isn't.
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  4906. It doesn't matter as much as the simple fact that every ton of coal produces almost 4 tones of Carbon Dioxide. Remember your basic high school chemistry C + O2 -> CO2 Each carbon weighs 12 atomic units and each O 16 atomic units. Do the math each 1 C becomes 2.67 CO2 So the 3 Gt (Giga tons) of coal China digs up and burns produces 11,000,000,000 tons of CO2. Plus for most of that growth phase China's coal mines were so badly managed they burned as much coal in the ground as they did in power stations so China's true CO2 emissions were over 22 Billion tons a year. And that's before we ad in all the coal they import and all the other emissions. THAT'S WHY CLIMATE CHANGE IS ACCELERATING
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  4907. Yeah the college kids are chanting: "Ket---a---mine" "Ket---a---mine" "Ket---a---mine"
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  4908. You are absolutely 100% correct, but Israel is not doing anything that other countries haven't done. I'm Australian and look at the pile of lies we were part of regarding the invasion of Iraq, where its estimated 1 million civilians have died in the sectarian violence that we unleashed. What's different this time is that for Iraq it took TIME before we knew what had happened. It took TIME for Wikileaks to get hold of information and then release it. This time we are seeing the atrocities happen in REAL TIME not DELAYED TIME and clowns like this idiot form the Israeli Government doesn't get that. He doesn't get we can all see it happen in real time only hours later not weeks or months later. PLUS - Their own soldiers are releasing their own videos of their crimes on social media.
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  4909. I urge everyone to go and look at the AGE of these people and their basic educations. Barre Seid, Charles Koch, Robert Mercer, Robert Herring Sr., Rupert Murdoch, Warren Buffet, Charlie Munger, etc. None of these people are poorly educated, some have science and engineering degrees. Their behavior is purely based on ideology. BUT OF NOTE is they are all war babies or from the earliest part of baby boomers. Note how the few people of STEM backgrounds that are their climate denial spokes people ARE ALSO mostly older. There is something profoundly wrong with what's left of the war baby generation and early baby boomers OR AT LEAST a portion of them. They wont die and they wont let the rest of humanity get on with our lives.
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  4910. You misunderstand a free market is where the top 1% and their political sidekicks are FREE TO DO WHATEVER THEY WANT 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  4911.  @dot1482  You said the same garbage on another thread earlier today. JUST STOP BOTHERING PEOPEL WITH RAMBLING GARBAGE.
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  4912. Its been their stock and trade for decades. There was a famous clown in the Iran Contra hearing who said so many times people lost count During his 8 hours of testimony during the Iran Contra hearings Ronald Reagan said ''I don`t recall'' or ''I can`t remember'' 88 times. According to the LA Times (archive - easily found by googling "Iran Contra I don't recall") Reagan said the words “I don't remember,” or their equivalents, occurred at least 124 times in his eight hours of testimony. It also reports that Rear Adm. John M. Poindexter's fuzzy memory struck 184 times during his five days of questioning at the Iran- contra hearings.
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  4913.  @JohnDoe-sl6di  Its the same with EVERY Government official on the planet, BOTH elected and unelected as well as EVERY Business leader who has ever been dragged before a committee to be questioned and explain their behavior. Only blind ignorant partisans think its only the other side.
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  4914.  @ReadyPlayerDog  That's something Dr. Michael Osterholm (director of CIDRAP) brought up in his weekly podcast recently. He said there are 3 basic types in this discussion. 1: Those who are vaccinated and those who will get vaccinated when they can. 2: Those who for any of several reasons are hesitant, but might get vaccinated. 3: The anti-vaxxers who simply wont get vaccinated. He pointed out that there should be no rules of exclusion. CIDRAP is on the campus of the U. of Minnesota and they were going to ban unvaccinated students. He argued AGAINST that as it would only alienate people and might push people from group 1 to 2 and 2 to 3. We want as many vaccinated as possible. That wont happen if we alienate people. Here's the link to his podcasts -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg
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  4915.  @frankdux5693  That's another very sad fact of our world these days. I can't blame the anti-vaxxers for their not trusting government authority or the medical industry. Both have done stupid and idiotic things BUT believing in other even more stupid and more idiotic garbage isn't a viable response. People claiming that Hilary Clinton couldn't be trusted was fair BUT then trusting someone like Donald Trump is just ridiculous. Anti-vaxxers claiming we can't trust doctors and then complaining when they can't get medical attention is just as stupid.
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  4916. NO - not a chance. World leaders with UN security counsel veto don't get charged. Clinton fired missiles into the sovereign nation of Sudan - what happened there? Bush & Cheney threw the Geneva Convention out the window and had people tortured - what happened there? Obama let the CIA bomb women and children using drones - what happened there? Trump actually murdered an Iranian General on a peace mission - what happened there? Most of the Western World supported those actions - what happened there? World leaders need to do something truly despicable like bio or chem weapons against children and then its a maybe.
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  4917. It would be Sarah Palin 2.0, except worse. The problem is the American system doesn't operate on a popular vote system and the sooner the Democrats properly accept that fact and instead of complaining about it do something about it. Here would be a very simple thing. Make Puerto Rico the 51st state. It will add 2 senate seats and a number of house seats. And before the GOP screams foul ask them why there are 2 Dakota's? For a country that preached to the world "Freedom & Democracy" America doesn't seem to think giving over 3 million of its residents either freedom or democracy.
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  4918.  @zzanatos2001  Yeah we thought that 20 years ago when he turned 70. We thought that again 10 years ago when he turned 80. When he said he didn't know again and again at the British enquiry into phone tapping, they suggested that maybe he was unfit to be running a public company. If you can find it look for his reaction - its still scares me to this day. For a moment he lost composure and showed us all what's there and its effing scary. WTF makes anyone thing that monster is gonna stop because of a simple fact like turning 90. Then there is his chosen son Lachlan who some are claiming is worse.
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  4919.  @Richard-vt3jb  I think you will find that EVERY culture on the planet has at some point engaged in some from of slavery. Its just more obvious in some cases like with the slave trade to the Americas. If you go and watch either of the versions of "Roots" you'll find that Kunte Kinte was captured by Black African natives and sold to the white slave traders. Yes its a semi-fictional example but it illustrates how EVERY culture has at some point enslaved portions of their own people or people from other nations and tribes.
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  4920.  @Wack-Sabbath  What they are referring to as "cosplay" isn't that the Moorish Empire did not exist or that these people have made it up. As you point out the Moorish Empire existed just as the Roman, Mongol and other empires existed. The cosplay reference is that these people have hijacked the labels "Moor" and "Moorish" put on some hats and then claimed they are Moors and represent the history of the Moors.
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  4921.  @Wack-Sabbath  Another comment below sums this up well "People reinventing history for their own benefit is never good."
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  4922. ​ @Wack-Sabbath  Buddy now you are speaking COMPLETE GARBAGE and you are making stuff up. The whole point is that these people HAVE MADE UP THIS NARRATIVE. There's NO PROOF AT ALL that they are Moors or the descendants of Moors. The term Moor is of European origin from the middle ages and refers to the Muslims of NORTH Africa and specifically the Berbers of Morocco and those Muslims who once occupied the Iberian Peninsula (Spain & Portugal). It doesn't take anyone any time to simply fact check the term Moor to realise that historically it NEVER APPLIED to West Africa and NEVER included the regions as far south as the Gold Coast or Nigeria. SO STOP SPEAKING GARBAGE there's already enough in this story. These people have just created this narrative out of thin air. That's the part people are saying is cosplay.
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  4923.  @GAZ87YORKSHIRESALT  I'm not English DlCKHEAD, but I am of Anglo-Saxon heritage. Then again Britain was invaded by so many over such a long time and had so many tribes but their stamps on Britain its hard to even classify what "being British" actually means. Fun facts The Angles come from Southern Denmark. The Saxons from Saxony which is part of Germany? All those very British towns ending with "by" like Whitby, Northby,...etc. are actually Viking towns. The "by" means village. Then there's the places founded by the Romans like Bath. The Normans who invaded in 1066 weren't French but were actually Vikings who'd settled in France. The word Norman comes from Northmen. Then there's the actual Bretons, and their offshoots like Welsh, Gaels, Celts, Manx, Cornish and others. And one of my favorites the British Royal Family's real name isn't Windsor its Saxe-Coburg and Gotha because that was Prince Alberts (q. Victoria's husband) family name, but someone didn't think that would be a good name for the British Royal family so they went with Windsor. Go look at the Wikipedia page for "House of Windsor." Yeah sorry but we study a lot of British history in Australia or at least did when I went to High School. 200 years of our own doesn't compare to over 2,000 years. And then we've also had those BBC documentary series by people like Simon Sharma shown here. Some of those are very flattering on our cultural heritage.
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  4924. SORRY but GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  4925.  @Tamatu  You're saying you can't find my rebuttal but you replied to it?????
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  4926.  @Tamatu  YEAH but then when people get things wrong they try and fix it. That's right I forgot geniuses like you don't fix things you get others to fix them for you.
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  4927.  @agrobeson6471  Yeah that version turned up in my search. The version I have was a straight cut & paste from Goodreads.
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  4928. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I did my degree in the late 80s and during my senior year we had an alum who gave a special guest lecture on Terraforming Mars. We were all very excited to hear what he had to say. He started with "Sorry its impossible and here's why!" He then went on to explain just how big planets are and how much stuff you need to a job like Terraform Mars. The numbers are so large that its near impossible for people to grasp. Here's 1 simple thing maybe people can grasp. Imagine a dome (1/2 sphere) on Mars with a volume of 1km. Its about 1562 meters in diameter. So its not a small dome but is the sort of size you'd need for a colony its people, plants and animals. Other than all the materials needed to build that dome (which is substantial). You need 1.3 million tons of air to fill it. Most people don't think of air as weighing much. 1 cubic meter of water weighs a metric ton. 1 cubic meter of air weighs 1.3kg (sea level). There's 1,000,000,000 (billion) cubic meters in a cubic kilometer. So 1 cubic kilometer of air weighs 1.3 billion kilograms or 1.3 million tons. Now considering there's almost NO atmosphere at all on Mars let alone much Oxygen or Nitrogen to make Earth standard air from you have to ask: For the Mars startup colony where are they going to get 1.3 million tons of air from and how are they going to get it to Mars or produce it on Mars? Sorry to bust everyone's Elon Fantasy with math but then WTF I'm an engineer!
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  4929.  @LP-ct9nk  NO and even if it was he'd probably ignore it.
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  4930. I'm an Australian aerospace engineer who did his degree at U. of Illinois in the late 80s. I was there when the Plato system was running and even used it. I was there when we go the first CRAY supercomputers but that was reserved for the postgrads. I just had to play with normal mainframes. In my final year we even got to play with what they then called an "Expert System" which was one of the fore runners of todays Ai. I am still stunned by what we have let the IT industry get away with. No matter how many times they screw up or fail the media just seem to let them get pass after pass. What really worries me is that at some point we'll put so much faith in this stuff we'll forget how dangerous outcomes from bad assumptions can be and we'll have a disaster there's no coming back from.
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  4931. ABSOLUTELY CORRECT My grandfather was a farmer and like most farmers had guns. When I turned 12 he taught me shoot and before we started he explained basic gun safety. For a moment he went from being my super cool grandfather to the strictest teacher I ever had. KYLE IS 100% WRONG The most basic part of gun safety is: If you pick up or are handed a gun it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to check its status. What anyone else has done is almost irrelevant. THE MOMENT you take possession of a gun you are responsible for what happens until someone else takes possession of that gun. There is no way around this point.
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  4932.  @jamespower5165  YOU CLEARLY HAVE NEVER FIRED A GUN AND HAVE NO IDEA BASIC SAFETY TRAINING IN ANYTHING. Right after the "accident" experts who work on movies explained it all. They follow the same sort fundamental practices other industries follow. For any hazardous activity you train in places where you can CONTROL THE RISKS. You train people for hazardous activities in highly controlled environments where you can control the risk. Commercial Pilots learn how to handle difficult procedures in simulators. Fire fighters learn to fight fires in specialised facilities. etc. etc. etc. Any training with guns and live ammunition happens at a GUN RANGE where they have CONTROL of the RISKS. I don't think you have any idea about workplace safety, safety training or safety management. Its people like you who cause accidents.
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  4933. Yeah, this popped up in my recommendations and since I've watched some of Roberts recent stuff I thought this would be worth a watch AND IT IS. Its worth a watch because the fundamental argument is that if you allow greedy and selfish people the opportunity they will grab power NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO. No matter what "fixes" or "systems" or "solutions" you put in place their are certain types of people who will endeavor to pull it apart for their own gain. That's not economics. That's basic human psychology. I just want to see Richard Wolff admit that's exactly why Marxism has failed and fail and failed everywhere it has been tried. That's why I have mostly stopped watching him. Almost every video he puts out or interview he does is singularly themed "capitalism bad" and on the few occasions he's talked about Marxist states all he has ever done is blame a few selfish people for blowing up which ever Marxist system people tried.
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  4934.  @greenvelvet  The problem I have with Richard is that he has a 1 track mind that capitalism in any form is wrong because all the examples we have are failing. Its not that I disagree with Richards assessment of capitalism it his unwavering belief the Marxism is the answer, but if you apply the same logic then you get that any form of Marxism is also wrong because all the examples we have FAILED and the few surviving examples are currently failing. And before you ask the Chinese are NOT (economically speaking) Marxists. If you go and listen to Eric Helleiner's explanation they are a form of neo-mercantilism. He had a really good discussion with Mark Blyth on the RCP podcast about it.
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  4935.  @uberhikari  You have well summed up the fundamental issue with America's 2 parties. There's the "Do Nothing Dems" who are too scared to do anything in case all those suburban housewives wont vote for them. And there's the "Mind of a 2 year old GOP" who don't care about anything except what they want right now and are willing to break every toy in the toy box just so nobody else can play with them.
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  4936.  @RoodiniCats  WHY? If you live in a state dumb enough to elect Ron De Sanctimonious then you get what you deserve no matter how great the weather is.
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  4937.  michaeleuthanasia7089  How about that whole chunk of land wedged between Mexico and Canada that seems to annoy the rest of the planet so much???? The Mexicans make great food and the Canadians are polite (except when they play hockey). So who really needs those 330 million M0R0Ns telling everyone on the planet how farking awesome they are every 5 minutes?????
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  4938. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SIMULATE A LIBERTARIAN? Grab a 2 year old boy who's already jacked up on his first burst of testosterone then jack them up further on Red Bull and sugar and then take away his TV, his toys and tell him to go sit in the corner for some quiet time. In other words the worst possible 2 year old temper tantrum imaginable.
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  4939. This is where the Greens put pragmatic stupidity before common sense. In this respect they are no better than any other party that puts ideology before reality. Its NOT going to hurt the planet to run those nuclear stations for another year (or 2 or 3) while they get through the current situation. This is the sort of pragmatic stupidity that people got fed up with the main stream parties and why people turned to the Greens. Its not a German thing either, I'm Australian and our Greens are just as stupid. I love that they want to protect the environment, but I am an engineer and we just can't simply turn of power stations OF ANY SORT. Across the world right now we are trapped between these 2 packs of clowns who just wont let anyone get on with anything. We have an energy crisis because we stopped building power stations as our population grew. All the 2 sides did was act like 5 year olds saying NO to everything.
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  4940.  @donkeypoison  Hey everyone look at this another example of Russian trollbot naming - "donkeypoison".
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  4941.  @donkeypoison  1) I doubt your a real person and therefore a bot. 2) your a troll and therefore a trollbot
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  4942.  @donkeypoison  Good description of a troll - NOW GO LOOK IN A MIRROR.
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  4943. @Will Asking an American to think before they spout out their opinion. Yeah, aahhhh, hhhmmmmm????? Hell freezing over or an American thinking before they proclaim their opinion - which do you think will happen first? I'll give Kyle a bit of credit, he does try and think before the mouth opens and the noise starts coming out. I'd bet that if someone points this faux pas out to him he'll correct himself.
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  4944. @Will So are you guys planning on being part of Britain or part of Europe? Or is option 3 where you tell them all to FO on the table?
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  4945. @Will Have you watched any of your fellow Scot Mark Blyth's lectures? He's a political economist who's a professor at Brown U. in America. He makes fun of how Britain tore up the "best deal ever." I think a lot of people completely misread a chunk of the English population who felt 'left out." I have gotten the impression Brexit was a backlash against an elite part of the London establishment who typical of elites think they are right about EVERYTHING and the rest of us are just like George Orwell's ignorant uneducated 1984 proletariat. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4946. @Will Have you watched any of your fellow Scot Mark Blyth's lectures? He's a political economist who's a professor at Brown U. in America. He makes fun of how Britain tore up the "best deal ever." I think a lot of people completely misread a chunk of the English population who felt 'left out." I have gotten the impression Brexit was a backlash against an elite part of the London establishment who typical of elites think they are right about EVERYTHING and the rest of us are just like George Orwell's ignorant uneducated 1984 proletariat. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4947. @Will Of all the people I have listened to in recent years (even before COVID) he's been the best value. That's possibly because he talks about "systems" and my background is in aerospace engineering where we do a lot of systems thinking. Systems thinking is not simply doing a solution to a problem its about considering the consequences of a solution. Unlike most other forms of engineering everything in aerospace is tightly interconnected and any change in one part tends to have consequences in other parts that can't be simply dismissed. Mark Blyth talks about how systems are interconnected. Here's his primer on Angrynomics -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY Here's a longer version on "how we got here" -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE He does a monthly podcast via the Watson Institute (part of Brown U.) where he works. -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCok8bs3XNbyU93LMwQ4A55w
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  4948. As a concerned Australian I agree. NOTHING about Project 2025 is what any Western LIBERAL democracy wants. One of the main authors was extensively interviewed on Australian TV and he basically promoted all of what's on the infographic Ryan's debunking. I also watched Ward Carroll's interview of Commander Bryan McGrath, USN (Ret.) who's worked for the Heritage Foundation on military issues. The interview sticks to the military issues in the P2025 document, but he rips it apart. He basically says Project 2025 is being run by a small group inside the Heritage Foundation who are nut bags and who've linked up with other nut bags in other Right Wing Think Tanks. ALSO the Heritage Foundation has a very, very long history of spewing misinformation themselves. They were the main Think Tank Phillip Morris used to stall anything on dealing with the tobacco industry and they have been one of the main disseminators of climate change misinformation. They have acted in the past as nothing more than a pack of propagandists for hire.
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  4949. Funny how he mentions the Tech Giants but then ignores the Big Oil and Big Pharma??????
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  4950. As an Australian who went to college in America I'd correct the second line of your comment to read. All the things SOME Democrats are actually focused on. Because there are other Democrats who don't give a damn about anything except their political power. For instance anyone who watches what's going on in America is now aware of Nancy Pelosi's daughter's involvement in taking care of (as in managing) Dianne Feinstein. That stuff is just disgusting.
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  4951. The single most ridiculous aspect of Trumps claim is that America has repeatedly dragged other foreign leaders in front of courts and held them accountable. Slobodan Milošević (Sebia), Charles Taylor (Liberia) and most notably Saddam Hussein (Iraq) were all political leaders that America helped hold accountable.
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  4952.  @douglassantet647  WTF are you talking about????? In what way have I insinuated in the slightest that America intends to invade Russia? I've seen and heard some stupid people lately but your one of the worst. Please get some medical help for whatever condition you have.
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  4953.  @sonicblue7real357  Your on the right line, but its solar energy that the planet turns into thermal energy not potential energy. The fascinating part is the 100,000 year Milankovitch cycles which is the long term cycles of ice ages where CO2 and Water vapour play major parts. The CO2 lets solar energy in but then keeps in the Earths thermal energy and warms the plant. Water vapour does 2 things. Like CO2 it helps hold in thermal energy but when there's enough in the atmosphere it forms a think cloud that reflects solar energy and stops the planet getting any warmer. But also at the point it slows the Earth cooling Its that property of water that throws the Earth into ice ages. As it builds up it helps warm the Earth after an ice age but at certain point it ends that and stops the Earth warming further. Eventually it cools enough and all that water falls as snow and rain in a massive way because there's not enough to keep the Earth warm the Earth dumps even more thermal energy off into space and we get an ice age. Right now we are at the top of the Milankovitch cycle and instead of the Earth having a warm humid patch before cooling into the next ice age we are overdriving the cycle. That's why the modelling gives 2 scenarios. We COULD either go into thermal runaway and end up like Venus or a massive thermal dump and end up like Mars. My bet is we'll end up with something in between, but its going to be wild with lots of wild weather. More thermal energy in the atmosphere means everything is running harder. Look at Texas last year and I have been there. Most of its a hot arid environment and yet it snowed so badly children froze to death in the beds. Australia was always picked as one of the most vulnerable nations. For the last few years its been stinking hot with some of the worst droughts ever and some of the worst bushfire seasons ever. This year its floods, floods and more floods. Our Snow season looks to be the best in decades. What worries me is this much water will cause huge amounts of growth in our forests so that when the next dry comes there will be huge amounts of fuel to burn. At some point in the next few years we will burn from one end to the other and just like they are doing now the deniers will claim its all natural.
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  4954.  @AmericatheBeautiful-p4z  I'd try and explain the reasons why people like you are so ignorant and wrong and stupid but its not worth it. But for anyone else interested here's some basic engineering and a bit of math. There's an oddish subject in aerospace I call planetary mechanics. I was introduced to it by a NASA engineer who visited our university one day. He'd done a project on what it would take to terraform Mars. He explained you just start with something basic like how much air do you need and what would you need to heat it up to a reasonable temperature considering Mars is cold. -60C on Mars is a warm day. Planetary mechanics is just the basic mechanics of what's needed (nuts and bolts). Its not the complex gas & water cycles that change and shift with seasons or the effects of the planets rotation and inclination or any of the other time related things. I call that stuff planetary dynamics as it involves things that move and change and cycle with time. To keep the math practical and get a basic estimate of what the task is, we do an approximation. I use the idea of a 1km think layer of breathable air because it makes the math understandable. I approximate the volume but just covering the planet in 1km cubes of air. Yes there's gaps between the cubes but its just an approximation and its within 1%. I also ignore things like gravity, solar wind, etc, BECAUSE I am just trying to demonstrate the size of the task. The surface of Mars is 144,000,000 km. That equates to 144,000,000 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 cubic meters of air and at 1.2kg for a cubic meter of air, that's 172,800,000,000,000,000 kilograms of air. To raise that much air from -60 to +20 ℃ engineers use the basic equation: E = Cp x M x ΔT Energy Required (kilojoules) = 1.006 kJ/kg.C x mass of air in kg x temperature difference in ℃ We then get 13,906,944,000,000,000,000,000 Joules of energy required. So how much energy is that? It's the equivalent of 220,745,143 Hiroshima bombs which had 63 Terajoules of energy. Its also equivalent to about 64,683 Tzar Bombs the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated. Lets not forget we still need to find or create that 172,800,000,000,000,000 kilograms of air and work out how to keep it attached to Mars because Mars only has 1/3rd of Earths gravity. Then there's the task of making the gas and water cycles work. This is why aerospace engineers don't talk about this stuff much because once you realise the basic scope of terraforming the numbers get so massive so quickly the scope confuses people. Half the problem is the idiocy of Hollywood. Remember the film Aliens? The one with the giant nuclear reactor that would convert the asteroid into a liveable planet in about 20 years. BULLSH1T If they had a few 1000 of those reactors running for a couple of centuries they might start to make a difference. Simple rule if it involves Hollywood and technology its 99.9% scientifically FALSE, WRONG or plain BULLSH1T. Don't get me wrong I still love sci-fi, its just I know what's fiction and what's NOT. If you have time and do want to learn about energy systems then I recommend the Illinois Energyprof channel here on YouTube. I can't say its exciting but it is informative. Disclaimer: I did my degree at U. Illinois, but have never met David Ruzic. I graduated before his time there.
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  4955.  @jonnyhatter35  Lats year here in Australia were were gripped with drought. This year we have been flooded flooded and flooded. We have been flooded so many times this year people can no longer get flood insurance and we are considering abandoning certain towns or parts of towns. When the first bog flood hit the climate deniers said here we are back to normal after a drought. After the 2nd flood they said not to worry, We told to explain the 3rd flood they couldn't. By the time of the 4th and 5th floods they didn't dare speak. we've had 2 more floods since and we aren't even through winter yet or the spring rains. When I look around the world I see things like drought in Germany and England. In Australia we might not know much about the weather in Germany but we sure as shite know about English weather and I have never heard of an English drought before.
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  4956.  @jonnyhatter35  I first found out about the inground coal fires about 12 years ago when I saw a German documentary on it. Because the Germans have a long history with coal mining they have a long history of dealing with fires in coal mines. The Chinese hired a specialist German company to help them out. The Germans produced a film about it and it was aired here in Australia. But if you want to check the data go and look for the IEA Key data reports that come out every 2 years (even numbered). The IEA (International Energy Agency) is just a data collection and reporting organisation. They are the main source for energy data for researchers. Their reports are free. What people forget is their high school science class: C+O2 -> CO2 and that works for tons as well as atoms. Remember a C has an atomic mass of 12 and oxygen 16 add it up and 1 ton of C makes 2.67 tons of CO2. So 3 Giga tons of coal makes 11 Giga tons of CO2 and if you're burning that much also in ground fires that's 22,000,000,000,000 tons CO2 EACH YEAR for about 25 years. And the whole time Western economists told how how great it was that we made everything in China because cheaper goods were good for consumers. Now you know why its accelerating and why we are in twice as much trouble as we thought..
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  4957.  @jonnyhatter35  No problems mate. Here's a slightly longer version of the subject. I did aerospace engineering and back in college we had an alum who worked at NASA visit and do a special lecture one Friday. He'd just done a project where they assessed the viability of terraforming Mars. He introduced us to what I call planetary mechanics - the basics numbers of what you need to do. The making it all work as a functioning atmosphere is what I call planetary dynamics because that's about dynamic systems as things that move rather than just the basic numbers. So in planetary mechanics you look at things like size of the planet and how much air you need if you want a breathable atmosphere. The numbers are massive because planets are massive. If we go to an air conditioning company they'll ask how many cubic meters the house or building has and we'd be talking maybe a few hundred or a few 1000 for an office block. The quick way to estimate that is to look at the floor space of your house and multiply by 2.5 because most rooms are about 2.5 meters heigh. So if your apartment has 200m2 of floorspace you have about 500m3 of volume. For an office block with 5,000m2 its about 12,500m3. But the Earth has 500,000 square kilometers of floor space that's 500,000,000,000 square meters. So just for the first kilometer of air around us its 500,000,000,000,000m3 (500 trillion). At about 1.2kg/m3 that's about 600 billion metric tons of air. That's just the first kilometer above sea level and there's a lot more above that. Its one of the main reasons its so hard for engineers and scientists to communicate what we've actually done to our planet. The numbers are so large most people can't get their heads around it. How do you get average citizens to consider 600billion tons of air when for their basic daily life air weighs nothing? I can do this because I met the right guy back when who introduced this subject.
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  4958.  @jonnyhatter35  Its one of the things i keep telling people who think Elon Musk is just going to whip them off to Mars. Once you get your head around just the basic numbers of how much stuff you need you then get into the stuff to make it work. At that point you start trying to handle so many concepts simultaneously it just blows brain cells away. Complex problem solving is one of the things aerospace engineers have to be trained in because you need that skill to do things like send a probe off to Pluto and think of all the things that might happen, consider their effects and then solve those problems without creating new problems.
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  4959.  @LK-pc4sq  Yeah telling me something I don't know. I'm Australian but went to college in Illinois, but in late 2017 I was working in Saskatchewan and experienced a similar event. For about 3 days 14 of the 15 coldest temperatures recorded on the planet were in Alberta and Saskatchewan. At one point it was colder than the actual North Pole. Instead of being home experiencing nice sunny +30-40C days I was indoors while outside its was -30 or lower with windchills as bad as -50. The only person I knew who went outside was the police officer who lived across the street who came to check I was Ok.
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  4960. Its the second week of January 2021 and America is about to go past 400,000 dead just as Joe Biden takes the oath of office.. A few weeks ago Michael was warning about how bad the Christmas - New year could be. I'm Australian but went to college at U. Illinois. I've been watching Michael since the early days, because it was clear he was one of the very few who was being honest with us. He was even interviewed a few times on Australian TV. Like many others from around the world I have followed his updates over much of the last year -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg If you actually add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25.2 million which compares to Australia's 25.6 million. Yes I know quite well there are significant differences in geography, population density and winter conditions, but in terms of medical technology, transportation and technical capability there's zero difference. We got very lucky with the initial spread. We cancelled many events and had NO crowds at all our major sports for the year and all that resulted in us not spreading it. But none of that explains the staggering differences. Australia has a total of 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin total over 33,812 as of 12/1/2021 In the 7 days from 4 to 10 January 2021 Illinois had 971 COVID fatalities. In one week Illinois with half as many people as Australia had more deaths from this than Australia has had in 12 months. On the main table at -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Australia is 54th in population and 86th in COVID fatalities. If Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin were a country they would be 16th. Illinois by itself would rank 21st in the world. New York by itself would be 14th. In terms of death-rate (deaths/1M.pop) Illinois, Indiana & Wisconsin would be 4th (at 1342). 3 American states (New Jersey, New York & Massachusetts) have a higher death-rate than any nation or independent state in the world. For whatever luck and other things that may have favored us, nothing explains that discrepancy other than a complete failure of leadership.
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  4961. Exactly. I don't know why anyone thinks there is a "secret cabal" running everything when groups like the Federalist Society do it all out in the open. The entire world knows that the super wealthy hide their money using off shore banking. They don't even hide it anymore - they don't need to. The Panama Papers came out and nobody went to jail. The Paradise Papers came out and nobody went to jail. Trump tweeted come to Washington "it will be wild" and then he told a wound up mob to go down and "STOP the steal" and they did and it was all on film and HE GOT AWAY WITH IT (so far).
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  4962. DAVID YOU'RE RIGHT - YOU'RE NOT AN EXPERT IN THIS. I just listened to the latest Osterholm Report and it has some stark warnings. Michael Osterholm is the Director of CIDRAP and is/was part of Biden's team of experts. He's been right on everything so far. Here's the link to his latest podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAAcw34ToQM He is somebody you SHOULD interview.
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  4963.  @songomatic9897  The next 6 to 14 weeks could be worse than anything seen so far as the more dangerous strains are now lose in America and even with the best distribution of vaccines it wont be enough. Michael Osterholm did say he hopes he's wrong, but he said that in November when he said January would be the darkest time so far. Sorry.
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  4964.  @songomatic9897  I'm actually Australian and we got a little slack and took a bit of "its not that bad" and "we don't need to lockdown that hard." When we had a small outbreak last year people screamed and raged about the ass holes in government who locked it down. Of the 909 dead we have in 12 months 700 went in that 1 "small outbreak." That's like having 2 747 Jumbos crash and we took that as an unacceptable national tragedy. I went to college in America (U. Illinois) and if you add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25,2 million which is almost identical to Australia's 25.6. Australia has a total of 909 dead in 12 months. Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin had 914 die in the 7 days up to and including Feb-02 for a total over 12 months of 37,327. That is not simply explainable by geography, population density, available medical technology, time of year or culture although all those things are factors. So when the guy who's been right time and time again through this gives an ominous warning that it could be worse then I think people should listen to him.
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  4965.  @songomatic9897  I'm an Oz and you guys are pretty much the gold standard on this. What you need to be mindful of is not making mistakes like we did last year in Victoria. 700 dead is like having 2 x 747s crash losing all on board. If just 1 x 737 half the size crashed it would be a major investigation with every bullshit artist giving an opinion. The equivalent of 2 x 747s of mainly old people in age care facilities and we forgot it in a few weeks. Our Olympic athletes still think Tokyo is on. There's more dying right now than this time last year with new more lethal variants out of control in Europe and America. 🧏‍♂️🧏‍♀️
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  4966. Yeah when the most we've ever done is generate a few stray particles that decay almost as fast as they are made. And these guys are planning on a technology nobody has yet made work outside of a bomb to create the fuel they want which nobody has yet really proven to do something nobody will need for decades. FYI - I have a degree in aerospace and about 20 years ago I was discussing things with a class mate who's at NASA and there's 2 things we need for long duration space flight - life support and propulsion. Yeah its great these guys are looking at one but nobody is even remotely close to long duration life support. Its one of the things Li like to throw at Elon Musk fanbots.
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  4967.  @t.isurvivalist7537  On actually starting some form off world colony. Its the moon or the moon first. Nobody with a brain is going to spend billions and billions sending people to die on Mars. Its 6-9 months away so if there's any issues its over they all die. The moon is 3 days away so there is at least a chance you can get something there. That's the argument that came out of the Columbia tragedy. they knew the foam had hit the wing. There were engineers who wanted to roll a spy sat over and take a high res photo and some clown said NO there wasn't anything that could be done. That turned out to be complete BS and that clown got 7 people killed on top of losing $3.5 Billion worth of space plane. The whole thing with a lunar base needs a proper plan and from what I have seen so far NASA is either inept at planning that sort of thing or is being hampered in making sensible plans. In 2002 I met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) and he told me about Helium-3. So I went off to the Australian mining industry to learn how to build remote mine sites. Its not a bad analogue because there are a lot of similarities. You're essentially 3 days away by road you only get planes according to the schedule so you have to plan everything around those logistics. And it forces you to think quite differently than you do when working in a city. In one of our cities I can generally make a call and get almost anything I want in an hour. Out on a mine site I have to PLAN contingencies and I have to solve problems with what I have at hand not what I might want in 3-7 days. Remember the bit in Apollo 13 with the CO2 filter they had to bodgey up. That's what working on a mine site is like. The other aspect of remote Australian mine sites is paying attention to how dangerous the environment is. basically you treat everything that's alive and not human can kill you - even the insects because an infected bite out there is lethal. The bigger poisonous things just kill you faster. And even if nothing bites you the heat and dryness can kill you in 3-6 hours if you aren't careful. I can tell you from materials I have read that NASA really doesn't understand certain aspects of remote site operations. Most notably in maintenance.
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  4968.  @today05  No No No the life support issue is way way way way more difficult. Propulsion is just a matter of physics. Life support is biologic cycles which are very complex and are always interwoven with other biologic cycles. Do you know body that nobody as ever been able to artificially make soil AND YES they've tried. Remember that thing called biodome that catastrophically failed and failed several times? Its one of those things 7.8 billion people take for granted. We have a life support system and its called mother Earth and we barely understand a fraction of a percent about how it works except in conceptual terms and a few of the major cycles like the water cycle. The top guy in the field is Jonathan Trent and you can see some of talks here on YT. He calls it upcycling rather than recycling. Recycling is where you just reprocess back into a new version of what it was - like they do with aluminium cans. Recycling is very linear. Upcycling is where you take stuff from the bottom of the biologic processes and process it back up to the top of the biologic food processes and that might take several steps in larger more complex cycles as well as interact with other cycles. That's about as briefly as possible to explain how much harder it is.
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  4969.  @clementvining2487  Do you know when engineers know that amateurs are speaking shite that they have no idea about? When they start explaining and use terms like "new technologies" that NOBODY has ever developed let alone made work and then add in idiotic claims that we'll build the factory at places like Jupiter when they have no idea what getting to Jupiter entails. Stop reading sci-fi and thinking your an expert.
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  4970. Actually its not as stupid of a bet on behalf of the pillow. As David says he' placing the burden of proof on others and its to disprove something that doesn't exist. Disproving something that doesn't exist is one of those horrible logic arguments that can't easily be proven because it goes round in circles. It doesn't matter if you take a philosophical approach or a scientific/mathematical logic approach disproving a negative to prove a positive is next to impossible. Be careful. His claims are ridiculous but how he has framed this bet is anything but idiotic.
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  4971.  @andrina118  That's a great concept except MOST of the human race is either not intelligent enough to discern fact from fiction or they don't care to discern fact from fiction OR BOTH. There's another category which are those who can think through things if they are given enough time and they have people around them patient enough to explain things. The problem they face is the constant bombardment and they suffer information overload. Then there's that group who think they are far more intelligent than they actually are. These are the Dunning-Krugerites and they cause an additional problem of NOT SHUTTING UP and adding to the information overload. So yeah mate its a great concept and I am 100% supportive of anyone pushing critical thinking skills. Unfortunately there's this thing called reality and it sucks.
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  4972. That's actually a pretty good summation of the last 45years.
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  4973.  @SergeantSarge  Yep, who can forget crusty the space captain.
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  4974.  @matthewgaudet8001  Yeah Peter has made that clear a number of times. I just find it amazing that for all the conflicts there have been since WW2 how little of it has involved navies other than in support roles. For the amount of money spent and for all that various people have shot at each other its pretty amazing that only 11 torpedos have been fired in 78 years and 7 of those were during the 1 conflict - the Falklands. I'd be surprised if there's not a few more that just aren't in the common record. I know the Russians came very very close to launching a nuclear torpedo during the Cuban Blockade. 2 of the 3 guys on the boat said yes and the guy who said no could easily have been on one of the other subs in the group.
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  4975.  @martinjohnson5498  good example, and 1 I had forgot, but the theatre was a lot smaller and the combatants far less technically capable than today.
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  4976. I'm Australian. How do you think we feel having put FAITH that America is a RELIABLE PARTNER going forward when these GOP clowns are one option and Biden is the other. The one thing a some of these people, many of the American left and the rest of the world agrees on is that America needs new leadership. The Silent Generation and older Baby Boomers have had their go and need to retire. Before you scream we are ALSO in a similar situation. BOTH SIDES of Australian politics are trapped in their own webs of corporate and ideological BULLSHlT. We get the news out of Europe and its the same sorts of things there. More than anything else the entire world needs the corporate powerbrokers to back off and let the rest of us have a future. They need to get their dirty fingers out of politics and stay out.
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  4977. For everyone interested here's the full Henry Wallace quote from the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  4978. I'm an engineer who's worked in both our manufacturing and mining industries. I left manufacturing because I could see it was doomed. As far as electric Viking goes. I hate to slam someone but this guy gets a lot of his basic technical facts wrong. I have tried helping him out and found he's like most YouTubers only interested in clicks. I consider him just another clown in a field of clowns. While the thermal coal industry is doomed because we just can't keep burning the stuff the coking coal industry isn't going anywhere because we still need steel. No matter what you've heard the green steel thing is mostly myth. You can't use hydrogen instead of coal because you end up with garbage that's too brittle to use for anything. But that's NOT Australia's real problem. I did a small consulting job in 2016 and was stunned to find out how bad our energy plans were. 8 years later they are still a joke. The source of the problem is AEMO and that pack of clowns (mostly economists) need to be sacked and I am serious on that. The actual problem is we need to replace our older power stations and upgrade the grid anyway. The whole energy transition was always going to happen for the very simple reason that THINGS WEAR OUT. No matter how well anything is built and no matter how good the maintenance is eventually everything wears out. Power stations and energy grids are no different. It took me a couple of years listening to some fairly smart people to work out why economists have this insane need to be involved in things they have no training in or understanding of and its quite simple. Economists consider everyone else is a problem that they have to manage. They really do see you, me and everyone else as a problem. Even crazier is they have done it all across the developed world and until we can get them out of the road NOTHING anyone wants to do can happen. And its not just energy they have gotten into health care, education and everything else they can get into. That's why there's so much frustration with governments. No matter who anyone elects the economists step in and interfere because in their minds we only elect problems and they have to manage them. In Australia we need to replace over 30GW of older power BECAUSE ITS OLD with new and more power to feed a growing population as well as upgrade the grid to handle that new power. Unfortunately we have this group of clowns who wont get out of the way and clowns like Electric Viking who add to the noise and confusion.
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  4979. Milton Friedman the man who gave the world "Greed is good" also said: “Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.” The great BULLSHlT of that is he and his Chicago School Buddies through the ACTIONS of GOVERNMENTS went and REARRANGED the entire World's Economy. There's a famous photograph of him and Augusto Pinochet the Chilean dictator. The so called genius economist. As Thom has said several times he was a psychopath
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  4980. FROM AUSTRALIA and I went to college in America (late 80s). I have more respect for and a better understanding of the US Constitution than that clown in the 2nd half of this. For over 3-1/2 years I was surrounded by people fresh out of American high schools who had STUDIED CIVICS. I used to find it embarrassing because of how much they new about America and how it functioned compared to what I knew of my own country. We sort of covered parts of how Australia functions in things like history classes but we never had a specific class that simply focused on "this is how our country functions." Its the one class I would like to see instituted in Australia instead of the haphazard system we've had for decades. IT STUNNED me a couple of years ago to find out that George Bush had defunded it completely. if you go and watch any of dozens of videos on fascism the first thing they always do is downgrade education and start a campaign of anti-intellectualism. Considering we can all see what happens when you have that sort of education built into the system and when its removed its pretty damn obvious what the benefits are. Does anyone with a functioning brain really think Trump, Lake and Bannon would be taken seriously if civics was still taught? Yeah sure there'd be M0R0Ns but there wouldn't be 74 million of them.
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  4981.  @birthdayzrock1426  I made that crystal clear very day, every week, every month in any given age group we expect a certain number of deaths from a variety of natural (age, disease,....) and unnatural (car crashes, accidents,.....) and the 1170 he mentioned is within the range they'd expect under normal conditions.
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  4982.  @birthdayzrock1426  Nobody has said that from day 1 you idiot. When people die there can be lots of causes put on a death certificate. This was discussed last year time and time again. Wake up. Have you ever heard the term "contributing factor or factors." My mother died from liver cancer, but the breast cancer where it started and bone cancer where it spread to where "contributing factors." I had an oncologist (cancer specialist) explain it to me. Sure old people die from old age, but what does that actually mean? Some part (or parts) of their body stops working because its old. If something like the flu or cancer comes along and contributes it gets listed as a contributing factor. COVID has killed a lot of older people by contributing to existing ailments and age. Nobody has hidden that, people just don't listen.
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  4983. No he's simply trying to impress his reflection in the mirror he stares at for an hour each morning. just when you think this idiots bullshit has reached the maximum reality can handle he keeps going further. We are going to have to rewrite all the ways we measure and estimate bullshit after Trump.
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  4984.  @krook5158  They have a tendency to oversimplify things and that can work if your summarizing but it can also backfire. They have a tendency to NOT ask WHY and dig into the real causes of an issue - especially complex issues.
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  4985.  @krook5158  Plenty of peeps??? I'd say it's more like a plague of them.
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  4986.  @265hemi7  Its the one thing we can always be guaranteed of. No matter how well intentioned a government program or NGO program or independent charity is - there will always bee some sniveling shite trying to fleece it. I don't know if you remember it but there was that "Schools Building Program" that Labor di. They put up 4.5 Billion to keep the construction industry going and keep all those people employed. It was an absolutely fantastic idea. Private sector construction was at a standstill due to the GFC so they decided to put all those people to work doing stuff at every school in the country. But instead of listening to the school principals and school councils on what each school ACTUALLY needed they had government bureaucrats hand out contracts like confetti. Instead of 4.5 billion being spent on stuff schools needed they spent 2.5 billion on project management and 2 billion doing stuff that in may cases the school didn't need. That schools building program is a case study in bad management that EVERY university student should study.
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  4987.  @265hemi7  I'm assuming 265 hemi means your a Chrysler boy?
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  4988. that might be the dictionary definition but its NOT what's practiced.
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  4989.  @VincentOwens2day  The problem is like any "ism" patriotism is only a problem when it closes its eyes, blocks its ears, turns off brain function and starts yelling. Unfortunately many patriots walk around with their eyes shut, their fingers in the ears, yelling nonsense at anyone not yelling the same nonsense they are.
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  4990.  @VincentOwens2day  well said.
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  4991.  @JimmyRunningDog  Wait until you counter anything he says and his fanbots come out of the woodwork to hunt you. Some call them Muskrats. I call them fanbots for the simple reason all they do regurgitate his claims and excuses like programmed robots. I don't specifically hate Elon either, but I hate the unnecessary garbage PR. As I have said at times, I've worked in the auto industry and to bring Tesla to mass production and survive has been an staggering achievement. PLUS its actually changed an industry that hates change and particularly it hates big changes. I started with a degree in aerospace, so I also know how incredible Falcon is. Its now man rated. Boeing with all their funding and support and experience and they still haven't had a successful flight of Starliner. Everyone thinks Boeing failed on the Max-8. WRONG, the Max-8 was just ANOTHER SYMPTON of fatally poor management. What the rest of the Tesla & SpaceX shareholders need to learn from Boeing is that an out of control mouthpiece making promises that can't be delivered is in the long term FATAL.
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  4992.  @mikemooney9124  Its CCP not CPC. I kind of agree on their efficiency, but you've skipped over their shortcomings one of which is expediency. Its an easy thing to mistake expediency for efficiency particularly with technology - I'm an engineer. I was in China a few years back for work. I went on both their Maglev and Fast Rail and both are extraordinary technical achievements. ON THE FLIP side is that its all been powered by coal and their coal industry is expedient NOT efficient and that's before we open the massive box of the costs of that expediency. China has done extraordinary environmental damage to their rivers and other parts of their nation. Their contribution to climate change and that damage now exceeds America. They now risk losing a massive part of the food supply.
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  4993. I'm an Australian who went to college in America (late 80s) and have been warning that this is a huge issue to Australia, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Britain, Europe, the Philippines and many others. For so many America is our most important trading partner and MORE IMPORTANTLY our most important security partner. Like others we've staked our security future on things like the F35.
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  4994.  @sheldonbodryn1003  A few years ago I was in Canada for work right at the moment Trump tore up NAFTA and hit them with tariffs. It was interesting to watch Canadians drop the politeness and go into hockey mode. I used to joke with them, what was going to happen when they had hoards of American refugees at the border trying to escape the Trumptocracy? For all their sense of humour, they never found it funny.
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  4995. ​ @sheldonbodryn1003  I was in college in America in the late 80s. I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and we used to discuss these thigns a lot. Because I had studied Orwell (Animal farm & 1984) I use to argue that ANY country even America could become a totalitarian state if it wasn't careful. They used to argue that the US Constitution would NOT allow anyone to take America down that path. Look at America right now. SCOTUS has been corrupted by the Federalist Society. Congress has been corrupted by the corporate elites. The free speech of the 1st Amendment is under threat. The security of the free state of the 2nd Amendment has been hijacked by the NRA. The 3rd Amendment isn't used any more and I personally think its incredibly important and underrated. Its actually about protecting the land and resources. So when the EPA is regulating polluters they are actually protecting people's 3rd Am. right to their land not being spoiled. But the one that amazes me more than anything is how The Patriot Act tore a hole right through the 4th. The NSA can be watching us right now, without a warrant, without cause, without due process or anything else. I'm not even American and I think the US Bill of Rights is one of the greatest achievements in human history and to see it trampled is a tragedy of epic proportions.
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  4996.  @L98fiero  Yes ask the Iranians, Guatemalans, Chileans, Indonesians and a few others what its like to elect a government they US does not approve of. When I was in college in America (late 80s) the New Zealanders put a complete ban on nuclear vessels. NOT just nuclear armed but also nuclear powered. America tore up the ANZUS treaty over it and Americans went nuts. People actually came up to me all aggravated and upset that New Zealand would dare tell America anything. When I mean aggravated they were going nuts. Their brains shorted out and blew fuses. They could not handle the concept that ANYONE would tell them something like the New Zealanders did. When I told people "Its their country, they are allowed to chose for themselves." Americans went bonkers, like genuinely bonkers and a few times I was scared it was going to get violent. There's actually a problem with BOTH sides of American politics (the liberals and realists) where its hardwired into both that with foreign policy America has the superior system and others must acknowledge and accept America's ideological superiority. I recently saw a 2017 lecture by John Mearsheimer - U. Chicago REALIST professor and one of the fathers of the neo-cons. He explained how the American LIBERALS can't help themselves interfering in other countries they feel aren't giving their citizens an acceptable liberal democratic system. He was 100% right about the American liberals but totally avoided that his side "the realists" who are almost hyper Machiavellians. They'll interfere with any country that has resources they want and do it by what ever means are effective. America is unlike almost every other nation. They DON'T have a left and right like the rest of us have. They have 2 Right wing variants that are like the 2 sides of a coin. They are also identical in most ways accept for how they exercise power. One side believes every voice should have its chance to be heard and the other side believes their voice is the only one that should be speaking. And they both agree that America has the right to interfere in other countries.
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  4997.  Chrissy K  Your right if it wasn't for those few that still hold journalism as a positive force we'd be FUBARed.
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  4998.  @lindalee-brown5539  He smells money. Look how much they gave him after he lost - it was over $200 million.
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  4999. It really doesn't matter in most other "first world" developed countries he'd already be forced to resign and being investigated. How Loeffler and Perdue haven't been charged with insider trading has the rest of the world baffled? In almost any other Western country the authorities would have descended on them. The DNC aren't immune either. The whole world knows how in Nevada the DNC staffers gave themselves massive severance payouts after losing recent elections. I'm Australian and the fact BOTH SIDES of American politicians do this stuff out in the open AND GET AWAY WITH IT just stuns us. They would all be of to jail here.
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  5000. Yes it would show they are corrupt, BUT JUST LIKE WITH THE DNC it wont matter to their base. This is where politics has gotten too. The bulk of the population is so numb to all the shitfuckery that the fanatics on BOTH SIDES have enough voting power for this sort of shit to NOT MATTER. FYI - I'm Australian and our politics is almost as bad. We get all the news out of Britain, Europe and Asia and this stuff is now so common it answers the question why the aliens hide from us. They can't find any political leader who 's rational enough, to fly down and say "Here we are welcome to the Galactic family!"
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  5001. That is sadly sadly true. You can actually see it here in this video. Note how they cheered about being labelled among the lowest for vaccination rates. I heard Biden recently called Rupert Murdoch and bluntly put it too him about his Fox people and vaccines. Listen here at 2:45. This is Brown U. Professor Mark Blyth on his monthly podcast -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYby-07rEKU
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  5002. I had to scroll down but I finally found an intelligent comment - well done. What I find interesting is that this really is an important discussion and I wished David did more, but there's less than 150 comments (at this moment) which means either a lot of people are unwrapping or they just don't care about important stuff.
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  5003. NO you actually do need these things to happen other wise you just push it right into the echo chamber where this has been festering. You don't clean out an infected abscess by covering it. You open it up and let all the crap drain out of it. That's what Trumpism is - its an infected abscess that's been festering for years and its been festering for several reasons. 1) The complete failure of the DOJ under Merrick Garland to deal with Trump following January 6th. 2) The complete failure of the GOP to put up a decent candidate back in 2015. 3) The complete failure of the GOP to clamp down on Trump at the first impeachment and muzzle him. 3) The complete failure of the GOP to get rid of Trump at the second impeachment. 4) The Democrats repeated failures do to anything for the working class of America coupled with the complete failure of the DNC to put up better candidates that would have beaten Trump.
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  5004. Exactly And China has its issues and they are way more serious than Evergrand. Their 1 child policy skewed their population massively and there is NO WAY to solve that easily.
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  5005.  Ernest Khalimov  Sorry but no it wont. Its not a simple matter of numbers. What the one child policy did was skew the distribution of age groups. That took over 30 years to create. By having on 1 child they stopped their population growth but it effectively halved the size of a generation. You cant simply just breed your way out of that in a couple of years. There's simply fewer people in certain age groups and in those age groups there's also a distinct imbalance between male and female numbers. The actual normal situation for any society has slightly more women than men in any age group. By some reports China has age groups as skewed as much as 75% male to 25% female. I had a person argue months ago that those reports were wrong an it was only 52% male to 48% female, but even at that ratio there's not enough women to go around. If you have that many men with no chance of getting married its an ingredient for war. You cant simply start making babies and fix that. You're asking people already in their 30s to wait 20 years while you breed and grow them a wife.
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  5006.  @rbkkpooi3244  Not certain where your from but clearly English isn't your primary language. The Chinese have copied or stolen every bit of technology they can for the past 50 years. In a way its understandable, they were behind and wanted to catch up. As for Belt and Road that's just a copy of the Mongol Empire except using money instead of an army. Go study some history.
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  5007.  @xin8017  What exactly is anyone sour about? People like you are so sensitive to anything less than devout praise. Its actually pathetic. Maybe not in this post but I have been way more critical of the Americans and how their programs have misfired. If you want to see some harsh criticism of the American programs go watch some of the Angry Astronaut. I don't agree with all that he says but its hard to ignore many of his points. Just like it is impossible to ignore that China's manned space program has been all based on Russian technology. There is nothing wrong with that as even the Americans have been using Russian rocket engines for many years now. So grow up and be less sensitive to critique.
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  5008.  @Landoparada360  Seriously - STOP taking the drugs you are on and START taking the ones the doctor prescribed. If you are so anti-technology then GET OFF the internet, stop using electricity, stop using anything that is manufactured because all those things are made by engineers and engineers all believe the earth is a globe. Actually its an oblate spheroid but I don't want to hurt your brain cell with technological terminology.
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  5009. The real question is how much longer can the rest of the RNC and organizations like Fox from abandoning him. This is heading towards major civil unrest and possibly a second civil war in America and what Trump is misreading is that he's been supported by people who understand that wont be profitable. People like The Old Money RNC crew and Rupert Murdoch DO NOT WANT any form of major civil unrest. Their profits would suffer and they are people who will put their money before Trump. I wont be surprised that if Trump keeps pushing this garbage he'll have some misfortune like a stroke. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  5010. Yep - just imagine where they'd be if that had given him a slap on the wrist at the first impeachment. They could have done exactly what was arranged with Bill Clinton 20 years earlier. "You did the wrong thing, we aren't throwing you to to save the country from that sort of hellish mess, BUT YOU WILL NOW BEHAVE." Instead the GOP got stupider than stupid and let Trump get away with more and more and more. They even had a second chance with a second Impeachment which was even more obvious than the first one and that only gave Trump more free reign. As Lindsey Graham tweeted 4 May 2016 "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it." And that tweet is still there for all the world to see, because I just cut and pasted it.
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  5011.  @SandraLakshmi  I don't know if you can call Russia a terrorist state, but you are right in that they can't be negotiated with at this moment. AND to be clear I mean right now, not a week from now or a month from now. The Ukrainians now believe they can win or a version of win which wasn't a possibility at the start just because of the numbers (soldiers, jets, tanks,...) the Russians could deploy. The Russians are now in a place they never planned for. Very similar to what America got to in Afghanistan and Iraq. So right now at this moment in time the Ukrainians think they can win and the Russians can't believe they can lose AND in that scenario neither will negotiate even if they wanted too.
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  5012.  @irenepolikoff5526  Good points. The problem is basically the fact that humanity is all the colors of the rainbow and politics and public discord have become a field of black and white squares where the aim is to knock pieces of the board until there's nothing left but the royalty, their guard and what's left of us pawns after they sacrificed all the others.
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  5013. @_____ That is some of the most ignorant garbage I have ever heard anyone say. You are totally ignoring the historical reality of the last 50 years. The supe rich are super rich because they DID STEAL our money. They are the ones who paid to have governments that are useless. They were the ones who pressured governments into giving them tax breaks, concessions and subsidies that allowed them to get the wealth they have. They PAID politicians and political parties staggering sums of money so that once in power they would get regulations watered down while other regulations were just eliminated. The got governments to simply get rid of and disband regulators or weaken them so much they couldn't be effective. This nonsense you're preaching about that its not their fault is so far from reality I have to ask, which one of them do you work for?
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  5014. @_____ Don't call anyone childish when your ignorance of basic history is so pathetic. In the American system THEY DID SET IT UP TO AVOID CORRUPTION. It was the money people who came along afterwards who screwed up the whole system. Go back to school and learn some basic history before you start trying to lecture others and FURTHER to that go back to school in a place that actually has a functioning education system.
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  5015. @_____ lol at what? Your ignorance or your stupidity???
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  5016. Trump tore up NAFTA and other treaties and agreements while Putin tore up Budapest. The lesson is DON'T trust superpowers and especially don't trust them when they have narcissistic maniacs in charge. They will do whatever they want, whenever they want, however they want and not give a damn about the rest of us. In the end the rest of us are just pawns for them to sacrifice in their games.
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  5017.  @DownTheHill3  Its pretty farqing stupid to claim you come in piece carrying an AR15. 👉🤯
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  5018.  @yawningkitty457  If you look at it against the single seat versions of the mosquito and how successful they were in night fighter and ground attack roles if the hornet had have ben pushed earlier or the Westland Whirlwind had been given a better chance to prove the concept I think the Hornet would have starred in the long range bomber escort role. If you've ever seen the information on the casualty rates for bomber command and the 8th air force the hornet with long range drop tanks could have been a massive difference. In ground attack if you look at the kill to kill ratio for German Tiger tanks against Sherman's it was something like 7:1. So its ground attack could also have been significant.
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  5019.  Hoa Tattis  Well that disagrees with many, many other people and that includes people who flew it in the PACIFIC where it was most used. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️ It was fast, it had long range and had concentrated fire power. If you want to IGNORE where it was most used and was successful then don't complain when you get called ignorant.
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  5020.  Hoa Tattis  If you don't like getting called out for being stupid then don't be stupid. The world hasn't got a shortage so we don't need you adding to it. 👉🤯
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  5021. The other thing Peter misses out here are the other steel producers like Japan, Korea and India. Everyone should have a watch of this to get some real perspective on steel production. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dnM-RQI23Y If you ever want to see how things have changed over time this is a great channel to look up stuff.
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  5022.  @jamewakk  What have I said about Germans? NOTHING.
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  5023.  @jamewakk  WTF has that got to do with anything I said, you ignorant racist?
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  5024.  @raam1666  Buddy that's so stinking racist its ridiculous. Your forgetting that most cultures borrowed, inherited and stole from other cultures through history. We got engineering from the Romans, who got stuff from the Greeks who got stuff from the Persians, Indians and Egyptians. Just remember most of Europe were nothing more than scavengers and hunter gatherers before the Roman empire. And AFTER the Roman Empire, European society got Math from the Arabs, Astronomy from the Indians and printed money from the Chinese. The when the Europeans divided up Africa among them they made sure the Africans stayed uneducated and underfoot. You are ignoring a lot of nasty shite that went on.
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  5025.  @timstewart2468  Sorry for the long replay. The whole subject of bringing processing back and manufacturing back always comes down to one single thing - ENERGY. The single biggest difference between modern society and previous societies in ENERGY. No matter what anyone wants to claim it all comes down to energy - how much is available at what cost. Access to raw materials, education & labor all matter but nowhere near as important as energy. The claims about labor cost are pathetic as labor cost hasn't mattered in decades. All the talk of labor costs are just lies and misdirection. I have been looking at the energy thing ever since I did this small consulting job circa 2016. I thought Australia had serious issues and then started looking around. Its serious everywhere. The biggest problem by far are people called economists. Its a long story and it actually goes back to a very small group of radical libertarians in the Bush White House in the late 80s who stalled everything and ran interference and ran scare campaigns. Its actually had nothing to do with climate. These were (and still are) people who believed that ANY government program except the military was a bad thing and needed to be stomped on. Bottom line is, YES we can do what's needed problem is due to the stupidity of these economists its now going to cost stunning amounts that will be measured in double digit Trillions (no joke). Australia with all of 26 million people is facing a cost of between $200 billion and over a trillion if its managed badly. Imagine the costs for bigger populations. Then there's the Greenies, who do mean well, but are insanely ignorant of engineering reality. They're right, places like Australia have some staggeringly good geography for both wind and solar. The problem is those places are inconvenient. We have the Great Australian Bite which is exposed to the Roaring 40s where the wind varies between gale force and cyclonic. Its like the Orkney's (off the Scottish coast) have so much wind they don't know what to do with it. We need mechanisms to transport & store energy and that has been stalled for over 30 years because it wasn't convenient to a few people with influence. Plus and the Greenies need to eat this one big time, NOT every country has great geography. In fact most countries suck for wind and solar and they are going to need to get the energy from other sources and that includes the 'N" stuff (🫢 shhhh!). Because of their ignorance the Greenies are their own worst enemy. My favorite gag on other engineers (mech, chem, civ,...) is to ask them how electricity works. Its how I get rooms full of engineers to shut up by making them look stupid. The Greenies are levels of dumber than the lowest of engineers who are the civil engineers. I call them "shovel monkeys" because other other than digging holes to fill with concrete they don't much else. They get confused when water wont flow uphill. So consider where the Greenies are. So imagine what its like trying to explain to politicians what needs doing when they economist screaming in one ear and greenies the other ear? Its a shitfest and when the media get involved it goes from shitfest to hyper-shitfest faster than any of Einstein's predictions. As for a safe place to discuss any of this, I believe there's a small town way out past the town of Burke NSW called the "Back of Burke". It has a sister city named "Idontknow" in a country called Biddleonia.
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  5026.  @justatiger6268  Actually as an aerospace engineer I'd go in a heart beat. BUT we just don't have the technology to do it and we aren't even close. In the simplest the Space Shuttle was an amazing technical achievement and the ISS is a necessary step for more manned missions beyond Earth BUT both were poorly mismanaged and that's cost years in terms of people working on what we needed and the money cost has been staggering. That's why we haven't been back to the moon. Too much money was spent on the Space Shuttle and that snowballed into the cost of the ISS and in doing that people weren't developing the next generation of technologies.
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  5027.  @justatiger6268  And so we are sure any mission I'd take to Mars is a RETURN trip not a 1 way. Definitely NOT a 1 way.
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  5028. GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  5029. GREAT TO SEE YOU CALLING OUT CORPORATE STUPIDITY I'm an aerospace engineer who works in industrial control systems and automation. A lot of that includes safety control functions like Emergency Stops and Safety interlocks. You know that stuff that keeps hands attached and prevents stuff blowing up. I eventually got the second highest qualification any engineer can get in that field. Getting that qualification has kept me OUT OF WORK. The last time I saw a job specifically asking for that qualification I called up the recruiter to enquire. By that time my qualification needed to be renewed, but that was just a fee. I asked that if I was offered the job I'd pay the fee before starting. The reply was "Your the 4th or 5th person to put that too me today" and then they hanged up. That meant that other engineers had been experiencing EXACTLY the same situations I had. That's what being qualified means to engineers these days. You work you ass off to get your degree which with all the math and applied math classes is damn lot harder than any arts degree. If you then take the effort to get further qualified your job prospects can GO DOWN not up. People like Managers and their Human Resource minions don't like people who speak out and people with qualifications are often caught out. Their employment contacts often include clauses where "if you know something you must speak out" which clashes with the reality that if you speak out you get your contract cut WHICH HAS HAPPENED TO ME just like it happed to the submariner/engineer David Lochridge who's suing Oceangate. If you think engineers are angry over this sort of crap YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT and its about time there were some actual laws that protected us. Because when we're allowed to do our jobs YOUR LIVES are safer. - When your driving a car its mechanical engineers who designed the brakes to help you stop before the tree; - When you plug something in its electrical engineers who make it so you don't get shocked; - When you drink a glass of water its chemical engineers who make it so you don't get poisoned; - When you get in a jet to fly off on your holiday its aerospace engineers who keep the wings attached. We keep you clowns alive in 100s of ways every day. And before any of you complain just note you wouldn't even be able to read this with out engineers.
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  5030. HEY DAVID, Just yesterday you said that Raphael Warnock did not do that well in the debate YOU SAID " Raphael Warnock didn't do particularly well. He didn't come across as particularly passionate. He didn't come across as particularly prepared...." So when are you going to a stories or interview on why people SHOULD vote for Warnock? The whole planet knows that Herschel Walker is not suitable for public office anywhere, but that's not how American elections operate. Voting is VOLUNTARY and candidates have to get people to take time out of their lives, turn up and vote. We have heard and seen dozens of examples on why nobody should turn up and vote for Walker but almost NOTHING on why anyone should turn up for Warnock.
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  5031.  @livelongandtroll9108  I was about to scream at that when I saw the second 1/2 of your comment. If you do have a look at Keith Murdoch's career he started as a war correspondent who actually spoke out against the British Leadership regarding the disastrous Dardanelles Campaign. Its pretty spectacular stuff. He even got arrested my military police for trying to get a message to the British PM telling him the truth. But in the 1930s he was caught in a scandal of his own making regarding the government being able to force all newspapers to print what they wanted. So he had a very mixed career. Its all there on his Wikipedia page.
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  5032.  @livelongandtroll9108  Actually it was your remark that made me check. I like to at least Wikipedia things before commenting. These days Wikipedia is pretty good on accuracy especially bios because people will correct inaccuracies on their pages or on people they know about. Your right Keith Murdoch's career is mixed but his son's isn't. He's a person many Australians wished had never been born. There's no doubting his business skills but his utter disregard for other people is staggering. He's a pure sociopath.
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  5033. And on a second thought how does it feel to be a lawyer who has regained his spine and soul. Welcome back to the human race. Take it slowly at first, it might be a little confusing until you get used to it. 😉😂🤣🤪
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  5034. Of course Trump pardoned Duncan Hunter, because he needs to set a precedent that using campaign funs to PAY OFF women he had affairs with is OK. On this wiki page go and check the 5th & 6th references --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_D._Hunter
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  5035. Look Viking, I am totally empathetic to your family situation having been their myself, but I'd be negligent as an engineer who has worked in the automotive industry not to call out the hype in this video. You need to tone down "the Elon will save the human race nonsense." I did my degree in aerospace but have done 30+ years in industrial control systems and automation. I worked in Australia's automotive sector building automated work cells before going off to the mining and resources sector. I have spent a lot of my personal time in the last few years looking into economics because of all the clowns with economic degrees interfering with projects. There are over 1 billion cars in the world and almost 500 million trucks. It is going to take decades to swap them over from fossil fuels. Then there is the EXTRA POWER GENERATION NEEDED to power them. There's all the Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt, Phosphate and other minerals needed to make the batteries and motors and other stuff. NOBODY KNOWS what the operating costs of electric trucks because NOBODY has been operating them long enough. You and many others in the "technology will save us" and "disruption is magic" brigade of cheerleaders need to wake up that all this stuff will TAKE TIME. LETS NOT FORGET that Elon Musk himself promised these trucks and fully 100% self driving cars and neither has come close to fruition. He promised these trucks would start being delivered customers more than 4 years ago and he still hasn't built the factory to make them. Look after your family NOT Elon Musk. Best wishes to your wife and kids.
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  5036.  @bcanuck  No - Russia is one of the main countries for PRODUCING nuclear fuel. its one of the very few things that has never been sanctioned because 1 in 20 American homes is powered by Russian nuclear fuel. If you go and look up the channel decoupled and look for a video on enriching with James Krellenstein he goes through the history of enrichment and where it is today.
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  5037.  @calc1657  Because his assessments on geo-politics and demographics where he has actual expertise are really good. I just get pist off when he keeps repeating bad science and engineering because he has no excuses. He can afford to hire and engineer or just ask one.
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  5038.  @calc1657  And besides his fans need to know he gets stuff WRONG.
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  5039. Finally one of you commentators has asked publicly the sedition question. I have asked both Glenn Kirshner (ex Federal Prosecutor) and Legal Eagle that same question. Birth have been posting explanations of the what is going on legally with the court cases vids and other issues. Glenn is working on ways to deal with "not qualified judges" which is the Bar Association term for some of Trumps judges. I don't think its treason as some claim because it doesn't involve using foreign parties to overthrow an existing government. I do think its seditious behavior, but we all need to hear from a real lawyer about what is and is not real. YouTube keeps flagging pro-Trump channels and the commentary on some is scary, very very scary. If this shit does not stop it could escalate very easily and that could be very bad for the entire planet. Glenn Kirshner --> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrWmonkmTk5NbvmVnc7f70w Legal Eagle --> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpa-Zb0ZcQjTCPP1Dx_1M8Q
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  5040. Donald Trump had Steve Mnuchin of Goldman Sachs fame as Secretary of the Treasury Joe Biden just hired 2 Goldman Sachs muppets to be part of his administration Yeeeeaaaahhhhh, HHmmmmmm. UUmmmmm. I got zip to explain what to make of that.
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  5041.  @nilesbutler8638  Agreed - Hannity is a poisonous snake who keeps biting America in the ass.
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  5042.  @genestarwind4610  Ouch - that's harsh. But then is it their fault they are the result of a failed education system? And lets not forget that it was George Bush who defunded civics classes in schools.
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  5043. BECAUSE his cult is made up of small minded people with brain development similar to 11 year old boys.
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  5044. On manufacturing Peter's again right about a couple of things and totally wrong on others. Yes Tesla is making the chassis (the frame of the car) out of Aluminum, but the casting process they are using is is state of the art and very cost effective. I watched a video where it was explained and even though I am not an Elon Musk fan in any way some of his engineers know their shite and know it very well. The original concept for the Tesla Roadster came from a couple of very smart guys who knew what they wanted. They were not restrained by the business practices of the major manufacturers and were incredibly innovative. Elon himself has, despite his claims, had fark all to really do with the car, which is why its pretty decent. The same can be said about SpaceX. I have had a ride in one and it was excellent. Elon himself is a shite engineer but what he is utterly brilliant at is identifying technical opportunities and exploiting them. Where peter is misunderstanding some of the manufacturing is that thing engines and gear boxes and differentials are not cheap items in a build process. There's precision castings, precision bearings, cam shafts, valves, head assemblies, crankshafts, pumps and gears and all sorts of stuff to make a drive train. Teslas have a battery and an electric motor. So it has more expensive materials but its also a lot simpler to make. and install the drive train. But I also think Peter is dead right and that because of the available supplies we wont see a lot of long haul trucks or farm machinery go electric for a long time. He is dead right that its a massive task that a lot of people have badly misread.
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  5045. What I can't believe is that Americans continually act surprised when this stuff surfaces. The CIA have been doing nasty shite since their inception. Just like with America always striving to be #1 at the Olympics over the Soviets. The CIA was in a head to head competition with the KGB for who could be the worst government funded organisation in History. Which coup do we need to explain to people like Kyle - Iran, Guatemala, Chile, Indonesia or any of the others. I guess Kyle's to young to know about Iran-Contra????
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  5046. This is what people look like when they have no moral or ethical compass. Their life is about "What do I want right now? Yesterday is irrelevant and I'll do tomorrow when I get there." Once you accept what these people are its kind of depressing but it also makes them predictable.
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  5047. A few weeks back people were calling Taibbi out for being Elon Musk's mouthpiece with the Twitter Files. The argument wasn't about the facts but that he was being the MOUTHPIECE for a billionaire and publishing what a billionaire wanted publishing. People went bonkers from both the Left and Right screaming "No, No this is all proving how corrupt the establishment is." Their claims haven't aged well. Fact is the moment someone in the media (irrespective of where they are Left or Right) is reporting the PR that someone with public influence wants published they are NO LONGER A JOURNALIST. You cannot claim to be a journalist when you are the PR conduit for a billionaire.
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  5048.  @peterhowley1510  That's a sad sad sad truth, but then lets not forget he smacked 17 of the GOPs finest back in 2015/16 on his way to winning the nomination. Its kind of staggering just how few REAL political leaders America has at the moment. By that I mean people willing to stick their neck out and take on the establishment and get stuff done. In a way Trump tapped into that. That was almost his mantra in 2016 - "What have Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and the others actually gotten done?" and then he played the same card at Hilary. You can actually throw that at an extraordinary amount of western politicians. Its not just an American issue. I'm Australian but went to college in America. We have the same shite here. When I look at Britain or Canada or anywhere else its the same shite again and again. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5049. Its the same as many other "boy crying wolf" things we have seen. Is antisemitism real? Absolutely, but its not behind every negative comment about Israel. Is there a lot of "anti-something" against many groups? Absolutely, but not very negative comment about LGBT, Gypsies, Muslims, Catholics, Jews, Greenies and dozens of other groups is some form of ideological slur. Human beings have an almost pathological need to throw people into a group and categorise them and then make all sorts of assumptions. We call it stereotyping AND IT NEVER GOES WELL FOR ANYONE.
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  5050. Yeah - which part of the Mega corporations around the world aren't corrupt? They're all 1,000feet deep in tax avoidance/evasion and government manipulation. You name the corruption and EVERY country has it. The most common policy EVERY government on the planet has is: "What do the billionaires want and did they pay us enough to get it?" After that everything is either a mute point or political spin.
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  5051. Yeah - really. The Panama Papers detailed Tax Evasion on an industrial scale. NOBODY was charged let alone sent to jail. Then the Paradise Papers detailed more Tax Evasion and again NOBODY was charged let alone sent to jail. Then the Pandora Papers detailed even more than the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers combined and guess what happened AGAIN? Jeffery Epstein was murdered while in custody and NOTHING was investigated. Jared Kushner used US Government resources to play various Arabs off against each other to get the Kushner family business bailed out. After that he was handed $2 Billion by the Saudi's. None of that's even being investigated. Hunter Biden's Lap Top could have nuclear codes on it with details of which pedophile terrorist he sold it to and NOTHING will happen BECAUSE THAT'S HOW MODERN POLITICS WORKS. They yell and scream and rant at each other, but none of them go to jail.
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  5052.  @sndspderbytes  WHAT DA FARK ARE YOU CRAPPING ON ABOUT? WTF does either of the Bush Presidents have to do with this discussion? Sorry but we have had enough of MAGA clowns who just open their mouths and start screaming at anything they don't like and ranting garbage and crap. We've had enough DK-HED.
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  5053. Oh absolutely and I could pay off a huge part of America's debt and fund the the rebuilding of America's infrastructure and re-fund education as well as fund health care. America holds 2 lotteries. The first winner gets to put the noose around Trumps neck and the other winner gets to pull the lever.
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  5054. ACTUALLY KYLE - the drug dealer thing is fantastic because finally America will be able to deal with America's pre-eminent drug dealing organisation who have poisoned millions of Americans and caused the deaths of several hundred thousand people - the Sackler Family.
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  5055.  @danielboone8256  NO THERE IS NOT You and every other evangelical can push that crap anyway you like and it still comes down to the basic fact that you can't force your ARR0GANT crap on anyone. It never works and it never has.
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  5056.  @danielboone8256  Typical of your kind. I gave you a crystal clear explanation that you REFUSE TO HEAR. This is why people DO NOT LIKE Bible bashers LIKE YOU. You're rude, you're arrogant and you don't LISTEN. If people say they don't want you on their land. YOU DON'T HAVE A RIGHT TO GO ONTO THEIR LAND. Its called trespass and Jesus told you to obey the laws of the land. Remember him saying to pay Caesar's things to Caesar. Jesus DID NOT tell anyone to trespass. Jesus DID NOT tell anyone to FORCE his teachings on anyone. You'll actually make friends if stop beating them round the head with your insane arrogance.
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  5057.  @abanoubraouf6959  Go back and read what I ACTUALLY SAID and what I have been arguing with these clowns over. You are actually repeating what I said from the start. Its the clowns I have been arguing with you should be saying this too.
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  5058.  @krypticsz4154  Being a Christian had nothing to do with it. Being a person who thinks his ideology gives him the right to force it upon others is/was the problem. That actually makes him no different than many other people with ideologies they think are perfect and absolute and that they have the right to force on others.
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  5059.  @abanoubraouf6959  No they didn't. There is NOTHING anywhere in the Bible that says they FORCED themselves on anyone. JESUS HIMSELF told them if you aren't welcome THEN LEAVE. Jesus also made it abundantly clear that so long as it did not compromise their beliefs they were to "Pay Caesars things to Caesar" which also includes that if a government says that you cannot go somewhere then YOU CAN'T GO THERE. The word "NO" has never seemed to registered in your brain.
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  5060.  @jamescarter8311  WTF is wrong with you and the other clowns? Does the word "NO" mean anything to you? Its arrogance because everyone KNOWS YOU AREN'T ALLOWED TO GO THERE. What part of STAY OUT don't you get? What part of mind your own business don't you self righteous clowns understand? What about the word "TRESPASS," does that word have any meaning to you? Go back and actually read your Bible and in particular take note of what Jesus kept saying to the Pharisees and Sadducees. Yeah buddy, JUST LIKE YOU they were arrogant and self righteous and Jesus pointed that out.
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  5061. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: The answer is: Nobody listens to us. Its really that simple. Look at this story as an example. Do they ask an engineer to come on and explain it NO. We make the cameras, lights, microphones, transmission gear, TV sets and computers you all need to have a job. We also provide the electricity to power all of it. Do we get any respect from the media for making their jobs possible? NO Do we get any respect form anyone that the lights are turned on or you can sit there and read this on a computer designed by engineers, powered by engineers with software written by engineers? NO - like so many others you just whine that we aren't getting the job done. I am so sick and tired of all the people who aren't engineers interfering with engineers, interfering with how we do our work, interfering with our careers, and telling us how to do our jobs when they have no idea what our jobs are. As for education and training. Forget it, the clowns with economic degrees and MBAs wrecked that like they wrecked everything else they have touched for the last 50 years. Did you ever bother to stop and think that when engineers were NOT interfered with that we went to the Moon. Then once the Reaganomics and Thatcherism economics revolution arrived that it started to slide and slide and slide. I have been trying to tell people in my home country (Australia) we need to build new power stations. We all know we need them but EVERY PUBLIC DISCUSSION involves academics, economists, celebrities and all sorts of people EXCEPT ENGINEERS.
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  5062. NEWS FLASH from AUSTALIA to THE BRITISH PEOPLE You were stupid enough to let the economists convince you to sell of your public assets and then even dumber to let Macquarie buy your water infrastructure. Sorry but I don't know any other way to put it except we also listened to the same type of economic nonsense and its choking our economy right now.. I recently watched the IIPP at UCL host Brett Christophers for a book talk on Asset manager Capitalism. Its here on YouTube and is titled "Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World". Previously I had watched Mark Blyth give an ominous warning about Asset Manger capitalism in his talk at the Watson Institute which is also here on YouTube and titled "Mark Blyth– Asset Manager Capitalism". He includes a diagram of how this system works. FYI - We tried reining in Macquarie (along with the rest of our banking and finance industry) and what they were doing a few years ago and FAILED. The Economists stepped in and stifled every suggested action, because in their words "it would harm the economy." What they really meant was that it would hurt their bonus packages, their stock portfolios and their retirement packages. They simply threw the rest of us under the bus.
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  5063. Just when you think American politics can't get any more SHlTHOUSE another Trump grift pops up closely followed by others in the Trumpistan Grift Battalion speaking even more stupidity and nonsense. I'm Australian and went to college in America. I was there in 87 and watched the stupidity that went on. I can remember arguing with people that this stupidity will end up one day destroying America. 4 May 2016 Lindsey Graham in a moment when his brain actually functioned said "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it." AND SO YOU KNOW our politics in Australia is going the same way. Right now we are having a referendum that would formally acknowledge that Australia was already inhabited when European settlement started. In doing so it would also give Australia's First nations people a permanent "Voice to Parliament" that is very similar to those constituted in the Nordic Countries for their native Sami people in the far North. The Referendum looks like failing and the NO campaign against it is being fronted by 2 native Australians who work for Right Wing Libertarian Think Tanks with links to Americas Right Wing Libertarian Think Tanks. Their main campaign strategy/tactic is fear backed up by misinformation. And they have very specific targeted campaigns for native Australians that are different to those being used on the rest of Australia. Does that sound familiar???
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  5064. You forgot to add "and I don't want to take ANY RESPONSIBILITY for anything."
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  5065.  @ottz2506  That's actually a fair comment. Mark Blyth points out that populist movements like Trumpism are present in both left and right forms. If there is a difference I think that right wing populists and libertarian's are far more "in your face" about it or at least far more vocal. If there is one thing many on the left do not recognize is that when the EXTREME left go off they go truly berserk. Look at people like Robespierre, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and the Kim family and others from the EXTREME left.
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  5066.  @ottz2506  That's almost a crazy definition because ALL people want some form of liberty and that has been the case for 1000s of years across 100s of cultures and political systems. What we really have are Anarchists on the FAR left and Libertarians on the FAR right who BOTH want to do whatever they like. THEY BOTH hate any and all forms of government rules or regulations. THEY BOTH scream "police state" whenever they get adjudicated on. THEY BOTH scream and complain when they are in trouble and demand others help them. To be honest I wished both the FAR left and FAR right would just STFU and let the rest of us breath for a few minutes without being screamed at. We have real genuine problems facing the entire planet and instead of dealing with any of them these selfish farkers just wont stop howling at us.
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  5067.  @RilianSharp  You're right HE never SPECIFICALLY said that. My comments more to the general nature of these people. He's basically advocating that its wrong to enforce people to contribute to the overall welfare of a society. But then these same people BENFIT from public services - roads, sanitation, police, fire,...etc. There are so many things WE ALL benefit from these days that most people take them for granted. This clown is advocating that its WRONG to force people to contribute. If he really believes that he should never flush a toilet again unless he installs his own personnel system to handle it. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5068.  @RilianSharp  For reference on the absurdity go watch Monty Python's "Life of Brian" for "what have the Romans ever done for us"
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  5069.  @RilianSharp  Typical dismissive arrogance of a clown who wont listen, cant think and tries desperately to be relevant. Enjoy you libertarian delusions, but don't bother others with them.
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  5070.  @Northstar1989  Good comment, although I would tend to say that libertarian socialists never called themselves that (or at least I never heard them call themselves that) but they did call themselves anarchists. I'd always thought anarchists were about causing mayhem and chaos until I met one first year of college. We were in mechanical engineering so he was a pretty logical sort of person. His main belief (if it could be called that) was that conforming to societies social rules and norms was idiotic. He sort of voiced some of the ideas this clown does EXCEPT for one major thing. He still believed in being socially responsible. Like for engineering we need regulations, standards,.... etc. or bad stuff happens and people get hurt. Lookin gat other comments that's where this guy has set people off. He wants ZERO responsibility for anything and everything.
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  5071.  @MrDaniell1234  I just watched this from Krystal Ball and its actually staggering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGXENI49ByQ That decision basically strips away the right for average citizens to seek compensation from those who KNOWINGLY harm them. Its basically grants big business immunity from having to pay compensation from wrong doing EVEN WHEN THEY KNOW what they are doing is wrong. I don't know what's more insane the fact SCOTUS decided as it did or that it isn't one of the biggest stories in American history. There was that idiotic decision that corporations were people - this is even worse. This is now saying those mega corporations are not only people but they have immunity from judgement. Its effing insane.
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  5072.  @MrRyan684  If not a bot a least an agitator. I'm expecting Dan S any moment.
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  5073.  @loripip3285  PLEASE delete or edit that before you get in trouble. Calling for martial law is a crime - its called sedition. If you want to keep the rest of your comment fine that's your choice but delete the martial law part. You can get in serious trouble for that stuff the 1st amendment only goes so far. We all get you're upset. Now you know what Clinton's supporters felt like. Its like following a football team that isn't as good as you want. You can hate it all you like but you still have to live with it. Its called democracy, people vote, its counted and a winner is decided. The state courts have upheld the results and SCOTUS has upheld the result. ALL 3 JUDGES Trump appointed to SCOTUS have upheld the results. There's a reason Giuliani and others are keeping this going - money and lots of it. Do you realise that Giuliani is making more than $100k a WEEK? That's double what Hunter Biden got paid each MONTH by the Ukrainians. Have you considered where that money is coming from? Its coming from donations. Every day Giuliani drags this out and gets money from people like you he gets another $20k. I don't know what sports you like or hate but if you had a coach doing as bad as Giuliani you'd sack him. He's 1win for 58 losses.
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  5074.  @loripip3285  You've missed my point - I've said you are entitled to your opinion. The first Amendment guarantees that. BUT YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED to call for martial law, that's sedition and sedition is a crime. Trump can say whatever he wants - he's POTUS. But he has NOT called for martial law and neither has Giuliani because both of them know what would happen. You and a lot of others need to wake up and realize that Giuliani and others don't give a crap about you. *This is about raising money and putting as much as possible in their pockets.*So far the number I have seen published is $207 million and that's a week old. You haven't been watching REAL hearings in front of REAL judges. You've watched staged hearings that Rudy Giuliani has put on in a hotel and hearings in front of state legislators. REAL JUDGES in REAL COURTS have said "THERE IS NO EVIDENCE" and they've said it 58 times in 59 cases so far. The one case Giuliani's team won was in Pennsylvania where the officials tried to extend the deadline for people to verify their mail in ballots and the Judge said NO you must follow what is already written in the law. You need to stop listening to Giuliani and the other liars. You just claimed (and I quote) "there is a reason for all these losses in court , the judges and supreme courts dont make the call on costitutional law" First you ADMIT that there are REAL LOSSIES in the REAL COURTS. Second making calls on the constitution is exactly what the courts do especially the Supreme Court. That is why the Supreme Court exists. This how much Giuliani and others have twisted reality. They have people so confused and drowning in misinformation that you have just claimed that the job SCOTUS exists for isn't really what they exist for. That's like claimin 1+1=3. The Electoral college has met and voted and even Mitch McConnell has acknowledged Biden won and Trump lost.
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  5075.  @loripip3285  On a side issue that I think might be of interest. Do you understand how stunned a lot of people are that Trump got and extra 12million votes than 2016? Its driving the Dems nuts because they can't explain it other than to scream is a cult. Sorry if this answer it a but long, but I think it will surprise you. I guarantee there will be Dem supporters screaming at me, but among the Dems are some real idiots. There are a few people trying to answer how Trump got more votes and how the Dems failed. And the Dems did fail in the House where they lost seats and failed to win the Senate. 2 are University Professors and both leftists, in fact one teaches Marxism. BOTH have supported your right vote for Trump and BOTH have acknowledged the reasons people voted for Trump. One of these Professors is Mark Blyth who is originally from Scotland and was one of the very few who predicted Trump would win in 2016 and predicted it 6 months before. The other is Richard Wolf (the Marxist) who recently spoke against the Democrats who claim that people who voted Trump voted against the best interests. He has openly said the Dems are wrong. Mark Blyth has pointed out that for the first time since BEFORE the Reagan years that there ahs been real wage growth for the bottom of the US economy and that it has happened 3 years in a row. That's genuinely amazing and I wish we could say the same here in Australia. All we ever hear about is GDP growth. Its a bullshit fantasy because its been driven by population growth not by wages or productivity or anything else. America has actually had something no one else has had and you have had it for 3 years in a row. If you don't believe me here they are talking about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=2708s I don't expect you to listen to the whole vid, but you should listen to a couples of minutes at the point in the link. The guy speaking is Mark Blyth (Economics Professor at Brown). He slams the Dems and explains out how Trump got the Bottom 20% wage growth. If you watch on a bit further you'll see Prof Wolf rip the shit out of the Democrats when he talks about West Virginia (its at about 53 minutes) Just think for a moment: How come its the Leftist Professor who is pointing out that millions of Americans have had real wage growth for the past 3 years? How come its the Marxist Professor who is defending why people voted for Trump? Here's some things that should surprise you. In my opinion: 1: Hilary would have been a disastrous President because she would never have fixed the real problems facing millions of real Americans. 2: Joe Biden will not solve the underlying problems either. He'll be less destructive than Trump on some issues, but worse in others. Here's why I think that. We have the same issues in Australia and the same types doing the same shit as people like Biden and Hilary.
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  5076.  @loripip3285  See the second answer I just gave, sorry its long but parts should surprise you. Some of the stuff I have heard recently from people I trust has surprised me. The Biden money is not a minor issue but its small fry compared to the other things. And some of those other things are way more important. The January 6 thing is just another smoke screan to raise even more money. It really is over and it really is about money.
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  5077.  @loripip3285  Forget China they don't care anymore except for their upper 1% who have huge investments in America. I was in China 3 years ago for work and they don't give a crap about America. There mobile phone market is 5 times the size of America and then they also supply India and the rest of Asia, soon it will be the middle east and after that Africa. What American's don't get is that to the average person on the planet you just don't matter anymore. Do you know what concerns the average Chinese worker? Losing their job to cheap labor in Africa. The interpreter our team had told me that one day over breakfast. I don't hate Trump personally BUT I HATE WHAT HES DOES, which is fueling people like Giuliani, McEnany, Carlson, Hannity, Alex Jones and others to rip America apart with lies so that they can make money off the chaos. Instead of screaming and howling crap just answer 1 thing. Why am I telling you I DON'T think Biden will be a good president?
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  5078.  @loripip3285  On your China "Strangle them with their own systems" try this from a KGB defector back in 1984 (36 years ago) He says that Americans harm America just after 2:40 . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI I think he's completely wrong in some respects after all the Soviet Empire collapsed a few years after he said that, but on the concept of Americans harming America he's dead right. Americans have been harming America for a long time. It was obvious to me that America had issues back in the late 80s, not long after Yuri Bezmenov said what he said. It was obvious back then that if America didn't stop doing what its top 1% wanted and f--k the rest it would not go well. Before you ask, yeah Australia has been doing the same shit. It doesn't matter who we elect either, once they are in power its f--k the voters and do what the billionaires want.
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  5079. The only pertinent question is - How on earth has the entire Sackler family and their executives and their advisors not yet been arrested? Oxycontin is an opiate and all opiates are addictive. Medical science has known that for decades so how was it ever possible to have this happen. This entire disaster wasn't negligence it was simple greed.
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  5080. Under any other circumstances I'd say your paranoid, except the track record of the FBI, NSA, CIA.... over decades makes it tragically plausible. Why would ISIS go after Bush? ISIS was a competitor to Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda told the founder of ISIS to get lost because they though he was too bat crap crazy even for them. There's a really good PBS Frontline on the origins of ISIS and it covers the part where Al Qaeda sent him packing. If it was a guy with Al Qaeda links going after Bush then that's a totally different thing, because OBL hated the Bush family over their dealings with and support of the Saudi Royal family.
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  5081.  mVP  First of all your only the 2nd comment. But there is something going on with the YT algorithm. Someone else pointed out to me a couple of months ago that YT is filtering and suppressing comments. Right now it says there are 9 comments but I can only see 7. So YT is hiding at least 2 comments from me. There could be lots of legitimate reasons for that. - people might have ignored the warnings on community standards so the algorithm masks them; or - people might have had so many thumbs down the algorithm masks them; or - people might have complained that a comment is spam or trolling or something else. Plus there's been a staggering amount of bot driven garbage being pumped at people. Who knows what's being filtered out. It might be legitimate, it might not we just don't know. What we know for a fact is the YT algorithm does filter comments and hides some.
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  5082.  @wendellhammack7691  Well if you listen to both Legal Eagle and Glenn Kirschner you'd know there's NO LEGAL BASIS for Treason. Legal Eagle did an extended vi don that only days ago -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLeMKM4ArlA So why are you trying to argue something you know is legally baseless? Treason is a non-event due to the very narrow definition in US law. Where as Sedition is, even though its also incredibly hard. The only way they could possibly get treason would be if they magically dug up something where Trump was knowingly working with a foreign country to damage America. And despite all that people have claimed nothing of that sort exists in the public discussion that would actually hold up in court. Somebody just pointed out yesterday that with the law suits from Dominion & Smartmatic they are hoping that it does NOT settle out of court so that the DISCOVERY process happens. Because then we will know who called who and who said what and who was directing it all. That has serious potential for Sedition and or Conspiracy charges to hold up. There's the line out of a Few Good Men about it not mattering what the truth is, it only matters what you can prove in court. Its something the Trump supporters haven't understood in the slightest and the rest of the planet needs to be more sensible that Trump supporters.
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  5083.  @TalentCaldwell  I think your right or it least it sounds right. I know at least one person saying that was on MSNBC. I'm no fan of MSNBC or Chris Hayes, I think he's part of the disease that is "opinion being broadcast as news." But I remember that its been repeated by several ex-military people that the oath to protect the constitution doesn't simply go away with retiring. If someone would clarify why the age of 85 was mentioned that would be good.
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  5084.  @randibgood  great comment and so, so, so true
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  5085. What an elitist smug media hack is disconnected from what they said a year ago? That's now so common its a cultural cliché.
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  5086. I agree with what you and Kyle have said. If you go back a few years to when he was still an active University Professor he was pretty good. A number of his past lectures are here on YouTube. I watched a couple out of interest and the guy who's there teaching and engaging with his students is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT person to the one we see now. I can easily see why he was a popular professor (at least to some), but what he's become is a caricature of what he used to describe. Its kind of sad in some ways.
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  5087.  @jl8410  trust colors???? WTF are trust colors?? Is English even your native language?
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  5088. ​ @Greendalewitch  Can we please STOP having people like you who try and make out that what they are saying is in anyway intelligent or thoughtful or meaningful. You specifically mention 2 people WHO HAVE CHANGED their PUBLIC POSITIONS and IGNORE THAT FACT. Tulsi Gabbard had served in the US Military and been right there handling the issues of injured and killed US personnel. At the time she was anti-war she had VALID REASONS for being anti-war. She'd seen the results and details up close. As to why she later changed he stance on war. You'd need to ask her WHY? But DO NOT make some BULLSHlT claim she never had a valid reason for being Anti-War and DO NOT accuse people of being sucked in by a legitimate position that she once held. Jordan Peterson was a tenured Professor, who had published numerous peer reviewed papers, talked at conferences, worked as a clinical psychologist and was noted Author. HOW does that NOT make him an intellectual? WTF is your definition if intellectual? As to why he changed his position. Take note of the drug issue he had. There's Jordan Peterson BEFORE the drug issue and there's Jordan Peterson AFTER the drug issue. CAN clowns like you STOP making these BS claims that they always knew, when it was a case of NOBODY knew how these people would change their public positions on various topics.
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  5089. Australian here - This is what you get for letting Rupert Murdoch lose on your airwaves for 40+ years were he could use (actually abuse) the 1st Amendment to beat your country senseless. Would Trump even be a thing right now without the Murdoch's support after what he did on January 6th? We tried warning you. Just like we tried warning the Brits what he was like and they didn't listen either. You guys even did a documentary called "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" and in that documentary they specifically WARNED that Murdoch would end up dragging the entire media industry down into his gutter. FYI - I went to college in America. I love the place. I love the people. I love things like college sport, the NFL and even NASCAR. I utterly hate what the Murdoch's have done to 3 countries, but especially what they have done to America.
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  5090.  @dutchhoke6555  That's a bit harsh. Considering who he's talking about he's certainly older than most. The things I have questioned regard how up to date he is. I think he's certainly off on his solar panel degradation.
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  5091. Your absolutely right but right wingers only hear what they want to hear anything else is noise. Everything they accuse others of they do right straight in our faces and that sort of hypocrisy eventually gets very ugly responses. Its like the brat in grade school who enjoys niggling people. They poke and prod and niggle always trying to get a reaction. Everyone in while they push too far and get thumped. When that happens they squeal about how its all so unfair. Those kids grow up to be Republicans.
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  5092.  @ShaithMaster  Have you heard hwo Alex Jones lawyers defended him in court by stating to the court its an act, he is playing a part and that he's a "performance artist." He must be a great performer because he apparently makes $50M a year selling his overpriced crap (vitamins & stuff).
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  5093.  @taranullius9221  Basically what you have said is what I meant. WTF is wrong with people like you that your reading and comprehension skills are THAT BAD. 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  5094.  @taranullius9221  If you subscribe to the Milton Freidman school of economic stupidity as people like Reagan and Thatcher did. THEN YEAH the government should do as little as possible and let the private sector work it out via the markets. In which case you need to ask the question why do we even have governments at all?
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  5095.  @lisizecha9759  And your point is?????? Cos I got that. Duh.
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  5096. Sports illustrated write Rick Reilly wrote a book about how Trump cheats at golf and how it explains his behavior. Here's one of his book talks, its worth the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIiaFMOfbwY
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  5097. Unfortunately we should all take this with a grain of salt as these "experts" have been saying this for over a year. I hate to say it, but there's too many people in the DOJ who don't want to risk their careers on loosing. DON'T FORGET this is the same Eric Holder who FAILED to prosecute any of the Wall St Executives after the 2008 GFC because it was to risky to his career.
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  5098. Great video mate, but I wouldn't call this a busted video because he keeps pointing out where the Veritasium video was right. Its more like he's a more comprehensive explanation of what's going on with electrostatics and various fluids. I know your background is in chemistry mine is in engineering where I work in control systems and automation. There is a kind of flow meter that is very common for water treatment called a "Magnetic Flow Meter" usually referred to as a "mag flow". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_flow_meter I have been on a waster water project where ON PART of that project we could just not get them to work properly. It was on a mine site with some highly contaminated water. The process included chemical treatment, clarification, filtration and finally reverse osmosis. The RO was far from normal and was designed to almost de-mineralize the water. That caused a problem with the mag flow meters on the clean outlet side of the RO plant. They were fine everywhere else on the project but we could just not get them to work properly on the RO plant clean outlet where there was almost no contaminants. The thought was we just didn't have enough conductivity between the electrodes to make them work. Not certain if that helps or not. I suspect its not as straight forward as a lot of people think.
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  5099. AUSTRALIAN HERE: This DIRECTLY affects the SECURITY of the USA and it also DIRECTLY affects the security of America's partners. It directly threatens all of our international security arrangements. How is Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Britain, Europe, The Philippines and dozens of other countries supposed to deal with the American Military when NONE OF US CAN RELY on the American officers because nobody knows if they got their commission on MERIT or POLITICAL ideology? 1) We are being asked to spend as part of the AUKUS Agreement AU$268 to AU$368 BILLION. We have already ear marked almost AU$4 Billion to help upgrade YOUR AMERICAN SHIPYARDS. 2) There is the ongoing war in Ukraine. 3) There is the ongoing war/action in Gaza. 4) There are the ongoing issues with China. This clown Tuberville is so bad even the other GOP clowns want him out.
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  5100. Questiond; Did Joe Rogan fully or officially endorse De Santis like he did for Bernie Sanders OR is he saying De Santis is the better GOP option? I haven't seen the Rogan interview, so I don't know if he was asked to clarify what he meant, because it might any of a bunch of possibilities. Joe tends to speak his heart and mind at moments rather than thinking how people might take it or report it.
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  5101.  @phil5037  That's as probable as anything. I also wonder if he's just comparing the GOP options. Like - does he think DeSantis is a better option than Trump.
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  5102.  @markfeland2285  Really I heard from this guy that Mississippi was the most corruption free state in the world. He was this guy about 6'2" with a beard, mid 50s and going a bit grey. Said his name was Brett something and was wearing a Packers shirt.
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  5103. Forget anything this clown has to say, because whatever it is: IT'S TOO LITTLE & TOO LATE! Where was all this honesty during Trumps Second Impeachment? He could have gone to Mitch McConnell, their Billionaire backers and the rest of the GOP leadership and been rid of Trump, been rid of Bannon, been rid of Mike Flynn and been rid of others in Trump's clown brigade.
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  5104. IF THEY DO NOT HAVE TO ADMIT LIVE ON AIR THAT THEY LIED WHAT DOES IT MATTER? Rupert Murdoch can pay this out of petty cash. His estimated wealth is $17.6 billion USD and this will probably be paid by his insurance company anyway.
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  5105. Because Rupert Murdoch knows how to make money.
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  5106. Go watched the other video where Konstantin Kisin sits opposite his mate Francis and explains Putin's speech where Putin claimed that Ukraine should not even exist. Nigel Farage as usual showed he actually hasn't a damn clue. Remember back when he won his precious Brexit vote. Forgetting if it was right or wrong, the FACT is he immediately resigned from the team. What that meant was that (1st) he didn't expect to win and (2nd) he had NO idea what to do if they won. He had no plan, no ideas and simply threw 67million Brits under his Brexit bus. Like Trump he's another walking talking lump of populist garbage who has no solutions to ANYTHING and creates disasters for other people to clean up..
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  5107.  @liinav.3808  Moron, his job is to question people and get answers. Idiots like you are so wrapped in the tribalism you can't see reality.
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  5108. Hey Kyle & friends here's 2 undeniable facts. In 2016 62,984,828 people voted for Donald Trump. In 2020 74,216,154 people voted for Donald Trump and that's despite EVERY POLL, even those from Fox News said that his numbers were FALLING. Despite all the obvious garbage his supporters handed over $200 million to pay of his election debts and legal challenges AFTER HE LOST. These people do not want to acknowledge reality. They have been hammered and smashed for 40+ years of neoliberalism. They do not care what a college educated smartass who calls them M0R0NS has to say about Trump. They will still keep handing him money and still keep voting for him. Until they get a better alternative than Trump then they will still keep voting Trump.
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  5109.  @simongiles9749  NO you don't unless your saying you have one like the Plantagenets with Edward I Longshanks made famous for hang, drawing and quartering or the house Drăculești famous for Vlad III better know as Vlad the Impaler famous for shoving large lumps of wood up peoples butts.
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  5110.  @wtmayhew  I'm amazed how few people have pointed it out. Despite 3 different mothers 3 of them look similar to senior, another looks like her mum and junior looks like a hospital swap.
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  5111. You are spot on. Most people can't even properly define what CRT is. John Oliver did a brilliant video on CRT and how it became this hot public speaking point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICp1vGlh_U The whole thing was manufactured by one guy as a divisive dog whistle to set communities at war with themselves.
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  5112.  @perrymason866  Sorry buddy but you're wasting your time with M0R0NS like SK-VG3mw. He/She is what the Americans call a Libertarian and the rest of us an Anarchist. You can tell because the VERY first thing he/she tries to argue on is TAX on the basis of: "The government can do NOTHING right and all they do is waste our taxes." That's the Libertarian mantra. One of the concepts Libertarians & Anarchists NEVER accept is that governments have to build, own and operate certain things because there's NO business case for the private sector unless its heavily subsidised by the government which defeats their claim. This highlights their insanity. They'll howl about government wasting tax dollars but then insist the government help them when they need it. They say they don't believe that but go listen to what they actually preach or watch them in action. AS such they can't conceive that the government needs to tax and use that to build, own and maintain things like roads, bridges, water systems and sewerage systems that free marketeers CANNOT provide because there is no business model for BUILDING that stuff without subsidies. There is however an AWESOME business case for BUYING from the government because its already built. They don't need approvals or anything else. They just buy it and start charging money AND because its often a basic utility like Thames Water the customer base (like Gary says) already exists and already pays because they have to use it. I'm an Australian engineer so I know about the engineering stuff like infrastructure. Our mega problem is energy but we also have some other major issues. Its these problems caused by these insane economic policies why I've been listening to people like Gary. Its so that I can speak the language of economists and explain their mistakes. Their single biggest mistake is NOT understanding that governments MUST invest in things that DO NOT need to make money so long as those things ENABLE other things to make money. Sorry about the longish reply. I can ramble on about this stuff for hours, but Libertarians drive me nuts because they really are that stupid.
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  5113. Yes on all accounts. I'm an aerospace engineer and I hate these people. They are the reason we took so long to get a space station, why its cost so much, why it took even longer to get a replacement for the space shuttle than it should have AND MOST OF ALL why we haven't been back to the moon for 50 years. We could have and probably should have had a moon base by now and maybe gone to Mars but these clowns keep interrupting with nonsense and garbage.
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  5114.  @TwoForFlinchin1  Its Yanis with a 'Y' and I don't personally know him or even care that much for economists except for the rare ones with brain function. I'm an engineer and in general think of economists as a pack of ignorant clowns. I say ignorant because they tend to "ignore" the rest of EVERYTHING as if nothing else exists but their markets and the systems that support them. Then there are those very few like Yanis, who look around, do some thinking and realise other sh*t happens so that when their mouth opens the rest of us don't feel the need to shoot them.
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  5115.  @darylgrimes2601  I think you need to get your history sorted out on who was the worst terrorist organisation. For sure the British Empire is near the top but its a long way behind the Catholic Church, the Russian Communist Party and the Chinese Communist Party when it comes to mass murder.
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  5116.  @darylgrimes2601  Never forget 1/2 the population has an IQ under 100 and the military accepts down to 92. In fact 1/2 the population is between 90 and 110. Its a statistical thing. As for knowing a lot about the United States. That's no longer the case. Ever since George Bush defunded the teaching of civics in particular Americans have known less and less about their own nation. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). The people I went to college with knew their own country better than I knew my own particularly at the constitutional level, but they never really knew much about the rest of the world.
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  5117.  @ehyena  Population of America is 335,236,943
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  5118.  @ordohereticus3427  Go watch the recent Triggernometry interview with Andrew Doyle. He's just written a book on that subject of people madly labelling others as hard as they can. I don't know if the book is any good but the interview was worth the time. He has a great story about the time he was labelled a Right Wing Homophobe. In response to something he said.
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  5119.  @ehyena  Oh sorry missed what you meant. I thought it was $400 but who really knows tother than its so much more than Hunter ever earned its not worth comparing. AND that's before we consider they did it from inside the Whitehouse. What Harris is saying is that Hunter Biden is like a small pebble in your shoe. Yeah its annoying and you need to deal with it but compared to being smashed over the head with a big rock its irrelevant.
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  5120.  @daviebananas1735  DO YOU REALISE THAT BEING LEFT LEANING DOES NOT MEAN BEING WOKE SJW? This is the problem with woke SJWs. You all claim to represent EVERYTHING on the left and you just don't. You don't even represent a fraction. You paint anyone who disagrees with you as some right wing radical maniac. Nobody can speak reasonably to you, nobody can have a rational discussion with you and you wonder why people can't stand your bullshit. For every good cause you might have had you have alienated EVERYONE who might agree with you. Its why you are just as bad as the maniacs on the far right.
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  5121.  @daviebananas1735  Bananas is a really apt monika for someone like you, because you are completely farking banana's. Have you ever heard the expression "Your worst enemy is the fanatic who tries to own your ideology" or similar. Go look at the history of revolutions involving fanatics. Once they have overthrown the rulership they start purging their own people. Because the onw thing fanatics can't handle is anyone questioning what they do. Stalin is a good example. The early Russian Communist also practised democracy and elected their leaders. Stalin didn't agree and massacred most of the Russian Communist Party early on and ended Russian democracy. The worst enemy anyone on the right has are the fanatics on the Right. The worst enemy anyone on the Left has are the fanatics on the Left - LIKE YOU.
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  5122.  @gabuli8310  Thank you.
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  5123. EVEN TOM BRADY HAD TO CALL TIME. And by the way some of the current QBs are playing there'd be at least a dozen teams WONDERING if they should call him. BUT NONE of those teams would do any better because just like it is in politics having a great player always helps a team BUT IT DOES NOT guarantee success. The lesson of champion teams win championships NOT teams of champions has been illustrated so many times that its amazing NOBODY in politics realises it.
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  5124. I hate to break everyone's balls on PART of this. She's actually right that America does not have the energy grid set up for shifting everyone to electric cars and that nobody has a real DETAILED plan to get there, BUT THE REASON WHY there's no plan or progress is because of people like MTG. Remember the now infamous Exxon memo that told their people the plan was to delay all action on climate change for as long as possible? That and other factors, including narcissistic liars such as MTG, are combining into a perfect storm. Here's an explanation sorry if its longish. I'm an Australian engineer who went to college in America. We have the same problem here in Australia and the same problem is in Europe and Asia. This isn't simply an electric car or environmental issue. A few years ago I became aware of how badly Australia's energy grid was being managed. After the 1990s we just stopped building major power stations. By Major I mean those greater than 1,000 Megawatts (1 Gigawatt). Power plants like Diablo Canyon in California, which is 2256MW and Eraring in Australia, which is 2880MW. Diablo Canyon of 36 years old and Eraring is 40 years old. Most power stations are built for 25 years of life which they extend with rebuilds to 40 or more years. Think about how many of you have cars older than 25 years let alone 40. These are the big power stations that underpin our energy grids and keep modern society running. When I looked around its the same everywhere across the entire developed world. Except in China and a few rare cases we all stopped building new coal fired plants because of CO2 emissions. After Chernobyl and Fukushima everyone stopped building nuclear power plants. The problem has been masked by new wind and solar combined with more efficient appliances and lights, but we are starting to hit limits there. The problem is like we are running towards a cliff and people are too busy playing politics. All of our major power plants are now old and only getting older and less reliable. Here in Oz we are at the cliffs edge with old unreliable power stations. So there's not only a shortage of energy supply just to keep society going we don't have enough energy generation to change to electric cars. That's all before we ask where is all this Lithium to make the batteries coming from. Elon Musk's new mega-battery wont be able to make 3% of what's needed and that's by his estimates. So MTG's right that the infrastructure isn't there, BUT her fossil fuel friends ARE THE PROBLEM with getting it done. If there is one thing I'd fault David on is his oversimplification of the plan. Yes there is a general plan but NO there is NOT a detailed plan and the "devil is in the details." Its very frustrating to be an engineer when other people oversimplify what needs to be done. Things like where's all the lithium coming from for the batteries? And then how are we going to make that many batteries? Who's going to build all these new factories? David doesn't have to answer those questions but engineers do. Sorry for he longish comment.
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  5125.  @roderickcampbell2105  yeah yeah what ever 🥱🥱
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  5126. Below is exactly the same answer I just gave to another thread above and the stuff at the bottom has a link to a question after a lecture that goes straight to the issue of comprehensive and detailed policies. Yang's problem was that he (like so many others) had good ideas, BUT good ideas do not win in politics. Most people do not want ANYTHING explained or have the THINK about anything. Its why very simple things like Obama's "Hope & Change" and Trumps "Make America Great Again" worked so well. Back in July 2019 Prof Mark Blyth (Brown U.) gave this awesome presentation on "Global Trumpism" after it there was a Q&A session and one question was on Elizabeth Warren. Listen to what he says and you'll see why so many well intended people FAIL in politics. Here's a link to that goes straight to the question on Elizabeth Warren, but if/when you have time I still recommend people watch the whole lecture it might be from 2019 but its still worth it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4795s
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  5127. @UCpbTd291jXg5FpNX6DzcQeg DON'T BOTHER WITH THE GARBAGE CLAIMS There is no experimental gene therapy going on with respect to COVID vaccines. Fine big pharma are a pack of money grubbing mongrels but they are NOT doing gene therap. STICK to FACTS.
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  5128.  @davidhughes4089  Thanks, but you are in a minority. The worst offenders fall into 2 categories. First - the completely uneducated who read or heard something or watched something . Second - college graduates who don't have science or technology degrees but think those 1 or 2 classes they did taught them all they need to know. Its 2 versions of Dunning -Kruger. There's a third type but kind of rare and yet also very dangerous. Those are the engineers who have failed UPWARDS and somehow become decision makers. They are the types that caused the loss of 2 space shuttles, the Boeing Max-8, Chernobyl, various bridges and other regrettable things.
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  5129.  @davidhughes4089  I totally agree on the engineers not being smart with money. Project management is one of my pet subjects to howl about. In Australia where I am the list of badly managed engineering projects is so long its defies logic. Its also NOT just government its rampant through the private sector and in some ways its WORSE in the private sector because they have mangers who don't care. A lot of it is driven by the cost+ contracting that's done and how that system operates, but at the core of it is ignorance of engineering by the non-engineering management coupled with utterly hopeless project management training for engineers. Where most people know its been very poor is places like Boeing where the Max-8 was a disaster and the Starliner (for NASA) is a failure (so far). I did aerospace as my degree and NASA's projects since Apollo have been a mix of extraordinary triumphs with things like the Mars rover programs and utter tragedy like the Space Shuttle. I was actually in Florida for the launch of the last shuttle before Challenger and watched it from about 60miles away. Just recently I realised that the shuttle I saw launched that day was Columbia the other shuttle that crashed.
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  5130.  @waynet8953  The classic when you look at the F35 is one of the aircraft it was to replace was the A10. First off the air force has tried to kill off the A10 for decades, but the Army canned that every time because there simply hasn't been a better close support system deployed since. From and engineering perspective the case study to compare the A10 and F35 is amazing. On one hand you have the plane that was designed to do everything and has ended up doing few of those things well at all. Versus the plane that was designed for a specific role and does it so well that 50 years after first being conceived they are building a new batch. Then there is the supply chain issue that the VOX video goes into. That video and what Anna refers too is pretty common knowledge. Particularly the stuff about how the F35 project has bits made 46 of 50 US states. That means 92 out of 100 Senators would be voting against jobs in their state if they try and cancel it. Its been done before but never to that extent. Its was Lockheed's response to getting the F22 cancelled. And its that supply chain that is the real problem. No matter what system you want to talk about - if its hard to maintain its a monumental problem in a war. Even the USAF can't get the spares it needs to keep its F35 fleet flying. So what chance does Australia or anyone else have. One of the main reasons Germany lost WW2 was because they OVER RELIED on things like the Tiger Tank. Yes it was almost invincible, but it was incredibly expensive, took a huge amount of labor to build and was hell to maintain. In the end the Germans didn't have enough tanks ACTUALLY fighting and they simply got overwhelmed. Think of car racing and in any category there have been many incredibly fast cars, but too many of those have been fragile. Fragile cars might win some races but they don't win enough races to win championships. Military history should have warned EVERYONE that the F35 was a dud from day one.
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  5131.  @waynet8953  Have a look at what elected officials are doing all across the Western Democratic World and its the same thing again and again. Add there are some unbelievable outcomes happening. As said I'm in Australia and we just had a state election in Western Australia, which traditionally has been incredibly conservative. Its an enormous state with a small population and incredible wealth from mining. Its wealth per capita makes Texas look poor. In Australia the Liberal Party is our mild right (similar to the Dems) with the Nationals being the more conservative (similar to the GOP). The Labour Party is our left. At the last Federal election (just before COVID) the Liberal-National Coalition won. Here's the results -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4EFD2CBPc The liberals have been so annihilated they might actually drop below the threshold where they get funding as a party. In Oz to get automatic funding as a political party you have to get a certain number elected. They currently control our federal parliament and just got wiped in a historically conservative state. In America this would be like the Dems almost wiping the GOP out of the Texas State house.
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  5132. Up to point. He is 100% RIGHT about the Jihadists - NOBODY can live with them and its about time the Muslim world dealt with this problem instead of funding it. He is 100% WRONG that ALL the people protesting Israel at the moment are suffering moral ambiguity. Some no doubt are, but most recognise that the belligerent bombing campaign that has included 4,000 children being killed IS WRONG. If Sam thinks protesting the slaughter of 4,000 children is wrong then the person suffering moral ambiguity is Sam Harris. On the Hamas tunnel system. That's not an original idea either. Its the same strategy the Vietnamese Communists used against America in the Vietnam War. They could not control the sky overhead so they went underground and attacked by stealth. Even that wasn't here idea. Its been practised for centuries to hide soldiers in covered pits. Sam is also (and I think deliberately) leaving out certain facts. 1) Suicide bombing IS NOT a purely Jihadist tactic. It was notably used by the Japanese in World War 2, but also by the Chinese against the Japanese in World War 2. Its been used by others with no links to Islam. Go look up "Suicide Attack" on Wikipedia and look at the Pre-1980 history. 2) Hamas was foundered and funded by Bibi Netanyahu so that Yasar Arafat's Fatah would have an opposition and it would keep the Palestinians divided.
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  5133. You are 100% right, if we are living in normal times. What we are now living in is an abnormal time and logic and common sense come a long way after NARRATIVE. America lost this fight after Mitch McConnell, Rupert Murdoch and others among the elite refused to hold Trump accountable for January 6th. The fact that almost 2 years later he has STILL not been held accountable is an indictment on BOTH the Dems & GOP. The Constitution, which Americans hold up like a sacred text to the world and a beacon of light, is now worthless because the people commissioned to protect it have instead trashed it.
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  5134.  @deniseeugene1852  I'd agree that so far its SURVIVED, but if you think it will continue to survive then you are living in denial. Go watch Thom Hartman's stuff on the Libertarian movement that's heavily funded by people like Charles Koch. They want to hold a Constitutional Convention and they only need 34 states to agree. He's reported they have 31 at the moment. At such a convention it only requires 26 states to chance the Constitution and at such a Constitution each state gets 1 vote on any and all resolutions. YES ITS INSANE but then the ideology of the Libertarians is insane. What people have misread is they are not only extremely well funded but they are also well organised. I'm not talking about the Trumpists (they're nuts) I'm talking about the billionaires who fund influential think tanks like the CATO Institute. They are well organised, well funded and they do want to burn the US Constitution.
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  5135.  @walkertongdee  How and Why? Common don't just make the claim tell everyone WHY and HOW he's what you claim?
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  5136. In Australia I first heard about this project a couple of years ago (see below) in a general news story about water management issues around the world and there are a lot of water management issues around the world. The problem for Beijing is that its main water supply the Yongding River was damned upstream for irrigation and now its dry. They built a dam on the Yongding to store and provide water for Beijing. Its never held a drop of water. This is a similar to the stories about the Aral Sea, the California Aquifer, the Hoover Dam, the conflicts developing over the Nile, the issues with the Jordan and the Dead Sea, the issues with over irrigation of the Tigris and Euphrates and then there's the mega issue of depletion of ground water across many parts of the world. In Australia we have the Murray-Darling system which has been so badly mismanaged we pump water back up the darling via a pipeline (from the Murray) to make up for stupidity on the Darling. Back in the 1950s we did the Snowy Mountain scheme where we dammed the Snowy River which had the highest flow of any river in Australia and diverted it through tunnels and pipes into the Murray. We generated electricity and provided a massive amounts of water for irrigation. The Murray joins with the Darling our longest river. Those 3 rivers combined no longer flow into the ocean because we extract so much water from them. This stupidity in China is being repeated around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongding_River https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/worldtoday/china-claims-new-project-will-revitalise-the-yongding-river/10548942
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  5137.  @jesan733  New nuclear has only been killed in a couple of countries like America and Australia. If you want to complain about any of the subsidies that the Renewable Energy sector has got then FINE. But I want to know what you are going to tell the Coal, Oil & Gas companies who get something like $3 TRILLION in tax breaks, subsidies and other incentives each year. Hear in Australia our gas companies have stated on there yearly reports they have made over $400 Billion over the last decade and NOT PAID A CENT IN TAX because they all got insanely good concessions. I don't mind anyone commenting on the subsidies and grants to renewables BUT FOR F*CK SAKE STOP IGNORING WHAT THE FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES GET.
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  5138.  @dwayne7356  Great comment on all points. Another Australian Simon Michaux has looked at how much stuff is needed and in terms of things like Lithium at current production we can't do it. There's 1.5 Billion cars registered in the world and 500 million trucks. (that data is on Wikipedia). A Tesla model 'S' needs 62.6kg of Lithium. Just for argument say we only need 50kg for a car on average (to make the math easy). Those 1.5 billion cars need 75 million tons of Lithium. It took me seconds looking on Wikipedia (under Lithium) to find "The US Geological Survey (USGS) estimated worldwide identified lithium reserves in 2020 and 2021 to be 17 million and 21 million tonnes, respectively." The KNOWN reserves are a fraction of what's needed. Also current Lithium production is about 80,000t and at that rate it'll take around 1,000 years. As Simon Michaux says (and I don't agree with all he says) "Its not impossible but we need a better plan."
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  5139.  @britefeather  YEP - if you let rapacious greed drive energy prices up it effects everything in society. The dumbest thing we ever did was listen to Milton Friedman and his clown brigade.
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  5140. ​ @sharemyjoys  I watch Rosie often and she's very good for a University based person. I rarely disagree with her and its usually on things I have industrial experience on that she doesn't. On those coal fired power stations. I agree they are uneconomical to maintain but it depends on what you replace them with as to whether the replacement is economical or NOT. Those sites still have the grid connection and if the replacement can utilise that connection then it can be very economical. Hazelwood in Victoria was 1,600MW and so it had a 1,600MW grid connection. The European EPR is also 1,600MW so could be very economical. Although I'd be more inclined towards the Canadian CANDU because its quicker and cheaper. Even if they've pulled down that connection there's still the alley way it ran through and land costs money. So the economics relies on the planning and what you are doing.
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  5141.  @dustinsindledecker154  Yeah soon as they learn how to spell!
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  5142. I'm a born bred and raised Victorian who's NOT living in Victoria for the moment and with stuff like this going on AM GLAD I'm NOT living in Victoria. This is the typical "throw a band aid on an arterial bleed" response that has plagued Australian politics for decades. Its NOT just clowns on the Far Left that do this. The Far Right are equally as bad they just do it in different ways. Let me explain something I do know about. I'm an engineer and circa 2016 I had an odd little consult job and discovered just how bad our energy situation actually is. I can simply say that the general public has no idea how bad our situation is and what sorts of costs we are going to encounter over the next few decades. If we are lucky it will cost about AU$2 Trillion *(YES with 'T'), but if we let the clown brigades fight like they are we could be up for as much a AU$10 Trillion. If people want I will explain those numbers and it has little do do with the energy transition because we were always going to require a massive rebuild replacing the old worn out power stations as well was building new power for the increased population. But right now the far Right is preaching the nuclear solution BECAUSE ITS CONVENIENT. There's actually a very sound argument for having PART of our system become nuclear. I am in favor of nuclear power being part of our energy mix, but we can't even have the discussion because of the CURRENT POLITICAL RIGHT and how they are promoting it. The way its being promoted along emotional reactionary lines makes it a terrible public discussion JUST like this idiotic ministry which is also a reactionary political response makes for a terrible public discussion. And that's the real problem. We have these REACTIONARY political activists pumping needed public discussions with emotional nonsense and they make sensible public discussion near impossible no matter what the topic is.
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  5143.  @spacescatatford  Bullshit you're in science because the first thing anyone learns about any facet of science or engineering is that we DO NOT know everything and NOBODY is ever taught math, physics, chemistry or engineering in blind faith. Science is about EXPLAINING things and getting people to understand. Blind faith does not include explanations or understanding.
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  5144.  @spacescatatford  You are very close but not 100% correct that everything in the consumer world has been touched by science and engineering. As an engineer who has worked across a number of industries I looked at this a few years ago. It took a bit effort to find something that DOES NOT involve science and engineering. Anything made of metal or plastic or is packaged or involved any type of machinery or used electricity involved engineering. I'm Australian and the one group of products available here I know of that DO NOT involve engineering are traditional arts and craft from our first nations people. Its not all of what they make either. Its only the very traditional stuff using native materials. The world famous popular dot paintings are done on canvas and that canvas is engineered. I only know of a few places where the genuine traditional carvings on native timber and paintings done on charred bark are available. I suspect among other artist using traditional materials and techniques there are also some products that are not engineered or involve engineering but I do not know of any specific examples.
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  5145. ​ @spacescatatford  If you want to talk about "scientism" which is an idiotic ideology that is SEPARATE from science and technology that's promoted by clowns who claim science will solve everything then maybe you have a point. I absolutely hate that crowd. The amount of time I have to spend undoing all the false narratives they promote is incredibly frustrating. They also make it unbelievably easy for bad faith actors like Steve Koonin, Richard Linzen, Alex Epstein, and many others to convince people of EQUALY BAD SCIENCE. The Hypocrisy of BOTH SIDES of the Climate debate is DISGUSTING. I hate the Greenies almost as much as I hate the Steve Koonins. They all cherry pick data and confuse people with it. Right now as I type this there is a thumb nail titled "Richard Lindzen exposes climate change as a politicised power play motivated by malice and profit." There's another one with Alex Epstein titled "Neither an energy transition nor climate crisis exists..." BOTH CLAIMS ARE UTTER BULLSHlT. FIRST: The climate denial campaign came from the same people who denied tobacco causes cancer and other things. It was and still is 100% politically motivated. It was started by a small group of extremist Libertarians from the Reagan/Bush era. They have the fundamental belief that Governments can do nothing right and should not regulate anything. It has nothing to do with science and never did. SECOND: Humanity has gone through numerous energy transitions. Without an energy transition we would never have had the Industrial Revolution. Without another energy revolution we'd never have transitioned from horse & buggy to cars. Without further transitions we would never have had the jet age, the rocket age or nuclear power. Its just such a ludicrous claim.
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  5146.  @jujutrini8412  Please top thinking that governments exist to benefit the general population. Its a quaint notion and wonderful ideal but the reality is that in the 5,000+ years of recorded history every empire, kingdom, nation and culture has eventually shown that its about the top 1% getting what they want while making the other 99% pay for it. The purpose of government is to control the general population NOT be controlled by it. Democracy is just a neat way to disguise that reality.
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  5147.  @buddygrimfield7954  What most of the pundits talking about automation is complete bullshite. They are either ignorant journalists repeating PR from some company or some clown making "just imagine this technology" claims to raise money from investors. I have spent over 30 years across a variety of industries (manufacturing, mining, water treatment,... etc.) and I keep hearing the same ignorance again and again. With things like power grids, water supply systems and waste water systems we know what has to be done. There is nothing new in these systems. What we face are relentless pressure from ignorant people with economics degrees and business management backgrounds who have been given authority over things they have no expertise in. They go to college for 4 years and all they hear is endless repetition of "Don't spend, reduce costs & save money" as if its one of those musical phrases you can't get out of your head. The logic is simple - "lowering costs raises profits & increases bonuses." And everything they touch ends up like Jackson, Mississippi.
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  5148.  @buddygrimfield7954  I have been doing industrial robotics since the late 1990s but not a lot in the last few years. Most people have no idea what we use industrial robots for and most of the stuff the media pump out are PR pieces for companies that will never sell a damn thing. One thing everyone needs to know is that the sci-fi stuff is sci-fi as in FICTION. Boston robotics has been promoting their electric dogs for years now and what are they actually good for. They can't sniff for drugs at the airport, they can't case sheep, they can't fetch a ball or stick. So what are they actually good for? 10-12 years ago they released the Internet equipped refrigerators, how many did they actually sell and how many do they sell now? Answers are not many and zero because not many people bought them and nobody makes them anymore because like so many techno gadgets they were a solution to a problem that never existed. Remember how a couple of years ago everyone was going have self driving cars and truck drivers were to become extinct? ANY and every engineer who knew what they were talking about said BULLSHIT. because we know what the task actually entails and its just impractical with current computers. One of the great buzzwords is AI and that's arguably the biggest tech lie ever. There is not such thing as an artificial intelligence. What we have are algorithms that can mimic specific tasks like a human does. Things like facial recognition and finger print I.D. Looking at stuff and deciding if they are the same or similar. There's so much misinformation about technology these days its almost a full time job explaining what's real and what's not.
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  5149.  @jujutrini8412  Our tax dollars pay for nobody's corruption in the government. However tax dollars are often misused and way too many times used illegally. Your absolutely right we should get a say in how they are used and that's the problem with the influence of big money. Too much tax dollars goes to contracts that it simply shouldn't. Sometimes that's for projects that just should not be funded under any circumstance and other projects where the costs are ridiculously high or so insufficient that the project will never deliver. In the past the media has insisted on their right to publish or present stories that were uncomfortable to both government and big money. Those days are gone and they are not coming back. If you are interested in how the world works I watch a lot of Brown U. professor Mark Blyth. He's a political economist which means he's into how politics and economics interact. Here's a link to a talk he recently gave in Greece. its totally worth the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWjKvehIumg
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  5150.  @buddygrimfield7954  YES its crap. Here's an example I use, sorry if its a longish explanation. When your driving and you turn a corner into a street you have never driven before. In your field of vision are staggering array of objects numbering in the millions. Leaves on trees, bricks, grass, parked cars and all the bits of those parked cars. What the human visual cortex can do is group things together. You don't see each leaf on a tree you just a tree. You don't see all the parts of a car just a car. You don't see every brick in a building just the building. The human visual cortex can not only identify groups and distinguish between those of concern and those that are irrelevant but do it in less than 1/50th of a second, even if the scene is totally knew. You brain is doing this right now. In the room where you are there are literally 1000s if not millions of separately identifiable objects plus all the sounds you can hear or things you can smell. The human brain can process sensory data in an extraordinary way and the data flow is barely comprehensible. If you ask anyone who's honest - How does a human brain do that and what's the algorithm that we can replicate in a computer? They'll simply stand there silent because we have no idea how it actually works except in the most basic terms. This is why a bunch of companies that a few years ago were madly telling the world how they would be first to have a fully autonomous car and/or fully autonomous helicopters to taxi people about have gone very silent. Nobody knows how a human brain actually does what it does let alone how to replicate it in a computer.
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  5151.  @jujutrini8412  Fair point about the government contracts being corrupt. I mainly see them as incompetence rather than willful action. I also watch Richard Wolff and Yanis Varoufakis who's actually the host of that Mark Blyth talk I linked you. There's stuff I don't agree with them, but those are usually finer points or technical points (I'm an engineer).
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  5152.  @thomasbenau2810  Your words "the dogs or kids that died only because of covid not cancer." What does that mean with respect to Colin Powell or cancer? Is English your native language?
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  5153.  @ryanadams0922  They are playing an extremely dangerous game with very, very high stakes. It scares me how much America doesn't seem to understand what game is being played or how much it might affect the world. Its like a magic show where the guy on center stage is constantly wanting you to look at one thing and think you know what you're looking at as he does something completely different. The scariest of the scariest things I have heard is Charles Koch the oil billionaire wants to have a constitutional convention. He only needs 34 states to agree and supposedly has 31. At such a convention each state (irrespective of size or population) gets 1 vote. Its not like the Senate or House. At such a convention it only takes 26 states to agree to changes to the US Constitution. So he only needs 26 people at the right moment to agree on something at its not just law its in the constitution. Paul Jay who runs theAnalyisnews channel does some really good interviews. This is a recent one with Steve O'Keefe about America's super-billionaires and it covers this (around 35min). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFhIq1rAm-M
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  5154. No argument on your fun fact but here's another that Jon Stewart pointed out. Tucker has been sacked from EVERY job he's ever had for LYING and making stuff up.
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  5155.  @bobmister250  Actually so far very little (almost zero) lithium is recycled from lithium-ion batteries. That's one of the major issues that needs to be overcome because right now there's just NOT ENOUGH Lithium in known reserves to do 1/3rd of the cars on the planet let alone the trucks, motor cycles, mobile phones, laptops and all the other things we use Lithium-Ion batteries. Don't be fooled by the claims there's plenty. You can only go by what's in known reserves. Almost any pile of dirt on the planet has a few atoms of anything. To make a give deposit worth mining it has to be above a certain level that makes mining practical. That's what we call known reserves, which are the deposits that have been shown to have viable amounts to mine.
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  5156.  @nomdeguerre7265  Yes they are all EPR 2s of which 2 are now running (1 in France and 1 in Finland) with 2 under construction in Britain (Hinkley Point C). The ones in France and Finland took 17-18 years each to build but they were also the first 2 on the new design. The ones in Britain started in 2018 and are expected to be running by 2028 (10 years). They have a design lifetime of 70 years, which on one hand is a huge bonus to the end users because the incredible cost to build gets spread out over a long time. On the downside that time frame makes them impossible for anyone in the private sector to build. The Brits have made a ridiculous blunder because they are trapped by the ideology of free market economists who claim that the government MUST NOT invest in anything because the private sector does everything better. The problem with that ideology is that when there is no viable business case for the private sector NOTHING happens. The actual investors in Hinckley Point are the French and Chinese governments through a couple of corporations that are 100% owned by the French & Chinese governments. The basic rule on investment is 1 in 2 out, as in for every dollar that goes in you have to get 2 out. The first dollar out recovers the investment and the second is the profit. With really long projects it can be 1 in 3 out, 4 out, 5 out,.... depending on the time frame. So the British people via their energy bills will end up returning over those 70 years a giant pile of money. In fact it will be enough money to cover the costs of several of the reactors (up to 14 EPR 2s) the French are building. That's also the answer to deathgun3110's question on the costs.
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  5157.  @deathgun3110  see the answer I gave nomdegure it covers his comment and your question.
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  5158. ​ @bobmister250  Buddy sorry if I am an engineer who knows his stuff and your just another clown repeating ignorance. FIRST I work as an industrial control system engineer and spent over a decade in the auto industry before moving to the mining industry where I've been for most of the last 20 years. So please don't try and tell me what I do and don't know about manufacturing cars and mining minerals when all you're doing it repeating other people's talking points. 1) NOBODY is recycling Lithium batteries because compared to digging new lithium out of the ground its not economical. Recycling cars does NOT mean recycling all of it. We don't recycle the paint, the plastics, the cloth trims or many other parts to cars. 2) Of course GM is buying into Lithium reserves because there's NOT ENOUGH Lithium in the known reserves. There's only 28 million tones in the reserves according to the US Geological Survey and we need over 94 million tons to replace the 1.5 Billion cars in the world with EVs if they use a similar amount to what Tesla S uses. So if you want to either restrict what your competitors can access or simply make sure you can make cars the of course you buy into the reserves. 3) You like so many others DO NOT understand the difference between reserves and resources. Go look at the Wikipedia page for Lithium and scroll down to "Production." You'll see where I get the 28 million from at the bottom of the table. That column with resources it what people think is there NOT what can be actually mined and extracted. Resources are what people can actually get. The figures for the Salton Sea fall under the category of RESOURCE not reserve. If that changes and the companies involved can actually develop the means to extract the Lithium form the Salton then it would be a massive step in the right direction, but from the figures I have seen it would only double the Lithium reserve when we need to at least Triple it. 4) THE SINGLE BIGGEST BREAK THORUGH that has to be made is NEW battery chemistry. We either have to make Lithium batteries that are better or use another chemistry. I know there's a lot of effort in that area with things like Sodium instead of Lithium as well as liquid battery systems like the Sadoway battery. The Sadoway uses liquid layers of magnesium and antimony separated by a layer of molten salt. BUT the Sadoway battery is only good for stationary applications but then that would free up Lithium for automotive. 5) Don't try an explain engineering subjects to an engineer when you aren't an engineer.
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  5159. AT LEAST HE'S UNDER 70 YEARS OF AGE 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  5160. Just a note of caution the RT network is funded by the Government of Russia. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network) Not I saying I disagree with what JV is saying at all in what he is saying, in fact I think he's is absolutely right. If you can't live on $1million a month then you have a problem. BUT that RT logo on his jacket is owned by the Russian Government.
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  5161.  @dokktordon  I'm not saying that Jesse is a Russian anything, BUT he is on a RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT funded channel WEARING THEIR LOGO. He gave an interview mid last year where it almost looked like he was going to run on the Green ticket and he was brilliant. He spoke truth and common sense, just like he is now. You're absolutely right that mainstream America wont give him air time, but people like Joe Rogan, Kyle and other Americans will. He could just as easily start his own online channel and I have no doubt Americans would help fund it. So there is no need for him to be on RT as a presenter. If he was on RT being interviewed that's one thing but when he's there wearing the RT logo that's another thing entirely.
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  5162. I am an aerospace engineer and I can explain in detail all the stuff that they have simply not bothered to think about. Its not simply Musk or his fanbots, NASA aren't exactly innocent. There's a staggering amount og science fiction PR garbage in the space industry at the moment. Back in 2002 I met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) and at that time he was talking up the Helium-3 opportunity on the moon. As an Australian at that stage there was no easy way into NASA or even their programs. So an independent project with credibility was possible. At that time Australia was just starting a mining construction boom to feed the Chinese beast. It took a couple of years but I snuck my way into remote mine site construction and the analogies to setting up anything on the moon become fairly obvious after some time doing that work. 1) EVERYTHING needs to be thought ahead. When you are in the middle of the desert nothign is just down the road because the road is 1500km long. Prior to that time I worked in our manufacturing sector and 90% of everything was at worst an hour away. On a remote mine site, even if airplanes come regularly you have to consider everything is at least 3 days away. Its a giant non-stop logistical exercise that never ends. 2) Everything you take for granted in a city like water and power has to be treated very seriously. Most people never consider what happens when they flush the toilet. On a mine site that's a serious consideration along with all other waste. Most of all the food has to be trucked or flown in, then stored, then cooked, then eaten and then cleaned up. Humans eat, shit, pee and breath. Spaceship earth is great for cleaning our mess and we take that for granted. 3) Mine sites are primarily dirt and rock crushing & grinding plants. That means wear and tear on everything. I got hold of the papers for a NASA conference on the moon (well over 200 pages). The total commentary on maintenance was less than 1-1/2 pages, 1/2 of which was a diagram and all they said was we'll do it with robots. That told me that NONE OF THEM had ever spent any time on a mine site. When I see clowns talking about mining asteroids I can tell NONE OF THEM had ever spent time on a mine site. When I hear Jeff Bezos talking about taking all the iron ore processing off planet I know he's not done any of the basic math hon that.
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  5163. Buddy as an aerospace engineer who has spent 30+ years in industrial control systems and automation INCLUDING BEING FORMALLY TRAINED in Electrical Equipment in Hazardous Areas (EEHA) you are completely misunderstanding the nature and risk of hydrogen. Sorry this is long but everyone thinking hydrogen is the magic solution needs to understand that it has some fantastic properties and I really do think it will be a major part of future energy, but it has some very serious risks. I am proposing 2 new massive power station projects here in Australia that are partly fueled by hydrogen BUT and I can't stress enough how hard hydrogen is to engineer around. Your comment comparing kerosene to hydrogen is so far off the mark its scary. In terms of safety Hydrogen is nothing like kerosene. If I compared your skills and training as an airline pilot to a bus driver in the same way you have compared Hydrogen to Kerosene you'd be insulted. I have a pilots license so I know what that means. Here are some basic facts that they teach engineers. 1) You need 3 things to have combustion or an explosion which is basically hyper-rapid combustion. FUEL + OXIDISER + IGNITION SOURCE. Fuel alone does nothing. Fuel with just an ignition source does nothing. Fuel with just an oxidiser does nothing. You must have all 3. The reason solid rocket propellants like gunpowder & C4 explosive can be so dangerous is because they combine the fuel and oxidiser. Its why they are impossible to extinguish once ignited. Once the Space Shuttle and Artemis boosters are lit they will go until the fuel is consumed. All that can be done is detach them. 2) Flammable liquids DO NOT actually burn or ignite. The vapor above the surface burns. There's videos shown to engineering students where they drop a lit match into a jar of gasoline and it just goes out because below the surface there's no oxygen. This is also why cars don't explode when the fuel tank has a submerged pump. Because its submerged and totally surrounded by fuel there's no oxygen. Its also why cars can explode if the fuel level sensor gets a shot circuit because you can get a spark in the vapor space above the fuel level. Its why empty fuel tanks with vapor are far more dangerous than full fuel tanks where there's almost no vapor. 3) A droplet of liquid fuel does NOT BURN its surface burns because the heat boils off the liquid and that allows it to mix with air and meet oxygen molecules and react. This is why fuel injection in cars and trucks works so much better than a carburetor. There's not only finer droplets with more surface area but the droplet size is more consistent making combustion more stable and more reliable. 4) Gases and vapors at the right mixture can EXPLODE. For almost any gas you can find 2 numbers given in percentage called the LEL (lower explosive limit) and UEL (upper explosive limit). Between the LEL and UEL the mixture explodes. In room temperature air: - Methane has an LEL of 5% and UEL of 15% - Hydrogen has an LEL of 4% and UEL of 74% So hydrogen wants to EXPLODE over a much wider range of fuel-air ratios. This is also why its been so hard to get it to burn reliably in engines. It reacts so fast its hard to get a stable flame. 5) Everything that can burn or explode has an ignition energy usually expressed as MIE (minimum ignition energy) with the units mJ (milli-joules). Hydrogen has the lowest of all MIEs at 0.017 mJ (in air) and 0.011 mJ (in oxygen). By comparison methane 0.26mJ gasoline is 0.80 mJ and Kerosene is 20 mJ. Kerosene takes just over 1176 times the energy to ignite than hydrogen. A kerosene leak compared to a hydrogen leak is nothing in terms of risk. 6) Many gases and flammable substances can ignite from temperature. Again Hydrogen is very low on that scale compared to most other substances. When you select equipment that is in a area with hydrogen you have to check the temperature rating as well as all the other factors. 7) The Hydrogen molecule is the smallest molecule in the universe. That makes sealing everything incredibly hard. You can't just by valves, pistons, pumps, pipe fittings like you do for other gases. It will leak from the tiniest of holes and narrowest of gaps. If you have any leak in a place that's not well ventilated it gets very dangerous. Hydrogen is amazing. Its actually very easy to make through electrolysis of water, but its also a hassle to use which is why its never really been used as much as people think it should have been. Sorry if this feels like I am yelling but its a very serious topic. I 100% believe the hydrogen economy is going to boom and be a major part of our energy future, but I also expect some tragic outcomes because people will simply ignore what people with expertise warn them about.
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  5164.  @مرحبابك-ض1ن  Please look at my other comment because you've set your reply function right to left and its almost impossible to reply
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  5165. On the capturing CO2 from the atmosphere its all dependent on how its done. I'm an engineer and the major problem we collectively isn't so much we are having to transfer from dirty to clean energy, its that we are at the next great energy transition. Just as we moved on from horse & sail to coal & steam then onto oil & gas and then 1/2 way to nuclear, we are now at the next great energy transition. Its being heavily influenced by the need for clean energy but we'd be making a transition anyway. The single biggest factor is efficiency. We have more people and that means more energy is needed but that actual supply of raw materials isn't keeping up. I'm in Australia and we had a power station called Hazelwood. It was old an dirty, but worst of all was its was hopelessly inefficient. Most coal fired power stations could get about 30-35% efficiency with the very best ones with advanced boiler technology could get over 42% thermal efficiency. When it closed Hazelwood was getting about 20% thermal efficiency. So it was burning twice as much coal per watt of electricity. Hazelwood was closed NOT because it worked but because it was so inefficient. Right now we have another power station at Newport which is an old gas thermal. If we simply replace it with a gas turbine we can save about 30% on raw gas input. If we add a steam turbine to the exhaust we can increase the power output by 60%. If we then added a hydrogen supply we'd reduce the emissions by another 50% down to 30% of where it now is. This is actually a hard thing to discuss with non-engineers. If you are not being efficient with energy then ANYTHING can be insanely expensive. Also some things that look or sound inefficient aren't when you take into consideration of the overall system efficiency. With direct CO2 extraction a lot will depend on where they get the energy from and then how they use it. I think the real problem with it will be that it just can't do enough. When you look at how much needs doing the real problem is being able to do in engineering what green vegetation does already. I think it will end up with systems that blend what we can do in engineering with what we can do with plants.
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  5166. Yeah that's one thing the Trumpists have NEVER explained about 2020. Its also something the Democrats have IGNORED, because other than Biden winning the Whitehouse the Democrats lost almost everywhere else. Down ballot they were hammered. - They did NOT win the Senate outright as they should have; - They actually lost seats in the House; and - They got smashed in the states houses, senates and governorships. If anything 2020 was a disaster for the Democrats and its now lead to the "Biden won't go" disaster. What actually happened was that a lot of GOP people turned up in 2020 and voted GOP for everything except for Donald Trump because they were tired of his crap. But this highlights just how delusional BOTH the Democrats and GOP are. They are BOTH so wrapped up in their narratives they can't see anything clearly and the die hard supporters on BOTH SIDES are equally deluded. America is now malfunctioning at so many levels its hard to see how America survives as a nation going forward.
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  5167.  @mindhackz  that's a great point and something I've pointed out a few times. In 2020 the Dems did NOT win the Senate, lost House seats and got smashed in the state seats. There were lots of GOP voters who voted GOP for everything except 1 thing - Donald Trump. This has not only been misunderstood by the GOP but also the Dems. Other than Biden getting the Whitehouse the Dems were smacked everywhere else. 2020 was NOT a Triumph because a triumph would have seen Trump laughed off the stage never to return and here he is right now looking the winner. The Dems are truly hopeless. They whine about the 6-3 bias in SCOTUS and yet the Dems have had the Whitehouse for 20 of the past 32 years compared to the GOP with only 12 years in the Whitehouse AND YET they have lost control of SCOTUS.
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  5168. Australian here: So here's an outside observers perspective on American conservatives. FYI - I went to college in America so I have some unclose interactions with these people. American conservatives BELIEVE: - In their version of a president who's NEVER a dictator or a tyrant they are just FIRM with "others" but anyone else's version of a president is a tyrant or a dictator. - In their version of democracy where everyone votes for them and they have control, NOT yours where the majority tell vote and tell them "NO you don't have control." - In their version of Law and Order the FBI, DEA, CIA, NSA,....etc are good guys going after bad people, while YOUR VERSION of the FBI, DEA, CIA, NSA,....etc are bad guys going after good guys. - In their version of Liberty and Freedom where they have the right to strip others of their Liberties and Freedoms. - In their version of Foreign Policy any and every country has the democratic right to elect a pro-American government that does as they are told to do and any country that dares to do otherwise will find out how effective the CIA is at organising military Coups and installing dictators. Let me know if you think I have that wrong or need to add more. And before you reply just remember America the land of hope freedom and democracy still denies the People of Puerto Rico and the other American territories their democratic right to vote on who their President is and they effectively ZERO representation in Congress despite being US Citizens. AND YES this is common knowledge around the world. If you want to see how its seen look up (here on YT) "honest government ad puerto rico"
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  5169. Same from Australia.
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  5170. YEAH - Just like when the CIA, NSA, FBI,... etc collectively ignored and dismissed what ex-FBI counterterrorism expert John Patrick O'Neill (with 2 l's) was warning about Al Qaeda right before the 9/11 attacks. Its all covered in famous a PBS Frontline Documentary "The Man Who Knew (2002)." What happened was also covered in several books and 2 television mini-series where he was portrayed by Harvey Keitel in 1 and Jeff Daniels in the other. John O'Neill was so certain that the World Trade Center would be attacked that after leaving the FBI he went to work at the WTC. The only thing John O'Neill got wrong was the method of attack. Tragically he died in the 9/11 attacks. (edit) I just checked and the PBS Frontline is still here on YT. just search for "the man who knew"
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  5171. Yeah well he can actually claim to being awake after all he's basically said its over all the crap about the election is over. They can claim whatever they like and it doesn't matter. People can claim it was over before Jan 6th because all the states had certified their results - yeah sure, is true. But at least he's callout Trump and all the others who are still claiming it will be overturned.
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  5172. HEY AMERICA - THIS IS ALREADY BEING PLAYED ACROSS THE WORLD. I'm Australian its being reported here and the BBC in Britain is also reporting it. If you think the rest of America's allies are going to put up with this crap THINK AGAIN. AND SO YOU ALL KNOW We know this A-H0LE doesn't pay his own bills anyway. We had it reported here recently that Rudy Giuliani's bankruptcy filing includes TRUMP as one of his debtors. Yeah we KNOW Rudy is broke because Trump didn't pay him.
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  5173. David is right it wont make the slightest difference. Until they find someone with enough backbone to stand up to him the GOP will be the "Party of Trump." Trumps' a classic schoolyard bully. Sorry to all Kumbaya crowd who think they can beat Trump with words, but the only true effective counter to schoolyard bully is to beat the crap out of them in front of the school. So the GOP need to find someone who can strand in front of Trump and call his bluff. Biden showed the GOP what to do when he simply told Trump to shut up during that debate. It was joe Biden's finest moment and Trump didn't know how to handle it. Go watch it - for a few moments Trump had no idea what to do. He's a classic schoolyard bully and underneath all the bluff is a coward. The real problem the GOP has is where do they find someone with a backbone? Look back at the 2015 GOP debates. Who have they got?
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  5174. Great Comment. I'm an Australian engineer who went to college in America (late 80s). A couple of years ago I started informally studying economics out of the frustration of the interference in projects by clowns waving economics degrees. What you are describing is yet more symptoms of neoliberal economics. One of the core beliefs of neoliberals is that Government SHOULD DO as LITTLE AS POSSIBLE because the private sector does everything better. At the ideologic level its more libertarian than liberal (and yes there's a difference). Liberals believe freedom isn't absolute and security and safety comes from having limits (laws, rules, codes, regulations,...). Libertarians believe that government should do nothing but protect their property and their interests. its an incredibly narrow minded and narcissistic view of the world. One of the main reasons I started looking into economics was because Australia like many other nations really wasn't doing anything regarding energy infrastructure. Its like they are all waiting for someone from the private sector to do it for them. This is standard neoliberal economics in reality. "The government should do nothing and let the market decide what to do." The problem is that if there isn't a business case or the private sector can get better returns elsewhere then NOTHING HAPPENS. Its not just an energy thing it happens to all forms of infrastructure just like you describe. Another aspect of what you describe is the idea that everything has to act like a business and make money. This is another of the idiotic fallacies of neoliberal economics. Its really obvious in Universities. In the 1990s they were told they had to "be more business like." Yeah fine a way to hear that is WE (the university) need to mange our money better and where possible have some form of ownership over IP so that the money generated helps fund the University. Great but its really easy to lose sight of the fact the PRINCIPLE TASK of a university like all forms of education is to EDUCATE the next generation so that they have the skills to keep a society functioning. By the same account government departments (no matter if they are local, sate or federal) have as their PRINCIPLE TASK the job of providing the necessary services to the community, state or nation that are required to keep it functioning. There is this idiotic concept among neoliberals that EVERYTHING HAS to be run as if its a "for profit" business. The problem is there is no business model that works long term for some of these basic services that any and every society needs. For some things there is no viable business model in neoliberal economics. Things like education, roads, communication services, health care services,.... The problem is you can't explain it to the professors in their ivory towers or to the super wealthy in their marble castles.
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  5175.  @danielhann4439  Welcome to the club. I recommend listening to people like Mark Blyth, Marianna Mazzucato who both recently gave guest lectures to Stephanie Kelton's class on the history of economics. They are all part of what might be called "Rebel Economics" as they are all trying to explain "How we got here!" In fact one fo Marks best lectures from a couple of years ago is titled "How we got here!" Another guy worth everyone's time is the young British economist Gary Stevenson who has the YT channel Garys Economics. He's right at the top of the very smart brigade on economics and why's its gone wrong.
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  5176.  @perrymason866  Absolutely true and if the British people ever reject Gary Stevenson he has a place right here in Australia. If I had the money he'd already be here EVEN if it was only for 1 semester a year to teach economics. Our only problem is the same one you have in Britain, we have too many people who wont listen because they've been force fed and indoctrinated with neoliberal free market fundamentalist nonsense and can't conceive there's anything else. As an engineer (who's been looking into economics out of frustration) the one thing that astounds me more than anything else is how NARROWLY FOCUSED the solution to everything is a free market solution. Just only a week ago the head of the Reserve Bank of Australia was asked bout our housing crisis and his answer was "it just the market correcting itself." That's pure Milton Freidman "Do nothing. Just let the market fix itself." Its at a level of insanity that's the equivalent of asking an technician with all the skills and tools needed to defuse a nuclear bomb by watching the clock tick down.
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  5177. Include in the impeachment all those who participated and made this disaster Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Rudy Giuliani, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and anybody else who has an official position that can have them impeached.
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  5178. Hi Rosie, I'm Australian born but did my degree in aerospace in America. I was lucky and got a scholarship. This is one of those topics that's a great thing for college students to go through to show them just how impractical some things are. My final year project was a cometary fly-by space craft where we spun up a shield (for stability) and released it ahead of the space craft and we flew in the protective envelope behind the shield. The idea is that you avoid all the dust storm like being under an umbrella. It was a fabulous exercise to do as a final year project. Its also utterly pointless. You see just like being under an umbrella there's the run-off except flying through the dusty tail of a comet its not water but plasma and/or highly charged/energised particles. Its because your smashing into that dust with insanely high kinetic energy. As I have said to you a couple of times I went off to the mining industry after meeting Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) back in 2002. That was because he said we'd be most likely going back to the moon to mine it for Helium-3 and I wanted mining experience. What I got from our mining industry was a gigantic reality check in fundamental infrastructure. When they build some of these mines there is actually NOTHING there. Its actually an incredible analog to the Moon or Mars. You have to build everything from scratch - the power systems, the water (clean & waste), the accommodation, workshops, storage (hardware, fuel & food). There's actually an incredible amount of stuff to build long before you even think about the hole the ground you're there for. 2 things really frustrate me these days. 1) The people who think we are about to have a permanent Moon base or go to Mars and have no clue about what it will actually take. That includes a lot of NASA people. I got hold of the entire conference output from a NASA conference a couple of years ago and out of nearly 200 pages there was all of 1-1/2 pages on maintenance and their answer was robots. Nothing was mentioned about spare parts or parts that wear or consumable items. it was stunning to see how little anyone at NASA was putting into the subject. 2) How staggeringly ignorant the politicians and economists are to the state of the developed worlds infrastructure. Especially the energy infrastructure. Its sort of why this video isn't completely crazy because its an exercise in what people need to consider. I just watched an ABC business interview with renowned economist Nouriel Roubini (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f0Fp9-2PFw) and for the first time (just before 6:00) I have seen an economist note that we have not kept up with energy infrastructure. In Australia we are very serious trouble. I found out about 6 years ago we had a bunch of very old large power stations that were rapidly ageing. I found out this is common around the world. I found out that nobody has plans to replace the old power stations once they close. Its an energy cataclysm we are marching right into. Nouriel Roubini says that Goldman Sachs have said everything not just energy but all commodities are about to go up this year. Of course they are, I did a basic economics class as an option. And if supply falls or demand rises then prices go up. Our populations have increased and with it energy demand, but we haven't invested in enough new power. That's economics 101 - demand increases and supply doesn't match it then prices GO UP. If energy goes up then everything that uses energy goes up BECAUSE EVERYTHING that's manufactured uses energy to make and everything that is transported uses energy. Its so staggeringly simple to see and yet a renowned economist who sees the problem doesn't say "we need to build power stations" he says "we need to understand the effects on the bond and equity markets." The whole Moon thing and the Mars thing is about to hit a wall, because the developed world is about to hit a wall. The worst of it is we should have seen it coming.
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  5179. As an Australian all I can say is that we warned the Brits when Rupert Murdoch moved there and NOBODY listened. When Rupert Murdoch moved to America we and the Brits tried warning America what the Murdoch's are like and have been like for several generations AND NOBODY LISTENED. Even when some Americans did wake up and they made the 2004 Documentary "Outfoxed" the only people who didn't take notice were Americans. Do any of you know one of the biggest warnings in that documentary was that Murdoch was dragging all of the rest of the media down into his gutter of opinion based journalism? Never underestimate how good the Murdoch's are at recognizing how to manipulate public opinion. Right now their people are down playing the seriousness of the floods Australia is experiencing. We are having the worst flooding in our history and they are claiming its "just normal" because all these places have flooded before. They did the same after the bush fires claiming climate change doesn't exist AND PEOPLE ARE BUYING INTO IT.
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  5180. #2 on that list was Rupert Murdoch. As an Australian I can assure you that he is a vindictive individual. Others have tried and failed.
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  5181.  @L98fiero  Ooohhh that's aaarrrrrhhhh one to be careful about. That's a skill set not to be messed with. 🤫🤫🤫
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  5182. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Trying to give some perspective and context. Note: I am highly critical of the F-35 program based on engineering knowledge not emotional claims. FIRST I have gone and read the FT article and its VERY SHORT. Including the title and subtitle its 452 words. I cut and pasted it into word to check that. So that story has almost ZERO DETAIL on anything. There is one very objectional aspect to how this is being presented by BOTH Krystal and Kyle and Saagar and that's the howling and screeching. Is it justified? YES, but it helps NO ONE. I'd highly recommend you all go check out Ward Carroll's take on the F35 crash and the questions he asked from the Base CO. He knows there's no point asking for conclusions when the investigation has only just started. So he asked questions that CAN BE ANSWERED and give context. Krystal, Kyle Saagar and so many others all claim they are NOT like main stream media and then they do this crap. SECOND this is a maintenance issue and maintenance is the one thing that TOO MANY IGNORANT CLOWNS with arts degrees, business degrees and nothing degrees stick their noses into without any understanding of the consequences. Everything we build in engineering requires maintenance because without it everything eventually fails. Breaking down is a hassle for your car, or if you are on a boat or with many other things, BUT WHEN aircraft fail they don't simply stop, THEY FALL OUT OF THE SKY. This is why engineers and technicians get so frustrated at times. We have to deal with people who don't know which end of a screw driver to hold trying explain how our job should be done. THIRD the F35 program was born form the outcomes of the F22 program. Originally the F22 was planned for 750 Aircraft all of those for the USAF. The Navy, Marines and Air National Guard would get something else. Once they started operating it the F22 proved to be brilliant but also incredibly expensive. According to the GAO F22s cost $85,000/hr while an F35 costs $42,000/hr, but then an A10 costs $22,531/hr and an F16 costs $26,000/hr. In comparison a B52 costs $88,000/hr, a B2 Spirit cost $150,000/hr while a B1 Lancer costs $173,000/hr. Over in Helicopter land the CH-47F Chinook costs $4,000/hr while the CH53E Super Stallion costs $45,000/hr. So yes its costs are high but they have to be put into PERSPRECTIVE. This was what killed the F22 program. It wasn't that it didn't do the job. By most reports it was the best fighter plane the USAF has every had, but the maintenance required in raw cost and man hours was horrendous. One of the F35s main design criteria was to get the costs back to something more reasonable, which is why it only has a single engine like the F16. FOURTH and this is where I get start getting critical of the F35 program from its concept. The PR for the F35 was pitched (in concept) to cost 1/2 as much money to buy and 1/2 as much to run as the F22. It certainly hasn't done that on the purchasing and it only looks good against the F22 because its operation costs have almost tripled. BUT YOU HAVE TO SEARCH to find these things out. FIFTH and this is where the F35 went off the rails. One reason WHY the F22 could be cancelled was because it involved only a few factories and because of its small numbers cancelling it did not cost many jobs and only in a few states. Lockheed learnt from this and made sure the F35 had the broadest possible possible supply chain with contractors in as many US States as possible. Its much harder for a US Senator to cancel a program when it costs jobs in their state and if you have parts on a plane that come from over 40 states its NOT getting cancelled. THE SUPPLY CHAIN IS THE PROBLEM and it makes the F35 unsuited for warfare. LET'S BE CRYSTAL CLEAR - I am NOT saying the F35 is NOT capable. By the reports and interviews from pilots who have flown it as well as other fighter aircraft its an amazingly good aircraft. Ward Carroll's buddy Pako ahs explained this as good as anyone. There's also a great debate on the subject between F16 & A10 engineer Pierre Sprey and Lt Col David 'Chip' Berke who flew the F16, F18, F15, F22 and F35. Aaron over on Sub Brief has explained this well. Its not just getting the parts its also getting the specialised tools needed to do the maintenance work. This is a lesson that goes right back to the Battle of Britain. When first introduced the Spitfire was incredibly hard to maintain. The Hawker Hurricane was mostly made of wood covered in fabric. The Spitfire was full metal sheeting over a full metal frame and any repairs required specialist tools. Famously the Polish Squadrons in the Battle of Britain sent their Spitfires back and demanded the return of their Hurricanes because all they needed was the local carpenter to get back flying. YES THE F35 - cost too much to develop but that came from bad decisions from the military trying to have a super complex do-all jet combined with bad project management of the manufacturer. - it cost more to run than it should because that too comes from poor project management of the manufacturer that allowed them to create this ridiculous parts supply chain that can't deliver.
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  5183. Yeah there's actually a hell of a lot that can be said. Like WTF about the staggering transfer of wealth from working and middle class people across the developed world to the upper class? The Rand Corporation put out a study several years ago that said the Top 1% of America had made $47 Trillion since the start of the Reaganomics revolution. That number is well past $50 Trillion now. The Congressional Budget Office Report on Family Wealth says that the people who caused the 2008 GFC and then got bailed out with $4 Trillion from Bush and another $4 Trillion form Obama have never paid it back despite being over $20 Trillion wealthier than they were before the GFC while the people hardest hit by the GFC have still NOT RECOVERED. Can you explain why those people who were bailed out don't have to pay back the money? Meanwhile everyone else has to pay their debts back. My criticism of people like Stephanie Kelton and Bob Murphy is they harp on about their theories while REAL FACTS are being dumped on REAL PEOPLE. Economists have answers to everything and solutions to nothing.
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  5184.  @faitaccompli5878  I just checked the results and according to AP Trump got almost 1 million FEWER votes than in 2024. The killer is that Harris got 12 million FEWER VOTES than Biden did in 2020. So whatever the message was. Over 12 million people did NOT BUY IT and simply did not turn up. I'm stunned Trumps vote went down and the Democrats still could NOT WIN.
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  5185. YES - just like Mike Pence forgot that crowd hunting for him yelling "Hang Mike Pence!" Mike Pence is simply doing what politicians do all around the world do. "Say nothing you can be held accountable for!" "Never commit to something you might have to flip in future!" Its all a result of the combination of what David once called "Toxic sport politics" combined with the disgusting nature of toxic political media coverage.
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  5186. Australian here - this guy must be the smuggest piece of crap in the history of American politics and that's saying an awful lot. Notice how he says when Ana brings up the election he just says their just asserting it. Well WTF is he claiming. At least everyone else has EVIDENCE that an election was held, votes were counted and a result posted. There's also the fact that OVER 60 court challenges were thrown out. We know this stuff and we are on the other side of the planet. Do you Americans know that there were 100s of foreign observers present? Whenever major elections happen countries send observers. Its for a number of reasons and the most common is so people can learn how to make their own elections MORE RELIABLE. #2 after that is understanding who or what we'll be dealing with regarding international matters. The few times we usually hear about this are when elections in third world countries go bad and you hear news items like "International observers have noted that there was,...A....B...C.....etc." NONE OF THE INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS have said anything about the 2020 election other than it was fine. That's observers from Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, India and possibly even Russia.
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  5187. Other than YT I have LinkedIn account and that's it. I rarely use it these days because its almost become as bad a twitter. It was supposed to be a place where people acted professionally and I have been trolled there worse than I have been trolled here on YT. Anyway his fans want describe him Elon is another Oligarch and we simply don't need yet another Oligarch in control of another major social media platform.
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  5188. I hear they blame their left testicle when their sons can't throw a football.
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  5189.  Science Revolution  If you're so smart then explain how the computer you are using works. IF SCIENCE IS SO BAD AN EVIL THEN STOP USING TECHNOLOGY including COMPUTERS.
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  5190. Yeah that's true to some extent and more so at the college level than grade, middle and high school. My parents were high school teachers, their friends were teachers, one cousin was a principal and a couple of my friends were teachers. So I have spent a lot of time growing up around teachers. One of the things you absolutely cannot do with younger children is make LEARNING uncomfortable. I normally wouldn't agree with Michael Knowles on anything, but his point about not making some book available to children UNTIL they are mature enough to understand them has merit. Where Kyle has a a very good point is on the hypocrisy of the Ben Shapiro's wanting to ban some books that push doctrines while their books specifically written to push a doctrine should be read in the classroom. But there's times when Kyles absolutism get's pretty stupid. Fine one kid might read "Mein Kampf" and realise Hitler was bonkers. Another kid might read "Mein Kampf" and go the complete Nazi. No matter what all these people want to push THERE MUST BE BALANCE and way to often there just isn't
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  5191. IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (2006) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA
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  5192. He was smart enough to convince 62,984,828 to vote for him in 2016 and despite all the crap and corruption he convinced 74,223,975 to turn up and vote for him in 2020. I'm Australian and as an outside observer all I can see is the American Left living in denial of those numbers, especially the second number because for months before the 2020 election every poll, including those done by Fox said his base was shrinking. For all that happened I am yet to see anyone admit that Trumpism GREW rather than shrank. Its was just damn fortunate that millions more who'd had enough turned up and voted for Biden. The real question is whether those people will again turn up for Biden, because right now he doesn't look good. The age thing is real and its clear his faculties are sliding, BUT THEN Trumps are sliding just as badly. Did you see Jon Stewarts first night back on the daily show?
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  5193.  @sometimesgeorgia8933  If you are talking about Trump not going to jail there's 2 places they might send him. Already being mentioned is house arrest at Mar-a-Lago which isn't much depending on what limits they slap on him. The other place is the prison where they sent Jared Kushner's father Charles. Somebody pointed it out a couple of years ago. You can click through the links on Wikipedia from Jared to his father to where he served his 2 years at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery. Its basically a low security club for white collar criminals and has a long list of notables. Its all there on Wikipedia.
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  5194. There's a lot of words that these people use and the dictionary says something else. Its the same farking story as last week, last month and last year. These people aren't interested in truth, facts or anything else that doesn't agree with Trump. Mark Twain - “It's Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.”
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  5195. I hate to say it but I can see the day when Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh or one of the other narcissistic clowns steps out their front door to be confronted by a parent or spouse who's lost their child or partner because of something they've instigated. The tragedy will be that person who confronted them will end up in a cell while the rest of this clown brigade of narcissists will whine and rant about how their liberties are being taken. Meanwhile the life that was lost will become just another statistic for others to rant about.
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  5196. Australian here: These days YES absolutely YES. However - YOU mentioned at 19:40 the issue with virtue signalling and then immediately attached it to the "woke" arguments. 1) I deplore the people on the LEFT who hijacked the word "woke" in the first place. The word "woke" came out of African American blues music in the 1950s and until around 3 years ago it was singularly a reference to whether or not people understood (as in awake to) the ECONOMIC plight of African Americans. Then it was hijacked by a pack of Radical Leftists who as usual made a mess of public discussions with a potent combination of idiocy and ignorance. 2) I deplore the fact that people on the RIGHT have picked up the word "woke" to use as a club to bash anyone who does not comply with their views of the world on every subject. The hypocrisy of the Radical Right is so unbelievable. What ever they do is justifiable and whatever anyone else wants or does is a crime. They howl about political interference in courts and then interfere in court cases themselves. They howl about cancel culture and then cancel people. They demand they rights as they strip away the basic rights of others. So lets be clear VIRTUE signalling does not just come from the Radical Left but it also comes from the Radical Right and BOTH SIDES accuse the other of doing it while denying they do it. The reason we have these issues with Virtue Signalling is simple. The Entire media landscape from the Radical Left through the centre all the way to the Radical Right now has it its core activity VIRTUE SIGNALLING and they do nothing but use it to drive wedges between people on every issue possible. As Professor Robert McChesney said a few years ago "presenting facts doesn't make money anymore." As Scottish American Professor Mark Blyth (Brown U.) said of the Murdoch Media empire "Their product is outrage." The only thing that's unfair about Mark Blyth's statement is that it singles out the Murdoch Empire when it applies to the media landscape in general. There are very few media services commenting on political, social, and economic issues that aren't divisive virtue signallers and the human race must face the future united or it will fail.
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  5197. Its the second week of January 2021 and America is about to go past 400,000 dead just as Joe Biden takes the oath of office.. A few weeks ago Michael was warning about how bad the Christmas - New year could be. I'm Australian but went to college at U. Illinois. I've been watching Michael since the early days, because it was clear he was one of the very few who was being honest with us. He was even interviewed a few times on Australian TV. Like many others from around the world I have followed his updates over much of the last year -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg If you actually add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25.2 million which compares to Australia's 25.6 million. Yes I know quite well there are significant differences in geography, population density and winter conditions, but in terms of medical technology, transportation and technical capability there's zero difference. We got very lucky with the initial spread. We cancelled many events and had NO crowds at all our major sports for the year and all that resulted in us not spreading it. But none of that explains the staggering differences. Australia has a total of 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin total over 33,812 as of 12/1/2021 In the 7 days from 4 to 10 January 2021 Illinois had 971 COVID fatalities. In one week Illinois with half as many people as Australia had more deaths from this than Australia has had in 12 months. On the main table at -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Australia is 54th in population and 86th in COVID fatalities. If Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin were a country they would be 16th. Illinois by itself would rank 21st in the world. New York by itself would be 14th. In terms of death-rate (deaths/1M.pop) Illinois, Indiana & Wisconsin would be 4th (at 1342). 3 American states (New Jersey, New York & Massachusetts) have a higher death-rate than any nation or independent state in the world. For whatever luck and other things that may have favored us, nothing explains that discrepancy other than a complete failure of leadership.
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  5198. I'm Australian and you can expect a blow up from here shortly over this stuff. Among the furore over the AUKUS submarine deal (which wont be going ahead as currently planned - heads up) it has been revealed that there have been a group of retired US Navy personnel hired as consultants. Some of them have been here since 2012 and have been paid as much as $8,000 per day by some reports. That's $40,000 a week. Their advice to everything has basically been distilled down to "Spend more money." Google "us navy consultants australia" The submarine project has gone from A$50 Billion to A$268 Billion with there advice. We are currently replacing our patrol boats. The last ones cost under $30 Million each the new ones are $300 million each and there are calls to increase the number on order from 12 to 18. We have another Navy project to build new frigates. There's reports that has blown out from $30 to over $45 Billion. Added to the Australian Navy former US Director of Intelligence James Clapper is here consulting on our intelligence agencies. He helped establish Australia's Office of National Intelligence. How many retired US personnel are advising our Army and Airforce is yet to be revealed. If America is doing this to Australia imagine what they are doing to people they don't like. FYI - I went to college in America. I absolutely believe that Australia's most important trading and security partner is America. BUT American's need to realise that there are Americans who DO NOT REPRESENT the best interests of YOU, ME or ANY OF US. Not only are there the military consultants there's also the corporate consultants like McKinsey, KMPG, PwC, EY,.... etc. We just caught PwC defrauding our government on a contract advising about closing tax loopholes. They were also passing on the same advice to their corporate clients (for a fee) on how to get around what they were advising the government to do. Go look up Italian British economist Mariana Mazzucato on what American consultancies are up to ACROSS THE WORLD.
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  5199. Well this isn't a war. Officially its a police action trying to deal with a bunch of murderers and kidnappers so that they can liberate the people of Gaza from their criminal activities. Or at least that's the thing people will tell themselves so they don't have to face reality. Every time there's some disastrous thing like this the perpetrators have some official line to tell the world. Don't forget NOT ONE of the actual perpetrators of the invasion of Iraq (American, British, Australian,....) that ended up with several hundred thousand innocent deaths has ever been held accountable. Not one of the actual leaders like Donald Rumsfeld was ever held accountable for the prisoner abuse scandals at Abu Ghraib or Bagram AFB were ever held accountable. For these and many other things over that post World War 2 Era, the ACTUAL LEADERS who directed it were never held accountable and in fact in most cases there wasn't even an enquiry. There have been a few to face their accusers like the Serbian leaders, Saddam Hussein and the Ceaușescu's of Romania. But no Leaders from any of the major powers or their close allies has been held accountable for anything.
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  5200. CAN YOU GUYS GET YOU SHlT TOGETHER. 10 seconds in and you have an old photograph showing Jair Bolsonaro (Brasil) in the center of the picture. He lost the election back in October 2022. Seriously is there anyone left in journalism anywhere who knows how to fact check???????
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  5201.  @DKBZA  By any standards its still SHlTTY journalism and there's too much of that.
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  5202. Everyone needs to shut and let the Trumpsters talk and talk and talk. Let them say what they like. Sooner or later one of them is going to say or do something truly stupid (they can't help themselves) and when they do just stand back and let the FBI/DOJ throw them in jail. Look what just happened to Alex Jones. He couldn't help himself.
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  5203. As an Australian who went to college in America let me say America NEVER HAD A REAL LEFT and America has never understood what a real left is. America has a centre right and far right. The Democrats might be to the left of the GOP but they are NOTHING like the left wing parties of the rest of the Western world. The only time America ever had anything close to a left was during FDRs New Deal era when he brought the Unions onside. Australia like Britain (and some other countries) has a Labour Party that started in our union movement. Most of Europe has similar Socialist and Communist Parties that started among their working classes and unions. The difference is they are Western democratic parties and not the Soviet style maniacs. One of the easiest ways any America can sound ignorant and stupid is to talk about the Left to people form other countries. Even Obama said his polices we close to Reagans 1980s policies. Obama care was Mitt Romneys plan written up by the Heritage Foundation one of the most hardcore Right Wing Libertarian think tanks on the planet.
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  5204. @theIronwolf1984 Who knows for sure - but lets have some fun with it anyway. Do the the Trumps deserve anything less? Maybe its why Big Don favors Ivanka so much, he knows she's his but he doubts on the others? Juniors dark hair and Eric's dumbness how could they be his?
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  5205.  @leilani-chan8809  Fair comment, but I have seen some nasty stuff in the past that included him. I just feel because he's a minor that he should be left out or handled carefully. Your absolutely right he can't go back and re-choose his parents although Kellyanne Conway's daughter is trying. His parents and older sibling though are fair game for all to go at. They have chosen to be public figures and considering how they have behaved they deserve all they get thrown at them. I hope prison orange doesn't conflict with the sense of style.
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  5206.  Truth Willout  I think his dad was (past tense) smart because you don't get where he is being dumb. But his narcissism has destroyed him and what ever he was or could have been or anything else is in tatters. Eric's just proof that even when a million sperm go after the egg even the dumbest one can win the race.
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  5207.  @deicide666100  Sadly I have to agree with that. I think his narcissism has gone way to far already and there are too many people who have let that happen. I suspect the GOP are simply letting him run to destruction hoping that he wont damage too much as he goes. That's a very dangerous strategy that could have lasting effects and cost many many lives. In fact its cost a TOO MANY lives so far. Take Care & Stay Safe - its not over and neither is COVID nor Climate Change leaving the White House with him.
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  5208. I'm Australian and don't care that much if there's a 2 state or single state solution, BUT I do care when innocent people are slaughtered and it doesn't matter if its by Hamas or the IDF. The random slaughter of innocent children IS WRONG and anyone who can't see that has their moral compass so broken that its impossible to see that you have any morals at all. Sam Harris the American intellectual claimed there is NO moral ambiguity that Hamas is an evil organisation that does not deserve to exist. By the same standard the IDF's slaughter of 11,000 innocent children also has NO moral ambiguity and is a crime. When this threatens to drag the entire world into a horrible conflict where wholesale slaughter is inevitable then ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and both sides need to STOP. The MONEY supporting BOTH sides NEEDS TO STOP. The calls to dismantle entire cultures NEEDS TO STOP.
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  5209.  @jacobmccandles1767  Yeah HOW?? Even using external hardpoints (which ruins the radar profile) HOW? Seriously who TF would make that claim and then HOW? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5210.  @jacobmccandles1767  Yeah but the A10 was NEVER meant to go against ANY fighter so that's a mute point. The A10 was built for 1 thing close in ground support. As far as I know they have always operated with fighter over watch. WW2 was a series of ugly lessons in fighter support. First for the Germans and then for Bomber Command and the 8th Airforce. That was one reason for developing the F117 and B2 the way they were. Get without anybody knowing you are there and get out without them even seeing where you are. From what people like Lt Col. Chip Berke has said the F35 is actually damn good at. And he's flown most of them including the F22, F16, F18 on top of the F35. Therein lies the issue with close support of ground forces. Hiding isn't an option. Who ever they are they know where your ground forces are and can see or hear what's in the sky. Somebody put it well a while back. All other pilots avoid getting hit but an A10 pilot expects to get hit. Because they do go that close to the action and do it in almost any condition including broad daylight. Go check some of the vids. Sure there's those that are all hype but there's also some really good ones that explain what it is and what it does. The USAF keeps trying to retire it and the US Army keeps say NO -Hmmm 🤔🤔 And now they are planning on all new wings for the existing fleet and then a whole brand new fleet to replace and increase the existing fleet. Look at all the places America and its allies have ground forces. Hmmm 🤔🤔
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  5211.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  I disagree with the first point and made a slip on the second. The A-10s vulnerability comes first and foremost from its primary mission profile which is close air support. On the F35s lack of maneuverability go and check what's happened when its been up against planes like F16s in open air combat trials. If you want to hear a really sensible discussion on it go an look for the Pierre Sprey and Chip Berke discussion. Chip Berke who's flown F16s, F18s, F22s and the F35 changed my mind considerably on the F35 because he put into the context of modern aerial warfare where there is a huge emphasis on not being seen to begin with. What Pierre Sprey goes into is what happens when an F35 is located and then engaged. Since my remark I also had a chance to listen to Ward Carol speak about his time in F14s and their training against MIGs. Its really interesting about his discussion on optimal maneuvering speed. A few others have mentioned it but he explained it better. I'll admit I did not know this before Ward explained it. Jet fighters each have a best speed to turn and its totally dependent on the jet's fundamental characteristics. Go look at his videos on air to air, They are super informative. As for Air show stuff, that has nothing to do with combat. For every great air show routine no matter how good it is there's always someone saying that something else was better.
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  5212.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  By chance this just came in my recommendations. Its the Ward Carroll vid on "Constant Peg" which is about his time training against MIG 21s & 23s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeBNyPsysiI
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  5213.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  On the A10 sure there are the drones and helicopters and gun ships for CAS, but nothing else has that gun. For sure that's just one aspect but what military anywhere wants their men or hardware on the wrong side of that gun. On the Pierre Sprey thing that was what Chip Berke pointed out that surprised me a lot - its the dramatic change in air-to-air. He said the very nature of air combat has fundamentally changed. Sorry about the F16 stuff but its also less relevant than most people think when you put it into the comments Chip made about avoiding unnecessary interactions. On the maneuverability Chip Berke said nothin on that and he's flown all these planes. If it was a non issue in straight open air he would have said so - I think. And by open air I mean well clear of land and other obstructions physical or visual. Nothing else meant by it - just 2 planes in open clear sky. Chip didn't really say it but implied something that I first heard way back in the 1980s that was to the tune of "if you could see it, you could hit it with a missile and destroy it." That was how they at least described what they had. There was a documentary way back then that literally concluded that a modern European War could be back to swords and shields in a matter of a weeks because the missiles would simply take out everything. What Chip alludes to with the F35 over the previous planes (except the F22) is that your chances of being seen are so low to begin with that no pilot would pick another plane for any mission (except the F22). It was those remarks that really changed my view on the F35, from being a lemon to being something a LOT more. I still have some reservations over the maintainability of the F35, but that's another subject in part based on my engineering experience.
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  5214.  @nicholasbernard3488  I stopped laughing at this clown when he told Kim Jong-un (in front of the world) he has red button and that his works. A lot of people thought that was worth a laugh back then. He still has that red button at his disposal for another 19days. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤯
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  5215.  @richardlaw9873  Dude you me and millions of other people know that, *BUT DOES HE KNOW THAT?
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  5216.  @marymann3927  Go back to school an learn how to formulate a logical question.
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  5217. @S C If you think that's a joke then dude you are my nomination for this months dumbest commentator on YouTube. And heads up the competition is pretty good right now.
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  5218.  @tomascoppinger8537  There's no doubt he's done the wrong thing, at the very least its an over reaction, but for people to start making stupid assumptions based on a few seconds of footage is simply dumb. But then that's social media - where the ignorant get to claim their expertise.
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  5219. BECAUSE ITS GARBAGE and GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  5220. Same here in Australia and its causing a staggering amount of trouble.
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  5221. Its because Rupert Murdoch has already LOST $800 Million and is still facing the outcome of more lawsuits from backing Trumps behavior. As an Australian I can 1,000,000% assure you that Rupert is one of the most ruthlessly vengeful creatures to have ever walked the face of this planet. He will get even with Trump and then a whole lot more, BUT FIRST he has to separate Trump from his base and that will take time. Once Rupert can flip the audience and Rupert gets another lap dog in the Whitehouse then you watch what he does to Trump. It will make what John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy and Jeffery Dahmer did seem like child's play.
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  5222. Very simple - NEVER underestimate the stupidity of human beings, especially when mob psychology takes hold. Go and look through history at all the other people like Trump and see how many times people have followed after fake this or fake that, claiming "you don't understand our Guru's brilliance!" AND when it all fell apart how everyone said "Why didn't we see it?" as the Guru claims "I'm being victimised!" or "Its a big mistake!" These Gurus are always stunned when somebody finally says "No" to them or holds them accountable. Everyone always stands around and says "How did nobody see it was all lies?" and yet its obvious. Think about how many $$$ Billion gets conned from people every year despite having scams explained again and again. How many times do people need something like Crypto explained before they finally get it. There's a political ideology called "realism" and its based on the premise that human beings a stupid and selfish.
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  5223. I wouldn't call her a Russian Spy because she's T00 STUPlD and T00 lGN0RANT to be a spy.
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  5224. ITS NOT IF BUT WHEN
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  5225. Go and put "how much does laura ingraham make" into Google and look at what she is reportedly getting paid each year. It will put all her comments in perspective.
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  5226.  @condor237  Can clowns like you just STOP making stuff up and broadcasting how idiotically stupid you are. Computers, the internet and social media weren't invented to give clowns a voice.
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  5227. Australian here: I went to college in America in the late 80s on a sports scholarship. I had a fabulous time with my only regrets being that I was too young to really appreciate it at the time and that I have lost contact with many of my friends there. I studied aerospace engineering but a bunch of those friends were pre-law and often dragged me into their conversations. So I got a unusual education into the US Constitution. Prior to that my only study into political systems was Orwell (1984 & Animal Farm) so my only argument was that ANY country could fall into a totalitarian dictatorship (Right or Left) because that was Orwell's warning. It doesn't matter if you go to far Right or too far Left its the same result. My friends used to argue (and they always won) that it was impossible for America to fall because it had a system of "Checks & Balances" built into the system that would never allow such a thing to happen to America. We never discussed the possibility that the system could fail, but then we never we never considered what the Federalist Society planned and executed. The American POLITICAL system revolves around the 3 pillars of the Executive (including the President) the house and the Senate. The American LEGAL system relies on the various layers to make sure that EVERY American is equally treated under the law. The idea or concept that a small group created out of students at 3 universities (Harvard, Yale and U. Chicago) could (overtime) completely subvert the Supreme Court and use that along with there big money supporters to undermine the System of Checks & Balances and then re-write the Constitution wasn't simply unthinkable it wasn't even a concept under consideration. Here's the crazy thing. The Federalist Society was founded in 1982 and it was already underway BEFORE my friends and I had any of those conversations. We didn't even know it existed let alone what its plans were, let alone that it would find billionaires willing to fund what they wanted. Until America is willing to accept that it has been hijacked by a tiny group of people who have managed to suck tens of millions of people into their web of lies then America will remain a foundering ship in danger of sinking. The problem for the rest of the world is we, the human race, face some very big issues like climate change, wars, food shortages, water shortages,... etc. We DO NOT NEED America to solve these issues, but it becomes so much harder when America is what it is now. Sorry for the long comment. I do believe American Constitution is one of humanities finest achievements but right now its being undermined by some incredibly selfish people and it has global effects.
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  5228.  @bobbylong8348  I think you're right there are people who just can't wait to see the end of society. I think part of it is they hate their lot in life which is understandable. Prof. Mark Blyth has pointed out the Rand study that says the top 1% of America has gained (mainly extracted) over $50 Trillion in wealth from the other 99% and then bragged about it. I don't mind people being wealthy but when they've done it by exploiting everyone else and then rubbed our faces in it they must surely expect resentment. I think a lot of preppers resent it more than others. Who doesn't occasionally want to see the world torn to bits, its just the rest of us don't brood over it and by guns and built fall out shelters. We still live in some hope it wont all fall apart. They actually do want it to fall apart.
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  5229. Yeah good point.
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  5230. FOR ALL: This Brown U. Prof. Mark Blyth during a post Trump 2016 analysis. Among other things he points out the frustration many people had towards the establishments of BOTH parties and gives the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmBG3Z4DI&t=1104s
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  5231.  @Forsworcen  You don't program do you? If you did you'd understand. I work in control systems which are the computer systems that read sensors, make decisions based on that data and then actuate things in the real world. Its what I have done for most of the last 30+ years and a lot of that has been automation and robotics work. I can tell you quite simply for a fact that most of the AI people are only saying AI because of the response it gets from the rest of society.
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  5232.  @dolltron6965  Your still not getting past the reality that neural nets are just mathematical models of the AVERAGE answer to the problem they are trained on. They just allow for more complex answers than a single equation. The best description I have heard yet on things like ChatGPT is "stochastic parrot" and if the bulk of information the parrots is fed is nonsense then the parrot will just regurgitate nonsense.
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  5233. WHY are you surprised? I'm Australian but went to college in the late 80s. I was there during the election season when they elected Bush V1.0 and it was bonkers. There was a bonkers sex scandal with a guy named Gary Hart. I came back to Australia after graduating, but the whole world got to see the even more bonkers affair of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski. Do you know that crap affected stock markets around the world because NOBODY knew what was going to happen. After that we got Bush V2.0 and again the whole world go to see the bonkers of what happened in Florida and again it affected stock markets all over the world. After that we got to see the whole Obama "where was he born" nonsense FOR 8 YEARS. At what point after all that do you think the rest of the world was surprised Trump became President. You guys even mad a film called Idiocracy and we still don't know if that was a spoof or a documentary!
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  5234. I went and checked this and according to Newsweek there are multiple reports from the site as well as the campaign that these were NOT attendees to the rally but people selling Trump Merchandise. Even if true, it still does not look good.
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  5235. @TomBrown-z6b In what way is he blind?
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  5236. HEY THOM: you are going to have to do a major retraction and apologise. AT 6:40 It was Jared Kushner NOT Hunter Biden who got the $2 Billion form the Saudis and got several hundred million from Qatar to bail out his family's business. The case with Hunter Biden is about his time in Ukraine and his deals with China. They might be sleazy but they weren't as abd as what Kushner has done.
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  5237. What needs to be said and said quite LOUDLY is how bad the Democrats are for letting this get this far. Some of the Dems really need to take a damn hard look at themselves. Forget how bad Walker is they need a BETTER message than dogshit.
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  5238. That's damn right and this stupid idiot needs to SHUT UP. Like a few others in US politics she has had her go and now its time to GO AWAY.
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  5239. Here the quacks were thinking Michael Jordan's sperm could be sold for millions when actually its his shit.
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  5240.  @lostbutfreesoul  ITS A COMBINATION OF EFFECTS. It started with baby boomer Prime Minister John Howard giving a monster tax break to investment housing. THE CLAIM was it would have a lot of his generation investing their retirement savings into housing and expanding the rental market making it easier for younger people to save up for a deposit to buy their own homes. HOWEVER they also let foreigners buy into that market because that allowed the housing developers to build massive apartment blocks. What you also have to know is that Australia's population was 19 million in 2000 and is now 27 million. We have roughly 400,000 immigrants each year. Because we also run our version of neoliberal economics we have roughly 50% of our population living bellow the line where they can ever save for a house. We shut our manufacturing down and that made this part of the equation worse. There's also a fixed number of new houses each year. We only have so many builders and they can only build so many houses. So its essentially a fixed supply market of about 40,000 houses (from what I have heard). I don't know how many new apartments are available each year but when you're importing 400,000 people each year they simply swallow that up. The whole system is complex but its basically manged to keep the housing supply limited by matching it with immigration. That keeps the values going up and up and that helps developers and banks and arguably the 3 most influential lobbies in Australia are mining, banks and housing developers. So this system is loved by 2 of those 3 groups. Donal Trumps mantra is "Drill baby drill" in Australia we have 2 mantras. "Dig baby dig" for our miners; and "Build baby build, but no too much" for our banks and developers. Sorry for the length of comment, but you asked a great question and I hope that answers it or at least covers it enough.
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  5241. Lets not mention that wonderful little place called Idaho that modelled its banking system on the Swiss. There's not much being reported about Idaho because they really don't like people asking questions.
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  5242. They have actually been confiscating a lot of Russian assets from the oligarchs like their super yachts. They aren't touching the financial assets in London, Idaho, Texas, Delaware,.... or other places because that would mean having to admit that that they were helping the Russian oligarchs move their money around and investing it. There's a lot of people in London who make huge amounts of money moving cash. if you are interested there's a great documentary about tax evasion that explains how the City of London which is a 1km chunk of Britain that has exploited the treaty with William the Conqueror almost 1,000 years ago. Its called "The Silent Killer of the Middle Class | Tax Evasion | ENDEVR Documentary" and its on the channel ENDEVR. And one last thing, Ukraine can't become a NATO member because in the NATO charter there's a clause that states new members CAN'T have borders in dispute. That's why Putin started the breakaway regions - Crimea & Donetsk (in Ukraine), Transnistria (in Moldova), Nagorno-Karabakh (in Azerbaijan),... etc. It prevents those countries joining NATO.
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  5243. IF THER IS ONE THING JOE BIDEN MUST DO it will be NOT going back to the normal that got Trump elected in the first place.
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  5244. ENGINEER HERE - I wish I had seen this story when it first came out. What you have here is a variation of the Enron Strategy. Most people know that Enron collapsed after being caught doing various things. One of those things was market manipulation which they did by TURNING OFF power generating systems. The Enron Strategy relies on some basics of energy generation systems. 1) Most energy systems do NOT run at 100% and there's always some spare capacity in the system so that the next person to turn on a light doesn't collapse the system. So among the power supply companies there's reserve capacity and if its in a system that is already powered up and running then it costs very little to fuel that reserve capacity. So it can be very profitable to sell the reserve capacity if it can be sold. 2) There are 2 power spikes in every modern society every day. There's 1 in the morning when people wake up and start turning things on as well as business starting up and turning more things on. There's a second spike starting in the late afternoon when people start going home and turning stuff on. So if you can create a shortage of supply that's timed when people want more power not only can you sell the reserve capacity but you can sell it and any other energy you sell into the energy market AT HIGHER PRICES . Enron were caught DELIBERATELY TURNING OFF power generators claiming it was just faults and failures. That caused the energy markets to spike and Enron profited by sell energy at much higher profit margins. Its called market manipulation and its illegal and Enron got caught.
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  5245. ARRRRRRGREED
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  5246.  @AMortalDefiant  Australia is 1/13th the population of America, but unfortunately we have a coal industry that's incredibly powerful. I think it was in 2018 or 2019 China installed in a single year more wind & solar then America had in its entire history. So America is not only behind its being surpassed. I'm an engineer and the real problem with nuclear is the actual reactor technology used. There was an alternative technology developed in the late 1960s called "Molten Salt Reactors" (MSRs). MSRs use salt instead of water to transfer the heat. At around 600C salt is just a liquid that flows like water while water flash boils. The problem with water reactors is they containment technology which if it fails you get Fukushima or Chernobyl or worse. But MSRs lost out the same way Betamax lost to VHS in that it was the second technology developed and those who owned the patents on the first won. This tech was reviewed as part of a NASA study into powering a moon base. Since then its gone further and instead of using Uranium they can now use Thorium it just works better in an MSR and is much easier to process into useable fuel. Uranium is a pain in the ass to purify into a useable fuel. I have worked in the Australian Uranium industry (on the mining side) and as part of that went through the ANSTO induction which covers the Uranium fuel cycle form in the ground to back in the ground and all the in between steps. And yes the Iranians do have a weapons program but that's another issue. On the Wind Solar front up to a certain point they are now way better than coal, hydro or anything else in terms of investment. If you think in terms of building a gigawatt of coal/nuclear/hydro you have to spend years building the thing. As an investment you get zero return until its 100% complete. But if you are going to do a gigawatt of solar or wind you are starting to get a return almost immediately. As soon as you connect the first solar panel or wind turbine to the grid you can make money. You don't have to wait until its all built. So in terms of an investment solar and wind annihilate the competition up to a point. At around 80% it begins to hit a problem. There's only so many places the wind blows reliably or the sun shines reliably and they start getting farther and farther away from the grid they need to supply. In Australia our best solar is in the middle of the country where its bright sun 360 days of the year. You get maybe 4 or 5 days when its not as bright. But there's 2 issues. First Solar panels are less efficient when they get hot and central Australia is very hot. Second its a long way from any of our population which means very expensive power lines. For wind our southern coastline (along the Great Australia Bight) is the best place in the world for wind. Its directly exposed to the southern ocean and its mostly a 50m cliff so the turbines are already high above sea level. BUT it so far off grid it also needs a very expensive connection. There rest of the world faces similar issues. The best place for Europe to get solar power from is North Africa. The Sahara is a solar gold mine except for getting the power into Europe. Yes I know about Hydrogen as an energy medium but Hydrogen has its own set of handling issues most of all it likes to explode rather than burn and when it does burn its pretty violent.
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  5247. @Sean Embry I just watched PBS Brooke and Capehart and they said there were 300+ mass shootings so far this year. There is a problem with what defines a mass shooting. If you look at Wikipedia there's info on how various organisations define a mass shooting event. Anyway its looked at Canada has had some mass shooting events BUT its so few compared to America its nothing but a stark reminder how farked up America is right now.
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  5248.  @Physicalchemistry15151  For a really interesting description on the American situation, Mark Blyth (Brown U.) quoted sociologist Kieran Healey (Duke U.) in the following podcast. Its about Uvalde and before Chicago. It starts about 1:30 with the quote at 2:24. And I do recommend you listen to the explanation of what they mean by institutionalise, because this is in a social context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZVG7CVs8Sc "If you think about mass shootings in America what we've done is to basically institutionalize the ritualistic and regularized murder of children so that we can celebrate an abstract principle which is an absurd misconception of freedom."
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  5249. Horrible fact: Most likely NOBODY will be going to jail except maybe Hunter Biden for nothing more than stupidity. I hate to say it but if they were going to jail it would have happened by now. I know that sucks, seriously IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY they would have been rounded up with a day or 2 after January 6th. None of them would have gotten bail. By now all would have been tried and convicted and started their sentence. In many countries the ringleaders would already have been executed. If something was going to happen it would have happened by now. Somewhere in Washington there's some very serious money changing hands.
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  5250. I'm surprised its only this. WATCH - his body language and behavior (as in the wave off). At some point someone is not going to simply call out TC and his arrogant Harvard elitism they are going to REACT. Its the old rule: If you keep kicking a dog, then one day it will bite you on the leg.
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  5251. That's actually their purpose. If you go back to Reagans infamous "Government is not the solution. Government is the problem." This is the sort of shitfuckery that Libertarians just love, because they claim it proves their point when in fact THEY are the sort of people THAT ARE the reason why government is the problem. Just hours after this vid was posted there's another one about an Ayn Rand clown named Norton who called in to debate Sam. Among the top comments was "The only thing I find interesting about Libertarians is trying to guess how long it will take before they completely contradict themselves. The over/under is usually 5 minutes." Look at Milton Friedmans comment on minimalist government (see below) and note the second part on the economy because if Friedman's advice had been taken by Reagan and Thatcher then they would never have rearranged their economies. Reaganomics and Thatcherism would never have existed because both are examples of a government rearranging their economies. This is the destructive stupidity of people like Matt Gaetz. They deliberately interfere and cause problems with government to prove that government is the problem. Plus note Friedman's point on legislating morality which is EXACTLY what the GOP tries to do. Its mindless. Milton Friedman said, "Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player."
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  5252. Actually let her. It will then throw the whole thing back into the Appellate system where she can not only be overruled but the things she uses be dismissed. NO matter what this will end up in the SCOTUS and that's where things will get interesting.
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  5253. When the title of a military operation DOESN'T make sense then you know we are being BULLSHlTTED.
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  5254. You are so right if you go and look at the Sermon on the mount - Mathew Chapters 5 to 7 almost all of Chapter 7 (1/3rd of the entire Sermon) is about identifying false prophets. It wasn't the only time Jesus spoke about them or warned about them. Plus there's numerous other comments by the other Christian writers warning about them.
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  5255.  @pjfx9436  Well then why are you watching anything David Pakman produces? Or do you like being full of shite.
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  5256.  @aylbdrmadison1051  I don't what you replied to but you are on a very interesting point in that American politics are all to the right of the political spectrum when compared to any other part of the Western Democratic World. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. I tried explaining back then that America had a right wing party and a far right wing party and they just don't get it. The concept of left wing political parties doesn't exist in America and never really did. Both the Democrats and Republicans are founded on right wing principals and ideologies. Most people forget that Lincoln (who freed the slaves) was a Republican and at that time the Democrats were the far right racist radicals who eventually produced the KKK. Its only been since WW2 that the Republicans shifted more to the right and the Democrats became more moderate. The Republicans (particularly under Reagan) aligned themselves with the Southern Evangelists and haven't stopped driving that as a way to win elections. The Dems aligned themselves with the unions during the "New Deal" era but never became anything like the Labour parties of Britain, Australia, Canada,... etc. The problem is that so few Americans spend anytime outside America long enough to get a better perspective. Being honest the years I spent in America were the best eye opener I could have gotten on where Australia lies politically. It gave me an alternative perspective to experience and see how others saw my country and where it sits politically in the world.
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  5257. Good comment and it was a good interview but I wish David had dug deeper. If America is going to discuss the meritocracy then the best example is the Federalist Society who believe that they alone with their superior education have the right to decide who can and who can't be on the Supreme Court. The Federalist Society was founded by people from Harvard the same college Prof Sandel teaches at. It would have been great to here him talk about groups and organizations like the Federalist Society. Prof Sandel actually teaches at the place that is essentially the grand temple of the meritocracy and it would have been great for him to discuss that.
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  5258.  @marcevan1141  Thanks, I think David's a fairly good interviewer but he needs to go a bit longer and dig a little deeper at times. I've watched Marshall and Sagaar do a few long play interviews recently on their channel "The Realignment." They do go longer (typically about an hour) and do dig deeper but even they don't question for clarification at times. They just did one the other day with Elbridge Colby and he started talking about "classical liberals vs neo-cons" but they never got him to explain what HIS definitions of the 2 are and give better context. Same thing here David could have dug a little deeper at times and clarify points. Why is a Harvard Professor writing about the meritocracy when Harvard is the center of the meritocracy?
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  5259. I'm an Australian subscriber and I checked Kyle's claim on the search engine. I got to "secul" and all it got to was 'secular talks' with an 's' as the second option. Dropping the 'l' dropped it to 7th. The first option for "secul" was 'secular miya bhai' and I had no idea who or what miya bhai is? I checked and what I got was "Miyabhai is a common colloquial term used in Hindi and Urdu to refer to a young Muslim man. The word "bhai" refers to brother or "bro"." There's also an Indian rapper who uses the name Miya Bhai. I'm Australian of Anglo Saxon descent and I don't listen to Indian rap. So I am calling BULLSHlT to Susan Wojcicki's explanation of the algorithm.
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  5260. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I have spent most of my career in control systems, automation and robotics. I once worked for the Australian agent for Kuka. I have also worked in metal shaping machinery - presses, folders, and roll formers. THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW TECHNOLOGIES I have seen anyone present on the internet that genuinely impressed me. That's in part because I understand how hard the kinematics of syncing 2 robots like that is and partly because I know how hard shaping metal in that way can get AND YET they have combined both into one system. Thanks or showing. OH YES - Please don't get close to active robots like that again UNLESS YOU ARE GOIGN TO WARN VIEWERS. Despite all the advances robots are still incredibly dangerous and its easy for people who DON'T UNDERSTAND to think the robot can see them. Many years ago I actually had a very, very close call when a delivery driver simply walked in the side door of our workshop. He did not call out to me and simply walked up to the robot that was on an elevated pedestal and stood under the gripper. At that moment I had my back turned and was looking down at the programming pendant. The first I knew he was there was when he suddenly said "Gee this is impressive!" ALL THAT KEPT HIM ALIVE was that my finger was NOT on the dead man switch. As I tried to tell him how much danger he was in he simply said "Can't the robot see me!" So please keep your viewers informed about the dangers of automated machinery.
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  5261.  repentandbelieveinJesusChrist9  Hey buddy, PEOPLE LIKE YOU are exactly why the majority of people these days DO NOT consider the bible as anything of value. You FORCE your way into other people's conversations. Jesus NEVER DID what you just did and he never gave you any instructions to do so.
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  5262. ​ @OB1canblowme  There's not a lot of use of harmonic drives in robotics except in smaller robots. Mostly they use cycloidal drives. Kuka use (or they did when I worked for a Kuka agent) ZF manufactured low backlash gearboxes of various types. There's actually nothing that's genuinely zero backlash. There's just systems where the backlash is so low that its negligible. One of the Kuka integration specialists that does automated QA for companies like BMW has this amazing version that self corrects for temperature and other factors. If you want to see a really interesting vid on a system with insanely high accuracy the YT channel Machine Thinking has a vid on the coordinate measuring machine at NIST. Its so sensitive that turning on the lights affects the accuracy and when people actually go in the room it to do set-ups it can take hours for the temperature to restabilize.
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  5263.  @OB1canblowme  I forgot to say I know an application where harmonic drives dominate. On space probes for things like cameras. Its because they don't require lubrication like cycloidal boxes do and they weigh a lot less.
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  5264.  @hanswerner321  Yeah but if have ever been around die making you'd know how time consuming that is. With this system you can design something and then just get it made right then. If you want to press some of these parts it takes weeks to do all the machining of the dies. Some of these parts would need a collection of progressive dies and that's a lot of machining. Its one of the main reasons car companies don't seem to change much from model to model. I used to work in the Australian auto industry and spent time in pressing plants. You'd be amazed how many parts go from car to car with almost zero changes because its just to costly to make new dies every time. Its why so many famous sports cars had all sorts of things from the spare parts bin. So for low to medium manufacturing this would have advantages BUT for serious mass production where you're making 1,000s of cars a day you're right its too slow.
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  5265.  @kyleteal5888  Your right. The basis for this is the sheet metal forming the body shop guys do with an English wheel where they have 2 rollers with slightly different shapes that they use to shape fenders, hoods,...etc. But they also include the the methods used in high end metal folders and press breaks except this is a point load system not a long liner tool.
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  5266.  @scottricketts2088  Can you and all of the other non-engineers PLEASE not throw AI into every conversation as if its some magic panacea for every technical issue. ITS NOT. MOST and I really do mean MOST of the reports of people using AI is just nonsense and hype. Its the current way for research projects and start-ups to get more funding. Just tell the ignorant clowns you're including AI in the project and they can't throw money fast enough.
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  5267.  @newtonia-uo4889  It took me seconds to realise how stupid you are. GO BACK and look at my comment. In my first point is said: "Look at the current Trump, Biden, Bernie & Hilary problems. They all lack substance and in Trump's case morality and ethics, but to their devoted bases they are infallible." 3 of the 4 I named were from your "other side" Way to prove that your kind can't read or think and yet all claim you do.
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  5268. She needs to be PUBLICLY CONFRONTED and ordinary people need to DEMAND she just stop lying. Don't spit or scream or howl get physical or do anything illegal. Just confront her PUBLICLY with just how sick and tired everyone is with this Trumpian nonsense.
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  5269.  @clairewright332  Simple answer is "Not really" Its Left of the Libertarian view but America basically does NOT know what a real Left is in the first place because both your major parties are fundamentally to the political Right. America never had a union based political party like British Labor or Australian Labor. American has the Democrats who started in the South and were so far to the Right the Klu Klux Klan was formed out of them. The Republicans under Lincoln freed the slaves while the modern Republicans would re-introduce slavery in a heartbeat. Obama famously admitted his economics were in line with Ronald Reagan's. America doesn't have Left and Right it has Right and Far Right. Don't panic in Australia right now we refer to our parties as SHlT (Lib Nat Coalition) and SHlT LITE (Australian Labor). BUT what America does have that's similar to everywhere else is they have to political sides that basically see each other as the nations greatest threat. A couple of years ago there was a comment attributed to Johnathon Haidt that basically went "There's a cacophony where the Radical Left and Radical Right just scream at each other while the rest of us, trapped in the middle, are simply exhausted." I think that's essentially true in almost every developed nation right now. Each side just screams at each other and its exhausted the rest of us. Its very true in Australia and from what I can see Britain, New Zealand and Canada as well. Every public debate is framed in the context of "Its their fault because they are terrible and a threat to our way of life, our freedoms and our basic rights." You often hear lines like "We have to take our country back!" I even heard that from One of the New Zealand politicians recently and their politics is usually tame compared to ours. Fueling it all is a media (all of them) that's totally (and often fanatically) obsessed with attention. They will do anything to get their audience's attention and then lock it down with the right social media tags. AND IF a story isn't burning bright enough they will throw rocket fuel at it until it does. AND IF it causes both sides to be outraged at scream even louder at each other they see that as an invitation to throw even more rocket fuel at it.
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  5270. ​ @kindGSL  I largely agree except that what you are doing is EXACTLY what so many other Americans do. You believe that America cannot fall and yet it almost did on January 6th. You had a President totally out of control and NOBODY willing to reign him in. That's as dangerous as it gets. I agree 100% it will be very hard to break America but you can break anything if you really want to. Since then American has utterly FAILED to deal with him and this is part of an ongoing issue with America NOT holding its top echelon accountable. Nobody at the top was held accountable for the invasion of Iraq. Nobody at the top was held accountable for the prisoner abuse scandals at Abu Ghraib and Bagram AFB. Nobody at the top was held accountable for the 2007/08 GFC. On that there's a PBS Frontline on it where Lanny Breuer (Eric Holder's Deputy) says straight to the camera they chose NOT to pursue charges against the Wall St CEO's for economic reasons. Mitch McConnell could have simply said "NO, this is too much." and simply impeached Trump after January 6th and disqualified him from future office. I went to college In America and had these sorts of discussions 30+ years ago. I've heard all about the systems of "Checks & Balances" that would never fail and allow someone like Trump to do what he did. What NOBODY has grasped is that we are NOT living in the 80s or 90s when these systems still worked. Reagan was held accountable for Iran-Contra. I was in college in America as that went on. Bill Clinton lied about getting blown and was held accountable. Then 9/11 changed everything and ever since America's systems have slowly been broken. Back in the 80s or 90s if anyone had told an American that in their lifetime they'd see an enraged mob storm the capital chanting "Hang the Vice President!" they would have called you crazy and yet that happened and NONE of the instigators have been held accountable. If you had told anyone back in the 80s or 90s that half of Oregon wanted to split away and join Idaho they would have called you crazy but that is happening right now. American's are always talking about the "slippery slope." Well News Flash you are already on that slippery slope and sliding. The only question is how far will you slide before you wake up. And so we are totally fair Australia is doing the same sorts of stupid things and its mostly because we have had a lot of people go to places like Harvard and Yale and they wave their degrees in our faces AS PROOF of their irrefutable expertise. We have stuff going on here RIGHT NOW that could easily break our nation. Societies are fragile things and can break if you aren't careful.
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  5271. WHO FARQING CARES ABOUT TRUMP ANYMORE and WHO CARES ABOUT WHAT ANY CELEBRITY IS DOING TOMORROW How about you focus on the real issues? Can Tom Hanks, J-Lo, Garth Brooks or any other celebrity cure COVID, fix the economy, deal with wealth disparity, end the Wars in Iraq or Afghanistan?
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  5272. TEACHING INUDSTRIAL ROBOTS: 2 of the most common tasks industrial robots do are welding and pick & place. Welding is mostly a matter of following the joint line between 2 pieces of metal. Pick and place is our term for tasks like stacking boxes on a pallet as in we pick something up and place it down which is a very common task in robotics. For all the robot guys out there. This isn't for you this is for all the non-robot programmers so things are more phonetic than code. Imagine we have a robot and has a gripper that closes to grab hold of a part and opens the let that part go and we want it to pick that part up from Point A place and put it down at Point B. To do the most basic pick and place we have to get the robot to know at least 3 points. There's the pick position (Point A), the place position (Point B) as well as a home position which we'll call PHome where its out of the road of everything else . Now to make a robot work we don't just tell it to go to a position because it will (in general) take the fastest path which might not be a straight line. Robots aren't that smart and will simply crash into or through whatever is in the road. Even the best anti-collision software (like airbags) only limits the damage. So we never just tell the robot to go to the safe position. In most cases we tell it to go vertically up to get clear of everything so it can then go directly to the home position without hitting anything. So we end up with a list if commands that looks a bit like this except its all phonetic rather than in code. 1-move (current location + home position height) 2-move (home position) 3-wait for a go signal. 4-move (pick position + vertical clearance) 5-move (pick position) 6-pick part (as in close the gripper) 7-move (pick position + vertical clearance) 8-move (place position + vertical clearance) 9-move (place position) 10-place part (as in open the gripper) 11-goto step 1 NOW TO MAKE IT WORK we have to TEACH the robot those 3 points and this is where the word tech has a completely different meaning to how normal people use the word teach. We take the hand control pendant and MANUALLY DRIVE the robot from point to point and when we get to the location we want with the right orientation we will go into the right menu on the pendant and RECORD that location and save it to memory. We don't stand there and tell it something. It doesn't have a camera and a brain to work it out. We have to MANUALLY drive it to the right location and record that location. Things like vertical clearances we'll work out along the way and just put them in as distances from the location. As things get more complex we have to go around things we just "teach" more points for the robot to go to or go through. We don't just move-stop-move-stop we'll also move-go through the next point, then through the next point,........ and onto the final point. For really complex paths which we get with things like welding and gluing we'll do the programing on a cad system then go out to the robot and "teach" it some reference points and then link the complex paths to those reference points. When we "teach" a robot we don't talk to it we don't read stories to it. We drive it to a location and record that location. Once it starts going it will simply crash into or go through whatever is in the road. The only comment in movies or TV I ever saw was a comment in the film the "Terminator" when he said it does not think and can't be reasoned with it just has its program and will do it. This is why we encase them in gages with interlocked gates for normal operation.
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  5273. AUTOMATION SYSTEMS and LEARNING This is again another word we use in engineering that maybe we shouldn't because in engineering its nothing like what learning is for humans. The most common place in my work where we see this is in what we call closed loop control which is where we use some kind of sensor to loop back into the control system. The alternative to closed loop is open loop and we use the basic data of a system to estimate what's needed. Its simpler and suitable where accuracy isn't required. But where you need accuracy you have a sensor feeding back data. If you draw a diagram of this it has what looks like a loop - hence the term closed loop. Between the sensor and what ever you are controlling which could be the speed of a pump or the position of a control valve there will be some kind of algorithm and that algorithm will have parameters that need setting up. At the most basic level we call setting up algorithms "tuning" as in we are tuning the algorithm. More complex systems have statistical data analysis algorithms constantly refine the system over time. In essence these systems are LEARNING how to do the job better and better over time BUT THEY ARE NOT learning like a human being does. They just collect data and use statistical analysis (or similar) to refine the parameters. I once installed an oven on a process line. When we first set it up, its controller would take about 45 minutes to heat the up the oven and settle the temperature down before production could start. Over the first 9 months (or so) it collected enough data from each days start up to refine its parameters and got that 45 minutes down to around 15 minutes giving them about an extra 1/2 hour each day of production. The controller did that without any human involvement at all. To a non-engineer these days it might sound like we installed an AI on that oven - WE DIDN'T. As I said it was just a data analysis package. In past generations they'd usually task a young engineer to collect data over several months and do all that analysis by hand as a character building exercise. If you listen to what people are saying about systems like ChatGPT its not that much different except the data its analysing is NOT something as basic as a temperature or pressure sensor its analysing a massive amount of written information. But they do a similar thing in that they effectively average out all the data which is why some people are calling them stochastic parrots. The danger is assuming the stochastic parrot was trained on good data because just like having a faulty sensor causes problems so does a faulty data set for teaching a language AI like ChatGPT.
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  5274.  @sebastianbardon391  WTF are you talking about. I HAVE NOT MADE ANY PREMISE about how many shares are purchased by anyone. I've just said the simple fact that public companies are owned by communities of people democratic and they operate democratically except that its 1 share = 1 vote. This is why economics, politics, education and human society in general is such a basket case right anytime someone points out a basic truth then a dozen clowns have to stand up and say nonsensical BS. You have just demonstrated why people with STEM backgrounds think everyone with an Arts Degrees is a M0R0N who's constantly trying to outthink and over explain everything.
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  5275.  @Zhagg1  Like all economists your NOT stepping back and looking at some fundamental realities. Your just diving into the details and specific examples while not considering some basic realities. I am not talking about the details of how corporations work or communist states work or even trying to compare them. I am pointing out the basic fact that public (and the public thing is really important) corporations are fundamentally community enterprises with a democratic system of governance. You say they are not democratic on the assumption that democracy is based on 1 vote per person. I studied Ancient Greek society as a humanities option and Democracy has NEVER been 1 vote per person. There has always been systems of exclusion and there still is. In many countries people are not allowed to vote unless they are over 18 and a citizen. Permanent residents are often excluded. So when I say public companies are democratic I am NOT saying they operate like political democracies which is why I keep saying 1 share = 1 vote. If you want to discuss what's fair and what's not fair we could discuss Puerto Rico as other US territories where the population has ZERO effective representation in the government that rules over them. if you want to talk about unfairness then how come a handful of superdelegates each get the same voting rights as 1000s of registered Democrat voters when it comes to nominating presidential candidates?
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  5276.  @Zhagg1  You should start listening to people who DO KNOW what they are talking about. People like Mark Blyth, Adam Tooze, Jacob Sholl, Eric Helleiner and others all ARE ALL POINTING OUT THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS because it explains how we got to this point in time. People like you are so infuriatingly IGNORANT and your SMUG ARROGANCE is disgusting. Communism is based around the concept of COMMUNITY ownership. PUBLIC Corporations are built around a COMMUNITY of share holders WHAT THE 'F' is so damn hard to grasp about the similarity. You people with all you smug arrogant theories on markets, derivatives, politics, psychology, philosophy and other crap while you IGNORE basic realities. Karl Polanyi said you can't commodify human beings and yet what has every economist done since Marx and Smith?????? And you people wonder why others get angry and frustrated with your smugness.
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  5277. Well done pointing that out. Others have also been trying to highlight it. Brian Tyler Cohen (on his YouTube Channel) pointed last week that on Trumps website it states that current donations will be split 50/50 between legal challenges and paying off campaign debt.
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  5278.  @hopejanette  What do you mean? What I heard reported was that it was a 50/50 split and that its stated as a 50/50 split on Trumps website. If you know different or its changed then fine.
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  5279. I have no idea why the YouTube Algorithm flagged this channel. But lets just start with. WHY does anyone believe the clown who gave his own nation the biggest self inflicted pounding living memory? Farage is an idiot as are his people. Like everyone else in politics you can tell he's lying because his lips are moving and there's noise coming out. Lets NOT forget that AFTER winning the Brexit vote he immediately resigned his position INSTEAD OF LEADING THE TEAM TO NEGOTIATE THE EXIT HE CAMPAIGNED FOR. All he has done is blame everyone else for the result he campaigned for.
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  5280. HEY ROBERT THERE IS A GRAPH SHOWING FAMILY WEALTH Google "congressional budget office family wealth" The very first item should be a link to the report Bernie Sanders commissioned. That report covers the years 1989 to 2019 is an update of an earlier report that only went up to 2013. If you go to the governments web page the report and an Xcel spreadsheet with all the data for all the graphs is downloadable. The very first graph from that report has had almost zero coverage by ANYONE. Richard Wolff commented on the report when it first came out. Politico ran a story about it MONTHS later and Kyle Kulinski dis a short video on the politico report. I have NOT heard anyone including Bernie Sanders make any noise regarding this report and that is an Indictment on all of you. That FIRST graph shows the family wealth of the Top 10%, Middle 40% and Bottom 10% of America from 1989 to 2019. It shows that over those 30 years how the actual wealth of the Bottom 50% has FALLEN because the actual value has barely changed while the number of people it represents has grown. Even better is when you compare the data for 2010 to 2007 versus 2019 to 2007 because that shows the effect of the GFC and the recovery afterwards. Correcting for population this is what's happened. The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of the wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were UP 21.7% on their 2007 wealth. The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of the wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were UP 4.6% on their 2007 wealth. The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of the wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were STILL DOWN 21.8% on their 2007 wealth. So the people who caused the GFC and were bailed out with $4 Trillion from bush and another $4 Trillion from Obama and got $3.5 Trillion in tax breaks from Trump collectively were $30 Trillion better off by 2019 than they were in 2007. Meanwhile the People who did NOT cause the GFC but were hit hardest by it had by 2019 NOT RECOVERED. Plus since this is the congressional budget office data, which is basically irrefutable. I will dispute the claim by Heather that the Bottom 50% have combined wealth of $3.5 Trillion because that would mean they have suddenly gained $1.2 Trillion in wealth since 2019 when the CBO said they were worth $2.3 Trillion and that's just 5 years and in that time COVID happened. FYI - I am an Australian Engineer and it should NOT be an engineer let alone one form the other side of the planet point this out to you or any other American. My interest in Economics is in Energy Economics which came form a small consulting job/task I did in 2016 about Australia's energy future which is a disaster in progress and a disaster that's being repeated around the world and a disaster CAUSED BY ECONOMISTS. If you want to know about that let me know.
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  5281. Sorry but this is some of the most ignorant shit I have ever heard and I mean ignorant in that he ignores basic reality. He's IGNORING that he's describing and criticising EVERY socio-political ideology when they go too far. If you took this speech and replaced the words woke and wokeism with conservative & conservatism or left & leftism or right & rightism or ANY OTHER socio-political ideology its exactly the same speech. This is 9 minutes and 12 seconds of political clichéd BULLSHlT that could easily describe every political movement in history. For a couple of people who think this kid has a bright future look at the recently elected American George Santos who has lied about everything in his life. He won the election doing EXACTLY what Tommy Nguyen has done here take the standard tribal political line and tell it to a willing audience. What the real debate should be "This House Believes Political Tribalism Has Gone Too Far"
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  5282. THIS DIDN'T AGE WELL. Pomerantz resigned and Trump was never charged or indicted or anything else.
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  5283. I'm an aerospace engineer and Challenger happened while I was in college. By chance I was in Orlando only 16 days prior to Challenger and watched Columbia take off. Despite being around 55miles from Canaveral it was awesome to watch. When Challenger happened we were stunned, shocked, dismayed but also realised that space flight is hard and dangerous. One of my aerodynamics professors lost a good friend on that flight. The second disaster when yet again expertise was ignored was worse.
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  5284. I am an engineer and that's only the third comment on this page that's sensible. The major problem are the clowns on BOTH the Left and Right like Gerard who have no place in the discussion. ENERGY IS AN ENGINEERING TASK. I have know about Australia's energy situation since doing a project on Australia's future energy needs in 2016. I genuinely believe we need to have nuclear sensibly discussed as part of our energy future but we FIRST have to get the clowns like Gerard to STFU and let the engineers speak. Also his $90 Million was a mistake that he has recognised. Its actually $90K. The LIE he's telling by omission is that that at an average of $1000K per year over the next 80 years you'll pay $80K because it will take 20 years to build out the nuclear then it will run for 60. So over generations each dwelling will pay at least $80K no matter what we do. EXCEPT many households have power bills of $1500 a year and many with power bills OVER $2,000 a year. I am utterly disgusted with how public discussion has been dominated by UNCHALLENEGED claims from BOTH SIDES of the energy debate. BOTH SIDES LIE just as Gerard has done here. And so you know you can read my formal challenge to him on this page.
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  5285.  @Adam-nw1vy  Thanks, nice to see somebody else got it. Chat GPT learned how to hype the credentials of a guest because that's exactly what the media does.
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  5286. Why don't you guys have a look at the crap by a clown calling himself rek131 in the thread started by Crmanyan. He's claiming "Puerto Rico doesn't want to become a state." The stupidity of that is: 1: Its claiming that over 3 million people are content with only having 1 person (WHO CAN'T VOTE) represent them in congress. 2: Its lie - since the Hurricanes Puerto Rico has become news around the World for how bad the recovery was. AND ALL of the news stories included calls for becoming a state because in the current system they have no way to influence congress. Its classic right wing colonial "we have to look after the uneducated backwards natives" 🐂💩
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  5287. Do you know you risk being labelled racist if you paraphrase MLK in this context. Great comment, but risky.
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  5288.  @sawtooth808  👍👍👍👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤐🤐🤐🤐
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  5289. SO YOU ALL KNOW THIS NEWS HAS GONE AROUND THE WORLD. I saw it here in Australia last night a few hours before Kyle posted. We've seen the footage clearly showing the shooter fire at 11:33:24 and the first offices in the hallway at 11:36:00 2 minutes and 36 seconds later. There is no way for the State of Texas, US Government, NRA or anyone else to hide from this. What's more we can HEAR the shooting and anyone who's ever been around guns knows that's not simply an automatic. Either the shooter had a super fast finger or that weapon had a burst fire or fully automatic mode. Part of Kyles analysis is also garbage. At 3:50 when he's talking about cops staying back. I'm not military or police but I have heard them describe how you don't just storm in with a mob, you take up secure positions. In Australia we went through this over the Lindt café shooting. As for the phone background. That's nothing - the actions matter. *The fact they retreated from secure positions matters. The part where he points out the time delay matters even more.* We need answers not opinions. Kyle must know someone from a military or Police background who can explain this.
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  5290. Yeah a fighter pilot who fly's around with his iPhone in his pocket and switched on and ready to take happy snaps and selfies - not likely. This might be a surprise to some but even civilian pilots generally turn their phones OFF before flying. YES I'm one and YES there are headsets that can now Bluetooth to your phone, but I have never seen anyone carry or use one. You are generally watching so much stuff that a phone call is just to dangerous. Is it possible that a military pilot was that undisciplined? YES, but I'd expect he got an ass kicking of legendary proportions.
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  5291.  @criminalnchief5989  The suggestion that others might have gotten her across the line means squat. The fact she NEVER accepted any responsibility at all is why nobody should EVER listen to her again.
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  5292. This clown who called in has the same crap argument that we hear all around the world and its the same stupid shit from the same selfish clowns everywhere.
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  5293. What you are talking about is NOT and American problem its an EVERYWHERE problem. Here in Australia a couple of years ago we had a Royal Commission into our banking sector. Its the British system's equivalent to an American Senate Commission and similarly can subpoena people and lying under oath is perjury. UNDER OATH we had senior bank officials ADMIT to systematic crime at staggering levels. Millions of illegal acts by charging accounts for services that were never delivered and in many case never approved of by customers. They basically programmed the computers to charge every account for certain fees without telling anyone about it. They were small amounts but when you're charging millions of accounts it adds up. AND that was the minor stuff. We should have had several of our banks simply seized by our federal government under our equivalent of RICO because they were operating as organised crime syndicates. Just like happened after the 2008 GFC none of the people who should have been charged were ever charged with anything. The banks were given no more than a slap on the wrist and told to behave.
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  5294. @Just Be Crazy as it sounds that's really good analogy to the stupidity that's gone on. Well done.
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  5295. To Quote 6 time Superbowl winning head coach Bill Belichick - "Do Your Job"
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  5296. This is a great factual report, BUT it needs a follow up on "How to make Tree Planting Work" because we have to make it work. I'm an aerospace engineer and as an under graduate we once had a guest lecturer from NASA talk to us about Terraforming Mars. He broke our hearts with "Sorry but its impossible!" and then explained why. He introduced us to 2 subjects that I now call "Planetary Mechanics" and "Planetary Dynamics". Planetary Mechanics is when you just calculate the basics of what's needed. Planetary Dynamics is how you make it all work and includes things like water, oxygen and nitrogen cycles. When you look at Mars and ask something like how much air would we need to cover mars in a 1km thick layer of Earth Standard Air. It turns out to be 178 Trillion tons. So even before you start asking lots of other questions you have to ask where are you going to get 178 Trillion tons of air? Now applying that to the Earth and our problem of having too much Carbon Dioxide. If you do a simple estimate the 1st kilometer above the Earths surface is approximately 500 Million Cubic Kilometers of air and we need to reduce the CO2 level by about 30% (415ppm down to under 300ppm). The basic questions form that are: 1) How do you process 1/2 a billion cubic kilometers of air to extract slightly more than 1/4 of less than 1% of that air? 2) How much energy is it going to take to build all the hardware needed and then power that hardware? Let me introduce you to the cheapest carbon extraction and sequestration pump there is - A TREE. Trees are low maintenance solar powered carbon extraction and sequestration pumps. The problem is the size of the task because we need every human on the planet to plant or have planted in their name 1,000 trees. Yes 8 Billion people need to plant about 8 Trillion trees and then look after them and let them clean up the mess we have made. To make it work as this video says we need to THINK and plant the right trees in the right places for the right reasons. So that a reasonable percentage of them grow to maturity and suck out the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It can't just be endless groves of the same stuff. It has to have bio diversity.
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  5297. I know its 2 years later but I don't see your name engaging in the "Steve Keen and Friends" podcasts. I'd highly recommend it. I'm an engineer and its one of the best things I do each week. It happens at 3:00am on Sunday mornings where I am, but its worth the effort.
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  5298. ​ @weisemari  Thanks. Here's a question for Kyle and every other Lefty commentator. If Bernie Sanders had asked for this then why isn't screaming about it? OR Since EVERY person in congress would have got this sent to them then how come they aren't screaming about it? This report is arguably one of the most important reports in recent history because it lays bare the failed neoliberal economics that all of developed world is running on, including Australia. I watch a British Economist named Gary Stevenson (here on YT) and he's as well credentialled as they come. He was Citibank's top trader in the world by betting against a British recovery post GFC. He's since left, done a masters at Oxford and now does an economics education channel here on YT. His main theme is tyring to get more people to understand economics so that we can deal with the wealth gap.
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  5299.  @alangray263  Harsh, very, very harsh but who does he have to blame (but herself) for anyone feeling that way? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5300. Prof Mark Blyth (the Political Economist from Brown U.) recently reminded people of what happened a few years ago when one of Obama's Chief Economists was pounding the PR bandwagon of how great America's technology sector was going and its amazing array or products. At one point a person suddenly called out. "You can't eat and iPhone asshole!"
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  5301.  @etdebez9522  How about the fact they all think he's a good Christian and they FORGET he's cheated on all 3 of his wives? How about the fact they call him an economic genius and they FORGET he's had numerous failed businesses? How about the fact they consider him an honest man and they FORGET all the lies he tells?
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  5302.  @6Haunted-Days  NOT A PROBLEM SHIT-4-BRAINS Soon as you Americans stop running around the world shoving your politics and crap down everyone's throats we'll stop telling you to WAKE THE F⋃CK UP. About 80-90% of Americans realise that stuff is WRONG and NOBODY anywhere has a problem with them. But SHlT-4-BRAINS like YOU we have a problem with.
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  5303.  @howardedlund4242  Like Trump himself you just can't help yourself with exaggerated BULLSHlT Where do you get 50 from?? Trump's beaten 2 charges NOT 50 and both were rigged impeachments. All the charges he's now facing aren't even decided yet M0R0N. Then there's the 64 cases Trump and his people LOST in court over their false election claims? How about the several hundred cases his M0R0NIC followers LOST from supporting him on January 6th. How about Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio getting 22 years and some of his buddies who got 10-18 years??? How about Oath Keeper Stuart Rhodes getting 18 years or his partner Kelly Meggs who got 12??? The only people on drugs are the Trump supporters and a bunch of them are now serving time.
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  5304.  @robertperez3736  Yeah what happened to Jarod Kushner's father Charles? You should look up the Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery on Wikipedia to see the list of people they've sent to that place. You should also look it up on Google Earth its next door to a golf course. I do suspect your right and further suspect that there are DEMOCRATS who want this to just go away but don't know how to do it. David Pakman has repeatedly said he can't see Trump going to actual prison but most likely getting home detention which is not unheard of for major political figures. It really comes down to Trump shutting his mouth which so far he can't, because sooner or later a judge will deal with him if he continues with the stupid stuff.
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  5305.  @robertperez3736  Oh yeah how stupid do you have to be to think a malignant narcissist like Trump actually cares about you?? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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  5306.  @nancyandjoel4134  Well sort of Yes but both have flaws. Its easy to forget in the madness but the basis of the Trump thing is they hate career politicians who have made their lives miserable. Plus De Sanctimonious is a creepy Harvard lawyer who falsely represented himself to Gitmo prisoners and then stood there and watched them get tortured. Trumpsters might look past Trumps deceitfulness but they haven't with De Sanctimonious. Trumps a ring master De Sanctimonious is the cliched clown in this bad circus. Second Haley is just another career politician and head to head Trump will dump on her like he did all the other GOP goons back in 2015 BOTH De Sanctimonious and Haley are characters play acting for a crowd and NOT even the Trump supporters are buying into it. That said I think Haley could beat Biden just on her age. Plus she's reasonably predictable on how she'd operate and despite the insanity of US politics people want a predictable person in the Whitehouse. If Trump does get disqualified then she'd be a smarter pick than De Sanctimonious mostly because she hasn't upset a lot of people which De Sanctimonious has done both inside and outside Florida.
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  5307. Yeah as an engineer who's been involved in manufacturing I can state quite comfortably that there's at least a million engineers who know more about manufacturing than Elon Musk. Just consider every other manufacturing sector that Elon Musk is NOT involved in then ask what would he know? Here's some basic manufacturing questions: 1) How do you make the cardboard of a milk carton waterproof? 2) What's the basic difference between moulding the plastic for the reflector in a headlight versus the front lens? 3) 2 of the main metals his teslas are made from are Copper and Aluminum what's the basic difference between how they are extracted from the ore? 4) Why do you need to anneal copper? 5) In a machine shop what's the basic difference between a lathe and a milling machine?
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  5308. Answers below Just in case you thought I was being facetious. 1) There's a very thin film of plastic. What's odd about the process is that for a plastic process its done at much higher temperature than injection molding so that it sticks to the paper/cardboard. Normally polyethylene and polyethylene/polypropylene mixes are moulded at 160-180℃ while for paper coating its 300-320 2) Because reflectors have to deal with heat from the light bulbs they were traditionally made from thermoset plastics which look and feel a bit like bread dough. Its pushed into the die where it is HEATED then cooled. The shiny surface is created by first spraying the front side in a lacquer that's UV cured and then under vacuum has a layer of Aluminum about 50-200 atoms thick embedded in the lacquer. Its the lacquer that makes one side shiny and the other dull grey. 3) Copper like many metals is first extracted from the ore using acid leaching. Aluminum does not dissolve from the bauxite using acids and it is instead done with caustic at temperature and pressure. The process is known as the Bayer Process and yes it was by a member of the Bayer family now famous for pharmaceuticals. 4) Copper unlike most metals work hardens as you bend and flex it so it need to be softened through the opposite process to the quench hardening you see on the sword & knife channels. It differs from tempering. Annealing unlike tempering aims to make the metal as soft as practical while tempering aims to specifically keep some hardness while reducing brittleness. To see examples of these processes I recommend watching the sword & knife channels for hardening and tempering and the hobbyist channels making things like model steam engines for annealing. the channel Blondihacks is currently building a model steam engine made from copper. 5) I'd expect that any mechanical engineer knows the difference between a lathe and a mill. Look at what is rotating in the main spindle. A lathe has the part held to the spindle and rotates while the tool is moved in 2 or more axis to shape the part. A mill has the tool mounted in the spindle and it rotates while the part is held to the table and moved around in 2 or more axis to make the part. Where it gets confusing is that it is possible to use a mill as a lathe and a lathe as a mill.
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  5309. ​ @DrWhom  Actually 2 out of 5 is incredibly good for most people. Which 2 by the way? And EM wouldn't know the ore one because Tesla is an end user. These are the sorts of things you only find out from being in those industries. FYI - I started with a degree in aerospace but landed in industrial control systems and automation in the manufacturing sector. That's where I know the manufacturing stuff from. In 2002 I met Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt who told me to check out Helium-3 which is a potential nuclear fusion fuel and the only known industrial level source is the moon which is where I wanted to go. So I went off to get some experience in mining which was fortuitous because Australia was just starting a boom in new mines to feed the Chinese beast. Because I was interested in how you actually get raw materials out of the ground and get what you want I paid attention to everything I could. The main lesson I got from the mining game was infrastructure. A lot of our mines in Australia are in remote locations and you have to build EVERYTHING from scratch including all the basic services like power, water & sewerage AND THEN maintain it. So I've had an odd and varied career so far. Its actually the infrastructure thing that has me most concerned these days because without it our modern world just stops. Its why I hate the media and their endless over hyping everything. We just aren't getting any air time on things we actually need.
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  5310. Go watch Glenn Kirshner explain the court cases. He started as a JAG before becoming a Federal Prosecutor. He's done a lot of great explaining of what is happening. He's actually argued cases before Judge Sullivan who's handling the Flynn case. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrWmonkmTk5NbvmVnc7f70w
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  5311.  @ashroskell  Well that just shows how stupid you are about checking facts - you have everything BACKWARDS. First off Glenn Kirshner is a REAL Lawyer with real qualifications. He was a JAG before becoming a Federal Prosecutor he has tried and convicted murderers you numbskull. Saying he's an debunked Alex Jones type is so stupid it barely deserves a reply. 2nd: He is as against Trump and what Trump has been doing to the judiciary as you can possibly get. Lately he has been explaining how they can revoke Trumps illegal pardons. Go and actually watch what he is doing. He's actually organizing people to help get rid of the NOT QUALIFIED Judges Trump, McConnell and Graham have appointed. 3rd: You just called me a Trumpist - WTF are you talking about. You could not be more wrong you effing idiot. Get your facts right because you don't even know what side people are on. You have this so wrong I should be calling you a Trumpist, but I can see your not from your other comment. I wish there was a better face palm emoji but this will have to do.🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️ 👉😯 Between your ears there's a brain switch it on. I don't care if you apologize to me but you sure as hell owe Glenn Kirshner an apology.
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  5312.  @ashroskell  Where the f--k are you coming from and who is making these idiotic claims. Who's making the claim Glenn has been debunked because it isn't anyone on the Biden, Democrat, Progressive side of the fence. It has to be a Trumpist because all of Glenn's posts for months have been about getting justice against the Trump administration. I have been watching Glenn for months and NOT ONCE has he ever shown any support for Trump or any of the Trump team. He hasn't made a claim that didn't check out, I know I have checked. He was commenting the other day about murder trial he had worked on so I looked it up and found the court summary on the federal court records. I found him listed as the prime prosecutor. I have never seen someone get it so wrong and be as ridiculous as you have just been A SECOND TIME. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️
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  5313. The real question in this is when does all this cross the line and this go from complaining about an election to outright sedition? I am not a lawyer so if there is a lawyer or law student out there who can better explain or answer that question please do.
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  5314. As an Assassin's Creed fan and someone who watched the Medici TV series, I read through quite a few Wikipedia pages on the Medici and they're a fascinating family who changed the economics of the world along with their contemporaries. Its just another brilliant insight by Gary into HOW the world works and has in some ways been working like this for centuries. FYI - I'm Australian and to back some of Gary's recent remarks, I can assure you all that what he's saying about British economics is 100% applicable to Australia. The reason is simple many of our top economists either studied at or spent time at places like Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge and the LSE.
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  5315. KYLE WTF: Why are you and others repeatedly harping on about what the indictment actually says when NONE of the Trumpsters read anything? This is NOT about FACTS and NEVER was. This is 100% about NARRATIVE. EVERYONE go back and watch Kyle and Krystal's interview with Jesse Ventura and this time take note of the part where he describes his first foray into commentary and how Vince McMahon told him "If you say it then its true!" Everybody knows that pro-wrestling is NOT a sport and that the outcomes are orchestrated BUT the FANS still LOVE IT. That's what Jesse V. meant when he talked about how Trump is playing the part of a pro-wrestling "heel" (bad guy). Trump does not give a damn about what anyone thinks just so long as he keeps his audience engaged and his opposition enraged. The difference is this is NOT about entertaining a crowd which is what pro-wrestling is. This is about who is going to lead the biggest economy in the world which also happens to be armed with nuclear weapons.
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  5316. I recommend that everyone go and watch the PBS Frontline documentary "League of Denial" where there are interviews with ex-NFL players who were later found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Its available here on YouTube as are interviews Herschel Walker made in the past. I found one from around 6 years ago and its clear in that interview that he could form coherent sentences and discuss things with people far better than he can at present. I'm not medically qualified to judge his condition, but its clear that he's not functioning as well as he has in the past.
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  5317.  @GpOg-j3v  Great point except you always need to consider - HE DOES NOT CARE. He is playing to an audience who already WANT to hear this kind of crap. Go look up the Rutger Bergman leaked interview where he was called out for being a millionaire paid for by billionaires. He lost it.
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  5318. That's a really good point, that goes a lot further than just the Fed. And the same can be asked of almost any country, it just might NOT be as "in your face" obvious as America.
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  5319.  @bdegrds  Can you and every other clown who thinks that a self aware computer exists or is even close to existing go stick your head in a bucket of ice water and WAKE TF UP. Computers are not capable of thinking and are not even close to thinking. What we have are algorithms that "mimic" human tasks. Like every other from of data crunching they just do it faster than a human can. All that ChatGPT and all the other systems do is just process data with better algorithms. All that quantum computers do is process data more efficiently. There's an awful lot of techno-hype that has one purpose - to suck in investors and customers.
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  5320. You comment's prefect except for the 1st word - it just lacks the disdain Giuliani deserves for how he has behaved. "F-CK" would have been appropriate.
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  5321. AUSTRALIAN HERE: So I am an outside observer and here's some comparison to actual dictatorships. If Joe Biden was acting like: - Augusto Pinochet the Chilean dictator he'd have ALREADY had Trump thrown out of a helicopter. - The Ayatollahs of Iran he'd ALREADY have had Trump hung in the street. - Xi Jinping the Chinese leader he'd *ALREADY" had Trump shot in the back of the head and televised it on TV. - Kim Jong Un the North Korean dictator he's already had Trump shot with an anti-aircraft gun or poisoned with nerve agent. - Mohammed bin Salman the Saudi king he'd ALREADY have had Trump publicly beheaded, chopped to bits or shot or all 3. - Vladimir Putin the Russian President he'd ALREADY had Trump poisoned or thrown out a window or both. NOTE the last 3 are all friends of Trump. And before anyone says an Australian has no place saying these things just remember that we just like Canada, Mexico, Britain, Europe, Japan and others have very security arrangements with America and after the security issue there's all of the trade our nations have that revolve around America and American business interests. NONE OF US can afford to have America become an unreliable and/or unstable nation. IN FACT an unstable and/or unreliable America would be a disaster for the world both economically and security wise. It would even be a disaster for the Russians and especially for the Chinese.
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  5322.  @biggpicture2930  That's actually a reasonably nuanced description. Be careful with Mearsheimer he represents a very narcissistic side of American politics. I watched one of his lectures he did at Yale about 5 years ago on Liberal Hegemony. Its was by far the best I have ever seen anyone describe the flaws in American Liberal Ideology. What you will never see him do is go into any of the flaws in his side of political ideology which he calls "offensive realism." Peter Zeihan called Mearsheimer's suggestion that we simply let Putin have what he wants as HORSESHlT. Putin wants the rest of the world to sit back and let him write the security policies for over a dozen countries with around 270 million people in them and they'd have NO SAY IN IT. So I'd be very careful with what Mearsheimer has to say. He's very smart and very knowledgeable on various topics. He's also a narcissistic sociopath.
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  5323.  @Eric-kn4yn  You're 1/2 right. Getting the business relationship with China for raw materials has been awesome and 1,000s of Australians have done well out of it, BUT sending slabs of our manufacturing to China has been a farking disaster and letting the Chinese steal intellectual property and trademarks has been a disaster. However clowns like Hawke, Keating, Howard, Costello, Rudd,... etc. kowtowing to them on these issues has been even worse because now we all have to deal with the ramifications. Its all part of the basic rules of politics. Rule 1: If "it" works then take credit for "it" even if you don't deserve any credit at all. Rule 2: If "it" doesn't work then IBDeW: a) Ignore and act like "it" doesn't exist (as Keating just did on certain questions); or b) Blame someone else for why "it" didn't work (as Keating just did on certain questions); or c) Deflect and change the subject (as Keating just did on certain questions); or d) When all else fails and you can't take credit, deflect or blame the go full attack mode. Call anyone who asks a fraud, fake news, a scumbag or a clown. Just as Keating did when asked about if he'd be just as critical of the Chinese Communist Party and what they have done in Hong Kong and to the Uyghurs. Most importantly NEVER answer their question.
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  5324.  @sportsfanivosevic9885  What do you mean by that? And compared to what? Do you know what the Collins class cost per boat and what that is in 2023 dollars. That whole program cost A$5.1 billion (1999) for 6 units that's over A$9.2 Billion in 2023 dollars or $1.53 Billion each. Here are some prices for current gen non-nuclear submarines. Swedish Blekinge - A$1,010 million ea. German 212 - A$896 million ea. Japanese Taigei - A$790 million ea. French Scorpene - A$672 million ea. So the Collins class have been damn expensive. As an engineer I can tell you that's what happens when you have a poorly planned project.
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  5325. No what's truly scary are the people who think these people know what they are talking about. Remember the film Team America World Police where they made fun of the concept that celebrities were important to world affairs. It isn't quite as funny these days is it?
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  5326. When it involves a pedophile and your connection to them its best to let your lawyer speak and keep your mouth shut. Innocent, guilty or anything in between - mouth shut. His response was to a question about lessons learned. I'd say his lesson from this interview is MOUTH SHUT or at least have a very general no committed answer. Most importantly DON'T LIE it wont work ask Prince Andrew.
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  5327. He's still got feet and meters confused like many American's do. The Tallest turbines in the world are about 1,000ft high NOT 1,000m 1,000 ft is still damn impressive - that's the standard circuit height for light aircraft.
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  5328.  @Antropovich  meticulous is spelt with a 'e' not an 'a' but then am I being facetious meticulous or both?
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  5329.  @Antropovich  Good clarification anyway.
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  5330.  @Antropovich  Take note of the little red line under words. At the very least it means that spell check doesn't recognise the word. (It just did it for me. I hit ; instead of ' in the word doesn't) Fair call on the languages. Whenever I do use another language, which isn't often, I'll use google translate. I know its not perfect so I always include my original English. If I am translating someone else's comment I'll ask if the translation is what they meant.
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  5331. TO ALL AMERICANS: take note of what he's saying at the start about America exporting stupidity. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I love the place, love the people, love the sports and even love American food (which is totally underestimated). What he's talking about is that part of American society that can't shut up and just wont stop promoting itself. What most Americans don't understand is just how pervasive that part of America has been. A few years back an American journalist was in Australia and he commented that Australian's loved American's but disliked America. What he was talking about was these incredibly loud promoters of various ideologies - free market economics, guns, American democracy, American style laws, American style religion, technologies that aren't necessary to basic life,.... AND most notably American TV, movies and music. The list is extensive and many of these things are RAMMED down peoples throats. Sort of like "If you don't have the latest x-Phone you are depriving yourself of amazing stuff. If you don't get one for each of your kids your depriving them of a future." The true superpower of America is the "ability to promote." Products, ideologies or themselves nobody's as good at promoting as that small part of American society. And that small group are the Americans the world see's and they have very badly skewed the world's perception of the American people. So when you hear people say negative things about America - ITS NOT ABOUT YOU SPECIFALLY its about these people who just wont stop ramming ideology down their throats.
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  5332.  @JoaoMariaNunes  Well both those comments make more sense. In a nutshell if it really was anthrax some would already be dead and others critically ill and neither has happened.
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  5333.  @iangascoigne8231  Actually Harvard and Princeton do require brains but if they come with morals or ethics its surgically removed before they start classes. Actually the mistake people make with Cruz is that he is actually damn smart. He was his high schools valedictorian, finished cum laude at Princeton and magna cum laude at Harvard. That's serious brain function and just demonstrates how much of a failure he is doing what he does. The saddest thing about Ted. He's one of the greatest wastes of talent and ability in American history.
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  5334.  @MattH-wg7ou  I really notice it in things I understand - engineering & technology. That makes me wonder about so much else we hear and can't challenge because its in topics we don't know or have no experience in. I'm Australian and Rupert Murdoch's crime of crimes was pushing and promoting "opinions as fact."
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  5335.  @peterforden5917  These days the favored small books with all that stuff are the black books.
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  5336.  @mescko  There's one I hadn't heard of or maybe just not noticed. Thanks. I wish this guy would do more vids they are so damn informative. There's so much of this stuff we are close to losing. Its one thing YouTube is getting right. Just recently Keith Rucker at Vintage Machinery did a "partial screw thread" for a vice screw. I'd never heard of anyone doing that let alone seen it done.
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  5337.  @mescko  Unless you get really lucky almost NO supplier would have any idea what you are talking about. I vaguely remember a joke about Lotus using 7mm bolts to save weight over 8mm bolts and how its still a problem for people owning older cars.
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  5338.  @dicksargent3582  Interesting. In what ways do they differ? The Russians for a while had an interesting philosophy they had 1 gear box. The had the same gearbox in their trucks their tanks and anything else that needed a gear box. Their view was they could keep their tanks rolling so long as there was a truck nearby to steal parts from. At times other militaries have done similar.
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  5339.  @patriciawright8786  Creflo has a Wikipedia page if you want to have look at his version of ridiculous garbage.
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  5340. My first thought exactly. Better still he showed that American education failed decades ago. Go and actually look at google earth or any other Atlas. How does invading Ukraine help invade Israel in? Russia already has ports in the Black Sea and by land they'd need to invade Georgia, Turkey and Syria.
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  5341.  @333mayhem  Don't be surprised he doesn't realise he died months ago. He's a real life version of the Sixth Sense.
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  5342. ​ @benfaunce7496  Fair call. There's actually a couple of interesting things about this interview that's not being discussed. 1 - is the fact that here's professor Chemerinsky lamenting originalism and the federalist Society and yet on the Staff of the UC Berkley law school is John Yoo the infamous member of the Bush Administration who wrote the infamous "Torture Memo" that lead to all sorts of problems. John Yoo should be in prison not be a tenured law professor teaching anything. 2 - is the problem of ideologists taking their ideology too far. A couple of years ago I heard Jordan Peterson (when he still had brain function) describe how they know when people go too far on the Right (they get racist) but there's no clear indicator when someone on the Left goes too far. I think he was 1/2 right and 1/2 moronically wrong. At the fundamental level people have gone too far when they let an ideology dictate what's real rather than facts. We see this all the time with both Leftists and Right wingers. Its even with centrists who are so into appeasing BOTH sides that they never get anything done out of fear of upsetting someone. Look at all the Lefties who scream about capitalism these days. Emma Vigeland being an example of this who repeatedly say "Capitalism is the problem." She like many others forget the utter misery of what happened in Eastern Europe when socialism and communism were let run rampant. I find it amazing that the Green parties around the world are on the Left when some of the greatest environmental catastrophes were done by socialists and communists. There were no capitalists involved with the destruction of the Aral Sea or the destruction of the Chinese water ways. Which capitalist built all those coal fired power stations in China or ran their mines so badly they burned as much coal in the mines as they did in the power stations? Whenever we let ideologists go too far we are always in trouble its just a matter of what it takes to clean up afterwards.
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  5343.  @benfaunce7496  I saw your comment about not being able to agree to progressive ideas and be a republican. I see your point but if you look at what the basics of what progressive, conservative or regressive mean than its easily possible to be a republican and be progressive and just as easy to be a democrat and be conservative. I'm an engineer so I tend to take some of these ideas at a very straight forward definition unlike poly-sci, sociologists and economists take these things and word salad them. To me a progressive wants to see progress, a conservative doesn't want change and a regressive wants to go back to some past state. As such I don't see a lot of conservatives as conservative but as regressive in that they want to go back to some 1950s "Happy Days" TV fantasy that never really existed. I see the word progressive as people who want to see the human race make progress IRRESPECTIVE of the social, technical or political issue. Although that mostly means they lean Left it does not exclude them being right leaning on issues like economics and industry. There's not many right leaning progressives but they do exist. Saagar over on Breaking points is one I know of. His buddy Marshall who does the Realignment is another. In an interview on Krystal Kyle and Friends, Jesse Ventura described himself as Socially Liberal and Fiscally Conservative. So he could be described as a right leaning progressive. I'll grant you any day that Right leaning progressives are rare but I do think they exist, but I'd also agree that I doubt many would vote Republican at this moment in time. That doesn't mean they haven't in the past. I'd also add to that I think its impossible to be a socialist and be progressive because at its core socialism with its "nobody owns anything and money doesn't exist" mentality is so close to ancient feudalism its scary. Probably the weirdest thing I see in all these ideologies is THEY ALL BELIEVE in some version of an impossible utopian fantasy that never existed but they all claim is easily attainable if we only do A, B, C,...
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  5344. This is why the Left fail and fail and fail and fail. They do the most stupid ridiculous childish shite again and again. At one of the G-20s they staged a fake soccer match where there dressed up as political figures with paper mache masks. There was this clown screaming "Yellow card, Yellow Card on climate change." It was idiotically cringe and childish. Just like this event these stupid childish events do NOTHING to get people on side. My bet is most of them are failed drama students who think these antics are clever. Kyles right and what's more WHEN the Political Right call the Political Left clowns who will ruin society and wreck the economy they point to this sort of stuff.
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  5345. To All - Here's David Dunning (of Dunning-Kruger) explaining why ignorance can't recognize itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErkhYq13VVE Its worth watching if you want to understand why people like this cannot not see what they are doing or what they are saying is wrong.
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  5346.  @piccalillipit9211  You might be interested in this documentary about how tax evasion gets done on an industrial scale out of the City of London using a 900 year old treaty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6O3US9IE4
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  5347.  @piccalillipit9211  Shame - see if you can pick it up with a VPN. I'll try and give you a brief synopsis. There's a huge issue with the top 1% of humanity NOT paying any tax. At the same time the top 1% are squeezing the middle class harder and harder with increases in living costs while keeping wages frozen. That lack of tax income is also preventing many nations from using their institutions to lift their people out of poverty. At the center of the world's tax evasion industry is the City of London. Way back in 1066 when William the Conqueror invaded he stopped at London. A treaty was negotiated. the City of London surrendered but was allowed to conduct trade however it saw fit separate from the rest of England. That treaty is still in effect 900 years later. The actual City of London is 1 square mile delineated by the old walls from 1066. Under that 900 year old treaty the bankers in London get to decide where the business they are doing is regarded as having taken place. Its like the whole place is some magic black hole. They give an example of bananas grown in Guatemala and sold to America and Europe. The Trader in the City of London remotely accesses a computer in the Caymans to buy bananas very cheaply from farmers in Guatemala and then sells them at a massive profit to consumers in America and Europe. Nobody is actually in the Caymans. There's just a computer, but because of the treaty they can claim that the trade is done in the Cayman's which means the company making the profit pays NO TAX because their profit was made in the Cayman's not in London or in Guatemala. So the Guatemalans get little for their bananas and NO TAX from the actual deal. The British people get no tax either because according to the treaty no money was made in Britain. Even the trader who never left Britain can avoid tax because his work is regarded as having taken place in the Cayman's. There are 4 major hubs for this from of tax evasion (or avoidance as they call it) Switzerland, Singapore, Bermuda and the Cayman's. So Britain has influence over 1 (Singapore) and 100% control over 2 more. BUT it also has 100% control of another dozen or so island states across the world. This is why despite all the noise about the Panama Papers, Paradise papers and Pandor Papers went nowhere, because no laws were actually broken. With tax laws for international trade there's legal, illegal and a grey zone in between. That grey zone is the tax havens around the world controlled through the magic black hole that is the City of London. This is why Konstantin is so totally wrong about Britain having no ability to affect what happens with climate change. These countries are poor and will remain poor because the City of London keeps them poor by tax evasion or avoidance as they call it. The documentary says it all so much better.
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  5348. @Numero uno Sunshine all philosophy is the bending of reality. Whatever is real philosophers will find a way to argue its something else. Conservatism has NEVER solved anything. All it has ever done is conserve the status quo of an elite minority and all that does is cause stagnation of a society which is in itself a problem NOT a solution. The fundamental issue I have with wokeism and the radical right these days is they both hijack any every public discussion they can and flip it into a culture war issue. They are both repulsively hypocritical.
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  5349.  @publius5128  Sorry but to say the that (quoting your words) "right has little to no cultural power, little to no institutional power, and doesn't have the WEF and firms/companies like Blackrock and the CCP helping them with their subversions and efforts." IS ONE OF THE MOST IGNORANT CLAIMS I HAVE EVER SEEN because it completely IGNORES REALITY. Cultural power - WHO controls the mainstream media. Are you saying Rupert Murdoch and his friends have no cultural influence. Institutional Power - Are you really claiming that Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale,... etc have no institutional power. Do you know the majority of upper court judges come from Right wing education backgrounds? In American right now the Supreme court has 4 Harvard, 4 Yale and a Notre Dame. The political Right control most of the developed worlds court system and in many cases the higher positions in public service. I think the figure is that over 90% of Britain's bishops and military offices went to Oxford or Cambridge. The you claim the WEF (owned by a billionaire and Blackrock owned by another billionaire are NOT Politically Right and have no influence. FKING GARBAGE. The ignorant means a person who IGNORES and you are on of the most ignorant people I have ever encountered.
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  5350.  @bobross3781  ARE YOU FARKING SERIOUS?? Where are people on the right shutting out people on the left??? How about every media outlet the Rupert Murdoch Controls or has influence over? How about the other right wing media outlets controlled by or influenced by other billionaires around the world? How about every outlet controlled by a right wing government around the world? You farking clowns on the right whining about what you people do every day is so DAMN PATHETIC.
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  5351.  @bobross3781  I'll give you another area where you farking right whiners endlessly complain - EDUCATION. Absolutely the Left have an overbearing influence on social sciences and YES it needs to be dealt with. I WILL AGREE any day of the week with anyone from the right that the Left have way too much influence on social science education. BUT THEN YOU have to agree that the Right have too much influence in respect to Economics, Business and Law education. FYI - I did aerospace engineering and in my humanities options I did classes in Economics, Psychology and Sociology AND SAW BOTH SIDES and what they do.
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  5352.  @bobross3781  The stupid part of his comment is that there are just as many on the Far Right who'd do EXACTLY the same thing. That's the really shitty aspect of current tribal politics. Every screaming twit and clown is accusing the other side of EXACTLY what they do or like to do. My way of describing all the tribal clowns is that they only want one thing. "I want the freedom to strip you of your freedom!" or some variation of it. American Libertarians put it: "I want the liberty to strip you of your liberty!" Woke clowns put it: "I demand the equal rights to strip you of your equal rights!"
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  5353.  @onepartyroule  The Left going to far with things like political correctness has driven people crazy for 30+years starting back in the 1990s when HR also known as the "Political Correctness Police" emerged. I think a major part of the current Right Wing swing has come from people (who may have thought they were doing the right thing) just going to far trying to tell everyone else how to think. You can't by rules or regulations force people to think a certain way. It never works out and you end up NOT having certain discussions like the one you mention with Yanis V. If you want a perfect example of that sort of nonsense look at a video clip form the Australian TV show Utopia here on YT titled "How To Avoid Offending Your Co-Workers | Utopia"
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  5354.  @BabyBackRibs-h3j  You're partly right. I'm Australian and we've spent the last 25+ years dealing with some of our past. Its been some ugly stuff to talk about, but if you don't talk about it you never deal with it. I think what you're alluding too is when people keep hammering guilt trips at people. That NEVER WORKS. Tryin to force your view via guilt does nothing but build resentment and when it finally boils over it gets very ugly, very fast.
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  5355.  @BabyBackRibs-h3j  What you have just said is the same basic thing I said. People should NOT have to feel guilty about what previous generations of their people did other wise I'd need to go SHITPOST the Italians for what they did over 2,000 years ago when the invaded Britain AND SHlTPOST the Danes, Swedes and Norwegians for what their ancestors did 1,000-1,200 years ago. This is why I hate the clowns on the Radical Left who think shoving guilt trips at everyone is sensible when all it doe sis PlSS PEOPLE OFF. IS THAT CLEAR ENOUGH FOR YOU. Or do I need to say it for a third time?
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  5356.  @Lezlee-abcxyz  That's because as you allude to the Americans CAN & DO BLAME the Brits for what happened. The fact that things like the Trail of Tears and the Subjugation of Hawaii happened AFTER Independence, is just semantics and irrelevant details.
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  5357.  @孫悟空-r7w  Not certain what country you're from BUT GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT There were bad things with the colonisation of Australia BUT THERE WAS NO GENOCIDE.
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  5358. Its like the difference between Libertarians and Liberals which I describe as: Both words are derived from the word LIBERTY, except. Libertarians want the government to drop any regulation or law they dislike and provide them with LIBERTY so they CAN enact and enforce their rules and values on others. Liberals want the government to regulate and enact laws to protect their LIBERTY so that other people CANNOT enact or enforce their rules and values on others. Basically Libertarianism is: "I want the LIBERTY to force my rules on you and you aren't allowed any rules that can stop me." Basically Liberalism is" "I want the Government to protect my LIBERTY from others controlling my life like feudal overlords."
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  5359. @🍄Personal Shaman🍄 Dude have a look at what your saying and then HINESTLY ask yourself - How are other people going to respond? Your opening line his is arrogant and dismissive. Its also WRONG. Religions APPEAR to value what happens after death. They don't they live in the real world in real time like the rest of us. If they actually thought going to heaven was so great they'd just kill themselves and go. They certainly would not pursue riches and power as they do.
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  5360. @🍄Personal Shaman🍄 Where did you mention religion? LOOK AT YOUR COMMENT M0R0N If you don't like being called a M0R0N then don't be so ridiculously M0R0NIC
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  5361.  @annarae2396  Political advertising isn't an American problem its just a few things America does amped up to another level (or 2 or 3 or more). America's money in politics has taught a lot of other countries WHAT NOT TO DO. Although Robert Mercer caught the Brits out with his stuff in Brexit.
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  5362.  @shihyuchu6753  There's a lot of issues with America that has NOTHING to do with Biden or Biden being President. The fact none of them are getting dealt is his fault. I've said to a lot of people that Biden was a way to get rid of Trump but he was NEVER the solution to America's problems. The best line anyone had on Biden's nomination (and this was before he was elected) when they were saying lets get back to normal, was "Joe Biden is the normal that got Trump elected." Biden isn't responsible for the Status Quo method of government that's brought the world to near disaster BUT he, the DNC and GOP are responsible for keeping it.
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  5363. I remember the very last episode of the West Wing and in it Jimmy Smits who won the election to be the next POTUS asks a REPUBLICAN (Alan Alda) to be his Secretary of State. I just went and checked and you can see it here on YouTube. So Sorkin has already scripted this sort of stuff.
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  5364. EVERYONE - Polls have been shite and been shite for decades because pollsters have KNOWN how to manipulate the results. There's a classic clip from the British sitcom "Yes, Prime Minister" the perfectly demonstrates how it is done. Its here on YouTube and titled "Government Opinion Polling - Yes Prime Minister"
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  5365. Political movements have always had a word to rally around. Before they screamed "woke" at everything they screamed "socialism" at everything and before that they screamed "communism" at everything. To some extent they still scream socialism and communism but right now woke is the hammer they beat everything with. And its not just something the Right does either. The Left can do it too. Go look at any documentary or film on the French Revolution. They'd point a finger at someone and scream "Aristo" for aristocrat and that person would get a 1 way trip to the guillotine. The Russians weren't any better in their revolution.
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  5366.  @BrianLowen  I don't give a damn if the UN ambassador is a he, she, it, zit, or anything else. They need to have a brain that works. They need to have more substance than grandstanding BULLSHlT
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  5367. Absolutely, he was interviewed on Australian television and they lacerated his attitude. He describe himself as a "provocateur" and basically got laughed at. His complete lack of anything resembling substance was there for anyone to see. He was a joke BEFORE he got banned. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5368. We actually don't export bauxite we export Alumina (Aluminium Oxide). The first step in producing Aluminium is the extract Alumina from the bauxite. That's fairly high energy process but no where near the next step which is smelting the Alumina into Aluminum as well as making the alloys needed for various applications. We export Alumina to places like Canada and Iceland both of them have access to very cheap hydro.
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  5369.  @djknox2  Bottom line is Dj they aren't correct and a lot of us are fed up having to repeat the same evidence again and again. Here's the data from NOAA that actually counts along with the NASA page on this: NOAA: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide NASA: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ I'm an aerospace engineer not a climate scientist. These days I work in control systems which are the computers that run processing plants, factories and mine sites. Part of my job is setting up the alarms so that operators are alerted when something isn't right. Just like the little warning lights in your car. I can tell you for a fact that if this was any sort of industrial plant we would have already shut down about 70 or more years ago because it was so far outside normal. To give that perspective how far CO2 is out of normal its like running the 100m in about 7seconds flat. Can you imagine of somebody just appeared and ran that fast. Would everybody stand back and applaud or would they start demanding drug tests? Imagine if one of the Formula 1 teams was suddenly 20-30seconds faster than everyone else. Do you really think the other teams would just go "wow" or do you think they would be screaming for the stewards to inspect the car? Well that's what people like Patrick Moore are asking us to all do. They are asking us to ignore the data and ignore all the other scientists and ignore the extraordinary state the planet is in and just accept what they say.
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  5370. That might be absolutely true, but if the world pushes Putin into a corner with no way out what the hell do you think he'll do? Go look at what Sun-Tzu said about dealing with an enemy where the only way to defeat them is so destructive its untenable. You have to give them a golden bridge to go over. Basically a way to exit that's acceptable. The West needs to understand that we pushed NATO right up to the border of Russia and that it would one day come back to bite.
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  5371.  @FuncraftVideos  Because that's 1/2 the population have been trained not to think about it and the other 1/2 are too lazy to think about anything let alone something important. What part of that narrative don't you get?
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  5372. That's actually a fairly decent comment. I'm an aerospace engineer and there's so much idiotic hype and BS about technology in the media these days its infuriating. Even if you are wrong about his motive, I think your right that this is a very important subject that needs to be intelligently discussed in public without the media hype merchants being stupid.
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  5373. Sorry to debunk this but it was covered as a BS story among the British Tabloids on ABC Australia's media watch program. Putin has displayed most of these mannerisms (like tapping his foot) all through his career and some have speculated on them in the past and been found WRONG. Its here starting at 14:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_DK7Pi7buI
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  5374. You gotta love Charles Koch. His idea of a free market is "I get everything I want and F*CK the rest of you!" He craps on about governments stifling competition and keeping poor people poor as he strives to crush competition and send even more people in the poor category. Before too long the world is going to have to face up to these people who have stripped away everything. They don't pay taxes and bash the crap out of everyone as they control governments through their campaign funding and strip courts of their fairness and decency with their influence peddling.
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  5375. How do you think the rest of the world feels? We have no say in who America chooses (which is how it should be) but we have to live on the same planet with your selection. FYI - I'm Australian and was working in Canada when Trump just tore up NAFTA and hit them with tariffs. Australia like Japan, Canada, Britain and others have staked our future security on programs like the F35. What happens if the next Trumpist just turns around one day and says we can't have upgrades or parts or something else or that trade is off and tariffs are on? If Trump could do it to Canada then who's next? Seriously can any American tell us what America might do in the future other than tell us to FK-OFF or suck it up or deal with it? I actually went to college in America on a sports scholarship and I know MOST Americans are fine decent people and would never screw over any of America's allies, but that's not the problem. Our problem is the 74 million who voted for Trump in 2020 and think he's some sort of messiah. Do you know the combined populations (men, women & children) of Australia, Canada & New Zealand is about 69 million? That's 5 million less than Trump nation and that's just the adults, that doesn't include their children. There's only 2 nations in all of Europe with populations more than 74 million and that's Germany and Russia. Can you see why Trump nation scares us?
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  5376.  @jerryrichardson2799  I agree the insane concept of telling girls to stay home and make babies isn't going to pass muster and likely to get a huge backlash. Then again the stupidity of emasculating young men and telling them their all shite hasn't worked either.
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  5377.  @greenplanet9063  I didn't see any other comments or see any counted. I know YT masks replies at times because you can see the number of replies counted but there's not that number available to see. Right now I see there's 2 replies and both are visible. I mostly agree with your remark that "The real traitor is the government and lobbyist." but there's others like the media commentators like Tim Pool.
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  5378.  @RedXlV  On your comment on Nordstream - WHAT would America do if someone blew up $20 Billion of your assets? Like what would America do if someone blew up the trans-Alaskan pipeline or Keystone (if it was finished). Its called an act of War and under international Law its illegal, but when has that ever stopped America.
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  5379. Yeah and maybe somebody should ask this clown why he didn't have a plan for Brexit? If he is so damn smart why didn't he step forward and help negotiate WHAT HE MADE HAPPEN? You should wake up that this clown has a lot of answers but NO SOLUTIONS. FYI - I'm Australian and this clown was here recently speaking more of his crap and nonsense. Do the world a favor and keep this clown in your back yard and keep him out of other people's business.
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  5380.  @bradleybrown8399  DK-HED In sports psychology you never crap on endlessly about the other side or you never get your own side sorted out done. In business if all you do is worry about your competitors you never get your own products or services sorted out. WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU AND THE OTHER LOSERS GET. And I really do mean LOSERS. If you lot are so damn smart then how has Walker even come this close to winning? If you lot are so damn smart how did Donald Trump ever win? If you lot are so damn smart then how come you could not put up a candidate to beat Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert, madison Cawthorn, Louis Gohmert, Ron Johnson and a hundred other clowns? If you lot are so damn smart then how has it come to pass the Mitch McConnell has been able to get a 6-3 majority on SCOTUS? If you're so damn smart then how come you keep losing to clowns? Here pay attention to what's said about liberals being smart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2HKbygLjJs
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  5381.  @joels5150  As I have said again and again - I am staggered how badly some American politicians understand their own constitution AND how their supporters love it. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. It used to stun me just how well Americans understood their constitution and how there government actually worked. I was equally stunned to find George Bush 2.0 DEFUNDED CIVICS in high schools. I am absolutely convinced that one of the smartest things Australia could do is to do an Australian Version of Civics classes in our high schools because its one of the best ways to stamp out this sort of crap. These clowns and others who say these sorts of things would be stomped on immediately and either thrown out of office or thrown out at the next election. AND SO YOU KNOW - we do have these sorts of clowns here in Australia and they get away with stupid claims like these for the same reasons.
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  5382. EVERYONE CAN CALM TF DOWN. No country talks about its death statistics every day. With the exception of the road toll and COVID when was the last time you heard a news report on how many people die from something? Occasionally you hear about cancer deaths or drug overdose deaths or teenage suicide. The fact is humans die every second of everyday and NOBODY wants reminding of the fact we all die. So this is a story we should all expect. Further its damn easy to make any story you want from the statistics. I just watched another video painting a horrible view of Australia's COVID response. They pointed out Australia now has a higher incidence of COVID confirmations than America. I checked the date and to my surprise its true. Australia currently has 393,872 cases per million of population. America currently has 294,874 cases per million of population. Then I remembered we're still testing and reporting our cases while Donald Trump cancelled testing because it was making him look bad in the lead up to the election. If Australia had the same mortality rate as America we'd have 5-1/2 times as many dead. That's 82,000 dead instead of 15,000 or in other words 67,000 Australians are alive because we weren't like America. Sorry but its pretty damn easy to paint any story you want if you know which stats to quote.
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  5383.  @tattooedtina327  Actually not in the slightest. The article of impeachment has to do with Trump inciting the crowd at his rally. This might be a contributing factor to the riot but it has nothing to do with his behavior at the rally.
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  5384. @Van Nguyen Seriously take that idiotic crap and get lost. This is no place for mindless advertising of garbage.
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  5385.  @00bikeboy  The worst thing that can happen is they don't give a clear and concise explanation. That and the people who made bad decisions get demoted or sacked. And that's an issue that goes well beyond this. Governments and corporations across the world are experts in NOT holding people at the top accountable.
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  5386. No moron what there is here is a wave of ignorance and stupidity most of what seems to be from anti-vaxers. A wave of clowns have jumped on a couple of points and taken them out of context and with a pandemic in progress that's dangerous. There are some truly outrageous statements being made by people who cannot and in some cases will not provide any evidence for their claims. Sure I think there are some legitimate concerns about how fast these vaccines were developed and if the full studies that would normally happen have been done and verified. Certainly long term effects for these specific vaccines cant have been done because there has not been time. I think there are some genuine concerns over the behavior of big pharma and we should be careful with their claims. But I also know there are people with genuine expertise who are saying they are safe for most people to have. Are there people who will have reactions - that's normal for almost any medication. Have you ever heard of allergies? But very few of those sorts of comments are here. Its mostly wild claims with no basis of fact.
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  5387. Because despite how dumb he is he's aware of 1 thing just like Candice Owens, Ben Shapiro and others. There is an audience just waiting to here what he has to say. And that Audience wants to hear those stats in that narrative. Dave's might be cursed with stupidity but he's made up for it with narcissism.
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  5388. Pardon from WHAT is the point. Glenn Kirshner who was a federal prosecutor and JAG lawyer has been talking about pardons recently and if they can be overruled. 25 Nov. Flynn's Pardon and if it can be challenged --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKp9dJK5kN0 28 Nov. Comparison of Flynn's pardon to Nixon's pardon --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thWtO2tbAe0 Today (3 Dec) More on Flynn's Pardon and the Money for Pardon investigation --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN-5Vo2lKBM Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with Glenn Kirshner. I have been watching his channel because he is qualified to explain the legal issues.
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  5389.  @thetruthchannel349  I have seen that old film and its not too bad at what a self aware system would do. Its one of the very few accurate depictions.
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  5390.  @thetruthchannel349  STOP YELLING and don't ever make the claim somebody doesn't know what they are talking about with say what they are wrong about. One thing people hat about academics is they claim "I know and you don't" without ever explaining anything. THE SAME IS TRUE FOR THEOLOGIANS. Its why people hate them. I have taken time with you and you have responded with the VERY TYPICAL pile of arrogance your kind has had for the last 6,000 years of recorded history. Jesus described your kind time and time again.
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  5391.  @thetruthchannel349  have you ever stopped and wondered why people hate the Bible? They don't hate the Bible that hate people like you.
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  5392.  @peterroberts4415  Buddy there's a lot of stuff that's tax payer funded - healthcare, education, roads, police, fire and my favorite BAILOUTS for billionaires who cause banking disasters!
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  5393.  @xelakram  To be clear one of the things I point out is that what people call things and what nations practice are usually not the same thing. Did you know that the old East Germany and the North Korea both call themselves "Democratic Republics." East Germany never held a single election as did NK. Plus Since NK started passing the leadership via inheritance its actually became an absolute monarchy. Its really important thing to no confuse labels with reality. The problem with any of these political systems isn't what they espouse, its that ALL of them can be bastardized into something they aren't. Did you know the Russian Communists used to have elections? Then one day they voted Stalin out so he and his buddies purged the Party. I recently watched/listened to Prof. Wolff's series on Marx (the man) and was fascinated to find out that more than anything he was an economist. Here's part 1 of that -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srx5kXts1Jg All communism was meant to be was collective ownership of some things like a tractor, or bus or factory. At its most basic publicly listed companies whose shares (not stocks or goods) are traded is a form of democratic communism. Because its your democratic right to be part of or not part of a COLLECTIVELY owned entity. The crap the Soviets and others practiced where they literally banned private ownership wasn't communism it was just a pack of criminal thugs taking everything they could. Similarly socialism at its most basic level is nothing more than communities deciding to do things together. Socialism comes from the world social and being sociable means doing things together. So when we collectively pay for schools, police and other services its actually socialism in practice. Go back 500 years and the local police didn't exist, but the kings army did. Its 1 reason why America has the 2nd Amendment. All this talk that socialists want to take all your stuff and control what medical care you get is just garbage. Capitalism is no different - what it is supposed to be and deliver for a society isn't the reality we see. Every person in Western society should have a job, a career, be able to buy a house, afford to raise a family and yet that's not what we see for millions. Instead we have seen the greatest transfer of wealth in human history and entire chunks of society exist in financial servitude via credit. Its worse than when the kings and emperors simply took everything at least then you could see what they were doing. As a teenager in high school I studied both Animal farm and then 1984 (by Orwell). By the end of that all we wanted to do was kill every socialist and communist on the planet. Both my parents were high school teachers and my mum one day sat me down and we went over this stuff. She got me to understand the problem isn't ever what the ideology preaches or claims its what the preachers practice and do to the rest of us that matters.
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  5394.  @xelakram  Well for starters you replied back to me with the incredibly standard American response of "socialism bad" line. Your words -> I have no time for communism or real socialism either. If you actually studied politics then you should have known that's in incredibly simplistic and inaccurate line. If you actually had any grasp of places like East Germany you'd know that their version of what they called socialism wasn't actually socialism - it was straight forward totalitarianism. Stalin also labelled himself as a socialist, which might have been the worst label in history except for Hitler doing the same. If you want to criticize states people who want to advocate a pure communist or pure socialist system then go after them for the fact those systems are easily hijacked into totalitarian nightmares. At least with capitalism and plutocracies they don't hide the fact its about money and power. That's the point with these sorts of labels and why way too many people these days ignorantly throw them around. I did engineering and this stuff interests me because my brain is wired for wanting to understand the faults in systems so they can be fixed. One of the biggest issues these days is people throwing words and labels around. Your right on one thing America should be described as a geriatric plutocracy. Mark Blyth recently pointed out he incredible age of some of Biden's cabinet like John Kerry. My preferred description has been "bi-partisan oligarchy," because there are 2 distinct partisan groups ruled over by oligarchs. That comes from being an engineer and considering functionality. But for a single word plutocracy is probably a better description because oligarchies are more often associated with tyrannical oppression, where as plutocracies are more to do with wealth control.
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  5395.  @xelakram  For when you wake up. I don't think being an aerospace engineer gives me a better understanding of economics than those who trained as economists. BUT I do have a skill set that includes complex systems analysis training and that's something most people DON'T HAVE, including most engineers. Its why Mark Blyth looks like a genius among economists. He keeps saying what he does isn't that difficult, he just doesn't ignore inconvenient factors and thinks the effects of those factors. Plus there is also one huge issue with every economics/degree course in the world. The banks and other big businesses have been influencing what gets taught for decades. In particular the banks in America have been influencing places like Harvard, Yale, Princeton for decades. Its simply cheaper to have Professors write papers and advise governments compared to the cost of campaign contributions. Plus you can give both sides of politics the same story from what everyone thinks is a credible source. It might be cynical but my reason for being dismissive of people with economics degrees is that I know your educations are compromised.
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  5396.  @xelakram  On the browser I had no idea about it for over a decade. Yes I thought like an engineer that computers are for use to do stuff with and to hell with the rest of you, except for word processing. Plus my experience with the old Plato system made me insanely cautious about database systems. All I had ever heard was "this will be great" but none of them could ever explain why. It was a bit like economics, I thought it was all bullshit. Its maybe why I do like Mark Blyth, he's less of an economist and more a person who uses analysis tools and history to explain how we got here and what will work going forward. Like this lecture -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE In recent months he has mentioned Reagan and Thatcher a lot, because that was the era where they flipped the economic model from full employment to zero inflation which turned the world from a debtors paradise into a creditors paradise. That's seen the greatest transfer of wealth in human history. What craps me up the wall is that if it wasn't for science and engineering the massive growth humanity has seen over the last 200 years simply doesn't happen. I saw this earlier this year and it stunned me, because its the sort of history EVERY engineer should know and we never get told. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djB9oK6pkbA
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  5397.  @xelakram  Yeah - what you just wrote is word for word what Australia has done and the baby boomers have made like bandits while the rest got fukt. If you watch Mark Blyth's stuff they all bought houses and got to write the interest off against inflation. There's a really important intergenerational cut off with those born between 1960 and 1965 (I'm a 64 my brother is a 61). Because he went to work not college he was able to save and make that 1st deposit on a house in his mid 20s. I graduated into the end of the cold war, my degree lost value then Australia had the "recession it had to have" under the stewardship of then treasurer Paul Keating (a NEW Labour acolyte - a white collar leftist). So I never go those initial few years to save enough for that 1st deposit and only bought my 1st property in the very late 1990s and even then it was only an apartment not a house. Plus if you consider Mark Blyth's work my age group never got any real wage growth at any time in our entire working lives. That group just ahead of us did for a short time and it allowed them that first asset to grow from. Yes it didn't grow like our parents but it did grow Paul Keating installed the Superannuation scheme that many have derided but it created a secondary saving system that operated just like the American hedge funds. The incredible downsides to that system is its contributed to wage stagnation because it was the employers who paid that money. Its called superannuation and instead of hedge funds Australia is dominated by "super-funds." The fund managers of those super-funds have NEVER looked after the funds under management because we were never the share holders we were the cash supply. Its been an incredible boost to our stock market because by law those super-funds have to by law invest in the ASX top 200. Its become a big thing in investor circles - if you go public with any company its hyper important you get into the ASX-200 because the moment you do super-fund managers BY LAW have to start buying your shares as they dump the shares of the company that just dropped out of the ASX-200. Because by law they have to spread those investments across the ASX-200 they can't hedge in just the top 50 or 20 or 10. So for the investor class (mostly boomers) they got a double whammy bonus - on top of their asset growth which was that boost to their share portfolios that none of the following generations have generally had. But better than a double whammy was the triple whammy many could take advantage of. To support our building and construction industry those who can invest in housing were given huge tax incentives. They could take advantage of with negative gearing. Houses take wear and tear so they can right of those costs as well. So even though the following generations struggled to buy a house the baby boomers got to invest and buy houses for them that they then charged rent on. Basically our entire economic system is geared towards those with an asset base and excess cash - i.e. the Boomers and those few who found ways to make enough to move forward. And there are several industries where you can get ahead. But we have massive blocks of our society who are trapped. Its our version of Reaganomics and Thatcherism.
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  5398. See the lengthy comment for Peter the second point covers something in addition to the F35s and P-8 you mention - both of which are great points to raise.
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  5399.  @nagasako7  Do you by chance watch the YT channel Sub Brief? Its hosted by an Ex-USN Sonar operator and his vids on various ship & sub types is very good. In recent months he has also done a couple of videos on the state of US Shipyards. Regarding the contracts for US Drydocks he described them as criminal. FYI - I'm Australian and believe we are being ripped off on the Virginia-class deal and for several reasons. 1) The costs are utterly ridiculous. 2) We are paying Several billion to upgrade Hutting Ingles shipyard in Maine which is BULLSHlT. 3) Most of all we simply can't use them because they have a massive crew size and our navy can barley operate subs with 1/2 the crew size now.
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  5400. To all of Thom's watchers. Trump endorsed Kari Lake whos running for governor of Arizona had a train wreck interview with Australian 60 Minutes that was broadcast free to air only hours ago. Before she stormed out she abused the reporter and gravely insulted Australia. FYI - I am Australian, I went to college in America and this might blow up. This wasn't some silly rant by some clown on YouTube this was a Trump endorsed candidate going off the rails. Don't forget Australia, Britain Canada and others just spent most of the last 20 years supporting America in Afghanistan and Iraq. It wasn't popular anywhere, but we stood by America. I was in Canada for work when Trump tore up NAFTA and hit them with tariffs. How do you all think this makes us feel about America? We are all now asking if there is anyway we can believe that America will be a reliable trading or security partner going forward.
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  5401. That's because America's (and by extension the rest of the Western World's) entire economic model was designed by the father of "Greed is good" Milton Freidman. Make no mistake Freidman was incredibly intelligent, but just like Hannibal Lecter or a James Bond Super villain he was also insane. Go look up some of Thom's videos on him.
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  5402. Somebody needs to ask Mark Levin the following Question: When did BLM, ANTIFA, Democrats, 1960s counter culture hippies, tree hugging Kumbaya singing environmentalists, Occupy Wall Street, Lafayette Park or any other protesters storm the capitol, kill a police officer, tear down the American flag and replace it with another flag? For anyone interested please feel free to copy that question and post it anywhere you like. Someone else first directed me to this quote by Vice POTUS Wallace, who was alive when Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin were in power to personally see what those sorts of people are like. the 2 highlights about method and patriotism are mine. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  5403. Yeah he's realised that playing to the stupid side of the American voting public works.
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  5404.  @unluckygamer692  I'm not interested in that stuff, its irrelevant compared to the real issue of being a respectable broad caster AND THAT starts with delivering factual news first and opinion second. Ranting & raving at the world is a sign of the frustration we all feel these days, BUT when you are the journalist delivering the news you have a fundamental responsibility to drop that and INFORM PEOPLE AS BEST YOU CAN. Inflaming society's frustration is BS.
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  5405.  @unluckygamer692  I'm not interested in that stuff, its irrelevant compared to the real issue of being a respectable broad caster AND THAT starts with delivering factual news first and opinion second. Ranting & raving at the world is a sign of the frustration we all feel these days, BUT when you are the journalist delivering the news you have a fundamental responsibility to drop that and INFORM PEOPLE AS BEST YOU CAN. Inflaming society's frustration is BS.
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  5406.  @unluckygamer692  Jimmy has gotten just as bad at times. I've dropped my subscription to BOTH. TYT was months ago and Jimmy more recently. I just got tired of hearing them scream into a microphone. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5407. I'm Australian and few months back on a thread about power prices in various countries a Romanian guy jumped in and told EVERYONE to go FK themselves because a pack of people from other countries had gone to Romania told them to sell their power stations because competition provides for better services and cheaper prices to consumers. My reply to him as an Australian was to ask if he was describing Romania or Australia in the 1990s when the same thing happened. This BS narrative/trope of privatisation and globalization that came out of America on the back of Reaganomics during the Clinton years has been told everywhere with THE SAME REULTS EVERYWHERE. Right now in Australia we are in the middle of an energy crisis. Our electricity is going up which is bad but that's nothing. Despite being the worlds largest exporter of natural gas we have a gas shortage. We subsidised various companies (over $10 billion) to develop our natural gas resources for export. These companies pay almost NO TAX or royalties because the system set up for them is so lax you can literally drive ships through the holes. Before much longer America and the insanity of neo-liberal economics and libertarian politics is going to be told by the rest of humanity to FK-OFF. The tragedy is most Americans aren't bad people and they're also getting screwed. I know because I went to college there. They really are decent people. Its just that America's political/corporate machine is utterly corrupt.
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  5408. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powell interview. I have left a separate answer with additional background information about why Australia is so concerned about Rupert Murdoch's behavior in America. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powell Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  5409. Well you can go to college and pay to listen to this or you can be here and get it for free. I like Prof. Wolff because at the very least he gives a rational alternative perspective. Where l'd disagree is that Marxism is the answer, because the countries that went down that path had their own catastrophes and that included economic catastrophes, environmental catastrophes and social catastrophes. I think he might agree as he has pointed out in other talks how Russia, China and other failed that the solution isn't a puritanical 100% Marxist state anymore than it is a puritanical 100% Capitalist state, but that the solution lies somewhere in between. Many point to the Nordic models where they have incredibly strong socialist systems wrapped around democratic and capitalist systems. The Norwegians instead of wasting their oil & gas wealth as others have did an almost communist thing by pooling the income into a sovereign wealth fund that they then used capitalist methodologies to enhance.
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  5410. Its called being a crack addict. He might be on it now but I think we can suggest that damage was done when he was.
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  5411.  @harrypothead4575  Good question and the answer is free speech has limits its not absolute. Even in America, which guarantees freedom to speech more than any other nation in history its always had limits. Its a good question and it should be asked especially at moments like these.
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  5412. No - certainly America doesn't have all the crazies. We have anti-vaxers and conspiracy clowns here in Australia too. When COVID started to break they blamed it on the new 5G mobile networks and other stuff that was insane. If there's a difference in America its how much air time they get. There's also those who take advantage of the 1st Amendment which allows them to avoid things like fraud and consumer laws. Some of the stuff people can promote in America can't be done in other countries. In America its called free speech and in other places "consumer fraud." For example some of the promotions done last year regarding silver solutions to fight COVID would have been stomped on. Remember Alex Jones and his tooth paste. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5413. I just did a basic check on DeSantis by checking his Wikipedia page. Guess what he did his undergraduate at Yale and JD at Harvard. Ted Cruz was Princeton and Harvard (JD). The Obama's are both Harvard and the Clintons are both Yale. 8 of the 9 SCOTUS judges are Harvard or Yale. Barret did her JD at Notre Dame. WHEN IS AMERICA GOING TO WAKE UP and realise that places like Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the University of Chicago pump out an endless stream of narcissistic sociopaths who cause nothing but trouble for the world.
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  5414.  @waltergrace565  Figuratively speaking. Yeah I know that 98% of people watching ANY political channel don't want to hear anything outside their accepted narrative. Left, Right or Center they are people who don't just live in their echo chambers they like living in those echo chambers. Of the other 2%. 1% are DK-HEDs, trolls and other anti-social narcissists just trying to aggravate other people. The last 1% are people trying to bring some from of reality or balance to the conversation in the hope there are some like minded people with functioning braincells out there. Go and listen to Mark Blyth and/or Eric Lonergan who co-wrote "Angrynomics" when they talk about tribalism and how tribal anger operates.
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  5415.  @brianmi40  Fun fact I like to point out. Almost every culture has a sport based around 2 teams smashing each other senseless as they fight over a piece of animal hide that has been inflated with said animals bladder (or stomach). These sports are generally played at the worst time of year to play an outdoor sport as if battling the elements is part of the challenge. The supporters of the teams who play these sports often consume vast quantities of whatever narcotic their culture consumes which helps feed the delusion that this year they'll win the championship despite the odds being less than 1:10 and usually closer to 1:20. When the reality of their team NOT being the champion finally sets in they blame anyone and everyone they can including, coaches, players managers and most often the referees. Despite the illogical behavior and agony of playing such games and the illogical behavior agony of supporting such teams people keep coming back the next year to suffer collective disappointment yet again. Some culture enjoy this collective suffering that they have MORE than 1 sport of this kind as well as summer sports to ruin that time of year with collective suffering as well. I am yet to hear any psychologist or evolutionary scientist explain this phenomena. And yes my teams mostly suck and I love them all but can't understand why.
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  5416.  @i.ehrenfest349  No. Never heard of Desmond Morris, but a quick google says he wrote a book about the tribalism of soccer. If your referring to the tribal nature with which people follow sports and then comparing it to Trumpism then I'd agree there's similarities. The difference is sport isn't played with nuclear weapons. Sport also doesn't dictate the terms of a nations economy, education system, health care system or infrastructure. Trumpism (of whatever variety) does.
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  5417.  @i.ehrenfest349  If the concept is comparing the tribalism of sports fans to the tribalism we see in populist politics then I get it. But I have never heard of that book. Have you seen any of Mark Blyth's interviews on Angrynomics. His co-author in that Ervc Lonergan is also very interested in the tribal nature of sports and how it compares to politics.
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  5418.  @i.ehrenfest349  "Naked Ape" as a term sounds familiar but I've never heard of Desmond Morris before today.
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  5419. ​ @blacklion8208  Sorry buddy but you are ONLY HALF RIGHT. You are spot on that the Russians have a problem with their own mentality, but as many others have explained that's come from generations learning to survive Russian Winters. That's forced them to always put the group first and individuals second. Its sort of why it was easy for them to adopt Marxism. America from its foundation put the individual first and the group second. Its right there in the preamble and the Bill of Rights and its created 2 very similar groups American Liberals and America Libertarians. Go and watch John Mearsheimer if you want both explained. FIRST - I do not like John Mearsheimer. In one respect he's just another University of Chicago goon who promotes a pretty ugly ideology called "Offensive Realism." Its the complicated way of describing American Libertarians who believe that all people are selfish and if you don't allow them what they want then they will take it anyway. That's the Milton Friedman "Greed is Good" crowd. On the other hand Mearsheimer's critique of American Liberals (the other side of American ideology) is better than anyone else on the planet. Mearsheimer points out and this is the part where you are HALF WRONG its hardwired into American Liberals that any country NOT having (in their view) a functioning liberal democracy then they must go in there and re-wire that country into a liberal democracy. Those are the idiots who thought they could convert Afghanistan and Iraq into liberal democracies overnight. American Liberals were also the people (including many economists) who went into the post-Soviet Eastern Block and proceeded to re-wire them. In some cases its helped and in others its been disastrous. For Russia its been disastrous as they convinced the Russians to privatise everything at a time when they were NOT READY for it. That allowed those who understood Capitalism (like the KGB officers who served in Western Countries) to take advantage. American Libertarians are the ones who SNEAK into countries find the most narcissistic mongrel they can to take over (by force if necessary) so that they can plunder that nations resources. Those are the people who went into countries like Chile and Iran (before the Revolution) and support various dictators. Sorry buddy but BOTH SIDES of America politics can't keep their noses out of other countries. Its just that 1 of those sides is misguided and the other are ruthless narcissists.
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  5420. What's new about that with EVERYBODY else. No matter what warranty exists for almost anything these days its usually not worth the paper its written on (and never was).
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  5421. That's actually a pretty good description of what happened. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I really do like the country but when it comes to their knowledge of other nations they are incredibly ignorant. Its not that I think other nations (like Australia) are perfect - in fact far from it. BUT Americans have this incredible misconception that they think every other nations wants to be just like America or do things just like America does. There are some things America does that really are great and I wished Australia did similar. Most notably in that their college sports system is just awesome. I might be biased in that because I was there on a sports scholarship. On the flip side their health care system is a nightmare that NOBODY wants to copy and yet they think everyone does. If Americans have a great weakness its the inability to think through issues and see what others will see and consider the consequences. Listen to the comment by the village elder at about 10:20 -"There will be consequences for this" This was first telecast in 2011 - what happened?
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  5422.  74 Rowe  I believe the scientific and medical description for people like you is something nobody can any longer say on YouTube but it rhymes with shucking boron.
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  5423.  @alexsinclaire8894  Seriously dude voting blue might be slightly less grievous than voting red but its like choosing the firing squad over the electric chair. The sooner people realise the political establishments across the entire Western World are the problem and that voting for either side only continues the problem then humanity might have a chance.
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  5424.  74 Rowe  Which bit? Shucking boron or that voting left instead of right is the same as choosing between the firing squad and the electric chair?
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  5425.  @kevinmm20  It's been a while but I'd say until somebody does the work and actually explains it properly then nobody is absolutely right.
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  5426.  @kevinmm20  Thunderf00t's pretty good but he's not perfect either. As said I'll wait for someone to do some hard science on it. I suspect this is one of those strange science problems where there are multiple effects making stuff happen. There's a few things like super conductors being universally repelled by electromagnets. The current explanation is eddy currents, but how can anyone actually prove it? If you 've ever met theoretical physicists you'd know they aren't normal.
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  5427.  @sergeikhripun  Your not wrong on any of that, except I wouldn't put Pakman in the same level of deceit as CNN & MSNBC. He at least tries with limited resources to stay factual, but could do better at times. The RussiaGate thing was so stupidly done because NONE of them every asked what were the Russian really up to. There were some Russian born American commentators in 2017/18 trying to tell the world they they had the whole thing wrong. These are people who are native Russian speakers and know the culture. One of them Masha Gessen was interviewed on Australian TV and Masha gave the best explanation I saw anyone give. Its long explanation but the conclusion was that Putin expected Clinton would win (no matter what anyone did) and he was trying to set up Clinton (like a chess game) was Clinton versus GOP civil war in Washington. What the Putin missed was that Clinton would do some stupid things like snub Michigan. That's why the whole RussiaGate was stupid. Clinton lost because she was arrogant and did dumb things like snub Michigan. Right now its happening again. CNN, MSNBC, BBC, DW, France24 and others are being stupid with some of the people they have on. But there are some like Konstantin Kisin who's a Russian born Brit who've been trying to tell everyone how they misjudged Putin and the whole Ukrainian thing. He co-hosts the Triggernometry channel here on YT. There's a vid there where he's on a BBC discussion panel you should go watch. He basically tells a few people to WTFU If you can't find it let me know.
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  5428.  @PeacefulPariah  You mean that report that's GONE NOWHERE as it delivered NOTHING written by the old guy who sat there afterwards and gave the world NOTHING as an answer. Yeah that's what we all need to read.
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  5429.  @sergeikhripun  I'd agree he pretty much tows a main stream line. When he does interviews he doesn't challenge interviewees enough at times or at least press them for clarification. David's not perfect, BUT to claim he's worse than MSN and CNN with all their resources is just a stupid exaggeration of reality.
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  5430. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and it DID NOT surprise me Trump won. Anyone with a basic understanding of Americans could see it coming and plenty of people saw it happening. Sorry it this takes explaining. FIRST - Trump won because people were fed up with the status quo and voting for Trump was a way to stick it to BOTH the GOP and DNC. People FORGET he steam rolled 16 GOP stalwarts including a several favorite sons like Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz. That sort of election protest happens all over the world. Brexit was essentially a protest against the influence of Brussels, the French and the Germans. The Brits felt that since they rescued Europe (including the French) from the Germans then they should run Europe. They didn't like the answer and eventually protested with Brexit. Now the Europeans are making them pay for it. ON TRUMP BEATING HILARY 1) Prof. Mark Blyth at Brown U. predicted it because he could see the backlash against the globalisation that Hilary represented. Remember it was Bill Clinton who gave them NAFTA. 2) Rana Foroohar predicted it after the first debate, because when Trump threw the NAFTA & globalisation line at Hilary and she had no response. 3) I thought Hilary lost when she announced that she wasn't going to campaign in Michigan BECAUSE THEY'D VOTE FOR HER ANYWAY. I went to college at U. Illinois and knew that sort of arrogance was going to lose her the rust belt. They'd been been smacked again and again by globalisation. Go look at past presidential elections. Biden won Michigan and Penn Obama won all 3 twice Kerry won Michigan and Penn Gore won Michigan and Penn Bill Clinton won all 3 twice. You have to go back to Dukakis in 1988 to find a Dem who lost all 3. THAT'S HOW BAD HILARY DID and it was easily predictable because she was arrogant and flipped the middle finger at them. YES its an aberration how anyone in America voted for Trump, but if you consider that he represents a form of PROTEST against the machinations of the Wall St. and the Washington establishments then its actually easy to see why he won. WHAT IS TOTALLY beyond comprehension is how Trump and his goon squad were not rounded up IMMEDIATELY after January 6th and locked up. The Dems showed just how pathetic they are. They should have dragged Mitch McConnell and the money behind him into a room and told then BLUNT as F*CK that they could either help get rid of Trump and his goons or they'd unleash the FBI and NSA onto all of them and anybody with even the slightest link to January 6th would be thrown in jail INCLUDING. They should have said we will find our version of Joe McCarthy and stage our version of an Anti-American Commission and tear you apart inch by inch. Put it this way if Hilary had tried what Trump did what do you think the GOP would have done? Despite ZERO evidence against Joe Biden look what they are doing right now.
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  5431. To all you Americans who care. This was recently shown Australia regarding Rupert Murdoch and Fox -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Its the 1st of 2 parts and the 2nd wont be shown until next week. It includes interviews with ex-Fox presenters who detail what happened inside the Murdoch/Fox Empire with regards to Trump. Gretchen Carlson's interview as a single video is available as well -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 This was done by ABC Australia (our equivalent of PBS) on a program called "4 Corners" (our equivalent to PBS Frontline). You can expect the Australian Right Wingers to go completely unhinged. I've already been trolled for these comments. Murdoch's Australian operation is called "Sky News Australia" (if you didn't know). Their Equivalent to Hannity is a guy named Alan Jones, but he's just one of a group of narcissistic liars. So watch out for ANYTHING done by Sky News Australia. They are a Murdoch operation and absolutely hate ABC Australia screaming endlessly they are a leftist propaganda machine. ABC Australia is not a leftist organization they are (as a public broadcaster) controlled by a government appointed board. The current Australian Government is right wing and they have board level control of the ABC. So the claims of left wing bias are garbage. ABC Australia isn't perfect and have lost 2 defamation cases this year, but those cases are tiny compared to News Corp cases. Murdoch has been trying for more than 20 years to get the ABC dissolved (as in completely annihilated). That's because the ABC like the BBC has ripped into Murdoch over the years for shoddy journalism and other practices like illegal surveillance including phone tapping.
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  5432. Democracy is about giving everyone a fair opportunity to participate. It's NOT about giving idiots, clowns and ratbags a platform to dominate public discussion and hamper the things that we all need to get done.
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  5433. News flash every country has these sorts of people. Its just that other countries find ways to keep microphones away from them as much as possible.
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  5434. BULLSHIT TRUMP WROTE THAT How else can we say it? No matter what he needs to be impeached so that pardons don't apply and that when he goes he STAYS GONE.
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  5435. AUSTRALIAN HERE Here's why the Left are always losing all across the World. 1) They think they are smarter than everyone else, with complex discussions that go on and on and on LIKE THIS DISCUSSION and instead of getting on and doing things they just talk about them wasting everyone's time. 2) They don't lack for good ideas, but they overcomplicate the messaging to the point where NOBODY CARES. The average person in the street doesn't care about the nuances of tax reform, banking reform or international diplomacy. They want people to get on and do the job they said they'd do. They should take on the Nike moto and "Just Do it" 3) The over analyse there losses with mindless circular discussions LIKE THIS ONE and end up confusing themselves so much that THEY NEVER LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES. They didn't learn from Hilary 2016. They didn't learn anything from 2020 when they were smashed in the state legislators, lost the House and barely got hold of the Senate. And now they have LOST AGAIN. 4) Even when they do win power they find ways to waste the opportunity to make actual gains for the general population. They get so wound up about polling data that they get frozen between having an idea and being afraid that someone wont like it. EVERY IDEA will have people who don't like it. Even when an idea is good for people there'll be those who wont like it. And that's just the start of the list. AND YES I'D wrap that round a rock and throw it at Australia's Left.
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  5436. The guilt might bee obvious but its a matter of being able to prove it in court and America's courts have proven time and time again to ignore reality and let the guilty go free and the innocent go to jail. Or do you need to be reminded of the Kyle Rittenhouse or Adnan Syed cases. You do know that Osama, Ghaddafi, Khrushchev and others who all tried to destroy America are sitting around a table somewhere in purgatory lamenting how they shouldn't have bothered and just waited for America to destroy itself.
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  5437. Maybe CNN, MSNBC, FOX, and EVERY OTHER news service can do some soul searching on this subject because they have all been guilty of putting ratings ahead of facts in recent years.
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  5438. WELL THEN THERE'S AN ARGUMENT TO GIVE THEM (the slave owners) BACK THEIR PROPERTY They could start with giving Larry and Candice back AS SLAVES to those who lost (or their descendants) their property. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ News Flash - A guy named Lincoln who was the legally elected President got the laws changed and slavery was no longer legal. Then a bunch of people started a war and then LOST that war. When you start a war and then lose, you don't get reparations you pay them for the damage you did. If reparations are owed its NOT TO the salve owners its FROM the slave owners who lost. Alternatively the current descendants of slaves could sue the descendants of the slave owners for unpaid wages plus interest.
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  5439. ​ @tanyas6643  I think you have hit it right on the head. He never had any plan for a "YES" and ran before anyone found out. I think Farage is just an attention seeking grifter and Brexit was his soap box to stand on and yell at the world. If Brexit had gone "NO" then he'd still have his soap box. Instead the Brits voted for something not realising the clown brigade had no plan. Britain's problem was never Europe. Its the same problem we have here in Australia. We have let the neoliberal economic clowns whose answer to everything was "privatise it" go unchallenged for 40+ years. Clowns like Farage are just another symptom of the same problem.
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  5440.  @MattAshe  You could be describing parts of Australia. We've had floods and droughts in the past but nothing like we've been experiencing. We just had a Federal election and BOTH major parties got slapped. Our Left (Labor Part) did win but like Biden's win where they didn't win everywhere and its that much of a convincing win. The single biggest change is the emergence of independents on the right. Their colour is "teal" (light blue) versus our traditional right colour of blue or dark blue. They are very mild right, mostly highly educated women, with a "we must deal with climate change" platform. They actually right wing progressives if you consider that progressives are people who want to see progress irrespective of left or right. Despite being to the left of our main right party they have a line almost straight out of the GOP "we are socially responsible but also fiscally responsible." Australian basically said we've had enough and the clowns who don't accept climate change as real can just FK-OFF.
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  5441. Another answer is Vice President Henry Wallace who said in the New York Times, April 9, 1944. "The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  5442. ​ @wilhelmheinzerling5341  According to some people: - climate change is because the Sun is now woke not because we keep burning fossil fuels. - Their favorite sports teams sucks because the referees have gone woke. - Their car broke down because its gearbox is woke, the oil is woke, the tyres are woke,... There are always people trying to blame something for everything and right now every problem is because of something woke. Up until a few years ago the term wok only applied to the economic reality of African Americans and then groups of idiots started using the word to describe everything. Its one of the things Orwell warned about - hijacking language.
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  5443. Aerospace Engineer here: We've chatted a couple of times so I know your engineer and I'll hope you'll take this with the intent it is given. You and others need to stop putting up things like 116% efficiency or the 145% efficiency you had for the Fibonnaci turbine. I have seen a pile of this recently (most notably with heat pumps with insane claims) and we both know that there is simply no way in any engineered system to get mor than 100% efficiency. In fact if you have studied Thermodynamics then you know its fundamentally impossible in a engineered system because there's some loss somewhere that can't be recovered in every cycle. The problem isn't that you and I know what you mean that 116% means 16% above some other standard or reference. The problem is that people who ARE NOT engineers or have forgotten even their high school science class just think its possible. Where this becomes a massive problem is in dealing with the energy crisis. As an engineer I have to deal with it from a very pragmatic perspective. First and foremost we have to do things RIGHT NOW that we know are going to work. No matter what project you ever do you must start with something you know will work or have a very high level of confidence it will because the parts you are using are known to work in similar projects. Being honest I haven't always done that and its caused soe serious heart break at times. Here in Australia we are having this insane argument over nuclear power. No matter if we do or don't decide to go with nuclear it wont fix a damn thing RIGHT NOW because it takes time (a lot of time). We have the butt ugly situation of having power stations that we should have closed 5-10 years ago that are limping along because all of the public discussions are shitfests or stupidity fueled by armies of idiots stoking whatever their narratives are. Just this week I have saw a left wing think tanker claim that coal is NOT a mineral with the smuggest of looks on her face and NOBODY to correct it because it was here on her think tanks YT channel On the flip side we have the pro nuclear crowd telling so many lies its impossible to keep track and even more impossible to correct because they have mixed those lies in among actual facts. Do I think we will need nuclear? YES, the question isn't if we'll have it but when and what type and how much. Real Engineering did a great recent video on grid stability issue when you have a lot of wind feeding into a grid. Australia has an insane amount of wind available, but to make it work we need something to absorb the grid disturbances. Nuclear can do that and do it well but we can't even get a sensible discussion going. Just today I watched one of our Senators who was a test pilot and has a technical background in systems engineering and he mixed a staggering array of lie in among some important truths. I have the background to sort the lies from the facts most people don't. A week ago a neighbor of mine told me I had no idea what I was talking about because the Meisner Effect was the answer to everything. He had no idea that even if the Meisner effect (which is the effect of superconductors pushing away from magnets) has NOTHING to do with energy production and until we can use it practically it will have almost zero effect on energy distribution. BUT HE SAW the crap idiotic video by someone (I suspect 2 Bit Da Vinci) and now thinks he's an expert on energy. I have seen Thunderf00t's debunk of the 2 Bit video and its straight forward on how stupid that video was. I don't always agree with Thunderf00t, but most of the time he is spot on because like me he can see the lies through the crap. I think you have a great channel, but like a lot of younger people you haven't yet worked out just how problematic misunderstandings can become. These days we have so many people telling so many things that are simply wrong that its causing a lot of confusion and with that we can't have some of the very important things that need saying.
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  5444. And Forest Gump said - Arrr-geeeeennnnn
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  5445. Someone else just pointed out on another of Kyles vids. These people are currently passing laws to REGULATE who can vote, despite the 15th Amendment, but at the same time claiming nobody is allowed to REGULATE who can own a gun or what types of gun they can own.
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  5446. HEY THOM: Here in Australia the program Planet America reported this week that according to stats in 2017 there were over 112,000 transactions that were DENIED because people had made "mistakes" on the forms to buy a gun. Only 12 times were people charged with a crime like Hunter Biden is now charged.
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  5447.  @mcorrelje  Who are you saying that to her or me? Simply put its people like her who have helped maintain the status quo of the upper ranks of established parties is WHY democracy is failing everywhere. The great advantage of democracy is that you can (on a regular basis) get rid of people who are NOT doing their job well enough. THAT HAS BEEN SUBVERTED in the last 20 or so years by these established elitists WHO THINK they know better and the rest of us are problems to be managed.
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  5448. ​ @keenannorris3309  GREAT and IMPORTANT question: Empircal data is fantastic until you get people FILTERING IT and MAIPULATING IT to suit their agenda or narrative. Here's a perfect example and sorry if this takes explaining. Yale educated Economist Gigi Foster who's based in my country Australia made some famous claims during COVID. She was adamant that lockdowns were wrong and we should do the Swedish thing. She famously said on 60 Minutes Australia "They'll die anyway" in reference to older and infirmed people. She was panned by other staff from UNSW where she works and especially those who work in microbiology and health care. BUT SHE NEVER LET UP. In 2023 on a public discussion panel (ABC Australia's QandA) she made the claim that the Australian Governments response to COVID had saved at most 10,000 lives and she had the "Empirical Data" to prove it. She really slammed down everyone on that panel and in the audience with the "I have the data you don't and I am right!" routine. THERES A PROBLEM and I hope one day to ram this down her disgusting arrogant throat publicly. I know the data she was using and I know how she manipulated it. I was watching the COVID stats for the world via worldometers(dot.com) and they had the data from every government agency on a single page. For many countries like Australia, Canada and America you could also access their data state by state. What Gigi Foster did was make that claim based on the world average and at the time she made that claim the world average of COVID deaths per million people compared to Australia's stat said we could have had 20,000 more dead when we had around 10,000. HOWEVER when you check the Swedish Data and Sweden was the example she cited again and again AT THE SEWIDH fatality rate we would have had over 60,000 dead. So her claim on having and presenting Empirical Data was MANIPULATIVE, FALSE, MISLEADING and a clear case of ACADEMIC FRAUD for which she has never been held accountable. And this illustrates something with the way people use and manipulate data and in fact any data. WHAT FILTERS and AVERAGING and STATISTICAL manipulations are they using. There have been many many scandals out of Academic research over this and they will continue so long as people can make money or get their research funded OR WORSE there is a political angle they can push. Sorry for the long reply but I hope that answers your question because it is actually a very valid question.
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  5449. Everyone should go check what the DECISION of "Roe vs Wade" was BASED ON. It was based around the concept that a person's medical decisions ARE PRIVATE. In simplest terms the court said "the State" cannot stick its nose into your medical decisions unless there was some threat to safety. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade#Opinion_of_the_Court This was always going to be one of the troublesome things of just dumping "Roe vs Wade" If a persons medical history is NOT protected under the 14th Amendment then what else isn't protected?
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  5450.  @gedias1  Your right but that's not the point I was making. The point is that things change over time. Just look where the 2 American parties are now they have both slid a long way to the right. According to Obama the Dems are now where the Republicans once were. I saw a piece on the Koch brothers the other day and when one of them ran against Reagan on the libertarian ticket they claimed Reagan was not far enough to the right. They were rejected by the GOP as nutters and radicals. They have spent over $125 million funding think tanks to drag America to their version of the right. Charles Koch was interviewed recently and openly complained the politicians he helped get elected would not do as he wanted. Then there's the billionaire who owns OAN, Robert Herring who is certifiably nutts, driving it as well. But adding to the Republican shift is the fuindmentalist Christians. We found out about this in Australia a couple of years back when some fundamentalists started using illegal means to take over parts of out right wing parties. An American training video surfaced. Where it came from and when it was made no one has really said. We know its American from the accents and think it was made in the 80s. Its basically about how to take over a party from the grass roots by taking over small local offices and taking over small local elected positions like mayor, DA, sheriff, school boards,.... etc. The aim it eventually to have a base you can move onto controlling state legislatures and then federal nominations. That's how Sarah Palin was forced on John McCain. That's how people like Pence and Pompeo got where they got. Then there is the centrist position of the Dems that's so broad that the only policy options for the Republicans is on the far right. No one should be surprised where the Republicans are. What everyone should be asking is how to you get them out of it? Because right now there are over 50million well armed (stocked with tons of ammunition) radicalized people who think they just had their country stolen. You can't lock them up - so what do you do to defuse that and then de-radicalize them. Look at this David Pakman did today -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeAznCt-pPo That cannot be ignored.
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  5451.  @specter0023  The truly crazy point about America is that it actually has an incredible history in higher education. I went to U. of Illinois in the late 80s. When I got back to Australia we were just getting the nations first supercomputer. It was a baby Cray (one of the small ones). At the same time Illinois was installing its 3rd and they were all big ones. It was like Australia had a Japanese 4 cylinder and Illinois had 3 stonking V8s. Meanwhile a couple of grads from about that time developed a program called Mosaic. They ended up founding Netscape and sold it to Bill Gates for a gazillion or 2. I've been in the American system and seen just how good it can be. We all hear about America's wealth disparity but there is also an education disparity as well. The most bizarre thing is that if you took away 1% of the military spending and spent that on giving everyone a fair and decent education you'd boost America so far the rest of the world would be left behind. And I don't mean just the universities and high schools but also the junior colleges and vocational colleges. Go listen to Andrew Yang on that subject he actually knows what he is talking about. You can't have high tech manufacturing with out the skilled personnel. We've done similar in Australia with failing to train people in those areas and it effing aggravates me. I'm an engineer and you can't get stuff made without the skilled technicians. You can't maintain stuff either. America needs Biden to make Yang the next education secretary.
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  5452.  @BubblePuppy.  Harsh but accurate. P.S. Its called economic enslavement.
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  5453. Multiple choice question: People think your a M0R0N because: a) You go to Trump rallies; b) You stand at the behind Trump with one of his signs and put that photo on Facebook; c) You talk to anyone with a microphone about how great it is to give Trump your money; d) You think everyone else is in a cult; e) ALL OF THE ABOVE.
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  5454. Well actually Comey didn't say anything but "consider" and that might be just a warning that Joe Biden needs to have an answer ready. Those millions of Trump supporters aren't simply going to disappear or be silent. They will likely be demanding pardons in future. But in the American system pardons have a catch and that is - accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt. Glenn Kirschner (retired JAG & Federal Prosecutor) just today did a vid on this catch with pardons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baWkPCQzgoQ
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  5455. Joan Rivers once quipped that "Bo Derek (the actress) was so dumb that she would have to study for a PAP test!" I always thought that was a little harsh, because I'd seen Bo interviewed and she wasn't that dumb. BUT Alison Steinberg really is that dumb. In fact She might be so dumb that she not only has to study for a PAP test but also needs a tutor.
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  5456.  @scotmark  Agreed but occasionally, like with CRT, they convince themselves they know what that word means. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5457.  @scotmark  Yeah - they really don't like it when they asked what a word means do they! 🤣😅😂😶‍🌫️
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  5458.  @kristoferostrom5610  You forgot to add that L. Ron also said "and NOT pay any tax." as in. "The best way to make money is start a religion and best off all you don't have to pay tax and its all legal."
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  5459. Reagan and Milton Friedman famously said the most scary words are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help". I think we need to re-phrase that. Which of these do you think best sums up what's happened? a) I'm an economist and I know how to manage everything by doing nothing and NOT letting anyone else do anything so that we can let the market decide. b) I'm from a Think Tank and have been thinking how to make my life better at your expense. c) I'm a consultant and I'm here to rearrange your life so my other clients can make money from the chaos. e) I'm from the government and I'd like to help you but I can't do anything unless the economist, Think Tanker and consultant say I can. d) ALL OF THE ABOVE.
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  5460. No problem, Romania still has gymnasts and according to Top Gear (Clarkson, May and Hammond) one of the greatest stretches of road anywhere on the planet - The Transfăgărășan highway through the Carpathian Mountains. Those are 2 things you can always be proud of.
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  5461.  @satunnainenkatselija4478  I'm not certain what field of research your in but I am an engineer and I've never seen any text book that bad. What Sebastian has done is totally confuse heat transfer with temperature change. To non-STEM people both equations look very similar as they both have a delta-T term and a thermal coefficient in them. One equations is about how much energy is moving from point A to point B. The other is about changes to physical properties. They are similar equations but very different in the answer. For a person with a PhD in physics to confuse the 2 IN A PUBLIC SPAT however is pretty pathetic.
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  5462. The why are you listening to an accountant who is doing nothing but pushing an ideology instead of engineers who lay out the facts. I am and engineer and have previously challenged Gerrard to a public debate. The response I got was they deleted every reply and comment I made on this page. Sorry if this comment is long but here's some actual facts. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  5463. You are right, there's nothing new about how the media are used to pump propaganda. Its well documented how Hollywood as worked hand in hand with various US Government agencies. Back in J. Edgar Hoover's day they had a TV show called "the FBI" and Hoover personally took control of making sure it showed the FBI in the most clean cut, truth and justice manner possible. John Wayne famously did a Vietnam War film called "The Green Berets" it was panned at the time and is still panned these days as a Pentagon propaganda film. If you can take time to watch some of the news reels from the 40s and 50sm just to see how damn awful its been in the past. If you doubt that just go and watch "Duck and Cover." And its been there for a long time. Go and look up what Thomas Jefferson said about the media in his day.
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  5464.  @imnotmike  Actually Nixon got a pardon without even being charged with a crime, but maybe that's your point.
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  5465.  @tomjackson4374  No there was a time when we actually believed the News was trustworthy because they at least operated of basic facts. Even when there were different interpretations of the facts the facts were still the facts. Propaganda and mob outrage has been around for 1000s of years. As an example go check this name from 2000 years ago - Barabbas.
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  5466. "free market" doesn't mean deregulation as they claim what it actually means is - "We are free to do what we want and get away with it and you're NOT!"
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  5467. You have summed it up very well and highlighted the single most important fact - 15,000+ Children have been KILLED and we have to keep emphasizing that word KILLED because they didn't just die from natural causes or natural disaster or an accident. THEY WERE KILLED through the direct actions of the State of Israel. Yes there are all sorts of other atrocities going on but those 15,000+ children WERE CHILDREN (past tense). They were not terrorists or even future terrorists because NOBODY knows what they might have become because they have been KILLED. They can no longer become doctors, teachers, lawyers, engineers, farmers OR PARENTS because they have been KILLED. Similarly the FALSE claims made by a number of Zionist journalists about babies in ovens and systematic raping of women that we now know was made up. Nobody needed to make up anything about October 7th because the actual facts of what happened were enough for the entire world to say "Hamas is evil and it needs to be dealt with!" Some of the Hamas terrorist put their crimes on social media and others sent messages back tot he families bragging about the murders they committed. Those facts alone told everyone all they needed to know about Hamas and its evil behavior. NOBODY needed to make anything up. In this SHlTSHOW nobody should be making anything up because the basic facts scream out and yet we are infested with the liars.
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  5468. Its very simple to his fans he's a force for change and they want change at any cost. Its a reaction to the utter failure of liberal status quo politics which has resulted in the super wealthy becoming even more wealthy while millions are dumped in the gutter. There's a massive slab of America who have been beaten down for decades by a lack of opportunity. They are angry and frustrated and are lashing out. Anthony Scaramucci had this great observation late last year. America has flipped from being aspirational to desperational. Remember Obama's great claim was "Hope & Change" and he failed to deliver BOTH. Hilary Clinton campaigned on "More of the Same" and Joe Biden ran on "Back to Normal" AND THEY ALL FAILED. Richard Wolff who's a Marxist Economist on 9 Dec 2020 during a podcast commented on West Virginia as an example. (Its still here on YouTube) He said those people actually did vote in their economic interest when they flipped from the Democrats to Trump and it was for the simple reason the Democrats had failed them repeatedly while Trump actually went to their towns and said he'd do something. The fact he turned up was enough. A couple of weeks ago Jessica Tarlov commented on a Trump supporter who said "Yes we know he's crazy but crazy doesn't look down on me." That enshrines the real problem with American Liberalism its incredibly SNOBBISH. BOTH Obama's went to Harvard, BOTH Clintons went to Yale and all the people around them think their SHlT doesn't stink and the reason people are poor because they aren't as smart as the elites are. This is why people like Trump and Musk are so appealing. Because as bat crap crazy as they are they don't look down on their fans who are their support base.
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  5469.  @ExpectDragons  Please tell me its NOT something stupid.
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  5470.  @daniellarson3068  Buddy I was in Canada late 2017 in Saskatchewan when they had a cold snap that lasted 3 days. I'm an engineer and was on site for a project. The other guys had gone back to Regina for a couple of days over Xmas. I woke up 1 morning and EVERY channel was flashing a severe weather alert. The numbers for they day were morning -30C, afternoon -28C and evening -32C with anywhere up to -50C. I switched to the news and they said "Don't go outside unless is absolutely necessary. Hospitals are already reporting the first amputations." I called the guys I was working with who were about 400km away in Regina. They said don't touch any metal that is connected to the outside like the front door knob or I could lose my hand. At those temperatures skin sticks to metal like its coated in super glue. There was a young cop living across the street and he checked on me each day. Yeah Canadians really are that polite. In those 3 days 14 of the 15 coldest temperatures on the planet were all recorded in central Canada and I was right in the middle of that zone. It was colder than the North Pole. So yeah buddy I do appreciate what our weather is like in Australia.
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  5471. I know this will sound a bit crazy but bear with. For anyone who played Assassin's Creed much they might remember you have almost perfectly described what that creed means. In its raw form its: Nothing is true, everything, is permitted. And yes everyone is allowed to say that's stupid. In fact the reply to it was: “That is rather cynical.” This is the explanation and note what is said about fragility and accepting responsibility: "It would be if it were doctrine. But it is merely an observation of the nature of reality. To say that nothing is true, is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilisation. To say that everything is permitted, is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must live with their consequences whether glorious or tragic.” What its actually saying to anyone - you have to look after your nation/tribe or it will stagnate or fail or both AND you have to accept responsibility for what happens. Think about how many great empires collapsed because people thought there society would just endure and how they got ripped apart because nobody would take responsibility. For everyone, FIRST have a look at your own country and its problems before you point the finger at anyone else. For everyone who might have played the game its during the conversation between Ezio and Sophia when they get to Masyaf at the end of Revelations. The full text of that conversation is Sophia “You mentioned a Creed before. What is it?” Ezio “Nothing is true, everything, is permitted.” Sophia “That is rather cynical.” Ezio “It would be if it were doctrine. But it is merely an observation of the nature of reality. To say that nothing is true, is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilisation. To say that everything is permitted, is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must live with their consequences whether glorious or tragic.”
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  5472. Lets face it this stuff (tapping feet and holding the desk) was debunked weeks ago as a habit. I won't trust a damn thing Western Media has on this until we know his body is on a slab in the morgue. Western Media is in such a rush these days for clicks that they'll jump on anything. Afterall why did any of us click this? Plus as a few people have pointed out, who comes after Putin. Its possible it might be someone worse.
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  5473. Never forget the 1st rule of American Libertarians. "We demand the liberty to strip others of their liberty!" or their 2nd rule "We demand the government get out of our lives and stop telling us what we can't do except when they make laws that allow us to get into other peoples lives and tell them what they can't do!" or their 3rd rule "We demand the government build infrastructure that helps us make money, but the government must do it without making us pay for it."
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  5474.  @youtubecruiser6819  They don't say it out loud but you know that's exactly what they think the rules should be. Do you know that Charles Koch the billionaire maniac wants to hold a constitutional convention, where they can re-write the US Constitution? Thom Hartman has spoken about it numerous times. I think they need 33 or 34 states to make it happen and have about 31. The really scary thing is that at such a convention each state gets 1 vote and it only takes 26 votes to re-write the US Constitution. Charles Koch is one of the major money men behind things like Citizens United and the Federalist Society takeover of judicial appointments.
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  5475. And if you do go back through Thom's videos a couple of times he's read of this list of government organisations that the Libertarians have called to be disbanded. It includes the EPA and FAA as well as all publicly funded education. So far they have all but crippled the EPA by installing destructive clowns who just wrecked its ability to function. Then they had SCOTUS rule that unless congress very specifically passes a law mandating the EPA control a specific substance like CO2 the EPA cannot police CO2 or any other pollutant.
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  5476.  @youtubecruiser6819  Your right to a point I am poking fun at their nonsense, but you need to go and look at some of the nonsense they have proposed. And lets NOT forget they just had Roe V Wade overturned so they can have the liberty to strip others of their liberty. In one of Milton Freidman's books he claimed that doctors didn't need to be licensed. He claimed that by word of mouth people would become aware of people who were bad doctors and "the market" would take care of them. Its total nonsense but there are people among the libertarians who believe there should NOT be regulations on anything. Those people are crazy to say the least
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  5477. One thing they never seem to struggle with is WHEN THEY NEED HELP. When the GFC that they created they demanded help to save the economy they wrecked.
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  5478.  @lesliecurran1704  Go watch the famous Leslie Neilson "Nothing to see here" clip
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  5479.  @danrl9710  A few months back Prof. Wolff claimed profit is theft and that's just stupid if its left unclarified as to HOW the profit is made which he didn't do. He put it all in terms of exploitation of workers and their effort and implied that owners did NOT put do any work at all to justify their profit. Without doubt profit from exploitation is certainly theft but profit from a persons efforts to run a business isn't. He claimed profit isn't made through work and that's fundamentally not true. If he'd have clarified the different ways profit is made and classified those types that were theft (by exploitation) versus those that were by effort he'd have made a lot more sense. Other than that he's usually very good. He did a whole series on Marx and who Marx was and what Marx was really on about. I watched it for the exercise of not being ignorant and was incredibly surprised to hear that Marx wrote first and foremost an economist. He was far less a political theorist. Its almost like his name was hijacked into the West vs East political discussion as the opposite to democracy and capitalism. If you like Mark Blyth you'll love this. I just found it a few hours ago and its one of the best panel discussions on angrynomics I've seen. One of the really interesting things is what Martin Wolf says about capitalism and democracy. It makes Prof. Wolff's stuff on Marx very interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-aC2_aIeS8
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  5480.  @danrl9710  Have a look at what you gave as an example. The implication that Prof Wolff mad is that capitalist who made that 1$ of that other persons labor did NOTHING to earn that $1 and that's a false assumption at every level. Even the most ruthless, heartless mongrel did some work to earn that $1. The issue Prof Wolf should have pressed is about FAIRNESS. I'm an engineer and the implication is that if I hire people to make something I have designed, I am a thief if I profit from selling what those people make. My objection is that Prof Wolff has totally devalued my work, totally devalued my effort to get my qualifications and totally devalued my investment in time to design that "something." However if I don't pay those people a FAIR WAGE for their time, effort and skills then I am a thief because I in that case I have devalued their time, effort and skills. And that's the point where I think he failed in that discussion. He never distinguished between what is fair and what isn't. Because there was one thing in that video which is one of the greatest thoughts I have seen anyone make against capitalist ideology. Capitalists always talk about THEIR RISK of their money, time and effort, but they never talk about the risk employees take. He pointed out that most capitalists have a range of investments particularly the wealthier capitalists. So their risks are spread across a range of businesses. However most wage earning employees have a single 100% risk that their employer will keep providing a job. Even if wage earners do spread some of their risk with savings or other investments they still have this one massive risk in their lives. If they lose that main job they are in serious trouble. I think he also failed a bit on that discussion because he didn't distinguish between small businesses owners and the plutocratic class. Because small business owners with only a few employees also have a singular major risk. To just group them in with the plutocrats is madness and I think he'd agree. So I really do like Prof. Wolff because he gives such a great take from a totally different perspective and his discussion on risk was brilliant, but he's not perfect either.
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  5481.  @danrl9710  I'm not an economic theorist mate I'm an engineer. We don't operate on theory and conjecture we operate on sound proven principles because when we don't things like the Boeing Max-8 happen. I find it amusing when economists refer to economics as a science. By the basic principles of the real STEM community economics is no more a science than basket weaving. I did economics 101 in college as one of my options. After a few lectures and seeing yet another version of supply-demand graphs I asked the professor about formulas. He asked me what I was and I said I'm doing aerospace engineering. He told me "This is economics not engineering, we don't use formulas." That was over 30 years ago and I am even less impressed with the field of economics these days. In 2018 they gave the Nobel to the first economist to include climate change in the mix. He said we can live with 4C because he's considering whatever except at about 2.5C China loses half its agriculture which is already stressed. I wonder if he considered how 700million hungry Chinese will react? Or a few 100million Indians or the few other billion or so who are starving long before we get to 4C. It might not be wise to claim you're a science when the top of you profession is ignoring science.
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  5482.  @danrl9710  Well you sort of started into the whole economics theory side and that to me is a whole field of blah blah blah. I have been looking into it for the simple reason I am tired of hearing these people tell us all they know what they are doing. I truly believe Marx has been mis-portrayed at just the most basic premise. Marxism is promoted endlessly as political dogma when the truth is Marx wasn't a political scientist or theorist or agitator. The actual theories he pushed are of less interest to me right now than the fact we have been collectively LIED to for decades. Weirdly that lie was pushed by both sides. The eastern communists and socialists pushed it to excuse what they did and the Western capitalists pushed it to justify what they did. If it wasn't so deadly serious it would be a Monty Python Sketch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b6-oE55vdM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2c-X8HiBng
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  5483.  @danrl9710  I did aerospace engineering and a significant part of that discipline is what we call systems engineering. Early in the space age they realised you cannot solve problems in isolation when you have complex systems where the sub-systems are all tightly interlinked. In most engineering disciplines the systems are linked but nowhere near as tightly as they are in aerospace. The easiest way I describe it is like this. Imagine we are sending a rover to Mars and somebody wants to change the camera to a new one because it has better resolution, but it weighs 115 grams (1/4lb) more. So first you have to fly and land that extra 115g on Mars and that changes the amount of fuel needed to get it there which changes the weight of the rocket and that changes the fuel the rocket needs just to get of the launch pad. Then there's that camera with higher resolution. That's more data that requires more onboard storage that needs more power to store and then transmit back. That means a bigger solar panel and that's more weight and that needs more fuel to get that bigger solar panel to get to and land on Mars. It just goes round and round in circles, which is why it takes 10 years to design test and then fly them. Over in Economics they are dealing with an insanely complex system called humanity. So things like profit, labor, financial investment and regulations are not a simple components with a single simple definition and certainly how they interact isn't simple. That's my fault with that video Prof. Wolff did. He tried to simplify a very complex component of an insanely complex system and that almost never works. That's why I said he needed to clarify things better. I have just been watching some stuff on the COVID lab leak and the journalism that's going on in that subject is horrendous. Then you get to the management of COVID and that's even worse. Back in engineering and science I see people doing the same sort of thing with all sorts of things. Its why there is no coherent solution to climate. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5484. You hit it right. There is NOTHING in this behavior that has been going on for centuries. Well before America was even founded the British did this shit for centuries as did the rest of Europe. Every heard of the Aristocracy or Noble Houses. Charles Koch was interviewed a couple of times recently and made NO SECRET that he believed that politicians who he helped had to do exactly what he wanted. He was Blunt about it - Kyle even did a video on it. Brazen - they admit it during interviews 🤚🙄✋
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  5485. I don't know about you but maybe the reason Trump is so adamant that the Dems cheated was because he was cheating all along and still didn't win. Think about this Trump found an extra 11 million in 2020 than he got in 2016. For 2 year s EVERY poll even those at Fox were warning that Trumps base was SHRINKING. I haven't seen anyone explain those extra 11 million votes which seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
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  5486. Good to see people pushing back against this nonsense and rejecting his crap arguments. I like the way you describe him like "a lawyer advocating for his client." That's a great way to describe it. Trump made millions of dollars committing CRIMES. It doesn't matter if it was a type of crime that's rarely prosecuted Trump WAS LEGALLY CHARGED and got a FAIR TRIAL and was FOUND GUILTY. Like any other person he has the right to appeal his conviction.
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  5487.  @TurdFerguson456  NOT LYING - How about blaming the LA fires on personnel? ALL of those disgusting right wing BULLSHiT claims have been answered and proven to be LIES.
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  5488.  @SunTingWong  PROJECTING WHAT EXACTLY You are such a typical ideologically driven snake. You can't even believe what your own eyes see and your own ears hear. People like you defend EVERYTHING with insults, deflections, hypocrisy and BULLSHlT. You never come back with FACTS or REASON. This is why people HATE radical ideologically driven clowns from BOTH the Left and Right.
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  5489. These days your not a real American President until you have bombed an innocent child. Congrats Joe you've made your bones.
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  5490. ​ @colewood3297  Absolutely spot on. I found it amazing when I first heard that Delaware has more registered companies than anywhere else in the world. I have heard the other great tax haven inside America is Texas. I don't know if you can equate Texas to anywhere else as Texas is almost unique on the planet. Its like having another country within your country. Also Texas logic is so weird. If Grade School children are being shot and massacred the police hold back but if college students protest they charge in swinging batons while hiding behind riot shields.
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  5491. BECAUSE THERE IS NO LIMIT TO GOP HYPOCRISY!!!!! If they win and retain power then ANYTHING is acceptable.
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  5492. I'm Australian how do you think the REST OF THE WORLD FEELS about giving this clown control of nuclear weapons for a second time???????? Trust me when I tell you the pack of insanely selfish geriatrics who now run America scares the crap out of us. BOTH SIDES of American politics are dominated by these old clowns who have lost their minds. Bizarrely some of the younger American politicians seem to be worse. Its almost like the 14th Amendment says something like "To be eligible for public office you must NOT have an IQ above your age." In some cases I think you guys have elected people who's IQ is so low they would not pass the minimum requirements for military service that McNamara famously lowered to send more people to Vietnam. We also know Rumsfeld re-instituted it to send more people to Iraq. And before you say it - YES we have also elected some dumb people. The difference is we don't let our dumb people have control over nuclear weapons.
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  5493.  @bobsmith-ji2uh  Go back and check your history the Brady Bill for background checks was done by Reagan and named after one of his secret service men James Brady who was shot in the attempted assassination of Reagan. Reagan did other things specifically against the Ak-47 because it was the preferred option of the Black Panthers. There are people showing clips of it at the moment - look around. What the NRA did AFTER the Reagan years is another thing and these days yeah AKs are legal just like they got Brady watered down or made irrelevant. Yeah I know about the NRAs financial issues and yeah I know there are other groups even more radical than the NRA which is scary to say the least.
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  5494.  @pgahole  Dude I just saw this classic from Trevor Noah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F-pI4id6Bc Since geography was part of the story I thought I point out that howler at Miss Teen USA. Note which country she mentions TWICE -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww 14+ years ago and look what the Texas Governor just said. Do we face palm or shrug? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  5495.  @grahvis  It totally agree. About a year ago I was having a screaming match against a Trumpist and WON on the fact that I rammed Trumps final destruction of the 4th down his throat. Trump didn't start it but he signed away that last requirements for the NSA to need warrants for online surveillance. I freaked his ass when I reminded him the NSA could be monitoring our conversation without a warrant. It still freaks me out that the 4th Am has gone form being a paramount social institution that generations of Americans considered sacred to almost meaningless by people who claim to be champions of the Constitution. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  5496.  @erzahyuga7063  Just a minor clarification. Creatures such as these hang out in crypts not graves. Vampires are found in graves but this lot aren't afraid of sunlight so they must be some other creature type. I know it sounds like a minor technicality but lets try for accuracy in our verbal slanders and slights because we know this lot wont or cant.
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  5497. It seems like White America forgot that THEY ARE THE DESCENDENTS OF IMMIGRANTS and what's many of their forefathers arrived as ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS who just took over what land they wanted. Further their forefathers actually DID do the replacement thing. There were these people now referred to collectively as America's "First Nations" which kind of hints at the fact they were in America FIRST. At one point their children were TAKEN from them and sent to boarding schools where they were not allowed to speak their own language, many died and the motto was: "Kill the Indian, save the man" That really was the motto for the Indian Boarding Schools. They were devised by military officer Richard Henry Pratt an Indian hunter and he really did say "Kill the Indian, save the man" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ3rZduU4Oc
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  5498.  @Greyskymorning395  WTF do you mean? Your the one who claimed this is about Syria. Go read your original comment.
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  5499.  @Greyskymorning395  YOUR WORDS "No, Russia liked Trump over Hillary was because of Syria. Obama and Hilary definitely wanted to get involved in Syria." THOSE ARE YOUR WORDS. "because of Syria" & "involved in Syria" OMG - LEARN TO READ
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  5500. It makes you wonder how many times Left orientated parties have to get smacked in the face before they learn some real world tactics and counter-tactics. I'm Australian and a couple of years ago I asked a Brit why their Labor Party ran with the same losing strategy Australian Labor had lost with earlier in the year. The answer did and didn't surprise me. They told me that British Labor hired some of the same American campaign strategists that Australian Labor hired and those campaign people had been on Hilary's losing campaign. Yeah the same people were involved in 3 losing campaigns in 3 different countries in a row. They then ran Bidens campaign and even though Biden won the Dems lost in the house, failed to win the Senate outright, and lost huge in state houses. They are like football fans who win a couple of games here and there and then claim they are champions, but end up saying "wait 'til next season." You'd think that some of these people would start to wake up.
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  5501. If you look any of the stories about these people doing this sort of thing they ALWAYS have at least one point that's true or at least very difficult to refute. Note what he says after 2:00 I can say that there is no proof that man CO2 emissions are destroying the planet. If that were the case, the world would have invaded communist China long ago. They build one so-called dirty coal fired plant on average every week. If China's CO2 emissions were destroying all life on Mother Earth and China is the world's number one CO2 emitter, why would Obama, Biden and the rest of the American Left leave China alone and instead destroy the United States manufacturing base and our energy production? The first line is BS, but its clever BS because of what follows, because its framed as a question that's VERY HARD to REFUTE. Anyone can look up the International Energy Agency reports and China absolutely is the biggest consumer of coal. China now produces more coal than the entire planet did in the early 70s. It then adds to that with imports. So no one should be surprised that for many people to agree with what he's claiming, because unless you willing to take the time to assess all of what he's saying why wouldn't a person believe all of it. PLUS there is NOBODY going on any of these shows (and networks) to CHALLENGE what's being claimed.
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  5502. oh dude what a great idea. btch slap them with their own crap
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  5503. THERE'S A PBS FRONTLINE DOCUMENTARY CALLED: Rumsfeld's War Copies can be found on YT. Anybody wanting a history lesson will find it incredibly informative. During the documentary they discuss the "Powell Doctrine." Ret. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph P. Hoar gives the basics. 1) Congress must give the military clear and realistic objectives. Congress and POTUS cannot simply say go there do stuff. 2) Congress must authorise the forces and manpower that the military say they need to do the task assigned. 3) The action must have the support of the American people. 4) There must be an exit strategy. Put simply get the job done and then get the troops home. ALL 4 must be in place BEFORE committing the military to action. This process was developed after Vietnam and was employed in Desert Storm (to get Iraq out of Kuwait). This part of the documentary detailed how this was NOT DONE before the Invasion of Iraq after 9/11. If you watch the documentary note item 2 and what Paul Wolfowitz told congress. Do you think the Russians did their homework any better than America and its Allies before Iraq? You would have thought would be superpowers had learned by now.
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  5504. I'm an engineer and that's one of the few things that would actually make a monstrous change to the entire energy spectrum. A little known fact is that it takes more energy to make a car than the car will consume in 20 years of average use. People forget or don't realise that it takes huge amounts of energy just to dig the raw materials out of the ground and process them into the raw stock just to make the car out of. It takes a lot to get the raw steel and raw aluminium ready just to start making parts. I have actually worked in the automotive sector and the molding of all the plastic parts is incredibly energy intensive. All the robots you see on videos they use a lot of power not because robots a super energy users its just when you have hundreds of them goin flat out it adds up.
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  5505. for anyone interested here is the Aljazeera link -> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/20/non-stop-cremations-cast-doubt-on-indias-counting-of-covid-dead heads up warning it doesn't hold back.
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  5506. EVERYONE: Google "lindsey graham trump will destroy us" His famous May 4, 2016 tweet is still there for all the world to see (I just checked and here's a cut & paste of it If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it. 7.03 ap. · May 4 2016
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  5507. ​ @FoldedCloak  Agreed. just the other day I saw a video that looked back on something Jon Stewart said over 10 years ago not that long after 9/11. Jon pointed out that 24/7 news has to hype stories up and fill the vacant space with opinion because there's just NOT enough interesting FACTUAL things to keep audiences engaged 24/7. He said 9/11 was perfect for their business model because it allowed opinion and hype to fill the air and keep people engaged. This is a major problem in the world right now. I'm an engineer and we have to deal with facts. Its the very nature of our profession. We don't get to do conjecture or things go badly - the Boeing Max-8 being a good example but there are others. In just the last few days I have seen several news stories on energy (wind/solar & nuclear). AT NO TIME was an engineer interviewed on any of these programs. In one on nuclear (by DW in Germany) they had 3 people on. One was an Austrian physicist who has done some work in nuclear, but the other 2 were a political science professor and the other a consultant with a degree in Chinese Language & Literature with a masters in International Studies. You'd think DW being German would have easy access to plenty of German Engineers including those form the German nuclear energy industry. I see this sort of media behavior constantly.
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  5508.  @sr2291  Never said she didn't but has she actually passed the bar? That's one of the other things that's been pointed out. There's sitting judges who have NOT passed the bar that might have been to law school and got their JD. That's why they are referred to as NOT qualified instead of UNqualified.
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  5509. You and every other similar comment are 100% correct. But have a look who posted that first comparison video. You can see it clearly around 56 seconds. KYLE needs to NOT show ANY videos from people like Russell Brand. In these sorts of discussions CREDIBILITY matters and using an accused rapist as a source doesn't look good.
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  5510.  @hesssy  Do take note that I said "accused rapist" NOT simply "rapist." Russell Brand like everyone else has a right to defend against the accusations, but also note he hasn't denied some of his own actions either. My point was that Kyle should be more careful who's posts he uses. Credibility still matters.
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  5511.  @hesssy  I didn't say that either. What I am saying is you need to use credible sources and Russell Brand IS NOT a credible source and its not simply that he's been accused of a crime but accused of a VERY SERIOUS CRIME. He wasn't accused of drink driving, or speeding or doing drugs or any other minor offense. Russell Brand is accused of multiple rapes.
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  5512.  @Spiral.Dynamics  I think that's a very sound set of assumptions.
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  5513.  @hesssy  its amazing how IGN0RANT or REALITY some people are. To make the claim there is NO DIFFERENCE between being accused of a speeding offense and rape just shows HOW DEVOID of PERSPECTIVE you are. What are you going to do next claim Trump is a worthy source of wisdom and virtue because he was only found guilty of some crimes in one place and is yet to be proven guilty of other crimes in other places. People like you are why the world is the screwed up disaster that it is. You have no clue about anything but expect everyone to think that everything you say is some from of golden wisdom and insight. I'd recommend you stop using the drugs your on but I'm certain its already too late.
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  5514.  @JB-zs1oq  Then why didn't you say that up front. And by the way NO MATTER what citizenship people have our country claims people ALL THE TIME. Just this week they were all claiming Katherine Bennell-Pegg is the next "Aussie Astronaut" FACT - there has never been an Australian citizen either in the Astronaut corps or flown in space. Phillip Chapman, Paul Scully-Power and Andy Thomas were all American citizens like Rupert but that didn't stop EVERY Australian claiming they were true blue Aussies. Katherine Bennell-Pegg made the European Space Agency team on her BRITISH PASSPORT yet everyone is lording her as the next Aussie Astronaut.
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  5515.  @JB-zs1oq  You must be from Florida being such a SANCTIMONIOUS M0R0N If nuance and facts so not bother you then FCK OFF back to the clown convention.
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  5516. Your dead right. There has been way too much opinion being floated as fact on this. But then that's what modern media has become thanks to the groundwork of Rupert Murdoch. FYI - I'm Australian. Every nation has at least 1 person they are ashamed of. Rupert's top of our list. For another expert in this field you can try Dr. Michael Osterholm director of CIDRAP at U. of Minnesota. This is a link to his latest podcast and he covers the lab leak in depth starting around 43:30 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYNfScnnDVU&t=2610s Note he points out that if this lab had been American then America would have most likely been less forthright with information. What we have are experts telling us the obvious - WE DON'T KNOW.
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  5517. American Libertarian ideology 101: "I demand the liberty to strip others of their liberties." This is the amazing thing about the American Libertarian mindset. They are 1,000,000% of the view that "Nobody, NOT the Government, NOT the teachers, NOT the police, NOT science, NOT anyone with actual expertise and especially NOT the voters has the right to tell me what I can and can't do, BUT as sure as the sun comes up I'm going to FORCE my views, my standards and my rules on everyone else."
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  5518. You're almost right, it is a class war, but there's actually 3 major conflicts going on in American politics. There's the one in the Dems, the one in the GOP and the one between the billionaire elites who control both parties. The conflict between billionaires is what I call Carbon Vs. Silicon. Look at the billionaires on the Republican side and a lot of them have made their money from extracting, refining, processing, and selling carbon based products (coal, oil, plastics,....etc). On the other side supporting the Dems are a pack of technocrats Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg types who all rely on computers and technologies based around silicon. I know its not strictly true but fundamentally if you're a billionaire into Carbon your a Republican and if your billionaire who relies on Silicon your a Dem. As for the conflict inside the Dems its progressives versus stagnators. I call them stagnators because all they want is stagnation. They want nothing to change unless it benefits them. Sure Bezos and others are disruptors but look at how they now treat anybody else and any competition. They love to disrupt but wont let anybody else disrupt. Progressives are progressive because they want society to move forwards. The most fundamental aspect of progressives is that they want change that benefits everyone not just the few. There's even a similar conflict in the GOP where you have the Trumpists who want to break the power of the old oil & coal families like the Bush and Koch families. Trump himself might not give a crap about them, but he tapped right into a massive amount of anger and frustration from people who had been left behind. Look at how much the top 1% have made in the past 30+ years and what did the base of the GOP get. Most of them have seen no real wage growth the entire working lives and more often than not watched there jobs get moved to Texas or Mexico or China. The second American civil war might not have been openly declared but it has been going for about 5 years.
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  5519.  @Jay...777  Well I think your missing the point. In both American parties it is the 99% against the 1%. Seriously how do you think Trump stormed through to win the nomination? Did you even pay attention to what happened there? In that crowd of 16 there were some real sons of the GOP. Most notably Jeb "the chosen one" Bush who was actually the one son of the Bush family they thought would be president. Dub-ya's run was actually a trail run to see how the son of a president might go. Then a guy named Carl Rove came along with a plan. Then there was Texas oil boy Ted Cruz and his Goldman Sachs wife - how more top 1% can you get. Trump simply realised that they treated the majority of the GOP base with contempt and gave them a way to focus there frustration first with the GOP elite and then against a full blown genuine elitist in Hilary. Over on the Dem side its a bit less extreme but there's still the lower chunk versus the billionaire elitists. To not see there's a conflict in each party as well as between the 2 sides of the top 1% is to ignore the reality of the last decade. I suggest you mull on that.
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  5520.  @cindyhuang4876  Yeah, she's found an audience that she can tap into. Populists need 2 things, a disenfranchised population and the right bait.
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  5521. To ALL I was checking something the other day. Just after Trump lost the 2020 election he ordered/allowed the execution of 3 Federal prisoners. It was very unusual because it was the first time in over 140 years a president had ordered or allowed anyone during the Lame Duck period. There is no law it just became tradition to leave it to the incoming President. What I found were 2 extraordinary facts. 1) After the riots of January 6th Trump had or allowed 3 more executions on January 13, 14 and 16 of 2021. yes in the post January 6th turmoil when there was no effective government 3 people were actually executed and we KNOW trump had the 3 in November and December killed because he told everyone he did it. 2) Between July 14, 2021 and September 24, 2021 Trump had or allowed 7 executions to take place. There is no doubt that some of those crimes were horrendous and justice might well be served by executing those perpetrators. Since the resumption of executions in 1976 the US Federal Government has only executed 16 people. Mostly its done by the states. Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Senior, Clinton, Obama and Biden COMBINED had NOBODY executed. Bush Junior executed 3, one of whom was Timothy McVeigh the Oklahoma Bomber. Those 3 happened in June 2001, June 2001 and March 2003 so were nowhere near the election campaign for 2004. Trump did not execute anyone until July 2020 when the campaign was underway. In fact 1 happened during the GOP convention on August 26th and another the day after the convention on August 28th. The timing is bizarre and leads to only one conclusion - Donald Trump had 7 people executed to help win the election as his campaign faltered over his mishandling of COVID, and when that failed he lashed out and had 6 more people killed. WHY NOBODY IN THE MEDIA IS POINTING THIS OUT IS A MYSTERY.
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  5522. I understand this guys point of view because he's African American but he is completely IGNORANT of what White Supremacy actually is. Its NOT the be all and end all of every problem. Its fundamentally a racial superiority issue that EVERY tribe and culture has some version of. Irrespective of if you take a look at ancient or modern history we see the same thing again and again and we have so many examples that HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WHITE PEOPLE. Thom's example of Korea is just one example of the entire Asian continent. Dig a little and you will find examples of this racial superiority in all of them. At one time or another they have all used some form of racial superiority to to do great harm to each other and there was not a WHITE PERSON ANYWHERE. FYI - I'm Australian and yes we have a serious issue with White Supremacists but we also have some other racial issues that HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WHITE PEOPLE. We have sizeable communities of Pakistanis and Indians and others form the sub-continent and you have to be damn careful what you say around them. Most of them are fine but like every culture there are those few who have this racial superiority trait and they can fly off the handle. Another 2 groups we have to be very careful with are Vietnamese and Cambodians. There's several 1,000 years of conflict there and there is NOT A WHITE PERSON INVOLVED. This guys claim that the African conflicts are 100% the fault of White People is just nonsense. There are tribal conflicts going back 1,000s of years just as there is everywhere else. I can understand his point of view being African American but he's simply WRONG.
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  5523. Go look at the US pardon Law it does not apply to people who are impeached. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_pardons_in_the_United_States#Constitutional_provision Forget the 25th he needs to be impeached, that way he's not only out but he can never get back. Further if they impeach Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and all the others who hold official position so none of them can get pardons is also important.
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  5524.  @joycedavis9996  Sooner or later these people are going HAVE to be dealt with. Look at the climate disaster that has finally started to arrive. These people are the ones who stalled action for the last 40 years because they didn't like it. Have you heard of the Rand Report into wages that showed how the top 1% of America gained over $47 Trillion in wealth between 1975 and 2018? Do you know that report and other things like Branko Milanovic's famous "elephant graph" have shown that in that time period over 50% of Americans went backwards and another 40% went almost nowhere? Plus its not simply the top 1% of America its the top 1% across the world have financially raped the planet. Do you know that this years Northern hemisphere drought might cause massive food shortages in India, China and Europe. That's 3 billion people going hungry while thing greedy monster pulls this crap. Its no longer a matter of what we could or might do we simply have to shut these people down while we can.
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  5525. FIRST - I am in favor of nuclear energy. BUT ITS SHlTHOUSE how Shellenberger trots around the world supported by a mountain of nuclear energy money and never allows himself to be actually challenged on the SHlT he is selling. Like so many others he has been debunked as a cherry picking fraud so many times and YET clownish idiots claiming to be serious media types keep giving him oxygen. Why does he attack Greta Thundberg? Because he's paid to. That's how much of a low life SHlT he's become.
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  5526. I have liked quite a few of your conversations and hope you will take this criticism well. When you promote Konstantin Kisin as an "anti-Woke expert" then you are simply FULL OF SHlT I used to watch Triggernometry all the time until a couple of years ago. They were exactly as they advertised "interesting conversations with interesting people" but then they started getting funded by radical American Libertarians most notably the CATO Institute. Up until that point I really appreciated things like Konstantin's explanation of the cultural issues with the invasion of Ukraine. He was on a BBC discussion panel on Ukraine and he was brilliant. Then I saw him on a debate about wok at Cambridge and he ranted (on behalf of CATO) about Greta Thunberg. He went from brilliant to disgusting in a very short time. He was in Australia (my country) doing a tour for the Institute of Public Affairs a RADICAL right wing Australian think tank that is part of the Koch Network centred around the CATO Institute. His talks we titled "Our culture is special" and could be best described as Nazi level propaganda. If you had promoted him as an anti-woke campaigner then YES I'd agree, but when you promote him as an EXPERT on woke then you are a PROMOTING a LIE and that is NOT like the quality of your other work.
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  5527. Its not just the GOP, its not even just in America. Its just that this guy has taken this to a new low. All this sort of fluffing up resumes has been going on for decades. Parties not properly vetting the candidates and their opponents failing to check it is nothing new either. Politicians lying during a campaign is so much standard practice its a pathology not a problem.
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  5528. I did pause the video at that point because its just not really worth listening anymore. Sam's proven his point, so lets move onto something else.
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  5529. Mark Blyth has an interesting take on this. its from the Q&A after a lecture on Global Trumpism in 2019, but its as relevant now as it was then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4795s If you have time the whole thing is worth watching.
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  5530.  @Cato76  Its actually sad, because its also true. Look at the Roe V Wade decision. Most people don't know or don't realise that Roe V Wade was won on the basic that what happens between a patient and their doctor is PRIVATE. Now that its been squashed any government official can access your records if the regulations permit.
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  5531. Great idea but when we can't get the North Koreans, Iranians, Pakistanis, Indians or anyone else to give up their nukes I doubt we will get the Russians back to the table anytime soon. Especially when nations like America elect a clown like Trump who starts making bombs again.
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  5532.  @brianmcevoy1990  You are dead right. In a world where people elect populist clowns like Trump who just tore up treaties because they were done by people he didn't like AND bragged about how his big red button worked AND started spending more on military toys including NEW nuclear weapons. Who in their right mind would give up the deterrent. If you were Iran or North Korea and can see that Trump is likely to be back in 2024 what makes sense? Do you give them up or make them as fast as you can?
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  5533.  @michaelsieger9133  When I first saw your comment in the scroll bar I was "Oh Crap" but you made the point with the clarification at the end. You're spot on its NOT viable right now because Geopolitics DOESN'T have TRUST built into the system and because of clowns like Trump treaties don't mean what they used to. Our governments can't even be trusted or trust each other to work out climate change which is a far bigger threat to our economies. So right now there is NO chance they can agree on nukes, BUT the comment that started this thread is dead right. Remember Trump wanted to start manufacturing more nukes again so denuclearization DOES NEED to be in the conversation. Great point on viability.
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  5534. This kind of stuff only ends one way -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8
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  5535. Do you know what just freaked me out as this started? The YT algorithms #3 recommendation in the right hand column is a video titled "The Vortex - Satan's Playbook" on a channel named "Church Militant." So just watching this video the YT algorithm somehow thinks I want more of this stuff.
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  5536. ENGINEER HERE: One thing I wish Peter would be more clear about is that we would be doing the energy transition ANYWAY. Forget green or anything else for a moment and realise that modern societies need energy to simply function. You need energy to turn on the lights, supply water to your home, store your food, cook your food and take away your crap when you flush the toilet. Then when you leave the house you need energy for everything else. One of the consequences of privatising so much of our societies following the Reagan-Thatcher revolution was that we STOPPED spending enough on certain parts of the infrastructure to keep up with the needs of our societies. Just population growth alone increases the demands on energy supply. Forget how you generate energy, if the population goes up 50% then the energy they need goes up 50%. The only way to change that is with more energy efficient end user products, but that only goes so far. Right now the entire developed world is suffering from an energy crisis that started in the 1980s when Reagan and Thatcher started to privatise everything they could and then everyone else followed. We don't generate enough energy and the energy generation systems we have ARE OLD and NEED TO BE REPLACED. There have been dozens of power stations turned off for the simple reason they got old and wore out and now they need to be replaced. We now need to replace a lot of hardware and we were ALWAYS going to have to replace it. Things don't last forever. Its just happening at a time when we are also changing HOW WE GENERATE and distribute energy.
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  5537. No worse than that they simply yell and scream about anybody who disagrees with them. The howl about FACTS and NEVER present evidence.
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  5538. HEY THOM - the only person who cost Hilary Clinton the 2016 election WAS HILARY CLINTON. As numerous people have pointed out: 1) She was NOT well liked and aggravated as many people as she brought on board; 2) She was a neoliberal whose husband had signed NAFTA into existence causing many factories to close and jobs to be lost. 3) Despite all the claims of broad popular policies the only one that was ever mentioned was "First Woman President." 4) WORST OF ALL - She flipped off the people of Michigan and announced she'd instead do fundraisers with the New York Elite who were the people making the decisions that closed factories and destroyed towns all across the Rust Belt. She then LOST Michigan(16), Ohio(18) and Pennsylvania(20) a total of 54 EC votes which Obama had won in 2012. had she won those 54 votes she would have beaten Trump 281 to 250.
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  5539. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Piers used to work for Rupert Murdoch and the 2 things he learned from Rupert is 1) How to get attention and 2) how to keep people's attention. Look at what he's doing here - its just another typical red meat shitstorm for people to rant and howl over. Piers aim is not to have anything sensible discussed. His aim is to make as much noise as possible.
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  5540. America is NOT a democracy its a Bi-Partisan Tribal Oligarchy with the 2 tribes at war with each other. Its even easy to describe them in terms of 2 substances - Carbon and Silicone. Its not 100% but look at the Republican heartland states that dig or drill for various forms of Carbon - Alaska, the Dakotas, Texas, Louisiana, West Virginia. Look at California & the rest of the west coast, Illinois and the New York - they all about new technologies that fundamentally rely on or are centered about computer technology and other similar "new" and "emerging" technologies. Its not totally rue as there's lots of overlap. But fundamentally the big backers of the Dems like Bezos are based in Silicone and the big packers of the Republicans like the Koch family are based in Carbon.
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  5541.  @marcusgarvey9933  Take the racism elsewhere or I'll report you to YouTube.
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  5542. AND its only a few days after his Taylor Swift comment.
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  5543. Here in Australia we got told about Tik Tok and the Chinese Legal system by the head of one of our security agencies several years ago when the 5G discussion was raging.
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  5544.  @glormoparch5154  Yeah good point. I wonder if his box has "rover" written on it.
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  5545. Joe Manchin proving yet again that politics attracts narcissistic sociopaths like garbage dumps attract flies.
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  5546.  @HalfBackCrack  Why DK-HED? At one point he made sense, but now he's being a M0R0N. What part of that can't you understand? If there's something you disagree with then say what it is or YOU are being just as damn stupid as he's become.
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  5547.  @elsagrace3893  Good summary I just think its sad where has is now. He's not the only one either. Just the other day a vid popped up with Neil Oliver the Scottish historian. I've seen his history documentaries in the past and they were fantastic. So I was quite positive when I clicked the link. OMGGGGGG has he lost his nut. He's on this channel called GB News spouting of the rails Trumpian psycho anti-government Qanon conspiracy freak nonsense. Brett Weinstein sounds sensible, reasonable, thoughtful and rational compared to Neil Oliver. I was stunned at his demise.
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  5548.  @brunonkowalski  Yeah I know he was right about the lab leak and that he was one of the first to put the pieces together on that, but that doesn't change the fact that he's lost his mind on the conspiracy nonsense. I actually regard it as a bit of shame he's lost his mind on that stuff but he's not alone there. Neil Oliver the Scottish historian who did some awesome documentary series is another person who lost their mind down the conspiracy rabbit hole. The saddest part of the whole Qanon style conspiracy stuff is that they aren't that far from the truth. Big Pharma, Big Banks, Big oil and the Military Industrial Complex not only exist but they have way too much influence over our governments. BUT the whole Qanon psycho blood drinking child sacrifice, 5G and COVID was deliberately released stuff is just nonsense.
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  5549.  @brunonkowalski  I never said Brett Weinstein said anything about 5G or blood drinking. That was in reference to the conspiracy community in general. THAT'S YOU TAKING THINGS OUT OF CONTEXT AND MAKING SHIT UP. LEARN TO READ
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  5550.  @brunonkowalski  AT NO POINT DID I SAY THAT BREET WEINSTEIN IS SPREADING QANON. This is what I said and NOTICE the word after QANON. "The saddest part of the whole Qanon style conspiracy stuff is that they aren't that far from the truth" TRY READING AND COMPREHENSION IN FUTURE
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  5551.  @brunonkowalski  NO IT DID NOT YOU MADE THAT CONNECTION all by yourself. You need to be more careful with your assumptions it "makes an ass out of you and umption." By they way that's a quote from the Long Kiss Goodnight in case you want to make any more IGN0RANT assumptions.
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  5552.  @NYCBigBull  Yes and No. Its like so much of the entire COVID thing. Its so damn complex that everyone has somethings right an somethings wrong. Its why its so damn hard to say anything that's clear cut. ESPECIALLY once the politics gets into it. I'm an engineer and I find the whole change in definition issue to be incredibly egregious because in any area of science and technology you have to be incredibly clear to everyone when you change or adjust a definition or people get confused. I really can't stress how important that is. I can't say for certain but I think it was done to deliberately confuse people outside the pathogen research establishment to make oversight difficult. I have been in research and although most researchers are decent and honest some just aren't making it no different than any other profession. Bret Weinstein has been right about some things but then also horribly wrong about other things AND with the politics shoving people like him into a box its made it impossible to have a sensible discussion. David Pakman interviewed Vincent Racaniello who's incredibly well credentialled and 90% of what he said was 100% right. But right near the end of that interview he claimed that the Chinese weren't even working on the COVID-19 virus. I knew instantly that he had LIED because I was already aware that people had found the database records that showed Peter Daszak had delivered a bat known to host the COVID-19 virus from Laos to the lab in Wuhan. Its clear to me that there's a part of the pathogen research establishment who are more interested in protecting their funding and NOT having anyone check what they are up to. That's what DW were leading people to realise. Its what people like Alina Chan and others have been warning about.
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  5553.  @NYCBigBull  Here's why I think it was a lab leak. Sorry if its long. The first 5 points aren't conclusive and are circumstantial but they are also fairly indisputable. 1) There was a lack of oversight at the Wuhan Lab 2) There were researchers aggressively pursuing their research which is more common than you think. 3) We know they were working on lots of corona viruses that naturally host in bats because Wuhan was publishing. 4) The Wuhan lab was NOT suitable for handling an airborne pathogen like COVID-19. Alina Chan (MIT $& Harvard) has explained that. 5) That lab like any other was full of people in the 20s and 30s (post grads and post-docs) who are the most likely people to get COVID-19 and be asymptomatic. In other words they could walk out the door at any time showing no symptoms. These next 5 points might also be circumstantial but they are absolutely indisputable. What we can say for certain. 6) We know the Americans were funding a lot of programs there via the NIH through a company called EcoHealth Alliance run by Peter Daszak because there are the documents to prove it. 7) We know other international agencies were involved in Wuhan because the funding bodies are listed on some of the published papers. 8) It was NEVER a weapon because nobody publishes the data on weapons research and the Chinese wouldn't be doing it with international partners either. 9) We know they were adapting viruses to make the jump from their native hosts to humans because that's in the published papers. That's the sort of research that was dropped from the gain of function research definition I mentioned previously. 10) We know that mice and ferrets are both used as intermediate species to do the jump from the natural host to humans. That's covered in the DW doco. Here's what clinched it for me. Early in the pandemic the Danish mink industry put down millions of minks when COVID ran rampant through the mink farms. Go and google "Denmark ferrets COVID" If they were doing what's called passage research to modify a virus and used ferrets as the intermediary species then it makes sense that members of the ferret family would be highly susceptible to COVID and minks are in the ferret family. No where in the world was any other domestic animal - cats, dogs, pigs, sheep, goats, cows,.... terminated at any level due to COVID. The only animal culls for COVID were Danish Minks. What's the conclusion. The version of COVID that first arrived in Europe was ALREADY ADAPTED to ferrets. AND Why would a bat virus be adapted to an animal on the other side of the world unless it had already had contact with members of that animal family? Its all been there in plain sight for all the world to see for 3 years. I'm an engineer not a microbiologist and I can see that. Why can't anyone else including Bret Weinstein?
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  5554. If you want IGN0RANCE look no further than any and every economist on the planet. Look what the godfather of modern economics Milton Friedman says. "There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud" - Milton Friedman Does the great Milton Freidman say that CEOs, CFOs and other managers have to care about the effects of their decisions on other companies or society in general? Do these clowns think Elon Musk gave a damn about the future of America when he backed Donald Trump or was he looking after the juicy contracts SpaceX gets via NASA? Do these clowns think any of the Think Tanks funded by billionaires write reports and produce videos and do lectures doing anything other than promote what those billionaires funding them want? Does John Stossel (like all media these days) push any story other than those that help get attention and clicks and subscriptions and therefore EVERYTHING he does is in his own self interest?
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  5555. When I saw the title of this video I was wondering if it explained why Ben's voice never broke!
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  5556. To be clear they trash 2 things. -> Anything they don't like and everything that's not in their interests.
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  5557.  @LantanaLiz  Buddy I am only repeating what a US Navy officer explained to me in respect of the USS Stark incident in 1987.
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  5558. @ Yeah ok
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  5559. The problem is the media are driven by Meme's on almost every subject. Over on CNN, MSNBC......etc the meme is "Trump BAD" while over on FOX, OAN,..... etc the meme is "Trump GOOD". I'm an aerospace engineer and I see it in the way the media reports on things like Climate Change, AI, Space travel. The media DO NOT CARE about facts or providing information sensibly. They all have then same business model called "Pump the Meme" and they will pump whatever the meme is until they can get a new meme to pump.
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  5560. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I wished our government here would have a similar attitude. We also got stuck in that Reaganomic/Thatcherism neoliberal globalist B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T. It has been devastating to our industries. There's a string of economic leaders from BOTH SIDES of our politics and they are HATED FOR IT.
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  5561.  @TheAngelOfDeath01  Ouch! I'm an Australian so I see Brexit from the outside looking in. Initially it looks stupid and to some extent still looks epically stupid. Although there are some starting to wonder if its not bad as Europe has some very serious issues. The most stupid and ridiculous aspect of Brexit and its a lesson for everyone. If you get what you wish for you better have plans on what to do with it. The most obvious person who has NEVER BEEN held to account over the whole Brexit fiasco is NIGEL FARAGE. How crap of a person is he to set Brexit in motion and once he gets what he campaigned for just walks away to leave others to clean it up? Currently he trapes around the world asking people TO PAY to hear him speak. I think the subtitle to his life is "Here's how I screwed my country over. Now please pay me money to tell you how fantastic I am!"
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  5562.  @TheAngelOfDeath01  Its not just the Torries its pretty much the entire Western Democratic political system. Its just that the Torries are doing it a bit worse than others right now. Even the Left wing parties aren't that left anymore. If you think about British Labor, Australian Labor and any of the other Leftist parties they are mainly full of lawyers, and other professionals who just lean left on social issues. Sorry this is a long reply/comment. You are dead right it goes back to Reagan & Thatcher, but its worse than you think. I'm actually an Australian engineer but I went to college in America where they don't have a Left at all. They just have one of their right wing parties not as far right as the other. A few years ago I started looking into economics because I got fed up with clowns with economics degrees interfering in engineering projects. When I mean interfering I mean billion dollar interference too, not just million dollar simple stuff. One of the things I found out is that ALL ECONOMICS CURRICULIUMS have at their core the same neoliberal economic ideology. In case you didn't know - what started as Reaganomics and Thatcherism is now called neoliberalism. Its all centred around Milton Freidman's "Greed is good" and "Corporations have no other responsibility than to deliver profits to their owners & shareholders."_ That's driven this incredible 45+ year wage stagnation that's highlighted by Branco Milanovic's famous "Elephant Graph." BECAUSE even the left leaning parties are full of people who did the same economics classes with the same ideology AND all the central banks are run by people who also learnt the same economics, we now have this insanity where there is almost NOTHING NEW in economic thinking. They all know there's something wroing but they can't conceive of any solutions other than interest rates and deregulation. If you don't know who Mark Blyth is then you need to start there. He's one of a lose collection of maverick economist or people associated with economics who's trying to bring this to light. He's coined the term "Angrynomics." What he's saying in a nutshell is we should have had a system UPGRADE after 2008. Instead what we got was a reboot and patch. The result of that are system glitches like Brexit and the current energy crisis which I can tell you as an engineer who has learnt about economics is about to crash the entire global economy and it has NOTHING to do with climate change or the war in Ukraine. But that's another very long comment Here's Marks intro to Angrynomics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY Here's to longer explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE
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  5563.  @warfarenotwarfair5655  The snarky anti-American attitude isn't towards you or the American people its aimed at the American government and in particular unelected American bureaucrats who do stuff around the world. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship. So I love America and the people and the culture. BUT when it comes to understanding the rest of the world Americans are very poorly educated. Do you ever bother to ask what it is that people don't like about America? Australia has exactly the same problem with respect to the Pacific Island nations. We treat them the same way America treats Mexico and the rest of central and south America - LIKE CRAP. We interfere in their governments and use their people as cheap labor AND THEY DON'T LIKE IT. We spend lots of money in those countries. It never seems to do anything other than fuel corruption which annoys Australians, so we complain about it and tell them not to be snarky as they're wasting our money. This snarky attitude isn't about you or any other American in general. Its about the attitude of your government, which just like mine is run by unelected manipulative self righteous a-holes. Did you or any American ever vote for people like Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Miller or John Bolton? How about John Yoo? He was the Lawyer who told Bush and Cheney they could torture people so long as they called it "enhanced interrogation techniques." He was the guy who approved all the stuff at places like Abu Ghraib. You know the stuff other Americans went to jail for. Did you or any American ever vote for him? Do you ever hold any of those people accountable? Its not about you.
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  5564. Go look at Jim Comey's interviews where he describes how Trump operates like a Mafia Don. Everything is about giving the Don what he wants right now without question irrespective of reality. edit - there's a great point just after 10:00 when he says that these people operate in ways where they cheat at everything and therefore think that anybody else who wins must have cheated, because you can only beat a cheater by out cheating them.
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  5565. TALKING ABOUT JAMMING THINGS DOWN PEOPLE'S THROATS What was it that Ron De Sanctimonious did during his time as a Navy JAG at Guantanamo Bay???????? Was it possibly overseeing the forced feeding of prisoners against their will. I guess forcing stuff into people is Ok when you waving your Harvard Law degree in one hand?????
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  5566.  @1djbecker  Is this the new emoji sign for Peter Doocy 🤜🥵
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  5567. Actually some of them like Disney because it reinforces their fantasies. Some of them like the NFL because its shows that black people are only good for certain roles in society. The do hate those NFL players, like Colin Kaepernick, who buck that fantasy. Some of them like targets especially when those targets are in the shape of a deer. Some of them like certain parks especially the ones they can shoot stuff.
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  5568.  @taniagordon2589  I'm an engineer and back in college I did a sociology class as an option on "technology in society" and one of our case studies was the M16 the military version of the AR15 and yes there are some differences. The bullet dynamics of the AR15 were specifically designed for maximum damage to a human body. Its not just the shape and size of the bullet but how it spins and tumbles. Don't be shocked it was designed for war and the task in war is to kill the enemy. Its the result of several thousand years of warfare experience and strategy. The idea that AR15s (and similar) belong anywhere but a battlefield is utter nonsense.
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  5569. ​ @KingOfFvckingEverything  INDESPUTABLE FACT: In 18 Months and you clowns have not provided a single piece of actual evidence proving there was fraud. INDESPUTABLE FACT: 65 court cases and 64 were thrown out for lack of evidence. The 65th case was a procedural matter in Pennsylvania that had nothing to do with votes. INDESPUTABLE FACT: Cyber Ninja's had everything they wanted in Arizona and found nothing. INDESPUTABLE FACT: Trump Lost. Even Ivanka told him he lost All the Judges have told him he lost. We could go on and on and on and on, but YOU PEOPLE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN FACTS.
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  5570. Its not often. Its maybe sometimes but never often.
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  5571.  @lobola956  Other than the fact you are a complete nutter who's just trying to upset people by throwing a M0R0NIC question into a thread like this there is an answer to your question. On periods - of course not except for complete clowns like yourself. On breast feeding - Well actually years ago doctors did prove that men can produce breast milk as we do have a small amount of breast tissue. We just don't have enough to actually supply a child with what they need.
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  5572.  @GruntoSkunko  Were you born this stupid or did you take classes because that's the MOST IGN0RANT reply I have just about ever seen on any technical subject. If you have to live inside a pressurized habitat then ITS NOT A HABITABLE PLANET.
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  5573.  @Hauke-ph5ui  that's a well balanced well nuanced comment
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  5574.  @jt1929  Dude no one will disagree in the slightest as to what they were doing. But under US Law its not treason. In a lot of other countries it is, and in those countries these people would already be in mega deep shit. Saying these clowns had pipe bombs might be true BUT YOU MUST include a link or point it out in the vid. If you don't then your being like they are. Trump relies on not being fact checked by his supporters. They scream about evidence but then can't prove anything. They hate facts, so if you have a link that shows these mutts had pipe bombs then share it - so that all of us can ram it down their throats.
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  5575.  @gunsandkithes6900  I'm just watching Jimmy Dore right now and he's questioning the actions of the DC police. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suo7bZiDZU8
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  5576.  @Ms.Delphine1204  No you go back to school and actually pay attention in Civics next time, that way you wont get called ignorant and uneducated. In Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. -> https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-3/section-3/ Van Jones should know this and the fact he has it so wrong is idiotic and stupid on his part. You'd think a graduate of Yale Law would know better than to spout garbage.
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  5577. Sorry but this is some of the most ignorant shit I have ever heard and I mean ignorant in that he ignores basic reality. He's IGNORING that he's describing and criticising EVERY socio-political ideology when they go too far. If you took this speech and replaced the words woke and wokeism with conservative & conservatism or left & leftism or right & rightism or ANY OTHER socio-political ideology its exactly the same speech. This is 9 minutes and 12 seconds of political clichéd BULLSHlT that could easily describe every political movement in history. For a couple of people who think this kid has a bright future look at the recently elected American George Santos who has lied about everything in his life. He won the election doing EXACTLY what Tommy Nguyen has done here take the standard tribal political line and tell it to a willing audience. What the real debate should be "This House Believes Political Tribalism Has Gone Too Far"
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  5578.  @Teasehirt  Interesting you put CRT in with Cancel Culture, Virtue Signalling and Gender Ideology because CRT is nothing like the other 3, BUT the public discussion of CRT is exactly like the other 3. CRT is actually a great example of a subject being hijacked by bad faith political actors. The entire public hysteria about CRT was NOT a manifestation of woke culture it was created by a right wing sociopath in America to stoke the culture war and influence the midterm elections. It looks like a woke issue but isn't. Its certainly a social issue about disparity, but the public hysteria wasn't created by them. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) so I'm interested in what's goes on in America. The public CRT explosion is an insane shitfest manufactured by a person named Chris Ruffo. FACTUALLY: CRT is not and never has been taught as a subject in any American high school. Its not even an undergraduate class and any university. It gets mentioned in some classes and that's all. It was only an area of post graduate study trying to ask a very legitimate question: WHY are African Americans, despite all the changes and programs, still at the bottom of the socio-economic scale? Part of that was considering: Are there some racial issues ingrained in "the system" that are not being addressed. We should be asking similar questions here in Australia about our indigenous peoples. Despite all the programs, why aren't they doing better? Its a legitimate question. What Chris Ruffo did was take CRT and flip it into a shitfest of hysterical nonsense. He was confronted about his lies. He made no secret he didn't care about facts. He wanted to win at the midterms and didn't care what it took. So long as the right won nothing else mattered. So CRT might look like a woke subject and its certainly a subject about inequality and disparity, but the public hysteria is a right wing construct done by narcissistic sociopath.
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  5579.  @readmycomment3707  There's actually a nuanced line there. There are times when people do need a helping hand to get up and go. There's no point arguing that because at some point everyone needs a helping hand. BUT and I think this is your point. If you keep handing out to any particular group they become lazy. You see it among the children of wealth. They don't have to work to gain what their parents or grandparents had to work for and they get lazy. Also some people define their lives by their cause. To win that fight or struggle also means losing the soapbox they stand on. For most people that's great they get on with their life BUT for others its a disaster because they just lost their soapbox. For those people the struggle meant nothing while preaching to others and leading a cause was everything. I see it among the Greenies all the time. they will sabotage their cause instead of winning so they can keep on protesting. It sounds ridiculous, but just watch them for a while.
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  5580. @Daniel Jr Spying for a foreign government is one of the fundamental crimes that are called treason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason As I have said several times I am not a lawyer and I doubt many of the people making idiotic claims are either. Its also defined differently in different countries. It doesn't surprise me that the US Constitution has a specific and narrow definition. Many things in the US Con. were there in response to how the British behaved. Pretty much the entire Bill of Rights was there because of how the British behaved. the thing I'd like to hear a real lawyer clarify is the sedition laws. I know they differ for US military personnel (both serving and retired) which is why I think Flynn might be in a lot of trouble. On Lincoln the simple question to ask is 'What were the circumstances when he imposed martial law." Don't forget Reagan & others called out the National Guard onto University campuses to handle protests. It might not have been martial law in name but it was in practice. But this stuff they are ranting out now is genuine madness.
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  5581.  @TheNinthGeneration1  That's sort of only and kind of an option in America and that's only because in America people in office take an oath to uphold & defend the constitution. Glenn Kirshner, Legal Eagle and others have pointed that out recently and pointed out that its a rare thing in the world. Most oaths around the world are to the people of the state. The problem still comes back to one thing (no matter how much we hate it) Donald J Trump is for the next few weeks STILL the legally empowered POTUS. And lets face it he's a sneaky bugger who has spent decades sneaking past the rules or taking advantage of the rules - look how he became POTUS in the first place. He worked the system and caught the Democrats asleep. He almost caught them out a 2nd time - HIS VOTE WENT UP. He found a way past the nepotism laws and Jared & Ivanka have made millions from it. By some reports they were making more per hour than Hunter Biden made each month. I saw one report that in just recent year they made $135 million. Based on 258 working days a year that's over $520K a DAY which is 10x better than Hunters $50k a MONTH. I heard the other day he'd raised over $150million SINCE the election and have heard since that its now over $200million. The Trumps are the Olympic Gold medalists for grifting. They are as slippery as eels and we should expect they have an exit plan.
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  5582.  @edwardjames6023  Well for starters there was about 80 million people the other week told him to pack up and get out.
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  5583. Yeah - funny about that.
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  5584.  @jasonwalker3599  On Ukraine: Go look at Ward Carroll's channel here on YT he just interviewed a British Analyst Justin Bronk. You can watch the whole thing or just the short excerpt that goes for less than 3 minutes. Its fairly cold but accurate arithmetic, but also very hard to argue against.
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  5585.  @jasonwalker3599  On the Fentanyl crisis. I was in Canada late 2017 when it was out of control and killing dozens every day. So I got to see the crisis far different than had I been back in Australia. We do have it here but, nothing like it was in Canada in 2017. I got to see daily news stores on it for a couple of months and the problem is the potency of the raw stuff. Most if was coming in through Vancouver on vessels out of China and was 100% raw. Just getting it on you skin could kill you in minutes. It really was that bad. So its needs to be cut with something and that means mixing white powder with white powder so its incredibly hard to see if its being mixed evenly. The Canadians were faced with packets on the street that might be of any strength from the same batch. They could be harmless with nothing in them or so toxic they kill in minutes. I have no idea why the rest of the world didn't come down hard on China over Fentanyl and I doubt none of us ever will. Its like why hasn't anyone of the Sackler family been charged with anything over the oxycodone epidemic? They knew exactly what they were selling and so far that entire family has gotten away with it. Trump getting away with Jan 6th is nothing. Only 5 died. The Sackler's killed 1000s and 1000s of Americans. Way more than Osama BL did and yet nobody sent a Seal team will kill on site orders after any of them. Explain that if you like.
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  5586.  @patriciawilkes5079  Sorry this is longish. Its a great point you raise but its also not a simple answer. In respect of Fentanyl absolutely we should have come down hard on China. Its a straight forward thing for them to fix and it doesn't cost them squat politically. However in terms of war crimes, imperialism and other crap you can't compare those to illicit drugs, because they are just so different politically. That's not to say its not worth discussing but its a very different discussion AND I will agree with you its a discussion that needs to be had. 1) There are so many countries either tacitly or actively involved with America in those issues that its way more complex than something like Fentanyl. 2) Both China and Russia do the same or worse and have been doing the same or worse for decades. Other than what Russia is doing right now in Ukraine the Chinese just claimed a vast slab of the biggest shipping channel in the world. Go look where the Spratly Islands actually are. They're not even close to the Chinese mainland compared to Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Then there is Uyghur genocide that's going on and that's been quietly put aside for the moment. So I would agree that to come down on China over Fentanyl and then NOT address the issues of American, Russian and Chinese imperialism is WRONG. But one of those problems can be dealt with quickly while the other is incredibly complex. Don't forget that neither America nor Russia nor China nor a bunch of others are current signatories to the ICC. So how do you arrest and try anyone form those countries? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court I actually hate when Americans start howling about holding people from other countries accountable for War Crimes. America withdrew its support for the court system it helped set up after WW2 and it used to try, convict and execute Nazis. Its a subject that can't even be officially discussed or the GOP start screaming and 100 million Americans start waving guns and flags and threatening to nuke everything in sight. The Russian's and Chinese do similar. If you can tell me how we drag George Bush and others off to the Hague over Iraq then fine, but don't say something stupid like "Just arrest them!" John Bolton one of the worst criminals of that whole disaster currently travels the world on a diplomatic passport. He was here in Australia recently and I couldn't believe nobody challenged him. But then he has blanket immunity and travels with a team trigger happy US Secret Service agents. So its not easy.
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  5587.  @StacyWorth  SHIT4BRAINS lets get it right. Hillsdale WAS (past tense) a fine college. Now its an indoctrination centre pumping out mindless meme pumping drones. And lets put it correctly. The American Far Right Believes in THEIR freedom it does not believe in the freedom of other people except in the context of "You are free to choose what we tell you to choose." Don't talk about freedom when your people just stripped millions of American women of their freedom and with it everyone's freedom to keep their medical records private. Yes DlCKHEAD I know exactly what the American people just lost. Roe V Wade was first decided on the basic right of privacy between a patient and their doctor. Thanks to you and your people the US Government, any State Government or any federal or state agency of those governments can now access your medical records. Yes Stacy if any part of the US government wanted to check the records of Stacy Worth Huntsman to see what her mental health is or has been or if she ever had an abortion then YOU Stacy Worth Huntsman can't stop them because your people took that protection away from you. Who's the ignorant one?
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  5588.  @StacyWorth  Unfortunately this is where self righteous hypocritical psychopaths like you are dead wrong. And before you start the self righteous Christianity barrage DON'T. Jesus told his people to preach the Good News to the world. HE DID NOT GIVE ANYONE THE RIGHT TO FORCE THEMSELVES ON ANYONE. That's before we get to the insane hypocrisy of people like you who demand people give birth and at the same time demand those children are not given an education or health care before you send them of to kill or be killed in the WARS you people start.
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  5589.  @StacyWorth  YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I DO AND DON'T BELIEVE and yes I am screaming that back at your foul and disgusting arrogance. Go read Matthew 7 and this time put aside your arrogance and actually listen to what Jesus said about people with YOUR ATTITUDE.
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  5590. If I have rage its because of ARROGANT SELFRIGHTEOUS PIECES OF DISGUSTING GARBAGE LIKE YOU
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  5591.  @StacyWorth  And by the way when you do bother to look at Matthew 7 pay particular attention to verses 15 through 23 because its all about YOU and people like YOU.
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  5592.  @StacyWorth  And when you get tired of denying that Jesus is speaking about YOU and people like YOU in Matthew 7 you can look up all the times he spoke to the Pharisees BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE.
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  5593.  @StacyWorth  YOU ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN YOU ARE A PHARISEE Its the self-righteous arrogance and the way you attack people that gives you away.
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  5594.  @StacyWorth  I NEVER SAID IT WAS You claim murder is wrong but you will happily send those children to war. You will happily execute some of them whether they are innocent or not. This is the problem with self righteous people YOU NEVER LISTEN. You people wont even listen to Jesus. He never forced his teachings on others. He used reason and common sense. He actually cared about people and their welfare. You need to start reading your bible instead of bashing people with it.
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  5595.  @StacyWorth  Ans lets be crystal clear I NEVER SAID I SUPPORTED ABORTION OR KILLING BABIES That's your assumption.
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  5596.  @StacyWorth  YOU REALLY HAVE LOST IT HAVEN'T YOU. Look at what you just wrote. You're now accusing me of WHAT YOU DO. JUST GO AWAY and take your pills.
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  5597. If you do bother to pick up a Bible anytime soon, the try Matthew 7:21-23 That's Jesus and he's talking about PEOPLE LIKE YOU.
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  5598.  @StacyWorth  I suspect from your delusional memes that you are actually software bot. ITS THAT OR YOU ARE PSYCHOTIC. You are certainly NOT a Christian. I do not consider evangelical fanatics like you who think they have the delusional right to FORCE themselves on others to be Christian.
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  5599.  @StacyWorth  Jesus was never smug, snide, rude or forced himself on others. Your entire rant is over the fact you can't handle having your precious cesspool of radical indoctrination called out for being the dump that it is.
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  5600.  @StacyWorth  And for the record I am not backing out of any of my ORIGINAL STANCE. HIllsdale is a SHlT school that teaches radical fundamentalism. Forcing your beliefs on anyone is WRONG. The World would be a much better place without disgusting sanctimonious hypocrites LIKE YOU.
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  5601.  @StacyWorth  If you don't take advice from strangers then WHY ARE YOU HANDING IT OUT.
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  5602.  @StacyWorth  You're not discussing IMPORTANT IDEAS YOU are being an rude disgusting self righteous FANATIC. You rant about radicalised leftists - well what about you and your precious Hillsdale? Its your blind hypocrisy that generates hatred. If you think me such a bad person then F⋃CK OFF and STOP HARASSING ME.
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  5603.  @StacyWorth  If people get angry at your behavior smart people STOP and think WHY IS THAT PERSON ANGRY AT ME? But then you are too self righteous to be self reflective.
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  5604.  @StacyWorth  People HATE self righteousness and you have one of the WORST cases I have ever seen.
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  5605.  @StacyWorth  AND SO WE ARE CRYSTAL CLEAR Nobody has ever really rejected the Bible or Jesus, but MILLIONS of people have rejected people LIKE YOU. Now go see your doctor and get that tumour removed.
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  5606. Hey Asman Trump let over 350,000 Americans die form a virus he called a hoax, millions of Americans lost their jobs, while billionaires made even more money and yet somehow 74,223,744 voted for him. That seems implausible. Has anybody stopped to check if they were all real fair legitimate votes after all Trump told them to vote twice????????
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  5607.  @johnzuma4688  And since those comments were made by Netanyahu has Sam Harris said ANYTHING? Sam made big deal on his own podcast that's here on YouTube about there being NO ABIGUITY that Hamas is an evil organisation just after October 7th. What has he said SO FAR about 1,000s of civilian deaths, the now more than 11,000 children killed by the IDF or any of the other WAR CRIMES committed by the IDF? Because I'd like to hear Sam defend those actions with his own DEFINITION of what IS and IS NOT ambiguous.
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  5608.  @jasonfuller499  You also missed all the stories from around the world where geothermal energy FAILED. YES in the right places it works and works well but most of the time IT FAILS.
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  5609.  @nobilismaximus  Really and WHAT drilling experience do you actually have. I'll admit I have NONE but I am willing to listen to people who have got experience. I can tell you one thing for certain. Its NOT Bruce Willis on an asteroid.
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  5610. NEWS FLASH: Water flows downhill or it gets pumped or syphoned up hill. It doesn't magically flow to a specific room. My family had a swimming pool so I have been around domestic pools. Maybe not as large as one for Trumps fat butt but they don't typically have set-ups that allow flooding ANYWHERE. The most common time you are discharging from a pool is when you backwash the filters to clean them. That backwash goes to the nearest convenient drain NOT TO A ROOM FULL OF ELECTRONICS.
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  5611. As an Australian who went to college in America the disturbing part of this is how dysfunctional BOTH the Dems and GOP have become. YES just like America our political parties malfunction, just like they do in Japan, Canada, Mexico, Britain,... and everywhere else. The difference is, when the rest of us malfunction its kind of "so what?" Look at Britain's malfunction over Brexit. Its barely affected Europe or anywhere else. BUT America is 1/4 of the worlds economy so when America malfunctions it affects the whole world, because no mater if we like it or not our economies are interlinked. America malfunctioning is even bad for places like Russia and North Korea, because sooner or later it will affect their economy and sometimes very badly. Love it, hate it or something in between the world needs America to function properly.
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  5612. And so you all know its not just America's politics that needs addressing its American companies operating outside America and especially American consulting companies. If you are unaware of this issue go and watch Mariana Mazzucato give any of her talks on the subject. She's just co-authored a book with one of her PhD students Rosie Collington on the subject. Its about companies like McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY and what they are doing all over the World. FOR INSTANCE - RIGHT NOW there's a major inquiry into PwC here in Australia over a conflict of interest scandal. PwC was advising the Australian Government on new tax laws to prevent multi-national companies avoid tax. Why PwC was hired in the first place begs questions, but it was all supposed to be confidential AND IT WASN'T. PwC were caught spruiking to their corporate clients that they knew how to get around the new tax laws that they were advising on. There are not only calls for PwC to be immediately banned from government work but for criminal charges not just to PwC but also to their clients who engaged them on the new tax laws. In legal terms its called conspiracy.
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  5613. Is it just me or can you see one or both of these clowns ending up in a VERY UGLY event??? As in they step out their front door and something VERY UGLY happens. Is is just me or can others see it happening??
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  5614. Serious Kyle you changed majors from one arts degree to another because of a maths class in statistics. I did aerospace engineering and we had 2 additional classes on top of what all the other engineers had so we could do basic aerodynamics. It only got harder after that with classes in propulsion, spacecraft dynamics and other fun stuff. How do you manage to drive a car with all those numbers on the dash mean?
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  5615. Since David brought up Arthur C Clarke everyone should know that among Clarkes book is one called "Profiles of the Future." It had several versions/updates. I read the 2nd or 3rd version back in the 80s as an undergrad doing aerospace engineering. For non-STEM people its probably a difficult read. Its not a novel and its heavy on technical analysis. The book is all about the possibilities and practicalities of technologies imagined in science fiction novels including technologies from his own books, like space elevators. It was really great to read as an undergraduate because it was a series of case studies in how to analyse the practicality of an idea and not just technically but also social impact. Its the sort of book I'd like to bash into the thick skulls of the Silicon Valley "Disruption is good" mindset.
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  5616.  @insightfulhistorian1861  Great summation of how both of America's parties operate. If you ever want to go into the GOPs fear mongering. Rick Wilson (no relation thankfully) talked about it to the Commonwealth Club of California 29 Jan 2020 (I checked). Listen to the part where he talks about why Bernie Sanders was the perfect candidate for Donald Trump. Bernie allows the GOP to scare the crap out of conservative America and NONE of the Bernie Bros ever understood it. The horrible thing is that the circumstances you describe equally apply in Australia (my country) as well as Britain (form where we get most of there news). You'll love this ditty. After the 2020 British Election I asked Brit why they did what they did. Jeremy Corbyn (British Labor) lost from a seemingly winning position using a campaign strategy eerily similar to Australia Labor's strategy earlier that year and eerily similar to Hilary Clinton's losing 2016 strategy. They had an endless stream of policies for everything and simply believed people would turn up and vote for them instead of voting for "that simplistic stuff like MAGA" So I asked this Brit WHY did British Labor use the same strategy that lost in Australia and lost in America? The answer they gave still stuns me. British Labor had done the same thing Australian Labor had done and employed campaign strategy people from the LOSING Hilary 2016 campaign. YEAH BUDDY - according to the Brit who told me this the same people lost 3 major elections in 3 different countries using the same strategies. Prof Mark Blyth (Brown) in a talk on Global Trumpism at McMaster U. (in Canada) in 2019 was asked (1:19:57) about Elizabeth Warren. Go and listen to what he said about policies for everything. Its here on YouTube and easy to find. In case your wondering how I know the exact time stamp. Its because I have a saved link to that very moment BECAUSE ITS THAT GOOD. That lecture by Mark is something every body with even the slightest interest in current global politics should watch. Even 5 years later its still relevant.
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  5617. I DON'T CARE WTF THIS CLOWN HAS TO SAY THE CLICKBAIT TITLE IS AS STUPID AS IT GETS
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  5618. Sooner or later these people like, Chanel Rion, need to be confronted with reality and have it shoved down their throats. Just simply walk up to them in the street camera in hand and confront them with reality. There's the old saying that "Evil happens when good people do nothing." This has now gone past normal sensible and tolerable behavior. Fine if you want to disagree about what certain facts mean but the complete denial of reality is not simply dangerous IT'S EVIL
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  5619.  terezavaldiviagonzalaz  FCKOFF with the BULLSHlT advertising for stuff that has NOTHING to do with the thread.
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  5620.  @SteelBalor  On your analysis here. I pretty much agree on all that you've said with one exception. I think you are being lenient on Obama. I accept he did manage to do some great things, most notably getting elected, but even more importantly NOT having any major scandal. My brother pointed that out to me one day. He's spent time in America too and pointed out that it must have driven the GOP bonkers NOT to have something to go after Obama. Carter had his brother Billy, Clinton had Monica and Joe has Hunter. What did Obama do that was scandalous? BUT Obama never wound back Reaganomics or globalization despite the obvious signs they were damaging America. By his own admission, his economic policies were just like Reagans and I consider Reagan the WORST of all of America's presidents in my lifetime. Not because he was a criminal (like others) but because he set America on the destructive path that lead to Trump. Reaganomics as we now know were based around an agglomeration of Freidman "Greed is Good" idiocy and Libertarian de-regulate everything stupidity. You add that together and you get things like the Boeing Max-8 while the top 1% make $55 Trillion as the middle class goes nowhere and the bottom 50% go backwards. I was doing me degree in aerospace when Reagan was doing "Star Wars." We all knew it was stupid but the money was too good. A grad student in one of my classes - his work was the deciding factor in a $2Billion contract and that's 1987 dollars. Where Obama is coming unstuck is his desire to remain relevant. He's sadly put "his legacy" (as he put it during Hilary's disastrous 2016 campaign) to be more important than the American people. He was clearly better than the stupidity of the Bush era and better behaved that Clinton or Trump but he never RESET America after the 2008 GFC. Yes I've taken note of Mark Blyth's computer analogy, but I am an engineer. On Biden - he's definitely less destructive than the wrecking ball Trump was, but then he's not strong enough to be the solution America needs. A stronger person would have simply smacked Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin into place and made sure Trump was impeached for Jan 6th. Jan 6th truly astounds me. How TF did America get to that and how did people like Mitch McConnell excuse it and pay no price? I know that if I had told any of my friends in the 80s that Jan 6th would happen in our lifetime they would have put me in a straight jacket and tossed me in the nearest asylum.
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  5621.  @FreeDumbDaily  Go and check Mark Blyth (Brown U.) on the concept of Austerity.
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  5622.  @russcarvertruthjedi259  I wouldn't call anything the Russians or any other of the Soviet satellite states that claimed to be communist or socialist state "liberal" My point (and its been my point for decades) is that ANYONE who takes any ideology to some extreme position is a serious threat to society. Kill of anyone who can argue the law and anyone who can teach anything other than doctrine. Why do you think the radical half of the GOP are relentless in their attacks on education? Look at the CRT dog whistle effort. Its nothing more than a way to attack education. No society can survive when you have people doing that sort of thing. When ideology takes over from logic and common sense ANY society is in trouble. Jordan Peterson (before his drug fallout) when he was pretty good at discussing psychology pointed out regularly that its pretty easy to identify when people on the right who have become radicalised - they become racist and quite often nationalistic or tribal. He said its far less clear for people who are radicalised on the left because their radicalisation takes different forms. BUT I would contend its easier than he suggested if you just consider how they place ideology over logic. Its the same thing Left or Right people who are radicalised have just dropped all sense of logic (or common sense) and allow their ideology to EXCUSE horrendous acts. here's 2 of the most notable examples. Pol Pot (leftist) murdered millions Hitler (right) murdered millions And both used their ideology as the excuse.
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  5623. EVERYONE: having not heard the term "sonnenrad" I just fact checked with Google and got the Wikipedia page for "Black Sun (symbol)" Have a look at what the symbol is and where it came from its not just a Nazi thing but also got some links that a "Christian" fundamentalist like Ron De Sanctimonious might want to run from.
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  5624. Sorry about the other reply this is actually your comment I meant to reply too. I agree with this comment and there's more to that story. Other than admitting what he said at the UN was wrong, Powell actually tried to stop the invasion of Iraq, which is not as widely known as it should be. Its all covered in the 2004 PBS Frontline episode "Rumsfled's War." I saw it here in Australia circa 2005/06 and it blew the lid of who the people who'd caused that mess. A lot of finger pointing was at Powell because of his UN speech but that's only 1 part of it. Powell tried his hardest to get Bush to back away. He even had a private dinner with Bush and bluntly told Bush that Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bolton and others were NOT military men and weren't experts in military matters while he and others were. That's why a lot of the political people ended up hanging Powell out to take the blame. The one military guy who is NOT mentioned enough is a Colonel named Douglas Macgregor who had made a name for himself as a tank commander in the first Gulf War at the Battle of 73 Easting. People like Powell and Eric Shinseki said invading Iraq would take several hundred thousand TO SECURE THE COUNTRY. Macgregor told Rumsfled, Wolfowitz and others that was nonsense and it would only take around 80,00 because the Iraqi was weak and disorganised from the sanctions. In that Frontline episode he's actually interviewed and says that. Powell, Shinseki and others tried to tell Bush and Congress that wasn't the point. The point was SECURING the country AFTERWARDS, which we know was a disaster. The Iraqi militias raided the military supply depots because there just wasn't anyone there to stop them. I hate the fact that despite making some mistakes that its ignored that Powell tried to stop the invasion. These days I find it despicable that Macgregor has NEVER been held accountable and these days he's trotted out as an expert by various think tanks and parts of the media.
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  5625. AUSTRALIAN here - Do you Americans think that everyone of America's allies isn't going to take this seriously? I was actually in Canada for work when Trump just tore up NAFTA and slapped them with tariffs. Trump proved in that moment he doesn't care about being President unless he can treat America's allies the same way he's treated people his whole life - LIKE SHlT. I can tell all of you straight up that NONE of US has a problem with the vast majority of the American People. I actually went to college in America on a sports scholarship. I love America, its people and its culture. I'm not too happy toady because I'm a Niners fan, but I tell people all the time and explain why I think the US Constitution is one of humanities finest achievements. BUT America has let its politics become this toxic cesspool of insanity. The Bill of Rights is brilliant except for one thing - it DOES NOT put any onus on the American people respecting the freedoms and protections listed. There's no claim or urging of being respectful of those rights. As such it allows people like Trump to trample all over those rights. When Merrick Garland was appointed it was seen around the world that he would bring some common sense back into the DOJ and that he would deal with Trump and those around him. Instead we have seen a repeat of what's happened in the past. Just like after the disgrace of the Abu Ghraib and Bagram AFB prisoner abuses the foot soldiers were help accountable BUT NONE of the LEADERSHIP that caused it. Just like after the 2008 GFC when over 3,000 banking personnel were prosecuted BUT NONE of the CEO's and CFO's who caused it. For a change America needs to hold its leaders accountable and deal with them. FYI - YES we also need to start holding our political leaders accountable and deal with them when they do the wrong thing. This seems to be the real plague of the 21st Century - NOT holding those in power accountable. Oh Yeah - to the Packers and Cowboys fans. Yeah I now know how you feel about the Niners.
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  5626. Go and look up "Nazi concentration camp badges" on Wikipedia. It covers the system of badges that prisoners wore on their garb so the guards knew what type of prisoner each of them was. You don't need to be fluent in German to realise what the Pink Triangles (second row from the bottom on the right) were for. Almost as interesting is to realise just how many groups the Nazis threw into those camps.
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  5627.  @daphnedherbert  No need for the lecture that's why I said I'd agree with CSS that this was a good thing IF THEIR INTENT was to reach more people. But as I also said I have reservations over CSSs intent at times. I don't disagree with most of what CSS says but there've been times CSS has acted like an obsessed maniac with Elon Musk. Do I think Elon deserves harsh scrutiny? ABSOLUTELY and at times in detail, but it also requires balance. I am an aerospace engineer and I can't stand Elon Musk, but that doesn't mean that SpaceX hasn't done anything good. Without Crew Dragon there would be no Western manned Space program at all. There'd just be Russia and China, because Boeing have failed so badly with Starliner. On the flip side Starship and going to Mars is so ridiculous and the money and time is so wasteful it deserves all the scorn it gets. Balance.
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  5628.  @daphnedherbert  Ok. I'm just trying to have balance and I don't think enough of that happens these days on any form of media. I really do like CSS but at times I think he loses sight of the forest because of the tree he's focused on.
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  5629.  @RanEncounter  Ok then name the OTHER WESTERN launch system that can take people to the International Space Station. Come on SHIT-4-BRAINS name the alternative system. Because since the demise of the Space Shuttle the only way for Western Nations to get to the ISS was via Soyuz and sorry but Soyuz is NOT part of the Western Space programs.
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  5630. The stupidest part of American politics is that the DNC are so disorganised they can't beat these clowns. Going with a football analogy because its that time of the year. The DNC are like the coaching staff of the Denver Broncos. Sure they have a great QB and this week he threw for 306 yards. That's a stat that most teams win the game with. In fact in week 3 of the season out of 32 starting QBs only 6 of them threw for more yards than Russell Wilson and 1 of those Tua Tagovailoa only threw for 309 yards. Its just that Tua Tagovailoa's Miami Dophins outscored the Denver Broncos 70-20. The lesson is that polls are just like football stats they tell a story and that's all. In the end only 1 stat really matters and that's how many votes you actually get on election day. FYI - Its not just the DNC. I'm Australian and our Labor party does this stuff too. So does British Labor and many other Left or Left leaning centrist parties. For some reason Lefties get obsessed with polling data and forget that all it does is tell a story and that its VOTES that matter.
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  5631.  @stephiewino626  WTF does that even mean? Damn Bill Gates and others for making computers too easy for morons to use.
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  5632.  @stephiewino626  Better than being an ignorant moron who can't think, who can't reason and is of no use to society. 👍😉
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  5633.  @louisehogan8192  Can people like you just GET OFF the drugs you are on and stop being to idiotically stupid. I clicked your link only it took only a minute to see some of the most idiotic and moronic garbage ever produced. I don't blame anyone for mistrusting governments or the media they both deserve scorn and ridicule, but turning to stuff that is so patently stupid isn't a solution. You have a brain so start using it.
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  5634.  @louisehogan8192  Seriously, like so many you are so ignorant of the Bible its scary. Try reading and thinking and people might think you're not an idiot.
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  5635.  @louisehogan8192  When you are BEING STUPID and directing people to moronic conspiracy garbage DON'T DARE quote Jesus back at people or you will get reminded of all the times he spoke about hubris, arrogance and the people he will reject. I am not judging YOU as a person I am judging your stupid BEHAVIOR and YES there is a difference. Since you want to quote from the sermon on the mount try reading Mathew chapter 7 (all of it) most Bible thumpers never dare touch it, but I strongly recommend you take note of verses 15-23 and pay attention about "false prophets." God gave you a brain feel free to use it.
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  5636.  @louisehogan8192  Go back and read your second comment - you brought up the "Christians" thing at the same time you brought up idiotic conspiracy garbage. Don't preach to people about reading the bible when you clearly don't understand it. Jesus never said reading was good enough he said "truth would set you free" and truth requires understanding. John 8:32
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  5637.  @louisehogan8192  Are you serious MIND RENEWAL Do you not understand just how idiotic that sounds. JUST STOP - people like you have no idea who Jesus was or what he is now or what future has been promised. Its why he warned about the people who teach garbage. You shouldn't claim what you're claiming when you're the one who sent everybody a link to a pathetic conspiracy channel. Jesus warned about LIARS and channels like that one are nothing but LIES and DECEIT.
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  5638. Do you still celebrate Christmas or Easter? Do you claim the universe is 6000 years old?
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  5639.  @hautecouture2228  That's the idiotic reasoning of a clown and the sort of exaggerated garbage that's dragging society into the gutter of stupidity. If you give someone a mismatched kidney they'll die. Even people who get kidneys that are matched can still have them fail if they don't take care. Its an idiotic stance. Either show some brain function or STFU
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  5640.  @WinterSo1dier  Well it doesn't matter what you claim 74 million ticked the box beside Donald Trump's name. As long as idiots keep ignoring that fact NOTHING WILL CHANGE. YOU NEED TO WAKE UP just as much as the clowns who voted for Trump.
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  5641.  @raymondrumsey1097  yep and right now its a matter of which of the worlds super powers will collapse first or start a real war to avoid collapsing. Russia is already 1/2 way there. America is involved in Ukraine which is a great distraction from other things. China is trying to fix more leaky holes than they have fingers to stuff in them. Meanwhile Europe doesn't know if its speaking German, Italian, French or Spanish and the Brits don't know if they will still be able to launder Russian money next week to pay for the soccer players..
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  5642.  @ShombayChase  Well put - lets keep at 'em
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  5643. Why are the Dems crap at politics - BECAUSE THEY THINK ITS ABOUT POLICY and INTELLECT (as in if you didn't graduate from Harvard you're crap). Listen to Prof. Mark Blyth answering a question about Elizabeth Warren back in July 2019. It was after a lecture on Global Trumpism which is worth watching if you have time. He just doesn't answer what Warren's pros & cons but WHY. Listen to what he says about Truman. The link is time stamped to the point where he's asked about Warren. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s The question that follows after the Warren question is really interesting to watch again considering all that has happened since, including the result in West Virginia.
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  5644. Yeah that's a smarter observation than ANY of these sorts of videos. These guys PREDICTING ANYTHING RIGHT under the current circumstances is IDI0TIC at best. NO ONE can predict anything with certainty right now other its going to end badly for some people or a lot of people because that's what tends to happen when you hand control of nation states over to morally bankrupt clowns.
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  5645.  @mr.black-411  Yep clapping seals is what many podcasts and commentary is about. Remember clapping seals makes money on social media.
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  5646.  @commonsenseskeptic  As I indicated on a couple of other things Elon, Jeff and others have fans CANNOT DO BASIC MATH and they rely on those people NOT BEING ABLE TO DO BASIC MATH.
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  5647. NEWS FLASH DAVID If Biden keeps hiring Goldman Sachs, Blackrock and McKinsey people then 2022 will be an annihilation. Trump had Steve "Goldman Sachs" Mnuchin running the treasury, while Biden just hired 2 Goldman Sachs muppets as part of his transition. How the "F" is it that working for the bank that was at the middle of the GFC and was dragged in front of congress and roasted over selling garbage to investors qualifies people to run the worlds largest economy. How can this happen when McKinsey's great claim to fame was that HR and their quizzes would get "the right people in the right places or the right reasons," considering that Biden hired a McKinsey as well? https://www.politico.com/newsletters/transition-playbook/2020/12/14/goldman-sachs-vets-quietly-added-to-biden-transition-491143
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  5648. As an engineer this system WAS NEVER GOING TO WORK! Why? Short answer: We don't yet have the technology to match the human visual cortex system. Long answer (and sorry if its long). It all has to do with how algorithms work and how visions systems what (what engineers call camera systems). At best they can mimic what a human does with respect to a certain types of tasks. The better that task can be defined then the better an algorithm can be developed. I work in industrial control systems which are the computers and sensors systems that run things like production lines, mineral processing plants, water treatment plants,...etc. Occasionally we have to write special algorithms to make some process work because all the standard functions just won't work. I have written algorithms that if I were describe what they did you'd all think I work in AI and I don't. I HAVE NEVER written any software that thinks, but I have written code that MIMICS what a person could do to make a certain process work how we wanted. Here's the problem with autopilots for cars. We don't have the technology to mimic r=what a human does when they drive a car. We don't have camera systems that can operate anything like a human eye and we don't have computers that can process that sort of data in the way the human brain does at the rate that the human brain does. The bit near the end where Kyle describes the human brain as a super computer is a gross understatement when we consider what our visual cortex does every second. I have a pilots license and we've had autopilots for planes for decades and they work incredibly well BUT the autopilot in a plane simply has to fly along a straight line. A course is simply a set of straight lines and the AP just goes point to point. I have programmed industrial robots for a living and they are quite similar. We define a set of points and orientations and have the robot move from point to point and at some of those points "do things." Autopilots in planes and Industrial robots DO NOT THINK they just move from point to point in fairly simple ways - speed and direction. Driving a car is in some ways a far more complex task to define than flying a plane or programming a robot. The car itself is far easier to operate BUT the interactions with the environment ARE NOT. Airplanes don't go down streets where there are parked cars, gutters, trees, kids, dogs, cats and other cars coming the other way (except in incredibly rare cases). Irrespective of if you believe in God or Evolution the human visual cortex can take snap shots of our environment at a rate of around 50 times a second. Its broken into 2 sections - focused and peripheral. The incredible thing our visual cortex does is assess threats by clumping things together so that it has fewer things to assess. Our brain does not see several million straw colored hairs and tries to figure out what they each mean. Our brain just sees a lion and knows to avoid. When we drive a car our brain does not see 100,000 green things and tries to figure out what they mean it just sees a tree and we avoid it. This all happens very fast in our peripheral vision system at a rate of about 50 times per second. Plus once our peripheral system detects something we can move our eyes and focus on that threat and then re-assess that threat as to things like distance and speed while at the same time comparing that threat to previous experiences or knowledge we might have. This is why distracting a driver can increase the risk of serious accidents by orders of magnitude because you take that system off line and it then needs time to get back online. So here's why this was never going to work. We don't have camera's as good as human eyes and we don't have computers that can process that much data fast enough. Most of all we don't yet know how the human brain actually does what it does. So its pretty hard to write an algorithm to mimic what it does.
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  5649. HEY AMERICA - THIS IS ALREADY BEING PLAYED ACROSS THE WORLD. I'm Australian its being reported here and the BBC in Britain is also reporting it. If you think the rest of America's allies are going to put up with this crap THINK AGAIN. AND SO YOU ALL KNOW We know this A-H0LE doesn't pay his own bills anyway. We had it reported here recently that Rudy Giuliani's bankruptcy filing includes TRUMP as one of his debtors. Yeah we KNOW Rudy is broke because Trump didn't pay him.
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  5650. NEWS FLASH - Its also being reported in Europe by DW (German)
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  5651.  @2Timothy42-tl6lh  WHY DON'T YOU GO AND TELL THAT TO TRUMP - M0R0N
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  5652. Simple lack of investment because NOBODY controls the IP. There's a real issue with the free market approach to energy because it simply does NOT work and almost nobody in the economics profession will admit that they got it wrong.
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  5653.  @haruhisuzumiya6650  Not quite vapourware just not enough money to get it over the line. MSRs were clearly a better option for commercial reactors and they knew that in the 1970s after the Oakridge experimental units. The problem was there was so much investment in PWRs and they were established and sorted out. Its a lot like many other technology struggles. The best technology does not always win. One of the classics I remember was VHS versus Betamax. By every video quality metric Betamax was a better technology. VHS had 2 advantages. Its was cheaper to make the tapes and they were in the market first.
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  5654. @tvuser9529 Actually there's no vapour in a steam turbine. To work they have to keep the H2O ABOVE the temperature where there's vapour and its 100% steam (as in a gas). Its why it doesn't matter what the heat source is most thermal plants are limited to about 36% Carnot Efficiency. To get higher efficiency you have to operate at higher boiler temperatures or use a different gas which is the theory behind gas cooled Gen IV reactors. Sorry for the geek out
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  5655. @ fair enuf mate it was a fair pun but lost on non-geeks
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  5656. TAKE NOTE THESE 6 WORDS - Al Capone Tax Evasion 7 Years. They never got Capone for murder, racketeering, bootlegging, assault, extortion or anything else BUT he went to jail and died there FOR TAX EVASION. Do you think they will put this guy in the cushy little country club that they put Charles Kushner in or do you think they'll dump this mutt in gen pop? Ask Wesley Snipes about it -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Snipes#Income_tax_conviction
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  5657. Ted Cruz, Ben Shapiro, Vivek Ramaswamy all went to Harvard and all 3 of them seem to have a poor grasp of reality. Its supposed to be one of the great centers of education but those 3 make that claim seem odd!!!
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  5658. There's and entire nation called North Korea where most of the population think their murdering psychopath of a dictator is all but a god. The ancient Egyptians actually believed the pharaoh was a god. Japanese pilots deliberately got into planes and flew them into ships as an act of piety to their emperor. Despite all the evidence before them the German people democratically elected Hitler and the Nazis. There's nothing new in this. Its called mob psychology. Its highly effective with less educated societies or groups of people and even easier when you have groups whose information flow is filtered.
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  5659.  @traru4  There's part of the issue. people keep saying he's lied, but can't explain what he's actually lied about. Lots of claims for sure BUT If he has actually lied to congress he would have been charged by now. Bill Clinton got impeached over a blow job. This is 4,000,000 dead and still counting. If he's lied then WHY hasn't he been charged or at least fired? Can any of the partisan clowns answer that simple question SENSIBLY? FYI - I don't think he's told all he knows and I actually think its MORE LIKELY it escaped form a lab. Dr. Michael Osterholm discussed the CDCs problems recently and we know the Chinese aren't as good as the CDC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYNfScnnDVU&t=2610s THAT"S THE REAL PROBLEM WITH THIS HYPER-PARTISAN CRAP. People don't think they just pick a side and start screaming how the the other side is an evil empire hell bent on destruction. Someone else earlier today said if we don't stop the hyper partisan crap we are all dead. That's maybe the only sensible thing I have seen today.
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  5660. The Fauci mask thing is actually nothing substantial which is why it gets no serious commentary any more. However you are on the right path and it goes back to the Nicholas Wade article. The really major issue is what PART of the virology research industry have been up to. DW News did really great short documentary on Gain on Function research. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0nuyPQzU18 The very first thing they point out is that its NOT 1 type of research but 3. 1) Making viruses and infectious contagions more deadly to humans; and 2) Making viruses and infectious contagions more transmissible BETWEEN humans; and 3) Making viruses and infectious contagions from the natural environment more readily transmissible TO humans. What they show is that a section of the "virology" research industry have done is MODIFY that definition and dropped the 3rd type. There was a moratorium placed on Gain of Function because a lot of people became concerned these scientists were doing stuff that was just too dangerous. Like that nightmare H5N1 avian flu they whipped up in 2011. The change in definition was done to get around that moratorium and some of the researchers could keep doing as they wanted. About the Nicholas Wade article. Now being honest there are claims by many he got stuff wrong, BUT remember the name he mentioned repeatedly. If you have forgotten you'll find it here on the now famous Lancet Letter that was published in support of the Chinese researchers. As in this letter right here -> https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30418-9/fulltext#%20 How come that same name keeps coming up? Like on these 2 NIH project reports supporting COVID virus research in China!!!! https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9491676 https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9819304 Fauci and masks is a red herring and nothing worth pursuing. Its no longer relevant. The real issue is how part of the virology and infectious disease research community altered one of their own key definitions so that they could keep doing research that others said was too dangerous to continue.
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  5661.  @mr.peevyshow1914  Yeah but for the next 7 weeks Trump is still the legally elected POTUS and he's got a vindictive streak that's wider than the grand canyon. Long term Fauci is safe, but in the mean time he might become even more of a target. It seems like a lot of people have forgotten the basic reality that Trump has about 50million deluded followers who think he is the messiah and its almost guaranteed they own at least 1 gun each. Haven't you heard gun shops and gun show traders are running out of ammunition to sell.
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  5662.  @stephj9378  Your previous comment was sensible in that the "orange man bad narrative is getting tiresome." BUT THEN YOU COME BACK WITH THIS IDIOCY AND THE SAME PARROTING WE SHOULD ALL BE TIRED OF The only thing you left out was the screaming of radical left socialism. DON'T ever complain about one narrative and then come back with stupidity and parroting like that. More than anything else the endless ideological parroting has to stop FROM BOTH SIDES Biden WON Trump LOST and the Republican appointed judges have AGREED - DEAL WITH IT. If you want to demand something then demand the Biden team NOT take America backwards and stop pandering to Wall St. and start looking after the American people. That is worth demanding.
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  5663.  @jinyingye9733  Well they do get loans from the West and have done so for decades. Its just like the Chinese loans they haven't been for good projects that have actually helped these countries develop. This isn't the first time an African, Asian or South American country has been put into debt with useless projects that will never deliver. If you had any brains or any understanding of history you'd know this. If you want to criticise the West on how they have done a pathetically poor job of helping countries like Kenya develop then fine - I WILL AGREE. But it does NOT excuse what China has been doing.
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  5664.  @waynehewett4017  Before you scream too loud about the Chinese putting developing nations into debt traps you might want to ask where they learned how to do it?
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  5665.  @geobzweb  You could actually say the same to 99% of all social media content producers. If there is one are of education I'd defund its "Media Studies" but unfortunately there's so many of them now I can't see any socially acceptable way to eradicate them from our lives.
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  5666. ​ @geobzweb  I don't disagree. There's a great comment in the 2004 Documentary "Outfoxed" about how Rupert Murdoch's relentless approach to profit over everything including standards would eventually drag the entire media landscape down into the gutter. Its one of the saddest predictions to have come true in our lifetime.
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  5667. TO ALL: Prof Mark Blyth has been speaking about this stuff for years now. Here's a snippet out of one of his talks from 2013 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6748QARegxU In more recent times he's mentioned the elephant graph Branco Milanovic put together as part of his explanation of "Angrynomics" Here's an explanation of that graph. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1oHJezqBYU
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  5668.  @assassinsrequiem  Please don't make the assumption that this is all about rich white people. I am not saying white people are not racist or have done terrible things. I'm of white Anglo-Saxon heritage and that heritage is littered with murdering maniacs. that's historical fact and is undeniable. *But its not done by white people. The NBA owner that Kyle just pointed out who doesn't care about Chinese Han suppression of Chinese Uyghurs IS NOT WHITE. The brutal and oppressive Kings, Emperors and Dictators of the Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America ARE NOT WHITE. Blaming ALL of the worlds issues of poverty, cruelty, inequality, opportunity and oppression on white people IS RACIST.
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  5669.  @tamrakc7294  Well I'm not trying to criticise his humor just his basic facts. I'd be saying similar if he said something just as stupid about Muslims, Hindus or Buddhists or tree hugging atheists. Don't attach a piece of garbage like Donald Trump to anyone especially any group that would have nothing to do with him. Kyle's always on about, let everyone have their thing, have their beliefs and DON'T PROJECT your values onto others, just like he's pointing out in the Ben Shapiro vid I have just been watching. He can't play innocent, when he does stupid things.
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  5670.  @Momofukudoodoowindu  100% Agree. All of our media has slowly crept into these niches and they pander to their audience or their perceived audience. Go back to 2020 and Fox (in maybe their last ever real news item) was the first media outlet to call Arizona. The entire team responsible got sacked for it, because Trump was upset and called Murdoch. Maybe part of the false narrative Western countries have been telling themselves for decades is we have a free media. Remember Clark Kent was the "mild mannered" true and faithful and honest journalist. It was nice PR.
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  5671. Can we even be simpler and just go with Another BULLSHlT video about nothing! If clowns like Tim Pool, Dave Rubin did not exist then what would be Sam Seder's business model?
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  5672. The problem with too many politicians (and NOT just in America) is that they are opportunist. One day they will do something positive because the opportunity suits them and the next day they will be despicable because the opportunity suits them. For a completely cynical rat bag like Matt Gaetz this is an opportunity to say "See I can be reasonable and work with others" and he'll milk this moment for months as he tramples on people. Is he alone in that behavior? Not in the slightest as that's almost a prerequisite for anybody to get endorsed by a major political party.
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  5673.  @el5880  Wouldn't it be funny if someone go something like a couple of DNA samples and sent them to one of those online labs. That might be the story of political stories.
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  5674. ​ @el5880  I was in Canada for work in late 2017 early 18 in Saskatchewan. They spoke about Ottawa the same way Australians talk about Canberra, Brits talk about London and Americans talk about Washington. They hated Trudeau but also had no time at all for the other side. That's the dilemma so many countries have. We call our parties SHlT and SHlT LITE. We know both are SHlT but until recently haven't had many other viable options. We now have the Teal Independents who started among a coupe of independents who took Teal as their color because it was 1/2 way between Red and Blue. So far they haven't had the opportunity to do much, but that might change next year. As for Castro - Yeah I know who the Castro family are and they ended up becoming the same sad outcome the other Marxist regimes became. Yes they had some positives like reasonable education systems and universal health care but all the Marxists were hopeless at any sort of economic growth. And before you ask the Chinese are NOT Marxists. There's an economic historian named Eric Helleiner. He calls the Chinese Neo-Mercantilists and his explanation is the best I have seen anyone give.
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  5675.  @el5880  Oh - never heard that one at all.
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  5676. Don't know, Don't care - I'll be too busy watching the paint dry in the bathroom - that day.
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  5677. Its a psychological thing from physically having such a powerful device in hand. I remember a documentary on vehicle accidents and cars can have a similar effect. We forget that horse power is based on real horses. So even a dinky 50hp car is a lot of power. By the time you get past 100hp it can have a psychological effect of empowerment. Just driving a car is an act of empowerment. Most people just handle it at a subconscious level and it has almost no real effect. BUT think of those people who get off on the power of their cars and can't seem to ever contain it. Guns are the same sort of thing. Most gun owners you'll find are fine and there's never going to ever be a problem. Its that 1 odd person with no sense of control over their excitement who's the problem.
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  5678.  @jimstoner6884  I know Australia is responsible for Murdoch, we tried warning the Brits and America what he was like and NONE OF YOU LISTENED. And Yes Australia is currently run by a conservative coalition at the moment. I'm glad you know that because on another thread on this page we were just described as radical communists. That's separate from what Kari Lake just ranted and raged about. I just checked the interview isn't on YouTube yet, but I expect it will be shortly. Kari Lake went bonkers and didn't realise the cameras were still on. We are actually kindred sprits here. I have been trying to tell Americans for months that all this political BS isn't an American thing. Its going on everywhere. The difference is that America is deeper down the hole than the rest of us. We even have our own version of Trump here. He's a billionaire mining magnate named Clive Palmer. His campaign so far has been straight out of the Trump play book. Its all based around fear and isolating people from reality. Dude we are on the same side here. Trump getting back in is a huge issue for us. If he takes America further down the hole that has both huge security and economic implications. Because of globalization, which America shoved down our throats by the way, all of our economies are interlinked. UNDERSTAND THIS - IF AMERICA FALLS WE ALL FALL.
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  5679.  @alexanderbrown4250  Finally a lawyer has spoken up. Do other lawyers call you the "bowling ball" because that's how bunt you are or the "sledge hammer" because that's how subtle you are. I checked the Wikipedia page on Felix Slater and I have 1 question. How did he have Osama Bin Laden's phone number or could get it, when the CIA, NSA, FBI and the rest of American services couldn't? Just think on that for a moment. One of the Presidents private advisors could actually get that number. That has to be one of the greatest WTFs I have ever heard of. Has anybody ever asked how he got it? I'm hopeful that somebody in one of the states will actually do something to Trump himself and just like with Capone I don't care what it is so long as he does time. More importantly I hop they go after the people around him with everything they can. Jared, Ivanka, Don Jr, Eric, Kayleigh McEnany, Barr, Pompeo and the rest and just smash them. Make it so that for anybody wanting to hide in the background and do shit in future will know they can't simply get away with shit. By chance do you watch Legal Eagle and/or Glenn Kirschner here on YT?
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  5680.  @kaiza6467  YES - a5cent and others are right. It is being stupid claiming treason when its simply NOT TRUE. And yes Trump looked stupid, idiotic and clownish every time he made a ridiculous claim about treason that wasn't true. America has a very narrow definition of treason that's quite different to the dictionary definition. In Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution, treason is specifically limited to levying war against the US, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_States) SEDITION is another matter entirely. As is Tax Fraud, Campaign Finance Fraud and other legal issues. Don't forget all Elliot Ness got Capone on was tax evasion, but he put Capone in jail and he died there.
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  5681.  @kaiza6467  Well said, and the first decent explanation of why people are throwing it around like confetti. I maintain the Elliot Ness strategy, because no matter what he goes down for it will never be enough for what he has done and is still doing. So let's just see him go down for something, lets just see those rat bag kids of his go with him and lets just see the rest of those enablers and liars also go down. If there is one reason WHY this needs to happen its so that there is a clear message that congress is not there for the 1% to use it as hammer to bash the shit out of everyone else.
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  5682.  @alexanderbrown4250  Like any rational person I agree with all of that except the Flynn thing and that's because there are Military people calling for him the be reinstated to active duty so they can court martial him and that happens completely outside of politics. Neither The Chairman OTJC or head of the Army is an elected official and they are in a bind because if they don't uphold the UCMJ and throw Flynn under the Leavenworth Bus then they are opening the door for other senior military officers to also speak out like Flynn has. That's not a slippery slope that's a slippery cliff. FYI - I'm Australian and went to U. Illinois where I just found out Kelly Loeffler went, which helps nothing for the schools reputation. But while I was there my frat brothers took it upon themselves to hammer my brain with how awesome the US Constitution is. I did aerospace engineering so I'm not short on brain function and put up a struggle. So they had to explain WHY it was awesome and that meant explaining HOW it came about and why the founding fathers did what they did. I certainly don't have the training you and others have, but I have no doubt I am well above the average American. I get into arguments here form time to time and I NEVER lose. What really amazes me are the howling screaming people claiming to be patriots and upholding the constitution when they simply aren't either. Its incredulous that America is at this point because of all the things my frat brothers and others were unmovable on was that America could never be taken over by a dictator and yet that is basically what has happened. The reason I keep pointing to McConnell comes from my perspective which is seeing this at a distance and not being right there surrounded by this. Plus as an aerospace engineer I taught to analyze complex systems in ways other engineers aren't. We aren't taught to analyze by isolating a problem we are taught to work out what's causing the problem so that we DON'T do stupid things like the Boeing Max-8. So when I put that skill set and perspective to the American situation the one person who pops out is McConnell. In pursuing his agenda with Judges with any regard to other consequences he's done incredible damage. They all told me this could not happen because at its core the American system had an entire institution who had 1 purpose - to make sure all the others did their job. The House runs the country, the Executive makes the big national decisions and the Senate makes sur the "i"s are dotted and "t"s are crossed and all the check boxes are ticked. McConnell has made that dysfunctional and brought huge consequences as a result - most notably a delusional out of control POTUS. We are not going "back to normal" as David P just pointed out Trump finally got of his ass secured 100million doses of vaccine. For starters that will only vaccinate 50million and those doses wont be delivered until about July. So what are the other 280milllion Americans gonna do?
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  5683.  @TheChzoronzon  Yeah that one was a bit of yi ye yo ya yu creative license???????
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  5684. Kyle Kulinski covered this guy the other day over the same sermon this guy is a genuine threat to public safety. How anybody can follow this sort of obvious garbage defies any rational explanation.
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  5685.  @maryjones4112  Actually Jesus himself specifically warned about this kind of person. Its toward the end of the Sermon on the Mount so its not like it was during one of his private moments with the Apostles. This was something he told a group of several 1000. Here's the link go and read what he said paying particular note of verses 15 to 23. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207&version=NIV That link is to the New International Version (NIV) the translation favored by Baptists, Pentecostals, and other Protestants. Feel free to look up other translations but they all say very much the same thing. The message was clear - Jesus himself said he had no time for frauds.
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  5686. Modern politics no longer ahs anything to do with fact - its all about narrative. Look at the whole Brexit fiasco in Britain. Its cost Britain billions and got them nowhere and its on the same basic narrative: "We have to take back our country." Do you know that the same American billionaire Robert Mercer who funded most of the Brexit campaign is also the money behind Steve Bannon's Breitbart News and the same billionaire who funded a lot of Trumps campaign. Common to both campaigns was the narrative: "We have to take back our country." Is there any wonder Sarah Sanders pushing the same narrative. Because the CRT campaign is one of the things that came out of that narrative.
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  5687. NEWS FLASH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population By population Puerto Rico has more people than 20 mainland states, including Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Hawaii. They get 1 House representative WHO CANT VOTE. Funny how America and Americans have preached to the rest of the world about democratic rights, but deny over 3 million of their own people any rights at all.
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  5688. Question Legal Eagle - When does this become sedition? My understanding (and I am not a lawyer which is why I am asking) is that this is not treason because they are not seeking or working with foreigners to get rid of the existing government. However as far as I know its is either sedition or getting very close to sedition. They are attacking and undermining an institution of the existing government - which is (to my understanding) sedition. You're the lawyer can you clarify this?
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  5689. Yeah this is the part that bothers me about EVERYONE on the American Left. They don't seem to realise that the 74 million who voted for trump in 2020 was 11 million more than 2016. How any of the commentators have asked: Where did those extra 11 million come from when for 2 years EVERY POLL said Trumps numbers were falling? How many videos are being released every day about how mad, how crazy, how bizarre or how ridiculous Trump and his supporters are COMPARED to how many there are about SOLVING the problem? Here's David's old professor Richard Wolff with an interesting assessment of Trumpists in areas that used to vote Democrat. Its from the Michael Brooks Tribute series. The link is time stamped to the point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3166s Until the Corporate Dems admit how much they have stuffed up and start to deal with their failures Trump or a Trumpist is all but guaranteed to win the White House in 2024 and they will probably enjoy a super majority with a complicit SCOTUS because of how bad 2021/22 has gone.
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  5690. I just rewatched a vid from about a month ago where Ted Cruz was howling at AG Merrick Garland and how he'd allowed the DOJ to become totally politicised and how he was responsible for the damage to the justice system. Ted's main complaint was how Donald Trump was being pursued for political reasons.. Problem is Merrick Garland is a major part of the problem why Trump hasn't been indicted. Garland was promoted as a straight shooting Law & Order white knight. There weren't many but there were a few who pointed out he was a known member of the Federalist Society and that his ideology is pure Institutionalist. He's shown he doesn't care about justice and that he will protect America's Institutions irrespective what people do. He'll NEVER indict Trump because that would demean the Institution of the Office of the POTUS. So Ted Cruz blasting off at the guy who's protecting Trump as he complains about how Trump is being treated is the most mind numbingly Olympic gold medal WTF I have ever seen AND so indicative of where America is right now.
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  5691. Kyle is BOTH 100% right and 100% WRONG. He is 100% right that Trump is nothing special (as a person) but as history knows that can be said of many martyrs. What matters is the narrative created and used by the people who follow after the martyr that matters. That's where Kyle is 100% WRONG even though at the end he acknowledges it exists. Its not Trump that is special its is the narrative that's special. By any measure Hitler was an average soldier with no great tactical skills. He brought incredible destruction down upon Europe and especially the Germanic people (Germany, Austria,... etc) BUT to the current Nazis he is a tragic martyred hero who dragged Germany out from under the oppression of the Versailles treaty, broke the hyper inflation of the Weimar Republic and re-established Germanic prowess. Political Narrative is incredibly powerful and incredibly dangerous.
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  5692. For Peters NEXT tank video he needs to CLARIFY WHAT HE MEANS, because as an Australian I know we have been operating the M1 Abrams for over a decade (since 2007) and I am pretty sure we don't send them back to America every time they need service. Australia has 59 of the M1A1 variant but we have ordered more and there is an upgrade plan in place as well, but that is NOTHING. The Egyptians have 1,130 M1A1, The Saudis have 373 M1A2S, Kuwait has 218 M1A2 and Iraq 321 M1A1M just to name a few. I am fairly certain NONE of those countries send their tanks back to America for servicing either. HOWEVER. The US operates the latest variants. These are the Systems Enhancement Packages (SEP) variants which are now up to up to version 3. America has 1,605 M1A2 SEPv2 and 154 M1A2 SEPv3. There are some 3,700 A1M1 and other variants in storage. Plus the Marines are dropping the Abrams all together as part of their "Force Design 2030" program. So my bet is America will pull some of its OLDER M1A1 variants that have NOT been upgraded and send those to Ukraine. That will still be a challenge as the Abrams uses a gas turbine NOT a diesel engine.
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  5693. IS THIS AN ECHO BECAUSE I SWEAR I'VE HEARD THIS BEFORE. Can anybody explain where?
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  5694.  @sandybarnes887  Good answer and there's bound to be others just like it.
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  5695.  @sandybarnes887  Not much creativity, you just have to listen to the noise for a few minutes.
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  5696. I'm Australian and we've had enough of these clowns too, but on Hilary Clinton I think David is wrong. Sometimes the RIGHT THING gets said BY THE WRONG PERSON. Sorry to all the Hilary fans but SHE IS THE WRONG PERSON. The main reason she is the wrong person is that she too has her own cultish fan base who lord her qualities while completely ignoring her faults. We all heard how she stomped on Bernie Sanders in 2019 and BLAMED HIM for her loss to Trump in 2016 - he campaigned for her AFTER losing the nomination. She is certainly no where near as bad as Trump and her supporters are nowhere near as bad as Trumps supporters. But it would be like a praising the (1win-6Loss) Chicago Bears that they are better than the (0-6) Carolina Panthers. We have to stop wanting our politicians JUST being better than the other candidate THEY HAVE TO BE THE BEST CANDIDATE AVAILABLE. If you hand the nuclear launch codes over to a clown it doesn't matter if they are the smartest clown in the troop or even the smartest performer in the entire circus. They are still a clown!
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  5697. EVERYONE should go and re-watch the 2004 documentary film "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism." One of its predictions was that eventually, due the business interests of corporate owners, that OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS would eventually follow the Fox News model. In particular they pointed towards the model where opinion is presented as fact. FYI - I am Australian and we did try and warn the Brits, Americans and others what Rupert Murdoch was like. People either didn't listen or didn't care.
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  5698.  @shinystarmiestudios4179  The bio weapon conspiracy was utterly debunked by epidemiologists very early on. Their main claim was that NOBODY has the actual technology to engineer a sophisticated and targeted bio-weapon. Unfortunately that debunk was also extended to cover the lab leak hypothesis. A few weeks back the Weinstein's got a lot of blowback when they pointed out the lab leak hypothesis had NOT been properly & scientifically discounted. The initial dismissal of a weapon DID NOT exclude other possible research including "gain of function". We now know the W.H.O. investigation in China was compromised. Some people were not allowed into China but Peter Daszak who is a proponent of GoF research was not only allowed in he was one of the main investigators. As I just said to another the only thing we know for sure is "We don't know!" and that sucks. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️
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  5699. Up to point. He is 100% RIGHT about the Jihadists - NOBODY can live with them and its about time the Muslim world dealt with this problem instead of funding it. He is 100% WRONG that ALL the people protesting Israel at the moment are suffering moral ambiguity. Some no doubt are, but most recognise that the belligerent bombing campaign that has included 4,000 children being killed IS WRONG. If Sam thinks protesting the slaughter of 4,000 children is wrong then the person suffering moral ambiguity is Sam Harris. On the Hamas tunnel system. That's not an original idea either. Its the same strategy the Vietnamese Communists used against America in the Vietnam War. They could not control the sky overhead so they went underground and attacked by stealth. Even that wasn't here idea. Its been practised for centuries to hide soldiers in covered pits. Sam is also (and I think deliberately) leaving out certain facts. 1) Suicide bombing IS NOT a purely Jihadist tactic. It was notably used by the Japanese in World War 2, but also by the Chinese against the Japanese in World War 2. Its been used by others with no links to Islam. Go look up "Suicide Attack" on Wikipedia and look at the Pre-1980 history. 2) Hamas was foundered and funded by Bibi Netanyahu so that Yasar Arafat's Fatah would have an opposition and it would keep the Palestinians divided.
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  5700.  @cco53587  That's actually a great point. The Hill is operating in new media with an outdated mindset, but that doesn't change the fact that in this environment you don't leave up comments that expose your problems. I expect a comment I just wrote on a technology channel to be removed - I was very blunt. The video should have been a great story but the narrator doesn't understand basic electrical power. He claimed DC has less power loss than AC when power loss is actually a function of current and resistance NOT voltage. I'm an engineer and that's high school level science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAv6GGDGeJM
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  5701.  @eminentbishop1325  well put.
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  5702. I think she's a piece of garbage but the only thing I heard her threaten was the guys job. Pleas don't waste everyone's time on non-events and stick to the important stuff.
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  5703. AEROSPACE ENGNEER here: When I first saw the title of the video I was very sceptical considering some of the ridiculous claims made by other solar powered systems. Thunderf00t has debunked at least 1 of those. But this looks damn interesting and a genuine breakthrough. Because I work in industrial control systems and automation AND have worked in mining where they do a lot of water treatment I have worked on both RO and Multi-effect systems although the MES system I encountered was called a Mechanical Vapour Compression system. One thing people misunderstand with RO is that its NOT that cheap and its often compared to more expensive options. Its biggest advantage is that you can turn it off and on quite easily. With MES systems they are tricky to get started and you just can't turn them off and back on. One of the effects they use is to keep the system under vacuum because you can get the water to boil at around 70℃. I think the limit is about 67-68℃. One they are running and stable they use very little power because of the thermal exchanges going on. BUT those systems have 1 major drawback - they only operate over a very narrow range of flow rates. So you turn them on and cross your fingers they will start as expected. The best analogy I have is that MES systems are like a 2 stroke motorcycle. When they are on song in their happy place they are brilliant. When they are not happy and off song they are horrible. And if you're wondering why and aerospace engineer is interested in water treatment. Ask what would be one of the first items of critical infrastructure for a moon base.
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  5704. IMAGINE what the NRA and other gun advocacy groups would say if the police were handing out the details of what sorts of guns various people had? IMAGINE what the libertarians would say if the Electoral commission started handing out the details of what money various PACs and Super PACs were getting and who they got it from??
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  5705. Yeah its very, very easy for Kyle and others to be critical and jump up and down and yell at Fetterman, but like all these "events" we are also only seeing parts of this. We aren't seeing this guy approach Fetterman. So we don't know how he introduced himself or much else. We don't know too much about where this happened or what the circumstances were. BUT there's NO DOUBT that Fetterman's "minder" overreacted. I saw this footage yesterday and the criticism of Fetterman's goon is well earned. Fetterman needs to apologise, as well as explaining his position regarding Gaza BUT THEN SO DO MANY OTHERS. About the only thing I'd say about the lawyer is that he got well inside Fetterman's personal space. I can sympathise with his frustration at not getting the response he wants but I personally don't like people getting that close. Especially when they are excited, agitated,... etc.
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  5706.  @starofjustice1  Its more than that as several of the videos that are on this channel show its about making money from selling pipedreams. Bas Lansdorp made around $10 million from the utter BS he pitched for Mars One. As Snake oil salesmen learnt decades ago the bulk of society are ignorant of reality no matter how well we try and educate them and they are easily fooled into handing over money. Think about all the Nigerian money scams that were prevalent in the late 90s early 2000s that we got in our emails and THEY CONTINUE TO THIS DAY no matter how many news stories are told. Think about the flat earth promoters. None of them believe its flat but they all know there are people stupid enough to buy merchandise and books and videos about it.
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  5707.  @illsaveus  Your very right on all that, but do try and remember that Elon has also lucked into a couple of things where he was blessed with some superb engineers. He's also one of the best ever marketers of other peoples technology. First at PayPal - his code might have sucked and they wanted nothing to do with him but he was smart enough to make money out of it. Second with Tesla - his input to the car and development is a joke. I'm an aerospace engineer who works in industrial control and safety systems. Anyone who understands even the basics of vision guided systems knows how full of shite the driverless car stuff was. Have you notice that not even Uber mentions that stuff anymore. Third with SpaceX where he got blessed with Gwynne Shotwell and her team on the Falcon series. Yes they've had issues, but when you compare them to Boeing Starliner or SLS they actually have things that work including a man rated rocket. Yes I have seen some of the criticism of Gwynne Shotwell regarding some of her comments, but if you actually listen to what she's said there's no issue except for who she works for. As far as Starship and Starlink go. They are both Elon fantasies that will end in tears. Just like the hyper-inflated ridiculous valuations of Tesla shares will end in tears. Its one of those things with Elon Musk, at times you need to untangle some of the things he's into from the garbage he claims. If Jeff Bezos asked me the quickest way to go to the moon. I'd tell him to buy that chunk of SpaceX with the Falcons. Use Falcon Heavy to launch an Earth-Lunar transfer vehicle, a Lunar orbit transfer station and a Lunar lander. Use Dragon to take the crew up & down. Development time 2-3 years. Its call breaking the problem into manageable chunks. But then Elon isn't into manageable chunks he's into fantasy ships to Mars.
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  5708. Why Aren't they indicting Obama for drones or Bush for Iraq. Mainly Symbolic - what a joke. George Bush tore up America's signature to the ICC once it became obvious he and others could be charged. Noam Chomsky explained how EVERY US President post WW2 could be charged under the standards set out at Nuremberg.
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  5709. A crack addict and fraudster walk into a bar................ Somewhere there's a punch line after that, but I haven't figured it out. Any suggestions?
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  5710.  @KipVelcrono  Go back over the last 20years - WHAT did those greedy companies do? Did they move all the jobs overseas chasing cheaper labor and every last cent they could bleed us for? The collapse of the supply chains is their fault. Taking advantage of the situation they created is just insult to injury.
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  5711.  @hidesbehindpseudonym1920  yeah
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  5712.  @TheBeeFactory  What crap You don't even know or grasp the most basic concepts of economics. This is stuff high school kids can understand. Just go back to school will ya and this time LISTEN.
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  5713. Yeah I just saw a video the other day on spotting fake versus fraud Patek Chronographs and I was wondering if that was the same watch I saw in the other video. I'm not certain if that version is worth 150K, but it also depends on what currency you're thinking in.
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  5714.  @mikedonovan9783  fair enough I know squat other than the vid I saw the other day. I'm an engineer and I found that vid technically interesting rather than what things cost.
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  5715.  @serenitybase9888  Why am I not surprised by that information????
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  5716. The option to "burn it all down" that Ian Bremmer is describing at about 25 minutes where he describes the Palestinians has having no hope of a future and just turn to a pack of crazies like Hamas is very very similar to the people who simply gave up on the establishment parties in America and voted Donald Trump into office in 2016. Its why there has been a resurgence of radical parties across Europe. When there seems no future for so many and we have elites living in these fantasies that the world is brilliant and the economy is booming THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS. This is the great failure of main stream parties and their neoliberal economics over the last 40 years. They promised us cheaper products through competition. They privatised every public asset they could promising free market competition would bring better services and lower prices. I actually believe in the free market for PRODUCED and MANUFACTURED GOODS but it has been absolutely proven to be a catastrophic failure for so many other services. When governments FAIL to provide their people with HOPE history has shown time and time again that it never ends well.
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  5717. I'm not certain what your background is but I work in control systems and automation. There is a kind of flow meter that is very common for water treatment called a "Magnetic Flow Meter" usually referred to as a "mag flow". I have been on a waster water project where on part of that project we could just not get them to work properly. It was on a mine site with some highly contaminated water. The process included chemical treatment, clarification, filtration and finally reverse osmosis. The RO was far from normal and was designed to almost de-mineralize the water. That caused a problem with the mag flow meters on the clean outlet side of the RO plant. There just wasn't enough minerals in the water to get enough conductivity for that kind of measurement to work. I wouldn't call this a busted video because he keeps pointing out where the Veritasium video was right. Its more like he's a more comprehensive explanation of what's going on with electrostatics and various fluids. I suspect its not as straight forward as a lot of people think.
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  5718.  @jlmassir  There's plenty of explanations of how mag-flow meters work. It basically from induction caused by charged particles moving through the coils. But if there's no electrical flow between the electrodes you don't get the charged particles to do that induction. The electrical flow between the electrodes is also AC not DC. I know that because in the mag-flow parameters you can adjust the frequency, which is needed if the water has fewer impurities. It was one of the things we tried on that RO plant.
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  5719. I'm Australian, who's known many Irish lads over the years and none of them mentioned that clanger. But then why would the Brits want to be reminded that they REPEATED the same stupid mistake with Brexit. More interesting is the apathy you describe how people just vote for the main parties out of convenience. Its now wrecked the entire Western Democratic World. We have that same apathy here in Australia. I was in Canada for work a couple of years ago and its the same there. We get the news from Britain and Europe and its the same there. ITS THE SAME EVERYWHERE.
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  5720.  @insightfulhistorian1861  That's a great point. If the vast majority just go along and accept the system as is then the system WONT CHANGE. Its not just politics or economics its across our entire human society.
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  5721.  @Twilord_  Brexit was another example of something the elites all believed would go the way they expected and it just didn't.
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  5722.  @insightfulhistorian1861  Brexit wasn't hijacked by the elites. Brexit was an offering from the elites led by David Cameron and his banking friends. It was offered up to shut up the whingers who were mostly outside the London banking bubble. That lot never expected to lose which is the similarity to Ireland. If you are trying to claim David Cameron wasn't an elitist then you need to re-evaluate your definitions. There was NEVER anything elitist about Nigel Farage. He was a pure populist who like Trump didn't expect to win which was shown when he bailed on the negotiations right after the win. He was a fraud and still is a fraud who just like Trump tapped into a lot of discontentment. Boris and the rest simply worked out that Cameron and his clowns were simply ignoring people as happened in Ireland and as happened to Hilary in America.
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  5723.  @insightfulhistorian1861  You finally got something closer to the truth. Elites in the more world wide view are more than money or politics. Its those who think they are superior with the right education. Both Clintons Yale, Both Obama's Harvard, Boris Johnson and David Cameron were both Eton then Oxford. Farage on the other hand never even made it to university. He was a private school snot, BUT he's not part of that same club. Sure Trump's from money and went to Warton, but I went to college in America and trust me he's in the same boat as Farage. Thinks he's in that elite club but he just isn't. Its what he hates about the Clintons and Obamas. Do you know 14 of the last 18 people appointed to SCOTUS are Harvard or Yale including 8 of the current 9. 5 of the 7 most recent people considered including the actual nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson are Harvard or Yale. Its all organized by the Federalist Society (started at Harvard and Yale) who believe they they and they alone are the rightful protectors of the Constitution. That's Elitism In America you also here it called the meritocracy. Which is basically I am your superior because I graduated from Harvard or Yale or Princeton. Just graduating from those places means (in their mind) they are better than the rest of us.
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  5724. @Cat 4100 Someone else linked it to me a while back and I still find it amazing every time I read it. Remember he lived when Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin were in power. So he saw something in America at that time that could compare to those people. What it says is that people like Trump have been around in Western Society for at least 80 years.
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  5725. You know every time I hear someone like Emma wail on about the "White Male Patriarchy" I want to scream because that WMP hasn't done me or most of the rest of the white male population any good. They have smashed us economically again and again and when they weren't smashing us economically they sent generation after generation off to die in the wars they started and then profited from. But then somebody goes and puts people like Larry Kudlow and Tommy Tuberville on TV and EVERY COMPLAINT that people like Emma have about the WMP is 100% correct. The only thing I'd ask people like Emma to do is recognise that these people aren't any good for most of white male population either.
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  5726. Ukraine isn't actually getting money its getting hardware and most of the hardware is surplus or becoming outdated. Basically America is emptying its warehouses and getting rid of the stockpiles. That means those stockpiles will have to be replaced. That means some very juicy contracts for American military manufacturers. So when Biden sends a $billion to Ukraine it actually means a $billion contract for a supplier. The money is NOT leaving America at all.
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  5727.  @stella.r2708  Actually no, Rupert would have given Tucker a gig on Sy News. Sky News has people like Andrew Bolt, Peta Credlin, Alan Jones who all have their equivalents on Fox or who are the equivalent on someone on Fox. Sky News is sold to the same fraction of the Australian population that Fox News is sold to the similar fraction of the American population.
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  5728.  @darksesh8247  Fair comment on Western Media but if Ayman al-Zawahiri had died 2 years ago we would have heard about it by now. So take your stupidity and go hide back under your rock.
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  5729.  @gregbors8364  Its hard to say if Rupert actually does or doesn't have a political agenda. He certainly loved Ronald Reagan and though Reaganomics was the best thing ever. He's certainly backed various politicians and political parties but its hard to tell if that was out of a political ideology or a business strategy. Maybe the 2 are so intertwined at times they are the same thing viewed from different perspectives.
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  5730.  @godamid4889  When you 've removed your foot from you mouth and want to start listening let me know.
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  5731.  @godamid4889  What am I talking about you just told an Australian to look up the Murdoch family you arrogant clown.
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  5732.  @60degreelobwedge82  Another BULLSHlT comment from yet another bot. We can spot you all from the types of names you have.
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  5733. Well this clowns remarks haven't survived that well. He's been a huge voice for Crypto and Bitcoin and look what's happened. I guess he'll come out before too long and claim Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger don't know how to trade and invest. Because they both told everyone that Crytpo was a fantasy long before this clown mouthed off.
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  5734.  @chapman2001  Sorry I forgot, unless you figure out how to steal, thieve and grift by the million you get prosecuted. 👉🤯 How come its corruption when daddy's the VP and smart business when daddy's POTUS? Can someone get Chelsea Clinton's or Jenna Bush's number for me/us? Maybe they can clear this shit up for all of us.
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  5735. For starters THIS IS NOT SIMPLY AN AMERICAN ISSUE. I'm Australian we have the same issue and if you look around the world this is the same across the entire developed world. I think that just as valid a question is: WHY do American's always think that their issues are only their issues? Other than the fact we live in a globalised society, America has been shoving its economics, business practices, technologies and cultural values down the throat of the rest of the planet for decades. So why do Americans always phrase these discussions as only pertinent to America?
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  5736. Because the judges they have to argue in front of are not mathematically illiterate. Most start college with an Arts degree, but even doing an arts degree requires passing at least 1 math class and the easiest class they all do is basic statistics. If she tries this crap in front of a judge it will be amusing for all of us. FYI- I did aerospace engineering which had a few more than 1 math class.
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  5737. When he put it that he would not allow the next AG to investigate Trump people got reminded that Lindsay Graham had his emails hacked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbaXO_Ogw4I What was in those emails, because everyone keeps pointing out that Lindsay Graham went through a massive backflip on Trump. He's got a big problem now because after the 20th he will have NO power because of the Georgia run-off result. That and Trump being Trump, he might just throw whatever it is he has on Graham into the wind for all the world to see.
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  5738.  Brett Mitchell  On the F35 - BULLSHIT. Its not better than the F22 or the Eurofighter or the latest Russian air superiority fighters. I'll grant its a good plane and a better option than an updated F16 or F15, but its not the best by a long way. Its running costs and the maintenance complexity makes it a terrible platform. Why don't you stop drinking the Kool Aid and start trying some facts.
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  5739. I'm an engineer whose been privately studying economics for a couple of years and COVID gave me a lot of time to watch a lot of economics lectures and talks. One such person is Mark Blyth (Brown U.) Listen to what he said in 2019 about Bitcoin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4673s It wasn't until another interview and he mentioned a Bank of England report (Q1 2014) that I worked out what Economists mean by "a unit of account." That report had 2 articles about how money is created in a modern economy. In a nutshell that term "unit of account" is how value is measured. To an economist value is like what temperature pressure, length, weight and time are to engineers. We know what those things are but we need ways to measure them reliably. Money is the way value is measured. Centimeters and Inches are to length what currencies are to value. And we also have conversions factors, like the 2.54 that converts inches to centimeters called exchange rates. The bit that's strange to an engineer is that our conversions are constant they do not change. Money is different because economies are dynamic and they change and the value of things going from one economy to the next also change. It works because there's a reasonable amount of stability in economies. In fact economic stability is a requirement to make this work. Once you understand that basic concept of what money is and why economies work because they are reasonably stable then you can understand why Bitcoin is not money and the Chinese call cryptos "Digital gambling assets."
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  5740. NOTICE TO ALL: They do the same shit here in Australia. We have companies who come here win big government and big industrial contracts and then set up a hiring scheme where they can bring in cheap people from Asia. It sin credibly prevalent in the IT industry, but also happens across the broader engineering industry. They use the same excuse Saagar mentioned "can't find enough qualified people." I'm an engineer and I have seen it done and have personally lost work and income because of the practice. The standard technique is to demand something impossible like having certain amounts of experience in a specific technology. For example they will demand 3 years experience in something that has only been available for 2. In the IT industry they the favored technique is to offer the legal minimum wage while demanding 10+ years experience. They get no Australian applicants and several 1000 from India or Africa. That or they simply relocate the work offshore to India or Singapore or Thailand or somewhere else.
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  5741. AUSTRALIAN HERE: How are we supposed to have any faith in America being a reliable partner in either trade or security when your president has been granted absolute authority by these clowns? EVEN BEFORE THIS Bush and Cheney were never held accountable for lying to the entire world regarding WMDs that lead to the invasion of Iraq and the slaughter of (by some estimates) a million people. Obama's upping of drone strikes including bombing targets outside of American Jurisdiction. And then there is the Abomination of the prison at Guantanamo Bay which not only being on foreign soil is also land from which the rightful owners (the Nation of Cube) have said GET OUT! I actually went to college in America. I studied engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they often dragged me into their discussions. So I had an informal education into how the US Constitution is SUPPOSED to work and this is NOT how it is SUPPOSED to work. The President is neither a King nor Emperor and was never imbued with absolute power as this judgement provides. As absurd as this sounds, RIGHT NOW a senile Joe Biden could (in a lucid moment) simply order people to kill all 9 SCOTUS judges and anyone else he "feels is a threat to the security of America!"
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  5742. Lets face it this stuff (tapping feet and holding the desk) was debunked weeks ago as a habit. I won't trust a damn thing Western Media has on this until we know his body is on a slab in the morgue. Western Media is in such a rush these days for clicks that they'll jump on anything. Afterall why did any of us click this? Plus as a few people have pointed out, who comes after Putin. Its possible it might be someone worse.
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  5743. HEADS UP to you and all the rest of NM - I had a video earlier today pop up in my recommendations that Kyle and others all need to cover because of how absurd it was. The clowns over on Newsmax had retired Judge Andrew Napolitano (New Jersey) on and he claimed the FBI can arrest the governor for the gun ban. The video was posted on Napolitano's own YT channel. Anyone with a functioning brain knows its an idiotic claim but to the Trumpistani clown brigade its rage fuel and they'll believe it because he's a real judge with a real law degree and was even a law professor. FYI - I'm actually Australian but I went to college in America. I know that Napolitano is hiding behind the 1st Am. but he's right on the edge of sedition and in many countries Napolitano would be arrested for what he's said. In many other countries he'd be facing serious action by legal profession for saying things that are this stupid. I had a great time when I went to college in America. I utterly hate what these people are doing to a country I love. I hope the people of NM hold Napolitano to account. I'd recommend someone in NM file a formal complaint with the New Jersey Bar for Napolitano's claims. At the very least that complaint will stain his reputation.
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  5744.  @skunkwguitar  well put.
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  5745.  @S3NTRY  That's a reasonably valid argument but when you consider how these people behave they're garbage. They aren't interested in any facts just pushing a narrative towards an audience that might pay them. In that they are no different to Murdoch, MSNBC, CNN or any of those multi-nationals. Its why their brainless supporters behave as they do.
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  5746. HEY KYLE Its not a dumpster fire!!! Its a $44,000,000,000 gold plated, platinum inlaid, diamond, ruby and emerald encrusted DUMPSTER FIRE.
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  5747.  @Xetan123  Who is that last comment to? Who do you think is playing down the seriousness of this? I'm not. This is super serious BUT we need to put the right label on what sort of crime it is. Its incitement to violence not a war crime.
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  5748. That's a well thought and insightful comment - social media need more of it. When you say "our political landscape" I hope you include the entire Western hemisphere in that. Don't forget Rupert Murdoch was born in Australia (I hate to admit) then moved to Britain then to America and everywhere he's gone he's dragged the entire media landscape down into his gutter. There were clear warnings in the documentary "Outfoxed" that was produced in 2004 (16/17 years ago) that the style of news/opinion being presented was dragging the entire media landscape into extremely polarized audiences. FYI - Yes as an Australian I do feel ashamed that Murdoch is one of ours. We are still trying to figure out how with all out dangerous and poisonous wildlife he survived. The theory is he was bitten many times and that none of the wild life involved survived. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5749. You're on the right path. EVERY rational American with a functioning brain needs to realise that 74 million voted for him in 2020 which was 11 million MORE than 2016. For 2 years every poll said his numbers were falling. SO HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? People need to stop finger pointing and blaming and ask things like "If Trump was so bad then why did another 11 million people turn up and vote for him?" Stop doing the easy stuff and call them stupid Fox watchers and start asking why these people are so angry and disillusioned with politicians they would vote for Trump. You all seem to have forgotten that on his way to 2016 he smashed and hammered the crap out of 17 of the GOPS finest sons. He rode all over the top of people like Jeb Bush. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? The rest of America needs to WTFU and start dealing with the WHYs and HOWs before 2024 becomes the end of Western Democracy.
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  5750.  @aa-kz7hc  Who TF are you talking about and what expected defeat? If you went by the polls (which no one should trust anymore) then everybody should have expected Trump to lose. But if you consider how bad the polls have been in recent years then I don't think anybody should have expected defeat in 2020.
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  5751.  @richardeisenhower7381  I saw the report on Lou Dobbs (not Dons) and haven't stopped laughing. The best bit about the law suits will be if they go to court because then then we will all see a neat little process called DISCOVERY. The last thing the world wants is a settlement because then there isn't the discovery process. Lawyers have been reporting that.
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  5752.  @drmantistobboggangonzodr3961  Great comment - you should have put that out in point form. I think most of us know all that, although I had heard the number of cases was 86 with just the 1 win for Trump, but Wikipedia only lists 54 post election and 21 pre-election. That's 75 but Wikipedia also notes there list does not include denials. The 1 win post election I know of was on procedural grounds where the state of Pennsylvania had to stick to what was in the statute and they could NOT arbitrarily extend the deadline for people to verify their post in vote. For anyone looking for a place to start lookin gup what happened there are 2 Wikipedia pages (pre-election and post election). PRE_ELECTION -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election POST ELECTION -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election For anyone interested in what Lawyers are saying there's a few on YT. I'm subscribed to these 2 (disclaimer: I have nothing to do with either). Both have reported on the election lawsuits and the Trump pardons like the Blackwater 4. Glenn Kirschner (former JAG & Federal prosecutor) -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrWmonkmTk5NbvmVnc7f70w Legal Eagle -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpa-Zb0ZcQjTCPP1Dx_1M8Q
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  5753.  @bryanmortenson6320  WELL D-KHEAD did or did she not come out less than 48 hours after the election and concede defeat? If you referring to her endless whinning and complaining about how she won the popular vote and how she blamed others like Bernie Sanders then you have a point. But Donald Trump and his band of clowns couldn't even raise themselves up to Hilary's level and admit THEY LOST - AND STILL HAVEN'T. Dude just the other day one of his clowns claimed in a comment that Trump would be back in the White House before summer!!!!!!! Hilary was shite, but Trump was worse.
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  5754.  @grantmccabe8966  Hilary lost the election because she shallow, disliked, represented the elite establishment that too many people hate AND had only a single policy - first woman president. James Comey was a factor, but only a factor. Hilary lost because Hilary had a bad strategy. Do you know that some of the people from Hilary's campaign helped run similar strategies in both Britain and Australia and LOST there as well?
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  5755.  @wgowshipping  AUSTRALIAN HERE MATE: When you get to Australia let me know I owe you at least the first beer and it will be a real beer. FYI - I'm an aerospace engineer who works in industrial control systems and automation. I have spent most of the last 20 years in our mining industry because I met one of the last 2 guys to walk on the moon and he said we'd be most likely going back to the moon for mining. There's a couple of very rare and potentially very valuable substances on the moon. At its most basic its a logistics problem of how do we get people & supplies to the moon and people & product back. Back in 2010/11 when working on a Alumina smelter project the manager I worked for one day told me that in the future LOGISTICS would be the most important facet of world trade. I didn't quite understand it at the time, but have come to understand its insanely important to so many things in our lives. You might not realise it but the Apollo Missions to the moon were a success because Buzz Aldrin and a couple of other guys solved the LOGISTICS problem of getting back. Getting there was one thing getting back was another. Go watch the video titled "I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293" by Destin who's an aerospace engineer and listen to what he says about the new Artemis mission. Its a logistics issue with some serious flaws. These days my primary interest is in Energy Economics because the main stream economists have utterly screwed the pooch with all of our Energy Sectors which are all about logistics. It doesn't matter if we talk electricity, gas or oil they all involve moving stuff from one place to where its needed. I bet you never thought of the power grid as a logistics system BUT IT IS. It moves electrical power from where its generated to where its used and that's a logistics system. I'm scheduled to be on the Steve keen & Friends Podcast this week to discuss Engineering and Economics and there's a better than fair chance you're getting a plug because like engineering, economists don't really get logistics and that's a major issue.
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  5756. Their supporters might not be rational but their leaders are NOT. They know exactly what they are doing. Jeff Daniels in his famous what makes America great rant. Its right here at 2:18 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIpKfw17-yY From the political side - it doesn't cost money it costs votes.
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  5757. Great point to get to the top of the list with and its the point that needs to be repeated and repeated and repeated. People need to keep pointing out to Trumpists that its about Trumps campaign debts. Ask them why a billionaire needs donations and keep asking? This wasn't a Hail Mary. A Hail Mary is when you actually get on the field or court and actually make a play. In this case the referee (SCOTUS) called time and never even let the play go ahead. They were denied even being allowed to argue the case.
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  5758. Yeah I watched the whole thing (painful) and you are right he made some very good points, but as an engineer who can do basic math some of his claims are utterly stupid. Fine if we bought 45 Collins class subs where do we get the crews for them. There is so much hyperbole and stupidity in this discussion is AND He's not the only one. From the outset of this hour Greg Sheridan spoke complete SHlT At 2:12 he says the intimates the Virginia class can launch "any kind of missile to hit any target in the world." and that is complete nonsense. Anyone can fact check that on Wikipedia. The Virginia class only has the use of Tomahawk Cruise Missiles. It can't launch a Trident and it can't launch any of the HIIMARS. Its just a ridiculous statement. From all the sides in this there's just a staggering array of BULLSHlT and not many facts.
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  5759.  @markmcdonald9260  As to the this deal is bonkers crazy - YES I 100% AGREE FIRST - Keating is wrong we should have nuclear powered subs because we have a huge area of sea to patrol and they are 50% faster than a Collins. In addition to that the Chinese have made a huge strategic grab in the South China Sea and that does threaten our trade with both Japan and South Korea. That part of the see lane is about 4000NM from Perth. A Collins takes (at full speed) at least 200 hrs (8-1/2 days) to get from Perth into that area. An Astute takes only 133 hrs (5-1/2 days) to go the same distance. That means on any given deployment they get an extra week on station. ITS BONKERS BECAUSE I HAVE from my experience done a full project costing for the construction of and 35 year lifetimes of 5 Astute class and that includes a lot of very generous estimations. The number is around $70 Billion. SO WHERE IS THE OTHER $200 - $300 Billion going?
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  5760. I'm an engineer and when people started telling me about crypto I was an immediate sceptic. HTF do you write code and create a data block and say its the same as money. Sorry but to every engineer outside the IT industry it was BS from the start. And for the record real engineers don't consider 90% of IT people real engineers. The other 10% I have huge respect for because they do amazing stuff.
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  5761.  @cl8804  NOT liking some Americans because of their behavior and NOT liking American politics is a DIFFERENT thing to not liking America.
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  5762. HEY BEN: Now for some information you're NOT TELLING everyone. YES America and the West have been bad. I'm Australian and we have been as bad per capita as anyone and worse than most, BUT there's only 25 million of us. That said we have to lift our game just as everyone else has to. THIS IS NOT A GAME of your country, my country that country, those countries. There are 8 Billion people on this planet and we are all in this TOGETHER and Mother Nature does NOT CARE about which flag you are waving. Yes the Chinese lifted 800 million people out of poverty and its been one of the greatest economic achievements in human history, BUT THEY WERE SLOPPY very sloppy. For well over 20 years starting in the mid 1990s they were burning as much coal in the ground as they were in power stations. We know this because the hired German specialists to help out and the Germans made a documentary about it. It's what happens when you are sloppy at coal mining. By the early 2000s the Chinese (according to the IEA) were burning as much coal each year as the entire human race did in the early 1970s. By the 2010s the Chinese were burning over 3,000,000,000,000 tons (3 Billion tons of coal). Remember that C + O2 -> CO2 formula from high school? When you look at the atomic weights you find oxygen is heavier than carbon so for each ton of Carbon that is burnt you get 3-2/3rds tons of CO2. So those 3 billion tons of coal produce 11 billion tons of CO2. But with what the burnt in the ground the Chinese have been emitting over 20 billion tons of CO2 a year. The problem is the Chinese have to shut their coal fired power stations and they AREN'T. Do the Americans, Australians, Canadians and other have to do better, OF COURSE THEY DO. But playing your country, my country, that country, those countries HELPS NOBODY.
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  5763. Actually I saw a very interesting documentary during the post 9/11 period comparing the neo-cons to Al Qaeda. Don't ask which one it was as there were many. I remember this one for this one point. Both Neo-cons and Al Qaeda at there core had the concept that democracy was a failure because people voted in their own self interest and not what was best for society. The 2 groups who gave us the endless war had this 1 thing in common - we are all stupid sheep who need to be shepherded by the wiser more knowledgeable types. Its also why they are both anti-education, anti-open political discussion, anti-intellectualism because educated people who can discuss serious issues can see through their bullshit and lies. George Orwell wrote n 1984 that doublespeak was intended to make it impossible for people to formulate dissent because the words needed to formulate the concepts were to be expunged from use. How do you dissent against the government when the word dissent has been wiped form the language? How do you invite people to dissent and protest when no word for dissent or protest exists in the spoken language? I hated my High School teachers who made me read Orwell, these days I apologize quietly for being ignorant at the time.
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  5764. The better question is why have NONE of them ever been held accountable. This is why Donald Trump was laughed at when he spoke at the UN. America has become a sad joke. Americans constantly talk about the "rules based order" and howl that Putin is a war Criminal and needs to be locked up and then lets people like Elliot Abrams, Henry Kissinger, John Bolton and others walk around free. One of the most notorious of these people is John Yoo who was Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel and wrote the infamous "torture" memos that allowed water boarding and the other "enhance interrogation" methods and that lead to the atrocities at Abu Ghraib and Bagram AFB. On Wikipedia it says "A report by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility stated that Yoo's justification of waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation methods" constituted "intentional professional misconduct" and recommended that Yoo be referred to his state bar association for possible disciplinary proceedings." But that was overruled in 2010 by Senior Justice Department lawyer David Margolis. John Yoo now serves as the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. America doesn't hold people accountable it PROMOTES THEM.
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  5765. Its not the only one there's this one that's almost as bad in terms of abuse of process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=autMHvj3exA The Marshall islanders were awarded 2 Billion and have so far been paid 4 million.
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  5766.  @Shreddah  That's a good point with respect to social media. There are a lot of important stories not being heard because either the main stream media wont run them or the social media algorithms don't flag them. I saw a really great way to change this recently. Rick Beato a YT music presenter/producer has gotten a few copyright strikes. He found that most came from faceless people in the corporations NOT the artists. What he found was that if you send out a tweet or other and hashtag it with the corporation you can generate enough responses to the corporations hashtag that it gets picked up. You see these corporations do have some humans looking for sudden spikes in certain hashtags. So instead of an algorithm you actually get a human looking at the issue. He's had strikes successfully removed in as little as 3 hours. Maybe what someone needs to do is send a tweet with THE RIGHT corporate hastags so that main stream media CAN'T ignore the story.
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  5767. Actually there were some really interesting comments from people like Mark Blyth and Richard Wolff about Trump and Trump supporters. If you look at the basic Trump supporter they are Baby Boomers and Gen Xers who DID NOT go to college. So they are people from working class backgrounds - factory workers, miners and other blue collar professions AND THEY GOT SMASHED by the globalisation of the 90s and 2000s. I'm Australia but went to college in America in the late 80s. I can remember staying with the families of friends at Thanksgiving and Christmas and meeting their high school friends who didn't go to college. So I have actually met people who would eventually become Trump supporters. They are NOT fundamentally bad people, but they have been so smashed over such a long time that they were just ripe for being taken advantage of by a charlatan like Trump. Add to that the media led by people like Rupert (yes I know he's Australian) Murdoch who just don't give a damn as long as they make money. There's no doubt this has already done massive damage to America and if its allowed to playout then that's even worse. Irrespective of if you like America (and I do) or hate it - America is still 1/4 of the worlds economy and the US$ is still the worlds reserve currency. On straight up economic grounds not even the Russians, Chinese or Iranians can afford for America to collapse. On security grounds it gets even worse. America does not simply have to deal with Trump and his minions it has to deal with its ingrained flaws. AND before you ask - YES Australia has many of the same or similar issues and we are also being just as stupid by ignoring most of them.
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  5768.  @marcus_ohreallyus  If ignorance is a fire we'd be able to power our way through the energy crisis with power bills so low even a Republican could do the math. If ignorance was a fire we could just have people stand inside the power stations and talk to the boilers instead of burning coal or gas or using Uranium. If ignorance was a fire we'd be able to see Texas from Pluto. If ignorance was a fire you wouldn't need a barbeque in Texas. You'd just lay out the meat and asked in a loud voice, "Da ya'll know wit ig-nar-ent meenz?" If ignorance was a fire you wouldn't need street lighting. You'd just mount MAGA hats on poles. I had to stop there and let others have a go. You may have started something.
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  5769.  @sanctifymymusic  You right just calling them things isn't helpful, but accepting the frustration everyone has with them is understandable. Something you didn't mention which few speak about and needs to be ASKED a lot more is: WHY did so many people jump on the Trump band wagon. 63 million in 2016 and 74 million in 2020. How many ask - where did those extra 11 million come from? How many people top and think about just what 74 million means? Do any of you realise that there are only 2 countries in Europe with populations larger - Germany and Russia. Other than Brazil, Mexico and America there's no other countries with populations that large. Its easy to look at these people and say they are stupid. Its a lot harder to ask why they are so angry they'd vote for such an obvious liar as Trump.
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  5770.  @captainawesome730  You've hit one thing on the head - "everyone else sucks" If you go and watch people like Mark Blyth talk about things like "Global Trumpism" (and he's done talks on that) its way more common than you think. There's a lot of frustration in world politics. Through media scrutiny and polling data influence most of the developed world's governments have become trapped in their own garbage. They can't make decisions that some people don't like and these days the "other side" which every Western nation has sees everything the government does as WRONG and pounds away at the media yelling and howling about it. Its now so bad most of the establishment parties can't put forward any real leaders BECAUSE THEY HAVE NONE. They have pushed them all out. Go look at the Dems or GOP. Go look at British Labor or the Tories. Go look at Australia, Canada, Japan or anywhere in Europe. The power players in the parties have been killing off the careers of anyone who might threaten the baby boomer leadership. Interestingly Peter Zeihan the geopolitical strategist has been pointing out that Putin in Russia and Xi in China have also killed of any potential contenders. The actor Tom Walker who plays the fake political correspondent Jonathan Pie ahs said in interviews there's no leadership on either side of British politics. How is it that an actor who plays a spoof has a better handle on politics than the real media. This is what mainstream media and establishment politicians DON'T GET. We can all see through them and their crap.
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  5771. YES and its something economists, accountants, lawyers and all sorts of other clowns like Gerard only mention when they need to. I am an engineer and that's only the third comment on this page that's sensible. The major problem are the clowns on BOTH the Left and Right like Gerard who have no place in the discussion. ENERGY IS AN ENGINEERING TASK. I have know about Australia's energy situation since doing a project on Australia's future energy needs in 2016. I genuinely believe we need to have nuclear sensibly discussed as part of our energy future but we FIRST have to get the clowns like Gerard to STFU and let the engineers speak. I am utterly disgusted with how public discussion has been dominated by UNCHALLENEGED claims from BOTH SIDES of the energy debate. BOTH SIDES LIE just as Gerard has done here. And so you know you can read my formal challenge to him on this page.
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  5772. Sorry but if you believe in the basics of engineering then why are you taking engineering advice from an ACCOUNTANT? SORRY but GERRAD HOLLAND IS ALSO COWARD I am an engineer and Gerrard deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  5773.  @rowdyriemer  Are you DEAF, BLIND or just STUPlD? He got presented WITH FACTS and then said he still stood by his story. 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤷‍♀🤷‍♀
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  5774.  @pamelalewis5063  I think he's wrong, but he's not a liar. McConnell's base cares what he says, but nobody else doe. The rest just wish he would simply take his 🐂💩 dishonest bad faith crap and farq-off.
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  5775.  @annhobson1975  Well by the framing of your question where are you from? I saw your other comment and don't disagree with most of it. But the Moscow Mitch slur is just partisan bullshit. McConnell's got nothing to do with Moscow and way too much of a connection to doing what the Federalist Society wants. Go and look at the appointment of judges and you'll understand that point. The Federalist society is the one group that Americans should be fearing more than anything else on the planet. Go do some basic research into them. Be careful they do control SCOTUS thanks to McConnell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America on a scholarship. I did aerospace engineering but a pack of my frat brothers were pre-law and they used to drag me into all sorts of hypothetical arguments for fun. It gave me an interesting education in the US Constitution. It was back in the era when civics was actually taught to all Americans and it blows my mind at times these days how utterly ignorant a lot of very mouthy Americans actually are. In those days (late 80s) Americans were incredibly knowledgeable about how their government worked and how the constitution was meant to work. These days all Americans seem to do is rant and rage about how the "other side" is threatening their constitutional rights. The lack of education and levels of ignorance is pretty staggering considering where America once was.
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  5776.  @Liftheavyrustylbs  I have an odd take on all of this. I'm actually Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). On one hand I have a fairly personnel interest because of my friends and their families. On the other hand America is Australia's most important security and trading partner and we can't have a malfunctioning America. Thanks to people like McConnell America is malfunctioning. Worse still its an Australian Rupert Murdoch who's contributing. And before you ask yes he's a national embarrassment. I went to U. Illinois and actually spent my first Thanksgiving in Bardstown Kentucky. My buddy's dad worked at Makers Mark and I got a personnel tour and sampled some straight form the cask. I knew a few other Kentuckians as well and my experiences in Kentucky and with people from Kentucky are genuinely POSITIVE. I even visited Kentucky for business years later and caught up with the family who I spent that Thanksgiving with. McConnell simply does NOT represent the Kentucky I have experienced. So what I see (from my external viewpoint) is that Mitch McConnell does not represent Kentucky or Kentuckians. He represents a "faction." Every town, city, state and nation has various factions. Some are enlightened, some are reasonably well educated and others are as ignorant as a rock. Every nation has people like McConnell who are very good at appealing to rocks. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5777.  @Liftheavyrustylbs  Thanks. I just feel that every so often Americans need to be told that most of them are decent hard working folk and that others in the world know it. They know America is a great country, but like everybody else they have some ratbags. About the only difference is that America's ratbags are the Olympic gold medalists of being ratbags. The Russians try hard, The Chinese are catching up (rapidly) and the rest of us aren't far behind. In terms of wondering who's America's chief ratbag if have these similes: McConnell is the Bill Belichick of ratbags. He's not on the field but makes all sorts of arrangements and plays. Trump is/was the Tom Brady of ratbags. No matter how many times you think you've beaten him he makes another play. Zuckerberg, Uber, Bezos are the next gen upstart disruptor ratbags who throw things around wildly like Patrick Mahomes doing shit nobody expects or believes. NONE of that means any disrespect to Bill Belichick, Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes. They are the best at what they do and I love how they do it.
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  5778.  @hplooi  I thought I basically said that, but you've added a great point. Its the institutions that are important. Here's a great quote. "Power accompanied by arrogance is very dangerous. Its particularly dangerous when men with no real experience have it - for they can abuse our great institutions." You'll be surprised by who said that and when. It was George Bush Senior during the Watergate Scandal (1972-74) to his sons, which was before he was VPOTUS and decades before Trump. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. I didn't hear that quote back then then. I only heard it recently, but its something that applies to ANY COUNTRY, even Australia where we just dumped a Prime Minister who was horribly arrogant. if you are wondering I saw that quote here at 6:47 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TImO_RquoW8
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  5779.  @nitinkumar29  I have worked with a number of German automation and engineering companies (Seimens, Kuka, Sick, Pilz,.........). I have had the discussion of manuals many, many times. Having also written many manuals and work site procedures I can tell you for a fact its a hard task. There are no classes or courses anywhere that teach that kind of technical writing. There are very few people who get it right and it took many, many years before I even started getting it right. Its also one of the least understood topics by management, but then most managers have little or no technical background.
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  5780.  @nitinkumar29  Your absolutely right about one thing. In technical and scientific writing you MUST NOT leave things open to interpretation unless that is a specific aim of what you're writing and its clear you're doing that. Procedures in particular have to be almost task for task, step by step perfect. I've done some very serious quality assurance procedures for electrical installations. They seem incredibly benign until you understand that they MAKE SURE the install is safe. Sadly you are also very right that its not taken seriously by management and that won't change soon because all managers are fundamentally trained that way at university.
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  5781. No Krystal you are wrong the Republicans do have a problem with cheating in elections. ITS SO UNFAIR when they cheat and then still lose. 👍😉
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  5782. It s not a matter of making him a victim its more a matter of perspective. Being honest there is NO DOUBT he has made money off his fathers name. BUT when you compare him to Jared and Ivanka he look pathetic. Its been reported that they made over $135million in 2018 while working inside the White House. That's around $500,000 EACH DAY compared to Hunters $50,000 A MONTH when he was in Ukraine. Comparing Hunter Biden to Jared and Ivanka is like comparing a 3 year old with his hand in the cookie jar and Bernie Madoff. Sure he needs tp pay his tax, pay a fine and not be an ass hole again. But its like comparing a paper cut to being shot. Seriously how do you compare $50k a month to $500k a day.
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  5783.  @go0b3rtron7  Go type it into google and you'll get dozens of articles to pick from. If I put up any of the articles I've read, you or anyone could easily dismiss the source. And there are different numbers from those sources because some add in different parts of their businesses. But one thing is consistent they used White House resources and/or were working form within the White House.
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  5784. Aerospace Engineer here - Its the difference between having a technology wrapped up in advertising hype versus having control of a marketplace irrespective of the technology or its real capability. Engineers see this all the time in various industries. Its one of those ongoing arguments we have with people who have business degrees. They don't care what the technology is or if it works. They only care about what they can make money with. Right now and for the foreseeable future AI DOES NOT AND WILL NOT DELIVER as per the advertising Hype. I just heard on another podcast claims General AI superintelligences are 4 years away. That's utter BULLSHlT for a string of reasons including the most basic fact that AI is fundamentally a simulation of thinking rather than actual thinking. HOWEVER in terms of control of the internet and what we see via promotions, recommendations and searches AI is going to dominate and with that control the information marketplace. Right below this comment is another complaining about the pollution of the Internet with AI generated content that's often misleading. Kyle Hill did a great video last year on the new science channels popping up loaded with AI generated garbage content. Most of them ac clickbait garbage often breaching copyright rules. But with AI people can create dozens of new channels each day with 100s of clickbait videos. They only need people to click those videos to make advertising money from YouTube. By the time YouTube can react to the copyright breaches the hosts have created 100s of new channels with 1,000s of AI generated content. Plus everyone needs to grasp the concept that there's a prevailing ideology among the tech-bros where they believe they are going to save humanity with technology. So we all need to understand that some of the advertising claims are borderline religious prophecy wrapped up in technology.
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  5785.  @peterboneg  You have just highlighted one of the greatest flaw in the "AI will save us debate." In the end NOBODY actually knows why it does what it does. Way back in the day Isaac Asimov wrote a book called I Robot. Its nothing like the Will Smith movie for which he will never be forgiven. Asimov was the guy who first wrote out a series of Laws that AI needed to follow for it to be safe to use BUT there were still allowances to adjust the behavior of the electronic brains. The actual book is a series of short stories where robo-psychologists try to explain the behavior of the that sometimes did things in unpredictable ways according to Asimov's 3 laws. What Asimov predicted is where we are at. These things we have created wont always do as expected.
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  5786.  @PeppaThePig-d5c  Its the difference between what they have now and can do with it. They can't go much further with what they have because its running into hardware limits and that's an actual physical limit. HOWEVER dominating World markets and social media and political influence is another thing entirely. They don't need new hardware for that they just need access from governments.
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  5787.  @neandrewthal  So who are you calling psychopathic and cult programmed. The people who follow expert advice and have run out of patience OR The clowns who ignore expert advice in favor the advice of fakes and frauds? Because to be part of a cult means you blindly follow after a FAKE or FRAUD.
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  5788. No you should always seek the advice of people with a wealth of experience. Who else would get advice from regarding the behavior of a sociopathic warmongering maniac than another sociopathic warmongering maniac. Does American media have any other sociopathic warmongering maniacs at hand??? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  5789.  @TrickOrRetreat  Don't be stupid. Here's American media seeking advice from a war criminal - DUH. And by the way psychologists do listen to insane people its how they gain knowledge and experience on the subject. Judges study case history and work as lawyers on cases and trials before becoming judges (at least in normal countries anyway). Imagine if people thought before the posted. 🤯
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  5790. This only proves how unbelievably pathetic CNN has become. They think a criminal like John Bolton is a credible commentator.
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  5791. Is it just me or do you think we'll start calling these kinds of "suicides" as Epstein's Syndrome?
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  5792. ATTENTION ALL: In Australia we were recently advised about the specifics of the Tic Tok app. Its owned by the Chinese Communist Party and HAS ZERO PRIVACY. It accesses your location and your photos. Everyone thought it was a harmless app for short dance vids. Its an addictive surveillance tool aimed at youth. For anyone interested here's the program it was on our equivalent of PBS Frontline a program called 4 Corners. Sorry its a longer vid but any and every parent in the western world should watch this -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwu5C8JWO_k
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  5793. I agree when you consider the hopeless lack of effective management of their own oil industry Maduro is simply doing a political "Look of there. Those people are the problem!" distraction from the reality of his own SHlTSHOW. He's made the most stupid mistake you can make. He picked a fight with America's oil industry.
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  5794. HEY SAL - From Australia (love the channel and just hyped you on Peter Zeihan's geopolitics channel) Since we understand the metric system better and also have to deal Americans we are fairly good at quick approximate conversions. if you understand the 3meters is very close to 10 feet (its actually 9.84252) then its simple. For meters to feet just divide by 3 (you don't need to be exact just close enough) and then add a zero. So 8.52986 meters divided by 3 is close to 2.8 (and a bit) which means 28ft and the precision is 27.98510499 Going the other way is equally simple divide feet by 10 and multiply by 3. 57 ft -> 5.7 x 3 = 15+2.1 = 17.1m and the precise answer is 17.34. Its NOT exact but a quick way to get close. Just remember going meters to feet it will tend to give a bigger number than exact and going feet to meters will give a smaller number than actual BUT either way you will be close enough in most cases.
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  5795. The 30 Years War was called the 30 Years war for a reason. The 100 Years War was called the 100 Years war for a reason. Forever Wars are called Forever Wars for a reason.
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  5796. Her behavior would not be tolerated in most of the civilized world. MORE IMPORTANTLY civilized societies DO NOT put them onto important committees. I'm Australian and we do have these kinds sneaking into government just go look up Pauline Hanson. BUT we don't put them on important committees like education. Its a basic function of all societies that if you don't educate your children you don't survive. Even in the most basic hunter gatherer society if you don't train your children to hunt and gather you starve. If you don't train them to light a fire you freeze. If you don't train them to avoid dangers they die. No country can put someone like this onto the main education committee for their nation and expect to survive. What's crazy is that she actually went to college (Georgia Bulldogs) and got a degree. At some point she had functioning brain cells. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5797.  @shaneross6242  I can't speak for any other country but I can say with reasonable certainty she would not YET be headed for jail in Australia (emphasis on YET). She'd be very close, particularly for the way she harassed that Parkland student if he's still a minor. Her denials of events that are factual would run very close to "hate speech" laws and possibly past them. For certain no major party we have would touch her for fear of the backlash.
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  5798. I'm Australian and we just won the 2032 games. NO ONE ELSE BID and nobody is asking why? We have plenty of idiots celebrating and making it out to be a good thing. Some of those idiots a have even started the lies. The worst is the claim that 80% of the venues are already built. That's just idiotic garbage. I am currently in Brisbane. I have lived here previously and there is NO WAY they even 25% of the venues and those they do have will need major upgrades before 2032. If Japan is a massive financial failure it only joins the financial failures of others. As a kid I watched the 1976 Montreal games. To the best of my knowledge they have never recovered the costs. 1980 in Moscow was a success because they had cheap labor which also gave Seoul in 1988 an advantage. LA & Atlanta were held in cities with massive sports facilities and massive universities with huge dorms they could use for the athletes village. Barcelona already had a couple of major stadiums. London already had all those football stadiums and the rest of the facilities. Beijing like Seoul and Moscow just had all that cheap labor to build what ever they wanted. Brisbane has 2 main stadiums the Gabba (oval shaped) at 42,000 and Suncorp (rectangular) at 52,500. Neither of those are up to Olympic standard which needs to be around the 80,000 mark. Brisbane held the 1982 Commonwealth games and did a great job. Every since they felt that justified they could host the Olympics. Brisbanites TOTALLY ignore all the extra sports the Olympics have and all the extra athletes and support staff and the extra media. They are planning to spend $1Billion upgrading the Gabba from 42,000 to 50,000 and don't get that's a joke by Olympic Standards. PLUS there's the lesson of Sydney they have already forgotten. It still hasn't been paid for and will most likely NEVER recoup the money spent. Why did one else bid for 2032? Because they were awake.
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  5799.  @connorw360  Just FK-off with that crap. The subject here is the Olympics not some garbage that's totally unrelated.
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  5800. "Train Wreck America" the worlds most popular reality show. Maybe that's why Kanye should have been President. Who better that his Wife Kim K. to advise him on running the worlds most tasteless reality show. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5801. Actually NOBODY should ever get a Nobel Prize of Economics every again. First off, its NOT A REAL NOBEL. It was never instituted by Alfred Nobel or any member of his family. In fact members of the Nobel family have said they want it stopped. It was actually instituted and funded by a Swedish Bank and its fairly obvious why. It gave economists a staggering amount of credibility. I basically its a fake award meant to give credibility to a profession that otherwise wouldn't have any. Its enabled lobbyists to approach any government and say "Here you should do this, because look what the Nobel Prize winning economist has to say."
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  5802. @ I didn't say he lived in America I said he was a typical American analyst. DO DlCKHEADS LIKE YOU EVER READ what other people say.
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  5803. ​ @Jeff-q4u  Aerospace engineer here - PLEASE can everyone STOP mentioning metals and minerals on asteroids & comets. We worked out decades ago that asteroids and comets could NOT supply Earth with anything in a practical way. Its simply the costs of getting there and getting back. The only space resource anyone has even come remotely close to being practical is Helium-3 from the Moon BUT that would only be practical if we had Helium-3 fusion reactors to use it. So far we haven't made any nuclear fusion reactor work in a positive power mode let alone a He-3 one. As for the rest of Elon's Mars fantasy that's also just another wild claim of his that's a great distraction. Its not that we can't get there or get back its keeping the crew alive. Its a funny thing but humans need breathable air, edible food and a way to process human waste. It surprises people that we still don't know how to keep people alive on long duration space missions AWAY from the Earth. Too many think its just something to do and its just not that simple. As for Jeff Bezos plan (or idea) to process things like iron ore in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) those are as equally insane as going to Mars. In that case its the actual volume of iron ore we mine each year. It wouldn't take a few 1,000 rockets each year it would take more like a 1,000s each day. Most people do not realise we dig up over 2.5 billion tons of iron ore each year and the biggest rocket currently planned (Starship Block III) has a limit of 200 tons to orbit. We'd need 12.5 million Starship launches a year or more than 34,000 a day. Sorry but some of the crap these clowns keep telling people really are fantasy land stuff.
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  5804. yeah like so many of the major companies and political parties they just keep thinking that what worked in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s still works in the 21st century. There was a great comment last week about why the Russians had not been able to just take Ukraine. "Putin built a great powerful well equipped army for the 20th century. He just forgot its the 21st Century" Why are all the established traditional political parties failing everywhere? Its the same thing they are mind stuck in the 20th century. In almost every direction we turn right now there's a pack of baby boomers controlling everything in the false dream that we are still in another century.
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  5805. @Kevin Michael Best comment I have seen this month.
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  5806. That's what also happened in North America. The coal found in Southern Illinois and surrounding regions is high in Sulphur. It was very cheap to mine but with the wind patterns from that region it ended up damaging the Canadian Maple Syrup industry via Acid Rain.
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  5807. EVERYONE SHOULD GO AND WATCH the PBS Frontline on the 2008 GFC and the reasons why the DOJ did not prosecute the Wall Street CEOs. I'll get to why this is important. Lanny Breuer, Eric Holders (2IC) and the lead on the cleaning up after the GFC straight up admits to the camera that they couldn't do it for "economic reasons." Yes the guys who gave the world the GFC that cost you me and the rest of the planet $17 Trillion (by some estimates and over $40T on others) got off because of economic reasons. WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT - Because the 2 guys in the Whitehouse - Obama and Biden were/are both lawyers. Obama went to Harvard and then was a professor at U of Chicago's Law School and he could NOT manage America's legal issues. Basically this rot in the American justice system goes back a long way and is now so cancerous it risks the entire US System and that has grave consequences for the rest of the world. I'm Australian and we are lining up to buy submarines from a country we might NOT be able to depend on because the President is either senile or too temperamental. Other than what Australia has with submarines, the single most important thing for Americans to get is that ever since Breton Woods back in 1944 the US Dollar has been the World's Reserve Currency. Fairly much all of global trade is either done in US Dollars or the money exchanges are backed by US Dollars. So if the US Dollar becomes unstable because America puts another maniac or senile old man in the Whitehouse then all of global trade is at risk. All Krystal has said is "the Democrats can do the same thing the Republicans did with Reagan and it will all be Okay!" Sorry girl but the world wasn't at war when Reagan was in office and besides that there were people doing some seriously stupid stuff during that time - like the Iran-Contra deal. SORRY - Krystal the Reagan thing didn't work. America needs a real leader in the Whitehouse. Democrat, Republican or something else IS YOUR CHOICE. Just don't forget the rest of the world has TO DEAL WITH YOUR CHOICE.
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  5808.  @sassyviking6003  Na didn't miss it just didn't think it was funny
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  5809. FROM THE TRANSCRIPT AT 0:26 "it is interesting to see how under scrutiny when people really take the look at these bills how brilliantly the single-payer plan stands out" The highlight is mine and I deleted the 2 "uhs" to make what she said clear.
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  5810.  @WEREFEAT003  In what way is that greedy psychopath Hilary Clinton a Marxist??? If your going to slander that cow then use your words properly. Besides most of those clowns who preached Marxism and Leninism have been proven to BE WRONG in so many ways that to take anything they said (or still say) without clarification to be idiotic. Your also forgetting how people twist things to mean whatever they like. In a few ways Marx wasn't that different to Adam Smith in that he thought the elite of his day who were mercantilists were out of control much they way we see our current oligarchs as out of control.
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  5811. I'm Australian - do you think we are any different? I was working in Canada a couple of years ago. When it came to politics it was like living in Australia only with snow! 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Go watch DW or BBC and its the same everywhere across western democratic societies.
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  5812. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  5813. I only did Psych 101 in college because It was an easy humanities class as I worked my ass off through aerospace engineering. I can't say I remember that much but I do believe that this sad example of humanity is what we label a narcissistic sociopath. If any of you did more than Psych 101 and can clarify that further then please do.
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  5814. Vice President Henry A. Wallace wrote in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  5815. Go and watch the 2004 Documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" towards the end was a warning/prediction that as Rupert Murdoch dragged his media further and further into the gutter ALL THE OTHER media outlets would inevitably do the same thing to keep their viewers engaged. That was 20 years ago, long before the YouTube & Social media issue we now see, but its surreal to now watch this happen in real time. Just yesterday I watched Ian Bremmer talk about 2024s 10 biggest risks. One of those was the NEGATIVE effects of AI the worst of which is how our lives are becoming dominated by algorithms that decide what we'll read, watch and hear. What did David say about the clickbait titles all being driven by "the algorithm?"
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  5816. A few years ago I saw this by writer Rick Reilly about his book "Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump" Trumps fundamental mental issue is that he has cheated at everything he's ever done and considers that NORMAL human behavior. In his mind the only way he could have lost is if "they" cheated. Here's Rick Reilly and is explains everything -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIiaFMOfbwY
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  5817.  @rudebee15  Agreed. it also happened in Britain where Boris basically killed off any challengers which was why Liz Truss was all that was left standing. Our parties here in Australia (on BOTH SIDES) are notorious for killing off their own talent pool to prevent challengers. Then they hit a point where there's nothing but idiots left and they crash and burn in spectacular fashion and then whine about how it turned out. My bet is that's going to happen in America in about 2-3 years. Trump will kill off anything that challenges him or gets attention because he's that narcissistic. At some point there will only be incompetent people running things and it will be a disaster of epic proportions. Another aspect of the same thing is the Neoliberal drive to replace senior government people with consultants. They end up destroying the careers of so many experienced people that it always ends in tears.
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  5818. Back in the early 1700s when the British were going head to head with the Spanish in the War of the Spanish Succession and they needed more men and more ships they started enlisting and paying what they called "privateers." This wasn't the first time in history that a state or nation had employed mercenaries, but it was the first time a major global power had done it at that sort of scale and over such a vast area. It worked really well right up until the British and Spanish signed a peace treaty and ended their war (1715). In a heartbeat all those "privateers" became unemployed BUT still had their ships, cannons, pistols,... etc. It didn't go well for anyone and the "privateers" found new employment as pirates. Most people know about the pirates in the Caribbean but they also rampaged across the Indian Ocean, the North American eastern seaboard, and the West African coast. They go so bad that these once loyal defenders of the British Empire became labelled Hostis humani generis (Latin for 'an enemy of mankind'). Note: the American's also tried this style of war in Iraq and Afghanistan with outfits like Blackwater. It didn't go well and bad things happened like the Nisour Square massacre in 2007. One day governments will work out that todays "privateer" is tomorrows pirate and end up costing a lot more.
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  5819. I don't know: How crazy is it that people think the media OF ALL KINDS tell the REAL TURTH about anything? How crazy is it that people believe Elon Musk will set up a colony on Mars in the next few years? How crazy is it that people believe AI really can think and is going to save the world? How crazy is it that people think UNQUALIFIED social media clowns are good for medical advice? How crazy is it that people think giving the billionaire class everything they want is going to be a good thing? How crazy is it that people think politicians actually care about them? The real plague of the 21st century isn't COVID its Dunning-Kruger syndrome?
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  5820.  @mypillowguy445  Publicly available for sure, BUT NOT publicly discussed or we would have been having this conversation 12 months ago.
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  5821.  @lisarenna2023  You've hit 2 really important points. 1: Which email - there's around 10,000. 2" No one actually has a definitive answer at the moment. Just like so many things today there's NOT a definitive answer and might never be a definitive answer. I don't know about you but I get so frustrated when people demand definitive answers to complex problems OR when people take advantage of the lack of a definitive answer. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5822.  @devinspencer1678  I don't disagree with that at all but under the circumstances when Dr. Fauci was unequivocal in stating that there was no gain of function research funded he should clarify what these projects were. In this climate where there is so little trust fueled by the ranting of both social and news media it hasn't helped. People will try and fill in the gaps and look what that does. Even when people agree they're arguing over details. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5823.  @kevinkanter2537  Finally - You've hit it right. Its what I have been trying to get people to see. We HAVEN'T had the discussion we should have had and its due to the culture war that's bee raging. This culture war now has real casualties. How many lives might have been spared and damage NOT happen if this hadn't been dragged down into it? What I can't believe right now there are media people wanting to keep it part of the culture war and use it to keep fueling public outrage from both sides. WTF is wrong with these people?
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  5824. WRONG TITLE: It should say "Billionaires HAVE taken over the world. How to we take it back from them?" We are well past the point where they are taking control. They already have it. Almost EVERY government policy in the Western World fits this basic narrative: "We, the elected government who promised A, B, C,.... etc. would now like to deliver on those promises BUT WHAT DO THE BILLIONAIRES RECOMMEND WE ACTUALLY DO?"
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  5825. Why is anyone surprised? Milton Freidman the man who coined the term "Greed is Good" also had at the cornerstone of his ideology the following "There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” If you go and look up that quote you'll find a McKinsey article titled "from-there-to-here-50-years-of-thinking-on-the-social-responsibility-of-business" you'll see one of the greatest proponents of this ideology explain why its so good. If you look closely you'll also see how they have cleverly edited that quote because the full quote is actually "There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud” If you scroll down that page at McKinsey it quotes the following from Freidman "In a free-enterprise, private-property system, a corporate executive is an employee of the owners of the business. He has direct responsibility to his employers. That responsibility is to conduct the business in accordance with their desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible while conforming to their basic rules of the society, both those embodied in law and those embodied in ethical custom." So even Freidman who was a malignant narcissist recognised there were LIMITS to what the rest of society would tolerate. After all there's historical precedents like the French and Russian Revolutions where the lower class basically hit their limits and tore the aristocracies down to the ground.
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  5826. What ANOTHER mainstream media personality putting ratings, attention and their public image first while not giving a damn about facts, ethics or integrity. In what way is anyone supposed to be surprised. When Trump started the "Fake Media" garbage he got away with it because the mainstream media was ALREADY garbage. He never had to prove the mainstream media was garbage, we already knew, he just took advantage of it and weaponized it and fed it his own version of Crystal Meth.
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  5827. That's a shame because it was so much fun when it was called the Chewbacca defense.
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  5828. @eddieisfiction Your absolutely right, but there was a significant change AFTER Rupert Murdoch bought Fox. In that it combined Murdoch (who is a sociopath and absolutely loved Regan and Reaganomics and libertarianism almost to the point where he's in the Koch camp) and Roger Ailes (who is in the Koch Libertarian camp). Don't forget one of the Koch brothers ran against Reagan because he thought Reagan was too far to the left. FYI - I am Australian and we knew what Murdoch was like before he left Australia and moved to Britain. AND the Brits knew what he was like before he moved to America and bought Fox. I have been trying to REMIND people of the ominous warnings that were given in the documentary Outfoxed (from 2004). NOBODY should be surprised where this form of "information or infotainment service has gone." Here go look for the warnings about dragging all the other media services down into the gutter with them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P74oHhU5MDk
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  5829. Its all kind of stupid as he hasn't yet been convicted and you are all still forgetting that NO TRIAL IS GUARANTEED He was impeached twice on crystal clear evidence and McConnell and the GOP just simply said NO - we don't care. All it takes is 1 person on a jury to stall it all out. If he actually does get convicted it will either be home detention or he will go to the same country club they sent Jared Kushner's father Charles.
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  5830. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  5831.  @charlestongren2860  Don't say I am incorrect say what you think I am incorrect about. I said Vincent was wrong about China doing research into Corona viruses and why and then provided evidence. You and a few others have gone all tribal and NOT ONE of you has said anything providing any evidence let alone a viable argument. Its this endless tribal screaming at what people don't like and acting like 5 year olds that's caused all this shite storm we live in. You do realize that the Chinese published papers proves beyond all doubt that it was never a weapons program and that the Trumpist and QAnon clowns were stupid. Think about it - would the Chinese let their scientists publish papers about a bio-weapon program? But what's emerging is that there are parts of the virology research industry that have been operating without scrutiny for a while AND there are people who don't want scrutiny over their work. I have done postgrad research in engineering and seen how crazy hyper-intelligent people can be. Did you watch the DW documentary and hear what they made back in 2011? Go listen to some other experts and get some perspective -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0nuyPQzU18
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  5832.  @berry6467  Be careful, women love to tell men we should get to know and understand their issues better, BUT IF WE DO, they have a tendency not to take it well if we start to know too much.
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  5833. Well this is what America gets for voting in narcissistic ideologically driven maggots and then voting them in again and again and NEVER HOLDING THEM ACCOUNTABLE. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I think the US Constitution is one of the greatest achievements in human history. Its just a shame that 330 million Americans either don't care enough to protect it or just want to tear it up or worst of all use it as a weapon against their neighbors.
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  5834.  @asapmimic1289  So what is the full story since you seem to be so KNOWLEDGABLE? Go and Google "texas teen dead abortion" Her name was Nevaeh Crain and she was 18 years old. She'd been sent home form 2 hospitals and then finally on the third hospital visit they did an ultrasound and confirmed the baby had died and she needed an abortion. She died a few hours later. ANYONE CAN FIND THOSE BASIC FACTS IN SECONDS.
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  5835.  @bosmith1820  It will take some time but Tucker's now destined for obscurity unless another billionaire takes up his cause. Tucker's also forgetting that Rupert's a vengeful creature to say the least. Tucker's emails & texts cost Rupert a lot of money and anyone who knows Rupert knows he gonna get even.
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  5836.  @apz202  That's actually a fair statement. Tucker Carlson is far from irrelevant. In fact as far as America's future goes SHlT stirring scum like TC are very sadly relevant. Because while they stir up all the SHlT and RAGE and DIVISION they do then America can't get on and fix any of its issues.
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  5837. Sorry to debunk this but it was covered as a BS story among the British Tabloids on ABC Australia's media watch program. Putin has displayed most of these mannerisms (like tapping his foot) all through his career and some have speculated on them in the past and been found WRONG. Its here starting at 14:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_DK7Pi7buI
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  5838. Actually go and check what the pilot said. Its been reported he also said he knew nothing about uyoung girls being transported for sex and that they were accompanied by parents or adults. Problem is the girls like Virginia Giuffre never said anything like they were flying abut with their parents. So part of what he said is just NOT TRUE.
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  5839. AUSTRALAIN HERE: Same is so true here. There's an American report by there Congressional Budget Office on family wealth 1989-2019. It was commissioned by Bernie Sanders and was an update to an earlier report that only went up to 2013. I have checked it against what Australian wealth distribution data I can and found our situation to be very similar. If you google "congressional budget office family wealth" you can not only find the report but there's also all the data for all the graphs available. The single most important graph is the very first one which at a glance shows that overall society is much wealthier but it also shows that the wealth growth has been among the top 10% and Middle 40% while the Bottom 50% has gone nowhere for 30 years. But that's not the most amazing aspect of that graph. Comparing the 2010 data to 2007 shows the effect of the 2007-08 GFC. Comparing the 2019 data back to 2007 shows what happened during the decade after the GFC and how well people recovered. The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of their wealth in the GFC and by 2019 were over 21% MORE wealthy than they were in 2007. The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of their wealth in the GFC and by 2019 were almost 5% MORE wealthy than they were in 2007. The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC and by 2019 were STILL DOWN OVER 21%. So the people who caused the GFC and were bailed out with US$4 Trillion from Bush, another US$4 Trillion from Obama (but he did get about US$1 Trillion back) and then got Tax cuts worth US$3.5 Trillion from Trump WERE (collectively) UP by US$20.3 Trillion which has only grown more since. The Middle 40% (with 4 times as many people) were up by US$3.7 Trillion which is probably nice EXCEPT the total combined wealth of the Bottom 50% as of (2019) just US$2.3Trillion. YES in the 245 years (1776-2019) half of the American population has gathered a combined wealth (US$2.3 Trillion) that is LESS than what the Middle 40% made (US$3.7 Trillion) during the recovery after the GFC. But that is nothing compared to the US$20.1 Trillion made by the Top 10% in the same decade. That data is also irrefutable because its from the Congressional Budget Office and if they lie or mislead then they are lying to or misleading Congress and that's a criminal offense in America. That's why I use/quote that data.
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  5840. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Like many engineers I am TIRED of clowns promoting garbage to the public that we then have to explain and explain and explain why its not possible or it won't work. This crap and nonsense is going on constantly, with scammer after scammer promoting the next thing and wasting everyone's time and money. Just the other day I had some ignorant clown tell me that here in Australia we ALREADY HAVE a couple of Small Modular Reactors operating. Funny thing is NONE of the companies involved in SMRs are saying anything other than they HOPE to have them available by the mid 2030s. According to this clown somehow Australia has time warped in a couple of SMRs. As an aerospace engineer I hear all sorts of nonsense from terraforming Mars (which is simply a fantasy), to Jewish or Chinese Space lasers causing grass fires to hypersonic missiles that manoeuvre and dance around the sky AND ITS ALL BULLSHIT. What Thunder00t is doing with these basic calculations of HOW MUCH IS NEEDED is what I call planetary mechanics. Along with my classmates we were introduced to this by a NASA engineer who did a guest lecture one day. He'd just finished a project for NASA on what it would take to terraform Mars. Once NASA realised just how much stuff (like air) is needed to cover a planet they gave up on the idea of EVER terraforming Mars. But 35 years later there are millions of Elon Musk fans who think they will be going to Mars to terraform it. DID you notice for this proposal the team leader is an Architect? If Architects knew how much engineers HATE THEM. Other than a few of the very best architects who know what their designs do to the people who have to make them, the vast majority of architects are PROBLEM CREATORS. The worst part of their attitude is THEY KNOW they are creating problems for other people to deal with.
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  5841.  @sherylhoward4831  Well said that's the word people need to start using. To the best of my knowledge (and I am not a lawyer) its NOT treason because treason is when you side with a foreign entity against your government. Sedition is when you try and undermine your government and or organize against the government rather than replace it. I have actually asked a couple of real lawyers who post here on YouTube (Glenn Kirshner and Legal Eagle) and hopefully 1 or both will clarify it shortly.
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  5842.  @dianmobo  YouTube has kept flagging pro-Trump pages and some of the comments are beyond fantasy. Messianic might be a better term as there are some who actually believe he was sent by God. Genuine proper scary stuff.
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  5843.  @sherylhoward4831  Glenn Kirshner's channel --> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrWmonkmTk5NbvmVnc7f70w FYI - he was a JAG and then a Federal Prosecutor who even tried murder cases. The guy has genuine street cred.
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  5844.  @sherylhoward4831  Glenn Kirshner's channel --> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrWmonkmTk5NbvmVnc7f70w FYI - he was a JAG and then a Federal Prosecutor who even tried murder cases. The guy has genuine street cred.
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  5845.  @dianmobo  Well the clown screaming and ranting here has a real problem here in the REAL WORLD. There is this thing called sedition which is defined as --> conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch. Americans have a certain amount of protection by virtue of the 1st Amendment in that you are allowed to express opinions, which is not guaranteed in any other country like it is in America. BUT these people are calling for the overthrow and imprisonment of legally elected officials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition I'm not a lawyer and I have asked a couple properly qualified lawyers who have channels on YouTube (Glenn Kirshner and Legal Eagle) about when does this cross the line into sedition if it hasn't already crossed that line.
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  5846.  @dianmobo  Did you see the Republican official from Georgia who came and told them to just stop it before someone gets hurt?
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  5847.  @dianmobo  FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship. So I have a slightly different take on this. There's a lot of American people I care about and am really worried about. Do I think that the vast majority of Americans want to see their country torn abort - HELL NO. But right now there are (by some reports) about 48million who we should expect own guns and they are being wound up like nothing we have seen in western society since the 1930s. I don't think its a matter of if something ugly will happen its just when and how big or small it will be. We have people here who are just as crazy (as every country does) but we're lucky they don't have easy access to guns. I have seen stories where gun shops are running out of ammunition to sell. I know Biden is waiting for December 14 and the electoral college vote but he needs to be speaking out now. He needs to be reminding those EC people to vote as per the rules. He needs to be calling Trump a liar and a fraud NOW. He needs to be warning Trump that illegal Pardons will be challenged. In fact there is a way around that process - impeachment. Pelosi and co need to impeach Trump, Kushner, Ivanka, Barr, McEnany, Pompeo.... because by the time the senate meets they might have control and better still you cannot be pardoned from impeachment convictions - they are absolute. One of the YT lawyers (Glenn Kirshner) explained that a couple of weeks ago.
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  5848. Go watch the interview Scaramucci just did with Russ Buettner, and Susanne Craig who just wrote a book titled Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success They utterly expose Trumps narrative of the "successful businessman."
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  5849.  @herrschaftg35  be careful so many make claims about the scientific method and then totally ignore what they learned in high school.
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  5850. I just checked its 5-Sept-2021 a few weeks later and they still haven't given the official cause which might explain it.
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  5851. AUSTRALIAN with an observation: The Lesson learned from 2024 is that the Clinton-Obama-Ivy League clown show that runs the Dumocrats is INCAPABLE OF LEARNING FROM THEIR MISTAKES. AND SO YOU ALL KNOW - in early 2019 Australian Labor (our Left) LOST an easily winnable election to the LNP (our Right) and then in late 2019 British Labor (their Left) LOST an easily winnable election to the Torries (their Right) running an almost identical campaign strategy to Australian Labor. Lots of policies that they simply believed & expected the entire population to vote for WITHOUT any explanation WHY. It was eerily similar to Hilary Clinton's LOSING strategy - remember when she claimed she didn't need to campaign in Michigan because they'd vote for her anyway???? So I asked some Brits here on YouTube on the BBC channel WTF was going on. One of them replied - British Labor like Australian Labor used campaign advisors from Clintons 2016 campaign. These people who have now lost or failed in AT LEAST 4 major recent elections - Hilary 2016, Australia 2019, Britain 2019 and Harris 2024. Plus lets NOT forget what actually happened in 2020. Biden might have won the Whitehouse but the Dumocrats were belted in the House, failed to win the Senate and got smashed in the state elections. YES WE KNOW. Plus through some of the worst failures of political leadership the US Supreme Court along with significant portions of the US justice system is now broken. YES WE KNOW ABOUT THAT TOO. What many Americans DO NOT realise is that your campaign advisors, consultants and strategists travel the world going from election to election to election to election to election to election to election to election to election.................. So when YOU here people say things like "Stop interfering in our elections!" this is one of the things we mean. Just so you guys also know the US State Department also funds programs in Think Tanks around the world. I discovered this because our Think Tanks (by Law) have to publicly disclose their funding. By chance I discovered that one of the main think Tanks here in Australia ASPI that advises our government on MILITARY POLICY also gets funding from the US State Department.
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  5852. Vice President Henry A. Wallace in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  5853. I hear people in Chicago are now calling his team "Da Grifts"
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  5854. Your absolutely right but right wingers only hear what they want to hear anything else is noise. Their hypocrisy is heading into very dangerous territory. Everything they accuse others of they do right our faces. That sort of hypocrisy eventually gets very ugly responses. Its like the brat in grade school who enjoys niggling people. They poke and prod and niggle always trying to get a reaction. Everyone in while they push too far and get thumped. When that happens they squeal about how its all so unfair. Those kids grow up to be Republicans.
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  5855. Well then you have utterly no idea how to do research.
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  5856. Just a note of caution the RT network is funded by the Government of Russia. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network) Not I saying I disagree with what JV is saying at all in what he is saying, in fact I think he's is absolutely right. If you can't live on $1million a month then you have a problem. BUT that RT logo on his jacket is owned by the Russian Government.
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  5857. If Americans believe in democracy its a no brainer. Did or did not the American people introduce POTUS as "Leader of the Free World" and the "Champion of Democracy" for the entire cold war and afterwards? Funny how America fought Wars in Korea and Vietnam and other places in the "Name of Democracy" and yet have denied democracy to Puerto Rico the entire time AND STILL DO. Maybe the rest of the world should put sanctions on America unless they give Puerto Rico FULL democratic representation.
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  5858.  @darylfoster7944  That is one of the great questions. Why aren't we already triple glazing every one of those giant glass boxes? To be honest I don't know, but then common sense and corporate decisions don't always line up.
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  5859.  @darylfoster7944  On putting electric or hybrid drivetrains into legacy cars. You're right there is absolutely no incentive for existing car manufacturers to supply new drive trains. They make their money selling new cars not parts for cars. I worked in the Australian auto industry when we had one and as far as they were concerned they hate spare parts. That hate having to make them, they hate having to store them and they hate having to supply them. Its why they charge so much and why its so profitable to take wrecked cars and strip them of good parts that can be re-sold. But since Australia no longer has a car industry it actually makes sense for us to develop an electric and hybrid electric upgrade industry. In a country like Japan with their laws on vehicle ownership it makes no sense. In America and Europe it makes sense to have some industry developed as PART of an overall strategy, but not have it be the main solution. If you did you'd kill the existing manufacturing base causing mass unemployment and that's the economic disaster everyone needs to avoid. These are things each country needs to look at and work out what's best for them, but we all need to work on it.
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  5860.  @darylfoster7944  On lithium you need to take comments by Elon Musk the way any sensible person does and consider it bullshite. After working in manufacturing I went to the mining sector where I have been for most of the last 20 years. Everyone thinks mineral extraction is like what you see on Alaskan gold mining shows - ITS NOT. Gold is one of the very few metals that exists as metal most form oxides and other compounds. The weirdest and funniest story I have was my introduction on an Alumina refinery. They simply told a room full of people that if we couldn't handle being stripped naked and held under a cold shower for 1/2 and hour to FK-OFF and they were that blunt. To dissolve the aluminum out of bauxite you use caustic soda at temperatures over 140C (280F) and high pressure. If any of that gets on you then you are under a cold shower immediately or you're FKD. I also worked on mine sites where the power station burns sulphur. Sulphur burns like coal except you get SO2 not CO2. With a catalytic converter you get SO3 and mix that with 100% pure water to get H2SO4 better known as sulphuric acid. You then use the H2SO4 to dissolve the nickel, copper,... out of the ore. I have been on sites where the H2SO4 was 100% pure, which freaked me out until the chemistry boys explained how it works. So trust me I know how much Elon is full of shite on the subject.
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  5861. Why can't any of these idiotic journalists do some basic fact checking. What really hurt Concorde wasn't the technology or noise or costs - it was 9/11. This was all made clear on a documentary that a group of the pilots help make. FIRST Concorde made money, in fact for most of its life it was British Airways most profitable division. After losing buckets at first British Airways were going to cancel the entire program and the pilots challenged management that they had the ticketing wrong because the planes were MOSTLY FULL. Management challenged the pilots to run it better which they then did for more than 25 years (and profitably). The first thing they did was one of the great exercises in market research. they found they had a group of lawyers and bankers using Concorde several times a week. Those people flew across the Atlantic for sensitive document and contract signings. So they changed the ticket price to what that group believed a Concorde ticket was worth. The original pricing was based on standard subsonic flights. The tickets they were initially selling were grossly under valued. The main users of Concorde were business people for who time was very serious money. The cost of jumping on Concorde flying across the Atlantic for a quick meeting and then flying back were worth it for the type of business those people did. SECOND what really hurt Concorde was that over 50 of its top 100 users died in the Twin Towers on 9/11. THIRD what killed of Concorde wasn't the accident but Airbus who owned all the technology rights refusing to maintain Concorde so they could sell more of the normal aircraft. Don't ask for the logic on that. FOURTH Concorde was NEVER outdated because nothing else came along that was better at doing what it did AND STILL HASN'T.
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  5862. Sportswriter Rick Reilly wrote a book "Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump" Here's a book talk he gave. I could describe it but its better if you watch it. There's nothing Kyle said here that even begins to detail how much Trump cheats. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIiaFMOfbwY
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  5863. HEY DAVE INSTEAD OF YET ANOTHER LOOK HOW TERRIBLE HERSCHEL WALKER IS VID. How about you show just one video of something or anything Raphael Warnock has done or said. Your the guy who raged about "toxic sport politics." So why don't you do something, anything positive.
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  5864.  @basiliskos119  HELLL NO YOU M0R0N Herschel Walker needs to be under medical supervision of people with expertise in CTE. But that does not excuse David, Seder, Kulinski, Ball and others doing vid after vid about how bad he is while not doing anything to promote what Warnock stands for. I haven't seen one of them interview Warnock or any of his people. This is the stupidity of Democrat campaign strategy. Just standing there complaining about the GOP candidates DOES NOT WORK. How many time do you idiots want to lose to clowns before you get it?
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  5865.  @ecstanton  What do you expect. 63 million people thought Trump was worth it in 2016 and then and extra 11 million thought he was so great they wanted another 4 years. America doesn't need to fear Russian nukes or Islamic terrorists, when it has the GOP doing more damage.
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  5866.  @alexandradaniele  Hey DK-HED Can you actually read or are you as illiterate as WALKER? Before you make your next stupid comment actually READ what people say.
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  5867. HEY LEGAL EAGLE: You claim Trump has NO "S-Tier" Lawyers, but I thought all his Lawyers were SHlT! Its would also explain why he goes through them like toilet paper. What else do you use to wipe up SHlT?
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  5868. DOES IT ACTUALLY MATTER? Does it really matter if is was the bullet or some shrapnel or something else? The fact is someone did try and shoot Trump and the fact is they failed but something did hit Trump AND THEN Trump got up and fist pumped the air yelling "Fight" AND NOW EVERYONE who can is milking the story for all its worth. Trump's fans are claiming God saved him but then they ignore that Corey Comperatore is dead. So does their God not care about volunteer firefighters? The then there's the family of Thomas Crooks, what are they meant to think of this? Maybe, and its just a thought, everyone should take a moment and remember that 2 families are trying to deal with the loss of more than some skin of their ear.
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  5869. For anyone doubting this go and watch the interview with Rachel Reeves with Rory Stewart & Alistair Campbell. Its BEFORE she became Chancellor of the Exchequer. But during that interview she spoke economics straight from the Margret Thatcher playbook. Anyone who's watched any of Stephanie Kelton's explanations of MMT knows that Margret Thatcher likened the British Economy to a household and that you needed to "tax before you spend" Go listen to how many times Rachel Reeves makes that same claim.
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  5870.  @diabl2master  Its almost identical to what happened in Australia. I'm an engineer who's been informally studying economics for a while because I wanted to know WHY our energy sector wasn't building any new power stations. Its actually a consequence of Neoliberal privatisation ideology. One of the things I found was it doesn't matter who anybody votes for these days ECONOMICS don't change. This is part of why Trump got elected. The "more of the same" mentality is why established parties everywhere are being dumped for radicals BOTH Left & Right. Almost every politician is either an economist or has an economics advisor and the only thing that's been taught in Economics education for the last 40years is Neoliberal Market Economics. So there's only 1 theme in any discussion no matter who's speaking. PLUS we all have INDEPENDENT central banks which are run by economists. This is why no matter who gets elected NOTHING CHANGES. If you go watch the interview Rachel Reeves gave on the YT Channel Leading with Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell. She was spouting PURE Margret Thatcherism masked as something NEW.
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  5871.  @MrMarinus18  good point
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  5872. Did I miss something. When did Chris Wallace join CNN/MSNBC and when did they explain Manchin was McConnell's long lost brother?
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  5873. Sadly it would be about the same because if he had have tried they would have blocked him in congress. Don't forget Obama had a super majority when he took office and he could NOT bring in health care or end the wars or close the prison at Gitmo as he promised. All he could do was give another $4 Trillion to the banks just like Dubya had to help recover from the 2008 GFC.
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  5874.  @daves5623  Go look at what happened with the tobacco industry. Even to this day they still wont openly admit what they did. Further to that the climate denial campaigns are run by the same people out of the same think tanks - Heritage Foundation, CATO Institute,.... etc. Sociopaths don't care.
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  5875.  @paideepak30  ONLY BECAUSE they are all HYPOCRITES. What separates out one politician from the next is the DEGREE of their hypocrisy and Gore was a long way from the top of the list.
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  5876. I heard there was this Swedish teenager who upset a lot of people when she pointed out the stupidity of believing in the "fairytales of eternal economic growth." I think this is her -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMrtLsQbaok (00:50)
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  5877.  @kethughes8266  Well Vietnam was a police action!! Politicians always have an "alternative label." I even once heard that Bill Clinton called it "Oral validation of instructions given by the Commander in Chief."
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  5878.  @kethughes8266  I'm Australian and had a thorough education in British Politics via 3 seasons of Yes Minister and 2 seasons of Yes Prime Minister. Go look up - Officially Official or Sir Humphrey Appleby on the Proper Function of Government and its follow up The Rhodesia Solution
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  5879.  @kethughes8266  Also look up Yes, Prime Minister - The need to know
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  5880.  @kethughes8266  And even better Sir Humphrey explains Brexit
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  5881. OH FARK can't any of you clowns get why they fall for this stuff? Its called anger and frustration which is a deadly combination. In Germany the general population were totally screwed while a handful of rich people had everything. In a fit of rage they handed their country over to Hitler and the Nazis. Go and look at the French and Russian revolutions. The French handed their country to Robespierre who went on a rampage known as "The Reign or Terror" where he didn't sack people he just publicly guillotined them. The Russians simply handed their country over to Stalin, who then proceeded to kill millions of them. David's old professor Richard Wolff pointed out a Congressional Budget Office report of family wealth. Full title "Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth, 1989 to 2019" Report number 57598 from September 2022. JUST LOOK AT THE FIRST GRAPH that separates America into the Top 10%, Middle 40% and Bottom 50%. See how little the Bottom 50% have made over those last 30 years which includes 2 x 2 term Democrat Presidents. No matter what happens no matter what the economy id doing they get screwed. Remember the 2008 GFC that was caused by the greed of the Top 10%. Its that dip in the graph after 2007. The Top 10% LOST 11% of their wealth, the Middle 40% LOST 13% and the Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of their wealth. By 2019 the Top 10% had not only recovered but were $20.2 TRILLION AHEAD of their wealth in 2007. Bush gave them $4 Trillion and Obama gave them another $4 Trillion MOST OF WHICH WAS NEVER PAID BACK. Meanwhile the Bottom 50% of America which is 165 Million people have still not recovered. They were worth $2.7 Trillion in 2007 and by 2019 were worth $2.3 Trillion. If you can't see why these 165 million Americans don't feel cheated out of the American Dream then you're blind. FYI - I'm Australian and because we have almost the same economic policies as American we have the same problem with our Bottom 50%. We get all the news from Britain and they have the same problem. Since the GFC when not one country did a damn thing to change the system the wealthy have thrived the middle class has paid for it and the working class have been smashed. That's why we keep seeing wild swings in elections across the entire Western World. People are so frustrated and angry they will vote for anyone INCLUDING Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Giorgia Meloni in Italy and lets not forget they keep electing Vladimir Putin in Russia.
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  5882. Yep that's a question that needs to be asked. Is he suffering some form of mental breakdown, where in he simply can't accept that he was rejected? Its as fair a question as any other regarding other aging politicians in America and around the world and their ability to do the job in a sound responsible manner.
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  5883. There's a third group - the lawyers, accountants and bankers who make it all happen. I saw a documentary (link below) last week on tax evasion and tax avoidance. YES, the YT Algorithm had a day off or something because its brilliant. It highlights the real problem isn't Tax Evasion its what they call Tax Avoidance. As one person in the doco says these people can afford the lawyers and accountants and auditors to operate in the grey space between what's legal and what's illegal. Its long but worth the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6O3US9IE4
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  5884. Another thing when he's talking about the Iranians and Russians infiltrating local groups. WHAT DOES HE THINK AMERICA DOES in a lot of countries????? This is a tactic going back centuries. Go and re-watch the film Braveheart and watch how Edward Longshanks got some of the Scottish Nobles and eventually Robert the Bruce to betray William Wallace. What do you think America did with the Warlords in Afghanistan????
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  5885.  @thomasjr8318  Great public service and absolutely the best links anyone has put up. Have a look at just under the title blocks of both projects and you will see that Peter Daszak was the Contact PI/Project Leader for both. He's the guy named in the Wade Nichols article as one of the few people the Chinese let in to investigate the Wuhan Institute. Its not so much they are proof of GoF research but they are absolute proof of the conflict of interest. Just noticed you other link about the Chinese paper on SARS related coronaviruses. FARQ is about all I can say at this point. That's not simply damning that's explosive in the current context as that paper is from November 2017. I'm an engineer who's done postgrad and noticed your background. People shouldn't argue with trained researchers who know how to find and reference factual material.
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  5886.  @jameytechsan7622  Go have a look at the comments by Thomasjr83 (above). He's put in a couple of links that are damning as in seriously damning. In case you can't find them here they are. The first 2 a report summaries from the NIH that absolutely link Peter Daszak (named in the Wade Nichols article) tot eh NIH funding of research in China. The third is a summary of a research paper that absolutely proves Chinese research into SARS related corona viruses in bats that was published November 2017, 2 years before COVID-19 struck the world. https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9491676 https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9819304 https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698
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  5887.  @RuminatingRaptor  Yeah - I'd agree on that for at least some of them. They spend 4 (or 8) years not being in power and then spend 4 (or 8) years complaining about what they have.
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  5888. WTF is kuch power? The K & S aren't next to each other on a keyboard. Is it some sort of new power drink none of yet know about? Should I check Alex Jones to see if he sells it? Does it have "covfefe" in it?
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  5889. Aerospace Engineer here - You are 100% CORRECT This is Peter YET AGAIN proving that he DOES NOT know a damn thing about engineering. Its NOT just Peter its lots of people who just regurgitate what they hear without thinking. I have personal interest in energy these days because there's a genuine crisis emerging in Australia (my country). In just the last few days I have seen Peter, Scott Galloway and Patrick Boyle who are all intelligent and well educated people make complete idiots of themselves with comments on nuclear energy. One of the dumbest was Scott Galloway saying you can "recycle nuclear fuel." Its idiotically wrong. You can reprocess fuel pellets to recover unspent fuel but that's NOTHING like recycling. In the past I have heard Peter say things about other energy sectors (oil & gas, solar & wind and nuclear) that are SIMPLY WRONG. Its so frustrating to watch people who are smart and very good in their areas of expertise make stupid mistakes and claims in engineering topics.
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  5890. Vice President Henry A. Wallace wrote in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  5891.  @Aeroldoth3  Watch what is happening right at the start of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s83UuhDxT_Y This is in Australia. The program is called 4 Corners its the Australian equivalent of PBS Frontline. At the around the 30 minute mark the guy in the Yellow jacket used to work for the Canadian outfit Webster and now works for the government. Guess who is benefitting. JUST LIKE the Saudis are doing in Arizona.
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  5892.  @Aeroldoth3  These days I only put links to other youtubers and Wikipedia. The Algorithm seems to leave those alone. Other wise I just tell people what google search phrase will get them to where they can find stuff.
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  5893. Somebody needs to tap Candice on the shoulder and have a quiet word, before something ugly happens. And its not just her Crowder, Kirk, Shapiro and a other need to realise that we are in a very highly stressed time right now and being idiotically stupid and inflammatory is about as stupid as you can be. I can see any one of these clowns stepping out their front door and having a John Lennon experience and that could easily get way out of control.
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  5894. That's a damn good analogy. It goes in the same basket as the old coach, assistant coach, the traded player,..........
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  5895.  @justaguy9451  You forgot to add the algorithm is now hunting you like a Matrix agent.
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  5896. FOR EVERYONE WITH TIME - Go and watch the Common Sense Skeptics take down of Kevin O'Leary. He promotes himself via Shark Tank (Dragons Den in other countries) as a "Super Entrepreneur" but like Trump he's got tons of questionable outcomes. Now that they have actually got Trump and found him guilty on something they'll start going after the other great fraudsters on Wall Street. As a suggestion maybe they start with O'Leary.
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  5897.  @rekcusdoo  Really? Since when? There's an awful lot of push for Puerto Rico to become a state and ACTUALLY have Congressional Representation and ACTUALLY be able to vote for who is POTUS. If you haven't checked lately over 3 million Americans get all of 1 person with no voting rights to sit in congress. That doesn't sound very democratic to most of the planet.
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  5898.  @undergrounddojokeyboardcag701  If you are implying both side of American politics are fascist then your right. But don't just point the finger at America point it everywhere, because to some extent the business communities around the world have BOUGHT influence of various kinds in every political party there is. If there is one common thread linking every politician (certainly in the West) its the incessant question they all ask: What do the billionaires want? Even the ones who are honest still need to ask that because they have to deal with those politicians who are bought and paid for and understand who's pulling the strings.
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  5899.  @undergrounddojokeyboardcag701  Don't accuse others of ranting and then start ranting at them OR YOU'LL GET TOLD TO FK-OFF
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  5900. EVERYONE WATCH Eric Bolling's when Christie mentions the word "excuse" (about 1:16) I am no body language expert but he smirks at that. For a moment his face says "Yeah you got me on that!"
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  5901.  @CatarinaStone  Well that just proves how mindlessly IGNORANT you and the 3 people who have given you a thumbs up are. And by IGNORANT I mean you are ignoring facts just as Sam Harris has done. He is ignoring the slaughter of innocent peo0ple including children and SO ARE YOU. In what possible context is it acceptable for a 20 something Hamas fighter to call his family up and tell them how wonderful it is that he just killed an entire family including their children, which actually did happen because that killer posted what he had done to social media? ANSWER: There is NO acceptable context for that and the fact you are trying to excuse that or ignore that shows just how debased of a person you are. There is never any excuse for the slaughter of INNOCENT civilians and it doesn't matter what religion or politics or excuses the perpetrators claim.
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  5902.  @CatarinaStone  AND SINCE YOUR SO IGNORANT There have been many alternatives to this disaster over many years. It never needed to happen at all. Do you realise that it was the Arab League who voted against the 2 state solution back when Israel was formed? The Europeans (Britain & France) who'd controlled the region since the end of World War 1, knew that there was no way the fanatics on both sides would never live in a single state together so they put forward a 2 state solution and the ARAB LEAGUE voted it down. Did you know there was polling before the 2024 October 7th attacks that showed Hamas was losing support from the Palestinian people. Hamas was basically operating as a collection of criminal gangs and could not afford elections. Did you realise that it was Benjamin Netanyahu who helped fund Hamas in the first place so that the Palestinians would be politically divided? That's why Palestinian elections weren't happening. Neither Hamas nor the Israeli RIGHT wanted fresh elections among the Palestinians or that political divide might have been extinguished. HERE'S A SOLUTION THAT COULD HAVE BEEN PUT FORWARD DECADES AGO. When ISRAEL gave back the Sinai to Egypt which it had controlled from 1967 to 1982 and forced the Jewish Settlers to leave that region could have been ceded to the Palestinians and Gaza instead of being a narrow strip of misery could have been massively expanded and the people of Gaza could have had the room to grow. Go look at the Wikipedia page for the "Israeli occupation of the Sinai Peninsula" There were a few people at that time who suggested giving more land to the Palestinians in Gaza, but were shouted down by EVERYONE, because the last thing ANYONE wanted was the Palestinians to be anything else but slaves to the politics of the region. There have been many reasonable and sensible suggestions and solutions brought forward over the last 70 years but NONE of the active political entities want them because then what would they shout about. If you can and you want to be slightly more educated then go and look up the interviews Jon Stewart had with King Abdullah of Jordan on the daily show (2010 & 2012) where Abdullah laid it all out on how to deal with the Palestinian issue and the War on Terror. In a way Abdullah predicted this sort of thing would eventually happen.
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  5903. YEAH THERE IS A GROUP MANIPULATING THE GOVERNMENT They are called billionaire donors like Charles Koch, Robert Mercer, Rupert Murdoch, etc. and they operate via their Think Tanks like the Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation and CATO Institute.
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  5904.  @grmpEqweer  It was staggering when I clicked to our local feed and there was Rubio just bullshitting his ass off. Him and others NEED to have their hypocrisy rammed down their throats. And when I mean rammed I mean rammed so hard it breaks their ankles and their toes pop off. I went to college in America and I have a real soft spot for the best of America. I have seen Americans at their best and awesome. People had me in their homes for holidays and shared parts of their lives with me. I'm infuriated that Rubio is being this hypocritical. He has benefitted so much for being an American and he's crapping all over that opportunity because he helped facilitate this cluster dump.
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  5905.  @ilovethe80s74  👍👍😂🤣😂🤣
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  5906.  @desertegle40cal  He' snot the only one who's proposed that kind of theory. Isaac Asimov one of the most underestimated thinkers of the 20th century based his entire Foundation series around the concept that if you don't maintain your education system society will collapse. For those you have forgotten or never read the books that's the main issue why it was predicted the galactic empire would collapse. It was a technological society that wasn't educating enough technical people to keep the basic infrastructure running. If you apply that to modern Western Society we have a massive issue with keeping the infrastructure that enables our societies to work operating as we expect. Its a really serious discussion that nobody seems to want to have. Its not an American issue either - its right across the entire Western World. I'm Australian but went to college in America and did aerospace engineering and read Asimov. I was concerned then and horrified now. In Oz we have NOT built any new power stations, water storage dams or other critical system in 20+ years. meanwhile our population has grown by over 25% putting even more load on the ageing systems we have. When I look around the world its similar everywhere, but who wants to listen to any of us bastard engineers. We might interfere with the lawyers, accountants and executives who want their bonuses.
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  5907. I turned this garbage off after 4-1/2 minutes because it was just a waste of time.
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  5908. Imagine if the children of Western politicians could keep a low profile and know when to keep their mouths shut.
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  5909.  @siphomosea4138  What is wrong with you people who keep trying to hijack discussions. JUST SHUT UP AND GO AWAY
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  5910. When they listed the top 25 in congress for insider trading the top 4 were GOP *BUT there were more Dems on the list than GOP. Nancy Pelosi was the top Dem at #5. The corruption problem in Washington isn't Donald Trump, its Donald Trump PLUS the GOP and PLUS the Dems.
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  5911. This whole discussion is now so out of control its hard to see how it doesn't end in some very ugly situations. When you have people like Ted Cruz just fueling the political shitstorm as he does its going to end bad. Worst of all Ted Cruz has no excuses. He's too well educated to not know what he's doing. He graduated cum laude from Princeton and magna cum laude from Harvard Law. Nobody can do that without being seriously intelligent, which is what makes Ted Cruz EVEN WORSE as a human being.
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  5912. This is sadly the mindless shite you get when you hand the public microphone over to narcissistic clowns who think they're special.
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  5913. You should have written this as Britain, France & Germany: you can't win a war against Russia. Zelensky: Why? Britain, France & Germany: Because we already tried and didn't end well for us... You forgot to remember the British and the Crimean War where they had the Charge of the Light Brigade and that little French Expedition that Napoleon sponsored. If Zelensky wants to invade Russia he needs to talk to the Mongolians because they were the last to successfully invade Russia. Oh wait, yeah sorry, that only works when you have horses with mounted archers who can shoot from horseback and the other side is mostly on foot.
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  5914.  @HerpesTom  great tag and it aptly describes your stupidity. Is 6000 a reference to the level of your stupidity. Is it on a score out of 10 or 100? WTF does Bill Gates have to do with anything??
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  5915. FROM THE TRANSCRIPT AT 0:26 "it is interesting to see how under scrutiny when people really take the look at these bills how brilliantly the single-payer plan stands out" The highlight is mine and I deleted the 2 "uhs" to make what she said clear.
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  5916. Just adding to that: I found that article about Constance Wang that Patrick flashed up at 10:01. Its easy to find with a google of "ftx credits suisse" and that article had a link to an interview she gave and its here on YT (see below). There's 2 main things to look at. First the comments are pathetically pro-crypto sadly laughable. Second, right at the start of the interview she says. "I moved to Hong Kong from Singapore in early 2019 to work on FTX together with Sam and so far it has been fantastic. So before that I was in credit space for two years doing a compliance management training program which I didn't really like so that's why I moved away from it." Maybe this explains a lot. When you have someone with about 7 years of experience after college handling over $10 Billion in assets as Chief Operating Officer and they don't like managing compliance. You can hear her say it: -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDc1QAOcc-0
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  5917. Well you can go to college and pay to listen to this or you can be here and get it for free. I like Prof. Wolff because at the very least he gives a rational alternative perspective. Where l'd disagree is that Marxism is the answer, because the countries that went down that path had their own catastrophes and that included economic catastrophes, environmental catastrophes and social catastrophes. I think he might agree as he has pointed out in other talks how Russia, China and other failed that the solution isn't a puritanical 100% Marxist state anymore than it is a puritanical 100% Capitalist state, but that the solution lies somewhere in between. Many point to the Nordic models where they have incredibly strong socialist systems wrapped around democratic and capitalist systems. The Norwegians instead of wasting their oil & gas wealth as others have did an almost communist thing by pooling the income into a sovereign wealth fund that they then used capitalist methodologies to enhance.
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  5918. I'm an Australian engineer and I have been trying to explain that since 2016 when I had a small project into Australia's future energy needs. The single biggest problem we have is that engineers get no say. Just this week I saw the ABC 7:30 report on one story and they had 3 experts and they were all economists. Over on Sky same thing. If you look at the CSIRO report it was written by economists. If you look at the LNP report it was done by British Economists. The idea to privatise everything came from economists. For somethings it might be a success, but for infrastructure, water and electricity its been a disaster all across the World. To cover up their mistake economists are grabbing the microphone at every opportunity and NOT letting anyone else speak or be heard. Did you know that the recent CSIRO report on nuclear was done by economists? Did you know that the recent LNP report on nuclear was done by economists? Did you know that our energy regulator is dominated by economists? Did you know the government advisors, Think Tanks energy experts and energy consultants are all economists?
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  5919.  @nozealotlikeaconvert  Its a form of denial that BOTH parties share its just some people are worse than others with it. Arguably the biggest thing Trump can't handle is the fact there were people who voted Republican for the House and Senate but didn't vote for Trump and in some cases voted Biden. The media is being quiet about it because nobody can really figure it out. Just remember the Dems LOST seats in the House and came up short on an outright Senate majority AND YET Biden still won comfortably. Trump can't believe there were Republicans who rejected him over Biden. Trump's base will walk barefoot over broken glass and fire for him, BUT there are other Republicans who wont vote for him and he can't handle rejection.
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  5920.  @nozealotlikeaconvert  This is by Prof. Mark Blyth from Brown U. after a lecture on Trumpism during the Q&A. The link is time stamped to a question about Elizabeth Warren but the reply goes into Biden/DNC strategy. This was in JULY 2019 15 months before the election and Trump screwed up the COVID response. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s ENJOY.
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  5921.  @nozealotlikeaconvert  If you actually go back and review what Mark said he was very very close to perfect accuracy. The DNC relied on Biden winning over some Republicans which he did. They completely underestimated how many, which was why they lost house seats and didn't get outright control of the Senate. Trump was a winner if he didn't blow up the economy. Trump didn't just blow up the economy he blew it up during the worst pandemic in a century which he mishandled so badly that it cost 400,000 Americans their lives. I'm Australian but went to college in America (U. of Illinois). If I combine the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its almost identical to the population of Australia. We have 940 dead they have over 48,000. Its not geography or some magic medical technology or the weather or population density. We got lucky early on and they didn't with the initial spread. Trump didn't respond and his moronic son in law was so busy watching the stock market he let the disaster unfold. The world hasn't forgotten "there will 15 cases and then it will be gone" followed by "there wont be more than 50,000 dead" followed by "there wont be more than 60,000 dead." The current count is 633,000 and still climbing. Its hard to campaign when your supporters are dying form your own stupidity. As far as Mark giving Trump credit. Trump deserves a hell of a lot of credit. Despite all the stupidity he managed to increase his vote by 11 million. That takes ability, it might be deplorable but the DNC underestimated it in 2016 and lost. Don't forget for nearly 2 years every poll said his base (and vote) were shrinking. So where di those 11 million come from. Trump might be a big fat lying sack of crap who cheats at everything he does, but don't ever be stupid and underestimate he knows what Americans like. 11 million people turned up and voted for him who didn't vote for him in 2016. Underestimating that ability again will cost the DNC and will cost America.
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  5922. SORRY but GERRAD HOLLAND IS NOT ONLY WRONG but is also a COWARD I am an engineer and Gerrard deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. NOTHING he presented is based on engineering, physics or economics and his logic is flawed. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  5923. As others have pointed ou tits got little to do with his skin and an awful lot to do with CTE (Concussion Injury). Go watch the PBS Special "League of Denial" there are ex-NFL players of all types and racial background who have suffered from concussion injury. I found here on YT an interview Herschel gave only 6 years ago and the decline is obvious. I think that its quite sad that he's being taken advantage of by both sides of politics.
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  5924. Good to see you've taken time out from watching Britain self destruct. We've all been wondering who'd push the U.K. over the Brexit Cliff and some of us are surprised we thought it would be the buffoons buffoon Boris. Instead we got Dolly the Sheep's cousin the clone of Margaret Thatcher.
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  5925. Sportswriter Rick Reilly wrote a book "Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump" Here's a book talk he gave. I could describe it but its better if you watch it. There's nothing Kyle said here that even begins to detail how much Trump cheats. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIiaFMOfbwY
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  5926. That's of course sensible and its what scientists have argued for some time. Because of all the ridiculous howling and screaming over COVID one thing that needed to be discussed but has NOT been discussed is the oversight of these labs. Back in 2011 there was a Dutch Researcher named Ron Fouchier who created a variation of avian flu that has been described as the deadliest virus humanity has ever encountered. Had it escaped rather than COVID we'd have already have over 64 million dead instead of 6.6 million. The problem that emerged after Ron Fouchier's work was that nobody was really aware of what he was doing. The Dutch government actually had to step in and shut him down because he wanted to tell the whole world how he did it and show how clever he was. He never considered the maniacs who would use it. If you do take a look at the whole Wuhan issue it was obvious there were issues. I DO NOT think that what they were doing was fundamentally wrong. China had faced MERS and SARS so investigating what might be next was smart. Getting other nations to help with that research was also smart. DOING THAT RESEARCH IN AN UNSAFE WAY WAS NOT SMART. An airborne virus like COVID needed to have been researched in a Level 4 lab NOT a Level 3 lab AND THAT HAS BEEN EXPLAINED BY EXPERTS. And 1 other thing. They redefined what was and what wasn't gain of function. Ron Fouchier's work would no longer be considered gain of function. Just like the work in Wuhan is also not considered to be gain of function. This is something else that has NOT been discussed publicly.
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  5927. Your right is neo-liberalism 101, I stopped this at 37 seconds for the simple reason that Rubin is talking about Austerity as a way to make an economy grow when its in trouble. BEEN TRIED NEVER WORKED ONCE ANYWHERE ask the Greeks, Italian, Spanish, etc. Prof Mark Blyth from Brown U. has spoke about this extensively. Here's the 5:35 version on why Dave Rubin really is stupid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2bVGi0ReE There's dozens of talks here on YT by Mark Blyth and others explaining this in detail. FYI - I'm an Australian engineer who spent a chunk of COVID time looking into economics and how it works so that after COVID I'd be able to deal with managers with economics degrees. I like Mark Blyth because he talks in a way that suits me. Part of his work at the Watson Institute includes interviewing other people like Stephanie Kelton, Adam Tooze and others. They are all saying we need NEW economics NOT repeats of stuff we know doesn't work like Rubin's saying. For those of you in America please get through to Kyle & Krystal and get them to have people like Mark Blyth & Stephanie Kelton on. Don't just say Rubin is stupid ACTUALLY have people on who can EXPLAIN WHY he's stupid.
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  5928. I saw this documentary when it was first released in 2004. For Anyone wanting to know how this mess started its arguably one of the best explanations. It covers this mess and the other mess in Iraq. How they started, what the plans were (or weren't), who the main players were and HOW the ignored expert advice. Its a timely reminder of what happens when you don't hold people accountable, because NONE of the people who created this mess have ever been held accountable for anything they did. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byu9Yhr0Q_0
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  5929.  @ProfessorxVile  Quite possibly, but I don't know if those corporations who made billions would have let go as easily. I'm surprised they didn't fight Biden harder in the first place.
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  5930. As an engineer I can tell you that a LOT of tech people seriously HATE the whole AI thing because we know just how much a ridiculous pile of over-hyped crap it is. Its almost like the rest of humanity is as stupid as the kitten that chases a red laser dot across the floor. By far the most serious issue right now is rebuilding the energy systems of the planet so that the rest of you ignorant mutts can have "your yobs" and be "entertained" without trashing what's left of the planet. And before you complain about being called ignorant mutts just remember with out us engineers you don't have the computer your on right now or the rest of the stuff in your home or in fact your home. In fact you'd be just another mutt in a cave hoping they don't get eaten tomorrow as they search for food.
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  5931.  @jabrokneetoeknee6448  Especially since she'd get you to bring home hookers to make it feel real.
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  5932. I heard that America's financial situation is so bad Ted Cruz can't afford to fly his family 1st class to another country the next time the Texas power Grid fails. Instead they'll have to go coach and he's uncertain how his kids will handle the trauma. Ted Cruz is proof a Princeton & Harvard education does not include a sense of humor, morals or ethics.
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  5933. To show just how idiotic this argument is. When the first cars came out, where there enough gas stations for people to drive anywhere they liked??????? Cars, Ships, Airplanes and a lot of other stuff NEEDS INFRASTRUCTURE. That stuff the rest of you take for granted until it fails and then you all scream at the government, the engineers and anyone else YOU DIDN'T LISTEN TOO.
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  5934. The guy Kyle mentions is Rutger Bergman and here is a link to the Speech he gave at Davos in 2019 where he slammed the tax avoidance industry. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paaen3b44XY He was also famous for being cancelled at Fox when during the pre-taping for an interview with Tucker Carlson he told Carlson to his face he was a "millionaire paid by billionaires." The interview was never aired but was leaked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nFI2Zb7qE
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  5935. For anyone who wants here is the full panel that Rutger Bergman was part of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mG-r_3eRCw
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  5936. (edit) I missed you were talking about her my comment is about Kyles remarks. Yeah but he's not wrong. In many of his talks and interviews Prof Mark Blyth from Brown has repeatedly pointed out that the massive bailout packages after the GFC did NOTHING to inflation. The governments around the world dumped Trillions (with a T) into those packages and NOTHING happened with inflation. It doesn't matter if you look at the packages Bush or Obama or the European Central Bank or anyone else pushed they didn't affect inflation at all. Anyone who ever did a basic class in economics knows they teach you on day 1 the ONLY drivers of prices are supply and demand. If there is not enough supply or there is too much demand then prices go up. If there is over supply or not enough demand the prices go down. When wages go up people can spend more and that increases the demand for goods - there's the demand increase. If factories close or the ports close or there's a shortage of truck drivers then SUPPLY DROPS and prices go up. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ I did economics 101 in college as an option to my engineering degree. I learned all that on day 1.
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  5937.  @kimberlykeller1194  Well put.
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  5938.  @JULIAN11.  Seriously WHEN DO PEOPLE LIKE YOU STOP lecturing people who are qualified about subjects you are NOT QUALIFIED IN. Its really annoying.
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  5939.  @heartflame503  Yeah and no amount of smoking whatever it is your smoking will overcome basic science - EVER.
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  5940.  @placerdemaio  So is every other Western democratic nation. Its just more obvious in America.
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  5941. Good point, I have had 3 immediate members of my family die from cancer and you're right. Most of these health issues were DEBUNKED a few weeks ago. So I think is just a piece of BS journalism.
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  5942.  @ottz2506  ABC Australia the program is called Media Watch.
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  5943.  @ottz2506  starting at 14:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_DK7Pi7buI
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  5944. ITS ABOUT MONEY AND LOTS OF IT So far since the election he's raised over $200 million and climbing. I've seen all sorts of claims about what his site says and doesn't say about where those funds will all go. The simple question everyone needs to ask Trumpists - WHY DOES A BILLIONAIRE NEED DONATIONS? Don't argue just ask them for an answer. WHY DOES A BILLIONAIRE NEED DONATIONS?
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  5945.  @ravenwda007  You forgot to add narcissism and delusion.
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  5946. Actually they have stopped build NEW COAL and started tearing down older coal. They are building nuclear at a impressive rate and in fact right now they are arguably the worlds experts in building nuclear just because of how many they have built. What you and others ignore is that the Chinese have also installed more solar and wind in recent years than the rest of the world combined. In some provinces 80% of homes have rooftop solar.
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  5947. I'm an Australian engineer and that describes all that I see with these scumbags. They gather information by getting other people to do the research and put it into a neat little power point presentation before asking to get paid. They are just f**king parasites and if we don't get rid of them there is going to be some major upheavals in the next few years. They have interfered with so many governments ESPECIALLY ON ENERGY that there is almost not a single developed nation heading for an energy cliff. Due to all the interference NOBODY anywhere has been paying attention to the engineers who have been trying to point out that the power stations we built in the 1970s, 80s and 90s are OLD AND WEARING OUT. They need replacing but these damn consultants just wont get out of the road.
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  5948. Yeah but No. I'm tired of these M0R0Ns. We've always wondered what's worse than politicians? M0R0Ns who think they have solutions.
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  5949. Your part right. At the moment in America the violence is certainly from the right, but even then its not all from the right. Further if you look outside America there's certainly radical left wingers who are violent. Jordan Peterson makes the point that its pretty easy to spot right wingers when they go to far - they become racist. Its far harder to put a similar metric on the left. Go back and look into the left wing terrorists that rampaged across Europe. Some of them were insanely violent. One of the odd differences between the right and left is their steps into violence. Its not always true but the right tend to do it gradually or in stages, property damage then physically hurting people and then killing. The left tend to just snap and simply start destroying everything in their path. Go look at historical leftist revolutions and how destructive they were - like the French Revolution, its was insane.
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  5950. Australian here with an outside observation. The problem is that this wont affect his base in the slightest. They didn't care in the slightest that he'd cheated on his wives or how he admitted to treating women like garbage on the infamous "Grab 'em by the pussy" Access Hollywood tape. Even after that almost 63 million people voted for him in 2016 and then over 74 million people voted for him in 2020. HIS BASE DOES NOT CARE. Trump really could walk down the street and shoot people and nothing would happen. What America really needs to ask itself is WHY don't these people care? And so you all know Australia like many other nations is facing exactly the same issue.
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  5951.  @makeamericagreatagain3401  You didn't need that opening because it sort of masked that you made several really good points. Kyle exists in his bubble but then all of them live in their bubbles, even Pakman. They all filter their content to some extent which is why you can't just watch one of them. All the American progressives make one major fundamental mistake and that's the idea that Progressive is a purely LEFT concept. Its wrong for the basic reason America does not have and never has had a true left. Both parties were started in their respective bubbles of American ideology. America never had a party like British Labour that STARTED among its labour unions or any of the similar Leftist parties in Europe. The most fundamental thing about Progressives is that they all want to see PROGRESS. Yeah sure that's left wing things like Education, Health Care and Environment. BUT it also includes right wing things like economy and industry (as in jobs & career). I'm certain you've seen Sagaar & Krystal. They are BOTH progressives. Even though Sagaar is a right winger he's also a Progressive right winger. They are rare but they do exist. I'm actually an Australian engineer who went to college in America. I equally hate politics and economics because its mostly BS. But I have had to start considering both so that I can deal with them. One thing I found (worked out) was that true right and true left people tend to hyper-focus on a single topic like abortion or LGBT rights. Progressives look at a raft of topics. The 5 most common I have found are Economy, Industry, Education, Health Care and Environment. Those 5 things can be prioritised over 100 different ways which is why progressives sound confusing. Its also why they seem leftist but they are actually pretty centred. They try and balance things which makes them appear confused because they aren't hyper focused on a single topic or 2.
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  5952.  @GrassValleyGreg  Just like the Captain of the Titanic who was shrewd enough to NOT get into a lifeboat.
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  5953.  @charleswomack2166  Jimmy was great up to the point where the progressive block in the house stop being progressive and didn't force the vote. He flipped into this crazed howling nutter and just wasn't worth listening to anymore. Its kind of sad. For a while there in the first year of COVID he was a voice of reason. Something in that "force the vote moment" broke something in Jimmy. Before that he was great as he'd get on could people and talk to them and listen. He had this one great talk with Mark Blyth about the airlines that nobody else was game to cover. In that moment Jimmy was awesome. Then that whole episode where they let Sinema and Manchin blackmailed the entire nation and "the progressive crew" just went and hid in the corner broke something in Jimmy - very sad.. Hopefully he'll find a way back one day. the world needs more people like Jimmy 2020, but it doesn't need Jimmy 2021. I haven't seen him in 2022 except for a few stories by others and it doesn't look good with him turning up at Right Wing events.
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  5954. Ayn Rand's nonsense is way, way, way worse than you think. Thom Hartman pointed out a while back what was found in Ayn Rand's diaries a few years ago. Someone got access to them and found notes regarding who she based one of her characters on. It's in a video titled "Meet The Child-Killer Who Inspired The GOP's Cruelty" Take note that what Thom's related was WRITTEN in Ayn Rand's diaries. Its not stuff someone else claimed she said. Its stuff she wrote down. Once you realise what sort of a person Ayn Rand was, parents ought to be asking if her novels are material suitable for school age children.
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  5955. And for a follow up go and watch David Pakman debate Yaron Brook the current head of the Ayn Rand Institute you can can watch first hand this attitude. Its titled "DEBATE: Does Ayn Rand Make ANY SENSE?" Heads up - its seriously aggravating. And if that's not enough there's a truly monumental whack job named Alex Epstein also from the Ayn Rand Institute who is still wandering about the world doing interviews on his books "Fossil Fuels Improve the Planet (2013)" "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (2014)" and his latest "Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas - Not Less (2022)." Heads up - I tired watching one of his interviews once and had to stop before I lost it. He is one of the most narcissistic turds in the history of the planet.
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  5956.  @cronoslamar4061  which part of contestable space don't you get? This whole space force thing is a joke. I think Ryan might be yanking chains on this subject. The whole concept is utterly ludicrous and relies on the general public having no real idea of spaceflight.
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  5957.  @FakingANerve  Glenn Kirschner has made it pretty clear for some time of his disapproval of the Barr led DOJ. But Legal Eagle stayed off that until the Blackwater 4 pardon and then he let rip. I'm not certain what his personnel motive was but that really hit a raw nerve. And that whole Blackwater thing will have ramifications for America in the long term. The next time an American soldier or PMC clown does something stupid which country will trust America to do the right thing?
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  5958. You mean Donald picked yet another "bad person" who couldn't do their job?? How that that possibly be, Donny is the best picker of people ever - just ask him!
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  5959. Its not the fatal ailment of all republics its the fatal ailment of ALL SOCIETIES. What do you think caused the French, Russian and Chinese Revolutions or the English Civil War that Cromwell led. What about the American Revolution? Taxes might not have been the reason but they were one of the triggers. Anytime the tiny minority have started hoarding their wealth it has lead to bad place. I wonder what all those Trump supporters will do when they finally realise the whole "stop the steal" was actually about getting them to pay off his campaign debts. He suckered them for over $200,000,000 during a pandemic when millions had lost their jobs. Its just got reported he made over $1.6billlion in the last 4 years while Jared & Ivanka made over $400million. If he's so rich why did he need donations at all? Of all the things that destroy empires and nations nothing is as effective as greed combined with raging mobs ready to tear everything apart and America has both.
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  5960. Yeah how do you feel 2 weeks later. Go watched the other video where Konstantin Kisin sits opposite his mate Francis and explains Putin's speech where Putin claimed that Ukraine should not even exist. Nigel Farage as usual showed he actually hasn't a damn clue. Remember back when he won his precious Brexit vote. Forgetting if it was right or wrong, the FACT is he immediately resigned from the team. What that meant was that (1st) he didn't expect to win and (2nd) he had NO idea what to do if they won. He had no plan, no ideas and simply threw 67million Brits under his Brexit bus. Like Trump he's another walking talking lump of populist garbage who has no solutions to ANYTHING and creates disasters for other people to clean up..
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  5961. Oh, please don't go there.
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  5962. You can't even call him an ASSH0LE because even an ASSH0LE has its use. Its a way to get the SHlT out of your body.
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  5963.  @axetune  Yes David Pakman is NOT perfect by any stretch of the imagination. But your claim "Every segment he makes could easily be destroyed by anyone with even a modicum of insight or intelligence." is so idiotically stupid that NOBODY is going to listen to a F⋃CKWIT LIKE YOU. So crawl back to your Fox echo chamber and beat your self stupid.
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  5964.  @axetune  Yeah sure SHlT4BRAINS. In your first comment you made the grand claim "Every segment he makes could easily be destroyed by anyone with even a modicum of insight or intelligence." BUT DID NOT PROVIDE A SINGLE EXAMPLE or ANYTHING TO ARGUE or REFUTE. Now you come back with this idiotic claim that I didn't put up an argument. What's there to argue with a brainless clown who just makes grand pronouncements with NOTHING TO BACK THEM UP. You MAGA M0R0NS really are full of SHlT.
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  5965.  @axetune  That's all you have after 2 days another example of non-thinking?? Fine since you not bothering with brain function you can have the Jimmy Carr reply. "if you want my come back you'll have to scrape it off your mum's teeth."
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  5966. It goes even further, they want to throw out the funding for EVERY government department. This is exactly what people like Milton Friedman have wanted since the formation of America as a nation. Friedman famously said (among other things) "Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player." If you actually think about that what it means is that the only purpose of a government is to PROTECT the rights of commercial interests. The military to protect their interests outside America. The police forces to protect their interests inside America. The Courts to enforce their rights to the detriment of everyone else because profits come before people. Its the idiotic nonsense of people like Ayn Rand and her "me before society" nonsense. Its the ideal world of people like the famous robber baron John D. Rockefeller. This is also exactly how people like Bill Gates, Mark Suckerberg and Elon Musk all operate. Uber went around the world and simply tore up what every government had in the way of taxi regulations. Air BNB have done similar to the worlds rental markets causing grief everywhere they operate. So long as they make money anything and everything is justified.
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  5967. To all the clowns making stupid claims LOOK at what's WRITTEN in the WSJ. Its a PROPOSAL that hasn't even been presented to Biden yet. It makes sense to have a range of plans at this stage. They're called OPTIONS. It hasn't even been presented to Biden so how can anyone claim that Biden is sending special forces anywhere when he hasn't even seen let alone reviewed the options. Way to go Kyle! What a great title to a video Kyle! Way to give the totally wrong impression of what's actually been reported Kyle! Way to prove your NOT like Fox and MSNBC and all the other media who spin crap and lies Kyle! Hey Kyle - if you Krystal, Sagaar, Marshall and others are claiming to bring us all a better standard of public discussion then titling a video with A LIE, IS NOT an improvement.
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  5968. HEY LEX Do you rally think anyone has time to listen to a discussion between a self absorbed narcissist trying to sell his next book versus yet another self righteous journalist for 4 seconds is worth anyone's time. LET ALONE 4 HOURS OF IT Lex your not stupid but this was garbage before it even started. I am actually all for letting people like Bjorn Lomborg speak so that we can then address their nonsense, but 4 hours is ridiculous. FYI - I am an engineer with a degree in aerospace and 30+ years of control systems and automation across a variety of industries including some (but not much) coal mining and oil & gas experience. Other than those paid to lie and the few so deluded they don't they are wrong, the climate debate is over. The evidence is irrefutable (see NOAA or NASA) and none of us are much interested in any more WASTEFUL & WORTHLESS DEBATES. 1) In 4 minutes, 4 hours, 4 days or 4 years NO ONE will ever get a SOLUTION to the climate issue when the debate does not include scientists or engineers, ESPECIALLY ENGINEERS. It doesn't matter what ideas, concepts, or solutions the scientists come up with it will be engineers who have to build it and then make it work and then keep it working. 2) Nobody has plans to deny the developing world of development. In just the first 20 seconds it included Bjorn's wonderful PAID FOR by fossil fuel interests, standard trope of "look at how many people have benefited from fossil fuels and now these people want to take that away from people." Nobody is planning on taking away the benefits of modern technology from anyone, we are just want to power it in ways that don't destroy the plant. There is nothing that infuriates engineers more than non-engineers telling the world what is and isn't possible or what they have planned. For starters engineers like technology and like making things. If we stop development we stop being engineers. If we do the development using clean energy we keep being engineers. SECOND - there is not a single journalist or economist anywhere capable of building any sort of power plant or the distribution grid or factories where stuff gets made BUT THEY ARE PLENTY OF THEM TELLING THE WHOLE WORLD HOW IT WILL GET DONE. It really is infuriating that you think you can waste 4 hours of everyone's time with 2 clowns who can't solve a damn thing or build anything. 3) These people like Bjorn, Alex Epstein and others who play this "moral argument for fossil fuels" idiocy never mention the moral or ethical downsides. However they are very quick to point out even the most minute issue with any alternatives to fossil fuel. And yes as an engineer I know the downsides to solar and wind and nuclear. For example: They are very quick to scare people with "radiation can kill you" or that solar doesn't work at night or that the wind doesn't always blow. They never mention that very few people have ever been harmed in nuclear incidents except for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They never mention the time it takes to build a coal or gas fired power station or what it costs to maintain compared to solar or wind. For example: They never mention the 1000s and 1000s of coal miners who've died in mining accidents like cave-ins and explosions. They never mention the 1000s and 1000s of coal miners who have died slowly and painfully from black lung which is caused by coal dust building up in their lungs. There never mention the people who suffer from respiratory disease from the air pollution created from burning fossil fuels. For example: They never mention the lead additives used in gasoline that poisoned the entire developed world. Lead poisoning leads to things like violence and none these "moral outcome" advocates ever mention that the higher crime rates in polluted cities can be (at least in part) attributed to the fossil fuels we burn in cars. 4) Then there's the almost universal shitfuckery of Journalists and the entire media landscape. Even when they are trying to do the right things they are usually so arrogant they never check their facts, even basic facts. I just watched a preview of the soccer world cup where they got Qatar and Canada mixed up when talking about Qatar's place as a gas producer. Do you and the rest of the media have any idea how INFURIATING you all are when you can't even get the most basic scientific or engineering facts right? Here's a great quote from almost 200 years ago, on the subject of the quality of journalism. “… the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” ― Thomas Jefferson
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  5969. I'd counter that with - The main purpose of an interviewer isn't to answer questions but to ask them so that their viewers/listeners can hear information in a clear and understandable way. That does NOT exclude an interviewee asking an interviewer a question NOR does it given an interviewer an excuse to NOT answer a question when asked one. The real question is why did Candace ask a question at all. Was it to clarify some point of the discussion so that she could answer what she was asked OR was it a DEFLECTION from what she was asked in the first place.
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  5970. good point there's so much we don't know and the stuff we do know we are missing lots of details about.
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  5971. It simpler than that. Hannity logic means that when you die there is no such thing as inheritance because that stifles the initiative of the next generation. They didn't earn that money or wealth or property and therefore do not deserve ANY of it. I don't think we will see that happening anytime soon.
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  5972.  @astounded4546  Who's claiming that he's pandering to the right? The claim is pretty simple Russel is pandering to Russell's EGO and there's a lot of support for that.
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  5973.  @astounded4546  You can back off a bit. 1) You are right David did say that ".... he is only feeding back to a lot of these right wingers the things they already believe." 2) My reply was to your comment _"Why would Russel need to pander to the right?"" Which I took as you commenting about THIS THREAD, which is about Russell Brand NOT David Pakman. 3) My comments about egotism had NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU and everything to do with Russel Brand pandering to his ego which is what everyone on this thread is talking about. Read what people say next time and be a little less jumpy.
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  5974. Australian here - the problem with America's moral bankruptcy is that the LOUDEST people who have been screaming about America's moral bankruptcy are the most morally and ethically bankrupt people on the planet which is America's conservative religious right who have been out of control for decades. I actually went to college in America in the late 80s when there was a string of America's LOUDEST who were all found to be sexual deviants. Jim Baker and Jimmy Swaggart were 2 of the most well known of that era. You guys even had a party called the "Moral Majority" led by Jerry Falwell. Every time there was a sex scandal it was closely followed by a financial scandal. I think it was Jim Baker who managed to make over $100 million vanish. Then there was the great Newt Gingrich and his attack dog Ken Star. Newt not only took $5 million for a book he never wrote from Rupert Murdoch while granting Murdoch whatever he wanted but sent hi attack dog after Bill Clinton for getting a blow job. The thing was Newt was banging on of his staff. He even admits it these days claiming he and his wife had an open marriage. You guys even exported some of this stuff to countries like Australia. We had (past tense) a massive evangelical church here with similar high level political connections called Hillsong. They racked in million and were so well connected their leaders got invites to YOUR Whitehouse. Then there were the money & sex scandals.
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  5975. From Australia - YEAH We now know at least 1 publicist woke up. I wonder if the US election had anything to do with it. Because that's shocked the world to what social media can do. And it should not have been a shock because it was social media that got Barrack Obama elected it was how he raised his money. Then Brexit was won via social media with targeted advertising on Facebook. What Rick has shown in those stats is that social media stats (like all other stats) are a combinations of fact & fiction, truth & lies and reality and delusion. People can complain all they like but this is where things happen.
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  5976. I get you need sponsors and all. I think most do, but I stopped with that Masterworks garbage. Seriously how many times have we all heard that same garbage line "this is how the wealthy do it and now we are offering it to you." Buddy whatever credibility you had as a journalist or analyst just went out the door with that crap. I UNSUBSCRIBED
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  5977. Yeah but he's a clown with a very large audience. He learned a very valuable lesson from Rupert Murdoch - selling rage is profitable. Prof Mark Blyth (Brown U.) pointed out a while back that the Murdoch's main product was rage. He went on to explain how they keep their audience entrapped by being outraged at what they keep hearing. It doesn't matter if a story is true or not so long as the audience is outraged.
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  5978.  @uncannyvalley2350  What absolute crap. The most glaringly obvious are the Russians who if they had any religious affiliation its to the Russian Orthodox Church. WAKE UP - Putin has huge ties to the Russian OC these days. Putting Kyle Kulinksi and Dave Rubin into the same list as equals makes you look both ignorant and stupid. Sarah Huckerbee Sanders attended Ouachita Baptist University and that takes seconds to fact check. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5979. Have a look at the rotating restaurant perched on the tail and look at the edge of it Have a look at the struts on the tail bracing the rotating restaurant - they're square. Have a look at all the stuff under the main wing connecting it to the lower wing. This is OBVIOUSLY somebodies joke just to see how many news services would bite. Thunderf00t should have started or finished with that.
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  5980. I have the same question for you as a lot of other people. What do you think America's Middle and Working classes feel about all this "American Imperialism" stuff? I have a fairly long comment addressed to Ben regarding the US Congressional Budget Office report from September 2022 on Family Wealth. I think you and a lot of others need to have a look at what that report is actually saying about what has happened to the bulk of the American population over the last 40 years and particularly since the 2008 GFC.
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  5981. Australian here: As an outside observer you have just perfectly described the Democrats greatest weakness. They make assumptions that are usually terrible and wrong and end up having consequences the entire planet has to deal with. If you are all wondering WHY people on the other side of the planet care about this and will comment on this its pretty simple. THIS AFFECTS US TOO. No matter how for or against America a person is there are several inescapable facts. 1) America is still the worlds dominant military superpower. Despite the losses in Afghanistan and Iraq if America chooses to smash something they can and do it without anyone else being able to say NO. 2) Not only is America 1/4 of the worlds economy that we all interact with but the US DOLLAR (US$) is still the worlds reserve currency. Almost every international transaction and trade is either done in US$ or the currency exchanges are backed by US$. SO NONE of US can afford to have anything but a responsible and reliable US President and we haven't really had that since George Herbert Walker Bush was in the white house. Clinton could not keep his d*ck where it belonged. Bush 2.0 let Cheney and his goon squad run the show. Obama despite being a great Orator was a failure as a leader. Trump was what happens if you let Psychotic Bart Simpson into the White House. Joe Biden was there for a while before his age caught up and nobody knows who's been in charge since. For all appearances America is run by puppets controlled form the shadows by a small group of billionaires who now have so much control they get to select who's on SCOTUS and re-write the constitution as they see fit. The Democrats should have realised Biden was sliding and started to promote Kamala Harris 2 years ago AND THEY HAVE NOT. This whole "if you don't vote Joe the alternative is worse" rhetoric is IDI0TIC and not only do the America people deserve better but so does the rest of the planet.
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  5982. The moment you mention any links to people like Charles Koch and the CATO Institute then you know its a nasty as all hell fascist entity with bad intentions. Add in people like the Mercers, DeVos family, Peter Theil (an admitted anarcho-capitalist) and you know there's nothing good about any of this stuff.
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  5983.  @danielvalleduarte  Its what the NRA want - do nothing.
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  5984.  @roberthussey595  I also suspect that's part of the reasons some people have in that they are waiting for the politically right time. BUT I also thinks its because people are being cautious. The American justice system is incredibly fickle with juries, judges and prosecutors making decisions that bewilder. Trump and his minions are as slippery as they come and incredibly well versed in getting away with stuff. If they ever want to prosecute people like him then they CAN'T go to court with anything less than 100% confidence they will win.
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  5985. Fascism actually comes from the Italians via Mussolini who got the term from the ceremonial axes the Ancient Romans & Etruscans used. Instead of a single solid handle these axes were a bundle of sticks (see the sketch RHS). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#Etymology Blame my High School history teachers.
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  5986.  @anthonydelfino6171  I'm an engineer not a lawyer or ploy-sci major. My limit was Orwell and one of the things Orwell warned about (in a very long winded fashion) was that you have to look after your nation or it eventually falls apart and one of the tings you can end up with is a totalitarian nightmare. I think what you are describing is the reality of NOT looking after your nation and I don't specifically mean America. I know Australia is headed down the same path. We just don't have a few billionaires actively trying to tear the place apart yet. Its one reason I like listening to Thom Hartman. He's done a series of books on how America was founded and how it came to have the constitution it does. I don't see any other trying to dispel the myths the way he does. There might be others and I wish we had someone like him here talking about and explaining our constitution a whole lot better. Here's the talk I saw on American oligarchs. Listen to what's discussed about James Madison keeping his notes secret about 10 minutes in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ac1P89JMNM
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  5987. She also nailed the biggest issue the left across the entire Western Developed World have. The Left DON'T have clear answers or plans for working class people. That's staggering considering the left are historically associated with the working class. Ideas like coal workers simply retraining as coders doing apps is bullshit. I'm an engineer and know how much that's BS. On the flip side she completely regurgitated the right wing bullshit on Obama Care, which was actually a rebadged Mitt Romney policy. On that subject she behaved like any other right wing partisan hack. She was also consistently against the left as if they are ALL far left. I agree on most of what she says about the FAR left, but they don't represent a lot of left leaning people just as the far right don't represent a lot of the right. She never compared the far left to the far right or what they do that's very similar and equally revolting. Its possible her work as part of Fox makes her NOT want to acknowledge that. She's very right about being able to talk about things. If you go back to Jordan Peterson's famous outdoor speech about the freedom to use words its similar. He said you have to be able to use words and discuss things even if they are uncomfortable or you'll never solve the problems that exist. On the rest of it she's pretty much spot on considering I'm commenting 9 moths later. It has stayed tribal and it has stayed ugly. The Afghanistan evacuation just ended (or the main part of it did) and the GOP hacks are screaming about how bad its been as they forget and ignore that Trump did the deal with the Taliban. There's one thing I absolutely agree on. Joe Biden is NOT the solution to America's problems. He's too tied to the other side of America's corporate establishment. He hired economic advisors out of Goldman Sachs and Blackrock just like Trump did. That stuff is really at the core of Americas wealth and division issues. And that's been covered up by the failed media empires of which she has been a part.
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  5988. Yes that's exactly what they do - constant interruptions. And its not just the Radical Right who do it the Radical Left can be just as disgusting. In fact its the radicals on both sides of the political spectrum who are making an absolute basket case out of Western Society.
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  5989.  @M3rzrskater  There's the problem, NONE of these people act in good faith. No matter how much they claim righteousness, truth, honesty or justice they NEVER ACT IN GOOD FAITH and its tearing the Western World apart. Thom Hartman just did a piece where he's saying there are 27 billionaires doing a massive amount of political funding. People like Charles Koch and Robert Mercer. He talked about Ken Griffon who spent $54 million on a campaign against the Democrats to avoid paying $51 million in tax. Sounds bad until you realise he'll AVOID that each year so over the next decade he'll avoid $510 million in tax and end up pocketing over $450 million. That's fairly smart business but also a disaster for America and by extension the rest of the Western World.
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  5990. I hear David Irving the great English biographer, who cleared up all that stuff in the 1940s about that Austrian guy, has been signed up to write Trumps biography. I feel so good it will all be cleared up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Irving
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  5991. REAL JOURNALISTS HAVE BEEN ON THIS STORY FOR AT LEAST 10 YEARS. After the International community stepped in and cut off the trade in blood diamonds from African conflict zones rare minerals like Tantalum and Cobalt became the replacement currency for those shitty little wars. I am an engineer and every circuit board with a microprocessor or CPU needs capacitors to smooth out any noise from all the high speed signalling. The only way to make capacitors small enough to fit in things like tablets and mobile phones and nice thin laptops is to make them out of Tantalum. If the supply of tantalum out of conflict zones in Africa was cut off then the price of your next iPhone, iPad, Samsung, Nokia would be double and that would only be if you could get one. So to throw this as yet another "why we can't have electric cars" is B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T Because even normal gas/petrol/diesel cars and trucks have engine management computers and they are riddled with Tantalum, Cobalt and other rare minerals.
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  5992. Yeah as an aerospace engineer, I saw the title and thought WTF is she doing. Thankfully she's just done a lot of people a huge favor and pointed out how ridiculous the concept is. FYI - When I was doing my degree we occasionally had guest lecturers. One time we had an alumni who was on the team that did the X-29 forward swept wing which was damn good. Another time we had a NASA guy who had just completed a project evaluating the potential for terraforming Mars. Their conclusion in 1987 was its impossible with any current technology or proposed technology. The reasons Sabine just highlighted were pretty much the same as I heard back in 87. One thing Sabine did not mention that I remember from 87. Planets are big complex semi-stable systems that do not respond to being forced into a new state. They have developed over millions of years into the state they are in. If we try to change it will not just simply let us change it. As we are just starting to find out from Earth if you try and change a planet's characteristic behavior (like any system) it will try and restore its equilibrium. We barely know how to alter Earths systems except through colossal ignorance and stupid behavior. Anyone who thinks they can actually change Mars into something habitable in less than a few million years is either delusional or idiotically delusional.
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  5993.  @sbkarajan  P.S. They really do go. Technically speaking it would have been impossible to fake. It would have been so obvious that anyone watching the the first moon walk would have spotted it. And long before that all the engineers monitoring and watching the flight would have known where they were or weren't.
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  5994.  @sbkarajan  Not a chance. They went to the moon period. I am not going to waste a second of my time looking at idiotic bullshit that ignores 1000s of irrefutable facts while demanding that I accept without question a few things taken out of context and that I know are taken out of context. Every proponent of the moon hoax has been proven to be a fraud. The classic claim was by Bart Sibrel who claimed the film Capricorn 1 was proof they could fake it. If Hollywood did a film about faking a Mars mission then they could fake a Moon mission. Problem is that in the film Capricorn 1 they didn't get away with it because people in mission control worked out the telemetry was off and the rocket wasn't where it was supposed to be. Bart Sibrel and none of the others who cite Capricorn 1 never mentions that part - WHY? Then there's the whole garbage of why would they fake going tot he moon 9 times. Why fake Apollo 10 where they went there and tested the lunar lander at the moon but didn't land. Why fake Apollo 13 where part of the service module blew up? Why fake 5 more landings after the first when each one could expose the lie? To even consider that garbage and that snakes like Bart Sibrel are telling the truth is to ignore irrefutable facts.
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  5995.  @olafnilsen1641  Are you saying it will only take 500 years????? Your short by a couple of zeros.
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  5996.  @olafnilsen1641  Its taken us over a century to shift a planet 1 deg. Mars needs to shift at least 70 just to start to become livable. And there's that slight problem of having a breathable atmosphere. Just to have an atmosphere 1km thick around Mars requires manufacturing over 140 million cubic kilometers of breathable air. That's the difference between the fantasy and the facts. You see back in the 80s NASA considered the concept of terraforming Mars. So they did project and did some basic calculations. I did aerospace engineering and back in 87 one of the engineers from that project visited one day and went through some of the basic numbers with us. Reality is a bit of bitch. People like you listen to bullshit from Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos without ever checking if he's yanking your chain. Don't get me wrong I think Elon has been great at breaking the strangle hold Boeing and others have had on space flight, but that doesn't excuse the bullshit he and others have been feeding people.
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  5997.  @manofsan  Do you know what gives air pressure that 14.7psi that makes breathing possible? Gravity and an atmosphere thick enough to make it happen. Do you know what Mars doesn't have? Breathable air or enough gravity to hold it at 14.7psi at surface level. To get the surface of Mars breathable you need several 100,000 cubic kilometers of air and also increase the planetary mass a couple of times. Sorry but its one of those problems they worked out decades ago and unfortunately clowns just wont listen.
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  5998.  @manofsan  It only starts to address the issues. I really like that Elon has lit a fuse under NASA and even more that he's broken the stranglehold Boeing and others had on the space industry, but I just wish he'd stop blowing smoke up peoples butts. Its infuriating that Boing & others wasted so much money and resources since the time of Apollo. For what's been spent we should have had a moon base 20+ years ago. Going there would almost be routine. But instead we got the STS & ISS money sponges. Yeah they were big steps forward but they were money sponges. What infuriates me with Elon is that we are not solving any of the real issues with either a lunar base or Mars base. Go watch some of Jonathon Trent's lectures and enlighten yourself. You'll find out just how far off we are.
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  5999.  @manofsan  No you misunderstood that line. Its what I call the BES issue. You see no matter what anyone claims humans are guaranteed to do 3 things no matter what - Breath, Eat & Shit. And if you can't solve those 3 problems there is NO off world colony and before you object the answer is NO they haven't and NO they aren't close. If you can't provide and clean the air humans breath, if you can't provide the raw food and water humans consume and if you can't handle the waste humans produce you have nothing. Jonathon Trent was NASA's lead scientist in that field for the last 20+ years and finally walked away a few months before COVID. A lot of what they developed is incredibly useful technology and techniques and will help enormously with handling population and climate change. But they never came close to actually solving the overall problem and that had nothing to do with technical capability it had to do with funding. That's where the mismanagement of NASA under the influence of Boeing and others prevented necessary programs for off-world colonies being completed. After the BES problem there's a host of other issues the number 1 of which is energy. Go look into Kirk Sorenson's background and what he was doing when he rediscovered Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium. After the energy issue there's the ability to extract resources and "live off the land" which folds back into the BES issue.
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  6000.  @manofsan  Are you seriously that ignorant to try playing the acronym game???? It best when you have no idea or clue about what you're talking about to ask questions instead of making stupid claims. What they currently have for an Environmental Control and Life Support System on the ISS is nothing like what is needed for even long duration missions. For starters its not a closed loop system. It requires constant replenishment of materials. As an engineer its so frustrating to put up with dealing with all the BS and hype and garbage and misleading information that's put out these days. There is an insane difference between what they have operating on current spacecraft including the ISS and what is needed for off-world bases. They do not yet grow any food space which is the simplest thing to point out. They do not recycle the atmosphere, they filter out the CO2 and replenish the O2. People like you need to STOP listening to the PR clowns who imply Star Trek is a documentary and we actually have all the technology that's needed. FYI - I am an aerospace engineer and have been doing industrial automation and control systems for over 30+years. I actually work in industries where stuff has to work and PR means nothing. In 2002 I met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) and he told me to check up on Helium-3 as that was what we'd be going back tot he moon for. So I went off to the Australian mining industry to see how they built and operated mines. You see I thought some practical experience would be worthwhile. What I learned a lot about where the peripherals to the actual mining operation. A few hundred people on a mine site need food, water, shelter, power, communications and they also produce heaps of sh1t and waste that has to be dealt with. Fortunately the air is breathable. It was fortuitous timing as they were doing a lot of building and upgrades in the iron ore industry to meet Chinese demand. So I got first hand experience with what it takes to build and then operate mine sites in remote places. I've seen seen the garbage presented at conferences by NASA and others. They haven't a clue about those kinds of remote operations. They all claim they'll do the maintenance with robots and AI and that's just total BS. I doubt if any (if not all) of them have ever set foot on a mine site let alone spent time working on one. They have zero understanding of those environments. The people promoting asteroid mining are even worse. That's not to say the idea of mining asteroids is bad, but the people promoting it these days are ignorant clowns with great PR. They have utterly no idea about mining. They see the price of platinum claim there's an asteroid and yell out how much money can be made without any brain function put towards HOW it can be done. But the worst of all is Mr. Bezos claiming he will move heavy industry to Low Earth Orbit. Its a staggering level of hubris and bullsh1t. You only need to look at the worlds iron ore production and consider what it would take to lift that to LEO and then bring back the iron produced. Its an insane proposition. The heat generated from bringing that much mass down from orbit would literally burn the atmosphere off the planet. As Dunning says "ignorance can't recognize itself."
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  6001. Lindsey Graham tweeted 4 May 2016 "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it." And that tweet is still there for all the world to see, because I just cut and pasted it.
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  6002. I'm Australian and if an Indian is confused and doesn't know where India will end up then its a genuine concern for the rest of us.
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  6003. You are on the money there. Wen the first rumors (conspiracies) started a bunch of experts explained WHY it WASN'T a weapon. The main reason was that nobody really has the technology to make a "targeted" bioweapon. That's to say nobody has the skill set to make something that specifically targets certain populations. BUT in dismissing the bio weapon scenario they also (at least) down played all the other possible lab leak scenarios. that's what I am angry at. What's surfaced in recent weeks are other possible lab leak scenarios. We never got to discuss them because POLITICS took over and then it got dragged into the culture war. What we can now say is the culture war now has real casualties.
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  6004. He's actually crossed a line in this and a very dangerous one - and he should know better. If you are going to be a media commentator then you have to have some disconnection or you are just another propaganda outlet. If you think through this then its actually not a good thing. Notifying people of this fund is one thing. Promoting or supporting it is very close to the edge of being propaganda. BUT setting it up when you are a media outlet/producer is over the line. His hearts in the right place and getting rid of McConnell is a good thing for America and Western Democracy in general. There are other people in other countries doing the same (or similar) thing McConnell does. Getting rid of these people is good for the world, but its no good getting rid of them in a way that ends up helping the next McConnell get elected. Just think how many times Trump screamed about biased media and his base lapped it up.
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  6005.  @toddmercure9745  I truly get the sentiment behind this and this fund is a good thing - Getting rid of Mitch McConnel should be one of the top priorities of any American who wants to start fixing Washington. BUT having it set up by a media outlet isn't a good thing. Its easy to see that right wing media will use this as PROOF of left wing media bias AND their base will lap it up. Sorry I know that sucks, but its the truth. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  6006. HEY AMERICA - THIS IS ALREADY BEING PLAYED ACROSS THE WORLD. I'm Australian its being reported here and the BBC in Britain is also reporting it. If you think the rest of America's allies are going to put up with this crap THINK AGAIN. AND SO YOU ALL KNOW We know this A-H0LE doesn't pay his own bills anyway. We had it reported here recently that Rudy Giuliani's bankruptcy filing includes TRUMP as one of his debtors. Yeah we KNOW Rudy is broke because Trump didn't pay him.
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  6007. You forgot to add that he's a hypocrite Steve Bannon's Breitbart was funded by Robert Mercer one of America's most powerful and influential Oligarchs. That's the same Robert Mercer who funded Bannon's involvement with the trump Campaign. That's the same Robert Mercer who also funded Cambridge Analytica the statistical analysis the company that INTERFERED with the British Referendum on Brexit that has caused no end of grief for the entire European Continent.
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  6008.  @insightfulhistorian1861  👍😅
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  6009.  @insightfulhistorian1861  I had a boss many years ago who was a single malt man. If you put a blend in front of him he considered you a lower life form. Years after him I a friend who was even more into single malts. At the time Australia (where I am) was just beginning to develop a whisky industry. Its still quite small and mainly boutique but we have 2 regions in Tasmania and the far south West of Western Australia with peat bogs like Scotland. they are also regions with near zero pollution from modern society. My choice is a brand call Lark from Tasmania. It slides down like warm honey, but its so expensive I haven't been drunk in over a decade. I basically found a way to avoid being a drunken a-hole. Drink stuff that's too expensive to get drunk on.
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  6010.  @ominous-omnipresent-they  Actually I am trying to convince a Boomer at the moment Elon is full of SHlT, but its slow going. BUT look at most of the Elon fanbase, they're millennials. Look at all the examples in this video and ask how many are millennials?
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  6011.  @ominous-omnipresent-they  AND Yeah I forgot all the hillbillies in West Virginia but their millennials look that old from the inbreeding. 🤔🤔🤔
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  6012. There was a moment last year in a press conference when Trump tweeted at him and he let rip. In that moment he was Presidential with a 5 star rating. Unfortunately it was like hitting the ball out of the park and then forgetting to step on the bags as you go round the diamond. He simply had his opportunity to be presidential and then blew it harder than Clinton did with Lewinsky. He's become a typical cheap opportunist like so many other politicians - they all think we CAN'T sit here and analyze what they say.
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  6013.  @mariab7681  Agreed. As I said earlier her life before 2016/17 isn't remarkable or notable in any real way. After that she's drunk the kool aid and wont stop drinking.
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  6014. You could try reality, but I think that's too much for any Lawyer to handle, grasp or deal with.
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  6015.  @malinadeline  Either of those would be a great choice, but would be even better is having both Eagle and Owl argue/discuss them not just one of them.
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  6016.  @theboringchannel2027  On geopolitics he's good but then that's his area of expertise. I'm angry because he has no excuse for checking with an engineer before doing these shite videos.
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  6017.  @crosslink1493  Go and look how its done. Its a technology that's incredibly well developed. The manufacturing was sorted out decades ago. A lot of the propellant combinations were sorted out decades ago. Think about all the air to air, air to ground, surface to air and other missiles. Then there's the boosters used on the rockets that launch satellites. From the smallest of hobby rockets all the way to the giant boosters for SLS its a technology that's incredibly well sorted out. One of my favorite systems is the Pegasus system first developed by Orbital RTK that's now owned by Grumman. It uses a very similar propellant to that used in the Space Shuttle and SLS boosters. Its incredibly reliable and they can mold it in to various shapes to control the burn. Xyla Foxlin has a great channel here on YT. She's done several rocket videos and gives good details on the motors she uses. One of her rockets did over Mach 2.
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  6018. This subject is just another example of the horribly tribalized public discussion environment we now find ourselves trapped in. It seems that almost every public discussion these days is getting hijacked by clowns. I just saw a vid over on Majority Report about Tucker Carlson raging about hormone treatments for children. He doesn't care about those kids its just a stick for him to beat his drum with. Look at all these clowns David is pointing out here. Covid vaccines are just a stick to beat their drums with. I'm an engineer. We can't have any sensible discussion on energy right now because the moment anyone tries we get all these tribalized clowns beating their drums and screaming at the world. None of them can build any sort of power station or fix anything with energy but they just keep preventing anything from getting done. Its costing everyone higher energy bills all over the world. My parents were high school teachers and its the same in education. Look at how certain people weaponized the CRT issue. Its NOT FORMALLY TAUGHT in any high school anywhere on the planet and suddenly it became a howling scream shitfest for no other reason that a few clowns thought it would get clicks or votes or both.
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  6019. Actually this issue of purging in China and that Peter has also pointed out in that Peter has done in Russia does have a Western equivalent. Boris Johnson cleaned out any competition from the British Tory party which is why they were left with Liz Truss. The Australian Libs (funded by Rupert Murdoch) did similar to the Brits and is why they are pretty pathetic right now. BOTH the American Democrats and Republicans have purged themselves. The Democrats got rid of anyone who would not submit to their corporate interests and the Republicans got rid of anyone with a functioning brain. I suspect people will be able to tell us about all sorts of other parties that have similarly purged their ranks of independent brain function so that certain people can maintain control.
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  6020. I like Yanis, I think he has lots of good ideas and this speech has many, many truths in it. But he needs to drop this nonsense about a challenge to the US Dollar and he pointed out the main reason. The Current Hegemonic leadership just wont allow for it. Mark Suckerberg was going to have Libra and that very quietly died. Mark Blyth hinted at WHY it was doomed back in 2019. Yanis as an economist should be aware of why Crypto wont work. Here's Mark on Bitcoin back in 2019 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4673s
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  6021. Australian with an outside observation. I don't think this matter much at all as it was always going to be a softball interview with predictable questions and answers. Right now America is so polarised the real question is who's motivated. The people who will vote Kamala won't be switching to anyone else and the people who will vote for Trump won't be switching to anyone else. So the only question that really matters is: Who's going to get their people to turn up and actually vote. I am worried that the Democrats have made the same fatal mistake they made in 2016 and are just assuming people will turn up and the mistake is NOT realising how tired people are of politics and politicians. That was what Trump tapped into in 2016. How many of you realise that Trumps basic vote count went UP in 2020? An extra 11million people voted for trump in 2020 than in 2016. Has anyone answered the question of how that happened when all the polls (including Fox) said Trumps base was shrinking. Denial is NOT a winning strategy.
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  6022. Honestly I no longer acre about any of the baby boomer clowns who think their opinions matter. They were never as clever or special as they thought and were just lucky as to when they were born. The rude shock that is coming is when they find out Gen-X, The Millennials and Zoomers DON'T CARE. The even ruder shock coming is when they find out we are going to blame them for hoarding all the wealth and leaving us with the greatest mess in human history.
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  6023.  @petras6718  How about you and others take a genuine and honest look at the corrupt piece of filth ASKING the question? I'll grant you any day of the week that Garland has FAILED to do his job. Most of all he has completely failed to bring Donald Trump to justice. But then that corrupt piece of filth Ted Cruz also had his chance to be honest and deal with Trump when he was impeached and then impeached again.
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  6024.  @shadebleu  CAN YOU READ???? Try reading the first 5 words of my comment and this time try brain function or am I asking too much!
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  6025. While you're at it read the comment by maxjoech above.
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  6026.  @shadebleu  Oh SHlT who knew we had genius in Creative writing to help clarify everything. I'll write slowly cos I know you can't read fast!! She's right in that they aren't using IEDs that are as sophisticated as purpose built Western military hardware. She's totally wrong in that there's been military expertise involved in the manufacturing of IEDs that make them far more sophisticated than those employed in the first few years of the Iraq invasion. Its called nuance, but then a genius in creative writing must surely understand nuance.
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  6027. Oh dude that's some evil thinking. And sadly damn true. Its exactly the sort of crap a malignant sociopath like Trump would do.
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  6028. ​ @ASS999ish  Australian here and I'll give you guys all something to mull on. What do you think certain countries are going to do if Trump gets the GOP nomination considering how much of a threat he is to them? I can simply tell you that even in Australia Trump 2.0 is a threat and we are in a far better position than most as we host several incredibly important US Installations. But there's other countries that would see a second Trump presidency as an outright threat to their existence. Other than the obvious issue with Ukraine there's a whole list of countries that used to be part of the Soviet block and they KNOW that Trump already wants to throw Ukraine under Putin's bus. So what do you think they feel? Then there's all of NATO who are wondering WTF their security might be under Trump 2.0. Then on the Economic front what do you think negotiating and trade agreements will be like with Trump 2.0. That's gonna scare the entire Pacific Rim because they all remember what Trump did to the Canadians. Let me put it this way the only country I know off hand that would welcome Trump 2.0 is Russia. Then there are all the people who were involved with Epstein that Trump knows about. What do you think they believe Trump 2.0 can get away with considering he'd be truly off the leash by that stage. Lets not forget how he's blackmailed Lindsey Graham. There are so many people on the planet who DON'T want Trump 2.0 and for a whole host of reasons that its just a matter of which one of them does it. And I haven't even mentioned the Palestinians or Iranians.
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  6029.  @Jesusisnotcomingback2150  NO - it would be a promotion to his career BUT a DEMOTION to his ego.
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  6030. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  6031. It all depends on what the Puppet Masters at the Federalist Society tell the SCOTUS puppets what to say.
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  6032. To all you Americans who care. This was recently shown Australia regarding Rupert Murdoch and Fox -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Its the 1st of 2 parts and the 2nd wont be shown until next week. It includes interviews with ex-Fox presenters who detail what happened inside the Murdoch/Fox Empire with regards to Trump. Gretchen Carlson's interview as a single video is available as well -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 This was done by ABC Australia (our equivalent of PBS) on a program called "4 Corners" (our equivalent to PBS Frontline). You can expect the Australian Right Wingers to go completely unhinged. I've already been trolled for these comments. Murdoch's Australian operation is called "Sky News Australia" (if you didn't know). Their Equivalent to Hannity is a guy named Alan Jones, but he's just one of a group of narcissistic liars. So watch out for ANYTHING done by Sky News Australia. They are a Murdoch operation and absolutely hate ABC Australia screaming endlessly they are a leftist propaganda machine. ABC Australia is not a leftist organization they are (as a public broadcaster) controlled by a government appointed board. The current Australian Government is right wing and they have board level control of the ABC. So the claims of left wing bias are garbage. ABC Australia isn't perfect and have lost 2 defamation cases this year, but those cases are tiny compared to News Corp cases. Murdoch has been trying for more than 20 years to get the ABC dissolved (as in completely annihilated). That's because the ABC like the BBC has ripped into Murdoch over the years for shoddy journalism and other practices like illegal surveillance including phone tapping.
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  6033.  @fredfrond6148  If you are talking about Rick Bright he didn't resign from Operation Warp Speed. He was reassigned as in moved out (kicked out) of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Bright
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  6034.  @emm8357  They are only on once a week and its actually rare they do 2 part stories. Here's the Gretchen Carlson interview as a single vid -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o
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  6035. You are right this is NOT a coup. That's just the media and other clowns wasting peoples time. HOWEVER you are totally wrong that more than 1/2 the US population voted for Trump. Only 77 million Americans out of 336 million voted for Trump that's less than 1/4 of the population (~22%). PLUS 75 million voted against Trump. What the Dum-o-crats and all the other whiners need to realise is that 81 million people voted for Biden in 2020. That means around 6 million people just didn't bother to turn up like they did in 2020. Meanwhile Trump's vote went UP by just over 3 million. You're right this is NOT a coup. Its the complete failure of mainstream politics to be effective and make people's lives better.
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  6036. Absolutely. The whole your either 100% with me or 100% the enemy of his fan club, which just like Trump's fan club and Elon Musk's fan club and all the other fan clubs IS THE PROBLEM and I'd like Kyle & Krystal to go into that. I have run into the JBP fan club who are just awful (to say the least) and not because I trashed him but because I called him out on the technicality of his climate answers. I actually agree with a lot of what he says. I have watched some of his psychology lectures and he's a great teacher and knows his subject incredibly well. I also agree on his stuff about legislating language, that was simply common sense. And for agreeing with him on that I got attacked by radical leftists.
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  6037. The most ridiculous part of the entire "woke" discussion is that up until a few years ago it woke had NOTHING TO DO with LBGT rights or anything on the political Left EXCEPT for the economic situation of African Americans. This is where people on the Left repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot and fail to get things done in meaningful ways. 1) They grab a hold of a cause; AND THEN 2) Hijack the public discussion with a convenient tag, like woke; AND THEN 3) Make it the center piece of EVERYTHING they see wrong with the world; AND THEN The Right come in with their culture war BS and bash the hell out of everything turning it into a gigantic ugly shitfest.
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  6038.  @shutup2751  HEY SHlT4BRAlNS Trump tore up the nuclear agreement with Iran. Sorry if facts might confuse you and the rest of the population of Trumpistan.
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  6039. EVEN BEFORE WATCHING THIS THE ANSWER IS - NOT SOON ENOUGH. (edit) That was with respect to Elon But with respect to Heather's comment about women finding it so hard to live in these times. WHY DID so many women VOTE for Trump??? She and lot of WELL EDUCATED women need to get of butts and go ask those women who voted for Trump WHY?
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  6040.  @cratarata2278  Thanks so much for the sentiment. I am not in that area but those that are will appreciate it.
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  6041. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship. YES over 70 million Americans lost their minds when the put Trump back into power, but the other 260 million or so of them are decent people that we really should call friends and allies. The main culprits in this clusterf--k are the Dum-o-crats who utterly lost the plot. Right now Labor seem to have hired the same campaign people because their early ads are all about "More of the same." Remember Kamala Harris's famous answer "I can't think of anything I'd do differently"? That comment was what sunk here campaign and why over 7 million people who voted for Biden in 2020 did NOT vote in 2024. Fundamentally any party anywhere in the world that goes with the "More of the same strategy" is going to lose and lose huge. Even if its to a clown howling that "They're eating cats and dogs!" This is what happened with Brexit and European elections and French elections and other places.
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  6042. Why doesn't somebody ask this clown how much it takes to clean up a coal fired power station? Or how much it costs to clean up the coal mine where the coal came from???????? Or how about the costs to clean up after floods, bushfires and droughts?????? Or how about the costs of cleaning up a nuclear power plant site after its life is over?????? Or how about the cost when this clown flushes the toilet??????
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  6043.  @insightfulhistorian1861  Agreed. The egotism of the media has reached an epidemic level where ego driven opinions based on nothing matter more than facts.
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  6044.  @colinmcc8564  If there's a difference its that some are just less repulsive than others. Its not just WH press secretaries either. Its all the political spin doctors across the world.
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  6045. I DID NOT WATCH THIS. I DID NO TLISTEN TO THIS. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE ANY MORE STORIES EVER AGAIN ABOUT POLLS Polls are BULLSHlT. Polls are CRAP. Polls are just noise and waste everyone's time.
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  6046. ​ @libertatem_aut_mori_conatur  Yeah I'd agree but that's modern politics. Its at times damn nasty and vicious INISDE the parties. Look at how the Dems treated Bernie Sanders TWICE. I'm actually Australian but went to college in America and it pains me to see what's happening. Being honest we have similar problems here just like they have problems everywhere. I have a friend who was right into politics in his college days here in Australia. He told me about how nasty and vicious it is at the student level. When I asked why? He told me the parties want people who can fight causes. So they use student politics like the Hunger Games to find out who can really fight and NOT CARE what it takes to win.
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  6047. There are 2 basic facts in this disaster that NONE of US should forget in the morass of specific incidents. 1) October 7 was a horrendous crime and those responsible should be pursued and held accountable. 2) Killing 15,000 children in response to October 7 is ALSO a horrendous crime and those responsible should be pursued and held accountable. We can say all that we like about anyone of 1,000s of other things or specific incidents BUT in BOTH those CASES those responsible should be pursued and HELD ACCOUNTABLE. To NOT hold those responsible accountable might be as bad as the crimes themselves because all it will do is encourage others. Maybe the next worst part of this is the UGLY indifference the celebrities at the Met Gala showed. If we ever wondered if the the sanctimonious self righteous garbage so many celebrities pump out regarding various causes they claim to believe in then this proved that when it comes to publicity versus morals & ethics celebrities will put publicity before anything.
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  6048. This kind of stuff only ends one way -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8
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  6049. Of course it doesn't pass the sniff test David - its a vaccine not coke.
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  6050. I can see the moment coming when somebody is going to lose it with people like Alex Jones and its going to be ugly. There's only so many times you can just stomp on innocent people before they lash out. Alex Jones and his kind are the grade school brat who provokes others and then squeals when anyone does something.
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  6051.  @AeSyrNation  Don't forget all the prisons they emptied in the first year of the War.
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  6052. That's a great point and its not simply a threat to America its a threat to every Western democratic nation with existing systems and a threat to every developing nation that's trying to develop systems. Now can Somebody please send a copy of this to Hilary Clinton and the leadership of the DNC. She's still blaming Bernie Sanders for losing in 2016 despite the fact she cheated to win the nomination. She's still complaining its the system of the electoral college that cost her the Presidency when it was the stupidity of her own campaign. Anybody who understands the most basic thing about swing states in democratic politics knows you don't do stupid things like NOT campaign there. Every democratic nation irrespective of demographics and how they actually elect their government has places that will always vote one way and other places that swing from election to election. Hilary Clinton and her "strategists" flipped off Michigan one of the key swing states and by flipping off Michigan she flipped of the entire rust belt which has the key swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania. HAS ANYONE involved in the 2016 debacle accepted even the slightest responsibility for that? In 2020 the Dems won the Whitehouse, BUT LOST seats in the House and failed to win a clear majority of the Senate and they lost seats in state houses everywhere. Has ANYONE involved accepted even the slightest responsibility for those failures?
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  6053. The worst part of this are how deluded the BLUE MAGA people are. I just watched the Brooks & Capehart segment on PBS titled "Brooks and Capehart on Biden's battle to stay in the race" and at one point Jonathan Capehart throws down. After quoting a string of stats he demands that the people who want Biden to step down explain what they are seeing they he isn't. He then goes on to claim that the Joe Biden he interviewed/met recently is the same Joe Biden he interviewed/met 2 years ago. What we are seeing is a man in OBVIOUS decline who might win the election but is NOT be capable of serving 4 more years. THAT'S WHAT WE SEE. The level of delusion that Jonathan Capehart shows is staggering and he's just one of 1,000s of BLUE MAGA. They are just as bad and just as deluded as RED MAGA its just taken longer for it to be obvious.
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  6054.  @ttacking_you  Love that expression "the Sean Hannities of the left" and its right on point as well.
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  6055. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  6056.  @bluecoffee8414  I was a swimmer and no material what era of swimming you look at certain basics have always held true. When I look at any sport its the same. The basics never change and are always important. Go look at football no matter what technology or plays or your QBs ability to throw nothing works without blocking and tackling. The same is very true if you want a modern technological society - YOU MUST BE EDUCATED and the basic of all education is literacy. I'm an engineer and our problem across the entire field of engineering is technical drawing what some people call drafting. Because of the apps like AutoCad engineers no longer need to learn how to draw. You can't design WELL if you can't draw properly. The same is very true across modern society. Nobody needs to be bothered with reading, writing, spelling or grammar because we have apps that do it. So what you are seeing is the result not just the result of lower education standards. Its the combination of several factors including technology. Arguably the biggest delusion in the developed world is "I can USE technology therefor I am educated."
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  6057. Go and read Arthur C Clarkes novel 2010: Odyssey Two or get the film. Its got that exact scenario. So sorry, but as a scenario it was covered 40 years ago.
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  6058. I'm going to go a bit against the tide on this because its all fairly one sided and the problem with taking sides in the Israeli-Palestinian is that its the most toxic political subject on the planet. Anytime you take even the slightest movement to one side or the other the other side immediately paints you as a racist or bigot or both or worse. A more experienced politician would have known how to dodge this, subject. Running for mayor of NY where there are powerful lobbies on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian subject is a nightmare when something like this happens. Other than a clever word salad to dodge the subject there is no answer that wont get you into trouble.
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  6059.  @allegory6393  Great well thought comment, but be careful that's a logical argument in a situation where logic is almost a crime.
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  6060. To Everyone, I stopped this at 37 seconds for the simple reason that Rubin is talking about Austerity as a way to make an economy grow when its in trouble. BEEN TRIED NEVER WORKED ONCE ANYWHERE ask the Greeks, Italian, Spanish, etc. Prof Mark Blyth from Brown U. has spoke about this extensively. Here's the 5:35 version on why Dave Rubin really is stupid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2bVGi0ReE There's dozens of talks here on YT by Mark Blyth and others explaining this in detail. FYI - I'm an Australian engineer who spent a chunk of COVID time looking into economics and how it works so that after COVID I'd be able to deal with managers with economics degrees. I like Mark Blyth because he talks in a way that suits me. Part of his work at the Watson Institute includes interviewing other people like Stephanie Kelton, Adam Tooze and others. They are all saying we need NEW economics NOT repeats of stuff we know doesn't work like Rubin's saying. For those of you in America please get through to Kyle & Krystal and get them to have people like Mark Blyth & Stephanie Kelton on. Don't just say Rubin is stupid ACTUALLY have people on who can EXPLAIN WHY he's stupid.
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  6061. Yeah, why not. Carter is well respected around the world having done a lot more AFTER leaving office. But he also has terminal cancer, which means he'd probably outlast Biden as well.
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  6062. Great point what you are showing is one of the cruel facts about POPULAR democracies. They are fundamentally popularity contests NOT contests of substance and what's more they never have been. By extension to that politics in the era of the internet and social media is even less about substance. Even after people get elected, doing the job they were elected to do is less important than promoting the narrative that got them elected. Sadly Trump not only understood that way better than anyone knew at the time, he was also able to exploit it better than anyone had done previously. In July 2019 when the Democrat primary was in swing mark Blyth was asked about Elizabeth Warren during a Q&A after a lecture on Trumpism. Here's that and the link is time stamped to that moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4795s FYI - the whole vid is worth you time.
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  6063. Being utterly ignorant of reality is even worse. ANY CHANGE (Up or Down) in a currency has ZERO effect on things produced and services provided INTERNALLY to that nation. It only affects how that nations trades with EXTERNAL markets.
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  6064. Unfortunately to blame Obama for anything without a crystal clear argument (and yours is pretty crystal clear) is to risk being labelled a racist. This is unfortunately one of the greatest issues in politics across the world these days. The moment anyone tries to frame an argument in logical clear terms then everyone opposing such an argument immediately drags it into the gutter full of culture war memes. This is not simply a Washington problem it happens in every center of political power in the world no matter what the political system is.
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  6065.  @alanhigh8125  So what the F∪CK are you so scared of you need to sleep with a semi-auto? I get the security system and all that. I can even understand people owning a gun as I own one. But sleeping with it. WTF is that about?
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  6066. NO KYLE - when he says "if we're going to be a culture that now starts to say there must be something wrong if the government has charged 91 counts. I think that's a gov... that's a people of sheep and when the people behave like sheep that breeds a government of wolves." Then have him explain the rabid investigations over Hunter Biden? Ramaswamy is nothing but a typical Right Wing hack. "If we do it then its Ok, but if you do it then we are gonna smash you for doing it."
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  6067. You are absolutely 100% correct NOTE WHAT Kevin McCarthy actually says. I cut & past this from the transcript of the video except the punctuation is mine. Starting at 1:24 "Despite these serious allegations. It appears that the president's family has been offered special treatment by Biden's own Administration. Treatment that not otherwise would have received if they were not related to the President. These are allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption and they warrant further investigation by the House of Representatives." Think about what that actually says. 1) There's allegations NOT EVIDENCE. 2) There's appearance NOT EVIDENCE. 3) Regarding the allegations of favoritism to family members, maybe he can explain how Jared & Ivanka were given positions in the Trump Whitehouse despite having NO RELEVANT Experience for those positions. 4) Regarding the allegations of abuse of power, maybe Kevin McCarthy can explain how the GOP ignored what Trump did with his "perfect call" to Ukraine during Trump's 1st Impeachment. 5) Regarding the allegations of obstruction, maybe Kevin McCarthy can explain how the GOP ignored Trumps obstruction with counting votes on January 6th during Trump's 2nd Impeachment. 6) Regarding the allegations of corruption, maybe Kevin McCarthy can explain why there has been NO Investigation regarding Jared Kushner's use of government resources to play various Arab states against each other to secure several hundred million dollars to bail out his family's investment in the New York office tower 666 Fifth Avenue OR How Jared Kushner was able to get $2 Billion from the Saudi Arabian Sovereign Wealth Fund as he left the Whitehouse. OR How Donald Trump's golf courses made millions of dollars because he spent so much time at them as President that countries were forced to rent suites and villas at them to hold meetings. PLUS the US government had to pay for the rental of suites and villas and golf carts and food at those golf courses for Whitehouse Staff and Secret Service agents.
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  6068. Go look up Glickenhaus and their history. There first car was based on a modern interpretation on a classic Ferrari.
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  6069. I'm an Australian engineer and just a couple of days ago I had a clown telling me how Australia ALREADY had small nuclear reactors operating in our country. Problem is 1) NONE of the companies who are into COMMERCIAL SMRs have said they will be ready to supply the market BEFORE the MID 2030s. 2) There's a law banning nuclear power in Australia and yeah we all think its stupid. The World is currently infested with a PLAGUE of UNEDUCATED super geniuses IN EVERY SUBJECT who yell and scream that NOBODY can trust the media but they 1,000,000% believe anything their SOCIAL MEDIA chat friends can pull out of thin air with ZERO EVIDENCE to back it up.
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  6070. IT DOES NOT MATTER with Trump supporters. They don't listen to reason, logic, common sense and don't care.
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  6071. EVERY TIME you mention Dinesh D'Souza you must mention that he is a convicted felon who was later pardoned by Donald Trump. The charged was that in 2012 he used "straw donors" to make illegal campaign contributions.
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  6072. With that comment do we rally need to mention Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Lin Wood or the 1000s of others like them across the western world these days.
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  6073.  @Rubytheblueeyedwolf  Do rate your football team on what they did 20 years ago or what they did in their last game? Rudy can have what ever he want's on his resume, good, bad & whatever. But he is going to have his career judged on what he has done these last months. He trashed democracy, he LIED and LIED and LIED and now he's getting sued out of existence for it. The same applies to Lin Wood and Sidney Powell. Whatever they may have done in the past they ruined their reputations with idiocy, stupidity and garbage. They all peddled this insane bullshit that was a GIANT LIE to help raise money to help pay off Trumps campaign debts. The fact that so many can't accept they got suckered and conned is their problem.
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  6074. Yeah a score of 1 out of 10 is 1,000 times better than a score of 0.001 out of 10 But 1 out of 1 isn't what anyone wants.
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  6075. Yep - they are all like 5 year olds. I want what I want and I want it now and I don't care about anything or anyone else.
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  6076. When you put in a comment like that, which is a great comment. Please put in the link to the video your are talking about, that way you leave no doubt about what you are referring to. If there is something important in a video put in a time so people know which part you are referring to. Are you referring to Noam Chomsky's documentary or something else?
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  6077.  @4andronicus  And they crushed him over a nothing deal where he apparently heard something and he didn't make much money anyway. He was as you said "a character" I bet he he would have had a ball playing crypto games. I'd love to know what he would have made of the years since he died (2005). He missed the GFC and Trump.
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  6078. I will grant anyone on the political Right that Joe Biden needs to be removed. SO LONG as you all agree that Donald trump should be in jail and I'll even let you decide what he's there for: a) Sexual Assault, b) Fraud, c) Sedition, d) All of the above or anything else you can accept.
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  6079. CNN - the Crazy Nutter Network I'm certain others have even better versions of what CNN means, but the YT Algorithm might ban me.
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  6080. Well then those people will have NOTHING. Because no matter what anyone wants those power stations will wear out and they will be turned off. As an engineer this utterly frustrates the hell out of me because this basic fact isn't in the discussion. Hazelwood and Liddell were turned off for the basic fact they were old and worn out and could not be kept running. Blame whoever you like for the lack of maintenance but its a fact they could NOT be kept running. The stupidity of the public discussion is that it never includes any engineers and you all of the DUMB CLOWNS in the media and the commentators and think tankers and celebrities wont be building you a new power station it will be engineers and tradesmen AND YOU CAN EITHER start to listen or stop complaining about your power bills.
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  6081. Who else would get advice from regarding the behavior of a sociopathic warmongering maniac than another sociopathic warmongering maniac. Does American media have any other sociopathic warmongering maniacs at hand??? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  6082. Forgetting whether the discussion is about Hunter, Jarrod, Ivanka or any other adult children of the last 2 presidents ONE THING is crystal clear. The MAIN reason that NO COUNTRY should want political leaders in their 60s, 70s or 80s is because at that age, they have adult children active in the business world. Even if they are the sweetest angel there will be people who try to exploit who they are for political or business advantage. But if they have issues like Hunters drugs or Jarrod & Ivanka's lack of ethics then its a real problem. Just recently when the Diane Feinstein health issues emerged it also came out that her primary care giver is Nancy Pelosi's daughter. Does anyone really think that either George W Bush or his brother Jeb would have ever been elected if they hadn't been able to trade on their fathers name???? Does anyone really think that RFK would be given any attention as a presidential candidate right now if his family name was Smith???? In general its collectively called nepotism and its been going for centuries.
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  6083. American Libertarians summed up in 1 very simple statement "We demand the liberty to strip other people of their liberty!" I forget who said it but the ultimate flaw of democracy is that 50.1% of the population can decide to exterminate the other 49.9% of the population. Like Sport, Democracy can only function when both sides agree to a basic set of rules. Right now America has 2 sides that don't believe the other side should exist. The fault lies with a lot of people including the leadership (or lack of it) from both sides of politics as well as a media obsessed with how many buzz words they can use in the next 5 minutes and a public too willing to believe what they want to hear as they dismiss what they need to hear.
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  6084.  @barriewilliams4526  The point is you clown is that long before anyone can prosecute Putin they have to prosecute America FIRST And the problem there is that America like Ukraine and Russia is NOT a signatory to the ICC. George Bush did that when he signed the American Service-Members' Protection Act into reality in 2002. That was specifically done to protect America personnel from prosecution in Iraq and Afghanistan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court#Opposition_to_the_Court
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  6085.  Look good feel good  And the point is clown brain that if Putin goes to trial then so does Bush, Cheney, Obama, Trump and several 100 (maybe 1,000) others scumbags also go to trial for crimes against humanity.
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  6086. Go back and look for a video Kyle did referencing a Politico story on the 2022 Congressional Budget Office Report Bernie Sanders commissioned on family wealth. Just the first graph in that report (and its easy to find) shows how the Bottom 50% of America have gone NOWHERE for 30+ years. They were smashed in the 2008 GFC losing almost 50% of what little they had. Meanwhile the Top 10% just keep getting everything they ask for. Once you realise just how farked a massive slab is and how fed up they are you will realise that BOTH Hilary and Kamala making statements to the effect of "More of the Same" means the only option for those people to change their lives is Trump. This is the TRUE FAILURE of the Dems. Instead of saying anything aspirational that gives the American people hope of a better future they gave "More of the Same" as their centre policy. When your one of the American Working Class and your life is SHlT and one person is preaching "More of the Same" and the other person is saying they want to "Tear down the System" its easy to see why Trump WON and America LOST. Because its one thing to tear the system down its another thing to build a better system and Trump roved in his last 4 years he's clueless at building a better system.
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  6087. THIS DIDN'T AGE WELL This is a perfect example of why the Left Lose. Intellectually I like Richard Wolff but then I have the patience to sit and listen. HOWEVER the Richard like many on the Left think elections and politics are an intellectual exercise when they JUST AREN'T. 50% of any population have an IQ under 100 and the Leftist Intellectuals ESPECIALLY ECONOMISTS are always looking down on those people as a problem to be managed. Instead of offering aspiration they offer exhaustion from being lectured.
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  6088.  @lemonlemon7186  Go back and READ what I actually said. The problem IS NOT that they have a message or that its wrong. The problem is their DELIVERY is WRONG. You're trying to say the problem is education and that's a different argument and its one I AGREE WITH. One of the key problems with Leftist Equality IDEOLOGY is the assumption that everyone has the same education potential and can be taught the same thing at the same level. If that were true then everyone could be a doctor, engineer, mathematician and get a PhD as they do it. I hate to burst that balloon but its NOT TRUE. The basic concept of IQ says 50% of the population has an IQ of less than 100. That doesn't make them stupid or useless but you can't lecture them the way you might someone with an IQ of 110, 120, 130 or higher. Jessica Tarlov quoted a Trump supporter the other day. They said (paraphrasing) "Yes I know Trump's crazy but crazy doesn't look down on me." And that's my point if you keep lecturing people in a way that keeps saying your superior and they're inferior it will come back to slap you across the face.
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  6089.  @jimmaag4274  No I don't work for Boeing and have never worked for Boeing, but I am an aerospace engineer with safety engineering qualifications and what they did with the MAX-8 was one of the most disgusting episodes in engineering history. If you understand what I understand, the MCAS system in that plane was so badly conceived and designed it was only ever going to end up crashing planes. There's nothing new in bad designs in engineering, but we now have so much information and history that we know what to avoid. Boeing didn't simply ignore a few things they ignored EVERYTHING they had learned over decades and the FAA system was so corrupted it didn't pick up the problem, which it should have. Worse, it was driven by a couple of clowns in their sales team and I have clashed with sales people promising stupid things to clients. So its not just a Boeing thing, its rampant across industry and government. I know that from personnel experience. Engineers share stories of who's had to clean up projects from stupid managers. The Boeing Max-8 is just one of the easiest examples to mention because people know about it.
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  6090.  TheBorz  You just summed up one of the worst behaviors of the digitally connected human race. The ability to consume bad information as if its true while discarding true information as if its bad.
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  6091. Agreed this maggots garbage was flagged to me by the YT algorithm last week. I watched some of it and checked the dates to see if it was older or something new and its something new. 2 things are staggering. 1) That he has the audacity to keep making the claims he does. 2) All of the M0R0Ns who cheer him on in the comments.
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  6092. Trump hates ANYONE who gets noticed at his expense. He's a pure narcissistic sociopath with compulsion issues. You don't even need to be a psychologist to see him for what he is. He can't handle not being the centre of attention or handle rejection and cares so little for other people he will do anything to be the center of attention and be incredibly destructive towards anyone who rejects him.
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  6093. You're right but the he still has to be dealt with along with the millions of others in this mass delusion. I'm Australian but went to college in America and can barley believe that this has taken such an incredible hold on America. Not only does it concern Australia but it concerns every country (Canada, Japan, Mexico, Britain, ..etc.) with serious security and trade with America. WHAT HAPPENS if Trump or another Trumpist is in the WH in 2024? WHAT HAPPENS if the GOP gets control of both houses later this year and they start ripping America to pieces? Where does that leave all of America's security and trade partners? Here's some "it will never happen" but can because Trump proved it can happen. What if Trump wins in 2024 with a super majority and then appoints people like Mike Lindell, Marjorie Green or Madison Cawthorn to senior positions like SecState or UN Ambassador or maybe Mike Flynn to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs? What if he gives Jared or Ivanka some real power they can play with????? I know there's a lot of Americans scared of Trump 2.0 and what he might do being the vindictive person he is, but just understand so are a lot of other people around the world.
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  6094. Yeah - how many times have we seen over the decades (if not centuries) that the marketeers of fast money and impractical growth always come to a crashing halt. How many time have you heard a phrase like (7:38) "his reinvention of finance was on its way to changing the world" Remember Theranos bimbo Elizabeth Holmes claims of changing the world. You know why engineers created Crypto? So engineers could prove once and for all how stupid people with economics degrees are.
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  6095. Attempted crime - not likely. Conspiracy to commit a crime - pretty much yes, accept for the mental health issues.
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  6096. Sadly that wont happen. “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  6097. The thumbnail is WRONG, Trickle Down economics has ALWAYS WAORKED. It has always worked for those it was INTENDED to work for - the top 1%. Just think of the word "trickle" it implies a small amount coming from a larger source that could or should be more. The purpose of Trickle down economics has always been to help the wealthy get wealthier while providing just enough to those below them for a bit of hope. Remember the answer from the Hunger Games _"Why do we have a winner?" HOPE a little hope is good a lot of hope is bad. 1 in 24 wins (as in survives) and gets celebrated and is sold as HOPE. "Trickle Down Economics" is the Hunger Games of economics - a rare person wins to give us hop of a better future or in trickle down economics a small amount of money flows down to give people hope of a better future. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  6098. Probably they like the idea that the race lasts longer than the sprint to the 1st corner. or maybe They like the idea that their driving ability is more important than the engineering geeks in the lab. FYI- I am an engineer and I do think F1 is no longer a sport. Its a technology competition thanks to my fellow engineers.
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  6099.  @westyinzer4607  Then explain why the other 99.9% of the American population can't find Canada or Mexico on a map?
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  6100. Yo - 1 here. My answer is: Because the Aussies and Kiwis thought the British wouldn't use us as cannon fodder like they were famous for doing with the Welsh, Irish & Scotts. WE WERE WRONG. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  6101.  @signoguns8501  I'd agree with that. When AOC & others had the chance to ACTUALLY do something they just didn't. And that proved she was just another political bag of hot air. And that broke something in Jimmy. And people have limits. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  6102.  @signoguns8501  Yeah your right. The force wasn't going to anything legislatively but it would have should is just how hopeless congress now is. The quagmire that congress is isn't just isolated to America - its everywhere. Go look at almost any western government and they are all trapped by public polling, the wants of billionaires, the military,... etc. I think the reality of seeing how hopeless it is broke Jimmy.
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  6103. I think Gen Wilder (the Waco Kid) summed up Jim Breuer and his audience when explaining the people of Rockridge to Cleavon Little (Sherriff Bart) in Blazing Saddles. "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."
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  6104.  @adrenalinflow  This is from 9 months ago. Just yesterday was the 1st GOP debate and you only have to look at some of the examples being shown to see the insane level of narcissism that is being shown by the GOP candidates. When asked about simple straight forward things like climate change - its a hoax. When asked if they'd back Trump EVEN IF CONVICTED they'd still back him. There's a 5 year minimum in Georgia for RICO and the other charges should lead to at least house arrest if not jail time. NOBODY said it wont matter because if he's convicted he'll be in jail. Instead they put their hands up like monkeys and the crowd cheered them for it.
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  6105.  @mikebrin2002  Dang it - are you trying to start a civil war?
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  6106. It is. Its called the 14th Amendment. The problem is its the most inconvenient Amendment for the conservatives so they do everything they can to undermine it. America is finally starting to realise just how insidious Mitch McConnell's program of seizing control of SCOTUS and how much a threat to the American people it actually is. Like every nation both historical and current America is learning that its greatest threat is rarely external but internal. Go look at all the great empires of history the reason they all fell was because INTERNALLY they were already weak when the next empire emerged.
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  6107.  @allwinds3786  Yeah absolutely on that. the level of hypocrisy and narcissism on the right is worse than the left but it must not be forgotten that the left have their issues too. This is the giant political problem of our time. In country after country the lunch options are a horsesh*t sandwich or a bullsh*t sandwich and occasionally a chickensh*t or pigsh*t sandwich. Anyway we look at our political leaders we are being asked to eat sh*t. The only difference is what type of sh*t and how much they are trying to ram down our throats. I just saw a Farron story on Josh Hawley getting away with committing a crime when he was AG for Missouri. Guess what, he's another lawyer who went to Yale, like the Clintons.
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  6108. Agreed this is one of the few channels on military matter that is NOT a rah, rah, rah look at how awesome this is pile of PR garbage. Mark Felton is another good channel but then he is also a proper historian as well.
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  6109. SORRY BUT - I went and checked this and maybe Thom could have done some checking too. None of what I found said she is or isn't corrupt but the link to mobsters is incredibly thin. There definitely is a direct link from Cannons husband (Josh Lorence) to John Rosatti, but there's not much of a link between John Rosatti and the Colombo crime family and nothing to suggest he's actually a mobster. According to FBI informant and former Colombo captain Salvatore "Big Sal" Miciotta "in late 1993, Victor Orena asked multi-millionaire businessman John Rosatti to provide cars from his dealership to be used to carry out murders, Rosatti declined and instead handed over $50,000 to Orena." (source Wikipedia on the page about the Colombo Crime Family). So there's no actual claim anywhere that Rosatti was actually a mobster just a claim that a mobster approached him at one time and the implication he paid money to NOT be involved.
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  6110.  @dthomas9230  Yeah I have been informally studying economics for a couple of years. Mainly listening to a lot of lectures, book talks and discussions here on YT. I'm an engineer and simply wanted to learn how to speak to economists. You see - we get a lot of interference in engineering from people waving economics degrees. Any how - one of the recurrent themes (or memes) of neoliberalism (Reaganomics, Thatcherism,...) is unfunded tax cuts. These are tax cuts that are not matched by equivalent reductions in government spending or increases in other taxes. Famously the son of Reagans VP - Dubya gave tax cuts at the same time he started a war and people told him it takes REAL MONEY to fight a war. Yeah it didn't work out well. One of the great fallacies of neoliberalism is the concept of trickle down economics. Its basically where they give massive tax cuts to the top 10% who then invest that money into industry and thus create jobs. Those newly employed people then pay tax making up for the tax cuts given to the wealthy. It sounds simple and even might be considered logical. EXCEPT ITS NEVER WORKED and every time its been tried it lead to unsustainable government debt THEN a depression AND THEN a war or revolution. Its because of one very simple fact. Wealthy people DO NOT invest in economic growth they invest in profit growth. As Milton Friedman said "There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits..." Governments are the opposite. They invest (with some exceptions) in social growth - education, infrastructure, power stations, new technologies,... Its a distinction that to my engineering brain is obvious but I have NOT SEEN 1 economist voice that distinction. This is why there's the growing wealth gap, soaring energy prices, soaring food prices, soaring education costs,.... and on top of all that heaps of social unrest. All the neoliberal economists are trying it shut down government functionality when in fact they actually need government functionality because it feeds them resources like a trained, healthy, productive workforce who aren't wanting to hang the CEO.
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  6111. Its amazing as an Australian to watch this and then see people quoting Mark Twain. And right below this comment is another Twain quote.
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  6112.  @shadowdance4666  Well of course you didn't hear any facts. It takes brain function to hear facts. 🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅
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  6113. Aerospace engineer here and this is the smartest comment in the list.
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  6114. You forgot to add that not only did people think he was good enough for a second term and extra 11 million people turned up and voted for him the second time. Its one of the things that if its not looked at then there's a real chance he'll win in 2024. The DNC are living in a fantasy world that they actually won. They lost in state seats, lost in the house and failed to gain the Senate. But if they don't work out why 74 million people turned up and voted for Trump they are a lost cause.
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  6115.  @tvdinner325  Congratulations now you need to find out WHY those 74 million not only voted him in but then tried a second time. Yeah a hell of a lot of them were and still are crazy but everybody seems to forget that millions of people rejected Ted Cruz, Marco Ruberstamp, Jeb Bush and a pack of others before they told Hilary to "go to hell." WHAT MADE THEM SO ANGRY to begin with that made them follow after that orange clown?
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  6116.  @anonymousbob8445  They are NOT accurate labels when they are being flung about like leaves in a tornado. They're just throwing mud hoping some sticks. Its just basic political fearmongering. And the stupidest thing for America is NOBOBY is trying to make America into East Germany or Soviet Russia or China. Yeah there's a few Lefty nut cases out there who think they can make some weird Utopia exist. BUT like the Ayn Rand Libertarians and the Crypto junkies just give them 5 minutes and they'll prove how blindly ignorant of reality they are. America needs to be way more scared of the Far Right religious fundamentalists who think the Handmaids Tale is a blueprint for their Utopia.
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  6117. You and a few others have made this point. When I first heard Kyle say that. I thought he made a valid point that not all criticism is reasonable, but what you a few others have done is balance that out. That's part of having sensible rational discussions. So - Well done to you and others making this point. 👍
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  6118. Its January 26, 2025 less than 2 years after this was posted and Trump just said he'd support a massive boost to AI. Yeaaahhhhhhhh. I have no idea which emoji sums this up 🙄🤥🥴😵😝
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  6119. INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS engineer here: This is WHY I KNOW FSD (full self driving) is a false and misleading concept at least for the moment. AND APOLOGIES IF THIS IS LONGISH. FYI - My degree was in aerospace but I have spent 30+ years in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. That has included working with many sensor systems including laser scanning systems. Although I don't work with vision systems I was introduced to the basics of vision systems in 1998 and am fully aware of many of the advancements in that area. The actual problem with FSD is the amount of information that needs to be processed. As human beings we just don't realise how much information our visual cortex processes every second and that's because most of it is processed by our peripheral system which is NOT part of our general conscious. Its all there in our periphery and we aren't focussing on it. Our peripheral system is extraordinary at clumping things together and dismissing irrelevant clumps while alerting our conscious system of potential threats or items of interest. For example we don't see a 100,000 leaves attached to 1,000s branches attached to a trunk connected to a root system we see a tree. We don't see several million yellowish hairs covering 4 legs a body, a tail, a head, big teeth and an even bigger set of fangs we see a lion. Out on the African savannah people don't see millions of blades of grass, 1,000s and 1,000s of antelope, wildebeests, birds, insects and other wild life. OUR BRAIN via our peripheral system filters out the noise and will latch onto that 1 lion out of all those millions and millions of items in our visual range and SCREAM "that's a threat." Similarly when driving a car down the average suburban street we see but don't focus on the millions of leaves - we see the trees and dismiss them as NOT a threat. We see don't see all the nuts, bolts, sheets of glass, sheet metal, paint and rubber - we see parked cars and dismiss them as NOT a threat. We see the bricks, boards, windows, window frames, paint - we see houses and dismiss them as NOT a threat. BUT WE DO SEE the bouncing ball coming down a driveway and our peripheral system SCREAMS that there's a dog or a child chasing after that ball OR we'll see a flash of something else and our peripheral system will alert our conscious brain to be aware of it. Like we'll suddenly notice one of the parked cars just moved. This is what our peripheral system does with incredible speed. It processes a staggering mass of data every second and compares it to previous seconds and then filters out all the noise. This is why certain players in team sports seem so amazing in how they can suddenly pass to another player in a way that asks "How did they see them?" The answer is they are people whose peripheral system just operates better than average and in some rare cases a lot better. NOW TRY AND CONSIDER HOW YOU MIGHT GET A COMPUTER TO DO THAT???? Remember no 2 trees are the same, and no 2 cars are ever parked the same, and no 2 houses are the same PLUS no 2 streets are the same anywhere on the planet. There's always something different. NOW CONSIDER that the perspective (as in the visual angles) on that scene is changing every second because your car is MOVING. You now have to process the next image and compare it to previous images to pick up that movement or notice that item that gets the wider scoping part of the system to flag an item of interest to the higher level decision making part of the system. Suddenly you will realise that the scope of the technological task to get a computer to do what the human peripheral system does is monstrous. Once you understand the scope of the task required to to do FSD you'll quickly realise that it MIGHT BE possible for some limited situations or MIGHT be possible once we get the visual scanning systems capable of sorting through all the noise to find those few items that need a higher level of evaluation we can't even begin the task BUT RIGHT NOW we don't have those systems because if they existed we hear all about it. We'd hear about the camera that's as good or better than a human eye and we'd hear about the processor that's as good as the human peripheral system AND NOBODY is even saying they have it under development or has made "the breakthrough". Lets also NOT forget that a bunch of car manufacturers GAVE UP on FSD about 5 years ago. Uber sold off its FSD once they, (like the car manufacturers) realised just what it would take to do the job. This is also why, with the exception of a few tiny companies desperately trying for attention (and money) have stopped trying to build self FLYING air taxis. Sorry if this was longish but I hope you get the gist of why it might be possible in future but NOT NOW.
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  6120. Actually Amazon is a Tech Giant, but all the others particularly Big Oil & Big Pharma - yeah he ignores those guys. The food is a very interesting point and good on you for pointing that one out.
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  6121.  @seinfeld714  What a stupid ignorant totally garbage comment. LOTS OF RICH PEOPLE & POLITICIANS BREAK LAWS AND GET AWAY WITH IT. WTFU
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  6122.  @seinfeld714  There's more information coming out at the moment about Jared and his $2 Billion blood money grift from the Saudis. Funny how the Board overseeing the Saudi money said NO and then the Saudi prince overruled them and got Jared his money. You know that Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman who had Jamal Khashoggi chopped into little pieces. You know that Saudi Prince Jared kept telling everyone -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKnX5wci404
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  6123. Remember the line in the film "Crimson Tide" where Gene Hackman tells Denzel Washington about horses? "Yeah, horses're fascinating animals. Dumb as fenceposts but very intuitive. In that way they're not too different from high school girls: they may not have a brain in their head but they do know all the boys want to f-ck 'em." And that's what everyone needs to keep in mind about people like Matt Walsh, Dave Rubin and other dumb as rock media clowns. YEAH they are dumb but they intuitively know what their audiences like to hear and with 8 Billion people on the planet there's always someone dumb enough to listen to them and even worse believe them.
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  6124. What part of Trumps brain are you not understanding? The part that doesn't give a damn about any other human on the planet with maybe the exception of Ivanka; or The part that thinks everybody on the planet has to believe his lies and obey his commands.
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  6125. I think you are probably right she was around 21/22 when they got married and that's not illegal anywhere. There's links on his Wikipedia page to the announcement of the engagement. She was a senior in college when the engagement was announced. Everyone can be all sorts of critical but its not illegal anywhere. Its questionable but not anywhere as close to what Matt Gaetz was up to. Its not even that close to the sugar daddy stuff that goes on. This might not be a good story to use about what's actually happening in Tennessee
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  6126.  @QuixoticPotato  I understand your story and its far from unique. But successful marriages are built because 2 people choose to make it work and put the effort into making it work. A number of years ago a friend of mine's marriage hit the rocks real hard. A mutual friend who was a few years older than us commented that I should take note that marriages don't simply work you have to put in the effort to make it work. He said there are few things as insidious as taking your partner for granted and that things will just workout. We were into cars at that stage and he said its like dumping a pile of nuts & bolts on the floor and expecting a car to magically appear. I have seen too many friends fall into lazy habits and take their partner for granted and then paid for it. Age never seemed to have much to do with it.
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  6127.  @dixieporter2960  before I explode back at you lets just get some facts right. I have NOT ignored that he started grooming her in high school. I am NOT saying what happened historically justifies what he has done. I have NOT made any claims or statements that what he has done is acceptable. I merely pointed out that society has changed which its done again and again through history. But if you ignore history you are also ignoring context. So you can F-OFF on both statements. Go and read what people say before you blast off and gas light people.
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  6128. HEY DAVE do you see now why I have been trying to point out that you need to be doing a lot more reporting the Democrat candidates instead of story after story of "Look how bad Herschel Walker is!" or "Look how bad Dr. Oz is!" or "Look how bad this terrible GOP candidate is!" Jeff Daniels famous "America is not the Greatest" comment as the character Will McAvoy in "The Newsroom" includes a swipe at the liberals as losers when he says "if liberals are so f--king smart how come they lose so goddamn always?" The answer to his question is they are so transfixed on bad GOP candidates that they ARE NOT presenting reasons for people to get out and vote. They have to present things for people to vote for NOT vote against. Consider how the GOP have all those cringe adds saying they will protect people's 2dn Amendment rights. Yes they are cringy and at times disgusting, but they are messages to people that: IF you want "this" whatever "this" is then vote for me. The Democrats are like a football coach obsessed by the other teams offense and defense and pays little or no consideration to his own teams offense or defense. This is why Hilary lost on 2016 and why Brexit went how it did and why Australian Labor and British Labor both lost in 2019. All 4 of those losing campaigns were "Don't for that" but had almost nothing that said "If you want this then vote for it."
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  6129. Great counter point. I HATED his excusing of Donald Trumps convictions for fraud. Trump made millions of dollars committing CRIMES. It doesn't matter if it was a type of crime that's rarely prosecuted Trump WAS LEGALLY CHARGED and got a FAIR TRIAL and was FOUND GUILTY. Like any other person he has the right to appeal his conviction. VDH's LIES ABOUT THE LA FIRES IS JUST DISGUSTING I'm Australian and we have dealt with those conditions of very high hot dry winds with natural high fuel load built up from several wet years. We are even heading towards that again in the next 2-3 years.
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  6130. The problem with this discussion is that it is simply 2 people agreeing with each other in front of an audience who want to hear what they want to hear, but they are right about a few things. I am an engineer and there is some very valid points in this like the fact that electric trucks have failed and there is no electric alternative to diesel tractors. The other industry that wont be changing at all is the metallurgical coal for making steel. They are also right that the integrated plan will NOT WORK, but the real reason why is something these 2 clowns don't talk about. But on so many other points they are either WRONG or they are just leaving out facts they should be telling everyone. One major thing they do not tell you is that the nuclear option will cost EVERY HOUSEHOLD in Australia at least $25,000 in high energy bills while it gets built. It will simply take at least 25 years to build out what's proposed and that will mean your power bills will stay the same for the next 25 years costing you at least $1000 each year. The real cause why our energy bills are so high is because we haven't built nay major power stations in 25 years. the last reasonably large (but still under 1,000MW) power stations were Millmerran and Kogan Creek in Queensland. The 3 biggest power stations in Australia at Eraring & Bayswater in NSW and Loy Yang in Victoria were all built in the 1980s. Meanwhile the population went from 15 million in the 80s to 20 million in the early 2000s and its now 27 million. WE SIMPLY HAVE NOT BUILT ENOUGH POWER STATIONS. The real problem with the Integrated plan is that our renewables HAVE NOT BEEN PLANNED. Its all be dictated by the foreign companies building it. Its NOT been well planned and that's why its a mess. As for coal to be used for power is a dead industry and they all know it. Even the Chinese have stopped building coal. They're building nuclear and renewables side by side. In fact the Chinese have installed more renewables in recent years than the rest of the world combined. In some of their provinces 80% of homes now have roof top solar.
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  6131. Thanks for simply informing us all what is and isn't in the 25th and how it might work.
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  6132. You are so right, she is a disgusting liar who does NOT deserve any public recognition. UNFORTUNATELY ignoring the problem will not make it go away. Way back in 2004 there was the documentary "Outfoxed." It described things happening in the media and the effects those things were having. That warning WAS IGNORED and the result was President Donald Trump, Steve Banon, Kari Lake, the January 6th Insurrection and a pile of other things. Ideas are hard enough to deal with once spoken. They are almost impossible to deal with once they become accepted.
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  6133.  @szymonbaranowski8184  Buddy get off utopian drugs and learn some practicality. Utopian fantasies have never done anyone any good or solved any problems.
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  6134. That's exactly what Hilary Clinton has N-E-V-E-R realised.
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  6135.  @conorhealy2763  "of there kind" I mean the self entitled elites like Pelosi, Clinton, Ted Cruz, Mehmet Oz, etc. Basically all those people in politics who have superiority complexes. I don't mind if they believe they got a great education at Harvard, Yale or somewhere similar but its the ATTITUDE they have that they are somehow superior. Krystal Ball often refers to them as the "Meritocracy." Its not an American thing either. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I have seen American politics up close and ours and we have the same sorts of problems. Just before the 2020 there was an Australian TV crew in Pennsylvania and one of the people they interviewed was a cook from a diner and he made one of the best comments ever. "I just want to see the career politicians go away." It summed up American and Australian politics perfectly.
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  6136.  @conorhealy2763  Right on the first part but not really on the second. SJWs don't appeal to me at all. Neither do Greenies or feminists and its for the same reason. Its not that I think their causes are frivolous or invalid its that so many of them are more interested in holding attention seeking public spectacles rather than actually fixing anything. I heard a great line back in early 2020 and it went like "There's this cacophony where the right and left just scream at each other and the rest of us are exhausted from being trapped in the middle." In stead of having rational discussions way to often these clowns from both sides just jump in, hijack the discussion, make as much noise as possible AND NOTHING GETS DONE. Nancy Pelosi and Ted Cruz are 2 examples of that. AOC is rapidly becoming another. Added to that are the media of which many of them are truly lost causes. The world doesn't need protests or noisy clowns it needs solutions.
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  6137. SORRY KYLE and we know you love her politics and what she might be able to do for America but outside of her support base which is pretty small NOBODY KNOWS who Marianne is or what she stands for. That's NOT an detraction from her or her supporters its an INDICTMENT on the media and politics in general. Sadly like so many Leftists she has some very good ideas and is just hopeless at conveying them to a wider audience. This is NOT an indictment of her or her team its just a fact of Leftists EVERYWHERE. They have great ideas combined with lousy execution. They're like a talented football team with an awesome game plan who just can't run their plays properly.
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  6138.  @johnnyharris  Dud can you please sit down with an Australian and do just a bit of fact checking. Cane Toads were are actually native to Central and South America. We did get ours from Hawaii, which I actually didn't know. So we are both 1/2 right on that one. Emu is pronounced as eee - mue "e" sounding as the double "ee" in geek and the same "mue" as in mute or muse without the t or s. Its a long "U" sound not a short one like book. Nicely done on the balance of dingos and kanagroos. That's not often discussed here much. The stupid thing we do here is ignore the fact the dingoes are a wild dog that unlike so many others does not look like a wild dog. It looks a lot like an average domestic breed. On kangaroos there's an odd thing in Australia, most people don't eat them, which is odd as they were a staple part of the Aboriginal diet and its very lean, very healthy compared to fattier meats like beef and pork and also very tasty. One of my favorite recipes is spaghetti Bolognese made with Kangaroo mince which I call Kanganese. You are very right on one thing we have had a very European mentality to our nation and it has come at great expense for which we will be paying for a long time.
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  6139.  @JayJay-dp8ky  He's American, we should be happy he knows what a map is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPXEdJ_Gtx0
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  6140. I'm Australian and seeing a lot of comments just like that. She has scared the crap out of the GOP, but then they are clowns afraid of their own shadows. As for the football thing, the NFL hasn't blinked and football guys have finally been allowed to watch the games by their girlfriends. So its been seen as a win-win. As for Ramaswamy he is the quintessential smug attention seeking Ivy-league clown with ZERO SUBSTANCE. He has a piece of paper from Harvard and another from Yale and that's where his substance ends. The rest is all bluff and bluster. As Chris Cristy said he's just a blow hard.
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  6141.  @simpleman1942  I believe it was Jesus himself who said love what is good and hate what is bad. So what's wrong with hating LIARS, FRAUDS and CHEATS who speak one thing and then do the other. You’ve accused a lot of people of supporting child trafficking, drug trafficking, increased wage gaps, wildfires and homelessness WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE. None of you Trump lovers have yet explained the photos of Trump partying with Jeffery Epstein who we know based on EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY was a child sex trafficker. You should take a good look in the mirror and stop being a hypocrite - Jesus also condemned that behavior. The rest of us might be flawed but you're a disgusting hypocrite.
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  6142.  @austaneousc5802  You're almost right. The Libs are actually very much like the Dems in the 1990s (Clinton era) in that they are committed neo-liberalists into combination of privatisation and globalisation. The Nats are more like the Republicans in the 1980s I went to college in America in the late 80s. I do understand your equating them to the Bush era GOP 20 years ago, but their stuff goes back to his daddy's days. Guys like Cheney & Rumsfeld served in his fathers WH.
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  6143. Here's the link to the guardians series on Pegasus -> https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project
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  6144. It amazes me that people forget how he stomped and trampled and abused his way past 16 other GOP stalwarts. People forget that those people (Cruz, Rubio, etc.) were/are actual GOP people who'd been elected. Trump literally stole their party out from underneath them and anyone whole thinks they don't want it back is missing the point. Trump's been great at controlling the narrative with help from Fox. Trump was never a real Republican yet he's the one who labeled all the actual Republicans as fake Republicans calling them RINOs. Its been one of the greatest sales jobs (or con jobs) in history. Trump managed to convince 74million people that he was the true Republican and others were RINOs.
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  6145. China has no oil to export to anyone???
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  6146. I'm Australian and I can SADLY SAY that Andrew Marr is hopelessly WRONG "Stop the Boats!" is an incredibly powerful campaign slogan that works, just ask an Australian. Go and google "stop the boats Australia" and see what comes up. There was stuff being said here that is straight out of the Australian election from about 12 years ago when our equivalent of the Conservatives ran that exact campaign and WON. There's even a Guardian article from March this year pointing out how similar Rishi Sunak's policy is to Tony Abbotts winning 2013 campaign. This is one thing the LEFT never understand. When the average person in the street is under stress and struggling they DO NOT GIVE A DAMN about refugees. All they see are people who don't care about them. In late 2022 the American Congressional Budget Office published a report on Family Wealth from 1989 to 2019. I've checked the Australian data it paints a very similar picture. The 2008 GFC hit the lower 50% of America almost 5x harder than the top 10% and almost 4x harder than the middle 40%. Between 2007 and 2010 the bottom 50% of America lost 49.5% of its wealth. By 2019 the Top 10% who were bailed out after the GFC had not only recovered but they were over $20 TRILLION (with a 'T') ahead of there 2007 position. meanwhile the bottom 50% were still almost 22% BEHIND their 2007 position. Not only does the Australian data paint a similar picture but I am certain its the similar across the entire Developed World because there's similar stories of supply shortages, housing crisis and energy crisis. Basically 50% the developed world has been smashed for around 15 years and its only getting worse. So I am sorry to tell the British LEFT but "stop the boats" will work.
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  6147. ​ @Exkhaniber  Thanks and sorry its so long but I am doing a lot of that type of costing and assessing work right now. I few years ago I put forward a AU$720 Million proposal for an Australian Space Program based on air launching. It was all about keeping costs down and focussing on what we needed which for Australia is Earth Observation technology to support our Agriculture and Tourism sectors. In Oz (combined) those 2 sectors employ about 850,000 people and are worth AU$255 Billion a year. So they are sort of massive to our economy. Considering both are highly vulnerable to Climate change I thought I'd at least get some questions. I got zip and the RAAF (our air force) got AU$7 Billion, which includes some of the Star Wars stuff that we we worked out back in the late 80s can NEVER WORK. So all this spending stuff is on my plate at the moment.
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  6148. Yeah and it never works out as planned. Remember back in the 1980s and and a pack of those geniuses in Washington thought it was really good to train a bunch of hillbillies to shoot down Ruskie choppers with stinger missiles and use other neat stuff to blow shit up? You remember that other time America got itself involved in Afghanistan. How is that working out these days? Right now an awful lot of Russian moms & dads have buried their sons. Does anyone really think they will blame Putin? Which message do you think they are hearing "Vlad got Yuri killed" or "Yuri is dead because the Americans supplied the missile/artillery shell/bullet that killed him." If America doesn't think that's going to come back and bite one day then America hasn't learned anything form the last 100+ years. Forget who started this shitfest. Those moms & dads aren't going say that Vladimir got my "Yuri" killed. They are going to blame G.I. Joe Biden and his buddies in the Pentagon.
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  6149.  @bighands69  I am hoping that you are trying to be sarcastic and just missed the mark. Just a a couple of Historical questions. If America won in Vietnam then how come the Communists got to run the country afterwards and are still running the country to this day? If America won in Afghanistan then how come the Taliban are back in charge?
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  6150. I remember the very last episode of the West Wing and in it Jimmy Smits who won the election to be the next POTUS asks a REPUBLICAN (Alan Alda) to be his Secretary of State. I just went and checked and you can see it here on YouTube. So Sorkin has already scripted this sort of stuff.
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  6151.  @anirudhmitra4232  I don't know who "spacefanboy" is or what he's claiming. At its most basic the idea of us becoming an "interplanetary species" within this solar system its pretty ridiculous as there's so few places with even the right gravity for our bodies to function properly. It doesn't matter if you believe in god or mother nature our bodies work best in 1g and 14.7psi of air that's about 21% oxygen and 79% nitrogen. The moment you start getting away from that human bodies don't do so well. Remember above a certain height on Mt Everest you start to die no matter how well conditioned you are. Its not fundamentally wrong to think we'll live on other planets, but the proponents overlook so many basic facts. Its easy to do and we've all done it at some point, but then you also need listen to people who have expertise and experience, which so many of the clowns these days just won't do. Back around 2000 I got into an argument with a friend who was at NASA on the ISS construction. Like many others I wanted it finished so we could get on with stuff. When we'd been in college in the late 80s we all expected to build the next space station in the 90s and be back on the moon circa 2001. Then we got the rudest wakeup when Challenger blew up one morning. So by the year 2000 a lot of us just wanted the ISS finished so we could get on with stuff. At that time I wanted to go into fixing satellites. Instead of just dumping them when they ran out of fuel I wanted to refuel them. I was was just 1 of 100s wanting to do that. This friend of mine just slapped me down with the fact of the basic fuel and life support requirements for a mission like that. Her and others at NASA were tired of complaints on how long the ISS was taking. She'd had enough at that stage and told me to do some basic math or never bother her again. SHE WAS RIGHT and I apologised when I worked out what she and others at NASA already knew. There were a bunch of technologies that weren't ready and most still aren't ready. There were decisions made way back in the 1970s before me and my friend were even out of grade school, let alone out of college, that have had some very negative consequences we are still living with. Its one thing I do agree with the Angry Astronaut about. Right after Apollo we were betrayed. Some stupid decisions were made and the big aerospace companies stepped in and started milking NASA by the billion. I honestly don't know how far we'd be if smarter decisions had been made. I like to think we'd at least have a lunar base but can't say for certain because its just damn difficult. I heard claims just last week on one podcast about plans for being on Mars by the mid 80s, Saturn by the 90s and Alpha Centauri by 2000. It was just a ridiculous and stupid remark and yet its the sort of stuff people latch onto. Its very frustrating being an engineer these days because there are so many people saying things in bad faith. The person who made the claims about Mars in the 80s,... etc is doing a book promotion tour. He's not saying these things because they are true he's saying these things to get people to buy his book. And that's so common with so many people. They are trying to sell something.
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  6152. WRONG word - Tuberville is too stupid to be an asset to anyone. BUT he sure is a BENEFIT to a lot of people that is the consequence of a political party that has lost its mind. He's a side effect of a much bigger problem. If you've listened to Thom about the 20+ billionaires who spend 100s of millions each election cycle then you'll know that they want puppets. They don't want people who can think they want people who they can yank their strings and have them dance a jig. This is a perfect example of CONSEQUENCES and/or SIDE EFFECTS and/or COLLATERAL DAMAGE. When the billionaires get their way and put clowns into congress who' surprised it ends up a circus.
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  6153. Its about 2 digits too few and you keep letting it all burn down. Below this is the comment I addressed to Thunderf00t sorry but its longish ----------- ENGINEER HERE: Normally I would agree 100% with Thunderf00t, but there is a major problem he has missed with the whole carbon capture system and there's simply NO WAY to power it. EVERY VERSION of CARBON CAPTURE REQUIRES ENERGY and by far the single biggest issue facing society right now is energy. I first became aware of the energy issue during a small consulting job in 2016 into Australia's (my country's) future energy needs. Ignoring other things Australia has 22.6 GW of coal fired power to be replaced. Just like many other countries there is no way around this BECAUSE they are OLD and WEARING OUT and HAVE TO BE REPLACED ANYWAY. That build out also has to be double that amount because of population growth. Using Hinkley Point C which is the nuclear power station being constructed in Britain we can get the cost of what it would take Australia to replace that 22.6GW with LOW EMISSION nuclear. Its AU$440 Billion but when you add in expected population growth that doubles to AU$880 Billion. Then when you add in the extra power needed for all the electric cars we want it goes over AU$ 1 Trillion. When you add the power grid upgrades needed it costs around AU$2 TRILLION. I AM NOT AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER but I am calling you and many others out on what it actually costs to do what the job that exists will take. If its going to cost Australia AU$2 Trillion what do you think its going to cost all the other countries around the world with similar problems? Simply put the CO2 removal from the atmosphere has to be done with A LOW ENERGY SYSTEM and I am sorry but that means trees. YES I AGREE with Thunderf00t 100% that doing this with trees will take a monumental world encompassing program and that none of the tree hugging Greenies understand SHlT about what it will take, but trees don't need to be plugged into anything because they're solar powered. At a basic concept it means something like every person on the planet planting 1,000 trees and hoping that 1 in 10 make it to maturity. But those 800 Billion trees that survive to maturity should capture several Trillion tons of Carbon over the next 20-30 years and we need to be thinking about and talking on a level of Trillions of tons. Just so none of you think I'm crazy Statista has the global emissions on graph going from 1940 to 2022. It took the 44 years from 1940 to 1984 to emit 500 Million tons. It took the 21 years to 2005 to emit the second 500 Million tons (making 1 Trillion tons) It took the 15 years to 2020 for the next 500 Million tons making it 1.5 trillion tons of cumulative emissions since 1940. At the current rate of 37 Billion tons a year we'll reach 2 Trillion tons of cumulative emissions around 2033. Sorry TF (and I love your channel) but nobody's mechanical or chemical carbon capture solution is going to work if its needs energy and trees don't need to be plugged in to a power station to work. They only require muscle energy to plant them.
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  6154.  @sebastiankirbach1984  Of course it doesn't when you are only planting a few hundred million when you need to be planting several Trillion. How else do you think you'll remove 1.5 Trillion soon to become 2 Trillion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere?? Can any of you clowns do basic math??? Just planting a few million trees is like trying to empty an Olympic size swimming pool by sucking through a straw.
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  6155.  @andrewg3238  Yeah I have looked into the whole lifecycle stuff too and no matter how much money I threw at stuff I could not come close to the $268b lower mark. Even adding in the money to help improve America's construction didn't come close. Somebody somewhere in this shitshow is making a mountain of money that makes Everest look small at our expense.
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  6156. People like this need to realize just how easy it is to check up on things. Quick check on Wikipedia and it shows a lot of stuff including she's the current director of the Hoover Institution. Click on that and the first sentence says: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is a conservative American public policy institution and research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government. Note those last 3 things economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government. They are the calling card of Libertarians, but wait, it gets better go and look down the list of people associated with the Hoover Institution and names start jumping out. H.R. McMaster - I remember him from documentaries. He was one of the military architects of the Invasion of Iraq. Thomas Sowell - Well know climate change denier among other things. John Yoo - the lawyer who wrote the torture memo that lead to atrocities with prisoners at places like Abu Ghraib and Bagram Air Force Base. They're 3 that I recognized at a glance and I'm certain others will be known to you guys. These are the sort of people Condolezza Rice doesn't just work with but directs at an influential think tank. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  6157.  @seadog2969  Understood but at some point this garbage and nonsense needs to stop. There are some very serious issues to deal with the world right now. NOBODY can afford to have America stalled with this stuff. I'm Actually Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and we ended discussing things like the Amendments more often than I would have liked. 30+ years later I am now of the opinion that the US Constitution is one of the greatest achievements in human history. However if Americans aren't careful and let these clowns trash it, then it will become one of humanities greatest tragedies. And that actually has profound effects on the world. Irrespective if anyone likes it or not America is still 1/4 of the worlds economy and the US Dollar is still the worlds reserve currency. If clowns like Kari Lake continue to cause this idiotic mischief then it risks destabilizing the US Dollar and that wont go down well with about 7.5 billion people.
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  6158. I have the same question for you as a lot of other people. What do you think America's Middle and Working classes feel about all this "American Imperialism" stuff? I have a fairly long comment addressed to Ben regarding the US Congressional Budget Office report from September 2022 on Family Wealth. I think you and a lot of others need to have a look at what that report is actually saying about what has happened to the bulk of the American population over the last 40 years and particularly since the 2008 GFC.
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  6159.  nothanks9503  Buddy people are finding out all over the world just how bad some of their elected people are and they all wonder how it happens. Here in Australia awe have had some shockers that would be right at home in Trumpistan. Marjorie Taylor Greene has a long lost cousin down here named Pauline Hanson. We get the news from England and they have a guy named Nigel Farage who lead the Brexit Campaign. He's done nothing but blame everyone he can for how Brexit has gone. When Brexit happened he was ALREADY one of the Brits elected to the European Parliament and INSTEAD of staying and negotiating the deal he ran away and then started blaming people for how it was going. He is so sleazy that even the GOP might NOT have him, but Trump would do something like make him secretary of the treasury or head of the Fed. Sam Harris did this recent podcast on A$$holes. Its both funny and sad but he goes right into what these people are. I actually just watched part of the Australian Program Planet America and they interviewed Ronald Reagan Jr. HE DID NOT HOLD BACK. The title of the vid is "Rivals turn on Trump in Republican debate"
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  6160. Why is anybody surprised at this? Saagar - "this is pretty normal for government. That's the problem." 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  6161. Yeah that's much smarter take on this than most people have commented. My bet would be that if Trump really did take a genuine swipe at Liz Cheney then it would end badly for him. Dick Cheney didn't get to where he got by NOT putting bodies in the ground and doing it well enough that it never blew back on him. Lets not forget what Dick got away with over the Invasion of Iraq, the contracts the Haliburton got in Iraq and Afghanistan, the prisoner abuse scandals and the rendition program that created that abomination at Gitmo. Trump can mouth off all he likes but my bet would be that IF he harmed Liz Cheney he'd be dead before the sun came up. Probable/Possible scenario - chemical induced heart attack while bonking another porn star.
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  6162. AEROSPACE Engineer here and I've heard some similar stories regarding many technologies like: 1950 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1960 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1970 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1980 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1990 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2000 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2010 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2020 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. By chance can you guess how far away nuclear fusion will be in 2030? I'm Australian but did my degree in America. I was doing my degree in the late 80s and we EXPECTED to build Space Station Freedom in the 1990s and then be back on the Moon by 2001 to start setting up a lunar base that would be the start of a permanent settlement AND YES we took that date from the film. THEN the Challenger accident happened and as we know it was because of poor decisions being made by the wrong people. That has been followed by several 1,000 poor decisions being made by the wrong people and we are no closer to a permanent lunar base than we were January 28, 1986 when Challenger happened. I have spent the last 30+ years working across a variety of industries doing industrial control systems and trying quietly to learn from these industries how we might do stuff on the moon. So long as we have the combination of the wrong people making bad decisions in combination with the unrealistic promotions (and at least Cold Fusion does but "providers" into the story) of effectively vacant over rated (and often over hyped) "future technologies" that will re-shape humanity we wont (as a species) move forward because too many of the basic things like food, shelter, clean water, clean energy and a few other things are NOT DEALT WITH as a priority. I have spent most of the last 20 years working on construction mines in remote locations because it presents the same sorts of issues building a lunar base has. Everything is at least 3 days away, the environment is hostile and you have to build all the basic infrastructure any modern society needs including housing, food storage, food prep, clean water, waste water, power (including power distribution), roads and very importantly workshops for maintenance. While we have story after story of the latest break though technology we are also surrounded by crumbling infrastructure. Go and look at any modern society and you will find major infrastructure issues. They might differ from country to country but we all have them. Energy infrastructure is the major issue that most have and its a serious issue because everything needs energy.
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  6163.  @phiksit  Do you know if its all ages or is there a limit to being recalled? When it came to discussion son Mike Flynn a couple of commentators mentioned he wasn't yet 85.
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  6164.  @merricat3025  Actually its a long standing stat that a very high percentage of the military vote Republican. As far as I know most military people around the world vote towards the right side of politics.
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  6165. ​ @JohnElizondo  Buddy 46 might have some Chinese money in his bank BUT DON'T TAKE THE REST OF US FOR FOOLS Trump (45) has 100 times more Chinese money than Biden (46) ever had or has got now AND that's before we ask about the Russian and Saudi money Trump's got. For F*CK sake at least Biden didn't give Hunter a F*CKING job in the Whitehouse. If your going to throw SHIT at the Bidens fine just do it for the right reasons and not some ignorant hypocritical crap.
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  6166.  @zacksmith5963  SHlT-4-BRAINS which part of giving Tik Tok access to your photo album did you miss. Once its past the firewall it has access to the rest of the phone. WHY DO YOU THINK governments everywhere have banned it from official government phones used by government employees? Its one thing to be ignorant its another thing to be STUPID.
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  6167.  @zacksmith5963  Next time you start calling people bots try using your brain first. I know its hard when your stupid but its not a crime to try.
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  6168. Great comment and you are right all across the board. I'm an aerospace engineer and I hate to break it to you but the bulk of this audience don't care for scientific facts. I beta my head against the wall at times with the nonsense some of these people push. Robert Zubrin has been dismissed so many times that serious people aren't interested in his nonsense any more. The things he's right about he is right. NASA did lose its way after Apollo and many technologies we did need to develop either stalled or died. I loved the initial enthusiasm of the Mars Society to do stuff because it started to redress that. But then he and the Mars Society just reverted into this delusional science fiction fantasy nonsense. There was NEVER a serious Mars mission planned for 1980 or Saturn by 1990 or Alpha Centauri by 2000. I can barely believe some of the nonsense he's said here. That claim about matter not being able to be made or destroyed. Sorry but Einstein not only worked that out he gave is the formula E=mc². Then he claimed the moon has no carbon or nitrogen and yet IT DOES, its just in very small amounts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_resources#Carbon_and_nitrogen. You've pointed out that nobody has worked out how to make a stable self sustaining ecology with enough plant life so we can process waste and produce food, clean water and breathable air. Yes people have been at that but nobody has come close to cracking it. Its not that its impossible its just that its so damn hard because biologival systems are incredibly complex. I find it very frustrating that he's found a way to grab the microphone again and again. I don't mind him talking about the things that need saying but peddling science fiction as science fact helps nobody. It's why NASA and others want so little to do with him these days.
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  6169.  R D  Yeah like so many other scammers and the Trig boys have too many of them on and NEVER challenge them
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  6170. Why can't that be good enough? Simple, we have a society that now takes it for granted that their opinion matters no matter how good or bad it is. They also think theirs is the only opinion that matters and any other opinion is the a threat to be stomped.
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  6171. "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ― Isaac Asimov
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  6172. As an Australian watching this from a long way off I can see something VERY VERY UGLY about to happen. Either the judge needs to slap this clown so damn hard he does not get up or its going to end by other means. I went to college in America and I know that American history has an incredibly long history of vigilante justice. This clown is NOT Donald Trump but thinks he can get away with stuff as if he is Donald Trump. To be fair he and so many others have been allowed to get away with a lot of shitty behavior, but this Sandy Hook thing is so different. These people suffered an incredible loss and he has not only rubbed their faces in it but made millions off of that tragedy. Somebody will break and then things are going to go kinetic to say the least. If I can see this from the other side of the planet I don't know why the judge can't.
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  6173.  @rattnroll84  Yeah Candice, Sowell and Elder are just like Samuel L Jacksons character in Djnago Unchained - every white racists favourite compliant slave. Peterson's a recovering drug addict who's still 1/2 out of his mind. So yeah buddy that's a great list of people for anyone one to follow.
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  6174.  @rattnroll84  Buddy if you fill your brain with shite you'll end up thinking shite. Listening to those people is one thing or for that matter anyone and NOT critically appraising what they are saying is is a dangerous thing. ESPECIALLY when there are so many bad faith actors who know they are lying or misrepresenting facts these days or filtering information.
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  6175. ​ @seanarmstrong8255  Yeah charters of any type are usually profitable because you simply look at the actual costs and then add a percentage and that works for anything - planes, boats, cars,... On fuel Concorde was always thirsty but then so has every other plane in history when it flew supersonic. Its one of the reasons why the generations of jet fighters after the 1970s got slower on their top end speed. I remember an engineer who worked on the F111 who said that with full tanks off an air refueling with no external load to add any extra drag that it had enough fuel for about 4-1/2 minutes at full speed. One day when I was at my glider club in 87 one of the tow pilots mentioned that one of the Concorde pilots had just logged his 10,000th hour as pilot in command at supersonic speed. At that moment he had more time as PIC at supersonic than the entire USAF had logged in all its known history. The SR-71 time was unknown at that stage because it was still pretty secret but it was still estimated at only a few 1000 hours. People don't realise that even though there's F15, F16, F18,.... pilots with 1,000s of hours they have only an hour at most at supersonic with most of them only minutes. Its simply not something they do a lot of. Its a combination of fuel and much it stresses the airframe and engines. I was checking something recently about the MIG 25 Foxbat which was built to counter the potential of the XB-70 and could go faster than Mach 3. Yes it really could go that fast but it did so much damage to the engines they were tossed at the end of the flight and scrapped. Not rebuilt but scrapped. When you know these things it just makes you realise how special planes like the Concorde and SR71 actually are/were.
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  6176.  @seanarmstrong8255  Even crazier is that the Concordes computers were analog. I don't know if you know what that means but the channel Veritasium did a great video on the subject titled "The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of" The pilots claimed the engine management, auto pilot and flight trim computers were some of the best that any airplane ever had. The real tragedy of Concorde was that when they were taken out of service they had only done about 25-30% of their design lifetime. They should have flown on for many years. Its why a lot of people were pretty upset.
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  6177.  @rlh12345  I agree on the assessment but by letting it fester as they have its now a disastrous nightmare from which the only ways out are either painful or painful. Its only a matter of how much pain. They could have easily locked up the rest of the rabble and simply confined Trump to Camp David and let him play golf every day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David#Practice_golf_facility They should have used the 25th put in Pence for a week and bluntly told Rupert Murdoch and his goons to either behave or be dealt with. Rupert's 92 do the word's heart attack mean anything. The problem is the Democrats have nobody with a spine. The GOP and Dems need to change their mascots from Donkeys and Elephants to spiders and squids. One has poisonous bite, the other is easily baited and both have no spine.
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  6178.  @mawkernewek  Its amazing how Gary takes the effort to put this channel up and then some people do their best to ADD to the conversation AND THEN SOME can't help being DlCKHEADS If you were any dumber you'd qualify to become US President.
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  6179.  @abbersj2935  I'd agree that Glenn would be a tenacious AG. I watch his channel all the time and most times I agree, but a few times in recent months he let his frustration show and I don't think that helped the public discussion much. His take on the Rittenhouse trial seems to have mellowed his temper a bit. I suspect he was taken back by that outcome. Legal Eagle did 2 really good vids. One of why and one on the judge. Bits of it difficult but both fair and decent explanations. They also highlight just how difficult it will be to prosecute Trump or his close associates over Jan 6th unless something profound turns up and I suspect that's Garland's biggest problem regarding Trump - that 1 piece of indisputable evidence.
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  6180. YES THEY HAVE STRATEGISTS: They just suck at their job.
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  6181.  @williamhutton2126  Read this and tell me if I get it. AFTER the 2019 British election when British Labor got smacked by Boris "the Bozo" Johnson I asked a Brit why British Labor had run a strategy almost identical to Australian Labor who had ALSO LOST a few months earlier in 2019 running a similar strategy to Hilary Clinton's disaster in 2016. Basically "They're bad, we're good and we have a policy for everything that's so COMPLEX nobody average can understand how amazing and brilliant we are. So just have vote for us." What the Brit told me still mazes me to this day. They told me, there were people from the Clinton 2016 disaster who then went and advised Australian Labor and then British Labor. So yeah I might be Australian, but I think we have an idea of Democrat strategy because not only did they EXPORT it but we were stupid enough to buy it AND WORSE still using it.
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  6182. Is this a case of reality following on from Hollywood??? Charlie Sheen - spent $$$$ on drugs, hookers & pornstars and his father played POTUS on TV (The West Wing) Hunter Biden - spent $$$$ on drugs, hookers & pornstars (well maybe) and his father is POTUS. Is Aaron Sorkin running America?
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  6183. You gotta love Charles Koch. His idea of a free market is "I get everything I want and F*CK the rest of you!" He craps on about governments stifling competition and keeping poor people poor as he strives to crush competition and send even more people in the poor category. Before too long the world is going to have to face up to these people who have stripped away everything. They don't pay taxes and bash the crap out of everyone as they control governments through their campaign funding and strip courts of their fairness and decency with their influence peddling.
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  6184.  @yvonneplant9434  You'd want to be very very careful saying things like that. Even in Australia we hear she knows where many b0dies are buried because she put them there. A certain girl named M0nica is apparently very lucky her dress wasn't stained with 6ft of dirt or she was sent swimming with Luca Brasi (the Godfather).
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  6185. ​ @itsblitz4437  Well sorry buddy but these people are so disconnected from reality that something has to be done, but then I think almost all of the diehard political types need a massive dose of reality. The difference with the Trumpists is that they aren't simply misguided or confused that can happen to almost anyone these people are DANGEROUSLY DELUDED. We can call the Hilary super-fans ridiculous and stupid for continuing to complain that she won the popular vote. So what that's not how the system works, BUT AT LEAST THEY ACCEPTED THE REALITY THAT SHE LOST. Trumps supporters can't even do that and there are some who still think he's going to be reinstated. For example Sam Seder today showed a woman at a Trump rally making ridiculous claims about Space Force and other things. There's a difference between being sad, unhappy, regretful, confused and even misguided BUT to be utterly delusional REQUIRES HELP. I just don't think Hilary Clinton of all people helps anyone.
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  6186. SORRY MATE but GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  6187. Well that just shows you know very little about flying and pilot training. FYI - I have a pilots license.
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  6188. Yeah but what EVERY rational American with a functioning brain needs to realise that 74 million voted for him in 2020 which was 11 million MORE than 2016. For 2 years every poll said his numbers were falling. YOU ALL NEED TO START ASKING HOW THAT HAPPENED. Not finger pointing or blaming but HOW it actually happened. Instead of blabbing on about crap and garbage, you need to ask things like "If Trump was so bad then why did another 11 million people turn up and vote for him?" The rest of America needs to WTFU and start dealing with the WHYs and HOWs before 2024 becomes the end of Western Democracy.
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  6189. They are just another example of how many opportunistic scumbags we have in human society and how they have flipped the "information age" into the "disinformation age." In times past people like the village idiot were kind of restricted to the village now thanks to social media they can gather together and reinforce each others idiocy. What's added to that are narcissists who know they are speaking complete nonsense but they get their jollies off but creating chaos. Some of these people are attention seekers and others like to sit back and watch the chaos. They are like pyromaniacs except they like setting society on fire. Think back to grade school and high school and there'd be that nasty little rat who'd tell 1 or 2 people lies just to get them into a fight. Now give some of those people access to social media with no restraint.
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  6190.  @djjjjj  Putting it mildly FK-OFF. You start with there have been 12 cases in 25 years and then, WITH NO DATA TO BACK IT UP CLAIM, its least likely possibility. You then proceed to tell everyone that "not everyone giving their opinion is a clinical cardiologist or has experience in sport." So why TF are you claiming its the least likely? What actual results from Damar Hamlin's medical tests are you basing that on? YEAH NOTHING If you don't get why people will be upset by your idiotic opinion then wake up.
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  6191. Its amazing as an Australian to watch this and then see people quoting Mark Twain. And above below this comment is another Twain quote.
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  6192.  @timeadam827  nothing other than I'm Australian and I find it funny how many Americans quote Twain because Twain's quote is primarily aimed at American's and how gullible they are.
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  6193. Its not just the GOP its every political party in the world. they all have these sorts of people or do democrats need reminding of the narcissism of Sinema and Manchin or how the DNC regularly rigs primaries. Lets not forget that the DNC didn't background check this mutt. World wide the general opinions on the honesty of politicians and established political parties has never been lower. If you do a survey ANYWHERE in the developed world, asking people if they think politicians will say anything to get elected and re-elected the results are in the high 90s. If you ask if people think the main establishment parties actually care about average people its in single digit percentage points. All Santos has done is highlight just how pathetic the system has become.
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  6194. Its actually less than that. The idea of copyright or intellectual property just DOESN'T exist in Chinese culture. I'm Australian and we have already had huge issues with Chinese grifters. The worst trouble we have in recent years is that as soon as any new company in Australia registers a logo or brand name then its copied by Chinese grifters and registered in China. They then try and extort the Australian company to get their logo back. Its a problem because Australian food products are popular in China. Sorry for the longish answers but here's the 2 best Chinese copycat stories I know of: 1) The guys who copied LG, which I heard about at an engineering conference. They didn't copy any particular LG product. They copied LGs paperwork and systems. They designed a bunch of products, subcontracted the manufacturing out and then sold stuff branded as LG and sold through parts of SE Asia. The paper work was so good that the manufacturing subcontractors and retailers all through they were actually dealing with a division of LG. It was only found out when a real LG person saw some odd products in among the standard LG merch somewhere. 2) And this is an engineering thing, which I heard from my boss one day. In the oil & gas industry a lot of valves get used and they can get very expensive. One of the main American manufacturers (who my boss had worked for) told me how they suddenly started getting warranty claims on some flow control vales. These were from a range of very expensive very high quality valves meant to last in the field for years and every valve is individually serial numbered. When they checked those serial numbers against sales records none of them were where they were supposed to be. As in they weren't even in the right country let alone the right oil rig or refinery. When they checked back through their records a Chinese company had bought 1 of each size valve in that product line. Nobody thought anything about it at that time, because its not unusual for end users to buy like that for spares or by a set to test in their facilities. As a result of those valves and some other things there are companies operating in Australia's oil & gas industries that will not allow Chinese ANYTHING in their plant's. In those cases these days we have to submit copies of quotes (with some redactions) to prove our tenders aren't planning to use Chinese materials. If you then win the tender you have to provide receipts for those materials when you deliver the project.
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  6195. HEY BEN: Just a counterpoint and some perspective to this. In September 2022 the US Congressional Budget Office produces a report on Family Wealth 1979-2019. Anyone can look it up. I first heard Richard Wolff mention it and as far as I know he's not mentioned it since. I saw Kyle Kulinski bring it up a few weeks ago in response to it being reported on Poilitico. I'm Australian and the first time I looked at that report I thought _"this is going to break America!" because just the first graph tells the ugliest of stories. It breaks the American population into 3 groups - the Top 10% the Middle 40% and Bottom 50%. If you just look at that very first graph the raw data says the Top 10% have sucked up a staggering amount of wealth while the middle class have done OK but the working class have been hammered and gone from nowhere to nowhere. But the really telling thing is to compare the 2007 to 2010 change against the 2007 to 2019 change because that explains what happened in as a direct result of the 2008 GFC and how those 3 groups have done since. I also corrected for population and looked at the average for a person in each of those groups. The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of the wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 21.7% UP on their 2007 wealth. The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of the wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 4.6% UP on their 2007 wealth. The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of the wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were STILL DOWN 21.8%. YES the people who ACTUALLY CAUSED the 2008 GFC and got bailed out are not only ahead but ahead by a massive amount while the Middle Class who bailed them out have only just begun to get ahead while the Bottom 1/2 of the American people who got smashed are still well behind. So here is my point to you Ben and all the other Americans and the Others who crap on about American Imperialism and what it ahs done to the world. I have 3 questions for you? 1) What do you think the 132 Million Middle class Americans who BAILED OUT the Top 10% think about it? 2) What do you think the 165 Million Working class Americans who've been smashed think about it? 3) Do you think they care in the slightest about American Imperialism or do you think they'd just see you and others as whiny clowns? Because they certainly haven't done as well as your Cuban friend makes out. Have they?
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  6196.  @mikefish1124  So true and so sad. One of the great pitfalls of modern politics is that things like caring, ability, experience,.... don't matter. The only thing that seems to matter is the ability to spin a narrative that people respond to. Sadly many of those narratives are designed for responses nobody should want.
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  6197.  @johnlarsen4455  That's a damn good question and on first answer I'd say both, depending one what the clown in the room is saying.
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  6198.  @johnlarsen4455  WTF sort of DK-head are you. If you have something to say then say it.
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  6199.  @marvenlunn6086  Its called Dunnnig-Kruger Effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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  6200. ITS NOT TREASON and non one should be claiming it. Those who do just like the idiots who are backing Trump and his garbage. Look at Lin Wood claiming that of Mike Pence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_States In Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution, treason is specifically limited to levying war against the US, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. Sedition is another matter all together. Mike Flynn is in really serious trouble because he can be recalled to active duty and charged under the UCMJ for Sedition or Conduct Unbecoming as several people (of credibility) have pointed out. Lin Wood, Sidney Powell and others might well be facing disbarment for their frivolous law suits as several people (of credibility) have pointed out. Hypothetically and this is my question for all the lawyers and law professors - Isn't what these nutters in congress are doing is conspiring to deny people their 15th Amendment right to cast a vote and isn't that a crime they can be impeached for? Then there is the possibility that individual states might charge these people and that would mean Trump cannot pardon them. Simply drop the Treason line, its a waste of time when their are real charges that can be brought on these ass holes. Remember Elliot Ness got Al Capone on Tax Evasion. It wasn't murder as I am certain he would have liked, but Capone went to prison and died there. Best Wishes - 15 more days and Trump is gone.
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  6201. The problem with these discussions is that EVERYONE involved is presenting opinion as fact, its just some are not twisting the facts. Joe Rogan , Rogan's guests, Sam Seder, Emma Vigeland and all the rest of the OPINION BASED MEDIA are all PARTS of the overall problem with emphasis on the word PARTS because there is not 1 single part to this. There are multiples of multiples of parts to this issue of opinion first facts second media. Sorry if this looks like an essay. I've seen that Bezmenov video numerous times and versions of it are posted on some of the most repulsive radical channels who think they are clever posting something they think is about "people people" when its actually ABOUT THEM TOO. This is Rogan's monster mistake in mentioning Yuri Bezmenov (see below). Its also Sam and Emma's problem because as another part of the opinion based media they are also part of the problem. They just aren't as much of a problem as Joe Rogan because at least they are trying to BALANCE or COUNTER BALANCE the misinformation and at least try and present facts rather than fiction. Where they are part of the problem is they cater to a specific section of society and that's one of the main issues with people like Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, Fox News, etc. All these outlets target their audience with some consistent themes and rarely ever present anything that might aggravate or turn off their audience. In the case of this channel think about how many "How dumb is Dave Rubin?" or "How narcissistic is Ben Shapiro?" or "How much of a maniac is Tim Pool or Steven Crowder?" video's do they post? All these channels no matter how much they care about telling people TRUTH what they are actually telling people is THEIR OPINION of what is truth. Its just that some of them back up their opinions with facts that can be checked and verified as fact. Case in point the "Twitter files." YURI BEZMONOV For those who haven't heard who he is, go check Wikipedia for more details, but basically he claimed he was a KGB agent who defected to the west in 1970 and settled in Canada. He was later fired form his job with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation by Justin Trudeau's father Pierre on a request from the Soviet Ambassador at the time. That's another interesting point on free speech. He wrote several books and Essays using the alias Tomas David Schumann and on Wikipedia there are links to several of those works. In 1984 he did, what is now a famous interview which (with some hunting) you can watch here on YouTube. There are also shorter excerpts posted on various channels here on YouTube several of which SOME are fairly radical Right Wing channels who think they are highlighting the problem, but failing to realise they are a major part of the problem. The most relevant part of that Bezmenov video was where he describes the aim of what he calls "ideological subversion." In Bezmenov's own words (punctuation mine) "What do they mean by ideological subversion is. Is the slow process which we call either ideological subversion or active measures. Active in the language of the KGB or psychological warfare. What it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community and their country." Bezmonov was 100% RIGHT in that societies can (over time) be demoralised to the point where they cannot discern fact from fiction. Bezmenov was also 100% WRONG on the effectiveness of the Soviet efforts because as we know less than a decade later the Soviet Empire had collapsed NOT America. That's actually a great lesson for any nation. Sometimes the external enemy is less of a threat than your own political system. That should be the lesson Western Nations should have learned from but never did. We were to happy watching the Soviets collapse and declaring we'd won the Cold War. Instead we ignored the lesson and are now where we are. FYI - I'm Australian and we haven't learned form this either. Despite our sunny outlook and beautiful beaches we have some very serious structural issues that have similarities with other issues across the rest of the Western World. Jonathan Haidt was credited with saying, "There's a cacophony where the Radical Left and Radical Right just scream at each other while the rest of us, trapped in the middle, are simply exhausted." That explains so many of our issues and why they persist. Instead of solving problems we just yell at each other about them. Its that exhaustion that leads people to listen to people like Joe Rogan and Sam Seder without thinking or checking and just taking their words at face value. It makes manipulation of truth very easy.
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  6202.  @jonathanstein5049  Actually I don't think Mearsheimer is naive or unappreciative of history. He's just a classic realist which means he's got a solid slab of pure narcissism where most people have a spine. He's what somebody once described to me as a "high Machiavellian" they are at the extreme end of "the end justifies the means." He really would hand over the security of 270 million people to Vladimir Putin and not have a single atom in his body care about what they want or what happens to them. So long as his side gets what they want nothing else matters. If you look at the Wikipedia page on "Realism_(international_relations)" and scroll down a bit right below the 4 common assumptions it says "Realists think that mankind is not inherently benevolent but rather self-centered and competitive." If you track done further you'll find Mearsheimer listed under the heading "Neorealism or structural realism" and if you click on the link for "Offensive Realism" you'll get to what Mearsheimer is really on about. Look at the tenements. Its narcissistic view of the world, but instead of being narcissistic to people around you, we're taking about it on the international stage involving 100s of millions of lives. Sure Mearsheimer's critique that American Liberal Hegemony is full of stupid assumptions, garbage and behavior but at least their view is to give people a choice through a democratic process. Mearsheimer's view is FK-IT lets just go with "might is right" and if my gun is bigger than your gun then I'm right and you're not. Lets not forget that during the Cold War America promoted itself as the "Leader of the Free World" and yet (via the CIA) overthrew democratically elected governments in Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia and Chile to name a few. That's Mearsheimer's realism at work. Who cares what happens to those people over in that country if we get what we want?
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  6203.  @jonathanstein5049  The reason why the cold war mentality is back is PROFIT. Consider this: When Biden wanted $11 Billion in aid for Ukraine was any money sent to Ukraine? OR Did they send a piles of older stuff from the American military stockpiles and hand out juicy re-supply contracts to American suppliers? Other than that the new stuff they did send wasn't the current versions in most cases. Things like HIMARS and Stingers. But what it has done is field test those systems against the latest Russian Hardware operated by the Russians (instead of a proxy) *IN REAL COMBAT CONDITIONS. Guess what the Russians have a great military for fighting a 20th Century war. Except this is the 21st century. Have you noticed how quiet the Chinese have gotten in the last couple of months?
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  6204. The comment I was going to make even before David explained what Biden said. You are absolutely right: They're the ones who need to listen!
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  6205. FOR ALL: This Brown U. Prof. Mark Blyth during a post Trump 2016 analysis. Among other things he points out the frustration many people had towards the establishments of BOTH parties and gives the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmBG3Z4DI&t=1104s
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  6206.  @fearlessfiction6506  That was part of why I not only stopped watching BP but also unsubscribed. I think Saagar has decided that pandering to the RFK crowd is his new business strategy.
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  6207.  @williamerazo3921  Yeah I'd agree with that
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  6208.  @NotShowingOff  No - in a place like Saudi they would have already lopped Trumps head off or on the flip side Trump would have had everyone else killed off while he was in power. There's an old political meme - Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer! Go listen to Peter Zeihan or any of the other geopolitical analysts and you'll find out that the major issues in China and Russia are that Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have both spent the last 20 years killing off or locking up any challengers. THEN GO LOOK at every major party in the Western democratic world and you'll find an equivalent where they cut off and cancelled anyone with talent or ability to get things done. Look at Britain right now. They had Liz Truss who was so hopeless she lasted less time than the shelf life of a supermarket lettuce. Here in Australia we now refer to our parties as SHlT and SHlT LITE. I was in Canada a couple of years ago for work and they say the same thing as Australians and Brits do about their parties. Look at what Trump did when he was in the Whitehouse. He simply threw out anyone who challenged anything he wanted. Politics is now effectively just like a mob war. They will undermine, throw out and cut off or just whack (literally or figuratively) anyone to stay in power. Yeah - Its madness, but its the world we live in.
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  6209. ​ nothanks9503  Are your for real??? I don't mind having a discussion but I draw the line at outright stupidity. I am well aware of what the President is supposed to be. Way back in 1992 when Newt Gingrich became Speaker for the House he explained to anyone who'd listen that it was the Speaker who was supposed to run the country NOT the President, BUT (and this is the point) Newt also explained that POTUS had (since WW2) taken the pre-eminent position dictating internal policy. PLUS your ignoring the fact that America has told the world for the last 70 years that POTUS is the most powerful position in the world. Sorry but an unstable President is a major issue for BOTH America and the rest of the world. SECONDLY America's instability is NOT just the President but also the way BOTH the Dems and GOP endorse their candidates. Just look through both parties and BOTH are infected with utterly incompetent people who only got elected because of their endorsements. AND THAT'S not just an American problem, its everywhere. Everywhere you look there's clusters of entrenched power brokers who only allow worthless hacks to run. This was most obvious in Britain with Liz Truss. Boris & friends had been so busy getting rid of any talent there wasn't anything left. I can tell you its a major problem here in Australia. I was in Canada a few years ago and its their major problem too. Its everywhere and its a major problem.
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  6210. I normally would not recommend CCN to anyone but they add actually did a decent job on this story and interviewed David Hogg. Zerlina Maxwell interviewed the father of a Parkland victim. If America wants to be considered a mature responsible nation then people like Marjorie Taylor Greene should NEVER be allowed to hold positions of responsibility. Every country has people like this and occasionally they get elected to government, but only immature countries put them on important committees or give them any real power. CNN Interview with David Hogg -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCSoLCmJwOs Interview with Parkland Parent Fred Guttenberg -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJxrsMydsRA
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  6211. That is a very good way to describe what he does. We do really live in a dark storm of BULLSHlT. Although I tend to think that some of them are just wrong like Rogan tends to be I don't think he acts out of malicious intent. He just doesn't realise that his audience will react or what it might cause. Weinstein is just a sad sorry soul who has lost his way and can't admit that he's made mistakes. Again I don't think he acts out of malice just that he can't admit the mistake. Then there are the people like Shapiro who KNOW EXACTLY what they are doing and DO ACT with malice. Shapiro graduated from Harvard Law. That requires a serious level of intelligence. So he knows what he is doing AND THAT'S MALICIOUS.
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  6212. Have you forgotten what the American's did to Nordstream.* That was $US20 Billion worth of damage and cut Europe off from cheap energy. It made it really easy for American companies to be competitive with shipping LNG to Europe.
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  6213. Yeah 7:38 "the entire week was basically just a CIRCLE JERK between Bloomberg journalists and banking analysts trying to make sure they were adequately hedged against tighter monetary policy" (my highlights & bold) Well that's some HONEST reporting.
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  6214. Your 1/2 right but sadly the issues with our power industry go much deeper than energy storage. If you are interested I have written a lengthy comment on this page describing what I know as an engineer.
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  6215. Follow up on PART of Petes analysis which I think he has wrong. It would be correct to say the Russians might struggle in those Siberian oil fields as the Americans go home and leave them short handed. But other industries face that all the time and get past it. PLUS - The Americans have been there for 20+ years and in that time there is NO WAY the Russians have not been developing their skills. It does not matter what type of engineer you are or what plant and machinery you provide you TRAIN the locals to look after it. OTHERWISE YOU CAN'T GO HOME. PLUS - when you're the owner of several billion dollars of stuff and the people you rely on just leave town. You will offer serious money to anyone who will help. You can bet that people have already received phone calls and with the right number they will just get back on a plane. Don't forget oil people DO NOT VOTE DEMOCRAT. So if Biden says "NO you can't go," they will just wave the middle finger and go make heaps of money.
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  6216.  @bluerock4456  Yeah dude I know what sulphur is used for, I've spent most of the last 20 years in mining where its used as the raw ingredient for sulphuric acid to leach minerals from ore. That process is actually pretty clever. They burn the sulphur the same way the burn coal to generate electricity. They capture the SO2, put it through a catalytic converter to get S03 and then mixt with demineralised water to get 100% pure H2SO4. AND YES I have done projects using 100% pure H2SO4 and so long as the people involved know what they are doing is quite safe. As for the crap that comes out of oil its not really used for that sort of stuff. A lot of its pumped back down wells or dumped in Africa. And yeah a couple of guys from Switzerland got caught doing that a few years back. Except they were doing it with Mexican crude not Canadian. Out of the oil industry comes some really nasty shit.
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  6217.  @MrCanucklehead75  WHAT LIE? She blamed Bernie Sanders for her loss during the 2019 campaign season in her support for Joe Biden. THAT'S A FACT She's a narcissist who can't handle rejection. She's just not as bad as Trump.
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  6218. To show just how idiotic this argument is. When the first cars came out, where there enough gas stations for people to drive anywhere they liked??????? Cars, Ships, Airplanes and a lot of other stuff NEEDS INFRASTRUCTURE. That stuff the rest of you take for granted until it fails and then you all scream at the government, the engineers and anyone else YOU DIDN'T LISTEN TOO.
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  6219. If they are analysts that are speaking on social media then they are NOT analysts who are speaking to people in power. Whether that be in America, Europe or Russia.
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  6220. *EVERYONE ELSE IS GETTING TIRED OF ELON MUSK SUCK-UPS EXCUSING EVERYTHING HE DOES*. Unlike other Musk detractors I will defend the GOOD Things he has done. Right now any and every discussion on Elon Musk is either 100% pro or 100% con and many of these discussions are NOT that simple AND most require some nuance. FOR EXAMPLE: I am an aerospace engineer (by degree) and I hate the Musk haters who do NOT recognise the fact that SpaceX have saved the West's manned space programs from the disaster that the Shuttle became. While on one hand the Space Shuttle was an extraordinary technological achievement in that they made a reusable space plane work, on the other hand it was also a colossal sponge of both financial and human resources. It enabled more people to go to space than any other system but it starved so many other programs of resources it the single biggest reason we haven't gone past LEO for 50+ years. When you compare SpaceX's Falcon system with Crew Dragon to Boeings Starliner the difference could NOT be more obvious as to how well Gwen Shotwell and her team have done with the Falcon series. HOWEVER Elon's Starship is a bigger white elephant than the Space Shuttle and Starliner combined. Go and watch Destin who is also an aerospace engineer (on the channel Smarter EveryDay) pulled apart the mission profile for Artemis using Starship. You can see that in the video titled "I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293" The launch facility of Texas is so incredibly dangerous I think (my opinion) its only a matter of time before they have a major accident. It would NOT PASS a HAZOP study in any other industry. The fuel storage tanks are not only too close to the launch platform they are unprotected as was PROVEN in the first launch when they were struck by debris. They were all incredibly lucky there wasn't a major incident. After that is the actual launch platform itself which does not have diversion trench for the blast. To not follow standard practices that are well tried and proven is ridiculous. His involvement in politics is all over the place. One moment he's a free speech absolutist the next moment he's cutting off all access to various people because of political influence. And these things HIGLIGHT the problem with everything Elon Musk. His fans think he is the techno Messiah who will save the world. His detractors think he's the worst person on the planet. Reality is that its a lot more complex than that.
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  6221. He's just another media content producer who doesn't give a damn about facts. His business model is clicks. YouTube had been very democratic in allowing bullshite producers a great place to operate. As an engineer I hate these people because they confuse the crap out of the general public with what we can and can't do. Even when there are good technologies they often confuse people about what those technologies can and can't do. In this video above there's a reference to the liquid metal battery. That's a technology that's been developed by MIT Professor Donald Sadoway. He's cofounded the company Ambri to manufacture them. That's a technology that has great potential for FIXED (not mobile) energy storage. As in things like community batteries. So its shame that clowns like Matt Farrell are confusing people with garbage because some of its NOT garbage but most people can;t tell what is and isn't garbage.
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  6222. She should have asked Lindsay Graham what his view on lying was? Afterall he was one of the prime voices who said you can't appoint a SCOTUS judge during an election year in 2016 and then did it in 2020.
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  6223.  @TheHigherVoltage  Go and look up VP Henry Wallace's quotes on fascism. Here's one of his most notable from teh NY Times 1944. "The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  6224.  @TheHigherVoltage  The site I copied it from had a bunch of other quotes from Wallace. They are all from the 1940s and they all sound like they were said yesterday.
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  6225.  @TheHigherVoltage  That's exactly what Wallace was trying to tell people. Remember he was there at a time when there was actually strong sympathy and some outright support for Nazi Germany in America. There was a lot of "Who do we blame for the Great Depression?" angst and some of that was easily directed at Britain, France and the banking system which had significant people who were Jewish. There's so much stuff we seemed to have forgotten despite the fact there are people alive today who were there and saw this stuff happen. Its almost like the Democratic West has forgotten everything that ever happened before 9/11.
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  6226.  @FilCanJay  Yes and No. Trump was the top man in charge of all. But being a blind follower who just follows orders isn't a defense - ask the Nazis. She at least needs to accept some responsibility for not speaking out or at least explain that she felt it was better to get work done quietly as some have claimed they did. I saw another vid looking at this day last year and on 30 Mar 2020 America had just over 4100 COVID deaths today its over 560,000. Not getting their shit organized cost over 1/2 a million American deaths.
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  6227. What bullshit JASON D. How can you or any of these idiots claim "Spot On" or "exactly" when no one knows what country you're talking about. Don't mislead people JASON D - howling about double standards when you're being DECEPTIVE yourself. What country are you talking about?
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  6228.  @jasond6294  Well with a name like Jason on a page produced by a Brit talking about Britain and British outcomes. Then you say "my country," where do you think most people will assume you are from? Do you think they will say he's talking about Britain or Malta? I'm from Australian and try to make it clear I'm from Australia. Here go look at the results we are at #111 with 25.7 million to Malta's #117 (in cases) with your 442,000. We haven't had a death since December 28. How many have you had just this last week? https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ I get plenty of flack that we are a small population on an island with nice warm climate and could isolate ourselves. What do they say to you?
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  6229.  @roberthakker5456  Yeah they have now had over 500,000 Americans, over 250,000 Brazilians, approaching 200,000 Mexicans, over 150,000 Indians, over 120,000 Brits and almost 100,000 Italians. Yeah just over 2.5 Million dead and counting is nothing we should be concerned with. You're an idiot. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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  6230.  @kingsking2816  Well we actually don't yet know how many have actually died from the vaccine. There are a lot of wild claims from anti-vaxers, but very little that's verifiable (see below). There's over 2.5million dead across the world. There are now more than several million vaccinated. Around 40,000 people were involved with the tests and they had not a single fatality. So the numbers are staggering. There's some answers we wont know for some time, but the facts are pretty clear the risks of getting sick from the vaccine are tiny compared to getting dead from the virus. There's an odd case in Florida where a doctor died suddenly after the vaccine. This is the best well rounded vid that I have found and its by a doctor. He points out we still don't fully know what happened in that case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UijQ-6jhVuc In Norway they had a people over 80 years of age die in old peoples homes after getting the vaccine. They are still investigating that, but have warned doctors to be careful with older frail people. Note that the following link reports that in Norway around 400 elderly people die in an ordinary week. https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2021-01-18/cause-of-pfizer-covid-vaccine-norway-deaths-not-clear/13067588
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  6231.  @roberthakker5456  Seriously take your denialism somewhere else. People were trying the "It's not as bad as flu" bullshit last February and by the end of April it was obvious that this was way worse than flu. I honestly don't know what to say to someone as ignorant as you. You people listen to idiots and clowns with no way to verify anything they say but consider it as absolute truth because its said on social media. Do you even know what country Jason D is talking about? His name is Jason and he's commenting on a YT page that's by Brit talking about Britain. SO WHEN Jason says "my country" which country is he talking about? FYI - It's not Britain. There's other even more stupid claims being made about this video. I suspect the anti-vaxers saw the title and jumped on this with all there usual stupidity. Now your here with denialism (that was debunked 12 months ago) as well. Way for you people to show how social media is where the ignorant and stupid hangout to reinforce each others ignorance and stupidity.
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  6232. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: This is what I am now calling a "Zombie Technology" which is a reference to "Zombie Economics." Those are the Economic Ideas that no matter how many times they fail a few years later they come back with a new name. A Zombie Technology is one that has been irrefutably dismissed for one or more fundamental reasons AND YET it keeps re-surfacing every decade or after people have forgotten WHY it was dismissed. Elon Musk's Hyperloop is a good example. Trains in Vacuum tubes were first proposed 100 years before Elon insinuated that he invented it by the father of modern rocketry Robert Goddard. Yes - trains and/or pods look really cool in sci-fi but the practical operation of such a system makes them utterly impractical. The most basic one is how many people they can actually move per hour. Here in Australia where I live the proposal for a high speed rail network going from Brisbane to Sydney to Canberra to Melbourne ahs gone through multiple studies, reviews and estimation projects AND EVERY TIME its the same answer. Out population is too small and the distances are too large making it cost too much. There's several good videos here on YT covering that AND YET I know that in a few years somebody will to the zombie thing and give it life again. Another great one is Space Tourism, which is also popular to throw up here in Australia because we already have a large tourism industry. Its all hype, hype and more hype that just never adds up. Ask Richard Branson who started with technology that actually works and still hasn't started regular flights over a decade later. Ask the people of Arizona who paid a mountain of money for the space base Virgin Galactic would use and years later still isn't doing a thing. Just a few days ago the Victorian State Government announced it would spend $37 million supporting an American Company do Space Tourism. YES Watch this space for that one to fail as well. Orbital Solar power stations were first proposed decades ago and quickly dismissed for some very basic reasons like the cost of flying that much stuff into orbit and then maintaining it. After that comes the entire issue of a beam of energy with power measured in GIGAWATTS being beamed down through the atmosphere. What part of that did people keep dismissing? NOTE: How every time someone reinvigorates a ZOMBIE TECH they dismiss previous issues with claims of "we have a new method" RIGHT BEFORE they hold their hand out looking for investors.
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  6233.  @oncoucharrest5910  These days were are all so FKD up that normal is pretty much whatever used to be called abnormal.
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  6234.  @SkyRiver1  We have the same problem in Australia all over the place and in every industry. Its one of the collection of economic policies that comes out of Chicago School economics that we now call neoliberalism. It started with Reaganomics in America and Thatcherism in Britain and has infected the entire developed world while screwing the non-developed world. There was a damning as all hell report by the Rand Corporation a couple of years ago into wages and an even more damning report September 2022 by the US Congressional Budget Office into Family Wealth. Once you start to get your head around how much money the Top 10% and in particular the Top 1% have taken in the last 40 years then its pretty easy to see why so many people think the world is F⋃CKED. If you want to see something really interesting on HOW they get away with it. There's a brilliant documentary called "The Silent Killer of the Middle Class" which is about tax evasion. Its amazing how they do it.
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  6235.  @chickenfishhybrid44  Do people like EVER bother to read what people are saying before you act like a complete M0R0N? Have you ever stopped to think about who owns the companies doing the damage across Africa, Asia, Central & South America? Its mostly a collection of European and AMERICAN companies. Yeah sure I know the Chinese are among the worst - they have damaged or destroyed over 20,000 waterways in the last 30 or so years. Then there's their coal issue. Yeah sure I know the Indians do stuff like pump raw untreated sewerage into their rivers by the cubic meter per second. I've seen the footage and its pretty ghastly. Hey why don't you check out what the AMERICAN oil companies did in Central and South America. Look up what Texaco (now part of Chevron) did while drilling in the Lago Agrio oil field of Ecuador. That's part of the case where Chevron had a lawyer (Steven Donziger) imprisoned in America for refusing to hand over confidential client information.
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  6236. ​ @chickenfishhybrid44  And for the record go and look up Superfund on Wikipedia its about the CERCLA act which is the EPA program clean up illegal waste dumps. Currently the program has over 40,000 sites on its books. Sorry buddy but American companies suck when it comes to environmental damage BOTH inside America and outside America. The only difference is when they do it INSIDE America there's still a chance the victims can get compensation in the courts.
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  6237. If you look at the time stamps she just talked for almost exactly 2 minutes to NOT answer a YES/NO question and avoid dealing with a subject. I wonder how long she would take if asked about insider trading?
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  6238. You might be 100% right that it is sad that there exists a young Republican, BUT (like it or not), Alexander Diaz from the Catholic University of America has just exposed the ruthless narcissism of the Republican Party. The GOP DOES NOT care squat about the future. They have not even bothered to answer the question. They care about THEIR money and THEIR power and protecting that power and money AT ANY EXPENSE to the rest of us.
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  6239. AND ITS EVEN EASIER TO DEBINK THE NONSENSE PRESENT HERE Unlike Gerard Holland who's background is in accounting I am an engineer and have know about Australia's energy situation since doing a project on Australia's future energy needs in 2016. I am utterly disgusted with how public discussion has been dominated by UNCHALLENEGED claims from BOTH SIDES of the energy debate. BOTH SIDES LIE just as Gerard has done here. And so you know you can read my formal challenge to him on this page.
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  6240. Buddy his analysis isn't simply WRONG its wrong by almost $1 Trillion dollars. GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  6241. ENGINEER HERE I have recently defended Sabine in respect of criticisms she got to her criticisms of academia. Having spent time in academia she's right to criticise them. HOWEVER when it comes to engineering she, like many others needs to SHUT UP. We need hydrogen as an energy buffer NOT because its hyper efficient or economic factors but BECAUSE WE CAN MAKE IT WORK and over the next 20-30 years WE NEED THINGS THAT WORK THAT DON'T SCREW THE PLANET UP FURTHER. And I really am trying to scream that at everyone. If you want the engineers to keep the lights on and modern society as you know it to keep functioning then all the people in the road need to SHUT UP. Unlike Sabine and many others I am qualified to design electrical systems around explosive gases like hydrogen as well as explosive dusts like wheat & sugar dust (and yes dusts can explode). Hydrogen is one of the hardest gases to work with, design around AND THEN MAINTAIN. Sabine is right in that Hydrogen for practical purposes leaks from everything, explodes easily and makes many substances brittle. What she DOES NOT KNOW is we know how to engineer around those issues. The single biggest problem with hydrogen is having enough qualified maintenance personnel. That's WHY I never thought it would be practical for things like cars, buses, jets, heating & cooking in homes. Any poor maintenance in those areas could be catastrophic. HOWEVER for those few areas like energy, hydrogen is a good option because all the technical issues have been solved and being kept in a controlled environment like a power station makes the maintenance possible. As for the ongoing claim you can't get better than 40% turnaround that's pure nonsense. The latest PEM electrolyser technologies get over 90% efficiency NOT the 80% (and lower) people like Sabine keep quoting. The current generations of gas turbines form companies like GE and Siemens with cogeneration units get over 64%. That's over 57% on the main components which are available off the shelf AND THEY WORK. As for the problems with storage and compressors those problems exist for every gas. How do you think the gas actually gets piped around the world? How do you think they liquify natural gas for exports around the world? I have worked in gas plants and they use lots of energy. If the world is going to have a lot more renewable energy then that industry needs to be able to buffer that system so if can deliver as needed. Efficiency is far less important than simply having something that WORKS.
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  6242.  @earlyrobotmind  Yeah what's NOT TRUE? My degree is in aerospace and in the 1990s Rolls Royce, GE and others all worked out how to make gas turbines work on Hydrogen because it looked like the fuel of the future. They made the turbines work over 20 years ago. What they could NOT get past was the storage and re-fuelling issues. Which in part goes to what I have been trying to tell people - IT WON'T WORK for some applications but will for others. I don't know how many times I have to say that before people start listening. Right now both Siemens and GE have combined cycle turbines up to 800MW that can run on hydrogen. Rolls Royce has 1MW gensets with piston engines running on Hydrogen. There's also been major advances in hydrogen electrolysis since 1992 like the PEM (proton exchange membranes). Anyone can look it up these things but its just easier for FCKWITS LIKE YOU to simply spit out garbage replies.
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  6243. Australian here - AND YES we hate this S.O.B. too. We know how he wants to drag ALL OF US into ANOTHER Middle East Disaster.
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  6244. I saw part of this interview and it was such a train wreck I had a go at Lex in the comments for even airing it. If people keep giving this clown access to a microphone they deserve to be lambasted.
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  6245.  @jacobcohen9205  If I'm ignorant then what am I ignoring? Is it the fact Brexit is the worst self inflicted kick in the nuts any country has ever given itself OR Is it the fact that every time the World Cup is on there's the SOAP OPERA of English Football FAILING TO DELIVER followed by the inevitable lamenting back to 66?
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  6246. HEY DAVID CASE IN POINT The democrat who was running against Marjorie Taylor Greene WITHDREW before the election. this is something that you and others are NOT pointing out. I made some pretty harsh remarks the other day about the 14th district and a person from that area pointed out that Dems gave up on the seat. Yes the GOP should be ripped for even letting someone like that get nominated for any position, but the Dems deserve their slap for quitting as well. There were over 77,000 people in Georgia's 14th district who voted against Marjorie Taylor Greene even though they were voting for a candidate who had withdrawn. For the Dems to abandon 77,000 Americans is something they should be ripped for.
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  6247. I'm waiting for him to put a sex angle on it. That seems to be his thing these days. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  6248. To All I just hear the other day that the mother SCOTUS Judge Neil Gorsuch, Ane Gorsuch Burford was the head of the EPA during the Reagan Admin and was also doing the same sort of garbage. Downsize the agency, throw out inconvenient people and replace them with industry goons and then let industry police itself. If you follow the links its easy to find on Wikipedia. The neo-liberals have been at this game for way longer than this documentary lets on.
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  6249.  @browsepals4123  To quote from the film The long Kiss Goodnight: Were you always this stupid or did you take lessons? That libertarian garbage about stripping down government regulators NEVER WORKS. Every time any government anywhere does it bad sh*t happens. After all the DC-9 crashes people screamed about airline safety. So the FAA got to work making sure planes were built properly and it got safer. Then the FAA got stripped down. Then Boeing cut corners and the Max-8 happened. And that's just 1 example of 1000s.
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  6250. The next question you and every other American who agrees with your statement should ask is: How bad was Hillary Clinton and how bad are the Democrats that they lost to Trump in the first place? 5 years after that debacle Hilary Clinton was still whining about how Bernie Sanders cost her the election. Maybe people should be asking not only WHY 63 million people thought Trump was a good idea in 2016 but an extra 11 million thought he should get another 4 years in 2020. Because if he was so bad as so many claim where did those extra 11 million come from? And instead of just calling them stupid ASK WHY? The Democrats and all their supporters need to start being a lot more honest about themselves. They can start with some thing things like: How was Trump even a viable candidate in the first place? How did people in Georgia and Colorado not have better options than Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Greene? How are people like Kari Lake and Herschel Walker viable candidates right now? Do you realise that when your lunch option is a bullshit sandwich or a horseshit sandwich that either way your still being asked to eat shit and pay for it.
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  6251.  @stevenj9970  I'd correct that to "never underestimate how stupid humanity is." Right at this moment Americans might be ranked number 1 but Russia, China and Europe are pressing hard for the top spot. The Brits were right there as serious challengers but Liz Truss's implosion took them out of contention. Lets not forget this years COP 27 has tried to rewrite the concept that big committees don't ever work. I heard yesterday there were 30,000 delegates attending. I checked and found that was wrong its 45,000. I think this sums up our predicament. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lzZMVbLoW0
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  6252.  @stevenj9970  Its called lead poisoning from from burning leaded fuel. Veritasium did 2 short docos on Fritz Haber this is one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA Consider how much smog people sucked into their bodies in cities like LA, Chcago, New York,....
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  6253. You've half hit the nail on the head. Your comment could just as easily be thrown at Destiny, but these 2 clowns are exhibiting WHY the Left fail all over the world. Listen to what they are saying. Destiny claimed just after they GOT SPANKED by a guy who harped on about eating cats & dogs during a debate and he's claiming that his party can tell a whole faction to get lost. The EFFING stupidity of this guy is why NOBODY should vote for anyone he supports because they are guaranteed to stab you in the back. On the other hand Cenk keeps going on and on about stuff that people say they like BUT THEY DO NOT VOTE FOR. He's got the polling mind-virus where he thinks polling data equals voting data and we've seen that proven WRONG and WRONG and WRONG........... and however many other times you want to say WRONG. ALL 3 of these clowns need to go have a giant cement milk shake and harden up, because these soft cock arguments are pathetic.
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  6254.  @diatonicdelirium1743  Please don't be yet another pompous clown. Its quite simply a bullshit claim that's more hyperbole than fact. And to be sure I don't give a damn which side of the woke argument she's on. I am tired of the bad faith FROM BOTH SIDES of the woke discussion.
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  6255.  @diatonicdelirium1743  Yeah and the same thing back to you. Your the same as so many clowns on social media. You think your a whole magnitude smarter than you actually are. Its a BULLSHlT comment in yet another BULLSHiT waste of time public discussion on a subject that has no place when there are REAL ISSUES worth discussing. Go watch Konstantin's debate on the channel Unherd about Ukraine. THAT'S WORTH YOUR TIME, not this woke and anti-woke nonsense.
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  6256. ​ @MrAgonizomai  Don't try that smug self righteous crap ON ANYONE. The only people that ever need that sort of advice are the smug arrogant clowns handing it out. On the basic premise of how feminism conned women I actually was interested in hearing what Marry Harrington had to say. Just over 20 years ago Australian journalist Virginia Haussegger let fly at the feminists with a landmark news article titled "The Sins of our Feminist Mothers." It caused a shitstorm when published, because she told a number of very hard truths. She ended up writing a book about it. Clowns like Germaine Greer went nuts because a number of their lies were exposed. SO I WAS INTERESTED in what the next take on this subject was and instead Marry Harrington opens with stupidity and more of this woke/anti-woke culture war BULLSHlT. So welcome to some enlightenment you ARROGANT SMUG SHlT
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  6257.  @ironmonkey1512  I wasn't discussing efficacy I was pointing out that the very first comment in this was just another BULLSHlT lump of hyperbole in a culture war between 2 groups of M0R0NS who have completely lost site of reality. You anti-woke clowns are just as ridiculous as the woke clowns you rage about.
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  6258.  @MrAgonizomai  Because anyone with a brain can spot yet another FULL of SHlT woke/anti-woke culture clown in an instant AND NONE OF THEM ARE WORTH ANYONE's TIME. AND THE ONLY PEOPLE who spend time listening to them are lDlOTIC CULTURE WARRIORS WHO HIDE BEHIND ANONYMOUS TAGS.
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  6259. ​ @jeffk464  Its staggering how people claim that the mainstream media should not be listened to because they have agendas and narratives AND THEN THOSE SAME PEOPLE TURN to Bloggers, Facebook, Tik Tok, YouTuber outlets as if those outlets don't have agendas or narratives.
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  6260.  @madeinengland1212  I NEVER SAID THERE WASN'T Do any of you culture war clowns EVER listen?
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  6261. Here's something for all you culture war clowns to consider since one of you question if I am an engineer or not. According to the title of this video "Progress is Bad for Women." As an engineer let me ask all of you culture war clowns. Do you think that since progress is bad for women that us engineers should turn off the Tampax, Star Free and Libra factories? Because I know a lot of men would be grateful if they didn't have football games on TV interrupted with adds for tampons. Maybe there's another item of progress we can do away with - the washing machine. It only unburdened women enough that it allowed them to go to school and be educated. I'm fairly certain there are a lot of men out there who'd like to see women a lot less educated and they'd see putting women back in the laundry doing everything by hand for day after day would be a good start. On the other hand I tend to think the progress has been pretty good for women. Its just the some are too stupid to realise it.
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  6262.  @MrAgonizomai  NEVER TRY and tell somebody what they are and what they aren't is the ultimate in arrogant hubris. But then while the woke live in their fantasy realm of delusion the anti-woke live with the comfort blanket of arrogant hubris. What's common to both is insane self righteousness. DON'T complain when people tell you and the woke clowns FK-OFF. The rest of us have real work to do.
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  6263.  @MrAgonizomai  You call someone a piece of crap 20 times in a row and wonder why they want to P⋃NCH you in face and tell you to F⋃CK OFF.🤦‍♂🤦‍♂ Next time you and any other from the woke-antiwoke brigades want to call someone ignorant look in the mirror.
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  6264.  @MrAgonizomai  And so we are getting through this. Being a pedantic self righteous smug arrogant ignorant M0R0N who thinks they play people like violins IS BASICALLY THE ULTIMATE in being a pedantic self righteous smug arrogant ignorant M0R0N. Psychologically speaking being someone who thinks the way you do is called SOCIOPATHIC NARCISSISM
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  6265. SORRY PETER, but your economics of construction is a giant pile of BULLSHlT and if you bothered to ever talk to an engineer who actually understands project engineering and project management you'd know why. The rest of this is pretty good and your points on people NOT budgeting for the resources needed to construct this is spot on. Unfortunately on that subject if you try and tell the Greenies about the materials issues they freak out and respond in some pretty ugly ways. Here's some basics on construction versus operation. 1) When you are in construction YOU DO NOT BUDGET for operational costs like fuel and maintenance that is the job of others. 2) If you are going to compare construction costs then COMPARE construction costs not a mix and match with operational costs or you just confuse things which you have done. 3) When you build any power station you can start making money as soon as you have any of your generating units commissioned and connected to the grid. COMPARING SOMETHING LIKE A BIG NUCLEAR/COAL PLANT VERUS A BIG WIND FARM IS PRETTY SIMPLE With large nuclear or coal plants you have to wait until it is 100% complete before you can start earning money. That can be a huge amount of capital spent over several years (or even a decade) paying interest or not paying dividends before you even start earning money and even THEN YOU HAVE TO PAY BACK THAT CAPITAL BEFORE you actually break even. If you are building a 100 turbine wind farm (it makes the percentage sign easier to use). When you have the first turbine up you are 1% finished but you can start earning money to help pay for the rest of construction. When you are 10% complete you can earn 10 times the money you earned from when you are 1% complete. When you are 50% complete you can earn 50 times the money you earned from when you are 1% complete *AND YOU PROBABLY DON'T NEED ANY CAPITAL TO FINISH THE PROJECT. This is also part of the business strategy behind the Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. As soon as the first reactor is in it can start earning money and help pay for the other reactors. I love your work on geopolitics and strategies BUT PLEASE TALK TO SOME ENGINEERS. YES I know we are pains in the butt, but then do you want to be called out by one of us?
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  6266. FIRST - I am in favor of nuclear energy. BUT ITS SHlTHOUSE how Shellenberger trots around the world supported by a mountain of nuclear energy money and never allows himself to be actually challenged on the SHlT he is selling. Like so many others he has been debunked as a cherry picking fraud so many times and YET clownish idiots claiming to be serious media types keep giving him oxygen. Why does he attack Greta Thundberg? Because he's paid to. That's how much of a low life SHlT he's become.
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  6267. FROM AUSTRALIA: As I was watching this I clicked onto our news services and there was Marco Rubio (LIVE) going on about his family's experiences with the lead up to and the outcome of the Cuban Revolution. That was from one of the clowns who has supported and supported and supported Trump. He was one of those Senators who voted "innocent: at Trumps impeachment. *Does he not realise the whole world watched what he and others did to fuel this? * Trump might be embarrassing America everyday but so are all the people who MADE THIS DAY HAPPEN by enabling this lunacy. Here's an interview that was just shown here about the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYlimLgCuEI To all the sensible Americans - know and understand that you have friends in the world who want to see this end and America be what it can be. My one great fear is that Biden only wants to take America backwards in stead of forwards. The Oligarchy has to end and he has to re-engage and look after the other 99%. To all Take Care & Stay Safe. 👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
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  6268.  @redrick8900  Yeah I know. Ted Cruz, Ron De Sanctimonious and Josh Hawley are also Harvard Law graduates. The Clintons were only Yale. The amazing one is Dubya cos he was both Yale and Harvard.
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  6269.  @redrick8900  What that Harvard Graduates have no morals, no ethics and often display sociopathic behavior???? That's not a point THATS A FACT and they seem proud of it.
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  6270. IT DOESN'T MATTER. If you are being asked to eat a batshit sandwich or a bullshit sandwich, ITS STILL A SHIT SANDWICH.
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  6271.  @EngineeringwithRosie  FYI - the reason I like this comment is that I have been working on a variation of the VAWT with a better aerofoil and electronics compatible with solar panels. I started with a degree in aerospace so I have a pretty good understanding of the issue of a wing profile that is effectively go through extreme swings in angle of attack. That's just one of the major issue of VAWTs that only a few have tried to deal with. I know the detractors arguments as well but most of them are ignorant non-engineering people who don't accept the concept that a technology that's good for 90% can also be hopeless for the other 10% and vice versa. HAWTS (small, medium , large or giant) will always out perform VAWTS but they are just out of the question in around housing BECAUSE OF THE NOISE. Now look at a strip like the strip from Port Melbourne, through St. Kilda, down to Mordialloc and all the way to Frankston. Nos consider how many MEGAWATTS of solar inverters are already installed and doing NOTHING from late afternoon through to early morning.
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  6272.  @EngineeringwithRosie  And here is the real thing to consider Rosie. We are due to shutdown at least 5 of our GIGAWATT class power stations before 2030. So you know I define a GIGAWATT class power station to be one that has a nameplate rating of greater than 1,000Mega Watts or more and supplies BASE LOAD POWER. And there is a giant problem around the world that's about to come hammering in on developed nations. We all built big base load power stations starting after WW2 and then continuing through the 50s & 60s, but by the 1970s with the population rapidly expanding they all became Gigawatt Class power stations. Some are huge like the one in Toronto at over 6 GW. But if you ga and look at the lists of power stations available in places like Wikipedia (it one of the easiest sources) you find something really odd. Despite population growth the entire developed world just stopped building them. California has only built 1 since 1990. We haven't built 1 since the late 90s and the French haven't built 1 since the mid 1990s. Other than a few exceptions like Hinkley Point C in Britain and c couple in America NOBODY in the West has built any new major power station in over 20 years. China and India are exceptions but they are developing rather than developed nations. The reason is simple, we all got conned by the economics clowns who told us to privatise everything. If you just paid several billion for an asset you need it to make money and preferably as much as possible. Its even better if you can raise the prices of what you produce, but that's not so easy because there are regulations. But there is an easy way around that. Don't build anything new and PREVENT (through lobbying) anyone from building anything new except smaller power stations that you can also buy into. As the population increases demand increases and basic supply demand economics drive the price UP while your costs remain almost stationary. Its super bonus time for 20+ years and it only gets better and better. So here we are 25+ years later with a bunch of rapidly ageing power stations and almost no way to replace them before they fail or shutdown through age. So to simply keep our society going we will need every last kW of generating capacity we have producing at its best. Fun times ahead.
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  6273.  @jobicek  Sorry but this is a totally irrelevant discussion 2 years later. And i wont apologise for being blunt. FIRST - I never advocated for a forest of turbines on towers, that's just straw manning on your part. I advocated for small turbines to take advantage of afternoon and evening breezes in coastal areas or those near large bodies of water that also generate such breezes and in doing that they could piggy back onto existing roof top solar systems. SO YOUR STAW MANNING IS SERIOUSLY ANNOYING. SECOND - right now we either start generating enough energy and distributing it effectively or ENTIRE ENERGY GRIDS are at risk. I first became aware of the energy grid issues during a 2016 project into Australia's future needs. 8 year later and we have NOT got 1 single major power station project underway except for a pumped hydro storage system that's blown its original estimate by a factor of 10. THIRD - I am damn tired of clown brained idiots who think they know WTF they are talking about. You people have held sway over public discourse for years preventing ANYONE from DOING ANYTHING and what have you got done? EVERYONE IS NOW PAYING HIGH PRICES FOR ENERGY EITHER you and your kind start putting forward realistic proposals that ACTUALLY can work or do us all a favor and STFU & GTF OUT OF THE WAY because a couple of billion people are getting effing tired of high energy prices.
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  6274. Great point and that makes it far more than simply an American issue. Climate Change is NOT an American issue its an issue for the entire planet, BUT without the cooperation of several major players its an impossible task rather than simple an incredibly difficult task. 3 of the countries that have to be involved are America, China and Russia who are NOT getting on well at the moment. China and Russia for all their faults are simpler because we all know who makes the decisions in those countries - Putin and Xi. America is a lot harder because POTUS isn't in charge or Congress or the Senate and that's because SCOTUS has now taken charge. They are deciding what the other arms of government CAN'T DO. Its a very unusual thing. They ARE NOT deciding what the Government CAN DO or what it SHOULD DO they are deciding what it CAN'T DO. That basically means that no matter who the American people vote for they can't do what they want unless SCOTUS allows them, which is insane. FYI - I am Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and we often discussed things like the constitution. What bother's me more than anything is that this is the sort of thing that they assured me COULD NEVER HAPPEN in America. I had studied Orwell in high school (Animal Farm & 1984) and one of the main warnings Orwell gave was that ANY SOCIETY could fall into a totalitarian dictatorship. My friends argued that was impossible in America because of how the constitution worked. These days I would love to ask them how this has happened.
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  6275.  @thewhitefalcon8539  No he can't DlCKHEAD The president can only NOMINATE people its the Senate that confirms them. But then with what Trump got away with appointing people who knows what could happen in the future.
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  6276.  @Mandykiss4500  Its not quite 90% although it certainly feels like it. Its the whole reason we have media ownership laws that restrict ho much any one person or business entity can own of newspapers, radio and television. Both Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch wanted those laws and restrictions removed and have lobbied on it for decades. Or at least Kerry did until he died, when James took up that mantle.
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  6277. Australian here - it boggles the World that Trump was not in handcuffs after January 6th. IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY Trump and his goons would have been in jail and in about 1/2 the World they would have been tried and executed. Do you think the Saudis, Iranians, Chinese, North Koreans or dozens of other countries would have shown Trump and his goons any mercy? And so you all know - this really does affect the World. No matter whether anyone likes or dislikes America the simple fact is the US Dollar ($US) is still the Worlds Reserve Currency and that is not changing no matter what the BRICS does or doesn't do. So all of the deals that happen between a country like Australia and China, South Korea or Japan for iron ore are all done in $US or the currency exchanges are backed by $US. The same goes for wheat, barley, cars, TVs, iPhones and everything else. Anyone who thinks that the international trade system can just be re-jigged or re-engineered obviously hasn't considered how it works. The one force that can suddenly change things is the Whitehouse gorilla. That billionaire's pet the American people select is generally calm and rational, but every so often doesn't get its banana and goes nuts. America needs to realise it might be your pet gorilla in the Whitehouse but we have to deal with the consequences of which gorilla you pick.
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  6278. Actually if you go by some of the arguments it started in the late 90s with the first expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe If you go by other arguments it started in the early 90s when America tried to make Russia into a clone of American Liberal Democracy by getting them to privatise state assets. If you go by other arguments it started during the cold war, when BOTH sides indoctrinated they populations with garbage nonsense across the most of the world.
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  6279. That's not even close to how bad Lindsey Graham actually is or has become. He's a walking talking reason why NOBODY should be allowed to stay in politics indefinitely. I'm Australian and the first time he came to international notice was when he stood up and went AGAINST those who had set in motion the prisoner abuse scandals at Abu Ghraib and Bagram AFB. Maybe the question that needs to be asked to Lindsey Graham is "What happened to the person who stood up and told the President that something he had allowed was morally and ethically wrong? How did he become someone so utterly devoid of morals and ethics?" Please don't think I am pointing out an American problem because we have the same issues here. We have the same sort of sleazy corrupt bags of crap who sit on committees for DECADES playing dirty ugly games. I was in Canada for work a few years ago - same there. We get the news out of Britain and Europe - same there. Go look through the history of almost any nation and the same sort of people are there again and again.
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  6280.  @terryandrews7271  What about the ting where Crenshaw blasted the 10 year old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-ZD_H3__9w
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  6281. Really I thought every time he tells a lie another brain cell dies and the resulting decay causes his face to get a little more puffy????????
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  6282.  @tedthoman6580  Look at what drove Brexit, the last European elections and the recent Australian election. They were all cases of flipping the finger at recalcitrant establishments. Even Trump 2016 in a way was flipping the finger, first at the old school GOP then at the Clintons and Obama. TC and his Goldman Sachs wife belong to a class of snot nosed arrogant elitist Harvard-Yale-Princeton-U. Chicago types that the world has had enough of. In Britain they were a pack of Oxford Cambridge clowns. Its the same everywhere. People are tired of arrogant elitists.
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  6283. Sorry but this is some of the most ignorant shit I have ever heard and I mean ignorant in that he ignores basic reality. He's IGNORING that he's describing and criticising EVERY socio-political ideology when they go too far. If you took this speech and replaced the words woke and wokeism with conservative & conservatism or left & leftism or right & rightism or ANY OTHER socio-political ideology its exactly the same speech. This is 9 minutes and 12 seconds of political clichéd BULLSHlT that could easily describe every political movement in history. For a couple of people who think this kid has a bright future look at the recently elected American George Santos who has lied about everything in his life. He won the election doing EXACTLY what Tommy Nguyen has done here take the standard tribal political line and tell it to a willing audience. What the real debate should be "This House Believes Political Tribalism Has Gone Too Far"
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  6284. Seriously when will Hilary Clinton get the message "SHUT UP and GO AWAY" No one should be interested in a failure that LOST to Trump, because she was too busy sucking up to Wall Street types.
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  6285. Actually that's a really good answer, in light of so many others. Here's Prof. Richard Wolff who was one of David's college professors who has been on David's show and David has been on his as well. This is his explanation of WHY so many people turned towards Trump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s The person who follows after him is Brown U. Professor Mark Blyth. Listen to what he says about the DISCONNECT with the DNC elite. Think back to when the DNC screwed Bernie Sanders for a 2nd time how the progressives were simply told to shut up and do as they were told. The contempt the DNC showed back then for the progressives is the same contempt that they have for others. Your right its all an act for the donors and voters, but its acts that BOTH sides do. And so long as people keep listening to the acting and not questioning it the same shit will go on in Washington - here's proof. In the aftermath of the 2008 GFC it was found that Goldman Sachs were right in the middle of it doing all sorts of things. That should have mad most of the GS team unemployable in government and industry as NOBODY should trust those people again. Yet out of that Steven Mnuchin became Secretary of the Treasury under Trump. Joe Biden recently hired 2 Goldman Sachs along with a Blackrock and a McKinsey. So what's actually changed?
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  6286. check the thread started by gsherlock above he's done some background research.
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  6287. When the French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracuda and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered Barracuda - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT? Bottom line they tried to rip us off and we knew it.
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  6288. Australian here - I went to college in America in the late 80s they were drinking a lot of crazy juice back then. I remember warning some of my friends that some of the crap they were starting to lose control of was one day going to bite hard. Yeah and then they let Rupert Murdoch lose, who just knew how to turn crazy into profit. On the flip side the stupidity and arrogance of the Dum-o-crats SHOULD BE a lesson for all mainstream parties that if you want to lose to a pack of maniacs then DON'T DROP THE BALL and listen to your base and give then some hope you will actually do something for them. This stupid message of "You'll be worse off under that guy and that party!" does NOT work when people are trying to deal with SHlT like inflation, cost of living, paying the bills,...... "More of the same" does not win over people who are struggling. How damn difficult is that to understand.
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  6289. KYLE - after less than a minute this was obviously a waste of your time, my time and everybody else's time. Yeah we can all do with a break from COVID, Trump, Trump's impeachment, Biden hiring more Wall St goons and climate change, BUT THIS WASN'T IT
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  6290. And WTF would that do for anyone? He's a pedantic smug silver spoon piece of garbage. If you really want to stomp on Tucker find a way to take away his money.
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  6291.  @roadrunner3232  Glenn Kirschner, who's a former JAG and Federal prosecutor and doesn't say things lightly or speak made up stiff because he fully comprehends the potential did a video a few weeks back on Graham about Graham's claim that he would not approve an AG who would investigate Trump. He highlighted Graham's complete 180 about face AFTER his emails were hacked and Trump beckoned him onto the golf course???. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbaXO_Ogw4I The issue isn't if he's been compromised its a matter of what was in those emails that made him flip so dramatically.
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  6292. I'm an Australian engineer and you are the FIRST Person I have seen get this right in a while. The REAL PROBLEM with HOC is that its OWNED by a foreign entity. We are making this same mistake n Australia. I have been arguing for several years that when someone comes here and spends AU$1 Billion on an energy project they are going to take AT LEAST AU$2 Billion back out of the country. There's a basic rule my boss explained to me over 25 years ago on investing. It goes by various names but he called it "1 in 2 out." What he told me and others in our company was that "after you put that $1 in the first $1 out just breaks even. You have to make the second $1 to make money.* That's just for basic standard investments. For these long term investments its more like 1 in 4 out. If you look at how much power will come out of HPC and that it will do that for 60 years maybe 80 then in basic terms the British public will be NOT ONLY paying for HPC but more likely the next 3 (2 x EPR2) power stations in France. If the French both it all up then they'll only get 2 free power stations out of the British people. If the French get smart then they might get 4 free power stations out of the British people. I have done the math its staggering just how much money this thing will end up making.
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  6293. Yeah that's a point I have been making and very few others have. So fantastic to see someone else pointing that out.
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  6294.  @jaarneal  You are without doubt one of the most morally bankrupt C⋃NTS I have ever encountered period. You have along with Sam Harris condemned 2 Billion Human beings on the basis that 1 subgroup acts like animals to which I have AGREED. Your logic is so bent that it also calls for the extermination of 330 million Americans because if you want to talk about a culture that glorifies killing and torture then lets start with the nation that presents to the entire world through its TV, Media and Films how it glorifies violence, killing and torture OR like all your KIND have you not forgotten the Invasion of Iraq where the Vice President of the United Stated personally approved the wonderfully titled "enhanced interrogation techniques"
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  6295.  @jaarneal  As for the deflection on the MURDER of Shireen Abu Akleh you are so morally bankrupt is barely conceivable that you know how to breath oxygen. Here you are saying Sam's right on the Moral equivalence and this cannot equate to that and what did you do????? She was outright MURDERED and you pull that whataboutism crap. I've met your kind before.
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  6296. EVERYONE GO AND Listen to the interview Prof. Mark Brown had with Sir Angus Deaton on his latest book. Its here on YT. The video is titled "The Rhodes Center Podcast: An Immigrant Economist in the Land of Inequality" Listen to what is said about the comparison between the Swiss Health Care system and the American Health Car System. According to Angus Deaton's Research - if America simply had the Swiss system 1) It would give (on average) every American 5 more years of life. 2) It would save America US$1 Trillion per year, which would be the equivalent of giving EVERY American a cheque for US$3,000 per year or simply saving them US$3,000 EVERY YEAR.
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  6297. PS - Thom should do a follow up interview with Angus Deaton about this. And he should have Mark Blyth on the show regularly.
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  6298. Yep you got it right. Its about power and stuff. They want more power so they can have more stuff. Anything that can be commandeered or hijacked and used is to be commandeered or hijacked and used with no regard to consequence. Anything that's in the road is to be eliminated by whatever means. We are headed directly into World War 3, but most people have it totally wrong. Its not going to be nation against nation. Its going to be internal tribe versus internal tribe as in civil wars and revolutions everywhere. If you put people under enough pressure they will eventually break. this relentless pressure from the top 1% EVERYWHERE is going to break people.
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  6299. Has Mike Pillow blown or snorted $40M???
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  6300. Don't forget the also support the right for mentally ill people to buy and own guns and then on rampages where they shoot innocent children in their classrooms.
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  6301. Here's a clarification on David's point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
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  6302. YOUR'RE A LAWYER - You should apologize every time you wake up in the morning still breathing oxygen that would be better spent on any other living organism.
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  6303. When they gave Superman his by-line it went "Truth, Justice and the American Way." Few people ever stop to consider that in saying that in the way its said the implication is that Truth & Justice are separate things from the America way. When you look at Michael Knowles LAUGHING at the historical event that was the Trail of Tears it was NOT a mass deportation. On Wikipedia the following opening paragraph exists. The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of about 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans and their enslaved African Americans within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government. Th fact Michal Knowles LAUGHS about that event shows just how sick of a human being he is and how much he's bought into the American Exceptionalism Ethos.
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  6304. Australian here - what's insane is that it ever got this far. This is the state of politics across the entire Western World right now. This is NOT just an American problem. Establishment parties everywhere DO NOT CARE about anything except the next news cycle and getting re-elected. Right now here in Queensland there's a state election and its as if both sides are getting their strategies and adds done by the same people doing the strategy and adds for the Democrats and Republicans. Its all got one theme "Be sacred of what they will do!" Everything is like a children's nursery rhyme "be sacred of this, be scared of that, be scared, be scared, be scared,...." Except in the most vague ways are either side saying about what they will actually do.
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  6305.  @craigbrowning9448  That is a great point. There are these people who demand THEIR rights as they strip other people of their rights. They demand people tolerate their views as they scream and howl at the views of others. Before too long people are just going to lose their cool with the hypocrisy of these people.
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  6306. Buddy its not some place where these people are. They are EVERYWHERE. This is the inevitable outcome of relentless fearmongering by BOTH ENDS of the political spectrum. Unfortunately the world is dominated by media driven by the need to out scream their competitors in the pursuit of attention and the best way to do that if fearmongering. "Be scared of this, be scared of that, be scared of everything."
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  6307. I think you'll find that every time he's said Biden would win and win by a long way there were conditions and a few times Peter mentioned his age but NOT as the number 1 item on the list AND ITS NOW number 1 on the list. So it would be interesting to see Peter do a thorough review of Bidens current state because I don't think anyone outside of the Whitehouse knew how bad Joe had gotten. The debate was a catastrophe and the interviews since disasters. In a very short time Biden went from "He's viable because he's NOT Trump!" to He's not there and he is NOT fit to do the job. The jokes about Biden not realising he was trying to change TV channels with the nuclear football aren't so funny right now. The major issue is how do the Democrats deal with it and so far their campaign of denial, denial and more denial is only making things worse.
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  6308.  @jnc07res  I'm Australian and from the outside looking in Kamala is the Dr Phil candidate. You know when Dr. Phil says "WHAT were you thinking?" Have they forgotten just how awful she was as a campaigner 4 years ago in the primaries? She could NOT even win her home state. She was picked as another "DO nothing, SAY nothing, THINK nothing VP" who's only task was to wave, smile and make Biden look good (or at least better) in 2020. For Trump the only thing that might be as good as Joe refusing to go would be the DNC stomping on everyone else to give Kamal the nod. The one thing I have seen NOBODY suggest would be someone like Gavin Newsom running and Kamal staying on as VP because that would freak Trump out. But I doubt her ego would take that.
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  6309.  @catbb1000  I didn't say they don't exist, but they are outnumbered and out gunned.
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  6310. As an Australian thank you so much for recognizing the fact the Chevy SS was one of ours. The other Australian car that we sold to America out of that stable was the Holden Monaro rebadged in America as the Pontiac GT. The story behind how that car existed at all is worth an episode. It was reviewed on Top Gear several times and always to rave reviews. And a second episode should go to its its incredibly rare 427 variant. YES America we built a 427cui Pontiac GT. Only 2 were built and they finished 1st and 2nd in the 24hr race at Bathurst. So they had both speed and endurance in buckets. For the uninformed - Bathurst is what you'd gate if you crossed Pikes Peak with Daytona - a sacred mountain to motor sport, except its a circuit not a hill climb. But we built 2 (very sadly only 2) of the 427 Pontiac GT, which I think you Americans would have loved. Its one of the saddest "what ifs" in Australian motoring history.
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  6311.  @Remelox  It was 35 years ago so not certain. But I did have a green card that had Social Security, my name and a number on it.
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  6312.  @emsleywyatt3400  I think you might be right. It was 1984 and when I first landed in Hawaii there was an issue because there wasn't an SSN number on the my Student VISA paperwork. It was a chicken and egg thing. I had to get to Illinois and enrol to get my actual number but couldn't get there without a number being assigned. There'd been a change of some sort and all new students were supposed to have this specific temporary number type until they got enrolled but someone hadn't issued the numbers. It was a nervous 1/2 hour before one of the INS people realised that I was just the next foreign student that year with that problem. I don't know how it works these days. They must have some sort of system. There's still Australians going to the same college. The punter on the football team last year is from the same city I'm from.
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  6313.  @Remelox  For me it was 30+ years ago and back then it was SSN or SSN there was nothing else. I would expect it to be different these days. Actually the biggest thing that changed at that time was because of Rupert Murdoch. Not many people remember what he did, but it affected my life a lot. I'd done aerospace engineering and after a few years back here I tried going back to America but because of Rupert that was difficult. When he started buying Fox people just let him because they thought as an Australian he'd not be allowed to retain ownership under American Law. They expected to clean up when he was forced to sell stock. What they didn't know was he'd had American residency long enough to simply get dual citizenship and he did it very quietly. When they filed the court papers to force his hand he just flipped out his new passport. In response America cancelled all dual citizenships for about 20 years. That made it almost impossible for me to move to America. If I had been any other sort of engineer other than aerospace it would have been lot easier. In aerospace you need security clearances BEFORE you can get the job and you can't get the clearance without being in America and you can't get into America without the Visa and you can't get the work Visa without getting the job AND then it goes round in circles. So I know the system has changed several times since I was in college.
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  6314. For anyone who wants to go back and check it out. Sam Harris did a podcast AFTER the 7/10 attacks and went at length to describe that there was "No moral ambiguity!" regarding Hamas and he went right into the "death cult" explanation. That's fine as any reasonable person should agree with Sam's assessment that there was no moral ambiguity regarding what Hamas did. I want to know why Sam doesn't apply the same "moral ambiguity" analysis to Benjamin Netanyahu? Because we can argue about any of the stats about Gaza but one of them stands out and that's the now more than 16,000 children who have been killed. Among those children the ones who could have been school teachers, nurses, doctors, engineers, artists, mechanics, welders, plumbers, famers or any of 100s of other professions will now never fulfill whatever notions of a future they wanted or dreamed of. I'd like to see Sam put his "moral ambiguity" analysis to that and explain why those children needed to die.
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  6315. Aerospace engineer here: I've 30+ years working in industrial control & safety systems across a number of industries. I can state for a fact that MOST engineering standards, codes of practice, procedures and regulations are ALL WRITTEN IN BLOOD. (edit) Or should we say "*Written in somebody else's blood!*" There's basically an ongoing battle between engineers who want things to work properly and those wanting to take risks and in most cases take risks that other people will have to pay for if it goes bad. The actual truth is we are now dominated by an economic paradigm where unacceptable risk is now acceptable because as Milton Freidman said "Greed is good." Ask any engineer who wants to do things right and follow standards and they will tell you that 2 questions are fired back - "What's the business case for that?" and "Who's going to pay for that?"
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  6316. HEY MR. Diamandis I have a question for you. If you are so into, as you said in respect of immigrants "I do believe there is a percentage of those individuals who are criminals who should not be in this country. Who we should be looking at removing them out of society." FINE NOT A PROBLEM - I agree that criminals deserve to be removed form society, as in lose their freedoms (as in imprisoned or their movements restricted) for a time prescribed under law. So when are you and other American's going to start holding the super wealthy and politically connected to that same standard? Because right now you have a CONVICTED FELON about to take the oath of office to become President of the United States of America.
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  6317. I'm not quite certain to say about her performance here. As a man I don't know what I can say that wont get me banned from YT.
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  6318.  @anticorncob6  Yeah, we have to thank whatever random chance it was that Dave's gay because otherwise there'd be a chance he could have gotten together with Candace and bred. Just writing that seems wrong and there's no one emoji to express it. 😣🤐😖😨🤮🤢
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  6319. If it wasn't for you guys almost nobody would know this was happening. This is almost one of the most important court cases in the world right now regarding fundamental human rights. Because if Chevron can get this done in America where the Bill of Rights exist they can do this anywhere.
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  6320. Sorry to be blunt, but we can all scream and rant as much as we like. and the YT producers can post as many videos as they like, BUT NOTHING WILL MATTER unless it results in a conviction.
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  6321.  @108hindu  Well that would mean that a lot of these people are godless heathens because they certainly aren't detail orientated. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  6322.  @saamohod  Well we don't now exactly how he died YET. I just watched Peter's vid on Navalny and he mentions is that Navalny wasn't being treated well. I'm certain there'll be many claims, but there'll only be 1 fact everyone agrees on and that's Navalny is dead.
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  6323. And that's exactly why Farron is right. Letting have the special master will take away his options later. Its the old tactic of "let him have the rope to hang himself withI"
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  6324. WHO THE FARK NEEDS 4minutes and 16 Seconds to KNOW the answer. IF they keep going as they are, being corporatist ass holes trying to live in the past - YES!!!!!!
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  6325.  @katherinejones850  Well said.
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  6326. OH WHAT A SURPRISE Hasn't anybody been paying attention to how Elon forces silence upon Tesla employees. Letting Trump and Kanye back has NOTHING to do with free speech its about MONEY.
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  6327.  @jesu3369  NONE of this discussion has anything to do with any gender issue you FARKlNG M0R0N
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  6328. WHEN EVERYTHING in your life is NOT BASED in reality or fact then everything that is real or factual appears as a psy-op. The craziest thing is the Russians were actually trying this to America for decades AND FAILED. It took Americans to do what they loved doing most which is out doing everyone else especially the Russians and did it to themselves. EVERYONE should go and look up the interview ex-KGB office Yuri Bezmenov gave Canadian TV way back in 1984. There's a 13+ minute excerpt that's easy to find here on YouTube. In the first couple of minutes he explains what the KGB called Ideological Subversion or Active Measures. He says "Basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves their families, their community and their country." Of course we know the Russians FAILED because the Soviet system collapsed and America won the Cold War, BUT THEN the Russians didn't have the platform for their Active Measures to be truly effective. They didn't have access to enough of America in the way social media has provided. They thought subverting college kids was the way, when in fact it was the people who didn't go to college were the people they needed to subvert. American has ended up doing TO ITSELF what the Russians failed to do. The real problem is how does anyone fix this mess?
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  6329.  @yvonneplant9434  I never said or claimed Australia was perfect. I really like America and have a lot of time for most Americans. My college friends cold explain the US Constitution so well I have no doubt its one of the greatest achievements in human history. Its why I hate your kind of American as much as I do. You have crapped all over the greatest gift the people of any nation was ever given. I believe in the US Constitution more than you do.
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  6330. Australian here: I'm old enough to remember when Clinton got blown by Monica Lewinski. Newt Gingrich was the House Speake and he sent special council Ken Star to investigate the Clinton's real estate deal called Whitewater. Ken Star had NO AUTHORITY AT ALL to investigate the Lewinski Affair but did it anyway. The SHlTFEST that followed with Clinton's impeachment affected stock markets around the world because nobody knew where it it would end. SO YES it had REAL WORLD EFFECTS that affected the lives of normal people across the globe. Later we found out that Gingrich who not only took a $5 Million bribe from Rupert Murdoch was also having an affair. Every time that Newt has been asked about his affair since that time, he has simply flipped it off that he and his wife had an open marriage and it was nobody's business. So YES America we know about the insane hypocrisy of the Republican Party. We are very, very, very well aware that in their tiny puritanical brains that everything they do is perfect and anything anyone else does is evil.
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  6331. 100% agreement the only bombshell here is Kyle finally realising what most people with brain function realised over a year ago.
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  6332. The GIVEAWAY that this is all nonsense is the fact she starts with that its BEFORE the press conference and they are looking for confirmation of their NARRATIVE. Its NOT just Fox either its EVERYONE across the entire media landscape. Even MR is guilty in that they look for snippets to confirm their narrative. I have recently NOT only unsubscribed from a bunch of YouTube channels but also actively blocking them because I am just tired of EVERY STORY being the latest version of "Them bad. Look at what they just said!" Political and social commentary has hit an all time NEW LOW across the World.
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  6333. Hey David, Start showing some vids on what Warnock actually stands for or including some of it in these vids. Or even better interview him. You keep saying people need to turn out and vote. SO GIVE THEM A REASON.
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  6334.  @MoKingson  What message would it send if they don't? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  6335.  @MoKingson  Agreed - at least on sentiment. But Chuck HAS to do his job.
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  6336. It was arguably the moment the green movement showed they had lots to protest over and not a solution among them. The most important thing the world does is decarbonize. We simply must stop bashing the shit out of the planet. Germany had a choice turn of its older dirtier CO2 emitting coal fired power stations or turn off its nuclear power stations. For sure continuing to use nuclear has its issues and adding to the nuclear waste stockpile only makes that issue worse. But taking the dirtier option that only makes the worst of our collective issues even worse was so selfish and so stupid that nobody should ever listen to those clowns again. Because what sort of a solution is it when we dump one pack of stupid selfish clowns only to replace them with another equally stupid and selfish pack of clowns. The world needs solutions not grandstanding clowns.
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  6337. Tucker and the Lemon both go down on the same day. They can cry themselves to sleep on the pile of cash they have been paid.
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  6338.  @posternutbag4415  I think he actually believes he's a progressive. And he may have once been one. After all the basic meaning of being progressive is that you want society to make progress. BUT here's the rub when people get to his age they want progress to STOP. Old people don't like change. They like things as they are. He may once have been progressive but that is strictly past tense.
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  6339. In any other country Trump & friends would already have faced trial, been found guilty and sentenced. In more than a few countries the ringleaders of January 6th would have been executed.
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  6340. @christopher campbell WTF is anyone meant to think of you when you say something so IDI0TICALLY STUPlD
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  6341.  @perryroberts4353  In December 2020 AFTER LOSING the election Donald Trump ordered the execution of 3 convicted criminals. For over 130 years the accepted practice was to leave that kind of decision to the incoming president. Around the same time Trump pardoned 4 Blackwater employees for the Nisour Square massacre where 17 innocent Iraqi civilians were MURDERED including a 9 year old child. So don't you or any other pro-Trump FK-WIT dare talk to anyone about "due process" you ignorant clown.
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  6342.  @perryroberts4353  Yeah why don't you explain how what Trump did was DUE PROCESS. Like all your kind you have the mouth of an adult connected to the brain of a child.
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  6343.  @perryroberts4353  This is the scammer in chief you believe represents "due process" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhUu35bQQhA
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  6344.  @perryroberts4353  Are you so shitefully STUPlD that you think calling people a commie they are going to want to do anything but treat you like a baseball. FK-OFF
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  6345.  @perryroberts4353  FK-OFF you started the shit-slinging calling me a commie you gutless wonder. As usual with your kind you best effort is to behave like a 5 year old.
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  6346.  @perryroberts4353  Which part of FK-OFF don't you understand? You're ignorant. You're rude. You're presumptive. You call people names and throw abuse and then SQUEAL LIKE A CHILD when they tell you to FK-OFF.
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  6347.  @perryroberts4353  🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 the whole world just heard how your fat orange clown got referred to face: NOT 1 😡 NOT 2 😡😡 NOT 3 😡😡😡 BUT 4 CRIMINAL CHARGES 🤬🤬🤬🤬 Its a shame that running scams on his supporters wasn't also included but then clowns who send him money get what they deserve.
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  6348.  @perryroberts4353  There GOP on that committee DlCK-HEAD. Or are you trying to prove you're an lGN0RANT DlCK-HEAD as well
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  6349.  @perryroberts4353  wah 😫wah😫 wah😫 from a child. TRUMP LOST DEAL WITH IT TRUMP LIES GET OVER IT MOST OF ALL - GROW UP
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  6350.  @perryroberts4353  I haven't deleted a single comment DlCK HEAD If you had a brain you'd know YouTube hides comments. I can't see half of yours either, but you don't see me crying about it.
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  6351.  @perryroberts4353  Yeah sure who's a triggered 😹😹now.😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫
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  6352.  @perryroberts4353  Oh fark little boy I'm glad to help out making such a sad sack of crap have at least 1 laugh this week. Now run along to mommy and you can have a high as well.
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  6353.  @perryroberts4353  Hey Gamma boy is that the best you've got? Or do I have that wrong and you're a Delta??
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  6354.  @perryroberts4353  Since you're so erudite and know some Greek try this μαλάκα
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  6355.  @perryroberts4353  alpha beta gamma delta epsilon zeta eta theta iota kappa lamda mu nu xi omicron pi rho sigma tau phi chi psi omega Sorry μαλάκα but I do know the Greek alphabet. As well as some basic Greek slang. As well as the basic claims of being an alpha male. AND μαλάκα YOU ARE NO ALPHA Maybe you're a lamda. That's 'L' for L0SER. Although you could be an itoa Cos that's an "i" for lDl0T
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  6356.  @perryroberts4353  Well kitty kat, you sound like the bend over and take it expert so maybe you should tell us all about it. Or since you claim to be the big bad alpha maybe we should we ask your boyfriend how powerful you AREN'T. 😹😹😹😹😹😹
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  6357. What should you do when you see a lawyer limping down the street? Reload, take aim, breath and remember the most important thing squeeze the trigger, don't jerk at it.
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  6358. What do you call a plane load of insurance lawyers crashing into a building full of banking lawyers? A Bonus Score.
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  6359.  Dan Quayles ITS SPELT POTATOE!  A bus load of lawyers goes over a cliff - WHAT'S the tragedy? The driver was a good an decent person trying to support his family and gets his kids through college working an extra job.
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  6360.  Dan Quayles ITS SPELT POTATOE!  Last week a lawyer was bitten by a poisonous snake. Veterinarians are reporting that the snake is expected to make a full recovery.
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  6361.  Dan Quayles ITS SPELT POTATOE!  What should you do when you see a lawyer limping down the street. Reload, take better aim, b...r...e...a...t...h and STOP wasting bullets.
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  6362.  Dan Quayles ITS SPELT POTATOE!  What's the difference between zombies and lawyers. First: One's an apocalypse from our worst nightmares. The other one is already here. Second: There are clear and concise ways way to get rid of zombies - bullet, spear, axe, machete, sword,........ Third: One of them bites you in the NECK before turning you into a mindless husk. The other one of them bites you in the WALLET before turning you into a mindless husk.
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  6363. Australian here - it boggles the World that Trump was not in handcuffs after January 6th. IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY Trump and his goons would have been in jail and in about 1/2 the World they would have been tried and executed. Do you think the Saudis, Iranians, Chinese, North Koreans or dozens of other countries would have shown Trump and his goons any mercy? And so you all know - this really does affect the World. No matter whether anyone likes or dislikes America the simple fact is the US Dollar ($US) is still the Worlds Reserve Currency and that is not changing no matter what the BRICS does or doesn't do. So all of the deals that happen between a country like Australia and China, South Korea or Japan for iron ore are all done in $US or the currency exchanges are backed by $US. The same goes for wheat, barley, cars, TVs, iPhones and everything else. Anyone who thinks that the international trade system can just be re-jigged or re-engineered obviously hasn't considered how it works. The one force that can suddenly change things is the Whitehouse gorilla. That billionaire's pet the American people select is generally calm and rational, but every so often doesn't get its banana and goes nuts. America needs to realise it might be your pet gorilla in the Whitehouse but we have to deal with the consequences of which gorilla you pick.
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  6364.  PsychNurseExplains  That makes Musk no different than a lot of other people with too much money and ZERO accountability.
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  6365.  @Inisglas  Go have a good listen to the Greens anywhere in the World and despite the fact their motives to have a better planet are honorable the fact is they are irrelevant on almost every other issue. Sorry but the Greens need to be a lot more sensible and practical before they get anywhere.
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  6366. Very good way to remind everyone of a simple basic truth. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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  6367. You mean that ally of Russia???
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  6368. Yeah but on that basic we should ban Twitter, Tik Tok and the rest of social media along with sterilizing anyone who claims to be a social media influencer so that their kind can just die out. In fact we could almost extend that to every person on the planet who did "Media Studies" or "Journalism" as a major. After all, they are mostly (but not all) a bunch of self centered "look at me" attention seeking wannabe narcissistic clowns who think their opinions outweigh any experience, training or qualifications anyone else has.
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  6369. AUSTRALIAN HERE: I am not going to apologise for this cretin. He's simply reiterating in a very blunt way the same garbage that Larry Summers said to Jon Stewart recently about needing to sack lots of workers. Its also the same sentiment the new head of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Michele Bullock said on her first day in the job. For those who don't know the RBA is Australia's equivalent of the Federal Reserve in America. Its our Central bank and Michele Bullock's position is very similar to Janet Yellen's which is also a job Larry Summers held. Economically this is the neoliberal pro-privatisation brigade of economists trying to hide the fact that their policies of off-shoring and global supply chains with NO back-up capacity that's caused the inflation. Current inflation has been caused by interruptions to fragile supply chains coupled with ruthless opportunistic profiteering. Its had nothing to do with working class wages or employment rates and that is being found out EVERWHERE not just America or Australia. FYI - I am an engineer who used to work in manufacturing so I'm very familiar with HOW supply chains actually FUNCTION and OPERATE. I can state very clearly that economists haven't any idea about how to manufacture or build a damn thing other than the bank balances of the top 10% of society.
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  6370. The short form he found a way to make stupidity profitable. But lets face it, even at that he's an amateur compared to people like Alex Jones.
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  6371. @Curtis McFeron I don't know why he keeps at it. The hole he's in just keeps getting deeper. At what point does he realise it?
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  6372. @Curtis McFeron You got there in the end. The real plague infecting America are the career politicians and all the other career people milking American politics of Rubin is just one. That's not to say all politicians or any of the rest are in it just for the money. But those that are make them all them all look bad.
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  6373. EVERYONE: Go and look up "Convention on the Rights of the Child" on Wikipedia There is a UN Convention (like the Geneva convention on War) regarding exploitation of children. Scroll down to the part on the United States.
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  6374. Its NOT JUST Russia all of our governments are doing this sort of crap and if its not our governments its other players in all our politics. Don't forget the actual interference campaign via Facebook in the British Brexit vote that involved Cambridge Analytica was FUNDED by American billionaire Robert Mercer. Go ask the British people who are trying to deal with the disaster that Brexit has become what they think about that?
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  6375. Its because my AI Bot has a dependent copy that it needs to put through software college!
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  6376. The point isn't that they have been around for a while its how easy anyone can convert a Glock into a fully auto mini machine gun. Imagine when the next school shooting includes one of these.
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  6377.  @BeeBait  Go back and have a look at the discussions and you've basically said what I have been saying. There's nothing new except how easy it now is for anyone to set up a shop and then accurately make things of almost any type. As an engineer I see the 3-D printers as less of a problem AT THE MOMENT compared to the CNC machining because its the CNC that allows for accurately made parts and these clearly need accuracy. But in future when 3-D metallic printing becomes more prolific then producing rough parts ready for machining becomes very easy, That reduces machining time making manufacturing faster. So instead of anyone being able to make these by the dozen they can make them by the 100s.
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  6378. You need to finally accept these people DON'T CARE. Truth, honesty, fact, logic, reason are their sworn enemies. These people consider teaching children about the world they live in to be immoral and deviant behaviour. We are right on the boundary of World War 3 and what most people don't realise its not going to be between nations its going to be between tribes within nations. We have this ugly combination of ignorance, propaganda and relentless economic pressure which is just so easy to weaponize as trump showed. Just this last week there have been riots break out in Sri Lanka and Peru. Its only a matter of time before it really breaks bad somewhere like a major nation. China, India and a few others are right on the edge of food production if they have any major crop failures it will be chaos.
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  6379. As soon as one of these pro-business libertarian clowns explains why the rest of the human race had to bail out the billionaires in 2008 I might listen to what they have to say. Libertarian economics can be simply summed up: "I want what I want and you can go f--k yourself"
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  6380.  @earlviney5212  One of the things that America did NOT inherit from their British cousins was the idea of the "debtors prison" where they basically threw you in jail for your debts. Prof. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) mentioned that there used to be a saying: "Bail, fail go to jail!" Which basically meant that if you failed after being bailed out people just tossed you in jail. Mark says that's been replaced with" "Bail, Bail nobody goes to jail." You really have to screw up and do a real crime to go to jail like Elizabeth Holmes did.
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  6381. Sorry to debunk this but it was covered as a BS story among the British Tabloids on ABC Australia's media watch program. Putin has displayed most of these mannerisms (like tapping his foot) all through his career and some have speculated on them in the past and been found WRONG. Its here starting at 14:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_DK7Pi7buI
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  6382. On one hand you are absolutely right - its a buzz word. On the other there are some very, very dangerous clowns who think they can actually make it work. All this will ever take to go off the rails are things like: - Somebody typing in a number and misplacing the decimal point. - A sensor that malfunctions (as per the Boeing Max-8). - Somebody (and this is the one that truly scares me) changing the parameters of engagement, willfully and deliberately to suit what they want and without considering the consequences.
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  6383. We have had cases not to dissimilar to this in Australia where companies start paying an external consultancy to assist them. In one of the most famous cases a real POS named Christopher Skase had his company paying a consultancy $10 million a month and it turned out he owned the consultancy. When that became known he fled to Spain where there's no extradition. The 10s of millions he fleeced Quintex of has never been recovered.
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  6384. Actually this is a pathetically crap because all it does is say Herschel Walker is a bad candidate. 1) It will not deter anyone who is already going to vote for him. 2) It does not give a single reason for anyone to get out of bed vote for Warnock. This is something that the Democrats are utterly hopeless at understanding and the Republicans do understand. When a GOP clown shoots his gun and says he'll protect your gun rights. It does not matter how ridiculous it is because he is telling his base that he will get them something they want. They wont care about the details or anything else. Warnock needs to tell people "This ****** that you want. I want to go to Washington and get it for you!" Forget what ****** is just make it something people want. Its becomes very simple. If you want ***** then get out of bed, get down here, vote and send me back to Washington to get it.
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  6385. Oh no they, like everyone else, put up with lots of BS. Its just that they, like everyone else, have A LIMIT, while America has no BS limit. This is why the rest of the world is getting tired of American Politics. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. I love America, the people and your culture. And by culture I mean things like college sport. BUT DAMN American politics has just gone totally of the rails and if you want to point out the Rupert Murdoch has played a part in that SURE GO AHEAD. Just remember we tried to warn you about what he was like. We tried warning the Brits when he first went there and they didn't listen either. So be aware of this - Lachlan Murdoch his son who has just taken over IS WORSE. He's more ideologically driven than Rupert but he's not as clever as his father either. The giant mistake we all made with Rupert was just how intelligent he is. We all understood his narcissism and ruthlessness but failed to understand his intelligence. Its why he's lasted this long. He just appointed former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to the Fox Board. Abbott is 100% a Rupert stooge and a utter piece of crap. He only became Australian PM because of Rupert's influence. So you should EXPECT Fox to get worse NOT better with Lachlan in control.
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  6386. That's probably as good of an explanation as anything. Like a few other politicians I can't see how she could be that stupid to believe this nonsense. A quick look at her bio says she's got a college degree and made it to the rank of Lieutenant colonel which at the very least implies she has a functioning brain. Plus there's the fact she can speak coherent sentences unlike the Lauren Boebert brigade. So this has to be plain simple political shitfuckery.
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  6387. David can spout all the statistics he likes about this, but the fact is the GOP knows how to operate with the system that exists. Despite having a smaller base they consistently get that base out to vote. Even when they aren't in power they find ways to get what they want. The Dems are always whining about how its too hard to pass things. Obama had a supermajority and couldn't get universal health care passed. I love Jeff Daniels description of the Dems in his famous "newsroom" college debate when he told the liberal why they aren't liked - they lose and nobody likes losers. The Dems are like a football team that has the best QB, RB, O-Line, D-line etc and still can't win enough games to make the play-offs, because they have a crap playbook and no game tactics.
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  6388. What Parade - the parade of hearses taking bodies to the mass graves? Or is this busting your Spring Break or Mardi Gras vibe. This time last year young people were KNOWN to be great carriers of COVID. They were more likely to show NO SIGNS they had it so people ignored they could be spreading it. So packing a couple of million of them from all over America into nightclubs and parties for a week and then scattering them across the country WASN'T EFFING SMART. So, what just happened in Florida A-G-A-I-N right as this new MORE DANGEROUS variant is spreading? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️ I've watched Michael Osterholm from the start and he's often said he hopes he's wrong. Unfortunately he's usually right. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  6389. YEAH - LOOK HOW MANY POLLS HAVE BEEN WRONG IN THE LAST 5-10 YEARS And dramatically wrong.
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  6390. AUSTRALIAN HERE: This Political Culture War fighting for the sake of fighting and making as much noise as possible is not simply an American problem. It might be more prominent in America but we all have some version of this garbage. No matter what ideology a party has they all have these people who's job is to waste other people's time by making as noise and creating as much chaos as possible. Its more prevalent on the Right but the Left do it as well. How I know about this is because one of my best friends was involved in student politics at University in Australia. I actually went to college in America (late 80s). I was there during the 87 campaign season which was bizarre. One time when discussing the hopelessness of politics with this friend he told me I had know idea how bad it actually was. After hearing a number of horror stories including how those on hos own side tried to set him up. I asked WHY student politics so vicious and WHY the parties supported it? He said the parties used it as a proving ground. He said they wanted to know if people could "hack it" if they made it into parliament (congress). The actual party systems themselves are set up and operate like Districts 1 & 2 from the Hunger Games. They are internally ruthless so that they produce winners or at least potential winners. The actual capability of party candidates has NOTHING to do with their ability to do anything of value to any society. They have to first be electable and secondly be able to stay elected. if that means they are a hardcore ruthless berserker type culture warriors then so be it. What's perfect about such people is they are perfect for the billionaire class. They give the billionaires what they want while keeping everyone else distracted.
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  6391. BULLSHlT - CLlCKBAIT title but thankfully they note in the details that Larry Sinclair is a convicted felon. According to Politico "Public records and court filings reveal that he has a 27-year criminal record, with a specialty in crimes involving deceit. The record includes forgery charges in two states, one of which drew Sinclair a 16-year jail sentence. The Pueblo County, Colo., Sheriff’s Office also has an outstanding warrant for Sinclair’s arrest for forging an acquaintance’s signature and stealing her tax refunds."
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  6392.  @AleTheLittle  well said
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  6393. Agreed its a fabulous book except for one thing. They both agreed that we can't tax the rich, which I think its absurd. I'd really like to get Mark and Eric in an interview and get down to the nitty gritty of "WHY NOT?"
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  6394. Jeff Daniels in the famous "Newsroom" debate -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIpKfw17-yY
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  6395.  @segalliongaming8925  Sorry but countries like Australia have placed skills requirements on immigration from developing nations. That's been copied by many countries. Sorry mate but I am in engineering and I see it all the time. There is a cancer that came out of economic policies in the 1990s that has had terrible consequences for the engineering industries AND its lead to us stripping those few skilled people from countries that can't lose them. PLUS a major reason why those people leave their countries is because of the economic and political crap we have dumped on them.
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  6396.  @Junkman  In other words he bullshitting just as t-foot describes.
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  6397.  @scottthewaterwarrior  Milton Friedman - "There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud." The problem is most people hear nothing after the word "increase it profits". But even then Friedman is utterly FOS because its mindless to think that any business can keep growing for ever. We live in a finite world. Friedman was one of history's most overrated clowns and look at the mess we now have.
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  6398. INCORRECT - Trumps taking America forward into a dystopian catastrophe that will just look like he's time warped America back into the Medieval Era.
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  6399. Tomi Lahren proving yet again that if there's a functioning brain-cell anywhere in that head of hers then its among the loneliest braincells on the planet. Her words "The biggest thing that the Trump campaign can do is stop talking about what her race is stop talking about she's Indian or black. Nobody cares if she's Indian black or a space Martian talk about her radical agenda" WHAT radical agenda???? Even when that one brain cell that functions emerges and connects to her mouth then moments later the rest of her brain catches up. WTF is this radical agenda these people keep yammering on about?
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  6400. GO and look at a report Bernie Sanders commissioned the Congressional Budget Office to produce on Family Wealth. I covers 1989-2019. Just look at the first graph and you'll have an accurate assessment of the Entire Developed World because we all followed the brilliance of Milton Freidman and the Chicago School Economists which was called Reaganomics in America and Thatcherism in Britain. Here in Australia we called it Economic Rationalism. Most of the World no calls it neoliberalism and its fundamentally based on "Governments are hopeless and therefore should do as little as possible while free markets can solve every problem society has." The problem is IT NEVER WORKED and that's what that CBO report shows. The first graph shows how the Top 10% have gained and gained especially after the 2008 GFC that they caused and were bailed out of while the rest of us paid for those bailouts. The Middle 40% eventually recovered and even got ahead by 2019. HOWEVER: Note how the Bottom 50% lost almost 1/2 of their wealth in the GFC and that by 2019 had STILL NOT RECOVERED. In 2007 they were worth US$2.7 Trillion and by 2019 were only worth $2.3 Trillion. To put perspective on that. During Obamas last 3 years in office (2013-2016) the Top 10% of America gained US$18.3 Trillion in family wealth. YES the Top 10% of America by 2019 roughly 10 years AFTER the GFC they caused were worth over US$80 Trillion which was over US$20 Trillion more than they were worth BEFORE the GFC. So when Trump rocked up saying America sucked and I want to Make America Great Again 50% of the population (around 165 million people) KNEW EXACTLY what he was talking about while the political establishment were in denial as they still are. Trump won again last year for the same reason he won in 2016. He just tapped into the frustration people have with the political establishment.
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  6401.  @shewolf2584  Yeah I was in Texas in 87 on a road trip with a college mate and in one conversation I referred to everyone as Yanks because that was how Australians saw all Americans. This one guy said (quite indignantly) "I'm no Yank. I'm a confederate!" A little while later I asked about his statement when someone referred to him as a "good ol' boy" (even though he was about 19 or 20). When I asked if they still took that seriously everyone in the group (in unison) emphatically said "YES!" One of the girls then asked me if I understood (which I obviously didn't) and she then explained to me how CERTAIN southerners saw things. So in a way none of this surprises me but what does is how prominent and how aggressive they are now coupled with how nobody else seems to know how to deal with it.
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  6402.  @shewolf2584  Its called American Exceptionalism. It basically comes from White Christian Nationalism although I would NOT call the majority of Americans White Christian Nationalists. AND YES it pisses off the rest of the planet. When Americans are at their best and I have seen them at their best they do amazing things like the Apollo program which has benefitted the entire planet from the technologies that were spun out of it. I maintain that America doesn't lack for good leaders in their society. I got to personally see the effect a person like Walter Payton had on people of every racial type. He's best of America in a single person I have seen in my life. BUT politically America has next to zero leadership. Here's proof: There's a report that came out September 2022 from the Congressional Budget Office on Family Wealth 1979-2019. Almost nobody has spoken about it because the story it tells is horrendous. 50% of America have not only gone nowhere for the last 30+ years but they LOST 50% of their combined wealth in the 2008 GFC and have still NOT recovered. Meanwhile the Top 10% who caused the GFC and got bailed out ($4 Trillion by Bush and another $4 Trillion by Obama) have made an estimated $30 Trillion since the GFC. That's 15 times the combined wealth of the bottom 50%. That's 165 million people who got smashed and the people who smashed them not only got bailed out BUT HAVE NOT PAID the money back and now pay EVEN LOWER taxes due to their buddy in crime Donald Trump. A real leader would have said NO and taxed the crap out of the top 10% and also charged interest for that $8 Trillion.
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  6403. Thank you for being honest about the techno-hype that is AI. I'm an aerospace engineer who works in control systems, automation and robotics. I'm so over the clowns in media who just take whatever PR they are handed and just open their mouths spew crap. When I did my degree I had to take humanities classes so that I became a "well rounded person." How come NOBODY doing an arts degree has to do even the most basic class in engineering so that they know what we do, what sorts of technicians we need to get it done, and what's science fiction and what's real?
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  6404. NOTICE what he says at 8:24 (from the transcript) "if I have to create stories so that the American Media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people then that's what I'm going to do" That's an outright admission he's making stuff up to get attention.
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  6405. I recommend everyone go have a look at TCs Wikipedia page and check his education. There is no way someone can get those sorts of academic achievements and wind up at this stage NOT KNOWING exactly what LIES he's telling and exactly what responses he looking for. You can't get into Harvard Law without serious brains and he then finished in the top 10%. If anything that should infuriate people even more because HE HAS NO EXCUSE for what he does.
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  6406. @justletmepostthis Never heard of him before, but a quick google search was spooky. As for Ted Cruz. Do you know where his wife works? This will give added perspective to that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-dVnHrmPA0
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  6407.  @robertkb64  great answers. I think what your saying is so long as they build it compatible with current facilities it wont be a problem. Which is sort the flip side of my point. If they don't make it compatible it will be a problem. From a flying perspective the issue will be flight stability and control response. Will they learn from the Max-8?
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  6408.  @robertkb64  :)
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  6409.  @JFrazer4303  I agree with everything you say except using that one crash example of a flying wing crash. The problem is there's rarely ever any 2 crashes that are the same with aircraft. Even when they are close like the Max-8 crashes there'll still be differences. If you only use 1 example its hard to conclude anything. But then how many examples of flying wing crashes are there? The only 1 I know off hand is the fatal crash of the restored Northrop N-9MB in 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Northrop_N-9M_crash
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  6410. This is just another example of the insane hypocrisy and shitfuckery of modern politics. If one side does anything the other side screams and rants about how wrong it is until they do the same thing and tell everyone its fine, fair, and justified. How many times have we heard people screaming about socialism or fascism and its obvious they have no idea what either of those 2 words mean?
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  6411. Hey he's just trying to position himself buddy up to Trump and Putin in future.
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  6412. Yeah 7:38 "the entire week was basically just a CIRCLE JERK between Bloomberg journalists and banking analysts trying to make sure they were adequately hedged against tighter monetary policy" (my highlights & bold) Well that's some HONEST reporting.
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  6413. Great sentiment but its not going to happen of Biden skimps out and cuts the $2000 Stimulus checks down to $1400 or $1200. They campaigned on that to win the Georgia run-off. If they skimp it will be telling the American people "thanks for the votes, now F--K Off and let our big money supporters screw you AGAIN." That's exactly the crap that got Trump elected in the first place.
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  6414. YES I KNOW Bowen needs to wake up BUT GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  6415.  @watamatafoyu  Valid point - but only the dumb ones do that. Elizabeth Holmes is next in line and she might be safer in prison. Its reported she cost Betsy De Voss $100million and Betsy's Brother is Eric Prince the owner of Blackwater. I don't think he's a person anyone would to be the target of.
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  6416.  @lTheShieldl  I'd herd the gun was his sisters boyfriends. I checked the account on Wikipedia and your right the gun was bought in Wisconsin by another person (Dominic Black) for Kyle Rittenhouse because Rittenhouse was too young. In any other jurisdiction on the planet that's an offense. Its like buying alcohol for minors. Anyway its looked at he should not have had that gun, should not have been playing GI Joe, 2 innocent people should still be alive and Kyle Rittenhouse should be in jail.
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  6417.  @Ridingrules10000  BASIC FACTS A 17 year old clown with a gun killed 2 people and an idiotic system said yeah THAT'S OK. Another 18 year old with the same model of gun just killed 19 children and 2 teachers and according to the same idiotic system THAT'S OK.
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  6418. Forget being the GOP candidate this clown is speaking dangerous insanity. This clown has simply looked at a bunch of talking points and thought up some alternative ideas and just spouted nonsense off the top of his head.
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  6419. There's some great points being made but there's also some serious over-hyped BULLSHlT as well. Slavery was being practiced for 1,000s of years before Capitalism was a thing. Emma's a smart girl but damn sometimes she gets her wires crossed. I'm reading Adam Smiths "Wealth of Nations" right now. Yeah there's some dumb backward stuff but there's no mention of slavery. He talks a lot about labor, skilled labor and the value of labor. If you go and listen to Richard Wolff on Marx then you'll find Smith and Marx were contemporaries with differing views on the value of labour. They were both against the system that was in place BEFORE capitalism - a system called Mercantilism and it wasn't based on labor or slavery it was based on trade, but it did go hand with slavery and oppression. Go read up on the British East India Company. There's a great lecture by Mariana Mazzucato titled "Redefining Economic Value" (here on YT) About 7 minutes in she has a slide and goes through the different economic ideologies of the last few centuries and how they focused on different ways to create value. Between the Mercantilists and Classical Capitalists there was a short era called the Physiocrats who were pre-industrial revolution and based value creation around agriculture. They absolutely relied on slavery because tractors and combine harvesters didn't yet exist. They operated just as kings and emperors had going all the way back to the dawn of civilisation in Ancient Egypt. If you had large areas to farm you needed lots of slaves to farm it. That's why America had slavery they needed them to pick all that cotton and then pick out the cotton seed.
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  6420. Do you know how to explain the difference between liberals and libertarians? Both speak about themselves as the TRUE champions of liberty, but: Libertarians want to the total and absolute liberty to place whatever rules they want on other people so they can control them. While Liberals want to endlessly make new rules claiming its to stop other people putting rules on other people so they can control them. There's more to the details, but both are addicted to putting rules on others as they claim to be the guardians, saviours and defenders of liberty. If Liberals and Libertarians would both kindly STFU or just simply FK-OFF then humanity probably has a reasonable chance of surviving, but since both Liberals and Libertarians are so busy defending humanity's liberty as the self professed guardians of liberty, saviours of liberty and defenders of liberty we're pretty much FKD because we haven't the liberty to get anything done that actually needs getting done.
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  6421. INVESTIGATIONS MEAN NOTHING UNLESS INDICTIMETS COME FROM THEM AND CONVICTIONS COME FROM THOSE INDICTMENTS
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  6422. I'm an engineer look for my refute of Gerrard on this page.
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  6423.  @Fetidaf  WTF are you trying to say? Go read what you wrote and see if it makes sense. WTF does "less than 5% less" mean?
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  6424.  @Fetidaf  Where the fark are you pulling this stuff from? Cos if your using Elon Musk data then out of luck because not even people who work for Elon Musk believe Elon Musk's data. Gwynne Shotwell (CEO at SpaceX) refers to things like "Elon Time" whenever he says something will get done by a certain date.
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  6425.  @Fetidaf  I all agree with that except for the general maintenance. Outside of the engine & drivetrain there's not difference between electric, diesel, gas, hydrogen, LPG there's no difference between vehicle types. That's one of the bullshit things regarding the push to electric vehicles. The cost of chassis, wheels, suspension, BRAKES, windscreens, door, lights,.. etc wont change. The Greenies also don't take into consideration the CO2 emissions regarding all those raw materials in a car or the production of components from those raw materials. And before you ask I used to build automated manufacturing cells for car parts in the supply chain. If we really want to go electrical then the main push has to be in CONVERTING existing vehicles NOT replacing them. We also need to be less concerned with trucks, power walls and mega batteries because we just don't have enough Lithium supply to do it all. We need to be looking at other batter technologies for stationary applications. Things like the Sadoway battery or the other batteries that don't use Lithium. In heavy vehicles like trucks and the giant dump trucks & diggers used in mining there's work underway in just changing the fuel over to hydrogen. Fortescue Metals in Australia is already testing that on dump trucks. Rolls Royce can supply stationary generators based based on existing diesel engines that use hydrogen as their fuel. It probably wont work for boats and ships because of the range they need. But I can see nuclear reactors taking over for the shipping industry.
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  6426.  @Fetidaf  I don't why you think that the energy offset for a truck is a few 1000 miles. Its little understood outside the manufacturing industries but in general your average family car consumes more energy and creates more pollution being made than it does in 20-25 years of normal driving. I'll be honest the first time I heard that I called BS and the person telling me was actually a mechanic. He told me to FK-OFF and go look at how much goes into just making the raw steel, aluminum, plastic and glass. Its why I say if the Greenies knew their stuff they campaign against new cars. People forget that the car industry is the biggest manufacturing industry in the world by raw materials and energy, because its doesn't just include the cars it includes all the stuff needed to make the cars. There's entire industries like industrial robots that primarily exist for car manufacturing. I know I used to program them. Tesla's are full of metals that aren't found as much in other cars. There's a lot more copper and copper is incredibly energy intensive to refine it to where you can use it the way its used in a Tesla. And before you ask, I have spent most of the last 20 years on mine sites. I have worked in the iron, ore, cocking coal, copper, aluminum, uranium and gold industries to name a few. One of the first mines I worked on was a copper mine that produced 99.999% pure copper. After getting it out of the ore with sulphuric acid they eventually got it into a near pure copper solution from which they electroplated it onto stainless steel sheets. That electroplating system used a lot of power. Copper will be the next big issue in the energy transition. Like Lithium we don't produce enough. Its why people strip it out of old houses, factories and anywhere else they can.
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  6427. I'm Australian and before that shit he pulled at the UN he had a decent reputation from the first gulf war. Maybe not perfect, but Gulf War 1 was over and done in a month and then everyone was out. Instead of it becoming Vietnam 2.0 the US and its allies were out. Saddam had his ass kicked, Kuwait was back in the hands of Kuwait and no one was bogged down in some endless disaster. So by about 2003 EVERYBODY WANTED TO KNOW how Gulf War 2 had become the disaster it was. Everyone wanted to know how the same people who did Gulf War 1 screwed up so badly with Gulf War 2. America's own PBS delivered and in 2004 gave the world the documentary "Rumsfeld's War." I first saw it in Australia in either 2005 or 2006 when it was televised on free to air by SBS Australian one of our 2 public broadcasters. Here it is on YT -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPEWIDBrKyM So yeah a lot of people KNOW and have KNOWN for around 16 years, (I have known for at least 14years) that: - Powell LIED to the UN and knew he was lying. - Powell told Bush in a private dinner NOT to go into Iraq and that Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others were wrong. - Powell, Shinseki and others were shut out of the planning by Wolfowitz on Rumsfeld's direction. Before any of you tell me (an Australian) to F--K off let me tell you something. The Australian Prime Minister at the time John Howard is/was a lawyer, which means he knew the basics of International Law and that its a crime to invade a country that has NOT committed an act or acts of war against you or your allies. The invasion of Afghanistan was legal as the Taliban Government by supporting Osama Bin Laden had attacked Australia's ally on 9/11. But Iraq was NOT legal and our PM knew it wasn't legal and we helped destroy that country and and played our part in the deaths over over 100,000 innocent civilians including the 14 killed at Nisour Square by the Blackwater 4 that Trump just pardoned. So before we all go condemning Colin Powell for his part in the Iraq clusterf--k, just know that a lot of other people were involved and very few have ever been held accountable.
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  6428. To America: This behavior of this SCOTUS no longer just involves America. Absolutely this is way more important to you that anyone else, but for every country that trades with America and especially any country with security arrangements with America this SCOTUS is of serious importance. If any American company gets into an issue for activities outside America they drag the case back to America. Go and look up the case with Steven Donziger and Chevron. That case had nothing to do with America or American courts. Yet it was dragged back to the American Courts where Chevron had everything in their favor. As for security who knows how far this court will go in future. Today they are making SOCIO-POLITiCAL decisions for 328 million people who did NOT vote them into office. What decisions will they make in future that might have grave security implications. The 45th President has been found (in breach of American laws) in possession of classified materials. What if this court makes some ridiculous decision regarding that? What are other countries meant to do if future Presidents just do as they please with classified materials and there's no recourse? FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. A bunch of my friends were pre-law and we ended up discussing the constitution a lot. I can barely believe what's happening with SCOTUS. This is the sort of stuff they told me could never happen. The system of "Checks & Balances" was rock solid. I don't think anyone ever considered that a pack of billionaires along with a few insanely corrupt Senators could smash that system, but they have. SCOTUS is a massive issue but if you don't FIX THE SENATE and get rid of the cancer that's there it won't matter.
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  6429. This kind of stuff only ends one way -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8
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  6430. FOR ANYONE wanting to see an amazing comment on the subject of Catholics influence in SCOTUS there's a lecture by a Notre Dame political science professor Patrick Deneen at The Tocqueville Center April 2024. Its titled "April 16, 2024: Part 1 - Catholic Political Thought in America" The actual comment is NOT by Patrick Deneen but by the person introducing the lecture. About 2 minutes into the video he points out that 6 or 7 of the current 9 SCOTUS judges are Catholic or culturally Catholic and then someone in the audience points out that he'd forgotten another of the 9. The lecture itself was about the different groups within American Catholicism, which was mildly interesting because I sort of wondered how many actual Catholics are aware of the influence being peddled by Leonard Leo who's Opus Dei and who's got the $1.6 Billion from Barre Seid to push people onto SCOTUS. The answer is most Catholics have no idea that a branch of Catholicism has this incredible power. Following that lecture there was this panel discussion and it got weird and quickly.
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  6431. I bet there are girls from trailer parks across America going "Sure I live in a trailer park and sure we gots our issues but at least we ain't MTG Trash. That b*tch got some SERIOUS issues."
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  6432. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  6433. I'd agree. I'm ready to start screaming at these people to show their evidence or shut up. This whole "we don't know for certain mantra" that came out of the conspiracy movement needs to be put down, with "show your evidence or shut up." The world has problems and nobody can get on and do anything because these people endlessly distract and misdirect. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked a while back about about things like flat earth and moon hoaxes and he had a great reply that went like. "When you give 50% air time to opposing views its nonsense when 99% are on one side because it means you are giving equal credibility to 1% versus the 99%. Its even more ridiculous when the 1% has nothing evidentiary to back any of their claims. As a clarification to that people like Galileo, Kepler and Copernicus went against the 99%, but they had gone out and collected EVIDENCE and could DEMONSTRATE their claims."
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  6434. UNLESS YOU CAN PROVE IN A COUR OF LAW 1) That Hunter Biden lobbied on behalf of someone and he wasn't registered with the DOJ under the FARA Act as a lobbyist which is what Paul Manafort got caught doing; OR 2) That MONEY that went from someone to Hunter Biden and then onto someone in the US Government to get something done. THEN YOU HAVE NOTHING. Making phone calls and putting your dad (the VPOTUS) on speaker phone to make yourself look important is sleazy and grandstanding BUT ITS NOT A CRIME. Cheating on you taxes is a crime and having a gun when you aren't supposed to are both crimes AND a court has made a decision on those matters. If you don't agree with that decision then like anyone else you are free to APPEAL that decision.
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  6435. Scott Galloway does this great podcast with Jessica Tarlov called "Raging moderates" Jessica reiterated this incredible remark by a Trump voter, that went "Sure we know Trump says crazy things, but crazy doesn't look down on me." Part of Jessica's point was the Elitist Self Righteous Clinbamas and their "those people are deplorable" rhetoric had completely backfired LIKE IT DID IN 2016. Think about the reaction and how black men ended up voting to Obama chiding those African American men with his "if you don't vote for Kamala then you're not a man" comments.
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  6436.  @leynan-ev6rz  I absolutely agree. Trump has nothing but scorn for the people who vote for him. They just don't get that he doesn't care BUT HERE'S THE CRUX. How completely hopeless were the Dum-o-crats that even after Trumps mind blowing failure against Harris in the debate that they could not beat the stupidity of "they're eating cats and dogs!" Seriously how bad do you have to be to fail from that position. Seriously that's like being 25pts up and letting a team score 3 TDs with 2pt conversions and then giving a safety in the final seconds. I'm actually Australian but went to college in America. I love the place and the people and the culture especially college sport. BUT DAMN IT between the Dems and GOP I don't know who to hate more. They are both so pathetic. They don't care about the American people and they care even less about the rest of the world AND NOW WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THEIR FAILURE. We have to deal with the trade issues and the security issues of this SHlTFEST. SERIOUSLY HOW TF do you think we are meant to deal with security issues with Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard running the show?
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  6437. All of the people who leave any of Rupert Murdoch's media companies tend to do worse because there's nobody protecting them. Bill O'Reilly and Megan Kelly are 2 examples that possibly show where Tucker's headed. Megan has her podcast and tries to stay relevant. She has 1.4 million subscribers here on YT and looks good against the Majority Report's 1.3 million but not so good against David Pakman's 1.88 million. TYT has 5.5 million. So she's gone from the highs of the money and ratings at Fox to a middle of the pack podcast. Who even knows what O'Reilly does these days?
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  6438. Your not wrong on that and their criticisms of Western Politics and Economics is justified, *but I am yet to hear either of them offer an explanation of what the world is meant to do about China. Here's 3 things I have seen them both avoid any and all discussion on. 1) The Solomon Islands: I'm Australian and we have a genuine threat on our doorstop with China corrupting the Solomon Islands with a slush fund for the Solomon politicians. Its totally corrupted their country and threatened the stability of a fragile nation that's been troubled with tribal conflict for decades. 2) The South China Sea: Not even the international courts of arbitration have been able to prevent China or get them to back down on their claims in the South China Sea. Go look at where the Spratly Islands actually are they are just of the coast of the Philippines and they are closed to Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam. They are no where near China or Chinese territory. they just happen to be in the Southern most part of the South China Sea. Its a ridiculous claim that threatens the Asian trade routes to Europe. 3) The Genocidal policy of enforced labor and re-education camps for the Uyghurs of Western China.
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  6439.  @tekannon7803  I really do get where you are coming from but the reality is Australia will never have that the ability to take out retribution on anyone in Asia or the Pacific. that Asians have too much to throw at us and if we bash anyone in the Pacific we'd be a bully the world will hate. Sorry for the long answer but I have been looking at this stuff for a while. Ward Carroll an ex-US Navy F14-RIO (backseat Goose) has a channel here on YT. Mostly he talks about flying stuff but occasionally interviews people he knows on serious topics. One such interview recently was with a buddy about America's military budget and strategy going forward. He talks about 2 strategies - Retribution and Denial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9-ArzOhSGI Retribution is simple: If you hit us we will smash you and you wont get up. Australia just can't do that. Denial is more complex: Its when you have enough stuff that the other guy is always DOUBTING if today is a good day to try something. Yes he knows that he can overwhelm you and take your nation, BUT AT WHAT COST. The aim is you keep them guessing and always concluding "Today's not the day." Right now there are people in China is wondering what an invasion of Taiwan will cost. They have just spent years building their navy up, but they are also seeing what's happening in Ukraine. The Russians have all the numbers, but they have lost ships, lost 2000+ vehicles, around 1000 tanks, lots of artillery and within the first 100 days lost more men that America did in 19years of Afghanistan and Iraq combined. They were not ready for 21st century missile based warfare. The Russians have a great army for the 20th century but its not the 20th century anymore its the 21st century. The Chinese have a great navy for the 1970s maybe the 80s and possibly the 1990s, but not the 2020s. Watch this from the BBC and check out how accurate guided artillery is. During the first Gulf war we got to see smart bombs. 30 years later we have smart shells and they are lethally accurate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTQ5ZGHV9Zs In the first Gulf War artillery was good for about 20-25km and with accuracy measured in 10s of meters. These guided shells are good for 40km accurate to centimeters. Basically if you're in a tank and spotted by a drone and they can call in artillery its already too late to hide. Out on the ocean, these days torpedos have ranges over 50km and can run slow and silent for most of the time before they attack. WW2 subs had maybe 10-12 torpedoes these days 20+ and some 30+ including missiles. Plus they don't need to fire 3 or 4 torpedoes at each ship just 1. No doubt if China wants Taiwan there's almost NOTHING that can stop them except the cost. They have to be willing to lose dozens of ships and maybe an aircraft carrier as well as 100+ fighter jets. They'd have to pound Taiwan into submission, possibly flattening the microchip factories. Who's going to deal with China if they smash the worlds microchip supply for 3-5 years? We'd just build our own factories and then what's the point of taking Taiwan? What do they get for all that cost and all that pain? So for Australia going forward its not a matter of what we can throw back - that's pointless because they can all throw more at us than we can at them. Its a matter of having people think "Today's not the day, because it will cost too much."
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  6440.  @pahatpahat9566  There's no need for the snide shitty remark, we well know that without the US backing we'd be FKD if ANY of the large populations in Asia threw themselves at us. Its just a numbers thing. There's lots of other countries around the world facing the exact same situation. Its gone like that for centuries. Its why smaller nations align themselves with more powerful nations. That's why the only military strategy worth pursuing for Australia is what's called Denial. Its where you make the bigger nation continuously conclude that today isn't the day to start something because it will cost too much. There's nothing new about that strategy either. The time that Denial fails is when that bigger nation for any reason thinks it can afford the cost. Russia thought that. America and its allies thought that before invading Afghanistan and Iraq. Go watch a documentary called "Rumsfeld's War" and watch for the attitude of people like Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas MacGregor. The Denial strategy can also fail when the big partner the small nation has becomes unreliable. Its why I think Australia's greatest threat isn't China, Russia, Indonesia or anyone else in Asia but a couple of billionaires in America trying to break the current system and re-write the US Constitution and remake what America is as a nation. That's not just a threat to Australia either. Its a threat to every nation that trades with America and especially any with security arrangements with America.
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  6441. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: The reason you need a nuclear power plant on the moon has NOTHING to do with energy density. Kirk Sorenson (of Thorium fame) went through this as part of a study into powering a moon base. On the moon there's 3 options, Solar, Chemical and nuclear. Chemical (as in fuel cells or combustion) wont work because you'd need to constantly re-supply it. Solar can't work except at a couple of places near the South Pole. The problem is the moon is tidally locked and all the face that points towards the Earth, which you'd use so you have constant communications gets 14days of light followed by 14 days of darkness. If you tired you'd need double the number of solar panels and a huge battery which becomes a hassle flying it all there. Nuclear becomes the only viable option quite quickly and that means discussing WHAT TYPE - Uranium, Plutonium or Thorium fueled and then PWR, MSR, or straight thermal using something like a Sterling engine or Peltier effect. The problem with both PWR and MSR is getting all the stuff there and then getting it installed and then making it work and then maintaining it. Arguably one of the biggest problems is how far away do you install said reactor. Because the further away you place it from the base then the longer the power cable to connect it and copper IS NOT LIGHT. Also that plastic sheath you have on normal cables doesn't last well in space due to the radiation. THIS IS ALL PART of why we haven't been back to the moon in 50 years. We could have kept going but what would have been the purpose as we'd learned what we could with the technology we had. Then the Space Shuttle which was technically amazing was also tragically super expensive and required a lot more man hours to maintain so it ended up starving many programs like the ones needed to develop tech for a Moon base and so stuff didn't get developed. Then the ISS which is also technically amazing did the same thing AGAIN. The problem isn't knowing what's needed for a Moon base its just that most of it has been so starved of funding and people power is just not developed to the point where its deployable. If you read this far thanks and sorry for the long reply.
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  6442. Imagine if a Nobel Prize Laureate (winner) in economics said something like "health care which I think in America is the greatest disaster we have and which is one of the serious forces undermining democracy" Guess what one did. Here's something I just found the other day while looking up some stuff on economics. The Bertelsmann Foundation has been running a series on "How to fix Democracy." The second season (as they called it) was about economics. Below is the play list. #29 is Nobel Prize winner Sir Angus Deaton from Princeton who specialises in the analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare. Listen to what he says about Health care about 4:18 in. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL36lfVkdVQqm3ovWsxBQlCEm0M4VZ4zIs How is that not news. Nobel Prize winner from Princeton says Health Care "is the greatest disaster we have" How is that not written on t-shirts and protest signs with people like Kyle howling about it from the roof tops.
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  6443.  @marcpolain5549  Actually the first time I was told that joke was by a an electrician and engineers were the brunt of the joke. Actually as an engineer I am pretty much over the pretentious bullshit of people with arts degrees claiming how well educated they are. With engineers the rest of you are back in the cave or fi your lucky a mud hut. Engineering brought you the modern world with all its toys and infrastructure and technology including the computer you are using right now. One of these days one of you will stun the fark out of us and simply say thank you.
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  6444. @Louie Killeen Well what do you want or are you just another example of a failed education like MTG?
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  6445.  @Deeplycloseted435  Good comment, but watch out people like Louie Killeen will call you conceited for actually knowing what your talking about.
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  6446.  @SolutionsWithin  Well sorry but when I have sat in meetings where these people have overruled sound engineering advice and then had to deal with the disasters they have caused as they blame others you can just FK-off. And then there are all the wonderful HR clowns with arts degrees who think they can decide who have jobs WITHOUT understanding a damn thing about the job. So on that you and all the other arts degrees can also FK-off. And then when we get to the reality of all the things engineers do for you INCLUDING the computer you are on and supplying the electricity it runs on and all the other things you DISRESPECT or take for granted. You and all the other arts degrees can just FK-off. And if you don't like the things us engineers provide then you can just FK-off and go live in a cave.
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  6447.  @SolutionsWithin  Since you clearly don't know what an arts degree actually is then I suggest you kindly STFU and stop lecturing people with crap.
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  6448. ENGINEER HERE On that 9th point about Russian Enriched Uranium Sorry if this is a long comment, but this is a subject that's getting almost zero coverage anywhere in the world right now. WaPo's description is woefully inadequate and as a result Kyle has totally misunderstood the issue. RIGHT NOW 1 in 20 American homes is powered by nuclear fuel that comes from Russia because America DOES NOT produce enough enriched Uranium to supply its existing power stations. Trying to explain this as simply as possible. Between the Uranium Mine and the Nuclear Power station is the Enrichment plant which is where they increase the percentage of Uranium-235. Its similar in principle to the oil refinery that's between the oil well and the gas station. The major issue that the pro-nuclear lobby is NOT mentioning is the capacity of the enrichment plants. There's not enough capacity in America so they have to get the rest of the enriched fuel needed somewhere else and that somewhere else is Russia because they actually have spare capacity. I first became aware of this when Jame Krellenstein was recently interviewed on Decouple Media on the subject of Enrichment including how its done and the history and the current status of enrichment. That interview is here on YT and if you are pro or anti nuclear its worth your time to go watch it. As an Engineer I was fully aware of what enrichment is and how its done, but was NOT AWARE of much of the History or the current status. That's why I'm giving James Krellenstein credit for what he's been trying to explain to people. Here's my brief explanation on enrichment and the problem. Enrichment (as said) is sort of like refinement in that it takes raw stuff and makes it useable but its more complex because your separating isotopes not oil. Natural Uranium is roughly 99.2% Uranium-238 with about 0.7% being Uranium-235 and the other 0.1% being other Uranium isotopes. Natural uranium can be used in special reactors like the Canadian CANDU, but for the rest of the nuclear energy industry they typically want between 5% and 8% U-235. Military reactors like those used in submarines can be as high as 20% which is how some of those run for 20-25 years without re-fuelling. Weapons have to be at least 20% but they don't work that well until it gets up around 80%. This is why its called enrichment because its making the Uranium richer in U-235. Traditionally there's been 2 ways to do this. In the West we used a process called Gas Diffusion. The Russians used Gas Centrifuges which was actually a German method going back to World War 2 (go watch that Krellenstein interview to hear about that - parts of which are sort of funny). The big difference is how much energy those 2 systems use. Gas Diffusion uses more than 30x the energy that Gas Centrifuges use. When the French switched to gas centrifuges they reduced the energy needed to produce the fuel for their reactors by more than 97%. I went and checked out part of what James Krellenstein said about this. The new plant, which cost €3 Billion, uses about 75 Megawatts. The 3,000 MW that was freed up earns more than €800 Million a year. So that plant was paid off in less than 4 years while French society basically got a bonus of an extra 3,000MW of cheap power because it was already built and paid off. So the French have their own capacity to supply themselves and others with the fuel they need. Because of neglect in this area America has 1 plant in Arizona that is owned by Urenco a consortium of British Government, Dutch Government and German PRIVATE ownership and it uses Gas Centrifuges. That plant (although substantial) does NOT supply enough for the existing American nuclear plants which is why America buys fuel from Russia. There were other plants in places like Ohio but they used Gas Diffusion and failed. So right now America NOT ONLY has a shortage of nuclear fuel production it also DOES NOT OWN any of its enrichment system that supplies 19% of America's energy. This is NOT just an issue for the 1 in 20 American homes powered by Russian nuclear fuel, but it also needs to be put into the political context of what America told the Germans about being dependent on Russian gas. Because according to politicians like Joe Biden it was bad for Germany to be dependent on Russian gas but now we find out that its fine for America to be dependent on Russian enriched uranium. Sorry this was longish but that's the story WaPo and Kyle are NOT telling you. And if you have time go watch that interview with James Krellenstein on Decouple Media here on YT. And so we are clear I have nothing to do with Decouple Media and have never met or talked to James Krellenstein its just open of the most informative interviews on nuclear energy I have seen.
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  6449. On that spy balloon go and watch Peter Zeihan's take on it. In a nutshell by letting it fly over American airspace they were able to monitor EVERYTHING it did and transmitted. After they shot it down they were able to recover it and then workout how all the Chinese technology worked. According Peter Z. its been one of the best security bonuses ever in that US agencies were able to decode everything and trace the information all the way back to the terminals (computers) in China where the operators sat.
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  6450. ​ @gootmanboats3864  NO and the simple answer is America is dependent on Russian enriched Uranium because America DOES NOT produce enough of its own and NOBODY ELSE has enough excess capacity to supply what America needs. What production America does have are Gas Centrifuges and they are just as efficient as what the Russians have there's just not enough capacity to produce what America needs. Also that system (in Arizona) is NOT owned by Americans its owned by Europeans. Possibly there's another place in America where they make some for the military or research because there are places like Livermore Labs and Idaho National Labs, but who knows. It's a complicated history which is so convoluted I had to listen to it several times to get WTF happened, but here's the basics. America started with (like others) Gas Diffusion which requires over 30x the energy to produce the same amount of enriched Uranium. That didn't matter until the American producers faced competition from the Europeans, but then the Europeans only had that advantage because the Russians and Americans BOTH drank a jug of stupid juice. At the end of WW2 the Russians captured the Germans who knew how to do Gas Centrifuges which is how they got the bomb and a nuclear power industry, BUT the Russians never realised just how much of an advantage they had and let the Germans go home and that was their jug of stupid juice. One of those Germans went to America but America didn't believe anyone could have superior technology to America and that was their jug of stupid juice. So the German went back to Europe where finally someone listened. Then the Europeans went back to America with the technology the American's didn't believe existed and through the beautiful simplicity of American Free Market Capitalism were more competitive than the American companies who then went broke and now the Europeans with their plant in Arizona are America's main supplier. But for all sorts of reasons that plant in Arizona doesn't produce enough to meet America's needs so America has had to go to the Russians to get the rest of what they need. And if that sounds as FKD UP as the Denver Broncos benching Russel Wilson (no relation) to avoid paying his injury insurance its because it is that FKD UP. Its about as logical as 32 NFL teams thinking there were 198 players better than Tom Brady or that there were 261 players better than Brock Purdy. FYI - I'm a Niners fan and I can't explain how Mr. Irrelevant Brock Purdy is "the guy" but he is.
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  6451. Australian here with a message to the Clintons and their political dealings. You had your time and now it is OVER. Its now time to SHUT UP and get out of our lives. The World needs to move on from you and your generation. YOUR GENERATION failed us and lead us into a political morass COMBINED WITH the greatest transfer of wealth in human history COMBINED WITH a climate catastrophe we have been unable to make any headway in dealing with BECAUSE OF YOUR GENERATION'S stubbornness and greed. We can't afford to waste anymore time with you.
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  6452. Modern political theory 101 course notes: 1) Whatever we do is fantastic. 2) Whatever they do is evil, wrong stupid and will destroy the nation even when its something we'd do anyway. 3) Spin is truth, Logic is false and evidence means nothing unless its evidence that we can use against others. As the maestro of logic Rudolph William Louis Giuliani said "truth isn't truth."
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  6453. If they were right then Bush and Obama should never handed out Trillions to the banks and corporations during and after the 2008 GFC. They both should have done nothing and let Milton Freidman's free market sort itself out.
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  6454.  @zenithzeitgeist7489  There is NO SUCH thing as Libertarian Social Democracy. There is Liberal Social Democracy and it has been practiced across most of the Western Democratic world for the last century. The difference between Liberal and Libertarian is whether they want government to function or not. They come from similar roots but one is based on having a society with an actual functioning government and the other just doesn't. Libertarianism doesn't believe in society. It believes in "me for me and f*ck whatever you need." The character Ron Swanson (Parks & Gardens) summed it up brilliantly "My idea of a perfect government is one guy who sits in a small room at a desk and the only thing he's allowed to decide is who to nuke." Despite being a joke its actually very close to the truth. Their ideal government does NOTHING but protect their property rights.
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  6455.  @sunspot42  You're clearly NOT and engineer and have no idea what it actually takes to make a modern technological society FUNCTION. You obviously have no idea how energy is produced or consumed by a modern society because you can't see beyond your own front door. Don't panic most people have NO IDEA of where their electricity or water come from or where their waste water goes. Domestic household consumption of energy and water is nothing compared to industry. Most people cannot even begin to comprehend what's needed just so you can have a bottle of milk in your fridge. This is one of my giant bugs with economists. They know how markets work and what societies consume, but they have no idea how things are produced or delivered. This is why our energy grids are failing, fresh water systems are failing, waste water systems failing and all the rest of our infrastructure is breaking. None of the people making decisions or those holding the microphone have a clue. The idea that we can put solar panels on everyone's rooftops and the worlds problems will magically vanish is a fantasy. You forget we still have to dig the minerals out of the ground, process them into raw stock, process them into solar cells and then install them into solar panels. After that they can be installed on your roof. BUT THEN there's the system to get it into your home. That includes multiple supply and manufacturing systems for the wires to the inverter, the wires from the inverter and all the rest of the energy system in your house. Because people don't see the wires in their walls they don't even realise they exist most of the time. I live in Australia. Do you know how many products I can by here that have no industrial energy or water input? ONE and that's our genuine native arts & crafts. Everything from the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the car you drive, the bike you ride, the computer you use has to be dug from the ground, processed in to raw materials and then made into stuff you buy. Anything in your life that has metal, glass, plastics, paper,...etc involved industrial processes that requires energy. For an engineer its actually infuriating how ignorant the general population is of what it takes to provide all these things the rest of society takes for granted. I don't blame the Morlocks from eating the Eloi.
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  6456.  @maryhackney3545  Good explanations across the board. I'm actually Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. I was there when Walker was in his pro-career. I also played 6 seasons of American football back here in Australia so I know full well how brutal the contact can be and we were no where near what he got in the NFL. I played rugby in high school and there's no comparison. I was also in America when another President everyone prefers to ignore these days, Ronald Reagan, was in obvious decline. The thing was NOBODY, wanted to acknowledge it and the entire planet knew it. The last 3 years of his second term they kept him wrapped in cotton wool with Bush Snr in charge and the whole world knew that too. Even when I got back to Australia, everyone knew but even our government refused to say it out loud, BECAUSE FINALLY the cold war was over. I have very seriously angered a lot of Democrat supporters by saying Biden is NOT the President America needs right now. YES getting rid of Trump was necessary but in terms of dealing with America's problems NO. Even at his best Biden was never the answer or solution America needs. In decline there's even less chance. Going back onto the subject of Biden's decline. The reason I don't like people simply saying Biden has dementia is because just as we didn't know what Reagans actual issue was, we don't know what Biden's is either. BECAUSE none of us are privy to his medical records. We eventually found out what Reagan's issue was because they couldn't hide it, but by that time he was well out of office and the cold war was over so nobody cared. We'll eventually find out the truth about Biden because it will get to a time when they can't deny it, just like it did with Reagan. In the meantime I hope it doesn't break America, because that isn't good for anyone. What so many Americans don't get is that because of the trade and security arrangements and how it all works anything bad that happens to America is bad for the rest of us, but the inverse isn't true. For instance - if any of the worlds stock markets throws a tantrum it has effects and sometimes its bad. But nothing is like what happens when the NYSE throws a tantrum. When that happens it reverberates around the world.
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  6457.  @nerag7459  Look at what the reply is to DlCKHEAD!
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  6458.  @anitawindbigler7100  My suspicion too.
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  6459.  @heatherdequetteville9184  Although I haven't heard of him for some time I remember Conrad. I believe he made the mistake of not having enough blackmail.
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  6460. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: My first thought on seeing the link was "Oh not another one" but on seeing this its actually clever. That doesn't mean its going to change the world, but we have to start using these sorts of different technologies where they work. I don't think the efficiency is anywhere near the issue that so many bring up when it comes to energy. The more important thing is can any particular system deliver what's needed at an acceptable price without negative side effects. People need to realise that geography has a lot to do with what we can access. Not everywhere is great for solar or wind or hydro, but some of these smaller systems make it possible to use geographic resources that are otherwise not feasible.
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  6461.  @cb-vi3he  Can people like PLEASE not jump in with completely nonsensical statements. FIRST - NOTHING, and I really do mean NOTHING that humans build is 100% efficient. SECOND - Archimedes screws are far from being more efficient than Pelton or bladed turbines. If they were then we'd use them. They aren't which is why we don't.
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  6462. Well actually Comey didn't say anything but "consider" and that might be just a warning that Joe Biden needs to have an answer ready. Those millions of Trump supporters aren't simply going to disappear or be silent. They will likely be demanding pardons in future. But in the American system pardons have a catch and that is - accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt. Glenn Kirschner (retired JAG & Federal Prosecutor) just today did a vid on this catch with pardons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baWkPCQzgoQ
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  6463.  @steffengustavsen9678  At first I thought you were ranting but the second half of your comment describes the AUSTRALIAN situation perfectly. Almost 20 years ago the government of the day cut the tax on investment property gains by 50% we are now so trapped by that system we can't get away from it.
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  6464.  @johnbrown8570  Its not simply capitalism but the TYPE of capitalism we are now running. Remember up until the 1970s most of the world operated on Keynesian economics, before that was "laissez faire" economics running on the gold standard. After Keynesian came The Chicago School Neoliberal Free Market with minimal regulation and privatised everything that was the brain child of clowns like Hayek and Freidman. What their acolytes can't accept is that just like Keynesian economics their time is OVER and we need to move on. We should have moved on after 2008 when it became obvious that their version of economics didn't work for 90% of the world. Instead we got this stagnant merry-go-round nonsense we're trapped in.
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  6465. Are you seriously talking about putting Hilary Clinton on the Supreme court? Look - anybody with a functioning brain can see what McConnell has done and how damaging it will be for the next few decades. However combating that level of despicable crap with crap that's almost as despicable is NOT a solution. She might have gone to Yale Law but she's never served in a judicial post and that makes her even less qualified Amy Barrett and that's saying something. You never solve anything by doing something stupid.
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  6466. This is the same stuff that's gone on for decades. A bunch of filthy old rich people looking after their assets by running any and every discussion around in circles. They don't just do it on climate they do it on everything. That's why they are called "conservatives" their ONLY GOAL is to conserve their position.
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  6467. AND lets not forget that the PRC is the worlds biggest polluter. Go look at the IEA key energy data. China now digs up and burns more coal than the entire planet did in the early 1970s. They dig up on average 3 Billion tons (3,000,000,000 tons) Remember basic science C + O2 = C02 Carbon atoms have an atomic mas of 12 and oxygen 16. Do the math. every ton of coal produces 3-2/3rds tons of CO2. Those 3 Billion tons produce 11 billion tons of CO2. Worse the Chinese manage there coal mines so bad that in the past they have burned as much coal in the ground ad they did in the power stations. They are doing better now its only about 20-25%. So China produces almost 14 Billion tons of CO2 and that's from their coal fired power stations. Sorry to break your delusion with facts.
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  6468. I hate to bust everyone's balls, but: WHEN Bush & Cheney can invade a country unlawfully and end up getting a million people killed and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN people like Donald Rumsfeld and those underneath him can order the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Bagram AFB and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN John Bolton can ADMIT PUBLICLY to staging coups and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN Obama can use drone strikes in countries he has NO AUTHORITY in and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN Trump can wind up the drone strikes including the one in Syria where he had NO AUTHORITY and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN Trump can assassinate an Iranian General when he has NO AUTHORITY to do it and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN Trump can stage an attempted coup and OVERTHROW the US Government and is NOT arrested, NOT charged and NOT held accountable. What makes you think any American can hold a Foreign Leader like Bibi Netanyahu accountable?
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  6469. But what you are seeing is what happens when ideological extremists, OF ANY SORT, get power or become unrestrained. Look back at things like the French and Russian Revolutions and even the American Revolution there was a legitimate right for people to rise up and break the shackles they were under. But in the French case they went on a rampage that to this day is still know as the "Reign of Terror." The Soviets went on a 70 decade rampage where they ended up turning their own country and 1/2 of Europe into a giant prison. Look at America they threw off the British yoke, declared "all men are equal and have certain inalienable rights" and then used slavery and genocide to establish their new nation of Freedom and Liberty. Jordan Peterson (before he dissolved a chunk of his brain) pointed out that its easy to see when people have gone too far to the Right because they become racist, but that for other people it was harder. I think Peterson was 1/2 right and 1/2 wrong. Yes - people on the Right have gone too far when they become racist. However I think when you have any group that has an identity coupled with an ideology that THEY PLACE ABOVE the basic rights of anyone else, which starts with "To live in peacefully and in safety." then they have gone too far. Have a look at how the French, Russian and American's all behaved after their revolutions one way or another they simply put their "new" ideology out front and used it as a justification to strip other people of everything they had including their lives. Such people also tend to kill with impunity because they see those they kill as sub-human.
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  6470. Australian here with a message to the Clintons and their political dealings. You had your time and now it is OVER. Its now time to SHUT UP and get out of our lives. The World needs to move on from you and your generation. YOUR GENERATION failed us and lead us into a political morass COMBINED WITH the greatest transfer of wealth in human history COMBINED WITH a climate catastrophe we have been unable to make any headway in dealing with BECAUSE OF YOUR GENERATION'S stubbornness and greed. We can't afford to waste anymore time with you.
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  6471. Sorry but there answers they just aren't the sorts of answer that ANY TV station wants to air right now because some of the numbers are very scarry for the uninformed. I am an engineer and If you are interested I have written a lengthy comment on this page describing what I know as an engineer.
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  6472. Saagar its the pink tie, its the pink tie, the shimmer is sending brainwave signals to people. It has to be censored before you warp the minds of all those housewives. The next riot at the capitol could involve rolling pins and copper pots and its your fault. When the human brain dines on bullshit no one should be surprised when the planet goes down the toilet.
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  6473. That's of course sensible and its what scientists have argued for some time. Because of all the ridiculous howling and screaming over COVID one thing that needed to be discussed but has NOT been discussed is the oversight of these labs. Back in 2011 there was a Dutch Researcher named Ron Fouchier who created a variation of avian flu that has been described as the deadliest virus humanity has ever encountered. Had it escaped rather than COVID we'd have already have over 64 million dead instead of 6.6 million. The problem that emerged after Ron Fouchier's work was that nobody was really aware of what he was doing. The Dutch government actually had to step in and shut him down because he wanted to tell the whole world how he did it and show how clever he was. He never considered the maniacs who would use it. If you do take a look at the whole Wuhan issue it was obvious there were issues. I DO NOT think that what they were doing was fundamentally wrong. China had faced MERS and SARS so investigating what might be next was smart. Getting other nations to help with that research was also smart. DOING THAT RESEARCH IN AN UNSAFE WAY WAS NOT SMART. An airborne virus like COVID needed to have been researched in a Level 4 lab NOT a Level 3 lab AND THAT HAS BEEN EXPLAINED BY EXPERTS. And 1 other thing. They redefined what was and what wasn't gain of function. Ron Fouchier's work would no longer be considered gain of function. Just like the work in Wuhan is also not considered to be gain of function. This is something else that has NOT been discussed publicly.
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  6474.  @danmatera1885  I'm an engineer and see exactly what you describe in engineering. I just watched the PBS Frontline on Boeing's Max-8 fiasco and that's an example of people taking things for granted and that checks don't need to be done.
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  6475. I'm Australian and this is FURTHER PROOF of is that our entire political system has been HIJACKED by consultants. In this case its campaign consultants and their polling data which we all know is bunk after all the bad calls in recent years. We get this all the time in Australia. Not a day goes by when some dead beat journalist quotes some polling data to a politician. All the polls are manipulated by re-framing the questions to give whatever answer is desired. The truly horrible aspect to the entire consultancy system is that when they screw up which they do all the time ITS ALWAYS SOMEBODY ELSE'S FAULT. Just wait a day or or 2 and some "campaign spokesman" will explain it away as somebody misunderstanding what somebody else meant.
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  6476. Everyone should go watch ex-Citibank trader Gary Stevenson's explanation of why so many of the so called "business experts" in the media are hopeless and consistently wrong. Anyone who watches Kyle knows about Jim Crammer and Larry Kudlow. But Gary has this brilliant video explaining "Why Are Economists Always Wrong?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5b1vzARyfI FYI - I'm Australian while Gary is a Brit from London and I have no involvement with him. I'm just trying to work out how economists think. I'm an engineer and tired of their crap and interference in projects. Gary's coming form the other direction and trying to explain to people how the system works.
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  6477. Australian here with an outside view and the same comment I left on another MR video. Yes the Trump Team of Chaos Merchants are a problem and the corruption we expect to see has no limit to the damage it will cause across the World. HOWEVER the American Left have utterly failed to ONE prevent this from happening and TWO accept any responsibility for what has happened. Anyone can see the panel of Democrat campaign staffers on Pod Save America just blow each other and accept NOTHING. In early 2019 Australian Labor Lost a similar election with a similar strategy. Later in 2019 British Labor with an almost identical strategy lost an also similar election to the clownish Boris Johnson. That strategy which was the same as Hilary Clinton's LOSING Strategy was: 1) Our policies are so great that EVERYONE will just vote for them. 2) The other candidate is so bad that NOBODY will vote for them. When I asked a Brit WTF was going on and why did BOTH British Labor and Australian Labor follow the same strategies as Hilary Clinton in 2016. That Brit told me that campaign staffers from the Clinton Campaign had advised BOTH British Labor and Australian Labor. The yesterday I watched these people YET AGAIN deny any responsibility. A few days ago I watched Destiny debate Cenk on the David Pakman show and Destiny CONFIRMED his belief the strategy of telling the progressives to get lost was RIGHT and THAT WAS AFTER LOSING. When will people learn that these Democrats ARE the REASON why Trump is back in power.
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  6478. Australian here with an outside view - I can see this getting incredibly bad and ugly. I can see someone just losing it with Ben Shapiro and his nonsense and have a very serious go at him. I'm not saying I'd condone someone bashing him senseless, but I'd understand it. This is genuine Nazi level stuff and the world decided we were NOT going to do that again. The whole world has bent over backwards for the Israelis to get away with things NOBOSY else would get away with. We helped provide the Jews with a nation to call their home despite it already being occupied AND ITS NEVER ENOUGH. No matter what they ask for and get its NEVER ENOUGH and that's going to snap back on them with serious anger. I am concerned for those Jews who are NOT part of this ZIONIST disaster are going to be dragged into it and not realise the anger that's coming to them.
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  6479. SORRY AND I DO LIKE BERNIE, but there is no damn way he was ever going to win in 2016. ALL YOU IDEALIST LEFTY TWITS keep making the same mistake. You think elections are about policies and they ARE NOT. Elections are about making people believe you will make their lives better NOT worse AND that's all about the narrative you spin. FACTS have nothing to do with it. Its about getting people TO TURN UP and VOTE. This is why the LEFT fail all over the world. They think good ideas win when in fact its NARRATIVE that wins. Its the same thing Lawyers use with juries. Facts are nice but narratives win. The political Right understand this and the political Left never learn form the lessons they keep getting smacked with. Bernie said he was a socialist and you all need to forget what that actually means in terms of an election policy. The GOP NARRATIVE would simply be: Scream "Socialist" from the rooftops while pointing out that USSR stood for Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics and that Bernie wants to make America into Soviet Russia. Game over right there. Rick Wilson (no relation) explained it in a talk he gave at the Commonwealth Club of California in 2018. YES he's a narcissistic SOB but he also understands the psychology of American elections.
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  6480. Actually he called Mearsheimer's assessment as "horse shit" 53:44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdP01go8wdQ And I checked the population of the countries he lists is 263 Million. Add in Finland and its 268 million. Russia's population is around 140 million. I think you're in part right Peter is underplaying Western provocation, because he places more importance on demographics and resources while Mearsheimer is purely political. Ukraine is complex and there's bits of both. Plus and I have argued this with some of the Mearsheimer fans, Mearsheimer's side of politics (American Realists that also includes the Neocons) have done some nasty shite over recent decades. They all claim Mearsheimer was against the invasions of Iraq & Afghanistan, but they ignore it was his side of American politics who started BOTH. The Neocon ideology came out of U. Chicago where Mearsheimer teaches his "offensive realism" which is one of the most narcissistic philosophies in the history of the planet.
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  6481.  @A_kiwis_view  Yep, go look at history when the the system fails only 2 things happen. New leadership or a Revolution followed by new leadership. The only thing that might vary is how violent the revolution is.
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  6482. Understatement of 2024 - The theme of this podcast DID NOT AGE WELL Face palm of the Year the follow NYT podcast where Nancy Pelosi claims the election result was NOT a rebuke of the Democratic Party.
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  6483.  @brando7266  As sad and tragic as that sounds have you had a chance to watch what Jesse Ventura said? If you haven't you really need to, because it explains Trumps rallies, his twitter, his truth social, and everything he does. It reminds me of a short scene in the film Gladiator where the 2 senators meet and discuss the emperor. Its best to watch it and ask yourself are they talking about Rome or modern America under Trump? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOW-Aoojl_I
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  6484. AUSTRALIAN HERE We warned the Brits when he moved to London and they didn't listen until it was too late. We warned America when he moved there AND YOU STILL DIDN'T LISTEN. The main trust that controls the entire Murdoch Empire has 8 votes. Each of Rupert's adult children Prudence, Elisabeth, Lachlan, and James have 1 vote each and Rupert has the other 4. When he dies they each get 1 additional vote. But for now Lachlan has 100% of the power because he's daddy's boy. We already know what Lachlan is like he's worse than his father and FAR LESS COMPETENT at running anything. His first big venture was a failed telecommunications company called One Tel. At the time it was almost impossible NOT to make money from telecommunications and they blew 100s of millions and daddy had to bail Lachlan out. We've already heard here in Oz that Lachlan's already added former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to the Fox board. Abbott's nothing but a Rupert appointed stooge. He only got to be Australian PM because of Rupert's patronage and influence of right wing politics in Australia. So make no bones about Lachlan might have the title but daddy is still pulling the strings and will stay pulling the strings until he dies.
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  6485.  @Kthb80  Agreed in part. From what I know it was an immigration officer who shouldn't have been there who was TOLD not to go in. BUT THAT DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE NRA's CLAIMS AND NEVER WILL.
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  6486. It think its pretty much an accepted fact that if you do something cruel to someone they don't tend to forget it. Think about how many Nazi guards were remembered decades later by the survivors. Nobody ever questioned that because there were records to prove they were where people claimed they were. These people have made claims and the records show De Sanctimonious was there when they said he was there.
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  6487. I started with a degree in aerospace but have spent most of the last 30+ years in industrial control systems and automation (manufacturing, mining, water treatment,... etc.) A couple of years ago I started informally studying Economics because I got so tired of clowns with economics degrees screwing up stuff. I've watched a lot of YT vids and read some books. The problem with ALL ECONOMISTS is they all have a common core curriculum that's full of nonsensical assumptions and theories all focused around market economics. Its why they can't ever shut up about markets. Its not unlike that all courses have core subjects its just that there's are full of insanely stupid market fundamentalism which is an ideology NOT a science. LIKE ALL ECONOMISTS this guy has almost zero grasp of what production actually means or takes to achieve AND YET like all economists he actually thinks he understands what production is. Just the other day one I was watching Australis REBEL economist (yes they do exist) and he dropped something that's not only filled in one of the things I needed to hear but its so astounding I can barely believe it. Steve said that in none of the economic models that have been used so far ENERGY DOES NOT EXIST. Its just not in the models. Its as if for all these decades economists have only considered that energy is the stuff that magically comes out of power points. As far as they are concerned its used everywhere but has NO BEARING on any economy. After watching heaps of these guys over the last few years this admission that they don't even include energy in their models is stunning. Imagine if you built a factory and didn't bother to find out if the local power grid was capable of supporting that factory in that location. At the macro economic level these clowns treat power grids as if they don't even exist. Go and look up a podcast Steve did with a pair of British undergraduates titled "Value in economics Explained by Prof. Steve Keen" on the channel Wellbeing Economics Brighton. Its an hour and 8 minutes that will stun you. If you are looking for other Rebel Economists try the Brit Gary Stevenson.
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  6488. Aerospace engineer here: Iceland has found itself to be one cheapest places on the planet for mining crypto for EXACTLY the reason you point out. Not only does Iceland have incredible natural energy resources in both hydro and geothermal (which is why they do a lot of Aluminum processing), but because of the natural environment (as in the air temperature) its also a lot cheaper to keep things like servers cool.
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  6489.  @blckspice5167  I suggest you DO NOT try and tell a HVAC Engineer how to do their job ESPECIALLY when the job is climate control in a building.
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  6490.  @doodmonkey  Yeah I get all that. Doing anything in harsh environments is so much harder than people realise. That stretch I mentioned from Perth up to our iron ore regions is some of the harshest conditions we have. People who are NOT prepared and don't know how to be safe in that region can dies in a couple of hours. Either they dehydrate or they aren't careful and get bitten by something nobody wants to be bit by. When I first went to work there in 2005 I thought I knew what it would be like and I was WRONG (in big giant capital letters). Its not simply that its hot but its dry heat that just sucks the moisture out of your body. You don't even get that sweaty like you do at a gym because its so dry the sweat just evaporates away. So you need to be extremely careful with hydration control. Anything with caffeine or sugar is sort of out during the day. Things like Gatorade and fruit juice are lethal out there because of their sugar content. I went to college at U. Illinois and thought I knew what cold was and then in 2017/18 did a project in Saskatchewan. That was as much of an eyeopener as anything I had ever experienced. I found out what's meant by Canadian Cold and can easily get that Alaskans talk about cold in a similar way.
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  6491.  @VeteranVandal  No dude they were already nuts the internet just made it more obvious.
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  6492.  @moegreen3870  I think the US Constitution is incredibly strong. Just look at the fact that the 3 Trump appointed SCOTUS judges went against him recently. Just remember that Lindsay Graham openly said the reason why Amy Barret needed to be appointed was so she could make the decisions to help win the election. The real test will be the next few years. Be seated when you read this quote. Somebody else put it up a while back. I keep it in a word document with a few others so I can easily cut & paste it. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States - “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. - New York Times, April 9, 1944” I have only one question about Henry Wallace - HOW DID HE KNOW? As in how did he know Trump would do just as he described 76 years ago. What did he know that he could predict what Trump would do. Trump wasn't even born (14 June 1946) when that statement was made. So how did he know Trump would do just as described? Look at what he said about METHOD and misinformation. SERIOUSLY - HOW DID HE KNOW?
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  6493.  @moegreen3870  I thought I just mentioned the 3 SCOTUS Judges Trump appointed but that might have been to someone else. Glenn Kirschner has made that point and other similar outcomes a lot lately. His channel is worth watching if you want to hear valid legal opinions. He was a JAG then a Federal Prosecutor. One of his associates tried the Blackwater 4 and his insight there is very good. On the Wallace quote I think you are right. He just saw how people operated and described it. Don't forget he witnessed Mussolini and Hitler operate and then must have seen things around him that he could compare. Most importantly what it highlights is that what we are seeing Trump do isn't new. Its just that we are seeing it in real time. In the past it took time for news to travel - these days its instant. I don't think Trump or his people like Kayleigh and Rudy realise that when they do a press conference it goes LIVE to the world and we can fact check them as they bullshit. I don't politicians ANYWHERE have grasped that we can fact check them as they speak. Its that or they really don't care, which for some is a simple truth.
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  6494.  @moegreen3870  That all said isn't that quote from Henry Wallace just awesome. 👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
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  6495.  @moegreen3870  As far as I know the other 2 didn't dissent they just didn't dismiss the whole thing outright. Legal Eagle is another YT lawyer I watch he less forceful than Glenn. But then Glenn has been a JAG and federal prosecutor and I think he's just frustrated with the attacks on the justice system. Particularly how the processes that America has relied on are being undermined. McConnell & Graham refused Merrick Garland is hearing and that violated the constitution. They cited non-existent rules and then threw those non-existent rules out when they rushed through Amy Barrett. I think those 3 gave them selves a huge boost in credibility when they threw it out. Particularly since Graham had openly voiced the reason for the rush was for the election.
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  6496.  @moegreen3870  On the do they care. I think they only care if they get caught out. Way too often they don't get challenged. McEnany has made her self famous for simply walking out the moment it gets tough. She does that sorority chick dismissive statement and walk-off thing. David Pakman pointed it out a few weeks back. As for that 4 Seasons thing that was the joke of the year. Somebody was supposed to hire a conference room at the 4 Seasons MOTEL and instead got 4 Seasons Landscaping. It was almost as good as Giuliani's hair dye and the "release the Kraken" bimbo.
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  6497.  @disgusted1  I don't know if they'll be saying those words exactly 50 years from now, but it will be something just like that. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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  6498.  @jakeharrisboxing1763  No it will be the answer on every Psych 101 exam that reads something like: Give an example of mass delusion. It'll be a question on every Media and Communications 101 exam: Give an example of when the media companies failed to tell the truth. You can just bet every constitutional law class exam will have a question like: What is the limit of a persons 1st Amendment Rights if they lie to solicit money AND when does it become fraud and charges prosecuted. And the law school classes on ethics will be a war zone with: When can a lawyer go too far with frivolous legal actions that are baseless. I wish I could go back to college this year, some of those classes are going to be so much fun. There'll be a few Trumpists in every class and setting them off will a blast. I'll be like 4th of July ever day as they just pop off. 😂🤣😂🤣🤬😂🤣😂🤣😡😂🤣😂🤣🧏‍♂️🧏‍♀️
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  6499. You and everyone else should go check what the DECISION of "Roe vs Wade" was BASED ON. It was based around the concept that a person's medical decisions ARE PRIVATE. In simplest terms the court said "the State" cannot stick its nose into your medical decisions unless there was some threat to safety. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade#Opinion_of_the_Court This was always going to be one of the troublesome things of just dumping "Roe vs Wade" If a persons medical history is NOT protected under the 14th Amendment then what else isn't protected?
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  6500.  @Nocturnimancer  Vice President Henry Wallace said in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  6501.  @fifty9forty3  silly comment its obvious who "we" are. Typical American you think every thing is about you. "we" is everybody in the Western world who has ignored these issues.
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  6502. AUSTRALIAN HERE and to Gary's point that many of the things he say also happen here. I was goign back through his vids looking for something and came across his video "Why Liz Truss's Energy Plan Won't Work" posted 11 Sept 2022. GUESS WHAT? We just had our 2024/25 budget released (as in last Tuesday) and one of the key plans was AU$300 cash rebates for power bills. Its exactly the same thing Liz Truss did except with an Aussie Accent and just as Gary explained about how that sort of thing works all its going to do is give a giant pile of money to the rich investors who own the power stations that we sold them because according to all the economists would bring us better services at lower prices. Our power bills are now among the highest in the world.
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  6503. Your right but those fires lit up the place. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  6504. There was a quote attributed to Jonathan Haidt that went: "There's this cacophony where the Radical Right and Radical Left just scream at each other while the rest of us trapped in the middle are exhausted." Until we can get the Radicals on BOTH SIDEs to STFU and let the rest of us get on with doing what we can we are stuffed and the future is bleaker than bleak. And in that list of people who need to STFU I include all the M0R0Ns running around claiming there technology is going to save the planet. I am an engineer and there is no one technology that's going to save the planet. Solar, Wind, Nuclear, Hydro - NONE of then by themselves are going to solve much at all and certainly not the planet. Its going to be a combined effort. Also in the transition a lot of the greenies are going to need to STFU on fossil fuels because we just can't do some things without them. We just don't have enough Lithium to make all the batteries needed for cars so a lot of other vehicles like tractors will still be running on diesel for decades to come. What we do need is to clean up how much they emit which is doable. So the clown brigade can just stop screaming at the farmers because we all need to eat and their lives are hard enough already. Aviation wont be getting away from fossil fuels either but they can use more efficient engines and burn cleaner fuels. My degree is in aerospace engineering and there's simply no easy fix to aviation unless we ban air travel or make it so expensive only a few people use it. The Greenies are also going to have to back right off on nuclear because there's no other way to underpin the power grids and keep them secure and NOT emit billions of tons of CO2 by burning coal. What we do need is some SERIOUS INVESTMENT to make nuclear power more efficient and NOT produce the waste that it does. ON THE NUCLEAR SUBJECT the nuclear industry needs to STFU and stop avoiding telling the truth about what is and isn't possible. They need to be honest about the costs and be realistic about delivery timeframes. Right now nothing they propose is possible because there's a major shortage of enrichment capacity. Forget SMRs or normal large scale reactors there's no way to fuel them. America can't even supply its own nuclear industry at the moment and has to buy fuel from the Russians. YES that country that is bombing Ukraine. Of all the trade restrictions that are on Russia one that's not been touched is enriched Uranium for reactor fuel. Sorry to all for the rant but damn as an engineer I am so bloody tired of all the clowns who just open their mouths and let noise come out.
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  6505. HEY DAVID: Get a doctor on to discuss this. Just like Joe Rogan you are NOT a medical expert so stop going on about it. You and everyone else in the media need to shut you mouths except to ask questions. Leave the data, and the opinions to experts.
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  6506. Actually that's exactly what the State SC for Michigan just did. They dismissed the case they were presented with had and told Michigan's Sec State to follow the law and for a PRIMARY vote that means you put every name put forward by the party on the ballot irrespective of eligibility or not. But (and its a big but) that ruling only applies to PRIMARY ballots which DO NOT decide the actual office. Glenn Kirschner did a video on this and he gave the example that in Michigan the Dems could put Obama's name on the PRIMARY ballot even though he is ineligible because he's already served 2 terms. Colorado and Maine are is different because their state laws on elections are NOT the same as Michigan. This is going to go through all the states 1 by 1 FOR THE PRIMARIES. For the actual FEDERAL ELCTION it will all depend on HOW the question is put to SCOTUS and how they rule on the 14th part 3.
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  6507. Its human nature. What does a 5 year old do when they are ignored? They yell louder? If you continue to ignore them, then they a start screaming and breaking stuff.
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  6508.  @graygarrison2692  Yep, Yup, Oui, Si, ДА, はい, 是的 and every other way to say YES.
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  6509.  @namelessfacelessyoutuber6017  Sorry but I think you will find that's not the case. There's been a couple of famous porn star cases where girls lied about their ages presented false ID's. People still got in trouble but it was mitigated because they had proof the girl lied. Gaetz's problem is where's the proof the girl lied. There's not just the underage thing either there's other stuff in that mess.
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  6510.  @blakeb9964  DK-head OJs trial didn't start for over 7 months and there was a hell of a lot of evidence for that one. Considering the rest of what the Trumpsters left behind I'd say its more of a backlog than anything else.
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  6511.  @namelessfacelessyoutuber6017  So what that doesn't mean criminal conduct did not happen and it doesn't mean that they aren't accountable. Ask Prince Andrew.
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  6512. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: This clown is so full of SHlT its staggering anyone gives him time of day. I went to look for his 60 minutes interview to see what he said. I didn't find it but found some ridiculous stuff. I checked out his Wikipedia page to see what he's actually qualified in. He has a degree in Philosophy and a PhD in History. HE IS NOT QUALIFIED IN ANY WAY TO MAKE THE ASCERTIONS HE MAKES ON TECHNOLOGY. This is 100% conjecture with no basis in fact. Its science fiction and very bad science fiction being presented as science fact. As someone with a technical education I hate these people and hate that fact that so few people in the media ever call them out for the LIARS that they are. He is just another narcissistic opportunist who knows there are enough stupid people out there who will believe the fantasy he's peddling to keep doing this stuff.
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  6513. Don't brag too much my grandfathers sheep dog was also (by these standards) Presidential material. I bet there's a guy in Iowa right now trying to get his favorite pig on the ballot just to see what happens.
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  6514. Aerospace Engineer and pilot here: CALLING BULLSHlT to this. YET again someone who might understand business dynamics but who has no NO GRASP AT ALL of Aviation is making yet another idiotic claim that can't be proven right for another 15 years. Even if this wasn't in aviation making any sort of DEFINITVE CLAIM about anything 15 years into the future is idiotic at best. And for the Boeing knockers - YES people like this clown who think they understand aviation are why BOEING has fallen so far. THIS IS CLEARLY A CHANNEL NOT WORTH WATCHING.
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  6515. NOW ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO CLAIMED AUSTRALIA WAS BEING UNFAIR CAN STFU! Know you all know that we knew he was lying about his vax status. We even gave him an exemption and he (or his people) STILL LIED. We love sports here and love great sportsmen, but we have FK-ALL tolerance for spoiled brats who take advantage of their status.
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  6516. To all of Thom's watchers. Trump endorsed Kari Lake whos running for governor of Arizona had a train wreck interview with Australian 60 Minutes that was broadcast free to air only hours ago. Before she stormed out she abused the reporter and gravely insulted Australia. FYI - I am Australian, I went to college in America and this might blow up. This wasn't some silly rant by some clown on YouTube this was a Trump endorsed candidate going off the rails. Don't forget Australia, Britain Canada and others just spent most of the last 20 years supporting America in Afghanistan and Iraq. It wasn't popular anywhere, but we stood by America. I was in Canada for work when Trump tore up NAFTA and hit them with tariffs. How do you all think this makes us feel about America? We are all now asking if there is anyway we can believe that America will be a reliable trading or security partner going forward.
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  6517. I wonder if he was being guarded by the same guys who were guarding Jeffery Epstein?
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  6518. FOR EVERYONE WITH TIME - Go and watch the Common Sense Skeptics take down of Kevin O'Leary. He promotes himself via Shark Tank (Dragons Den in other countries) as a "Super Entrepreneur" but like Trump he's got tons of questionable outcomes. Now that they have actually got Trump and found him guilty on something they'll start going after the other great fraudsters on Wall Street. As a suggestion maybe they start with O'Leary.
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  6519.  @GQPshow  Right beside him is a drugged up coke fiend who has no grasp of reality. What could possibly go wrong with the diagnosis???
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  6520. IT CALLED BEING A NARCISSISTIC SOCIOPATH He doesn't care about anyone but himself and he can't empathized with others. Are all billionaires narcissists, sociopaths or narcissistic sociopaths - probably not, but if any aren't they are a tiny minority. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  6521. I have a different message and then repeats all the same issues others have???????? Is there any American politician who understands what the word "different" actually means? Actually is there any politician anywhere who understands what the word "different" actually means?
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  6522. TO ALL -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  6523. Sadly the msm plutocrats would choke the life out of it.
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  6524. EVERYONE - Polls have been shite and been shite for decades because pollsters have KNOWN how to manipulate the results. There's a classic clip from the British sitcom "Yes, Prime Minister" the perfectly demonstrates how it is done. Its here on YouTube and titled "Government Opinion Polling - Yes Prime Minister"
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  6525.  @BlankBrain  To you the Earl of Doncaster and others. Do you realise that this issue of both sides of politics being corrupted by corporations is NOT just an American issue? I'm Australian but went to college in America. We have the same problem here just not to the same extent. I was working in Canada in 2017 and its the same there, but more like Australia than America. We get a lot of British and European News down here and we see the same there as well. The entire Western World is moving from being a lose collection of democracies linked by trade and common social values into an interlinked set of plutocracies. Just wondering if you guys are aware that the rest of Western Society might not be as far down the path as America but we are going down the same path?
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  6526.  @BlankBrain  Good points. If you have a look at events like the American, French and Russian revolutions they were all very different in specific ways and incredibly common in others. In common they were all fundamentally leftist in that they confronted an established entrenched elite power that simply pushed their society until it broke. What worries me these days is that the reset you talk about might be a peasant revolution rather than just an economic reset like the Great Depression. The problem with peasant revolutions is that they are born from frustration and deprivation and they result in a actions that are incredibly destructive. Right before the French Revolution the French lead the world in Science and Technology much like America was positioned by the mid 80s. Then overnight they just snapped and started killing anything wearing decent clothes. If you look at America right now it is eerily similar to pre-Revolution France. It has a an elite hyper wealthy class who have that "let them eat cake" attitude as well as an elite techno class. I'm an engineer and I can tell you the AI issue is all BS. Unless they make Quantum computing work AI wont be possible because there's just no way to process the data in the way needed. Most of what they call AI now is nothing close to intelligence. What they have are algorithms that mimic human tasks or how a human might do a specific task. The thing that scares me more than anything right now are people believing the hype and allowing algorithms to operate without anyone knowing what they are doing minute by minute. There is a horrible Sheldon Cooper style arrogance among too many in the STEM community that think the rest of us are monkeys to be managed. They might not be wrong in some cases but do you think it would be wise to let a pack of hyper techno geeks control our lives. Look at the shite they have already done. Imagine if we gave them real power?
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  6527. Yeah what actually is a "pure democracy"?? There's a lot he's saying is right on point but there's a couple of points that he really should have been more clear about. The part about America's decline in manufacturing as a percentage of World production is correct but he's also NOT including that right after World War 2 the losing side Japan & Germany hade almost zero manufacturing because it had been pulverised. Then he forgets that World production has increased by orders of magnitude. YES in recent decades American output has fallen but that's because their ratbag business leaders moved production to China and other places.
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  6528. SADLY - IT WILL NOT MATTER Even if they did impeach him the Senate will NEVER kick him out because ENOUGH of the senate is bought and paid for by the same billionaires who fund the Federalist Society and have spent decades getting people like Thomas on the SCOTUS. They are NOT going to give up his seat without a nuclear level shitfight.
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  6529.  @dominicfucinari1942  Obama has openly said his policies lined up with Reagans. He's NOT a liberal as the GOP claim. He's a neo-liberal which is just a milder form of radical libertarian. That lot, lead by people like Charles Koch and the Heritage Foundation believe in zero corporate regulations and zero corporate tax. As many point out Obamacare was the policy Mitt Romney put forward that was drawn up by the Heritage Foundation.
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  6530.  @grtxyz4358  I'm an Australian who went to college in America in the late 80s. So I'm coming at this from a bit of history and outside perspective. Reagan was the worst, because by introducing Reaganomics and in particular the libertarian ideology of de-regulate he set America on a course to where it is now. And its had a wider effect than just America. We've adopted many of the same economic policies here as has most of the Western World. just a few weeks ago a guy from Romania was describing the privatisation of Romania's electricity grid and he perfectly described what we did in Australia right down to the public messaging. Trump's economics was actually Reaganomics 2.0. De-regulate everything and why not. Reaganomics 1.0 made people like Trump incredibly rich. The world should have seen it coming.
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  6531.  @fee1776  And another of the Chicago crowd Ronald Coase wrote this brilliant piece for the RAND corporation which you can still download if you try hard enough. I heard about it when Elizabeth Popp Borman was interviewed by Mark Blyth about her book "Thinking like an Economist." You can find interview on the Watson Institute as one of the Rhodes Centre podcasts and Brown U. In that paper Coase argued that America should Auction off all the radio & TV bands. He was laughed at by the RAND corporation and then laughed at by Congress because they all knew that it would lead to MONOPOLIES where those with enough money would just outbid everyone. They eventually gave Ronald Coase the the same FAKE Nobel prize they gave Freidman and his auctions became the flavor of the era for governments all over the Western World and its been a disaster EVERYWHERE.
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  6532.  @GaryBickford  Sorry but I am calling BULLSHlT to your comment. ESPECIALLY the remark about very few economists in government being Freidmanites. They are almost exclusively Freidmanites BECAUSE they were all taught classical and neo-classical economics which is the polite way of saying they are all Freidmanites. Its most notable when you listen to the people in charge of places like the US Fed or Australian Reserve Bank or European Central Bank. You'll hear them refer to the "market adjusting" in some way and how they need to "show restraint." That's the give away they are a Friedmanite as it shows they believe the market will self adjust to a stable state. You might have gone to one of those odd little colleges most people haven't heard about OR one that is Left leaning like Brown U. (the ugly duckling of the Ivy League) OR one of the ones who had people like Richard Wolff who taught Marxist economics for decades. You should go and look up Prof Wolff's story on HOW & WHY he became a Marxist economist despite going to Harvard. Its actually an interesting story. He also did a series on Marx's contributions to Western Economics a few years ago. I'm no Marxist and actually think like Smith he was WRONG about wealth only being created by labor, but it was an excellent series to give perspective on how we got here. FYI - I think Prof Wolff is right about many things and 1,000% utterly and totally wrong about others. On post-Keynesianism I doubt you would even know what a post-Keynesian looks or sounds like and suggest you go and look up Steve Keen. He genuinely is a post-Keynesian and has NOTHING good to say about the economists in government anywhere on the planet. He hosts a weekly podcast Steve Keen & Friends and if you actually want to understand this stuff I suggest you join in.
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  6533. Rudy Giuliani and his lawyer have already been caught out and they are in trouble. They claimed he to ill to travel and he turned up on twitter having fun. They claimed that he couldn't fly and yet its turned up he's booked flights to other places including Italy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4arIcTixtSk
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  6534.  @ProfSteveKeen  Here's an example I have to deal with all the time. I just had ANOTHER guy on another YouTube page tell me I had no idea what I was talking about when it came the Jeff Bezos wanting to move heavy industry into orbit because there would be unlimited energy and pollution is irrelevant. The Tom Price iron ore mine where I have WORKED does 20mta (million tone per annum). Its a really convenient mine because anyone can follow the math. Iron ore ranges from about 50% to 95% iron content per ton. YES we really do get some it almost pure and tis called "high grade fines" you can spot the stock piles of because of how black they are. Anyway the rough average is Australia's iron ore is 70% and I use that because it makes the math really easy. At 70% every 20 tons of ore produces 14 tons of iron and that's the same number a Space Shuttle could bring down from orbit. So 20 MILLION tons of ore would make 14 MILLION tons of iron and that would take 1 MILLION Space Shuttle flights to bring down. I had someone once tell me we could do better than the Space Shuttle. So I said even if you had something 100x better than you still have to do 10,000 flights a year just to service that 1 mine. Australia has many iron ore mines and collectively they produce over 900mta EVERY YEAR. Tom Price is convenient for the math but it is only about 1/45th of our current output. THIS IS THS SORT OF STUFF I REALLY WANTED TO TALK ABOUT ON THE PODCAST. That actual reality of some of the things facing us and how large these problems are and why 99.9% of all the commentary is either partly wrong or absolutely wrong.
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  6535. Does Tucker NOT REALISE that the WHOLE WORLD saw the FOOTAGE of that cop with his knee on George Floyds neck as he said he couldn't breath and bystanders said he couldn't breath. One of these days someone is going to take serious offense to liars like Tucker and in a country with as many guns as America that's a high risk strategy.
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  6536.  @eh3477  Hey we tried to warn the Brits what Murdoch was like when he moved there and they DIDN'T LISTEN. THEN we tried to warn the Americans when he moved there and they didn't listen either and even gave him citizenship. WTF do you want us to do, he's their problem now? They wanted him, they gave him citizenship and a passport. His own people keep screaming about "those people who come to America and screw things up!" Go tell Sean Hannity and Jesse Waters to deal with him. 😉😉🤔🤔
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  6537.  @johnwright9372  I just watched a really interesting documentary called "Unfit" (here on YT) about Trump. There's a really interesting passage with Anthony Scaramucci where he talks about WHY Trump won. What's weird is he's a typical Harvard educated capitalist and he said almost identical things to what I heard Richard Wolff who's a Marxian Economist say over 2 years ago. The only thing they have in common is they both went to Harvard. Wolff for his BA and Scaramucci to do Law. Yet their observation that the 2016 Trump supporters REALLY DID make an economic decision to REJECT Hilary and the Status Quo. Trump's base at THAT TIME (not now in 2024) had been smashed economically and they NEEDED change. That's why they rejected all those GOP goons and then rejected Hilary.
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  6538. AT best that's a 50/50 call. She's certainly narcissistic enough to make this a grift; and also She's crazy enough to not get vaccinated just to own the libs 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  6539. @Sez B WTF does "Can probably couldn't" mean? Try reading your comments BEFORE you hit the "REPLY" button.
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  6540. @Sez B Any way you want to put it lets listen to people who KNOW what they are talking about and NOT listen to clownish political idiots like Sarah Palin. Its strange how every one says that "politicians lie all the time" and that "we can't trust them" AND THEN when its convenient people suddenly rise up an declare someone like Sarah Palin as truthful and trustworthy.
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  6541.  @qjtvaddict Yeah I can understand that as a comment but the reality is a lot different. Go watch Peter Zeihan talk about China's demographics, they are in a lot of trouble with the structure of their population. And that's before you get into the double issue of how bad China has been to its environment or how vulnerable it is to climate change. China has 3 giant mega elephant issues in its room and no viable solution to deal with any one of them. It comes from trying to do too much, too quickly and not paying attention to anything other than your economic goals.
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  6542.  @qjtvaddict  My favorite line on America under siege is: "If America could see what America is doing to America, then America would invade America to free America from America."
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  6543. Sorry but there have been many Tokamaks built and tested. NONE have (so far as I know) been able to generate more power than they used to generate the fusion. ITER (the biggest Tokamak so far planned) isn't finished and isn't planned for its first work for at a few years. Its very big its very complex and there's been less than optimal project management.
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  6544.  @niu9432  Your half right. Its kind of like the HADRON Collider over Fermilab in that being bigger ITER allows for higher energy inputs with more fuel. It simply allows things that can't be done right now. On the comparison to renewables there is an issue they simply don't want to acknowledge. All renewables wind, solar, hydro & tidal are all dependent on GEOGRAPHY. If you don't have the right location they simply don't work as well. Plus these locations need to be grid friendly. I'm Australian and there's a patch of our southern coastline that' simply perfect for wind. Its exposed to the southern ocean with desert behind. The coast is a 100s of km of 50m cliffs so anything you build is already up in the air and with no obstructions. BUT its 100s of kilometers from any population and over 1000km from any major population. One thing the Germans learnt from their massive investment was that eventually every country runs out of VIABLE sites. To high that last 10-20% as with other areas of engineering the costs keep climbing to get the next kW. One thing everybody needs to realise is that future energy will be a mix of renewables storage and high density base load. How any one country does that will depend on lots of things. Geography is just one of them.
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  6545.  @niu9432  Dude I am an engineer with 30+ years in automation and control systems I know this stuff. Its why I comment. My big eye opener cam about 4 years ago when I did this cheesy little consult for some Taiwanese Investment brokers. They just wanted an Australian engineer to do a power point on the state of Australia's renewable sector and potential growth. We haven't been replacing our now very old coal fired power stations. Our renewable sector is growing very rapidly but its trying to catch up on 30years of mismanagement. After I did that project I checked on other countries to see how they were going and its even worse for most. It the same problem everywhere - culture war. An example of the culture war is the COVID issue. There were public conversations that we should have had 12-15months ago and still haven't, because there are people on both sides just screaming at each other. Its the same problem with energy. You just get people screaming at each other over nothing. And then nothing happens. The Germans for example had a simple choice - turn of the coal or turn of the nuclear. One side out screamed the other and they turned off the nuclear. So after spending €1.3 Trillion to reduce carbon emission their carbon emissions went UP. Does that make any sense to you?
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  6546.  @Himself2019  That's a great point. Yanis Varoufakis and others have for some time now been pointing out that the Elites (Billionaires) have BROKEN Democracy with their money, their Think Tanks and their lobbyists. In one Interview I heard Yanis explain that Capitalism worked while social democracy worked because it acted like a counterbalance and as he put it kept capitalism civilised. However in the last 20+ years we have slowly seen the takeover of the media by billionaire backed special interests and that has choked of a lot of public discussion and with it choked the life out of social democracy. On top of that has been the outright manipulation of people via social media by companies like Cambridge Analytica which has still not been fully investigated for its involvement in Brexit. Just yesterday I saw a video that compared Tony Blair to Nigel Farage and all you can come away with is "How did anyone believe what Nigel Farage offered?" MAYBE Brexit might have been debatable as a "public topic of interest" but Nigel Farage would never have succeeded in any sensible debate with Tony Blair. It would have come across as "This guy is explaining why this option is smart versus that guy who has nothing except ranting and finger pointing." WITHOUT the assistance of Cambridge Analytica Brexit never happens. FYI - I'm Australian and the Australian version of these Idiot Libertarians used the same tactics here with the recent Voice to Parliament referendum.
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  6547.  @TheMrdominator1997  Because he's wealthy enough already that the 80K doesn't mean anything other than covering his expenses.
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  6548.  @peterwatson9047  YES - I have heard him say that several times but for anyone interested he did a video titled "Why Are Economists Always Wrong?" and it explains a lot of why our economies are in trouble. FYI - I'm Australian and most of what Gary explains is 100% correct for Australia. Its because the economics curriculums taught all across the Western World are basically the same. They use many of the same text books that are printed by Harvard Press, Yale Press, Oxford Press, Cambridge Press,... etc. OR they are written by people who went to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge,... etc.
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  6549.  @kevinsyd2012  HEY DlCKHEAD - The reason the poor lack education is because the rich have defunded their education. The last thing the rich want is the poor to understand money and a few other things, because if the poor got educated enough there'd be a revolution and the rich FEAR that as much as anything.
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  6550.  @kbar3612  They make their boss so happy with tax cuts that they use their whip less. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  6551.  @Limitless_Doom  WTF makes you think this channel is "woke" anything? You know other than BULLSHlT over hyped crap like AI has been one of the things that annoys the crap out of me are clowns who just use BULLSHlT terms like "woke" "fascist" "commie" or "socialist" for anything and everything they don't like. So feel free to f*ck-off to what ever fantasy channel you like.
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  6552. Don't forget MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, OAN, Newsmax and all the rest of corporate/private hyper-political media.
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  6553.  @Lord_technofascist_nepobaby  Correct in many ways, but another way to consider it is that sometimes you can refurbish what's worn out, or repair what's broken but sometimes you have to completely replace something because its beyond being refurbished or repaired.
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  6554.  @extraslipperywhenwet  In what way are you claiming CNN profit from racism? Not disagreeing, I don't like CNN and there coverage of news is mostly crap at best. I just want you to explain how CNN profits from racism.
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  6555. If Jones and his lawyers are scared of something then why do they need immunity????????
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  6556. 100% agreement the only bombshell here is Kyle finally realising what most people with brain function realised over a year ago.
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  6557. 100% agreement the only bombshell here is Kyle finally realising what most people with brain function realised over a year ago.
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  6558.  @Billy4321able  Yeah this is Kyle showing that NEW media is just as shamelessly SHlTHOUSE as old media.
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  6559.  @YoungSandyGray  Absolutely there is hypocrisy on the left just as there is hypocrisy in every corner of politics. BUT there is a difference in that at least some politicians (on both sides) get embarrassed when they get caught. What most American do not realise is that it DOESN'T have a left and right it has 2 tribal partisanships ruled by oligarchs with insanity and hypocrisy on both sides. Its just one side is occasionally embarrassed and they other shoves it in your face. Lindsay "use my words against me" Graham is a good example. He flatly denied Merrick Garland a SCOTUS hearing as REQUIRED by the constitution and 4 years later BROKE his own rules to rush through Amy Barrett who doesn't have a single day as a trial judge and only limited time as an appellate judge. Sure the Dems have their hypocrisy but the shit people like Graham & McConnell have done is just disgusting. And to be truthful America does not have a real left side of politics and NEVER has. The Dems were for most of the last 200 years further right than the GOP. They were the party of the South that started the civil war and supported slavery. Its staggering Obama was the POTUS for the party that helped create the KKK. Its only since Reagan that the GOP trekked to the radical right and by any relevant standard the GOP are now so far to the right they are almost unrecognizable. Most of that has happened because people like the Koch brothers dragged it there. One of those Koch brothers actually ran against Reagan on the Libertarian ticket because he thought Reagan was "too far to the left". The Kochs are just part of a gaggle of hyper conservative billionaires who truly believe government is the problem that they need to control. And they just don't exert pressure in America they do it across the globe. The Kochs support and fund over 90 Think Tanks across the world and they have changed how Universities teach. Charles Koch was interviewed recently and he straight out said he expected politicians to do as he wanted if he helped get them elected. He was actually upset if a politician did something out of good conscience. Go watch the Axios interview its f--king scary. Americans DOESN'T have a left and right. It has 2 tribal partisanships ruled by oligarchs with insanity and hypocrisy on both sides. Its just one side is occasionally embarrassed and they other shoves it in your face.
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  6560. I'm wondering if this is all just one giant joke like an SNL skit. I will not be surprised if he just turns around in the next few weeks and says: GOTCHA I wont be surprised if he's making a film titled "Politics: It's really this Stupid!"
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  6561. You're 100% RIGHT there's just 1 problem. LEFISTS across the world just DON'T GET these 2 points. 1) The Right understand that most of humanity don't want to hear the truth or facts. They want to be told they're fantastic and champions. Just look at how Hollywood promotes particular memes like the Marvel movies all do. 2) The Right NOT ONLY control more of the media but are incredibly good at delivering their message. Despite being a convicted felon, sex predator, incessant liar LOOK HOW WELL Trump and the people around him delivered their message. Despite getting made a fool by Harris in the debate and made to look like a M0R0N they kept on the rest of their message. "We can fix the economy and they can't!" I'm Australian and here's my way of using American football to describe American politics. The Democrats are like a team that's always racking up stats (running, passing,.....) but they struggle in the red zone and settle for fields goals too often. They are always harping on about stats and how often they score. The GOP are like that team that sucks but keeps finding ways to score touchdowns. Their offense is rabble but it scores touchdowns. Their defense is rabble but they hold firm in the red zone and get turnovers. Now imagine a game where: One team struggles to be coherent but their defense gets a couple of takeaways including a pick 6 and they find a way to convert a takeaway into another touchdown. Finally they scramble their way to a 3rd touchdown. The other team dominates racking up stat after stat but keeps stumbling in the red zone. They get 2 field goals and and then get a touchdown and 2pt conversion but then settle for 2 more field goals. Who scored on 5 drives and who scored on 2 drives? Who raved about their stats and but whined about missed opportunities? Who won the game 21-20?
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  6562. Go look up a channel called Machine Thinking. I am an engineer and its one of the best channels you will ever see. He mainly does short documentaries on engineering topics. The one you should check out is the one titled "The machine that made everything" which is about the lathe that Jacques de Vaucanson invented. That lathe allowed the industrial revolution to actually happen and with it the entire modern world as you know it to exist.
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  6563.  @necrogenesis1981  I'm not a fan of the globalization agreements either because they all done to satisfy the wants of a small % at the top who also didn't give a fark about anybody they stomped on. That crap lead to Trump in the first place. BUT we had started to learn how to deal with those agreements and simply tearing it up WITH NOT A CLUE with what to replace it with was EVEN WORSE. Same thing with his health care BS. He just wanted to rip up Obama Care because it was done by Obama. Forget it should have been called Romney Care because it was Romney's plane that can put into legislation. Trump did things out of spite with an angry frustrated base who just wanted to rip shit apart. What Trump actually exposed was how little BOTH the GOP and DNC had to offer that was in the interests of the American people.
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  6564. I hear that when his dog farted last week he blamed that on the woke dog food it ate. I'm surprised he's not blaming the recent tornadoes on woke weather forecasts. I bet before long he'll blame the Ukraine War on something woke OR maybe the reason why Prigozhin and Wagner Group failed was because they were too woke.
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  6565.  @cgatlin27  Like several other replies I agree. If he's smart enough to go to Harvard and then Yale and do law he's smart enough to know he's speaking crap.
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  6566. I'm Australian but went to college in America and although what's she saying is basically right she's hopeless at presenting it. Yes Trumps a threat, but the way she's presenting that is terrible. Trumps a threat because he was never held accountable for anything he did. He had everyone bluffed. They should have slapped him down on the first impeachment and done similar to what they did with Bill Clinton - guilty but not bad enough to be thrown out of office. Instead they let a malignant narcissist off the hook and he's run rampant through the system. That's encouraged others to do similar on other countries. The fact they DIDN'T even try on the second impeachment and done nothing but come up with excuse after excuse to do nothing since is just pathetic. Thump's real threat is the economic threat a broken America poses. No matter what we do or don't like about America the American economy is still 1/4 of the world's economy and the US $dollar is still the worlds reserve currency that underpins world trade. After that there's issues with tax avoidance, inequality, corruption, CLIMATE and a long list of other issues NONE of which can't be dealt with if there's a second Trump Whitehouse.
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  6567.  @dohlecarnett1866  Then who spent €1.3 Trillion on renewables? And who chose to shut down the German nuclear power stations?
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  6568. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Can someone from the astronomy department please tell us where the planet "Nars" is, because if you guys want a spaceship to get there were are going to need the coordinates for the nav computer.
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  6569. Dude I thought I told you a couple of weeks ago that you might be very smart in some ways but idiotic in others. Your whole stupid solution for your oven would never had been necessary if you'd simply read the manual for the K38 temperature controller which has ramp and soak functions. You're very clever in some ways and idiotic in others. You have near explosive gas mixes in a plastic bottle. Fine but you should explain to people how you do this safely. There are people in the world who like you are both clever and stupid. This is a great way to blow your house up if you're not careful. This is actually a very interesting concept because the thermal loads on rocket combustion chambers has always been a very difficult problem. One of the hardest things has always been the need to be near perfect with every component. Even the slightest tiny imperfection could cause a failure because in keeping things as light as possible meant the margins for error were also very narrow. The 3-D printed aerospike was also very clever but not reading the K38 manual was just stupid. I hope on the new oven yo udo read the controller manual it should help you make more reliable parts. For anyone interested the Ascon K38 details are here and the ramp functions start of page 17 of the downloadable manual https://www3.ascontecnologic.com/en/industrial-automation/advanced-programmer-controllers/k-series/k38
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  6570. Better still look at the little POS beside her. He started with inflation is what happens when the Government spends too much. He's 1/2 right as that's 1 (as in the integer between 0 and 2) reason which inflation happens. I might be an engineer but I di Econ 101 as an option and for an entire semester I heard "If demand goes up prices go up if supply doesn't rise to match it AND if supply drops prices go up if demand doesn't fall to match". Look at that little brats face at 5:22 when Krystal slams him in the cash supply issue. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) who I wish David, Kyle, Krystal would all interview has pointed out multiple times that as a measure to stabilise the COMMERICAL banks in 2008 the CENTRAL banks injected $17 TRILLION (17,000 Billion) and it didn't cause the slightest bit in inflation. I'm in Australia and we injected $38 Billion into businesses many of them NOT needing it during 2021 and there was not the slightest bit of inflation. A year later we have inflation all based on the shortage of natural gas SUPPLY. I can't stand these gutless lying right wing clowns who keep rolling out the same trope of that the ONLY cause of inflation is government spending.
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  6571. I'm an Australian who went to college in America (late 80s) and have been warning that this is a huge issue to Australia, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Britain, Europe, the Philippines and many others. For so many America is our most important trading partner and MORE IMPORTANTLY our most important security partner. Like others we've staked our security future on things like the F35.
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  6572.  @greenthumb6241  We didn't exactly give you Fox news. YES Rupert Murdoch was born here. But we tried to warn Britain went he went there and they didn't listen. AND we tried to warn America when he went there AND YOU DIDN'T LISTEN EITHER. PLUS - Do you know that America changed its citizenship laws because of him and how he managed to buy Fox in the first place? If you want to know about it ask me, but its not a quick story. In its simplest - for over a decade Australians found it very hard to work in America and that had profound affects on the careers of 1000s of Australians and I'm one of them.
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  6573. Actually the lowest paid jobs are the last that will be replaced by robots and automation. I know I am an engineer who has worked in automation for 30+ years. The jobs that are most often replaced are jobs nobody wants to do or jobs that have a high risk of injury or its simply more productive to have the robot do part of the job like put its hand where the human doesn't want to like the inside of a power press or injection molding machine where they can lose that hand in a blink. Right now the people most at risk from automation are the university graduates with degrees in the financial areas - accounting, economics,.... etc. Accountants wont be needed in future, we already have software that's faster & cheaper. Economists will become totally irrelevant as they will never be as fast as the software can be at analysis. Stockbrokers & Financial consultants are even worse of as who will actually need them. In future stockbrokers and financial consultants will be down to very clever traders in basements making second by second trades for groups of people. They'll trade globally 24/7. It already works that way for the main players, but with computers and automation - guess what. My recommendation is don't do a business degree unless its a dual degree with IT. As for the rest of engineering we aren't going anywhere. All those computers need electricity and someone needs to build the power stations and networks and then keep them running. In fact the next generation of automation technology will be our revenge on the financial clowns for fucking with our careers.
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  6574. ​ @ittt6339  I was in college in America in the late 80s and got to see the 85 midterm and 87 POTUS seasons firsthand and all I thought of was WTF isn't it good were aren't this bonkers. BUT I WAS YOUNG AND NAIEVE because by the 90s our politics was already following on. Interestingly in 2010/11 I saw the back 1/2 of a lecture on the death of journalism that was om super late one night. I didn't find out for several years that it was given by Robert McChesney who was a major contributor to the documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004). He's the guy near the start describing the scene from the Godfather Part 2 about Cuba. In this lecture I saw he was describing how the ratio of journalists to PR people has flipped since the end of WW2 from 5:1 to 1:5 It to 50-60 years so nobody really noticed except a few academics like Robert. By the early 2000s across the Western World many journalists we simply gotten rid of because of the vast expansion in communications as well as the corporatisation by people like Rupert Murdoch who simply bought everything he could. the days of every town having its own newspaper ARE GONE because shareholders want profit not stories on Farmer Jones cows or the local kid with dreams of the big time. Later on I found the Robert McChesney is a professor at my Alma Mater (U. of Illinois) but I he started there after I graduated. There's actually a few really good interviews he's given that are here on YouTube. Every time I check I keep finding older stuff that says people like him were trying to warn us about these media issues for a long long time BUT NOBODY WAS LISTENING and now we are paying the price. And it's a recuring theme with a few issues. We are finding out just how bad the climate is as well as energy and water systems. Energy is of interest to me because I'm an engineer and that problem is so staggering that at times I wonder what will happen because I can't get people to listen and the media are so bad. We have so many stupid people making so many stupid claims we can't have a sensible public discussion BECAUSE at the core of it all is a media that thrives on conflict AND DOES NOT CARE.
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  6575. Australian here - The world needs a LOT MORE Gary And a damn ton less of these other idiots especially that clown Abby Innes who just rambles on all through this with stupid irrelevant word play. We need so much less of word play and a lot more ACTION.
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  6576.  @kelliott7864  Before you say that again I suggest you go check a few things. Pay particular notice to the map shown a just before 8 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FUVwC-B1k4 Yes smart ass, if the Chinese or Russians ever decide to do anything they will nuke us first. We might not be much, but at least show us some respect, because your soft hide is safe in bed each night because we pay the price for helping keep it safe.
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  6577.  @kelliott7864  Please stop, you don't need to prove most American's are ignorant, we already know how bad you are. Jimmy Kimmel does plenty like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umpalMtQE50 But this one never seems to age. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww Is it any wonder when Ukraine fired a US made missile the other day it hit Poland???
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  6578.  @thomasjohn6041  As for your little tirade about dumb Australians, yes we have many just as any society has. The difference is we don't parade them to the rest of the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww FYI - I got my degree in America and I hate it when dumb Americans do stupid shit because it devalues my education which was damn fantastic.
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  6579. @JeffreyEpstein-f6y Actually the bloodless comment was by Kevin Roberts and it was "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be." (Newsweek "Project 2025 Leader Promises 'Second American Revolution' Published" Jul 03, 2024) So it was LEFT not Liberal.
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  6580.  @bsadewitz  One of the things you'll find in all the think tanks, no matter if they are Left or Right, orientated they all have a few very knowledgeable people or subject matter experts in them. They need those people so they can pump out stuff that is legitimate and stands scrutiny. They do it for credibility so the other nonsense they also pump out (and they all pump out nonsense) looks good too.
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  6581. Of course there's a lot of comments about bowels. He's full of SHlT.
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  6582.  @anmolt3840051  Good point and its simply hard to say who's more cited, quoted or referenced. You have to remember when ever one of those far right maniacs screams socialism or communism they are screaming about Marx. How many times to hear someone say to someone who just did or said something stupid and you hear "Well done Einstein!" So who is the most cited or referenced??? 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  6583. That's because the German drug of preference is Schnapps and the American drug of preference is delusion.
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  6584. I did Econ 101 as one of my humanities options to doing aerospace engineering. After a couple of lectures of this guy explaining yet another market type with yet another supply-demand graph I asked him (after class) what the math was behind these graphs. He asked what was I talking about and I asked again "you're drawing these graphs I was wondering what the math is?" He then asked what my major was and I said "aerospace and when we draw a graph there's a formula or there's data." I might NOT have all that conversation perfectly remembered but I'll never forget his reply. "This is economics we don't do math here!" I did press him further and he eventually admitted that at the higher levels they did some, but nothing like engineering. In recent years I have been trying to understand WHY economists are doing what they do. My main motivation is they have infected engineering with some very bad practices that's lead to some very bad outcomes, most notably in electricity generation and distribution and its a disaster across the entire Western developed world and its going to cost TRILLIONS to fix. Eventually I stumbled across the Australian Economist Steve Keen and he's what I'd call one of the rebel economists. He's been trying to expose and educate people to what Economists have done. The most amazing of Steve's revelations is that mainstream (classical and neo-classical) economists don't even include energy in there modelling. Another person I stumbled across who talks a lot like Mark Paul is professor Mark Blyth (Brown U.). He leads a unit at Brown called the Rhodes Centre and he does interviews like this one where he talks to other "fringe" economists, sociologists and others who have written books similar to what Mark Paul has written. One Mark Blyth's recent interviews was with George DeMartino’s who wrote the book, “The Tragic Science: How Economists Cause Harm (Even as They Aspire to Do Good)” The YouTube video title is The Rhodes Center Podcast: Does economics do more harm than good? There's a whole bunch of similar interviews with authors Mark has done and if anyone wants to get the gist of what these people are on about without having to get the book and read it these interviews are FREE and here on YT.
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  6585. Go watch Noam Chomsky's take on this from weeks ago. 1) He confirmed that America really did promise that NATO would not expand after the Russians signed of on re-unifying Germany. Its there in the official records of the meetings. So there's a big lie being pushed on that. 2) After the 1st Eastward expansion of NATO in 1999 during Clintons presidency the American Ambassador to Moscow wrote a very blunt assessment of how it would lead to war on day. That's also a matter of public record. 3) After the 2nd Eastwood expansion of NATO in 2004 during Bush's presidency ANOTHER American Ambassador to Moscow wrote a very blunt assessment of how it would lead to war on day. That's also a matter of public record. Remember how the Americans were telling the Germans NOT to buy Russian Gas, because they wanted the Germans to buy American Gas. HOW HAS THAT WORKED OUT?
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  6586. Sorry but this is some of the most ignorant shit I have ever heard and I mean ignorant in that he ignores basic reality. He's IGNORING that he's describing and criticising EVERY socio-political ideology when they go too far. If you took this speech and replaced the words woke and wokeism with conservative & conservatism or left & leftism or right & rightism or ANY OTHER socio-political ideology its exactly the same speech. This is 9 minutes and 12 seconds of political clichéd BULLSHlT that could easily describe every political movement in history. For a couple of people who think this kid has a bright future look at the recently elected American George Santos who has lied about everything in his life. He won the election doing EXACTLY what Tommy Nguyen has done here take the standard tribal political line and tell it to a willing audience. What the real debate should be "This House Believes Political Tribalism Has Gone Too Far"
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  6587. These days your not a real American President until you have bombed an innocent child. Congrats Joe you've made your bones.
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  6588.  @sadako24  How many American Presidents since World War 2 have dropped bombs on innocent people? Wake TF up, when countries go to war innocent people die and every American President since WW2 has gone to war or invaded somewhere and dropped bombs somewhere and killed innocent people. The expression "making your bones" comes from the American Mafia and it refers to when you've killed someone for "the family". Biden has dropped bombs and killed innocent women and children, WHICH PART OF THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO YOU.
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  6589. Congrats you've realised this is YET ANOTHER full of shite YouTuber with YET ANOTHER full of shite video. I'm an aerospace engineer and what I hate (and I really do mean swing a baseball bat hate) about these people is the amount of crap REAL ENGINEERS now have to explain away afterwards. I've just spent YET MORE TIME explaining to people why Jeff Bezos claim of moving all of Earth's heavy industry to low earth orbit is IMPOSSIBLE. Its pretty simple if you just consider the worlds iron supply which starts with over 3,000,000,000 (3 billion) tons of iron ore that produces around 2,100,000,000 tons of iron & steel. Not only do you have to lift that to orbit but then also bring it back down which requires the equivalent of 150,000,000 (150 million) space shuttle flights a year. AND THAT'S JUST the iron after that is nickel, copper, tin, aluminium, zinc and all the other stuff. If you're and engineer or other STEM person this garbage is infuriating, but then we have billionaires fuelling a lot of it. Jeff Bezos isn't alone as Elon Musk is even worse and after him are the other tech billionaires and tech conglomerates.
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  6590. I think one of the most astute quotes ever on American politics is: “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. Henry A. Wallace, quoted in the New York Times, April 9, 1944” FYI - I can't take credit for finding this quote another person pointed it out a while back. If you google "henry wallace fascism quotes" you'll get a link to "goodreads" and there's a bunch of great comments by Wallace on the subject.
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  6591. There's a video from 2016 done at Brown University just after Trump won the election. One professor is almost in total denial while Mark Blyth who predicted Trump would win simply explains WHY he won. He quotes a report where in 2015 only 7 years after being bailed out that Wall Street bonuses totalled over $28 Billion and that's just the bonuses it didn't include their wages - just the bonuses. The entire total for everyone in America who was on minimum wage for 2015 was $14 Billion or about 1/2 what Wall Street got in bonuses. What that highlighted was there is a massive slab of America who have been left out of all the wealth gains. Mark Blyth's point was that was part of the cause of so much anger that Trump tapped into. That was in 2016 In late 2022 the Congressional Budget Office released a report on Family Wealth in America. Its easy to find and is one of those things everyone should know about but almost nobody talks about it because it condemns BOTH the GOP & Democrat establishments in America. Its truly staggering how much wealth the Top 10% of America has gained since the 1980s (its now over $60 Trillion). The Middle 40% have done sort of OK, but the Bottom 50% of America has gone nowhere since the late 80s and worse they got smashed in the 2007/08 GFC.
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  6592. ACTUALLY THERE IS A REALLY HUGE BIT OF INFORMATION IN THIS - Michael Steel is a Republican Strategist who worked for Jeb Bush, John Boehner & Paul Ryan. Here's his bio page -> https://www.hamiltonplacestrategies.com/team/michael-steel-2/ He's a hard core Republican and he's been on TV for weeks defending Dominion and claiming the election was fair and legitimate.
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  6593. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  6594. Well for starts NOBODY BANNED ANYTHINHG. The Publisher made a business decision, nothing more and nothing less. Glenn Beck is just blowing his usual over-hyped crap out of his over-hyped mouth.
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  6595. Its sad to say that David's acted in bad faith on this and I think its because you dented his American self superiority on a few points. Calling you guys right wing is utterly stupid on his behalf and he really should apologise. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America and Americans have a ridiculously skewed concept of what's right and left in politics. I did engineering but ended up in lots of political discussions surrounded by other university students as I was. Like most things American its NOT simple and my apologies for the longish answer. Due to being told for multiple generations that America is the Greatest Nation on Earth and now finding out that's NOT true. Remember they won 2 World Wars (just ask them) and have now lost or failed to win almost every conflict since. They've been humiliated in both Iraq and Afghanistan just as they were in Vietnam. They are having a hard time dealing with ANYONE from any other nation that challenges them intellectually and you guys pushed back hard and refused to concede some points. I don't think he's bad guy but I think he's acted in bad faith on this and does need to apologise. Further to trying to explain part of his reaction. Part of it comes from the very American centric education he's been brought up with. Typical of many Americans he has no real understanding of how the rest of the world views LEFT & RIGHT politics. One of his college Professors is noted teacher of Marxist Economics Richard Wolff. So David sees himself as very LEFTIST. The problem is America has no real LEFT and never did. It actually has 2 competing versions of right wing capitalism. Americans talk about left and right but they are more like opposite sides of the same coin. Like all coins no matter which way its up it still has the same value. There's American Liberalism which is based on the idea of a sound set of regulations so that everyone has a fair chance at making it rich. Then there's American Realism which is based on the concept that people are selfish and will do whatever they feel is in their best interests as in "I might as well forget rules and just do whatever makes me rich." Make no bones about it both sides of America consider being rich the #1 thing. The liberals just think they are doing it playing inside the rules they believe everyone should play by, while the realists don't care so long as they win.
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  6596.  @michaelk.jensen1611  For starters try writing clear sentences. If you go over to David's channel here on YT he has a video titled "Progressive Double-Teamed by Right-Wingers, DISASTER" ->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_KO72BIfEU What's the disaster? There's actually no commentary by David or any of his people explaining anything about what was disastrous. What there is a 20 minute EDITED version of their discussion. If you go back a year David didn't do much click baiting, and I've been watching him for a couple of years. He's done some click baiting BUT that title is really bad as such with that title acting in bad faith. In the past he's done the occasional "it doesn't end well" title and some of those have nothing controversial, but then as far as click baiting goes David's a 1 out of 10 on a platform infested with 10 out of 10s. Do I think the guys at Triggernometry are completely innocent in this? NO - I think that whole discussion on transgender people in prison was handled badly by BOTH sides. They were BOTH trying to win points and make the other person "concede" something. It was a stupid stance by both of them because it SOLVED NOTHING. There is an idiotic behavior among some people that dictates they have to dominate others and score points. IT DOES NOTHING and IT SOLVES NOTHING. As I said I am an engineer and I see the same types of arguments between the pro-wind/solar people and the pro-nuclear people with respect to clean energy solutions. I'm tired of them. They cherry pick all sorts of information and come up with specific cases to make points that have no real basis for generating a solution. I'm tired of people making bad faith arguments or spinning arguments around in circles that SOLVE NOTHING. If you look at their transgender argument. Does David have a point that a 5'3" effeminate trans-male is likely to be brutalised in a male prison? YES, and we have only 1 other option so what do we do? Konstantin - no answer except denial. Did Konstantin have a valid point that only having that 1 other option is bad? YES, and did David conceded that only having 1 other option isn't acceptable? NO he just pushed the you must concede line. ALL BOTH of them wanted was to win a point without conceding anything. AND THEY SOLVED NOTHING. And while they continue this spat they will SOLVE NOTHNG.
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  6597.  @michaelk.jensen1611  If your going to argue points do it clearly or wait until you get to a computer. Going to your top point here about the transgender argument there is an answer, but all both wanted to do was NOT CONCEDE anything to the other side AND THAT SOLVES NOTHING. I deal with these sorts of problems all the time as an engineer. No matter what anyone wants you mostly have to do with what's available. Best example ever was Apollo 13 and the CO2 filters. Nobody cared squat about what would be best. They had to make a filter with what they had or they died. That's the bit where Konstantin's I wont accept those options was idiotic bad faith and it really was idiotic bad faith. David's point: I have this prisoner. In Prison A they will be beaten, raped and possibly murdered. In Prison B they will be alive and safe. What do we do? Konstantin I don't accept those options as if he gets to make them. That's stupid and arrogant. David's insistence on getting a concession was just stupid. Then click baiting it as a disaster was childish at best idiotically stupid at worst BECAUSE IT SOLVED NOTHING. The correct resolution (and this is taught in any basic resolution class or exercise) is: Fine we need a 3rd option but that will take time. Between now and then do I put this person in Box A where they will die or in Box B where they will be safe until Box C is ready? That gets an agreeable answer with a future even more agreeable answer.
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  6598.  @simonfarre4907  Norway is an embarrassment to so many other nations we don't like talking about them (but we have to 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️). They are the absolute Olympic gold medal masters of Sovereign wealth funds. They are so far ahead of every other nation in developing one and managing one its not worth even trying to compare. They aren't perfect as a society by any measure. The world wont forget Anders Breivik anytime soon. I have worked in Australia's oil & gas industry and the joke is that before the North Sea runs dry all of Norway will live for free off the interest of their SWF. We have one (called the Australia Future Fund) and its reasonable (better than nothing) but every time we try and measure it against Norway's its not pretty. They just got into it so much earlier than everybody else and are so far ahead it will take years or decades to catch up.
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  6599. And about 7.9% more than Trump at the same stage.
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  6600.  @brokeandtired  fair enough
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  6601.  @southerneruk  Yeah I get the point but the Mosquito wasn't conceived as a fighter even though their were fighter versions of it built. I just saw this recently on the DH Hornet -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8RMaEs6Npg On the P38 in Europe I don't think its fair to say it wasn't successful its just that it wasn't anywhere near as successful as it was in the Pacific. That may have to do with the fact the P51 was so good in the long range escort role in Europe. Even the Spit lacked the long range of the P51. The main difference being the wing, which they did try and adopt with the Supermarine Spiteful -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlPTskU5ZzY
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  6602.  @southerneruk  Did you watch the video on the Hornet???
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  6603.  @donjones4719  Also remember the P38 was most noted for its work in the Pacific where its range was its most important feature. Just yesterday I saw a video on a version of the F86 version that only 2 prototypes were built. Its was a long range version for potentially escorting long range bombers. The early jets were all short range and as the later stages of WW2 had shown they needed some fighters with long range. If you actually have a look at it the Spitfire had its moment in the battle of Britain and then after that its impact on the rest of the war was far less because of its short range. The P51 had a far more important role because of its long range. The Pacific involved a lot more long range. Europe was a single landmass while the pacific was island after island. There's also a couple of videos on the British twin engine fighters. They had various engine supply issues despite also having good performance. There was also a single seat version of the Mosquito that was used as a straight up fighter. So its not like others tried. It was as you put it supply issues but I think that also combined with why the P38 was built the way it was. It was purpose built for long range.
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  6604. A week ago Krystal Ball (on of Kyles friends) headlined her Radar -> "NO ONE Should Vote For Neera Tanden, Hillary's Corrupt Hatchet Woman" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHoAItMg3IU This might be the wake up message Biden's core team needs to get through their skulls -> Bad nominations won't get passed. Its not that she's pro-this or anti-that SHE'S A BAD NOMINATION for ANY role in ANY administration. Those tweets are NOT what any official should be posting, even in jest.
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  6605. AS AN AUSTRALIAN 1: Is/Was Julian Assange being a smart ass and going to get in trouble doing what he was doing? YES 2: Did Julian Assange INFORM the world that an Australian ally had committed war crimes? YES 3: Has that caused Australia no shortage of grief with its ally? More than we know 4: Has the Australian Government ABANDONED and Australian citizen in trouble? ABSO-FRAKING-LUTELY 5: Is it a shameful thing that successive Australian governments have abandoned Australian citizens in trouble around the world for CONVENIENCE? Yeah, Yeah & Yeah 6: DOES Assange need a PARDON? NO - for that he must be guilty of something and so far he is guilty of NOTHING.
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  6606. Yeah - that's a much better way of describing it.
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  6607.  @nevbarnes1034  Yes I got that but its still a ridiculous statement to label millions of people according to what one person wrote. This is one of the biggest problems with almost any public discussion these days. idiots rushing to label and box people into very tightly cramped pigeon holes. BOTH the Far Left and FAR Right are so quick to stamp labels on people and suddenly it crunches the discussion. Todays discussion is one that needs to happen and Coleman's insight is so great that suddenly trying to stamp such a stupid label on millions of people is simply idiotic. Even worse is that Konstantin is usually well above such ridiculous stuff. When Russia first invaded Ukraine he was one of a few voices anywhere in the world who spoke common sense. Its really disappointing to see someone who's normally so sharp to be so stupid.
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  6608.  @OoO-rf2gt  I watched the lot. So what's your point?
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  6609.  @OoO-rf2gt  What am I wrong about smartass? He's quoted a single person and attributed a grandiose generalised claim that does not hold true to millions of people and that's stupid. And what have you done other than been an arrogant clown who can't even back up his own claims except put up an emoji? Its people like you why the world is so FKD these days. You think arrogance and self righteousness is a solution when its not even an answer answer.
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  6610.  @KhorneBrzrkr  Yeah but that's NOT progressive. That entire nature versus nurture thing is a psychology or sociology discussion it has NOTHING to do with anyone's politics. Its one of the worst generalisations I have seen anyone do.
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  6611. ​ @godsrevolver9737  Hey DlCKHEAD he said what he said and the reason why I cannot stand DlCKHEADS like you Konastantin AND the Radical Left is you all either hijack language or you wait until the other side hijacks language and then exploit it. And so you know one of Orwell's main themes in 1984 was the hijacking of language. That's what doublespeak is all about. First example - the word woke only applied to the economic state of African Americans since it was first used in the blues music in the 1950s. THEN out of nowhere the radical Left (who I can't farking stand) hijacked it. to mean anything the Social Justice warrior brigades wanted to apply it too. It had nothing to do with LGBT anything, or environmental issues or energy transitions or education. It was purely an economic term as it applied to one group of people - African Americans. Second example - the word progressive meant 1 thing and 1 thing only. It applied to anyone Left, Centrist or Right who wanted society to make progress and not just on 1 thing but across the broader spectrum of society by allowing opportunity and NOT restricting it which the radical Right do or forcing equality which the Radical Left do. The reason I hate what the Radical Left has done is they claim to be progressive but want the world to GO BACKWARDS and try again at that Marxist/Socialist/Stalinist nonsense. That's NOT progressive that's regressive because they want to GO BACKWARDS to something that already failed catastrophically. This is why the Radical Right are just as pathetic they want the world to GO BACKWARDS to some robber baron theocratic form of feudalism. This is why I hate what Konastantin has chosen to become. 2-3 years ago he was someone who wanted a better world. Now he's just another cheap punk on the payroll of the American Libertarians and there's no shortage of those DUMB PRlCKs or the money supply they feed on. If you don't like that for reasoning then FCK OFF.
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  6612. I'M BLOCKING YOUR CHANNEL FOR THE SIMPLE REASON YOU DON'T TELL US ANYTHING WE HAVEN'T HEARD 1,000 TIMES ALREADY. I'm worn out. Its bad enough the Trump Thumpers and Bible Bashers banging our heads against the wall with the same crap again and again. Maybe when you have something NEW I might watch again.
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  6613. Ah yes DJT the guy who made the film "Idiocracy" into a documentary.
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  6614. I'm not defending what he's doing now, Jimmy seemed to be fine up to that point where the Squad didn't force the vote. Something in Jimmy broke and he's just gone of the rails. Jimmy was always on about being progressive and at its heart progressivism is about change. Jimmy used to interview people like Mark Blyth, Richard Wolff and others who are saying the world needs to change. When the Squad did nothing to force change I think Jimmy saw it as a complete betrayal and it broke him. Jimmy's still about change its just that he now wants to do it with a wrecking ball named Trump.
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  6615.  @utterbullspit  Don't know. I never saw him advising Trump, but then EVERYONE on the planet tried at some point to advise Trump. Mostly with 2 words "off" and a word rhyming with "puck" but he never listened. Maybe Jimmy was always something else. All I can say is he was preaching as a progressive and interviewing decent people. Then they didn't force the vote and he flipped out and just started screaming garbage and it only got worse. I used to like Jimmy because he did have on people like Mark Blyth and be reasonable. But these days I wouldn't give Jimmy a second. He's seriously skull FKD. And for the record I don't blame the squad for being the trigger. Jimmy ruined his own life.
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  6616.  @nathanielbables8652  Simple answer - I don't know, but it seems he has.
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  6617. No I don't like your content because its a BULLSHlT scenario. Even with the latest upgrades the F16 is a 1970s design and the Ukrainians are NOT getting the latest upgrades. The SU-57 might made by the Russians and it might not be an F22 or F35 but at least it was designed this century. This is a ridiculous discussion at best and idiotic crap at worst. And show some respect for the people who are getting shot at instead of being yet another social media gas bag.
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  6618.  @kevinward9455  Where TF do you get the audacity to make a claim like that? "They only have 1" The reports (true or false) say the Russians have built 21 of them - some prototype/development variants and some production. Can halfwits like you just stop screeching nonsense at everyone or is that too much to ask?
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  6619.  @rejvaik00  If you are going to criticise another country for what ever reason GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT. YES - we have compulsory voting BUT that does NOT MEAN you actually have to vote for anyone. As you said people can simply mismark the voting form. I had a family member who used to draw an extra box and write his football team's name beside it and tick that box. Same thing. The only thing that is compulsory is that you turn up and fill out a voting slip. How you fill it out is your choice. If you don't turn up then you get a please explain letter and so long as you give a reasonable explanation NOTHING ever happens AND I have never heard of anyone being fined. SECONDLY we DO NOT have first past the post like America and Britain. We have what is called preferential voting which I think Alaska has now adopted. It encourages more people to step up as candidates and provide more options. If the main parties get slack and put up crap candidates then it leaves the door wide open for other people. Its a system that keeps our parties a lot more honest. This is how the Teal Independents won so many seats at the last election. The main parties got slack. A lot of swing voters who had voted Right at the previous election did NOT vote LEF but voted Teal. Just as the Democrats have issues accepting that 2020 wasn't that good of a result Australian Labor doesn't accept the last election wasn't that good of a result for them. A lot of of swing voter didn't swing to them but swung sideways. So please in future GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT AND NOT BULLSHlT PEOPLE.
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  6620.  @rejvaik00  Well you need to be clear when you take a jibe at another country. Its gets people damn upset when you leave things out or get things wrong. The bit I hated was your remark that it makes our politicians lazy. Our preferential system makes lazy politicians vulnerable even the ones at the top. When Prime Minister John Howard got his ass handed to him it was by an independent with no party at all behind her. The Teals in the last election handed both parties a slap across the face and in the next one could easily sweep then away if they do things a little better. Their biggest issue right now is being heard and that is a problem with our media.
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  6621. Your right, as with most of the people who talk about this stuff he's relying more on hyperbole than actual facts. I'm an engineer. Nuclear is NOT 100% Green. I have actually worked on a Uranium mine and I can tell you for a fact that it is NOT zero emissions. Its not as bad as many other things but its NOT zero emissions either. None of them are. Windmill blades and solar panels in land fill is just as ridiculous as most of the other stuff that ends in landfills. Another project I worked on removed and separated out all of the recyclables from household waste. It then put the organics fraction through a bio-digestor systems that not only produced more than enough energy to run the plant but produced high grade fertiliser at the end of the process. Depending on the time of year only around 5 -15% of house hold wasn't needs to end up in landfill. Yes we need to find ways to recycle solar panels and windmill blades just like we need to recycle an awful lot of things. The most aggravating thing in this is the claim that only nuclear can do the job. Its just as stupid as the claims that only wind or solar or hydro can do the job. I really hate that attitude of people promoting this or that energy solution. None fo them will individually solve the problem.
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  6622. In the end this video is nothing but a very shitty paid for PR blurb for yet another company trying to raise capital for their projects.
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  6623.  @globaldigitaldirectsubsidi4493  Even if they vote other wise they support candidates who aren't good enough to beat clowns.
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  6624.  @globaldigitaldirectsubsidi4493  I'm Australian but went to college in America. So I know what politicians are like at both ends of the Earth and there's not much difference in the stupidity or narcissism. Its just that America's media is so much louder. The culture war is a disaster where rage is blessed, facts are just statistical casualties and responsibility is more dead than than those 19 children in Uvalde. We just know that shortly the gun nuts will claim its another false flag and start showing pictures of kids from Mexico or Guatemala. I heard a great term yesterday "Pink Slime Media" it comes from Ghostbusters 2 where the pink slime gets people to hate each other. I hate to say it, but as long as America is addicted to "Pink Slime Media" its doomed and if Australia follows suit then we'll deserve what we get from it.
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  6625.  @globaldigitaldirectsubsidi4493  I'm an aerospace engineer, people n my profession made it possible to hit anyone anywhere on the planet with millimeter precision with anything from a bullet to a nuclear bomb. Science by itself will not make people grow up without fear. The problem really comes back to a double issue of a lack of societal leadership and corruption. No country or society is actually free of corruption because there's always somebody willing to step outside the rules to get what they want. The issue is what will our leaders do and sadly around the world we have to many people who like being in charge but don't like leading. There's a fundamental difference between simply being in charge and leading. Its called responsibility. Real leaders take responsibility and do things while fakes blame others and do self promotion.
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  6626.  @chosenjuan0252  Get lost you clown. He was born in Uvalde and his mother taught kindergarten less than a mile from the shooting. It is personal for him.
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  6627. YEAH absolutely and I have the same thing to add as I have in a couple of other places This M0R0N needs her facts checked. Hilary Clinton did not lose because of anyone else but Hilary Clinton. Her and her fans are still blaming everyone else and not taking any responsibility for what happened in 2016 and its disgusting. When will they get over themselves and accept some responsibility. For anyone who wants to check go and look up the interview that Rana Foroohar gave to the Realignment Podcast. Its easy to find just search "rana foroohar realignment." Its episode 301 and about 29 minutes she she explains where BOTH the GOP and Dems went wrong with handling Trump in 2015 primaries and 2016 election. Also Mark Blyth predicted Trump would win more than 6 months out form the 2016 election for similar reasons. This is why is just so egregious to hear YET ANOTHER Hilary Clinton symp blaming other people for their failure.
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  6628. daftool had a great little rhyme, here's my limerick to Donnie J. There was a young prick called Junior, Useless waste of a rich silver spooner, Never to broke, To snort lotsa coke, And makes his quotes look even more screwier.
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  6629.  @TheMrgoodmanners  LISTEN DlCKHEAD AND ACTUALLY LISTEN ITS NOT THE SAME TECHNOLOGY MOST OF THESE COMPANIES ARE PUMPING And I really do mean to be SCREAMING THAT AT YOU. Because these things have been said and said and said and no matter how many times you stupid clowns wont listen. I know about the reactor in Russia and there's another in China because all the SMR projects are listed on Wikipedia. I know about the reactors in submarines and aircraft carriers. I'm an engineer and used to work with ex-US Navy Nuclear Power plant operator/technician who served on Aircraft Carriers. He told me about his training and the way they are operated. You simply can't just use military reactors in domestic installations. Then there's other realities. If you actually go back and look at the history of reactors many would now be classified as SMALL. Many of this new generation are completely different technology and want to use things like TRISO fuel pellets. NOBODY has yet proven TRISO works short term or long term let alone if it can be manufactured at scale. Almost all of them want to use HALEU fuel grades and there's NO PLANTS that make HALEU for domestic use. You stupid clowns are driving all the engineers crazy BECAUSE YOU JUST WONT LISTEN. All you do is keep repeating the same stupid SHlT again and again.
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  6630.  @blargh3428  There are letting Elon do a lot of things. Ruining the environment with rockets is pretty small compared to the rest of what he does. AND all of the rockets combined are NOTHING compared to the power industry.
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  6631.  @vigilantmug5028  Great point - there are many countries with energy issues. A lot of people forget that as populations grow they also require more energy. For most of the last 20+ years few western countries kept building major base load power stations to provide a solid foundation to underpin their energy needs. I'm Australian and I have seen claims that 75% of our main base load power stations are past their design life. As an engineer that's partly questionable because you can re-life a power station with a major rebuild. That can only be done so many times. Our major issue is some of ours are so old there is nothing that can be done. and we aren't the only country
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  6632.  @awesomeferret  You've just pointed out the hyper-elephant in the room that's trampling on human society right now - misinformation that people choose to accept as fact irrespective of how idiotic it might be. Its not simply a matter of people speaking garbage, that's been happening since the dawn of society. Its that we (for the first time in history) have a mechanism for distributing verbal garbage (social media) to every person on the planet who WANTS to believe any particular piece of garbage they like. There's a great line about how the village idiot used to be restricted to the village, but thanks to social media they village idiots across the globe can now gather together and spread their stupidity everywhere. Arguably the biggest problem is when people like what they hear they don't fact check anything and then mistakes and lies become facts.
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  6633. Yeah but the fact ANOTHER Trump project has failed hasn't been missed.
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  6634.  @laurenchatman714  Its only not over in the minds of badly misinformed people. How exactly do you think the election can be overturned? Its been certified. It went to court 65 times and lost 64 times. The one win was over a procedure and NOTHING to do with votes. There's been audit after audit and NOTHING - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAS BEEN FOUND. Trump and his people are liars why can't you see that. If you have a problem with Biden fine. I don't think he's the answer America needs, but please stop listening to the lies of Trump and his people.
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  6635.  @unknown-rx6qj  Dude - Sidney Powell is so full of shite she could clog a sewerage treatment plant.
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  6636. I wouldn't call this a busted video because he keeps pointing out where the Veritasium video was right. Its more like he's a more comprehensive explanation of what's going on with electrostatics and various fluids.
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  6637.  @re1v3r  Yeah but getting a score of 2 out of 10 might be better than 1 out of 10 but its still a fail. And a score of 49 out of 100 might be even better but its still a fail. You can get a score of 98 out of 100 and it can still be a fail if the passing grade is 99. I'd take Australia over many other places but that doesn't mean we get a passing grade on anything.
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  6638. I don't know is she's the most incompetent there's a lot of competition for that these days. She's certainly the worst to be handed control of a developed nation/country in a while. I'm Australian and what's amazing is that her ignorance of what was actually going on was almost identical to what our equivalent to the Tory Party the Australian Liberal Party showed the last few years. I went to college in America and the Democrats in America who actually are center right party like the Tories and A-Libs have similar issues. they are disconnected from the people they claim to represent, they are trapped in neoliberal economic policies and they think they can say anything and the general population will clap and cheer like their party faithful. They aren't as bad as those parties further to the right like our National Party and the American Republicans who have lost grip with reality.
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  6639. Maybe some of you can help explain Nigel Farage.,*because he was just here in Australia doing a lecture tour.* I have no idea why anyone would PAY to listen to him. but maybe some of you guys can explain how no one has held him accountable for not just making Brexit happen but that he walked away after the vote. We all saw him on TV pronouncing to the world how the British people "have won their country back." Then we all saw him resign and pronounce it was up to others to negotiate Brexit. My questions are: How come I don't see anyone calling him out on that? How was it he had no plan on what to do after the vote? How come he walked away and nobody said "Hey you made this happen - now help"?
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  6640. Would it help to view it as an old 1950's school bus that has NONE of the modern safety engineering? Would it help more if the driver is some illiterate red necks angry aunt? FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and I have NEVER seen America so divided and never thought America could ever become this divided, because America's "We are the UNITED States of America" (and I stress that word united) was always America's greatest strength. Do or any other Americans realise just how much it used to drive us crazy when you used to chant "U-S-A U-S-A....." at sports events? It was so intimidating to have any of us try and compete against it. There were times when the rest of us basically cheered on ANYONE (including the Russians) if they could take it to an American team in anything. These days we don't even care. For sure America is still a dominant player in almost any sports but we don't fear competing against America anymore AND that also extends into business and pretty much everything else. And the biggest single reason is that America is no longer that UNITED nation and with Trump tearing up every treaty that he could its made America an unreliable partner. And YES, I KNOW that Rupert Murdoch is Australian and he has played a major role in dividing America.
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  6641.  @ephraimboateng5239  If we are going to be this silly lets spell Chaos the "Get Smart" way - KAOS
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  6642.  @taranullius9221  WTF do engineering frat bros have to do with a damn thing? Just remember you M0R0N its us engineers (and YES I am one) who makes the bus for you to rent. We also make or provide almost much everything else you including the computer you're on right now and the electricity to run it. I suggest you don't drink alcohol or anything else that reduces mental capacity or you'll become a GOP voter.
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  6643.  @joe.oneill  SNL should use it as a sight gag.
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  6644. Rudy Giuliani and his lawyer have already been caught out and they are in trouble. They claimed he to ill to travel and he turned up on twitter having fun. They claimed that he couldn't fly and yet its turned up he's booked flights to other places including Italy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4arIcTixtSk
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  6645.  @zogar8526  Sorry but if America shifted into a one party state with the Dems the only party WOULD BE A DISASTER of staggering proportions. The Billionaire class would gain even more control and have no challengers at all. America would become China with billionaires instead of the CCP. What America needs are 2 (or more) RELEVANT PARTIES, instead of this cluster-FK of a mess it now has and other countries are heading towards. Regaining control of our nations from the billionaires is the biggest challenge humanity has faced in centuries. The last time the world had corporate entity of the types we now face was in the days of the British East India Company. It took the British decades and 2 acts of parliament to clean that up and they only faced 1 company not dozens.
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  6646. Same from Australia
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  6647. YES - Its proof yet again that no matter what your tribe, culture, nation or political system, there is no greater threat to any society than its own fanatics. I remember a TV mini-series (many years ago - 1981) about the Siege of Masada. In one scene Peter Strauss playing the Zealot Leader Eleazar Ben Yair meets Peter O'Toole playing the Roman general Lucius Flavius Silva and Eleazar tells him that if he wants to destroy the Jews simply leave them alone and very quickly they will start fighting among themselves. Look at America right now. We might not see it that clearly because the effect took 30+ years to surface but by winning the Cold War and with it the collapse of the Soviet Empire they lost that 1 major threat. Yeah sure China has sort of stepped up as a challenger and there was the war on terror but neither were the same threat Russia was. In the years since without that 1 real challenger the Americans have simply started fighting among themselves. Sure they had rivalries but not since the civil war have there been factions in America that actually believe that other Americans are their worst enemy imaginable. On the flip side who did more damage to Russia than the Communists. Other than how they treated their own people their industries never really developed that much. I'm an aerospace engineer and Soyuz might be old and less technically developed but its reliable. Where they truly screwed up was environmentally and the best example there is the Aral Sea disaster.
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  6648.  @mohwe1007  be very careful with a comment like that as at first view it could easily be taken the wrong way because you haven't given any context
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  6649. WHAT'S MORE EMBARRASSING. The fact our submarines were badly maintained, which we know about. OR The the rat f*ck media goons at Sky took over 10 years to figure out that it needed to do a story about it.
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  6650.  @ÆthelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333  You're almost right, but it is fairly stupid to say the English people are unrelated to the Anglo Saxons when a significant number of them are descendants of the Angle, Jute and Saxon invasions that happened after the Romans left Britain. The actual British native nations (Bretons, Welsh, Gaels, Picts, Mercians,....etc) are NOT Anglo-Saxons and most had their own languages but they're now all related through generations of inter-breeding. The odd ones in that mix are the Normans who aren't actually French at all but the descendants of "Northmen" who settled along the coast of France after the French King got tired of them rampaging and pillaging every summer. William the Conqueror is a direct descent of Rollo the Viking, reputed to be the brother of Ragnar Lodbrok. Ragnar might not might not have existed but Rollo certainly did. You should check your history a little better.
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  6651. I just bet some of Osama Bin Laden's boys are sitting in front of a TV right now wondering what they can do now that they are out of a job. Do you think they are reminiscing about the good old days when America was a worth hating? Their recruitment people must be wondering what they do now. How do you recruit disenfranchised kids to destroy America when this is happening?
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  6652.  @thedave7760  Dude a scouting party is not an invasion.
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  6653. No its just less profitable than ranting. Go ask the owners of Fox, MSNBC, CNN, OAN, Newsmax, WaPo, NYT,................................
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  6654. Seriously Thom - Steve Schmidt is NOW a RELIABLE information source. Hers's a pathetic grifter who along with Rick Wilson started the Lincoln Project which did what exactly? Yeah the LP made lots of money for its founders and did some clever clever clever advertising that got what EXACLTY? This guy is one of the turd brained clowns that wrecked American politics and turned political campaigns into M0R0NIC SHlTFESTS. If anyone doubts it go and look for a book talk his buddy Rick Wilson did at the Commonwealth Club of California in 2018 where he explains how they won election campaigns. Yeah its a long vid to watch but its a real eyeopener on how America's election system was eaten from the inside out by narcissistic turb brains like Steve Schmidt.
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  6655.  @NomadSoul76  Karl Polanyi who Mark Blyth quotes all the time said (in effect) you cannot allow the markets to turn humans labor into a commodity like you can with so many things because THEY ARE HUMAN. You would basically destroy society/civilisation and yet that is what we have basically done. “...To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment, indeed, even of the amount and use of purchasing power, would result in the demolition of society. For the alleged commodity, "labor power" cannot be shoved about, used indiscriminately, or even left unused, without affecting the human individual who happens to be the bearer of this peculiar commodity. In disposing of a man's labor power the system would, incidentally, dispose of the physical, psychological, and moral entity of "man" attached to the tag. Robbed of the protective covering of cultural institutions, human beings would perish from the the effects of social exposure; they would die as the victims of acute social dislocation through vice, perversion, crime, and starvation. Nature would be reduced to its elements, neighborhoods and landscapes defiled, rovers polluted, military safety jeopardized, the power to produce food and raw materials destroyed...” ― Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
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  6656. It might not be treason or insurrection because that would mean he's trying to overthrow the existing government and Trump's still the legal POTUS. But Sedition is another matter --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition Flynn's problem is that his is military and his oath is for life and sedition is specifically described under the UCMJ and I think he can still be court martialed. I have previously asked Glenn Kirshner who has been both a JAG and Federal Prosecutor about clarifying treason & sedition. He has a channel here on YT and has been clarifying many of the recent legal issues, including Michael Flynn's and other pardons. Here is a link to his most recent comment on Flynn. Flynn's pardon is already being challenged . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlFCJzL8W0
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  6657. Its all well and good to have this resolution but to throw out politicians for lying during a campaign would mean throwing out every elected official on the planet. Unfortunately we have all (I'm Australian) allowed our politics to devolve into this type of shitfest where the insane are running the asylum. Thanks to modern media we can see what's going on across the world. If you watch politics or economics its pretty much the same everywhere. Our politicians lie and out economies are a mess because of it.
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  6658. TO ALL: The graph David shows is here -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/ Just above the graph David shows is the cumulative graph. If you put your mouse on the ORANGE line you can see the cumulative number day by day ON March 2, 2021 the Texas Death toll for COVID-19 was 44,474 ON April 2, 20021 the Texas Death toll for COVID-19 was 48,850 an increase of 4,376 ON May 2, 2021 the Texas Death toll for COVID-19 was 50,567 an increase of 1,717 As of May 31 the Texas Death toll for COVID-19 is 51,727 with 12 more Texans dying yesterday. The sources for that data include the Texas Department of State Health Services. There might be Republicans who believe in science but Lauren Boebert DOESN'T BELIEVE IN MATH
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  6659. Why is anybody surprised at this? Saagar - "this is pretty normal for government. That's the problem." 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  6660.  @sail2byzantium  Great comment. I'm Australian but have been to Vancouver. Its a great city and easily one of the best in the world, BUT NO CITY IS PERFECT and they all have their issues.
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  6661.  @sail2byzantium  No prob. I like Canada. Other than the trip to Vancouver I spent 4 months in Sask finishing off a water treatment plant in 2017/18. Other than the clown who broke that plant by letting it freeze (duh) I loved the place and the people, but then Canada and Oz aren't perfect. Our bears are cute, cuddly and sit in trees getting high on eucalyptus leaves while yours hunt humans for snacks. Our 4 legged animals are also cute and cuddly while moose are angry, bad tempered and like stomping on things. Go Riders. But the we got most of the worlds most lethal snakes, spiders, jelly fish, sharks, crocodiles and a giant ant that can jump a meter and bite so hard it can kill a child but at least we don't have polar bears. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  6662.  @moonchildspirit5581  Just when we thought America's level of crazy had gone too far, it goes for another high.
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  6663.  @InformedKiwi  It never ceases to amaze that Kiwis think arrogant stupidity is a virtue. Listen and you might learn something. History is littered with better technologies that were never adopted. Example 1: VHS tapes. Sorry but BetaMax was better in every way but 1. Better picture, better re-record, better in almost everything except they were more expensive to make and Hollywood wanted cheaper. Example 2: Molten Salt Reactors were better and more efficient and produced less waste than Water cooled reactors but were developed second and NOBODY held the patents that they could control. If Chernobyl or Fukushima had been MSRs then there would have been NO ACCIDENTS. Do you know the coal industry developed a new generation of boilers for power stations that would have reduced world CO2 emissions by several billion tons a year? Rio Tinto was one of the main players in that. They even had advertisements on TV at one stage telling everyone about their new technology. They even built a power station in Japan that used it. It was a technology that wasn't adopted, because Rio Tinto and others would have lost billions because the amount of coal they sell would have dropped significantly. The issues with producing and using Hydrogen from wind were solved years ago. The issues with using it in gas turbines were mostly solved in the 1990s BUT nobody wanted it at the time especially the jet fuel industry and the natural gas industry. The jet fuel guys didn't need to worry because they might have worked out the engine issues but not the fuel tank issues. Try coming down of your self imposed arrogance high chair WTFU. Being good at rugby means JACK SHlT about everything else. Just be grateful there's something you clowns are good at. And just because Scott Dixon, Scott McLaughlin and Shane Van Hamburger can drive doesn't mean the rest of you farking can.
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  6664. Can people just stop putting microphones in front of these clowns??? There's some real issues in the world. Other than: - A potential nuclear war in Eastern Europe that is already affecting the food supply to millions of people - A potential war over Taiwan that could affect the World's manufacturing capability - 50% the Developed world finally working out how screwed they are after the 2008 GFC while another 40% have had to bail out the Oligarchs who caused the 2008 GFC and have made TRILLIONS since and paid nothing back. - 100 million refugees and asylum seekers from countries that have been devastated by wars and famine caused by dumping millions of small arms into them while their resources have been stripped by the Oligarchs. There's that small problem of Climate Change, which when its not burning the world down is drowning us in floods or smashing us with hurricanes and tornados and threatens to starve several billion people. And somehow there are people in the media who think putting microphones in front of these M0R0NS is what we need to see and hear. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂
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  6665.  @poulwinther  YES - a few people have been pointing this part of the Bitcoin algorithm. It has this control aspect to the transaction rate and part of that control reflects back on how much power is needed to do the transaction confirmation. IT GOES UP and will continue to go up. I'm an engineer and there's an inherent flaw in the way Bitcoin and the block chain functions. Every time it updates ledger the amount of data that has to move about GROWS. I asked an IT expert a couple of years ago what happens when that data gets too large to move about easily. He shrugged and just said "Yeah we know about that!" He had no answer to what might happen. So other than all the other BS there's also an inherent technical flaw but if you try and tell the crypto-bros that they freak out.
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  6666. Yes just like the American, British, European, Australian, Canadian and all the other baby boomers.
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  6667. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  6668. You just perfectly described what's going wrong with the entire Western hemisphere at the moment. Our governments are filled at both the elected and appointed roles with career time killers. Its not just the people who have been there done that either. Its a people who want to be in charge but not make decisions they might be held accountable for. I'm Australian and you've described our problem perfectly. When I watch the BBC, France 24, DW or any of the other news services its the same story again and again. Our governments are afraid to govern lest they upset someone. This is why there's no movement on climate, food, water, energy or anything else. Anything that's got any difficulty they just stall on. In most countries through history Trump and the others who spoke at the rally and the organisers would have been arrested ON THE DAY or the days after. In most countries they would have already been tried, convicted and sentenced and in some countries executed. What do you thin the Chinese, Russians or Saudis (to name a few) would have done by now? Consider America only 70 years ago in the 1950s. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for espionage. Yes they were spies, but they didn't try and overthrow America or stage a coup and they were executed. So Trump and others ought to feel lucky, very lucky.
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  6669. From Australia - that's an incredibly well put description of this time. Hopefully it will only be a very short era.
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  6670. I heard it clearly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion,_Iowa
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  6671. I am no fan of Dr. Fauci and there is no doubt he's not been open about what and when he knew what happened in that lab in Wuhan but Dave Rubin trying to argue that liars shouldn't be allowed in the media is just further proof of Dave's BRAlNLESS HYP0CRISY.
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  6672. NO David there is NOTHING fascinating bout anything this clown has to say anymore.
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  6673. Very similar to “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge” ― Daniel Boorstin Here's some other quotes that others have shared and I have collected over recent months. To all - enjoy. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980. “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain “The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the world. No first world country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent” ― Gore Vidal “Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a state of utter confusion.” ― Colonel Flagg of the CIA in an episode of MASH sometime in the 1970s.
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  6674. MAYBE Hunter should introduce him to his therapist. Because at the very least he's stopped making a public spectacle of himself.
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  6675.  @No0Dle-y9f  No it just keeps it going and this stuff is like cancer and its wrecked every state, nation and empire its ever been practised in.
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  6676. AUSTRALIAN HERE - I went to college in America in the late 80s on a scholarship and did aerospace engineering at the U. of Illinois. That was when the Internet was being born and the Cray supercomputers were doing amazing things. Marc Andreessen did his degree in computing at Illinois in the years just after I graduated. Andreessen along with Eric Bina and others developed the worlds first practical web browser Mosaic while there. I actually used the precursor system called Plato while there and its hard to explain how bad it was and how much a functional web browser was needed. Mosaic eventually morphed into Netscape which Microsoft bought and then morphed into MS Internet Explorer. Go and look at the Wikipedia page for the U of Illinois notable Alumni and look down the list of people who have made huge contributions to America's computer industries and other technologies. You'll see references to YouTube and Tesla in that list. So I know first hand what the value of the American State funded college systems are worth. I mention Andreessen specifically because he has been so vocal in recent years about defunding state backed college systems. I find that repulsively hypocritical because I KNOW from FIRST HAND experience what an incredible advantage in life he got from attending a state funded college. FYI - The Illini thumping Michigan was fantastic, but what would be better is that America can find a way past its current political issues because that's a benefit to the whole world.
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  6677. About 20 years ago I read a news paper story about the PR Firm that represents the Saudi Royal Family in America. It was in the Melbourne Age, a fairly well respected Australian Newspaper and one of the few major papers Rupert Murdoch does NOT own. They didn't go into a lot of details about specific incidents, but there was an amazing statement from another American PR manager that was pretty close to: "I'd prefer to represent the Nazi Party than the Saudi Royal Family and I'm Jewish." I remember it because my boss at the time was Jewish and he was stunned. Its indicative that they are so bad that people wont care how much money is offered they just wont have anything to do with them. Which begs the question: What stuff have they done that we've never heard about?
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  6678. Your right, but then how would those billionaires afford their next superyacht if Biden paid of the student debt instead of giving them contracts for stuff.
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  6679.  @octaviorodriguez6849  Just so you know that happened EVERYWHERE across the Western world during the 1970s & 1980s. It was part of the economics package that was inspired by Milton Freidman. He was a total manipulative narcissist and there are people who still worship him today. Freidman was insane. Go look at some of Thom Hartman's videos on neoliberalism.
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  6680.  @octaviorodriguez6849  I'm not into Freidman's life that much and I'm not into studying his nonsense that much either. And its Freidman not Freemen, but I think you just muffed that one. The evidence his ideas were WRONG are self evident, Just look where all the Western economies are these days. I'm actually an aerospace engineer who works in industrial automation. I have personally watched the disaster that neoliberalism had on Western manufacturing. I started looking into economics so I could push back against clowns with economics degrees interfering in projects. The more I look into economics and where we might start getting ideas from the more frustrated I get. Economics is now so narrowly focused on market dynamics that the entire profession (even the mavericks who are trying to be different) is so stuck in a flawed mentality we are almost doomed to collapse. Thom Hartman's done a series of books on American history and one was on Freidman's neoliberal economics. He's not the only source but he's a good start on the subject.
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  6681.  @cb4354  That's a good point about useless degrees or at least degrees with less relevance to the majority of society. On the other hand there also need to be public discussions about the financial influence on certain degrees, especially economics, business and law. One of the major reasons why there's so much wealth inequality is that economics is taught from a very narrow perspective of markets and markets being the solution to everything.
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  6682. CNN - Crazy Nutters Network
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  6683. Warren Buffet 92, Charlie Munger 99, Rupert Murdoch 91 and Barre Seid 91 are just a few of the over 90 year olds with way too much say of our lives. If you then start to include people like Charles Koch 87 who openly states his intent to re-write the US Constitution, there is a huge problem with the incredible power these people have just from their wealth.
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  6684.  @kimmettfarlston-chew  Buddy do you not get the basic fact that ALL, NOT JUST SOME BUT ALL of Western Society is now dominated by a loose collection of VERY OLD hyper selfish BILLIONAIRES who just wont let go and retire. There's a really serious aspect to this. I'm an engineer and we are at the world's next great energy transition. Just as we once moved on from horse & sail, to coal & steam and then onto oil we are now moving on again. It actually has almost nothing to do with Climate Change. Its just happening when climate change is a major influence. We actually should have moved on from oil 40 years ago and gone nuclear BUT various factors prevented that including the fact we never got to use the other forms of nuclear. They aren't baby boomers but war babies born before or during WW2. They are the generation who rebuilt the world after WW2 and see all the rest of us as incapable to do do anything. They also refuse to admit they have made any mistakes and yet that is now incredibly obvious. The consequences of their economic mismanagement is going to bite us like a T-Rex with a hangover.
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  6685.  @DetroitAnalog  Great question. I'm an engineer not a psychologist but I did do Psych 101 in college. The most basic difference between a a sociopath and a psychopath is that a sociopath has no capability to empathise or care others while a psychopath is driven by their compulsions. Narcissists are people so selfish there's a specific psychological term for them. So take you pick are these people sociopaths, psychopaths, narcissists or combinations of all 3.
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  6686.  @beasy8991  That's a great point and we'll see where she turns up. Remember Trump might hate losers but he also loves loyal foot soldiers and she's been a loyal foot soldier. So I suspect you're 1/2 right and she wont get a high profile position but I think she will get something. And besides there's that other factor. If Trump gives her a role where the Left will go nuts like education then he might throw her to the wolves as a distraction while he does other things.
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  6687. ​ @gabebabe1  I don't think ANYONE here is questioning if Matt Taibbi's stories about what was going on at Twitter are accurate or not. What they are questioning is who he's working for NOW and if he is compromised. And that is a fair thing to question. Most of the people in these sorts of threads on social media pages like this one question the integrity of media people at MSNBC, CNN, Fox, NYT, WaPo and other main stream "billionaire owned" outlets all the time. Before buying twitter Elon Musk was a "billionaire industrialist" who was very good at handling the media and promoting his businesses. Now he is the billionaire owner of one of the biggest media platforms in history and right now Matt Taibbi is the main voice for a narrative being pushed by a billionaire. That means his integrity is questionable.
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  6688.  @tsargardpeaches  DlCK-HED Taibbi was CHOSEN by a billionaire for the same reasons GOP billionaires use Fox and Dems billionaires use CNN & MSNBC. It doesn't matter someone is asking you to eat a bullshite sandwich or a horseshite sandwich they are still asking you to eat a shite sandwich and like it.
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  6689.  @tsargardpeaches  WHAT FACTS am I or lots of other people ignoring? Is it a fact that Matt Taibbi is now working for a billionaire? Is it a fact that Elon Musk is pushing a political narrative at the moment? Is it a fact that they are releasing all this information piece by piece? Sure DlCK-HED, which one of us is ignoring facts and which one of us is howling at the sky?
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  6690.  @tsargardpeaches  EVERY SIDE and FLAVOR of politics has always been pro-censorship of things they don't like and anti-censorship of things they want heard. That's been going on for 1000s of years. If you strip away all the BULLSHlT then there's not much new in politics since the 1st King put a crown on his head. Its about taking power and then keeping hold of it. Public information has always been about getting people onside to your cause with NEW information (not honest, truthful or anything else, just new) and then keeping them onside by controlling what they hear. Its called narrative and whoever controls it has power. Its what made America such a different nation to every other in history. For the very first time a nation was free to speak and for the last 220+ years the rich and powerful have been trying to find ways to get around it and take back control of the public narrative.
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  6691.  @irvingkurlinski  It was well predicted. "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever." - George Orwell.
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  6692.  @irvingkurlinski  That's at the core of what Prof. Mark Blyth calls Angrynomics. He's someone Thom should be interviewing on a regular basis. If you haven't heard the term look it up. He's part of f lose collective of mavericks who are speaking about this stuff.
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  6693. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Ryan a few weeks ago you blasted off at Sagaar over on Breaking Points for talking about subjects he doesn't know about. THIS TIME ITS YOU who's talking about things he doesn't know about. I did my degree in the late 80s when Ronald Reagans Star Wars program was in full flight. Almost all of the post graduate students were sponsored by DARPA. During my final year when we had to do our high level options we shared class time with the post grads. To get a higher post grad level credit they had to do technical papers and present them. So we got to listen to what they were doing and several of them were doing very interesting things. The class I that in some ways I wished I had never done because it was so hard is also at times like this the answer to stupid claims made these days. That class was Space Craft Dynamics, which is an extension of orbital mechanics and is about how things fly in space. I CAN ASSURE YOU ITS NOTHING LIKE Star Wars, Stra Trek or any other science fiction book, TV show or film. Its easily the single hardest class in all of engineering because of the math involved and yes I have argued it with other engineers. In that class were 2 guys I remember because what they were doing was so far out there it was hard to follow. One guy was doing the dynamics of rail guns and the other pointing of space craft. The dynamics of rail guns had to do with how the rails flex and vibrate due to the electrical forces. It sort of like the issues with projectiles being fired out of guns and the barrels flex. They might be small deflections but they can have big consequences. The guy who was doing the pointing was easily the smartest engineer I ever met in terms of doing complex applied math. What you get from being around someone like him and seeing what the work was like is to understand just how hard it is to accurately target anything in space. Looking at stars with telescopes is easy by comparison because their positions are known before hand. After that everything else just gets harder and harder to the point of being utterly impractical. The main 3 issues are that everything moves in curved paths, everything moves incredibly fast and the distances involved requires accuracy that's incredibly hard to do. That was what we really got out of Reagan's Star Wars program. Just how utterly impractical its goals were. The fact Trump came out and shifted an existing part of the Air Force into a new independent "Space Force" was politics and nothing more. The fantasy stuff about having troops stationed in space has been utterly debunked. The claims by clowns like Elon Musk for using giant rockets to deploy troops has been debunked. People making wild claims about space based lasers starting grass fires has been debunked. Politics like Hollywood can make what ever claims they like. Engineering is not like that. We either make stuff that works or stuff that fails or something in between. Either way we have to deal with reality NOT fantasy. So long as its difficult to physically get into space and physically demanding to stay in space and support crews in space then space will be about communications and surveillance and nothing else. If you'd like I'd happily come on and explain these things in more detail.
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  6694.  @DHD52  Do you actually know what killed off Reagans Star Wars program??? SIMPLE PRACTICALLITIES And I genuinely want to scream that in your face and in the face of so many other people these days who push all these fantasy BULLSHlT cases. I seriously doubt you work in space unless its maybe one of these BULLSHlT start-ups claiming some crap and nonsense hoping to get a DARPA contract. I seriously doubt you have a degree in aerospace or ever done any sort of real course in either orbital mechanics or space craft dynamics. The fact you call it space dynamics is a give away. HERE'S THE PRACTICALITIES WE WORKED IN IN THE LATE 80s 1) Lasers reflect of shiny surfaces. 2) Lasers loose power over distances. Its Ok for communications but NOT energy delivery. 3) All electrical space electrical hardware like computer chips and sensors are hardened against radiation and as such are near impregnable to microwaves. 4) NOTHING can hide in space. We all know where everything is and have done so since the early 80s. To actually catch up to something requires lots of careful orbital adjustments that take time. So NOBODY has been sneaking up on anybody. 5) Collision/Explosive based systems cause debris fields. Every test anyone has ever done has been disaster. 6) Collision based systems like what were called "brilliant pebbles" require targets to stay on a predictable course. Almost any deviation causes a miss because there's no time to react at orbital speeds. Sorry but I can spot BULLSHlT on this subject and your full of it.
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  6695.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  What a great question and it needs to be considered.
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  6696. As an Australian who went to college in America in the late 80s this is something I have been trying to explain to Americans for over 30 years. America NEVER HAD a true Left like Britain has with British Labor, Australia has with Australian Labor or many other countries have with political parties that STARTED out of their union movements. What America has is 2 parties that were formed by their political and business elites and as such are BOTH fundamentally RIGHT WING PARTIES. Further they have shifted where they were on the political spectrum as well. Americans seem to forget that at one point the Democrats were the radical racist Right Wing party while the Republicans were the moderate Right Wing Party. Remember that Republican President named Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves. Go look at the history of the Klu Klux Klan they were an offshoot of the Southern Democrats. Here in Australia the our version of the Labor Party was essentially the political party of our Unions. People like Dan Osborne were its members. There has been a significant change in recent decades however. The Australian Labor Party like British Labor and other Left Wing parties across the Western Democratic World have been taken over by college educated people usually with educations in law or economics. Tony Blair (former British PM), Julia Gillard (former Australian PM), Anthony Albanese (current Australian PM) and Keir Stammer (most likely to be the next British PM) are all lawyers and all members of their respective Labor parties. So it does NOT surprise me that America might be looking for working class people to displace some of the political elite like Dan Osborne is. We had that, then lost that and need to get it back again.
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  6697.  @blacksocrates1  I have no idea what country you are from but can people like you just stop making ridiculous and ignorant claims and acting like you actually know something.
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  6698. WHO CARES? There's so many DlCKHEADs on social media claiming this and that is a "game changer" that ANY CLAIM of a "game changer" in any technology is meaningless even if it really is an actual game changer.
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  6699. I normally like Prof. Wolf as he gives a balanced view of capitalism, but in this entire video he's ignoring the fact that his Marxist brothers have been equally as bad just as every "ism" has inherent faults. I challenge any Marxist to explain the environmental cost to the planet of the destruction of the Aral Sea buy the Marxists in Russia. I challenge any Marxist to explain the environmental cost to humanity of the destruction of the Asian river systems as Marxists in China and other places built dam after dam. I challenge any Marxist to explain the environmental costs across Eastern Europe as Marxist regimes cared just as little as Western Capitalists about pollution. I challenge any Marxist to explain the personal, social and human cost of "re-education camps" that Marxists ran in VERY COUNTRY THEY HAV ECONTROLLED. I agree with all these costs Prof Wolf is talking about BECAUSE HE IS RIGHT, but lets not forget that Marxist regimes have their costs too and that more often than not they are just as inefficient, decided on by people just as selfish and just as greedy. The one fact that all proponents of political systems ignore is that POLITICAL, SOCIAL and/or ECONOMIC POWER no matter what "ism" it operates under attracts narcissists and selfishness just as sure as shit attracts flies.
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  6700. I can see the moment coming where Tucker says something truly stupid, some clown does something truly ugly and then somebody reacts back at Tucker in a very brutal and very ugly way. If you keep winding people up then something WILL HAPPEN and as Jan 6th showed it can get out of control very, very quickly.
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  6701. And anyone who reads your comment should think long and hard on what its based on and then look at the evidence of what it has delivered. 1) The claim that governments can't do anything right comes straight from the mind of Milton Freidman who for some inexplicable reason was regarded as smart. He wasn't he was an IGN0RANT CLOWN of epic proportions. There's a fantastic interview where Phil Donahue challenges Freidman on his basic claim that "greed is good." Freidman claimed that all innovation is driven by greed. The problem with that is the greatest single project in human history for driving innovation the Apollo program had been successful. In Kennedy's famous speech announcing the plan to send a man to the Moon safely return him to the Earth the end of the decade INCLUDED remarks about developing methods and materials not even under consideration at the time. Out of Apollo came miniaturised electronics, practical digital computers, many alloys, many other materials including Teflon... etc. By the late 80s every dollar spent during Apollo had been returned over 9 times via taxes on wages and profits from companies exploiting Apollo spin-off technologies. That came out in a report following the Challenger disaster. I know about that because I'm an aerospace engineer. Other than that there's the incredible success of public education programs, public health care systems, road, bridges and other infrastructure all of which has enabled the private sector to grow and make money. Simple fact governments can do great things and can run economies. Its a matter of electing people who are competent rather than the clown brigades to many nations elect. 2) The claim that modern economics has delivered tremendous growth, wealth and prosperity is also bunk (to say the least). The correct way to describe neoliberal economics is that it has delivered tremendous growth, wealth and prosperity FOR SOME while leaving large slabs of society broken. In late 2022 Bernie Sanders had a report commissioned by the Congressional Budget Office on family wealth. It clearly showed that the Top 10% of America have done well, the Middle 40% of America have done O.k. while the bottom 50% have been utterly smashed and pulverised economically. If you extrapolate that information to the rest of the developed world where there are approximately 1.2 Billion people then what neoliberalism has done is throw around 600 million people under the economic bus like ahs happened to most of the other 6.8 Billion people on the planet while around 120 million people (~1.5% of the human race) has made enough money and gained enough wealth to afford to pay for the environmental damage they have done making that money. Those 2 things alone should get people like yourself to SHUT UP or WAKE UP, but your so called correction of money and debt is one of the stupidest explanations I have seen yet. Anyone who's read this far please go and watch Gary Stevenson's video on "What is Money."
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  6702. You wouldn't let her represent you after a bad fart in a crowded elevator.
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  6703. YES and anyone who knows much at all about history and how organisations like the Catholic Church regarded things like Trump saying his bible being "endorsed by Jesus" knows that's blasphemy and for most of the last 2,000 years he would have been executed for that.
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  6704. Dude America does have the most generous welfare benefits in the world, its just those benefits only extend to the top 1%. Of course Tucker sees it as generous. Its never taxed his smug condescending ass they way it does others.
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  6705. I did aerospace engineering and back in 1987 we had an alum from NASA who did a guest lecture on Friday. He'd just completed a preliminary study into terraforming Mars and the answer was forget it. Here's a slightly longer explanation. Sorry for the math. What this NASA guy introduced us to was what I now call "Planetary Mechanics" which is how much stuff do you need. The sister to that is "Planetary Dynamics" which is how do you make stuff like water cycles and gas cycles and ocean currents work. So how much Earth normal air would you need? Sorry for the math. Mars has a surface area of 144,370,000 km² If you just wanted a 1 km thick layer of Earth standard air on an object that big its easy to approximate it as enough big cubes of air to cover and that's easy because you just change area to volume and you have 144,370,000 km³ of air. Earth standard air weighs 1.2kg/m³. To work out what that 144,370,000 km³ weighs in metric tons you add 9 zeros to convert m³ to km³ and then take off 3 zeros to convert kilograms to tons. Yes this is why engineers like metric. Finally you multiply by 1.2 because its 1.2 kg/m³ And then you get 173,244,000,000,000 tons of Earth standard air. Yes that's a bit over 173 TRILLION tons of air. The simple question is where are you going to find that much air. That's before you ask anything like how are you going to get it there or keep it attached tot he planet because Mars has only 1/3rd of Earths gravity and n magnetic field to stop the solar wind stripping it away. There was this one bright spark who recently told me we'd only need the Oxygen (as in 1/5th) 🤔🤔 So I asked him where he thought he could get 34.6 TRILLION tons of Oxygen? Now I will grant its not technically impossible, but unless you really do have God like powers, it is like trying to build a 1 to 1 scale model of Mount Everest out of Lego.
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  6706. The words "selfish, narcissistic and b-tch go pretty well with he behavior." BTW - Its not just American politics, this is going on EVERYWHERE these days. I'm Australian and we have this crap going on as well. Go look at the mess Britain is right now. look at the mess Nigel Farage and his friends created with Brexit.
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  6707. The late great Joan Rivers said of Bo Derek "She's so dumb she'd need to study for a pap test." I wonder what Joan Rivers would say of Tomi Lauren, because Tomi makes Bo Derek look like a genius.
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  6708.  @Lorne.Mccuaig  In what farking universe does anyone blow up €18.3 billion of their own money. Nordstream-1 cost €8.8 billion. Nordstream-2 cost €9.5 billion. So what the Russians are building a pipeline somewhere else. The Russians have more than 3 times the natural gas reserves of America. American companies that have to use boats cannot compete with pipelines. As usual this is American foreign policy that is 100% about oil & gas. SO F⋃CK 0FF - we've all had enough of stupid people being IDl0TICALLY M0R0NIC.
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  6709.  @11235but  That's my basic conclusion of their behavior. Psychologically its pretty common. Criticise or abuse your own people but never allow anyone else too. There's a kind of funny but good example is in the film Animal House. The captain of the ROTC Neidermeyer is picking on Flounder and their frat brothers on the hill say "He can't do that to our pledges. Only we can do that to our pledges." I'm Australian but went to college in America. I never realised how bad Australian's can be at the same thing until after I had lived somewhere else for long enough to see it. I'm convinced people need to get out of their bubbles and preferably their country for a year. It massively helps people understand their own country by seeing it from the outside.
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  6710.  @11235but  That's a fare observation. I grew up in the country 2before moving to the big smoke. That alone gives anyone a broader perspective than those who only ever lived in a big city or only in a country town.
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  6711.  @rolandgirouard5914  Did you see the Mike Pompeo interview where he also denied that the last of the Kennedy files should be uncovered? Its part of why America is the land of the conspiracy theory. Government after government hides things and denies things that the general public know things about. Eventually the general public fill in the gaps with what ever they can. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♀🤷‍♀
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  6712. I'm still trying to figure out what was so horrendous in that message. Was it ugly? For sure, it was ugly, ignorant, stupid AND the dumb ass couldn't pronounce his insult properly. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ But with David's intro I was expecting something a lot more substantial.
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  6713. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: And for a coincidence I grew up in Warragul down the road from Traralgon. The simple answer is NO. In fact most people cannot even grasp the scale of the planet we live on. A while back I heard the claim that the Earth is so smooth that if you had a scale model of the Earth the size of a Billiard Ball you would not be able to feel Mt Everest. So I did the math. The Earth has a mean radius of 6371km (or 12742km average diameter). So if you had a scale model of the Earth with a 1m diameter it would be a 1:12,742,000 model. Everest is 8,848.86m high and on that 1m scale Earth it would be 0.00069m or less than 1mm high. The standard snooker ball is 52.5 mm (2+1⁄16 in) And on that ball Everest would be about 1/19th of that or close to 0.000036 0R 0.036 mm. So Yeah you might have trouble feeling for Mt Everest on a scale model of the Earth that's the size of a Snooker ball. Sorry if the rest of this is lengthy but this issue with people understanding the size of the Earth isn't new to me. I did my degree in America (U. of Illinois) and in my final year (1987) we used to have guest lectures. One of them was an alum who'd worked at NASA and had just completed a study of what it would take to terraform Mars. Considering that at the stage (despite the Challenger accident) we all expected to build Space Station Freedom and then go to the Moon by 2001 we also expected to go onto Mars after that. We were excited to hear this. His opening was "Sorry but its impossible and here's why!" He then introduced us to what I know call "Planetary Mechanics" and "Planetary Dynamics." Planetary Mechanics are the straight forward calculations of what's needed. These are things like how much Earth standard air would we need to terraform Mars (and its a lot). Then considering Mars is about -60C what it would take to heat that much air from -60C to say +20C. These are all things we can calculate. Its just they are big numbers. Planetary Dynamics are things like water cycles, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and other gas cycles. That's the stuff that we know exists but we have NO IDEA how we could begin to make them work. Plus there's that whole issue of Mars having only 1/3rd of Earths gravity and no magnetic field to prevent the Sun from just stripping away that atmosphere. Then there's the thermodynamics of retaining enough heat from the Sun to keep mars warm enough. Yeah BOTH Planetary Mechanics and Planetary Dynamics are subjects we aren't even beginning to discuss and its mainly because the numbers are so huge that it confuses the hell out of people. If you just look at the first 1km of air above the worlds surface. Going back to our 1m scale model of the Earth that's less than the thickness of a sheet of paper (0.1mm) It represents about 500,000,000 cubic kilometers of air and its where about where about 87% of humanity lives or about 7 Billion people. The other billion people mostly live in the next 600m. Only about 6% of the worlds population lives above 1 mile (1,600m) and only about 2-3% above 2,000m So we (the bulk of humanity) lives in a volume of about 1 Billion cubic kilometers, which sounds like a lot. But on that 1m scale model of the Earth its less thick than the thickness of 2 sheets of paper. Going back to Mars and trying to terraform it. If you calculate how much air you'd need just to cover Mars in a layer of Earth Standard Air that's 1km thick at the same pressure you'd need 178 Trillion tons of air. The scariest number is how much energy does it take to to raise 500,000,000 cubic kilometers of air from 20C to 21C because that gives you an idea of what we have done to the planet. Its a bad number to discuss because most people cannot grasp just how big the planet is. Derek - If you'd like to do a video where we go over some of these things let me know.
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  6714. Arguably one of the great quotes of 2020 "We have got to have enough courage and humility...... to say that particular candidate Brother Biden....His one positive virtue is was he was better than a neo-fascist gangster named Trump."
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  6715. I have the same message back to Robert and Co. regarding the title of this video. If the Left are so damn smart and have so many great ideas then how come they keep losing to clown shows? The Dumb-o-crats just lost to a guy who started ranting about eating cats & dogs during a public debate. His sidekick can't tell the truth no matter if he's awake or asleep. AND THEY STILL LOST TO THAT CLOWN SHOW Maybe (and its just a thought) that if the SELF-RIGHTEOUS ACADEMICS on the LEFT would STOP LOOKING DOWN on people and just expecting everyone to just believe all their crap because they think its clever then MAYBE, JUST MAYBE we would not be in the situation we are. Because when your options in an election are an arrogant pack of self-righteous academics who look down on most of the population and YOU KNOW DON'T care because they say it VERSUS a pack of clowns who at least tell you they care, even if you know they don't, then what's the choice. Just last week Jessica Tarlov on the podcast Raging Moderates said she heard a Trump voter say (after the election) "Yes we know what Trump says is crazy but crazy doesn't look down on me!"
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  6716. No its been done because like every other country we've had clowns digging into our Ivermectin stocks which we need for the people in our Northern regions where parasitic infections are common because of the tropical environment. At the moment all our procurement people are trying to get all the vaccines they can and get us all vaccinated because a few selfish clowns let Delta lose. Our people don't have time right now to go chasing after supplies because a few clowns WONT LISTEN.
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  6717.  @Crazycatlady71  Want's to be one or be one again but with more power?
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  6718. I went and checked this and according to Newsweek there are multiple reports from the site as well as the campaign that these were NOT attendees to the rally but people selling Trump Merchandise. Even if true, it still does not look good.
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  6719. ​ @Battleneter  Yeah don't remind us about how much money our politicians have in their pockets. What I will say as an engineer is we need to be clear about what type of coal are those mines producing because there's 2 distinct types. As an engineer I hate the fact that none of this is rarely explained so here's the basics. ONE is THERMAL COAL and its only good for burning to generate heat, hence the name "thermal coal." Its what's burned in power stations and other heating applications. Thermal coal is a zombie industry. Its dead but refuses to stay dead and who knows how many times we have to shoot it to finally be rid of it. As I like to put it to the pro-coal clowns "If burning coal is so fantastic then why don't we go back to steam powered trains and have coal powered trucks?" THER OTHER is METALLURGICAL COAL and that's what is used to process iron ore into steel hence the name. What makes it different is the lack of impurities. Its almost pure carbon so when its used in making steel you get good quality steel with few impurities. That's really important when you want to make things like stainless steel and you want bridges not to fall down. Because its got few impurities its also good for other applications like water filtering and for manufacturing carbon fibre to make lighter cars, boats and air planes. The metallurgical coal industry which Australia is a leader in is NOT GOING ANYWHERE because we need steel. If you want wind turbines they need steel towers. If you want public transport then trains, train lines, buses and boats all need steel. Then there's the millions of other products that are made from steel. Yes there's lower emission systems but to replace the worlds entire steel production industry will take years and cost $$ Trillions. These just aren't things we can simply buy from K-Mart or Amazon.
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  6720.  @moy_moy85  I'll pay that one mate. 👍👍
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  6721. ​ @tsubadaikhan6332  Sort of yes sort of no. Like almost everything in Australia's mining game it comes down to 2 companies BHP & Rio Tinto because they are both into iron ore and coal. Of those 2 Rio Tinto has substantial Aluminium assets in the North of Australia at Weipa and Gove, where I have worked on a project. That has since been spun off in to a separate company called Rio Tinto Aluminium. BHP Spun there Aluminium assets of and founded the company South 32 (2015) whose assets are in the far South West of Australia. The company you are thinking of is Alcoa who are 100% American with their headquarters in Pittsburgh and yes they quite big in Australia's Aluminium industry but nothing else so we don't hear as much about them. They own 2 mines and 3 Alumina refineries in the South West of Western Australia in the same region as South32. Alcoa also has some other Australian assets like the smelter at Gladstone. Its the South32 and Alcoa interests in Western Australia that are the main reason Honeywell setup a major mineral processing division in Perth. I never worked for Honeywell but did work with their people a couple of times.
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  6722.  @idesofmarchUNIAEA  No Russia is only number 8. Production & Reserves (kilotonnes) as of 2018 (source Wilipedia) 1Australia 110,000 6,000,000 2 Guinea 82,000 7,400,000 3 China 60,000 1,000,000 4 Brazil 35,000 2,600,000 5 Indonesia 23,000 1,200,000 6 India 22,000 660,000 7Jamaica 7,700 2,000,000 8 Russia 6,100 500,000 9 Kazakhstan 5,800 160,000 10 Vietnam 4,000 3,700,000
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  6723.  @gerhardtblume7354  Yeah and what do you call the Yale and Harvard DeSantis? Both Clintons went to Yale and both Obamas went to Harvard. There are 4 Harvards and 4 Yales on the Supreme court. So what's DeSantis? Because Harvard and Yale stink of elitism and HE WENT TO BOTH.
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  6724.  @gj1695  Yeah, yeah, yeah,... Sure, sure, sure,.... Any excuse for what he actually is and can convince people of what they'd all like to think. How many times do people need to be sucked in by politicians to realise that by this stage of his political career its PR and telling people what they want to hear. Or did you miss the George Santos Devolder or whatever his name is today fiasco.
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  6725.  @mabamabam  If your going to ask my opinion on economists I'll warn you up front that I think they are a clueless pack of insanely overrated clowns to put it as simply as I can. I started looking into economics a couple of years ago because I go tired of clowns with economics degrees interfering in projects. They are like seagulls the fly in, flap their wings make lots of noise and SHlT on everything before flying off and leaving a mess behind for others to clean up. The biggest issue is that economics education has become an incredibly narrow field of academia. A lot of very wealthy people started funding the leading universities to teach what they wanted taught and to publish papers that favored their profits. It really started a long time ago when John D. Rockefeller helped fund and create the University of Chicago to produce "more of him." Its also where Milton Freidman taught for decades and also where John Mearsheimer currently teaches. I really can write pages on them. I can explain in detail how Milton Freidman's acolytes have caused the current energy crisis. The War in Ukraine didn't cause it, but it did exacerbated the issues already present. We are actually in a situation that's been almost 30 years in the making and will take 10-25 years to fix depending on which country and how bad you have screwed up. I'm Australian and we have screwed up badly but we might have a way out, but its going to be damn hard work.
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  6726.  @mabamabam  I don't know what's happening at your end but I can still see it here. there is some real insanity with the YT algorithm. It hides all sorts of stuff. I go accused by someone the other day of deleting my own comments which wasn't true.
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  6727. It could be I mention specific people and one specific university in Chitown that was in part funded by a rather ruthless person who thought the world needed more of him. He was a rock fellow sort of person. Bottom line is we (as in every developed nation has some very serious issues with energy that are the direct result of economics ideology mostly formulated by a person who thought "greed was good."
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  6728.  @mabamabam  In a nutshell when the economists told every one that privatisation would provide competitions and competition would provide better services at cheaper prices - THEY LIED. Because uncle Milton said corporations have one duty and that's to provide profit to owners and that does NOT EVER produce better services or lower prices. SO THEY LIED
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  6729.  @mabamabam  But worse than that it also stifled any new investment in base load power ANYWHERE. its pretty simple if you did Econ 101. If the population goes up then energy demand goes up. If you DO NOT build any new baseload power stations to cover the increased demand then prices go up. So if you were lucky enough to buy a 1/2 used power station from a government there is zero incentive to build anything else. because if you build additional power stations then supply will go up and prices will go down. So from a corporate perspective you run that old 1/2 used power station as hard as you can with the least amount of maintenance you can until the day it drops dead. And then you move all the money off shore and claim there's nothing left to clean up the site. That buckaroo has been going on everywhere and there is now a lot of very old poorly maintained power stations that will over the next decade simply die and when they do you will see energy prices go bonkers as they have done in a few places already.
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  6730.  @mabamabam  One of the reasons I say the acolytes of uncle Milton have caused the energy crisis is based on the fact that they have no idea what it takes to physically generate and distribute energy as well as make the equipment to use it. It doesn't matter if we are talking about electricity or gas or even coal when people used it to cook with and heat their homes. Worse when you put it to them they don't care because all the care about is their farking "sophisticated markets!!!!!!" They have no idea what it takes to build anything or maintain it. They see numbers on a page and they do is ask 2 questions. 1) How do we get certain numbers smaller? 2) How do we get certain numbers bigger? And they are experts in everything else - just ask them.
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  6731. Never forget that the acolytes of uncle Milton promised everyone that privatising state functions would provide better service at lower prices. Name a country where that actually worked? There's a Rand Corp report that says the top 1% of America made $47 Trillion. When Time magazine wrote about it they simply rounded it up to $50 Trillion and by some estimates its now up to $55 Trillion and climbing. More recently the Congressional Budget Office released a report on family wealth. So far the only person who I have seen mention it is Richard Wolff. You can find it easily by googling "congressional budget office family wealth." Go look at the main graph to see how well the bottom 50% of America has done. I checked on Australia's data. Its presented in quints (20% increments) so the numbers are different but it tells exactly the same story. The people at the top have made of with vast sums of money while the rest have paid for it.
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  6732.  @mabamabam  If you are interested a really great channel to watch is Gary's Economics here on YT. Gary Stevenson (a Brit) comes from the lower end of the spectrum but found his way to the LSE. He graduated top of his class and went to work for Citibank where (by his mid 20s) was their top trader in the world. He made billions and got paid millions. These days he's explaining how economics actually works. He's got a brilliant take on why so many commentators are wrong all the time.
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  6733. When they listed the top 25 in congress for insider trading the top 4 were GOP *BUT there were more Dems on the list than GOP. Nancy Pelosi was the top Dem at #5. The corruption problem in Washington isn't Donald Trump, its Donald Trump PLUS the GOP and PLUS the Dems.
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  6734. ITS NOT CLOSE AND WE HAVE KNOWN FOR OVER A YEAR To join NATO your borders have to be fixed. None of your borders can be in dispute and its why Putin has stared lots of separatist colonies among Russian enclaves like Transnistria on the western edge of Moldova. Just because of Crimea Ukraine cannot join NATO because its still effectively under dispute.
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  6735. Engineer here and I have worked on mine site construction in Australia and you have hit the 3 magic words. SMART PROJECT MANAGER Forget just being in the snow and ice it matters in every industry. Like Messiahs there many claimants and most are frauds.
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  6736.  @GlobalDrifter1000  SHIT4BRAINS in engineering REDUNDANCY refers to having more than what is required, like having 2 or more sensors for measuring the same thing like temperature or pressure. This is very common in safety critical systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy_(engineering). THIS IS WHY ENGINEERS GET DAMN ANGRY WITH IGNORANT SELF RIGHTEOUS SMUG LITTLE PRICKS WHO HAVEN'T A CLUE WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT
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  6737.  @uince  You clearly have NO IDEA what you are talking about because comparing 1 rocket flight that took 20+ years to make happen compared to the millions of commercial flights made every year is just STUPID. You are clearly NOT a pilot, so your nonsense about pilots is also MISGUIDED because you are ignoring all the advances made in training and crew management. You have perfectly shown one of the greatest weaknesses of social media. Its gives every IGN0RANT UNEDUCATED IDI0TIC CLOWN in the room a turn at the microphone. Go back and look at the M0R0N who tried to troll me yesterday over the words redundant and redundancy.
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  6738.  @uince  Yes that's right, my 30+ years of experience in automation and safety systems, my qualifications as an engineer, my experience as a pilot ARE ALL MEANINGLESS. BECAUSE the UNEDUCATED IGN0RANCE of people like you who know NOTHING about what they are talking about and OVERRULED people with knowledge and experience as they did with the Max-8 are who we should listen to. YOUR IGNORANCE DOES NOT MATCH OTHER PEOPLES TRAINING, KNOWLEDGE and EXPERINCE.
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  6739. This is one of the most biased pieces of garbage I have ever seen or heard. He's not wrong on several points but the REAL LIE is the LACK of BALANCE. I'm an engineer and for sure solar panels do include some poisonous substances. Traditionally the cells include compounds like Gallium Arsenide (Arsenide as in Arsenic) but then all the coal fired power stations (old & new) are riddled with things like asbestos. If we are going to ban solar panels because of what they are made from then we have to also ban computers, smart phones, television sets, the entire Internet, EFTPOS machines has AS WELL AS CARS. Basically the entire modern world as we know it has to go if what's in solar panels gets banned. That's the real lie in this idiotic rant. And don't call me some Greenie fanatic because I can't stand their biased stupidity either. I can write pages on their stupidity.
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  6740. That's of course sensible and its what scientists have argued for some time. Because of all the ridiculous howling and screaming over COVID one thing that needed to be discussed but has NOT been discussed is the oversight of these labs. Back in 2011 there was a Dutch Researcher named Ron Fouchier who created a variation of avian flu that has been described as the deadliest virus humanity has ever encountered. Had it escaped rather than COVID we'd have already have over 64 million dead instead of 6.6 million. The problem that emerged after Ron Fouchier's work was that nobody was really aware of what he was doing. The Dutch government actually had to step in and shut him down because he wanted to tell the whole world how he did it and show how clever he was. He never considered the maniacs who would use it. If you do take a look at the whole Wuhan issue it was obvious there were issues. I DO NOT think that what they were doing was fundamentally wrong. China had faced MERS and SARS so investigating what might be next was smart. Getting other nations to help with that research was also smart. DOING THAT RESEARCH IN AN UNSAFE WAY WAS NOT SMART. An airborne virus like COVID needed to have been researched in a Level 4 lab NOT a Level 3 lab AND THAT HAS BEEN EXPLAINED BY EXPERTS. And 1 other thing. They redefined what was and what wasn't gain of function. Ron Fouchier's work would no longer be considered gain of function. Just like the work in Wuhan is also not considered to be gain of function. This is something else that has NOT been discussed publicly.
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  6741.  @entertain7us148  I don't know if its childish, but its incredibly simplistic and totally ignorant of nuance and circumstance. People like Jim Jones didn't outright threaten people until his last days. But what he was practicing was incredibly dangerous. Some of the anti-vaxxers at the moment aren't preaching violence but they are preaching dangerous garbage. Kyle doesn't seem to get that and I don't know why. He's not a dumb person but in this he's missing the point Its clear to me he has never done a serious team sport or even semi-serious let alone any crisis (or emergency) management or even project management where the concept of free speech doesn't really exist. In crisis management rule #1 is: This is not a democracy or discussion panel. There is 1 voice and you WILL DO what you are told.
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  6742. That's a great point. He really does show what sort of person he is. There's a real shame to this. I am an Australian aerospace engineer and have worked in our automotive sector before its demise. What Elon did in shaking up 2 major industries and getting them to change is actually amazing. YEs all of the hard work was done by people he employed, but he simply could have acknowledged that and claimed he was the guy who brought it all together. INSTEAD he wanted all the credit and what the gaming thing shows is that underneath it all he's an attention seeking narcissist. With Tesla there's an interview with the 2 guys who actually founded it and they describe how from the moment he arrived he had to flip the company into "its all about Elon." Did Elon raise Tesla's profile and shake up the car industry? YES, but he was only part of it NOT all of it. With SpaceX did Elon tap into a group of frustrated engineers who knew they could build better rockets than Boeing and others? YES and he was damn lucky to have those engineers available. From an engineering perspective the Falcon Rockets and Crew Dragon have been an outstanding success and especially when judged against Boeing's Starliner. BUT THEN Elon had to have the "biggest rocket" forgetting whether its practical or needed. Yeah Starship and the chopstick catcher is spectacular BUT IS IT REALLY NEEDED or is it just an ego trip?
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  6743. WHY DOESN'T ANYONE ASK THE SIMPLEST QUESTION OF ALL THESE GOP CLOWNS? If cuts have to be made then how much of the military budget are you going to cut?
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  6744.  @brentoncarter4275  Its called the issue that most people have discerning the difference between answers and solutions. Answers don't have to be right or practical or valid or affordable or anything else. In fact answers don't even have to attempt to answer the question at hand. They can simply be deflections aimed at creating confusion. Solutions on the other hand have to (by definition) at least partially answer the question or nothing is being solved at all. Then comes the hard part that very few people are willing to do. Assessing if the solution is practical.
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  6745.  @AP-op4rc  I have watched travis's and his brothers podcast a couple of times and I agree with your assessment of him. Its just that these clown are GENUINE COWARDS and my point is more that they would NEVER DARE say these things except from the safety of their basement.
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  6746. RICHARD I know your an economics professor and that you know your stuff. I'm an engineer who's been informally studying economics for a couple of years. I have listed to many podcasts and regularly participate in the Steve Keen & Friends. You, Steve, Stephanie Kelton all know your stuff and can explain the crap out of almost anything on economics. HOWEVER - YOU ALL SUCK at explaining money creation because you all think we took basic money theory. MMTers like Yourself and Steph Kelton explain quite well that NATION STATES are toe sole provider of currency. Seve Keen and others explain quite well that BANKS create money through loans. What all of you DO NOT realise it that it confuses a lot of people because they here 2 halves of the story. Nation States produce EXOGENIC money Banks produce ENDOGENOUS money Wikipedia has a great opening paragraph on the page for Endogenous Money. it reads: "Endogenous money is an economy’s supply of money that is determined endogenously—that is, as a result of the interactions of other economic variables, rather than exogenously (autonomously) by an external authority such as a central bank." Nation States produce EXOGENIC money when they have their assigned institution (treasury or central bank) either print new currency or put money into accounts. Steph Kelton explains that well. Banks produce ENDOGENOUS money by placing 2 equal numbers into their ledgers AS A LOAN. One number is in their assets and the other is in the account of the customer. Steve Keen explains that well. What you have explained well is that ITS THE NATION STATE that decides the VALUE of CURRENCY. YOU GUYS ALL NEED TO EXPLAIN THAT BETTER Instead of in pieces.
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  6747. He's not spending tax payer money but he is getting Murdoch money stuffed down his pants.
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  6748. Oh yeah if you want to single out the Murdoch's for being a major part of the problem then go right ahead. If that family had a mysterious plane trip and couldn't be found. We wouldn't be sending out a search party.
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  6749. I'm wondering how long it will be before somebody exercises their 2nd Amendment Rights on Elon Musk? I wonder what the Vegas odds are right now on who gets the JFK Dallas head dance first? Maybe ChatGPT could give us the odds?
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  6750.  @dmanvell  Dude the East Germans (DDR) called themselves a "Democratic Republic" just as the North Koreans (PDRK) still do. What a country calls itself and what they actually practice can be 2 different things. Americans define the political term "socialist" purely of the label USSR. The Russians had aspects of socialism and communism but once Stalin had control they were a totalitarian dictatorship. North Korea can call itself whatever it likes but the moment they started inheriting the head of state they became a monarchy.
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  6751.  @dmanvell  ?? Where did I say you were ironic or unironic? Yeah I know Nazis is a short form for National Socialism. I have pointed that out to plenty of people. BUT claiming you represent any ideology and actually following it are 2 very different things. That goes for almost anything, politics, religion, sport (as in tactics). Stalin claimed he was a socialist and a communist - bullshit he was a sociopathic monster who ran a totalitarian dictatorship. Hilter claimed he was a national socialist - bullshit he was a sociopathic monster who ran a totalitarian dictatorship. Kim Jong-Un claims i=his country is a "democratic republic" - bullshit its a totalitarian monarchy.
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  6752.  @dmanvell  Every so often you write something or say something and your 100% certain everyone got the punchline and NOBODY did. What you said made you sound like a smart ass. The emoji tacked on the end made you look like an idiot. Maybe it's ironic that you don't know what being ironic means.
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  6753.  @dmanvell  I don't need to assure myself of anything, when it comes to clowns who aren't half as smart as they think they are.
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  6754. To All - Here's David Dunning (of Dunning-Kruger) explaining why ignorance can't recognize itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErkhYq13VVE Its worth watching if you want to understand why people like this cannot not see what they are doing or what they are saying is wrong.
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  6755. Its called media control and its a poison that's killing democracy, freedom and basic human rights everywhere. Best wishes from Australia where we are trying to deal with our own mining companies.
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  6756. Without even having to watch this video (cos we've all seen 20 or more stories in part or in full on this), THE ANSWER IS YES. YES its a failure of journalists, as well as the GOP, the Democrats and the US Electoral commission. Because none of them checked. But lets also not forget every dumb cluck who voted for him.
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  6757.  @insightfulhistorian1861  I hate to break it but EVERY country, state, county, city, town and village has got them. The village idiot used to be someone we could handle because the couldn't travel that far, but these days with social media they have been able to share and reinforce their idiocy. WORSE there are people like Santos willing and able to exploit them.
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  6758.  @user-ik4mf2lu1h  Ted Cruz logic - dead frozen kids don't get hungry. In Oz if one of our power companies had let a child freeze to death and the local politician had flown his family out like that he would have been forced to resign. Look just what happened to one of ours. He won the defamation court case against the media and then LOST his job because nobody knows who paid his legal bill. He's now in serious deep shite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om2viufzPmw
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  6759. Yeah she doesn't get that they aren't laughing with her. They're laughing AT her. This is stupid politics and where Joe Biden's Presidency will fail. A real President would call her into the office and behind closed doors rip the shite from her and then hold a press conference feigning friendship solidarity and anything else required. Look how rat mongrel snakes like Cheney or Rumsfeld got stuff done.
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  6760. @peter good points on both. The hyper polarized tribalism is a mega issue on so many fronts right now.
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  6761. I don't think there's really anything NEW as I suspect everyone knows that CT is just a corrupt dirtbag with a psycho for a wife. If anything its just more details. At best he'll retire otherwise this mutt is going to linger on till he dies.
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  6762. Go have a look at the Vice news on broken democracy that has the Texans who meet in a café every week. They rant and rave about how the left are all commies and yet they also like Putin WHO IS A COMMIE. Despite his wealth Putin is at his core a commie. Because at the core of EVERY POLITICAL LEADER is a person who wants to be in charge. If you break down Left, Center or Right political leaders to their cores they're all the same. They want to be in charge. The only practical difference is how they get there and to what degree they will go to to stay in charge once they get there.
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  6763. And for the religious ones ask them to explain Matthew Chapter 7. And before they object, point out that you know that's Jesus himself speaking. If you don't know Matthew 7 is the 3rd of 3 chapters covering the Sermon on the Mount and its all about frauds. The first 2 chapters are all about being sensible and nice but the 3rd chapter is a warning. Yes Jesus himself not only predicted frauds would exist but told people how to identify them. Its also not the only time Jesus or the other disciples warned about frauds, but its the most significant because its part of the Sermon on the Mount.
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  6764. Its NOT makeup, Its plastic. They had Trump replaced with one of Elon's robots and the version of ChatGPT they are running was trained on data from the 1950s. Come on. Its no more improbable than every other conspiracy that's out there.
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  6765.  @7coloredalice  Well said 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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  6766. Follow up Stephen Petranek is just a writer his basic bio is easy to find on Wikipedia. He can make all these claims because he DOES NOT do any of the technology development. He doesn't have to do any of that boring maths stuff or reading an endless list of technical papers. If you go back far enough TED and TEDx used to have on some great people who were informing people. Now its just a bunch of clowns preaching garbage.
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  6767. If you were an economics major you'll love some of what Mark Blyth has been saying the past few years. During a post Trump 2016 analysis, among other things he points out the frustration many people had towards the establishments of BOTH parties and gives the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmBG3Z4DI&t=1104s
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  6768. Because we have a 3phase 415V alternating current based system. And when you use a single phase of that system linked back via a star transformer you get 240V. That's why all out appliances also run on 240V The Yanks start with 220 3 phase and that's why they get 110V out of their sockets. if you want to use lower voltage light bulbs then use another transformer or AC-DC power supply to power your light bulbs.
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  6769. As far as these people being "Patriotic" please this quote from Vice POTUS Wallace who was alive when people like Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin had power. Thake note of what it says about method and patriots (highlighted). Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  6770. Its effectively the same thing we see in ALL CONVERTS to any ideology they become so invested in their new identity and trying to prove how well they fit in that they OVER COMPENSATE. This is why some of converts to various religious groups are so rabid and dangerous. This is also why some of the people from non-white backgrounds who join in with predominantly white conservative political movements can be even worse. A couple of years ago before he dissolved his brain and lost his mind Jordan Petersen said that (psychologically speaking) we know when people have gone too far to the Right because they have become racist but there's no single similar indicator for the Left. I think he was 1/2 right and 1/2 wrong. I think its simply when someone takes ANY ideology and puts it as the paramount decision maker in their life irrespective of FACTS and EVIDENCE. Because at that point no matter what their ideology is they lie, cheat and commit horrendous crimes to protect that ideology. We saw that in the Soviet Union under Stalin, in China under Mao and in North Korea under the 3rd Kim. And we see that right now in Trumpistan under Donald Trump
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  6771.  @vildachaya6462  That's a fair statement and considering that his popularity is falling this might be the first sign that he's losing some of those people. Just don't ignore that its been estimated that over 50 million of that 74 believed that the election was stolen. Or that fact that many of those supporters have previously been willing to stand in front of TV cameras and state their willingness for violence and/or insurrection. Or that there has been a massive stockpiling of ammunition this last 12 months. You do know that gun stores have been reporting for months that they were running out of ammunition to sell?
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  6772.  @max420thc  FOR what DlCKHEAD? What will al those federal employees be arrested? You do know there's this process before you can arrest people. FIRST - there has to be an actual crime. SECOND - there has to be something that says "that person" should be arrested in relation to "that crime." THIRD - Oh SHlT I forgot your one of "those people" who doesn't believe in the law or due process.
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  6773.  @kanishkchaturvedi1745  I KNOW THAT And if you bothered to READ what I have said that is the problem. Do you know that when they carbon dated the Shroud of Turin they used the 3 best labs they available and the results varied by 10% at 1,000 years age. If radioactive dating is so damn accurate and so well understood then how do 3 top labs have that much variation? ALL measuring techniques have limits to their accuracy which is why calibration is so incredibly important to understand. Metrology (the science of measuring) is one of the least understood fields of science and yet its one of the most important. But trying to explain that to IGN0RANT M0R0NS is hard.
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  6774.  @gusolsthoorn1002  AND YOU HAVE JUST PROVEN MY ARGUMENT If you can calibrate it then you can get the accuracy, but if you can't then you can't. If you have been in aviation then you know what I mean.
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  6775.  @gusolsthoorn1002  Ok. I thought you were going in another direction.
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  6776. This kind of stuff only ends one way -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8
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  6777. This kind of stuff only ends one way -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8
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  6778.  @RC-ll7hk  As sad as that statement of resignation is I have to agree. There's a great comment form way back in the 80s by an ex-KGB agent and his description of what brainwashing really means is. Its not about convincing someone of something its about getting them to the point where no matter what evidence is before them they can't come to a sensible conclusion. Its about 2 minutes in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI I know there's stuff in that vid where he was simply wrong, but the stuff about America doing the damage to itself and how people wouldn't be able to reason is scary true.
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  6779.  @blackninjah8641  I think your right to some extent. The Americans have always been scared the Russians would find something to exploit. In a way they eventually did which was how they have exploited social media. But even then the cracks were already there. All the Russians ever did was push them open a bit more. Americans have the hardest of all enemies to deal with - themselves.
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  6780.  @TimSpangler-rd6vs  Iran loves Jimmy Carter - YEAH SO WHAT? So what does that actually mean? I was alive in the 70s and 80s. I, like most of the educated people on the planet, also know that Reagan's henchmen stifled Carters attempts to resolve the hostage crisis. MOST of the Iranian population (around 90%) were not even born when the Iranian Revolution happened so they have no idea who Jimmy Carter is or his links to that time. So your statement is just the typical lGNORANT crap of a mindless uneducated social media clown.
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  6781. Yeah - I wonder if he was being guarded by the same guys who were guarding Jeffery Epstein?
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  6782. I'm Australian and I can say EXACTLY the same thing about us and what we are seeing. Here's the stupid thing, since Reaganomics and Thatcherism (what we now call neo-liberalism) was adopted as the "Western Worlds economic model" the aim was to have zero inflation. So if basic economic policy of the entire Western World was zero inflation, then we should have expected that if at any point after 1981 that we actually had any inflation then it would look like the worst in 40 years. I'm not an economist and I get that. What I don't get is how stupid people are being about this.
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  6783.  @mikeisallin7541  I was in Canada for work a few years back. It was right about the time Trump tor up NAFTA and hit Canada with tariffs. There were grandmothers with hockey sticks and they were not saying "I'm Sorry" Interesting it was also when the Paradise Papers came out and there was a scandal over a government minister and his family business getting a juicy contract. That stuff was so like Australia that if it wasn't for the snow I swear I wouldn't have been able to tell if I was there or home. My bet is your guys are still at it because NOTHING happened to any of the guilty just like here with the Panama Papers and dodgy contracts.
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  6784.  @noel7777noel  I think you've eaten so many trolls its infected your brain. Reaganomics was a hell of lot more than dog whistling about welfare queens and storming banks. Go and learn about it, because its way more insidious than that.
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  6785.  @jackkelevra4741  I don't think he's claiming anything is a coincidence. I think he's trying to tell Americans that there's more to the world than the "Murican Bubble."
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  6786. Sorry you are wrong and there's actually a huge mistake made by Paul Robichaud at 28 minutes. Before he died Daniel Ellsberg who was their during the Cuban Missile Crisis gave an interview to theAnalysisNews -which is available here on YT. The American's NEVER depth charged the Russians but were actually trying to SIGNAL the Russian submarines by throwing hand grenades into the water. That wasn't working because they'd blow up before they went deep enough. So they started wrapping the hand grenades in toilet paper. They'd throw the hand grenades into the water which would then sink before the toilet paper fell away. What the American's didn't know was that this freaked out the Russian because at depth the hand grenades had a concussive effect that made the Russians feel like they were being attacked. What saved the world was the oddity that Vasily Arkhipov was on the particular submarine that thought it was under attack. Normally it only takes 2 people (the commander & political officer) to use a nuclear weapon. The submarine Arkhipov was on (the B-59) was one of 4 Foxtrot submarines sent to Cuba by the Russians. He was NOT the commander of the B-59 he was the overall Commander of the flotilla of 4 Foxtrots. On the B-59 the actual commander Valentin Savitsky and his political officer DID PREPARE to launch their T-5 nuclear torpedo, BUT because Arkhipov was on that submarine it also required him to agree and he didn't. He worked out the Americans were only trying to signal them. THAT'S HOW CLOSE IT WAS. Had Arkhipov been on one of the other Foxtrot submarines then Savitsky would have launched the B-59s nuclear torpedo which the Americans didn't even know they had. The Americans didn't find out for many years just how close it came. As a side note of trivia the character played by Liam Nesson (Mikhail "Misha" Polenin, E) in the film K19: The Widomaker is based on Arkhipov.
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  6787. INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS engineer here: This is WHY I KNOW FSD (full self driving) is a false and misleading concept at least for the moment. AND APOLOGIES IF THIS IS LONGISH. FYI - My degree was in aerospace but I have spent 30+ years in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. That has included working with many sensor systems including laser scanning systems. Although I don't work with vision systems I was introduced to the basics of vision systems in 1998 and am fully aware of many of the advancements in that area. The actual problem with FSD is the amount of information that needs to be processed. As human beings we just don't realise how much information our visual cortex processes every second and that's because most of it is processed by our peripheral system which is NOT part of our general conscious. Its all there in our periphery and we aren't focussing on it. Our peripheral system is extraordinary at clumping things together and dismissing irrelevant clumps while alerting our conscious system of potential threats or items of interest. For example we don't see a 100,000 leaves attached to 1,000s branches attached to a trunk connected to a root system we see a tree. We don't see several million yellowish hairs covering 4 legs a body, a tail, a head, big teeth and an even bigger set of fangs we see a lion. Out on the African savannah people don't see millions of blades of grass, 1,000s and 1,000s of antelope, wildebeests, birds, insects and other wild life. OUR BRAIN via our peripheral system filters out the noise and will latch onto that 1 lion out of all those millions and millions of items in our visual range and SCREAM "that's a threat." Similarly when driving a car down the average suburban street we see but don't focus on the millions of leaves - we see the trees and dismiss them as NOT a threat. We see don't see all the nuts, bolts, sheets of glass, sheet metal, paint and rubber - we see parked cars and dismiss them as NOT a threat. We see the bricks, boards, windows, window frames, paint - we see houses and dismiss them as NOT a threat. BUT WE DO SEE the bouncing ball coming down a driveway and our peripheral system SCREAMS that there's a dog or a child chasing after that ball OR we'll see a flash of something else and our peripheral system will alert our conscious brain to be aware of it. Like we'll suddenly notice one of the parked cars just moved. This is what our peripheral system does with incredible speed. It processes a staggering mass of data every second and compares it to previous seconds and then filters out all the noise. This is why certain players in team sports seem so amazing in how they can suddenly pass to another player in a way that asks "How did they see them?" The answer is they are people whose peripheral system just operates better than average and in some rare cases a lot better. NOW TRY AND CONSIDER HOW YOU MIGHT GET A COMPUTER TO DO THAT???? Remember no 2 trees are the same, and no 2 cars are ever parked the same, and no 2 houses are the same PLUS no 2 streets are the same anywhere on the planet. There's always something different. NOW CONSIDER that the perspective (as in the visual angles) on that scene is changing every second because your car is MOVING. You now have to process the next image and compare it to previous images to pick up that movement or notice that item that gets the wider scoping part of the system to flag an item of interest to the higher level decision making part of the system. Suddenly you will realise that the scope of the technological task to get a computer to do what the human peripheral system does is monstrous. Once you understand the scope of the task required to to do FSD you'll quickly realise that it MIGHT BE possible for some limited situations or MIGHT be possible once we get the visual scanning systems capable of sorting through all the noise to find those few items that need a higher level of evaluation we can't even begin the task BUT RIGHT NOW we don't have those systems because if they existed we hear all about it. We'd hear about the camera that's as good or better than a human eye and we'd hear about the processor that's as good as the human peripheral system AND NOBODY is even saying they have it under development or has made "the breakthrough". Lets also NOT forget that a bunch of car manufacturers GAVE UP on FSD about 5 years ago. Uber sold off its FSD once they, (like the car manufacturers) realised just what it would take to do the job. This is also why, with the exception of a few tiny companies desperately trying for attention (and money) have stopped trying to build self FLYING air taxis. Sorry if this was longish but I hope you get the gist of why it might be possible in future but NOT NOW.
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  6788. I'm Australian and hopefully we'll prove to the world just how unnecessary Facebook is. I never had it, never needed it and hopefully others will realise that it was all hype and illusion.
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  6789.  @Taxthechurch  Yeah I'd agree with that but he's one of the very few who claims to be a pure or fundamental socialist who you can hear speak or give opinions. There's plenty of lefty YouTube channels but very few who claim to be what he claims to be. The couple of times I saw him in discussions he came across as one of those "tear it all to the ground and start again" types. There's a fair amount of really pretentious nonsense from places like the WEF. They had their "Great Reset" which included the line "You'll own nothing and be happy" and that's straight fundamental socialist ideology. They couldn't tear that down quick enough once people pointed it out. Don't forget the WEF is actually a private corporation owned by a German Industrialist Billionaire. Most of the people who go to Davos each year go there in their private jets. They have these very lefty social justice type talks every year. I recently watched the panel from 2019 where Ruter Bregman called them out. Here's a famous excerpt you might have seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ijiLqfXP0 You can find the whole panel discussion which is about an hour and there's so much pretentiousness hot air and self righteousness its depressing to watch. The only thing that's worth watching it for is to see Rutger unload on them.
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  6790.  @puppetmaster706  Why don't you go and take a giant dose of REALITY or just as simple F⋃CK OFF. At the time he was famous and selling his books on rules and more rules WAS BEFORE he melted his brain on those drugs. He might have started on them earlier but he hadn't lost his brain at that stage. Damn fanboys like you who can't handle reality make the world the mess it is.
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  6791. You know when one of these zoomer punks has no clue about life or reality? Its when they declare THEMSELVES and alpha. Since they like Greek letters so much, I call them phi's (ϕ) as in ϕailure
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  6792. Well I'll take the other more pragmatic view on his first point. There's NO GUARANTEE that Trump won't win. Hilary tried and lost that with some of the most stupid campaign strategies ever and she's now head of Biden's re-election team. I'm Australian but went to college in America U. Illinois). So I know the Midwest and Rust Belt fairly well. The moment I heard she wasn't going to campaign in Michigan I knew she was in trouble because I knew the Rust Belt was not going to take that sort of arrogance well. I wasn't alone in thinking she was going to lose. Both Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth predicted she'd lose but for different reasons. Rana Foroohar said it was her link to NAFTA and Mark Blyth because the Dems had just screwed so many of their BLUE states over time and time again. Not only did Hilary lose Michigan but also Ohio and Penn becoming the first Democrat since Dukakis in 1988 to lose all 3. Even Gore and Kerry won 2 of those 3. If you look at the EC votes if Hilary had won those 3 as Bill and Obama had she would have won. What NOBODY on America's Left has been willing to explain or even face up to was how Trump went from 63 million votes in 2016 to 74 million votes in 2020 when every poll for 2 years had said his base was shrinking. 1) The polling WAS WRONG and NOT by a little but by a staggering amount. An extra 11 million people turned out in 2020 to vote for this guy. Hate him all you like but he knows how to appeal to particular crowds. Jesse Ventura said he learned it from Pro-Wrestling. 2) Despite all the crap and craziness his people really do see him as someone who's going to save them from the career politicians who have made their lives miserable for the past 30+ years. They don't care at all about facts or evidence or how much BS he tells. His base hates the Washington Elite so much that they'd vote for a rapid dog if it would bite one of those elitist snobs. And yes I know Trump is actually one of those elitist snobs, but he knows how to sell his base a different story. EVERYONE FORGETS that before he beat Hilary Trump beat of 16 GOP favorite sons including Jeb Bush and he didn't just beat them he wiped the floor with them. America better wake up to itself and the Democrats need to take the coldest of cold showers and realise that those 74 million might turn out to be 85 million next year.
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  6793. To mad dogs howling at the moon.
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  6794.  @billyyank5807  HEY SHIT4BRAINS I never said anything about how many see combat. But for the record they all do BASIC TRAINING and that includes learning to kill. So take your worthless meaningless stat and shove down your worthless throat all the way to your meaningless brain which in your case clearly isn't between your ears.
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  6795. I'm an engineer and my favorite subject is what do you have in your life that's not had an engineer involved? I'm Australian and the only product I can point at and say "that has no engineering in it at all" is traditional native Aboriginal arts and crafts. If it has metal, plastic or was in a factory of any sort then it needed engineering for you to obtain it. Even food - think about the tractors, processing machinery, refrigeration,.... etc. The thing is ALL OF THAT STUFF involves blue collar workers, building, maintaining and operating the machinery. I'm one of those people who truly hates the rest of the White Collar classes. In particular the PMC (Professional Managerial Class) who I see as nothing more than worthless, arrogant, ignorant scum who actually think they know what makes modern developed societies FUNCTION. If we took most of the Lawyers, Accountants, PMCs (especially HR) and other similar types and loaded them onto the SS Titanic 2 and sailed it straight towards the nearest iceberg it would be a good start.
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  6796.  @symptomoftheuniverse4149  Sorry DlCKHEAD but going after 1 corporation as in Disney for 1 thing does NOT make De Sanctimonious a guy who goes after "big money making corporations." Is there anything you clowns WONT take out of context.
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  6797.  @elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633  That's a fair comment and at the very least puts Christie's positioned himself as an alternative instead of clonish goon.
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  6798. I was expecting this to be a dud waste of time vid because there's been documentaries done on the banks and money laundering. Its been explained how the fines banks are hit with are just seen as "the cost of doing business" But Chris Paulos is a lawyer involved in these cases and he's explaining just how much the banks ACTUALLY WORK at servicing NOT just money laundering but funding of terrorism. Its not simply "Oops this happened. Here's the data on who did what." These banks are actually putting effort into getting around the laws and detection systems BUT ALSO HELPING money get from bad people to really bad people and then hiding that it happened.
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  6799. YEAH SURE - SOON AS THEY ARE AVAILABLE. Go look at the websites of the companies all promoting SMRs and they are all trying to raise money to get going. AT BEST the SMR industry might be what the envision sometime in the mid 2030s. The SMRs being proposed ARE NOT the same technology that's in Submarines and Aircraft Carriers. The YT Channel "Decouple Media" has a couple of good videos on the subject. I can't say I agree with everything that's said on Decouple but its mostly sound because he talks to actual engineers and I am an engineer.
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  6800.  @jesan733  Quick point nuclear IS NOT FAST. Hinkley Point C which has 2 EPRs (European Power Reactor) and will take 10 years to complete. It will also take at least 20 years to break even on construction costs based on current British energy prices. Yeah I calculated all that out a couple of months ago. Finland which recently commissioned an EPR took 18 years to complete. That said once constructed and if they run them at 90-100% then they are very cheap for BASE LOAD. But is you check the IEA data the moment you start trying to throttle them back the cost per kilowatt climbs and at a certain point which varies for reactor types it skyrockets. There's a great talk on the YT channel Decoupled about the Canadian CANDU. They are not only cheaper but quicker to build and of the reactor types so far used they are the only one not to have a melt-down. All the talk about SMRs being quick is utter crap and garbage from companies looking for investors. The best any of them claim is that they'll be ready for shipment to sites MAYBE in the mid 2030s. Yes there's a couple under construction but go check the details. They're prototypes.
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  6801. According to the Simpson's the French identity is "Cheese eating surrender monkeys"
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  6802. I'm Australian. If California, Oregon and Washington state got fed TF up with all of their money going to the red states then they might just consider it.
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  6803. There are 4 basic techniques for controlling populations that have NOT changed in all of recorded history. I call then the 4 'Fs' of control - Force, Food, Finance and Fear. Force is pretty obvious as its who has the sticks, whips, chains and guns. Food is where you keep the population so malnourished they haven't the strength to fight back. Finance is basically where the Western world is right now and what the Chinese are doing with Belt & Road. Keep people poor and in debt and struggling to earn enough to have a roof over their heads. Fear is the one that's least obvious until its pointed out. At its core its about keeping people scared of something. For most of human history its been done via religion. "Do what the priest says or burn in hell." Its not a Christian thing either as every religion has a version of it. On the flip side is your king who's your protector. What the American Right Wingers do is a different version of it. They rotate through a menagerie of things to keep people scared. The Russians have nukes, the Iranians want nukes, the socialists want your stuff, the liberals want to take your guns so you can't protect your family, the lefties want to indoctrinate your kids,.... The best one is you need guns to protect yourself from the government that your own fellow countrymen & women elected. CRT is just another thing to keep people scared of so that the GOP can play the role of "The Great Protector."
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  6804.  @mwbrada  I agree with what you said except there's an odd bit to the racism. Its still a form of control through fear but its a weird version of it. Traditionally control by fear is about losing something. in the religious context its was about LOSING your future in Heaven or one of the other good places like Elysium. The way the GOP play it is the fear of losing what you own through your work. A lot of those GOP supporters have worked hard (no denying that) to have what they have. Then they hear that GOP message: "Those liberals are gonna tax you and take your stuff and give it all to those people who don't wanna work." Yeah its petty and nasty and garbage and done to scare old people, but its also effective. I wouldn't so much call the GOP racist but narcissistic. Adam Tooze the Historical Economist calls them the "The most ruthlessly cynical political operator in the world." What's Trumps most notable trait - racism or narcissism? Narcissists will use whatever they can to climb over people. Trump just doesn't care. If being racist one day helps him he'll be racist. If it doesn't help he'll use something else to scare people. "They're coming for your guns!" "They're coming for your V8 truck!" "They're gonna tax you!" Its still a form of control by fear. Its just a weird form of it. Its not unique to America but the American version is unique because its jacked up by the media and because of the history.
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  6805.  @mwbrada  Can DlCKHEADs like you learn to read and think before you start mouthing off. AND DON'T TRY the guilt trip shite on people its what everyone hates about the whole woke thing. I never said the GOP weren't racist but collectively they aren't the KKK either. WITHOUT DOUBT Trump tapped into that part of the far right who are racist. WITHOUT DOUBT Sarah Sanders is appealing to that element. WITHOUT DOUBT if someone in the KKK votes its for the GOP or something worse. Be less emotional and more analytical about what these people are doing because you wont beat them with emotion or guilt trips. That's how the GOP win - they trigger the Left and the Left go disappearing down rabbit holes. Both Trump and Sanders are being opportunistic scumbags and that's the really shitty aspect to what they are doing.
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  6806.  @mwbrada  This is a reply to your last remark about being a former Republican. That's the EXACT SORT OF M0R0NIC IGN0RNAT SHlT that gets people off side and why the Left are always losing. You are the sort of woke clown who gets people so frustrated they stop caring about issues.
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  6807. DAVID - For f--k sake. Here are facts NOBODY can dispute. 1: Kyle Rittenhouse travelled to another STATE with a gun he was NOT legally permitted to be carrying that gun. That's a FELONY. 2: The people who gave him that gun and travelled with him to Kenosha from Illinois were also party to that FELONY. 3: 2 People died as a result of Kyle Rittenhouse committing that FELONY. 4: The people he shot and killed were NOT armed and he had a gun. So how was he in fear of his life? But sadly facts don't matter anymore.
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  6808. Australian here - David's 100% right on this. NOBODY can support either what the Israeli's have done or what Hamas is doing right now. People on the Left have in recent years have totally ignored so much of what happened in the last century. Socialism and Communism FAILED and failed horribly. Its the same thing with the Capitalists and Free Marketeers who ignore what's gone wrong there as well. In so many ways people are screaming and yelling about what others do while completely ignoring what their side does. I think it was Jonathan Haidt who said "There's this cacophony where the Radical Left and Radical Right just scream at each other while the rest of us trapped in the middle are simply exhausted."
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  6809. Like others you are also 100% RIGHT NOTE WHAT Kevin McCarthy actually says. I cut & past this form the transcript of the video. The punctuation is mine and there's correction of the word warrant which the YT algorithm had the word "weren't." Starting at 1:42 "Despite these serious allegations. It appears that the president's family has been offered special treatment by Biden's own Administration. Treatment that not otherwise would have received if they were not related to the President. These are allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption and they warrant further investigation by the House of Representatives." Think about what that actually says. 1) There's allegations NOT EVIDENCE. 2) There's appearance NOT EVIDENCE. 3) Regarding the allegations of favoritism to family members, maybe he can explain how Jared & Ivanka were given positions in the Trump Whitehouse despite having NO RELEVANT Experience for those positions. 4) Regarding the allegations of abuse of power, maybe Kevin McCarthy can explain how the GOP ignored what Trump did with his "perfect call" to Ukraine during Trump's 1st Impeachment. 5) Regarding the allegations of obstruction, maybe Kevin McCarthy can explain how the GOP ignored Trumps obstruction with counting votes on January 6th during Trump's 2nd Impeachment. 6) Regarding the allegations of corruption, maybe Kevin McCarthy can explain why there has been NO Investigation regarding Jared Kushner's use of government resources to play various Arab states against each other to secure several hundred million dollars to bail out his family's investment in the New York office tower 666 Fifth Avenue OR How Jared Kushner was able to get $2 Billion from the Saudi Arabian Sovereign Wealth Fund as he left the Whitehouse. OR How Donald Trump's golf courses made millions of dollars because he spent so much time at them as President that countries were forced to rent suites and villas at them to hold meetings. PLUS the US government had to pay for the rental of suites and villas and golf carts and food at those golf courses for Whitehouse Staff and Secret Service agents.
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  6810. The problem is the MEDIA keep putting microphones in front of people for no other reason than they will generate OUTRAGE. A while back (before all this began) Prof. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) said that the "product" that the media now sells "rage" and he specifically noted the Murdoch empire. "Rage" and "Outrage" are the 2 main products of opinion media. The problem with it is they will keep putting microphones in front of these people because it generates money for everyone involved. Right now as I type this YouTube has 6 recommended links to the right. 5 of them are about climate inaction, Tucker Carlson calling DeSantis supporters stupid, UK political gaffes, a republican railing against women having the right to vote and a Fox host melting down over a guest challenging them. The 2 above and below those 6 are 2 more political rage stories. The one odd link was for a short 35 minute documentary on an obscure Soviet Bomber on a channel I watch regularly because I'm an aerospace engineer and pilot who finds Rex's Hangar has some good historical material on a wide variety of aircraft including aircraft you don't here about much. I checked - out of the first 20 links from looking at this page only 2 were not some variation of "political outrage" the other one was another Rex's Hangar probably because I've watched a couple in recent days.
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  6811.  @speccwolf  Are you that much of a total M0R0N to say something like that? You have to be some sort of philosophy major to believe in that crap. They are labels we put on things to describe them. One of the most fundamental aspects of language is to describe the things around us. That's WHY we get things like adjectives, adverbs, nouns,... etc and why I can call you a M0R0N because your comment is M0R0NIC because those are the noun and adjective we have created to describe YOU and what YOU say.
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  6812. Well done as being somebody else who gets it. The bit that shites the rest of the World is that George "Dubya" Bush removed America from the International Criminal Court when he signed the American Service-Members' Protection Act in 2002 to protect American service panel from being judged by others. Obama never redressed it and Trump gave it the middle finger. Here go look at the map and take note that BOTH America and Russia were (past tense) signatories but are not now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court After you check the map look under the heading "Opposition to the Court"
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  6813. I'm Australian but did aerospace engineering at U. Illinois. I busted my ass to get that degree and clowns like Blagojevich make it damn hard to get a job anywhere on the planet. For the last 30+ years I have been trying to tell Australians that Americans are not like these creeps. I can't stress to Americans just how bad people like Rod Blagojevich and Donald Trump make all of you look. I genuinely like Americans and American culture, but you guys have to seriously got to clean up you politics. Don't worry we have some of our own issues just everyone else does, but we have nothing at this level.
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  6814. When America and its allies are charged with the same crime for the Invasion of Iraq then we can agree on charging Putin with War Crimes. No doubt Putin is a POS who deserves to be tried, but lets not forget that 170,000 innocent Iraqi civilians died or the abuses of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Bagram AFB or the abomination that the prison at Gitmo is.
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  6815. Just NEVER FORGET what he, Rick Wilson (no relation thankfully) and others have done TO WORLD POLITICS. They have done their toxic win at all costs campaign garbage all over the world. I'm Australian, but went to college in America. I watched first hand what these people did to America. In recent years American campaign advisers selling the same sort of crap have been active all over the world - including Australia.
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  6816. Following on from the Rand corporation report Bernie mentioned. Recently Richard Wolf mentioned a report from the Congressional Budget Office on family wealth. Its easy to find by googling "congressional budget office family wealth" (the publication number 57598) Its downloadable but the main graph on the web page is interactive and you can see that data. Right now the bottom 50% of America is worth $2.3 Trillion while the top 10% is worth $82.4 Trillion. That's 36x the combined wealth for 1/5th the number of people. If you do the math each person in the top 10% of America is worth (on average) 180x what each person in the bottom 50% (on average) is worth. I don't know why Bernie isn't screaming from the roof top of congress about this report as his people in his office should have received it. Also that Rand report on wages is easy to find by googling "rand wages report" Its titled "Trends in Income From 1975 to 2018" (the report number is WRA516-1) FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America which is part of why I watch America. I also watch America because our economics are also run by people who went to Harvard & Yale. I checked our Bureau of Statistics and there data (which is presented differently) shows that our top 20% are 90x the net worth (on average) of our bottom 20% (on average).
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  6817. It depends on your definition of "perfect world." In a perfect world everybody would have the intellect of a brain surgeon and the athleticism of an Olympic gold medalist and that's just not the case. I'm an engineer and have worked in manufacturing and the vast majority of people on the manufacturing floor need the protection of a Union and that can provide them with the ability to collectively negotiate their wages and conditions. If you take the average college graduate and put them in a room against the boss his accountant and lawyer they have NO CHANCE. People off the shop floor have even less chance of negotiating anything. These workers need somebody who looks after their interests and can deal with management anybody who can't understand that has never been in manufacturing at any level. What nobody needs is a return to the insane militant unions of the past lead by psychopaths only out for their own power.
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  6818.  @JP-xg6bv  Only 1/2??? That's lenient.
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  6819. @Sigma Dude The reason why you can't tell with a fanatic is because laws, rules, consistencies don't matter to them. They're usually driven by 1 singular motivation (power, greed, addiction, delusion, whatever) and everything else they say or do can flip or change moment to moment in the pursuit of that 1 thing. Its what makes them so unpredictable with what they might do next versus being totally predictable if you can work out that motivation.
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  6820. @Sigma Dude Yeah the harder thing is that they come in so many flavors these days. If its not 5G maniacs, its anti-vaxxers. If its not anti-vaxxers its hyper-greenies. If its not hyper-greenies its conspiracy clowns. If its not conspiracy clowns its ultra nationalists or worse racial supremacists (and they come in every color). And if its none of those SJWs or wokes or some religious nutcase screaming at us with another guilt trip. I think its a major part of the worlds stress right now. Every direction we look there's some nutcase screaming at us.
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  6821. I'm Australian and do you guys know that people like Charles Koch have been exporting this across the planet? RIGHT NOW here in Australia we have a referendum to change out constitution to formally recognize that the country had an existing people with their own culture BEFORE British Colonization. It would set up a "Voice to Parliament" that's based on the systems the Nordic countries set up for the Sami people of Northern Scandinavia. It has taken years to set-up and get organised and was (at first) widely supported across the country. It now looks like failing due to a vicious misinformation campaign running on straight up fear. The public front of the "No Campaign" is lead by 2 well known Aboriginal with links to American Libertarianism. Both have worked with or for Australian Libertarian think tanks (yes we have them too). The most notable among those think tanks is the The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA). Not only does the IPA have links to a string of Australian billionaires including the Murdoch's (and yes Rupert & Lachlan are both radical libertarians) but it openly admits its links to America's Libertarian think tanks including the Heritage Foundation and CATO Institute. Go and look at its home page here on YouTube and scroll down to its links.
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  6822.  @cygnus1965  You also forgot to mention that some of those chemical fire extinguishers they use for cars are also corrosive. An old boss of mine had racing cars and IF the fire extinguishers in them were used the mechanics had to wipe down the car immediately and then AS SOON AS POSSIBLE completely disassemble the car and make sure there wasn't any residue anywhere. There was nothing unusual completely disassembling the cars. They did that after every trip to the track but if a fire extinguisher had been let off they did it with URGENCY.
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  6823.  @BradloRaul  Its called political narrative and sociopaths like Elise Stefanik don't care. I once had someone describe to me the concept of High Machiavellians. They aren't your regular "the end justifies the means" type because they are at least tempered a to some degree by societal norms or expectations. These are the "anything and everything goes" to get what they want types. Morals and ethics have no place at all in their plans.
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  6824. There's already a string of words for it. Oligarchy - This is a more general term to describe any system of rule by a small elite of any type. All the rest below are specific forms of Oligarchy. Check Wikipedia if you want to know more. Monarchy - rule by a single person who inherited their position (North Korea) Dictatorship - rule by a single person who did not inherit their position. Theocracy - rule by a small elite priesthood (Iran, Saudi Arabia) Plutocracy - rule by a financial elite. (eg. America) Kleptocracy - rule by an elite who steal the nations resources and wealth. (eg. Russia)
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  6825. AUSTRALIAN HERE: If this was overdubbed with an Australian accent I would NOT be able to tell the difference. Even with the British accent I am struggling to understand if he his talking about Britain or Australia. I'm actually an engineer who's been looking into Economics because of the interference I have seen in the engineering space and the training of skilled tradesmen from economists. AND YES I watch Gary Stevenson's channel here on YT as part of that. Gary has recently confirmed something I worked out and something economists like Steve Keen have been trying to explain. There's 2 major issues with Economics education. 1) It is very narrowly focused on market economics and includes NOTHING regarding any understanding of things like infrastructure or energy systems. Everything is taught from a market perspective rather than a functional perspective. This is why Thames Water has the current issues it has and those issues are being repeated across the entire Western Democratic world and not just in water but also energy, infrastructure, rail and worst of all education. 2) It is uniform across all of the tertiary education systems. All of the text books are printed by Harvard Press, Oxford Press, Cambridge Press,... etc OR they are written by people who studied at or teach at Harvard Press, Oxford Press, Cambridge Press,... etc. The problem at the political level is that EVERY politician in the Western World NO MATTER if they are Left, Right or Center all studied the same economics at university or they have advisors who studied the same economics at university. This is why no matter who wins political power the overall economics doesn't change or only changes very little AND WHY there's no real solutions in sight.
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  6826. news flash - Its not a secret, its just something the "news media" doesn't talk about as much as they should. I'm Australian - do you think we are any different? I was working in Canada a couple of years ago. When it came to politics it was like living in Australia only with snow! 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Go watch DW or BBC and its the same everywhere across western democratic societies.
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  6827. Yeah but there will be a delay between when it happens and when it becomes obvious. Plus the Russians manipulate all their data. We know they lied about COVID stats for instance. So nobody will really know the effects for a while and maybe years.
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  6828. The problem is that out of the 99% who want to live in peace massive chunks let themselves be suckered into following narcissistic clowns that belong to or are controlled by the 1% who lead them over cliffs like lemmings despite it being obvious they are being lead over a cliff. Do you really think that deep down anybody truly believes people like Trump, Putin, Xi, Kim, Biden or any of the rest of them are really going to save humanity? Its maybe the most tragic aspect of humanity, our collective willingness to follow idiotic leadership over the cliff edge believing we will somehow magically fly away before crashing into the rocks below.
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  6829.  @babyroses12  News flash - EVERYBODY SPIES on their friends, competitors and enemies. Its called intelligence gathering and everybody does it. DU-UH 👉🤯
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  6830.  @motorlife7037  Well we are speaking English here sunshine. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  6831.  @meltedsnowman9637  Good comment. Don't forget to mention the newspapers now are also heavily into "Opinion based Journalism being presented as fact." There was a warning way, way back in the documentary Outfoxed that other media outlets were starting to follow Fox down into the gutter.
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  6832.  @motorlife7037  No doubt Fox are way more into the realm of fantasy than MSNBC, CNN,...... But then Fox isn't as bad as Newsmax and OAN either. Farron over at RoF (who I am not a great fan of as he's a bit to much into raging and frustration) did this today. yeah its still a bit too much of rage but he defends the politicians on both sides and slams it hard at the right wing side of the media, which in that subject is fair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC0Jqkw1E90
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  6833. Same as all the others.
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  6834.  @camhunt7310  Fair arguments but the biggest by far is serviceability. If a cable gets broken or cut then it can be replaced. It might not be easy but it can be fixed. I am an aerospace engineer and once a satellite is launched that's it. It flies and works or it fails. Other than the space stations the only object ever put in space that was serviced or repaired was Hubble.
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  6835. You know what is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN? Any laws stopping rich people hiding money offshore. The Panama Papers, Paradise Papers and Pandora Papers detailed how industrialised tax evasion has become. Nobody has been charged, nobody has gone to jail and not one country has changed its laws to stop it. Sorry but the rich either control or have enough influence over every government in the Western World to not let that happen. The ONLY country to stop any of it is China and that was only after finding out over $1 Trillion had vanished from China into foreign investments. That's why they started locking up billionaires. They want their money back.
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  6836.  @madmaverickmatt  Well said. And sadly one of the few comments that was well said.
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  6837.  @davidlafleche1142  As far as I know nothing other than the fact they all seem hardwired to driving men crazy as often as they can!
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  6838.  @kmcq692  As a guy the worst part of these clowns is they make it so damn hard for the rest of us. Girls ought to realise we hate them too because no matter how hard the rest of us might try these guys keep making us all look like shite.
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  6839.  @5PoW2  That's actually a very good point.
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  6840. Sooner or later somebody is going to lash out at him or another of the false flag lunatics and its going to be ugly. I saw this Vice vid (below) on these people promoting false flag conspiracies. Its from 4 years ago, but it shows just how revolting and narcissistic these people are. They all claim to be after truth but just aren't and they just don't care how much they hurt these people who have suffered so much. This is going to end in tragedy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To91BJGKr5I
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  6841. And don't forget Australia, Canada, New Zealand and all the others who'd jump when POTUS says jump. I'm Australian and we have joked that we are the 51st state for decades.
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  6842.  @jrmint2  Damn good point and I love your description of NK.
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  6843.  @grzegorczyk1983  Actually we are starting to slip down that list. There's DC, Puerto Rico, Alberta, Taiwan, Guam, Diego Garcia,... heck even the Philippines have rejoined the list and might even be higher than us. Although we still have Pine Gap and that keeps our ranking up.
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  6844.  @TheLocoUnion  The other thing everyone seems to have forgotten is that the Chines, Koreans, Japanese, Vietnamese and Philippinos have been fighting each other for several 1000 years. There's some seriously old grudges among them and sooner or later someone will do the wrong thing. How that pans out is another thing with so many possibilities they can't be listed.
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  6845. I'M AUSTRALIAN AND WE KNOW ABOUT THIS.
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  6846. NO, NO, NO they are not an entertainment channel they are a propaganda machine masquerading as an entertainment channel masquerading as a news outlet. I'm Australian and we tried to warn the Brits what Rupert Murdoch was like when he moved there and they didn't listen. We then tried to warn American what he was like and you didn't listen either. In 2004 there was the documentary Outfoxed which you can see here on YT. The warning was clear Rupert Murdoch was and still is an enemy of truth. There's moments like this I feel like we will never be able to apologise enough for Rupert Murdoch.
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  6847.  @cdr3986  There is a third option but you can only get away with it during a peasant revolution and that's the last thing we want because peasant revolutions tend to be incredibly destructive. Take the French or Russian revolutions as examples. Right wing revolutions on the other hand tend to be less destructive but far worse for the population. Plus its not an option for getting rid of Rupert because he'd be on the winning side having his snakes tell us how much better off we are now he's in charge.
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  6848. Dave hasn't yet figured out that its O.k. to be stupid BUT THAT its less acceptable to display how stupid you are again and again and again, while pretending you're smart.
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  6849. FOR EVERYONE - This documentary on Tax Evasion showed up in my recommendations last week. YES, the YT Algorithm had a day off or something because its brilliant. It highlights the real problem isn't Tax Evasion its what they call Tax Avoidance. As one person in the doco says these people can afford the lawyers and accountants and auditors to operate in the grey space between what's legal and what's illegal. Its long but worth the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6O3US9IE4
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  6850. Obama is slowly and surely morphing into the most overrated politician in the last century. On Hope he delivered NOTHING and even less on Change.. Didn't deliver on healthcare. Didn't close the Guantanamo detention centre. Didn't end the wars and in fact increased the drone war strikes. Didn't get the Convention on the Rights of the Child ratified by Congress and in fact FAILED to even send it to the Senate which is why there are now Child Labor law issues in America. Most of all didn't get jack crap done on Climate Change. Other than being able to stand in front of a crowd and orate convincingly, what actual skills does he have????
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  6851. What hostage's is he talking about.? What Equipment worth $85 Billion was left behind? That's more than the current cost of 6 Ford Class Aircraft Carriers ($13B. ea. = $78B). And 74 million Americans voted for this idiot to stay as president! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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  6852. NEWS FLASH from AUSTALIA to THE BRITISH PEOPLE You were stupid enough to let the economists convince you to sell of your public assets and then even dumber to let Macquarie buy your water infrastructure. Sorry but I don't know any other way to put it except we also listened to the same type of economic nonsense and its choking our economy right now.. I recently watched the IIPP at UCL host Brett Christophers for a book talk on Asset manager Capitalism. Its here on YouTube and is titled "Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World". Previously I had watched Mark Blyth give an ominous warning about Asset Manger capitalism in his talk at the Watson Institute which is also here on YouTube and titled "Mark Blyth– Asset Manager Capitalism". He includes a diagram of how this system works. FYI - We tried reining in Macquarie (along with the rest of our banking and finance industry) and what they were doing a few years ago and FAILED. The Economists stepped in and stifled every suggested action, because in their words "it would harm the economy." What they really meant was that it would hurt their bonus packages, their stock portfolios and their retirement packages. They simply threw the rest of us under the bus.
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  6853.  @fightthelies4349  Yeah 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  6854.  @user-th1pv6ks5o  Have they?? I thought that would have been a viral video or did it get lost in the noise?
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  6855. AEROSPACE ENGINEER & PILOT HERE ALL ATC Controllers across the developed world are pilots. Its a pre-requisite requirement of the job. You can't even apply for the job or start training unless you are a pilot first. Its simply IMPOSSIBLE to become a pilot with "severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities"
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  6856.  @jdsd744  Have you even been listening? The entire mission to 16-Psyche (at $400M US) is all because its Iron and Nickel. They keep going on how its worth $4 Quadrillion and maybe as much as $10 Quadrillion and will cure the worlds debt. You might get that fact that its totally impractical, but there are promoters with gigantic mouths and people without the background to realise how much shite they're being fed. And when it comes to space and space exploration their is an awful lot of shite being fed to a very gullible audience who have zero perspective. Other than asteroids there's the utter garbage that going to Mars will be just a few years away. We haven't been away from LEO for nearly 50 years. The last guys who did have an above average rate of heart disease. Nobody knows if it was from cosmic radiation or something else. The spent only a few days outside the Van Allen Belts and got permanent damage for it and NOBODY knows why. Even some of the stuff being said about going back to the moon is complete garbage. There are NASA people claiming all the maintenance will be done by robots. Total bullshit from boff heads who've never been on a mine site and have ZERO understanding of what happens to mining equipment in the field. I can tell you as an aerospace engineer who specifically went to work in mining to LEARN how to build and operate mines so that I might get a chance to go to the moon one day, that most of these people are totally clueless. I met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) back in 2002 and he told me to look into Helium-3 lunar mining. That was what sent me off into mining. Its wasn't just a wishful thought it was from one of the 12 guys who actually went to the moon. After a career in robotics and automation I got an education in remote mining. I'd be lucky if I know a fraction of 1% of what there is to know about mining and yet I know I am years ahead of NASA. At best they have visited mines I WORKED THERE.
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  6857.  @X85283  DO PEOPLE LIKE YOU ACTUALLY LISTEN? I don't know your education level so I wont blast of at you yet, but you better start listening. Do you have any idea how much iron ore we dig up EVERY YEAR and convert into iron and what that would take to fly into orbit and then fly back? Which is what Jeff Bezos proposed a few years back. He put forward the idea of taking all the mineral processing into orbit without any idea what it takes. Its not just that we could do it its how much stuff has to be moved up and down. I actually worked at the Tom Price Mine (iron ore) and it does 20mta (million tons per annum). Its a very convenient number because the math is very simple. The Space Shuttle could fly 30tons into orbit but only bring 14 tons back. The typical iron content in the ore is about 70%. yes it can be as low as 50% but also in the mid 90s fro high grade fines. But most grades are around the 70% mark. So every 20 tons produces about 14 tons of iron which is the same as the Space Shuttles. So if they wanted to process the output of a mine like Tom Price using the space shuttle it would take about 1 million space shuttle flights per year. AND THAT'S JUST 1 MINE Total Australia production of iron ore is now over 900 million tons and that would require about 45 million Space Shuttle Flights. FYI - China does over 1,000 million tons of iron ore production. EVEN IF you said don't bother with Space Shuttles and just build a glider our of the iron. 2.1 Billion tons of iron at 8kms (kilometers per second) is a lot of kinetic energy that has to be dissipated. Go look at the film for the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor that was about 9,100 tons. The worlds production of iron would be about 230,000 of those and it wouldn't be a one off it would be every year. If you feed 2.1 billion tons at 28,000kmh into a kinetic energy calculator you get 6.35E+19J which is 6.35 with 19 zeros after it. The Hiroshima bomb was about 63TJ (tera joules = trillion joules) or 63 with 12 zeros after it. YES that much iron coming down has the same energy as about 1 million Hiroshimas and you thing we could do that every year. Shifting iron ore production off world is logistically absurd and thermodynamically a planet killing exercise.
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  6858.  @wadebacca  Actually YES. it only takes minutes to check Lomborg. he's such a narcissist that he doesn't even care. His Think Tank is set up in America which should be a red flag but there's an interesting note on the funding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Consensus_Center#Funding No donations, they just admit to being paid.
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  6859. VERY SIMPLE QUESTION: Where is she getting this from? Either she's delusional (as in mentally sick) and making stuff up or this was told to her by someone she trusts enough to repeat it. Look at how she's talking and she doesn't seem or sound mentally ill. So I tend to think she is being told this by people she trusts or hearing from sources she feels are reliable.
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  6860. This guy went to Harvard for pre-Law and Yale for his JD. Either the education at Harvard and Yale sucks so bad he doesn't know the constitution, OR; He's a NARCISSISTIC LIAR.
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  6861.  @chiangkaishrek5123  I'd say you're dead right on all 3 points. I don't think you've disagreed with what I said but described it from a different angle. Have you read or seen any of the book talks on "Angrynomics." Mark Blyth uses an analogy (even before writing Angrynomics) how the economy is like a computer. He describes populists as hackers or rogue programmers. In the book he and Eric Lonergan explain WHY people flock to populists and its NOT a new thing. The main reason people follow after them is they become disenchanted and/or disenfranchised with the current regime. In democracies (like we see all over the world right now) there's almost no difference in voting Left or Right because they do the same things. Populists offer an alternative. Eric & Mark point out that most populists are at their core opportunists and quite often narcissists. Plenty have pointed out that although Kinzinger has publicly spoken out against Trump he also voted with Trump most of the time. So in a way he's also an opportunist as is Liz Chaney and in fact almost everyone in politics these days. Its matter of how much. Hilary was just another arrogant narcissistic machine politician except she was too stupid to realise how much people despised her. I'm actually Australian but went to college at Illinois. I'm not an expert of the Midwest but have a decent handle on it. When I heard Hilary was NOT going to campaign in Michigan and instead did a fundraiser in New York I knew it was a truly idiotic mistake. Basically she double insulted the entire Rust Belt by not going and then hanging out with the very people who had sold their jobs to other places. She ended up losing Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. Anyone with a functioning brain should realise that's 54 EC-votes which represents a 108 EC-vote swing - you lose 54 they gain 54 (duh). Hilary and her campaign staff were among stupidest people in democratic history and I don't mean the US Democratic Party I mean ALL OF democratic history across every democratic state & nation.
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  6862.  @icorcka76  Beach shorts outdoors in -20C????
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  6863.  @ktg8030  That's way more difficult than it sounds, but there are some ways to screw it up. Go look at a map and look at just how big Russia actually is and look at Ukraine. Striking at infrastructure is a lot easier with smaller chunks of land. BUT if you hit infrastructure in just the right place then its chaos. If you go and look at the 2003 Blackout that smashed the Northeast of America and a chunk of Canada that was just a basic fault in a local part of the grid in Ohio. However it caused a cascade event. Kind of like dominoes falling over. So the real question for Ukraine isn't if they can take down the Russian power grid, that's unlikely, BUT they might be able to hit a couple of key places and cause enough chaos that the Russians stop doing what they are doing. The Ukrainians wont touch any of the gas infrastructure because they know this war will end and those pipelines are how Europe functions. They have probably been told already that if they want support don't touch the gas. Major power plants are probably also out and that leaves power lines and substations. Both are soft targets, are reasonably easy to repair. I doubt they hit Moscow but you might expect some of those cities near Ukraine to get the main substations hit.
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  6864. I'm Australian and just started watching Gary's channel. if it wasn't for his accent I could easily describe that he was talking about Australia. I was in Canada for work a couple of years ago and he could be describing Canada just as easily. I first heard about Trickle Down Economics back in the 1990s. I read a book called "Apocalypse 2000" where these guys were warning that by the year 2000 we'd be on the verge of economic collapse. One of their main reasons was Trickle Down economics. They were almost right it just took until 2008 for their prediction to come true. Its so amazing that we keep having to have this discussion AGAIN.
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  6865. I hate to bust your dreams but: WHEN Bush & Cheney can invade a country unlawfully and end up getting a million people killed and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN people like Donald Rumsfeld and those underneath him can order the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Bagram AFB and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN John Bolton can ADMIT PUBLICLY to staging coups and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN Obama can use drone strikes in countries he has NO AUTHORITY in and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN Trump can wind up the drone strikes including the one in Syria where he had NO AUTHORITY and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN Trump can assassinate an Iranian General when he has NO AUTHORITY to do it and NOT even be investigated, let alone arrested, let alone held accountable. WHEN Trump can stage an attempted coup and OVERTHROW the US Government and is NOT arrested, NOT charged and NOT held accountable. What makes you think any American can hold a Foreign Leader like Bibi Netanyahu accountable?
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  6866.  @leskobrandon4518  Its arguably the biggest problem and threat to Western Society (across the board) even more than China's ambitions. We are being drowned in opinions to such an extent that its almost a full time effort to workout what the facts on any matter actually are. Plus all those opinions are coming from the specific ideological viewpoints of the presenters & producers or even worse the money. We now have chunks of our societies totally confused about what's real and what's not and they are being egged on by a rapid pack of money grubbing narcissists screaming "free speech" when ever they are questioned about what they promote. This can't end well.
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  6867.  @justins8802  I don't know if its Schizophrenia but there is a staggering amount of arrogance, narcissism and delusion being presented. And my Dunning-Kruger meter just went thump against the stop at the far end of the red zone and then smoke started to come out.
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  6868.  @lunruj  This crap is stressful for EVERYONE with a STEM background. We have real problems that need dealing with and time and time again we are stopped while one of these clowns wastes everyone's time.
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  6869. ​ @Stroporez  Actually I'm also anti-centrist for the most basic fact that the so called "Enlightened Centrists" have so utterly failed. If you want to simply lump people into Left, Right and Centre then you're as ignorant to the reality of humanity as most of the clowns who run this planet. They might be enlightened but when it comes to getting anything done "Enlightened Centrists" are f*cking hopeless, which to your point is why the world is a mess. Just as there are different shades to the Left and Right there's also different shades to what's in between. What I hate about the so called "Enlightened Centrists" is that they all suffer Dunning-Kruger Syndrome just as bad as the Radical Left and Radical Right. The giveaway of their stupidity, ignorance and arrogance is: - they are too stupid to realise that doing nothing but making compromises goes nowhere; - they are too ignorant to know people will accept tough decisions when the goals are explained; - they are too arrogant to accept that there are people on the Left and on the Right with better ideas. I'm what you might call a "Practical Centrist" but then I'm an engineer and practically minded. I'm of the basic opinion that you listen to the Left and Right and pick their brains for the good ideas. You explain to the rest why whatever it is, is a good idea and ask for their input. IMPORTANTLY you don't let them stall or interfere which is the GREATEST failure of so called "Enlightened Centrists" they let BOTH the Left and Right stall and interfere. Its why they end up getting NOTHING DONE.
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  6870.  @jujutrini8412  NO SHlT SHERLOCK When did you deduce this amazing insight?
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  6871. Het David WTF - Its 3 January 2021 and this was reported days ago????
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  6872. I think the reference your looking for is Ramsay Bolton's Dogs and his famous last words "my hounds will never harm me.........they're loyal beasts........sit...down....down....down....stop....down....arrrggghhhhhhhh" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kDpfcOBNkU I don't know what's better Sansa - "they were and now they are starving" or Ramsay saying "sit."
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  6873.  @michaelwaninger3155  That's always puzzled a lot of non-Americans. I'm Australian but went to college in America. Like many I know that Jeb Bush used an obscure Florida law that allowed the Governor to remove felons from the voting roles. I also know that one of his staffers used a very lose set of parameters to dump around 10,000 people many of whom were NOT felons off the voting rolls. They did stuff like just matching a surname to a street or area code. They didn't actually match full names to specific addresses. It allowed them to dump a lot more people from the rolls and in particular African Americans. Last I ever heard was that staffer was being pursued for civil rights violations but I have never heard how that turned out. So yeah even in Oz we heard about HOW they did it but never heard about what finally became of the people involved. I sort of suspected that Gore may have had some funny foreign money in his campaign which was rumored and that was used to get him to shut up. I did hear that a professor who did a comprehensive analysis of the data found Core would have won by something like 170 votes but that's so small an amount any sensible error analysis should discount it or at least question it. I doubt we will ever know the real truth about that whole mess. And even if we did what difference would it make now. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  6874. What Charlie Kirk doesn't realise is that from a legal standpoint a Pilots legal responsibility is to conclude the flight safely. So if ANY PILOT feels that a person is a risk to the safety of the flight they can REFUSE to have them onboard the plane OR if the flight is already underway do whatever they feel is necessary to complete the flight safely. I have a pilots license and even at the private pilot level to legal responsibility of the pilot is absolute when it comes to safety. Its even higher at the commercial level. If there is a Captain of a flight who refuses to have him on the plane "for safety reasons" there's NOTHING CHARLIE CAN DO. If the airlines BAN Charlie from flying and there's NOTHING CHARLIE CAN DO. And right now I'd recommend the airlines just ban him and the other 3 clowns for 12 months and if they complain make it 24.
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  6875.  @dreamersruleNOW  Its not suddenly an issue and Dr Fauci has admitted they underestimated how easily this thing travels in a crowd. So did the Europeans and many others. Some countries just got lucky - like Australia. If we had waited as little as 2 weeks we might have had numbers like Illinois. A couple of big sporting events happened just before it arrived and we cancelled major events as it arrived. Also Trump never had 300k in crowd either except in his own imagination. And there were experts screaming about those rallies. Please don't get off topic with the other stuff either. Is been known for years that 40,000 children die every day from a lack of food and about 50,000 die every day from simple infections. Secret evil billionaires are for James Bond films. Most of them are just selfish and stupid about that selfishness. Plus there is NOTHING you or me can do about those things BUT we can effect how COVID-19 trashes our societies, our friends and our families..
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  6876.  @dreamersruleNOW  At the start of this Trump declared there might be 15 cases and they would snuff it out. 300,000 bodies later and your bragging about going to the beach. Please get some perspective and understand some real facts. Illinois (where I went to college), Indiana and Wisconsin combined have 25.2 million people which is very close to Australia's 25.6. We have 908 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indian and Wisconsin have over 25,700 We currently have just over 1,400 active cases while Illinois, Indian and Wisconsin have over 550,000 active cases heading into winter. Don't try and claim as other people have that we have some magic juice because we don't. We simply listened to our experts and took their advice and did as we were told. America just went past the 300,000 fatalities. You have people STILL calling it a hoax. Nurses and Doctors are reporting they have patients claiming it can't be COVID because COVID's a hoax and some of them have died from it. 2,997 people died in the Twin Towers and America spent over 2 trillion dollars hunting down 1 man and destroyed 2 countries. 100 times as many die from a virus and all you want is to go to the F--KING BEACH. And its F--K OFF if you ask people to keep their distance and where a mask. With the attitude you have there will easily be over 400,000 dead before Biden gets to take the oath and probably 500,000 dead by the end of winter. That's not just a tragedy that's a catastrophe all because of selfishness.
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  6877. Just more proof of how utterly useless polling is.
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  6878. @Random User Yeah so they sort of got something close to right and now your claiming what exactly??????
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  6879.  @ass4sale2  Well said, although it applies to ALL social media.
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  6880. Considering he was one one of the key players who prevented Merrick Garland's SCOTUS hearing saying infamously "hold me accountable" and then helped rush through Amy Barrett and then more recently demanded an AG who would NOT investigate Trump why should anyone ever believe this clown ever again. Lets not forget his180 flip on Trump after having his emails hacked by Russians.
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  6881. I'm a Victorian living in Queensland and WA did the right thing. The rest of Australia pretty much did the right thing and it save lives and there's been a staggering number of LIES told before during and since. In Early 2024 Gigi Foster the infamous economics professor who said (early in the pandemic) that we should do the Swedish thing because the elderly and inform would die anyway said on ABC QandA "At best Australia's lockdown saved 10,000 lives." Now there's a few things about that. FIRST - Gigi is NOT a never has been a health care expert and her claim to "just let them die" was met with scorn by other professors at her university the UNSW. SECOND - Simply saying to let 10,000 people die is sociopathic and a sign of mental illness. THIRD - AFTER Australia dropped its restrictions due (in part) to pressure from economists like Gigi Australia's death toll from COVID jumped from ~10,000 to over 20,000. FOURTH - She LIED about the number 10,000. Because I had gone to university in America I was watching the numbers closely via a website that had the entire World's official data. I'd heard Gigi and others make multiple claims about how we should be like Sweden. I knew the Swedish data and how their numbers were double or triple the other Nordic countries (Norway, Finland, Denmark). I also knew Sweden's numbers were much worse than Australia. At the time Gigi claimed it only saved 10,000 (at best) had we taken her advice and done the Swedish thing and based on the Swedish result we would not have had 20,000 dead but over 70,000. How she got away with that lie was she used the average fatality rate for the World NOT the fatality rate for Sweden. Neither Gigi Foster or any of the other LIARS like Russel Brand have ever been called out for their lies or held accountable for their actions in stirring up trouble that did result in lives being lost.
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  6882.  @Grumpy_vegan  The mismanagement was IN PART caused by all the damn LIARS like Russel Brand causing all sorts of crap to happen AND it got a lot people put into wooden boxes.
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  6883. That's maybe the best description I have seen of Elon Musk so far.
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  6884.  @ruicorreia7882  Yeah, you're sort off, but there's some other things to consider. I'm an aerospace engineer who's worked in the automotive sector. Yeah I can't stand Elon at all but what he has done to BOTH the automotive and aerospace sectors is pretty impressive BUT ONLY IF ITS KEPT IN CONTEXT. Both automotive and aerospace can be incredibly belligerent, recalcitrant and outright pigheaded industries. With Tesla Elon didn't invent or develop squat but what he did do was get that industry to change and start making electric cars. With SpaceX, he didn't invent anything or do any of the development work himself and Gwynne Shotwell has said idiotically stupid things. However they got America's manned space program functioning again and considering how bad Boeing has performed with Starliner, SpaceX and Crew Dragon look amazing. BUT Starship 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂ really is the joke that thunderf00t and others claim.
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  6885.  @Aashka_The_Mystic  You're right but then its so common for business leaders to claim what their employees have done as their own work that Elon's just doing what others do. If there is a difference is that most other people will at least give some credit to others. Elon never does that. Like when has Elon ever said how his Tesla team are doing great things in manufacturing? Yeah never. He just says how he knows more about manufacturing than anyone else alive.
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  6886.  @shacktime  Yeah people claim that all the time. Neil deGrasse Tyson made the point recently that there are people who demand (like flat earthers) that they be given EQUAL consideration in public debate. He pointed out that when you have one side that's 99.99% versus 0.01% there's NOTHING EQUAL. In those cases where people just IGNORE reality and or IGNORE what's being said then ITS NOT A DEBATE Arguing reality against bullshite is NOT a DEBATE
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  6887.  @shacktime  ITS NOT A DEBATE WHEN YOU IGNORE REALITY. If you want to compare his PAST and PRESENT then fine - that's reasonable. That's what I have tried to highlight. SO EITHER be reasonable or sensible or just FK-OFF.
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  6888.  @dfr6663  AND I HAVEN'T SAID THEY AREN'T. I've put them up as a comparison between what he's been and where he is now. What part of that comparison are you and a couple of others missing? By chance are you another millennial with no life experience who thinks they understand the world. You certainly sound like one.
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  6889.  @jonathandnicholson  I pretty much agree with all of what you said but with some slightly different perspectives on a couple of points. On the moral grounds I get where most people are coming from, but there is also the aspect of those crimes so depraved that the only option is to lock someone in isolation until they die and that has consequences. I'm Australian and we have had to actually deal with that. Arguably our worst was Martin Bryant who committed the Port Arthur Massacre. During that there was a part that was truly depraved. He shot and killed the mother of 2 small girls in front of them and then shot the 2 girls dead in front of their father. The girls were 3 and 6 at the time. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia)#Toll_booth_murders_and_carjacking Authorities recently released the footage of the police interviews taken the next day. Bryant's behavior was incredible and barely describable. He treated the police interview like it was a game and he was the center of attention. The one time I heard that they tried to put him into the general prison population the other prisoners simply tried to kill him on sight. He's since spent over 20 years sitting in a bed in the prison hospital, because there was no where else to keep him safe. The last I heard he was almost a vegetable from the lack of human interaction. No one speaks to him or has anything to do with him beyond what's necessary. Therein lies one of the conundrums with crimes of extreme depravity. What do you do? There are people who would say that keeping a man in the state Martin Bryant is kept is depraved and inhuman. It has clearly done damage, but what else can we do? We've had the discussion many times but there is simply no right answer.
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  6890.  @jonathandnicholson  As I said I largely agree with that except that it leads to the next issue which is what do you do with them. In most cases its fairly straight forward, but the laws men write are not perfect as you have said. So there will always be exceptions to every argument and there wont be a right answer in some of those cases. Its one of those arguments philosophy majors love to spin we only need laws because people are not perfect and our solution to that imperfection is an imperfect system of rules and adjudications. I'm an engineer and we get trained to be logical because engineering is pretty straight forward when it comes to reality. But philosophers can play with abstract idea. In fact arguing abstract ideas is their favorite game.
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  6891.  @jonathandnicholson  Why are you trying to make a clearly very grey issue a black and white issue? My position is that I am not so much in favor as much as I am not opposed to the principal, because there are those moments when there is no doubt to the existence of what the Americans call "depraved indifference." Its one of those weird legal terms that has no clear definition but when its obvious its obvious. My opposition is where do we draw the line and who gets to decide where the line is. My opposition to the death penalty is the arbitrary nature that it gets applied. Our last hanging in Australia was clearly a political decision not a legal one and its turned out that the police knew about the ballistics information that said the guard George Hodson was shot from an elevated position not ground level where Ronald Ryan was. They knew that George Hodson was most likely accidentally shot by another guard in one of the towers and they even knew which guard was most likely responsible. They knew the main witness lied as well. BUT they still hanged Ronald Ryan, because it was politically convenient at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Ryan But on the concept of depraved indifference I have told you about Martin Bryant. There's no doubt he showed depraved indifference, but he was also mentally deficient which made that a whole grey zone with no right answer. But there is a very good example of depraved indifference where there is no doubt the person involved just didn't care - Timothy McVeigh who detonated the Oklahoma City Bomb that killed 168. Have a look at the casualties and you'll find there were 19 children most of whom were in day care center in the targeted building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing#Casualties Scroll down that Wikipedia page to the heading on "Children Affected" and look at the photograph and read the bit about what came out in the trial. He skipped one building because it had a florist and instead targeted a building with a day care center and let the bomb off at a time of day when he knew children would be there. So you know that's depraved indifference. Martin Bryant was depraved no doubt, but also mentally deficient, but Timothy McVeigh was depraved and justifiably executed.
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  6892.  @queencerseilannister3519  Unless we are burning them at the same stake they want to burn everyone else they are a non-discussable topic. Their only use is for comparisons. As in "See it could be worse, one of these guys could be in charge of nuclear weapons."
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  6893. Its staggering how people like Mark Levin keep ranting, screaming and howling about what's mandated in the constitution ESPECIALLY if it gets applied to Donald Trump. In most countries Donald Trump would already be in jail over January 6th and in some countries he'd already have been executed. He and his people organised a rally and flipped it into an insurrection that tried to interfere with the transition of power from a legally held election where both sides had their observers present during the vote counting. That's "Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go and do not collect $200" in every developed nation with a functioning judicial system on the planet.
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  6894. As an Australian it was disappointing he didn't win more majors but he lost to a couple to incredible shots like Larry Mize in the 87 Masters. To call him a choker is to ignore his 1993 British Open final round with Nic Faldo. I normally can't stand golf but that was some of the best sport I've ever seen. He and Faldo just hammered away with incredible shots hole after hole. Then there was the 96 masters where he predicted his own collapse during an interview after the 3rd round. There's mixed feelings about him in Australia. There's no doubt he's been a great golfer and very good informal ambassador for Australia, but this crap with the Saudis is going to cement his legacy in the worst way possible.
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  6895. Exactly people need to start screaming at these idiots. "There is no evidence, there was no evidence there was just fat lying clown who couldn't accept rejection."
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  6896. I'll give you a possible maybe based on something Political strategist Peter Zeihan said about the Chinese "Weather Balloon" that floated over America before they shot it down. He's said this several times but the basics are that the Americans knew all about it and what it was doing. INSTEAD of simply shooting it down first chance they got, they listened to every transmission it made and every instruction it got and then back hacked the entire Chinese system. Peter has described it as the breakthrough of the decade and the stupidest thing any nation has done this century so far because the Americans have now completely hacked the Chinese system and broken all their encryption. Based on that we might be able to assume knowing that the Australian security agencies know EXACTLY where these houses are and can do similar. They can just listen to everything going in and out of those houses. Because they are illegal and are NOT official Chinese state property (like an embassy or consulate) there's no need for any warrants or anything else. Australia's security agencies can just do whatever they like. So there's a possibility (and its a big "if") that the Australian security agencies now know the identity of every Chinese agent in Australia. Who they are, where they are, where they go, what they've done and what they're doing now.
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  6897. And she is the most talented inside trader in history because no only has she has made $100s of millions she's GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT. In almost any other country in the world she'd be in handcuffs. In China they would have already shot her in the head as they do for that sort of thing. She made millions off privileged information as Americans died. How have they not arrested her? Who is at the FBI, SEC, NSA, DOJ that should have dealt with this POG (piece of garbage)?
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  6898.  SigmaTauri2  You might not hear from "the truth hurts again" his claim is hate speech by Google guidelines and I reported him. Only fair after some of those snowflakes had one of my accounts cancelled for calling them dickheads and liars. Others are also reporting that the Trumpists are snitching to Google and complaining about anyone who calls out their lies.
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  6899. Great video and the whole oil thing was so easy to predict. It was pretty obvious that no matter what sanctions got thrown at Russia there were going to be countries that still bought their oil. Plus with the Europeans buying oil from other places meant those suppliers weren't suppling to their normal customers and those customers still needed oil and would buy it somewhere else. People like Peter Zeihan had predicted that the Siberian wells would be devastated if they didn't keep the wells flowing. Because they go through the permafrost the water that's in the raw crude as it comes up can freeze in the well and destroy the casing which permanently wrecks the well. So they need to keep those wells in production which means the oil has to go somewhere. So the Russians were always going to find other people to sell their oil too because you can't simply cut that much oil out of the World's economy. The $60 cap just helped that process.
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  6900. AND for the mathematically challenged among YouTube creators can you all please stop saying STUPID stuff like "4 times less" which is impossible unless you explain what "less" is in the context. You can't "times less" anything, and is why SMART people use fractions or percentages. Like "they only bought 1/4 of what they bought last year" or "they only bought 25% of what they bought last year" or "they bought 75% less than they bought last year." How many times to you STUPID arts degree clowns need basic math explained to you.
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  6901.  @Anonymous______________  GOOD WAY to prove you're a BOT or a M0R0N as there is nothing in the title or the vid that says anything like what you claim.
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  6902. The biggest surprise I go tin this video was about 1 minute in when YouTube cut in with a Sarah Huckabee Sanders add extolling the virtues of Donald Trump inviting me to a fundraiser. No shite that actually happened.
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  6903. HEY LEGAL EAGLE: You claim Trump has NO "S-Tier" Lawyers, but I thought all his Lawyers were SHlT! Its would also explain why he goes through them like toilet paper. What else do you use to wipe up SHlT?
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  6904.  @phillipraffle6966  Without doubt those are 2 more of the main points of failure. I don't think it was anyone thing, but rather a list of things that people chose to ignore because they thought each on those things wasn't catastrophic and they missed that COMBINED they sank the ship.
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  6905.  @andrewblanchard2398  I totally understand that sentiment, but to you want Trump disgraced in jail or dead as martyr? On is very easy the other is incredibly hard. Bullets, swords, axes, rope & poison can kill almost anything on this planet except for one thing - an idea. There are many quotes form history about killing ideas. Its what is making the basic task of fixing human society so hard. Ideas are the head of hydra (from Greek mythology). Every time you get rid of an idea 2 more grow out from the stump. Look at any of the idiotic and ridiculous conspiracies flooding us see that no matter how much gets debunked another couple of clowns step forward.
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  6906.  @timwoodger7896  About 2 years ago in a thread on energy a guy from Romania jumped in an called us all a pack of western mongrels. He told us how western Europeans and Americans had come to Romania told them to privatise all their energy assets because (and I quote) "competition leads to lower prices and better services." I heard the same garbage back in the 1990s in my home state of Victoria and it wasn't just the political Right. The Political Left were pumping that mantra just as hard. In fact the labor party in Victoria sold off more stuff than the Right did. Around that same time I first heard the term "trickledown economics" as well as "supply side economics" and the people talking about it were saying how its been a failure every time its been tried. People back in the 1990s were trying to warn us this stuff was coming. The only thing they had wrong was how long it would take. Their predictions were that around the year 2000 there'd be an economic crisis.
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  6907.  @timandrew4515  No problems. The more we share GOOD information the better our chances.
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  6908. Did I just here at 8:34 that they were surprised. You mean there's been ANOTHER FAILURE of Intelligence services. This entire disaster started with a failure of intelligence services with the 9/11 attacks and its now finishing with ANOTHER FAILURE of Intelligence services. Joe "the mission hasn't failed YET" Biden - yeah way for America to go from Bill "can't keep his dick in has pants" Clinton to George "just let Dick make the decisions" Bush to Barrack "don't make any decisions at all" Obama to Donnie "how's my golf score" Trump to this. Maybe in 2024 somebody with a functioning brain will run for POTUS. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  6909.  E. E. Lawson  Yes its called "Sky News Australia" and its owned by Rupert Murdoch. Hey, we tried to warn the Brits when he moved there and they didn't listen. Then we tried to warn America when he moved there and they didn't listen either. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♀🤷‍♀🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♀🤷‍♀🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♀🤷‍♀
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  6910.  @davidbroadbent854  Your 1/2 right we don't elect a head of state like other countries elect a president. And even if we did elect our Governor General he wouldn't have anywhere near the power the US President has because of how our constitution operates. Where you are 1/2 wrong is on the weakness our system has and its called "the balance of power." Its when an election ends with neither main party getting enough to form a clear majority. We most often see it in our senate where minor parties have their best chance to gain seats. What happens is that a minor party ends up with the balance of power and they can either help the government pass legislation or help the opposition block it. You see this a lot in places like Italy and Israel. A while back our version of Trump a genuine Billionaire POS named Clive Palmer tried this with his "Palmer United Party" and he got damn close to having real power. In his arrogance he ended up destroying his own party. He's tried again since with some influence but zero real power. So we aren't immune to it and we are vulnerable if we get enough stupid people being stupid.
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  6911.  @melwelker6077  I don't disagree that Sky News needs to be contained but I'd hate to see it simply banned because we don't like what they say. Disagreement isn't a good enough standard. I think we do need enforceable laws on HARMFUL misinformation. The problem is where do we draw the line, who defines what's harmful and most importantly who polices it. So far nobody has ever made it work. Its either too slack (like America) or to tight (like China). Even Australia has tried banning people from talking and it always backfires at some stage. Years ago we banned David Irving the English Holocaust denier from Australia. It hasn't stopped Nazis being in Australia or recruiting disenfranchised people. It and the gun laws didn't stop Brenton Tarrant from becoming radicalised and then becoming a mass murderer. I really do sympathise with your idea but its such a damn hard thing to make work.
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  6912.  @davidbroadbent854  Absolutely great point and usually when we have had a "balance of power" situation people have acted in good faith. Clive Palmer had plans and none of it was in good faith.
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  6913.  @davidbroadbent854  Your right on our compulsory voting laws and a visiting American academic last year said its the one thing she'd like to bring to America. I don't think the electoral college is as ridiculous as people say. Its like a senate election and if you consider what the Presidents role originally was then it should never have been a problem it now is. When Newt Gingrich became speaker of the house he said he wanted to return to the pre-WW2 arrangement where the President was mostly figurehead and the speaker ran the country. The US Speaker is actually very close to the British or Australian Prime Minister in that they are the leader of the House of representatives. The President as head of state is like an elected King or Queen or our Governor General. The President was meant to do the international handshaking while the Speaker ran the country. Go look at Washington on that subject. But somehow after WW2 and it might have been going on earlier the Presidents role became the dominant position especially with respect to domestic policy. Then there's the whole gerrymandering of the smaller states. We've had some major issues with gerrymandering in the past. They used to joke that in some parts of Australia sheep voted. We've had some horrendous electoral disparities at times. I'm certain many countries have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6mJw50OdZ4
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  6914.  @jimdavison4077  Again you are right, there's no valid reason for making anyone person's vote worth more than another's. But the reason we do have some of those systems like the US Senate and the United Nations General Assembly is so that smaller GROUPS do have a voice and larger GROUPS cannot dominate without check.
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  6915.  @jimdavison4077  I didn't say NOT rule or NOT be in charge I said NOT dominate and there's a difference. I absolutely agree that the majority should rule, but they should NOT dominate because to dominate means you give little or no consideration to the the party being dominated and that never goes well. That's why countries quite often have secondary houses with different systems like the US Senate. Where such systems can fail is when minorities end up with too much say in outcomes and become obstructionist. Those systems are so minorities cannot be dominated or ignored. They ware NOT in place so those minorities can hold the majority to ransom. These are basic concepts that too many people in politics forget too often.
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  6916.  @jimdavison4077  Its a fair comment on the electoral college. The question is, why did they do it that way in the first place? Better still why do millions of American citizens get denied the opportunity to vote and be represented. As well as Puerto Rico there's the other territories that get denied ANY meaningful representation. They can serve in the US military and die for America but can't vote on their government. THAT'S ABSURD. On the UN you are right, the ability for the permanent members of the security council to veto anything is ridiculous. Its why the UN is a sad joke.
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  6917.  @jimdavison4077  If you want to talk about a part of the American system that desperately needs upgrading try SCOTUS. I'd list its short comings but neither of us have that much time.
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  6918.  @jimdavison4077  I don't disagree that the US needs a system rethink, most countries do from time to time. The problem is you already have people planning it and they are the worst people imaginable to do it. Thom Hartman has done a few vids on it, one recently.
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  6919.  @jimdavison4077  If I'm saying America it means the USA not Canada, not Mexico, not Brazil and not Venezuela,
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  6920.  @jimdavison4077  Do you know who's funding this push to rewrite the US Constitution? The bulk of the people who want it might be a pack of clowns, but the people funding it aren't. Behind it are people are like Charles Koch and Robert Mercer. Robert Mercer has a PhD in physics. He's a maths genius. That's what he was recruited in to the finance industry for. He funded Cambridge Analytica the company that used Facebook to manipulate the Brexit vote. Charles Koch has Bachelors and Masters degrees in chemical engineering from MIT. Their fans might be dumb but these guys a hyper intelligent and they have 10s of billions to spend on what they want. They spend billions like you an me spend dollars. Millions are like pennies to these guys.
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  6921.  @jimdavison4077  Your right the US Constitution is a disaster, but like everyone else you don't stop and ask why. And its an idiotic response to want to tear it apart. That's Trumpism 101. Let's just tear up this treaty and that treaty without any plan or thought of what comes next. The reason the US Constitution is failing is because extremely well funded narcissists have decided to exploit and undermine it. Its not failing because of what's written. Its failing because of what people are getting away with.
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  6922.  @jimdavison4077  So your answer is to let some of the worlds most selfish and greedy and destructive people who have ever lived just completely tear up the constitution of a nuclear armed state and re-write that constitution in a way that suits their business interests. Yeah that's a sensible option. There's thing called consequences. You should look up the word to see what it means.
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  6923.  @candyolson2871  Simple rule: It doesn't matter if you believe in God or Evolution you have 2 ears and 2 eyes which means listening and watching combined are 4 times more important than your mouth.
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  6924.  @49commander  If any or anyone else wants an indepth discussion/interview on who the White Christian Nationalists are, Paul Jay interviewed Yale Sociologist Philip Gorsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEY2FJyzSXk A couple of months earlier he interviewed author Steve O'Keefe who's written about the billionaires who fund WCN and how Trump gave them massive assistance via tax cuts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFhIq1rAm-M They are not short, but are worth the time.
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  6925.  @candyolson2871  Not meaning any disrespect at all. Just confirming your comment with a comment/quote from a friend. If you look at CPAC and most other politics to some extent and the cheering sheep don't listen, don't look and think what they say reflects reality. Another person put me onto a great comment from Ex-KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov who said in 1984 the purpose of propaganda was to get people to the point where they were incapable of reaching sensible conclusions no matter what evidence was presented. He was totally wrong in his assessment of how successful the KGB was because history tells us the Russians collapsed. We also know it wasn't the Russians that destroyed the West because it was a handful of Western billionaires that did it. Here's part of the 1984 interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI
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  6926.  @candyolson2871  Best wishes to you. And sooner or later some of your MAGA people will not be able to deny reality. When that happens be careful and patient, because some will be shattered and others even more dangerous. The harder people believe in fantasies the harder they fall when the bubble bursts and Trump's bubble is as big as his ego. Recently I heard about how Nixon's backers (who were blocking all attempts to charge Nixon) were put in a room and had the evidence spelled out to them. They had to accept Nixon was guilty because he was undeniably guilty. I think the same is about to happen to Trump and the MAGA hats will split into the truly mindless and the totally shattered as happens when any cult like movement blows up.
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  6927.  @candyolson2871  Hopefully when they charge Trump it will stick like superglue on a hot day. My bet is that's what's taken so long. They have waited for something undeniable that he can't get out of no matter how much the clown brigade that supports him screams and yells.
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  6928.  @candyolson2871  Thanks, best to you.
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  6929. We have the same problem here in Australia, except its industrial nut farms. Nut trees need water no matter what the conditions are. Because we now how a commercial water market, that DW actually covered really well, the industrial nut farms can simply outbid all the other farmers. This story is so painful to watch, because I know from our problems how much damage this is doing. I've also seen similar stories about the industrial farming in Southern California where they are having similar problems draining the Southern California aquafer. Its starting to draw in salt water from the ocean.
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  6930.  @laurenwalker1048  I'd love it if Murdoch had no links to Oz but that's sadly not possible.
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  6931. ATTENTION ALL: I just checked through the last 10 Pakman podcast transcripts here on YT for the word "river" and its NOT THERE. So when was this comment made? I'll agree with a few of the negative comments about Pakman here. He can be smug and at times he has on guests who are there for no other reason but to back up his view of the world, but he also has on people he disagrees with. I can be critical of him in a number of ways including his relentless plugging of sponsors, but then that's his business model. What I did find was a video posted 25 Oct 2023 titled "A framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace." So if you actually want to know what his views are then I suggest you go watch and listen rather than rant about a comment that may or may NOT have been made because there's NO REFERENCE to when it was made.
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  6932. That and along with the fact Dave Rubin claims he wants enlightened conversation which is about the same level as a Nazi saying "Happy Hanukkah, lets light the candles!"
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  6933. Aerospace Engineer: YES because as usual you lawyers will want to stick you noses where they DO NOT BELONG and screw everything up. Isn't it enough that you lawyers have screwed up EVERY legal system in the world with garbage, nonsense and endless circular verbal wankfests. Why can't we hold political leaders like Donald Trump. Bibi Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin,... accountable? LAWYERS Why can't we control the money in politics that's made Western Democracy so dysfunctional? LAWYERS Why can't we make any progress on issues with basic justice and climate change? LAWYERS When you lawyers get your own house in order we might be interested in what you have to say.
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  6934. ​ @declanashmore  Exactly - it wouldn't matter because either way there'd be a hoard of lawyers scrambling to argue it out and see how much money they could screw out of the mess they'd create. That's not to say all lawyers are money driven greedy sociopaths but I did hear once that the Grand Canyon was NOT formed by the erosion of the Colorado River. It was created when a lawyer dropped a quarter down a rabbit hole. Bizarrely he didn't dig it out to get the quarter back. He dug it out so he could serve the rabbit papers.
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  6935. Its January 26, 2025 less than 2 years after this was posted and almost a year since you posted AND Trump just said he'd support a massive boost to AI. Yeaaahhhhhhhh. I have no idea which emoji sums this up 🙄🤥🥴😵😝
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  6936. FOR ALL: This Brown U. Prof. Mark Blyth during a post Trump 2016 analysis. Among other things he points out the frustration many people had towards the establishments of BOTH parties and gives the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmBG3Z4DI&t=1104s
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  6937.  @geraldmeehan8942  I'm concerned that underneath it all is yet another time America's oil & gas moguls are pulling the strings. They weren't happy about Germany and Nord Stream. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  6938.  @qantj  You're right they could be in there as well trying to jack the prices up. This stinks of interference. There's nothing to really gain for anyone except gas contracts.
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  6939.  @geraldmeehan8942  Yeah this stinks so much like it did just before Iraq. There was press conference for the US State Dept. last week where a journalist actually did their job and called out the guy claiming they had intelligence. He asked the clown "where's your proof" and there was nothing but excuses. It was telling.
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  6940.  @geraldmeehan8942  Good point on the Russian people. I suspect Putin is just doing a really big sabre rattle just to see how America would react. Not long after the 2016 election I heard a Russian born analyst talk about Putin and his background. One thing with the Russian American relationship is that going way back its had a characteristic like Abbot & Costello or Laurel & Hardy. One guy is the unpredictable lose cannon and the other is the straight man. There were people like Khrushchev who just did stuff and it drove the Americans nuts like with Cuba and missiles. With Trump that couldn't work but with Biden it can. So I wonder if part of this is Putin just getting attention by being a bit unpredictable. Not enough to start a war but enough to rattle the White House.
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  6941.  Harold Webb  OK. we all learned something about Russian river naming. Now if we can just get all those boys a some chill pills and they can go for a swim and cool off.
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  6942.  Harold Webb  I get the Nord Stream comment but really I don't know if Putin is that stupid. He likes money as much as those GOP * Dem hacks so I doubt he'd want to play games with Nord Stream. It would cost him too much.
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  6943.  @geraldmeehan8942  Thanks back for having a rational discussion.
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  6944.  Harold Webb  YES and NO. Yes, absolutely Putin could yank their chain. But the alternative is that the Americans are yanking their chain. It constantly amazes people all over the world how American citizens voice their constant disapproval of Washington. Even Trump called Washington a "swamp.* Yet the same Americans expect the rest of the world to do exactly what Washington says. Maybe you can explain it? Why is the rest of the world supposed to do as Washington says when Americans don't trust anything out of Washington?
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  6945.  @paulrockatansky77  And its actually been those inclusions into NATO of previously pro-Soviet states that's angered the Russians. But then the Russians ignore the fact that the as part of the Soviet era they beat the crap out of those nations for decades. They wonder why those enations are so keen to join NATO- its pretty damn simple. They got free from Moscow and DON'T want Moscow back beating the crud out of them again - DUH.
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  6946.  Harold Webb  What makes you think I don't know that? Of course Putin can't DECIDE who tries to join or joins any organization BUT HE CAN INTERFERE. And so long as he supports the Donbas separatists and keeps Ukrainian border disputed Ukraine cannot join NATO without a change to NATO's rules. Its absolutely crystal clear nobody can join NATO if even 1 inch of their border is in dispute. Its a NATO rule.
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  6947.  @danielbrown8812  Someone corrected my on the terminology a while back. An Oligarchy is when a very small group control a nation by whatever means. A Plutocracy is when a very small group control a nation specifically using wealth. Its a type of Oligarchy. So when we talk about the Russian Oligarchs they're actually Plutocrats as are people like Bezos, Gates, Suckerberg, Musk, the Kochs, the Murdochs..... The problems aren't just in America either its all across the Western World. I'm Australian but went to college in America so I watch a lot of what's happening in America. And yes I hate that Murdoch (an Australian) is a huge part of the problem. I was in Canada for work a couple of years ago. We get a lot of British and European news here and ITS THE SAME EVERYWHERE. The specific versions might differ a bit from nation to nation but its basically the same stuff EVERYWHERE. Small groups of hyper wealthy people in total control of political parties or the government outright. Putin is apparently worth billions. Saddam Hussein was worth Billions. Most of the worlds dictators are billionaires. Most of the worlds democratic parties are funded (& controlled) by billionaires. Even here in Australia we have our own version of Trump. A true POS named Clive Palmer. I recommend looking up Mark Blyth (prof from Brown) who spoke about "Global Trumpism" and showed how its all across the world and that there's Trump like people on BOTH the LEFT and RIGHT. That's arguably one of the very important points he's made there are Trump like people on the LEFT as well as the Right.
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  6948.  Harold Webb  Good points. 👍👍 Too many forget history, including recent history.
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  6949. CNN missed a major point in this story that a number of people have talked about. These veterans can simply be recalled to active duty and charged under the UCMJ where they can't hide behind the 1st Amendment. Mike Flynn is a person mentioned in that often and it been mentioned that "retired" is not an excuse or defence.
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  6950.  @maxsexton835  Yeah - which country would take them?
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  6951. This is like watching a pile of horseshit arguing with a pile of bullshit over who has the better flies buzzing overhead.
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  6952.  @somethingginterestingg4275  It would be like watching a fly, a hornet and a cockroach fighting over a dog turd.
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  6953.  @woostopalypse  You're right on the first part - they are a failed opposition party just like so many of the leftist opposition parties around the world are. But the funding is a bit different. For sure their are some big interests that fund BOTH sides. But America does have a clear distinction with those that only fund 1 side. The Republicans have major funding from CARBON interests. Those who dig up, process and sell various forms of Carbon. The Democrats have major funding from people who live via SILICON based systems. Mark Blyth has been speaking about this part of the divide for a few moths.
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  6954.  @markp6621  You're well informed on that AND CORRECT about Phillip Adams. He warned us and very few listened. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  6955. I suggest to all that you go back and watch the documentary Outfoxed --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outfoxed It was 16 years ago and some of you might not remember it. David himself might never have seen it as it was during his college days. But it basically exposed (past tense) all of what Fox was doing with promoting opinion as fact. One of the warnings it gave was that the rest of American media was beginning to follow suit. Even that can be levelled at David - when is his commentary opinion and when is he reporting on facts. It is actually one of the real downsides of what Murdoch and others have done. they have blurred the distinction between opinion and journalism so badly that its hard for anyone anywhere to know the difference any more. I seriously recommend you see or get a copy of outfoxed so you can get a point of reference to how we got here.
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  6956.  @paulsmith7579  Dude if you are going to be that idiotically stupid regarding vaccines then just go away and do it somewhere else. As for the 2 Tier idiocy, that's exactly what Dr. Osterholm has spoken against - it never works. The difference between people advocating a 2 tier society and anti-vaxxers is that the 2 Tier people (however stupid) ARE NOT getting people hurt or killed. Further they can at least be reasoned with.
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  6957. Yes we have a long history of that. Remember back in the GFC Gillard had this great idea to put all of the tradies to work build stuff that schools need. It was actually a bloody good idea. The problem was they gave the whole lot out to a bunch of consultancies to manage. Of the $4.5 Billion spent over $2.5 Billion went to management fees. I'm an engineer and it disgusts me what we keep MISMANAGING these projects and MOST of them are well intentioned and actually are beneficial. Snowy 2.0 (when its complete) will be a huge bonus if you understand our energy issues. The problem is its been handed over to a rapacious pack of mongrels who don't care about costs. It will now cost around $20 billion or about 10x the original $2 Billion estimate. The submarine project is a disaster. I absolutely support getting nuclear powered subs after having it explained to me by an ex-US Navy nuclear power plant tech/operator I used to work with. BUT $268 Billion is insane. I once tried to work out the costs and doubled then tripled some of what I was hearing about budgets for bases. The highest I got was around $155 Billion. There's just 2 and I bet anyone else who reads in this will explain more. I'm tired of seeing us get ripped off and NO MATTER who's in power its the same story again and again.
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  6958. If you are looking for what happens when a real far left government goes off the deep end then go look at Cambodia and a guy named Pol Pot. Or you could look at Mao and his great leap forward. It doesn't matter if you let the far radical right or far radical left go unrestrained with power its damn bad for the rest of society. History has taught that lesson so many times of how these types of people drag us into destruction.
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  6959.  @john-yc8ud  You are absolutely right and its in almost EVERY Western Nation. I can also tell you the cause if you are interested, but it does take a bit of time and thought. The answer is fairly obvious when you have certain data explained. A number of months ago Kyle did a short vid on a piece he saw in politico regarding a 2022 report Bernie Sanders had commissioned by Congressional Budget Office on family wealth. Its an easy report to find just google "congressional budget office family wealth." Kyle only talked about the first graph and in a simplistic way because its pretty obvious that 1/2 the US population has gone nowhere for 30 years. Meanwhile the middle 40% have done Ok but the Top 10% have boomed. It gets even more interesting when you crunch the data and being an engineer I can crunch data. I checked Australia's data and its similar. I listen to people like the British economist Gary Stevenson and he says the same about Britain. BASICALLY we have thrown 50% of our populations under the economic bus and the data confirms it beyond all doubt. So when Trump and people like Trump started yelling MAGA (or similar) it tapped straight into what 1/2 the population felt. This is the great failure of the West. Our politicians have said again and again "All is well. GDP growth is good. Yee-ha." The fact is it might have been good for some but NOT EVERYONE and that failure to consider everyone is what has handed populists like Trump, Putin and Netanyahu political power. And from that we get Ukraine and Gaza.
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  6960.  @ilovejobbo  Clearly you have NEVER WORKED in manufacturing, project management or much else to do with engineering a complex system. I spent over a decade working in the automotive sector developing manufacturing cells. My bet is you have a degree in economics because you have NO FARKING CLUE about costs BECAUSE the only clowns who trope out "labor costs" as the big problem are economists and people who listen to economists. Anyone who has worked in manufacturing knows that labor costs were minimised and controlled back in the 1990s. Ever since the major costs in manufacturing are material costs, machinery capital costs, energy costs and EXECUTIVE BONUSES. The reason why economists keep spouting off nonsense about labor costs is because they have NOTHING ELSE TO OFFER.
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  6961.  @markskeldon1347  Ever heard of Dunning-Kruger?
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  6962.  @markskeldon1347  This is one of the major problems the economists have created that there is NO EASY FIX. All through history there were people like your grandfather who PASSED ON their skills and knowledge and out of all those they trained their were always that 1 or 2 who could also teach the next generation after them. When the economists pushed all their globalisation nonsense they trashed anything that they felt wasn't necessary. Across the Western world they smashed all the training institutions for skilled tradesmen. They told kids in high schools everywhere that losers go to community college in America, TAFE in Australia and trade schools in Europe. The only exception was Germany and even they have trouble. The only part of Australia's trade system that survived had to do with building houses and skyscrapers and shopping malls. All of the metal trades associated with manufacturing have been decimated. The Economists not only destroyed our manufacturing base they made sure it would be hard to rebuild. the worst part it had ZERO economist analysis behind it. It was 100% ideology.
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  6963.  @markskeldon1347  Its not the first time its happened. there was this awesome Top Gear Episode where they all bought old British Sports cars and visited the factories where they had been made. It sad incredibly sad to watch the guys rock up with there cars excited as usual and then to visits industrial wasteland after industrial wasteland. Jeremy Clarkson lamented how many cars the Brits exported in their heyday and how the whole world wanted British built cars and that now days the Brits import more than they make. Here in Australia when they killed off the last of our car industry they promised 55,000 people they would be looked after. Most have never worked again.
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  6964.  @markskeldon1347  I'm not against the free market as a few people have said to me. I think its great for those products that are traded like Freidman said "millions of times each day." BUT this one thing solves everything nonsense his acolytes have pushed is idiotic. Its the old when you only have a hammer every problem looks like a nail stupidity. Humanity is complex and out trading is chaotic and nobody can guess with accuracy what the next second will be like let alone the next hour, day, week, month, year decade or century. A car suspension is very simple. It lets the tire move up & down and it has a spring to make that work. ITS ALSO has a damper to control that system and make it work properly. Both the free Market and Government Control have show they can be incredibly effective in the right areas BUT ALSO utterly hopeless in the wrong areas.
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  6965.  @markskeldon1347  Absolutely right. When you have time watch this documentary on tax avoidance (as they call it). Its about 90mins but worth the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6O3US9IE4
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  6966.  @cengeb  SHIT4BRAINS other than your first line the rest of what you said shows IGN0RANT you are. Its fairly obvious you have NEVER WORKED in the Auto Industry at any level. BTW - I have on the engineering side of component production cells in the supply chain. Sandy's job isn't procurement its analysis of procurement and considering how many car companies employ him for that analysis I'd say he knows what he's doing and you know NOTHING.
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  6967.  @cengeb  WHICH PART OF ANALYSIS DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND? He's never claimed he's part of contract negotiations. He's never claimed he makes any car components. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF AUDTITORS? That's what he does he audits the manufacturing of cars.
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  6968.  @cengeb  Its crystal clear you have no idea about how manufacturing works or for that matter any other industry. There are AUDITORS used in most industries TO GET A HANDLE ON WHERE THEY ARE SPENDING MONEY.
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  6969.  @cengeb  You just keep saying the same SHlT. News flash it does not matter how many times you speak crap its still crap. His job it NOT to negotiate with OEMS its to ANALYSE what all the bits from OEMS and mid-tier suppliers cost. DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT COST ANALYSIS IS?
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  6970.  @cengeb  You really are a M0R0N who knows NOTHING about business let alone complex manufacturing and WORSE you WONT LISTEN to anyone. Good luck being unemployed for the next 30 years.
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  6971.  @cengeb  JUST STOP You have NO IDEA of how industry works. ITS CALLED AN AUDIT YOU FCKING M0R0N and companies do them all the time. Enjoy being unemployed for the next 30+ years because NOBODY hires people like you.
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  6972. Exactly. This is something the right does so much better than the left right around the world. They have a much better grasp of mob psychology and motivations. They know how to start a public narrative and keep pumping it. They also know that continuing the narrative distracts the left. They are like a boxer who is continuing to jab and keeps the other boxer at a distance and on the defensive. They know that even though those jabs don't knock the other boxer out they score points and eventually can win the points decision. This is something the left never seem to understand. The times they do win is when the right forgets how they win and sticks their chin out and gets thumped. Go look at politics everywhere. When you strip away all the flag waving and crap its the same things again and again.
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  6973. HEY SAL - Please don't say things like "Hurricane Milton targets Tampa!" when there's clowns like Marjorie Taylor Greene claiming that this and the previous Hurricane Helene are being control by the Deep State.
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  6974. The most obvious issue with SCOTUS is the hijacking of it by elitists. The Federalist Society, which started at Harvard, Yale and the University of Chicago now has almost complete control of SCOTUS. There are currently 4 Harvard and 4 Yale on SCOTUS. The other judger is Amy Coney Barrett who went to Notre Dame for her JD but is also a know member of the federalist Society. Of the nine judges they replaced most went to Harvard at some point in their education. No one can deny Harvard is a good education system but allowing a group to form that strong of a power base and then get their way is incredibly dangerous. As the saying goes, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely!" and the current corruption of the SCOTUS is so bad that every American and every non-American who relies in some way for America to function as a responsible global citizen should be concerned.
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  6975. WHAT DOES ANYONE EXPECT Hilary Clinton was on Howard Stern 4 years after losing and she was still blaming Bernie Sanders for losing. THIS IS WHY the Democrats KEEP LOSING. Trump might be a malignant narcissist but so are the self righteous Baby Boomers like Morning Joe.
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  6976. Yeah that's what I got. Look at her face at 3:00. She has no idea where she is or who her audience is, but then these people seem to live in a vacuum.
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  6977.  @Levy214  Your absolutely right, except that it goes a lot further than just America. Trump is simply America's version of a fake populist. By fake populist I mean he doesn't actually believe in what he says he just uses what's convenient and gets the right response from his base. I'm Australian and we have a billionaire named Clive Palmer who's just as disgusting as Trump and runs on the same platform. Our system has a vulnerability in that our country is governed by the parliament not an executive. Much like Canada, Britain and many other places. If you look at Israel they often have the main party forming coalitions so they can have a majority. That tends to give incredible power to tiny parties as it has done in Israel, Italy, Greece and other places. Clive Palmer knows this and wants just enough where he can become a partner and secure a couple of key cabinet positions. Countries can also get leftist parties just as radical and just as crazy like the German Greens. That lot is so moronic they chose to turn off nuclear power (that produces little or zero CO2) and then wound up their dirty old coal plants to the max to make up for it. After spending €1.3 Trillion on clean renewable power their CO2 emissions went UP not down. *Its total madness, but that's the thing with populists. They don't care about if something is mad, crazy, stupid or idiotic so long as their base loves it.* Prof Mark Blyth (Brown U.) spoke extensively about "Global Trumpism" and what it means. Here's one of his lectures if you want to really understand it. I highly recommend the Q&A session after it and in particular listen for his answer to a question on Elizabeth Warren. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0
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  6978.  @daemondrogan1875  Actually ignorance comes form the base word "ignore." For example to call Trump supporters ignorant implies they ignore things like his business practices and blatant lies.
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  6979. Aerospace Engineer here: This is all a result of the economic policies placed on universities that started back in the 1990s. This is yet another symptom of what people are referring to as neoliberal economics. I have experienced this stuff personally in both the academia and the industrial sectors. I graduated in early 88 and did a few years of postgraduate. I never got my masters because of department politics and walked away from a PhD Scholarship after my supervisor admitted to my face that he was committing FINANCIAL fraud. The scholarship I had included a small equipment budget and he said to my face he was using that money for airline tickets to a conference. When I said that's wrong he simply said back to me, "This is how it works get used to it!" That was 1992 and yes I know there have been other issues with universities going back decades if not centuries, but what I am talking about is what happened starting in the 1990s Around that time all the universities were being told to "Be more business like." The actual true purpose of universities is to develop, expand and disseminate knowledge while training people with the higher level skills society needed. That has since morphed into a business model that can be summed up as: "We are a business and the students aren't students they are clients and the job is getting them a certificate that says they are qualified. The purpose of research is no longer to get results its to do enough to get the next grant." A couple of years ago I started informally studying economics because I got tired of the interference and crap I was getting on projects from clowns waving economics degrees. Their 2 favorite questions were/are "What's the business case for that?" and "Who's going to pay for that?" I actually work in industrial controls system and automation. Part of that is doing safety control systems. In 2007 I got what was at the time the second highest rating an engineer can achieve in the world for that work. I was certified under the German TUV system. That actually got me nowhere and never helped me get a job and in many cases got me disqualified from getting work because the clowns with economics degrees don't like technically qualified people they can't push around. At one point (circa 2014) there was some potential work. When I enquired about a renewal (or refresher) course what I was told was there was no such course all I had to do WAS PAY to have my name put back on the list. There was ZERO INTEREST in checking if people were still up to standard. When I pointed out this was about SAFETY they simply said back "What's the business case for that?" I have other examples of this mindset of economics and the "business case" before everything mentality. Its infected every aspect of the training systems we have for people including our universities and other tertiary training systems. Its driven bad behaviors in academia as well as industry. The Boeing Max-8 is a perfect example of that. What's happened at Harvard and now Stanford is part of the same problem which is ironic because its institutions like Harvard and Stanford who have pushed the economics first ideology.
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  6980.  @stephandreyer2944  I'm just watching this on voter rights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc2PE7_4Y14 That's happening in the country that waltzed around the globe PREACHING for that past 70 years as the champion of freedom and democracy.
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  6981.  @cherylleedavis9051  BECAUSE ITS NOT UP TO HIM YOU M0R0N Prosecutors DO NOT decide who the judge will be.
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  6982. YEAH and WTF are they biased about in this? A lot of people like you scream and rant about ABC bias. What about Murdoch media bias? What about Channel 7s bias? What about Channel 9s bias? What about Channel 10s bias?
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  6983. I get the sentiment but one of the fact is that many of the people who preach free speech and rage against cancel culture also cancel people or call for them to be cancelled. Another fact is to many producers allow themselves to be used by people to preach utter garbage WITHOUT IT BEING CHALLENGED. Just remember that there are time when people in your position MUST CHALLENGE the person you have allowed on your channel or all you are is a vehicle for certain people to preach their garbage. Never forget that there are people who will seek any opportunity for publicity to promote their views. If there is one massive fault with all of the media these days its all those outlets that NEVER CHALLENGE or allow anyone to challenge the narrative of that media outlet. And they exist in every variation of politics and public discussion.
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  6984. They aren't going to pick Nicky Haley because she is a "she" Maybe the GOP base would vote for her as a VP but not as a candidate.
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  6985.  @drugmoney4996  Ok. If its about being qualified for the job then WTF does this clown have that says he's qualified????
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  6986. Australian here - EXACTLY It has NOTHING to do with security and EVERYTHING to do with ECONOMICS. Greenland has massive reserves of rare Earths and other valuable minerals and the Orange "Drill baby drill" Gorilla wants it. This is just a 2025 re-hashing of the old cold war themes that's just as idiotic and ridiculous today as it was in the 1950s & 60s. One of the things that turned up IN THE LATE STAGES and AFTER the Cold War ENDED. Was how incapable the Russians were of attacking America. Yes they had a much larger army with a lot more tanks & jets and other stuff BUT IT WAS JUST STUFF. I'm old enough to remember when America finally got its hands on a Mig-25 Foxbat. At the time the media went nuts with "How great of a strategic triumph it was because the Foxbat was the jet of jets of that age and how fast it was (above Mach 3)" Turned out its electronics were equal to mid 50s maybe early 60s and yes it really could go fast. The problem with those speeds is it wrecked the engine. Basically if a Foxbat went above a certain speed they just threw the engines away afterwards and if it went even faster then they threw the entire plane away afterwards. Greenland has the same "media flavor" of the Foxbat.
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  6987.  @hereLiesThisTroper  Actually we all do to some extent. To some extent we find ways to trust the media or at least some parts of them. And we keep voting in the same politicians and/or their parties.
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  6988.  @insightfulhistorian1861  Its incredible when you consider that Trump told a journo in reply to her question about "fake news" that his intent was to sow so much confusion nobody would believe anything the media said. Look what's happened - when Fox actually questioned facts his base turned on them faster than a bullet and went to OAN & Newsmax. Is not just that those people are susceptible. We all live in an environment where we tune into the News we like. So in a way we are all filtering and hiding in our bubbles. Its just that for these people they hide in these hyper-steel bubbles that are mega echo chambers. They never listen to anything else and never think on what anything means. They never fact check. Look at the insanity they are saying in this vid. Its one reason why Giuliani, Powell, Ellis and Wood need to be hammered out of existence for the lies they told and the sedition they promoted.
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  6989.  @insightfulhistorian1861  I listened to this again and Kyle makes a great point around 4:00 about "objective reality" and zero trust in these institutions.
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  6990.  @insightfulhistorian1861  Well fine out of 228 million that makes 940,000 subscribers to Kyle who vary their news. Maybe double that when you add in a few others. I'm not talking about you or Kyle I am talking about the brain addicted muppets who soak up hours of "opinion masquerading as news". That's a term I first heard in the documentary Outfoxed from 2004 -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outfoxed One of the biggest issues right now is that too many people are looking for people to analyze the news. That's fine for the politics. But what people are really losing connection with is just simply basic news - "here are the facts as they happened today." I'm guilty of it as well, we instead tap into those we like to see what's happening. And yeah I tried a peak at Newsmax about 20hours ago and there was some maggot names Chris Salcedo and it was less than 30s before I either switched away or threw my computer out the window. In Australia we have the Murdoch owned Sky News. As a news service up to about 8 or 9 pm its not too bad but then the string of opinion bases spins merchants come in. They are so bad that one of Murdoch's own kids walked out last year after their coverage of the Australian bushfires. Watch this and take note after about 6:24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s23q9DkCaVY
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  6991. Actually its a lot more than 10,000 as the count for just CHILDREN (under 18s) ahs gone past 15,000. There is NO DOUBT that what Hamas did on October 7th was DISGUSTING and NEEDED to be responded to. - The perpetrators needed to be held accountable, and; - As many possible of the hostages returned safely. Instead 10s of 1,000s are dead, homes, hospitals & schools have been destroyed, the infrastructure is destroyed, and almost any hope for the survivors to have any sort of a future ahs been destroyed. MEANWHILE most of the hostages are still being held and lets NOT FORGET that when some of the hostages were released Israeli Defence Force personnel shot them dead in the street as they carried white flags.
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  6992. TO ALL the FDA have Ivermectin approved as an "anti-parasitic" NOT as an anti-viral, which may explain what they stated. What they have found is that even thought its primary function is as a n anti-parasitic its also effective against other things. The Wikipedia page goes through what it is and its history and has a link/reference to a study of its effect on COVID-19 -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin (see reference 13 at the end of the first section (introduction). It was published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. The title of that paper on that study is "A five-day course of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 may reduce the duration of illness" PLEASE: Read the Abstract. Most of the paper is quite technical, but for scientific papers the "Abstract" at the start is there to give a brief overview. It clearly says what the study was, where it was done and the basic conclusion. BUT it also says "Larger trials will be needed to confirm these preliminary findings." Here's a direct link to the paper -> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7709596/
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  6993. IF Iran has nuclear weapons then its due to the lGN0RANT CLOWN who tore up the treaty thew rest of the world had with Iran.
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  6994. IMAGINE what the NRA and other gun advocacy groups would say if the police were handing out the details of what sorts of guns various people had? IMAGINE what the libertarians would say if the Electoral commission started handing out the details of what money various PACs and Super PACs were getting and who they got it from??
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  6995. You'd be right and anyone no matter their belief should be able to see this for the perversion that it is. It takes nothing for anyone to just google bible love your enemies and you'll see what Jesus said. Anyone can easily check different translations and they all say the same thing and its NOT what she's preaching.
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  6996.  @antoncarmoducchi6057  Good comment more nuanced than the clown who started the thread. And I say clown NOT because of the pro-renewable stance he makes BUT BECAUSE of the ridiculous SIZE of the claim. I am an engineer and YES we have an abundance of wind and solar. THE PROBLEM is that most of it is a long way from where we need it and IT COSTS MONEY to transmit energy. The OTHER PROBLEM the wind & solar brigade wont accept let alone acknowledge is what it takes to have a 100% wind & solar system for an entire nation. Like many other things up to a certain point its fine but then starts getting harder and harder. One of the major things is grid stability which few people are talking about even among engineers. Its been a growing problem since the 1990s when we started connecting more and more computers. The switch mode power supplies cause noise back into the grid. In some instances that noise can collect into nasty harmonics. Its just something few are aware of unless they are right into that sort of thing or (like me) you've encountered people who are into that stuff. All these people who just think its a matter of just throwing up wind turbines across the country and/or plonking solar on roof tops are ignorant clowns.
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  6997. I think you'll find that the counter argument for that will be the unborn child breaths via their mother. Before you howl back that also means that until a fertilised egg attaches to the wall of the uterus and connects to the mother via an umbilical then it is NOT a breather. There's also other problems religious fundamentalists utterly ignore. Here's 2 I know about but there are probably more. FIRST are those pregnancies like ectopic pregnancies where the fertilised egg or embryo is unviable and will not survive and the mother is likely to die without treatment. A friend of mine's older sister had one of these and by the time they worked out what was happening it was a drop everything, emergency surgery and hope she survives moment. I remember how worried that family was because for a couple of hours they did not know if she would survive and thankfully she did. However in certain American States right now that most likely would have resulted in her death because of the legal fight that would have delayed the surgery. SECOND are those pregnancies that the mothers system aborts by itself because there is something wrong. Many years ago another friends wife explained to me just how common this is thought to be. It might be as common as 80% or 90% of all eggs that sperm reach and fertilise either simply go though without attaching or are aborted for some reason during the pregnancy and at times well before the mother even suspects she might have gotten pregnant. Another friend of mine (a girl) kept having trouble having pregnancies progress beyond the first trimester. She had a number of pregnancies fail quite early but then also had to healthy wonderful girls. The doctors suspected but could not confirm that for some reason her system could not handle a male embryo and would reject it early on. So my problem with these people is that they would have let one of my friend's sisters just die AND they might well have blamed another friend of mine for her failed pregnancies and MAYBE locked her up.
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  6998.  @Not-a-GSD  Why do you think the Catholics kept that book in Latin for so long and also controlled who could and could NOT learn to read?? It was so common people could NOT read it and now after 2,000 years of that practice its so culturally ingrained it will be near impossible to unwind it. Maybe the funniest thing and it also highlights just how ignorant some people are the claims regarding Amalek. In one of the cases where the Israelites were sent to deal with the Amalekites and told to wipe them out which is the part Netanyahu keeps referring to, they did not do the job as they were instructed to do. Rather than argue the right or wrong of what they were told to do because that's another discussion LOOK at what the Israelites did and what the outcome was. Instead of doing what they were told which was to wipe out the Amalekites and all that they had the Israelites let the king live and kept the best of the livestock for themselves. The important thing is they STOLE what did not belong to them. That THEFT got them condemned and it cost Saul his throne. This is the really crazy thing. Netanyahu is saying we'll do what Ancient Israel did and wipe these people out BUT the passage he's referring to is one where Ancient Israel DID NOT DO THE RIGHT THING and it cost the king his throne.
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  6999.  @ChthonianDreams  Yeah but for that to work you have to have a soul to begin with. You can't make something out of nothing and you can't improve something that doesn't exist.
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  7000.  @TheDesertRat31  I think you'll find frozenbywolf is referring to those Bible passages where certain tribes or groups were marked for extermination and at times it was done. Like the ones about Amalek that the Israelis have mentioned recently. Irrespective of pro vs con on those events its BOTH hard for people to put those events in context and way too easy for others to take them out of context and use them to either confuse or encourage other things. For instance: On basic face value if we heard of a group of people wiping out a tribe (every man, woman, child and the livestock and the buildings) we'd call that genocide and think badly of the perpetrators. I forget the exact details but I remember once reading a comment by an archeologist who'd uncovered an ancient cemetery where the bides of sacrificed children were buried. AND YES they knew these children were sacrificed by the knife marks and other marks on the neck bones and skulls. Paraphrasing that archeologist's comment "It was amazing God didn't wipe these people out sooner!" You see in certain ancient societies there were some fairly horrible practices like child sacrifice. I am not saying any of those actions to exterminate certain tribes were right or wrong but understanding the circumstances and the context is important and way to often these days there's no context at all in public discussions.
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  7001. ​ @TheDesertRat31  I 100% agree with that summary. I'm actually an engineer and I have been forced to informally study economics because of the influence of economists into the engineering world with some terrible consequences. Most notably the energy crisis is 100% the result of failed economics and like religious fault they refuse to accept any blame for their ideology AND make no mistake the issue with economics is an ideological one. The amazing thing I have found is that just like religions the economists are NOT taught to think but to follow the doctrine. This is why country after country can't solve their energy issues. Its also why America cannot solve their health care industry issues. The most amazing thing I have found out about economist is how disconnected from HISTORY they are. Since your a historian of sorts I suggest you go and watch the Rhodes Centre Podcast hosted by Mark Blyth and look for a book talk he had with Jacob Soll who's written about the history of the capitalist free market. Rather than being a "New Thing" its actually a very old idea. What Jacob Soll highlights is the disconnect from HISTORICAL CONTEXT. I think this is a major problem these days. We are generally taught so little history that we can't put some of these things into context. Both my parents were school teachers and I have friends who are also school teachers. We were all stunned in the late 90s when (here in Australia) there was a push to get rid of history and replace it with a new "social sciences" curriculum that would teach by doing case studies. When I asked how anyone could teach any sort of lesson with case studies and NO HISRORICAL CONTEXT they all just shrugged at me. That was 20+ years ago and these days the lack of context in so many discussions is bewildering, but there were also warning signs it was coming. There's the famous 2004 documentary "Outfoxed' about Rupert Murdoch's war on journalism where there was a clear warning about misinformation. Go watch Jon Stewart's latest Daily Show on guns. The disconnect from reality is staggering. In this time how do we get people to understand context when context has been killed off?
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  7002. He's NOT the first, he's just been stupid enough to be so public about it. If you want to get a handle on the Weaponizing of Philanthropy Jane Mayer wrote at length about how its done. Here's one of her book talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFaSCOqumpM Sorry its a fairly long vid, but if you want to understand how Philanthropy can be weaponized its worth the time.
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  7003. Do you think I am wrong or can you also see the day Tucker steps out his front door and its the last step he ever takes and some poor bastard who lost his child or friend or partner gets a needle in the arm as the Right proclaim Tucker was a martyr and should be deified as a saint?
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  7004. Yeah - look at all the threads with that theme. Very few missed it.
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  7005. Don't forget Sandy Hook happened during Obama's time and he couldn't get anything passed.
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  7006. And most of the clowns who think Gerrard knows what he's talking about aren't any better. Gerrard is an accountant NOT an engineer. I am an engineer and I have already challenged Gerrard once to a public debate and all he did was delete everything.
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  7007. My top 4 picks for who has the missing documents are: 1) The Russians 2) The Saudis 3) His latest bimbo porn star wannabe has a big fat yellow envelope she doesn't realise might put her in jail. 4) The plumber who unblocked the toilet at Mar-A-Lago.
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  7008. I'd modify that first point to consider or include that in 2106 many people just rejected both the Democrat and Republican establishments. But once it was obvious Trump was worse than the people they had rejected they should have dumped his ass. Instead they went from drinking the Kool-Aid to Chugging it.
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  7009.  @dot1482  Go away with that idiocy people are trying to have a conversation here. It doesn't matter if you are right or wrong - DON'T HIJACK conversations, its rude.
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  7010. Yep - Trumplestein wants a quiet white boy who sits in the corner and KNOWS to keep his mouth shut for VP like Mike Pence did for 3 years and 11 months.
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  7011.  @LisaForTruth  I know that - when Newsom was suggested as a VP to Kamala that came up and it was pointed out either of them could simply change their residence. I just can't see Kamala winning as the top of the ticket. She must be intelligent or she'd never have got into Law School let alone passed and then passed the bar exam, but that's not a requirement for POTUS. The only true requirement in any democracy is being able to convince people you're worth voting for. Skills, training, experience,.....etc are all nice but mean nothing if you can't convince people that you're the person and Kamala failed that test badly in 2020. Maybe she's learned. I don't know on that. The thing that scares me most about Kamala is her ability to stand on the World stage because (as I have said to others) we don't need America to fix the problems the World faces on the global scale but WITHOUT America its so much harder. The next US President doesn't just have to get into the Whitehouse but they have to make a POSITIVE IMPACT on the world. On that Biden is a failure and Trump is a disaster. *So the next POTUS has to be markedly BETTER and these clowns waiting for 2028 are NEVER going to be an answer because if they can't step up now then they are never going to step up in the way that's needed.
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  7012.  @pinetree909  AND THE REST OF US can't believe that people LIKE YOU refuse to see that Biden is NO LONGER ABLE TO DO THE TASK. And I really do wish I could scream that at you and the others like you. YES - Joe did a great thing and got Trump out of the Whitehouse but ITS TIME for him to go. Tom Brady had to face it was time to stop playing football Mario Andretti had to face that he couldn't keep driving race cars. 1,000s and 1,000s of people have to face the fact that their time is up every day. Somebody somewhere right now is probably telling their aged parent that they can't drive a car anymore or do something else.
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  7013.  @MaggieMiller1  AND THAT'S exactly why the Dems keep losing. So long as you keep thinking that you RISK something rather than OFFERING A SOLUTION you fail and fail and fail and keep on failing. This is where the Biden supporters right now are headed for ANOTHER disaster. Look at SCOTUS. The Dems have held the Whitehouse for 20 of the last 32 years while the GOP has only had it for 12 (basically 1/2 as much time) and yet who now controls SCOTUS and with it the courts??????? The Dems MUST get out of this idiotic mindset of trying to please everyone with every decision. Its a trait Leftists and Left leaning centrist parties all across the world have. Its why they keep losing EVERYWHERE. 1) They wont make decisions that might upset someone so they don't make any decisions at all; OR 2) They make decisions that are so weak and so ineffective they fail; OR 3) They go over the top and make the grandest of all failures. See Mao's Great Leap Forward or what the Soviets did to the Aral Sea for examples. I will grant anyone on the Left any day of the week and twice on any Sunday that THEY HAVE BETTER IDEAS. But their ability to get things done is hopeless. Its why they lose.
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  7014. He might not be but others need to remember that a clown ran in 2016 and ended up with control of nuclear weapons. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). I can barley comprehend how far out of control this garbage has gotten. AND YES I know that in the middle of it an Australian, Rupert Murdoch, but then we tried to warn you what he was like and nobody listened. I know that most Americans don't believe this garbage for a heartbeat, but 74 million thought Trump was so good they wanted another 4 years of him. Do you and others realise that those 74 million almost outnumber Australia 3 to 1 and Canada 2 to 1. Only 2 countries in Europe have more than 74 million - Germany and Russia. Do you and the rest of America with functioning brains get how much this scares the rest of us? Despite all the evidence he's a fraud, a liar and a massive security risk 74 million people still want to give him control of nuclear weapons. If the Iranians announced tomorrow they had nukes and let one off to prove it. It would scare the crap out of a lot of people but not as much as letting Trump control America again. At best the Iranians would have a couple while Trump would have 1,000s of nukes. And before you say "NOT Possible" go look into Mike Flynn's brother.
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  7015.  @IPeeInPoolz  Really M0R0N when did Joe Biden BLACKMAIL Ukraine? Dude sending them missiles and other stuff seems an odd way to blackmail someone. Just putting that out there. Better still when did he encourage an enraged mob with a pack of lies to storm the capital building in an attempt to prevent the results of an election being certified? Were you born this stupid or did you take classes?
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  7016.  @clementvining2487  Sorry but I am well aware of what Molten Salt Reactor are. I know the history and the story od how Kirk Sorenson re-discovered them while working on possible solutions for powering a lunar base. Can you and all the other people who have no idea what you are talking about PLEASE STOP LECTURING engineers. You have no idea what you are talking about as is evident by your repeated use of the non-existent term "radiative waste." There is no such thing as radiative waste but there is radioactive waste. Its INFURIATING TO BE LECTURED by people who don't know what they are talking about but for some reason every clown who can use a computer or drives a car thinks they can tell us how to do our jobs.
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  7017. Most of all DON'T YOU EVER DARE to complain about other people when YOUR ATTITUDE SUCKS.
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  7018.  @alexandervlaescu9901  CAN PEOPLE LIKE YOU JUST STOP There is NOTHING easy about space and none of it is child's play. Just stop claiming that science fiction is 100% based on fact. It isn't, even the very best science fiction has to ignore basic reality at some point. Here's a simple FACT. The human race right now digs up and processes just over 3,000,000,000 tons of iron ore EVERY YEAR. Yes 3 Billion tons incase you can't count that many zeros. The biggest capacity launcher currently is SLS at 130t to LEO. Jeff Bezos (yes the Amazon guy) wants to move all heavy industry to LEO so that we can use unlimited solar power and have no pollution here on Earth. Blue Origin's New Glenn has a capacity of 45t to LEO Jeff Bezos is yet to explain how we'll make enough rockets to do 67 million New Glenn launches a year or where we'll get enough rocket fuel to do it. SLS would be better at 23 million launches a year. And if Elon somehow strapped a bunch of Starship boosters together and made a Mega Starship capable of 1,000t to LEO we'd still need 3 million launches a year. AND THAT'S just the Iron, after that there's the Nickel, Copper, Zinc, Vanadium, Cobalt, Tin, Gold, Lead and all the other stuff the 7.8 Billion humans need every year just to keep society going. This is some of the stuff I have been trying to tell people for several years now. Sorry but reality sucks if you think science fiction is easy to convert into science fact.
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  7019.  @clementvining2487  AGAIN if you and others think you are speaking about reality then what part of basic math don't you understand. JUST STOP PREACHING about the differences between theory and fact when you have no idea what you are talking about. This is what truly infuriates STEM educated people. Uneducated people PREACHING NONSENSE about things they have no understanding.
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  7020.  @clementvining2487  You really are an ignorant M0R0N aren't you??? Its called being realistic and not living in a delusional fantasy. YET AGAIN YOU HAVEN'T REFUTED A THING I HAVE SAID One of the biggest influences in my reasoning was Arthur C Clarke. He wrote a really interesting book called "Profiles of the Future" where he scrutinised a lot of his own literary items. One of the things Clarke put down was the Space Elevator and he loved the Space Elevator using itor similar technology in several novels. BUT he also knew they were totally impractical for a planet like Earth because the gravity well is too strong. Like Arthur C Clarke I've also had to learn the difference between ideas and reality. I actually wanted to service satellites and I was far from the first to know there was a case for that or propose it. A classmate who works at NASA on the ISS slammed that down 20years ago with the simple reality that we don't have suitable propulsion systems for that sort of work. I once met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) and he further killed that with some simple reality about the commercial the launch industry. But then Harrison told me about Helium-3 mining on the moon. Which was why I went and worked in the mining industry TO LEARN ABOUT MINING. You see that's the difference between ignorant clowns like you and people like me. I AM WILLING TO LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO KNOW MORE THAN I DO. ITS CALLED LEARNING.
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  7021.  @SolomonDavidMichael  It gets even simpler than that. if you just look at iron ore production and if you know about the inground reserves its ludicrous. Where there might be a possibility is for very rare things. At one point Helium-3 was a potential fuel for nuclear fusion. The only known viable resource is the moon. Unless somebody finds a magical asteroid with some magical isotope of something that makes some magical technology we all want work, then no asteroid mining wont be a thing until humans actually settle space and that's a lot further off than advertised.
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  7022.  @mocheeks709  I believe you are right on that but actually listen to what these people are saying. Their lawyers would challenge where's the actual words that directly state the threat as in "when I find you I will shoot you." As I say the 1st is an extraordinary gift that almost no other nation has or has to the same extent. If the US Government or any other local or state government does something requiring redress then you CANNOT be silenced irrespective of any government claim. In almost any other country that doesn't hold. All they usually have to do is claim security requirements. In many countries its simply a matter of throwing people in jail or outright killing them. Just recently in Australia we had journalists charged with security crimes over a story regarding Australian soldiers and war crimes in Afghanistan. In America that could not happen, because of the 1st. This is why I think the 1st is so important and its just as important that it isn't abused by clowns being idiotically selfish.
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  7023. for anyone interested here is the Aljazeera link -> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/20/non-stop-cremations-cast-doubt-on-indias-counting-of-covid-dead heads up warning it doesn't hold back.
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  7024. WHY NOT - WE KNOW HONESTY, LOGIC and TRUTH WON'T DO IT
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  7025. MAYBE Hunter should introduce him to his therapist. Because at the very least he's stopped making a public spectacle of himself.
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  7026. To all you Americans who care. This was just shown Australia regarding Rupert Murdoch and Fox -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Its the 1st of 2 parts and the 2nd wont be shown until next week. It includes interviews with ex-Fox presenters who detail what happened inside the Murdoch/Fox Empire with regards to Trump. Its been done by ABC Australia (our equivalent of PBS) on a program called "4 Corners" (our equivalent to PBS Frontline). You can expect the Australian Right Wingers to go completely unhinged. Murdoch's Australian operation is called "Sky News Australia" (if you didn't know). Their Equivalent to Hannity is a guy named Alan Jones, but he's just one of a group of narcissistic liars. So watch out for ANYTHING done by Sky News Australia. Murdoch has been trying for more than 20 years to get the ABC dissolved (as in completely annihilated). The right wingers claim the ABC is leftist and the left wingers always claim they are pro-right. The fact is the ABC is publicly funded but under its charter its programming is independent, including its news and current affairs. SO it reports what comes across its desk. Does it get shit wrong at times? ABSOLUTELY, but its also a place where we can still get HONEST in depth investigative journalism. We can never let the ABC go just the same as America must never let PBS go. If you doubt that watch this Frontline from 16 years ago when all this idiotic shit in Iraq and Afghanistan started. For that question of how did this all happen? Here are the answers. For anyone who's forgotten what people like Paul Wolfowitz did to make this shit storm happen. Here's what he and others said -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byu9Yhr0Q_0
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  7027. Greg Sheridan is NOT a military expert but pretends he knows all about it. Greg Sheridan is NOT a energy expert but pretends he knows all about it. Greg Sheridan is NOT an aviation expert but pretends he knows all about it. Greg Sheridan is NOT an economic farming expert but pretends he knows all about it. Greg Sheridan is NOT an expert in anything but opening his mouth and letting noise come out. He has opinions on everything and solutions to NOTHING.
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  7028.  @biocykle  AS I have said to others its just another chunk of worthless hyperbole in a BULLSHlT public discussion where BOTH SIDES seem to think that if they scream louder with worthless hyperbole they are somehow champions. I'm tired of BOTH SIDES in this worthless woke garbage pile of crap. There's some real issues to deal with that are worth discussing. You know just some minor things like: The Energy Crisis The Climate Crisis The Refugee Crisis The start of World War 3
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  7029.  @priapulida  Yeah well WTF is your qualification on energy issues? I'm actually an engineer by the way and just so that we are clear I started with a degree in aerospace but work in industrial control systems and automation which includes a lot of dealing with energy systems. So take your ignorance and shove it, because its the ignorant clowns LIKE YOU who keep these culture shitfests going WHO ARE THE PROBLEM.
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  7030.  @priapulida  When people are as ignorant as you are there's no point in discussing anything BUT FOR EVERYONE ELSE HERE'S WHY YOUR ENERGY BILLS ARE WHAT THEY ARE. So everyone knows the main reason I hate the culture war nonsense is that it sucks all the oxygen out of public discussion on everything else and nobody can discuss REAL ISSUES - LIKE ENERGY OR ARE YOU ALL HAPPY WITH YOUR POWER BILLS? IF YOU WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH SORRY IF THIS IS LONG. I first became aware of the real energy issue about 7 years ago while working on a small consulting project for a Taiwanese solar company. They wanted an Australian engineer to explain the Australian situation and what I found shocked me. When I looked around I found ITS THE SAME BASIC PROBLEM EVERYWHERE and we aren't discussing what needs to be done because culture war clowns like wont STF⋃. HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED When governments built power stations they built them with future population in mind. By the time more was needed the next power station was ready. So there was always an OVER SUPPLY of energy to drive growth. Anyone who's ever done even a basic economics class (and yes I did one) knows If supply is ahead of demand (even when its growing) the prices go down and/or stay down. That's how energy prices were reliable from 1945 until the early 2000s and IT DROVE GROWTH. Mega projects like Tennessee Valley, Britain's nuclear industry and Snowy Hydro are examples where national governments drove growth through energy investment. Then the world got the Milton Freidman inspired Reaganomics and Thatcherism that we now call neoliberalism. Part of that was privatising energy infrastructure. A privatised energy sector doesn't exist to provide national growth its there to provide profit to share holders.*Milton Freidman* made it perfectly clear. “There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” The private sector BUYS power stations, they rarely build them and the ones they build are either small or highly subsidised. For example, in Britain, Hinckley Point C took 7 years to approve and will take 10 more to construct with first power planned for 2028 at a cost of £26 Billion and they will not see actual returns on investment until at least 2045. Do you think any of the private investors are going to wait another 20+ years before they break even or do you think the British Government is funding their profits already? This is where Milton Freidman was utterly wrong. Governments don't have to care about financial returns from specific investments because their metric is GDP not profit. HERE'S THE PROBLEM RIGHT NOW Nations now have a lot of very old power stations and basically no replacement strategy. These are not easy to replace because they take years to build. Don't bother me with various technologies because they *ALL HAVE ISSUES. For this there is no quick or easy fix. Nations are going to suffer horribly. It will be like Ukraine but stuff will just fail instead of a maniac blowing it up. The main hold up has been the constant culture wars that have raged for the past 25+ years. ALL OF THE SIDES involved say time and again that they "don't want that in my backyard." Irrespective of whatever "that" is there's always some culture warrior screaming about it with some absurd "whataboutism." Anytime engineers do speak we get screamed at by clowns claiming we are unqualified. 3 Weeks ago this channel hosted Michael Schellenberger going on about world domination with Davos and the WEF. Sure there is a case to say that but Michael is also another culture warrior except his preferred platform is TEDx and through it he has said some ridiculous stuff masked behind a few truths. Either these culture war shitfests STOP and people start LISTENING or one day you will flip the light switch and nothing will happen OR if it does turn on it will cost you a fortune to keep it on. You have a choice you can listen to clowns like Mary Harrington, Michael Schellenberger and Pria Pulida or you can have the lights work. EITHER WAY DON'T COMPLAIN BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD.
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  7031. TO ALL -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  7032. SORRY BUT I JUST HAD TO STOP THIS NONSENSE when you got to the wow wee a million tons a year. I am an engineer and I can do math and this stuff is complete BULLSHlT. In 2022 the worlds coal production was 8318 Million tons which produces over 30 Billion tons of CO2 How do we know that? Because for every atom of carbon consumes links up with 2 Oxygen atoms to produce CO2 By Atomic weights C=12, O=16 and CO2=44. 44/12 = 3.667 (3.2/3). WE DON'T NEED SYSTEMS CAPABLE OF BILLIONS (with a 'B') OF TONS As for that $100/ton cost being economical! That is utter nonsense last years 37.4 Billion tons alone would cost $3.74 trillion. WHO'S GOING TO PAY THAT? And for these DAC systems to work they need LOW EMISSION energy. HINKLEY POINT C, the nuclear power station currently being built in Britain will produce 3.2 GW (once its finished circa 2028). It was budgeted at £26 Billion and now expected to cost £33 Billion. How many of those do you think we'd need to build to power these DAC systems and make a dent in the issue? I'm Australian and right now we have a pack of clowns ranting about nuclear power. Using the costs of Hinkley Point C we'd need to spend AU$440 Billion just to replace our coal fired power stations. Since our politicians and bankers (because they are addicted to home loans) want to double our population. So we'd need to at least double that making the cost AU$880 Billion. Plus we'd need a decent big chunk again to power all the electric cars we plan to have and now we are past the AU$ Trillion mark. And then we'd have to double the capacity of the power grid which would at least double that to past the AU$2 Trillion mark. At what point do you think we can then afford to pay for any DAC systems? And before you ask one of the biggest issues facing the entire developed world is the cost of replacing all of our old power stations irrespective of how they are powered. You see the difference between Engineers and all the other science is that WE HAVE TO BE PRACTICAL. What all the non-engineers FORGET is that everything wears out eventually and has to be replaced. The simplest DAC system that costs nothing to run are TREES. Best of all they don't need to be plugged into a power station. While all of us engineers are building the next generation of power stations we need the rest of you to go plant a 1,000 trees each. THAT'S ALL OF YOU ACROSS THE PLANET which totals about 8 Trillion Trees. If we consider that a lot will die but a Trillion or 2 survive then that's a lot of CO2 sucked out of the air and captured in wood fibre. So long as we don't burn any of it or let too much of it rot and produce methane we might have a chance.
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  7033. Oh yeah. GO LEARN SOME BASIC ECONOMICS That way when the clowns waving business and economic degrees like baseball bats can't smack you stupid and manipulate you like they too many of them do. But be warned when you can make a sound economic argument they get real narky about it. Throw math back at them whenever you can. Its drives them crazy. Since you're a Brit start watching Gary Stevenson. He talk's like Jamie Oliver but is possibly the single smartest Brit I have ever seen and I'm Australian. So admitting theirs a Brit who's smarter than me at anything is almost heretical. But he really is that smart on Economics and he makes it easy like Jamie Oliver makes cooking easy.
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  7034.  @alicianah8352  Fantastic concept now who gets to decide which group we EXTERMINATE??? You are right infinite population growth is simply not possible in a FINITE world. David Suzuki howled that from the worlds rooftops all through the 1990s and no business or political leader wanted to hear a word of it. The most important thing we have to work out is a completely NEW Economic system. Feudalism failed, Socialism failed, Communism failed and now Capitalism is failing. There is one thing that was common to all the failures - rapacious greed and consolidation of absolute power into the hands of a few people. We might not need to downsize so much if we can simply get rid of the few who cause all the problems.
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  7035. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. Two things any Foreigner who lives in America for some time begins to realise. FIRST America has some really disconnected bat crap crazy people and SECOND we all have some of them in our own countries. I can guarantee you, we have Trump supporters here in OZ who would have him as our Prime Minister in a heartbeat. We have conspiracy clowns of every type. During COVID our 5G and anti-vaxxers combined and most of the stories about draconian lockdowns and forced vaccinations aren't true. They are from that crowd. The difference is that in America they are so much louder and you have so many politicians and the media willing to take advantage of it. Its rare that our main stream media gives them a microphone, while your media puts them center stage as often as they can. To America's main stream media they're just cannon fodder in the culture war. Maybe the biggest difference of all is that we have disagreements and arguments and sometimes actual physical fights, but America has a full blown civil war underway where both sides believe they have to exterminate the other side. What concerns the rest of the world is that while we might use fists and sometimes bats y'all have desert eagles, 357 magnums, AR15s and AK47s (for the poor people). January 6th shocked us but didn't surprise anyone who's lived in America. FYI - I really do love America, its people and its sports (especially college sport), but damn I hate your politics because of how toxic it is and how many of its true believers run around the world spreading it.
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  7036.  @dixonhill1108  I hadn't heard that term "Cantrailian" before but I got it. And yeah we are basically the 51st and 52nd states. The only question is which of us is the 51st and which is the 52nd. Or maybe Puerto Rico thinks its 51st and we are just the 52dn & 53rd. Do you know when Australia was pushed to get its turn at the UN Security council the main objection was that it would just guarantee America a second vote? Which is sadly true. In early/mid 2018, about 18 months into the Trump Presidency I read a report on its affect on Australian Foreign Policy. They basically admitted to a major problem. For about 50 years AFP was basically "What do the Americans want?" But nobody had written any FP without American input in so long they didn't know what to do at times. I forced a lot of our diplomatic corps to think for themselves. Its one of the odd positive things about the Trump presidency. By accident it made a lot of countries think for themselves for the first time in decades. This is something the Biden team are yet to grasp fully. They now have allies who aren't just followers and will just do as they are told to do like all through the cold war and war on terror.
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  7037.  @dixonhill1108  Closely followed by a John Oliver like observation. Canada, everyone else's favorite American State. Closely followed by: Why do Canadians say "Sorry" so often? Its their way of telling the rest of the world, "Sorry about our neighbors!" in just 1 word.
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  7038.  @dixonhill1108  You're right we don't have a specific state like Quebec with its ridiculous sense of self importance that the rest of the country can't stand, BUT we do have New South Wales with its ridiculous sense of self importance that the rest of the country can't stand. The difference is the Quebecois speak French and New South Welshmen speak SHlT!
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  7039.  @dixonhill1108  I spent 4 months in Saskatchewan in 2017-18 and I got that there's huge gulf between Eastern and Western Canada. Australia has some of that but not quite the same either as we also have significant rivalries going north South as well.
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  7040.  @kwazhims3lf  Every country has at least one ASSH0LE they wished would shut up, even Canada the politest nation in the world. It was a waste water treatment plant that was destroyed by the local CANADIAN engineer less than 2 months after handover because he let it freeze solid. After not getting paid for getting the plant finished and operating the first time around. And then keeping me on hold for over a year. The Canadian insurance companies expected me stop and drop everything on a whim and at MY EXPENSE fly back and fix what a CANADIAN BROKE without guaranteeing I'd get paid. 99% of Canadians are fabulous people. You're NOT in that 99%.
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  7041.  @agaragar21 You make about 1/10th of valid point 1) There was no genocide but there certainly were some very ugly incidents. The stolen generation was also not a genocide because despite being incredibly ugly and misguided it targeted children of mixed heritage. 2) The subject of native reserves was done away with the establishment of native title laid down by the Marbo decision. ALSO since we are on the subject of invading and taking land can you please tell me which Italian I should hold accountable for the invasion of Britain in 55BC and then which German, Dane, Swede or Norwegian I hold accountable for for the Germanic and Nordic Invasions that happened after the Romans left Britain OR do you expect me to hold the French accountable for William the Conqueror who was actually 1/2 French and 1/2 Norwegian? The point is don't be so simplistic about such complex things. Also there's a fair amount of evidence that the current Aboriginal peoples of Australia were NOT the first people of Australia. This is most evident in the distinct styles of rock art. Its not spoken about much because although there is evidence is a fairly sensitive topic and not enough evidence to be conclusive. Finally there is no doubt that the European settlement of Australia was a disaster for the native population, but that has been the case with every mass migration in history. What I hate about people being so simplistic is they IGNORE what has been done to redress the situation in Australia.
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  7042.  @mrspaceman2764  That's also a distinct possibility.
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  7043.  @invaderjoshua6280  If you want to know where its just bonkers. Try aviation (I have a pilots license) Altitude is in feet. Speed is on knots or miles per hour. Weather is in kilometers of visibility. Navigation can be in almost anything including parsecs. Fuel can be in gallons, litres, pounds and/or kilograms depending on the plane your flying.
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  7044.  @JR-N-TX  Go and type "tallest wind turbine" into google and it will come back that the largest are 1,000ft NOT 1,000m. I just checked and the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai is (according to Wikipedia) the worlds tallest structure at 829.8 m (2,722 ft)
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  7045.  @razaparalarepublica8336  Go check some of the footage from Europe like the yellow vest protests in France. When enough people really snap and go off the deep end there's basically zip the authorities can ever do. King Louis had the army as did the Czar and they both got executed. Go look at Romania's communist fall. Consider Saddam's fall in Iraq. When the population has had enough with the ruling elite only 3 things happen. The elite back down, the population calms down or one side annihilates the other. China with Tiananmen was one of the very few exceptions where the elite held onto power and weren't exterminated.
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  7046.  @rationaljudgment  What you're considering is what happens when the population really snaps and starts tearing the place apart. About the only time I have seen it in America in my lifetime was after the Rodney King Trail and the cops were found Not Guilty. People compared it to the Watts riots of the 1960s (before my time) but basically people said FK-it the law does not work and they went nuts. The simple fact is that despite the fact the LA police had so many 1000 officers they were simply up against a million plus people who had started to tear the place apart. During last years riots I saw a news piece from Boston. It started with white people lambasting the BLM people for simply tearing their own neighborhoods bits. Then they had a short interview with a black woman around 30 years of age who simply said bullshit to that. She said words to the effect that "we own nothing, we have nothing, we had no jobs, we have no future,........." Sometime after that Mark Blyth mentioned a statistic out of Boston that said the average white persons wealth was $240k while the average black persons was $8.00 as in single digit 8 dollars. You cannot, and history tells this time and time and time again, pound the crap out of a society leaving it with nothing and not expect that one day that resentment, stress and frustration will come out with extreme aggression. It simply does not matter what population you have, the languages, culture, principal religion,......... none of it matters if you beat the crap out of the general population its only a matter time before it blows up. You claim it can be stopped at any time. You clearly have no idea about mob psychology and peer pressure. Once that takes over rational behavior goes out the door. Look at the shit that went on at some of the Trump rallies. After a certain point it simply doesn't matter what the orange clown says its pure mob psychology. And its damn dangerous when the clown driving that is a narcissistic sociopath who can't handle the word "NO". Sorry but you need to realise that an enraged mob does not think it responds.
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  7047.  @rationaljudgment  There's the thing you are viewing this in the almost irrational way Americans do things they love to over complicate simple things or oversimplify complicated things. Its almost an American pathology to mix complication with simplicity. American football and NASCAR are 2 great examples. 2 Sports that are incredibly simple at some levels and mind numbingly complex on others. Mob psychology is pretty damn simple. Get them out of any logical thought process and into a state where the stimulus is emotional and then rely on peer pressure to conform to the group takes over. Its what every general has relied on for centuries, troops don't stand side by side logically to simply get slaughtered. You have to wind them up AS A GROUP. Coaches for sports teams do exactly the same thing. Politicians do exactly the same thing. Here's a great explanation of how its works in politics -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s
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  7048. You forgot to point out they "They tried to hang THEIR OWN VP just 2 months ago" he wasn't just the last VP he was THE ONE THEY VOTED FOR. This highlights the biggest issue in the world right now. People are so stressed from so many directions that almost anything can set people off their rocker. If its not the radical right winding people up its the radical left winding people up. If you disagree with the radical RIGHT they yell and scream how you're a leftist maniac. If you disagree with the radical LEFT they yell and scream how you're a right wing maniac. And when those 2 groups aren't screaming at us the top 1% are making off with all the money as they smash the planet around us. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  7049. @Supernintendo Chalmers I had an account cancelled in December. A video popped up from a guy whose channel was labelled as "financial/investment commentator/adviser." But what he was actually doing was doing was promoting lies about the election results and claiming how certain states were actually going to turn out. They were straight out lies. He was actually promoting the results of some pro-Trumper. It looked exactly like the the AP results except with the numbers changed. All complete, utter and total BS, but at the end of each of these videos he was asking for money so that he could "keep bring the truth to people." It was straight out of the playbook of 1980s televangelists and a total scam. He was very clever in that he never said donations were to help with court cases or campaigning they were just so he could keep doing what he was doing. So I started pointing this out to people and it got heated at times, but at the end I kept at them that all this guy was scamming them. I reported him to YT as scam. This was all before Jan 6. I got my account cancelled for not being nice and he got to keep scamming people. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  7050.  @MrDXRamirez  Nice parrot points but the whole claim that if wages rise then profits fall is CRAP. The Germans have the highest wages in manufacturing anywhere and their companies make money just fine. People get told that bullshit story so that there is the money for the executive bonuses. In the post 2016 analysis this came up as part of the explanation why a lot of people DIDN'T vote for a Wall St hack like Hilary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmBG3Z4DI&t=1104s The money is there to raise minimum wages. Its just that the top 1% don't like sharing.
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  7051.  @MrDXRamirez  Sorry but I have spent 30+ years as an engineering automation. The labor cost hasn't been significant in manufacturing since the mid 1990s. There's just this endless parroting form economists that labor costs are to high. When labor costs are down below 10% it doesn't matter where product is manufactured. The material, energy and transport costs are far more significant. Closing plants and sending jobs to China had nothing to do with labor costs and everything to do with establishing a foothold in the next giant consumer market while at the same time destroying every union in the western world. As for the bullshit "services sector" massive blocks of that has seen jobs go to places like India and the Philippines and that's because the labor cost in service industries is the majority of costs. There's this truly idiotic bullshit that people will be retrained as "coders." Yeah sure go onto the google store and see how many versions of Sudoku there are. That's because Western Universities have been training IT programmers in India and China for the last 25 years. We trained them well and now they are experienced AND STILL VERY CHEAP. This is the idiocy of Western Economists they modeled our future on their high powered consulting businesses. It was farking idiotic then and its still idiotic now. You can spin all the market theory you like and it still comes back to simple common sense, EXCEPT economists don't have any common sense.
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  7052.  @MrDXRamirez  If you had made the argument American Economists and American TRAINED economists you be much closer to the truth. I have been sending YT link to a DW report on global water. Much of it focused on Australia and its water market that was "designed" by a "renowned Harvard Educated" economist. Ask any Australian how that water market is working. I'd give you the link but its suddenly gone "private" which is very odd for a video form a news service. Basically our water market is just like the Texas energy market, also done by a Harvard boy and also a total disaster for everyone except the market speculators.
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  7053. Trump hasn't apologised for anything in his life. WTF goes through Mike Pence's brain cos it isn't reality.
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  7054.  @Ciph3rzer0  If you really want to have a crack at Saagar then go after his dumbass crap today/yesterday when he was implying/claiming "Sky Australia" was a reputable source - "the bat video" Sky Australia is owned by Rupert Murdoch and it has a similar array of overrated overpaid opinionated full of shite clowns just like Fox. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  7055. HEY DAVID, Just yesterday you said that Raphael Warnock did not do that well in the debate YOU SAID " Raphael Warnock didn't do particularly well. He didn't come across as particularly passionate. He didn't come across as particularly prepared...." So when are you going to a stories or interview on why people SHOULD vote for Warnock? The whole planet knows that Herschel Walker is not suitable for public office anywhere, but that's not how American elections operate. Voting is VOLUNTARY and candidates have to get people to take time out of their lives, turn up and vote. We have heard and seen dozens of examples on why nobody should turn up and vote for Walker but almost NOTHING on why anyone should turn up for Warnock.
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  7056.  @Jmp5nb  I KNOW THAT & OTHERS KNOW THAT. That's not the point David and others all do Herschel Walker videos every day and sometimes several in a day. It does not get people to vote for Warnock. How many times do you IDI0TS need to lose to clowns like Walker, Boebert, Green, Cawthorn and others to get it through your thick skulls into your brains where thought can happen that this strategy does not work. There's a great question in this about Liberals, see if you can answer it. Its around 2 minutes in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2HKbygLjJs
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  7057.  @Jmp5nb  WELL ACTUALLY I am trying to yell at clowns who aren't listening. As I just said to Jam Taco in this same thread - look at what Hilary did in 2016. Just saying "That candidate is bad" DOES NOT DOES NOT DOES NOT Tell anyone why they should turn up and vote for you. And that does need to be YELLED OUT LOUD because the Left everywhere make that mistake. They make it all over the world in election after election.
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  7058.  @Jmp5nb  DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW SERIOUS THE ISSUE IS?????? Herschel Walker is a disaster, not just for Georgia, but for America and that extends to every country that has trade and/or security arrangements with America. He's running for the Senate which means he could be there for 6 years. If he wins and nothing else changes then Mitch McConnell is back in charge of the Senate. That means Mitch McConnel has control of judicial appointments in the Supreme Court, in the Appellate courts and in the Federal courts. You really are staggering in how mindless you are. People like you are exactly why the Left loses. You get hung up on trivial garbage while ignoring what's important.
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  7059.  @jamtaco2667  Poor candidates is a problem across the entire Democratic world right now. Its classic politics where the leaders eliminate contenders. Geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan has been pointing out how both Putin and Xi have been locking up or executing rivals for some time. So there's almost no competency around them. Its why some of China's big projects are going as badly as Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Boris Johnson did similar in Britain except he just pushed any competent people out of government. I'm Australian and both our major parties have been doing it for the past 15years. I was in Canada a couple of years ago and heard similar stories there. Look at the Dems and GOP, where are the next generation of leaders? People like Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell have all been killing off contenders. Look how Andrew Yang got set up and sucker punched. Its a very serious problem and its everywhere.
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  7060.  @Bridgeburner4477  You are absolutely right. It should be a no brainer, but look around the world popular elections are NOT about the most qualified person and never have been. Prof. Mark Blyth gave a brilliant answer on the issue in the Q&A after a lecture on "Global Trumpism" back in 2019. Its so good I keep a time stamped link to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4795s FYI - Mark Blyth was one of the very few who got his predictions on 2016 and Brexit right. There's to panel discussions he was part of just before and just after Trumps 2016 win. Its amazing just how oblivious to reality another Brown professor, Wendy Schiller was both before and after. There's some real idiocy going on here with Warnock. The idea that "Walker is so bad people will vote for Warnock" is utter stupidity. That didn't work in 2016 and it only just worked in 2020 because Trump botched COVID so badly its cost a million American lives.
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  7061.  @Bridgeburner4477  I just said to one clown that if Walker wins its a disaster. If nothing else changes a Walker win hands the Senate back to Mitch McConnell and that means Mitch McConnell is back in charge of selecting judges and that's a disaster for the people of Georgia the rest of America and every country that does business with America. Everyone needs to consider what a Walker win really means.
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  7062.  @Jmp5nb  You really are a stuck up self important braindead TR0LL aren't you. Its because of people like you why people like Donald Trump get away with what they get away with. You preach about community rules and yet you TR0LL people with your self righteousness. Just go back to you Kumbaya singalong group and give yourself a participation trophy for being so special AND LEAVE REALITY TO PEOPLE WHO CAN HANDLE IT.
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  7063.  @Bridgeburner4477  I'm NOT bitching about Warnock I AM BITCHING about the campaign strategy. Just standing there saying "that guy is bad!" DOES NOT WORK. Hilary LOST in 2016 using this strategy. Biden almost lost in 2020 with this strategy. The Dems LOST house seats in 2020 with this strategy. The Dems FAILED to win an outright majority in the Senate in 2020 with this strategy. The Dems LOST in state legislates in 2020 with this strategy. How many times do you need to LOSE to realise this strategy DOES NOT WORK?
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  7064.  @sarge4455  Hey Sarge can you tell me what it will take to get some of these clowns to realise that the Dem strategy of just standing there like a 1970s Disney robot saying "this guy is bad!" is a losing strategy? As I just told one of them, I am NOT having a go at Warnock. I am having a go at the strategy because its a losing strategy as has been proven again. How many times do they need to lose before they wake up?
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  7065.  @Bridgeburner4477  Why don't you have a listen to David's description on Marco Rubio's attitude to being in a debate with Val Demings. Its right there in the first minute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTGXDo6hZDs
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  7066.  @Bridgeburner4477  Good way to prove what many people claim - people from Texas really are pathetically ignorant and stupid. I have been to Texas and generally found Texans to be great people but then everyplace has people like you.
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  7067.  @sarge4455  Yeah note the Texas Refugee in this thread. As an engineer I think the worst mistake we ever made was making computers easy to use.
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  7068.  @Bridgeburner4477  Oh started with all the piety and now start throwing mud and crap like some depraved maggot. YOU WERE A FAKE A FRAUD AND TROLL FROM THE FIRST MOMENT
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  7069.  @Jmp5nb  How many times do you clowns need to LOSE before you wake up. Wasn't losing to Reagan TWICE enough? Wasn't losing to Dubya TWICE enough? Wasn't losing to Trump just one time enough? Wasn't letting Mitch McConnell ride all over your rights and stack the Supreme Court enough? To Quote Jeff Daniels character Will McAvoy from the Newsroom: "You know why people don't like liberals. Cos they lose! If liberals are so f--king smart how come they lose so goddamn always?" You can watch him say it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2HKbygLjJs
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  7070. What does she think when she goes to the supermarket and the doors open for her? What does she think happens every time she uses her bank card or credit card? What does she think of her home security system? Oh damn I asked 3 questions and each of them requires that she has to THINK about something.
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  7071. AEROSPACE ENIGNEER HERE - THIS IS THE SORT OF CRAP THAT DRIVES ENGINEERS INSANE. It does not answer the most important question of all. HOW ARE WE GOING TO POWER SOCIETY IN FUTURE? Because we can't keep doing what we have been doing and there's several 1,000 power stations around the world that need to be replaced because like everything else they wear out. There is nothing new in this video ITS JUST MORE NOISE. Very shortly all the noise maker like this idiot will have to SHUT UP, because there just wont be enough electricity for their crap or anybody else's crap.
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  7072.  @robhoffman510  AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT?? AND YES THIS IS THE SOCIAL MEDIA VERSION OF SCREAMAING AT YOU *THE HOLE WORLD IS TIRED OF THAT SECTION OF THE AMERCIAN POPULATION WHO HAVE IT GOOD THINKING THEY REPRESENT THE BEST OF EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD* Google "congressional budget office family wealth" and you'll get a report that cannot be refuted that shows 50% of America is WORSE OFF now than they were before the 2008 GFC. The Top 10% who caused the GFC and got bailed out with $4 trillion from Bush and another $4 trillion from Obama and are now over $20 trillion better off. The sooner America deals with the hyper-welfare queens on Wall Street and starts looking after the other 90% of the nation then the rest of the World might start listening to your crap.
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  7073. Sadly perjury requires more than being an idiot spouting crap.
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  7074.  @l.faraday8767  I don't think Jans is listening much buddy. Like all his kind he thinks denial is a superpower.
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  7075.  @jans6406  Yeah well when you think denial is a superpower than what do you expect. Look at the delusional clown you are pining over. 6 months after the election was CERTIFIED by REPUBLICANS he's still in denial. The you start pining over self absorbed clowns like Milo. Be careful - if you bend over too far for him he might go into remission. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  7076. Look at the long long list of idiots and clowns already elected in every state and country in the world. Nobody should be surprised. I'm Australian and we get people this dumb in politics all the time. Sometimes because they are backed by a major party they even get elected. We suffer from people going into voting booths who vote for a party not for the candidate. Occasionally parties put up what we call "dummy candidates" in seats that party has almost no chance of winning just so they have someone campaigning in the electorate at a major election. Sometimes those candidates actually win and sometimes they turn out to be a lot of trouble. Sometimes those candidates go off script during the election and actually hurt the party which happened in our recent election. So America you are not alone in having clowns run for or getting into congress. The difference is most other parties reign in these people they don't cheer them on.
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  7077. He's making a point that so many people ARE NOT and that is the former Soviet satellite states have NOT forgotten what the Russians did to them all through the cold war. Sure the Americans were bad and overthrew democracies and installed puppet dictators all over the place BUT THE RUSSIANS WERE WORSE. At least in America and the West we had the choice to throw out governments and politicians every few years.
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  7078. She might have been right but it was strategically the stupidest thing any politician did until until Liz Truss tried to channel Margret Thatcher. What Hilary did was come across as the stuck up Ivy league snot she actually is and it drove millions of people into the clutches of Trump.
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  7079.  @nakfoor1846  I just saw this yesterday. Its a year old but I watched it to see how well they got it back then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIcOCZbb2Bs Consider how the midterms are looking at the moment????
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  7080.  @AyeCarumba221  You are 100% right about what Hilary said. Now can you be just as accurate in your description of that pathetic waste of oxygen who is still complaining about others instead of accepting any responsibility for being so incompetent she LOST to Trump.
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  7081. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: There Trillion Tree Estimate is Wrong because its really needs to be around 8 Trillion Trees or about 1,000 trees for every person on the planet and HERE'S WHY. I'm Australian but did my degree in America in the late 80s. During our final year we had guest lectures every month and one of those was an alumni who'd just finished a study for NASA on terraforming Mars. He started with "Its impossible!" and then explained why. He introduced us to 2 topics I now call Planetary Mechanics and Planetary Dynamics. Planetary Dynamics are things like water cycles, the thermal cycles in the oceanic currents and the gas cycles. These are insanely complex concepts even though they we know what they are. Its how to make them work on a new planet that's the problem. But before you get that far there's the question of how much stuff you need. How much air.? How much water? Planetary Mechanics is the straight forward calculations of stuff as in how much if this or that do I need. Its fundamentally about geometry and volumes of spheres and spherical shells. Things like how much air does it take to put a 1km thick layer of Earth Standard Air around an object the size of Mars. Forgetting issues like gravity and solar wind and just going on basic geometry its 178 Trillion Tons of air. That simple answer makes everything else mute because "Where do you get that much air?" For the Earth there's a really simple geometry problem and it has a very convenient number. MOST (~98%) of humanity lives within a 2km thick layer of the atmosphere and by chance that layer is approximately 1 billion cubic kilometers. Even though its about 2% out just using that number of 1 Billion makes certain math problems very easy. For example we know there's about 2.5 trillion tons of additional CO2 in the air and that number is rapidly heading towards 3 trillion tons. So in basic terms we need to process 1 billion cubic kilometers of air and REMOVE about 3 Trillion tons and then STORE IT. Once you understand the size of the task EVERYTHING changes. All those carbon capture and storage solutions you see lauded about just don't add up. Each of those proposals fall flat on either the energy requirements and/or material requirements and/or time to implement requirements AND/OR MONETARY COSTS. Sabine says it will take a decade or longer for each tree to mature enough to where it has actually removed enough carbon to be worthwhile. What she doesn't mention is that it wall take years to extract the raw materials, then years to process them, then years to make the machines to do the CO2 capture then years to do the work needed. THEN all that machinery needs to be powered and maintained. How long will all that take and more to the point WHO'S going to pay for it. However if you think of trees as cheap, low maintenance (especially once established) solar powered carbon pumps then you realise the issue isn't trees BUT HOW MANY TREES? A simple an reasonable STARTING POINT IS: If each MATURE tree traps 1-2 tons (1.5t on average) then you need about 2 Trillion trees to reach maturity. If you have a survival rate of 1 in 4 as in 1 out of every 4 saplings planted reaches maturity. Then you need about 8Trillion trees or about 1,000 trees per person. It doesn't matter if each person actually plants 1,000 trees just so long as they are responsible for them being planted and maintained which is mostly just watering. YES getting enough water is a problem but for most trees that only lasts until the trees tap roots reach the water table and considering you expect to lose 3 out of every 4 that's NOT a problem. After that becomes the issue of WHERE and WHAT TYPES of trees we plant. DON'T FORGET we are thinking in terms of a planetary system NOT Nation states. So we need access to large open areas that currently have few or no trees. YES that means we need to look at places like the edges of the Sahara, the Arabian Peninsula, China, the Russian Steppes, the Mongolian Steppes, the plains of America and Canada AND the inland sections of my country Australia. YES this will not be an easy task, but NOBODY can dismiss it by saying it will need a lot of land or that it will take decades to accomplish because all of the engineering solutions will also take decades and require staggering amounts of resources. BOTTOM LINE: We either think about and talk about planting and looking after 8 Trillion trees or we need to start looking for a new planet to live on and considering that NOTHING has fundamentally changed in the 35+ years since I had a NASA engineer explain to me and my classmates how impossible Mars is there is no practical "other planet solution."
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  7082. Go read George Orwell's 1984. One of the people Winston meets in jail was sent there for a thought crime claimed by his own children. YEAH this stuff really is an Orwellian nightmare come to life.
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  7083. Australian here: Every time we turn on the TV or the Internet at the moment its the NEXT WTF moment from America. Every time we think "This can't get worse!" it gets worse. And before any of you tell me to FK-OFF and mind my own business I have one word AUKUS and that one word is costing us several hundred billion dollars and its all backed by Americans saying "Trust us!"
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  7084. Ouch! Ouch! and Ouch!
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  7085. I get your point absolutely but there are actually 3 groups in this discussion not 2. There are those who are vaccinated or will get vaccinated as soon as they can - they 're not a problem). There are the anti-vaxxers who are a problem nobody has time to deal with right now. Then there are the hesitant who have any of a pile of reasons. I want to get vaccinated ASAP, but I have had DVTs twice and the doctors can't tell me right at this moment if its safe. I just met a guy the other day who had by-pass surgery a couple of years ago. His doctors have also told him to wait. We're both technically in group 1 in that we want to get vaccinated but we're also group 3. Dr. Michael Osterholm (director of CIDRAP and an expert in infectious disease and pandemic response) has been vocal about NOT alienating the hesitant because it will drive them into the arms of the anti-vaxxers. He is one of the staunchest advocates for getting people vaccinated and he doesn't want people getting alienated.
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  7086.  @jjbud3124  Your right - but the point Dr. Osterholm made was don't alienate people. He has 30+ years dealing with these issues and he's said it never works.
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  7087. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Like many engineers I am TIRED of clowns promoting garbage to the public that we then have to explain and explain and explain why its not possible or it won't work. This crap and nonsense is going on constantly, with scammer after scammer promoting the next thing and wasting everyone's time and money. Just the other day I had some ignorant clown tell me that here in Australia we ALREADY HAVE a couple of Small Modular Reactors operating. Funny thing is NONE of the companies involved in SMRs are saying anything other than they HOPE to have them available by the mid 2030s. According to this clown somehow Australia has time warped in a couple of SMRs. As an aerospace engineer I hear all sorts of nonsense from terraforming Mars (which is simply a fantasy), to Jewish or Chinese Space lasers causing grass fires to hypersonic missiles that manoeuvre and dance around the sky AND ITS ALL BULLSHIT. What Thunder00t is doing with these basic calculations of HOW MUCH IS NEEDED is what I call planetary mechanics. Along with my classmates we were introduced to this by a NASA engineer who did a guest lecture one day. He'd just finished a project for NASA on what it would take to terraform Mars. Once NASA realised just how much stuff (like air) is needed to cover a planet they gave up on the idea of EVER terraforming Mars. But 35 years later there are millions of Elon Musk fans who think they will be going to Mars to terraform it. DID you notice for this proposal the team leader is an Architect? If Architects knew how much engineers HATE THEM. Other than a few of the very best architects who know what their designs do to the people who have to make them, the vast majority of architects are PROBLEM CREATORS. The worst part of their attitude is THEY KNOW they are creating problems for other people to deal with.
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  7088.  @DustinAxelson  if you base almost any jurisdiction in the world and ask is this the best person they have you'll come up short on most if not very close to all. Its one of those great conundrums of democracy you can only vote for the people on offer and sometimes what is on offer isn't the best of any society. However when you have people like Ted Cruz, Nancy Pelosi (in her penthouse) and others your society needs to start asking if its not just a simple case of poor options or if the system is fundamentally broken.
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  7089.  @lowandodor1150  I found them all pompous, just some of them more pompous than others. Overall I felt if this is the current standard of Oxford then the place is seriously overrated. If you want to see the arrogance in KK's attitude than go look at how he's promoted his speech over on Triggernometry. He's pushed it as the greatest ever speech against wokeism and he mostly talked about climate change and cancelling out Greta Thunberg. What it shows is that she's really hit a raw nerve with the fossil fuel billionaires. She must scare them in a way Green Peace doesn't. Why else would they attack her through proxies like this? I find it a bit sad because at the start of the War in Ukraine KK was on a BBC panel and was 11 out of 10 brilliant. He was so far in front of the rest of that panel if it had been scored none of them would have done better than 1 or maybe 2 out of 10. But when he's on this CATO Institute line he's a complete fraud. There's dozens of people who'd shred this nonsense.
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  7090.  @lowandodor1150  You clearly have NO idea on what the CATO Institute actually is or how it and other major American Think Tanks operate. So you are just plain wrong on that. On the BBC it wasn't that he could simply speak Russian. He understands the culture and how that affects the way they operate. You're absolutely right on the Oxford attitude thing. As I said previously. If this is the standard of Oxford these days then as an institution its seriously overrated. BUT you're clearly a James Lindsey fan and that's biased your views on his speech just as much as other people are biased on the other speakers. You don't have to watch the vids just look at the comments. Your ATTITUDE to not even considering looking at anything else also shows your bias.
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  7091. Hey David, Start showing some vids on what Warnock actually stands for or including some of it in these vids. Or even better interview him. You keep saying people need to turn out and vote. SO GIVE THEM A REASON.
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  7092. The bit that shites the rest of the World is that George "Dubya" Bush removed America from the International Criminal Court when he signed the American Service-Members' Protection Act in 2002 to protect American service panel from being judged by others. Obama never redressed it and Trump gave it the middle finger. Here go look at the map and take note that BOTH America and Russia were (past tense) signatories but are not now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court After you check the map look under the heading "Opposition to the Court"
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  7093. Why not politically its a winner for the Dems? The Democrats have suffered for years in getting people motivated to vote for them. If you're a Democratic strategist this decision is the best news you've had in decades. What better motivation do those people who do not normally vote to get up and vote? Look at what its already done for the polls. I heard a great assessment today. No one should be surprised. The Republicans made no secret they wanted to stack SCOTUS and overturn Roe v Wade and have been yelling it from the rooftops for decades. Mitch McConnell made no secret that this was his plan for the past 30+ years. My bet is the Dems chose not to stop it so that they could get a massive midterm win from a hopeless position. From a strategic point the Republicans have fired their big shot and all it has done is aggravate a staggering chunk of the population who usually don't give a damn and don't vote.
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  7094.  @brandonsarasnick1602  Actually that's a very good description "Bloods and Crips." I liken it to 2 5 year olds in a sand pit fighting over the bucket and shovel as they stomp all over the sand castle they are trying to claim as their God given right.
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  7095.  @traci5975  Yeah she released a non-existent mythical beast to go right along with her non-existent mythical evidence.
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  7096. You're so right. I'm an engineer and he's the classic Greenie M0R0N that frustrates the hell out us. They'll do 10 stupid things to do one smart thing and then stand on their soapbox expecting admiration. I absolutely believe we need to save the planet but clowns like this guy need to STFU and get out of the road. We can't magically deliver clean energy, clean transportation and other clean technologies while these M0R0NS are interfering all the time.
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  7097. Yeah sure he can have Trump as his prison buddy because Trump's lies caused even more deaths.
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  7098. Actually it would be good to ask Trey Parker and Matt Stone if Cartman was in part their impression of Trump, long before Trump became what he now is. Because the similarities in Cartman's narcissism to Trumps are a combination of hilarious and HTF did someone give this guy nuclear codes.
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  7099. @Daniel S. Trump being Cartman IRL: A) the narcissism? B) the scams that never work out? C) the fat pile crap he is? D) all of the above
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  7100.  @52darcey  No, Trump has made South Park seem like a documentary. I'm surprised they never did an episode called Trump & Friends where each of the kids played someone in the white house.
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  7101. I hate to break everyone's balls on PART of this. She's actually right that America does not have the energy grid set up for shifting everyone to electric cars and that nobody has a real DETAILED plan to get there, BUT THE REASON WHY there's no plan or progress is because of people like MTG. Remember the now infamous Exxon memo that told their people the plan was to delay all action on climate change for as long as possible? That and other factors, including narcissistic liars such as MTG, are combining into a perfect storm. Here's an explanation sorry if its longish. I'm an Australian engineer who went to college in America. We have the same problem here in Australia and the same problem is in Europe and Asia. This isn't simply an electric car or environmental issue. A few years ago I became aware of how badly Australia's energy grid was being managed. After the 1990s we just stopped building major power stations. By Major I mean those greater than 1,000 Megawatts (1 Gigawatt). Power plants like Diablo Canyon in California, which is 2256MW and Eraring in Australia, which is 2880MW. Diablo Canyon of 36 years old and Eraring is 40 years old. Most power stations are built for 25 years of life which they extend with rebuilds to 40 or more years. Think about how many of you have cars older than 25 years let alone 40. These are the big power stations that underpin our energy grids and keep modern society running. When I looked around its the same everywhere across the entire developed world. Except in China and a few rare cases we all stopped building new coal fired plants because of CO2 emissions. After Chernobyl and Fukushima everyone stopped building nuclear power plants. The problem has been masked by new wind and solar combined with more efficient appliances and lights, but we are starting to hit limits there. The problem is like we are running towards a cliff and people are too busy playing politics. All of our major power plants are now old and only getting older and less reliable. Here in Oz we are at the cliffs edge with old unreliable power stations. So there's not only a shortage of energy supply just to keep society going we don't have enough energy generation to change to electric cars. That's all before we ask where is all this Lithium to make the batteries coming from. Elon Musk's new mega-battery wont be able to make 3% of what's needed and that's by his estimates. So MTG's right that the infrastructure isn't there, BUT her fossil fuel friends ARE THE PROBLEM with getting it done. If there is one thing I'd fault David on is his oversimplification of the plan. Yes there is a general plan but NO there is NOT a detailed plan and the "devil is in the details." Its very frustrating to be an engineer when other people oversimplify what needs to be done. Things like where's all the lithium coming from for the batteries? And then how are we going to make that many batteries? Who's going to build all these new factories? David doesn't have to answer those questions but engineers do. Sorry for he longish comment.
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  7102. You can almost ask that for EVERY other country on the planet. Its just that its more obvious in America. FYI - I'm Australian and we have scandal after scandal. We have the Murdoch media here - in fact it started here. I was in Canada a few years ago for work and they had a scandal over a juicy government contract that went to a company OWNED by the politician in charge of the department that issued the contract. The most bizarre thing for me this week was yesterday I watched the Al Jazeera live stream (here on YT). It just happened the presenter was an Australian and if she had not have said where each of the stories come from I would not have known if she was in Doha or Sydney. One story on French Train drivers striking over pay was IDENTICAL to a story recently here on train drivers striking over pay.
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  7103. Well done for one of the few comments being practical. Its a PROPOSAL that hasn't even been presented to Biden yet. It makes sense to have a range of plans at this stage. They're called OPTIONS. It hasn't even been presented to Biden so how can anyone claim that Biden is sending special forces anywhere when he hasn't even seen let alone reviewed the options. Hey Kyle - if you Krystal, Sagaar, Marshall and others are claiming to bring us all a better standard of public discussion then titling a video with A LIE, IS NOT an improvement.
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  7104. Everyone needs to go listen to one of Rick Reilly's book talks on Trump and Golf. Its explains an awful lot about his psychopathy. Trump cannot handle losing even for a moment, he exaggerates everything and he can't tell the truth about anything. He's like the 4 year old who will break every toy on the toybox just to prevent others playing. I'm not a psychologist but there is something obviously wrong with his brain. Here's one of those talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIiaFMOfbwY
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  7105. For starters be very careful taking CNN or any other main stream American media at its word. Second go and look at the data and the map of Russian gas reserves. 1) Russia has the largest gas reserves in the world and its by a significant margin. 2) Russia's main regions are the Urals and Far East (places like Sakhalin Island). Both of those regions have parts of the Russian gas network close to the Chinese Border. 3) Europe and America need to WTFU because Europe needs Russian gas not the other way around. If either Xi or Putin were smart they'd pump Russian gas into the Chinese power stations. Its relatively straight forward to switch from coal to gas and it would substantially reduce China's Carbon emissions. Both Xi and Vlad could wave the middle finger at Europe and America.
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  7106.  @The_ZeroLine  WTF are you trying to say? Read your comment back to yourself before posting in future. You'll avoid sounding like a bowl of spaghetti.
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  7107.  @steveallen648  Dude STOP WATCHING BULLSHlT HYPE CHANNELS and think you know stuff. The TU 95 did NOT use this type of technology and it was NEVER nuclear powered as you implied. The TU 95 used contra-rotating propellers which were nothing new. The British Martin Baker MB5 prototype had contra-rotating propellers back in 1944. Before that the famous Macchi MC-72 Schneider Cup plane used contra-rotating props and in 1934 it set a world speed record which still stands to this day. BUT the original patent for contra-rotating propellers is by F. W. Lanchester in 1907. So please don't waste people's time with nonsense.
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  7108. Absolutely correct answer. This is Kyle PROVING he can be just as SHlTH0USE as main stream media. Whether he tried to talk any common sense the thumbnail and title say it all. YES there is a possibility that the Russians could put various types of their missiles in Cuba, but this is part of a series of exercises they have done every few years going back decades. There's the YT Channel Sub Brief and Aaron just did a great video putting perspective on what ships and the sub the Russians have sent to Cuba. Larry Wilkerson on the YT channel Dialogue Works gave even more perspective as he knows this is just another exercise and that the Russians do on a regular basis in Cuban waters.
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  7109.  @TillsRojas7  If you actually paid attention to people who are NOT speaking crap its just an exercise/visit to Cuba by the Russians which they do regularly. But, if you listen to hysterical clowns then its a crisis. Your choice.
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  7110. HEY KYLE - EX-Swimmer here: If you didn't know Krystal was a varsity athlete in swimming. Look at her shoulders, I can spot it quite easily. Let me be VERY VERY simple you wont be sleeping on the couch you will be RECOVERING on the couch if you ever do something that stupid. Trust me dude I spent most of the first half of my life around swimmer girls and they don't take a step back for anything and especially not for a guy with an attitude. I'd bet there's other guys who'd say similar about girls form other sports.
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  7111. Haven't you worked it out yet? Trump cheats at everything he does? Here's some golf stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIiaFMOfbwY In Trumps brain the only way he can be beaten is if somebody cheats more than he does. Trump really does believe he was cheated in 2020 because that's his world view. Trump logic 101 "Everyone cheats but I'm the best cheat. So how can anybody beat me unless they stole it because I'm the best cheat." 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  7112.  @Jon-es-i6o  That's sad but not unexpected. I guess the question should have included doing similar to the GA-18. They are new airframes based on an old but updated design. What of they built new airframes (with some updates) to do other roles? The airframe is sound the aerodynamics are sound the behaviour of the plane is sound - take advantage of that. Its a similar argument to the current options of the American F15. Its a sound plane that works and can be adapted for other roles, which they are pursuing. Why not do the same with the Tornado?
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  7113.  @Jon-es-i6o  Yeah on KJ. It still grates me to this day that he was ignored after Challenger. Where might we have been now?????? On being able to touch an actual SR71 I don't know whether to applaud or hate. I feel like that guy in Life of Brian chained to the wall calling Brian a "Lucky Bastard"
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  7114. You're absolutely right on the details and costs. They are all available on places like Wikipedia. The French Government only paid $2 Billion Australian for each of their Barracuda's which are nuclear powered and should cost more than a Diesel/Electric. So how are ours going to cost almost 4 times as much. BUT WTF has Malcom Turnbull got to do with any of this? He's been out of politics for several years. The White paper this need for 12 subs was based on was before his time.
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  7115.  @whowhoMikeJones  Well shit dude you're not giving us a lot of confidence when you spell Col_U_mbia wrong. But then we know you're American and none of you can spell - except those kids in the spelling bee.
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  7116.  @carpediem44  Another great example is the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, which many other nations are now copying. Instead of letting their oil wealth go to government coffers and then letting it disappear they put it into this fund that's managed by a handful of people INDEPENDENT of the government. So its government owned but operates independently and its been insanely successful, which is why other countries are copying it. So there are examples of government owned institutions that have been incredibly profitable and successful as well as disasters. What we need to ask is why some things work and others don't and then do the things that work and NOT do the things that don't. The same applies for private industry.
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  7117.  @dominicfucinari1942  Thom Hartmann did a really good explanation of neoliberalism. Its an older video but its not lost on today. You are right it was created by Germans in the 1940s but it was weaponised by Milton Freidman and unleashed by Reagan & Thatcher. If you go and listen to Mark Blyth and his analogy to computers the neoliberal order should have died after 2008 and we should have moved on, but instead we bailed out the billionaire class and made it linger like a bad fart in an elevator.
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  7118.  @andrewfranklin4429  Just quit with the excuses. Elon and all his minions have been caught out by his PR and BS machine. You can make any claim you like about this nonsense and it can be ripped to shreds. Anyone who supports it is as stupid as the flat earth brigade. Stop listening to the PR and start thinking.
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  7119.  @andrewfranklin4429  Well for starters YOU DID NOT POST any link to any report. Your first comment to me talked about NFPA 130 and at the bottom you said "Source: Fire protection report" So WTF is anyone supposed to comment on. If clowns like you weren't so full of stupid BS and claims we could actually get on and start solving some of the REAL ISSUES we do have. In stead we have clowns like Elon (who as I have repeatedly explained does some great things) keeps hijacking public discussion with some of the most idiotic garbage. Elon's garbage is then followed by morons like yourself you just keep regurgitating the same ridiculous crap coming up with the same idiotic excuses for supporting it and then NEVER DEAL WITH THE REAL FACTS Have you ever done any work on underground ventilation systems? I have, for the Australian mining industry, but only on the fringe doing control systems for the fans. Here simple test to see if you know what your talking about or just regurgitating other people. Do the ventilation systems for underground tunnels blow or suck and more importantly WHY?
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  7120.  @lizzettorres1111  Thanks for a sensible question. 1st thing he said that snapped my attention was a remark that Sky "maybe" didn't have the connections to Fox. That's simply wrong. I don't why he said that but Sky News Australia is a cornerstone of Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp along with Sky News UK and Fox. 2nd he made the bulk of his vid about free speech. I know Kyle's a staunch advocate of free speech even for people he disagrees with. But the YouTube and Twitter bans that were just put on Sky News Australia and one of our sitting members of Parliament Graig Kelly were and issue of public safety. It really has nothing to do with free speech and everything to do with public safety. Due to other countries like America consuming massive amounts of vaccine, which I don't have a problem with because America's need have been greater than ours. I went to college at U. Illinois and if I add up the population of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin it adds to to almost the same number of people as Australia. Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin have over 48,000 dead we have just over 920. So its a no brainer America needed vaccines before we did. From that we have a quite low rate of vaccination, which was fine for many months, but right now we have Delta and its almost out of control. We are in a nation wide battle of whack-a-mole. For the first time in many months we are having people die again. We had 2 die on October 28. We had 3 during the 8+ months between November to mid July. We have had 15 deaths since mid July. Delta has busted our bubble and we don't have enough of our population vaccinated. This hit the news this morning - he was 27 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUNxzMad3ts So Kyle was very wrong when he framed the Youtube and Twitter bans as a free speech issue - its a public health issue.
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  7121.  @deliciousful  See the answer I just gave Lizzet Torres.
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  7122.  @lizzettorres1111  I get where both Sagaar and Kyle are coming from. Sagaar's a right winger and he's just playing a light (but dangerous for his credibility) game hoping no one see's - oops to that. Kyle's a staunch free speech advocate, he's just picked the wrong case to argue this time. As for the misinformation clowns down here the backlash is only just starting. If people lie and spread nonsense and people get hurt or die there wont be any sympathy for them. People are already wound up from 18 months of COVID. If these clowns make themselves targets then it wont go well.
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  7123.  @LadyPinkster  thanks for the thoughts but you guys are still in a lot of trouble. I've watched Dr. Michael Osterhom from CIDRAP ah U. Minnesota from the start and so far he's been more right than most others put together. He said from the outset we could expect 3-5 years for it to burn itself out. Sadly that's looking more accurate each day. His favorite saying is that "we aren't taming this tiger, we're riding it and it will do what it wants"
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  7124. Yeah to Kyle Saagar, Krystal and others STOP Claiming you're different to mainstream media when you keep behaving like the stupidest of mainstream media and even as bad as tabloid media.
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  7125. That's about the best ANYONE can hope for, because Trump has a lock on his base. Logic wont beat Trump when logic has NOTHING to do the fight that's happening.
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  7126. FIRST - I am in favor of nuclear energy. BUT ITS SHlTHOUSE how Shellenberger trots around the world supported by a mountain of nuclear energy money and never allows himself to be actually challenged on the SHlT he is selling. Like so many others he has been debunked as a cherry picking fraud so many times and YET clownish idiots claiming to be serious media types keep giving him oxygen. Why does he attack Greta Thundberg? Because he's paid to. That's how much of a low life SHlT he's become.
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  7127. I'm also Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and we had many discussions on the amendments. Mostly about 1st & 4th because they were topics then and rarely the 2nd because it wasn't a big deal then. Not like it is now. I now see the US Constitution as one of the great tragedies of human history. For all its brilliance (and it is brilliant), its open to abuse, which is what we see these days. I studied Orwell in high school and my friends always refuted Orwellian ideas with "It can't happen the constitution has too many inbuilt safety functions." So we never discussed the possibility of stacking SCOTUS with maniacs, because the Constitution had those safety functions. Nobody thought a person like Mitch McConnell would be so debased, unethical and immoral he'd override those safety functions to get what he wanted. By abuse I mean look at the 1st part of the 2nd Amendment which is so rarely heard. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State..." The actual purpose of the 2nd was to ensure the security (as in safety) of the population by a WELL REGULATED militia. So how does Greg Abbott's (the Texas Governor) allowing anyone to just to buy a handgun so long as they can prove they are over 18 come under the concept of "well regulated." What the US Gun Lobby has done is flip the simple concept of "lets have security" into "f**k off I want my guns and I don't care what chaos it causes." That's abuse.
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  7128. What does anyone expect from people who's central them is: "We demand the Liberty to strip other people of their Liberties." Fundamentalist ideologies NEVER WORK because they can NEVER adjust to ANYTHING they haven't considered. It doesn't matter if they are religious fundamentalists, military fundamentalists, economic fundamentalists or any other form of fundamentalist ideology. And the reason is very simple. They refuse to accept any of the things that cause them trouble even exist. Economic fundamentalists ALWAYS fail because they assume that the markets can solve any problem by SUPPLYING a solution but the concept that markets CANNOT supply a solution does NOT exist in their brains. I'm actually an engineer who's into energy economics at the moment. It started when I discovered how precarious the Australian (my country) situation is. You see to replace all our ageing power stations is an engineering task NOT an Economic task, but Libertarian Economists can't see that. AND SO WE ARE CLEAR - there is almost no Economists on the planet who are NOT Neoliberal Libertarians because they all do the same basic education program at university. They all study the same text books published by Harvard Press, Yale Press, Oxford Press, Cambridge Press,...... etc or their text books are written by professors at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge,...... etc or they are written by people who went to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge,...... etc. That's why Javier Milei has so many fans among Western Economists. They are all taught the same stuff and believe the same stuff. Its only a matter of how far up they have the volume knob and Milei has his wound up to 11.
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  7129. AND THERE'S TOO MANY PEOPLE PUSHING SCANDAL BOOK'S and THERE'S TOO MANY CLOWNS TALKING ABOUT THEM.
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  7130. Australian here with a message to the Clintons and their political dealings. You had your time and now it is OVER. Its now time to SHUT UP and get out of our lives. The World needs to move on from you and your generation. YOUR GENERATION failed us and lead us into a political morass COMBINED WITH the greatest transfer of wealth in human history COMBINED WITH a climate catastrophe we have been unable to make any headway in dealing with BECAUSE OF YOUR GENERATION'S stubbornness and greed. We can't afford to waste anymore time with you.
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  7131. What hostage's is he talking about? What Equipment worth $85 Billion was left behind? That's more than the current cost of 6 Ford Class Aircraft Carriers ($13B. ea. = $78B). And 74 million Americans voted for this idiot to stay as president! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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  7132. Actually the correct way to state this is: "This is the TRUE display of Trump Derangement Syndrome." This is what happens when mental illness goes untreated.
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  7133.  @SkyRaw04  HELL NO A 1,000 times HELL NO I will grant anyone among any crowd that among the Woke crowd there are some genuine lunatics, but BLM was about respecting human beings as equals and giving them equal opportunities while its plain that racial superiority clowns like you don't believe that. If you'd have said "Kinda like SOME of those freaks on the far Radical Left" then yeah a lot of people would agree, because some of them are nuts. BUT that's NOT what you said. What you said is RAClST CRAP.
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  7134. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ENEMY BUT THEY ARE CERTAINLY NOT ON OUR SIDE.
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  7135.  @bigblue6917  Its weird but its a narrative the right do everywhere. 3 years ago Scott Morrison just stood there in one debate repeatedly saying "Labor can't manage money." That was their campaign slogan. Unfortunately COVID spending made them look like a pack of chimps in a cheap 1970s spoof. The guy I am working my way through a lot of his vids after seeing him on this channel is Gary Stevenson. He has a really interesting slant on economics.
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  7136.  @SpeakerWiggin49  Yeah but Thunderf00t is actually an engineer abut only has 1M subscribers. These guys have 10.4M subscribers which means that at least 10.4M people are feeding their brains on this crap.
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  7137. That's because they already had leverage on Trump.
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  7138.  @serendipityshopnyc  News Flash - Carpet baggers don't work anywhere. Even when they get endorsed by a party it inevitably backfires because they have to push aside a local person for that endorsement. It happens all the time here in Australia and it backfires 9 out of 10 times. The problem is that across the entire Western World that mainstream parties are run by elitist groups who think they know what's best for EVERYONE ELSE. They either endorse puppets or morons they can manipulate while killing off anyone with actual ability or talent. Its a cancer on Western Democracy and why so many like Putin, the Ayatollahs, the Chinese and others laugh at us. The Dems should have recognised that someone like Yang who could get a following that he had ideas people wanted to hear. Instead of finding a way to stomp on that they should have got him into a position where he could use the skills he has and learn the skills he needed. Instead the Ivy League clow brigade threw him in the gutter. Its a huge problem around the world NOT JUST New York.
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  7139. ENGINEER HERE: EVs make a lot of sense if you want the human race to survive on this planet. We simply can't keep abusing it the way we have for the past 250 years, BUT WE NEED A BETTER PLAN. There's 1.5 Billion registered cars and 500 million trucks in the world. It took decades to build all of those as well as staggering amounts of ENERGY to dig the raw materials out of the ground, process them into raw feed stock and then process that feed stock into the things we all take for granted. Its not just the Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt and other less common metals its also the steel, copper and aluminium needed for making the cars and upgrading the power grids. We are about to start paying the price for having let a very small number of people have way too much say in how our nations function.
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  7140. HEY SAL a NEWS FLASH: People with functioning braincells have worked out that its easier to feed people when they aren't having 500lb, 1,000lb and 2,000lb bombs dropped on them. SECONDLY: Why did anyone think that this would work when there is a deep water port capable of ships up to 30,000tons at Arish 50km South-West along the coast? YES - it only took me a few minutes to look at Google Earth to find Arish and then check it out on Wikipedia and find that it not only has a deep water port but also an international grade airport. Since it can at least handle an Airbus A330 it should be able to handle most medium lift cargo jets.
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  7141. HEY RYAN: If you can look it up back in 2012 (I think) Jon Stewart interviewed king Abdullah of Jordan on the Daily Show. It was during one of the negotiation attempts. It was simply an amazing interview for JS to get and its worth ANYONE's time to look up. I can't do it easily because I'm in Australia. During that interview Abdullah said (words to the effect) that if they didn't solve the Israeli-Palestinian issue at that time then it would be ANOTHER generation before we'd get another chance because you'd need new generations ON both sides to say they'd had enough. BUT TO YOUR POINT about the other Middle East regimes needing the Israeli-Palestinian to stay - Abdullah basically said that but in a slightly different context. Abdullah put it in terms of dealing with Al Qaeda. Because the Israeli-Palestinian issue was an international issue it could be used as a soap box by all the little antagonists. That enabled the Middle East Regimes to simply claim that their own internal issues were in fact international issues and as such they needed American Aid helping deal with them. Abdullah said that if you solve the Israeli-Palestinian issue then you take away all those soap boxes that people preach from. In doing that you force all the Middle Eastern regimes to deal with their own people and their issues instead of calling in the Americans because it was part of the War on Terror. Abdullah didn't explicitly say we'd be in the place we are now but he implied we'd be in a bad place one day. So your assessment isn't just right. Its spot on and lines up with what the King of Jordan said over a decade ago.
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  7142.  @cheerdiver  Let me try and answer this bit by bit. If you have gas under pressure in a tank or pipe inside the tank its at 100% concentration. As it leaves the tank/pipe its still at 100% but at some point starts to mix with the air. At that point the concentration starts to drop from 100% and the more it mixes the lower the gas concentration gets. At some point it will drop below UEL and keep dropping as it disperses and mixes with more air. Eventually it disperses enough to be below LEL. Its one of the things you have to consider when doing EEHA (Electrical Equipment for Hazardous Areas) along with ventilation. A well ventilated area disperses quicker. Storage sheds gas bottles and poor ventilation can be rather dangerous. On the inductance and Capacitance of cables you need to go back to very basic high school science. A capacitor is 2 metal plates separated by an insulator. You can make a capacitor out of 2 sheets of tinfoil with cling wrap between them. A cable with 2 conductors isn't a very good capacitor but it does have capacitance. If you have a DC circuit that goes up 1 wire and back the other then you have 2 bits of metal with opposite charge separated by an insulator. Its similar for twisted cables. One reason why a lot of signal cables are what we call twisted pair or pairs is that the inductance caused by the twist is great for dampening out transient noise - so its almost like a natural filter. BUT for EEHA that inductance from the twist is also a potential spark generator. Remember in cars the spark in the engine is caused by putting a 12volt input into either an inductor or capacitor and then very rapidly opening and shorting that circuit. In older cars that was what the points in a distributor did. These days its with fast switching transistors. On auto ignition the places we see that most in EEHA is with dust. It has a nasty habit of collecting on things like the cooling fins of electric motors. Eventually if it gets enough it prevents the motor cooling and hot spots can form. The problem with dust is that it usually starts as a small puff. That puff then throws more dust up that can then ignite which then throws even more dust up. There's a great OSHA video on dust explosions, but note some of its case studies are quite tragic. AS TO YOUR Questioning my qualifications, you are about 1 smart remark from being told to FK-off. I worked my ass off to get my qualifications and have had years of abuse from unqualified clowns with stupidity as their only qualification. Of particular irk are the OH&S clowns who will scream about oil on the floor or a trip Hazard and then OVERRULE or DISMISS Engineering concerns to management. The same sort of clowns that tell qualified engineers at places like Boeing to install a cheaper system to help with sales and then DON'T test it properly. Before any smartass comments back about Boeing. One of my college mates is a senior instructor at a major American Airline and was assigned the task of overseeing the review of the Max-8. He couldn't give me details but what he spoke about with culture was disgraceful and terrifying. Boeing one of the greatest engineering companies in history brought to its knees by clowns. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  7143.  @bobcornwell403  I know its months later but just recently a team from Princeton released a major report on what it will take to reach carbon neutral. Note what the first of their 6 pillars is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REDKd3wT220 How does it feel to be as smart as a team from Princeton? A while back Mark Blyth from Brown mentioned a report that came across his desk that had some extraordinary numbers about the savings that could be made by just making American buildings more energy efficient through triple glazed windows. The amount of energy that wasted is staggering and its a reasonably easy fix with better insulation like triple glazing. It would employ 1000s take years to do and the money savings from reduced energy pays for it. 🤷‍♀🤷‍♀🤷‍♀
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  7144. HEY THUNDERFOOT MADE A MISTAKE. I work in Industrial control systems, automation and robotics. Those 2 robots you show at 37:30 have been available for AT LEAST 25 YEARS NOT 15. The company I left in 2001 was the (then) Kuka and Adept agent in Australia and we knew what our competitors could do. The robot on the left of your shot is a standard 6 axis anthropomorphic arm and those have been around for decades. The robot on the right is a 4-axis "Spider Robot" (just put "4-axis spider robot into google"). I know that BEFORE the year 2000 ABB had one of those available. The thing that you are NOT highlighting in that part of the video is that the spider robot is locating the items its picking off the conveyor using vision guided robotics. Notice how all those parts are randomly arranged and the spider is arranging them in organised groups so the other robot can place them on the next conveyor. There is a camera upstream of the robot looking down on the conveyor which has an encoder on it. The vision system identifies the location and orientation of each part and with the encoder on the conveyor translates that to the Spider which can then pick it up and orientate it and put it back down in the right place so the other robot can pick up the groups of 4 parts. I know how that stuff works because I had that technology demonstrated to me by an Adept Engineer when I visited their Cincinnati Office in 1998 or 99. They weren't using a Spider robot at that time. They were using a small high speed SCARA robot. So I know for a fact that technology has been available for AT LEAST 25 YEARS. So SORRY Thunderboy but your 15 years is wrong its at least 25. Fyi - I actually did aerospace and if you would like I'd be happy to show you how truly stupid they are being with the Artemis program. Its worse than most people realise. The closest I have seen anyone expose the real depth of the issue is Destin (another Aerospace) who has the YT channel "Smarter Every Day." For anyone interested put "smarter every day artemis" into the YT search and the top item should be titled "I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293" posted 4 Dec 2023.
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  7145.  @loganmedia1142  Fair call, but I was being sarcastic and how many times in our lives do we get to be sarcastic at the expense of a lawyer who doesn't work for Rupert Murdoch?
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  7146. Australian here with an outside view. Yes the Trump Team of Chaos Merchants are a problem and the corruption we expect to see has no limit to the damage it will cause across the World. HOWEVER the American Left have utterly failed to ONE prevent this from happening and TWO accept any responsibility for what has happened. Anyone can see the panel of Democrat campaign staffers on Pod Save America just blow each other and accept NOTHING. In early 2019 Australian Labor Lost a similar election with a similar strategy. Later in 2019 British Labor with an almost identical strategy lost an also similar election to the clownish Boris Johnson. That strategy which was the same as Hilary Clinton's LOSING Strategy was: 1) Our policies are so great that EVERYONE will just vote for them. 2) The other candidate is so bad that NOBODY will vote for them. When I asked a Brit WTF was going on and why did BOTH British Labor and Australian Labor follow the same strategies as Hilary Clinton in 2016. That Brit told me that campaign staffers from the Clinton Campaign had advised BOTH British Labor and Australian Labor. The yesterday I watched these people YET AGAIN deny any responsibility. A few days ago I watched Destiny debate Cenk on the David Pakman show and Destiny CONFIRMED his belief the strategy of telling the progressives to get lost was RIGHT and THAT WAS AFTER LOSING. When will people learn that these Democrats ARE the REASON why Trump is back in power.
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  7147. CAN YOU AND EVERY OTHER CLOWNS GET YOUR DAM FACTS RIGHT FIRST - Brisbane did NOT win the Olympics bid the rest of the prospective cities WITHDREW and Brisbane won be default. All the others looked at the costs and RAN. SECOND - This project has NOTHING to do with the Olympics and promoting it as part of the Olympics is just a LIE. THIRD this is yet another example of where cities with old ageing infrastructure are finally having to deal with reality. FYI - I am an engineer and that story is being repeated across the entire developed world. Nothing lasts forever and eventually needs replacing. Like many other cities around the world Brisbane has grown and grown with some very poor planning and like other places its going to cost $$BILLIONS and in some cases $$TRILLIONS TO FIX. (edit) Other than my gripes about how you promoted this its a dam good presentation. Things like that digital twin are what making being an engineer worthwhile with all the other crap we have to deal with. One additional thing be very careful about economic models. I have been looking into economics and those clowns really are the "emperor running about naked saying look at my wonderful clothes!"
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  7148.  @thraxbottom549  That's actually right. There's plenty of people who have looked into it and its a horrible place for humans. Other than the lack of breathable air its incredibly cold and the radiation levels are lethal.
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  7149. ​ @rebeccaholcombe9043  Your right there's been psychologists who have said that its almost as if a belief in the divine is hard wired into the human brain. Other than those rare few I think there is a compulsion of sorts for people to want leadership and its easy for people to lose grasp of what a leader is and what an illusion of a leader is. How else do you explain how people follow after obvious charlatans? There's a great line by one of John Cleese's characters in the film "Life of Brian" They follow him into the desert and everything he does they proclaim as a miracle and declare him the Messiah while Brian keeps saying he isn't the Messiah. At one point Cleese's character proclaims "I say he is the Messiah and I should know I've followed a few!" I think that sums up most of humanity pretty well.
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  7150.  @choccolocco  Hey DlCKHEAD I didn't say they don't make money. I was pointing out that there are claims being made with NO FACTS to back them up and that people were confusing the fact that a few people making lots of money has no relation to others. Even when they are in the same industry. TRY READING IN FUTURE M0R0N
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  7151.  @davemarchildon2583  That's a better way to describe it.
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  7152. There was a documentary done by a British journalist over 10 years ago in response to issues with lethal injections. It went on the premise "If we are going to execute people is there a simple painless way just to switch people off?" What was disturbing in that documentary wasn't that they found a way to switch a person off but the attitude of the doctor in charge of American executions. The method they found was Carbon Dioxide which is used in some parts of the meat industry. There's been incidents like the the 1986 Lake Nyos incident where a wave of carbon dioxide simply killed over 1,700 people in seconds. There have also been numerous industrial accidents where people have gone into pits or chambers that had excessive amounts of CO2 and they just drop dead. Its why many industries take confined space work so seriously. CO2 can switch a person off in seconds. About all they experience is a moment of light headed euphoria before losing consciousness. I have since heard claims that is not always true and people can have distress before losing consciousness. What was disturbing in that documentary was when they presented the idea of using CO2 to replace lethal injection to the American doctor he replied (as best I can remember) "Its a punishment. Its not meant to be pleasant!"
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  7153.  @ros6860  You're right a lot of people forget Trump blasted past 16 Republicans including Jeb "the chosen one" Bush. As for Republicans keen to see Bernie run against Trump I don't think you're right. Steve Bannon has said many times that Bernie would have beaten Trump, but that could also have been slap at Hilary. He said Clinton was easy as she made herself an easy target for the way Trump campaigned. Rick Wilson (who ran 100s of GOP campaigns) made the claim that Bernie would have been easy to beat because he was the perfect candidate to use the typical "he's a socialist and wants to take all your stuff" toxic scare campaign. The other thing to consider is that Trump had ripped their party away from them. People like Rick Wilson got sent packing. So what is their game now. Is it to beat the Dems or get rid of Trump so they can have their party back. So its NOT clear what the republicans would have done against Bernie. Traditional GOP would have slammed him, but they weren't part of Trump's team. I don't think Trump would have dealt with Bernie as easily as he did with Hilary. Trump had been around her a lot and could predict what she would do. Bernie not so much. We'll never know.
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  7154.  @JP-xg6bv  I think your right in that America at this moment has the craziest of the crazies in politics. The point I try to push is that everyone else has crazies too. Maybe they're not as crazy or there's fewer of them but we all have them. Right now I get a staggering number of adds for the Clive Palmer funded "United Australia Party." These people aren't as crazy as Trump and the Trumpsters but they are trying.
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  7155.  @jamiepaulzine4648  Yeah Russia get was funny one, because there certainly was Russian interference but nobody has ever really been able to PROVE what they were really doing. But there was an alternative interpretation that I have not seen any American show talk about. What if Comey had kept quiet on the emails and then Hilary had won? Just imagine the chaos that would have followed when the GOP found out. This concept was put forward by a Russian born American journalist/analyst Masha Gessen to the Australian program Planet America. When asked "Was Putin trying to get Trump elected?" The answer was an emphatic and blunt NO. The explanation was that Putin isn't a deep thinking political strategist he's an ex-KGB officer who deals in certainties and believes all elections are predetermined. He would have believed Hilary Clinton would win irrespective of anything else going on, because that's how elections work in Putin's Russia. Further Clinton herself as Sec. State was personally involved with slapping Russia and Putin with sanctions. So if you're Putin and the American you hate is about to be the next POTUS then what can you do? Like all KGB guys Putin favors chaos inside other countries. Look at the mess he got out of Brexit that cracked the EU and NATO. All they really did was the KGB version of divide and conquer. Use propaganda to cause chaos. Plus Putin had already seen the chaos that Wikileaks caused. So you wait until after the election and then start leaking information. Trump and the GOP would have gone off their collective rockers howling and screaming about how the Head of the FBI cheated Trump. Its totally plausible that Putin was NEVER trying to get Trump elected BUT WAS trying to setup Clinton. But this never got discussed in America because MSNBC, CNN and others were to busy screaming Russiagate!
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  7156.  @jtg1465  You can't say he WOULD have won, but its far more likely he would have won. I was listening to an older Mark Blyth vid yesterday to see what he had said and what had happened since. He related a story that on the night at the time Hilary was up by 10points in the count. His wife asked why he looked and if he still thought Trump would win. He answered YES because he knew the demographics and how the votes were being counted. The horrible reality is what happened and unfortunately we don't have Dr. Who's Tardis to go fix it. The real question is 2022 and how bad will the Dems do? After that will the GOP make Trump the first unelected Speaker as they are threatening.
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  7157.  @Wasted_Talent007  Nice description of what happened. The question remains if they will ever learn from it. I saw the Jeff Daniels America isn't the Greatest the other day. What do you think about what he said the the lefty about being so smart and yet losing all the time?
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  7158.  @SuperCucko  You claim the football analogy is whatever you like BUT THE FACT IS THAT'S HOW ITS SCORED AND THE FACT is Hilary LOST just like Trump lost they did not secure enough electoral college votes to win. You Hilary and Trump can whine and cry and howl all you like BUT THOSE ARE THE RULES.
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  7159.  @Myrrhkuri  Do you understand how American football is played? IF NOT then you probably don't understand the analogy. Its NOT about technicality its about how the game is scored according to the rules. Hilary did not lose on a technicality. Trump won because that is how the US presidential election is SCORED. You can say whatever you lie about it being fair or not or antiquated or not, but that is how the system works and those are the rules. Both Trump and Hilary are sore losers. They played the game. The rules are what the rules are. The counting is what the counting is. Hilary Lost in 2016 and Trump lost in 2020.
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  7160. @Darth.Augustus EXACTLY - go have an actual look at where the Spratly's are on a map. They are no where near China but they make blocking the South China Sea a real possibility.
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  7161.  @mikeryan2802  Thumbs up
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  7162.  @brianniegemann4788  What trade are you talking about? We trade with SOUTH Korea for raw materials to them and finished goods back. As far as I know we DO NOT trade much at all with North Korea. There was a case a few years ago when a North Korean cargo ship was caught dropping boxes of drugs in our waters for our criminal gangs. We are one of the very nations anywhere with a North Korean embassy. I only know about that because it came up when the drug ship was caught. As far as I know that's about it.
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  7163.  @brianniegemann4788  No prob - easy mistake.
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  7164.  @davidbrown8536  Yeah - so what part is confusing to you?
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  7165. ​ @TorontoSaurusEx  I agree on parts of that. Russia is one of the super rich nations in terms of resources, but you have to look at which resources they have and don't have. Australia is far richer in iron ore and Uranium but Russia is richer in Nickel, Titanium and other things while Chile is the richest in Copper and also has huge amounts of Lithium. The Cheaper energy is dependent on if you can either sell it or use it. I think the mega untapped opportunity is Russia linking its main gas reserves into China. As an engineer I know that every coal fired power station the Chinese have can be switched to Russian Gas. That would be massive for the world because it would dramatically reduce global emissions and it COULD rescue Russia from financial collapse and lower those tensions As far as "poking the bear" I'll agree that the Americans need to stop aggravating people like they do. Everyone who understands what happened knows it was the Americans who blew up Nordstream, but then the Chinese and Russians also do stupid stuff. On AUKUS I'll simply tell you to WAKE UP. The simple fact is that Western technology OVERALL is more advanced that anything the Russians, Chinese and North Koreans have. If it really broke out in the South China Sea MOST of the Chinese Navy would be gone within 48-72 hours. The American Submarines are simply that much better than anything the Chinese have and the Russians (who do have excellent subs) just don't have enough. North Korea is a joke. It has lots of soldiers, lots of guns, lots of cannons but so little food that they can barely feed their people. On the world front the Israelis scare me more than everyone else combined. They are lead by a maniac who started a war so he could avoid facing court and going to jail. The Egyptians and others warned them that Hamas was ready to do something and they either didn't listen or just let it happen. Either way that maniac got his war and now wants to spread it. That's way worse than anything else because the chances it could erupt are so much higher.
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  7166. ​ @RealEngineering  AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Aside form the mishap with 200 versus 2,000 there's a glaring issue with this proposal that makes this look like one of those "what if we tired this" projects where they started with a what if and then started brainstorming ideas without fact checking what they said. 1) YOU CAN'T USE Carbon fibre composites in Space because the radiation breaks down the resin matrices used. So unless they can come up with a new technology its a NO on that front. BUT THEN if they were putting it forward with a list of - here's the new technologies we'd need then I'd strongly recommend they keep funding it because such projects tend to produce things that other projects then use. 2) Robot construction on the moon is TO DATE a myth. 1st its never been done and 2nd nobody has yet worked out the maintenance issues. A couple of years ago I was sent the complete set of publications from a NASA conference on Lunar projects. It was about 200 pages and had all of 1-1/2 pages on maintenance with the claim it would all be done by robots. I have actually worked for most of the last 20 years in Australia's remote mining industry. I went there after meeting Apollo 17s Harrison Schmitt in 2002 and he directed me to look into Helium-3. yeah I know Helium-3 is and isn't a thing but what I got was a hell of a lot of experience in building and maintaining mine sites in remote harsh environments. I CAN STATE 100% that NASA has not go their heads around the maintenance issues. People forget they (in general) don't maintain their systems except for software. They launch them and they work until they don't. Do I think this is a project to keep funding? YES Do I think getting 200 instead of 2,000 is the end of the world? NO And YES I know your also an engineer. I remember your video on respirators which was arguably one of the BEST EVER technical information videos in the history of all media. It was timely, it was important considering all the clowns who were doing dumb stuff at the time and MOST IMPORTANTLY it was accurate. On behalf of the engineering profession KEEP DOING what you do and don't worry about the inconsequential mistakes - we all make them.
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  7167.  @sereanaduwai8313  Check the other reply it wasn't Liberia. It was over 10 years ago I had that conversation. It was certainly West Africa and it was the French.
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  7168.  @uchenna127  Go see the other comments I got the country wrong. It was over 10 years ago I had that conversation. But it was a West African country and it was the French who left maniacs in charge. My mistake was thinking it was the same country Charles Taylor was in charge of.
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  7169.  @allenbrown3974  Pleas seek medical help for whatever TF is wrong with you.
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  7170. Aerospace Engineer here - this is easily the BEST VIDEO I have seen on the Space Shuttle in a very long time and easily one of the best videos I have ever seen on the Space Shuttle because without being verbose, over-hyped or over-geeky. Its simply explains some of the complexities used to make it work like with the way they controlled the thrust of the boosters. What I particularly like is that for some time I have been trying to tell people that the Space Shuttle was BOTH an amazing technical achievement and tragic failure. Its so easy to simply say the shuttle failed because of the 2 disasters. Yes that is true but in some ways that wasn't its biggest failure. Without ignoring or being callous to the loss of life in those disasters and that was to me and my classmates very personal. Being objective the Space Shuttles bigger failure was it stifled development of many other technologies because it consumed so much money and required so many more people that first planned to keep it working. Just so you all know. I did my degree in the late 80s Graduating in early 88. On 12 January 1986 I was in Orlando Florida with my swimming team for a training camp. A few of us stood on our motels balcony and watched the Space Shuttle Columbia take off. Despite being about 60 miles away it was still incredibly impressive to watch. Even though it must have been 100s of miles down range we could still see the trails of the boosters after they detached and even minutes later still clearly see the glow of the main engines. 16 days later my classmates, professors and I all had our futures broken when Challenger happened. It especially hit one of my aerodynamics professors as he lost a good friend in that disaster. But what happened to us paled in comparison to those directly involved at NASA and that all paled in comparison to the families involved in Challenger or Columbia (16 January 2003). So, please, don't anyone think for an instant I am ignoring that disasters. However being objective the worst outcome of the shuttle years was the denial of money and personnel to other programs. One of the main reasons we have not been back to the Moon and set up a permanent outpost is because there's literally 100s of technologies yet to be developed to a point where they can be deployed. Chief among those are life support, but there's also power and logistics. Human beings need oxygen, water and food and a means to re-process waste back into more oxygen, water and food. We actually live on a solar powered self sustaining human life support system called Mother Earth. We haven't yet (despite some amazing efforts) been able to replicate that or even just enough of it to make any permanent off-world base viable. So the Space Shuttle was as this video shows an amazing technological achievement but also a tragic failure.
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  7171. TO ALL -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  7172. Your opening question is actually a really valid question and one not likely to be asked too soon on Qanda. I'm Australian but went to college in America so I have slightly more nuanced take on the whole American thing than most Australians having lived there. There is no doubt that Australia's alliance with America has brought many significant benefits, BUT it has also meant acting at times like a 51st state. There was a really interesting moment about a year into Trumps presidency when DFAT had to accept 2 facts. 1) Australia could not simply us the standard foreign policy of "What does America want now?" which had been in place for almost 50 years because Trump was all over the place. 2) DFAT had no experience and nobody with any experience in writing foreign policy without American involvement because it hadn't bee done for over 50 years. So at the Diplomatic level Australia, thanks (🤷‍♀🤷‍♂) to Donald Trump, has gained some separation and independence from the US State Department. The problem is that Biden (and the people yanking his strings) want all that control back under their control.
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  7173. On the demonization of other countries for the sake of globalization, I think you have that a little flipped around. I don't think they are demonising countries FOR globalization but to deconstruct globalization. America (again thanks to Trump 🤷‍♀🤷‍♂) is trying to de-globalize and that's the one policy of Trumps that Biden is running with. In fact it possible to claim, if you consider the computer chips, that Biden is even more hawkish than Trump on that subject. On China there 's a couple of interesting things that are starting to come out. Peter Zeihan talks about their demographics and its a disaster that's slowly eating the Chinese economic model. The 1 child policy was way more successful than anyone realised and it was kept in place for way to long. Those factories full of cheap labor have a problem. As the older workers retire there's not enough younger people to replace them. Its created a labor shortage and that's caused wages to rise making China less competitive. If you then add in what Biden has done on the microchip front and Chinese industry has a problem. Its really quite simple after exporting jobs fore several decades America wants those jobs back in America. Because of Trump's hawkishness that's being pursued aggressively. AND it includes dragging jobs out of Europe. Sure the yanks will still buy 1,000s of Audis, BMers, Mercs and Porsches. They'll just be made & assembled in Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Texas,... There'll still be some bits made in Europe but most of it will be in America. Never forget in America nothing wins elections more effectively than jobs.
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  7174.  @ThisIsWhy7  It one of the better pieces that I have seen on this subject BUT YOU FAILED to mention that America is also NOT a signatory to the ICC. George Bush did that when he signed the American Service-Members' Protection Act into reality in 2002. That was specifically done to protect America personnel from prosecution in Iraq and Afghanistan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court#Opposition_to_the_Court
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  7175. Hey there's this guy I heard about down in some place called _"something largooooo." Apparently he's got lotsa cash and a spare rooms now that some boxes have been moved out of the way. Rudy should check him out!
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  7176. This is NOT a news story, this is a promo.
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  7177. Kudlow & Laffer - Is it an IDIOT interviewing a MORON or a MORON interviewing an IDOIT?
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  7178. AUSTRALIAN HERE: If this was overdubbed with an Australian accent I would NOT be able to tell the difference. Even with the British accent I am struggling to understand if he his talking about Britain or Australia. I'm actually an engineer who's been looking into Economics because of the interference I have seen in the engineering space and the training of skilled tradesmen from economists. AND YES I watch Gary Stevenson's channel here on YT as part of that. Gary has recently confirmed something I worked out and something economists like Steve Keen have been trying to explain. There's 2 major issues with Economics education. 1) It is very narrowly focused on market economics and includes NOTHING regarding any understanding of things like infrastructure or energy systems. Everything is taught from a market perspective rather than a functional perspective. This is why Thames Water has the current issues it has and those issues are being repeated across the entire Western Democratic world and not just in water but also energy, infrastructure, rail and worst of all education. 2) It is uniform across all of the tertiary education systems. All of the text books are printed by Harvard Press, Oxford Press, Cambridge Press,... etc OR they are written by people who studied at or teach at Harvard Press, Oxford Press, Cambridge Press,... etc. The problem at the political level is that EVERY politician in the Western World NO MATTER if they are Left, Right or Center all studied the same economics at university or they have advisors who studied the same economics at university. This is why no matter who wins political power the overall economics doesn't change or only changes very little AND WHY there's no real solutions in sight.
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  7179. @Nick-b7b9s Sorry they can buy the book.
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  7180.  @emceeboogieboots1608  Then they should know better than to spruike maybes as if they were fact. There are plenty of people in the fusion are NOT making grand announcements because they know how sceptical people have become and they know there are enough engineers out there to ask questions.
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  7181. Don't get me wrong I'd love to see nuclear fusion working and the rest of us building power stations as fast as we can. Its just that I know enough to take these claims with a handful of salt and a bucket of scepticism.
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  7182.  @williambaikie5739  Yeah they have the neutron to an extent. its not the ones they catch I worry about its the ones they don't. And its good to see I am not alone in realising that its not as clean as they claim. But I also know that contaminated parts can be dealt with but that also has to be costed in. if you go look at the clean up of the Sellafield processing site in Britain they started with an insane budget that just kept growing until it got so high they stopped publishing information. its the one thing I find annoying in the cost analysis for nuclear power is they down play the financial costs AND I AM PRO-NUCLEAR. If you do an honest analysis its all but impossible to meet the worlds needs with renewables so we need a low emission base load system. If you run through the options you get back to nuclear most of the time. Not all but most. Lying about or hiding the overall costs is NOT gong to endear the general population who already have next to zero trust in the energy sector. The same goes for the solar people who totally ignore the issues over what happens to damaged or degraded cells. Nobody has a recycling system yet, which has to happen but they are all hoping someone else does it for them. The same goes for the wind people and some of their issues. they are all hoping someone else will solve the problems.
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  7183.  @bpoladsky  Go and get a new brain the one you have is malfunctioning. Alex Epstein is nothing but a narcissistic LIAR. He's not a scientist or engineer. He's just another funded by the fossil fuel industry TO DELAY any actions on climate by keeping the debate going round and round in circles. He lists Ayn Rand and Thomas Sowell as influences and they're sociopaths. He worked at the Ayn Rand Institute. As an academic Sowell is a pathetic hypocrite who criticised the scientific community for earning a living as he promoted his latest book. He's praised by few and disregarded by many as a sad pathetic joke. As for Ayn Rand she's a nightmare that promoted being a narcissistic psychopath as a positive thing. She was a maniac and her followers are similar maniacs.
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  7184.  @TimothyCHenderson  Here's a philosophical question for Americans. Do you know why Jesus wasn't born in America? God couldn't find 3 wise men or a virgin.
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  7185.  @joefish4466  On the personal slander stakes GO F⋃CKYOUR SELF. I have actually written self tuning software for control algorithms and was first doing that work in the early 1990s. It was nothing worth the hype and plenty of other engineers did a lot more than I ever did. I was mostly on the final application side of getting stuff to work. There were 1,000s of engineers doing incredible work back in the 80s and 90s and its all been pushed aside for this overrated over-hyped garbage. I actually went to college at U. of Illinois where people like the founders of YouTube, Oracle & Tesla went. It was where Marc Andreessen the guy who helped create the first practical web browser went. I have known all about the IT brigade and their nonsense and vacant promises for a couple of decades. We were used as lab rats for the first (of what were then called) Expert Systems (and you know as AI) that the IT people back then claimed was going to design aircraft and all sorts of stuff. We knew almost straight way they were full of SHlT and would always be full of SHlT. But try telling a hype-merchant that they are selling hype.
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  7186. ​ @oa5779  That's a great comment with great information and I wished more people would explain things like that. If you think about how people cost things. I'm an engineer and as part of projects we build costing models based around quantities, costs and options. Usually done in a spread sheet and we can quickly answer things about project changes. What your pointing out is something similar but in another environment where you have a pile of data and its needs to be fed to a model that calculates an answer. I know about enterprise software in the engineering space and sadly its been often over-hyped and badly deployed by people who didn't know what they were doing. I once saw a major mining company spend $600M deploying SAP and not do it well. About 7 years later I was on another mine site for the same company and using the SAP system was hopeless. So I expect it will be like any other software or calculation tool. If its DONE RIGHT it will be great and the companies who get it right will do well, but if its done wrong then the companies that get it wrong will fail and fail disastrously.
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  7187. The difference between Gilligan's Island and the Trump White House is that only one was meant to be a joke.
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  7188. That is a brilliant way to put it. I actually copied your comment and pasted in another giving you full credit co buddy you deserve it.
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  7189.  @gorey4more837  FYI - I do own a gun. I have been in gun clubs and competed in both small bore and full bore rifle competition. When I was in America at college a bunch of my frat brothers hunted and they were incredibly conscious of being gun responsible. All their guns had safety locks on the triggers and all the ammunition was in locked boxes. A couple were ROTC and they were the leaders of gun safety in our frat and they had absolutely no tolerance for clowns. They were more strict about gun safety than any others I have known.
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  7190.  @gorey4more837  One thing I find most interesting in the US gun debate is the history of the NRA. The US NRA wasn't the first NRA it was Britain that after WW1 decided that it needed a way to train its entire male population basic rifle skills so that if war happened again the entire male population would be ready. Most of the British empire followed including Australia. Ours eventually changed its name and became a sports association as did many others. The US NRA used to be the main sports association for shooting events and held national championships, selected US representatives for the Olympics and other events, BUT most of all promoted gun safety and GUN CONTROL LAWS. It was for many years the main block to what the gun industry wanted which was to be able to sell more guns. In the early 70s the pro-gun lobby got tired of the NRA and instead of trying to get past it simply took it over and flipped its entire reason to exist on its head becoming the vile disaster that it now is. The other truly odd thing about the 2nd Amendment is that it doesn't actually guarantee individual gun ownership. I do know that among some of the founding fathers it did mean individual gun ownership but to most it wasn't about individual it was about the security of local communities. Look at the opening phrase "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the SECURITY of a free State,...." How often does the NRA mention that part? And how often do they ever discuss what a "well regulated militia" is? Do you know that the 2nd A. is actually the 1st statute by ANY nation in history that states that the Government shall not use the military to police the population but will use a separate dedicated "militia"? Its actually one of the most profound legislative actions in the development of modern society. The reason Australia and the rest of the western world actually has police forces is because America led the way. Otherwise we would still be like it was in the Roman empire. The tragedy is that one of the greatest achievements in the development of human society has been hijacked by an incredibly selfish minority. An American who I befriended in Australia had an epiphany after living here and went back and checked what it was all about. We had some really good chats about it when he re-visited Australia.
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  7191.  @gorey4more837  As I keep pointing out, the Bill of Rights is one of the greatest achievements in human history: It protects the right to speak out. It guarantees the population has a say in their security. The government can't simply take or use your property. The government can't simply come into your home. If the government accuses you of anything its must do so fairly, adjudicate fairly and if called for punish fairly. The fact its been hijacked and twisted is barely recognizable is one of the greatest tragedies in human history. The saddest part of that is the people screaming the loudest as its "so called protectors" are right now its worst enemies. How can you be protecting the constitution when you are busy tearing apart the capitol building and preventing the legal and lawful operation of the constitution by the legally elected members of the government? “Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” ― Rod Sterling in his introduction to the Twilight episode “The Obsolete Man” 1961.
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  7192.  @gorey4more837  You're spot on politics is about point scoring at all cost. Imagine what basketball would turn into if the only way to score was by dunking and you allowed NFL tackling and NASCAR to be involved. Go watch the original Rollerball and you'll find out. Its actually one of the most misunderstood and underrated dystopian films ever made. Under the main story is "what happens when capitalism is taken to its most extreme." If you watch it there's a zoom meeting where John Houseman (edit: I originally had John Houston) says "the game was created to demonstrate the futility of individual effort." Its not shown in the trailer but you hear it said 2:15 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtkvGfJbmQA At least watch the trailer the 1st minute monologue is almost prophetic about our time when he talks about "corporate society." It sounds crazy but look at how much influence Murdoch, Bezos and others have via their media ownership. Did you know that Uber just wrote the new labor law in California? On Murdoch he was born in Australia (sadly we can't deny that). He inherited the family business which was in publishing and quickly learned that trash sells better than fact. He moved the Britain where among other things he started the SKY network. SKY-News Australia is his version that exists here. So its not like simply like FOX, it is FOX-Australia. We are currently having a media inquiry (like a US Senate hearing) into media ownership and the ideologies that get promoted. Murdoch has mastered selling opinion as fact and we have numerous current and ex-politicians who are sick of it. the main protagonist in that is Kevin Rudd who was our Prime Minister at one stage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Rudd#Petition_for_a_Royal_Commission_to_ensure_a_strong,_diverse_Australian_news_media
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  7193.  Beverley Ibrahim  Yeah the issue nobody in the Western World wants to really discuss - the millions of religious fanatics with guns IN AMERICA. We are always hearing about the risks of letting fanatics have access to nuclear weapons. Here's a not so fun question. Which country has nukes AND has used them against another country AND has at least 74million delusional religious fanatics who not only voted for a radical clown but also HAVE guns AND have people on television advocating genocide?
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  7194. I don't know why David is complaining I have seen him do EXACTLYT THE SAME THING HERE ON HIS CHANNEL. A couple of years ago I watched the FULL INTERVIEW that David did on the Triggernometry channel with Konstantin Kisin and his co-host Francis. David afterwards did one of his "I was interviewed by...... it didn't go well" videos and it made the Triggernometry guys look like a-holes. The truth in that instance was David and his team did the clever editing and it was dishonest on David's side. The guys at Triggernometry did a response video and they had every right to be upset as they were taken out of context by David. If you want you can go back and check it out there might even be the comments I left pointing out David's hypocrisy. JUST SO WE ARE CLEAR - I do not support or watch or subscribe to Triggernometry anymore. In fact these days I'd can't stand what Konstantin Kisin promotes. He has gone right of the Radical Right deep end. Around the Time they interviewed David the Triggernometry guys were (past tense) doing some great interviews BUT THEN they started being sponsored by people like Nigel Farage. They also started doing some horrible softball interviews with right wing libertarians like Marion Tupy who's a CATO Institute goon. More recently Konstantin Kisin has been travelling around the world visiting Right Wing think tanks promoting some very unusual ideas about "our special culture." I know that for a fact because he's been here in Australia doing public talks for some of Australia's Right Wing think tanks. He's talked at the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) and the Institute of Pubic Affairs (IPA) both with links to the CATO Institute and Heritage Foundation in America. Some of those talks are posted here on YouTube. FYI - The IPA in particular has become highly right wing radical in recent years. Its not simply denial of reality stuff. During the trump years they were doing promotional videos defending Trump that were clearly aimed at younger Australian's and some of that was also posted here on YouTube.
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  7195.  @aandyherr817  Its rare but I have seen mistakes he's made and maintained. One of those is that he's adamant that there was no lab leak in Wuhan, when there's no absolute proof the wasn't and there's an awful lot of unanswered questions. David has been absolutely right that it all became political, but then he's taken a position that's more political than factual. There's actually a much broader discussion that's not happened because of the politics about what some of these virology researchers have been up to. DW did a really good short documentary on what is and isn't gain of function. They highlighted what a Dutch researcher did back in 2011 when he announced he had made the most lethal virus humanity had ever known in his lab. It was a version of avian flu that kills over 60% who get it and nobody knew what he was doing. So there's been problems with some (not all) of the research being done and we never had that discussion because people took political stances. I'll grant David is one of the best but he's not perfect either.
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  7196.  @ragingmenace1984  That is a damn good point. Its one of the things I have pointed out about Hershel Walker. Who's the team that pushed him to the microphone? David made a comment about 2 years ago where he used the term "toxic sport politics" and I think that describes the current politics almost everywhere right now. Nothing is about substance and facts don't matter. Remember Rudy G. with his infamous "Truth isn't truth" remark. Its one thing David and a few others have going for them. They TRY to present facts and hold people accountable to those facts. Thom Hartman interview Pater Navarro the other day and there was a great comment in the list. "Sorry but I have to interrupt you with a fact!" That could be so easily put on this video as well.
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  7197. Henry Wallace Vice President in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 (highlights mine) “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. ” Here's a little known or not often discussed issue. As part of Reagans "small government" he appointed the mother of current SCOTUS Judge Neil Gorsuch as head of the EPA. She sacked inspectors and regulators and replaced a few with people from industry. It was the equivalent to dumping FBI agents into the gutter and replacing a few of them with mobsters to watch over the Mafia. Also during the Reagan years the DOJ's ability to prosecute anti-trust cases was effectively castrated. That's how America produced tech monopolies like Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google, etc. as well as the "Too big to fail" Wall Street monopolies. How many of you know that between them Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street now own 20% of the S&P 500? yeah that means those 3 companies have people on EVERY board of the S&P 500. They don't just know about decisions being made before the market knows they are MAKING those decisions.
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  7198.  @uniteddreamer  My sympathies to Guyana, but we are SO SCREWED that we can by Australian Gas in Japan and ship it back to Australia and its STILL CHEAPER than what we can buy here. PLUS these companies who are making BILLIONS and BILLIONS haven't paid ANY TAX at all for almost a decade if ever. We are being absolutely raped by the gas companies here and all BOTH SIDES of politics say is their hands are tied by the contracts they made. Yeah - both our political parties are full of lawyers and neither of them can write a contract.
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  7199. If you've ever seen here discuss economics nobody of the bottom 90% should disagree. And this story shows WHY it will never be allowed to happen. Because unfortunately this era of politics has NOTHING to do with "what's right" or "what's morally right" or "what's ethically right" 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  7200. Really, I thought it was because Trump clipped his nuts off during the 2016 Primaries.
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  7201. Just don't anyone lose sight of the fact that 74 million people voted for Trump and of those a massive percentage are well armed and stocked with tons of ammunition (as reported by stock shortages). They are upset and being fueled by a pack of narcissistic maggots only in this for the money. If you have seen any of the people here on YouTube goading them on and encouraging them to send money. They are running the same scam televangelists, moon hoaxers and flat earthers run - "We can keep telling the truth if you send money." There's not just Trump and team Giuliani there are a squadrons of people all trying to cash in. David Pakman reported that YouTube will not permit any more postings that lie about the election results but it isn't working. I've seen recent posts that refute that. Be careful commenting on those channels or they might complain you are harassing them and get your account suspended or cancelled. I've had that once and others are reporting it as well. Best wishes to all COVID is still here and worse - Take Care & Stay Safe.
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  7202. HEY JUDO BOY: Engineer here, you know one of those ratbags who believe in reality!!! I just watched a whole video by you titled "Academia is BROKEN! - Harvard Fake Data Scandal Explained" And at 11:31 You mention Daniel Kahneman winning the Nobel prize in economics in 2002 and then blab on about it. Why DON'T you be HONSET and call it for what it is? There is NO SUCH THING as the Nobel Prize in Economics and NEVER WAS. There is this BULLSHlT prize that has the OFFICIAL title of "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel." The Nobel family themselves have tried for decades to have their family name removed from it because they know that Alfred Nobel hated economists. This piece of crap and nonsense EVERYONE in your profession has used to PROJECT LEGITIMACY to the wider human society has brought ruin to so many lives and will continue to do so for many decades just because. I have had to start informally studying economics out of the frustration of having clowns waving economics degrees INTERFERING in things they don't understand LIKE ENERGY GRIDS. I actually do have time for some of your. People I refer to as "Rebel Economists" as in people prepared to go against the orthodoxy of (in particular) neoliberals which of we are using behavioral lingo would be best describe as a pack of greedy selfish stupid arrogant M0R0Ns who actually think they know how the modern world functions and have yet somehow manged to screw up so badly that it will take multiple generations to fix. I actually got some interesting information curtesy of Steve Keen who mentioned in an interview with a couple of British post-grads how classical and neo-classical economists don't include energy in the models. I'd guess in behavioral terms that could be described as ignorant crap. Mark Blyth pointed out a bank of England Report (Q1 2014) where they describe how money is created and what it actually is. Mark also likes to point out that despite writing that brilliant piece on money all the economist promptly forgot what it meant and proceeded to screw over the entire planet. I've sat through a Richard Wolff series on Marx, read Mark Blyth's Angrynomics, read parts of Stephanie Kelton's the Deficit Myth and have started reading Adam Smith's wealth of nations. I have also watched many of Mark Blyth's podcasts with people who have written books on various things. My conclusion is you have all made a very fundamental mistake. Everyone thinks wealth is generated through labor. Its isn't its created through WORK and as anyone who did a basic science class can tell you work is a function of USING ENERGY. You use energy to move and do various forms of work and with that generate wealth that can be measured using money that can then operate as "transferable debt" that can be stored or exchanged what others have worked for. I call this Engine Theory and its the explanation that all wealth is created NOT just through labor but anything that converts energy or fuel into to work that can be economically accounted for (measured) with money. You mentioned Ancient Egypt, one of my favorite examples. They had slaves fueled by food and they did work that generated wealth. They also had ox that pulled heavy loads like ploughs and wagons and that was work that generated wealth. They also had horses that pulled or carried light loads like chariots and people but they moved much faster than an Ox and that was work that generated wealth. They had boats with sails and they tapped the energy of the wind and carried things up and down the Nile and that was work that generated wealth. The mercantilists said wealth was created through trade (mercantile) while others said it was through the land. Then Smith and Marx argued it was through labor. Funny how none of them had energy in their models and they simply ignored that aspect industrial revolution. But then things like steam engines, tractors, harvesters and threshers are all engineering problems. Maybe this is why the economists have screwed up so badly with energy all over the developed world. Its not in their models because its an engineering problem. If you have ever wondered why engineers don't think much of economists NOW YOU KNOW. if you guys would start looking at how the world around you actually functions then maybe you would dump a whole pile of stuff in the "Too Hard Basket" because its an engineering problem. To not understand this basic principle of what work actually is, is pretty damning. To hand out a fake prize and parade your profession as if its a real science is worse.
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  7203.  @yvonneplant9434  We wont get to the state of Venus as we aren't close enough to the sun, and we don't have the right combination of elements in the atmosphere, but that doesn't mean we aren't FKD either.
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  7204. In 2004 there was a documentary called "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" (see below) One of the warnings given was that Murdoch would slowly drag the rest of the main stream media down to his level. Substance, honesty, quality, truth, reality,.... would be words frequently spoken in the promotional sense but rarely practised with respect to journalism. The biggest warning in Outfoxed was about OPINION being presented as news and taking precedence over actual news being presented to inform people of real events that actually happened. Outfoxed can be watched here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P74oHhU5MDk
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  7205. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and its utterly stunning to see how far America has slide down this slope of beating the constitution to pieces. I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and we had lots of discussions on what could and could NOT happen in America. I had studied Orwell in high school (both Animal Farm and 1984) and won of the key themes Orwell pushed was - If your not careful ANY country cab fall into authoritarianism. He wrote in 1984 in 1948 and had seen Hitler and Mussolini democratically elected to power. He'd seen Stalin strip away everything the Russian Revolution stood for. My frat brothers used to argue that it could never happen in America because of the constitution. They were 100% assured that NOBODY could ever get away with the sort of stuff that had happened in other countries because things like the 1st Amendment would guarantee that it would be exposed. Who would have predicted back then that by now that American politics would descend to this point where they would simply ignore reality. Just as scary is how this is also happening in other countries. Australia has people like this being just as ridiculous. We even have a billionaire trying to buy his way into power - Clive Palmer who operates like he's a Trump clone. I was in Canada a couple of years ago for work and it was the same there. The only difference is how loud they are. In America they are simply louder and better funded.
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  7206.  @kirsteneasdale5707  I think we have a similar offence here in Oz, but it would probably be more like "disturbing the peace." Its pretty obvious she's trying to intimidate other people. It really depends on if she's got COVID or not. Who knows what state laws they have in Nebraska???????
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  7207.  @dukeblair7792  Another good point that sadly we all get and none of his base ever will without something so obvious they just can't ignore it.
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  7208. Imagine if a Nobel Prize Laureate (winner) in economics said something like "health care which I think in America is the greatest disaster we have and which is one of the serious forces undermining democracy" Guess what one did. Here's something I just found the other day while looking up some stuff on economics. The Bertelsmann Foundation has been running a series on "How to fix Democracy." The second season (as they called it) was about economics. Below is the play list. #29 is Nobel Prize winner Sir Angus Deaton from Princeton who specialises in the analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare. Listen to what he says about Health care about 4:18 in. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL36lfVkdVQqm3ovWsxBQlCEm0M4VZ4zIs How is that not news. Nobel Prize winner from Princeton says Health Care "is the greatest disaster we have" How is that not written on t-shirts and protest signs with people like Kyle howling about it from the roof tops.
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  7209.  @fortheloveofnoise  Its called peasant control and its been practised for centuries. Go look through history. When peasant populations got too high and threatened ruling classes with their numbers the leaders usually did things like starve them or start a war. Many wars were started for no other reason than to kill off chunks of the peasant populations. Studying history is less about studying peoples and nations and more about studying narcissism.
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  7210. I'm an engineer so I look at this subject through an engineer's eyes. I have done a lot of problem solving over the years and problem solving always realise on being able to assess what we know for certain versus what we suspect. What we know beyond all doubt was that Peter Daszak who was one of the Authors of the Lancet letter that initially dismissed the claims of weapons development and a lab leak had a financial interest in the lab through his company EcoHealth Alliance. He used NIH funding via EcoHealth Alliance to help fund research in Wuhan. So when he was the only Westerner allowed to inspect the Lab that investigation was NOT impartial. People have been trying to point that out for over a year. Its not a matter of right or wrong its a matter of being impartial and therefore trustworthy. Further to that there are vested interests across the entire field of biological research. Researchers have to work hard to get their grants and if it was a lab leak then that risks their funding. DW did a great report on Gain of Function (July 2021) and that's worth seeing. They showed how people had found by looking through published papers what the lab in Wuhan was doing. The good news of that is it proved there was no weapons program because weapons programs don't publish their research for all the world to see. But DW also reported how the lab in Wuhan was making variants of bat corona viruses more transferable to humans. Here's that DW report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0nuyPQzU18
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  7211. HEY PETER You have completely missed an aspect of New Zealand and that's Australia. Way back in history when Australia first looked at becoming an independent nation the first meetings INCLUDED New Zealand. That didn't happen for many reasons but it also made Australia and New Zealand very close. Until recent times nobody needed a passport to travel between Australia and New Zealand. Things like healthcare, education and unemployment benefits ($$$) were available in both countries. Australia being larger and having more industry and more resources (like mining) has always provided more opportunities for younger New Zealanders and they came by the boat load and then the plane load. Even when we stopped providing unemployment benefits to them they still kept coming. So you CAN'T look at New Zealand's and Australia's demographics separately. In fact you need to consider some of the pacific as well, because New Zealand has an open border policy with several island states in the pacific. Most of all you need to realise that Australia drains many of the best & brightest out of New Zealand and the rest of the South Pacific the same way America and Europe takes many of Australia's brightest. Plus like Canada we have many Asian and Indian university students and many of them stay on in Australia (like they do in Canada) after they graduate.
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  7212.  @davidsteed7278 I'd pretty much agree to that. Look at the boat building people New Zealand has and don't get me started on aerospace as I am an aerospace engineer by degree. Your probably right we don't take many of the very best of New Zealand but we do take a staggering number from among the better people. I actually work in industrial control systems and automation and in that I encounter a staggering number of Kiwis across our industries - engineers, sparkies, machinists,... etc. For example your dairy industry is actually better developed than ours in some ways and a lot of Kiwis are now in our dairy industry, especially in the processing area where you need food technologists. And you are quite right we have lost a staggering number of our better people to America and Europe, especially in technology areas like aerospace and computers. I did my degree in America and should never have come back. On those occasions I wanted to go back I couldn't for a variety of reasons. Your also right on the unskilled New Zealanders in Australia. Its one thing I wished as many Australians do is that we should never have allowed New Zealanders automatic unemployment benefits through the 70s, 80s & 90s. That's caused no end of issues, that still linger to this day. But overall the drain Australia has put on New Zealand has to be seen in the same light as the drain American has put on Australia. And similar (as far as I know) New Zealand is draining talent from the the pacific islands.
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  7213. I get the sentiment but NO. Mark Blyth was asked about Elizabeth Warren after a lecture on Global Trumpism back in June 2019. Its such a good explanation of modern politics I keep it as a link to that specific point. The whole lecture is awesome if you have time and in another question he explains why Bitcoin is a joke 3 years before it imploded. Here's the link and its time stamped to the point. Sadly for Marianne it explains why she can't win despite having better ideas. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4795s
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  7214. Basic facts: Eritrea doesn't have nuclear weapons; and Eritrea doesn't shoot nuclear capable rockets across the top of other nations on a regular basis; and Eritrea doesn't use chemical weapons to assassinate people.
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  7215.  @smashmash2714  Sky news???? FK-OFF When has anything Rupert Murdoch ever done got anything to do with truth or reality?
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  7216. That's a great observation and its indicative of the era we now live in which I'd call Selective Reality. For most of human history reality has NOT been selective the one major exception being religion, BUT NOW in this time period we can select which reality we like because we not only have freedom to believe whatever we like but there's people who will supply whatever SELECTIVE facts we want to reinforce our beliefs. There's even parts to what John Mearsheimer says which are SELECTIVE. He says Putin does not want to re-create the Soviet Empire and YES I know Putin's famous quote: "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain."BUT Mearsheimer is also SELECTIVELY IGNORING the fact Putin has demanded being able to write the security policies for all the nations around Russia's borders. That's 18 or so countries with a combined population of almost 280 million and they would have NO SAY in their security if Putin get's his way. It would be dictated to them by Moscow. So I would partially agree with Mearsheimer that Putin is NOT trying to re-create the Soviet Empire, but that does NOT rule out that he is trying to gain control over a massive slab of the former Soviet Empire. There are people who'd say America does similar via NATO and other treaties AND I WOULD AGREE. I'm Australian and I just had someone this weekend tell me that hidden in the depths of the AUKUS treaty is that America gets to decide or have veto control over our Uranium production and sales. I haven't found confirmation of this, but it sounds typical of Australian government behavior. In case you didn't know we not only have the largest Uranium reserves in the world but 1 of our mines (Olympic Dam) has over 30% of all the known Uranium on the planet. So giving America control or veto power over Australia's Uranium is pretty massive and the Australian people have (so far) had NO SAY in it.
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  7217. Aerospace Engineer here: I was pretty critical of Sabines recent video on Hydrogen, but on this video she's 100% right. Dr. Soon is not only a physicist (PhD) but he's also an aeronautical engineer (degree) so we both get dudded by this clown. It didn't take long to track Dr. Soon to Wikipedia page and then find out a few things. If you scroll down there's 2 subheadings "2003: Climate Research controversy" and "2011: Funding controversy" There's a separate page for the "Soon and Baliunas controversy" which is what I think you're referring to. Irrespective there's a major giveaway to this guy - on both pages he's linked to the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. Charles Koch is the evil billionaire (and he really is evil) who's behind the CATO institute and many other Think Tanks. If you want to see how hypocritical Charles Koch is there's a YouTube video on what he's trying to do in Iowa. Its in a video titled "This Billionaire Family is Suffocating Rural America" and its about Koch trying to monopolise the fertilizer industry. There's a point where Koch himself is complaining about the government stifling competition as he prepares to swallow up the competition. Charles Koch has a very Ayn Rand view of the world. "I should be allowed to take whatever I like irrespective of the consequences to other people."
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  7218. @FrankTovey-e5u I absolutely agree BUT if their crap goes unchallenged then people who do NOT know better will believe what they hear.
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  7219.  @geoffpriestley7001  If you actually look into it you'll find that the American people hold their vets in the highest regard. I'm Australian but went to college in America. Here in Oz we hold our vets in high regard but in America, among the general population, they take it up a level. However at the Federal Government level, (and its both the Dems sand GOP) there is a very simple policy: What's the minimum we can do for vets SO that the American people wont hate us so much they riot. I'm not a vet but have worked with Australian vets and our government doesn't treat our vets very well either at times.
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  7220. To the (almost) West Virginian. I saw this vid recently and the panel has 2 University professors. 1 is a progressive political economist and the other teaches Marxism and BOTH have justified why certain demographics voted Trump. The link is to a specific point where Richard Wolff (the Marxist) uses West Virginia as an example of how the Dem Establishment has abandoned parts of America. Here's the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s I just want to know are they right? Is it a case that many people from places like West Virginia have been voting out of frustration that they have been ignored by the establishment?
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  7221.  @commonsenseskeptic  Great point. I did aerospace engineering at U. Illinois where Eberhard went and from an engineering point Musk is a clown. BUT he's also a clown who can identify technology that he can exploit. Occasionally he picks a real genuine winner like he did it at Paypal, did it with SpaceX and did it with Tesla. I know you don't think too highly of Gwynne Shotwell because she works for Elon and a couple of her comments have been Elon like. You pointed out that she made a comment about that rockets won't be considered truly reusable until we can use them like aeroplanes. You were quite right that's totally unrealistic for the types of rockets now in use, but did you know that XCOR built a rocket powered aircraft for the proposed rocket racing league that flew 7 times in one day. I think XCOR was a company a smarter version of Jeff Bezos should have bought for the expertise and experience. So going back to Gwynne Shotwell's comment. Its easy to read it (as her being part of Elon enterprises) as "this is what we'll be doing next week" except she doesn't promise that she's just pointing out what it would mean to be truly reusable. Further if I was grading SpaceX I'd give them a C or C+. They have built Falcon up to man rated and they have got Crew Dragon working. They are resupplying the ISS and swapping crews at the ISS. BUT in reality they have taken 20years to do an upgraded version of Apollo. Is it better than Apollo? ABSOLUTELY. Its reusable carries and extra body and compared to Soyuz at $90M USD per seat to $70M USD for 4 seats its a massive saving in cost. But Falcon is still only a C+ at best. Its got some innovation but its not ground breaking. HOWEVER compare to everyone else is magic. Sierra and others have been doing development for decades, promising the universe and going not much of anywhere. If you consider how much money Boeing has had spoon fed to them by congress they should have, built a moon base, landed on Mars and be ready for the first manned mission to Jupiter by now. On the normal A to F scale Boeing are somewhere south of G. The only reason they might get an F- is that at least the last attempt at Starliner wasn't a complete failure. Don't get me started on SLS, that's going to go down as one of the worst conceived and managed engineering projects in history. The idea of reusing space shuttle tech was sound but NOTHING after that point was sound, sensible, rational, logical, reasonable, justifiable or much anything else.
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  7222.  @commonsenseskeptic  If you want to do a debunk of Jeff Bezos claim of moving all of the heavy industry like iron ore processing into Low Earth Orbit. LET ME KNOW. FYI - I met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) in 2002 and he told me to look at Helium-3. I wanted to discuss satellite servicing and he said no the majors wont let you and go look at He-3. He-3 meant mining on the moon so being Australian I went off to our mining industry for some experience building and operating mines. By chance we were in the process of building lots of new mines to feed the Chinese beast. I have worked in iron ore and metallurgical coal and NOBODY is ever taking that stuff into low earth orbit unless they develop Star Trek matter transportation. Just go and do the basic high school level science math and calculate the kinetic energy of 2 billion tons of iron at 7kilometers per second. Then compare that much energy to Hiroshima and work out how much energy you need to BURN OFF in the upper atmosphere bringing that much down from LEO. Yes it will freak you out, but not as much as some other stuff.
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  7223. News flash: This even made the news in Australia.
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  7224. HEY KYLE You forgot to start with the simple fact. Steve Bannon's Breitbart was funded by Robert Mercer one of America's most powerful and influential Oligarchs. That's the same Robert Mercer who funded Bannon's involvement with the trump Campaign. That's the same Robert Mercer who also funded Cambridge Analytica the statistical analysis the company that INTERFERED with the British Referendum on Brexit that has caused no end of grief for the entire European Continent.
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  7225. Go watch the interview Sam Harris did on Triggernometry. He comes at this from a different perspective but its the same conclusion. Trump is that much of a threat that things like Ukraine, Hunter Bidens lap top and other political issues don't matter.
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  7226. YYYYYEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS Along with a few other comments here.
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  7227. AEROSPACE ENIGNEER HERE and you are 100% RIGHT Here's my top 6 risks from AI. 1) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from the AI industry. 2) The ignorance of the general population to actually understand what AI is and how it works. 3) The over reliance on AI as a "fix all" for too many problems that it can't fix. 4) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from the scammer industry. 5) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from politicians. 6) The overpromotion of AI as a "fix all" from the media. Disclaimer - I might have items 4, 5 & 6 in the wrong order, but I am fairly certain of the first 3.
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  7228. Up to point. He is 100% RIGHT about the Jihadists - NOBODY can live with them and its about time the Muslim world dealt with this problem instead of funding it. He is 100% WRONG that ALL the people protesting Israel at the moment are suffering moral ambiguity. Some no doubt are, but most recognise that the belligerent bombing campaign that has included 4,000 children being killed IS WRONG. If Sam thinks protesting the slaughter of 4,000 children is wrong then the person suffering moral ambiguity is Sam Harris. On the Hamas tunnel system. That's not an original idea either. Its the same strategy the Vietnamese Communists used against America in the Vietnam War. They could not control the sky overhead so they went underground and attacked by stealth. Even that wasn't here idea. Its been practised for centuries to hide soldiers in covered pits. Sam is also (and I think deliberately) leaving out certain facts. 1) Suicide bombing IS NOT a purely Jihadist tactic. It was notably used by the Japanese in World War 2, but also by the Chinese against the Japanese in World War 2. Its been used by others with no links to Islam. Go look up "Suicide Attack" on Wikipedia and look at the Pre-1980 history. 2) Hamas was foundered and funded by Bibi Netanyahu so that Yasar Arafat's Fatah would have an opposition and it would keep the Palestinians divided.
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  7229. Yep - we are all still here, while 19 families are trying to deal with the loss of a child and 2 more families the loss of their loved ones. But then each day around 40,000 children starve to death across the world and about another 50,000 people who live in poverty die from simple easily treated infections because we live in a world that's gone numb from it all.
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  7230. Similar is being reported here in Australia. PTSD, battle fatigue, shell shock has been prevalent for 1000s of years and for 1000s of years its been ignored. The kings, emperors, caliphs, dukes and politicians have NEVER CARED about the soldiers they send to war or the consequences that it causes. They look at the win-loss columns and territory they gained or lost and nothing more.
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  7231. This is making America look pathetic and soft on crime. There's all these Republicans who chant tough on crime - its garbage. Malaysia, Peru and Bolivia now how to do this in a sensible way. In recent days Malaysia's former PM Najib Razak got 12 years. Recently Bolivia's Jeanine Anez got 10 years. Peru's Alberto Fujimori got 6 years. Even Iraq knows how to do this, they hanged Saddam Hussein.
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  7232.  @JohnJeanLefevre  Where do we start. Tax Evasion Conspiracy Obstruction of Justice Fraud Espionage (as defined in America) OR ARE JUST ANOTHER DENIALIST
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  7233.  @JohnJeanLefevre  I'm Australian but went to college in America. I might have done engineering but a bunch of my friends did pre-law and went to become lawyers. We used to discuss the US Constitution a lot. Scumbag pieces of garbage like you DO NOT FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION. You use that garbage claim to EXCUSE the politicians you like while using it as stick to beat anyone you disagree with. Your hypocrisy is disgusting and pathetic. You scream about Bill Clinton getting a blow job. You whine about Hilary's emails. You howl about Hunter Bidden. I think all 3 of them are shite people who should be locked away. AND THIS IS YOUR HYPOCRISY - What they do is wrong and what your scumbags do isn't. Trump has openly admitted dozens of times to tax evasion. Trump gave Jared and Ivanka jobs in the Whitehouse where they both used US Government resources to help their private businesses. That's worse anything Hunter did. At least he wasn't working in the Whitehouse. Trump is on tape trying to cheat in the Georgia election. People like you are the WORST. You are NOT a Patriot you are a disgusting hypocritical clown.
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  7234.  @benitanonya7628  Well for starters they never put their own children in senior Whitehouse positions where they used government resources to make $400 million. CNN and MSNBC might not be speaking about it but there are plenty of people screaming about Nancy Pelosi's insider trading. Kyle Kulinski put up a graphic a while back that had the top 25 money makers in congress who trade stocks on inside information. 3 of the top 4 were GOP but the 1 Dem in the top 4 was Nancy Pelosi. Of that top 25 there are more Dems than GOP. So stop sayin there's nobody pointing it out. Can hypocrites like you (Dem or GOP) who just point and scream about the other side while ignoring what your side does JUST STOP
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  7235.  @andreahughes1155  Sad but very true.
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  7236. Along with that BS about the Israeli air force Peter is also 100% wrong about the differences between solid fuel and liquid fuel rockets. Its liquid fuel rockets that are far more complex than solid fuel. In simplest terms solid fuel rockets are tubes with a nozzle. There are no pumps or valves or any of the fueling systems required. Its an idiotic claim and it shows YET AGAIN that when it comes to engineering topics Peter does NOT KNOW what he's talking about. FYI - I have a degree in aerospace engineering.
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  7237.  @asafcassuto9152  Did you ever see or hear about the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks??? This is a lot like that moment just before Tyson threw that short right that still scares people 35 years and 1 day later. Everyone who was watching saw it coming including Michael Spinks and there was NOTHING anyone could do.
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  7238. Notice how Tim REPEATEDLY claims that the Democrats have committed crimes that he can prove. Then why haven't they been charged? Why doesn't Tim or any of the others explain what crimes and which laws/statutes have been broken? Why doesn't Tim or any of the others explain what the evidence is for those crimes?
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  7239. Yeah - that's the point Kyle and everyone else should be focused on. The 2020 Census said America's population was 331 million and 74 million voted for Trump. There are roughly 61 million America under 15 and another 13 million 15-17 year olds. Does that mean the other 183 million AMERICAN CITIZENS who did not vote for Trump are the enemy of democracy and the enemy of the United States of America? Bidens team which are pathetically hopeless need to counter this and counter it hard. They have let this fester in a gangrenous wound that will end America.
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  7240. He's a journalist. They used to get a certificate saying they had completed their degree in Journalism. These days they get a coupon for a spine removal at the nearest spine removal clinic. I believe Piers had his spine removed at a clinic called "The Sun" part of Rupert Murdoch's spine removal corporation. He also had further spine removal surgery at the "News of the World" and the "Daily Mirror." to get rid of some lasting fragments.
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  7241. Australian here: Note: This comment is a copy of another comment on this page. Never heard of or seen this guy until a few days ago and the question I have is: Where TF have the Dems been hiding him? Every time he has appeared in an interview he sounds sensible and knows WTF is going on. Do any of you realise just how much the years POTUS election has scared the crap out of us? There's 8 Billion people on the planet and 7.7 Billion of us have no say in POTUS which is fair as he's YOUR POTUS not ours, BUT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH WHO YOU CHOSE. And these days its a big effing deal who you chose because of a few things. NOTE: The rest of the World doesn't really need America to help fix any of these issues. Its just that without America they go from effing hard to almost effing impossible and if certain American behave they way they do then these issues become impossible. FIRST America is still 25% of the World's economy and SECOND the US Dollar is still the worlds reserve currency and almost every international transaction is done in US$ or the currency exchanges are backed by US$. 1) There's an out of control SCOTUS and that effects us. Maybe not as much as it effects you but ANY dispute anyone has with an American company and they drag it back into the US Court System like Chevron did with the Ecuadorians. Go look what Chevron did to their lawyer Steven Donziger. 2) There's an out of control Israel and that effects not just the Middle East but the entire World because of the issues with the Suez Canal and global shipping. AND YES we know certain Americans are involved in making that a disaster. 3) There's an out of control Russia AND YES we all know certain Americans are involved in making that a disaster. 4) There's the staggering wealth issue in the world that's the real cause of the refugee crisis AND YES we know there's a bunch of American companies involve din that. 5) Then there's the energy crisis AND YES WE ALL KNOW it was America who blew up the Nordstream system so that certain America companies could get into the international trade in LNG. 6) Climate change. So you guys picking a POTUS and VPOTUS with brains that actually work is pretty darn important to the other 7.7 Billion of us who get no say in it.
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  7242. Who else has come back to watch or re-watch this after Jan 6th 2021?
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  7243. They are NOT interested in people with functioning brains. They are interested in REINFORCING the beliefs of their base. If there was every a list of things to do with controlling a population with mob psychology one of the things right near the top of that list would be: "Keep the mob agitated with emotional issues like they got cheated or they are being victimised or its that groups fault.."
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  7244.  @jennylyne9278  SERIOUSLY FARK OFF That lying sack of crap titles his vid "Kari Lake WINS Lawsuit! Judge RULES AGAINST Katie Hobbs!!!" And then proceeds in the first 40 seconds to explain that she has NOT WON. All the judge did was allow her to see the ballots which is her right which he also explains. WHY CAN'T YOU PEOPLE STOP LYING?
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  7245. I don't think we'll need to worry that much about AJ (and the rest of these people) much longer because sooner or later someone from one of the families of the victims is going to lose it. Imagine how much pain some of these people are in and it starts pounding away at them. Vice did a great doco on these people a couple of years back -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To91BJGKr5I Look at the comments on the Vice video. People like AJ are sick and somebody will lash out.
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  7246.  @50-50_Grind  Therein lies the other major issue with America. Its not that the conservatives are against woke or wokeness, they are against EVERYTHING they don't like. The problem with Americans is they have an incredible combination of childishness and selfishness. Its not unique to Americans but its always present with them and when its let lose it flies with incredible ferocity. Anybody (and I do mean anybody) can get angry, frustrated and throw a tantrum. Its just when Americans do it there's a good chance they are holding a gun or have their finger poised over a big red button.
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  7247.  @Rob_Cary  If we don't try an laugh at some of it we'll cry at all of it. Bets to ya - take care & stay safe, I fear we aren't yet at the worst of this shit storm
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  7248.  @ytzmark  Its worse from my perspective because it does detract from those successes. Instead of being able to celebrate the achievements we are being distracted with garbage. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  7249. HEY KYLE Narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative........... ITS ALL F⋃CKING NARRATIVE. THAT'S ALL ANY OF THIS SHlT IS
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  7250.  @SabineHossenfelder  ENGINEER HERE I have recently defended Sabine in respect of criticisms she got to her criticisms of academia. Having spent time in academia she's right to criticise them. HOWEVER when it comes to engineering she, like many others needs to SHUT UP. We need hydrogen as an energy buffer NOT because its hyper efficient or economic factors but BECAUSE WE CAN MAKE IT WORK and over the next 20-30 years WE NEED THINGS THAT WORK THAT DON'T SCREW THE PLANET UP FURTHER. And I really am trying to scream that at everyone. If you want the engineers to keep the lights on and modern society as you know it to keep functioning then all the people in the road need to SHUT UP. Unlike Sabine and many others I am qualified to design electrical systems around explosive gases like hydrogen as well as explosive dusts like wheat & sugar dust (and yes dusts can explode). Hydrogen is one of the hardest gases to work with, design around AND THEN MAINTAIN. Sabine is right in that Hydrogen for practical purposes leaks from everything, explodes easily and makes many substances brittle. What she DOES NOT KNOW is we know how to engineer around those issues. The single biggest problem with hydrogen is having enough qualified maintenance personnel. That's WHY I never thought it would be practical for things like cars, buses, jets, heating & cooking in homes. Any poor maintenance in those areas could be catastrophic. HOWEVER for those few areas like energy, hydrogen is a good option because all the technical issues have been solved and being kept in a controlled environment like a power station makes the maintenance possible. As for the ongoing claim you can't get better than 40% turnaround that's pure nonsense. The latest PEM electrolyser technologies get over 90% efficiency NOT the 80% (and lower) people like Sabine keep quoting. The current generations of gas turbines form companies like GE and Siemens with cogeneration units get over 64%. That's over 57% on the main components which are available off the shelf AND THEY WORK. As for the problems with storage and compressors those problems exist for every gas. How do you think the gas actually gets piped around the world? How do you think they liquify natural gas for exports around the world? I have worked in gas plants and they use lots of energy. If the world is going to have a lot more renewable energy then that industry needs to be able to buffer that system so if can deliver as needed. Efficiency is far less important than simply having something that WORKS.
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  7251. AUSTRALIAN HERE and I am going to stick my nose in here because YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT will decide many many things in the world that greatly affect the world that YOU GET TO CHOOSE and we have NO SAY. America wanted to be Number 1 Big Dog Superpower. FINE CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE THE BIG DOG SUPERPOWER. But that comes with RESPONSIBILITY when the rest of the world is involved AND nuclear weapons are on the table. The claim that America can't have another round of President Trump is irrelevant. America can't keep having 2 DYSFUNCTIONAL parties. The Democrats can't get anything done and the Republicans only want to obstruct and tear things apart. Most of America' problems exist in other countries. Australian Labour can't get things done and the Australian Liberal National Coalition only wants to obstruct and tear things apart. The difference is when we f*ck up it doesn't affect America that much When the Canadians or Mexicans f*ck up it doesn't affect America that much When the Japanese, South Koreans or anyone else in Asia f*cks up it doesn't affect America that much. When the Europeans and Brits f*ck up it doesn't affect America that much. BUT WHEN AMERICA F*CKS UP IT HITS THE REST OF US. Like it did in the 2008 GFC.
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  7252.  @tugger  I don't think Eagle meant that Orwell parodied Marx but more like that Marxist line was parodied in Animal Farm. Yeah its a fine point, but you can just as easily claim that Animal Farm parodied the entire Soviet system rather than any specific person or leader in that system. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). I'd done both Animal Farm and 1984 in high school and couldn't believe that most Americans had no idea that either book existed let alone what they contained. So for any American to get it even 1/2 right is better than nothing.
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  7253. Actually this is a fairly common practice. I'm Australian and we were the only other country to operate the F-111. At one point we bought a dozen F-11s from the Americans as they phased them out and it was for the spare parts. When we signed onto the F35 Program Canada bought our single seat FA-18s also for spare parts. This a common practice around the world and is one of the few things that the military does at times that's sensible.
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  7254. HEY THOM Damaging America for 40 years????? What about the rest of the world or don't you think about our pain, misery and suffering. Because we all got told things like: "This expert out of Harvard says that competition will get you better services at lower prices. Now start selling off all of your state owned assets like buildings, roads and power stations. But only sell us the good ones because Milton told us 'Greed is Good' and we don't need the stuff that wont make us money." I'm Australian and you know that sweet little power grid in Texas that works so awesome that children die frozen in their beds. Yeah the one that was designed by an Economics Professor at Harvard. Well we had an Australian go to Harvard and when he came back he did the same thing to our water systems. He told us the same stuff: "The best way to distribute resources is with an unrestricted free market." He even bragged to the Germans DW network in one of their water documentaries about how great our "sophisticated" water market was. A while back there was a news item here on YT about rising energy costs. It was before the current crisis. In the middle of the discussion a guy claiming to be Romanian told us all to go f--k ourselves because other Europeans and Americans had come to Romania and got them to privatise the Romanian energy market. Do you know what the Romanians were told? "Competition will get you better services at lower prices." Just like everywhere else where massive privatisation programs were done the services went down and the prices went up because everyone also forgot that Uncle Milton also said: "The only purpose a corporation has is to deliver profits to its owners." Better services at lower prices don't fit well with Uncle Milton's ideology. So Thom, Please stop thinking that these are just American issues.
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  7255.  @HowardKlein1958  France has a massive advantage that few people realise and being honest I didn't know about this until recently. James Krellenstein brought this up during his interview about ENRICHMENT on Decouple Media here on YT. Just put "krellenstein enrichment" into YT search and you'll get it. Between the Uranium mine and the power station is an enrichment plant and France not only has a lot of enrichment capacity but they switched the enrichment method and got a monster bonus. They used gas diffusion and switched to gas centrifuges which uses less than 1/30th of the energy to produce the fuel. In switching over they freed up 3,000MW into the French grid from the Tricastin power station and since that 3,000MW was already paid off it came onto the French power grid at very low cost. Its was like the French suddenly gifted themselves a free power station about the same size as the Brits are building at Hinkley Point C at a cost of £32.6 Billion. The new enrichment plant cost €3 Billion so it wasn't exactly free but it was a lot cheaper than the €19 Billion that Flamanville Unit 3 has cost and that unit is only 1,600MW not 3,000MW. I went and checked what James said and its true. I found the details about it on the world-nuclear(dot)org's country profile page for France. Here's the problem other countries have - they don't have the enrichment capacity that France has. The Americans have to buy enriched fuel from the Russians and despite all the sanctions on Russia enriched fuel is NOT sanctioned. That's because 1 in 20 American homes is powered by Russian sourced nuclear fuel and no politician in America is going to turn the lights out. This is a real problem. There's NOT enough enrichment capacity in the world at the moment. This is one major question all the pro-nuclear people and especially the SMR proponents have to be asked: Where are they planning on getting their enriched uranium from?
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  7256.  @mrow9999  Buddy its NOT just the nuclear industry its pretty much every industry and in particular the petro-chem industry. In Sydney Australia they have mostly kept quiet on 2 major sites one of which was on the edge of the Olympic Precinct for the 2000 Games. It was a Union Carbide site that was/is so bad that its near impossible to clean up. The other was the old Phillips (electronics & chemical) site and its completely contaminated the ground water system with all sorts of nasty crap including PCBs. It used to be popular for people to just drill a well in their backyard for water for their gardens. That's now banned because of the contaminants in the wells. Sydney Harbor hailed as a beautiful tourist attraction still has a ban on all fishing for food because of PCB contamination. We don't put that in tourist brochures. I remember seeing a documentary back in the 90s about illegal waste dumping in America. They estimated that if they found 10,000 dump sites a year they still be dealing finding them for at least 20 years. Their most common thing was a company going and getting an old truck or trailer (usually stealing it) and loading it up with drums and just driving off into the countryside and parking it. By the time anyone found it there'd be no way to identify anything. There are ports on the African West coast that are jammed with rusted hulks and on the ports there's giant stacks of drums with all sorts of stuff. In some places there's open pits where they have just pumped stuff. Its happened because various companies out of North America and Europe just paid off corrupt officials to dump stuff there. Go look at the issues with E-waste and clothing being dumped in the third world at the moment. There's dozens of documentaries here on YT about that stuff. You are right the nuclear industry has done some damn awful things and if you look at incidents like the Windscale Fire and what was covered up you'd never trust that industry again. BUT THEN WE ALSO HAVE TO DEAL WITH OTHER INDUSTRIES and I can't see the World giving up all their toys anytime soon.
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  7257.  @blancopeter  SMRs all sound great because the people promoting them are trying to sell you and everyone else on the concept. As such you and everyone else isn't hearing the other side of the issues with them. For starters they ARE NOT the same technology that's been used in submarines for that last 50 years. That's been one major misunderstanding. Secondly there's no real clear definition of what they are. A lot of people think they are small enough to go in car but even the proposed cores that can be delivered on a truck ARE NOT something that can be put in your backyard or next to your factory. The core is only 1 part of a nuclear power station. There's all the other stuff including heat exchangers, steam turbines, cooling systems, generators, transformers and all the rest of the plant that has to be built and maintained. James Krellenstein had a great description of what SMR means "Small Misunderstood Reactors" and its the best description I have seen anyone give. That said I think they will be PART of the Energy Solution, because like all the other technologies being promoted as the "solution to everything" they just ARE NOT the solution to everything BUT many of them ARE a solution to something.
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  7258. ​ @Thisonegoestoeleven666  I had an offer from Yokogawa to work on Gorgon but when I had a lawyer go over the employment contract he found that they were lying to me over certain conditions. I was TUV Functional Safety Certified as well as Hazardous Area Certified and had friends work on both those projects. I worked on the Varanus Island repair and consulted on a couple of FPSOs but mainly worked in mining over the last 20 years and before that manufacturing. I am NOT against nuclear BUT (and I can't stress this enough) IT HAS TO BE DONE RIGHT and for the RIGHT REASONS. There's a very sound reason for having some nuclear feeding into the large East Coast population centres and that's Grid Stability. There's a pretty good video on the YT Channel "Real Engineering" about it titled. "The Problem with Wind Energy" Up to a certain point renewables are cheap and work well but its that last part where you need something different. Its like having a racing car with the best engine, best gearbox, best tires, best aero, best everything EXCEPT it has no shock absorbers. Yes shock absorbers are a tiny fraction of a racing car but without them nothing else matters. So we need that last part of the grid to be like a shock absorber and unfortunately batteries can't do it because we can't build them big enough and we just don't have enough Lithium. An ugly fact is that the entire World reserve of Lithium is not enough to do 1/3rd of the worlds cars. Simon Michaux (who I don't agree with on a few points) makes this great observation. "Its not that the energy transition is impossible but we need a better plan." The most important thing going forward is that all the economists and other political ratbags STFU and let the engineers decide what's best.
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  7259. That's basically the same advice I would give the Chinese and Russians about America. If you want to get rid of America try this: Do nothing and just watch the American billionaire class destroy the country. They wrecked America's manufacturing industries, they are out to destroy its education system, they have destroyed the health care system, the infrastructure is a mess (there's over 30,000 bridges to repair or replace) AND they have completely screwed up 4 out of4 major parts of the government - POTUS, SCOTUS, the House and the Senate are all barely functioning AND ITS ALL because of the billionaires and their mindless greed. I honestly don't care if they are billionaires or how much money they have, or how big their bloody boat is. I really don't care, just so long as they don't F*CK the rest of us over doing it or wreck the planet doing it.
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  7260. Great comment and its seems to be the main theme. Didn't you just love the guy who interjected with "the rest of us are here too pal!" I wonder if he's one of those who DOES get his questions asked and just sees this as a "how dare you!" moment? As in "how dare you insist on having your fair go!"
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  7261. A while back Glenn Kirschner (the lawyer) on his YouTube pointed out that when you are in court: If you have the truth pound away with the truth. If you have the evidence then pound away with evidence. BUT If you have NO evidence and you have NO truth then pound away with what ever distraction you can. Basically he said when you have nothing just make as much noise as you can and fill the air with confusion. This is what Prager and the Right do and sadly they do it really well. Just as sadly the left sadly, tend to get sucked into it way too often.
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  7262.  @CB-hb1jv  That extra 10-11 million is the bit that worries a lot of people. In particular it worries me that the DNC don't seem to care about it. Its as if it never happened. Its bizarre because for 2 years every poll said his numbers were falling and then on the day it flipped. So where did those extra 11million come from? I haven't heard anyone really explain it. Its also why I think if nothing changes Trump will win easily in 2024. The only people I have seen attempt any explanation was during one of the tributes to Michael Brooks. Here's Richard Wolff who teaches Marxist economics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s Do I think that explains all of it? NO, but it explains part of it.
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  7263.  @TheScotsalan  Its another example of how the MAGA narrative is going around the world. this thread started with a comment on MAGA stuff in New Zealand. I'm in Australia and we have some of it here notably through Sky News Australia. Neil Oliver (a Scot) is doing it on GB News in Britain on a station run by the ex-head of Sky News Australia and Sky News Australia is owned by Rupert Murdoch. This MAGA garbage is infecting a lot more places than America.
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  7264.  @jd0604  Look SHIT4BRAINS what Trump did and what Trump promoted were 2 different things. Instead of dong the job he was so busy SHITFESTING on Twitter anything he did get right he then trashed. Yeah he fast tracked the vaccines and then shat all over what he did.
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  7265.  @TheScotsalan  That's a really good summation of the sides. Adding into that lefties tend to care about the world while right wingers care about themselves. Where they match up is at the extremes. When the righties start going too far they eventually start scapegoating minorities to blame for their failures. On the Left it becomes scapegoating nonconformists to blame for their failures. In both cases they eventually start exterminating group they can. Its not particular to any version politics either. Once you get an entrenched establishment willing to go to any length to CONSERVE their position its gets out of control very quickly. The reason I use highlight word CONSERVE because even though a country like China is as ideologically LEFT as possible their government is fundamentally conservative. Where the Left and Right differ is the path they take to get to that point where they start scapegoating and the type of scapegoating. The right are simple to see when they go too far. They scapegoat along racial lines. The Left are harder to see because they scapegoat in all sorts of ways and on all sorts of issues. Mostly its some form or other of compliance to an unrealistic ideal. They make themselves obvious when ever they are pressed with a nuanced discussion point and just start yelling how the other person is a racist, bigot, fascist and/or psychopath. I'm actually an aerospace engineer and was trained in complex system analysis. So I come at the Left-Right political issue from a very outside perspective. I find it amazing that once you get to a certain point the radical left and radical right merge into mirrors of each other. They both end up in a place where ideology means nothing but a hash-tag. Its about gaining power and then holding onto it at any cost.
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  7266.  @TheScotsalan  When the whole Huawei stuff was going on here the killer blow came from the head of our spy agencies in an incredibly rare press conference and he did it by explaining Chinese corporate law. It was odd because he didn't make any claims of hacking or theft. He just explained that in China its the law that Chinese registered companies must had over any data the CCP ask for. The Western concept of privacy does not exist in China. He simply told us, it did not matter what claims Huawei made. They're a Chinese registered company and that means they must handover data to the CCP. When a CCP person walks in the door and says give me the data they had it over or go to jail. That was the end of the discussion here.
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  7267.  @TheScotsalan  You got it. Take away the flags, anthems and rhetoric, and politics is about 2 things 1) Taking power; and 2) Not letting go of power.
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  7268.  @TheScotsalan  No there are laws in China they are just so Alien to Western Law that we just don't get it. There's a Richard Gere film I saw years ago called "Red Corner" and it highlighted that the Chinese system is completely opposite to Western systems. If you are before a Chinese court for a crime then you are considered guilty and are only there to figure out the penalty. Their whole concept of justice is the opposite to ours.
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  7269.  @TheScotsalan  On Musk and a phone call. If he got one it wasn't from China it was from the Middle East. That's where his new partners are from. Musk's wealth is wrapped up in stocks and most of that is like crypto. Its hype not real value. if there was a phone call its was a very angry guy with a harsh middle eastern accent demanding to know how they were going to make money from this shitefest. When your new partners have the habit of chopping people into small pieces Elon might not be in a good place right now. So anything that might get money in the door like letting Trump & Kanye back on is pretty obvious.
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  7270.  @TheScotsalan  Yep and people like Elon just don't get it. I still say there is law, its just a matter of who it does and doesn't get applied to. Remember the CCP has purges every so often and at those moments if you're in the wrong part of the party the law is pretty harsh.
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  7271. The lack of accountability is the biggest issue across the entire World right now. The financial and political elite being able to get away with everything is destroying our countries. And its not one political party or their big money backers its ALL OF OUR PARTIES. The only difference is how bad some are compared to others. Trump's people right now are arguably among the worst but they are certainly the loudest. If you go by the normal standards of any country then the Jan 6th organisers would have been rounded up the day after and NOT and refused bail. In most countries they would have been tried, convicted and sentenced by now and in many countries executed. In China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea or Iran (to name a few) they'd be dead. THIS IS NOT NEW EITHER. If you go back NONE of the executives who caused the 2008 GFC were held accountable. The DOJ prosecuted about 3,000 of the little people but none of the executives. Going further back further NONE of the people responsible for the prisoner abuse scandals in Iraq or Afghanistan were held accountable. A few of the rank and file soldiers were but none of the officers or political people. NONE of those involved in organising the invasion of Iraq under false pretenses were held accountable. I'm Australian and we've had a similar list of banking scandals, military scandals and political scandals and NOBODY AT the TOP ever gets held accountable. I was in Canada for work in late 2017 and they had a scandal over government contracts that was almost identical to ones in Australia and it was the same outcome. The lack of accountability of the worlds corporate and political elite is out of control.
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  7272. EVERYBODY STOP AND NOTE WHAT Kevin McCarthy actually says. I cut & past this form the transcript of the video. The punctuation is mine and there's correction of the word warrant which the YT algorithm had the word "weren't." Starting at 1:42 "Despite these serious allegations. It appears that the president's family has been offered special treatment by Biden's own Administration. Treatment that not otherwise would have received if they were not related to the President. These are allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption and they warrant further investigation by the House of Representatives." Think about what that actually says. 1) There's allegations NOT EVIDENCE. 2) There's appearance NOT EVIDENCE. 3) Regarding the allegations of favoritism to family members, maybe he can explain how Jared & Ivanka were given positions in the Trump Whitehouse despite having NO RELEVANT Experience for those positions. 4) Regarding the allegations of abuse of power, maybe Kevin McCarthy can explain how the GOP ignored what Trump did with his "perfect call" to Ukraine during Trump's 1st Impeachment. 5) Regarding the allegations of obstruction, maybe Kevin McCarthy can explain how the GOP ignored Trumps obstruction with counting votes on January 6th during Trump's 2nd Impeachment. 6) Regarding the allegations of corruption, maybe Kevin McCarthy can explain why there has been NO Investigation regarding Jared Kushner's use of government resources to play various Arab states against each other to secure several hundred million dollars to bail out his family's investment in the New York office tower 666 Fifth Avenue OR How Jared Kushner was able to get $2 Billion from the Saudi Arabian Sovereign Wealth Fund as he left the Whitehouse. OR How Donald Trump's golf courses made millions of dollars because he spent so much time at them as President that countries were forced to rent suites and villas at them to hold meetings. PLUS the US government had to pay for the rental of suites and villas and golf carts and food at those golf courses for Whitehouse Staff and Secret Service agents.
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  7273. Am I the only person who thinks that eventually someone is going to lose a family member who listened to this stupidity and then lose it. And in a country with as many guns as America has "losing it" usually involves a gun. I'm wondering what the Vegas odds are on WHEN the first first assassination happens. It doesn't matter what your lie is, if people die as a result of your lie then you should expect someone will take offense.
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  7274. HEY DAVE INSTEAD OF YET ANOTHER LOOK HOW TERRIBLE HERSCHEL WALKER IS VID. How about you show just one video of something or anything Raphael Warnock has done or said. Your the guy who raged about "toxic sport politics." So why don't you do something, anything positive.
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  7275.  @mikeyf7039  Don't care. On any of these channels 95% of all comments are all dumbass ignorant ra, ra, yeah man types. 4% are from Right Wing M0R0NS who just scream, yell and rant. somebody has to be the 1% who tries to say something sensible. I don't to be anything other than interested, but if you're so clever answer one of these. How many vids has David posted that describes what Warnock does or stands for? Another person today did tell me he's been very active in congress. So why doesn't David speak about those things? If this race is so important why doesn't David interview Warnock because with almost 1.5 million subscribers why wouldn't Warnock want his 10-15minutes? How come David has 1.5million subscribers yet not even 60,000 have bothered to watch this? Is it maybe because they've seen enough Herschel Walker is a crap candidate and we all know it and want to hear something else?
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  7276.  @psychonautpupildiallater7734  Dude get your thoughts and facts in order you ignorant clown. Joe Biden is just old. John Fetterman had a Stroke. Herschel Walker has CTE (Concussive Brain damage from Football) But then facts, reality and being able to clearly understand ANYTHING seems to be beyond you sick people.
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  7277.  @psychonautpupildiallater7734  And don't call anyone a hypocrite with your stinking garbage attitude.
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  7278.  @meshzzizk  Measrsheimer's "American realism" is as narcissistic as it gets. Yeah like American liberalism its sounds so good. Go check your history and look at America's hypocrisy and how many DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENTS were overthrown by CIA orchestrated coups during the cold war. That was "American realism" in action. Common smart ass explain to everyone how America justified overthrowing democratically elected governments while at the same time telling the whole world it was the champion of freedom and democracy? Better still why don't you explain to the people of Iran, Guatemala, Chile, Indonesia and others how people like Mearsheimer and their "American realism" justified overthrowing their democratically elected governments.
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  7279.  @VSP4591  see the reply I just gave to fica375
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  7280.  @Torrriate  Mearsheimer himself might have condemned it BUT IT WAS HIS NEOCONS WHO MADE IT HAPPEN. There was none of the Liberals he likes to condemn involved in that. You people are so blind and stupid.
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  7281.  @semprelazio8864  Its NOT JUST Ukraine he wants. Here's Geostrategist peter Zeihan discussing what Mearsheimer has said. Goto 53:44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdP01go8wdQ
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  7282.  @semprelazio8864  And I checked his list of countries the 17 he lists 263 million people and if you add in Finland its 268 million. Russia population is 145 million including Crimea.
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  7283. ​ @nzajflynn  Sorry for the long answer but to answer that you need to understand where he sits in the American political spectrum. FIRST and most importantly America does not have a left and right like the rest of the world does. It has 2 very similar but opposed ideologies. They are like the sides to a coin or an imperfect mirror image. On one side are the Liberals who believe that liberty comes from limits imposed by regulations. THese peopel are most closely associated with the Democrats. On the other side are the Realists that we most often hear as Libertarians or Neocons and associate with Republicans. They believe liberty comes from not having a small government with almost no regulations. The character Ron Swanson (from Parks & Recreation) sums it up perfectly 20seconds into this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQwe6fV-teo Mearsheimer isn't simply a Realist he's basically the father of "offensive realism" which is an even more narcissistic form of realism than normal that we saw from the Neocons. He's a professor at the University of Chicago which is where the Necons were created. Its also where Milton Friedman taught for decades. Its one of what I call the Ugly Triumvirate of American Education - Harvard, Yale and U. Chicago. they have an incredible amount of influence over world affairs. there people are found in politics EVERYWHERE. Both Clintons - Yale, both Obama's Harvard, Ted Cruz Harvard, 14 of the last 18 SCOTUS judges Harvard or Yale and the next SCOTUS judge is also Harvard. Of those 3 universities U. Chicago is the least known, because that's how it operates, but its where the ideologies are formulated. Whether you want to call it Reaganomics, Thatcherism, Globalization or Neo-Liberalism it came out of U. Chicago, while its most fervent adherents and those who run Wall St and the rest of the global money supply are out of Harvard and to a lesser extent Yale. I'm Australian and they have a huge amount of influence here. The guy who built our privatised water market that's been a disaster is referred to as a "renowned Harvard graduate" Our water market is just like the Texas energy market when its working they are the first to stand up and tell everyone how clever they are. When its not working they are the first to stand up and blame others. The politics of the Neocons also came out of U. Chicago and no matter if Mearsheimer was for or against the Invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan it was the people on HIS SIDE of American politics, the ones we know as the Neocons, Libertarians and Republicans, that took the world into those conflicts. And all they have done since is blame others for why it failed. That's what I hold against people like Mearsheimer. They are great at pointing out the failures of others and great at praising themselves when their stuff works, but damn awful at blaming others when their stuff fails.
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  7284.  @nzajflynn  Well your history of the Neocons is so totally wrong its almost not worth answering. The "con" in Neocon is for CONSERVATIVE. They were the "New Conservatives" that cam out of Mearsheimer's "Offensive Realism" which is where they got their regime change philosophy. They might have taken his ideas out of context but that's not your fault or my fault. Yeah Clinton was huge on the NATO expansion but then he's a globalist neo-liberal and on that go look up "Mearsheimer 2019 Yale." He gave 3 lectures on the failings of the "Liberal Hegemony" and his assessment of the Liberals and their foreign policy is flawless - its perfect. I recommend those lectures to anyone and everyone who wants to understand the liberal side of American politics and why their foreign policy has been a disaster. WHAT I ALSO RECOMMEND is that people ALSO look into the OTHER SIDE of American politics, which is Mearsheimer's side - the Realists. The two sides of American politics are very similar and at times effectively identical, which Mearsheimer points out. Because of that and the labels they use its damn hard working out what they are on about. The Realist's like regime change to ANYTHING that aligns with them. They don't care so long as they can access resources. That's why they staged coups in places like Iran and Chile. The Liberals don't simply want regime change they want to rebuild nations with their version of Liberal Democracy. Go watch Mearsheimer's lectures on "Liberal Hegemony." He really does describe it perfectly and explain why they do it. He's brutal about it, but 100% right. I don't fault Mearsheimer for what he says about Liberals. I fault him because he implies his side is virtuous and wouldn't do anything as bad as what the Liberals do AND THAT'S NOT TRUE.
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  7285.  @fatimabeirao4714  No more than any of the 1000s of others who advise governments to make bad decisions. Its one of the things we all underestimate. Who are these people that none of us chose or were publicly vetted and have incredible influence over what out our governments do. In that sphere of influence are many University Professors either directly or via their students. What's rarely discussed are the things they teach. Its poorly understood by the general public that there are special interests with enormous influence over universities via their funding programs. One of the biggest areas I'd like to see openly discussed is the influence of big business over university business schools. We often here about how leftists have corrupted education but we rarely hear how big business ahs been just as bad if not worse. Its well known in academic circles that places like Harvard, Yale and Princeton are incredibly well funded by banks and they write advisory papers to government that are fundamentally in the interests of the banking industry. So when the elected politician is being lobbied about banking and the lobbyist says hear look at what professor ABC wrote and he then asks his advisor who studied under professor ABC and confirms what the professor said is right. Its then a foregone conclusion the bankers get what they want. Its a very clever system where politicians think they are hearing independent opinions and they just aren't.
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  7286. What people need to realise is that these people are either War Babies (also called the Silent Generation) or the oldest part of the Baby Boomers. They feel like they RE-BUILT the world after World War 2 and then fought off Communism through the Cold War. They see the younger Baby Boomers as spoilt, Generation-X as irrelevant, the Millennials as arrogant and the Zoomers as irrelevant. Go and look at some of the business leaders and how many of them are in their late 80s or 90s - Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet, Rupert Murdoch, Charles Koch.... etc. There is a belief among them that they are the ONLY people who can run things and get things done. ALL of the younger generations are just immature fools and spoilt brats. There's something about the War and the post War era that psychologically scarred them and they can't let go. The youngest of Warren Buffet's 3 children recently turned 65 (the standard retirement age) and yet he and Charlie Munger can't let go of the power they wield at Berkshire Hathaway. Murdoch is the same at News Corp. Look at how some of the worlds political leaders from this age group who REFUSE to let go of power and go away.
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  7287. Yeah that's really what the American people want to hear. THE TRUTH! American politics is now so farked that the rest of the Western world has to ask itself if America is a reliable partner any more. The problem is the the rest of the Western World is just as addicted to America as America is to cocaine. FYI - I'm Australian and every time an Australian says we should tell America to go FK itself I ask them what we'll do for security and trade. The same conversations happen in Britain, Canada, Japan, Europe,.... We all bought into the whole American lead globalisation economic model and never bothered to ask what might happen if America lost its mind. We also never asked what if our own politicians lost their minds as well. This little scene from 'The Pacific' sums up where we're all at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZfm_JQKJa8
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  7288.  @Ryan88881  WTF are you talking about? Since its Coke, Heroin and Fentanyl that's being discussed ADDICTION is the RIGHT WORD. You do know that thinking isn't illegal or addictive?
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  7289.  @Ryan88881  Don't be so stupid and ridiculous. There's also tons of research saying the complete opposite. The pro-drug people claim certain studies as infallible while the anti-drug people claim their studies are infallible. Both claim the other side is wrong and uses biased research and bad data. The one thing fact that is certain. EVERYONE who does anything on a regular basis ALL CLAIM THEY AREN'T ADDICTS. If coke, heroin,... etc. are NOT as addictive as you claim then how come people can't give it up? How come they will not buy food or clothes or pay their rent BUT WILL BUY DRUGS?
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  7290.  @thhanh1003  You are absolutely right. In engineering we have process/technique called Root Cause Analysis (RCA). So what's the ROOT CAUSE of why we have over 60million displaced (maybe more) people on this planet. Could it be the bat crap psycho leaders that many developed nations SUPPORTED as they raped their countries for last few decades? It might just be a thought but maybe if we hadn't been so skull FKD to keep trashing the developed world as we sent them our TV and movies bragging about how good we had it mixed with the reality of how crap they had it that we shouldn't have been surprised when 10s of millions just showed up one day asking to have a better life JUST AS WE ADVERTISED I know its a pretty silly idea.
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  7291. Yeah the bimbo at 30 seconds spouts off the usual pile of meaningless crap. Nothing she says is actually untrue, even the ballots stuff she's 1/2 right about as they were counted later. BUT THAT'S BEEN EXPLAINED. Yeah fine Biden's old and stayed in his basement SO WHAT. Sure Trumps train was long SO WHAT. The word ignorant comes from the word ignore. As in an ignorant person is won who ignores information. These people ignore that there were observers from BOTH parties and INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS were also present. NOT ONE international observer has said there was anything wrong or suspicious or questionable.
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  7292. Is it just me or do other people want to see the orange political gorilla in a color coordinated orange jump suit????
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  7293. Fine then please write to David and have him remove the Short titled "Virologist Denunks the Lab Leak Theory" That's from an interview David did with Vincent Racaniello from 3 Sept 2021. If you search "david pakman vincent racaniello" you will find the full interview as well as a short with the title " which is from that interview starting around 16:40. In that interview Vincent Racaniello makes the claim that the Chinese were NOT working on the virus that caused COVID. That statement is 100% FALSE and misleading. We knew that because people were digging up published papers by people from the Wuhan Institute detailing their work. I was sent one reference to a paper that was coauthored by Shi Zhengli the director of the Wuhan Institute and it detailed the rich resources in new viruses they were finding in bats from across Asia. It also highlighted that the work was supported by a number of international organisations including the NIH (run by Dr. Fauci). I actually think they should have been studying those viruses because there had already been SARS-1 and MERS so looking for what might come next makes a lot of sense. SO WHY LIE ABOUT IT? AND why did people like Vincent Racaniello make such emphatic claims that we knew at that time were wrong? I have no problem if David wants to go after Dr. John Campbell. I'm Australian and stopped watching him after he kept getting points about Australia WRONG. None were major issues but he kept making mistakes. I also noted that the Australians he interviewed were NOT people being presented in any other media. So I tend to suspect he is either bad at fact checking or listens to the wrong people. But David CANNOT go after one person while letting another make statements that are 100% FALSE.
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  7294. Australian here with a simple question: Do any of you Americans realise just how much this garbage affects the rest of the World? FIRST - Lets be clear I am not being Critical of the vast majority of Americans. I went to college in America on a sports scholarship. I love the place, the people and the culture. BUT there's a small minority of American who just can't keep their noses out of everyone else's business and its starting to PlSS US OFF. Go look at what happened with the Steven Donziger case and how an American Corporation dragged the case back into the American Federal Court System. The actual case had NOTHING to do with American law or the American judicial system, but look what they did. Right now here in Australia we have a major scandal involving PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) and how they conspired with their clients to defraud Australia out of BILLIONS of dollars in tax money. In delving into that scandal we also found other nefarious consulting activities involving EY, Deloitte and KPMG with McKinsey hiding in the shadows. THESE ARE ALL AMERICAN COMPANIES and they are interfering with our government as they are doing all over the Western World. If you go and watch John Mearsheimer's lecture at Yale on American Liberal Hegemony he gave at Yale. Its one of 4 he did at Yale 6 years ago and its easy to find here on YT. I think Mearsheimer' a turd of a human being but he's also a very intelligent turd and his assessment of American Liberal ideology and its NEED TO INTERFERE in other countries is 1,000,000% on target. As Mearsheimer puts it, its hardwired into their nature to think they have to fix ANYTHING and EVERYTHING they think or perceive others are doing wrong OR that they know better. The problem is when you combine the American Liberal need to interfere with the American court system they can run to when it falls apart makes it a nightmare for the rest of us to deal with BECAUSE the American courts will protect American Corporate interests no matter what the evidence says. We all learnt that with the Donziger case.
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  7295. Well sorry to disappoint you BUT --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tuberville Born in Arkansas, represents Alabama in the Senate alongside Richard Shelby and as someone else pointed out coached Auburn's Football team from 1999 to 2008. As head coach he had a record of 159-99 and was 7-6 in Bowl games including 3 in a row at the Cincinnati Bear Cats. Just imagine all those high school kids who got scholarships and had to tell their friends - "Yeah, next year I'll be playing for Coach Tuberville" 🤔😲🤪
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  7296. The bit that shites the rest of the World is that George "Dubya" Bush removed America from the International Criminal Court when he signed the American Service-Members' Protection Act in 2002 to protect American service panel from being judged by others. Obama never redressed it and Trump gave it the middle finger. Here go look at the map and take note that BOTH America and Russia were (past tense) signatories but are not now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court After you check the map look under the heading "Opposition to the Court"
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  7297. YES - Its so damn easy to make sense of it. Over a year ago Kyle pointed out a 2022 Congressional Budget Office Report on Family Wealth that was commissioned by Bernie Sanders. (its very easy to find). The first graph in that report shows how the Bottom 50% of America has gone NOWHERE for 30+ years. They were particularly smashed by the 2008 GFC. Meanwhile the Top10% who caused the GFC have made staggering amounts of money. In Obama's last 3 years in office they gained $18.3 Trillion after being BAILED OUT by Bush and Obama. That's the base where Trump gets his supporters. They hate the system so much they are willing to do anything to change it. I have heard multiple times over the last 8 years and just heard this same sentiment only a couple of hours ago. _Trump is a solution to a very real problem. The System is failing the majority of the population while transferring immense wealth to fraction at the top. Its just that Trump is the WRONG solution. When the system is failing so many people it has to change. When Kamala said that she would do nothing different she sealed America's fate and handed Trump the election.
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  7298.  @ItsGulfofMexicoDump  Its not just Christians who are gullible its MOST of humanity. Go take any group with any belief system or ideology and you'll find a staggeringly high percentage people who have ZERO understanding of their ideology or beliefs. I'm an aerospace engineer and the amount of garbage that so many people believe about things like terraforming Mars WITHOUT and grasp at all of what that takes. I actually work in industrial automation and mainly do electrical control systems. You'd be amazed at how many people actually know how the electricity in their homes works. Its one of the fun ways I like to embarrass other engineers. I ask them how their house works? They never get it right and yet they all believe in electricity. YES these people are particularly bad, but they are not alone in the competition for who's most ignorant.
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  7299.  @ItsGulfofMexicoDump  Very gullible. If they do the Trump was sent by God thing just ask them if Jesus cheated on his wife with a sex worker/porn star/prostitute? Just ask them about that time Jesus said pay your taxes to Caesar? Just ask them if Jesus ever said DON'T LIE. Ask them if Jesus or the Apostles ever warned about false prophets? If your face to face with them don't be mean about it. You wont fix anything arguing. JUST PRESS BASIC FACTS. Sooner or later they have to admit they got conned.
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  7300.  @iak706  Its a nice argument and totally devoid of reality. The defense was allowed to call them criminals WITHOUT a charge or a conviction. SO YOUR ARGUMENT IS PEDANTIC LEGAL BULLSHIT and typical of why justice systems are failing across the world. The simplest of facts is that Kyle Rittenhouse killed 2 people who were doing nothing more than exercising their 1st Amendment Right to protest the authorities for a grievance and fucking morons like you have legitimized it. I hope you don't mind that the next time you or anyone you know is parading down the street playing tough boy doesn't mind getting gunned down because OTHERS FELT AFRAID OF THEM.
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  7301.  @DavidRamos-nz4bh  For every one of them with brain function there's a bunch with nothing, but that's only slightly worse than the rest of society.
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  7302.  @DavidRamos-nz4bh  There's a few that are certainly smarter than others. If you have a look at some of the recent interviews with some of those early UFC guys there's clearly significant damage. Bu then there are guys who you wonder why they didn't stay around and keep fighting. Its because they got out before they got damaged. I think some of these guys who should have retired and spent a good life with their families wont have a good life. Dana White however will probably have a life like the Sackler's - protected by an army of lawyers.
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  7303. To be fair there are a lot of people on the left who aren't much better when it comes to getting together and convincing themselves they're right. I have seen plenty of left wing trolls who go berserk when their narrative is challenged. The real difference is the grasp of reality and the narcissism of the commentators.
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  7304. What you just described (deforestation) was almost identical to the description given as reason for floods in a few other places like Bangladesh.
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  7305. There's a fundamental issue with the whole auditing thing. The big auditors are insanely corrupt themselves. I'm Australian - go and look at the issues we currently have with "The Big 4"
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  7306. Agreed. The great cries of "freedom of the press" and "freedom of expression" never seem to include the right to be accurately informed.
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  7307. NO SHAME on the regulators who have been so hamstrung by greedy clowns that they cannot prosecute these people for anti-competitive practices and fraud. In almost every country in the developed world EXCEPT AMERICA there are laws and regulations which set LIMITS ad prevent price gouging and market manipulation. But then America is the "land of the free and the home of the brave" or should that be "America is the land of the billionaires and the home those who get f***ked by them."
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  7308. EITHER Israel is the best Democracy in the middle East is a true statement which means the rest of the middle East is even WORSE than we hear and we should NOT be trading with them and especially NOT sending weapons to them. OR Israel is NOT the best Democracy in the Middle East in which case we should ask "Who is the best Democracy in the Middle East and can we do business with them?" A couple of years ago renowned international Chef Yotam Ottolenghi (as part of his series on the Mediterranean) did a show in Israel and he went (as an openly gay man) to BOTH Jewish and Muslim restaurants and went to the homes of the chefs & cooks of those restaurants. He made a point during that show of saying there's been a lot of bad press regarding what happens Israel BUT FOR many of the population its just NOT TRUE. He showed just how cosmopolitan of a society was present and active. That was only a few years ago and the comparison to the current state of affairs in Israel just goes to show that if you DO NOT take care of your society, then you leave yourselves open to radical populists pandering to minorities. IF those populists gain control then your nation can quickly devolve. That's the problem with populists. To deliver on their promises they often have to break a lot of things and it DOES NOT MATTER if the populists are from the Radical Left or Radical Right - they break things.
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  7309. What Americans really need to be concerned about is what the Charles Koch and Robert Mercer are trying to push America into, which is a constitutional convention. Paul Jay (the Anlysisnews) interviewed Steve O'Keefe about how Trump gave Robert Mercer and other White Nationalist Christian billionaires huge tax cuts. The issue of a constitutional convention is discussed here starting around 35:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFhIq1rAm-M I'm Australian but went to college in America nothing scares me more right now that this. I did engineering I had many discussions with friends about the US Constitution. I'd studied Orwell in high school so understood the concepts of communism socialism and totalitarianism. My American friends always argued those things could never happen in America because the US Constitution had safe guards. We never discussed what might happened if someone found a way to change the constitution or even re-write it. Koch, Mercer and others are outright fanatics and they are not simply a threat to America. Their businesses are GLOBAL and what they are planning has GLOBAL implications. Nobody from Australia, Canada, Japan, Britain, Europe or anywhere else can do anything about this BUT AMERICANS CAN
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  7310. If you want to be critical then be critical of sensible things instead of garbage topics. Most of SCOTUS have been actually been chosen by the Federalist Society which was started at Harvard and Yale. Do you know that 14 of the last 18 SCOTUS judges are either Harvard or Yale, including 8 of the current 9? Oh yeah Ketanji Brown Jackson went to Harvard. Did you or any other American Dem or GOP vote on that? Guess what its a big club and YOU ARE NOT PART OF IT.
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  7311. If she spoke like to an employee she'd get sued for workplace harassment. And yeah YT warned me about the rest of what I tried to say.
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  7312. What's this a politician promoting themselves as something they aren't as they stuff their pockets with money??? WTF - Are we meant to be shocked? This stuff is so endemic to Western Democracy these days I'd be more surprised if there was a honest politician anywhere. I'm Australian and we just had a major scandal break a couple of weeks ago where BOTH sides of our politics have been found to been accepting funding via a lobbyist for the Brazilian company JBS. Its was disclosed how the 2 brothers who own JBS had bribed 1,800 (yeah 1 thousand 8 hundred) Brazilian officials to get money to buy Swift Meats in America and buy companies in Australia. Its all detailed in a US DOJ report. So right now days from a federal election we know both sides are corrupt. We just don't know which is more corrupt Does that sound familiar?.
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  7313. If you Brits want to be even more stupid than you have already been in recent years and think an accountant (because that's what Gerrard is) knows more than your engineers then your welcome to him.
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  7314. What hostage's is he talking about.? What Equipment worth $85 Billion was left behind? That's more than the current cost of 6 Ford Class Aircraft Carriers ($13B. ea. = $78B). And 74 million Americans voted for this idiot to stay as president! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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  7315. David its pretty simple there are some people who will ignore any warning you give them. No matter how obvious something is they will not believe what you say. There's the old saying of "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink" is so true of humans. "You can present obvious reality to some people but you cant get them to accept it."
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  7316.  @theresasmith343  I wont be surprised when I hear the news there's been an was an incident with TC. There was that confrontation in Montana?? but it was only verbal.
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  7317.  @Kevin-pv3kg  Mark Blyth brought it up in a panel the other day. We (the general public) don't know who he owes this massive chunk of money to, just that its someone who banks in the Caymans. He might be more scared of them than anyone else. His resorts have been hammered by COVID and he possibly doesn't have the money to cover the debt. Seriously would you want to owe some mystery man operating secretly through the Caymans a 9 digit sum that you can't pay or stay surrounded by an army of secret service agents sworn to your protection in the White House. He might be staying there because its a safe place where they can't get to him. Its a very interesting idea.
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  7318. Don't forget there was once this guy named Lincoln who cared about people of every skin color and he was a Republican.
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  7319.  @willwebster8711  Sorry DICKHEAD, but I went to college in Illinois you know that place with "Land of Lincoln" on the license plates and I heard a lot of things about Lincoln. Some good, some not so good, but the idea he did things "tantamount to genocide" is so IDIOTICALLY STUPID & RIDICULOUS that I have to wonder what sort of alternate reality your brain exists in. As an Australian who's well aware of the machinations of Rupert Murdoch I'd advise you STOP WATCHING Fox News it will melt your brain.
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  7320. HEY MILLENIALS now you know how us Gen-Xrs feel about YOUR ATTITUDES. You used to be called Gen-Y but that wasn't sophisticated enough for your "aren't we so special" generation. And yeah I noticed in the second line of your comment you didn't even mention us. And its NOT like all of you are ignorant techno junkie clowns with no clue of reality who think an iPhone is a fashion statement and that self awareness comes from social media, but that really does describe most of you. And before you tell me how tech savvy you are. You didn't build the internet WE DID.
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  7321. This guy did pre-law at Harvard and Law at Yale and doesn't seem to know the constitution or how elections are run or how votes are counted and he wants to be President. Maybe the Deans of Law at Harvard and Yale need to check what their professors are teaching.
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  7322. I prefer de Irish limerick technique. There was a young prick called Junior, Useless waste of a rich silver spooner, Never to broke, To snort lots of coke, And makes his quotes look even more screwier.
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  7323. Since we are all being whimsical which of these do you think will end up as Donnie Js theme song. Eric Clapton - Cocaine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ZmzZFWSJY Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhFF_NhaUIU Beck - Loser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE Radiohead - Creep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk
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  7324.  YutubeSucksVersion2  WTF are you blabbing on about?
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  7325.  @michaelj6486  Sorry dickhead but don't because you don't know my situation which is actually similar to your wife's. I've had to remain in partial isolation, out of work waiting until I could get medical clarification. I have had multiple instances of Deep Vein Thrombosis including earlier this year. Due to circumstances I got caught out of Victoria where I am from. So it's cost me a lot of my own money to stay semi-isolated. I have only recently been cleared and got my first jab thankfully without any complications and am due for my 2nd. So I totally understand your wife's predicament and I find it totally egregious that she has NOT been treated fairly. On her treatment you and me are in 100% agreement. I am also against mandates and that is based on the EXPERT advice Dr. Michael Osterholm gave earlier this year. He's the Director of The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy located within the University of Minnesota. He's the guy Joe Rogan interviewed early on and almost everything he's said has come true. He has DECADES of experience with pandemic response. He's totally pro-vaccine and totally against mandates, because in his experience (over decades) is that they DON'T WORK. When the U. of Minnesota went to install a mandate for returning students he was the one who argued against it. His simply stated that the actual issue is there are 3 types of people when it comes to vaccines not 2. 1: The person who will get vaccinated for the simple reason they don't want to get sick. 2: The anti-vaxxer who, for some ideological reason, will never willingly take a shot. 3: The hesitant, who for some reason (medical, social or other) is not yet decided on if they will or wont get vaccinated. The first group aren't a problem and you can't do anything with the 2nd. The problem with mandates is that you risk pushing the 3rd group AWAY form getting vaccinated. Which as Dr. Osterholm pointed out has happened time and time again. He gave examples of parts of Africa. Mandates drive people away from getting vaccinated and that's a disaster for getting the vaccine rate high enough that those who cannot legitimately get vaccinated are not a problem. He did clarify that there are certain high risk environments where you do need mandates. Air travel being one because you have people packed in a plane with a very high infection risk and they are moving from one place to another. So I have had publicly available EXPERT advice on the subject of mandates for most of this year. I have no time at all for SELFISH CLOWNS and their utter garbage about conspiracies and the fact their stupidity is why governments feel the need to lockdown and mandate vaccinations. But there are always people who think the rules don't apply to them and they FK things up for everyone.
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  7326.  @MrChrist741  Never forget that not only do politicians abuse their power but there are others in EVERY society that has ever existed who think that the rules don't apply to them. They are willing to cause any amount of havoc, destruction and chaos so long as they feel its what they want to do at that moment. They have no hesitancy in causing other distress or harm. We tend to call these people narcissists. Sometimes they are in government, or the administration of government, but mostly they are lose in society.
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  7327.  @joebuck4496  Well why don't you try and explain why its absurd. I'm effing tire of childish idiots like you making giant claims and BACKING NOTHING UP. Saying you don't like something ISN'T PROOF of anything.
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  7328.  @evgenigenov3433  I totally get your point, but I think you need to go an see a doctor you trust. I am sorry about your job as I said to Michael J that is totally unfair. As I also said to Michael J I have had multiple instances of DVTs most recently earlier this year. Recently I finally had the chance to sit down with a doctor and we went over it. I wont tell you the discussion, because I am not a medical professional and this is social media where there are trolls and clowns, but I have had my first jab and am due for my second. If you have heart problems then you must have a doctor. Go and see them. if they don't care then go and see a doctor who does. But whatever you do DO NOT TAKE anybody's social media advice on what to take or not take. For you this could be very serious so GO AND SEE YOUR DOCTOR. Best wishes and good luck.
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  7329.  @evgenigenov3433  Not certain what country your in but that is sad when you think there is no way to trust any doctor let alone everyone else. I do understand the feeling however. It certainly seems like we can't trust anyone these days. I blame our governments for most of that. Sure they are people and people are not perfect but when they lie and lie and lie and break promise after promise and when they screw us and help their friends what else are we meant to feel. I do hope your situation gets better and you can find a doctor who will just simply care. You've made me realise that I have been lucky to have had the doctors I have had. Best wishes from Australia.
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  7330.  @joebuck4496  WTF do you mean by "you people" and what generation do you think I'm part of. If you stop gaslighting people for a moment you'll stop looking and sounding like an arrogant clown with no clue.
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  7331.  @joebuck4496  Other people have pointed out that prior notice of a protest or march gives police and authorities the opportunity to block off side streets and take other measures to allow protests to happen without incident. Don't forget moron the worst things happen when 2 opposing sides clash. Its a lot easier for police to keep them separated when they know what's going on. Plus what don't know is that in Australia (and I am certain other places have the same) we have people who are basically professional protesters and they turn up at almost any opportunity looking to cause trouble. These are the people that turn protests into riots. Even crazier is that they come from both ends of politics. Some are far right and some are far left. The only thing they have in common is a propensity for violence, chaos and destruction. So your whole claim of absurdity is absurd and you clearly have no idea of what happens in Australia.
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  7332.  @lobbyskids2  There's nothing there I don't disagree with exit the premise that our governments work for us. That's the basic essence of democracy. Government of the people, by the people for the people. That's unfortunately changing and in some countries the change to plutocracy is almost complete. I've been watching a lot of Scottish political economist Mark Blyth the past few years. He's coined the term Angrynomics which is the state of anger of a population that no longer feels the economy works in their favor. Just recently one of the other panelists he was talking to pointed out that its becoming (and in some cases become) "Government of the corporation, by the corporation for the corporation." That change is effectively complete in America and damn near close in Australia, where the giant dump trucks in mines have more voting rights than humans. Do I think people should be protesting the plutocracy? FARK YEAH! But there's no way that anything will change while protests just end up as out of control riots.
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  7333.  @joebuck4496  I haven't moved the goal post you've just realised how stupid you've been making a claim about something being "absolute" Like some many people on social media you left your brain behind and now its trying to catch up. Take a few deep breaths it usually helps as the brain does require oxygen.
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  7334.  @johnhess9443  So your the one who wants to play the rational game are you. Are you Australian? Have you ever been here? Have you seen our results for handling COVID? Are you aware that a few weeks ago there was a violent protest at one of our Union offices where both radical leftists and radical anti-vaxxers attacked the offices of a LEFTIST UNION? Yeah morons we had RADICAL LEFISTS attacking a leftist union for supporting mandates on work sites so they could get their people back to work. Have you or any other of these idiots heard any of that? NO OFF COURSE YOUR NOT? But then why let facts get in the road of social media shitfuckery.
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  7335.  N.O.S.T.I.A  As I just explained to another clown. If a tiny minority of clowns would just stop being dumb stupid selfish idiots and either get vaccinated or stop being stupid we'd already be out of this mess. But some people just don't think reality or rules apply to them and the rest of us have to bow to whatever they want. And idiots like you don't care about the facts because you are too selfish and too stupid to consider the rest of us.
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  7336.  N.O.S.T.I.A  Nobody needs to ever fear a gutless moron who can't think or reason. The only thing that equal to the stupidity of a radical right winger is a radical left winger. Those of us with brains KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE. And for the record the rest of humanity is tired of all your kind.
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  7337.  @TexTheMaster  Most developed nations have the right to protest or at least publicly state their grievances. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and they dragged me into a lot of discussions on the US Amendments because I had different perspectives on various things. I have also spent time in Canada for work. It gets into interesting areas where you draw the line between what's best for society and what rights you give every individual. I think the US constitution is BOTH brilliant and tragic. Its brilliant because it enshrines some very basic rights for every person in America irrespective if they are a US citizen or not. Its tragic because its allowed some incredibly selfish people to dominate society with their wants at incredible cost to everyone else. Right now in Australia (like other places) we are trying to find a way to deal with a very selfish minority who just don't care about the rest of us.
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  7338.  -VXLKRYEx-  WTF is that meant to mean? "based redpilled"????? Here's 2 words Dunning Kruger.
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  7339.  @oktc68  Great comment but the trolls will be coming. They don't care that we could have done with COVID months ago if they had just done what was needed. Unfortunately pandering to idiots who have no concept of being responsible is going to destroy western society.
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  7340.  -VXLKRYEx-  Yeah sure zoomer boy. Actually a Gen-X. We think of you lot as Gen-Y or Gen-Z because we actually learnt to spell and understand that thing called the alphabet. Maybe you're Gen-Y or as I like to call them Gen-WHY didn't their parents use birth control or Gen-WHY don't they tell us AGAIN how tech savvy they are with the tech that we developed. Maybe you're Gen-Z or as I like to call them Gen-Zero grasp of reality, Gen-Zero brain function or Gen-ZERO relationships cos they are too busy watching internet porn.
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  7341.  -VXLKRYEx-  Can you read? Gen-X zoomer boy Gen-X. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Were you born stupid or did you take special classes?
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  7342. @Miki Miki You r first sentence made sense - it should not have been let out of Wuhan. EVERYTHIGN after that point is just rambling conspiracy garbage. *About the only thing anyone can say with certainty is that a lot of scumbags like Big Pharma, Government, conspiracy promoters, religious freaks and ESPECIALLY CONSPIRACY FREEAKS are all taking advantage of this disaster.*
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  7343.  @romariocoffie4702  I honestly don't know how stupid and smug a person can be and think they are right while being so stupidly wrong. Your words - "Protests are by the people for the people regardless how the state feels about it and any need to suppress a non violent protest because you don’t “approve” of it is definition of facism" 1: It is idiotic to ever claim that any protest is actually for anything other than the people protesting. The utter arrogance of anyone to claim they represent the "good of the public" is beyond being ridiculous. That's what dictators claim when they say "we are making sacrifices for a everyone's good" as they haul people away. Anytime a minority claims to represent the majority it can be called man many things DEMOCRACY is NOT one of them. NONE OF THESE PROTESTERS REPRESENT THE MAJORITY - they are a minority and the rest of us are tired of their selfish crap. 2: These protests were NOT non-violent. How blind to basic facts are you? GET YOUR BASIC FACTS RIGHT BEFORE LECTURING ANYBODY Because like so many I'm FK-ING over morns claiming stupid things.
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  7344.  @romariocoffie4702  Which one of your 5 moronic brainless idiotic comments do you want answered? The smug idiotic one you started with. The ignorant of reality second one The bullshit deflection I never said that crap even though I suggested it third one The I'm not smug your smug answer of a 3 year old 4th one Or the utterly I made no points in the first place but I want to you answer my amazing claim of "AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA" 5th one. Go back to school and get educated on how to be a child. That way you can move on from the kindergarten level temper tantrum.
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  7345.  @romariocoffie4702  I'm not attacking your ideas I AM ATTACKING YOUR IDIOITC LIES. Like all you conspiracy clowns your just plain simple LIARS
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  7346.  Gmmonica godsgotthis  Try ranting a whole lot less and people might want to have a conversation with you.
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  7347. FOR ALL: This Brown U. Prof. Mark Blyth during a post Trump 2016 analysis. Among other things he points out the frustration many people had towards the establishments of BOTH parties and gives the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmBG3Z4DI&t=1104s
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  7348. @bobby sternlicht OK.
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  7349. If he so damn awesome where has he been for the past 2 years? That's right he's had to stay out of the way because the POTUS he put in place is to hopeless to do the job. Sorry but that's the ugly truth. His speech is awesome, but he's NOT the person who should be saying these things. The candidates running should be saying these things. In fact they should have been screaming this stuff from the rooftops and pounding out TV adds. Some of the races like the one in Georgia shouldn't be close. Warnock should be so far in front of Walker that its a dead contest and yet its too close to call. This is one of the common problem infecting Western politics EVERYWHERE. People like Trump and the Obama's continuing to interfere in politics AFTER THEIR TIME.
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  7350.  @thomas8867  Good way to avoid dealing with the issue. ITS THE CANDIDATES WHO ARE RUNNING WHO SHOULD BE CONTESTING. Obama needs to know his place. A coach doesn't run onto the field and push the QB aside and take the snap. But when its needed he stand in front of the media and defends his team. Its called knowing your place. Obama should NOT be campaigning now. Its too damn late, BUT he should also have been going at Trump every chance he had for the past 2 years.
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  7351.  @jeremydyar7566  I hope to hell that's a play on David's oft repeated Trump brain fart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
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  7352. @N A Obama's place is understanding that he is the EX-PRESIDENT not the current president and NOT A CANDIDATE There is nothing racist in that you ignorant woke FK-WIT.
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  7353.  @thomas8867  I have a short fuse with idiots. Particularly idiots who open their mouths without their brains engaged. Think about how much time gets wasted having to deal with idiots instead of getting on and solving the real problems that actually affect our lives. Just imagine if our politicians took just 1 day each week and instead of trying to score meaningless polling points, they just did their job. How much better off would we all be? Just imagine how much better informed we'd all be if the media took just 1 day each week and instead of click baiting and ratings snatching and ramming their opinions down our throats and just told us the basic facts. How much better off would we all be? Just imagine how much better off we'd all be if the insane noise we are hammered with was turned off for just 1 day each week.
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  7354. You are absolutely right that the main stream media have twisted stories to suit certain agendas and been doing it for decades. BUT DON'T wildly claim that these independent journalist don't do the same. SOME of them are truly disgusting narcissists who will twist any story and promote any lie for money, attention or both.
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  7355.  @limitlessapocalypse2702  Well then how come you don't know the basic history of either the Democratic or Republican Parties? How come you don't understand that political parties change over time? I thought American education was slipping but your high school seems to have fallen off a cliff. Here's a leg up. Mark Blyth is the Eastman Professor of Political Economy at Brown University. He was one of the very few who predicted Brexit and Trump. In economics he's one of the smartest people on the planet. Last year he gave 3 lectures during a conference at McMaster U in Canada. This one is on the History of Economics over the last century and how we got to this point in time -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE Sit down and listen because this guy very smart. Its also free and to go to Brown and hear it costs a lot of money. When you can tell me how many economic models we've had this last century and why they failed we can talk further.
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  7356.  @limitlessapocalypse2702  I just sent you a link to a free lecture from one of the worlds top economists you come back with "Kelly is a white supremecist?" Who's Kelly? You are either a bot or the most brainless clown I've dealt with recently. Either start showing some brain function or get reported as a bot.
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  7357.  @WobblyBits_X  ON WHAT do you base the claim that owning multiple properties drives the price up. WHEN ITS OUT OF CONTROL YES I AGREE and that's the problem. Here in Australia we had the government allow a huge concession to investors in rental housing, because we needed the housing. Out population has gone from 19 to 26 million since the year 2000. Canada's growth was even bigger. The problem isn't investors its letting investors get out of control. Plus the other idiotic thing we have done in Australia is let the foreign investors in without any restraints. It was awesome for the construction companies and a disaster for Australians. What we should NEVER have allowed was give investors the tax breaks we allowed on EXISTING houses (NOT apartments), because that was where we had our biggest issues AND STILL DO.
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  7358. @@danp576 Just Hawaii has had this problem godly people taking their land??? How about every country from from Canada all the way down to Chile? Then there's Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the Pacific. And lets not forget that piece of real estate called Africa.
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  7359. You are so right and worse his goon squad are travelling the world spreading this nonsense. People like Bannon have been to Europe. Nigel Farage the Brit who instigated Brexit and left it for others to clean up is funded by the same American billionaires and he was in Australia doing a speaking tour. Neil DeGrasse Tyson said a while back there's this insistence we keep giving people with a counter view 50% of the microphone time. He pointed out that 0.001% of people believe earth is flat and its ridiculous to give them 50% of the microphone time. We have let these people have too much air time already and ENOUGH is ENOUGH.
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  7360. As an aerospace engineer I love Elon for his enthusiasm and his investment. In that he has actually been a very, very good thing for space industrialization and without that we would be worse off. BUT I absolutely hate the fantasies he promotes at times. I suspect its his way of challenging people or his way of inspiring the public. Problem is those of us who know can see through it. I do remember Space Station Freedom because it was the solution to what's next when I was in college (late 80s). Then a little thing called the Challenger accident happened and our hopes crashed with it. Some things of note from that time. Apologies if the following is long and seems like lecture notes. 1: Space Station Freedom was first budgeted at $20Billion. That was TOO expensive so it was redesigned and then budgeted at $30 Bullion. That was TOO expensive and it was then redesigned for a second time and costed at $40 Billion. So that got scrapped and we got the ISS for $200 Billion. 2: The massive costs of operating the Space Shuttle and massive costs it added to the ISS are the main reason nobody has gone back to the moon in 50 years. There just wasn't any money left after the shuttle and ISS. The massive issue is with those costs is that the technologies needed for a moon bas or Mars base have never been fully funded and there's still huge amounts of work to do and most notably in life support. It wont matter if anyone goes to Mars and is dead from a lack of oxygen or carbon dioxide poisoning months before they get there. 3: After Challenger happened and people were calling to scrap NASA it was revealed that the Apollo program had returned almost $10 for every $1 spent. You see all those technological advances had finally started to filter through and pay off back in terms of sales tax and technology exports. Every body knows about Teflon, but many of the aluminum alloys we have across out industries came out of Apollo. But the biggest of all was the computer evolution from the size of houses down to shoe box size. All of Microsoft, Intel, Google, Facebook and the rest of them might not exist if the Apollo AGC wasn't built. The technology boom Apollo kicked off is still generating money to this day. 4: Kelly Johnson (yeah the guy behind the SR-71) told congress to not replace Challenger and instead spend the money on its replacement. He asked for the $3 Billion budgeted and no interference and estimated he could have an SST in 3-5 years. Boeing stepped in, Rockwell stepped in, others stepped and NASA got a 5th shuttle that also cost too much to operate. They then spent over $14 Billion on a shuttle replacement that was NEVER DELIVERED and that $14 Billion doesn't include anything spent on SLS, which still hasn't flown. Best wishes to all.
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  7361.  @aporiac1960  Well you're a fair bit on the fan side and fairly blind to certain things. Your clearly not an engineer or you'd get the points being made. As I said I love Elon for a lot of what he's done, BUT that does not excuse him for some other things that he's got very wrong. Thunderfoot is quite right to have a crack at him for Hyperloop. it was dismissed decades ago for some fairly obvious reasons. The most obvious is the number of people it can transport which for its cost is utterly ridiculous. That was worked out decades ago. As for simply going to Mars, sorry but I DO HAVE THE EDUCATION to comment on that and he's so wrong on that task he ought to be slapped for it. He was totally brilliant on getting electric cars to market and breaking the mindless lethargy of the established manufacturers. BUT he was idiotically wrong on self driving cars and got caught out. Uber made the same mistake, so he's not alone on that one. Thunderfoot isn't perfect, but the arrogant brainless stupidity of these 2 that he's criticizing here is well founded. If you are too blind to see that then you're the insane person.
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  7362. ​ @insaneshepherd8678  Thanks - its good to hear someone else who knows what's what. Go watch the channel Real Engineering and watch the recent video about the issue with wind farms. He does a great explanation of the issue with grid stability and that's where many people who have no idea of what it takes to make a power grid work go wrong. I never did grid level power but did interact with the power engineers on mine sites which have there own power grid. Yes a lot smaller but the principles are the same. It sounds incredibly simple what power engineers do but they have to do it with absolute assurity of grid stability. They are a sort of club that don't like talking to other much because all the rest of us do is cause them headaches. In particular all power grids have to be able to handle disturbances. I once saw a short doco on the British power grid and one of their biggest hassles happens each week night when their most popular TV program ends. Millions of Brits turn on the kettle to make a cup of tea. Normally a kettle should not affect the power grid that supports 60 million people but when you turn on a couple of million all at once it hits the grid like a sledge hammer. Modern societies have similar things every day when people wake up and start turning lots of things on and when they go home and cook diner. It causes huge surges that have to be handled and for that you need a system deigned to handle that. Wind and Solar by themselves CAN NOT DO THAT. They need a system that can. A couple of large nuclear plants would act like a giant shock absorber, but also adding in a couple of those massive gas turbine units adds massive surge capacity. Coal and nuclear plants take 1 to 2 days to het up to full power but these turbines are at full power from cold in about 23 minutes. The first 500MW from the turbine is a few minutes to spin up and a few more to sync but the 300MW from the cogen unit takes longer because it has to build up the steam.
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  7363.  @mjouwbuis  Sorry but methane might not be as dangerous as hydrogen but its still damn dangerous. Ethylene (C2H4) is also incredibly dangerous. So you need to be clear on what you mean by adding a few carbon atoms.
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  7364.  @mjouwbuis  On your copper remark - in what way does copper become an alternative to battery and hydrogen applications. Batteries store energy but in a limited way. Hydrogen can be used as a energy storage or it can simply be produced as a fuel. In what way does copper act as a storage medium or as a fuel?
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  7365.  @Old_Red  It is most common to have 1 but some do have 2 - mine does, but then its a larger laptop with a large screen. it actually doesn't matter what Rudy claims about the hard rives anyway. There's no legal chain of custody and Rudy should know that, but whatever he might have been in the past he clearly isn't anymore. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  7366. I think you are pretty much on the right path. There's all sorts of factors in racism.. There's a few things in this rant (for want of a better word) where Noura Erakat is pretty incredulous. Particularly for a university professor in International Relations (at Rutgers). She seems to not understand some basic concepts. 1) She paints racism as a white only problem. Yes White Supremacists are a blight on human society, but they are far from the only racists in human society. Its actually sourced from inter-tribalism and has been around since the dawn if history. Anytime you get a tribe or cultural group (for whatever reason) victimising in any way people of another tribe or cultural group you have basic racism. Anyone who's done even a basic sociology course learns that. 2) She repeatedly referred to Christian Zionists. Then in the transcript at 4;26 she says _"I don't even know what to call them."_ I find that utterly incredulous because the vast majority of Trump's Evangelical base are "Christian Nationalists" and in fact people like Marjorie Taylor Greene have openly declared themselves as "Christian Nationalists." How is it that an American University Professor with here resume NOT know this? Other than that I do think she's raised 2 really interesting questions: 1) What's the real political motivation for America's unflinching support for Israel? 2) What's the real motivation FOR SOME (not all) of the American Christian Fundamentalist support for Israel?
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  7367. AUSTRALIAN HERE - the true pathetic character of this debate is that it could have happened in Australia in 2019 or Britain in 2019 when BOTH Australian Labor and British Labor ran idiotic campaigns that were assisted by the SAME AMERICAN CAMPAIGN CONSULTANTS that the Democrats use. I just watched a video on the channel Status Coup News titled "DNC Insider EXPOSES Greedy Consultant GRIFT, Why Trump Won" which was about those consultants. I found out in late 2019 from a British person when I asked WHY did British Labor used the same campaign strategy that Australian Labor had which was similar to Hilary's 2016 Campaign AND THEY TOLD ME that it was because the same campaign consultants were involve in all 3 campaigns. What I find utterly implausible is Destiny's attitude that they needed to dump massive slabs of their base. I urge people to go and watch the Question & Answer part following lecture Mark Blyth (Brown U.) gave at McMaster titled "Global Trumpism and the Future of the Global Economy". Just before 1:20:00 he's asked about Elizabeth Warrens policies and he goes on to describe what just happened in America and WHY people like Destiny are so incredibly WRONG. If you really pay attention to mark Blyth you'll also find out WHY Progressives like Cenk keep losing elections despite having popular ideas and policies. And if you have read this far the losing strategy is having COMPLEX policies for everything. By the time you explain them all you've bored the audience to sleep OR WORSE confused them so much that a simple slogan like MAGA works.
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  7368. As an Australian all I can say is that he's at least no bothering us anymore. I wonder if that offer for him to go for swim had anything to do with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWPh8AIVLaA
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  7369. I wouldn't call this a busted video because he keeps pointing out where the Veritasium video was right. Its more like he's a more comprehensive explanation of what's going on with electrostatics and various fluids.
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  7370. Yep we have been through the neo-con era to be followed by the neo-liberal era to arrive at the neo-feudalism era.
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  7371.  @mimihuang968  Dude it has little to do with corporations and a WHOLE LOT OF the top 1% dominating the rest of society. That's been going on for 1000s and 1000s of years. The only thing that ever seems to change is the LABEL the top 1% put on themselves.
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  7372. Someone else just pointed out on another of Kyles vids. These people are currently passing laws to REGULATE who can vote, despite the 15th Amendment, but at the same time claiming nobody is allowed to REGULATE who can own a gun or what types of gun they can own.
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  7373. Australian here - I think you are right. That's NOT the problem. The problem is how many others will they take down with them? What's going to be the cost to the rest of us?
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  7374. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powell interview. I have left a separate answer with additional background information about why Australia is so concerned about Rupert Murdoch's behavior in America. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powell Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  7375.  @laberlaban  The point of this particular thread is being either sarcastic, facetious or any of a few other words. Ruing the mood IS NOT WELCOME
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  7376. AUSTRALIAN HERE Outside opinion. Tucker is an obvious choice, but then there's a few others like Marjorie Greene and Kari Lake. They're all suck ups who don't care about facts. Its all an attention seeking power trip for them. Trump's main aim is simple - get elected by any means so that he can get immunity. Because no matter what he'll be immune from EVERYTHING because no matter what the GOP wont allow him to be touched no matter what he does. They proved that following January 6th. People like McConnell and others in the GOP simply DO NOT CARE. The GOP are so far gone down the rabbit hole that nothing matters except remaining in power or at least being in a position to prevent anyone else having any real power. This is what happens when you let fanatics take power. This is what America needs to rapidly wake up to, because next year you are NOT simply voting on the future of America you are voting on the future of Western civilisation as we know it. All the trade and security agreements that have brought so value to all our nations are on the line. NONE of us want another 4 years of Trump simply tearing down anything he doesn't like as he panders to the whims of dictators. I know people like Thom Hartman have been writing "What if?" pieces of late BUT WHAT do you people think happens once he rips up NATO and lets Putin have a free hand? What do you people think happens in the Middle East when Trump lets Netanyahu do what ever he wants even worse than Biden has done? What do you people think happens when he lets China have a free hand over Taiwan? YEAH WE KNOW the Trumps have stronger business ties to the Chinese worth a lot more than the Bidens ever had. We know the Chinese granted Ivanka Trump all of her trademarks while she was on a tax payer funded trade junket there. We know how hard it is to get anywhere with the Chinese on IP and Trademarks and yet Ivanka just got everything she asked for. Trump 2.0 would be a disaster way worse than anything you people realise.
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  7377.  @zachgates7491  On your Aramaic and Greek. comment. What total absolute BS. If that were true every Rabi, priest, preacher, seminary student would be wrong. So you don't like Chomsky - fine we get that. But FK-OFF with the bad faith garbage.
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  7378.  @zachgates7491  Just FK-OFF with the smart-ass jibes. You know nothing of my background or education. BUT you've already shown an ignorance for other people's education. You claimed 2 people were self educated when they both actually have extensive educations including Masters and PhD's. My bet is you're the self educated one.
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  7379.  @zachgates7491  And you ranting off without ever explaining to anyone what your education is. I can tell your NOT EDUCATED. Only the uneducated attack people the way you are. I did aerospace engineering, but I also had to do electives outside of my chosen field. There were these misguided people who claimed it would make us well rounded. My electives include d psychology, economics, sociology and classical civilization. For a lark I did scuba as a PE class.. Closer to aerospace I did classes in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry, physics, thermodynamics and material sciences. You see that's how I know you're uneducated. You'd know people study a lot of other things along with their core. Either that or you just another moronic social media clown who thinks having an opinion is all that matters.
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  7380.  @JD-gw3fp  Seriously go FK-YOURSELF with the authoritarian crap. Are you claiming we are like the communists from the eastern block or China or North Korea? We have a right wing government in power right now. Yeah moron we have the equivalent of the GOP in power. Try using your other braincell the one your using is FKD.
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  7381.  @Arnsteel634  Look you ignorant bot we've all had enough of the rot and garbage you people spew out. We've genuinely had enough. Either you people stop this garbage and start THINKING or the world as we know it is stuffed. Yeah sure there are corrupt people in science you can find them all denying climate change is real and that its caused by human behaviour. Your kind is always talking about truth and the reality is you don't care about truth.
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  7382. I'm Australian so I have no skin in the game of whether Britain is or isn't part of Europe. But as an outside observer its incredibly obvious that the Brexiteers had no actual Brexit plan. IMHO Nigel Farage's career was complaining about Europe and more importantly blaming Europe for anything and everything that he could. Like all populists he never had any real plan for anything. This is very typical of populists - their only intention is to complain about and blame others by making as much noise as possible. Look at what Trump has done in America. Sadly like Trump Nigel Farage will never accept any responsibility for anything he's done. Maybe if Britain is lucky one day someone will throw his nonsense, garbage, arrogance, selfishness and hypocrisy right back in his face.
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  7383. YES, DONALD TRUMP ACHIEVED A COUPEL OF VERY IMPORTANT THINGS 1: He let every every educated person know that if you ignore the people who weren't as fortunate as you then they might elect a con man and take over your country. 2: He let every major political party in the Western World know that if lie and cheat then eventually people will vote for somebody else even if they know its stupid. 3: He let everyone know just how easy it is for a person with money and access to the media to snatch your nation out from under your feet.
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  7384.  @TheMbello  On the channel big think Neil DeGrasse Tyson (who I don't always agree with) had a great take on the issue with the media and part of their behavior. Its part of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S58vlJwhwDw
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  7385.  @Ln-cq8zu  I'm actually an aerospace engineer and during my senior year at college we had a special guest lecturer on day. He was an alum who'd just completed a project to assess what it would take to terraform Mars. This was 1987 and despite the loss of Challenger we thought this guy was going to pep us up and spell out the future. He started with "Forget it an here's why!" He then explained to us what they'd worked out. The single biggest problem is just how much stuff you need which is staggering numbers. If you want I'll show a few things. But then even if we wanted to build inside some domes, there's the massive issue that we have NEVER been able to build a self contained self sustaining biological environment. They tried again and again with biodome and it failed again and again. There are some people working on much simpler systems where they know they have to manage things and they do show some promise. But then that leads to the next problem: Where do you the stuff you need? Where do you get the stuff to make the dome and then where do you get the air to fill it. If you want a hemispherical dome with 1km³ of volume and you do need to start with cubic kilometers if you want a reasonable colony. Because you need volume for your colony to live and grow food and do other stuff. That dome has a radius of 781.6meters and a surface area of over 3.8km². Where do you get that much material to build it? A cubic kilometer of air weighs 1.3 Million tons. YES TONS. We don't tend to think of air as having weight but it has 1.3kg/m³. And a cubic kilometer is 1,000,000,000 cubic meters. Sorry but Elon's Mars fantasy fails basic math every time.
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  7386. Americans and all other Westerners NEED to pay attention to this because its a great example of the use of political 1/2 truths. The problem with political 1/2 truths is that because of the bit that's true THE LIE gets credibility and gets believed or accepted by the audience. ITS TRUE America (the mainland) was never bombed during WW1 or WW2 or during the Wars in Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq, or Afghanistan BUT IGNORES THE FACTS THAT 1000s and 1000s of Americans were in those conflicts and DIED in those conflicts. IT IGNORES the incredible expense paid by the American people in straight financial cost of those conflicts. IT IGNORES the fact Parts of America have been attacked in the past Hawaii and the Aleutians in WW2. Washington was actually invaded and parts of it burned to the ground buy the British during the War of 1812 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington. What about New York and 9/11 or the wars that followed? Aren't those scars enough for Tucker to be proud of being American? Aren't all the 1000s of American service men and women who died in Iraq & Afghanistan enough for Tucker to be proud of being American? Aren't all the 1000s and 1000s of American service men and women with permanent damage from serving in Iraq & Afghanistan enough for Tucker to be proud of being American? You see when you tell a political 1/2 truth its then very easy to tell lies and have the audience believe them or for the audience to completely ignore historical facts
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  7387.  @MrLifter20  America didn't sell its soul in the civil rights era it sold its soul after it when Ronald Reagan adopted the "Greed is Good" nonsense of Milton Friedman, renamed it Reaganomics and then slowly gutted America from the inside out. Reagan then Thatcher (with Thatcherism) then others like Australia with what we called "Economic Rationalism" sold our souls to the top 1% and their profits. One of Milton Friedman's contemporaries British economist and another of the Chicago School Ronald Coase tried to get the US government to auction off the air frequencies for TV when it first emerged. It was REJECTED and REJECTED and REJECTED because they all knew it would lead to media monopolies because the people with the most money would be able to out bid and then control the new media of Television. But they gave Coase the Nobel Prize and then the world started auctioning off everything they could. I first heard about this when Mark Blyth (Rhodes Centre Podcast) interviewed Elizabeth Popp Berman about her book "Think like an economist." Its here on YouTube. Interesting when the American Economists went to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet System they convinced the Russians to auction off the state assets. In their ignorance they didn't realise the only people in Russia with any money were the KGB officers and other government rats. That's how the Russian Oligarchs got their hands on some of the worlds richest resources for pennies on the dollar. When you look at the origins of the current conflict it traces back to those auctions and who got control of what. So in a way the entire disaster that is the Russia-Ukraine war can be traced back to Reagan selling America's soul to the "Greed is Good" of Milton Friedman. I just watched an interview with Larry Wilkerson and he hinted at something I have suspected for some time that the reason America blew up the Nord Stream pipeline (and yes it was America) was to help the American companies sell liquified gas to Europe. Ships cannot compete with a pipeline. Another case of "Greed is Good."
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  7388.  @reubennichols644  The problem is the existential threat isn't a singular threat. The Democrats are just as much of an existential threat to democracy as the Trump lead GOP.
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  7389. It goes with Bill Clinton breaking one of the 11th commandment's expanded clauses. "Thou shall not get caught with ones penis in the wrong mouth." other expanded clauses include "Thou shall not get caught out while interfering with an investigation." (Nixon) "Thou shall not get caught out by others interfering with your plans to get the hostages back." (Carter) "Thou shall not get caught out raising taxes after promising you wont" (Bush 1.0) "Thou shall not get caught out lying to the world about who has WMDs" (Bush 2.0) "Thou shall not get caught out with one's son in law getting $2 Billion." (Trump again) "Thou shall not get caught out paying off ones mistress to shut her mouth." (Trump again) "Thou shall not get caught out trying to cheat on an election result." (Trump again and again and again.......)
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  7390. Its might not be as stupid as it seems. As David pointed out yesterday the majority of Republicans are most likely going to find Trump innocent. So Trump could use an actual dog as counsel who could simply bark in the trial and they'd still vote innocent. This is the idiocy of American politics - facts do not matter, about ANYTHING.
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  7391. Actually its been standard policy for every elected politician in the Western World for at least 50 years. Telling the truth is almost irrelevant for any politician these days because even if they tell the truth who believes them other than devoted blind ignorant followers?
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  7392. @V good point. Its just that there are few professions where lying is part of the job and most of those are criminal. There's almost societal acceptance of it in politics.
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  7393. ATTENTION ALL: Just to prove how utterly ignorant this story is go and look up the List of nuclear weapons on Wikipedia and you will very quickly find out that the B61 was first put into production in 1967 and was in full production in 1968. There have so far been 13 variations. There have been 3155 made and the current cost of a Version 12 is $28 million. THAT TAKES MINUTES TO FIND Its not a new bomb its an update to a bomb that's been around since the 1960s. PLUS for the numerically literate. The Hiroshima bomb was 13-18 kilotons. The W76 from the Trident I and Trident II (submarine ballistic missiles) are up to 100 kilotons and a Trident I could carry up to 8 (800kt total) and Trident ii up to 14 W76s AND the Ohio-class can carry up to 24 Trident. BUT WAIT the Trident II missile can also use the W88 warhead which is up to 475kt but then the missile only can carry 8 of them. So a single Trident I can deliver up to 1400 kt or up to 107 times what the Hiroshima bomb delivered, BUT a trident ii can delivered as much at 5,700 kt of explosive power or over 316 times and maybe over 400 times what Hiroshima AND an OHIO-class can have 24 of those missiles.
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  7394. How about we call it the Clobama Party because its run by the Clintons and Obamas.
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  7395.  @rylian21  No need there's a reference on his Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman ref #22 I have read the report and to say its the same as what happened in Georgia is utter crap. Did he over react? Absolutely. Should he have gotten in trouble for it? Absolutely. But its America. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  7396.  @jjmill5209  Actually John Fetterman did chase after a guy with his truck. Its there on his Wikipedia page near the end of the section on "career." There's a reverence to a news paper article which you can read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman ref #22 There's a couple of similarities, but other than those its no where near the incident that happened in Georgia. Are some of the details disputed? Yes, but No violence, No shots fired, No one dead and the police were involved. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  7397. Someone else just pointed out on another of Kyles vids. These people are currently passing laws to REGULATE who can vote, despite the 15th Amendment, but at the same time claiming nobody is allowed to REGULATE who can own a gun or what types of gun they can own.
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  7398.  @baxile  Well its fairly questionable that 90% of the Chinese population is 100% behind the CCP. I'd grant you its probably pretty high, except in places like Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet. But lest face it most Chinese probably know its better to say they approve of the CCP rather than get a trip to a re-education camp. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  7399. Careful I first read that as MSN not MSM (main stream media) and assumed you meant MSNBC which is part of Microsoft, which is also a massive part of the overall problem or corporatized media. If you get a chance go back and check the 2004 documentary "Outfoxed" in it they warned that Murdoch's methods were dragging the rest of the media into the same business model. That's why politics in the media as well as the media's incessant need to hype stories into full frenzy mode like the A Current Affair story shown here, has become the giant maelstrom of garbage it is.
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  7400. I'm Australian and the interesting thing on that is that Charles has hinted in the past that countries like Australia should consider their future and constitutional arrangements. After the last time we had a referendum on it failed quite a few Australian Republicans said they'd wait until Elizabeth stepped down or died. So I we'll have another referendum on the subject. If the Australian Republicans are smart (which they weren't last time) they'll wait a respectful amount of time and be respectful to our past and likely win. If they repeat the stupidity of last time they'll lose. The one thing I can say Australians don't want is a highly politicised head of state like America does. That was what some of them wanted last time and was why it lost.
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  7401. Great comment and you're 100% accurate I remember that debate that's shown here. You can see the whole thing if you search YouTube for "oxford union debate woke culture has gone too far" I was amazed at how Konstantin behaved in that debate parts of which were almost deranged. I HAD (past tense) been a fan of the Triggernometary podcast he co-hosts which until a few years ago was excellent. Their claim was "interesting people and interesting conversations" and when I first started watching them that's exactly what they were. Early in the Ukraine conflict Konstantin (who's of both Russian and Ukrainian descent) was part of a BBC discussion panel and he was brilliant. He gave some of the best perspectives I have seen anyone give on that conflict. There were 2 notable changes in Konstantin's behavior since then. Triggernometry interviewed David Pakman an American Leftist commentator and David Pakman did a disgusting troll video afterwards. Normally Pakman is accurate and balanced in his commentary but that video was totally unwarranted and unreasonable. Konstantin did a reply video where he showed how upset he was and he was justifiably upset. Around the same time Triggernometry interviewed Nigel Farage and not long afterwards started doing promotions for Nigel Farage's financial consultancy. It was after that Konstatin took a giant leap to the conservative side of public discussion and a lot of it has been utterly disgusting. He toured my home country of Australia on what's best described as a white supremacist culture crusade for a radical far right think tank. So if you ever hear Konstantin say he was trolled by a Lefty then he is telling the truth, but that DOES NOT EXCUSE his psychotic right wing garbage that he's been pushing.
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  7402. You are right on the money. During a recent American 60 minutes a US Navy commander commented about containing China and his reply was "Do the Chinese need to be contained?" and it was in reference to what China has done in the South China Sea. Its exactly the same thing with journalists. "Do journalists need to be contained or limited?" I think that after all the cappy misinformation and nonsense they have been pumping out in recent years the answer is YES THEY DO LIMITS! But we also need to be very careful of what those limits are because if they cant tell us about things we should here about that's dangerous.
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  7403.  @Abdul-Akeem_Akinloye  Its about the only thing I remember and its sort of priceless.
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  7404. The Panama papers were released and NOTHING happened and NOBODY went to jail. The Paradise papers were released and NOTHING happened and NOBODY went to jail. Anybody who thinks anything will happen or if anybody will go to jail with this load is just wishful thinking.
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  7405.  @smcdonald9991  On the Westminster. First I'm an aerospace engineer and was trained in complex systems. Its one reason why I like Mark Blyth as uses similar techniques to explain economics. So don't ask for any political theory or I might drown you in complex system theory. You're partly right about our system the elected officials of our lower house are very tightly bound to the party, but that can opt out of any vote and even cross the floor, but it usually comes at a cost. There are also times when members put forward a "private members bill" which is allows freedom from party politics. There are also conscience votes where somebody will abstain or cross the floor. Our Senate is picked based on the percentages that parties get on the senate ticket. So its a place where minor parties and independents get in often. Most of the time they have no power beyond calling out party hacks when to they do the wrong thing. But every so often a group of them get what's called the balance of power. Where neither party has absolute control of the Senate. They then get immense power and the smarter ones have done well by us with that. So yes most of our politics is dominated by party politics at both state and federal level. Yes it has issues, but whose system doesn't. As to being unfair your wrong because most Australians vote for the party not the local candidate of that party. Trust me at least half our politicians would not ever get elected if they had to stand up and speak for themselves. Our politicians campaign as parties not individuals. If there is a huge downside to that its a lack of independent voices. BUT that's changing - at our last election the main independents did co-fund commercials and those were basically run as "If you don't like the main parties vote for one of us" and it was successful. Its been proven repeatedly that if you are an independent and you can build a public profile with some air time and simply put 1 or 2 good points up you can beat even the most entrenched party hack. Australian's fundamentally don't like our parties and we do like sending them messages to behave and do some stuff that helps us or we will kick you into the gutter. In fact a good way for a party to get rid of someone is NOT run a candidate in their electorate particularly if there is a good independent running. When Australians want to send a message we don't like switching from one party hack to another party hack. We do like voting for the true underdog as way to kick a poly in the teeth and independents fit that nicely. So in some ways our system is as f--ked as any other and in other ways we do get a far better chance of kicking ratbags out.
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  7406.  @smcdonald9991  On the possibility of a party getting power with less of the popular vote it is possible in Australia and we have had cases of that in the past with Gerrymandering. Not so much at the Federal but the state of Queensland used to do it and the National Party controlled the place for a long time with only about 33% of the popular vote. The Joke used to be that "In Queensland sheep vote." Since that time most boundaries are controlled by the electoral commission who have the mandate "keep it fair" and it mostly works.
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  7407.  @smcdonald9991  On Australia becoming a republic there's a real issue with the pro-Republicans as there are 2 factions who hate each other. So they will never combine and get the job done and then let the Australian people decide what style of POA (president of Australia) we want. The first group are basically minimalists who want nothing to change except the Governor General becomes "Australia's Representative" instead of the "Queens Representative." Its a name change and that's all. All current functions and executive powers stay as is and that is the most popular option. The other side want an elected politician and the bulk of the Australian DON'T want that at all because we see what its done to America. If it was put forward as an Irish style President it might get through. But basically that camp want a US Style POA and it simply wont happen and is even less likely after Trump. The Royals knowing that division only stifle debate screaming we'll be like America and it kills the discussion every time. The biggest thing is one group of republicans want a US style very politically active POA and the bulk of the population just doesn't. Its a case of loud minorities getting in their own way. Most likely we will become a republic when the Queen dies or abdicates. Charles himself has said himself that (other than the protectorates) the nations of the Commonwealth should become independent republics. At some point we have to grow up. That wont end the Common Wealth as there are already members who are Republics like South Africa.
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  7408. That's an interesting comment and I may have previously replied to it but then Gerrard and his friends deleted every comment I made on this page. Have you seen the video by Real Engineering on the issues with Wind in Ireland? If you have then you are on the right path. As an engineer I am utterly frustrated by people like Gerrard who's an accountant NOT and engineer. Its problem across the entire World regarding the energy crisis. People prefer to clowns like Gerrard who's just repeating stuff he's heard without any real understanding.
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  7409. Its actually 7.8 billion, but your point is right on the money. 2 of the major problems are food distribution and food wastage along with many others. Where climate change is going to smash the world is in food production which is at risk of collapse. I'm Australian and we are in the envious situation that we have excess food production. We have 25million people and produce food for 75 million. We have a problem coming. Our banks are addicted to home loans and they want our population to climb to 35million then 45 then 55 and maybe onto 65 million. Even at 35 million the problem is obvious if we don't increase our food production from 75 up to 85 million then 10million people elsewhere starve. At that point there will be millions of people looking at Australia with enough food to feed 40million extra people. They wont care that its dropped from 50 to 40 they will just see the excess and jump in boats. That creates the next problem which is at the 25 million we now have we are running out of water. You see our rain fall is falling on some parts and climbing in others and when it does rain its like what happened in Europe, China and India this last week. And that's our next problem. Some of our traditional farmland that's been incredibly productive for decades is now getting LESS water. So that 75 million of food we produce is already at risk. Getting that up to 85 million so we can handle the extra 10 million people the banks want coming here and taking out home loans is a problem NOBODY wants to talk about. Like other places we don't have 1 problem we have a heap of interconnected problems. California which produces 1/4 of America's food an a lot that's exported is another major food bowl at risk.
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  7410. Not necessarily. Like every system of government its about HOW its applied. If there was a theocracy that actually did follow Jesus or a few other prophets then there'd be free health care for all, free education for all, there wouldn't be the money in religion like there is today. If those maniacs in Eastern Europe had actually followed some of what Marx told them about being fair those countries would NOT have collapsed they way they did. These days I hear so many people screaming about capitalism and the NEVER point out that its the current from of rapacious capitalism we now have that's the problem. They all forget that under the post WW2 Keynesian system inequality was lowest its ever been, WEALTH increased across most of society. Then Reagan and the neoliberals started pulling apart all the things that had made American society so wealthy that they went to the Moon with the spare change. The things is if you let ANY of these political systems go unchecked into the hands of people who will abuse society it doesn't matter what kind of "ocracy" or "garchy" that you have the bulk of society will end up suffering.
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  7411. ​ @sylviarichardson2138  Not certain on the IQ. Both Obama and Clinton are both incredibly smart people. Where Carter slaughter both Clinton and Obama is on dealing with foreign leaders. both Clinton and Obama might have been smart but they were also arrogant. That's why AFTER being president Carter has been so effective on the international stage. He was somebody other nations could actually talk to and then NOT be lectured about American prowess. Its a thing that's rarely discussed any more and its called statesmanship and Carter might go down as America's last great statesman. As someone who went to college in America I find it bewildering that a country like America with a well educated population does NOT have better statesmanship. I tell Australians all the time that America does not lack for good leaders its just that NONE of them are in Washington. I'll give you 2 examples of what I mean by leadership. 1) Go watch the acceptance speech Andrew Whitworth gave at the NFL awards in 2021for the Walter Payton Award. Most of the others are also fantastic displays. 2) Go watch the Commencement address Admiral William McRaven gave at U. Texas. If you look at almost any field of human endeavor there are American's at or near the top. If you look at Washington - is it a swamp or haven of leadership. AND BEING fair I can ask the same questions about Canberra and I get the same answers.
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  7412. Yeah and this is why Trump is so certain the Dems cheated. In Trumps brain he was out cheated. What else explains losing?
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  7413. Try applying Occam's razor - the simplest explanation is generally the answer. Yes there were lots of people who wanted Epstein silenced, but WHO had the actual capability of getting the job done and then NOBODY looking for the answer. They had to bribe the guards to NOT be there. They had to make sure there was no surveillance footage or that it disappeared. They had to get into a prison and get out without anyone seeing. They had to make sure there was no real investigation. There's so many things that have had to happen for this to just go away. WHO COULD make all of those things happen other than someone with incredible power.
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  7414. AUSTRALIAN HERE: This is incredibly surprising, but also great news for the entire Western World. If we can't hold our leaders accountable then we are doomed. I actually thought he'd get off for the simple reason that so many other people of similar public position have never even been charged let alone gone to trial let alone been convicted. So well done America for finding a way to make your justice system work and hold him accountable.
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  7415. HUGE FOLLOW-UP COMING. Just after this was posted the news started coming in - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in prison. How he died is unknown.
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  7416. Lindsey Graham (on twitter) "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it." 7:03 am · 4 May 2016 That's the exact time and date because its still there to copy & paste, like I just did.
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  7417. "wouldn't mind" is just a slight understatement, kind of like calling a nuclear weapon a good alternative for New Years Eve fireworks. He is a tempestuous child who is taking the word "NO" badly and its quite possibly the first time in his adult life he has been told NO.
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  7418.  @justsaying14  What have I lied about DlCK-HED All I have said is maybe this is just a giant prank.
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  7419. Yes and the next thing that needs to start happening is the EXPOSING the people who do this. These videos don't just fall out of thin air. People KNOWINGLY take footage and edit it and post is claiming its something they KNOW is NOT TRUE. And it wouldn't be a bad thing if governments started making it illegal to create, produce and post FAKED or EDITED video and photographs that are posted as FACT. In the past newspapers used to send out their own photographers so they KNEW the origin of photographs. Other Media used to send out their people with microphones and cameras and they KNEW the origin of the materials they reported on. Plenty of times I have seen photographs or video and there's a label in the corner saying "archive" or "stock footage" and a DATE for when it was taken.
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  7420.  @LewisPulsipher  Like a few others he's good on geopolitics. I just hate when he gets into subjects he DOES NOT UNDERSTAND like engineering.
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  7421.  @alireza5546  Agreed on all of it. As I just said in another reply - I like Peter when he's talking geopolitics because he knows his stuff on that, but when he starts talking technology he just sucks. He needs to hire an engineer (or 2) and get his facts right.
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  7422. Rudy Giuliani and his lawyer have already been caught out and they are in trouble. They claimed he to ill to travel and he turned up on twitter having fun. They claimed that he couldn't fly and yet its turned up he's booked flights to other places including Italy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4arIcTixtSk
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  7423. I'm the other way. I stopped watching him about a year ago. Before that Jimmy seemed to be fine up to that point where the Squad didn't force the vote. Something in Jimmy broke and he's just gone of the rails. Maybe it was always an act - Jimmy was always on about being progressive and at its heart progressivism is about change. Jimmy used to interview people like Mark Blyth, Richard Wolff and others who are saying the world needs to change. When the Squad did nothing to force change I think Jimmy saw it as a complete betrayal. Jimmy's still about change its just that he now wants to do it with a wrecking ball named Trump.
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  7424. AUSTRALAIN ENGINEER HERE: I like your channel but you have a couple of things in this video that are horrendously wrong and anyone who has spent time in any industry would be able to understand it. My degree is in aerospace but I have worked in industrial control systems and automation for 30+ years across a number of industries. I have worked on project ranging from a few $1,000 to multi-billion dollar projects where at times I have been responsible for several hundred million dollars of plant. After a small consulting job in 2016 that alerted me to Australia's energy crisis (and yes its a crisis) and the complete lack of anything resembling a plan I got interested in energy. More to the point I wanted to know why there's NO plan and 8 years later there still isn't. There's policies but policies ARE NOT plans. FIRST - The problem Australia has is common across the entire developed world. That problem is in 2 parts. One simply not recognising that we were always going to have the energy transition because of the simple fact that power stations wear out and have to be replaced. Two the dominance of economists in decision making including in things they have no understanding of like power stations. Mark Blyth the Political Economist at Brown U. says (paraphrasing) "Its hardwired into economists that they see everyone else as a problem that they have to manage." Dr. Jason Hansen is NOT an ENGINEER he's an economist and therefore part of the problem. I don't care if he's employed by Idaho National Labs or not. Here in Australia The CSIRO has made the same mistake. They hired economists to evaluate nuclear power and got the opposite answer to Jason Hansen. our main science organisation CSIRO just released a report on energy and it too is done by economists and they say the complete opposite to Jason Hansen. Economist are MANIPULATORS of data. If I didn't know better I'd say they have a special class in every Economics Syllabus titled "How to manipulate data and statistics to mean whatever you want!" SECOND - A major problem which you do partly address but not well enough is the issue of grid stability. For anyone interested the YouTube channel Real Engineering explained this in a video titled "The Problem with Wind Energy." The real value that nuclear brings is grid stability by virtue of the size of nuclear plants. Plants based on reactors like the AP1000 and EPR 2 (which are the current generation) with passive safety, are what people need to consider because they have been built and are running. THIRD - And sorry but this is where you made a huge mistake. For someone claiming to be a Science educator you let fly with a ridiculous claim on efficiency. EVERY Thermodynamic process has an efficiency. Something could have an efficiency of 0.00000001% and you can still say its efficient. Claims of efficiency are spurious and misleading unless you compare it to something else and for the record. The EPR 2 has a thermal efficiency of 36% (see Hinckley Point C on Wikipedia) The AP1000 has a thermal efficiency of 33% (see Vogtle on Wikipedia) Gas or Coal thermal plants have historically been around 35-36% but can be as high as 42-43% with high pressure boilers. I know Rio Tinto helped a Japanese plant get over 42% in the mid 2000s. But I also know some of the older coal plants (like Hazelwood) fell away to be around 20% towards the end of their lives. Gas turbines can be as high as 45% (GE claim the 9HA.02 at 44%) Combined Cycle Gas turbines can be almost 65% (GE claim the 9HA.02 in CC at >64%) I personally think that there will be an enormous amount of work done on improving efficiency in coming years especially in the area of waste heat. It does NOT matter which process we have been incredibly wasteful with all these technologies. It wont be easy but we have to be better with energy. If you look at something like an EPR 2. The thermal energy is 4,524 MWt and output is 1,630 MWe. which means there's almost 3 GW of energy going to waste. YES the temperature differential is lower but we have to find a way to tap into that. If the nuclear industry wants a future learn to tap that and the LCOE will go down a significant amount. One of the most interesting claims I have heard was from Mark Blyth the Political Economist at Brown U. who's one of the very few people from the economics area with a functioning brain. He pointed out a study that said if America simply triple glazed its windows the energy saving would help America get most of the way to its Paris requirements. All those glass towers in the big cities are staggeringly poor at thermodynamics. They either let in too much energy when its hot and act like greenhouses which requires energy to cool them OR they leak massive amounts of energy when its cold and need huge amounts to keep them warm. IF YOU WANT TO TALK BOUT THIS STUFF LET ME KNOW
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  7425.  @mysticx0  The please explain what people are going to do for electricity where there is no viable wind and solar? I am all for putting in all the wind and solar that we can, but to think it will do everything for everyone is utterly IGN0RANT of basic reality. So you and all the other clowns like you better explain what you are going to do for those places where its impractical.
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  7426. Yeah you are right but Pat Robertson was pretty much bang on right. God would reject America right now NOT because of others but BECAUSE of people like Pat Robertson. This is the bizarre thing about Christian Religious conservatives of any denomination - Jesus constantly condemned the conservatives of his day. The last 1/3rd of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew ch7) is all about them and how they would be rejected. All through the Gospels Jesus condemned them for hypocrisy and for their greed and money laundering. He handed out free health care, free food and free education. By any basic measure Jesus was a Lefty progressive socialist. He just wasn't a maniac about it. He never said money is evil and that you can't own nice things, but what he did say was that greed and selfishness were bad and THAT was why they had the Romans kill him. If Jesus was alive right now and doing his thing in America the Pat Robertson brigade would do EXACTLY what the religious leaders did 2000 years ago. They'd get the secular government to take him out.
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  7427. Notice everything in that add is Here's something this person did versus here's what someone said that person is/did/does/says, WITHOUT any reference to who these people making those claims are???? Its one of the standard media and political tricks to fool people.
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  7428.  @SonOfTamriel  That's an ugly way to put it and utterly TRUE. I'm old enough to have seen a lot of the stuff they pumped out after WW2. Growing up through the 70s and 80s Germans, Japanese and native Americans (as in every last one of them) were seen in a very negative light. There has been a "Hollywood narrative" and its been there a very long time. Don't forget Superman's reason for being on Earth wasn't to protect the Australian way, Canadian way, British way or French or any other way. Although there is an incredibly interesting side thought to his line "Truth, Justice and the American Way" because it implies that Truth and Justice are NOT part of the American Way otherwise why mention them as separate ideals.
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  7429. EVERYONE SHOULD GO AND WATCH the PBS Frontline on the 2008 GFC and the reasons why the DOJ did not prosecute the Wall Street CEOs. I'll get to why this is important. Lanny Breuer, Eric Holders (2IC) and the lead on the cleaning up after the GFC straight up admits to the camera that they couldn't do it for "economic reasons." Yes the guys who gave the world the GFC that cost you me and the rest of the planet $17 Trillion (by some estimates and over $40T on others) got off because of economic reasons. WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT - Because the 2 guys in the Whitehouse - Obama and Biden were/are both lawyers. Obama went to Harvard and then was a professor at U of Chicago's Law School and he could NOT manage America's legal issues. Basically this rot in the American justice system goes back a long way and is now so cancerous it risks the entire US System and that has grave consequences for the rest of the world. I'm Australian and we are lining up to buy submarines from a country we might NOT be able to depend on because the President is either senile or too temperamental. Other than what Australia has with submarines, the single most important thing for Americans to get is that ever since Breton Woods back in 1944 the US Dollar has been the World's Reserve Currency. Fairly much all of global trade is either done in US Dollars or the money exchanges are backed by US Dollars. So if the US Dollar becomes unstable because America puts another maniac or senile old man in the Whitehouse then all of global trade is at risk. All Krystal has said is "the Democrats can do the same thing the Republicans did with Reagan and it will all be Okay!" Sorry girl but the world wasn't at war when Reagan was in office and besides that there were people doing some seriously stupid stuff during that time - like the Iran-Contra deal. SORRY - Krystal the Reagan thing didn't work. America needs a real leader in the Whitehouse. Democrat, Republican or something else IS YOUR CHOICE. Just don't forget the rest of the world has TO DEAL WITH YOUR CHOICE.
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  7430. Aerospace Engineer here - Engineers have been trying for DECADES to explain to people what is and what is NOT REAL and most of you dolts prefer Hollywood fantasy and illusions and delusions to basic reality. Here in Australia we have been trying to tell people for over a decade that we need to get on and build new power stations to replace the older ones that are worn out, BUT NO, Elon comes along with his mega battery and we all get told to STFU. We tell everyone that its a BATTERY and it STORES power NOT GENERATE power, BUT NO Elon's a genius and we get told to STFU. We tell everyone its the same battery technology that's in their phone and that it will need replacing in a few years time, BUT NO Elon's a genius and we get told to STFU. Now Australia is facing an energy crisis that could break our nation and no matter what the engineers say the answer is, Elon's a genius. He's going to save us. SO STFU. Trust me when I tell you that many many many engineers are effing tired of Elon Musk. ALSO do no think that also equates to his people because among his engineering people are some very, very good people, but that's also how Elon gets to take credit for the things his companies do that work AND YES some of the things his companies do actually work.
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  7431. It will be like watching a pile of horseshit arguing with a pile of bullshit over who has the better flies buzzing overhead.
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  7432. IS ANYONE SURPRISED THAT IT WAS A RIGGED OUTCOME?
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  7433. IT DOES NOT MATTER because Trump and the Trumpsters are pushing a POLITICAL NARRATIVE. Facts don't matter, reality doesn't matter and the truth is utterly irrelevant when it comes to political narrative.
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  7434.  @bobbun4369  WHO TF are you talking that crap too???? Who is claiming anywhere in any of this that a man can get pregnant????
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  7435. There's your problem mate. Politics is NOT about logic and it never was. Politics (of any type) was from the earliest times a delusional popularity contest. the only difference between the various bullshit artists of history is that every so often one of them turns out to have some real talent. Unfortunately the rest of them also think they are just as good as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar or Solomon. And don't forget they are all smarter than Einstein as well.
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  7436.  @individual1-floridaman491  My father was a maths science teacher. I'd love to tell your kids that the future of engineering is bright but we are at on hell of a crossroads. There was a recent comment on the ABC Drum (I think it was Colin Barnett) and what was said was "we have to stop listening to the economists and lawyers and start listening to the engineers and scientists" I found it a great comment but NOBODY has run with it. Sure both parties are spruiking up manufacturing and technology after almost 2 decades of preaching how manufacturing was a "sunset industry" because we were shifting into a "service based economy." When they announced the Australian Space Agency they held meetings in the capital cities to find out what we should be doing. The mantra was "we are hear to listen" and for every suggestion and proposal we got told "NO we aren't that kind of agency. We're here to promote space industry." I was at the meeting in Melbourne and a professor from Monash stood up at one point and pointed out that EVERY student of his had left Australia for work and then asked what this new agency would do. The answer was straight out of "Yes Minister" and giant long word salad of we don't care because we are not here to do anything other than tell everyone how fantastic we are. They put out a roadmap that actually was pretty good. Its maybe the one thing they ever did right. It was all about the future space industries Australia could benefit from. The single biggest thing identified was advanced space based water management for our agriculture sector but such systems would not be available until the mid 2030s. Considering the droughts and water issues we have my answer to that was why wait 15 years and just get on with it. So I wrote a space program based around delivering that water management. the program was named "Dyaramak" which is an Aboriginal name for the Sacred Kingfisher. In Polynesian culture its a water spirit so I figured it kind of suited. When you consider that both our agricultural sector (at over $155Billion per annum with over 300,000 jobs) and our tourism sector (at over $65Billion per annum with over 550,000 jobs) that a program with its prime mission of delivering the next generation of space based land & water management would have a justifiable business case. WRONG. I took that to both the Libs and Labour and BOTH told me to go away while one handed $7 Billion to the Airforce for a space program and the other one cheered. For $7 Billion there is no plan, no budget and will do nothing for the 850,000 Australians who require our land, forests, rivers and oceans for their jobs. I asked for $720 million over 6 years to lay the foundation that would help protect all those jobs and all the economic benefit that came with it. I'm planning to bash both parties with it again shortly just to see if I can startle them into some action.
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  7437.  @jdoe9518  And you clearly have no idea DlCKHEAD. Go take your conspiracy BS and get lost. And yeah I have heard all the conspiracy BS about government weather control. I read about that nonsense back in the 90s. It was garbage then and its still garbage now.
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  7438. For starters they were NOT soldiers they were "hired security" the fancy label for mercenaries. And the didn't just kill kids. Go watch Glenn Kirschnner's piece on it. One of his associates prosecuted the case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X83hUR3PP14
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  7439.  @jamesreynolds2867  Sorry but WTF makes you think I support TRUMP in any way? Go back and read what I've written. If there is something you think makes me look like a Trump supporter then let me know, because I am absolutely not. Maybe you misunderstood the comparison I was making. Trump just pardoned 4 mass murderers whose boss is his Education Secretaries brother. At the same time he's executing other Americans during a transition which no President has done in a 130years. Can you explain how you think I'm a Trump supporter when I am trying to highlight how effing sick that is? Look at the comparison dude. These 5 guys get a needle and these other 4 who work for Betsy's brother get pardons. If I haven't made it clear Trump's just made America look like you can murder people if you have enough money to pay off the President AND THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS.
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  7440.  @jamesreynolds2867  I just saw this -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qguxykM2c8Q I think they did a better job than I did of highlighting the double standards. And yes I also missed that they did kill a child in Iraq. Just remember one of my points was that the whole world is watching this and it really is making America look very bad. I said in a comment yesterday that I think Biden has an almost impossible task of getting America past this AND that was BEFORE these pardons were announced. This just made his task even harder. I've seen a few commentators suggest in recent days that Trump is trying to make Biden's task harder. I think that's pretty obvious now.
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  7441. I have the same question for you as a lot of other people. What do you think America's Middle and Working classes feel about all this "American Imperialism" stuff? I have a fairly long comment addressed to Ben regarding the US Congressional Budget Office report from September 2022 on Family Wealth. I think you and a lot of others need to have a look at what that report is actually saying about what has happened to the bulk of the American population over the last 40 years and particularly since the 2008 GFC.
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  7442.  @krejados1  I'd agree 100% with that assessment. The next question is what happens when they work out that they have been totally screwed by top10%? Sooner or later they'll work out that Bush gave them $4 Trillion and Obama gave them another $4 Trillion AND MOST of that $8T has never been paid back. In fact Trump effectively gave them another $3 Trillion in tax breaks. Sooner or later they are going to ask "Where's ours?"
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  7443.  @Charlie-Oooooo  Good way to put it "like a river" except modern media is like a river of sh*t that people just keep dumping more and more sh*t into. So the further down stream you are the more sh*t your being drowned in.
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  7444. Because he, Kari Lake, Mike Lindell and others are tapping into the FRUSTRATION people have with main stream establishment parties. Sorry if this is a but longer. A coupe of weeks ago Richard Wolff (David's old professor) mentioned a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on FAMILY WEALTH. Its easy to find with google with a search for "congressional budget office family wealth." What it says is damning and if you ask why David, Jessie, Sam Seder, Kyle Kulinski and all the other Lefty commentators are NOT howling about this report, I have no idea why. The very first graph of that report compares the wealth of the top 10%, middle 40% and bottom 50% of America from 1989 to 2019. The bottom 50% of America has effectively gone nowhere in terms of family wealth while the middle class has had reasonable growth while the top 10% have soared. I crunched some of the basic data of that first graph and looked at the recoveries from the GFC. Comparing what they lost after 2007 and comparing it to the 2019 valuation. ON AVERAGE: The Top 10% lost 11.1% in the GFC but have since recovered to be 21.7% ahead of where they were in 2007. The Middle 40% lost 13.6% in the GFC but have since recovered to be 4.6% ahead of where they were in 2007. The Bottom 50% lost 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC and have so far recovered some of that but are still 21.8% BELOW their 2007 valuation. That means 165 million Americans are NOT even back to where they were in 2007, while another 132 million Americans have only just recovered. This data is out of the Congressional Budget Office so there is no denying the reliability of the data. That's where a lot of the frustration that people like Kari Lake, Steve Bannon, Mike Lindell and others tap into. This is also where AOC, Marianne Williamson, Bernie Sanders, etc get their support from. When main stream establishment political parties FAIL to address real issues for real people those people will turn to others.
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  7445.  @lynnefox4892  You're spot on. But then Bannon is a manipulative narcissistic opportunist. This is what his kind have always done through history. They hide in the shadows sneaking about fomenting strife. No matter if its in the shadows or the light of day they are always pretending to be on everyone's side trying to make the world a better place. Every so often they go to far and get caught out. In the past we had a way to deal with them that was very effective, but alas we are more civilised now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSTlnYOQyrw
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  7446. Larry Fink loves one thing - His way. On MMT I am reading Stephanie Kelton's book "the Deficit Myth" and she makes the very basic point on deficits. If a government (any government) spends $100 and taxes back $36 then there's a deficit of $64 fine. She asks: WHERE'S the $64? It can't just vanish it has to be somewhere, bank accounts, stocks, assets, whatever. Its just can't not exist. So the real questions are: Who's got it that $64. What are they doing with it. More importantly what did the government get for that $64? Did they get something that benefits the economy or the general population or did the government just benefit SOME of the population. That's what Larry hates. MMT gets people to think about where the money ENDS UP and who benefited
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  7447.  @Boomslang55  As I said to your other reply in the other thread I agree Suckerbergs money in Democrat politics and the some of the pro-Democrat media are disgusting. If there is a difference its the amount of money being pumped into the radical far right of American politics and how vicious they are even to other Republicans. Starting at 25:45 the guy they are speaking to John Ward is a REPUBLICAN and look at how they attacked him. What the average American conservative in the street needs to realise these people care even less about you than the Left does. To them you are just a lump of talking meat to be pumped. The corporate backers in the Dems aren't much better but the lesser people on the Left want you to have health care and your kids to get a good enough education to get a job.
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  7448.  @valenrn8657  Which offer are you talking about? Are you comparing there submarine reactors with their civilian reactors? We all know that sometime around 2012 DCNC/Naval did offer the nuclear powered Barracuda, which just highlights how long this crap went on. There hasn't been much said officially but its hinted that the 10 year refueling was the issue. That said there is one stat on the Barracuda that should not have been discounted. Its full crew compliment is ~70 compared to an Astute ~100 and Virginia ~130. For even a fleet of 6 that's a low fewer submariners to find and train and the RAN has struggle with that all through the Collins shite show. On the Astute variant we are likely to end up with we need to consider automation which the French clearly have got. How else can they have that size crew without automation. I use to work with an American who was a fully trained nuclear power plant operator in the USN (on aircraft carriers). He once told me the US power units had almost zero automation.
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  7449.  @valenrn8657  Yeah we all know what Dutton has said and you MUST take anything he says with a bucket of salt. A pinch just wont do. He's extremely good at presenting vague information. Possibly one of the best politicians in Australia, because he always seems to get away with it. Superior could be a lot of things. Safety functionality, size, weight, efficiency, maintenance costs or combinations of things. Its a vague term, that allows other people to make mistakes by assuming what was meant. A good friend on mine was right into student politics and explained that stuff almost 30 years ago. I'm finally starting to get what he meant.
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  7450. AEROSPACE ENGINEER here: For professors there's 2 points and the first of those is MONEY as in how much can they drag into their department. The second is that they like to put ideas in front of students at times they ALREADY KNOW can't work and the actual lesson is in recognising it. Third they will at times give students a novel idea to investigate for their final year project. We had 2 options my year. The first was for a 4 seat light aircraft and the second (which I did) was for a novel kind of comet fly by space craft. It had a detachable shield that flew ahead of the space craft and provided a clear area free of the tails dust to fly in and observe the comment unobstructed. It was novel and innovative and would also NEVER WORK, but we got what we were supposed to get which was the experience of working on a team project. So I hope that answers part of your question. The bit I'd be far more inquisitive of is how so many got conned by the fact it was never viable for reasons people had discovered decades ago. In aerospace Robert Goddard the guy who first wrote about trains in vacuum tubes is also the father of modern rocketry. He's a legend and his work is well known. Plus there's all sorts of sci-fi where this sort of travel was shown - Logans Run and Space 1999 being 2 I know of. THIS WASN'T A NEW IDEA. And that's what quite a few college professors need to be asked: "How did you NOT see this was nonsense or WASN'T an original idea and let your students believe it was a new idea?"
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  7451. To all of David's American viewers wait to you see the totally bonkers interview Trump endorsed Republican (for Arizona governor) Kari Lake just gave Australian 60 minutes that was shown on prime time Australian public TV only hours ago. ITS WORSE THAN THIS. Its already lit up Australia's online media. I expect David will cover it shortly, so brace yourselves. On a 1-10 scale for embarrassment its a 25. Australia just spent most of the last 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan supporting America. When you see the interview ask yourselves how we might feel right now. FYI - I went to college in America and have many American friends. I understand the reality of the relationship - America is our most important trading and security partner. But many Australians we are very concerned (as other countries also are) that America is NO LONGER a RELIABLE PARTNER. How is anyone supposed to have confidence when America can't hold any of these people accountable?
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  7452. From what Parts of this I have seen it was a lot more than just 1 village. I think you'll find it was Texaco that did the damage which Chevron later inherited through acquiring/merging with Texaco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger#Class_action_lawsuit_against_Chevron
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  7453.  @charlotteruse8718  Meaning what, other than that's obvious. Where was the mass murder and what does it have to do with Chevron and Ecuador?
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  7454.  @charlotteruse8718  Everything you said up until the last sentence was sensible rational and real. But that crap about experimental MRNA is just idiotic garbage. If you really think that then get of you computer, get rid of your mobile and go hide in a cave, because ALL modern technology is in some way experimental. Some (NOT ALL) of this garbage about the vaccines is so idiotically stupid that anybody believing any of it is so moronic they should be locked in an asylum for the mentally ill.
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  7455.  @Dutch3DMaster  Interesting, but then that opens the question - WTF is she thinking with this?
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  7456. GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  7457. You know like so many kids who had to read Orwell in high school I hated it. Animal Farm was kinda cute in its way but 1984 was so boring it could calm down an ADHD jacked up on Mars Bars and Coke. These days I feel like finding my English teacher and apologizing for not listening as much as I should have.
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  7458.  @GermanLeftist  No arguments with that, but we are in a very different era than the 50s & 60s or 70s & 80s or the 90s. For sure we aren't like the ancient Romans who simply poisoned each other whenever they could and if that wasn't an option they simply stabbed the crap out of each other like they did with Julius. And for sure we aren't like the European middle ages where nobody was sacked from government they just chopped heads off. The English were really good at that. But in general politics these days we have these career politicians who just don't give a damn about doing anything at all. The really don't care about making anything better or doing a specific job. Their entire career is about scoring meaningless points and trashing anything they can. They hog the air, scream at everything and refuse to let anyone get anything done.
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  7459. Go look at the US pardon Law it does not apply to people who are impeached. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_pardons_in_the_United_States#Constitutional_provision Forget the 25th he needs to be impeached, that way he's not only out but he can never get back. Further if they impeach Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and all the others who hold official position so none of them can get pardons is also important.
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  7460. He didn't simply call a general a pig he called the TRUMP appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Farron on Ring of Fire had a fun take on it.
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  7461. That's actually a good slant on this shitstorm.
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  7462. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I am sorry but the idea of a Space Force for any country is a lot of political BS. Its the sort of nonsense and garbage that politicians use to convince the general public that they are actually doing something. I'm Australian but did my degree in America in the late 80s when Ronald Reagan's Star Wars Program was in full swing. Almost EVERY post graduate student in the department was DARPA funded. The amount of money being spent was astronomical. In my final year I did an optional class in Space Craft Dynamics. Like all undergraduates we had to do at least 2 advanced classes. We shared those classes with the postgrads. The difference was they did term papers and I don't mean like a history or psych paper. These were full journal or conference standard technical papers and they had to do presentation as well. Most undergraduates picked Orbital Mechanics because it was only ridiculously hard level math. Each year a few undergrads (just to be different would try) Space Craft Dynamics which each year turned out to be a bad choice because it was insane level math. I remember 4 things about that class. - The professor because he had a quaker beard; and - How insanely hard it was just to follow the concepts he lectured us about; and - The DARPA funded postgrad doing rail guns; and - The DARPA funded guy doing space based laser battery targeting dynamics. I think its fair to say I am reasonably smart because you need that just to get through that degree AND that guy doing the targeting system made my feel dumb. In fact he made most of the postgrads feel dumb too. he was easily the smartest engineer I ever met. His work should have won awards except the maths guys could barely understand what he was doing. IT WOULD TAKE ME PAGES TO EXPLAIN IT and all I would do is confuse people. In the end we all realised 1 thing. NONE OF IT WAS GOING TO WORK. Rail guns needed to much power to operate in space and if you made your missile shiny then lasers weren't any good either. These days when I see some of the nonsense people are talking I just shake my head in disbelief. Its not a matter of computer chips or AI (which is another big lie) its simply a matter of basic physics and that doesn't change. Sorry but its all BS And Yes Australia has announced its own Space Force and plans of WASTING AU$7 Billion trying to repeat what we learned 35 years ago. 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂
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  7463. Sorry to debunk this but it was covered as a BS story among the British Tabloids on ABC Australia's media watch program. Putin has displayed most of these mannerisms (like tapping his foot) all through his career and some have speculated on them in the past and been found WRONG. Its here starting at 14:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_DK7Pi7buI
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  7464. From Australia to all our friends in America please ask Dr. Fauci about the success of the Australian "Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme" which sets the price for subsidized pharmaceuticals. ASK HIM about how every drug company in the world tries to get their drugs onto that scheme WHERE THE PRICES ARE FIXED AND CONTROLLED. ASK HIM about how Australia's health care system has handled COVID? FYI - Australia has a population of 25.7 million. The combined populations of Illinois (where I went to college), Indiana and Wisconsin is 25.2 million. Australia has 909 COVID Fatalities for the ENTIRE pandemic while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin has over 42,000. Yes Australia is more spread out and we are an island but that does NOT explain that difference. We don't have any magic drugs or magic therapies or anything else. Our current federal Government is right wing conservative. Our states are a mix of Left and Right.
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  7465. This is exactly the same answer I just put in another comment: On the basic principal I agree. For example in the case of Timothy McVeigh there was no doubt he did what he did. In the case of John Wayne Gacy there was no doubt. In both those case I absolutely agree that justice was done. They both showed what Americans call "depraved indifference," but in many other cases there is doubt or there is at least the appearance of improper procedure. For example: AFTER Donald Trump lost the 2020 election he ordered the execution of 3 convicted people. Irrespective of what they did or didn't do for over 130 years NO President had allowed a federal execution to take place in the period between the election and the inauguration of the next President. The view was that despite the sitting president having duties to fulfill no longer had the mandate for those sorts of decisions and they were to be left for the incoming president. At the same time Donald Trump pardoned the Blackwater 4 who were responsible for killing 17 innocent people in the Nisour Square Massacre. Those 4 were, at the time of their crime, employees of Eric Prince the brother of Betsy DeVos Donald Trumps Secretary of Education. So were those decisions by Donald Trump for justice or politics? FYI - I'm Australian and the last person executed in Australia was Ronald Ryan who was hanged for killing a guard during an attempted prison break. It was in my home state of Victoria. There were serious ballistics issues that suggested the guard was accidentally shot by another guard in a tower. The lone eyewitness to the actual shot simply lied. Decades later records were released of the cabinet discussions. These included people telling the Premier (our equivalent of a state Governor) of these serious flaws in the case. He told colleagues he didn't care as there was an election coming and looking tough of crime was always a winner. Sir Henry Bolte won that election in a landslide and one of the main bridges in Melbourne is named after him. Its now fairy well accepted that Ronald Ryan was hung for political not judicial reasons.
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  7466.  @davidadiwego4608  Putting it mildly FK-off. Take your attitude and simply FK-off. Take your ignorance of the reality of what's happening and FK-off. Don't you dare talk about intellectual dishonesty when your playing statistical misdirection games. NASA Says Climate Change is real -> https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ NOAA Says Climate Change is real -> https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide Even the Pentagon says Climate Change its real -> https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jan/29/2002084200/-1/-1/F1/CLIMATE-CHANGE-REPORT-2019.PDF YOU'RE A DISGUSTING LIAR - just FK-off.
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  7467. You have hit on and describe one of the fundamental issues with these people. At their core they believe that they have the right to do to others whatever they can because they are superior people. Thom Hartmann did a vid a while back about Libertarians and he pointed out how Ayn Rand idolised as her ideal "superman" the murderer William Edward Hickman who killed a young girl for not much other reason than he felt so superior he had the right to kill inferior people. Ayn Rand was fascinated by such people and based the lead character out of an unpublished novel on Hickman. To call Ayn Rand a sociopath is an understatement and bizarrely her books have been fed to generations of American boys idolising a very brutal cold behavior of take what you can when you can. That's one of Thom Hartmann's points.
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  7468. This is where the next American civil war is going to come from - the hypocrisy of the religious right. Its was revealed not so long ago that Newt Gingrich was having an affair at the same time he was sending everything he could at Bill Clinton over Monica Lewinski. They have no trouble lying on any and every topic to continue their narrative. They howl about justice and yet the majority of the Supreme Court has a conservative majority that's ruling in their favor, irrespective of whatever the majority of Americans want. Trump appointed 100s of "Not qualified Judges" on the advisement of the Federalist Society and yet that's acceptable to them, irrespective of whatever the majority of Americans want. Right now who is under assault from who?
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  7469. Yeah how about going back to a guy named Reagan who said "Government isn't the solution. Government is the problem." He and Thatcher set the entire western world on a program of decimating Government, undermining every institution and then blaming those institutions for failures. I seriously want to scream at some of these neoliberal clowns.
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  7470.  @johnhughes2124  Or yeah the technology for enrichment is totally understood. All of the countries with nuclear power have the capability of developing nuclear weapons. BUT (and here's the point) EVERYONE and I really do mean everyone in the nuclear industry is going to know exactly what they are doing. There's not that many enrichment plants in the world and most countries get their fuel from other countries with that capability. So if they suddenly start buying the sort of gear needed its going to be noticed just like we knew what the Iranians were doing. Its just not the sort of thing that can be done an nobody notices. That's what we got told back in 2005. Plus the actual world trade in Uranium is incredibly well documented. So everybody knows who's getting what in the way of raw energy. So if a country was to buy X tons of Yellow Cake (Uranium oxide) then we'd all know how much fuel that should produce. Say if a country has 2GW of nuclear power and they bought enough YC to power 3GW then we'd know they are holding extra. The more frightening aspect to this is spent fuel which doesn't have that much fissile material (U235) because that's what got burnt up in the reactor. The problem is what can be done with spent fuel. First its useful if you want to make a dirty bomb which is low tech but would be utterly devastating to a city. That's low tech. The really scary aspect of spent fuel is the "other stuff" in the fuel pellets like Plutonium. That's because plutonium can be used in compression bombs. They sound really simple but compression bombs require ultra-high quality explosive triggers of you don't get even compression and it simply doesn't go off. Trying to develop those triggers would also be very difficult to hide. So the reality is that no matter what anyone tries its going to take a lot longer than Peter thinks and everyone is going to know what you're up to.
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  7471.  @kozlovskyi  Not certain what you mean about choice? Nuclear weapons are not a matter of regulations they are a matter of treaties. Specifically the non-proliferation treaty.
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  7472. I agree except its a little overly simplistic, but then in 3 short sentences you've summed up politics fairly well. The problem is humanity has such variety that to try and sum it up this simply is nigh impossible. Trying to be a bit more specific to politics and I only know about these things because a very good friend was involved in student politics for some time. What killed his political ambitions was how his mentor was felled. His mentor was a person with good intentions and even rarer for politics a person with ethics. Because of his ethics he was crushed. My friend realised that ethics in politics is not a knife you can use to cut through and make change, it is actually the knife others will snatch from your hand and stab you with. Here's how I'd add to your statement. The problem in politics are the differences between the 3 basic types of politicians those with good intentions, those with bad intentions and the rest with few intentions other than keeping their job. Surrounding politics is the media who have no other intention than getting attention. People with good intentions in politics want to change the system to be more equitable or at least better for the majority of people. Because its impossible to make everyone happy either one of 2 things happens. They compromise to the extent they cannot do anything of substance. Alternatively if they do take a stand then they get labelled as dismissive of other peoples concerns destroying their claim of good intentions. Either way they're doomed because in the end their compromises eat away at their core values or they are destroyed by enemies. People with bad intentions in politics will simply undermine or obstruct anything that does not specifically benefit them. Due to their narcissism they are willing to destroy any and every institution that society has developed even ones that in general help them. There is no such thing as a bad decision in their mind there are only decisions that don't help them as much as others. People who have no or few intentions in politics other than to keep their job are actually the worst because nobody can rely on them. They avoid attention and accountability at all costs, voting only on subjects where they can hide in the background. These are the worst of all politicians as they rarely support those with good intentions even when what's on offer benefits people because they fear one thing above all else, and that's the wrath of those with bad intentions. As for the media in politics they are either vile, compromised, heartless, mindless, ridiculous, hopeless, soulless, amoral, unethical or a combination of these things. They howl about the "publics right to know" as they filter out any detail that does not fit the narrative they are presenting. They will report that black is white and white is black as comfortably as they report that 1+1=3 is scientifically correct.
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  7473. In terms of what humanity has to collectively face your right he's an annoying pimple on humanities ass that we'll get past and forget. But I fear he's gonna try an be like an abscess that festers and just wont leave us alone until we go in an flush the bastard out.
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  7474. Australian here: Never heard of or seen this guy until a few days ago and the question I have is: Where TF have the Dems been hiding him? Every time he has appeared in an interview he sounds sensible and knows WTF is going on. Do any of you realise just how much the years POTUS election has scared the crap out of us? There's 8 Billion people on the planet and 7.7 Billion of us have no say in POTUS which is fair as he's YOUR POTUS not ours, BUT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH WHO YOU CHOSE. And these days its a big effing deal who you chose because of a few things. NOTE: The rest of the World doesn't really need America to help fix any of these issues. Its just that without America they go from effing hard to almost effing impossible and if certain American behave they way they do then these issues become impossible. FIRST America is still 25% of the World's economy and SECOND the US Dollar is still the worlds reserve currency and almost every international transaction is done in US$ or the currency exchanges are backed by US$. 1) There's an out of control SCOTUS and that effects us. Maybe not as much as it effects you but ANY dispute anyone has with an American company and they drag it back into the US Court System like Chevron did with the Ecuadorians. Go look what Chevron did to their lawyer Steven Donziger. 2) There's an out of control Israel and that effects not just the Middle East but the entire World because of the issues with the Suez Canal and global shipping. AND YES we know certain Americans are involved in making that a disaster. 3) There's an out of control Russia AND YES we all know certain Americans are involved in making that a disaster. 4) There's the staggering wealth issue in the world that's the real cause of the refugee crisis AND YES we know there's a bunch of American companies involve din that. 5) Then there's the energy crisis AND YES WE ALL KNOW it was America who blew up the Nordstream system so that certain America companies could get into the international trade in LNG. 6) Climate change. So you guys picking a POTUS and VPOTUS with brains that actually work is pretty darn important to the other 7.7 Billion of us who get no say in it.
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  7475.  @wcwright44  I think you'll find it "mind you own business" appeals to about 99.9% of the human race. The one thing a lot of people don't distinguish is when their business AFFECTS other people. Example: Unlike many I don't think there's any problem with people being wealthy. I've heard people say "billionaires should not exist!" I don't care how wealthy anyone is so long as they pay their taxes, pay & treat their workers FAIRLY, don't use their wealth to interfere in politics and don't trash the planet BECAUSE all those things are my business just like they are your business and everyone else's business.
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  7476.  @wcwright44  How did the famous slogan go? "Beam my up Scotty, this planet sucks!"
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  7477. I'm Australian but went to college in America. As an outside observer with a descent understanding of America you've hit the nail on the head. Trump has been allowed to get away with anything and everything he wants. On that I think 2 people in particular have an incredible amount of blame - Mitch McConnell and Merrick Garland. Twice McConnell could have put Trump in his place. Imagine where we'd all be if at the First Impeachment they had done HONESTLY done their. It was obvious Trump have overreached with that phone call. They should have done EXACTLY what the did with Clinton and found him GUILTY but NOT required he be thrown out of office. As part of that they should have forced Jared & Ivanka OUT of the Whitehouse and stopped Trumps endless rallies and told Trump his job was in the Whitehouse NOT trapsing around the country playing golf and riling up crowds with BS. The 2nd Impeachment McConnell should have simply said - GET OUT and STAY OUT. This where Garland utterly failed the American people. His absolute failure to do ANYTHING regarding Trump is so damn hopeless that when they make a movie about it the tile of the film should be "Hopeless!" At his core he's another of these ideologically driven clowns. Garland's an institutionalist who believes that ANY prosecution of a president is wrong. Its the same garbage they did with Nixon's Pardon. Nixon wasn't even charged with anything and yet they gave him a blanket pardon without ever explaining what he did or holding him accountable for it. The stupidity of this Institutionalist nonsense is that the STAIN Nixon left and the STAIN Trump left remain in place. At least with Clinton they slapped him down and told him "Don't do that again or get out!" McConnell basically told Trump "We aren't going to limit what you do. So have at it!" Garland basically told Trump "Don't worry because whatever you do I'm not going to ever prosecute you!" There's other too, but those 2 deserve to be publicly shamed.
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  7478.  @j.conrad5374  In what possible way could Lincoln have ever been guilty of high treason. Part of the problem right now is that there are to many people making bad uniformed comments about treason. Its actually very difficult for and constituted leader to commit treason in almost any country because treason is about overthrowing the government. Its pretty hard to do when you are the head of the government but it is possible as Charles I of England proved. He made a deal with foreigners to help overthrow the elected government. SEDITION on the other hand is something else altogether (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition). Its very hard to convict in America because of the 1st Amendment, which actually exists because of how the British used sedition laws before the revolution. However Flynn in particular has a huge problem because he is ex-military and is oath to uphold and protect the US Constitution didn't simply end when he retired. What he just re-tweeted COULD get him in a lot of trouble. But so far Trump has not yet committed treason and neither did Lincoln.
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  7479. Maybe they should tell the guy who owns the Falcons to get his football team to be successful that way all the fans wont hate him so much. Its just an idea.
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  7480. Try 30 years. Did you know that 30 years ago it was 30 years away and that 60 years ago it was 30 years away. Fusion is always 30 years away. Why 30? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  7481.  @10speed4  Yep its the one thing the elites have done everywhere. They have given us 3 choices. The person who they control on the left, the person who they control on the right and the person with no hope of ever doing anything useful for the other 99% of us.
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  7482. There are aliens in the next galaxy who saw this coming. 2016 Trump 4,681,590 votes 2020 Trump 5,890,347 votes That's another 1,208,757 votes in only 4 years - How is that possible? Where did this people come from? Did they pay of a bunch of Mexicans to sneak across the border and vote for Trump? Is anyone calling for a recount and check of the signatures for those votes? Its pretty simple to explain Texas' population has grown by 2million in that time, but anyone can make up a bullshit claim when you ignore facts!
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  7483. Like what??? Doesn't America have enough elitists from Harvard (where the Obamas went) and Yale (Where the Clintons went) running everything? On SCOTUS there are 4 Harvard and 4 Yales with a lone Notre Dame. DeSantis did his BA at Yale and his JD at Harvard putting him right among the same class of stinking elitists
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  7484. Australian here - Absolutely 100% on BOTH. Its incredibly important to keep Khan and deal with the "to big to fail" conglomerates and well as get on top of the emerging tech-bro mega corps. I am an aerospace engineer and that clown brigade scare me. I understand their level of nonsense and its needs to be curtailed before it gets any further out of hand. As for Merrick Garland he is going to be written in history books as the WORST lawyer in human history. What ever good works he may have done before becoming AG they are insignificant with respect to his utter failure to deal with Trump. Garland can make what ever claims he likes about the DOJ needing to be independent of politics, and that Jan 6th was a political issue and needed to be handled by the impeachment process. HOWEVER the documents and election interference cases were CRIMES and the DOJ had a 100% responsibility to handle those cases in a reasonable timeframe. His failure to do so is a blight on America with GLOBAL ramifications.
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  7485. Aerospace engineer here - UNBELIEVABLY EXELLENT PRESENTATION. FYI - I went to the University of Illinois where Marc Andreessen went. I finished my degree the year before he started there. What staggers me about his current attitude is his opposition to state funded colleges. He not only went to a state funded college but one of the most well funded colleges in America. Illinois in the late 80s was the World Center of Supercomputing with Cray moving there because that was where the people who could make multi-core systems and vector processing work. Andreessen "worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, where he became familiar with Tim Berners-Lee's open standards for the World Wide Web." (see Wikipedia). So he was a very lucky person in just the right place at just the right time to develop what became the Worlds first practical Web Browser (Mosaic) which then became NetScape. So for him to not be able to clearly describe what he's sponsoring in terms of crypto is like Einstein not being able to explain basic physics.
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  7486.  @UsefulCharts  I'd just like to point out 1 small fact regarding the Jehovah's Witnesses. They are all quite well aware of the pronunciation debate over the tetragrammaton. They all accept that in ancient Israel that it was probably pronounced (phonetically) Yah-way. In fact Witnesses know quite well that the spelling Jehovah and the way you have pronounced it here its the Anglicised version of the name and that in many other languages it is spelt and pronounced differently and it has been that way for centuries. If you go to sources like the Oxford dictionary it will tell you that the spelling and pronunciation of the tetragrammaton YHWH IN ENGLISH is just as you have spelt it (Jehovah) and pronounced it in this video. I know the spelling Jehovah was used in the King James Bible published in 1611, which is just over 240 years before before Charles Taze Russell (1852 – 1916) was born. I'd expect you know the reason that nobody does know how it was pronounced in ancient times is oddly highlighted in the film Life of Brian during the stoning scene. The Jews by that time rarely used the name of God to avoid violating the 3rd commandment about using God's name in a vain or useless way. I'd expect you know that in the earliest form of written Israelite language there are no vowels. So in the oldest inscriptions we just have the 4 consonants YHWH. By the time the Israelites did use vowels they'd stopped using the name. The assumption that it was pronounced (phonetically) Yah-way is based on similarly spelled names like Yehoshua which is the older Hebrew/Yiddish version of Joshua. Its like the way Spanish people pronounce Jesus as if it was spelt Hay-zus with a 'H' and 'z'. Its like how Juan is the Spanish version of John but its pronounced as if it starts with a 'W.' I hope that helps in any of your future studies or publications.
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  7487. Actually both Don Snr and his dad and Ivanka are all highly intelligent. One of his uncles was an exceptional engineer. The correct slur for this part of the Trump family is "They are as dumb as door knobs or narcissistic sociopaths." Silence of the Lambs is highly educational if you are trying to distinguish them. Right now the similarity between Don Jnr an Hunter Biden is pretty narrow. They are both sons of presidents. They are both spoiled brats. They are both immensely overrated for their acumen. They both have nasty drug habits. The only difference is that one has been to rehab.
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  7488. Really then why is he lying about Trump being cheated in 2020. That's done and finished. Even Ivanka Trump has admitted he lost. This is disgusting that a former Deputy PM is pandering to this sort of garbage.
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  7489.  @ivandafoe5451  Good way to put it.
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  7490.  @brokenrecord4069  Prove what????
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  7491.  @brokenrecord4069  I wasn't sure if it was still there. If China (or anyone else) tried to put a base on the moon the US could just do another version of LRO or an upgraded one to watch what's going on. So I can barely believe people are still trying to make this idiotic claim. Its as dumb as the people who think there's already a force of space marines on a secret American space station just waiting to be dropped somewhere. Yeah look at how much help people need just walking after being weightless for a few months. It seems like there's no end to how stupid the garbage media people produce can be OR the number of people who take it as gospel.
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  7492. Is it just me or is this one time you wonder if it would be a good thing if Bannon was right? Like really, really right.
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  7493.  @deathlokprime2645  Nah I think your ignoring your own tag. Plus (and this isn't satire or sarcasm) considering how bonkers these people are and how determined they seem to want to start the Second Civil War that you'd need to be a fool to not have someone with a response plan. There's an old saying: Hope for the best, but plan for the worst. Nobody wants a Second CW, but if you don't have a plan for these people, you'd be negligent BECAUSE these people are sick.
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  7494.  @Newrepublic-g7j  Everybody is TOO QUIET about America's issues. I have heard so many Australian politicians say the new buzz phrase of "the rules based order" BUT NOT ONE of them say what the rules are or why they are only enforced when it suits certain countries. I really don't mind it when people want to scream at people like Vladimir Putin, but they have got to apply the same rules across the board. For sure Putin is a monster that needs dealing with but when America (and it was the Americans) go and blow up a $20 Billion of pipeline just so American companies can sell gas to Europe IS WRONG. If the Chinese invade Taiwan it would be just as bad as the Chinese committing genocide against the Uyghurs which is deplorable. Its just as deplorable for American companies to have manufacturing bases in China and for Australia to allow China to take out a 99 year lease on one of its major ports. If there is this "rules based order" then what are the rules and what treaty did any of our countries sign?
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  7495. "Mick Mulvaney doesn't have a spine." In what way is that something the rest of us didn't know already? Somebody should remind Mulvaney that there was a group in the late 40s who pleaded "we were just following orders" in respect to a few things they had done at the behest of their leader. Americans were part of the prosecution of those people, Americans were part of the judiciary that convicted those people and Americans were part of the execution details who carried out the sentences of those people.
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  7496. That's actually the real threat getting young women to use their brains. Conservatives want those girls back in the home making babies, not in college, not having a career and MOST OF ALL not having an opinion of their own.
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  7497. I clicked the like before Steve had finished the intro. Back in July 2019 Mark Blyth gave a lecture in Canada at McMaster on Global Trumpism. After the lecture there was a Q&A and he was asked about Bitcoin. You can find it here on YT the video title is "Mark Blyth - Global Trumpism and the Future of the Global Economy" The Bitcoin question is at 1:17:52 in that video. In a subsequent interview Mark noted a Bank of England Quarterly Report from Q1 2014 that has 2 articles in it explaining WHAT MONEY IS and HOW MONEY IS GENERATED. Google "bank of england report q1 2014" and it should be the first link which will give you a 114page pdf. Its the first 2 articles in that document. I also watched a Gary Stevenson video on what money is (hear on YT) Yanis Varufakis did an interview on the David Pakman Show (hear on YT) and when quizzed about how the pro-crypto people saw the inherent issues in crypto as FEATURES instead of BUGS Yanis replied "That only shows how ignorant they are!" As Mark Blyth said Cryptos ARE NOT money because. 1) They are NOT units of account. 2) They CANNOT be used for reliable exchange of value because they are too unstable. 3) They CANNOT be used as a reliable store of value because they are too unstable. I'm an engineer and I got the 2nd and 3rd items pretty easy. That first item got me for a bit until I read the bank of England report. Money is to Value the same that Meters is to Length and Celsius is to Temperature. Its a standardised method to measure value. The idea of standardised systems like the Metric System is what makes engineering possible and with it all the stuff that makes modern society what it is. Similarly money is what makes economies possible. Prior to the almost universal acceptance of the metric system most countries had their own systems of weights and measures just like they had their own currencies. That's the important thing the Metric system exists and works because its backed by Nation States. Our currencies work because they are backed by our nation states or in the case of the Euro a block of nation states. No Crypto is backed or defined by a Nation state and as such have NONE are RELIABLE standard units of value. As Patrick Boyle reiterated what others had said, "Not all cryptos are scams. Some are also Ponzi schemes."
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  7498.  @hurmur9528  You've hit it in a nutshell - you've never handled a gun. Its why they take actors to gun ranges and teach them how to handle guns PROPERLY. They do that for 2 reasons: 1) SAFETY 2) So that it looks right on film. REMEMBER those guns are still capable of firing blanks. That means they have a functional mechanism. If you pull the trigger they go bang. As plenty of weapon masters said at the time - the guns they use in films appear to be real and they handle like real guns except bullets don't come out.
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  7499.  @hurmur9528  Comparing an actor to the military is about the stupidest comparison I have heard yet.
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  7500.  @UtiliTerran  Congratulations you have just become the number 1 DlCKHEAD un this thread. Your words "actors are required to break gun safety rules on set all the time" has to be one of the most IDI0TIC claims I have ever heard. GO BACK AND WATCH what the experts from other films said at the time.
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  7501.  @UtiliTerran  Now you are doing the same stupid argument as others. Everything you can to EXCUSE people who were irresponsible. When superman used to claim "Truth, Justice and the American way" he really should have said "I'm here to protect Lies, Greed and Excuse Stupidity."
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  7502.  @UtiliTerran  Yeah no doubt there are others who have responsibility in this tragedy and lets not forget its a tragedy, but ultimately if you pick up a gun you are responsible for it. its not different form when you get in a car and drive or any of dozens of other things. This is one of the major issues of modern society we wont OTHER people held accountable for what they do but NOT us, NOT our friends and NOT those celebrities and politicians we like. Look at all the crap in Washington. There's 2 groups of clowns screaming about holding people on the other side accountable as they let people on their side get away with everything.
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  7503.  @UtiliTerran  YOU WHAT WHAT JUST FARK OFF BECAUSE YOU CLEARLY HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT GUN SAFETY I doubt you have ever done any sort of safety training of any type in any work place. Because you haven't a clue about hazard identification, risk assessment, safety management or anything else. You are a perfect example of why accidents happen. People with NO EXPERTISE who WONT LISTEN but have every excuse imaginable.
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  7504. To few of the clowns who have wanted to argue gun safety just notice how Utili Terran just deleted all his comments. Before he did he sent me one last remark and here's PART of it "I lead a risk assessment 3 days ago and have experience and training in firearms. I know the rules." Big mistake on his part because he's ADMITTED that this is the type of accident ANYONE with a background in workplace safety should understand. Let alone anyone who has had even basic firearm training. FIRST RULE of gun safety: Check the gun, including what it is loaded with. FIRST RULE of Workplace Safety: Identify your hazards and assess their risk. FIRIST STEP of HAZARD MITIGATION is ELIMINATE the Hazard. In this case the hazard was live ammunition on a movie set and that's easy to eliminate. DON'T have live ammunition on set. Expert weapon masters repeatedly said when this accident first happened. "There should NEVER have been live ammunition on the set." There's to many distractions, but that does NOT excuse anyone from NOT checking a gun when handed to them.
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  7505. NO NO NO - This is where you throw this straight back at Trump, because HE'S a CONVICTED FELON! Kyle did not need to ramble on for 11+ minutes he merely need to point out Trumps flaws that are in his genes. Trump is a liar because its in his genes. Trump is a fraud because its in his genes. Trump had people killed with drone strikes and ordered the executions of 13 Americans (go look it up), so he's also a killer because its in his genes. For anyone who doesn't believe that Trump ordered the executions of 13 Americans think back to the time just after he LOST the 2020 election in December 2020. Trump ordered the executions of the next 3 Federal prisoners on death row. It made news at the time because it was the first time in over 120 years that a president had ordered the execution of a federal prisoner during a lame duck period. In part he was claiming he was because he was "tough on crime" to counter the claims he was giving pardons to friends like Roger Stone and Mike Flynn and associates of friends like the Blackwater 4 that Kyle mentioned. Recently I went and checked those 3 executions just to be sure of my facts. What I found was amazing. Since the 1976 re-introduction of the death penalty (the Gregg decision) the US Federal Government ahs only executed 16 people. The US federal government generally leaves the task to the states. Not a single person was executed under Presidents, Cart, Reagan, Bush (, Clinton, or Obama. The first to use this power was George W Bush who had 3 people executed the first of whom was Timothy McVeigh the Oklahoma City bomber. The other 13 were by Trump and he only started executing people in July 2020. In the run up to the 2020 election he had 7 people executed, AFTER LOSING 3 more and then finally 3 more AFTER the January 6th riot. This is all listed on the Wikipedia page titled "List of people executed by the United States federal government"
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  7506. I'd like Kyle and his content but on this one he is totally wrong. Donald Trump was, like EVERY OTHER social media user was allowed free air time to present their option just like people have 67 times before me on this thread. EVERY ONE of us agreed to "the terms of use" and if we violate those terms YouTube has the right to suspend or cancel our account. WE ALL AGREED TO THAT, JUST AS Donald Trump did. On top of that Donald Trump was given additional leeway that most people do not get and HE ABUSED THOSE RIGHTS THAT HE HAD AGREED TO. Its called breach of contract and Donald Trump paid the penalty just as 1000s of other users have in recent times.
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  7507.  @ilyakuryakin4639  You're half right. Yes Plutonium comes transmutation of U238 but that happens in breeder reactors which are specifically built and run to get the neutrons at the right energy level to get them to combine with 238. There's no need to use depleted Uranium when over 90% of the fuel pellets in the fuel rods us U238. There's a few good videos explaining that. If you or anyone else wants to watch really good people who know the subject of nuclear. YT channel - Illinois EnergyProf hosted by Prof David Ruzic YT channel - Elina Charatsidou who's a nuclear physicist In terms of being balanced they are the 2 best I know. I'm certain there's other good people out there but there's also a lot of bias and there's also way too much opinion from clowns being peddled as facts. Yeah I know who Terra Power is and that Bill Gates is funding them. They don't yet have any approvals for their reactor so all they are building right now is the surrounding infrastructure. So I sort of expect they'll succeed because they have the money to get there. How successful they'll be is the question.
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  7508. I'm working my way through it. And am also Reading Mariana Mazzucato & Rosie Collington's "The Big Con" which is about how all the consultancies rob us stupid and its totally worth the time. I read Mark Blyth's Angrynomics and that's totally worth it too.
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  7509. This is what you get when you let Milton Freidman's "Greed is good" philosophy dominate your society for almost 50 years. It was madness when it was first suggested. It was madness when they gave him the fake Nobel Prize for economics (Yes its not a real Nobel). It was madness when Regan and Thatcher adopted what he said an gave the world Reaganomics and Thatcherism. The top 1% are psychotically greedy. There's no other basic way to describe them. No they have done this. This is just the latest of "Greed is good."
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  7510. Yeah how do the banks, major corporations and billionaires charge us fees for the moon going around the Earth.
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  7511. You'd be 100% correct if you change the word "wants" to "needs". Its really a matter of what Germany needs more. Do they NEED America and Western Europe as allies and trading partners who buy lots of BMWs & Mercs or do they NEED cheap Russian gas from a maniac with a gun pointed at their head? Putin himself said "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain." So why does Putin want it back?
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  7512. I bet there are girls from trailer parks across America going "Sure I live in a trailer park and sure we gots our issues but at least we ain't MTG Trash. That b*tch got some SERIOUS issues."
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  7513.  @cuuy  I've worked in the Australian oil & gas industry and he had ZERO oil & gas experience. go look at his bio --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden Other than being Joe Biden's son he had next to nothing for that job. Sure he was a lawyer and investment advisor, but there are 1000s of those, but there is NOTHING in his bio that says $50k a month. But then its also arguable that many such consultants are overpaid for what they deliver. Its often pointed out that Pete Buttigieg worked at McKinsey and many people see that as making him as an overrated overpaid corporate hack. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Was Hunter Biden worth $50k a month? Most likely not. Did he get that job because his father was VP? Most likely. Compared to Giuliani, Jared & Ivanka how does he rate? Like a mouse to an elephant and he's not the elephant.
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  7514. Correct me BUT HAVEN'T WE HEARD THIS BEFORE about a certain laptop?
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  7515.  @colinmcc8564  The word "woke" was first used by African American blues musicians in the 1950s. It never had a damn thing to do with anything political for over 60 years. For all those years it never applied to Leftist politics, progressive politics or LGBTQ rights or ANY OTHER social, economic or political issue. Its was purely about the African American socio-economic situation. Its only been in the last few years that it came to mean anything else. Its is a word the Left Hijacked and the Right have been bashing them with every since. I'm sorry to bust your cute little bubble of ignorance. No knowing about something isn't a crime. Being idiotically and willfully ignorant is.
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  7516.  @colinmcc8564  Hey DlCKHEAD you come at me with this BULLSHlT claim about credibility and now your admitting that you IGN0RED the history. That was the point - the Left hijacked the word and then the Right bashed them with it. Quoting a great line out of the Long Kiss Goodnight: "Were you born this stupid or did you take classes?"
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  7517. I half agree with David the emails themselves DO NOT display any clear evidence of a Lab Leak. BUT on the other hand what they display is that Dr. Fauci was far more knowledgeable on what was going on in Wuhan than he let people know. We now know the NIH was involved in funding research in China - see the links below that show NIH funding of COVID research in China. BUT NOTE: None of it clearly states any of this was for "gain of function" research. What Dr; Fauci does needs to explain is why at the START of the pandemic he didn't disclose this funding. IMO - it makes perfect sense for the Chinese to be researching Corona viruses and for other nations including America to be involved. China had already had SARS1 and MERS. So researching potential "what's next" is obvious common sense. Not being open and clear about that at the start was (in hindsight) stupid. Note: The first 2 links below clearly show NIH funding with Peter Daszak (named in the Wade Nichols article) as team leader for research in China. The 3rd is a research paper and if you look for the section on funding you'll find the NIH listed. https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9491676 https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9819304 https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698
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  7518.  @mattrogers5188  You made your points and I didn't argue any of them AND YOU still haven't answered my point. WHY HASN'T Dr. Fauci explained what was happening in Wuhan, when he is the one who said in front of congress that it wasn't GoF. We don't know do we. Why is this only now being discussed publicly? We don't know do we. Fine then what were these projects actually doing? We don't know do we. Better still how do we know nothing happened in that lab? We don't know do we. I haven't attacked him with lies have I? In fact I have condemned others for being stupid and dishonest. If you don't like having parrot crap thrown in you face then don't do it to others.
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  7519.  @kapwns  You make one of the few sensible and good points. The media misconstruing information and that goes to arguably the biggest issue in the world right now. One journalist recently said words to the effect that "We used to accept the facts and argue on what they meant but now we can't agree on what the facts actually are." I think its lead to so many governments NOT making decisions because of what will happen in the media. Remember that show the "West Wing." I remember them getting polls done for almost anything. They were almost totally consumed at times with what the media presented INSTEAD of DOING THEIR ACTUAL JOBS. Look at the world and it makes you wonder why we can't deal with any of the major issues. The fact is ANY government that tries faces a backlash either from home or abroad. Its like humanity's collective IQ just dropped 50points and replaced it with brainless tribalism.
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  7520.  @kapwns  Excuse you but Matt Rogers was the ONE cutting and pasting NOT ME. As for him refuting anything - bullshit to that. Did he add some details? YES I'll grant that, but he never refuted anything and NEVER answered the most basic point. Why wasn't this publicly discussed 12-15 months ago? 1 person did have a valid answer to that. In the toxic environment 12-15 months ago it may have been easily misconstrued. That's called thinking you should try it. As for as asking loaded questions they aren't loaded they are just uncomfortable for "Culture Warriors" like you and Matt to answer. Anything "Culture Warriors" don't like or have to think about is taken as an insult and invokes full crap attack mode. Instead of being a "jaq off" why don't you try some brain function.
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  7521.  @kapwns  Just take the cut an past crap and culture war attitude and simply wake up or FK-off. Its because clowns want to keep the culture war raging is WHY the discussions we should have had never happened. How much longer does this pandemic have to keep going before people realise that its continuing because of the culture war. How many people have to die? Is 3.8million enough for you and some of the other clowns or do we need to make it 4 or maybe 5 million. Seriously WAKE-UP - the culture war your fighting IS THE PROBLEM.
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  7522.  @kapwns  If I am ranting then your being ignorant of the worst issue on the planet right. Better people than you or me have been pointing out how destructive nature of the groupthink mentality of public discussion. How come others can conclude that the emails and project details are irrelevant compared to the fact they were never discussed when they should have been because the entire public discussion was dominated by the culture arguments? Can you or any of the other culture warriors answer that or isn't 3.8 million dead people enough?
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  7523.  @Israel-nb7ip  Go see the answer I just gave Never Knows Best. I'll grant all of you him and others one thing - you aren't the cause of the culture war, that's from people like the GOP, Televangelists and Rupert Murdoch. BUT you people are keeping it going by NOT being objective.
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  7524. If everything goes as it has for 4 years Trump's gonna sack him tomorrow.
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  7525. Sorry but we don't see it as comedy we see it as a very real threat. All this crap with a few billionaires destabilising America over some ego trip threatens the stability of the US Dollar and that threatens world trade. Way back in 1944 at Bretton Woods 44 allied nations agreed (among a few things) that the American Dollar ($USD) would be the worlds reserve currency. We all agreed to place part of our gold reserves in the Federal Reserve. You know that place in Die Hard 2. When nations trade between each other people go into that vault and move the gold bricks from stack to stack. Eventually Bretton Woods was replaced by other treaties and agreements BUT that monetary system still exists and it underpins all of the worlds currency exchange markets. Even countries that hate America still rely on this system. Right now, Putin is demanding others pay for their gas in Rubles which means those countries have to go to the currency markets and buy Rubles. Those currency markets only exist because of the stability of the US Dollar. So you're not providing the world with a comedy show your scaring the crap out of us because its threatening all of global trade. And that's before we discuss the chances these maniacs getting control of nuclear weapons.
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  7526. So said the same sorts of clowns with Theranos and how did that turn out????????? How many times have we seen over decades, some clown of a journalist with ABSOLUTELY ZERO understanding of technology hyping the crap out of some technology that never went anywhere. Sooner or later we need to not only make fun of these BS artists but actually front them up publicly as in get right in their faces and out them for the clowns they are.
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  7527. Lets face it this stuff (tapping feet and holding the desk) was debunked weeks ago as a habit. I won't trust a damn thing Western Media has on this until we know his body is on a slab in the morgue. Western Media is in such a rush these days for clicks that they'll jump on anything. Afterall why did any of us click this? Plus as a few people have pointed out, who comes after Putin. Its possible it might be someone worse.
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  7528.  @muggsyaxton8085  Great quote keep using it.
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  7529.  @russlehman2070  Dude you don't have to explain Gerrymandering to anyone except the Trumpists. Ok. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  7530.  @hb1338  Do clowns like you EVER STOP AN READ what people are saying before you start to to lecture them. FIRST - Had the FAA still been the organisation certifying aircraft for commercial passenger transportation then there WOULD NOT have been MCAS as it was used on the Max-8. There would NOT have been any decisions being made by clowns with business degrees or MBAs or economics degrees. The changes to the FAA had nothing to do with pilots or engineers, but it fits right in with neoliberal doctrine of de-regulating and downsizing all regulatory agencies. Other than the FAA those same people have been busy chopping the guts out of agencies like the FDA and EPA across the world. Most of the time it has nothing to even do with profits as a lot of those people simply believe that ANY GOVERNMENT AGENCY is BAD and needs to be curtailed. SECOND - I am an aerospace engineer with a pilots license with an aerobatics endorsement. PLUS one of my frat brothers is a senior 737 instructor whose airline sent him to Boeing to help sort the Max-8 mess out and he's told me a couple of things I can't repeat. I'm also formally qualified in industrial safety systems which do the same sort of override function as MCAS did but on industrial plants. So I am very well aware of how you assess and test such systems BEFORE you deploy them and how you then field test them to make sure they are doing EXACTLY as planned. I can explain EXACTLY in detail the FMEA and CHAZOP processes that would have uncovered the MCAS issue BEFROE IT EVER FLEW. Sorry but I get piʂʂed off when ignorant stupid little clowns who don't know what they are talking about start lecturing people about things they think they have expertise in. More often than not clowns LIKE YOU who don't listen CAUSE THE NEXT ACCIDENT. So I suggest you learn how to listen to people or one day you'll be the cause of something bad and someone like me will be right in front of you AND YOU WONT LIKE WHAT HAPPENS.
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  7531.  @JoJoGranum  Yeah I 100% agree. As an engineer I am trying to get people aware of what they have done to BOTH energy and water. I think most people are aware of what they've also done to education and health care. Energy, water, education and health care are the most fundamental inputs to any economic system. F*ck with any of them and your society is in trouble. These clowns are screwing up all 4. Its all tracks back to Milton Friedman's _"Greed is good"_, that was the basis for Reaganomics and Thatcherism. That whole system is collapsing in on itself and I fear its going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.
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  7532. ​ @iancormie9916  The PROBLEM is that its virtually hardwired into Economics and Accountancy students during their degrees to INTERFERE in EVERYTHING that they can. Its almost an obsession for many of them and it is an obsession for some. I'm an engineer and when I became aware of Australia's energy situation about 7 years ago I started trying to work out why it happened and why NOBODY was doing anything. It came back to one simple answer - ECONOMISTS did it when they sold us all on the falsehood that privatising our energy sector would deliver cheaper prices and better services because of competition. It never eventuated and we now have some of the highest energy bills in the world. We have the same in infrastructure. When I looked around the world it was similar stories EVERYWHERE. Its the same SORT OF thing that happened at Boeing. They look at their economics and make decisions based on nothing but MONEY as in COSTS & PROFITS. If its a cost stomp on it and if its a profit launch it.
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  7533. Great comment below is a cut an paste of mine and the last line was inspired by your comment. If you want IGN0RANCE look no further than any and every economist on the planet. Look what the godfather of modern economics Milton Friedman says. "There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud" - Milton Friedman Does the great Milton Freidman say that CEOs, CFOs and other managers have to care about the effects of their decisions on other companies or society in general? Do these clowns think Elon Musk gave a damn about the future of America when he backed Donald Trump or was he looking after the juicy contracts SpaceX gets via NASA? Do these clowns think any of the Think Tanks funded by billionaires write reports and produce videos and do lectures doing anything other than promote what those billionaires funding them want? Does John Stossel (like all media these days) push any story other than those that help get attention and clicks and subscriptions and therefore EVERYTHING he does is in his own self interest?
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  7534. See the lengthy comment I left - the 3rd item covers part of where they fit.
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  7535. Maybe not as bad but almost as sneaky is the almost innocent looking Tik Tok, which too many is just a harmless social media app. We were shown this in Australia recently -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwu5C8JWO_k Note how they talk about Tik Tok being able to access your photo albums. If it can access that it can most likely access anything. And here's the thing Tik Tok is Chinese and that means the Chinese Communist Party has total access to it. Its Chinese law that if the CCP ask a Chinese registered company for client data they have to hand it over. They don't have to go to a judge and get a warrant its Chinese Law.
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  7536. ​ @52flyingbicycles  There's one major thing about Art of War you've downplayed (maybe) is that its about the basics and the basics in almost every human endeavour DON'T CHANGE. If you look at something like American football if your team can't block and tackle it doesn't matter how good your QB is or your game plan. In basketball if your team has 4 players who can't dribble or pass does it matter if the 5th guy is Lebron?? Does it matter how good your slap shot is if you can't skate? Basics matter and they always have. FYI - I'm an engineer and there's this great line AOW about how an ugly short war is better than a long drawn out war because a long draw out war saps the nation of strength. I can tell you for a fact that every project I have ever done where it was dragged out ended badly. I have seen massive projects grind to a halt with ridiculous delays and expense because some clown had just not got something basic done.
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  7537. Listen to these people - everything is market dynamics. Its utter nonsense that's driven western society to the brink of revolution due to wealth disparity. It favors a particular class of trader and ends up as a form of market driven feudalism where there are those who have power through finance and those who have no power through poverty. It has its roots in the nonsense of the American robber baron era where they just took what they wanted and cared nothing for the consequences to other people, but includes crap from people like Ayn Rand's and her philosophy of self interests before any one else. Its a sort of extreme Machiavellian concept of "if I get what I set out to get then nothing that happened getting there matters." Things like ethics and consequences mean nothing to these people.
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  7538. You have given yet another perfect example of the lies told by the Neocons. EVERYONE should go and watch the PBS Frontline Documentary "Rumsfeld's War" I remember it from when it was first aired and it showed stuff that so few people saw before the invasion and exposed that the whole invasion as not only a scam promoted by a small group of Neocons, but also a how it was badly planned. There's at least 1 private channel here on YT that has it. Sam is 100% right in that there was no mention of the "future threat" that Bolton mentions. What the documentary "Rumsfled's War" points out is that the Neo-cons wanted regime change across the Middle East and to have any chance of that America needed to get rid of the regimes in Iraq and Iran. That was central to Neo-con ideology at the time - get rid of Saddam and get rid of the Ayatollahs. As far as mistakes go the biggest by far was people like John Bolton, Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld NOT LISTENING TO THE MILITARY. Go and watch "Rumsfeld's War" and you will see footage of Eric Shinseki advising congress on what the task of invading Iraq would entail and then see footage of Paul Wolfowitz saying the military had no idea. Paul Wolfowitz not only never served in the military and was later kicked out of the World Bank after giving his girlfriend a job at the World Bank. If you watch that documentary you'll be stunned that John Bolton has the audacity to say what he's saying.
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  7539.  @Tethloach1  Sad but very true.
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  7540.  @colinhaney  Part of my point is that the problem we see in America right now, which are complex and don't have easy solutions for, are also present across the world. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship - so I wasn't just there for an exchange semester. I did engineering but a pack of my frat brothers were pre-law and they dragged me into lots of discussions about things like the Bill of Rights. I can barely believe that what's happening around Trump and the 2020 election. That's the sort of stuff we argued about NEVER being able to happen. I used to argue that thigs could change and that if you weren't careful any nation could fail. They were adamant that the US Constitution wouldn't allow anyone to do these sorts of things. They argued that the 1st Amendment would make sure that NO US Government would be able to get away with lying to the American people. "Freedom of the Press" was the granite block they built so many arguments on. But whoever considered that America's "Free Press" would someday be owned and controlled by a handful of billionaires? What really scares me right now is that we (here in Australia) have our own version of Trump. A real POS named Clive Palmer and he's using the same tactics Trump used. Tell a small fact to sound credible and then ram home a bunch of lies I am being drowned in his adds here on YT. During our last election he fleeced one of his own companies to pay for his campaign. That's illegal here, particularly when that company is not financially sound. Yet, like Trump, he has enough money and lawyers to get away with it. I've seen or heard other similar reports from around the world of billionaire influence that's out of control and how they make doing anything that helps the general population better off incredibly difficult. Their profits come first. Our lives don't matter. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  7541. POINT 1: Gigi Foster is NOT a medical doctor and no qualifications at all to be handing out pandemic response advice to anyone. POINT 2: You at 73 are exactly the sort of person Gigi said we should let die because you're worthless old person with high medica costs and we'd be better off spending the money on other things. Go watch her interview on 60 Minutes for which other professors at UNSW criticised her for. POINT 3: Jay Bhattacharya was heavily criticised by other scientist for his STATISTICAL analysis where he claimed that 80,000 people in Santa Clara had COVID. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bhattacharya#COVID-19_pandemic POINT 4: These 2 have repeatedly pointed out during this 1h11m discourse that we should not allow our society to be dominated by powerful full rich people and yet they are also representatives of a number of extremely powerful American Billionaires. The Great Barrington Declaration Jay co-authored was funded via the Brownstone Institute which is an American Libertarian Think Tank funded by Anarcho-Capitalist Jeffery Tucker. POINT 5: They lied about the data, notably about Sweden and where Australia actually sits. But that's a longer discussion and I will happily present anyone with the facts of those lies. FYI - I'm an Australian who went to University in America. The American Libertarians are the most radical of America's political ideologies. These include people like the Koch brothers one of whom ran against Ronald Reagan because he thought Reagan wasn't conservative enough. Consider that Gigi wants to put a number on what she perceives as "your value to society." That's what her "qualies" are really about. That's the same type of idea the Nazis to justify their experiments on orphans and mentally ill patients to find out what combinations of drugs killed fastest. The simplest way to describe these extreme Libertarians is to sum up their ideology in the simple sentence. "I want what I want and I don't care what it does to your life or what it costs you."
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  7542. Cenk's failure is the same failure that so many make with the Israeli-Palestinian issue - its a complex issue with more than just the 2 obvious sides, because within each of those 2 sides has many factions with so many differences of opinion its a spaghetti mix of ideologies. Its so complex that something like Twitter with its simplest approach to everything is the worst possible place to discuss it.
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  7543. I haven't seen much of this guy and haven't been too interested because he's Greek, he had his chance running Greece and took it nowhere. Now I realise he never had a chance, just like so many others have no chance of tackling the economic issues in their countries - economic zombification. This might be the most important 26 minutes any of us see this year. I've lost count how many times I have watched this.
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  7544.  @929mmr  No doubt Warnock is better, but all these Left Media people need to START PROMOTING IT. This is one of the really stupid things the Democrats do. They fail to realise that you actually have to get people to get up and go and vote. America has optional voting not compulsory, so you have to MOTIVATE people. A perfect example was Hilary in 2016 when she didn't campaign in Michigan but instead did fundraisers in New York. She openly said they'd vote for her anyway. Treating your base with CONTEMPT DOESN'T WORK and it certainly doesn't motivate people to vote. Warnock needs to be seen and heard. Look at the views. David has almost 1.5 million subscribers and only 76,000 have bothered to watch this. WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU? Yeah people are over the Walker is bad vids. David (and others) need to interview Warnock AND SHOW he's worth voting for. They should not be interviews about Walker they should be interviews about what Warnock is doing, what he's done so far and wants to keep doing. Its basic sports/mob/team psychology.
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  7545.  @hollihawk1  The problem is THERE is no actual Progressive Party ANYWHERE. Like so many other things the word or label progressive has been HIJACKED by the clown brigades of political actors who jump onto whatever word or subject they can find to suit their needs. The word woke is a perfect example. Until a couple of years ago it was nothing more than a word African American blues musicians used as an alternative to "a awake" to fit the music score. Its meaning was simple "are you awake to the economic plight of African Americans." Then the radicals decided that it was their new word to bash people with. The same thing has happened with progressive and other words, just not as bad. At its simplest ANYONE who wants to see their society move forward and get better is a progressive. The moment it becomes ALL ABOUT 1 group of people then its NOT progressive. I don't mean when people say "we need to lift these people up to our level." I mean when people get so focused on 1 issue that they forget about what's fair and trample over anyone to get what they perceive as fair or just or right. A perfect example is the German Green Party. They were so determined to get rid of nuclear power that when they did they had to ramp up their coal fired power plants to make up for the loss. After spending €1.3Trillion on renewables their emissions went UP not down. THAT'S NOT PROGRESS and yet they claim to be progressive.
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  7546. You're not alone in that. I never thought she'd be POTUS, but for a while I thought she'd make a pretty decent secretary of state or UN ambassador she was willing to go to difficult places and actually meet difficult people like she did with Assad. Sure Tulsi didn't solve anything but she also didn't make it worse. If you compare her to how Nikki Haley did as UN ambassador she did well. Haley did so much damage it'll take years for some countries to trust America again. BUT ONCE Tulsi lost any chance of winning the Democratic nomination she lost her mind and that slide into irrelevance hasn't stopped and this just confirms she's a lost cause.
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  7547. Is it just me or can you see the day we hear that Steve Bannon stepped out his front door and was attacked with a baseball bat or something worse? He's like that brat in grade school who just wont stop poking and prodding at the quiet kid because he thinks the quiet kid will never do anything. I wonder if he'll be just like that brat who squeals and screams when the quiet kid says they have had enough and smacks the FK out of them.
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  7548. I have exactly the same answer I just gave another person. This is a message the American Left NEED TO HEAR. Go back and look for a video Kyle did referencing a Politico story on the 2022 Congressional Budget Office Report Bernie Sanders commissioned on family wealth. Just the first graph in that report (and its easy to find) shows how the Bottom 50% of America have gone NOWHERE for 30+ years. They were smashed in the 2008 GFC losing almost 50% of what little they had. Meanwhile the Top 10% just keep getting everything they ask for. Once you realise just how farked a massive slab is and how fed up they are you will realise that BOTH Hilary and Kamala saying "More of the Same" means the only option for those people to change their lives is Trump. This is the TRUE FAILURE of the Dems. Instead of saying anything aspirational that gives the American people hope of a better future they gave "More of the Same" as their centre policy. When your one of the American Working Class and your life is SHlT and one person is preaching "More of the Same" and the other person is saying they want to "Tear down the System" its easy to see why Trump WON and America LOST. Because they have voted to tear the system down without thinking about what's needed to build it back up and Trump proved in his last 4 years he's clueless at building a better system.
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  7549. BUT Jesse Watters is RIGHT TRUMP has a record and on that record are 34 felony counts. 👍👍🫡🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  7550.  @richardvinsen2385  Simple answer - scholarship. Its now one of my life goals that if I get lucky (financially speaking) then some other kids will get to have what I got. There's one downside to the scholarship system. When you're in your late teens early 20s you just don't have the life experience to appreciate how FORTUNATE you are. I distinguish the difference between fortunate and lucky as: Anyone can be lucky over anything, but it takes appreciation of that luck to turn it into being fortunate. Like many others I was lucky to get that scholarship but remained lucky because I was too young to appreciate it. These days with an extra 35+ years of life I consider myself fortunate because I can now appreciate it. I did aerospace engineering during Reagans Star Wars era so without that scholarship there was no way for any non-American to get into that course because it was so oversubscribed at that time. It annoyed the crap out of me that I had to take these darned humanities courses because there were people who claimed it would make better people out of us engineers. I was wrong and they were right. These days I am finding those classes to be incredibly useful because that stuff helps. For example - on of and maybe the single biggest issue in the world right now is the energy crisis. Forget everything else, without energy everything collapses. Thanks to having done ECON-101 I can explain what went wrong. The energy crisis was caused 100% by economists who thought they could manage the energy systems of the world the same way they managed other things based on free market ideology. Thanks to having done classes like ECON-101 I can explain why that was never going to work because an energy supply system is fundamentally NOT like a supermarket or the stock market. In a supermarket or the stock market there's choice in abundance. You can choose this milk that milk, this meat that meat, these chips, this chips,...... etc. There's no choice in the electricity supply because there's there's only 1 energy grid your house can connect to. Yanis Varoufakis the famous Greek Economist explained that a while back and it also applies to water and wate water. Could you imagine what the cost would be to build and maintain multiple energy grids and water systems in parallel so people could have choice. So the free market model is impossible to make work with energy and water because it can't give the basic choices needed to make it work. Sorry but the free market economists caused the energy crisis, not the War in Ukraine or anything else. But try being an engineer and explaining that to an economist. You have a better chance of herding cats.
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  7551.  @kennethferland5579  Yeah its really disappointing to see the lack of fact checking. You can simply go to Wikipedia and see the costs and construction times of places like Vogtle, Hinkley Point C and Flamanville AND THEY ARE GOING ON RIGHT NOW. BUT despite all that the argument should simply be that the big developed western societies and larger developing societies like China need nuclear to underpin their base load OR THEY WILL SIMPLY COLLAPSE because their wont be enough power to keep things running. I'm Australian and we have some of the best wind and best solar on the planet. With some decent storage we can come close to 100% solar & wind but the last 10-20% of that is going to get harder and harder because we'll have to build out the transmission system at a huge cost. It will simply be easier to do a couple of nuclear plants on the sites of existing coal fired stations and use the existing transmission system. The real discussion in Australia should be WHAT TYPE of nuclear do we want.
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  7552.  @kennethferland5579  The other GIANT problem that none of the pro-nuclear people talk about is the fuel supply system. Between the mine and the power station is the enrichment plant and RIGHT NOW in 2024 (or it will be in a few hours) there is a worldwide shortage of enrichment capacity. I was unaware of this until recently, but America has to get fuel grade uranium pellets from Russia because America has fallen behind in keeping up with its own demand. Go watch an interview with James Krellenstein about enrichment on Decouple Media. Its a real eye opener.
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  7553.  @stevenrichman7101  Sorry but Germany has done the dumbest thing its done since the end of WW2. You spent €1.3 Trillion on clean energy (wind & solar) and INSTEAD of switching off your old dirty coal fired power stations first you got sucked in and switched OFF your LOW EMISSION nuclear plants first. That forced you to burn even more coal and have higher emissions. The result was that after spending €1.3 Trillion on clean energy Germany's emissions WENT UP not down. Fine ITS YOUR CHOICE if you don't like nuclear and don't want it and NOBODY has the right to tell you what to do, but when you do it so stupidly don't ask for any respect from anyone else.
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  7554.  @lrvogt1257  Great answer and its something that needs to be discussed and planned for. The new EPRs that are being built in Britain and France have a planned life of 70 years so the people building them aren't going to be around when decommissioning happens. Its also been that way for many other industries and some of them have been atrocious in the behavior.
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  7555.  @jesan733  Yeah as far as I know there was a lot of Russian influence in the Green movement going way back especially on the nuclear energy issue. The crazy thing is the Greens and Russian Socialist should NOT be morally, ethically or politically aligned because the Russian Soviets were some of the worlds worst environmental offenders. Just look what they did to the Aral Sea and many other places. The Chinese are even worse than the Russians. They've severely damaged or outright destroyed over 30,000 waterways and that's before we discuss their coal mines. As for the Russian Gas it was TECHNICALLY a smart thing to do. Its just that it involved some of the worst people on the planet - namely Putin and his Oligarch buddies. BUT THEN are those Russian Oligarchs any worse than the American Oligarchs?
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  7556.  @OhNotThat  Thanks
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  7557.  @grapevinez6026  great comment, but there is something you Swedes can do that would go a long way to helping the entire planet. Tell your King to stop handing out the Nobel Prize in economics. Its NOT a real Nobel and was never endorsed or supported by the Nobel family. In fact the Nobel family have tried to get their name removed from that prize. It was funded by your central bank (Sveriges Riksbank) to make it look like economics was a real science like physics and chemistry. That prize is the source of "authority" and "credibility" that many people use to promote stupid economic ideas that have wrecked the world. Greta Thunberg went to New York and famously told the clowns there how stupid their ideas of infinite growth were. Those ideas have the credibility because winners of this FAKE Nobel use theirs status to promote those ideas. If Greta and her friends really want to help fix the world her next protest should be out front of the Sveriges Riksbank to get rid of that prize. Every country (including Australia) has a few things that they have done or still do that's so stupid the rest of the world can point a finger at them for being stupid, but it takes truly exceptional stupidity to do something that affects the rest of the planet and the FAKE Nobel prize in Economics is one of those rare things.
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  7558. ​ @mebeasensei  You are absolutely right. Most of us DO NOT know that we are also owners via our pension funds or as we call it in Australia Superannuation. In fact in the Laws for Superannuation the corporate SA funds MUST invest a certain amount on the ASX 200. Its why there's such a fight with companies in the the ASX list between 150 and 250. The top 50 in the ASX are secure. The next 100 are fairly secure but the 151-200 group have those in the 201-250 fighting like hell to replace them. Because the moment a company goes from outside the ASX 200 into the ASX 200 the "institutional investors" (what the The SA funds are called in this context) they have to dump the stock that had in the company that was in the ASX 200 and buy stock in the company that just made it into the ASX 200. So while every Australian howls at the way our companies operate there's a war going on which makes them money for their retirement. YES - its bizarre. The hidden problem in this are the fund managers who make staggering amounts of money milking the hell out of the system.
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  7559. Napoleon Bonaparte - "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
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  7560.  @skibooski6884  From that perspective ABSOLUTELY YES you make a great point. But from the perspective of blindly following a despotic cult leader NO and that was my point. Both are very bad and I tend to consider that because Bush, Cheney & Co. were never held accountable that emboldened Trump to believe he could do whatever he liked and why he still thinks Presidents can get away with anything. The difference is Bush, Clinton, Obama and others did stuff to other countries and even though they did things that have hurt America and the American people they never tried to attack America.
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  7561.  @BHR2x8  Do you know that ever since Chomsky did that interview, plenty of people have referenced it but I am yet to see any legal scholar or lawyer refute it or even debate it. Its almost as if the powers that be are ignoring it in the hope we will all forget Chomsky ever said it.
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  7562. Here's a quote that needs repeating Vice President Henry A. Wallace in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  7563. For anyone doubting this go and watch the interview with Rachel Reeves with Rory Stewart & Alistair Campbell. Its BEFORE she became Chancellor of the Exchequer. But during that interview she spoke economics straight from the Margret Thatcher playbook. Anyone who's watched any of Stephanie Kelton's explanations of MMT knows that Margret Thatcher likened the British Economy to a household and that you needed to "tax before you spend" Go listen to how many times Rachel Reeves makes that same claim.
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  7564. I'd bet his company will build something like what he's seen in the movies and then claim its his own idea. Like he's done with other technologies.
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  7565. What do you think ALL OF THEM DO? This is one of the most biased pieces of garbage I have ever seen or heard. He's not wrong on several points but the REAL LIE is the LACK of BALANCE. I'm an engineer and for sure solar panels do include some poisonous substances. Traditionally the cells include compounds like Gallium Arsenide (Arsenide as in Arsenic) but then all the coal fired power stations (old & new) are riddled with things like asbestos. If we are going to ban solar panels because of what they are made from then we have to also ban computers, smart phones, television sets, the entire Internet, EFTPOS machines has AS WELL AS CARS. Basically the entire modern world as we know it has to go if what's in solar panels gets banned. That's the real lie in this idiotic rant. And don't call me some Greenie fanatic because I can't stand their biased stupidity either. I can write pages on their stupidity.
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  7566.  @charlesmangum3108  Both of what solar and wind or renewable and base load. The Germans spent €1.3 Trillion on renewables and they found out a few things. 1: For every 1kW of coal that gets turned of you need around 2.2kW of wind & solar to replace it. 2: Wind is best from late afternoon until early morning which is almost the opposite of solar. So if they are balanced from an engineering perspective you can lower the 2.2kw to around 1.7kw (about 20-25%). So if a country the size of Germany could have saved about €400 Billion it would have left plenty for batteries. They expect to eventually make all that back because they now know how to engineer large renewable power infrastructure more efficiently. 3: Renewables have a low energy production by land area compared to most other forms of generation. This is one of the things I hate that Greenies ignore, because its also the main reason why we do need a form of electricity production that's high density for the land area it occupies. If that high density option is also a base load (its available 24/7/365) then its got 2 bases covered. 4: They worked out the real monetary value of bulk electricity storage. The Germans are pretty good at manufacturing quality. What many people don't realise is that their ideology is partly driven by profit. They worked out long ago that if you make something (anything) and its rejected by the buyer as faulty or poor quality then you are stuck with the bill for materials, labor and energy and CAN'T IT BACK. I'm an engineer who's worked in the auto industry and had this explained to me. Financially they are called "unrecoverable losses." With wind and solar the sun only shines so many hours each year and the wind only blows so many hour each year. ANY SECOND/HOUR/DAY of sun or wind they CAN'T SELL to the market is the equivalent of a poorly made product - its an unrecoverable loss. Everyone thinks storage is necessary for stable power supply and it is BUT its also incredibly important FINANCIALLY. 5: The single biggest factor the Germans worked out was that if your geography is suitable you can have a massive chunk of your energy coming from renewables. BUT there's a limit to how much and then it gets horribly expensive. This is also the SAME for every other energy source. If you get to narrowly focused then you eventually need a backup and its the backup that gets expensive. Its like racing cars, making a fast car is one thing but as you started chasing the final 1% its gets Formula 1 expensive. Its the same for almost any engineered system including power generation. The Germans made a massive blunder by letting the Greenies have their way when it cams to what they switched off first - their nuclear or their coal. THIS explains why I don't like Greenies. They made an emotional decision and shut off the nuclear which was working fine and produced very few GHGs. Instead (after spending €1.3 Trillion) their GHG emissions didn't fall because they had to run their dirty old coal fired units even harder. If they had have left the nuclear on then their GHG emissions would have dropped massively. The issue isn't if we will have a huge amount of our energy future coming from wind & solar. Its a matter of what the complimentary technology we have is and how much we need of it. My bet is that just as renewables will have some variety so will the complimentary. About the only thing I am certain of is that NONBODY will be (or shouldn't be) building any new coal fired power stations. If you wat a live able planet and a future the answer is NO. This is half the hassle I have as an engineer. Instead of doing what's sensible we have utter clowns like Cory Bernardi playing their biased games to their biased audience while the utter clowns on the other side keep playing their biased games to their biased audience. Because of those 2 sides being stupid we aren't making progress when we desperately need to.
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  7567. Aerospace Engineer and pilot here: CALLING BULLSHlT to this. YET again someone who might understand business dynamics but who has no NO GRASP AT ALL of Aviation is making yet another idiotic claim that can't be proven right for another 15 years. Even if this wasn't in aviation making any sort of DEFINITVE CLAIM about anything 15 years into the future is idiotic at best. And for the Boeing knockers - YES people like this clown who think they understand aviation are why BOEING has fallen so far. THIS IS CLEARLY A CHANNEL NOT WORTH WATCHING.
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  7568. THERE IS ONE THING that Peter is completely leaving out of this discussion is the dysfunction in Washington. I'm Australian abut went to college in America (late 80s) and I have had a lot of contact with American's over several decades. I have NEVER SEEN them divided politically like they are now. Sure the Dems and GOP disagreed on any number of issues, but when it came to FOREIGN AFFAIRS Washington was PREDICTABLE. Yes many people may not have liked what America did and how it behaved especially the CIA and coups across the world, BUT AT LEAST THEY WERE PREDICTABLE and the Dems and GOP never saw each other as their mortal enemy and that they had to save the country from the other side. This is a major problem for all of America's allies including Australia. We have just made this massive commitment to nuclear submarines called the AUKUS agreement. Although I agree in principle Australia should go nuclear I think the Virginia-class is a massive mistake. The bigger issue however is: How can we be certain of stable politics in America when the place is now infested with reality denying clowns dominated by geriatrics who wont let go and retire?
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  7569. What do you expect when their main ideology is: "Libertarians demand the liberty to strip others of their liberties."
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  7570. @milo-yl5jj Yeah its like a bunch of clowns at a clown convention proving how stupid they can be.
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  7571. I recently saw Van Jones do a TED talk and it was arguably one of the best commentaries on the American situation ->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w This is similar except for one thing and as a qualified lawyer Van Jones should know - this is not treason. Van Jones should know the legal definition in America of treason and that it is a very narrow definition compared to the dictionary. All the talk leading up to this is SEDITION not treason. These acts are all sorts of things, destruction of government property, trespass, assault, theft, BUT none of it is treason and as a lawyer with a very high public profile VAN JONES - SHOULD DO BETTER. In Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution, treason is specifically limited to levying war against the US, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_States
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  7572.  @Nope2022HugeTheWarningFan  Its a great point. Its also obvious and is NOT being said enough. Trump is a pathetic sore loser. But like a spoiled 5yr old he's a destructive brat. I think there is something mentally wrong with him. That or he's a pure narcissistic sociopath which might be worse. There might not be anything he wont do to get back what he thinks he was deprived or cheated out of. I'm finding Michael Moores comments quite haunting these days. Its made worse by the incredible ignorance of the Dems. By ignorance I do mean that they are IGNORING these issues as they did in 2016. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  7573. Sorry but this is some of the most ignorant shit I have ever heard and I mean ignorant in that he ignores basic reality. He's IGNORING that he's describing and criticising EVERY socio-political ideology when they go too far. If you took this speech and replaced the words woke and wokeism with conservative & conservatism or left & leftism or right & rightism or ANY OTHER socio-political ideology its exactly the same speech. This is 9 minutes and 12 seconds of political clichéd BULLSHlT that could easily describe every political movement in history. For a couple of people who think this kid has a bright future look at the recently elected American George Santos who has lied about everything in his life. He won the election doing EXACTLY what Tommy Nguyen has done here take the standard tribal political line and tell it to a willing audience. What the real debate should be "This House Believes Political Tribalism Has Gone Too Far"
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  7574. ACTUALLY THIS IS BETTER THAN WE ALL THINK Note what she says and David sort of hints at. At 2:43 her words "Just want the American public to realize that that document that they claim he had was not part of the indictment." Trump claimed on tape it was a classified document. She's claimed its not part of the current indictment. QED - That means there's more out there to be found or charge him with.
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  7575. ROBERT - Sorry but I am going to give you an answer you wont like. ITS YOU AND PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO ARE THE PROBLEM I'm an Australian aerospace engineer, educated in America who works in industrial control systems which are the sensor & computer system that run things like power stations, water treatment plants and factories. I work with a lot of electricians, welders, machinists and semi-skilled laborers. THEY UTTERLY HATE PEOPLE LIKE YOU with real emphasis on the word LIKE. Its not you specifically or personally but its people like economists, bankers, lawyers,.... which includes the people in government or who ADVISE government. The working class hate College and University educated clowns who look down on them with a passion you can't imagine because NO MATTER WHO THEY VOTE FOR the economists, consultants and lawyers step in and make sure the STATUS QUO stays in place. When people vote in a different government they are actually voting for change. How do you think they feel when NOTHING CHANGES???? To paraphrase Ronald Reagan (which feels weird). Economists are NOT the solution. Economists are the problem. I discovered how much economists interfere when I looked into Australia's Energy industry after a small consulting project in 2016. The energy crisis which is only going to get much worse is 100% the fault of economists. The stupid claim that the "free market is the solution to everything" is just nonsense. Thanks to the work of people like Mark Blyth, Steve Keen, Steph Kelton, Gary Stevenson and others I can now explain what ECONOMISTS HAVE DONE. They never understood how energy systems operate or how they need to be maintained. The same can be said for water systems, mining, manufacturing and I have worked in those industries. Trying to explain how these systems work to an economist is almost impossible because of how braindead they are. There's a pervasive and insane concept among economists that Mark Blyth has pointed out several times. "Economists see everyone else as problems they have to manage." What do you think happens when clowns with that sort of ideology start dominating the decision processes in industries like health care, education, infrastructure and energy that they have no training in or understanding of? If you want to talk about this let me know.
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  7576.  @nolandclark653  Dude no one needs to go listen to any more of her garbage. Just as they don't need to listen to any more of a lot of other people and their garbage. Stephen Colbert needs to be slapped stupid for some of his recent stuff. Almost EVERY American commentator and politician needs to be slapped stupid over the mountain of garbage they have been spewing. Just the other day I saw a retired US general on German New speak complete idiotic garbage about "the rule of law" when he hasn't a clue about America's standing on the subject. I'm now calling COVID "Stupid Flu" because the real result of the pandemic is the wave of stupidity that's engulfing us.
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  7577.  @jtaylor-fi5bd Well that would be the party that DID NOT LIE TO ALL THEIR ALLIES and INVADE Iraq and Afghanistan and by some estimates get over 1 million civilians DEAD and cost the American taxpayer over $1 Trillion trying to build roads, schools and hospitals instead of building roads, schools and hospitals in America where Americans could BENEFIT FROM THEM.
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  7578. Great tag and an even better comment. 🤣😂👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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  7579. AUSTRALIAN HERE with an outside view (question). How does America expect the rest of the World to do business with America after this? I'll remind you all of the Steven Donziger case where he was jailed for representing Ecuadorian's who'd successfully sued Texaco (now owned by Chevron) over their environmental damage in "the Lago Agrio oil field of Ecuador. The Ecuadorian court awarded the plaintiffs $9.5 billion ($12.7 billion in 2023 dollars) in damages, which led Chevron to withdraw its assets from Ecuador and launch legal action against Donziger in the US. In 2011, Chevron filed a RICO (anti-corruption) suit against Donziger in New York City." (Wikipedia). How are we supposed to do business with American entities (government or private) that have no respect for local laws and do damage (or worse) in our countries when they will drag it back to the US Court System where ultimately SCTOUS will adjudicate? FYI - Chevron has assets in Australia most notably the Gorgon Project based on the environmentally sensitive Barrow Island of the coast of Western Australia. So far Chevron has extracted billions of dollars in LNG exports, failed to get their carbon sequestration system working and PAID NO TAXES. AND BEFORE you ask: YES both the Australian Federal government and West Australian state government are at fault for letting Chevron get away with what they are getting away with.
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  7580. Funny how he mentions the Tech Giants but then ignores the Big Oil and Big Pharma??????
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  7581.  @brycewilson5886  Quite possibly right.
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  7582.  Former Child Model  Seriously will you people making all the claims about 2020 just FK-OFF. There's been recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount after recount. AND NOTHING CHANGED. TRUMP LOST DEAL WITH IT.
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  7583. I'm an Australian engineer and work in our mining sector. I followed what Lynas Corp our biggest rare earth producer was doing. I was working out of Perth when they made their announcements for mining and the construction of a processing plant in Malaysia. The plant in Malaysia was built because the Malaysians subsidised it. It was built was going to cost a lot more in Australia because we have environmental laws. The local Malaysians are trying to close the plant because its so bad. When Lynas were pushing their promos for investors they described a lot of what had happened. One of the biggest and richest RE deposits in the world is the hills behind Los Angeles. But it ended up in temporary shutdown because of low market prices, which is very common in the mining industry. The Chinese bought the processing machinery from that mine and took it all too China. That's also not rare in mining. Quite often people buy mines so they can move all the hardware to another mine. There are people who specialise in dismantling mine sites and selling the stuff item by item. So the Americans let the Chinese take the hardware, because they knew full well how worn it was and that the actual reserve in California would still be there for a future time. They could easily build a new plant at that mine and get back into production. Why should they when they can let the Chinese chew through their reserves? So Peter's quite right about most of this, but he misses a few details, but then I 'm an engineer and he's not.
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  7584.  @taranullius9221  Which one of your comments do you want a reply on or are you just another BOT, because on first glance this is my impression. first comment - WRONG second comment - IDIOTICALLY WRONG third comment - suspecting your a bot forth comment - ALSO IDIOTICALLY WRONG
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  7585. This is actually a garbage story because it simply doesn't matter. The rest of us can all feel nice that we've told the polling companies that he was bad. Seriously spare us all the smug "we told you so" crap.
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  7586. Rudy Giuliani and his lawyer have already been caught out and they are in trouble. They claimed he to ill to travel and he turned up on twitter having fun. They claimed that he couldn't fly and yet its turned up he's booked flights to other places including Italy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4arIcTixtSk
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  7587.  @colinhubble6667  Good answer.
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  7588. Engineer here - can you and everyone else who keeps making this claim just WAKE TF UP. Its utterly NOT TRUE. If it were true then ONLY 1 device could ever run at any one time on any energy grid. For sake of argument - If a solar panel, wind turbine or anything else produces 2kw and the only thing on the system uses 1kw what TF do you think happens to the other 1kw? Yes you can use it to do other things including battery chargers. If someone has 500W of solar on their roof and the fridge and other stuff that just runs uses 200W then there's 300 W left to whatever you want. If you have the capability sell it onto the grid. If you have a battery system then charge your batteries. I am so tired of this sort of nonsense.
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  7589.  @ryanhocstetler That's gone around the world. I'm in Australia and we know about that. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️
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  7590.  @ryanhocstetler  2 good points. 👍👍 There's a great little discussion in a cut-scene in the game Assassin's Creed 3 between 2 of the protagonists Hatham Kenway and his son Connor. Yeah I know its a video game but its one of the best discussions I've heard regarding freedom and peace and order. Note what's said about 30s in about chaos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWhc6KGu11E
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  7591.  @arxsyn  I'm Australian but went to college there and its incredibly sad that a great country is being torn in half by a selfish clown. Even sadder are the millions following that clown. They actually had a point 4 years ago in rejecting the establishment. The just picked the wrong anti-establishment person. In some ways I think Hilary could have been worse. She would have reinforced all the establishment crap that led so many to follow an alternative. Plus just imagine how the Republicans would have reacted if Comey had kept quiet until afterwards. We would never had heard the end of it and it would have torn America in 2 already.
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  7592. As an Australian let me spell these stats out to any Ted Cruz supporters who might be trolling. Australia has 25.7 million people compared to Texas with just under 29million. So we have a similar sized population. I went to college in America and have been to Texas several times. Australia and Texas are fairly similar in geography - as in mainly flat, with similar weather. We are both reasonably spread out with a few major population centers. Most importantly the available medical technologies are essentially identical. Texas has 69,760 dead from COVID while Australia has 1,577. Based on population Texans are almost 40x more likely to have died from COVID. So please Teddy (and any of his supporters), don't tell us anything about handling COVID. And we also consider it criminal to let children freeze to death.
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  7593. YEAH and the COALITION HASN'T EXPLAINED how they are going to pay for nuclear power either. This is the problem and its NOT JUST Australia its rampant across the entire developed world. We are trapped in an braindead economic situation of our own making. AND SO WE ARE CRYSTAL CLEAR - Marxism, Socialism and Communism are NOT THE ANSWER. Look at Russia and look at the man made mega-disaster of the Aral Sea or the insane destruction of Chinese Waterways or the toxic legacies of bad practices across Eastern Europe AND THERE WASN'T A CAPITALIST ANYWHERE NEAR ANY OF IT. Yes Western Capitalism might have defeated (if it can be called that) the Eastern Socialist/Communist empire in the Cold War. But did they defeat Eastern Socialist/Communist system or did that system simply collapse out of its own mismanagement? Like wise is Western Capitalism now failing because of its own internal issues. By that way for all you Fox/Sky lovers Chris Bowen was on the 7:30 Report recently and he said he doesn't believe that the government should build or own power stations. Can any of you Right Wing nutcases explain why a Left wing clown like Chris Bowen is spouting the same sort of economic nonsense that a Right Wing Economist would preach?
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  7594. Hey Sal before you insult the French anymore than most Americans usually do. There's a video here on YouTube that tells you how to pronounce Languedoc and its titled "How to Pronounce Languedoc? French Region Pronunciation"
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  7595.  @wgowshipping  I'm Australian but went to college in American and I can safely ask: When did any American ever pronounce anything right???? Its almost like after you kicked the British out you collectively decided to insult their language as well and then got so good at it you went after ever other language on the planet.
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  7596. I have no idea why anybody is surprised by this. There's been plenty of stories over the years about how bad Saudi justice is and how they still do public executions. I remember one report that warned Westerners never to be in a Saudi market on a Friday around lunch time because they round up foreigners and force them to watch how "effective Saudi justice is." I'm Australian and an Australian nurse who worked in a hospital over there was forced to watch an execution. In one interview a representative of a human rights organisation simply said the worst thing that can happen to you in a Saudi prison is the doctor comes to see you on a Friday morning because they give people a huge dose of sedatives before they take them out to have hands and heads chopped off. Its done to keep the prisoner calm while they do it. But the craziest comment I ever read or heard was from an American PR consultant in the Melbourne Age newspaper. Apparently the Saudis employ a couple of PR firms to handle issues some of their princes get up to in Europe and America. I remember this comment because my boss at the time was Jewish and I showed it to him. In describing what it takes to do PR for the Saudis this American PR consultant said (paraphrasing), "I'm Jewish and I would prefer to do PR for the Nazi Party than the Saudi Royals." He gave no specifics but said that as a way of saying how bad they are.
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  7597.  @GenSecAI79  America is the only country in the world where positions like judges, prosecutors (as in district attorneys or state attorneys) and police chiefs (or sheriffs) are directly elected. So for those positions there is no other qualification than being able to convince people you can do the job.
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  7598.  @sunseeker9581  no disagreement from me if its addictive and makes people dependent then its a PROBLEM.
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  7599. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. I tried telling them back then that America did not have a left. It had a Right and Further Right. These days I'd describe the Dems as where the GOP was and the GOP half way into crazy town. What the rest of the Western world doesn't get is that America never had a major party founded in the working class like the Labour Party's in Britain, Australia, Canada,... etc. Nobody anywhere except in America thought Obama or Clinton were lefties. Do you remember that Obama admitted some of his policies were close to what Reagan did? Don't forget Obama Care was partially based on Mitt Romneys health care plan. What Justin fails to get right is that the radical left (and I mean the real crazies like Robespierre, Pol Pot, Stalin type crazy) are few in number and have almost no political power anywhere in the Western World. The radical right these days have the backing of billionaires.
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  7600.  @jokerswank6082  Dude Pol Pot was university educated in France. Its where he became (as we now call it) radicalized.
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  7601.  @jokerswank6082  If you have ever listened to people like Prof. Richard Wolff you'd know that none of those maniacs actually practiced Marxism, communism or socialism. They were just the labels they put on what they did. Don't forget that both East Germany and North Korea had the word Democratic in their names and yet never practiced any form of democracy. Its like America, they might still have elections and can still do things but its slowly turning into a weird form of techno-feudalism run by competing packs of plutocrats and oligarchs.
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  7602.  @jokerswank6082  Don't get snarky - actually read what people are saying. Drop the arrogance as well. You've clearly got brains so use them.
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  7603. AS AN AUSTRALIAN -> WE WARNED YOU ABOUT MURDOCH. Just like we warned the Brits about him. So don't blame us because your numbskulls didn't listen and gave him a US passport.
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  7604.  @velvetfog4310  You poor deluded clown it was the corporations who decided the Democrat nomination.
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  7605. Right now here in Australia we are having the worst floods in our recorded history and its going to cost billions. Before this we had bush fires that cost billions. Before that we had drought and it cost billions. Every time someone says we need to shut down our coal industry they ask *"Who's going to pay?"
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  7606.  @johnmadison3472  What I am very concerned about AND a few AI people are trying top point this out, is the complete misrepresentation of what AI is and what its good for and what its LIMITATIONS are. One of the main problems with very complex systems is that small changes can have dramatic effects. As an engineer I have seen people become over trusting in computer systems. My university professor who was one of the top people in his particular field hammered it into me they are useful tools NOT infallible tools. Do I need to explain what happened with the Boeing Max-8?
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  7607. AUSTALIAN ENGINEER HERE: 1) This is NOT just a problem for Britain its a problem across the entire developed world including Australia. 2) This is 100% THE FAULT OF ECONOMISTS This started with American Economist Milton Freidman who's view was Governments are the problem and markets are the solution. 2 of his greatest acolytes were Margret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan who famously said "Governments are NOT the solution. Governments are the problem." Milton Friedman also_"argued that a company has no social responsibility to the public or society; its only responsibility is to its shareholders."_ (Wikipedia) and to maximise profits. The argument that deregulated markets would deliver "cheaper energy with better services" IS ILLOGICAL How can anyone expect there to be any stable market for anything when the OBLIGATION of every CEO in that market is to maximise profits. EITHER they collude to raise prices and lower costs OR they fight it out Hunger Games style until a single victor emerges and then there's no competition and the victor can do whatever they like. I will grant to any economist that in the case of fast moving consumer goods where there are many suppliers, many product options and many options to buy those goods from then Freidman's ideology can work. The problem is that things like infrastructure, water and energy ARE NOT LIKE fast moving consumer goods. They are ESSENTIAL SERVICES to society and the costs involved in DO NOT HAVE a market solution. This is also why economists have made a mess of public education and public health care across the world in recent decades. Economists can't comprehend that there are these ESSENTIAL functions and services that need to be manged by government, NOT so the government can make money but so that the private sector can make money. Roads & bridges DO NOT need to make money they need to enable everyone else to move about and move stuff and make money. Education systems DO NOT need to make money they need to supply private industry with educated workers or with people who can make money and buy their goods and services. Hospitals DO NOT need to make money they need to get people healthy so they can go back to making money. In Britain right now is Hinkley Point C. It took 7 years to approve & design with a 10 year construction period. Even at higher energy prices it will take close to a decade to pay off and then start earning money. How does anyone ask a banker or CEO in the 50s to spend £40+ Billion knowing they wont be making a positive return until they are in there 70s? However if you ask the representative of a nation state to invest in something where over the next 80 years your nation shall grow and prosper from that investment then its a completely different matter. I have done the math of this and depending on how much the French STATE OWNED entity EDF can earn from Hinkley Point C then the French shall not only get their money back but PAY FOR at least 2, possibly 3 and if they work it well enough 4 power stations (8 x EPR 2 reactors in total). This is why Mr Macron could safely order 8 EPR 2 reactors because he know the British Economists are to stupid to do the math and it will NOT be the French people paying for those reactors it will be the British people paying for those reactors. So yeah right now the French people might be asking why are we paying for a power station in Britain. The answer is very simple: So it can pay for the next 2, 3 or 4 in France. AND before you ask. YES Australia is being just as stupid with its energy sector because like the British Economists advising the British Government our Economists advising our Government went to Oxford and Cambridge too. Except for the ones who went to Harvard and Yale.
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  7608. ​ @doubletappinhillbilly  I agree - look at all the the comments from the Hilary suck up s who still forget just how SHlTHOUSE of a candidate she actually was. They all forget that in her idiotic arrogance that she IGNORED the rust belt. She lost Michigan, Ohio and Penn which Obama won TWICE. Even John Kerry and Al Gore won Michigan and Penn. In fact you have to go back to when Bush 1.0 in 1988 to find the last time a Democrat lost Michigan and Penn. 6 years later and they still don't get that she was the WRONG CANDIDATE and ran a SHlT campaign. The Hilary cult might not be as bat crap crazy as the Trump cult BUT they can be damn obnoxious.
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  7609. Another Australian here and I am old enough to remember all the UFO sightings that we supposedly had in the 1970s following the Apollo Moon Landings. In most cases they were all debunked as aircraft or meteors. There was a famous one of what clearly looked like a classic saucer shaped object flying near the hills outside Las Angeles. Because there were Hills in the background people knew the distances. So they knew how large it was and how fast it was travelling and people went "Ah Ha" The someone did the basic image analysis. Because it was filmed on the old classic super-8 what they basically had was several 100 still images and they overlapped them. It became really obvious it was just a Cessna but it was flying at an angle to the camera where the light just came of it in a way that at the distance it was it looked like a classic 1950s flying saucer. How about all those early astronomers who looked through their telescopes and saw "canals" on Mars??? In a documentary (back in the 80s or 90s) I remember seeing a psychologist do an experiment on it once they took groups of high school arts class students and asked them to draw an object they had put at a distance beyond what most people could clearly distinguish details. The object was simply a circle on a flat surface with some random blobs inside the circle. No matter how many times they did it the majority of people would include lines connecting the blobs. There is something weird about the human visual cortex that when it can't distinguish details on a distant object it will add details in an effort to recognise what it might be. Psychologists have known about this stuff for decades.
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  7610. I'm Australian and the interesting thing he said about Obama killing of pathways for people to come into the party and rise through the ranks is that its also a major issue in BOTH Australia and Britain. Its more obvious in Britain than in Australia where Boris Johnson simply killed off anybody with functioning braincells that he could. That's how they ended up with Liz "Who needs a brain" Truss as Prime Minister. The only reason Rishi Sunak survived Boris's purges was his money. Here in Australia its less obvious but where it can be seen is with elected officials on the fringe of the main parties at the federal level and away from the executive people at the state level. At the federal level we have some really crap people who only got elected because they were chosen by the party hacks and were in safe seats. At the state level in almost every state other than the people immediately around the Premier (our equivalent to a Governor) the rest of the people are mostly incompetent. When I mean incompetent I really do mean INCOMPETENT. Every time some of them step in front of a microphone its an embarrassment to be an Australian. There is a couple of common factors to all 3 countries - America, Britain & Australia: 1) The insane level of influence of the media and especially the Murdoch family. 2) The insane level of influence of the super rich on government policy AIDED by the Murdoch family and lobbyists. 3) The insane level of influence on government policy and government programs by UN-ELECTED CONSULTANTS.
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  7611.  @Darhan62  Obama started his presidency with a Supermajority. Other than the drone issues. - He failed to get Medicare through. - He failed to deal with the disaster of Iraq and hold certain people accountable. - He failed to get out of Afghanistan. - He continued with the same basic economics of Reagan that set America up for the Trump Presidency. Other than the fact he was a fantastic public speaker and manged to get elected as America's first black POTUS he didn't do that much. Go ask the people of Flint Michigan.
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  7612.  @chriscoyle342  NICE GAS LIGHTING. Peter has said NOTHING about any specific governor so DO NOT go and start cherry picking specific governors and equating it to what he means. Especially when he's talking about governors who show some form of brain function and De Sanctimonious is very, very short on brain function as you point out.
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  7613. You guys should interview Scott Galloway because he summed up Biden's legacy quite simply when he said "The only thing Biden deserves is to be buried in the same hole as Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Diane Feinstein." Scott's one of the few people in America willing to stand up and tell these SELFISH geriatrics that include Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell and others to get out of politics and let younger people have a go. I can't say I agree with Scott on all of his views but on this I am 100% in agreement. Even though I am Australian I went to college in America and the problem with these geriatrics is their stubbornness and selfishness has GLOBAL ramifications. Unfortunately the American system promotes people staying in office until they die of old age.
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  7614. THIS IS SOME OF THE MOST DELUSIONAL 1950s COLD WAR FEAR MONGERING SHlT I HAVE EVER HEARD. Go look at the Wikipedia page for "Northern Sea Route" and look at the Map. 1) Greenland or who owns it has ABSOLUTLEY ZERO EFFECT on the Northern Sea Route from Europe to Asia BECAUSE most of the that route travels through Russian Waters. Look at the Map. 2) If Russia or China suddenly got 100% control of Greenland then NOTHING changes because all of the traffic between America's East Coast would travel in Canadian Waters. Again go and look at the map. The entire premise of this argument is just BULLSHlT pretending to be political strategy.
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  7615.  @Oystein87  Its annoying to have clowns like you prove how little you know. This is what it means to de-regulate industry and go to self certification systems. If its not specifically stated in a regulation that's stipulated by a government act then IT IS NOT ENFORCEABLE and that includes standards. Unless a standard is specifically stated to be required by law then you don't have to use it. Almost none of the engineering standards around the world INCLUDING most of the safety standards are actually required by law. I have been in the meetings where I got stomped on by people saying "that's only a standard." I have actually been kicked off projects just like the guys at Oceangate for speaking out and because of how employment contracts get written people have defense AND if you speak out you can get sued for breach of contract.
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  7616.  @raeperonneau4941  That international waters issue might also be the thing that catches them out because it brings it under an unusual US law called the Death on the High Seas Act, which covers liability for vessels operating beyond America's sea boundary. There's a YT Channel called "Legal Eagle" and he did a video on this.
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  7617. Australian - Yeah we heard down here that Justin is strutting around Ottawa going "So this is what it feels like to be a real man and stick it to the Americans! I should have done SHlT like this a long time ago."
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  7618.  @crypticscrutiny1153  You've unfortunately hit the nail on the head. What do we do? History sadly tells us that when the political elite become totally disconnected from the reality of the rest of society or just as badly DON'T CARE or even worse BOTH is NOT a NEW thing. Go and look at the list of revolutions and civil wars that the Europeans have faced. There wasn't just the French and Russian Revolutions those were just 2 of the more significant ones and have since become well known. Most of the others have simply been lost in history. Look at the American Revolution and what caused it. THIS IS A BIG IF - I have a great fear that the entire Western World is going to tear itself apart before too long IF WE DON'T put our Oligarchs back in their place. Unlike the many people I don't have any problems with people becoming Billionaires. My issue (and I think this is far more important) is HOW they got that money & wealth and HOW they are hanging onto it, BECAUSE its the PRACTICES of how they got there and the how they hang onto it that are wreaking havoc across our societies. Prof. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) said a while back that the Chinese looked at the American Billionaires and the Celebrities and when they started to see their own Billionaires and Celebrities mouthing off and handing out advice on how to rub things they (paraphrasing) went "NO farking way" and locked a few of them up. NO trials, NO cases and NO "free this" or "free that." They just said "NO. Now go spend some quiet time and learn that WE are in charge NO YOU!" The current joke goes: "If America saw what America was doing to America, then America would invade America to save America from America." What America needs is its version of the Chinese solution. You need to shove a couple of these clowns into jail BUT done the right and proper way by following the same laws that average Americans have to follow. The problem with getting it done is that BOTH the Democrats and GOP are both beholden to the Billionaire cash they live off that they simply will not do it. Go watch Jon Stewart's vid on corruption. So it wont happen while the only options are Dem or GOP and sadly RFK is so disconnected from reality I doubt he knows which day of the week it is. I hear his supporters latest joke is "Sure, RFK had brain worms, but at least he had a brain for the worms to feed off!" Trump was a change away from the standard Dem/GOP goon show but he was the WRONG person and instead made many things worse. What America actually needed and still needs is a REAL CHANGE from the standard Dem/GOP goon show that works for everyone not just a few. Trump was never going to be that and RFK will never be that. I do have a suggestion but it takes time to explain. FYI - as I was typing this and listening to another video I noticed that there are posts of a story where Ray Dalio has said that there's BETTER than a 1 in 3 chance of America having a Civil War. Go and type "ray dalio civil war" into Google. Hmmmmmmm!
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  7619. Because the Dems are almost as incompetent. They beat Trump but lost seats in the House. They didn't win the Senate outright, They lost seats and control or didn't get control of state houses. They promised the American public $2000 checks. Hello its 2021 and if people want their $2K why not go to the nearest federal office give your SSN, show some ID, sign a piece of paper and give them a bank A/C and BAZINGA $2000 in the account. ITS HOW THE REST OF THE DEVELOPED WORLD DOES IT. What's more many do it using American computer systems and software . DU-UH 🧏‍♂️🧏‍♀️
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  7620.  @connieb4372  Actually I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship. So I do have a "horse in this race" in the form of my friends and the families and their future. Also like EVERY Australian, Canadian, Japanese, Brit and the rest of the Western World WE ALL HAVE A INTEREST IN AMERICA. I can tell you for a fact that these last few years have seen a lot of growing anger and frustration with American ignorance. The arrogance we can deal with but not the ignorance. I was actually working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs. That wont be forgiven easily. On top of that our nations have backed America time and time again. Every war and invasion we have backed - Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and all the others. We knew Iraq was bullshit before it started, but we went because America asked. Australia (along with Scotland) hosts 2 of the 3 main US intelligence communication centers for the world (Colorado is the other). So we have nuclear weapons pointed at us for providing America with a major vital strategic asset. So when you (in your ignorance) ask if we have skin in the American game - yeah we f-cking do. We don't need America to lead what we do need is America to be a responsible nation and that responsibility needs to start at home in America. We know those $2k checks will go a long way to helping a lot of people who need that help at this moment and by helping the American people get past this mess it helps ALL OF US.
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  7621. @ Engineer here: 2 great points that are not mentioned often enough. There are other problems too. 1) Most notably the actual temperature is NOT high enough. This was the problem we had in Australia with Geothermal. We have a number of hot spots various parts of Australia but the pilot plants we ran on them just never proved viable or economical. It might sound strange to non-engineers but you really want dry-steam (that has no water vapor) rather than wet steam (which still has some water vapor) so that you get the best efficiency out of the turbines. To get that you need around 600C the 400C in the mantle just isn't enough. Also in that part of the process where the turbines are you wan to use 100% pure water to avoid scaling and that means using heat exchangers between the the water going into the ground and the water being used to drive turbines and that also reduces efficiency. 2) Our biggest problem was that these hot spots were so far off grid the cost of extending the grid made any geothermal in Australia economically unviable. That might change because we are now extending our grid outwards for the solar generating systems. 3) The best places for this technology are in geologically active places like New Zealand and Iceland which already have substantial geothermal power. The other place where the raw heat is conveniently close to the surface are active volcanoes, but then who's going to risk several billion Euro, Dollars, Yen or Yuan building a power station next to an active volcano?
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  7622. Completely irresponsible and idiotic comment. Its idiotic in the oversimplification of what was an incredibly complex situation. History tells us they DID SURRENDER after the second bomb, but that does not even scratch the surface of the complexity of what was going on.
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  7623.  @stambo1983  I could not agree more. A while back Kyle did a short video regarding a report in Politico on a Congressional Budget Office report on family Wealth. Its easy to find just google it. Its report number 57598. I know that report maybe as much as anyone because I am one of the very few people who comments on it let alone analyses what's in it AND ITS DAMNING. I first heard about this report months before Kyles comments when Richard Wolff mentioned it. The report was commissioned by Bernie Sanders and is an update of an earlier report that only went up to 2013. Since I first became aware of this report only 3 times (as far as I know) has anyone in the media mentioned it - Richard Wolff, Politico & Kyle. That blows my mind because of how explosive it is and its not just explosive to America the same sort of data comes out of almost any developed nation especially those that are Western Neoliberal economies. So it might be about America but it also condemns countries like Britain, Japan, Canada, Canada, Australia and it condemns BOTH sides of politics including the Democrats, Republicans, British Tories, British Labor, Australian Labor, Australian Liberals......... etc. Left or Right they stand condemned because they all run some variation of neoliberal economics. *WHY nobody in the media slams this report across the faces of politicians, bankers and economists is a puzzle to me? HERE'S THE CRUX OF IT and I apologise for the length of this. The very first graph looks horrendous because just on a first glance it show the wealthy getting insanely MORE wealthy while the bottom 1/2 are going nowhere and the middle struggles. NOTE that light brown band at the top (Top 10%) has 1/4 the number of people the brown band below it (Middle 40%) and 1/5th the number of people as the shite brown smudge (Bottom 50%) across the bottom. BUT THAT'S NOT EVEN 1/2 the STORY. If you compare 2010 to 2007 you get the effects of the GFC. if you compare 2019 to 2007 you can see how these groups recovered after the GFC. The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were over 21% UP compared to 2007. The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 4.6% UP compared to 2007. The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were STILL DOWN over 20%. YES by 2019 the people who caused the GFC had not only recovered which is no surprise from the money Bush and Obama gave them, but were collectively up by over $20 Trillion (with a 'T') while the people who's lives they smashed and were not bailed out had NOT YET RECOVERED. Even just as crazy a fact is the Top 10% did better under Obama than they did under Trump. During Obama's last 3 years (2013-2016) the Top 10% accumulated $18.3 Trillion During Trump's first 3 years (2016-2019) the Top 10% accumulated only $3.6 Trillion Comparing the same years for the Middle 40% 2013-2016 they accumulated $3.9T compared to 2016-2019 $1.3T For the Bottom 50% which is where many of Trumps base is. 2013-2016 they accumulated $0.4T compared to 2016-2019 $0.4T The amazing thing about this is that the pro-business Republicans didn't do so well for there corporate funders under Trump but those corporate funders did real well under Obama. If anything Obama was even more pro-business because he helped the Top 10% do so well. In just those 3 years they ADDED to the existing wealth almost 8x what the Bottom 50% had in total. FYI - Obama went to Harvard the world centre of GREED EDUCATION. He then lectured at the University of Chicago the world centre of GREED IDEOLOGY. I call that one graph the "graph of graphs" because it tells the true story of neoliberal economics. People can BS on about GDP figures but wealth is the true indicator of how society is going. FYI - I am actually an Australian Engineer who did aerospace engineering in America which is why I have a soft spot for America. I have taken to looking at economics because of the energy crisis which is way worse than most people know and that its caused by neoliberal economists influencing politics. Luckily there's economists like Steve Keen and Gary Stevenson who are effectively "Rebel Economists." They both have YouTube channels that I recommend to everyone. Again sorry for the length of the comment but I think your one of those few people who will appreciate it.
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  7624. ​ @adamdavis1648  Its one from around 2 years ago so it wont be that easy to find. The report was published September 2022 and the Politico report was mid to late 2023. So Kyles vid was in the second 1/2 of 2023. If you google for it Politico doesn't come up but interestingly a few banks reported it at the time as well as a couple of Think Tanks but almost NOTHING from the media. I remember Kyle did that video because it was so rare. Krystal said nothing at the time. David Pakman and others said nothing at the time. That is the thing more than anything else that blows my mind. I think its because that report condemns BOTH Dems and GOP. Ans so you know I have checked and found we have similar stats here in Australia AND NOBODY HERE wants to discuss family wealth at all. None of our media Left or Right discuss it at all. By the same measure we have around 13 million people living in or on the verge of poverty with almost no chance to ever recover. You don't even have to do much to realise that if you get that many people re-engaged with the economy you'll get a major boost. Mark Benioff (Salesforce) said that about 3 years ago and stunned a bunch of Wall Streeters live in air. He basically said you don't need to get these people big salaries but if you can get them enough to secure housing and a means to re-engage with the economy there's a massive boost to be made. If we got a million people to just spend about $670 a year on "stuff" the GST (sales tax) would be about $100 per person. So for every million people that's $100 million in tax revenue and $570 million in ADDITIONAL economic activity. The only problem would be the availability of "stuff" to by because like so many others we shut down vast slabs of our manufacturing..
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  7625.  @ericaeli3807  The woke have no skin in the climate debate they are all on social issues. Proof of that is NO ONE else even mentioned it in this debate and yeah I watched all 8 of them. That's just BULLSHlT projection from people on the right. Clowns like that maggot Marian Tupy from the CATO institute they had on Triggernometry a few months ago.
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  7626. @J van Sevenhoven One of the mistakes a lot of people think is the world is run by baby boomers AND ITS NOT. The world is run by a small bunch of war babies. People born before, during or just after World War 2. They all should have retired years ago but wont. They refuse to let go of the power they amassed. Other than a few exceptions who they have mentored, they regard you me and every other generation since to be uncappable of running anything or making any decisions. If you want to criticise her for claiming its all white men then fine, some of them are not white and some are not men. 2 examples of women who refused to let go and retire were Elizabeth Queen of England and Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
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  7627. Really what party is actually left anywhere in the Western World that is policy focused. There's an awful lot who are ideologically focused and they display that with policies but never back those policies with action.
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  7628.  @marco12377  Agreed and this just shows how bat crap crazy the "faith" in celebrity is.
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  7629. About the same number don't believe they went to the moon. If America is lucky there will be overlap with those numbers. Every population has a certain percentage of complete total idiots. Historically many regimes used war as a way to control the numbers. If your that lord of the land one way to control the threat of peasants revolting is to march them off to war. Another lord reduces your idiot problem as you do the same for him. Its a win win for both and if your side wins you get some spoils to boot. Unfortunately these days too many people don't like that method and since we don't have an alternative their numbers are rising. They don't know how to do math, read or write or reason, but they know how to breed.
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  7630. Can we simply accept that Hunter Biden is NOT WORTH DISCUSSING??? If Ivanka and Jared earning $400 million while they WORKED in the WHITE HOUSE isn't a talking point then Hunter Biden isn't either.
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  7631. Australian and from an outside perspective you like many others are 100% right. I'm an engineer so I am good with numbers and data and I have detailed this in a comment I put at the top of this. Fundamental to this election was 16 million FEWER people turned up an actually voted in the election. Trump had almost 1 million FEWER than 2020 Harris had over 12 million FEWER than voted for Biden in 2020 and the minor parties were all but annihilated. The ACTUAL RESULT HERE is that people REJECTED Democracy. The Trumpsters did it by (mostly) turning up and the Democrats did it by NOT turning up and the independents simply gave up. The real question is WHY and I have put it in a longer comment.
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  7632.  @greycoloris7665  Your right to some extent, but at the time they were needed by people like Pelosi to get things passed that the main core of the DNC wanted. I remember Kyle Kulinski and a few others going wild at the time. The fact is they never used the power they did have to get anything done, like health care reform. They just capitulated to the Pelosi and the DNC. That was what upset people. Most people kept their minds but Jimmy Dore drank some variant of the Kool Aid and dissolved his brain on it.
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  7633.  @Fractal379  If you know this little about Jimmy's mega backflip on his political alignment then you might want to back-off on the tone. He went from being a progressive who used to have all sorts of people on his podcast to talk about various issues AND FLIPPED INTO a ranting right wing lunatic in a blink.
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  7634.  @Fractal379  Who are you saying that to? Cos you are looking like you are all over the place.
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  7635. That's 1/2 sensible and 1/2 stupid. Its 1/2 sensible because keeping the 2 existing parties AS THEY CURRENTLY EXIST is the problem. Its 1/2 stupid because you are blaming the system failure on the fact America only has 2 parties. For starters that's fundamentally wrong America has dozens of parties like the greens. The problem is that America is dominated by 2 parties that are BOTH CORRUPTED by MONEY.
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  7636. They lost it a long time ago. I'm Australian and had a scholarship for swimming to an American college. An American girl I trained with for 2 summers was cheated out of a gold at the 92 Summer Olympics where the Chinese suddenly appeared with all these Amazonian girls and only the 1 male swimmer. It reeked of the former East German program. Nobody at first could figure out what was going on because there was lots of testing but no positive tests. Then one of the Australian coaches whose swimmer finished 3rd behind 2 Chinese complained that his swimmer was tested but the Chinese weren't. FINA said "NO its just Random chance." Then people started looking at the list of those tested and found that it was mainly Australian's, American's and Brits the 3 nations that tested ALL their swimmers at their pre-Olympic trials. But they only counted for about 1/2 to 2/3 of the list. The list was scattered with swimmers from all over the world. The only suspicious thing was that NO Chinese were tested, but then a few other countries had nobody tested as well. Then one of the British coaches asked one of his swimmers to look at the list. I was at the U. of Illinois and had competed against these Brits who were at Iowa in the same conference. This British swimmer pointed out that many of these other swimmers from other countries were also attending American universities. You see in the NCAA they had begun testing EVERY athlete back in 1986/87. I know that for a fact because I was there and was tested as part of that program. What the officials did in Barcelona was pick swimmers who were Australian, American, British or were at college in America. That way they knew they wouldn't get any positive tests, it would look random and they would avoid any scandals.
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  7637.  @mikestrohm3271  Yeah its something that has never been widely told, but those of us who know are still angry. I was never at that level to go to an Olympics (my best was 5th at trials) but I knew people who did and some were cheated. It irks me because I know how hard they worked. Luckily that girl I knew did get a gold in a relay.
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  7638.  @annecohen8927  The problem with drugs in sport is how the various international sports organizations have been more interested in avoiding scandals rather than having clean sports. I was a swimmer and FINA were terrible back in the 90s. They simple didn't test swimmers from suspect countries. Track and field has been even worse. There was the Ben Johnson scandal at the Seoul Olympics. Within 2 years most of the men who ran in the 1988 final had also been caught. There's an amazing documentary about it and Johnson is totally open about how bad athletics was at the time. It was never cleaned up in athletics which lead to the Sydney Olympics scandal with Marion Jones. It was never cleaned up in cycling even after a couple of riders died from PE drugs. Not until the Lance Armstrong scandal. So long as there is the money and/or National prestige associated with sports there will be cheating.
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  7639.  @daveg2104  I'm in Bris Vegas, its wet but not flooded. I'm just going stir crazy with a few things. I came up here to try and convince the right people we needed an actual space program to go with our Space Agency. I asked for too much but then they gave the Airforce 10 times as much, which is on par for how stupid they have been with these submarines. Naval group only charge the French government about $2 billion Australian per sub and our cost is now close to $7.5billion. PER SUB. Remember Scomo howling at Shorten about how Labour couldn't manage money. Well Farq that. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  7640.  @nonenone6704  Non problem, I know big tech doesn't give a damn about "responsible speech." BUT THEY DO listen to their lawyers when they tell them about LIABILITY.
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  7641.  @nonenone6704  Can any of you clowns ever put together a coherent argument? All I see is ANOTHER clown yelling at the world like a spoiled 5 year old brat who's had his favourite toy taken from him. The complete stupidity of you're final comment is that in a free society anyone and everyone has the right who they do business with. Americans are always screaming about freedom and democracy and de-regulation. They then scream even louder when that backfires on them.
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  7642. It was also a good way, as Gen-Xr to demonstrate how stupid millennials are at being sucked in by a clown like Elon Musk. Maybe they'll now stop telling us how tech-savvy they are. Being able to use an iPhone or the internet does not make a person tech-savvy.
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  7643.  @durshurrikun150  About WHAT? Come on if you think I am wrong then what am I wrong about or are you just like the other Muskrats and Bezos space cadets you just don't like having you fantasy exposed.
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  7644.  @durshurrikun150  WTF stupidity are you ranting about now? Why don't you go back to school and learn some history from people who know what they're talking about instead of listening to people who probably weren't even alive back then. The USSR wasn't overthrown by traitors. The USSR collapsed under their own bureaucracy. They destroyed much of their own country like the Aral Sea through stupidity. The US didn't need to support any of them. All they needed was to stand back and watch. And its almost all Putin needs to do now to destroy America. Do nothing because America is tearing itself apart through stupidity of techno personality cults like they have with Gates, Suckerberg and Elon Musk. FYI - I was alive back when the Soviets collapsed and saw it happen.
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  7645. I don't know why all these idiotic business analysts keep crapping on about stock prices when it should be obvious to the entire planet its all overblown. The stock market is only indicative of one thing and that is how the top 1% feel about it. The other 99% of us DON'T MATTER and NEVER DID.
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  7646. IS ANYONE SURPRISED THAT IT WAS A RIGGED OUTCOME?
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  7647.  @fvr765  Yeah what rhymes with "boron" 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  7648.  @JudeMalachi  Yeah, PZ has said several times that America will survive and I think he's being hopeful of certain things NOT happening. Charles Koch the psychotic fossil fuel billionaire and some of his friends are trying to hold a Constitutional Convention. They need 34 states to agree to such an event and reportedly have 31 Governors on board. At such a convention each state gets 1 vote irrespective of their population. At such a convention it only takes 26 votes to make changes to the Constitution. America's future isn't in the hands of the majority so much as its in the hands of a small group of billionaires with their owns views on what America should be and that's a robber Baron paradise. Its not so much I think America will actually fall apart but that I think its going to go through some serious turmoil in the near future because there are these agitators. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. I have many friends there and am pretty concerned about the future. I am also seriously worried Australia is becoming even more dependent on America for security at a time when America can't even be reliable for American's. On of my favorite sayings is: "If America saw what America is doing to America then America would invade America to rescue America from America!"
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  7649.  @psychonautpupildiallater7734  Alex Jones is sick and demented to make money of the misery of dead children who were gunned down by a psychopath and you're just as sick to be defending him.
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  7650. HEY DAVE INSTEAD OF YET ANOTHER LOOK HOW TERRIBLE HERSCHEL WALKER IS VID. How about you show just one video of something or anything Raphael Warnock has done or said. Your the guy who raged about "toxic sport politics." So why don't you do something, anything positive.
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  7651.  @michaeljanke4328  Fine you got me on a typo, but you can take the smug attitude and FK-OFF And I can spell that correctly but can't here or the algorithm will hunt me down. There's word's like DK-HED and M0R0N and IGN0RANT and ARR0GANT that people have to deliberately misspell so that the algorithm doesn't flag them as a subversive. In fact you almost need to misspell at times so that it leaves you alone. So take your smug attitude and FK-OFF.
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  7652. Exactly right - NOW can you explain why Ted O'Brien and the LNP did NOTHING for the 9 years they were in power? They did start Snowy 2.0 and I'll agree that EVENTUALLY it will be w worthwhile asset, but the failure to properly cost it and then manage its initial phases has seen the costs blow out form the original $2 Billion to a now estimated $20 Billion. The bets part of their stupidity was NONE of the early estimates included the cost of the power link to the grid which is now expected to cost $8 Billion. YEAH mate that's how smart the LNP was. They bought a power station without a grid connection.
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  7653. OH YEAH - GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  7654. WHY WON'T ANY OF THESE PRESS SIMPLY SAY - YOU LOST. WE ALL KNOW YOU LOST. THE ELECTION WAS CLEAN AND YOU LOST. What's the worst that will happen - they won't get let into any WH press briefings until January 21.
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  7655. In simplest terms - they want to believe in a future Don't forget we live in a world with a very uncertain future. Nobody actually knows what specifically will happen with climate change but we all know it will be hard times ahead. Then add in that we all know our political leaders are owned by the billionaire class. What do you think's driving both this type of blind belief that technology will save us or what's the rise of religious fundamentalism? There are people who really think Elon is going to take them to Mars in the next few years and save them from climate change. What does that sound like? FYI - I am an engineer. I did a degree in aerospace but work in automation, robotics and control systems. See those Yellow robots around 10 minutes. Those are Fanuc's a Japanese brand that I am trained on. There is real genuine frustration in the engineering world these days. There is so much misleading PR being pumped into the soft skulls of a gullible population its almost a full time job for some people explaining that the PR is just PR and ITS NOT FACT. Think about how many amazing technologies people promised that NEVER came into fruition. Where's Mark Zuckerberg's Libra (now called Diem)? What about nuclear fusion, faster than light travel or my favorite flying cars? In particular there's a staggering amount of ignorance regarding robotics and automation. Automation rarely costs anyone their job. Usually it saves jobs by making people more productive. Nobody packs up a company and moves it to China AFTER they spend money improving their production. Robots cannot think. They do as they are programmed to do. You program them to move in certain patterns and they do that again and again and again day in, day out within a defined accuracy. They don't complain or get sick and can work in the dark 24/7. They are great for repetitive tasks and totally hopeless for abstract tasks.
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  7656. I'm Australian how do you think the REST OF THE WORLD FEELS about giving this clown control of nuclear weapons for a second time???????? Trust me when I tell you the pack of insanely selfish geriatrics who now run America scares the crap out of us. BOTH SIDES of American politics are dominated by these old clowns who have lost their minds. Bizarrely some of the younger American politicians seem to be worse. Its almost like the 14th Amendment says something like "To be eligible for public office you must NOT have an IQ above your age." In some cases I think you guys have elected people who's IQ is so low they would not pass the minimum requirements for military service that McNamara famously lowered to send more people to Vietnam. We also know Rumsfeld re-instituted it to send more people to Iraq. And before you say it - YES we have also elected some dumb people. The difference is we don't let our dumb people have control over nuclear weapons.
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  7657. Its called the "Meritocracy" and its built around the false premise that my merit by virtue of my outcome justifies everything. Megan and these other mutts, like so many in the media, are self entitled, self righteous ignorant clowns who have commentary and opinions on EVERYTHING and not a single SOLUTION to ANYTHING.
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  7658. In some ways you are absolutely right its tribalism but there's another side and that's the billionaire puppet masters behind the scenes. If you are a billionaire tycoon and want the government to do what you want then paying for low quality populist candidates who you can manipulate is a very worthwhile investment. Charles Koch actually said in an Axios interview that he expects congressmen to do what he wants when he gets them elected. Thom Hartman made the recent point they (the billionaires) have paid $9 Billion over recent years. Trump's tax cuts delivered them $1 Trillion back to them. That's basically $10 back for every $1 spent. In any business class in the world they are going to tell you that's smart business.
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  7659.  @user-tn7xo7ky9o  Exactly what did I accuse you of? I think you might want to TAKE YOUR OWN ADVICE and click on the right reply next time.
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  7660. Its well know that Fox news hosts earn millions of dollars. Last I heard there aren't many professors making millions.
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  7661. You didn't need to add the "white" part, WEALTH is the defining thing way more than skin. Just remember right now there is a SCOTUS judge with a huge cloud over the protection he might be providing the wealthy of America and he's not white. For sure the vast majority of America's wealthiest and most privileged people are white, BUT NOT ALL OF THEM. That continuous "white privilege" mantra of some people is what's fuelled the CRT garbage. Money doesn't care about skin colour, go look at the areas outside Europe & North America. Africa, the Middle East and Asia have some huge issues with wealth, position & privilege and there's no white people in any of that.
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  7662.  @paulgallagher5889  For a while I have wondered if Qanon really was an inside guy EXCEPT the job was to hide a tree in a forest of noise. So many sensible people realise there is no deep state because the Elites do it all out in the open. The Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation and CATO Institute don't hide what they do BUT if they are ever going to AVOID the enraged peasants with pitchforks they need those peasants to be chasing after and blaming someone else. I can't say for certain but I wont be surprised if one day we find out Qanon wasn't some random clown but a well organised decoy or possibly some sort of experiment in mob psychology.
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  7663. Go and put "how much does laura ingraham make" into Google and look at what she is reportedly getting paid each year. It will put all her comments in perspective.
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  7664. Actually PBS Frontline is not only known around the world its actually trusted around the world. If you claim most American's don't know that its because it takes people to sit and watch and listen for an hour about a single subject and then take time to think AND the whole world knows that the bulk of the American people are so jacked up on sugar, coke and food additives they suffer from chemically induced ADHD and can't pay attention for longer than 15 seconds. Its why the NFL works so well - 15 second bursts of hyper-activity punctuated by 30 seconds of explaining WTF just happened. So the rest of us pretty much know that PBS is for those few Americans left with functioning brains. FYI - I'm Australian, I went to college in America and love the NFL, NASCAR and college sport.
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  7665. I truly do hope for your sake and Saagras sake that you are both right. Because on 30 March 2020 the American COVID count was 4132 dead and exactly 1 year later the number is 564,138 dead. This time last year many people were telling people like Dr. Fauci to shut up just as Sagaar was just saying. According to Saggar and many others in the media EVERYTHING the CDC, Dr. Fauci and other experts have done these last 12 months was wrong. If there is one thing that contributed to those 560,008 who died in the last 365 days, more than anything else its been people NOT listening to experts.
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  7666. Didn't need to really watch this. I already new the answer to what's happened since the fall of the Soviet System BUT this is a good video because it fills in a lot of the historical "how did it get here" background which I hadn't heard. The version I have heard of what happened since the fall of the Soviet system goes like this. In the 1990s the Russians unfortunately listened to American Economists like Jeffery Sachs. These were the clowns who told the Russians to sell or auction off all the Soviet State assets. It was the same ideology that started with Reagan and Thatcher in the 1970s driven by the Chicago School economists lead by Milton "Greed is Good" Freidman. I have been trying to work this stuff out for a couple of years now, because it affects my country Australia like it does so many. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) hosts the Rhodes Centre Podcast where he mostly talks to people who've written books on economics, political-economy and history. A couple of them have been highly critical of people like Jeffery Sachs for what they have done around the world and then blamed the people in those nations for the disasters that happened. AND YES they have blamed the Russians for the mess they helped create. Basically they tried to neo-liberalise Russia without understanding the Russian people or if they were ready. Its similar to the stupidity of ramming democracy down the throats of people in nations with none of the institutions needed in place to manage it. The giant problem with trying to flip Russia into a capitalist free market society in such a short time was that the only Russians with any real experience in capitalist systems were the KGB officers who'd served outside Russia. So why should anyone be surprised that it was Ex-KGB people who knew what to do and when to do it and how its turned out.
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  7667. Australia here - from the outside they do nothing different to every other non-conservative option in politics. THEY DON'T LISTEN and THEY DON'T LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES Go and watch a video of a lecture by Mark Blyth from July 2019 at McMaster U. (in Canada) during the Q&A after the lecture he was asked about Elizabeth Warren's policies. Its insanely accurate what he says. 1) He said Trump would win again if he didn't blow up the economy. Trump didn't blow up the economy COVID did and Trump botched the response and Biden won by default. 2) He said the strategy of the Democrats putting up candidates who they thought Republicans would vote for would NOT work especially if they alienated Bernie supporters doing it. Look what happened during the Harris campaign. It started with "we are changing to a new Democrat ticket" and then the DNC said "No you are NOT" and went straight to the strategy Mark Blyth described 5 years earlier, when they waved the Cheney's at them. Then you had people like Destiny openly tell the progressives NOT TO VOTE because we don't need you. Go watch the debate between Destiny and Cenk Uygur that David Pakman hosted. EVEN AFTER THE LOSS destiny was still holding onto blaming the progressives for the loss and admitting he told them NOT TO VOTE. HERE'S MY ISSUE 1) We (like a lot of other countries) now have to deal with Trump. 2) These Dum-o-crat campaign strategists work all over the world INCLUDING Australia and our Left (the Australian Labor Party) have used them in the past AND LOST (like in 2019).
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  7668. I read a sci-fi novel years ago that was timed about 100 years form now and it was the African nations that had become economically and culturally dominant. The West and East had both trashed their natural environments, ruined their education systems and bankrupted themselves. Have a look at Russia, China and America are right now and what general direction they are all headed in. The Russians have trashed the Aral Sea, cut down their forests to sell to China and have a crap economy where they struggle to feed themselves. The Chinese have trashed 1,000s of their waterways and are now the worlds worst polluter and likely to lose 1/2 their farmland with climate change while they are trapped in the early stages of the greatest real estate collapse in history. The Americans have trashed the California Aquifer, wrecked the Colorado river, damaged great tracts of farmland and have thrown their own constitution in the bin as they allow money to dominate while maniacs like Trump prance around like Nero as he let Rome burn. Meanwhile Europe can't make up its mind over what it is or isn't. FYI - I'm Australian. We've pretty much done all of that stuff, but then we just had our best ever Winter Olympics so most of us don't care. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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  7669.  @TheeQuirkyPanda  You're mostly right. Even though the type of corruption changes from country to country corruption is still corruption. Anyway you look at it corruption is where one part of the population operates outside the rules that are enforced on the rest of the population to the detriment of the rest of the population. That simple reality doesn't change the mechanism used does. One thing that has bothered me a lot on recent years is the corruption of the refugee system. That's come from multiple directions with people with some unusual motivations. There's a huge problem with that corruption. Its stripping many countries of the ability to develop. I'm an engineer and I argue with people all the time that we need to stop taking refugees on a permanent basis because its stripping countries of the people they need. I know what it takes to build things. I have spent most of the last 20 years building remote mine sites. That means building the camp where people live so other than the mine it includes a lot of the same infrastructure any town needs - power, water, sewerage, food storage, transportation, fuel storage,... etc. That all takes a broad of people of many backgrounds and skills. To do it requires not just a lot of engineering but the people out in the field doing the actual work - plumbers, electricians, builders, welders, digger operators, crane operators, truck drivers,... Its a long list of trained skills. Then we also have issues with allowing students to come to Australia often paid for by the nations they came from and then we let them stay because they fill a gap we have. That's part of the corruption in our Universities. Instead of spending our money to educate our people we make money having someone else pay to send their people here and then we keep them gaining skilled workers that others paid for and depriving those nations of skills they need. So the corruption in parts of our nation does effect other nations. It might not be obvious but the links are there if you look.
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  7670. It seems like they all forgot that THEY ARE THE DESCENDENTS OF IMMIGRANTS and what's many of their forefathers arrived as ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS who just took over what land they wanted. Further their forefathers actually DID do the replacement thing. There were these people now referred to collectively as America's "First Nations" which kind of hints at the fact they were in America FIRST. At one point their children were TAKEN from them and sent to boarding schools where they were not allowed to speak their own language, many died and the motto was: "Kill the Indian, save the man" That really was the motto for the Indian Boarding Schools. They were devised by military officer Richard Henry Pratt an Indian hunter and he really did say "Kill the Indian, save the man" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ3rZduU4Oc
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  7671. In 2016 62,984,828 voted for Trump and in 2020 74,196,153 voted for Trump. Where did those extra 11,211,325 votes come from, when Trumps approval ratings have either fallen or stayed the same? Why isn't anyone asking if there was fraud in that number after all Trump told his people to "vote twice." Maybe 11 million of them did and what Trump's really angry about is that he cheated and still lost to the "old guy in his basement."
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  7672. HEY SAL Did you really say $660 a month to be at seas for weeks on end? FARK - no wonder people like Bezos, The Møller family and others are Billionaires. And they all complain about what it costs to deliver stuff????
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  7673.  @wgowshipping  I thought you were joking at first which is why I asked. That means for those extra 7 days of double pay they'd get between an extra $150-160 for risking getting shot or hit by a missile. Its like a Mel Brooks skit. Do you remember in Blazing Saddles when the got into the quicksand and the railroad manager was worried they might lose the $400 trolley?? put "blazing saddles quicksand" into the YT search
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  7674. The even bigger problem is that governments all over the world are being just as stupid. In Australia I first heard about this project a couple of years ago (see below) in a general news story about water management issues around the world and there are a lot of water management issues around the world. The problem for Beijing is that its main water supply the Yongding River was damned upstream for irrigation and now its dry. They built a dam on the Yongding to store and provide water for Beijing. Its never held a drop of water. This is a similar to the stories about the Aral Sea, the California Aquifer, the Hoover Dam, the conflicts developing over the Nile, the issues with the Jordan and the Dead Sea, the issues with over irrigation of the Tigris and Euphrates and then there's the mega issue of depletion of ground water across many parts of the world. In Australia we have the Murray-Darling system which has been so badly mismanaged we pump water back up the darling via a pipeline (from the Murray) to make up for stupidity on the Darling. Back in the 1950s we did the Snowy Mountain scheme where we dammed the Snowy River which had the highest flow of any river in Australia and diverted it through tunnels and pipes into the Murray. We generated electricity and provided a massive amounts of water for irrigation. The Murray joins with the Darling our longest river. Those 3 rivers combined no longer flow into the ocean because we extract so much water from them. This stupidity in China is being repeated around the world. There's not many countries that aren't being stupid with their water resources. Its just some are being more stupid than others and my country is high on the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongding_River https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/worldtoday/china-claims-new-project-will-revitalise-the-yongding-river/10548942
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  7675.  Drumpf donny  And WTF does that mean other then you can't spell?
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  7676. What does anybody expect: In the middle of the 2008 GFC was Goldman Sachs. They lied they cheated and in the end they had to be bailed out and YET. Trump hired GS goon Steven Mnuchin as Secretary of the Treasury and then Biden hired 2 more GS goons recently. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO GET POLITICIANS TO JUST ONCE, JUST ONCE, JUST ONE TIME DO AS THEY PROMISE?
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  7677. This is the world of tribalism we now live in and every side is guilty of it to some extent. During David's recent interview with Vincent Racaniello on COVID (which was pretty good) there was 1 really bad mistake. I don't know if he just made a mistake or if it was deliberate, but he did say the Chinese were NOT working on these viruses and that's just wrong. The Chinese were publishing their research. For simply fact checking and providing evidence people went crazy with one calling me a commie Putin supporter. This is the problem we now face. If anybody dares fact check any claim the tribe doesn't like they get screamed at by the tribe. Its why we aren't making any progress on some serious world issues - climate change, refugees, food shortages, economics,.... etc. and that list is only getting longer. Certainly we are going to struggle with COVID because of stupid people being tribal. Just look at how ridiculous Will Cain is here. Who would be stupid enough to try and lock millions of well armed NRA/Trump supporters up?
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  7678.  @ArisaemaTriphyllum  I said it to show just how tribal people have become. I don't think they were a right winger. It was in the comments for an interview David Pakman (and he's very leftist) did with a virologist who said the Chinese were NOT doing research on the COVID viruses. That surprised me because its well known they were working on them. I don't know if he just made a simple mistake BUT it was wrong. Most of what he said I agree with but on that point he was WRONG and when I corrected it (including evidence) a couple of people went nuts. This is the tribalism we're at. If you question ANYTHING people go nuts. There's no middle ground, there's no other position or explanation. There is the tribal view and if you're not 100% onboard you're the enemy. Its bonkers.
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  7679. To ALL I was checking something the other day. Just after Trump lost the 2020 election he ordered/allowed the execution of 3 Federal prisoners. It was very unusual because it was the first time in over 140 years a president had ordered or allowed anyone during the Lame Duck period. There is no law it just became tradition to leave it to the incoming President. What I found were 2 extraordinary facts. 1) After the riots of January 6th Trump had or allowed 3 more executions on January 13, 14 and 16 of 2021. yes in the post January 6th turmoil when there was no effective government 3 people were actually executed and we KNOW trump had the 3 in November and December killed because he told everyone he did it. 2) Between July 14, 2021 and September 24, 2021 Trump had or allowed 7 executions to take place. There is no doubt that some of those crimes were horrendous and justice might well be served by executing those perpetrators. Since the resumption of executions in 1976 the US Federal Government has only executed 16 people. Mostly its done by the states. Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Senior, Clinton, Obama and Biden COMBINED had NOBODY executed. Bush Junior executed 3, one of whom was Timothy McVeigh the Oklahoma Bomber. Those 3 happened in June 2001, June 2001 and March 2003 so were nowhere near the election campaign for 2004. Trump did not execute anyone until July 2020 when the campaign was underway. In fact 1 happened during the GOP convention on August 26th and another the day after the convention on August 28th. The timing is bizarre and leads to only one conclusion - Donald Trump had 7 people executed to help win the election as his campaign faltered over his mishandling of COVID, and when that failed he lashed out and had 6 more people killed. WHY NOBODY IN THE MEDIA IS POINTING THIS OUT IS A MYSTERY.
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  7680.  @Fragenzeichenplatte  Its even easier when there is ZERO accountability for these shite flinging media clowns like Rubin.
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  7681.  @julesdalli9716  No because you need to expand it just a bit. “We would rather have pro-American dictatorships than anti-American democracies” _so that we can exploit them for their cheap resources and cheap labor that we can profit from. For fascism you need to add in that financial aspect.
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  7682. John Bolton needs to start being a lot more careful. The world is getting very tired of America protecting Americans from international justice. All that crap in Iraq and Afghanistan wore a lot of people out. The fact America still has people imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay who have never been charged with a crime let alone faced a trial versus the fact that Donald Trump pardoned 4 Blackwater mercenaries for committing the Nisour Square Massacre where 17 died including a 9 year old, says an awful lot about America's double standards. John Bolton currently travels the world under the protection of diplomatic immunity. THAT CAN CHANGE.
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  7683.  @someguy2135  Well going to America as I did, which was for several years (not just a semester) opened my eyes to how Australia looked from the outside. From my later experiences with American in Australia it seems to take about 1-1/2 years and then suddenly people start realising things. We all tend to think our country is A, B, C... as we also ignore X, Y & Z. EVERYONE does it. Most never realise we live in these bubbles until we spend enough time outside our bubble to realise our bubble really is a bubble. Its one of the monster problems with federal capitals like Washington, Ottawa, Canberra, London, Moscow, Beijing, Brussels,.... We all complain about the clowns who live & work in those places and think they know everything and actually know squat. I was in Canada a few years ago and every time they spoke about Ottawa it was like an echo about how we speak about Canberra and Americans talk about Washington. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  7684.  @philnorman5912  The late Bob Hawke who was Australia's Prime Minister was once asked about how he dealt with Reagan. Its was during the Clinton era a few years after Reagan had left office. By that time it was obvious Reagan was losing his abilities. I can't quote what he said word for word but it was along the lines of: Reagan's greatest ability was delegating tasks. Hawke said Reagan understood his own limitations while being able to recognize abilities in others. It enabled him to not just delegate but delegate the best person for a task. Hawke said on numerous times Reagan just turned to someone on his side of the table and just said "that's your thing answer the man" or "that's your thing, so you take care of it." What Bob Hawke described was the opposite of a micro-manager and he said that made dealing with America much easier and highly productive because they were always dealing with people who knew what they were doing and had the authority to get the job done. What you need to realise is that Bob Hawke was from Australia's LEFT. He'd come up through Australia's union movement and was further left than Bernie Sanders ever was. I remember that answer because if any Australian politician was going to dump on Reagan it was Hawke. I forget who the interviewer was but even they were stunned by the answer.
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  7685.  @someguy2135  I get what that travel has done. I'm Australian but went to college in America. And those years I spent there opened my eyes to Australia and how it was perceived. Its a major problem across the world. So many people never get to see their country form that outside perspective. Its not something you can get on a holiday or a exchange semester. I was on a scholarship and was there almost 3-1/2 years. I travelled a lot too. One day me and my frat brothers compared how many states we'd been to - I won by a long way. Even in the late 80s Americans almost flew everywhere. So there's so much of their own country they never see they fly over it instead. When you look at the people who blindly follow our political leaders you find so many of them with incredibly limited experience outside their home community. Its very similar for all the bureaucrats who inhabit places like Washington, Ottawa, Canberra, London,... etc. They just don't get out and see the rest of the country or hear they feel. They have a terrible overreliance on polling data and almost zero experience outside their bubble. The bubbles we all tend to live in are causing so much of the worlds issues.
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  7686. TO ALL: David and Rolling stone don't actually go as far back in this MacGregor's history as they should. If you go and watch a PBS Frontline called "Rumsfeld's War" which was about how they got the Invasion of Iraq wrong. Long before Iraq in the aftermath of Vietnam the US military took a "Never Again" approach to everything. Which begs the question then how did they get Iraq so wrong? That's what PBS looked into. As they prepared for Iraq Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others wanted it to be like Desert Storm 2.0 with extras. They wanted to get in crush and then remodel the country. That was the problem the military don't remodel they smash stuff. So the military looked at the problem and saw that the issue WASN'T defeating the Iraqi Army it was securing the country. That required lots of manpower and that didn't work with Rumsfeld or Wolfowitz. In stepped MacGregor and he gave them a battle plan they liked. Smaller force, get in, be decisive then start the nation rebuilding in America's neocon image. It was all going to be easy according to him. Just like the Russians thought a couple of weeks ago. YES EVERYONE - This is the guy who wrote the battle plan for the invasion of Iraq. This is the guy who's plan lead to 170,000 civilian deaths, 1,000s of American deaths, 1,000s more of disabled veterans and other issues. Oh and it cost the American tax payer a couple of trillion dollars. Outside of the American right wing propaganda machine this guy is one of the biggest failures in recent military history. He's a joke nobody takes seriously. If the Invasion of Ukraine is failing (from the Russian side) then its because they too have a similar battle plan to what America had in Iraq. Listen to what he said about being fast and aggressive - that's exactly what he said 20 years ago that didn't work. You can find and watch (and I urge you all do) the PBS Frontline: "Rumsfeld's War" here on YT but its not on the PBS channel its by another YouTuber.
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  7687.  @brianodonnell1384  I have been recently watching a bunch of Peter Zeihan who's a geopolitical strategist. He has some really interesting stuff on China and its demographics. It includes some stuff on the consequences of Xi Jinping's crackdowns.
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  7688. Exactly. The worlds politics is now so toxic we almost can't discuss anything. Just as an example. I'm an aerospace engineer who works in control systems. The recently launched Chinese Space station is clearly an updated version of the Russian MIR station. There's certain things like the 5 port spherical docking module on one end with a robotic arm for moving modules and space craft between the ports and the single port on the other. Plus we know the Chinese have been working with the Russians on their manned program. The first Chinese manned missions used Soyuz designs. Yet a bunch of people with names like Wang and Lin are abusing me for NOT praising the innovation and space dominance of the Chinese Communist party. The moment ANYTHING gets politicized at the moment facts become inconvenient and obedience to the group think is demanded. Look at the pro-Trumpers, pro-Putinists, pro-Bidenites and all the rest and its mindless group think. Go to any country right now and its the same shit. They might have different stinks, but they all stink.
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  7689.  @utterlyviolet  Be grateful that Americans even know who Pele is even though he played in America.
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  7690.  @PeacefulPariah  Its something everyone interested in golf knows about and NOT something the rest of us knew that much about until he became President. And news flash to all you golfers. Yes I know its heresy but golf isn't everything. Yes I am sorry for the shock. As for Gretzy, I don't know whether to admire or hate you buddy. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s U. of Illinois). On my dorm floor were a group of bat crap crazy Blackhawks fans. They made me watch Oilers games so that I could learn about how good Gretzky was. Another guy in the dorm had a sign on his door. "Jesus saves, but Gretzky gets the rebound and scores." Think about that red, black and white Chitown boys loved Gretzky as much as loved the Blackhawks. I consider my self lucky because I got to see both Gretzky and Walter Payton on a regular basis. I still regard them as the 2 best pound for pound athletes I ever saw. Jordan was insanely good and clearly the best basketball player I ever saw but I don't think he was (pound for pound) as good as those 2, but only by a few atoms. Among female athletes that nod goes to Tracy Caulkins (swimmer). I might be biased on that because I was a swimmer and she married a fellow Australian who I know. She's had an extraordinary influence on girls in sport here in Australia. Her work is low key but to those who know she's an outstanding human being and the best thing Australia ever imported from America.
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  7691.  @LittleJa2002  A few years back Greg Norman was interviewed on Australian television because he was one of the very few Australian to have had any interactions with Trump. He said Trump was a very good golfer and had a great understanding of the game. So we (assuming Greg knew what he was talking about) took him at his word. Where do you think Greg Norman's reputation was BEFOR he became an apologist for the Saudi Royal family. Hint: America can keep him.
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  7692. That took anyone with a brain less than 2 minutes to agree with.
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  7693.  @kenvalentine5341  Great comment. Why anyone thinks its anything other than utterly stupid because of the basic logistical issues staggers me.
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  7694.  @pavel9652  I'm actually an American educated Australian aerospace engineer and come up against this crap all the time. Back in 2002 I met Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison Schmitt who mentioned Helium-3 which is a potential nuclear fuel and the only place its found in industrial amounts is the moon. So I went off to work in Australian's mining sector to get experience in building and operating mines. Here's 2 of my favorites, that show just how easy it is for people to just believe things at face value when they are said by powerful people. Jeff Bezos has claimed that he wants to take things like iron production from iron ore into space where there's plenty of cheap energy and the pollution isn't a problem. One mine I worked at makes the math really simple. Tom Price produces 20 million tons a year. Iron ore ranges from around 55% to 95% actual iron content by weight. 70% is what we'd call good quality iron ore and it makes the math really easy. The Space Shuttle could lift 30 tons into orbit and 16 to the ISS BUT it could only land with 14t. So its pretty easy to see that those 20 million tons out of Tom Price would require about 1 million Space Shuttle flights to get it back down. Here's the problem. Right now Australia produces around 825 million tons a year which is less than 1/3rd of the world's production of about 3,000 million tons. Other than the insane amount of fuel it would require lifting it all into space the bigger problem is the heat generated in slowing 2,000 million tons of iron plus the mass of whatever we'd use bringing it back down. We'd literally burn the atmosphere off the planet. Better still is Elon Musk's claim that we can terraform Mars. When you do the basic calculation of how much air by weight it would take just to cover Mars with an Earth standard atmosphere 1km thick which is only a fraction of what would be needed and does not even begin to deal with how you'd keep it attached to the planet with only 1/3rd the gravity and no magnetic field to protect it from the solar wind you get an answer of about 173 Trillion tons. I'm still wondering where Elon and his band of deluded follower think they are going to get 173 Trillion tons of air or how they think there going to get it to Mars and then keep it attached to the planet.
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  7695. Yeah your right its neo-liberalism 101, I stopped this at 37 seconds for the simple reason that Rubin is talking about Austerity as a way to make an economy grow when its in trouble. BEEN TRIED NEVER WORKED ONCE ANYWHERE ask the Greeks, Italian, Spanish, etc. Prof Mark Blyth from Brown U. has spoke about this extensively. Here's the 5:35 version on why Dave Rubin really is stupid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2bVGi0ReE There's dozens of talks here on YT by Mark Blyth and others explaining this in detail. FYI - I'm an Australian engineer who spent a chunk of COVID time looking into economics and how it works so that after COVID I'd be able to deal with managers with economics degrees. I like Mark Blyth because he talks in a way that suits me. Part of his work at the Watson Institute includes interviewing other people like Stephanie Kelton, Adam Tooze and others. They are all saying we need NEW economics NOT repeats of stuff we know doesn't work like Rubin's saying. For those of you in America please get through to Kyle & Krystal and get them to have people like Mark Blyth & Stephanie Kelton on. Don't just say Rubin is stupid ACTUALLY have people on who can EXPLAIN WHY he's stupid.
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  7696.  CIA: David Marlowe's PsyOp is Your Mental Issue  Can you idiotic conspiracy clowns with no idea of what you're talking about just stick to your own channels.
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  7697.  @ronblack7870  Typical American you think the entire world is 60HZ when in fact MOST is 50Hz. And anyone who knows anything about the nuclear industry knows about the CANDU reactors. So take you're attitude and take a hike.
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  7698. And by extension. "If you don't support what I want you are an enemy of the state, enemy of humanity, enemy of God and in fact an enemy of life throughout the universe." In poly-sci these days it comes under the subject (or definition) of hyper-pro-"God is on our side"-nationalism. Family guy did a bit on it -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxHWtw_GZIk
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  7699.  @jakeg3296  I'm well aware of the campaigns by both Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull to reign in the Murdoch/Newscorp Empire. Murdoch is not a "news man" and he hasn't been for many many years. He's part UNELECTED politician, part lobbyist but mostly a propagandist. Ideologically he's an extreme libertarian who was a huge fan of Ronald Reagan's "government is the problem" ideology. He's right in the classification that you find people like Charles Koch and other similar monsters. How Kyle has completely missed the links between Sky News Australia and Rupert Murdoch is beyond me. I thought he researched his material better. Maybe he saw this as a free speech issue. ITS NOT, its a public safety issue. We've survived the the worst of COVID by isolation, but we have also struggled with vaccination rates partly through shortage of Pfizer but also a huge amount of misinformation. We had people claiming all sorts of crap for months about experimental gene therapy and other nonsense. Right now we are struggling to contain the Delta strain. We dropped our guard its here and its spreading. SO ANY CLOWN mouthing off publicly with vaccine misinformation IS A THREAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
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  7700. Before you go condemning anyone who calls themselves a Christian you might want to go and check what Jesus himself is credited with saying. Matthew Chapters 5, 6 & 7 records the Sermon on the Mount, which was his one major public sermon. There where other sermons but its the most well known. Importantly Jesus himself warns about fake (or fraudulent) followers and that he would have NOTHING to do with them. Its all there in Chapter 7. Anyone can go look up almost any translation on the internet. If you're hear there's nothing to prevent you from googling it. It will give the same message. There will be frauds who use Jesus name. They will be obvious by their behavior and by what they produce. That's the bit about fruit trees. They might even do amazing things and powerful works and do them in Jesus name, but he was explicit and said he would have NOTHING to do with them. So if you ever have any issue with these sorts of people or those who follow them just ask them to explain what Jesus was talking about at Matthew Chapter 7. Expect plenty of excuses and misdirection. You don't need to be aggressive or forceful or anything else just quietly ask them to explain it. You'll see.
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  7701.  @patyson11262  OK - Answer this. What money has actually gone to Ukraine and what has it been used for? Its been equipment not money. Money doesn't stop soldiers, bullets, artillery shells, missiles and the things that fire bullets, artillery shells and missiles do.
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  7702.  @patyson11262  WAY TO PROVE MY POINT You said "It's NOT all about equipment, & it's actually more about money...money for the Military Industrial Complex....." What have I kept saying. America isn't sending money to Ukraine they are sending equipment and then giving nice juicy resupply contracts to the MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. If actually read what people are saying you wouldn't look like a DlCKHEAD Or maybe you prefer being called a F⋃CKWIT rather than a DlCKHEAD If that's the case let me know.
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  7703.  @patyson11262  Well farking what M0R0N???? Were you born this STUPlD or did you take classes??
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  7704. OMG - an American who actually knows their own history. I'm Australian and that's the sort of nuance I thought Americans had lost. Now if you guys can only get all the other clowns like this M0R0N to understand American history. Including not just how the African slaves were treated but also how the native Americans were treated. And going forwards how the Central Americans and South East Asians were treated in the 1960s & 70s. FYI - YES I know Australia has similar blood on its hands but at least we are trying to deal with it.
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  7705.  @slightlytwistedagain  I know they don't include outside links but I thought they still allowed YT links. That might explain why a lot of comments seem to be masked these days.
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  7706.  @jimbeam4111  Australia. We have almost 1/3rd of all known Uranium reserves in one single place Olympic Dam. Its actually a copper mine that just also happens to have both gold and uranium through the deposit. As far as mines that just mine uranium we have had some of the best deposits in the world. The Canadians have some very rich deposits but they aren't as large. In 2005/06 I did a project at the ERA Ranger mine in the North of Australia. At the time it was the largest uranium mine in the world. Before we started work we had pretty good induction that covered the entire fuel cycle from in the ground to back in the ground.
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  7707.  @axetune  WHAT?????? In what way do you think any Americans trying to turn America into a version of Australia? If its a functioning health care system - yeah I can see that. In fact I think ours might be one of the few that might work in America. But yeah I know there are Americans who wouldn't want it. If its a functioning education system - yeah ours still works but its slowly becoming Americanised, especially at the Collegiate level where we now spit our clods with certificates and nothing much between their ears. Yeah I know there are some "Muricans hoo dink theer reedin an riten is stil da best." If its politics - no way its our lot who are copying America with gusto. We are almost at election day here and all I have seen are adds that are best described as "Look what they'll do." On substance we have 2 sides and if there is a single molecule of substance on either side its a very sad and lonely molecule. You might like this one. After the last British election in 2019 I asked a Brit why British Labour had run a campaign similar to Australian Labour's losing campaign that had aspects of Hilary's losing campaign. They told me that the Brits like Australian Labour had employed some of the same campaign staff. Yeah according to what I got told there were people who helped lose 3 major elections in 3 countries in a row.
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  7708.  @axetune  Vaccine mandates were stupid from the start. One of the top experts in the field of pandemic response Dr. Michael Osterholm publicly told everyone they have never worked anywhere they have been tried. All vaccine mandates ever do is upset people.
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  7709. I'm Australian and we also have a few candidates here we'd be a lot better off without. Look at Britain and the whole Brexit fiasco. Nigel Farage the clown behind that was just here in Oz telling everyone yet again how clever he was. Right after the Brexit referendum he resigned his position. When asked why he wasn't staying on the negotiate Brexit he simply said that's for others to work out. This is the real problem with these sorts of populist candidates. THEY HAVE NO REAL PLANS. Everything for them is a catch phrase to get attention. Nigel Farage created the biggest catastrophe for Britain since WW2, dumped it on others to clean up and now he's in my country telling us how clever he was. Farage is a perfect example of why populists should never be given any sort of political power or authority. All they do is make giant messes that they dump on other people to clean up and THEN BLAME others for that mess. Look at the messes other populists have left or are leaving behind - Trump, Bolsonaro (in Brazil), Maduro (in Venezuela),.... that list is so long.
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  7710.  @matthanna100  Go look up what happened in the Balkan War (former Yugoslavia) with Peace Keepers and PMCs. There was a film based on it. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whistleblower
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  7711. Brain function, Perception and Reality are just 3 things these people don't get. On one of David's other vids today I pointed out this short talk by David Dunning (of Dunning-Kruger) on why ignorance fails to recognize itself. Its totally worth watching if you want to understand what's happening with these people and why they can't see the collective delusion they are having. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErkhYq13VVE
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  7712. Go and watch the 2004 Documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" towards the end was a warning/prediction that as Rupert Murdoch dragged his media further and further into the gutter ALL THE OTHER media outlets would inevitably do the same thing to keep their viewers engaged. That was 20 years ago, long before the YouTube & Social media issue we now see, but its surreal to now watch this happen in real time. Just yesterday I watched Ian Bremmer talk about 2024s 10 biggest risks. One of those was the NEGATIVE effects of AI the worst of which is how our lives are becoming dominated by algorithms that decide what we'll read, watch and hear. What did David say about the clickbait titles all being driven by "the algorithm?"
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  7713. You're absolutely right - saying she'd pardon Trump is not simply mental decline its mental breakdown. BUT SHE is 100% right saying that the party that moves on from the Baby Boomers and goes forward WILL WIN. I'm Australian and that's NOT simply an American thing either. Its true here in Oz. We get all the news out of Britain and Europe and its the same there. We get a lot of Asian news here as well and this is a recurring theme there as well. Western Society is at an inflexion point where the Baby Boomers are desperately holding onto power and just can't help themselves and refuse to let go. The problem is they haven't yet figured out that the following generations are so damn tired of them that we might just dump them in the gutter and be damn ugly about it.
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  7714.  @SeaTravelr123  Don't panic because ours aren't too much better. I genuinely believe that the BIG MONEY behind politics has deliberately made our political parties INEPT. If you consider that its in their financial best interest to have dumb politicians who do what's best for them then its pretty obvious why some of these clowns get nominated in the first place and then have the backing they get.
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  7715.  @doug3066  Well then SHlT-4-BRAINS what have all those people been taken to court and found guilty of and been sent to jail for? Or is that too much for your ignorant brain to process? Here's a short list of some of your friends in case you forgot. Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio GUILTY 22 years Joseph Biggs GUILTY 17 years Zachary Rehl GUITLY 15 years Ethan Nordean GUILTY 18 years Dominic Pezzola GUILTY 10 years Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes GUILTY 18 years Kelly Meggs GUILTY 12 years
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  7716.  @ofdrumsandchords  You're 100% right, but go look up a talk Prof Mark Blyth did in 2019 titled "Global Trumpism." After the talk there's a Q&A session which is worth watching. One of those question is about Bitcoin which is eerily accurate in a fashion. The better question is about Elizabeth Warren and her policies, that lead to a wider discussion on Joe Biden and Democrat strategy. Part of the issue then was the group you point out the GOP Never Trumpers. In 2020 the Dem Strategy was to get those GOP Never Trumpers to flip and vote Biden. The problem was NOBODY had any idea how many there were and it turned out that there were enough to beat Trump. This is the problem with Nikki Haley. Those GOP Never Trumpers are her base. If she wins the nomination (and it doesn't matter how) then those people will flip from Biden back to the GOP. The Trumpsters will take very little to vote for her as well. Sorry to the Democrats but Nikki Haley is their worst outcome if they continue with Biden.
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  7717.  @ofdrumsandchords  Yeah agreed - If Trump is allowed to run she loses. I can't and I don't think anyone else can see how she beats Trump to the nomination. He just has a massive lock on his base who are motivated to turn up and vote. So unless Trump really does something stupid or gets banned her political career might be headed for the cliff edge De Sanctimonious and others have all jumped off already.
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  7718.  @JonathanB138  You know something -Google said your comment needed translation into English??? Like what - did google train its AI using the Democrats?
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  7719. Its starts at 24:10 and what a total load of horse shit this is. Its just a tech demonstrator and some designers idea of what might be. Anyone who's ever looked through the design studies for futuristic cars from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s NOWS that very very few ever go beyond a single design mock up. And all of them came with "the car of the future" tag.
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  7720. I'm getting to the opinion that many of these conspiracies are actually deliberate smoke screens to hide what's going on. Another way to put it is they're "a man made forest planted to hide the CERTAIN trees." If you look at some basic facts like as David points out, the influence of the wealthy on government. What's a simple way to get people NOT looking at it? Get the craziest people you can find to scream endlessly "Look at this. Look at that. What about this? What about that?" Pretty quickly normal people are not going to look into this or that. Look at what's happened with electoral laws in America in just 2 years. The country that preached "Freedom & Democracy" to the rest of the planet now is now implementing some of the most restrictive laws on who can vote anywhere in the Western World.
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  7721. That's a really good point. I'm an engineer and almost anything engineers produce can be used and misused. Cars are incredibly useful until some clown drives drunk and kills someone. Explosives are incredibly useful in industries like mining. But if someone packs a truck full of it, like timothy McVeigh did then its a nightmare.
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  7722. ​ @Mr.H-zu1jc  Australia has in the past taken plenty of American ex-pats. The question is for how much longer because before to long 26 million of us will wake up to how much Washington is screwing us on military crap. I'm all for the alliance. I went to college in America and love the place and the people. How can you NOT love college sport? Even if you don't like car racing NASACR is great. I actually love NASCAR. And then there's the NFL - Go Niners. BUT YOUR POLITICS IS SO DAMN TOXIC. I watched 3 members of my immediate family go to cancer. Watching American politics is like watching a cancer patient who's coughing up blood saying its just a cold and it'll pass. When Trump said he' drain the swamp all he did was drain it and then re-stock it with even worse crap. I hate to say it, but it feels like the next POTUS will either save America from itself or oversee its destruction. By that I don't mean it will be physically destroyed it just wont be America as we know it. It will be like the break up of the Soviet Union and sort of break into a few sizeable chunks. Sad to say but there are some people down South who have wanted that since 1861. They might finally get their way.
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  7723.  @jimohara  thanks.
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  7724. Jeff Daniels in the famous "Newsroom" debate -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIpKfw17-yY
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  7725.  @shortfattoad7317  Your almost 100% right. My parents were both high school teachers and explained this to me 40+ years ago. There's a difference between the political and economic models countries use. Because of how countries have labelled themselves this last century most people don't separate them. Socialism, capitalism and communism are economic systems and these days almost always exist in some form in every country. In the past countries defined themselves by their political system - Democracy, Theocracy, Oligarchy, Monarchy, etc. Since Adam Smith wrote "Wealth of Nations" countries started to define themselves by their economics as much as their politics. It makes it a lot easier to hide that your a psychopathic totalitarian dictator or oligarch if you label your country by its economics and paint a rosy picture. If you take an honest look at most countries they have social systems of various types, collective ownership of various types and capitalism of various types all running side by side. So unless a country really pushes a dominant economic model over the others its almost impossible to call any country socialist, communist or capitalist, but they all do as part of their narrative. Here's an odd way to consider publicly listed companies in any capitalist country. Practically anyone can buy shares in these companies. Because people are investing their capital in those companies its considered capitalism. But if you take the basic concept that communism is the collective ownership of an enterprise by a community then publicly listed companies can also be seen as a type off communism. The difference is that unlike the rest of communism people can own as many shares as they can afford and they are free to come and go as they chose. The real difference in politics and economics is how much state control and individual freedom there is.
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  7726. @Resident Zero Well sorry DK-HED but the Nazi ideology was 1/2 based on socialism. That's why they called it what they called it you clown. What they did was a Right wing version of socialism. Look at the Chinese they've done a Left wing version of capitalism. They are currently hammering less developed nations across the Pacific, Asia and Africa with predatory development loans for white elephant projects. That's what Europe and America did with the IMF for decades. Wake TF up.
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  7727. WHY ISN'T WARNOCK doing this? If the Dems want to win they need to start putting up better candidates. This should not even be a contest. This is what happens when the establishments at the top of political parties keep putting up robotic candidates who everyone can see are puppets. This is not an American thing either its EVERYWHERE across the Western World. Look at the mess that just happened in Britain. After the Tory Establishment spent the last decade killing off any threat to their power they were left with nothing but clowns.
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  7728.  @koolaidjerk  Do you have any idea how far off we are from being able to construct a man made ecosystem inside ANY shelter ANYWHERE? Biosphere and other projects have shown that we have an incredibly long way to go in that respect. Even having only a partially function ecosystem is a long way off. Its one of the giant downsides that the Space Shuttle caused. On one hand it was an incredible technical achievement to make a reusable spaceplane work. On the down side was that it cost so much money to operate and consumed an enormous amount of manpower to maintain that it starved other programs of both cash and manpower. Add to that some of the other launch system programs that produced nothing and there's a big problem. A lot of the technologies and systems we actually need are yet to be developed and/or yet to be developed to a deployable state. That's why we haven't been back to the Moon and won't be having either a Moon or Mars base anytime soon.
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  7729. HEY DAVID, Just yesterday you said that Raphael Warnock did not do that well in the debate YOU SAID " Raphael Warnock didn't do particularly well. He didn't come across as particularly passionate. He didn't come across as particularly prepared...." So when are you going to a stories or interview on why people SHOULD vote for Warnock? The whole planet knows that Herschel Walker is not suitable for public office anywhere, but that's not how American elections operate. Voting is VOLUNTARY and candidates have to get people to take time out of their lives, turn up and vote. We have heard and seen dozens of examples on why nobody should turn up and vote for Walker but almost NOTHING on why anyone should turn up for Warnock.
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  7730.  @ruthingle1487  Look at the name of the guy who's channel this is.
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  7731.  @DjiemYT  I did.
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  7732.  @TheBigGSN5  Of so many of America's issues with health care that might just be one of the lowest points in its history. The fact that America a couple of weeks ago (March 19th) went past 1 million deaths from COVID and it didn't even make the news shows just how bad America's health care system is. Did you even realise that that mark had been reached? NOT ONE of any of the commentators or news channels I watch mentioned it.
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  7733. Australian here - the IMPORTANT THING Kyle has missed is that Elon is not only trolling a couple of UK Politicians he's actively calling for them to be sacked. He's lucky the Brits haven't 007ed him. And if you're wondering why I'm concerned its because Australia has a Federal Election in a few months. Right now I am terrified of what these clowns can do. This is an incredibly important election for us. They all are but this one is more important than usual. We have a Left (Labor) that's in power and who Elon might like because they love EVs. However like many Left leaning parties their economics are 100% neoliberal free market nonsense (particularly with energy) and that makes many of their policies confusing and unworkable. On the other side we have the Right (Liberal National Party) and they are right in Trumps camp of conspiracies and RADICAL neoliberal economics. In between them are the Teal Independents and on the far Left are the Greens. The Teals have so far been politically ineffective but could be very effective if they can win more seats. The Greens are a lost cause of tree hugging hippies in suits. A couple of them want to be relevant in a smart way but the rest of them are smoking stuff. We have a chance at a future with Labor if we can wake them up but the LNP would be a disaster.
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  7734. Aerospace engineer here - Physicists have every right to scream about this. This is NOTHING more than yet another PR exercise by the AI promoters to claim how they are the supreme technology of our age. I'm Australian but did my degree in America at the U. of Illinois. I was there when the first of the CRAY Supercomputers arrived. They were significant because they finally allowed engineers to run far more complex models for things like aerodynamics and that's been massive to things like air travel, car design and many other aspects of engineering which the general public take for granted these days. I knew one of the team working in the Supercomputing centre. I once asked him what fancy new languages they had developed for the CRAY-2 and CRAY-XMP they had. He told me they still used FORTAN. The real work was in the compilers which translate computer code into the machine language that runs on the CPUs. Their new task was how to make EXISTING CODE run on multiple processors and get the most out having multiple processors. Today we all know multicore processors exist (like the computer you're on right now), but there was a time when they had to work out how to make multi-core processors work and I met one of the team who made them work. So I have been around people who made significant and massive changes to our world as we know it AND IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS NONSENSE ABOUT AI. This is something I am 100% in agreement with Sabine on. The computer engineering people whether is AI or Quantum computing is a lot of hype. Yes its making our world better and I make my living using computers, but computers are NOT going to save humanity from its many woes. They might help but they are NOT our saviors. This is just another PR exercise.
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  7735. Its actually worse than that. I did aerospace engineering and followed that with post grad research. That's far from making me an expert in this subject but it does give me a head start on sorting through some of it. Like asking pertinent questions so that in the general discussion others can follow what's being said even if they miss the finer points. What annoys the crap out me is that Rand Paul with his background should be able to ask better than most people. Even if his qualifications are in another medical area he SHOULD be asking pertinent questions instead of starting arguments. Worst of all these are arguments that wont solve anything.
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  7736.  @thekaiser4333  WHY - to prove that the rest of us NOT the bottom of the barrel. The odd thing is that several legal commentators mentioned that in the past (before this garbage) she had a very good reputation. And all the comments like that were basically framed as "what TF happened." When comparing her to others who ruined their lives you can bet in future there'll be a YT "Top 10 People Who Ruined their Reputation/Career/Life" and she'll be on it.
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  7737.  Jerry Xu  I believe its called the Chewbacca defense -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa-Z5QCZQNg
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  7738.  @jaer.6540  That's a blunt way to state it but also reasonably accurate.
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  7739.  @dimidochev2530  Your right there' weren't any nukes used in Iraq. BECAUSE THERE WEREN'T ANY WMDs IN IRAQ The neocons, Mearsheimer's people, LIED. That's what I find offensive about him. When his side makes a giant mistake that ends up with 1,000s of innocent people dying its not their fault. Its just more of that narrative "Our side is righteous and their side is wrong." When ever EITHER SIDE get caught out they have the same answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKnX5wci404
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  7740.  @elizabethwinsor-strumpetqueen  Who's knows how many actually died in Iraq. Look at the range of numbers. There's only 1 thing we know for certain - it was a disaster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War Right now in Ukraine Russia has admitted to about 4,850. Others are saying 10-15,000 and others over 22,000. Never forget that "truth is the first casualty of war." That's why I am calling out Mearsheimer's "realism" politics. His assessment of the American liberals is excellent and people need to be told, but people ALSO need to see that his version of American politics is just as bad and in the past has been WORSE. I hate this divisive "Our side is righteous and their side is filth" that's so pervasive in Western politics.
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  7741.  @pauloferreira7543  You are absolutely right. Sorry for the long answer, but do you know the game Assassins Creed 3? The 2 protagonists Connor and Haytham are actually good examples of American Liberalism (Connor) and American Realism (Haytham). I don't know if the guy who wrote parts of the dialog was a genius or just lucked out. Connor feels its right to kill those who would deprive people the right to choose their own destiny as in he believes in freedom. Even if people are not ready to handle freedom responsibly he feels the need to fight for it - its hardwired into his ideology. He's what Mearsheimer calls a Liberal. Haytham feels people are selfish and will do what they want without regard to society, even to its destruction. He believes freedom leads to chaos and therefore society needs the guidance of a firm hand. Anyone who gets in the road of their firm hand needs to be eliminated - its hardwired into his ideology. He's what Mearsheimer calls a Realist. There's a scene where they are fighting and when Haytham gets the upper hand he says. "Even when your kind appears to triumph. Still we rise again and do you know why? Its because the order is born of the a REALIZATION. We require no creed. No indoctrination by desperate old men. All we need is that the world be as it is." The word realization is actually in capitals in the subtitles. You can see it here at 5:37:48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdS5V2L7YbY What he says is almost straight out of the American Realist playbook. Its why the neocons of the Bush 2.0 White House could justify Invading Iraq. If you look here at Realism under the sub heading "Assumptions" it lists 4 things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(international_relations) Look at the next paragraph. Its an incredibly narcissistic view of humanity. And that's the world view Haytham has and anything is justifiable that allows him to be the "firm hand" in charge. You can see this narcissistic attitude in many Republicans (McConnell, Cruz, etc) and some Democrats notably Hilary Clinton.
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  7742.  @evanburgess8428  Do you know Mearsheimer ahs also said that other nations like Iran should get nukes ASAP and that North Korea should NEVER give up there's? Its all there in a series of 3 lectures he gave on Liberal Hegemony at Yale in November 2019. If you do take the time Mearsheimer's assessment of American Liberalism its 100% right. He is right they can't help themselves and have to interfere in other countries. BUT in those lectures he doesn't go into what HIS SIDE does. He doesn't discuss what the American Realists (or as we know them Neocons) do. They don't actually believe in democracy because people are selfish and will vote for what's in their self interest rather than what's best. Their world view is quite narcissistic. I have heard them described as High Machiavellians in that anything is acceptable so long as they get the outcome they want. For example the Neocons wanted regime change in the middle east so they did whatever was necessary to oust Saddam Hussein. They want power so smashing America with an insidious culture war is fine. Lie, cheat, torture,..... whatever. Its all acceptable to them.
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  7743.  @evanburgess8428  As I keep saying Mearsheimer's assessment of American liberals is right but all his fans are IGNORING what his side would do in similar circumstances. Peter Zeihan pointed out something Mearsheimer recently said in this interview at 53:44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdP01go8wdQ
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  7744.  @evanburgess8428  Yanis Varoufakis who's at the other end of the political spectrum said similar. He quoted Syn Tzu's golden bridge. Which (paraphrasing) goes. "If the only way to defeat the enemy is so destructive to be untenable then give him a golden bridge to escape over." In other words unless Russia CANNOT be quickly and decisively defeated then give Putin a way out that he can declare some kind of victory and look good in front of the Russian people. As in Putin can't have an exit from Ukraine like America did from Afghanistan. Biden INHERITED Afghanistan and 6months later who cares??? Putin STARTED this and he either finishes it or in Russian culture he's dead. Its not America so he wont get voted out, it'll be in a box.
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  7745.  @evanburgess8428  Therein lies an unresolvable issue. Peter Zeihan talks about the gateways (mountain passes, plains, etc.) to Russia through which all the invasions of Russia have come. Putin said he wants control of all of them and that's where those 17-20 countries come in that he talks about here at 53:44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdP01go8wdQ Its just NEVER going to happen. But that doesn't mean Putin can't get something that lets him survive.
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  7746.  @javiermiranda5769  I agree on all that EXCPET THE FACT the invasions of both IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN was the orchestrated by the NECONS and the NECONS are realists. Their ideology was born out of the University of Chicago where Mearsheimer teaches his "offensive realism." This is the problem with American politics its NOT about Left and Right and never was its about 2 competing and similar ideologies REALISM and LIBERALISM. I understand its confusing even Mearsheimer admits several times they are identical or in agreement on various points. BUT THE FACT REMAINS it was the NEOCONS who are REALISTS who started those 2 wars. If you want to blame the Liberals for then taking over those disasters with their nation building stupidity fine, BUT THEY DIDN'T START EITHER WAR.
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  7747. I agree that decent public debates need to be had on all manner of subjects, but NOT worthless debates that take 4 hours to go nowhere with people who can't ever solve any of the issues. I'm an engineer and left a lengthy detailed response to this in the Lex's pinned comment at the top.
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  7748. Good point the actual divide in American politics IS NOT left versus right its the corporate establishments of both parties versus the rest of society. Its one thing so few on the left have worked out. Trump took over the right by appealing to the trampled mass of the Republican base. In terms of basic economics and life options for the Republican base are the same as the Democrat base. They have been bashed for years, let down by elected officials for decades and simply got fed up with hearing from yet another group of corporate Republican goons like they were presented with in 2016. People seem to forget Trump smashed his way past 16 (or so) corporate hacks like Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz. The fact they responded in such a crazy way is another thing and the fact they have kept chugging down Trumps Kool Aid is a disaster. But that's populism.
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  7749. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Sorry but it wasn't Trump it was Rupert Murdoch who dragged America down into the gutter. We tried warning American and Britain what he was like but neither you or the Brits listened. Some Americans tried and made the documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism." Trump is just the result of letting Rupert Murdoch and the slimy carp he employs having a free ride and zero accountability.
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  7750. WHY DOESN'T ANYONE ASK THE SIMPLEST QUESTION OF ALL THESE GOP CLOWNS? If cuts have to be made then how much of the military budget are you going to cut?
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  7751. There's been a few documentaries into the ways countries execute people. Way back in the 90s there was British documentary that highlighted that 90% of all people executed by nations during the 20th century up to that time were NOT even charged with a crime let alone got a trial. They went into all they ways people are executed and how long it takes, etc, etc. Among the more amazing things was where America got its information in lethal drug mixes. The source was from a group of Nazi doctors who experimented on orphans. As part of working out what to do with the Jews these doctors were trialing methods on orphans. Being very good at book keeping they had detailed notes on what they did which were recovered by American personnel. Another documentary was done by another British journalist about 10 years ago when the subject in Britain of dealing with extremists brought up the possible reintroduction of the death penalty. After discounting what many nations do, the journalist went and looked at how animals are slaughtered. One method stood out, Carbon Dioxide. If you flood an enclosed space with CO2 it simply knocks mammals out and they don't wake up. At best there's a brief moment of euphoria before passing out. Its insanely quick. During the Lake Nyos Disaster people literally took the next step and fell down dead -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster When the Journalist met the chief American doctor in charge of executions he told him about CO2. When told it was quick, painless and at worst incurred a moment of euphoria due to oxygen starvation the American doctor replied "Its a punishment, its not meant to be nice."
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  7752. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  7754.  @colonelautism9957  That's pretty much on point and why we (the entire human race) keep stumbling from one catastrophe to the next one. Way to often we equate ignorance to knowledge and in the worst instances value ignorance over knowledge. Asimov said the following, but to be fair these days it applies to every country. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  7755. As an Australian who was working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on Canada I can vouch for that. Canadians are incredibly polite except when they're playing hockey or talking about Trump. I bet that anger is still there and just as fresh.
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  7756.  @chadleach6009  As an Australian who was working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs. Just before I was in Canada I was in China also for work. I can't understand HOW you can make that claim. Whatever your basis is for that you need to make it clear, because from my experience of having been in both China and Canada its simply idiotic.
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  7757.  @chadleach6009  Whatever Kool-Aid you're on JUST STOP. JUST SIMPLY STOP - we are all fed up and tired of the idiotic conspiracies. Yes the Russians play their games and the Chinese do, and Americans do and the Brits do and French, German, Japanese, Australians, and all the rest play their games of international politics - THEY ALL DO IT. So just stop with the over hyped idiotic garbage - we are all tired of it.
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  7758. He's making a point that so many people ARE NOT and that is the former Soviet satellite states have NOT forgotten what the Russians did to them all through the cold war. Sure the Americans were bad and overthrew democracies and installed puppet dictators all over the place BUT THE RUSSIANS WERE WORSE. At least in America and the West we had the choice to throw out governments and politicians every few years.
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  7759. In future when you do these with lots of photos can you put at least the most basic details of the photo up. Like the 2 bases at 33:30 with the airfield and 34:30 with the huge dock. Where are they?
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  7760. These days your not a real American President until you have bombed an innocent child. Congrats Joe you've made your bones.
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  7761. And nobody wants any of this culture war garbage either. A day is coming when I can see a very angry mob storming the Sky News studios and beating the daylights out of everyone of them and then that mob going down to the Coal Board and doing it again and then going to the offices of a few mining companies and doing it AGAIN. At some point the younger generation is going to realise how much of the future is stuffed AND THEY ARE GOING TO EXPLODE. There's dozens of historical lessons to learn this from. When you strip the peasants of HOPE they revolt.
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  7762. Biden recently hired 2 Goldman Sachs a Blackrock and a McKinsey. Trump had Steve Mnuchin (another GS muppet) and Biden hired 2 more. I thought on November 4 America chose NOT to do that.
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  7763.  @nikita-dh5je  That's just one of the reasons they made sure Berne wasn't up against Trump both times. Its not an American thing either is rampant across the Western World.
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  7764.  @rallynavigator4940  Don't be stupid the whole claim of Trump 2016 was to Make America Great Again and all he and his family did was rip America off, trash the constitution and cause a riot. And that's before we get to the subject of his brainless ignorant response to COVID that has resulted in over 400,000 dead Americans. That's over 130 times worse than what Bin Laden did on 9/11. Instead of changing America for the better he made it WORSE.
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  7765. Logic has nothing to do with this. This is quite simply mass delusion. It wouldn't be so bad except these people have more guns than most nations.
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  7766.  @wgowshipping  AUSTRALIAN HERE As we got mentioned as one of the countries that has sold the rights to Ports to Chinese Companies I felt I should add to this. This all came form the Privatisation Ideology of our Economists who follow the same Chicago School economic ideology as is causing these problems all over the World. That ideology was part of what was called Reaganomics and Thatcherism in the 1980s. We called it Economic Rationalism and its now globally referred to as Neoliberal Economics or Chicago School Economics. 2 of the core ideologies of Neoliberal economics are privatisation of government assets and foreign investment. Australian economists are almost obsessed with foreign investment and will give any tax concession and any other concessions to foreign entities so long as money comes in. The problem is they never consider the money that subsequently leaves as profits. They also never consider the loss of security or soveriegnty. The sale/leasing of the Ports is in general HATED by the Australian people and it has NOTHING to do with it being Chinese. Its the simple fact we don't control our own points of entry.
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  7767. YEAH - LOOK HOW MANY POLLS HAVE BEEN WRONG IN THE LAST 5-10 YEARS And dramatically wrong.
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  7768.  @gaetano5669  Sorry I should have pointed that out. It was more of a comment of "look what one of Trumps own supporters has said" about this.
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  7769.  @gaetano5669  On your comment about bashing America. Grow a pair and use your brain. I have said NOTHING to support the American billionaire class. They are a blight on the world right now. Like so many Americans you take any criticism, by anyone else as as some kind of insult to reality. Its called "American Exceptionalism" and the entire planet hates it. We DO NOT hate you as people, but we sure as hell hate your attitude and even more hate your politics which you like ramming down everyone else's throats.
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  7770.  @foodhoarder9434  Yeah that's the very serious concern. With all the guns that exist in America what happens? And lets not forget that there's an entire subculture (preppers) who think its all going to breakdown anyway and are all kitted up and ready.
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  7771.  @EngineeringwithRosie  A quick other point. There is nothing new in the safety methodology that they are using with the control rods descending into the core to reduce the reaction. That method has been used for decades. In fact I remember my science teacher explaining that's how Lucas Heights works and I finished high school in 1982. On top of that at my speech night in 1980 we had an old boy from ANSTO give the main speech and he told us that one day we will have nuclear energy in Australia. The world would have to use it because there was no other way that we would be able to keep up with the demands of a growing population. It remember it because it shocked us. We were just kids but it shocked us. I can remember being at home afterwards spitting chips. My father (a science teacher) asked me "Well how else are we going to supply power?" You see even back then when our population was only 15 million recognized that our population would grow and with it the need for power. That reality is about to smash a few countries, Australia being one.
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  7772.  @Wowzersdude-k5c  That's true but also YET to be proven in action. That's one of the more annoying thing these days. There are many great ideas being researched and developed by some really great people, but they lack funding and support. After the catastrophes of 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima there was just less and less development being done. In a vid a while back they showed a chart of the number of students doing nuclear engineering and there was this gradual decline down to almost nothing. Leslie Dewan was very vocal a few years back about the shortage of qualified nuclear engineers. Its like a few other technical areas where western policies have now created huge problems that just be solved tomorrow. I have a similar problem here in Australia with machinists, welders and electricians. We stopped producing them in the 90s and they take 4 years to just get their basic qualifications. Mike Rowe has pointe out the same problem in America and did his famous commencement speech on the subject.
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  7773.  @kennethferland5579  Your right on all except that can load follow but its limited by the capacity steam header and steam control to the turbine. Other than that you need time with the control rods in the reactor and the problem is that its slow to react. It can be used with planning to follow the duck curve but the real issue is responding to surges or cuts from other supplies. They just can't adjust fast. Coal fired plants are no better. and even hydro plants struggle on that front. The one type that can respond reasonably quickly to demand surges (& drops) are gas turbines.
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  7774.  @acmefixer1  Dealing with your stuff one part at a time. 1) Nobody knows if we will hit 4C by the end of the century, but we do know that 1.5C is the tipping point where we will need to start geoengineering. 2) Its not going to be hell on earth 4C its just going to be damn fracking hard. Don't claim unliveable when people already know how to live in the harshest of environments from both the cold and hot side. 3) There is such a thing as overcapacity in renewables and it happens all the time. Its caused by a lack of a decent storage system. I AGREE we need to develop green hydrogen ASAP. The real issue is we need a way to easily get electricity back AND DON'T say fuel cells!. If they were good enough it would have been a done deal decades ago and they don't spit out AC power they spit out DC. Going from AC to DC is easy the other way isn't as easy and it involves losses. 4) NOBODY IS GOING TO STORE Hydrogen underground. That's an idiotic fantasy from people who have no idea what they are talking about. Hydrogen from a green electrolyser system is CLEAN. If you pump it into the ground that makes it dirty as well as consuming a lot of energy. After it comes out it would need processing. Compress it store it in tanks - done. For the energy recovery we need an on demand bulk system and the best option there is hydrogen fueled gas turbines with cogeneration (steam of the hot exhaust). Rolls Royce, GE and others worked out all the gas turbine issues for hydrogen out over 25 years ago in the belief that's what aviation was going to use. Cogeneration has been widely used for decades on other gas turbine systems so nobody has to figure it out. Try being less of a drama queen. It helps nobody.
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  7775. Over the past year there have been some truly stupid and ignorant comments. Of late the anti-vaxers and conspiracy clowns are fighting hard over that crown. But this comment might well challenge even the stupidest and most ignorant anti-vaxer, conspiracy clown and election fraudster might surrender to this stupidity. WHEN HAS Kyle ever been racist or sexist? And IN WHAT WAY is there anything racist or sexist about this video? Plenty of people have written or spoken many negative things about Neera Tanden these last few weeks and most of them to do with her links to Hilary Clinton and the 2016 debacle. Did you ever stop and consider that Kyle and others are right and that it has nothing to do with her skin and everything to do with her record, which is dreadful. She helped Hilary Clinton lose in 2016 and that's pretty awful. Plus she's also yet another Ivy League graduate (in her case Yale) like so many others. Both Clintons (Yale) and both Obamas (Princeton & Harvard) and many other top DNC officials are all Ivy League graduates. Professor Mark Blyth (from Brown another Ivy college) pointed out recently that the DNC needs to look outside the Ivy League. Not to be left out Ted Cruz is one as well (Princeton & Harvard). Look at her career, she's a professional career political hawk and this time people said NO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neera_Tanden If you do want to raise the question of why her and not some of the other career political hawks then that is a fair question.
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  7776.  @sarenareth689  Well if that's your claim you might want to take a deep breath and see how it might read on social media where there are hoards of ignorant clowns just looking for stuff to scream at. As far as mocking goes - it was a piss poor effort sunshine.
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  7777.  @sarenareth689  Nothing surprises me in American gaslighting politics anymore. They call it identity politics but its not is gaslighting politics. Glenn Kirshner the lawyer said something recently about legal tactics. When you have the truth pound away with truth. When you have evidence pound away with the evidence. When you don't have truth or evidence just pound away at the table. Just SAY anything to distract or confuse or distract and confuse. The DNC are going to hand America back to the Trumpists in 2022 and they will blame anybody and everybody they can.
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  7778.  @sarenareth689  This is a link to a Mark Blyth lecture on Global Trumpism from 2019. The link's time stamped to the Q&A afterwards. Listen tot what he says about how Harry Truman saved the "New Deal". I think Biden just missed the political opportunity of is life. Just think if he simply wrote a executive order that printed a second set of checks identical to the first batch except they had $2000-- on them. Then he tells congress either you send them out or in 2022 we will ram it down the throat of the electorate WHO DIDN'T send the checks. He could have stood up and said "I don't care if you Dem, GOP or Independent, either you get these checks into the hands of the American people or I wont let them forget who screwed them in a time of need." They would have had a melt down. Cruz, Hawley, Manchin and all the others would have lost the nut. What could they have done? Biden's team is stupid. It's like playing Texas Hold'em with a pair of Aces and 2 more drop on the flop and you get bluffed into folding.🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  7779.  @ahrifox2592  Never forget that one man's terrorist is another mans' freedom fighter. I think you'll find the more accurate description of a terrorist is - a person who performs specific acts of violence designed to elicit fear and terrorize a population into submission. Although labelled terrorists neither BLM, ANTIFA nor Trumps supporters are really terrorists, because even thought they are committing violent acts they are NOT doing them with the intent of terrorizing the population into submission. Yes they all have committed acts of violence and vandalism but they didn't (or haven't yet done) something like what Timothy McVeigh did in Oklahoma City where its clear part of his intent was to terrorize. Even if you look at the recent bombing in Nashville its nothing like what happened in Oklahoma City and it has caused debate as to what acts get labelled as what. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nashville_bombing But Note: The Trumpists are very close to stepping over that line with threats of civil war, because those threats are intended to scare people.
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  7780.  @colberthunter12  That's a horrible thought with horrible consequences for the entire world for the simple reason America is still almost 25% of the worlds economy. After that there's the ugly fact that a stack of countries like Australia (mine), Canada, Japan, Britain, ALL of Europe and a few more have significant SECURITY arrangements with America and that has the damnation of a question with simple answer - "What would we do?" I won't go into AUKUS right now because that's a shitstorm that is only just beginning. Please don't ask unless you want pages of commentary. As to why America doesn't simply take over countries with their military? COST its simply a matter of cost and sponsored coups are much, much cheaper.
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  7781.  @colberthunter12  Dude that's stupid and will never work. The Saudi population is 36 million. If America could not invade and control Iraq back in 2003 when the population was only 27 million what possibility is there you could contain 36 million? I think you have been listening to M0R0NS like John Bolton who proposed that America invade Iran a couple of years back. Their population is 88 million.
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  7782. This has been widely reported on Al Jazeera (as you'd expect) as well as many of the non-American news & commentary channels from other countries. Go and check Al Jazeera (if you can). The frightening thing about this is she was shot in the face by a sniper. Sorry if part of this is cold. Anyone who has ever had standard military sniper tactics explained or described knows they target the chest also called the centre body mass (CBM). They don't target the head because its a lower percentage shot. That's why people have PRESS or POLICE or FBI across their chest and the same place across their back. That way any trained sniper (or trained soldier) will see it. Because she was shot in the face that would tend to indicate that the sniper after seeing she was wearing a vest then retargeted her head. That means the sniper would have seen the word PRESS.
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  7783. Sorry Kyle I know you mean well, but Mary Anne will never get there. Her heart my be in the right place but that is NOT enough in politics. Policies and Solutions are nice but winning people over to your side is far more important. That was how Obama won twice, Trump won in 2016 and Biden in 2020. It was how Reagan won and he really was a clown but he could win over people. There's a really great answer to a question regarding Elizabeth Warren given by Mark Blyth during the Q&A after a lecture on Global Trumpism he gave in 2019. Just Search "mark blyth global trumpism" its posted by McMaster Humanities from 2019 and he's asked around 1:19:55. Yes its a video I bring up all the time and his prediction about 2020 turned out to be insanely accurate.
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  7784. NO Kyle its not getting press in America, just like the European drought is getting nothing. Outlets like DW, the BBC, France 24, ABC Australia have all been reporting on China's issues. Go look at Europe right now. The Rhine River is at its lowest level in our lifetimes and the biggest river in Italy is almost dry. All across Europe they are shutting down hydropower stations. ABC Australia did a story on the state of Chinese rivers over 2 years ago. The Yongding which the city if Beijing was founded beside has not flowed for around 30 years. Through irrigation schemes and pollution China has over 20,000 waterways either destroyed or severely damaged. Then there is America. John Oliver just did a great expose on the Colorado. The mismanagement of the Colorado goes back over a century. The scary thing is that I'm Australian and our river mismanagement is as bad as everyone else's.
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  7785. How about the fact that this is now the TOP comment according to YouTubes Algorithm to arguably the most important question in the planet at this moment. Mind you the list goes on. #2: Lil Wayne's Pardon #3: Future history lessons about if this & Nixon and who was the bigger asshole #4: A comparison to the TV show Futurama #5 Christian Bale's potential to play Trump in a future movie #6 "its official Legal Eagle isn't sleeping" #7 the quote “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire #8 a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Valorum’s (star Wars notorious Darth Sidious) leadership When you get to the 11th by JJ McCullough you actually get a thread on the 25th. Maybe that's the problem NOT EVEN AMERICA takes this that seriously.
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  7786. You mean this gutless coward who has been deleting my challenges to publicly debate this garbage he's presented. I'm an engineer. I'm NOT against nuclear but I am fed up with people like Gerrard who is an accountant confusing the crap out of people with nonsense and lies. And don't misunderstand it I have some serious issues with the Left wing idiots who also tell lots of nonsense and lies. Between the clowns on the Left and the idiots on the Right its almost impossible for anyone to have a sensible discussion and no matter what anyone says or wants whatever gets built is an ENGINEERING TASK. So all you clowns and idiots can either listen to the engineers or don't complain when the lights go out.
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  7787. GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  7788.  @grandwonder5858  You're 1/2 right in that there's been some insane hypocrisy but that insane hypocrisy has been going on for decades. What you and everyone else is forgetting is just how bad Chinese swimming was in the 1990s. I am an ex-swimmer and know a shite load better than you just how bad they were. I even had a friend cheated out of a gold at Barcelona. It was actually a British coach who uncovered what FINA and the IOC did to cover it all up. I can explain they if you want but its not a short story and so we are clear there were a couple of other countries also well known to have their swimmers jacked up. Most notably Hungary. But then at the Sydney Olympics the US Track and field team turned up and among their athletes there had been OVER 150 failed tests in the year before they arrived in Sydney. C.J. Hunter the then husband of the later disgraced Marion Jones actually turned up in Sydney expecting to compete despite failing several tests. Marion Jones dominated the 100m sprint in a way nobody had seen since Florence Griffith Joyner and we all knew how jacked up she was. At the time people said how could Marion Jones do it and a couple of years later we found out during the BALCO scandal. SO YES you and others are dead right. There's some incredible hypocrisy going on, but then the Chinese have an incredible history of cheating with drugs at the Olympics and especially in swimming. They have NOBODY to blame but themselves for their reputation and the doubt that comes with it.
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  7789. Peter has also said MANY TIMES that the Russians also see this as a fight for their national existence. AND THAT makes this a profoundly dangerous situation. Its made even more dangerous by the opportunists who see this as a way to make money.
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  7790.  @GaryAJMartin  You are absolutely right except that dirt provides the plants that provide food and those plants ALSO take the carbon dioxide we breath out and put back the oxygen we breath in. From dirt comes life and the means to sustain it and that's why people have fought over dirt since the dawn of civilisation.
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  7791.  @GaryAJMartin  Agreed and some of those specific bits of dirt have the stupidest myths that somehow become things to kill and die over. The Ukrainians need to let go of part if not all of Crimea. It was never really part of Ukraine it only became part of Ukraine during the Soviet era for administrative reasons. There's parts of the Donbas that are similar. BUT THEN the Russians ALSO need to do the same thing and get their noses TF out of a number of places. They also need to realise that Stalin swapped groups of people about to create these enclaves. It was part of the Soviet system to break up cultural links to certain regions. Putin knows this and has spent the last 20 years fermenting all sorts of stresses in those places.
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  7792. As an Australian I can tell bluntly on Rupert Murdoch. WE WARNED THE BRITS and they didn't listen. WE WARNED AMERICA and YOU didn't listen either.
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  7793. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  7794. On this list without doubt Bernie's the best, but at 80 he's past it. Kyles right - this shows how past all the corporate politics people are. All these people like Sinema, Manchin, Clinton and Obama who all believe in the sacred policy of neo-liberalism: "What do the billionaires want?" Their time is over they just don't know it. They don't get that people are just fed up with them.
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  7795. Go watch his interview with Jon Stewart. Larry Summers has to be the most overrated economist on the planet and easily the most overrated economist since Milton Freidman.
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  7796. No one is going to need to lock this clown up somebody is going to react to him before too long and its going to be ugly and he's going to whine and scream about it. He's to stupid to realise that when he says these sorts of things in front of the wrong people he's gonna get smacked and smacked real damn hard.
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  7797. I hate to break everyone's balls on PART of this. She's actually right that America does not have the energy grid set up for shifting everyone to electric cars and that nobody has a real DETAILED plan to get there, BUT THE REASON WHY there's no plan or progress is because of people like MTG. Remember the now infamous Exxon memo that told their people the plan was to delay all action on climate change for as long as possible? That and other factors, including narcissistic liars such as MTG, are combining into a perfect storm. Here's an explanation sorry if its longish. I'm an Australian engineer who went to college in America. We have the same problem here in Australia and the same problem is in Europe and Asia. This isn't simply an electric car or environmental issue. A few years ago I became aware of how badly Australia's energy grid was being managed. After the 1990s we just stopped building major power stations. By Major I mean those greater than 1,000 Megawatts (1 Gigawatt). Power plants like Diablo Canyon in California, which is 2256MW and Eraring in Australia, which is 2880MW. Diablo Canyon of 36 years old and Eraring is 40 years old. Most power stations are built for 25 years of life which they extend with rebuilds to 40 or more years. Think about how many of you have cars older than 25 years let alone 40. These are the big power stations that underpin our energy grids and keep modern society running. When I looked around its the same everywhere across the entire developed world. Except in China and a few rare cases we all stopped building new coal fired plants because of CO2 emissions. After Chernobyl and Fukushima everyone stopped building nuclear power plants. The problem has been masked by new wind and solar combined with more efficient appliances and lights, but we are starting to hit limits there. The problem is like we are running towards a cliff and people are too busy playing politics. All of our major power plants are now old and only getting older and less reliable. Here in Oz we are at the cliffs edge with old unreliable power stations. So there's not only a shortage of energy supply just to keep society going we don't have enough energy generation to change to electric cars. That's all before we ask where is all this Lithium to make the batteries coming from. Elon Musk's new mega-battery wont be able to make 3% of what's needed and that's by his estimates. So MTG's right that the infrastructure isn't there, BUT her fossil fuel friends ARE THE PROBLEM with getting it done. If there is one thing I'd fault David on is his oversimplification of the plan. Yes there is a general plan but NO there is NOT a detailed plan and the "devil is in the details." Its very frustrating to be an engineer when other people oversimplify what needs to be done. Things like where's all the lithium coming from for the batteries? And then how are we going to make that many batteries? Who's going to build all these new factories? David doesn't have to answer those questions but engineers do. Sorry for he longish comment.
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  7798. ENGINEER HERE: TO EVERYONE. The reason some of us engineers are pointing out nuclear needs to be on the table and discussed is the simple fact that to get to 100% renewables causes a couple of problems to how energy grids need to operate. You might have already heard of "grid stability" and there are 2 parts to that issue. 1) You have to be able to SUPPLY ENGOUGH energy into the grid to cater for the demands. This is the more common issue people have heard about. Wind & Solar systems need ENERGY STORAGE to cater for this issue. This can be done with things like batteries, but they have limits, pumped hydro which requires suitable geography and hydrogen which so far has not been widely used. Hydrogen is one of my picks but there's too many voices on that subject confusing everyone which is extremely annoying. There are some other technologies under development but those are the 3 most often discussed. 2) FREQUENCY STABILITY - this is rarely discussed but the YT Channel "Real Engineering" does a great job of explaining it in a video titled "The Problem with Wind Energy." He explains plans in Ireland to handle this with a giant fly wheel, which might work and would be fantastic if it does. Another way to deal with this is a very large power station with a very large turbine and nuclear plants are large and have huge steam turbines driving the generator. From an ENGINEERING perspective a large nuclear plant makes a lot of sense in handling BOTH issues with GRID STABILITY. YES it can be done with Hydro (pumped and normal) and Hydrogen Turbines but both Batteries and Hydrogen Fuel Cells are good for supply but cause frequency instabilities in a large energy grids because of how the inverters they need work AND YES I do know how inverters convert DC power into AC power. If you ask why this isn't being mentioned by the pro-nuclear people. The only answer I have is that they are as stupid as stupid can be. Nuclear isn't their issue anything that's NOT wind and NOT solar is their issue. To put it mildly the pro-nuclear people are often the worst enemies of nuclear power because of how stupid they behave.
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  7799.  @piotrtrebisz6602  I missed your Kuka comment before. Your right on all accounts as I sort of described. And its not just Darwin. The Chinese also control New Castle and the Indians Control Hay Point. One of our 3 major power suppliers is 60% Chinese and 40% Singaporean. We have a national obsession with selling off or leasing critical infrastructure to foreign entities DESPITE laws and rules and governance that's meant to stop it.
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  7800.  @piotrtrebisz6602  That's the best battery story I have heard this decade. Did they find out who CATL stole the technology from in the first place? The Kuka deal still sucks. That's a staggering loss of IP.
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  7801.  @piotrtrebisz6602  I have ridden that Maglev back in 2017. 311 kmh so smooth the speed wasn't perceivable. It was at night so there wasn't any visual reference. In Australia we have had huge numbers of Chinese and Indian university students and they steal everything they can get. On suing Chinese companies in China over IP and trademark theft, a couple of Australian companies have actually succeeded.
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  7802.  @piotrtrebisz6602  Good point on the Russians. The entire Chinese manned space program is based on Soyuz tech. Their new space station is a derivation of MIR. What scares me about the Chinese is their level of ignorance. Just recently a clownish CCP troll made the claim they would blow the American Navy out of the water because the US navy didn't know how to fight anymore and that the PLAN fresh from significant victories over Vietnam and Taiwan were battle hardened. Yeah they actually made those claims. People who are that ignorant tend to make enormous mistakes like starting wars.
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  7803.  @danielm5161  If you said "some" instead of "most" your comment would be correct. At their core progressives have always been people who want to see progress - hence the term progressive. But like all similar terms like conservatives, left center and right, it covers a very broad spectrum of people. Like every political spectrum it includes people with blind spots. In fact you'll find almost every person on the planet has some blind spots its just that some people have giant huge blind spots.
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  7804.  Sky Gardener  Please go back and read you comment. There's a few parts that don't make sense. One trick with proof reading is to imagine your reading your comment to another person. I suggest you remove the part about bombing places before you get reported and banned.
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  7805.  @piotrtrebisz6602  On all points I'd agree, but I'd give one caveat. Xi Jinping has staked his domestic popularity on Belt & Road and that includes getting Taiwan back under CCP control. Its one of those things populists trap themselves with - making a bold claim on something and then FAILING to get it. It can shatter their base so every so often they force themselves into something. The Argentine military Junta famously did it over the Falkland Islands. China has a few huge issues that will eventually start to hit it. The 1st is already here with its idiotic ghost cities locking up insane amounts of money. The 2nd is the one child policy that skewed the size of a generation that can't just be fixed easily. 3rd that one child generation is horribly skewed towards males because of the Chinese cultural tradition of having a male carry on the family name. Remember they had those 30million orphaned girls at one stage. My mother was a high school teacher with history being one of her majors. She told me over 25 years ago that the one child policy would come back to haunt China. She was very concerned that the over emphasis on males would lead to a war. Nations where the fighting men (20-30) outnumbered the available women have a history of going to war. If your the king and you have a surplus of angry frustrated men its an easy solution to attack someone. Plus - lets not forget China has been on a 20 year program of building the biggest army and navy in history. And they wind their people up with these massive military parades. That's not to say anything is inevitable but the recipe is there for a monstrous clash. Its like having a giant pile of explosives. So long as nobody throws a match its not a problem.
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  7806.  @jfchanneng7558  What "New Conservative Era?" Do you mean that pile of garbage that 80,117,578 Americans said NO to? Yo - Wake up its called democracy and YOU LOST.
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  7807.  @kgs_7186  *TRUMP LOST - DEAL WITH IT. * --- So far he's lost over 30 court cases. In Pennsylvania 3 judges appointed by Republicans just threw Giuliani's appeal out after the 1st judge dismissed his claims "with prejudice". Here you can read it yourself, and Judge Bibas who wrote this was appointed by Trump. https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/203371np.pdf Giuliani and others have been laughed out of court for lack of evidence. None of this is about trying to win the election that's over and done. This is about Trump trying to suck people in tp help pay of his campaign debts.
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  7808.  @kgs_7186  On your dead claim that's been debunked, debunked, debunked and debunked. If it was rigged then it was the worst rigging in history because not only did the Dems FAIL to get control of the Senate they LOST in the House. Wake up - Trump is just conning you. He's millions in debt from the campaign and need donations to pay for it.
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  7809.  @Em3ga  That's more common than you think across the world. In Australia they recently advised that federal officers (with the anti-terrorism group) are now watching an additional 40+ right wing groups and no additional groups from other areas.
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  7810. Just recently I had a friend rail against being "part of an experiment" with respect to Wind Farms. I asked what he felt about AI, because its a giant big experiment and we're the Lab rats. AND NONE OF US SIGNED UP FOR IT.
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  7811. ENGINEER HERE - I just want to correct or clarify something you said regarding manufacturing. By far the more important cost in manufacturing is ENERGY not labor. My degree is in aerospace but I work in industrial control systems and with that have spent many years in manufacturing and mining. There's a great myth that was started by economists in the late 70s that Western Manufacturing was uncompetitive due to wages. Although this was true in some industries it was NEVER TRUE in many industries. Where it was true was in low skill high labor content industries like garment manufacturing but even there the cost of electricity to run the spinning, weaving and sewing machines was just as important. It was also true in the American car industry but mainly within the AMERICAN owned manufacturers (GM, Ford,...etc) and that was because of the deal made with unions for health care insurance. That insurance added about $3,000 per car. So that part is as much to do with America's insane health care system as it does with wages. People need to think about countries like Germany which has very high wages and yet they also have a very successful manufacturing industry that ahs so far never been threatened by the cost of high wages. Part of the reason for this is not so much the people but the value generated per $ from those wages. The Germans had a high focus on quality and value. There's a part of German manufacturing mentality that goes a bit like this. "Yes our product is more expensive but if you buy that cheaper product your wasting money because its not going to work as well as ours." BECAUSE America is now starting to USE and not simply burn the gas of the giant shale fields in the Dakotas then America will have LOTS of cheap energy. General Electric (I have no connections there) has a new generation of gas high efficiency gas turbines which can use that gas. YES its a fossil fuel but just releasing natural gas instead of burning it is 100x more damaging to the environment, which is why they simply burn it now and get that fantastic image of the Dakotas at night all lit up. If they are going to burn that gas anyway because its effectively a by-product of the shale oil fields then burn it in a turbine and generate cheap electricity and use that cheap electricity to power a new generation of manufacturing. IF YOU'D LIKE I would love to come on the show and discuss this, because if either Kamala or Trump plays on this in THE RIGHT WAY they could look very good. Lots of job creation.
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  7812. HEY DAVE INSTEAD OF YET ANOTHER LOOK HOW TERRIBLE HERSCHEL WALKER IS VID. How about you show just one video of something or anything Raphael Warnock has done or said. Your the guy who raged about "toxic sport politics." So why don't you do something, anything positive.
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  7813.  @MikeHart72  I'm NOT saying that he isn't, but David and others endlessly parroting Herschel Walker is brain damaged videos DOES NOT explain to anyone why they should vote for Warnock. This is the mistake Dems keep making "Never argue with a fool. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." If the Dems are so damn smart then how come Green, Boebert, Cawthorn and others got elected in the first place? The same can be said for dozens of parties across Europe, Britain, Australian, Japan, Canada,... If you want to stop people voting for clowns then you have to give them a BETTER reason than "that person is a clown!" Can you or anyone name 1 thing Warnock has done or 1 policy he has?
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  7814.  @regaleagle6533  How about anything that Warnock's been doing to prove he's worth voting for. The stupidest thing people on the American left do is assume people will come out and vote just because the GOP puts up another clown. If the American Left is so damn smart then how come they keep losing to clowns? How many times do you lot have to LOSE to wake up? The DNC didn't even contest against MTG! Do you know that after Hilary Clinton LOST her campaign strategists went to Australia and helped Australian Labor LOSE and then went to Britain and helped British Labor LOSE. Yeah smartass they helped LOSE 3 major campaigns in a row. Despite Bidens's win they lost House Seats, didn't win the Senate clearly and lost across state elections everywhere. Right now Trumps GOP clowns and election fraud brigade are running hard to gain control of election boards all across America. If you and a lot of other people don't wake TF up not only is this clown Walker going to win but Trumps GOP reality denial clowns will completely control the 2024 elections. I saw this today and it should scare the crap out of people way more than Vladimir Putin threatening to use nukes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YjY00Cd_MI
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  7815.  @kwyj  No Johnson never did say anything apart from "Don't waste the money on a replacement shuttle. Give it to me and leave us alone to get the job done." Its a stack of questions I have had for 35+ years. "What did he know?" "What did they work out?" I can't conceive that KJ was just mouthing off. Go watch any of the vids about his life. Yeah sure he occasionally shook the establishment with radical designs (P-38, U-2, SR-71), BUT HE DELIVERED and they WORKED. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♀🤷‍♀
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  7816.  @LennyAllen-cp9cl  This is in reply to your Mars & Earth atmosphere comment. Yes Mars has an atmosphere but it is completely different to Earth's. The surface air pressure of Mars is 0.00628atm so there might be an atmosphere but there's so little its hard to do anything with it. parachutes only work enough to slow down from very high speed. That little helicopter they tried was on the very limit of actually working. Quoting Wikipedia on Mars under the topic of "Atmosphere": "The highest atmospheric density on Mars is equal to that found 35 kilometres (22 mi) above Earth's surface." The density of Mars atmosphere is a tiny fraction of Earths and all the equations for lift and drag have the same basic formula of 1/2 x the coefficient x the gas density x times velocity squared. Lift = 1/2.Cf.ρ.V² Drag = 1/2.Cd.ρ.V² So when ρ is so low you either have to be very light, very large wings or going incredibly fast. Mars atmosphere is so low there's almost nothing to generate lift or drag with. It will make getting off the surface a lot easier, but not much else.
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  7817.  @LennyAllen-cp9cl  And one other thing. Can you and every other unqualified person please STOP repeating the PR blurbs for various technologies as if they are undisputable facts when they ARE YET TO BE PROVEN. Maybe and possibly ARE NOT the same as "Look at these results." Its actually very frustrating having to explain again and again and again ... and 1000 more times that what you are hearing the media is mostly PR aimed at fundraising or lobbying rather than reporting news or facts. I don't mind people asking questions and having discussions and I will take the time to answer peoples legitimate questions as best I can. Its taken me time to read your replies and answer them. Please show me some respect for my qualifications and experience because it gets damn annoying when people start preaching PR fundraising nonsense as if its undeniable fact.
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  7818. There's already variations to the original Monopoly game but they are all licensed by who ever owns the rights.
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  7819. LOU DOBBS GOT FIRED 😂🤣😅😺😂🤣😅😺🤬
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  7820.  @gnubbiersh647  Ok. I think the simplest thing is people have gone too far when they put an illogical ideology before basic reality and are willing to use violence to defend their position. What does a racist do other than put an ideology of my version of homo sapiens is better than your version of homo sapiens and I'll kill you if you disagree. What do Qanon clowns do other than put fantasies ahead of reality. Most don't get violent but Jan 6th proved some do. Over on the Left. What did the Soviet, Chinese and other communists and socialists do other than say we are all equal and if you disagree we'll kill you to prove it. Don't get me wrong I don't find communism capitalism, socialism, religion or distrust in government to be inherently evil, BUT IF you take it too far and lose grip on basic reality and then start getting violent to defend your position that cannot be logically defended then you are (at least) starting to go too far. Where the Left differ is they have more variety of ideologies than the Right. They also tend to be slower to react violently but when they to they wind the dial up to 11 and go straight to rage mode. Like they did in the French and Russian revolutions. Nobody should forget Mao killed millions with his great leap forward. "Who needs farmers they only feed people. We need factory workers they make stuff. Oh - you disagree here let me send you to the re-education camp." Nobody should ever forget the killing fields of Cambodia where a French educated clown decided to take a country backwards a couple of hundred years to an agricultural feudalist state. Pol Pot started by killing every teacher, every lawyer and anyone with an education so that nobody could ask questions like: "Is taking our nation backwards a good thing?" Jesus handed out free health care, fed the poor, gave free education and condemned the greed of the religious leaders of his day. Try asking an gun loving White Christian Nationalist who takes millions of dollars from his followers to explain that.
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  7821.  @margotpreston  And don't get me wrong there's stuff about JBP I can't stand. The bit that infuriates me to this day was one of his remarks at Cambridge Union. You can find the whole thing but there's an excerpt titled "Professor Jordan Peterson on climate change and climate policy at the Cambridge Union." He's asked by one of the most self righteous pompous Lefty M0R0Ns in the history of pompous Lefty M0R0Ns in the most pedantic self righteous demeanour the most long winded question ever and he simply answers "No" That's not the bit I hate. The bit I hate is the explanation that follows where he waffles on about people like Bjorn Lomborg who is an absolute attention seeking self aggrandising clown and how he and a panel of ECONOMISTS including Nobel Prize winners decided what the human race needs. FYI - I'm an engineer and I farking hate economists. All they ever do is get in the road of other people and interfere.
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  7822.  @anderseckstrand7033  Sounds like you are a student and if you have watched his lectures and I have watched a couple of them, then yeah I'd agree he's very good (or was). I have actually got into some seriously nasty arguments over that too. These days he is very good at arguing points especially when they are around or involve elements of psychology. I can't blame him for that. I'm an engineer and try and argue everything in engineering terms because that's where I am best qualified and experienced. Where I have a problem with Jordan is when he gets into areas where he's NOT as well educated or hasn't done the research. His views on climate change being the best example I know. His views are all from that UN group he was part of and that group was dominated by economists. Economists have caused so much harm in so many fields that NOBODY should listen to them, but they have found ways to inject themselves into everything.
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  7823. Who else has come back to watch or re-watch this after Jan 6th 2021?
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  7824. He's trying for VP the same way Kamala Harris did. Platitudes and irrelevant word salads.
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  7825. EVERYONE: Go and look into Neil Gorsuch's past. His mother was put in charge of the EPA by Ronald Reagan and she then got caught in a scandal. Every since Gorsuch has been on a PERSONAL mission to destroy the EPA.
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  7826.  @Tijggie82  I'm not avoiding it and not ignoring it. I'm pointing out that ANY commentary about the Israeli-Palestinian is an invitation to an bad argument. Like this one. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ If you want to talk about genocide do we talk about the Arab view that Israel has no right to exist which is a form of genocide or do we talk about the Israeli refusal to accept hat the Palestinians have a right to exist which is ALSO a form of genocide. Avoiding a discussion on the utter mess that is the Israeli-Palestinian situation isn't an act of cowardice its common sense. If you think you can get both sides to agree to a solution when there are elements on BOTH sides who devoutly believe that the extermination of the other side is necessary then good luck.
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  7827.  @Tijggie82  WTF are you trying to claim? Go back and READ what I wrote. I didn't directly say it, but it is kind of evil when you call for the eradication of a population and even more evil when you actually start doing it. I don't know how you consider it weird? On the intercept article that is great link. I'm not a great fan of Mehdi Hasan but he pretty much nailed that. It reminds of a conversation I had with a young Pakistani engineer I worked with about 6 years ago. It turned out his father was a member of the Pakistani Cabinet and he told me about dinners in his house (that he was present at) with US and Pakistani officials where he heard them discuss the Taliban and its funding. I first thought you were nuts with the Israel funded Hamas and in a way they didn't directly fund them. It was the usual method of infrastructure support. That fact that its explained as another "divide & conquer" gone wrong gives that story a lot of credibility. History is littered with failures in that area. The US support for numerous regimes that turned out to be atrocious human rights abusers is well documented. Most of those came about via "divide & conquer" plans many of which backfired.
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  7828.  @Tijggie82  Naive - are FKing for real. How do you claim that being on the receiving end of terrorist attacks is a good thing. I can't believe you can be that idiotic to think those sorts of consequences justify supporting Hamas to get at Fatah. Go seek help because that's sociopathic thinking. That's Machiavellian at its worst. Do you know that Machiavelli coined the term "the end justifies the means" but he didn't believe it. He was actually trying to explain how others behaved and operated.
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  7829.  @Tijggie82  Is English your first language, because its getting obvious you either can't read or are just trying to start an ugly argument for the sake of starting an ugly argument. Either be sensible of FK-off.
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  7830. He claims to be a Harvard educated man then why can't he just accept reality. These people just keep pumping this garbage narrative and when pressed he starts on an election from 1/2 a century ago. And again near the end he said regarding the claims of election fraud "we haven't had that debate" So what were all those court cases where they never produced any evidence about? These people are truly demented because any fact they don't like they treat as if it doesn't exist.
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  7831. That's pretty spot on and a great observation of what it CAN DO and be used for.
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  7832.  @brettlarch8050  I absolutely agree on that. I have had some amazing conversations here on YouTube about all sorts of things. But then there are the complete ratbags, conmen, charlatans and snake oil salesmen. Take your pick - Flat Earth, Moon Hoax, Climate Denial or 100s of other bad faith con jobs.
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  7833. GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  7834.  @pw9ei  Thanks and I am working on that. The problem is that for every accurate presentation the Thin Tanks pump out 20 confusion pills.
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  7835.  @tuduloo7799  As an Australian who has partied with plenty of Irish over the years I can guarantee that there are Irish people crazy enough to elect a Ted Cruz. And YES we have them too and they have already elected and re-elected an assortment of mentally, morally and ethically reprehensible clowns. EVERY country has them and yes the vast majority of every country ends up having to apologize for them. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  7836. There's actually 329.5 million people and 1000s of others who don't live there anymore who don't have to image it. Thankfully there's some things in America that do make it better than it might seem. College football, college basketball, the NFL which just had one of the greatest seasons any sport has ever had and NASCAR to name a few things. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college there and it was fabulous. Its why I hate people like TC. They wreck all those great memories I have.
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  7837. Considering he's been handing cabinet positions to Clintonites it might not take that long. What he really should be focused on is working out how Trump got elected in the first place AND THEN NOT REPEATING IT.
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  7838. Do you Americans understand how scary this is for America's allies? I'm Australian and we have tied our future security to America as have other countries. Our Airforce has backed its entire future on the F35 just like Britain, Germany Japan and others. How are any of us meant to trust that in future we can get spare parts or have access to upgrades? I was working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and hit them with tariffs. What happens if the next Trumpist is crazier than this one and decides we aren't loyal enough on a whim and does a Canada on us? Someone the other day said they aren't fearful of Trump running in 2024 they're worried about him losing again. I'm just asking if any of you realise this is bigger than America and has ramifications for the entire Western Hemisphere?
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  7839. Is that the Deep State full of people like the Clintons who went to Yale and the Obama's who went to Harvard? You should check the background of people you think are your heroes because DeSantis did his BA at Yale and his JD at Harvard. Yes he is one of your Deep State Elitists.
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  7840. America is the only country left in the developed world that still allows this to go on. In most countries this would be illegal for any normal citizen the simple to do - its called "Insider Trading" America isn't the only country that has (or had) loop holes politicians can (or could) exploit. We stopped it in Australia back in the 1970s when there was a mining boom starting up. A whole bunch of politicians in Queensland bought stock as they were deciding mining rights. They bought stocks in companies as they gave them mining rights and mining approvals. It gave Queensland a bad reputation for corruption that has taken decades to get rid off and they still haven't gotten rid of it entirely.
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  7841. @@Vagabond-Sanctuary I don't know how is that someone with such a limited brain function knows how to use a computer or is that something else we can blame Bill Gates for?
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  7842. It won't ever happen. Peterson famously challenged that no Marxist would ever debate him. Professor Richard Wolff (the Marxist Economist) accepted the challenge and Peterson backed out unless he was paid. Richard Wolff has explained what happened numerous times. That was all before Peterson melted part of his brain on drugs.
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  7843. Its amazing that here's Freddy pointing fingers about disinformation when plenty of his guests are specialists in spreading lies and disinformation. I basically unsubscribed and stopped watching Freddy's videos when he kept having on people like Michael Schellenberger and Konstantin Kisin who have BOTH become major spreaders of disinformation in recent years. What ever morals and ethics those guys had they threw away and its NOT that Freddy has them. We should always have an open mind to alternative views. My issue is when disinformation GOES UNCHALLENGED. And here's an example. In Schellenberger's famous TED talk titled "Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia" about 9 minutes in he points out the deaths in Holland of workers on a wind turbine. As an engineer who's worked in safety systems this is taken incredibly out of context and there is no need for it. That TEDx talk is full of great and informative information and I have used it a lot in pointing out things. The most important of which is that BY THEMSELVES renewables will not save the planet. What I hate is the implication by Schellenberger that the pursuit of renewables is NOT helping and that's a lie. The truth on that is that renewables like wind and solar will be a major part of saving the planet because they do less harm but they can't do it alone because you need other things to keep the energy grids stable. To use that example of workers dying on a wind turbine NOT only has NOTHING to do with the functionality of a wind turbine but avoids the actual issue with workplace safety, accidents and deaths. Its just a distraction to evoke an emotional response instead of sticking to the important aspects of the topic. But this is the sort of thing people do when pushing a narrative they'll present fact after fact and then switch to a fact out of context or just outright lies hoping nobody notices the switch. So when Freddy bemoans how the government is handling misinformation, lets put it in context and that context is Freddy spreads or helps spread misinformation.
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  7844.  @jocksharerock7318  I'm actually Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and I could never get Americans even back then to see they don't actually have a political left. All through the British Commonwealth we have Labour Parties that actually started from the trade union movements. You go to Europe and they actually have Socialist and Communist Parties. I found that Americans actually have almost no understanding of left right politics. It still amazes me how little they actually know even now with the Internet. I did engineering and the closest I ever came to a class in politics was the 2 classes I did in sociology and one of those was "Society and Technology" Probably the most amazing thing these days is how little Americans can rationally discuss the US Constitution. A bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and used to bug the crap out of me with discussions on the merits of the Bill of Rights. There's this stunning disconnect from what people think they know and what they actually know. I was stunned a while back when I found Dub-ya cancelled the funding for civics in high schools, because more than anything else that gave every American a reasonable understanding of how their country worked. In the 80s Americans were proud they were educated in how their country worked. They were proud that they knew more about how America worked than what I knew about how Australia worked. In my day our education was based a lot around History more than politics and that used to be an interesting comparison. I'd studied 4,500 years of history from the Egyptians & Sumerians onwards. My friends new about 300years of history but a buckets of US Constitution and why it was what it was. These days I see Americans who are either sad at the decline of education or are proud of their ignorance. There's too few of the first and too many of the other. The scary part of that is that the entire Western World needs America on its feet and functioning responsibly because you have next to no idea about the scope of the Chinese problem. Similar to America its NOT the Chinese people who are the problem its Chinese politics that's the problem.
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  7845. Actually Rick Wilson (no relation) who's one of the main grifters in the Lincoln Project made this ugly as hell assessment of Bernie Sanders a few years ago AND YES he's a 100% nasty as hell snake of a campaign maggot, but what he said needs to be heard. He said making Bernie the nominee would have guaranteed a Republican win. He said the simple fact is that the younger people who liked Bernie were the type of American's who just don't get up off the couch and vote but the older voter who has it seared into their brain that socialism is evil will crawl to the voting station dragging their oxygen bottle along the way and vote against socialism. YES ITS IRRATIONAL and they have no idea that Bernie's universal health care will be good for them. They just hear that word socialist and reason and logic mean NOTHING. Younger Americans need to get it through their thick skulls that the second 'S' in USSR was the word Socialist and the USSR represented everything that was godless and evil during the Cold War. I'm Australian but went to college in America and there's there's an insanity to older Americans where this one word sends people into a mindless freak out. They have NO IDEA what that one word means except they know its evil and godless. Until the Bernie Sanders fanbase gets that through their skulls just how much that word scares those people then they will NEVER WIN. FIND ANOTHER WORD TO USE And even better don't let the M0R0N brigade on the FAR LEF hijack it like they did with the words "woke" and "progressive"
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  7846.  @lauraallen661  The real problem with those "brain washed" is that we now have to start dealing with WHY? As in why were they so easy for Trump to grab and run with. Because a lot of other countries haven't done that either. The snot nosed brats in London still haven't asked why they lost Brexit. The snot nosed brats in the European Parliament haven't asked how they go smashed from 2 directions (Green populists from the left & Nationalist Populists from the right). Establishment parties are getting hammered across the world and they all refuse to answer WHY. I just watched this with Krystal & Saagar form the Hill -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98pOyHd7Rss They're odd because she's a lefty and he's a right winger. They both raged about the billionaire class whining about Gamestop. I recommend watching any of Mark Blyth on Trumpism or Angrynomics and you'll understand that Trump took advantage of a slab of America that was so disenfranchised they would have followed anybody who wasn't from the establishment. He then took their frustrations and anger and twisted it into this confused catastrophe. In that respect of weaponizing frustration he did the same as Robespierre did in France, Stalin did in Russia and Hitler did in Germany. Getting rid of Trump was a great first step. NOT getting those $2000 stimulus checks out IMMEDIATELY was a dreadful 2nd step. That should have been Biden's FIRST Executive order He should have rammed it down congress's collective throat. The welfare of the American people comes first.
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  7847. The best assessment of the pros & cons of Warren was by Mark Blyth in July 2019. He was one of the very few who predicted both Brexit and Trump 2016. During the Q&A after a lecture on Global Trumpism (which is totally worth spending time on) he was asked about Warren. The link is time stamped to the question on Warren. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s
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  7848. Actually at moments like this I wonder if Kyle has a brain, because when he and Krystal interviewed Jesse Ventura a couple of years ago, Jesse described his foray into commentating and how Trump has imitated what he learned from being involved with pro-wrestling. Its EXACTLY THE METHOD Jesse described. Trump is playing the part of a Pro-Wrestling "Bad Guy" and he uses the Vince McMahon line "If you believe it, then its true!" Its still here on YT posted 13 Aug 2022 "EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Ventura EVISCERATES Trump | Krystal Kyle & Friends Podcast" Go watch it and pay attention to Krystal's questions and the answers Jesse gives.
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  7849. Actually this is some of the worst I have seen him do. WTF did climate change have to do with any of this debate other than ABSOLUTELY NOTHING? But then he was better than James Lindsey who was just a pompous clown. I started watching Triggernometry about 2 years ago and I thought it was pretty damn brilliant. They had on a variety of (as they put it) "interesting people for interesting conversations." How I found the channel was their talk with Mark Blyth the Scott who's at Brown U. in America. A couple of months back they had on Andrew Doyle who spoke about the "Language Puritans" and that was awesome. There's some of the woke stuff I find repulsive but Andrew Doyle simply cut it to pieces. I'm pretty much agree that Wokeism (as it is at the moment) has gone too far or at least some within that side have gone too far. Especially with those who are trying to force language, like Andrew Doyle pointed out. So why TF has Konstantin gone off on this climate change thing? And its not the first time I have seen him take cheap shots at Greta Thunberg. I don't know what his bug with her is but trolling a teenage girl is fairly SHlT behaviour. And you need to ask WHY?
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  7850.  @Vin_Venture896  I don't know if he's a grifter like the typical Fox/Sky types, but I think the final part of your comment is 100% accurate. There's certainly been a change at Triggernometry with favoritism to right wing radicals or at least towards people who are against what he calls woke culture. When his masters want he pumps out their narrative. If you consider Greta Thunberg and ask what's she really saying. "You older people are leaving us a mess to clean up. We should be enjoying our childhood and are instead scared of the mess we'll have to deal with." THAT'S A LEGITIMATE CONCERN for anyone her age. So why, when they had Marian Tupy on, were they trolling a teenage girl concerned about her future. Why do the Murdoch media troll her with claims she's mentally unstable or mentally retarded? Marian Tupy works at the CATO Institute funded by fossil fuel billionaires like Charles Koch and Robert Mercer. They have an agenda to cancel out anything that might interfere with their profits.
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  7851.  @war_designer8763  Nice way to prove you are mathematically illiterate. 19 is spelt nineTEEEN. Anyone who is 19 is a teenager by definition. 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂
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  7852.  @bossycoconut847  that's a very good assessment of where Konstantin is at the moment. Go look at his channel Triggernometry. They claim to be a channel for "interesting discussions with interesting" people AND for a time they were AND they really did have on some great people and occasionally still do. Their recent interview with Andrew Doyle on his book about hijacking language (4 months ago) is worth watching. But recently they have more often been a stage for a variety of very loud very FAR RIGHT antagonists like Nigel Farage. They do promos for Farage's financial services firm. That means they are taking money from him. Notably they had on Marian Tupy from the American CATO Institute which is a fossil fuel billionaire funded hyper far right libertarian think tank. CATO is one of the main propaganda outlets for people like Charles Koch and Robert Mercer's. In that interview they took some nasty shots at Greta Thunberg which he's also done here. Its got to be asked why TF is he taking shots at a teenage girl who's all about climate change and as far as I know never said squat on wokeism.
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  7853.  @war_designer8763  Thir-TEEN Four-TEEN Fif-TEEN Six-TEEN Seven-TEEN Eigh-TEEN Nine-TEEN Learn to count DlCKHEAD!
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  7854.  @MarkRiles1  Can you and a few other M0R0NS actually listen. I haven't said anything about criticising what Great Thunberg says. What I am criticising people like Konstantin for is HOW they criticise her. They after her personally and that's the shitty thing. They do that is because they have nothing to go after factually. When she pointed out the absurdity of infinite economic growth she was 100% right. NOT ONE critic challenged that because they can't. When she said should she shouldn't be in New York but back in school they didn't criticise that because she was right. That's why she scares them and they go after her personally. She has said a number of very basic simple facts they can't argue with.
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  7855.  @jontukagam3888  Occasionally they have on an opponent but even then they generally have those people on to prove a preconceived point their audience swears by.
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  7856.  @trex2621  On electrolysis go look at the Wikipedia page titled "Electrolysis of water" There's a section on Efficiency with a subsection on Industrial output and in that sub section a further subsection on industrial efficiency which in part reads. "Conventional alkaline electrolysis has an efficiency of about 70%.[55] Accounting for the accepted use of the higher heating value (because inefficiency via heat can be redirected back into the system to create the steam required by the catalyst), average working efficiencies for PEM electrolysis are around 80%.[56][57] This is expected to increase to between 82 and 86%[58] before 2030. Theoretical efficiency for PEM electrolysers are predicted up to 94%.[59]"
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  7857.  @trex2621  On Gas Turbine efficiencies Both Siemens and GE quote in their literature that their aeroderivative turbines by themselves can get 44% Thermal Efficiency and in combined cycles over 64%. Go and google the GE 9HA or 7HA and look at their product data sheet.
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  7858.  @trex2621  On who would need diesels? Anyone who doesn't have access to gas but does have access to diesel. Try mine sites & farms for 2 examples.
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  7859. Yeah she needs to go drink herself one giant big-ass CEMENT milkshake and harden up.
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  7860. To show just how idiotic this argument is. When the first cars came out, where there enough gas stations for people to drive anywhere they liked??????? Cars, Ships, Airplanes and a lot of other stuff NEEDS INFRASTRUCTURE. That stuff the rest of you take for granted until it fails and then you all scream at the government, the engineers and anyone else YOU DIDN'T LISTEN TOO.
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  7861. ​ @cosmicclusters3255  NEWS FLASH in response the the 2008 GFC George Bush handed out US$4 Trillion to the people who caused it. When that wasn't enough Obama handed them another US$4 Trillion. So you can shove that nonsense where the sun doesn't shine BECAUSE WALL STREET only exists because it was bailed out.
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  7862. Another Victorian here. I got caught out of state and its cost me close to a year of my life being in limbo, but I also have been watching the numbers and we could have had it so much worse. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ I actually went to college in America on a sports scholarship - U. of Illinois. On October 28 Australia had 2 deaths and on November 30 1 death. In the same time Illinois with less than half the population (12.6 million to 25.6) had over 3000 deaths with its BEST day at only 25. On December 2 it was 266 dead. I had 4 thanksgiving holidays there and its about to escalate and then get even worse after Christmas as winter hits. I just hope that the next time I visit the states its to see friends not visit graves.
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  7863. for anyone interested here is the Aljazeera link -> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/20/non-stop-cremations-cast-doubt-on-indias-counting-of-covid-dead heads up warning it doesn't hold back.
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  7864.  @Neojhun  Good point.
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  7865. ITS FEBRUARY 2022 and the world is in an even worse situation. Just 2 years after this story (in 2015) it was reported that Wall St bonuses topped $28 Billion while the entire minimum wage bill for America was $14 Billion. In the years since there have been no major anti-trust cases to break up the "too big to fail" crowd. In fact the DOJ has not pursued any major anti-trust case for decades. In the years since there have been the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers and most recently the Pandora Papers and no major player has been charged. The whole world saw the January 6 attempted coup and everyone's wondering what's happening because no major player has been charged. Watching Lanny Breuer give nothing but cowardly excuses explains why nothing is being done about ANYTHING to do with Wall St, Trump, The Trump family, any of the people linked to Jeffery Epstein (including Trump, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz and others). The only case the DOJ seems really interested in is that Australian guy. You know the one who told the truth about some war crimes.
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  7866.  @wolfejar  FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s when Reagan was in the WH. It wasn't that hard to see then that what he was doing was going to have some very serious outcomes eventually. I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and they used to drag me into all sorts of discussions mostly the amendments. I'd studied Orwell (1984 & Animal Farm) in high school as almost every Australian does. I used to argue any country could slide into a totalitarian nightmare if it wasn't careful and it was fairly clear to me American's had a number of false beliefs. The number 1 false belief was that the US Constitution (despite being brilliant) was indestructible and it would keep America safe. What do we now know? Can the US government get around the Constitution? 2 words "Patriot Act" What have you just highlighted? A piece of legislation that was brilliant and did the job got dumped and 23 years later the consequences have landed like a sledge hammer to a skull. What did I see back in the late 80s? Reagan pulling apart the health system, the savings & loans system and other things with the idiotic stupidity that the private sector does everything better. If that concept was true then why did the Great Depression happen or any of the other stock market crashes happen. I was there in America when one of those happened. A bunch of my frat brothers lost bad. The money they had made from summer jobs was in the stock market. They went to class one day and by by the time they got home it was over. I did aerospace engineering and was there when Challenger crashed. I'd actually been in Florida and watched Columbia take of only weeks earlier. In the aftermath (when they were choosing to replace it or not) Kelly Johnson (famous for the SR71, U2,...) said "DON'T replace it. Use the $4 Billion to do something better." I got into an argument with a bunch of my frat brothers at the time. I repeated what Kelly Johnson said and they screamed back that America HAD to have 4 shuttles to counter the Soviet threat. After that was the idiocy surrounding Space Station Freedom. Yeah the reason America hasn't gone back to the moon (and a lot of other things) is because decisions were being made for the wrong reasons with no consideration of lessons learned from history combined with not considering long term effects.
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  7867. Everyone should go watch ex-Citibank trader Gary Stevenson's explanation of why so many of the so called "business experts" in the media are hopeless and consistently wrong. Anyone who watches Kyle knows about Jim Crammer and Larry Kudlow. But Gary has this brilliant video explaining "Why Are Economists Always Wrong?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5b1vzARyfI FYI - I'm Australian while Gary is a Brit from London and I have no involvement with him. I'm just trying to work out how economists think. I'm an engineer and tired of their crap and interference in projects. Gary's coming form the other direction and trying to explain to people how the system works.
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  7868.  @metranomic  It might not be fun having the truth rubbed in your face BUT ITS CERTAINLY FACT no matter how much it stinks.
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  7869. Anyone with a brain knows what he said. Just listen to the 'i' sound. The n-word has a short 'i' like in pit or sit while the word migrant has a long 'i' sound like in mite or bite. So he wasn't saying migrants. He might have brain farted with immigrant which does have short 'i's but it doesn't start with an 'm' or an 'n.' Either way its the sort of thing you apologise for and claim a brain fart. Denial only makes it worse and the whole argument is already bad enough.
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  7870.  @-aquamarine-324  Which one? Peterson or Rubin? I know Rubin has pockets full of Russian Rubles. I know Peterson has links to America's Libertarian Think Tanks.
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  7871. GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  7872.  @simonansell3241  I have been trying to tell people that for 2 months. But what does anyone expect. He's an accountant NOT an engineer.
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  7873. @ Yeah the thing that's going to need to be done, and its what we've had to face as well, is HOW do they rebuild. I know the subject of government regulations is a shitesandwich in America but you are either going to have to put in the basics or simply not build in these places. I saw Bill Maher's "New Rule" on dealing with the California issues and he whined about paying taxes. I have no sympathy for scum like him. They are so typical of celebrity media. They have opinions on everything and SOLUTIONS to nothing. Go watch the interview Jon Stewart had with Royal Ramey this last week. THAT'S what a solution looks like and there's other similar interviews here on YT.
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  7874.  @thetooginator153  For starters you need to accept that many (but not all) of the so called "science communicators" have NO TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS. Which is why they make the mistakes they make and try to hide it doing exactly as you describe. If you want to see this guy lambasted then go see thunderf00t's debunk of solid state batteries.
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  7875. It follows a similar model to things like Fox & Friends. Its sells outrage and frustration in the guise of reasonable public discussion. Its extremely successful across the world.
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  7876.  @vehnashur2771  Hell no they are even worse because there's even less control and other platforms are even worse than YT.
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  7877.  @Puert0ricandream  Yeah and that applies to so many shows. I see the adverts for some of the stuff they have on TV these days and winder "Who TF watches that crap?" Especially a lot of the reality TV shows because they aren't real. They're all scripted. They just don't use actors demanding $$$ million an episode. The obvious answer is "people watch it!"
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  7878.  @kevinathans4191  I'm an aerospace engineer and I first worked it out looking at the moon hoax claimants. It was pretty obvious the most vocal people were too well spoken to be so stupid to believe it. So it became obvious they were in it to make money from gullible people. I think Trump is just another of that type of player and trying to make as much money as possible from gullible people.
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  7879.  @kevinathans4191  I'd agree Trumpism falls under the definition of a religion. Mark Blyth did a great lecture back in 2019 about Trumpism and populism from the political and social standpoint. But since then its morphed into something more than the normal socio-political construct. I say construct because its more than a concept or ideology as there's 74million real human beings who voted for him and at least 50million of them still think he won. That level of delusion and inability to accept reality makes Trumpism more than an ideology or concept and its arrived in our midst so suddenly. Does anybody realise that there are only 19 countries with populations over 74million? There are only 28 countries with over 50million. So Trumps 50miillion fanatics who believe his garbage is not to be trifled with. Considering that's 50million adults of which the vast majority own guns its nothing to be underestimated.
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  7880.  @kevinathans4191  It part of the culture war rhetoric. Whatever the other side does is a disaster and what ever we do will save the nation and its future. Fact's have nothing to do with anything anymore. The best way I have heard it described is: There's this cacophony of the RADICAL right and RADICAL left just screaming at each other while the rest of us trapped in the middle are just exhausted. They operate on the same mindset of a 5 year old. If you keep screaming long enough the adults will simply submit under the relentless stress.
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  7881. BOMBSHELL NEWS Kyles brain has finally figured out what 1,000s of people with brain function worked out months ago.
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  7882. To all you Americans who care. This was just shown Australia regarding Rupert Murdoch and Fox -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Its the 1st of 2 parts and the 2nd wont be shown until next week. It includes interviews with ex-Fox presenters who detail what happened inside the Murdoch/Fox Empire with regards to Trump. Its been done by ABC Australia (our equivalent of PBS) on a program called "4 Corners" (our equivalent to PBS Frontline). You can expect the Australian Right Wingers to go completely unhinged. Murdoch's Australian operation is called "Sky News Australia" (if you didn't know). Their Equivalent to Hannity is a guy named Alan Jones, but he's just one of a group of narcissistic liars. So watch out for ANYTHING done by Sky News Australia. Murdoch has been trying for more than 20 years to get the ABC dissolved (as in completely annihilated). The right wingers claim the ABC is leftist and the left wingers always claim they are pro-right. The fact is the ABC is publicly funded but under its charter its programming is independent, including its news and current affairs. SO it reports what comes across its desk. Does it get shit wrong at times? ABSOLUTELY, but its also a place where we can still get HONEST in depth investigative journalism. We can never let the ABC go just the same as America must never let PBS go. If you doubt that watch this Frontline from 16 years ago when all this idiotic shit in Iraq and Afghanistan started. For that question of how did this all happen? Here are the answers. For anyone who's forgotten what people like Paul Wolfowitz did to make this shit storm happen. Here's what he and others said -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byu9Yhr0Q_0
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  7883. Science & Engineering provides the electricity people use, the cars they drive, the water they drink and pretty much everything else they own or use in the modern world except for authentic native arts & crafts. We even take away societies sh*t after its flushed and deal with it. Most people find any of that too inconvenient to think about. They prefer to know which celebrity cheated on their partner and humped which sports star before writing their next song about it. In answer to where are the aliens? They are too busy building a force field around the entire solar system to make sure Elon and the rest of the clownbots never get out and trash the rest of the universe.
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  7884. Its not a matter of if they do or don't run any country because they can simply do what they do in America and just buy off the politicians. Its simply a matter of making them pay their fair share. Part of what Gary is saying is they ONLY have their wealth because the rest of society works and earns money. This is one of the giant myths we have been bluffed with that we need them when in fact they need us. Unless the rest of society works and earns money we can't spend and if we can't spend they make NOTHING.
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  7885.  @spacemanx9595  Well clearly you don't and that says a lot about you.
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  7886. Since when is ANY POLITICIAN telling us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  7887.  @countchoculitis1528  Every rule has at least 1 exception and Katie porter is so unlike anyone else in politics its almost impossible to her a politician. And lets not forget how the DNC have tried to silence her by moving her off committees where she asked things that NOBODY (GOP or DNC) wanted asked.
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  7888.  @countchoculitis1528  Bernie caved in TWICE once to Hilary and once to Biden and the second time was AFTER Hilary had blamed him for her 2016 loss on the Howard Stern Show. He also caved AFTER Biden won. Twice he has been the team player and twice he LET himself be burned. Yeah Bernie has his points but he's not the heroic character many would label him.
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  7889. Here's the crazier aspect to this. Even if the Ukrainians could get 10 Chally 2s and be properly trained and have their support teams properly trained, they'd be up against several 1000 Russian tanks. Yes they are mostly older lesser tank variants, BUT. I remember a documentary comparing the Sherman and Tiger tanks. It even included interviews with WW2 vets from BOTH SIDES. Typically if they didn't send at least 7 Shermans after each Tiger it wasn't a contest. Not until the Shermans got the more powerful main gun where they capable against Tigers. BUT THEY CONCLUDED the Sherman was more effective because they could bring so many that they could OVERWHELM the Tigers. YES there is a giant question as to how many tanks the Russians can actually deploy, BUT According to Wikipedia 447 Chally 2s have been built and about 3,600 Leopard 2s while the Russians have: 800 T62s with 1,200 in reserve 2,030 T72s with 7,000 in reserve 480 T80s with 3,000 in reserve 417 T90s with 200 in reserve And maybe 100 T14 Armatas And that's before we get to the more than 10,000 BMPs the Russians have as well as over 6,000 artillery pieces and over 6,000 self propelled artillery units. The real question is how much can the Russians actually bring to the fight and how quickly using the Western supplied hardware can the Ukrainians knock stuff out.
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  7890. if you go look up the film "the Battle of Britain" there's a discussion about 25 minutes in where Sir Lawrence Olivier tells the minister "But the essential arithmetic is that our young men will have to shoot down their young men at the rate of four to one if we're to keep pace at all." Russia is nation with over 147 million people. Ukraine has about 41 million at the moment. This isn't a war about tanks or artillery or guns or even bullets its about arithmetic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmsXyJgzk-8
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  7891.  @michael_mack  You are quite right about the psychological difference between invaders and defenders. Invaders can always go home. Defenders are home.
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  7892. Just remember the Russians didn't strike infrastructure first or has everyone forgotten that the Yanks blew up Nord Stream. Lets not bother arguing that one because once you consider who could actually do it there's only 1 answer. All this proves is that the Ukrainian people are the meat in an American-Russian shit sandwich.
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  7893.  @shostako1284  Hey SHlT-4-BRAINS if you Ruskies want to make a point then point out that it was America who blew up Nord Stream. Everyone with a brain knows Russia didn't do that. It was making too much money. However you guys did do this dam.
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  7894. I'm Australian and that case is of huge concern to us because Chevron is a major player in our gas industry.
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  7895. For everyone interested here's the full Henry Wallace quote from the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  7896.  @mikeboothe  I the classic libertarian mantra. "I want what I want and everyone else can go to hell"
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  7897.  @starshake8998  I keep a link to that Nick Hanauer video because I quote from it all the time. Its the sort of talk that needs being repeated. How many times have you heard over recent decades that labor costs were too high to manufacture things? Its garbage and always was. Inefficient use of labor like inefficient use of anything is a problem, but then trying to tell economists they're wrong is like trying to tell a 2 year old they can't have a cookie.
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  7898. ​ @maxpowers123  I'm SORRY I didn't realise we were including IGNORANT M0R0NS today. So let me explain some things. FIRST - I am an aerospace engineer and during my final semester we had a guest lecturer one Friday who worked for NASA and had just completed a study for NASA on the what it would take to terraform Mars. He told us some blunt truths that aren't in the science fiction books. This is one of the basics - How much air would you need for a 1km thick Earth Compatible atmosphere? The surface of Mars is 144,370,000 km² and that means the volume of a 1km thick layer of air has a volume very close to 144,370,000 km³. For a planet its within 1%. A cubic meter of standard Earth air weighs 1.2kg. and there's 1,000,000,000m³ in each 1 km³ In metric tons that 1,200,000 tons of air per km³ and you need 144,370,000 of them. So when you can explain where Elon is going to find 173 TRILLION TONS of air then you might be considered something other than a M0R0N. AND THAT'S BEFORE we work out how to hold that much air to a planet with only 1/9th the mass of Earth. AND THAT'S BEFORE Elon magically explains how they will make any of the basic cycles start working. Like a water cycle, an oxygen cycle, a nitrogen cycle and a carbon dioxide cycle. AND THEN THERE'S that slight problem that Mars doesn't have a magnetic field strong enough to stop the sun stripping away that atmosphere. So you also need to spin up the molten core of the planet. Now if you'd like I can also explain why Jeff Bezos is also full of SHlT for his claims about space industries.
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  7899. AUSTRALIAN HERE: YES our politicians suck. They lie, they cheat and they screw us over at every chance as they had out contracts to their wealthy supporters. BUT NONE of ours are a threat to the World. If you consider some of the other scumbags in the GOP - Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell,.... etc. Sure they're narcissists, but the rest of the world can deal with them because even at their very worst they're still PREDICTABLE and we can handle that. Trump isn't simply a MALIGNANT NARCISSIST but he's also a TEMPESTUOUS SOCIOPATH who lashes out at ANYONE who upsets him. I was actually in Canada for work when he tore up NAFTA in 2017. The Canadians accepted that NAFTA needed updating and re-negotiating. We all know those free trade agreements need that at times. BUT Trump just tore it up because it was done by Clinton. Then he tore up the Iran nuclear agreement because it was done by Obama. When you add into that the behavior of America's billionaires who support him and what they want it gets even worse. Do you guys not realise that it was American Billionaire Robert Mercer (owner of Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica) who was behind the Facebook campaign that influenced the Brexit Vote? YES one of yours caused that ongoing shitfest. COLLECTIVELY they're a very serious threat to ALL of America's security partners as well as ANY country that America does business with. Don't forget that America's businesses can now drag any dispute back to American courts where its rigged. Go look up the Steven Donziger case and ask the Ecuadorians about the Texaco judgments. You American's can have whoever you want as POTUS. That's 100% your choice and you have every right to tell us to FK-OFF and mind our own business, BUT UNDERSTAND the other 7.7 billion of us on the planet have to live with your choice.
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  7900. American libertarianism can be summed as: "I want what I want and everyone else can suffer for it." It took less than a few minutes for the pro-capitalist libertarian to trope out the same crap they always spew. "look at how great this over here" as they totally ignore what's happening to the other 99%. Lets be clear they aren't even real capitalists. Capitalism emerged after centuries of feudalism when workers weren't employees they were slaves. Capitalism was about everyone being able to earn enough money to grow their own wealth. Libertarians aren't about capitalism they are about what they want without anyone being able to set limits or say "No" to them about anything. Its not freedom or capitalism or much anything other than anarchy. If you doubt that consider the gun issue which again is summed up as: "I want what I want and everyone else can suffer for it."
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  7901. No what's even funnier is they think Canada was a security threat. Lets face it when armed with a hockey stick they are kinda scary.
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  7902. Donald Trump had Steve Mnuchin of Goldman Sachs fame as Secretary of the Treasury Joe Biden just hired 2 Goldman Sachs muppets to be part of his administration Yeeeeaaaahhhhh, HHmmmmmm. UUmmmmm. I got zip to explain what to make of that.
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  7903. Well actually you seem to need words like treason, sedition and insurrection explained. More importantly you seem to need them legally explained which many EXPERTS have been doing for months now. There wasn't any treason, there was a seditious conspiracy and there was an insurrection. So stop ranting like a Trump supporter who fell out the other side of the loony tunes bus. IT DOES NOT HELP ANYONE.
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  7904. Vice President Henry A. Wallace wrote in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  7905. KYLE - JUST STOP putting up stuff people have put on twitter. Unless the CIA Director puts out an official notice that spies are being killed then just SHUT UP about what some clown puts on twitter. Twitter is NOT a fact checking institution.
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  7906. I don't know what she would be charged with but removed from office is possible if she DOES NOT recuse herself. It should also have been brought out at here confirmation about these fees, because $800K for a talk or speech is pretty ridiculous money by any standard. Basically she should NOT have been confirmed, but then none of that club should be. This isn't an American issue either its rampant across the entire world.
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  7907.  @BattousaiHBr  I have one word to that ignorance. BULLSHIT The military NEVER tell anyone what they are doing or when they are doing it. For example. NOBODY ANYWHERE NEW A DAMN THING about the F117 Nighthawk.
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  7908.  @willgalison  Yeah and none of those sensors have shown anything. You should go watch the videos that have F117 Nighthawk pilot Thad Darger. there's a really good hour long on on Air Zoo here on YT. At one point he explains how hard the F117 was to find with any sort of sensor. That had one sitting stationary on a mount in front of the radar testing gear. They thought the gear was broken because it detected NOTHING. Then all of a sudden it went nuts and the operators thought they had magically fixed what was wrong. The someone pointed out that a small bird (a sparrow??) had landed on the plane. The radar could see the small bird but it couldn't see that plan. That was back in the 1990s. So what do you think they'd be testing now and more to the point do you think they'd tell anyone what they are doing or do you think they be using who ever is in the area as a sort of live test?
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  7909.  @brucehitchcock3869  Do you know what Iran, Chile, Guatemala, Indonesia and Iraq all have in common? They all had democratically elected governments overthrown with the support of America. Yeah even Saddam Hussein operated a democracy and won elections. Sure they were corrupt but he was an elected head of state that America handed over for execution. Allende's mistake was that he told the CIA to go away and Chile would do what they wanted to do with their natural resources. And Chile has the best copper resources in the world. Several of the worlds leading engineering companies have major offices in Santiago to support that industry. I'm an engineer and after oil, gas and iron the next most important resource for building the world as you know it is COPPER. Think about how many devices you own with copper in them? Every electrical device you own has copper. Then there's the water and gas piping. Then there's all the other uses in alloys - brass, bronze, etc. If you control the worlds best copper resources you control the worlds economy. Allende's mistake was not realising how ruthless the world he lived in really is.
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  7910. Biden's 2020 campaign strategy -> Do nothing, say nothing just let Trump trip over his tongue trying to explain what he'd done. Republican 2022 campaign strategy -> Do nothing, say nothing just let the Dems trip over their tongues trying to explain what they've done. Standard Campaign Strategy against incumbents 2024 -> Do nothing, say nothing just let the incumbent trip over their tongue trying to explain what they've done. ...... ...... ...... Standard Campaign Strategy against incumbents 3024 -> Do nothing, say nothing just let the incumbent trip over their tongue trying to explain what they've done. ...... ...... ...... Standard Campaign Strategy against incumbents 100024 -> Do nothing, say nothing just let the incumbent trip over their tongue trying to explain what they've done.
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  7911. Hey Lindsay - When you play with a rabid dogs, don't complain when you get bit.
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  7912. Australian here - I went to college in America on a sports scholarship. I love the country and the people but the politics has utterly crippled the future of millions of people who deserve better. AND being fare EVERY country (including Australia) has these sorts of people and has these sorts of issues with its legal system. America didn't invent corruption or corrupted politics, that stuff goes back to the start of civilisation, but without doubt America is currently suffering from decades of "big money" interference with both its politics and legal system. We used to joke that sheep, cattle and tractors voted in Australia because of how influential our farming industry was. Now we say that diggers & dump trucks vote because of how influential our mining industry is AND THAT'S the common problem every country has. Which industry has the most political influence in your country? Answer that and you'll find the big issue in both politics and the legal system in any country.
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  7913. Somebody needs to ask her and the rest of the clown brigade what the 3rd word of the 2nd Amendment is and what that word means. Because protecting the unborn isn't much use when they get gunned down at school and even if they do make it through school they get sent to war to have someone else's child shoot at them.
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  7914. WHY DOES HE CALL HER AMBASSADOR? She is no longer an Ambassador and has NOT been one for several years. Is there NOBODY in the media capable of getting simple FACTS right?
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  7915. You are so correct the Right side of politics EVERYWHERE is losing grasp of representing anything except rage & fear while all there polices revolve around what they WONT DO with almost nothing of what they will do. Barrack Obama (who I don't think that much of) summed it up brilliantly when he said they (the GOP) have only 3 things - own the Libs, lower taxes, spend more on the military. Which really is rage at the libs, rage at taxes and be scared of the other 7.7 billion people on the planet who want to come take your stuff.
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  7916.  @rs72098  BOTH the radical Left and radical Right are anti-science and anti-democracy. The sooner that BOTH of you packs of clowns STFU and get out of our lives the better off we will all be.
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  7917.  @johnwadsworth7086  The question isn't are they collapsing, its how far will it go before America actually wakes up to how much of a threat these people are? Then the question becomes how far will these people go to defend their position? PBS just re-posted a Frontline episode from October 2012 (10+ years ago) on the effects of Citizen's United. Its extraordinary and on the ground the main battle was in Montana and it had nothing to do with Democrats. The people they went after were the existing Republicans. About 25 minutes in PBS interviewed a Republican who these people went after in *2008*. Its staggering what they did and how they did it. PBS then interview the people behind it including the lawyer who orchestrated "Citizens United." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xxiIejOmSo
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  7918. Then explain how he endorsed Bernie Sanders? I'd agree with the "at this point" reference, but I'd place Rogan as more of an anti-establishment man than anything else. The problem is Rogan's like so many anti-establishment types. They talk and talk and talk about tearing things down BUT NEVER talk about what they'd replace it with and on the rare occasions they do its with something so childish its laughed at.
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  7919.  @Cygnus888  If its the Bernie endorsement you're asking about. It was in 2019 during the Democrat Primaries. It came after he had Bernie on his podcast. This is why people with functioning brains realise how badly the Harris campaign screwed up not going on. Rogan was MORE LIEKLY to endorse Harris than Trump. If you have seen any of the excerpts from when Bernie was on. Tim Walz would have blown the roof off. This is why I hate the Clinbama clique of the Dum-o-crats. Their obscene arrogance is why Trump is in the WH.
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  7920. @ WTF does Elon EFFING Musk have to do with this conversation????? Go find someone who cares how scatter brained you are.
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  7921.  @youcantpredictthat  YEP - we live in some seriously freaky times. I was at college in America in 1987 when the primary season was going on of the 88 election. There was a guy named Gary Hart who was at one point the Democrat front runner. He was Kennedy like in age, charm and intelligence. He had to drop out because of revelations of extramarital affairs. I asked my coach what the big deal was. He almost lost his nut and started ranting at me about how the Russians would "send in one of their girls and suck our secrets out of him" That was 30+ years ago and I still remember it. I'm certain the "suck" part wasn't a sex reference but just a classic faux pas. When a I asked my teammates WTF was he going on about they explained to me our coach game from an older generation that grew up after WW2 during the cold war. To them the Russian threat was real. So it amazes me than in less than 40 years American has gone from the President must be a man of perfect moral standing to Donald "Grab 'em by the pussy" Trump who's also been found responsible for a sexual assault. What's even more bizarre is that its the religious conservatives who voted for him.
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  7922.  @jimmyjames5685  Simple dude Murdoch doesn't own or control YouTube or Twitter. But don't hold your breath on either. Many many people have crossed Rupert and very few have survived politically or in business.
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  7923.  @jimmyjames5685  Mark Latham - there's a voice from the past. At one point he was half way into the lodge and then ran foul of Mr. Murdoch. He made a few of his own mistakes for sure, but Rupert's people are just ruthless at taking advantage. They are like hyena's on a lame wilder beast. Just ask Rudd & Turnbull. Sooner or later we will have to deal with those hyenas and I suspect it'll be ugly.
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  7924. HEY THUNDERFOOT MADE A MISTAKE. I work in Industrial control systems, automation and robotics. Those 2 robots you show at 37:30 have been available for AT LEAST 25 YEARS NOT 15. The company I left in 2001 was the (then) Kuka and Adept agent in Australia and we knew what our competitors could do. The robot on the left of your shot is a standard 6 axis anthropomorphic arm and those have been around for decades. The robot on the right is a 4-axis "Spider Robot" (just put "4-axis spider robot into google"). I know that BEFORE the year 2000 ABB had one of those available. The thing that you are NOT highlighting in that part of the video is that the spider robot is locating the items its picking off the conveyor using vision guided robotics. Notice how all those parts are randomly arranged and the spider is arranging them in organised groups so the other robot can place them on the next conveyor. There is a camera upstream of the robot looking down on the conveyor which has an encoder on it. The vision system identifies the location and orientation of each part and with the encoder on the conveyor translates that to the Spider which can then pick it up and orientate it and put it back down in the right place so the other robot can pick up the groups of 4 parts. I know how that stuff works because I had that technology demonstrated to me by an Adept Engineer when I visited their Cincinnati Office in 1998 or 99. They weren't using a Spider robot at that time. They were using a small high speed SCARA robot. So I know for a fact that technology has been available for AT LEAST 25 YEARS. So SORRY Thunderboy but your 15 years is wrong its at least 25. Fyi - I actually did aerospace and if you would like I'd be happy to show you how truly stupid they are being with the Artemis program. Its worse than most people realise. The closest I have seen anyone expose the real depth of the issue is Destin (another Aerospace) who has the YT channel "Smarter Every Day." For anyone interested put "smarter every day artemis" into the YT search and the top item should be titled "I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293" posted 4 Dec 2023.
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  7925.  @EaglePicking  Sorry to burst your bubble and I have explained this many times, BUT there is no way they are going to solve the autonomous driving issue because the amount of computing required to do it at the level people would expect just does not exist and wont possibly ever. The actual task is far more complex than most people can even conceive let alone consider how it might be done. There's the issue of having to match what the human visual cortex can do and the human visual cortex is actually 2 systems NOT 1. There's the focus part and the peripheral part and its the peripheral part that amazes me because of what it does. The brilliance of Alan Turing's enigma breaking machine wasn't that it systematically searched the possibilities. It worked by eliminating what the answer could NOT be. The human peripheral vision system does something similar. ONE of its main tasks is threat analysis and it does that by clumping complex arrangements into single items it can dismiss very quickly. Consider your driving and you see a tree. Your brain does NOT register a million leaves and twigs and branches it just clumps it into a tree and if that tree is NOT a threat its dismissed very quickly. The same goes for the millions of bit that make up a house. Your brain doesn't go there's that brick, that brick, that brick........ etc. It goes building. It does the same for all sorts of other things. PLUS it doesn't have to even see a particular object previously ever have had to see Your peripheral system can do that almost 50 times a second. The amount of available data points is staggering and this system just does. On top of that it compares the previous frame tot recent frames to discern movement. People who think we will just be able to do that in silicon based electrical system that can fit in car really don't get what the task is. I can go on and on about this stuff but wont waste your or my time. Its just NOT going to happen. Maybe just maybe if we can get quantum computers working but not silicon based systems.
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  7926. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE I have been highly critical of Peters reporting on technology and urged him to get some decent background supplied by engineers. I don't know if he's noticed my comments or the comments of others, but this is certainly one of his better (if not the best) take on a technology he's done YET. The real problem that's going to hit the AI people is the energy. If you consider that some of the proposed server centres that are around the US$2 Billion mark they need the equivalent of a Westinghouse-Toshiba AP1000 Nuclear Reactor. That reactor gets mentioned (more than others) because its one that's already been built and has all of the approvals which are 2 things none of the SMRs or other options can say. The other 2 things we know are how long it takes to build an AP1000 and how much it costs thanks to the Vogtle Plant in Georgia and that answer is 9 years and US$18.4 Billion for each reactor. Now the advantages of an AP1000 are: 1) They are designed to last 60 years, which can probably be extended and that means that no matter what the technology becomes in future you can keep using the same site to power your server for a long time. Plus if the next generation of chips that Peter described use a lot less power then you can sell the excess power into the local grid which will help pay-off that US$18.4B. 2) The AP1000 was designed to be built in modules. This is different to the SMR concept where each module is the same and you simply keep adding modules until you have what you want. The AP1000 modules differ in that each module is a piece of an overall plant that can be built off-site and shipped to site on a barge. There's nothing new to that concept I have seen it done for mineral processing and seen modules the size of office blocks. There's a massive advantage to this in that you end up with a module construction site that keeps developing its skill and knowledge bases allowing for manufacturing improvements over time. Once you sort out the module construction and site construction issues this method allows for more efficient or cheaper or quicker construction or a combination of all 3. The disadvantages of the AP1000 are the same as every other nuclear design: 1) They still take almost a decade to build. Sorry but like every other large complex engineering machine they take the time that they take. There's just no way to get around the time required for certain things like constructing the foundations. No matter what the "nuclear island" the reactor sits on needs a foundation to sit on. that and all the other things TAKE TIME. 2) If your construction site is not close to where the barges can deliver the modules the building advantages can go away. This was an issue at Vogtle. 3) What do you do with the spent fuel. Engineers have put forward proposal after proposal on what to do with spent fuel and its like cutting off the head of a hydra. For every proposal put forward 2 new objections grow out of it. We are engineers NOT mythological Greek heroes who can kill a giant multi-headed snake. So the AI crowd are kind of trapped right now. They want to build these monstrous server farms to support the LLM Systems but they can't find spare capacity in the energy supply for it and they can't build anything fast enough and their new chips wont be ready for deployment for at least 5 years. AND YES if Peter wants to give me or another engineer a job he's free to ask.
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  7927. Yesterday I watched professor Michael Sandel interviewed on the Majority Report. He's just updated his 1998 (25 years ago) book titled "Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy" the interview is titled Democracy's Discontent: Unraveling Neoliberalism and Elite Power | Michael Sandel There's so much in that interview you need to watch it several times. He predicted all this sort of stuff 25 years ago. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. Around that time there were a series of sex scandals among the Televangelists like Jim Baker. Despite all the evidence and the facts people still sent those scumbags money and are still sending them money today. I'm not surprised America has gotten to this point BUT I am also incredibly sad it has got to this point. In general I love America and its culture but American politics is a disgusting toxic swamp that is a serious threat to the planet.
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  7928. That's the best "Oh snap" since this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO2ixs51uGI&t=150s
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  7929. Whenever there is a power vacuum there's always the chance that scumbags will step into the power and influence. Across the developed world BIG MONEY has crippled our political parties and replaced leaders with puppets because puppets are more useful than people who might consider the rest of society. Frank Herbert - wrote in one of the chapter introductions in Dune Messiah. Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends to act more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary, royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy. - Politics as Repeat Phenomenon. Bene Gesserit Training Manual
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  7930. THERE'S A GIANT PROBLEM WITH THIS STRATEGY* and she is called HILARY CLINTON. If they throw this down at the convention then it will be CHAOS and the abomination that are the super delegates will simply pick Hilary Clinton who will lose to Trump for a second time.
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  7931. I'm Australian welcome to what the rest of the world has known for years. The give away right now is the Goldman Sachs links. In 2008 the entire world almost collapsed and GS were right there in the middle doing deals that should have put their entire management in jail. In stead you have Ted Cruz's wife a managing director at GS keeping her job and then in the Trump WH Steve Mnuchin (another GS goon) becoming Secretary of the Treasury. And then Just recently Joe Biden hired 2 GS Goons along with a Blackrock and a McKinsey. Right now the whole world is aware that an American Hedge Fund tried to manipulate the market (which is illegal) and got caught out by average people playing their own game back at them. Then under instruction from the company Janet Yellen got $800k from the traders stopped those people from trading fairly which is also market manipulation and also illegal. Janet Yellen has not recused herself from that despite a crystal clear conflict of interest. Americans need to realise that the rest of the world knows what's going on and we have for some time.
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  7932.  @EnigmaHood  Then WHY TF are you saying what you're saying??
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  7933.  @EnigmaHood  Yeah I know how to read. Do you know how to NOT BE A SELF RIGHTEOUS PIECE OF SHlT? Or Do I need to add arrogant and pedantic on top of that?
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  7934. To all the clowns making stupid claims LOOK at what's WRITTEN in the WSJ. Its a PROPOSAL that hasn't even been presented to Biden yet. It makes sense to have a range of plans at this stage. They're called OPTIONS. It hasn't even been presented to Biden so how can anyone claim that Biden is sending special forces anywhere when he hasn't even seen let alone reviewed the options. Way to go Kyle! What a great title to a video Kyle! Way to give the totally wrong impression of what's actually been reported Kyle! Way to prove your NOT like Fox and MSNBC and all the other media who spin crap and lies Kyle! Hey Kyle - if you Krystal, Sagaar, Marshall and others are claiming to bring us all a better standard of public discussion then titling a video with A LIE, IS NOT an improvement.
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  7935. Imagine how much those of us who have ever been FKD over by HR don't care. Imagine all the people who Elon Musk has treated like crap and how much they don't care. Imagine all the people who have been hurt by misinformation posted on Twitter and how much they don't care. Imagine all the people who have been abused by Elon Musk fans whenever they have questioned what he says and HOW MUCH THEY DON'T CARE.
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  7936. Its called Republican logic and it goes something like this. If we say something, then its true. If anyone else says the same thing then its false. If we win the election was fair even if we cheated. If we lose they must have cheated even if they didn't. The wise & loyal one Rudolph William Louis Giuliani summed it best when he declared: "Truth isn't truth"
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  7937.  @BonShula  You know the word socialism comes from the root word social which has the verb form "to be sociable" as in decent to or considerate of other people. I'd love to see one of these right wing nutters asked to explain how being sociable is a bad thing. Better still how about we ask them about Jesus since many claim to be Christian. Afterall Jesus was noted for giving free health care to the sick and free food to those in need. He advocated helping the poor and widows and fatherless children. He once stepped in as legal counsel and advocated for a prostitute sentenced to death. He even said people should pay their taxes. No wonder a group of religious zealots had him executed, he was a socialist.
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  7938.  @BonShula  Well if you don't care about words and what they mean the you're just another M0R0N we should never have allowed to use a computer. it was supposed to be the "information age" not the Dunning-Kruger plague.
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  7939. HOW ABOUT WE GET RID OF USELESS LAWYERS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN THE LAW? Merrick Garland Failed Jack Smith Failed And teams of other lawyers FAILED to deal with a criminal.
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  7940. In George Orwell's 1984 all of the Ministries (government departments) were abbreviated and the words "Ministry of" was shortened to "Mini." So the Ministry of Peace was referred to as Mini- Peace and it conducted War. The Ministry of Love was referred to as Mini-Love and was where they tortured people. The Ministry of Truth was referred to as Mini-Truth and was where Winston Smith worked at re-writing old newspaper articles. That's the core of Orwellian logic and doublespeak is the language of opposite meaning. That's why he called it doublespeak - everything has 2 meanings and those meanings are the opposite of each other. That's Orwellian logic. Its when you CLAIM one thing but actually MEAN and or DO the complete opposite and yet you're still telling the truth because you are using the opposite meaning.
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  7941.  @craigcrawford6595  I actually had to look up Tu Tocque and I think your right. The Wikipedia does state that its frequently used with "whataboutism" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
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  7942.  @nedludd7622  Absolutely correct. If you want to see one of the more poignant memes of all time type into google "aboriginal meme boat people" I forget who originally drew it but when there were a staggering number of boats coming with middle eastern asylum seekers in the post 9/11 era the Howard government stated "We'll decide who comes here and under what conditions" there was a political cartoon that started that meme. So yeah mate MOST but not all Australians of European descent are well aware we are the descendants of boat people. I'm of Anglo descent - last name wilson is kinda obvious. As far as I know both my mothers and fathers families came here late 1800s BY BOAT. Also most of Australia's post WW2 immigration was by boat. We call them "10 pound Poms" not because they weighed 10 pounds but the ticket to Australia for Brits cost £10. In that Post WW2 era we also got a massive influx of Italians, Greeks and Turks with a scattering of other Europeans who just wanted out of the mess that Europe was and they all came by boat. I checked to see if America had an equivalent meme. Just google "native american meme immigration"
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  7943. Just so we are a bit more clear. In that post WW2 era Australia needed to replace the men we'd lost fighting all over Europe and Asia as well as grow. We were a very small population and most of the people who came we needed. We did this massive power and irrigation scheme that was our equivalent of the Tennessee Valley project called the Snowy River Scheme. Most of it was built by European migrants. In my home state of Victoria we built out the Latrobe Valley power stations that enabled our manufacturing to grow. Most of that was done by European migrants. So its not like we haven't had massive influxes in the past. The problem Australia has right now is we already have a triple whammy of housing crisis, energy crisis and water crisis all at the same time. We've had mismanagement FROM BOTH SIDES of politics. Our elections for decades have been a choice of what kind of SHlT we'll eat for the next 3 years.
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  7944. ​ @nedludd7622  Yeah the Brits made a mess of Palestine. By the time of the post WW2 "what do we do now" moment the Brits basically just wanted to get TF out of that mess. They TIRED to tell everyone it was going to end in tears, but then everyone wanted everything without any compromises. I actually went to college in America (U. of Illinois) and I had an really weird moment at a party where I encountered some hard core Zionists. I had no idea who they were or what their issue with me was. The next day I told one of my best friends who was Jewish about what happened. 30+ years later I still remember him putting his hand to his face and saying "Oh shit, you've met them." He then explained to me how the "ultra-Zionists" as he called them were the Jewish equivalent of the KKK. They are what we now tend to call "ultra-nationalists." The craziest thing about what my friend told me was that for however nasty they were to me they'd be much worse to him because he had friends who weren't Jewish. It was a really good point about ultra-nationalists we don't often hear about. They might be vicious to outsiders, but they are even more vicious to their own people because they need to keep them in line. We see this in a number of regimes that are incredibly harsh to their own people as they claim how they are "protecting the state" or "protecting their culture" from bad influences.
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  7945. What a brilliant remark and/or observation. "I think that we are getting close to intelligent machines but they're showing the necessary weaknesses of intelligence."
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  7946. Actually go back and look at the NRA history BEFORE 1977 when they were taken over by a pro-gun industry group. The NRA forget it was Ronald Reagan who brought forward the Brady Bill for background checks.
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  7947. NEWS FLASH YANIS: I'm an engineer and DC power will kill a human being FASTER than AC will. The entire Edison thing was a stunt NOT a scientific experiment. FIRST - To hurt a person there must be enough VOLTAGE to make the electricity flow. The 12Volt system in cars is in general the highest DC voltage most people ever have to deal with in their lifetime. Out of a wall socket its generally 110Volt AC or 220 or 240. So the most common dangerous voltage people are ever near is AC power not DC power. This has mislead people into thinking that DC is safer than AC but above certain voltage levels DC is far more dangerous. Here's why. Because AC power oscillates (50 or 60 times a second) it makes muscles vibrate at that frequency. Its not very good for things like your heart because the violence of the vibrations creates nasty chemicals like Lactic acid at very high levels. Its why if you ever do get shocked you should go to hospital and get checked out. They'll run blood tests to monitor electrolyte levels and put you on a saline drip to flush out any nasties. NO NEED TO ASK HOW I KNOW THIS. DC on the other hand is ON. It does not make muscles vibrate they just LOCK SOLID. There are no spasms just thump and lock. So things like a human heart just STOP. If you grab a DC conductor it is quite likely the muscles in your forearm will simply lock your hand solid and so long as there's power you cannot let go. This is what makes overhead train, tram & trolley bus power lines so incredibly dangerous. They are generally around 600Volts DC. There's a particularly nasty video shown to engineers demonstrating this. A person in a India (I think) stood on top of a train carriage and grabbed the overhead conductor. Its seriously gruesome what happens next. Edison stage managed what he did. We know that now.
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  7948.  @RobertSmith-lg7jp  Really? I think Trumps objectivity is crystal clear TO HIM. Trumpism 101 says: Objectively speaking, Trump is the centre of attention, the centre of public discussion and the centre of public thought because objectively nobody knows more about anything than Trump. The problem is Trump's objectivity is as illusionary as his genius.
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  7949. Here's the link to the guardians series on Pegasus -> https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project
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  7950. Just yesterday I listened to a podcast hosted by Prof. Mark Blyth and he had on another Michigan U. Prof. Elizabeth Berman who's just written a book about how America's political policies are now dominated by economists. One of those policies is the DOJs attitude to anti-trust law which was to put economics before any cases. There's a big problem with that and its not that there are now these giant monopolies. The people most affected by ant-trust cases are the billionaire class. If they can get past the same laws that chopped up Standard Oil and Bell AT&T and other companies, then that means they can get past anything else. We know what Epstein got away with for decades. What else do you think they get away with? If the DOJ has a core policy of business and profit comes first then all sorts of stuff will go on - tax evasion, insider trading, corporate bail-outs at the publics expense. People talk about slippery slopes when the DOJ stopped anti-trust prosecutions in the 80s & 90s they signed away America's future. The fact so many other countries have followed suit shows how stuffed the entire Western World is. Here's that podcast. Its kind of technical, but not too much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp1qMLNhYP4
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  7951. Derek Muller actually has a science education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Muller#Early_life_and_education So he has no excuse for not seeing through Elon's garbage. The fascination with tech billionaires is that they make average people feel "techie" if that's even a word. If you have a look at them they mainly do stuff that make technologies more accessible. Even go back in time to Henry Ford. His brilliance was making the car accessible to everyone. He's one of those accessibility stores I know about. I grew up in a town not far from where Derek Muller was born. He's from a town called Traralgon and I'm from Warragul. I actually went to college in America and did aerospace engineering at the U. of Illinois. Not as famous as some schools but in the late 80s it was pretty much the world center of supercomputing. We had this odd system called Plato. It was one of the worlds first wide area data base systems, but it was a pig to use. It was so bad most of us refused to use it. Everything was in text, no pictures, no graphics and it was so slow you would fall asleep using it. To this day I suspect we were being used as lab rats with that system. But the computers we all started using were these cute little boxes from "that fruit company" called a Macintosh. They were just great for typing up term papers. They gave us 2 rooms full of them and they were packed 24/7. You could go in there at 3am and still have to wait. So a couple of the geniuses from the supercomputing group decided they would make Plato as easy to use as an Apple. They weren't really the first to try it but they were the first to succeed. Their program was called Mosaic, their company was called NetScape and the web browser you are reading this on right now is the result of their work in making computers accessible to everyone. I don't know about others but Marc Andreessen is estimated to be worth $1.7Billion. And yes I sometimes wish I'd done computer engineering instead of aerospace.
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  7952.  @finsterbaby1996  In simplest terms NO. The GOP are the most self righteous hypocrites in the entire Western World especially when it comes to Law and Order. For example Donald Trump during his lame duck broke with over a 130years of precedence and ORDERED 3 executions. For over 130 years Presidents had decided that once the next President was chosen they let them decide. BUT NOT Trump he was the Law and Order President and those 3 had done terrible crimes. He made a point that one of them had killed a child. Then the L&O President pardoned the Blackwater 4 after they had killed 17 innocent people including a 9 year old child. Yeah Buddy I get Pelosi and other Dems are disgusting with their garbage as are many others around the world, but the GOP are a whole other level of disgusting hypocrisy. And its been that way for decades. It was recently uncovered that while Newt Gingrich was howling over Bill Clintons blow job with Monica Lewinski, Newt was having an affair. Yeah buddy when it comes to hypocrisy the GOP are the Olympic gold medal champions.
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  7953.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  I 'd contend that when Michael Moore isn't being a self righteous pr*ck he's not to bad. His real failing is that when he does point out things that need to be discussed he's often so obnoxious that nobody want's to then discuss those things. I think the "History Channel" is one of the worst for complete crap. What ever it might have been once its pathetically bad these days. The ones I hate the most are the clowns who claim that this military system or technology "shocked" the world. Most of them are produced by utter clowns who have no idea. I saw one today by a guy who claimed to be a fighter pilot and he was reviewing the Top Gun trailer. He made this idiotic comment about Iran having F14s. He could have looked up Wikipedia and found out Iran had F14s. That fact check that takes all of 30 seconds. He also describe a barrel roll to change position in formation that I suspect is wrong. It wouldn't surprise me if he wasn't a pilot at all let alone a military pilot. Following them are the Elon Muskrats who haven't the faintest clue that he's selling a fantasy after fantasy. Some of the Elon's fanbot channels are so bad its ridiculous. Thunderf00t has covered some of them.
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  7954.  @ThahnG413  It depends on how much they have to stretch everything and why they are doing it. I remember hearing Mel Gibson say how they had to totally change the execution scene in Braveheart because of what was actually done to William Wallace. It would have been banned in every nation on the planet. So they had to do that one. The French Princess was never in England at that stage as she was only a couple of years old at that time. She was there because it made for a good story. What they had to do in Apollo 13 was compress a story that took several days into 90minutes. But overall it might just be the most "close to the actual truth" film ever made. Couple of interesting notes. All the scenes in the Lovells house are really in the Lovells house. Its the same house they lived in at the time and they still live there. It wasn't a set. Tom Hanks and Kathleen Quinlan went and stayed with the Lovells for a couple of weeks to get their mannerisms. Marilyn Lovell has said Kathleen Quinlan did her so well her own family said it was freakish. She apparently got her voice and hand mannerisms perfect. In the final scene on the deck of the Aircraft Carrier Jim Lovell does a cameo as the "Captain." He's the older guy who shakes Tom Hanks hand. Its is own personnel uniform because in his words to wear anything else would be impersonating an officer.
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  7955.  @ThahnG413  Guessed right. its not only in the "this is as good as it gets" they really did make an effort. Heads' up you will upset people if you just ignore the effort they made. There was no wire work it was all done in actual free fall inside a jet doing ballistics. They really did make the effort and if you belittle that, expect to be told where to go. If you are interested get "Shadow of the Moon" it was made by some of the crew who did Apollo 13 and they interviewed many of the surviving Apollo Astronauts. IMHO its the best documentary of any type on the Apollo program ever.
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  7956.  @ThahnG413  Whether you intended or not you came across as belittling their work.
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  7957.  @ThahnG413  WELL IT CAME ACROSS THAT WAY
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  7958.  @ThahnG413  YOUR ORIGINAL STATEMENT AND THE FACT YOU WANT TO KEEP ARGUING. You are the most pompous arrogant self righteous clown I've had to deal with in a while. I bet people walk away from you all the time because you're always telling them EVERYTHING they should think.
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  7959. I'm Australian and never heard of Karnivool before this. Its staggering the music industry (like some others) can't identify FREE publicity and promotion.
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  7960.  @madworldisrael7584  I've been playing Assassins Creed Odyssey and chatted Socrates several times. He's very smart but a little pedantic. On the sensible side to actually listen to someone who was there at the start and who actually considered where it might go is actually pretty smart on your part (kudos there). I did aerospace engineering and my studies of classical Greece are limited to some humanities options. BUT in aerospace we learn about systems engineering, which are techniques where we don't just look at solutions and outcomes we also look at effects and consequences to related other parts of the system. A civil engineer for instance doesn't have to worry about the weight of a bridge he just has to make it strong enough for the loads. But an aerospace engineer who wants to make an airplane stronger has to be concerned about the weight that adds and the power needed to lift that weight which might mean adding more weight for a more powerful engine and that means considering the extra fuel needed which again adds more weight and then you have to consider the size of the wings to lift that weight. Like politics it gets convoluted very quickly. Now you know why it takes years to design, develop and test a Mars rover or probe to look at Pluto.
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  7961.  @d.russellmoros7841  Until you've been inside the auto industry and seen the supply chain its hard to get a handle on how much goes into making a car. We also tend to forget that cars have so massive amount of equipment in them compared to previous generations. Just go look at the engine bays of various cars. All that stuff needs energy to be manufactured. Another great issue with general pollution and energy is paint.
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  7962.  @d.russellmoros7841  There' snot that much anybody can disagree with in that. Maybe people will hesitate on vehicle ownership, because its so circumstantial. If you are a family with school age kids its quite likely you need a car. Its not just going to school its all the other stuff kids do. BUT a lot of millennials are not buying cars because they have options like shared cars or public transport. They don't have kids and can get away without a car. If they are GIG economy then they have even less need for a car. Its actually a major concern to manufacturers. There is a chunk of the market that they thought would start buying cars as they started earning money and they just haven't. They also aren't buying houses and for some economies that's an even bigger concern.
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  7963. I'm Australian, I've worked in Canada and we get most of the news from Britain. I can guarantee you its not an American thing, its just something Americans broadcast to the world louder than everyone else because there's a section of the American population that's proud of it. .
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  7964. YEARS AGO BACK IN THE 1990s I remember and American psychologist explaining these sorts of mass shooters and he labelled it "Rambo Syndrome." These days some people call it "suicide by cop." I always thought the Rambo label was wrong because the movie character John Rambo never tried to commit suicide, while the people who do these sorts of shootings are trying to commit suicide. There's nothing new in this explanation as psychologists have been trying to explain it for several decades. However there are 2 other types of people who do this. 1) The mentally disturbed attention seeker. I'm Australian and Martin Bryant who murdered 35 people and injured 23 others in the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, which at the time was the worst mass shooting in the world, is an example. He has a very low IQ and is borderline mentally retarded. He's very rare in that he survived the incident and was interviewed by police and psychologists. Just recently the police interviews were released. They're chilling because they show his excitement at the attention he was getting. 2) The ex-military PTSD sufferer who has a disconnect with reality. Again we have an example of this in Australia with Julian Knight who shot 7 people dead and injured 19 more in 1987. He'd been dumped from the Army for psychological reasons after stabbing a superior. On a documentary about that massacre they showed excerpts of his walk around the scene of the killings. Its chilling just how disconnected from reality he was. On that documentary a childhood friend related how several weeks later when the fog had cleared from his brain and he realised what he'd done he curled up in a ball and cried for 3 days. Its a sad example of the military recruiting somebody they should not have recruited, then teaching him some lethal skills and then dumping him out the back door like a hand grenade with the pin pulled.
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  7965. Kellyanne Conjob and one of Bill Clinton's advisors - there's 2 braincells NOBODY should want to hear from or listen too. The voice of "lies and failure" versus the voice of "failure and lies" only shows how pathetic the US media landscape has become.
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  7966. Actually there is a pretty interesting thought experiment on the existence of non-human life. It actually doesn't matter if you believe in the scientific explanation of evolution or a belief in God the answer is we are NOT alone and there is other life in the universe. Because: 1) If you believe in evolution and that life can spontaneously emerge under the right conditions and with incredible abundance of planets across the universe including many in the habitable zone for life as we know it THEN there must be life somewhere. 2) If you have a belief in God and/or Gods (plural) as well as angles, demons, cherubs, seraphs,... etc then you also believe that there are non-human life forms many of whom have interacted with humans through out history. EITHER WAY - we aren't alone and the more pertinent question is: Where are they and can they help the human race solve its various issues?
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  7967.  @deer105  And your response is PROOF of your own cognitive bias. Note your claim of "reasonably credible pieces of evidence" Who gets to define what's "reasonably credible" and what's not?
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  7968.  @PedroDiMaggio-dk4lb  Yeah - have you been watching the American GOP lately? People talk about testing them for drugs. I want their DNA tested to see what species they belong too. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  7969. ​ @ramrod9556  Actually Peter Zeihan has been quite accurate on many of his geopolitical predictions like the War in Ukraine. As I just pointed out in another comment, being right about some things doesn't make you an expert in others. Developing any level of expertise in any subject TAKES TIME and unfortunately we live in a time period where SUBJET EXPERTISE does not matter anymore and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) are often told to sit in the corner and STFU. Where PZ is often terrible is on things OUTSIDE his expertise. I'm an engineer and have seen him make some utterly idiotic comments on engineering topics. Sal has several times pointed out he's NOT GOOD about shipping and maritime trade.
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  7970.  @ewartmouton  I'm not certain what wild ones you're talking about. The ones he got right about Ukraine was that it would happen. Peter's probably presented details about how the war has progressed that are wild BUT THEN I keep seeing heaps of videos titled "Russia Collapsing" "Russia Dominating" "Ukraine Collapsing" "Ukraine Dominating" AND THEY ARE ALL WILD AND GARBAGE I've watched Peter for a couple of years and there's been a change. He's switched his business model from prioritising information to getting as many clicks as possible.
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  7971.  @olisk-jy9rz  That's actually the method of MOST podcasters and MOST social media commentators.
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  7972. Simple great sentiment 👍🦘👍🦘👍🦘👏👏
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  7973. Actually he didn't compare the person Donal Trump to the person martin Luther King he compared the potential assassination of Trump to the assassination of MLK, which is almost as pathetic because it implies the Deep State thinks of Trump the way they thought of MLK. There's possibly one exception to that. MLK was a threat to the Establishment because he wanted change. Trump has become a threat to the Establishment because he causes too much chaos that's bad for business. But even then they'd attributing completely different reasons other than the threat to profit.
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  7974. Congrats at least one person is pointing out the obvious.
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  7975. Your right and its because our leadership is an endless shit fight between competing political factions. And Peta Credlin is part of those endless shit fights. Where was Peta Credlin when Australia bought the F35 without a competitive trial? At the time it was the biggest deal in Australian history and there was NO tendering process and there was NO competitive trial. At the time she was Tony Abbott's Chief of Staff. So its a bit rich of her to criticize others when she was in the middle of that fiasco. She can't complain abut us being reliant on America when she was right there in the middle of making us reliant on America. But she is dead right about the Submarine contract. It stinks and it doesn't matter if we bought Japanese or French. Why the "F" do we need 12 when the most we have been ever able to crew is 4 (out of 6) Colllins-class. The craziest part of it is the cost per boat at over $6.5Billion each. The American Virginia subs are about $4.4B-AUD The British Astute class subs are about $3B-AUD. So why are these French boats so expensive??? I'm an engineer and I'm not a great fan of nuclear power, particular the type of nuclear power that been used, but I also have to accept that for submarines IT'S THE BEST OPTION.
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  7976.  @rodneyhenchliffe754  Your first sentence reads like you've been in public service?? Your 2nd paragraph is so spot on it barely needs to be said but should be said OFTEN. Mark Thatcher - Hmmmm. Careful on mentioning him. I had a boss 20+ years ago into car racing and one of his mechanics (a Brit) had worked for Mark Thatcher. Not a person to mention lightly or get into issue with and we'll leave that right there. On the French subs there is something we are not being told. I have been doing projects for 30+ years and for that project to jump that much at this point is simply wrong. Its just wrong. Somebody in this has done something stupid, like really stupid, like so mindlessly stupid it can only have logical explanation. 1 or both parties wants out and I suspect the French want out for some reason. Why else would they jack the price up so far at this stage. Somebody has most likely put a requirement or specification that's simply horrible and they have said fine your subs will cost "yikes" for causing so much grief. And its not the first time the Australian Navy cocked up - Super Seasprite, Collins class, HMAS Perth 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-06/hmas-perth-stuck-in-dry-dock-highlights-adf-challenges/11183870 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaman_SH-2G_Super_Seasprite#Australia
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  7977.  @rodneyhenchliffe754  There's no doubt on that and I certainly don't need an asshole like Andrew Bolt, Peta Credlin or some second rate bullshit artist or any other clown telling me what I know better than they do. I work in electrical control systems and a while back worked with an American electrician whose background was in the US Navy as a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT OPERATOR. One day he explained his training and how they operated nuclear power plants in the USN. So I have first hand information on how the Americans operate nuclear powered vessels. He also made the case of WHY Australia needed nuclear subs and its so compelling that its not worth arguing. WHAT is worth arguing is how we do it. In 1980 at my High School speech night the old-boy who gave the main address was one of Australia's leading nuclear scientists. He made the case way back then that one day Australia would need nuclear power. I am a great fan of solar and wind but I also know they are NOT a 100% solution and we must have a secondary system to stabilize the grid. Of all the options available nuclear is the cleanest with respect to the climate. BUT I also do not want Australia using unsafe technology. Pressure Water Reactors (PWRs) are inherently unsafe and that was demonstrated beyond all doubt at Fukushima. I have actually worked in Australia's nuclear industry (on the mining side) and been through the full ANSTO nuclear induction. I started in aerospace but work in industrial control and safety systems. I have been certified with the 2nd highest rating any engineer can get in the world for functional safety and I know what's safe and what's not. Pressure water reactors are a inherently UN-SAFE while molten salt reactors (MSRs) are inherently safe because of how they basically function and operate. Better still MSRs almost entirely consume their fuel which means they produce far less waste - kilos instead of tons. Even better still Thorium MSRs do not produce plutonium as a by product and that shit is nasty. There is absolutely no point in anybody arguing for using the existing PWR nuclear power technology. No one with a brain should want it. The Australian public will never buy it especially after Fukushima. There is absolutely no point in arguing it - its idiotic. BUT if its explained properly what MSRs are and how they work and the residue that's left over and that they are inherently safe then hopefully enough people will allow us to have nuclear power and nuclear powered subs. BUT most importantly absolute pieces of arrogant crap like Andrew Bolt, Peta Credlin and all the other Murdoch hacks can just STFU.
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  7978.  @W81Researcher  How to what? WTF are you asking??
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  7979.  @W81Researcher  You must be damn young - zoomer of millennial to put it in such shot terms. I'm and older Gen-X. I was in grade school and watched the last moon mission on a black and white TV. When I went to college the internet wasn't even a thing. It was just a pile of interlink systems at that point. When you look at the longer than 30+ years into the past its a serious OMG on politics. Biden was already OLD when I went to college. His generation ARE THE PROBLEM they are NOT the solution.
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  7980. WHAT Trumps punishment SHOULD BE versus WHAT IT WILL BE are 2 very, very, very, very different things. Sadly the fact is Trump is an ex-US President and as such is entitled to Secret Service protection. So whatever happens must take that into consideration and that's just the first of many things. No matter what anyone thinks this is an extraordinary event for America. Despite all that various America presidents have done over 200+ years deserving of punishment Trump is the FIRST convicted in a criminal court. This puts America into unchartered territory and NOBODY knows where it will go.
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  7981. I don't even know why anyone is putting a microphone in front of him other than Kanye will say something ridiculous and whatever channel or service will get a bunk of clicks. I hit the pause button at 1:15 because there in nothing Kanye says that has any relevance to reality. He's just another example of America's obsession with cults of personality laced in with American stupidity and wrapped up in American attention seeking greed. FYI - I'm Australian and went to college in America. I actually love the place and the people but this insane pop culture that America's media systems pump out is so destructive. Plus they feel the incessant need to export it.
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  7982. Don't forget that these people HEAR NOTHING ELSE. Biden, the DOJ and the rest of the government are too weak to stomp it out. In most other countries the people who invaded the capital on Jan 6th would already have been jailed and in about half the world they'd already be dead. If Tucker Carlson and a few others were in any but a few countries they'd already be dead. They'd have been killed by the government of government supporters. Look what the Saudi's did to Jamal Khashoggi and he did an awful lot less than Carlson.
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  7983. I'd say most progressives are fairly principled because they want the world to make progress and be a better place. that doesn't mean all progress is good its all a matter of why. If you look at the basic meaning of the word anyone who wants to see the human race go forward and change as in make progress is a progressive. People who just want things to stay as they are are conservatives because they want to conserve what's in place. Regressives are those who want to go backwards to some previous state. The real question for anyone in those 3 groups is WHY do they want what they want? Because there's good and bad examples in everything. I'm an aerospace engineer so I am a progressively orientated person but I also know that not all technology is right. I just saw a news story for the new Apple VR goggles. Yes it's a step forward (as in progress) for VR technology, BUT who actually needs it in a world where we struggle to feed people, provide them with health care, keep them safe,...etc. I keep hearing that most Americans cannot afford a $400 emergency expense of any sort and yet Apple have spent all this money developing something that costs $5,000. It might be progress but its wasteful selfish progress.
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  7984. Up to point. He is 100% RIGHT about the Jihadists - NOBODY can live with them and its about time the Muslim world dealt with this problem instead of funding it. He is 100% WRONG that ALL the people protesting Israel at the moment are suffering moral ambiguity. Some no doubt are, but most recognise that the belligerent bombing campaign that has included 4,000 children being killed IS WRONG. If Sam thinks protesting the slaughter of 4,000 children is wrong then the person suffering moral ambiguity is Sam Harris. On the Hamas tunnel system. That's not an original idea either. Its the same strategy the Vietnamese Communists used against America in the Vietnam War. They could not control the sky overhead so they went underground and attacked by stealth. Even that wasn't here idea. Its been practised for centuries to hide soldiers in covered pits. Sam is also (and I think deliberately) leaving out certain facts. 1) Suicide bombing IS NOT a purely Jihadist tactic. It was notably used by the Japanese in World War 2, but also by the Chinese against the Japanese in World War 2. Its been used by others with no links to Islam. Go look up "Suicide Attack" on Wikipedia and look at the Pre-1980 history. 2) Hamas was foundered and funded by Bibi Netanyahu so that Yasar Arafat's Fatah would have an opposition and it would keep the Palestinians divided.
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  7985.  @MichaelPlatson  MAYBE By pointing out the fact that on this subject Peter doesn't have a damn clue what he's talking about there's also other things he's got wrong???? I like Peter when he's discussing geopolitics BUT DAMN he's a clown when it comes to technology.
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  7986. Yep just a slightly more articulated version of the typical media beat-up we see so often these days. If this company starts to make any real progress they'll just get bought out by one of the existing big military manufacturers.
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  7987. We should employ him in the mining industry as a digging machine. In fact I think Caterpillar should name its next giant digging machine after Trump just to show how well it can dig holes.
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  7988. There was a great line she claimed AFTER losing to Trump. I think it was on Colbert. She said "I thought the election was about policy" Having as you ONLY policy of note "First woman to be President" isn't much of a platform and NEVER WAS. This age thing isn't just an issue in politics its a major issue in the business world. There's this aging block of baby boomers in their 70s, 80s and 90s who just wont retire and go away. Rupert Murdoch, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger are all in their 90s. Warren Buffett has 3 children they are 68, 67 and 64. Charles Koch is 86 and Robert Mercer is 75 and they have incredible influence over American politics through the Think Tanks they fund. Robert Herring the maniac who owns One America News is 80. Kenneth Copeland the radical televangelist is 85. The entire fiasco of the the Supreme court was because Ruth Bader Ginsberg wouldn't retire when Obama could have replaced her with a moderate. Clarence Thomas, one of the main problems on the current court is 74. There's all there's OLD SELFISH people who wont let go and just get the FK out of our lives. DON'T take that as a we should tell ALL old people to shut up and go away, because there's no doubt that many are great and do make our societies better from their constructive input. BUT SOME of them absolutely need to be told to shut up and go away and on that list are 2 Clintons.
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  7989. Great comment - have you seen the video with James Krellenstein on Decoupled Media about SMRs which is titled "Small Misunderstood Reactors"? James has done 4 videos on Decouple all worth the time but the one on Enrichment is a must watch for anyone who thinks nuclear is part of the energy future. When I saw it I was stunned by some of the information. There's also another great video by Elina Charatsidou who is a nuclear physicist and she explains what SMRs are and aren't. That one is titled "Nuclear Physicist EXPLAINS - What are SMRs? Small Modular Reactors"
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  7990.  @richardpatterson302  Yeah the Canadians now lead America in nuclear development for civilian power. I have known this for a couple of years. Kirk Sorenson like me is an aerospace engineer and he got into the MSR development while working at NASA on solving how to power a Lunar Base. Kirk's been pointing how Canada has kept their development programs going for years. Leslie Dewan who was famous for the WAMSR told congress a few years ago that the biggest problem in America was the lack of government development funding. Its why all the nuclear tech development including SMRs, Gen 4 PWRs and MSRs whether fueled by Uranium or Thorium are all not where they need to be. AND THEY ALL point at Canada saying "look what they are doing" and they have been saying it for years.
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  7991.  @richardpatterson302  On those SMRs in Ontario I highly recommend hearing what James Krellenstein said to Decouple Media in the video Small Misunderstood Reactors. I can tell you what he said but its best you go watch for yourself.
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  7992.  @ClaytonGinther  Another person (tag - allegory) in a related thread started by "FTW ALL DAY" in an answer back to me. Its a well thought logical comment, but as I replied its in a situation where logic is almost a crime. I remember years ago the King of Jordan was interviewed by John Stewart (on the daily show). He was in America as part of talks on the Israeli-Palestinian "Peace Accord." He told JS that if they didn't solve the Israeli-Palestinian issue then we'd (the world) suffer for another generation. I have tried finding a copy of the interview without luck. I remember it because he was so blunt and straight forward about the whole middle east situation and the war on terror. Its now about 10-15years later and he was just so right on what he said. It hasn't been solved and its now got global effects. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  7993. Yeah I sort of agree. I'm Australian but went to college in America which is 1/2 my interest in such things. The other 1/2 is the fact our government is trying its hardest to become the 51st state before Puerto Rico becomes the 51st. Peter's problem is he's using strategic analysis rather than with political and mob psychology analysis. He completely missed the effects of Citizens United on campaign finance. what ACTUALLY got changed with campaign finance laws and the Super Pacs and is instead focused on what Obama did with millions of small donors to beat Hilary which is also what Trump has been doing except he treats it all as his own piggy bank. He's also missed something Thom Hartman pointed out. In the last midterms America's billionaires spent over $900 million via Super Pacs of which over $800 million came from about 25 people. I'd suggest he go back and watch the 2012 PBS Frontline on Citizens United. Even today that doco should be mandatory if you want to know these people.
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  7994. I wouldn't call this a busted video because he keeps pointing out where the Veritasium video was right. Its more like he's a more comprehensive explanation of what's going on with electrostatics and various fluids.
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  7995.  @fulcanostwyr6852  Yeah I get that. BUT ITS STILL NOT A DEBUNK like the ones he does on utter garbage like Hyperloop, Spinlaunch, Lomi and other crap. Those are things that are 100% garbage, BS PR and outright con jobs. All he's done is show that Veritasium had an incomplete explanation for what's going on. Its very similar to Veritasium's video on how electrical energy is transferred. is wrong in certain aspects and at the same time shown this does not work for all fluids. Thunder00t's yet to clearly explain why some fluids do behave this way and others don't. What he's shown is that Veritasium produced an explanation that is incomplete There's a huge difference between debunking garbage and disagreeing over scientific explanations. Science is more often than not. *NOT CRYSTAL CLEAR and there are rarely simple YES-NO or BLACK-WHITE answers.*
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  7996. Another Australian here. I was amazed at that map they showed at the start considering what we have had in our news over recent years. There's not only the student issue but the issue of ex-pat Chinese and their money.
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  7997. I heard there was this Swedish teenager who upset a lot of people when she pointed out the stupidity of believing in the "fairytales of eternal economic growth." I think this is her -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMrtLsQbaok (00:50)
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  7998. You are 1/2 right. Bernie needs to stay out of 2024 and 2028 no matter who is running. Bernie needs to take on the role of the elder wiseman and guide the next generation to NOT make the mistakes he made and get better outcomes. Bernie's too old and he's had his go. What he should have done AFTER 2020 was grab the younger people like Ossoff, Warnock, Padilla and get them organised to do stuff in the Senate. Bernie should have dragged Andrew Yang away from the corporatist scum in the DNC and guided him. Yang was lead to the slaughter house by the DNC. That question that killed his New York run was a setup. Bernie should have jumped in and helped Warnock smash Herschel Walker. That race should never have gone to a run off. At the first go that should have ended in complete humiliation for the GOP. Bernie can't be president but he can be the Bill Belichick who coaches and guides a team. And for exactly the same reasons Biden needs to do similar. Kamala is not worth discussing. Not unless something seriously changes and she steps up her game orders of magnitude.
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  7999. As an Australian where we have had ranked choice for decades we think America is a joke for its gerrymandered first past the post system. I actually went to college in America and happen to think the US Constitution is one of the greatest of all human achievements but its NOT perfect and has flaws. One of those flaws is that it can be manipulated and/or taken advantage of which is the problem these days. Its not that other countries (including Australia) don't have flaws in their systems its just that right now the flaws in America's system are all BEING DRIVEN towards a major event by its insanely selfish Top 1% as in the top level of the "Greed is Good" brigade.
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  8000. ​ @peterhorton9063  EXACTLTY and its the one thing that conservatives around the world NEVER UNDERSTAND and if they do then they are relentlessly trying to deny it. Here in Australia right now we have a referendum on what's being called a "Voice to Parliament" for our First Nations. Its sort of based on what they did in the Scandinavian countries with the Sami people. The conservatives here are dead against it and one of their claims is that once its done it cannot be undone. The utter stupidity of that claim is its illogical. If you claim that a change to the constitution cannot be changed then how can you make the change the constitution in the first place. Its the same sort of stupidity of the American Originalists. Their claim that the EPA cannot regulate pollution unless the chemicals involved are specifically listed is idiotic. It's basically claiming that the government cannot have ANY DEPARMENT that it assigns work to without specifically detailing the work in law. Such a concept would mean its impossible for the police, fire ambulance, army, navy, air force, FDA, ATF, CIA, NSA or any other agency to do their work as assigned. Hypothetically: How does the INS decide who's illegal and who isn't unless their country of origin or racial & cultural background is SPCIFICALY listed in the legislation set down by congress? How does the CIA or NSA figure out who to spy on and how to do that spying unless congress lists it in law? How does the army, navy or air force know what to blow up unless congress lists it first in law? Conservative logic is a contradiction in terminology.
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  8001. ​ @jlighter1  YES I know about those things. I was referring to the original text NOT the translations AND EVEN then most translations can't hide the basic meaning of the straight forward things and the Ten commandments are fairly straight forward things. For example the commandment to not murder. In English that can be written "Thou shall not murder" or "You should not murder" or "You must not murder." You could even paraphrase it to "Murder is wrong." or even "Murder is a crime against God's will (or God's commandments)." And none of those actually change the basic meaning that Murder is against the law. And YES I am very well aware that many other parts of the Bible are open to wild interpretations and sadly that there are many who will twist things to their advantage. That was what Jesus warned people about and sadly that is also one of the things many many "so called" Christians ignore. Its why I raise Matthew 7 and advise people that if a Bible thumper annoys them then ask them to explain their behavior with respect to Matthew 7. I'd also warn to be careful because they can also be ready for that and have all sorts of counters about how it doesn't apply to them. NEVER underestimate a person will bad intentions or you will end up like the frog that gave the scorpion a ride across the river.
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  8002. ​ @davidhutchinson5233  What prove Jesus existed? You would have to be insane NOT to accept he existed. You can debate the narrative and interpretations people use but not the existence. Do you know that several contemporary historians of the time like Josephus said he existed. No historian doubts the writings of Josephus or that he lived in that time period. If you want to criticise the So called Christians and their insanity fine. I AM ON YOUR SIDE. I think its pretty obvious I have NO TIME for them or their stupidity. But to argue if Jesus existed or not is just as ridiculous and is like trying to argue if the Earth is flat or round. And just in case you didn't know the reference that Josephus makes about Jesus is actually regarding one of his brothers and it highlights just how bad the narratives have been and for how long they have been in place. One of the more ridiculous parts of Catholic Dogma was that Mary is the eternal virgin. That's NOT in the Bible at all. Many critics of Christian practices point out what happened in Nazareth on one occasion. The locals and these were people who knew Jesus and his family got incensed when he tried to teach them. Its in Matthew 13:54-57. That actually point out that he's JUST the carpenters son, who's mother is Mary and that his 4 brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas and his sisters are right there. AND WE KNOW THESE ARE NOT his disciples because there's a passage where his bothers go and tell him to be with his disciples. So that whole Catholic narrative of the eternal virgin is bunk. Historically speaking Josephus agrees with the Bible, but disagrees with Christian tradition. Then there's things like Christmas and Easter which also aren't in the Bible. They're just traditions taken from other cultures. More than a few academics have written on the subject that Christianity didn't defeat paganism but subjugated it by adopting many of its practices and most of that was done by the Catholic Church way back in Roman times at its foundation. This is actually a common across all the religions. Most religious people have never taken time to read and think. Instead they sit and listen and blindly accept.
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  8003.  @Gambit0590  Totally incorrect there's Josephus for one and his writings are accepted by historians across the world. We also know Pontius Pilate existed. It was doubted for centuries until evidence turned up in the form of bricks with his name on them were found. As I said to others if you want to argue the narratives and stories fine but do not try and argue if Jesus existed. Its ridiculous when you consider what fragments various historians take as accepted regarding many other people and historical events AND THEY ARE ALL accepted as having existed. Example: The Viking leader Ragnar Lodbrok does not exist outside of the Viking Saga's but his existence is accepted because we know his 4 sons existed. Their interactions with other peoples was recorded. You'd be amazed how much of accepted history is in fact inferred from fragments, but we accept it anyway. I think you and others would agree. The problem isn't if certain people existed or NOT. The problem is people filling in the gaps with their own biased narratives.
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  8004.  @Gambit0590  Your spiderman comment - GROW A BRAIN. Biden met an actor who played spiderman. Are you implying or arguing that actors who play fictional characters don't exist???? How do we classify Jack Nicholson? He played Jimmy Hoffa (who existed) and also played The Joker in Batman. So by your argument does Jack Nicholson exist or NOT and if you met him does that prove Jimmy Hoffa is still alive? On your comment about Josephus - you've only proven my point that he was writing about things in that time period THAT HE OBSERVED or HEARD ABOUT and historians pretty much all agree he heard and saw the things he wrote down. Do people like you ever bother to stop and think or is that too much to ask???
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  8005.  @Gambit0590  YOUR COMMENT WAS: "as to your point about Pilate, spiderman met Obama, Obama exists, therefore spiderman exists" What is anyone meant to make of that other than you are referring to the comic book character spiderman? This is the problem with people like you. You think that everything you write is gold and perfect and everyone should get what your claiming instantly and that nobody could possibly misunderstand what you mean.
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  8006.  @Gambit0590  AND YOUR OTHER COMMENT "and the point about Josephus was the crew that he's not a contemporary source" What is anyone meant to make about that comment and the part "Josephus was the crew..."? The "crew" of what? He was a writer and recorded the events of his time. He wasn't a sailor You don't even check what you are writing to see if it makes sense and then get bent out of shape when people see it for what it is - pure gibberish. Whatever your issues are just go and bother someone else with them.
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  8007.  @Gambit0590  Can you simply just stop being such a pretentious clown. Then what sort of a source is he? He was alive at the same time as Jesus brother which means was there in the same era. I'd ask if you what your idea is of "historical context? except I know you don't know what the what the term "historical context" means. And you certainly have no idea what the word contemporary means when applied to to history or many other fields. I don't know what failure of an education system you came from but go and get your money back.
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  8008. @ That's a fair comment and I HAVE HEARD IT BEFORE and every time I ask people to explain what Peter gets wrong about geopolitics or demographics I get CRICKETS
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  8009.  @JustBill82  Are you really trying to claim Rubio is competent??? WTF is he competent at other than being another of the spineless, gutless, pathetic Trump suck-up brigade????
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  8010.  @stanogrady893  Good then tell other people, because the more people who know that they can actually use to Bible to get these people (or hopefully some of them) to see Trump for the fraud that he is then we are all better off.
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  8011. WHERE'S YOUR WIFE DONALD or should we be looking for this weeks porn star???
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  8012. At least you're honest about mistakes.
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  8013. Thom I think you'll find they want to go all the way back to the original form of Democracy in Ancient Athens when only "citizens" got to vote. In that system the only people who were citizens were men and only those who had been vouched for of who had the money to join the club. The other 99% of the population were women, children and slaves.
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  8014. Sorry I had to stop only a few minutes in. I just got my bullshit-o-meter back from the service department after Trump melted part of it. Sorry but it just costs too much to keep having it repaired.
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  8015. NOTICE TO ALL: There was actually a judgement in 2018 by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. It was ruled that the $9.5 billion judgment in Ecuador was marked by fraud and corruption and "should not be recognised or enforced by the courts of other States." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger#Class_action_lawsuit_against_Chevron I'm not saying that this judgement in the Hague was right/wrong or fair/unfair, BUT I do think Steven Donzinger needs to explain what it was about. From what I have read so far the PCoA in the Hague said that the Ecuadorian Government had discharged Chevon from their obligation after Chevron spent $40million on cleaning up. Based on that they judged there was no case to answer in the first place because Chevron had been discharged. Added to that are these other claims of fraud and corruption. But that begs an a question. If Chevron have had this judgement on the Hague then why do they need to anything let alone persecute Steven Donzinger? They should be able to walk into any court in the world and simply ask for a dismissal, citing the decision in the Hague. So why is Chevron doing anything at all? Is there something else we are not hearing about?
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  8016.  @paulsultana8683  OMG are you that stupid or do you just have amnesia. For a Donald Trump wannabe Billionaire in politics we have CLIVE PALMER. For religious fundamentalist freaks like Mike Johnson we had Fred Nile and more recently Sco Mo & Co. For a maniac with a big mouth but no brain like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert we have Pauline Hanson and we keep electing her by the way. For corrupt sacks of crap all on the take we have the New South Wales government. I'd name names but there's just too many. Seriously Sydney is almost as bad as New York and Chicago for that stuff. For politicians doing insider trading we had the Joh Bjelke-Petersen government doing it decades before Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Dem & GOP goon squads. For dumbass tree hugging clowns like AOC who might care about the environment but are too stupid to get anything meaningful done we have the Australian Greens. For corrupt Lobbyists we could talk about Western Australia and Brian Burke or go Federal with Chris Pyne. For ignorant rural types that claim climate change isn't real as they watch their crops get destroyed like the GOP voters in Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska & Iowa do we have the Australian National Party For arrogant self righteous corrupt ratbags who just say stuff they know isn't true like the GOP we have the Australian Liberals who like the GOP are owned by Rupert Murdoch. For dumbass clowns who lose easily winnable elections like the Democrats (lets not forget 2016) we have Australian Labor (lets not forget 2019) who like the Democrats are NOT owned but also "PWNED" by Rupert Murdoch. For letting corrupt consultancy firms manipulate our government and even after they are caught we just let them off without even a slap on the wrist lets not forget PwC, KPMG, EY or Deloitte. Who by the way are all American companies we let come here. For letting banks get away with outright criminal behavior like the Americans did after the 2008 GFC we did the same after the Banking Royal commission. On the straight up criminal front I have 2 wonderful examples for your amnesia. 1- John Howard, a trained lawyer who ignored international law and had us join the Invasion of Iraq where we helped get over 400,000 innocent civilians killed. 2 - Sir (gotta love the knighthood) Henry Bolte who despite being told that Ronald Ryan DID NOT SHOOT and KILL warder George Hodson because the ballistics said he was shot from an elevated position AND they knew the eye witness LIED about what he saw still went and hanged Ronald Ryan anyway because (and he told people) "We have an election this year and I need to look tough on crime." So whatever the FCK you want to post in future don't ever be so damn FCKING STUPlD to claim Australians can't be just as stupid as the rest of the planet. We might not do it to the same Olympic Gold Medal Class level of stupidity that America does but damn son we have done it for decades and still keep doing it.
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  8017.  @civildiscourse2000  Canuckistan - I'm assuming that's Canada or is it specific to Vancouver for the Canucks?
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  8018.  @gabrielmccray3457  Yeah - but just remember Indiana has its fair share of idiots and bimbos. Or do you need reminding that Hoosier rhymes with loser.
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  8019.  @civildiscourse2000  Yeah - wear it proud then.
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  8020.  @tiaroja70  Absolutely - there's unfinished business from last season, BUT we still have to deliver. There's 7 other teams and NONE OF THEM are interested in last season.
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  8021.  @Rjd-o2p  Yeah and we all have them. Another Australian slapped back at me earlier that it was an insult to compare our politics to America's and then I reminded them of our issues and how far back they go. The differences are: 1) Our issues aren't as big as America's; and 2) We don't have nuclear weapons or hand control of them over to maniacs..
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  8022. You forgot to add in how they love to politicize non-political issues for political gain. I wonder what's going to happen when some distraught parent loses their child, maybe they're a single parent and its there only child and they have nothing left. What's going to happen to TC that day and is anyone going to show his family any sympathy?
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  8023. I'm Australian and when he made that comment about how people outside America would see America he was 100% SPOT ON. I actually went to college in America. I love the place and the people and it saddens me to see America divided the way it is. HOWEVER his remarks on Trump being victimised are JUST TOTAL BULLSHlT AND THE REST OF THE WORLD KNOWS IT. At that moment he came across as just another pig headed American Baby Boomer. Trump got away with things that NO OTHER CIVILISED COUNTRY on the planet would allow and especially regarding January 6th he would have been arrested ASAP. Less civilised places like Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea,..... etc would have dragged him and all those people away and given them sham trials before executing them. The documents case was a slam dunk. The whole world knows that other US Service people WENT TO JAIL for accidentally mishandling classified documents. Trump deliberately held onto classified materials and then showed them to people as a way of bragging. One of those people was Australian businessman Anthony Pratt. I'd agree with him that the January 6th rioters have been hard done by. Biden bragging about how many years they got was stupid. In fact I have told a few people BIDEN should PARDON all of them BEFORE Christmas. If for nothing else it would calm America down, but it would also go a long way towards getting America back to sensibility. All that garbage could have been avoided had Mitch McConnell done an honest job AND its those old stubborn pigs in BOTH PARTIES like McConnell and Nancy Pelosi that really do scare the rest of the planet because they more than anyone else made America so dysfunctional. That whole nonsense with Diane Feinstein was utterly disgusting and the whole world saw it. Until America realises that the problem is that BOTH PARTIES are dysfunctional nothing will get fixed AND FYI Australia has the same problem with BOTH its major parties. Its just not as bad yet.
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  8024. It was actually 2002 when George "Dubya" Bush removed America from the International Criminal Court when he signed the American Service-Members' Protection Act to protect American service panel from being judged by others. Obama never redressed it and Trump gave it the middle finger. Details are here -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court under the heading "Opposition to the Court" Not that the map (top right) also indicates that Russia was once a signatory to the ICC but like America isn't any longer.
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  8025. I am no Trump supporter, in fact I consider him a corrupt pig of the worst kind, BUT I was challenged by a Trumpist recently to say 1 good thing about his presidency. I gave him 3. 1) He didn't start a new war, as in he didn't deploy America to a new theatre, even though he came close and was urged on by people like John Bolton. Also he failed to end Afghanistan. 2) He tore up NAFTA which just wasn't working although how he went about it wasn't good. Yes it needed to be renegotiated or replaced but he didn't need to give Canada the finger or call Mexicans rapists. 3) He proved beyond all doubt that if the political establishment takes their position for granted they can get their butts kicked right out the door into the gutter. This is maybe the one truly great thing he did and its been needed to smack the establishment parties EVERYWHERE out of their ignorant arrogant drug induced alcohol fuelled haze. I'd list his bad things but I don't have 3 weeks to spare let alone 3 months.
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  8026.  @ofdrumsandchords  I agree with you. What I mean by everywhere is that its everywhere BUT in different amounts. When I say Australia ahs these sorts of problems I really do mean we have some problems and some cases very serious, but overall we aren't in as much trouble as America - YET. FYI - I went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and we had numerous conversations on the US Constitution. So I know America fairly well. These days I think the US Constitution is one of the greatest achievements in human history BUT its in the hands of a nation that no longer respects it and has allowed a pack of maniacs to trample all over it. And that's a warning to every country.
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  8027. Trying to be reasonable. I think he's still suffering from the after effects of his drug issue. If you go back a few years and watch any of his psychology lectures he WAS (past tense) a pretty good lecturer. But I will also say he got way outside his area of expertise at times. Since David mentioned climate change there's a famous interaction he had at Cambridge Union with a really pompous clown back in 2018. Yeah sure the person asking was a complete pompous clown but I'm an engineer and most of his answer was techno-garbage. He crapped on about economics with Bjorn Lomborg who's one of the worst of the worst idiots in the world. Its here if you want to check it at 20:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bRDbFU_lto The whole answer goes for about 5 minutes. He starts off with "I'm more optimistic" before delivering this depressing load of stuff that's mostly about economics and almost nothing on science.
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  8028.  @andreaskarlsson5251  Yeah - you got it.
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  8029. Dude the Gimli glider mistake was by an air-refueler NOT THE PILOT. The pilots should have checked to be sure it is their responsibility to make sure the plane is ready for flight.
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  8030. HOW LONG BEFORE HE DISAPPEARS? Or gets s sudden illness, or trips and falls down the stairs.
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  8031. It didn't take long to track Dr. Soon to Wikipedia page and then find out a few things. If you scroll down there's 2 subheadings "2003: Climate Research controversy" and "2011: Funding controversy" There's a separate page for the "Soon and Baliunas controversy" which is what I think you're referring to. Irrespective there's a major giveaway to this guy - on both pages he's linked to the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. Charles Koch is the evil billionaire (and he really is evil) who's behind the CATO institute and many other Think Tanks. If you want to see how hypocritical Charles Koch is there's a YouTube video on what he's trying to do in Iowa. Its in a video titled "This Billionaire Family is Suffocating Rural America" and its about Koch trying to monopolise the fertilizer industry. There's a point where Koch himself is complaining about the government stifling competition as he prepares to swallow up the competition. Charles Koch has a very Ayn Rand view of the world. "I should be allowed to take whatever I like irrespective of the consequences to other people."
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  8032.  The Ghost Verm  I wouldn't be wishing for it "to pop off" and I don't think anyone should. America could easily wake up with armed militias in their streets shooting the place up. That happened in Yugoslavia back in the 90s, that place just snapped one day. No matter which side you love and which you hate in America you don't want it too erupt. There are so many guns and so much ammunition out there it can only be catastrophic. The only person on the planet who might want that is Vladimir Putin. The Chinese don't they have too much money invested in America. Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan and others don't the implications are catastrophic for them too. But you are so right on the neo-liberal garbage. Have you seen any of what Brown U. Professor Mark Blyth has said on that subject. Just so you know, what he calls neo-liberalism is an economic ideology that came from the "greed is good" of Milton Freidman and was birthed as Reaganomics. On the establishment the Trumpists already rejected them back in 2016 or did you forget that Trump hammered into submission 16 of them on his way to winning the GOP nomination. 2016 was a rejection of the Ivy League - New York - Hamptons elitist establishment. Its just that it was all lead by a rogue Ivy League - New York - Hamptons elitist piece of shit doing the best con job in history. I'll be way more interested in what happens when those 74,223,744 realise just how much he f--ked them over and left them to rot as he made off will $100s of millions in their money. I don't think being in Trump Tower the day they realise how bad he screwed them would be wise.
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  8033.  @Gopherzooka  I would have described Trumps base as mostly being disenfranchised Republicans of which many espouse libertarian ideals like the NRA do with Gun Laws. People seem to be forgetting that before he smacked Hilary in 2016 he smacked 16 GOP Establishment Hacks. Particularly the DNC have never asked WHY that happened. The DNC seemed to be terrified of asking WHY? Biden's biggest task will be re-engaging those 74million who voted Trump. How the hell will that happen while the DNC wont even ask why? Biden hiring 2 Goldman Sachs and McKinsey mutt the other day wont help his cause at all. How the "F" does anyone think that hiring Goldman Sachs people won't piss people off from BOTH sides wont go down well. That would be like Trump (in addition to pardons) hiring Blackwater people to do security on migrant day care centers.
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  8034. Australian here with an outside perspective. Your right about that list except for James Comey and you have also left off 2 of the greatest failures in in human history in Merrick Garland and Jack Smith who did everything they could to appear to do their jobs and yet fail. On Comey I expect you are referring to his public release to to finding those emails a few weeks before the 2016 election. Let me put this forward. JUST IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED If Comey had stayed silent and THEN Hilary had won AND THEN the emails came out. Do you really think the Republicans and Trump would have just accepted the result or do you think they would have torn the Country apart? The Russian born commentator Masha Gessen was interviewed on Australian television regarding Putin's MISinformation campaign in 2016. While others put Putin as playing 4D chess Masha put forward a simpler explanation. That basically went: Putin is NOT a deep thinker and in his world elections are decided beforehand and all government agents are loyal to the person in charge. So in Putin's mind Hilary had already won and that was bad, because Putin hated Hilary as she'd personally overseen the sanctions on Russia as Secretary of State. So how could Putin hurt Hilary? So Masha's view was that Putin intended to release the emails AFTER Hilary won and cause a crisis in America that would be devastating. Its basically a version of the "If you can't destroy your enemy then find a way for your enemy destroy them selves," Who knows how accurate that assessment was. But its damn easy to see it would have been a crisis if Comey had covered up those emails and Hilary had have won and then Putin released them.
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  8035. This reminds me of another great prospect out of Florida - Tim Tebow Great in college sucked in the pros.
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  8036. Australian here. We have similar garbage with our politicians and their retirement funding. One famously retired early because there was a real chance he'd lose his seat and because he retired as a full minister he got an extra $1,000,000 ON TOP of the standard political retirement funding which is generally 4x as high as the population. Every time we change government they always claim it will be reviewed. If they do review it they hire "independent consultants" who write yet another glorious report that explains why those payments need to INCREASE. As far as I know not 1 "independent review" has ever suggested politicians should get less money.
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  8037. That's a pretty good summation.
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  8038.  @ricardocabeza6006  You should also think that letting children starve is shameful or letting children die because of a lack of medical care is shameful and lets not forget KILLING children with bullets and bombs is also shameful. BUT NOBODY HEARS YOU PEOPLE TRYING TO STOP ANY OF THAT. In fact we often hear you people calling for war. Don't point your finger at others when your hands are soaked in blood.
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  8039. NOBODY NEED TO GO AND BUY ANY BOOK. David's old professor Richard Wolff pointed out the government report that has all the data late 2022. Only a few other people have even mentioned this report since which is a SHAMEFULL INDICTMENT on the media. Just Google "congressional budget office family wealth" and it will take you straight to the September 2022 Report that shows what has happened to family wealth from 1989 to 2019. The report is free to ANYONE to download as is all the data which is in an Excel file. If you compare the 2010 data to 2007 you can see the effect of the 2008 GFC. If you then compare that to the 2019 data you can see how people have faired AFTER the GFC. Correcting for population growth and averaging the data across each group. The Top 10% Lost 11.1% of their family wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 21.7% UP on their 2007 wealth. The Middle 40% Lost 13.3% of their family wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 4.6% UP on their 2007 wealth. The Bottom 50% Lost 49.5% of their family wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were STILL DOWN 21.8% on their 2007 wealth. So the Top 10% WHO CAUSED the GFC and got BAILED OUT have made huge amounts of wealth since the 2008 GFC. Its around $30 Trillion if you add in the effects of COVID. Its should be noted that Bush gave them $4 Trillion in and Obama gave them another $4 Trillion as part of the GFC Bailouts. If there's a difference at least Obama made some of them pay some of it back. Meanwhile the Middle 40% who paid for the bail out have barely broken even and their children now face increasing education costs. Meanwhile the media that's owned by the Top 10% point at the Bottom 50% who got smashed and lost 1/2 their wealth and have barley recovered 1/2 of what they lost AND BLAME THEM for causing the lack of economic recovery and wanting government services like HEALTH CARE and Student debt relief.
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  8040.  @ba6561  Its the state of justice these days. My bet is we'll be lucky if anything actually happens. Elizabeth Holmes was arrogant and stayed in America thinking "they wont throw a pretty white girl in prison!" forgetting Paris Hilton went to the big house.
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  8041.  @denisemand4391  This is a stupid comment because he wont EVER see jail. Bush, Cheney, Obama, Trump and others would be guilty of breaking the same laws over Iraq & Afghanistan for the same sort of stuff Putin is doing? Unless Putin does something utterly stupid against the Russian people like Saddam Hussein did. Unless theirs a Russian court to hand him over too NOTHING WILL EVER HAPPEN Putin will never be charged with anything. FK why can't any of you understand that's how the system works. 99% of us deal with the shite while the 1% can get away with everything.
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  8042. THIRD OPTION after either not paying attention or not caring THERE'S You're in a cult.
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  8043. Then can you please get Dr. Who to crank up the Tardis and time warp back to the 1970s and whack Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman BEFORE they unleash neoliberalism and trickle down economics on us all.
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  8044.  @lisette2884  Shit4brains a massive number of people on the left DID NOT WANT Joe Biden but they did want to get rid of that narcissistic piece of criminal crap named Donald Trump. Biden was the less damaging of 2 old farts who should do the world a favor and FCK-OFF.
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  8045. Those numbers are changing as more votes finally get counted. I just checked Wikipedia which has the AP published results. Trump was down about 800,000 but with more being counted he's now about 500,000 ahead of 2020. BUT Harris (despite more vote counting) is still about 14 million down on Biden's 2020. Irrespective what's happened is the Democrat strategy of "Here's the candidate WE CHOSE for you and you have to vote for her because the alternative is worse!" ahs catastrophically FAILED. Unlike 4 years ago when those 14-16 million agreed that the alternative was worse this time they finally threw their hands up and said "WTF we've had enough of the Liberal Elitists telling us how to eat, shit, think and vote!" The forgot the most basic reality of the American political system. You have to find a way to inspire people TO TURN UP I just watched part off (because its so infuriating) of a New York Times podcast where Nancy Pelosi says the election was NOT a rebuke of the Democratic Party. The disconnect from reality is staggering.
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  8046. As an engineer I can tell you with high certainty it wont be a separate algorithm. It will be a parameter or set of parameters that bias the algorithm. For those who don't have programming backgrounds, it simply makes no sense to have more than one algorithm. Think of your PC, its much easier to have a common operating system that can be set up to suit the PC and who's using it. We do that with settings some of which are on/off and others are some numerical value. YouTube will be the same. There will be settings for each channel and in those settings will be the parameters that bias the YT Algorithm. Just like with a PC some of those settings will be "Administrator" settings. What people like Kyle and others need to find out is what the administrator settings for their channels are. I'd expect YT to fight hard not to let anyone know what they are or how they work.
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  8047. He's NOT paralysed he has a spinal injury that's left him partially paralysed and he can't walk. That's how he can do these stunts. Go read his Bio and about that accident on his Wikipedia page under "Early Life and Education."
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  8048.  @ricksimon9867  Well you have a problem with that and that's NO PROGRESSIVE would be this stupid to pull this particular stunt. Sure there are people who claim to be progressive who pull stunts like AOC did at the Met Gala about supporting Unions and then wouldn't show up and actually support them as she didn't for the Amazon workers until AFTER they won. Pretty much all the progressive channels have called her out on that. In fact when Krystal Ball called her out the twitter exchange was even covered by Fox. So buddy to summarise: 1) This is NOT a harmless stunt because it prays on the faith of people. 2) Nobody can fault Madison Cawthorn on his policies because he hasn't got any. 3) Everyone can fault Madison Cawthorn on his politics because he's an idiot who doesn't understand politics as he just showed this week by claiming his good chaste Christian Republicans have orgies. 4) Sorry but there are progressives who do call out stupid stunts by politicians claiming to be progressive. I hope counting to 4 wasn't a problem for you.
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  8049.  @ricksimon9867  Yeah that's fair but what do you think that crowd saw and thought? So why don't you go watch it again because your IGNORANCE doesn't help anyone.
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  8050.  @ricksimon9867  You must the stupidest person on this subject I have ever encountered. Its NOT about what you think or what I think. These people don't care about reason or logic or anything else. They only hear what they want to hear and only see what they want to see. And he played to that crowd for exactly what they wanted to hear and to see. A crippled man standing with the power of God behind him IF ONLY FOR A MOMENT. If you can't understand that concept then then wake up.
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  8051. If you are so in favor of engineers then why are you taking the word of Gerrard Holland. He's an accountant. SORRY but GERRAD HOLLAND IS ALSO COWARD I am an engineer and Gerrard deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  8052.  @nephriteitsarock5377  That's a damn good answer - well said. Its about going FORWARD. If there is one thing I would have like to a have seen happen before now is a discussion with the Sami people of Scandinavia who were the first to get a voice to their parliaments in Norway, Sweden and Finland. I'd have 3 questions for them. 1 - What's worked? 2 - What hasn't worked and there's always something that didn't? 3 - What can we do to learn from their experience and get it right?
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  8053. Australian here - How come its taken MSNBC almost 8 years of Trump being in politics to actually have someone on who accurately describes him as a narcissistic sociopath? I might only have done Psych 101 in college but even I can tell what he is. ITS THAT OBVIOUS.
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  8054. As an aerospace engineer that's totally idiotic. For starters like most aircraft the maximum take-off weight and maximum landing weight of the Space Shuttle were quite different. The maximum landing weight is 14 tons of payload. So take the current ~200 tons and divide by 14 then multiply by $300million and you'll have an approximate cost for your museum piece. Because that's about what each Space Shuttle flight cost and why the Space Shuttle was actually a horrendous failure. What would be far smarter is reusing the materials from the ISS. At just the basic cost of $10,000 per kg to space those 200 tons are worth about $2,000,000,000 (200t x 1,000kg/t x $10,000). if you then accept the reality that most stuff to space actually costs between $40,000 and $60,000 per kg then $2 Billion is low balling the value. And yes there are people (not that many) who are screaming as loud as possible to NOT just dump the ISS, but salvage or recycle as much of it as is practical. Going against that are the big space contractors who are eyeballing those juicy NASA contracts to replace it. You know those same companies that never seem to get anything done no matter how much funding NASA gives them.
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  8055.  @ckdigitaltheqof6th210  Seriously don't be so damn stupid. I'm an aerospace engineer and I know what I am talking about. You can't use X-15 technology to land ISS components. Stop listening to idiots.
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  8056.  @erepsekahs  Dude there's the problem Elon is an egotistical clown full of imagination stuff all technical skill which has been repeatedly demonstrated. He's been insanely lucky a couple of times. First with PayPal, despite being a lousy code writer. With Tesla the car was already developed. With SpaceX he scored a group of incredibly talented people who were disgruntled with the rest of the aerospace industry. By whatever chance Elon somehow managed to get out of their road and that's why the Falcon series has been so damn successful. But Elon has shown his true nature more recently with driverless cars, hyperloop and every 1950s space cadets fantasy Starship. When it actually comes to technology development Elon Musk is a clown.
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  8057.  @leyio7453  yeah but trying to reason with idiots is damn hard.
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  8058.  @harrybruijs2614  January 21, 2021 might just be one of the most important days this decade. America will swear in a new AG and New SecDef. As many have been pointing out the new SecDef can recall Flynn to active duty and simply court martial him. It might not be the biggest fish in the Trumpian cesspool but it wont be a bad start either.
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  8059. News Flash: Every government in history has exaggerated the capability of their military systems in some form or other. Its called propaganda and its been done for at least 4,500 years. As has been said time and time again: "The first casualty of war is the truth!" Remember how a few weeks ago there was the hyped up story about the "Ghost of Kiev" who was a fighter pilot who had shot done a bunch of Soviet jets. It was later found out to be total BS. We've had all sorts of social media stories that turned out to be using stock footage from years ago. This is one of the few stories and analysis I have seen lately that's credible because he's NOT bragging about the HIMARS he's just explaining the difference between it and other systems. The only 2 truths we can be absolutely guaranteed about right now is that the Ukrainian people are suffering and Russian mothers are burying their sons if they're lucky.
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  8060.  @kevinjones6328  By chance did you see this from the BBC? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTQ5ZGHV9Zs Note the footage about 2:30 in showing how accurate these guided artillery shells are. I remember footage from around the time of the Falklands where the Brits showed a system capable of hitting artillery shells. I think one of the things with HIMARS is the missiles DON'T fly predictable ballistic flight paths as way to avoid defense systems. I'm an aerospace engineer and I get the distinct impression that these days if you make even the slightest mistake or delay in responding your dead. Things now happen so fast and with such precision there's no time for adjustments or discussions.
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  8061.  @kimwarton4894  Ahhhhhhh-greed
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  8062.  @davidgoodnow269  I'm an engineer and in 2016 I found out how badly Australia's power stations were being managed and when I went to find out why I found it was ECONOMISTS. They are a profession that's totally out of control. if you ever wondered why nothing seems to change no matter who gets elected ITS BECAUSE OF ECONOMISTS. Every politician is either an economists or has an economics advisor and the core education of economics is totally dominated by Chicago school ideology. I actually did Econ 101 as one of my humanities options and all they taught in that class was supply-v-demand curves for different types of markets so that you could recognise a market type and then understand the basics of how it worked. My view NOW, is that it's NOT what Econ 101 should be. It should be the basics of what economics actually is and how it can both explain an aspect of society but also be a means to shape society AND IMPORTANTLY Econ 101 needs to cover the history of economics, because that puts a lot of stuff into perspective. If your interested one of the best sources is the podcast Mark Blyth called the RCP (Rhodes Centre Podcast) at Brown U. Its mostly book talks with people who have written about Economics. Mark is also one of the only people who has actually described properly that there's been different versions of capitalism NOT JUST 1.
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  8063.  @djinn666  Yeah if push comes to shove ANYTHING can happen. But I happen to be Australian and know exactly how it will go. We were stupid enough to let economists take over and sell everything. UNTIL we deal with the outright stupidity of economists nothing will change. Right now they control all the keys to all the doors.
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  8064.  @jamesmann7411  Yeah we are well aware of Macquarie Group in Australia and Britain were fools for letting them into the country. In Australia they were caught with an amazing scam where they had 2 banks that they owned and 1 was run for a staggering loss to avoid tax while the other was a money making machine known as the millionaire factory. They never told the people who invested in these banks what their scheme was. Some made heaps and others made ZERO. They are hated by the general population of Australia because they are a pack of mongrels
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  8065. I agree 100% with Kyles assessment and most of the comments here. But have a look who posted that first comparison video. You can see it clearly around 56 seconds. KYLE needs to NOT show ANY videos from people like Russell Brand. In these sorts of discussions CREDIBILITY matters and using an accused rapist as a source doesn't look good.
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  8066.  @vickiebonner4181  Way back in the day Joan Rivers said that Bo Derek (the actress) was "So dumb she'd need to study for a PAP test!" It was a little harsh because Bo Derek wasn't that dumb and to be fair men needed a similar line. So I cam up with. You're so dumb you'd need to study for a prostate exam. And if some clown persists, I reply. Here's the study notes to help. 1) Check for a fresh glove, and 2) Check for lube, and 3) Don't forget to relax. But Dave Rubin is a very special case. Not only is Dave Rubin so dumb that he'd need to study for a prostate exam. He's so dumb that he'd need a tutor.
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  8067.  @Abdul-Akeem_Akinloye  I think you are right and he's just another example of how narcissism has become its own economy. Maybe it always. Maybe every society has included a certain amount of narcissism, but what we have now is this giant mechanism called social media that has turbocharged narcissism. As I am typing this I have the Daily Shows report on Christi Noem's dog killing book tour and RFKs brain worms.
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  8068.  @crimsonjynx5707  Yeah I get ya. America's becoming this incredible contradiction of being brilliant and catastrophic at the same time. It swings wildly between those who have and those who don't. On health care ours has developed into a dual system of public and private. It can always improve but I'd take our system over almost any other. Our public system does have some major issues with services outside major cities and with mental health services in general. But in terms of all the basics its damn good. Every so often the private sector wants to push the public out and its gets met with howls of "Look at America" every time. Even our most rabid far right pro-privatization politicians WONT touch it, because even the dumbest among them know how we'll react.
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  8069.  @user-ib9bk7nq6s  Your partly right but have missed one giant issue. For those who can afford it American Health care is second to none. But for those who can't afford it American health care is a nightmare. No other developed western nation has that disparity.
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  8070.  @scifirealism5943  Are you even trying to suggest that health care isn't a basic human right? To many people including myself that's not even debatable. Individual by individual there might be some extraordinary circumstances where that does not apply, but those would be incredibly rare. Healthcare is a basic human right and if you can't see that then you seriously need to re-evaluate yourself.
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  8071.  @scifirealism5943  WTF??? I think you meant the "not" instead of "no"???
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  8072. Because like so many other political parties AROUND THE WORLD the Dems have a established leadership that is only interested in their power and they kill off any contenders. This is not particular to any party type or ideology as they are all doing it. Go watch some of Peter Zeihan's commentary on Putin in Russia and Xi Jinping in China where those 2 have done exactly the same thing. Look at Britain right now. Boris Johnson spent half his time getting rid of any talent that might challenge him and they were left with Liz Truss. I'm Australian and both sides of our politics are the same.
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  8073.  Hexagram 32nd  Good point keep pushing it.
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  8074.  @stevenblack7928  Before you try and correct anyone's science try and learn how to spell first. Its hydrogen with and 'e' not an 'i' And if a hydrogen atom loses its electron then its just a free proton and protons are positively charged.
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  8075. Its NOT a matter that they don't realise it - THEY DON'T CARE and WHY they don't care is important. Its the rest of the population that doesn't realise WHY this has become dangerous. People forget that the Nazi Party was never a majority party politically. They didn't come to power by a majority vote they did it through deals and the ineptitude of the other parties and its this ineptitude of mainstream parties that is the real threat to our future. People like Nick Fuentes, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson only have any audience because of the failure of the mainstream parties to deliver on anything. People seem to forget the Trump steamrolled over 16 or so GOP favorite sone including Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz BEACUSE the GOP just like the DNC has become so inept at delivering that it made it possible for Trump to become President.
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  8076. You have to remember the fundamental tenement of Libertarianism. "I demand the liberty to strip other people of their liberty." Libertarians are always crying and howling about their rights while they demand other people lose their rights and freedoms. When Elon, like a typical Libertarian, says he's about protecting free speech he's talking about protecting HIS free speech, NOT anyone else's and proves it by kicking people off his "free speech platform" for saying things he doesn't like.
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  8077.  @furiousapplesack  That's a good summary. In one of the discussion recently someone pointed out an alternative WHY Trump does what he does in a lot of his statements. Rather than his brain has gone, they suggested that he's deliberately "triggering the left" to waste time. During the 2020 election Obama said the GOP had 3 policies - "lower taxes, spend on the military and trigger the libs." I'm actually Australian and our political right do EXACTLY the same thing. They just keep throwing things into the public arena that just get everyone else wasting time. Their favorite topics include (just like they do everywhere else) immigration, crime, taxes. They'll always give it with a drop of reality like a statistic that indicates something so that it has to be discussed. Their current favorite is nuclear energy and Australia (like others) needs to have a SENSIBLE public discussion on nuclear but the way they have thrown it into public discussion means its just a shouting and screaming shitfest. So I think a lot of this is just "trigger the left" and waste everyone's time refuting their nonsense.
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  8078.  @rosman2635  What makes you think they need neutrons for Hydrogen PRODUCTION or for fuel cells? This isn't nuclear fusion we are talking about.
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  8079.  @rosman2635  WTF have a look at the comment that started this thread. Do you know that to call someone ignorant means they IGNORE things?
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  8080.  @dominicfucinari1942  Yeah I have been wondering what America's future might be for a while and it might come a lot quicker than you think. Don't forget the Soviet block was there for decades without ANY HINT of collapse. Who thought it would or that Soviet Russia might break up and YET IT DID and it was quick. Sometimes empires collapse suddenly (like ancient Babylon did in 1 night) and sometimes they change (like the British Empire did into the British Commonwealth) and sometimes they break up (like Alexander's Empire which broke 4 ways after his death). I don't think America realizes how fragile it is or the rest of the world is. I'm Australian but went to college in America. Those years opened my eyes to my own country because I got to see it from the outside looking in. We might not be as fragile as a lot of places but we do have some serious weaknesses and people who want to exploit them. Go check out a guy named Clive Palmer, who's our Trumpian wanna be. There's this insane childishness that's "if I can't have it I'll smash it so no one can" mentality. Right now it might be more obvious in America because of Trump but its everywhere and sooner or later something is going to break. We'll all say "we never saw it coming" and after the instant replays go "Oh we should have taken notice of that, that, that,.... and all the other signs." Here's one subject to check out - WATER. You know the stuff we need to grow food and feed ourselves. The great southern Californian aquifer has been drained so far its now sucking in sea water and wells are starting to turn brackish. When that finally sinks in its going to be massive. There issues across the entire wheat belt and a huge waste dump in Florida that could poison the main aquifer. But then I look at Australia. The great Artesian basin that a massive part of our stock industry relies on has been under stress for decades. Our mango farmers in the far north who relied on bores to supply water for the trees kept planting and planting and the trees got bigger and bigger needing more and more water. Now there's too many trees for too little water. We used to have huge irrigated area for citrus near the juncture of Australia's longest river system, the Murray Darling. That's all dying because of upstream nut and cotton farmers are taking every last drop of water they can. In just one year a while back they STOLE (as in theft) over $2 Billion (with a B) in water. Every time I see a video on water somewhere and there's plenty. I just look around here and shake my head because in everyway Australia's headed for disaster while others are even WORSE off. As we get out after COVID we are going to face some real challenges. The biggest of which is ignorant people who don't care.
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  8081. HEY TOM and everyone else here's an idea. According to the Originalists like Neil Gorsuch unless its stipulated by congress then nothing is allowed that wasn't already in existence at the time they wrote the constitution. Under their logic abortions are not allowed because they came after the constitution was written. Under their logic the EPA cannot regulate CO2 Emissions because the EPA came after the constitution was written. If you use Neil Gorsuch's wonderful judgement on the EPA then basically unless its a muzzle loading flintlock then its not protected under the 2nd Amendment. Guns that self load or that use brass cartridges or plastic cartridges did not exist when the 2nd Amendment was written. According to Judge Gorsuch congress must specifically write directives to the ATF telling them which guns and ammunition are allowed to be owned by the general public. Sorry gun nuts but I think Gorsuch might have screwed you.
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  8082.  @florianmeier3186  That's a great set of points. Its a very easy thing to lump an entire population in with the political leaders of that nation. I'm Australian and an American friend once commented to me that Australian's were very friendly towards Americans and seemed to like a lot of American cultural things like sports. I actually went to college in America and love the place. That friend pointed out that despite what things about America that Australians like they utterly hate American politics and particularly American foreign politics. Don't forget that Australia was dragged into Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and several other minor events by America. There's also been a lot of American interference in Australian politics over many decades. So there's a certain amount of resentment towards America in Australia. And that's the thing. We try (not always successfully) to separate the people from the politics.
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  8083.  @sarchisi  Anybody who knows what's being going on knows that the there's a lot truth in what you say. For all of its rhetoric about liberty and freedom America interferes with almost every country it deals with. Plus American politics is laced with the influence of its military industrial complex and for that to work they need a threat to point at. For the next jet, the next aircraft carrier, then next gun that industry needs a threat. BUT as Fiona Hill points out it was Vladimir Putin's CHOICE to invade Ukraine, not anyone else's.
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  8084. I'm an Australian engineer and having worked with companies like Siemens, Kuka, Lenze, Sick, Pilz,...... YES when they get things right they get it very right, but OMG when they F*CK up they do it spectacularly.
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  8085. I'm Australian and we've had our share of the illegal immigration issue. For us its a little different to America and a bit more like Europe in that they arrive by boat and its the boat thing that causes so many of these tragedies. FIRST OFF let me say I have no issue with anyone wanting a better life for themselves or their family. We should commend and praise any parent who wants a better life for their children. HOWEVER - I find it egregious that when tragedies like what happened off Greece this last week that people blame the easiest which in this case is the Greek navy. The Greek navy didn't overload that boat and it takes no great understanding of boats that if you overload a boat that badly then its almost guaranteed to sink. The SHORT ANSWER is we found that smuggling people into Australia is incredibly profitable and unlike drugs the punishments aren't really punishments. At $10k per person, a 100+ people on an old boat is a lot of money. At several 1000 people a week its an industry. The LONGER ANSWER is we've had similar tragedies off the coast of Australia with many people drowning. We finally started asking asking hard questions like: WHY are they always in decrepit old boats that can barely float? The Indonesian fisherman simply sold their oldest boats to the smugglers so they could BUY NEW BOATS and you don't waste a good boat on a 1-way trip. You can't blame a poor fisherman who'd like a new boat being paid enough money to get that new boat. The smuggling involved so much money that it simply allowed a generation of Indonesian fishermen to get brand new boats. Most of the time the fishermen also took extra money to crew the boats to Australia. Getting locked up became another bonus on top of that. Under Australian Law all prisoners get a daily allowance. Its not much money but to an Indonesian fisherman its more money than they make fishing. Our own laws made it even more profitable. On top of that we found many people who had settled in Australia sending millions of dollars out of the country to either pay off their debts or fund more people smuggling. Instead of these people looking after themselves and their own families they were sending money to the smugglers. Then there was the huge cost in BOTH money and time in our courts to handle it all. Most of that was paid for by the Australian taxpayer, which is why we ran out of patience. Then finally there's the even uglier side of people smuggling where people are basically sold into slavery AND we did have some of that in Australia. In the end we found that the biggest problem is the money and the only way to deal with the criminal syndicates was to cut off their money supply. That took some of the harshest laws on the planet which had us labelled in some very ugly ways. These days we have some of the most liberal minded Europeans who labelled us in very ugly terms coming to Australia to ask how we did it. Its not the people who come that we see as a problem its the criminal syndicates who make it happen. They are ruthless people with no respect for human life or dignity.
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  8086. ​ @alejandrorivas4585  Yes and No. I'm an engineer and one of the huge problems the less developed world has is that the developed world keeps taking their brighter people. Like in Australia we put in a system that values qualifications and skills AND FOR US it works really well because those who immigrate come with skills we want. 2 Problems: 1) We aren't developing our own people with those skills well enough and have been trying to plug the gaps we created from stupid internal decisions. I'm an engineer and can go into great detail about this with respect to skilled tradesmen - electricians, welders, machinists,...etc. 2) As I said we are stripping skilled people away from countries that need those skills to develop in the first place. I think the far better solution is to actually help less developed nations ACTUALLY develop instead of just treating them as places to supply cheap labor and/or cheap resources AND to dump guns in.
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  8087. This is American Libertarianism and Exceptionalism at its finest: We demand the Liberty to strip other people of their liberty America staged coups in Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia, Chile and other places OVERTHROWING their democratically elected governments to replace them with dictatorships. Somebody said a while back: "If America saw what America was doing to America, then America would invade America to free America from America."
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  8088.  @Darke_Exelbirth  You forgot to add that Bloomberg and the DNC clowns that jumped onto his campaign pressed the detonator.
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  8089.  @Darke_Exelbirth  Yeah he brought into that stuff it went bang bang bang on him. As I said earlier if he plays this right it might work, but I don't know if he has the political savvy for that - YET. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8090.  @EmmaJ_462  OMG a sensible thought. Well done.
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  8091. This is what you get when you have a mass media (Fox, CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, NYT,..... etc) who are so engaged with ramming OPINION as fact down peoples throats and shoving so much of it that people are SIMPLY OVERWHELMED and start losing the ability to discern between fact and fiction. If there is one thing all of the media are responsible for its the shear volume of noise that's coming at us. The dystopian nightmares of Orwell and Hollywood are almost here where we can't tell what's real and what's not. I once had a DVD copy of the Schwarzenegger film "The Running Man" It included a featurette by someone who worked on the film AND ALSO on the TV show Survivor. He said that just as the film was about a semi-scripted and manipulated reality TV show so are all of the current reality TV Shows like Survivor. He described it in the same way I've seen pro-wrestling described. The second by second details are NOT scripted but the overall appearance is controlled and manipulated. This is what we are now being overwhelmed with by the media. Its not scripted in a second by second way BUT the overall themes pumped out by the various channels are controlled this is most noticeable in the hyper-partisan channels whether they are small or the massive main stream corporate channels like Fox, MSNBC, CNN,.... etc.
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  8092. Is it just me or can others see an SNL skit where a guy named Hunter stands up and introduces as a sponsor a guy named Don Junior to a group at "Spoilt Brats with a Habit Anonymous"????????????
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  8093. Yeah, she's gonna be the prom queen of her prison. She seems to have forgotten that while daddy's base screamed about Hunter Biden getting $50k a month she and Jared were making around $11million a month in 2018. It was reported that her and Jared made $135million for 2018. When Hilary and Jeb Bush were both early front runners in 2015, there were plenty of comments about America not being able to find viable alternatives outside the Bush & Clinton families. Lets not forget that BOTH LOST. Sure Ivanka could get a House or Senate seat in the right place, but the White House must surely be a stretch. Plus there is that other thing called IMPEACHMENT. Bothe Jared and Ivanka by having "official" White House positions should make it also possible to IMPEACH both of them. In which case after the Dems disqualify daddy from any future office they can do the same to her and Jared. And that's before anyone actually discusses -> How did they make $135million working from within the White House? And that's before anyone actually discusses -> How did Jared swing that deal with the Saudis that saved the Kushner family business?
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  8094.  @timcreekmur2770  Great point except around 50million don't believe it and THAT is a problem that has to be solved. What people need to start doing and keep hammering at is suing the absolute crap out of the liars like Carlson, Hannity and Co. ANYBODY who lied prior to Jan 6th gets sued to hell for the damage they did.
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  8095. You are absolutely right but NONE OF IT MATTERS. So long as Ukraine has a disputed border irrespective of it being with Russia or anyone else, it CANNOT join NATO. Its a basic rule of joining NATO all borders must be settle and not even 1 inch in dispute.
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  8096. I hope you mean that he's doing it through his behaviour and not by speaking to people. There was just a major case in Delaware where Tesla share holders sued him and somehow Musk, despite the court papers clearly stating he was unfairly rewarded, cleared him of responsibility. Hopefully that will be appealed. Here's a summary of the courts findings that was released before the final judgement. Look at what's highlighted at 1:10:00 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1uqlAAxF9k Yeah Elon got over 12,000,000 Tesla shares as others paid to bail out his cousins insolvent company.
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  8097. NOTE THIS: Its from an analysis just after Trump won in 2016. Remember Hilary Clinton didn't campaign in the key Rust Belt states where people have been smashed by the Wall Street elites she had fund raisers with. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmBG3Z4DI&t=1104s
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  8098. According to the Associate Press 73,923,495 voted for Trump. How many of those confused, mislead and outright lied to people do you need to give you $1, $5 or $10 via Patreon or PayPal or some other means for it to be highly profitable. Its not like America doesn't have that from of legalized scam going on every day. Kenneth Copeland is reportedly worth as much as $700 million - Wikipedia lists his net worth at $300million. Its suggested Alex Jones makes as much as $50 million a year selling his "special brands." So the real question right now is how much are all the Trump promoters raking in from places like YouTube?
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  8099. Yep - The only question left for Junior is: Does he get his drugs from the same guy Hunter does?
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  8100.  Gypsy Wolf  What only 21 things to call Trump out on? Well it is only YouTube, but nice list, just wait for the backlash. Facts and Trumpists are like Dyna and Mite. (edit) Just remember 74 million voted for him. Around 50 million think he was cheated and each of them likely owns at least 1 gun. Everyday right now they are being wound up and up and up. This is not going to end well.
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  8101.  @TheRedStateBlue  WHERE TF do you come up with BULLSHlT like "communism is easier to exploit that capitalism." There is NOTHING in the historical record to actually claim that any economic system is easier to exploit than another because there's also the political system and that's far more influential on exploitation than the economics. There's plenty of examples to show that uneducated people are easier to exploit or that people who are systematically disadvantaged are easier to exploit or that corrupt systems are easier to exploit or combinations of those and similar things. You have to remember that America the country that was founded on FREEDOM and RIGHTS built most of its early wealth from SLAVERY and then from EXPLOITATION by the Robber Barons and lets also NOT FORGET the outright theft of land from the native populations which was justified by a whole genre of propaganda out of Hollywood called "the Westerns" that had them labelled as sub-human savages. If there's anymore idiotic nonsense you'd like to add to the conversation PLEASE DON'T. There's no need to prove you're more ignorant than you already have.
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  8102.  @brucemacmillan9581  2 Words - Fermi Paradox Go look it up. Also in our solar system there's Venus, Europa, Titan, Enceladus and others with complex chemistry that could produce odd forms of life that have no relation or analog to life here.
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  8103.  @brucemacmillan9581  If you want to a sensible conversation with people then don't be a DK-HED. I did aerospace engineering and 35 years ago (1987) we had a NASA alum do a special lecture one day. He'd just completed a study of what it would take to terraform Mars and had a 1 word conclusion: "Impossible" Just on basic volumes and mechanics, like the volume of air need, how to get it there and then heat it up from -60C to 20C the numbers are insane in any reasonable time period. And that's before you get into the real tricky stuff like how do you keep that breathable atmosphere on the planet once you've got it there. Just minor points like spinning up the core of the planet so that it has a magnetic field to keep the solar wind from stripping away that atmosphere. AND well before any of that we need to know how to build a functioning self sustaining ecosystem and so far EVERY attempt at that has failed and in some cases failed spectacularly. So buckwheat I've known for over 30 years what's possible and what's not. That has nothing to with possible life anywhere.
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  8104.  @brucemacmillan9581  Agreed. If you want an interesting thought on the question are we alone on the universe try this. It doesn't matter if you believe in God or evolution we are not alone. If you believe in god (or gods) then you believe that there are other non-humans that exist - angels, cherubs, demons, etc. If you believe in evolution then according to probability and that we now know how many planets exist. Plus from some of the really odd places on Earth, we know life can exist in extreme environments where other life just can't. You actually have to be in a tiny minority who believe in evolution but also that it is so rare that we are the only place in the universe where life exists. The real question isn't are we alone, its "Where are they and can they help us?"
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  8105.  @brucemacmillan9581  Your opening remark is stupid because it ignores the reality of 100s of tribes, societies and cultural groups. You don't have to agree or like with what they believe but you MUST accept that they do believe. That said you at least got to a parallel of the right conclusion. It doesn't matter if we are alone or not. WE (as in humanity) must find a way to take responsibility for our future. Right now we (as a species) are going through the equivalent of post-puberty high school blues when we a combination of confused yet think we know what we want but have a way too simplistic idea on how to get there. Plus the high school bully and his clown brigade are in full rampage mode. By that I mean our political and business classes (usually referred to as the "top 1%" or "1 percenters") are totally out of control. It doesn't matter if you want to discuss Putin, the American billionaire class or Xi Jinping - they're all out of control schoolyard bullies.
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  8106.  @brucemacmillan9581  I joke about that all the time. Where are the aliens? Quick answer: Hiding from us. Long Answer: Working out how to build a barrier around the solar system to keep us in.
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  8107.  @supportingthetroops1623  WTF are you referring to? Which part of the conversation are you talking about?
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  8108. Go check your history books (or at least Wikipedia) and check up on the DEMOCRATICALLY elected governments in places like Iran, Chile, Guatemala and Indonesia where the CIA backed coups to throw them out and replace those DEMOCRATICALLY elected governments with dictatorships. So long as the American corporations get what they want they'll kill anything.
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  8109.  @snoopy_peanuts_77  Well pointed out.
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  8110. Have you never heard the saying "History repeats?" Its almost the one thing you can guarantee that every tribe, state and nation WILL DO is they will repeat historically stupid things. Usually chanting "This time it will be different!" Even when nations write their history and put in place things to prevent repeating a mistake some clown will say in front of every one. "This time it will be different!" Need anyone remind Americans of the similarity between Vietnam in the 1970s and Iraq in 2003.
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  8111. Vice President Henry A. Wallace in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  8112.  @Ne0dymm  YO SHIT-4-BRAINS WHO CAN'T SPELL where do people get arrested for praying in their own home? and where do they get arrested for hurting peoples feelings internet or anywhere else?
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  8113.  @peabody3000  When Americans complained about interference in the 2016 election most of the other 7-1/2 billion people on the planet laughed and said "Yeah - Now YOU know what it feels like!"
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  8114.  @peabody3000  You are right it doesn't invalidate the complaints but it does show how ignorant of the reality of the rest of the world Americans are. Too many drank the Superman Koolaid of "Truth, Justice and the American Way." Where ever he went POTUS was introduced as "The Leader of the Free World." Try going anywhere in the world these days and saying that. If you're lucky and in a polite place like Canada they'll just laugh at you. In other places - NO. Too many Americans forget that while they think their government can't be trusted the agencies of their government (CIA, NSA,...) do all sorts of stuff around the world. Its one of the weirdest things on the planet. There are millions of Americans who wont trust what their government does inside America but do trust what their government does outside America. Its really is a bizarre from of cognitive dissonance and disconnect.
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  8115. Question: Where's the $4 million Answer: We had a vision. Question: Where's the $4 million Answer: We had a vision. Question: Where's the $4 million Answer: We had a vision. Question: Where's the $4 million Answer: We had a vision. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Question: Where's the $4 million Answer: We had a vision.
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  8116.  @Gored1  Good point - most people AROUND Trump will pay. The question is will Trump ever pay?
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  8117. I can't wait until they try and tell Rupert Murdoch he's not allowed to have a vaccine mandate for everyone at Fox News.
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  8118. One thing that wont be under speculation is the Defense Lawyers wanting money up front.
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  8119. This is incredibly typical of people who are presenting a CONSTRUCTED NARRATIVE. Once it gets exposed as a manufactured thing rather than fact there's not much they can do except double down by making an even more outrageous claim. When that gets exposed they just double down again. Its not just specific to conspiracy people its common to anyone who has convinced themselves of a false narrative. Just last night I saw a documentary on the mass suicide at Jonestown 1978 and its the same sort of thing. Every time Jim Jones was exposed he just doubled down on the claims until it got to the point where they all drank the cool aid. Go back to 2003 and the invasion of Iraq. Every time one of the claims about WMDs was disproven then the Bush Whitehouse just doubled down on an even bigger claim. Rumsfeld was notorious for it. Look at all of the nonsense about the moon hoax. I'm an aerospace engineer and every time someone answers something the clowns double down. On other aerospace matters I can explain if you want how the claims of Chinese Space Lasers and hypersonic missiles are mostly BS but the hype merchants just hype it up harder anytime someone points out the realities of that stuff.
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  8120.  @Youtoober6947  Goose stepping??? Seriously??? Its what they call that marching style the Nazis used.
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  8121.  @Youtoober6947  Its a reference to what happens when the conspiracy clowns take things too far. I would slightly modify the reference from "every time" to _"every time they are allowed to go too far."_. The Germans had lived with a Jewish part of their population for centuries. Sometimes in conflict but most of the time NOT. Then one day as had happened before someone blamed them for the troubles they had. The difference was during the 1930s and 40s they let it get completely out of control and that's the dangerous thing. I'm actually Australian but went to college in America. From all my experiences with Americans I'd never have thought I'd see an enraged mob try and tear the Capital to the ground running through the corridors chanting to "hang the vice president." Yeah sure I there's always been a part of America that's bonkers but EVERY society has them and most of the time they are contained or limited. Right NOW they are neither contained or limited and in fact have some ruthlessly sociopathic people winding them up as much as they can, which is extremely dangerous because at the end of the day America can by itself break the world's economy and then back it up with nukes.
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  8122. Well said in that you used the word parties (plural) not party (singular) because the same schism is on the cards for the Dems who have screwed the left side of American politics so many time that they will collapse as well. Here's 2 FACTS that will hurt the Dems. 1: Despite all evidence that Goldman Sachs is a disease that infects American economics. They were in the middle of the GFC where it was disclosed they defrauded customers on an industrial scale. Then Trump hired GS goon Steve Mnuchin as Secretary of the Treasury and just recently Biden hired 2 more GS goons plus a Blackrock and a McKinsey. What message does that tell the world -> Wall St. will do what it wants and no election can change that. 2: Despite all the promises made for $2000 stimulus checks to gain those 2 seats in Georgia and gain control of the Senate Biden has already started to voice that down to $1400. Even before he was took the oath he proved his word was worthless.
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  8123.  @Sabundy  It starts with the fact he claimed something that wasn't even close to original as his own idea. Then its something he copied from one of the greats of aerospace engineering. Then its something that was never practical. You see even the greats have ideas that once evaluated even they go "Yeah - that won't work" and they move on. Only the frauds flog dead horses.
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  8124.  @TT-nk5hi  They might not be wanting to take over Australia in a military sense but they damn well want to control our resources. The most important of those is agriculture, because food security is the major issue facing Asia and other large populations. Its why the Arabs are buying every farm they can in Australia. Don't crap on about us needing Chinese agriculture technology its the other way around. We have some for the most advanced agriculture in the world. Go watch ABC Landline and look through the back episodes, we are so far in front most countries its a joke. Our great risk is not looking after that sector or letting too many foreigners control it and they already have too much control. Ukraine isn't a land grab. Go look up Peter Zeihan he's a geopolitical strategist who specialises in demographics. He's explained WHY Russia invaded Ukraine and why they had to do it now. Its got to do with control of territory that's been used for 1,000 years to invade Russia again and again. they had to do it now because like many other countries they are ageing and if they didn't do it now in 10 years they wouldn't have enough 20 years olds. Its actually why China might need to invade Taiwan now rather than later. Their population is also ageing rapidly and they are running out of 20 year olds and wars are fought by 20 year olds.
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  8125.  @TT-nk5hi  Go look up Peter Zeihan he's commented extensively on the comparison between Ukraine and Taiwan. Ukraine had some preparation and a land border. Taiwan has been in preparation for decades and is surrounded by a moat. How will China invade. If its by air they'll get shot down and it if its by sea they'll get sunk. Eventually they'd overwhelm Taiwan, but what would they gain other than an utterly destroyed island.
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  8126.  @TT-nk5hi  Which is exactly what the Chinese are doing with predatory loans to smaller developing nations. AND WHY THEY ARE ANGERING PEOPLE. Have you stopped to ask why would any country take a loan they have to pay back instead of straight development grants from wealthier nations???? They pay off government officials. The Chinese haven't just got corruption in their system they have actually industrialised it. Go look it up. Government officials being paid to do favors is a key part of the Chinese system. So they have no issue with paying government officials in other nations to take on loans. Its how they do business and they do it everywhere.
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  8127.  @petersinclairphd6626  Yeah I know its not new, but its something NOBODY in Australia is discussing. Its also a huge issue in other places. Leslie Dewan pointe out in one of here talks how after Chernobyl and Fukushima that the number of students enrolling in nuclear engineering collapsed and America lost an entire generation of engineers. I just started watching the MIT Open Course lectures on basic nuclear engineering. Its easy to have gotten the basics as I did from physics classes but these lectures go into a lot more detail. The truly surprising thing is how small the class rooms are, but then that course only has 12 attending students. Here in Oz the Murdoch media are pumping "nuclear, nuclear, nuclear" into the air waves. I swear Rupert must have shares in something, but there is utterly no mention on time frames or training. As I have said in comments i worked with an ex-USN nuclear power plant operator a while back and he told me about the years of training that took. Peter Zeihan the geopolitical strategist points out how China (through the 1 child policy) has a shortage of 30 year olds. the problem is it takes 30 years and 9 months to make a 30year old. Its not as bad as that for nuclear techs but you need to grasp the scope of the task which more than anything for us is starting from scratch.
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  8128. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Its not just a matter of how much better off America would be if the media DID THEIR JOB PROPERLY, it would be a case of HOW MUCH BETTER OFF WOULD HUMANITY BE? Ands yes I am well aware Rupert Murdoch was born bred and raised here in Australia but we did try and warn you all what he was like and NOBODY listened. The joke/line I tell people is: "Australia has 9 of the worlds top 10 deadliest snakes including the most toxic land snake on the planet, the Inland Taipan. Rupert was once bitten by an Inland Taipan. The snake never recovered and out of mercy we euthanised it!"
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  8129.  @op3129  Have you seen the leaked footage of the German journalist who threw it back in Tuckers face about being a millionaire paid for by billionaires. Carlson blew a fuse.
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  8130. AEROSPACE ENGINEER - On Kyles point about "Iron Dome and Jet fighters" taking out the Iranian drones. This is the same issue facing the Ukrainians and Russians who have been throwing drones at each other in vast numbers. The problem is logistics and its not simply about having enough stuff its also a matter of having it in the right places. This is something the British worked out during the battle of Britain. It wasn't just about having enough pilots, Spitfires and Hurricanes. It was a matter of directing them so they could intercept the German bombers. This is well shown in the film the "Battle of Britain" where they have the command centre directing the fighters into position. Similarly things like anti-aircraft guns and Stinger missiles have to be in the right place or they wont be in range of the incoming drones. They have to be close to the flight path and KNOW when the drone is getting close enough to kill. That takes either radar that can detect what's incoming AND/OR people on the ground spotting. That's another thing that came out of the Battle of Britain. The Brits had radar but just as importantly they also had 100s of spotters watching the sky to add to the information AND THEN they had the command structure to use that information. On Jet fighters. They are generally designed to shoot down other jet fighters NOT small drones and most of the drones are small compared to jet fighters. Plus there is the problem that the kamikaze drones are bombs if a fighter gets too close they are at risk of being blown up themselves. So none of this is simply straight forward and the lessons coming out of Ukraine and the Red Sea are causing many in the Western Militaries to rethink their strategies. Peter Zeihan, who Kyle & Krystal have both interviewed, has talked about this a lot recently. Zeihan points out that "a geek with a soldering iron" (his words) is now a formidable opponent.
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  8131. As an Australian watching this from the outside this has to be the most bizarre claim by people claiming to be JOURNALISTS who are politically savvy because EVERY mainstream party in the world courts the endorsements from celebrities. PLUS Taylor Swift isn't telling anyone to vote for anyone, she's just telling them to register.
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  8132.  @RichardPierpoint-zx3xt  Agreed and that's what's freaking them out. The GOP in part (like most conservatives parties) relies on scaring old people with the "Those Lefties will take what little you have." with the logic those Lefties want to change things and change means YOU LOSE. The crazy part of which has always been those people have so little because the parties they voted for gave it all to their bosses. Trump & Bush both gave tax cuts that mostly went to the Top 1%. And just to prove how dumb Australia can be. RIGHT NOW they are pushing for tax cuts for the rich.
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  8133. THERE'S ONE GIANT PROBLEM with all of this. The Democrats (or should we call them the DUMOcrats) were so stupid they lost to "they're eating cats and dogs" boy. That's 2 out of the last 3 elections they have lost to a clown show. IF YOU WANT TO SEE STUPID - A bunch of Harris-Walz campaign staffers were interviewed on Pod Save America a few days ago. NOT ONE of them accepted any responsibility at all. FYI - I'm Australian and in 2019 the Australian Labor Party ran a similar Hilary Style campaign AND LOST. Later in 2019 British Labor did the same thing so I asked a Brit (one of Thunderf00ts countrymen) WTF was going on. They told me staffers from the Clinton Campaign advised BOTH British Labor and Australian Labor in 2019. THAT'S 4 Major Campaigns in 3 countries these people have lost in 8 years and sat there on Pod Save America and simply refused to accept any responsibility for anything. Trump didn't so much as win. The DUMOCRATS ran a campaign so hopeless that even Japanese Kamikaze pilots would not have joined it.
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  8134.  @zroku123  And I guess you never heard the reason that satellites aren't made from carbon fibre is because it breaks down in the space environment? Seriously are you that ignorant. Work hard in high school and try and get into a decent engineering school. If you are really lucky and get to work with some decent people in about 35 years you'll have enough experience to play this game.
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  8135.  @paulhammond6978  WTF are you blabbering on about??? Don't tell people to restate their points when you aren't making any sense in the first place. Looking at your other comments AND THE REPLIES you get you might want to think about what you're saying.
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  8136.  @Davmilee  Oh look another little boy. I'm surprised you didn't announce yourself as an alpha. 🤯🤯🤣🤣
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  8137. I absolutely agree this is what I posted as my comment and YES I really do want to scream. I DID NOT WATCH THIS. I DID NO TLISTEN TO THIS. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE ANY MORE STORIES EVER AGAIN ABOUT POLLS Polls are BULLSHlT. Polls are CRAP. Polls are just noise and waste everyone's time.
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  8138. FROM THE TRANSCRIPT AT 0:26 "it is interesting to see how under scrutiny when people really take the look at these bills how brilliantly the single-payer plan stands out" The highlight is mine and I deleted the 2 "uhs" to make what she said clear.
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  8139.  George W Biden  Well done you got a 5,7,5 Haiku 👍👍
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  8140.  @boneseyyl1060  If you like Last of the Mohicans here's a couple very different renditions of the part of the soundtrack which I love. Both very different but both brilliant in there own right. Orchestra El-Dorado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U_tDZaP57Q Leo Rojas, Indogenes and others do similar flute versions. The American Rogues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6G8TXaKkF0 There's this brilliant extended version of "I will follow" by Clannard. Its only ~2:00 on the soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0np-5xbkus
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  8141. I suggest everyone take note of the warnings of using saboted ammunition with muzzle breaks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_firearm_and_cartridge_combinations#Saboted_ammunition_and_muzzle_devices This might NOT have been a "hot round" and simply been the wrong ammunition in the wrong gun.
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  8142. This is the moment where Biden or Harris put on their big boy pants and march Sinema and Manchin into the oval office and read them their rights. Either you behave or we send the DOJ after your families and in Manchin's case there's lots already documented a lot to go after. Because if the Dems lose out on this, then America is finished.
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  8143. In what way did anyone who's been aware of how Trump operates NOT think that she was disposable. We all watched how he sacked and dumped anyone who crossed him. He even dumped Steve Bannon who helped get him elected. And Flynn and others who helped him do his shite. The only smart person who works for Trump is the one who gets PAID BEFORE they start and runs before the shite rains down.
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  8144. I just checked its 5-Sept-2021 a few weeks later and they still haven't given the official cause which might explain it.
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  8145.  @wordsculpt  I have been trying to tell people from when it first happened that in most other countries they'd have been thrown in jail ASAP and in many countries they'd simply have been executed and without trial. Remember the film "Braveheart" with Mel Gibson. He didn't get much of a trail but he did get one before he was hanged, drawn & quartered. They weren't that historically accurate in the film about that stuff because if they had then people would have run screaming from the cinemas. Yeh Trump and his goons have got off lite.
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  8146.  @Ada-k8r  SPOT THE BOT look at the user name.
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  8147.  @topologyrob  Then why does American media refer to "Team America?" Why was the film titled "Team America World Police" instead of "Team USA World Police" or would that have confused people?
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  8148.  @kallekas8551  Interesting times????? I'll be on this weeks Steve Keen & Friends and I'll show you interesting because this is "sort of" trivial compared to what's in a particular US congressional budget Office report into family wealth that has gotten very little air play and even less analysis.
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  8149.  @JamesTulip  Great reply. On the first point I 1/2 mostly agree because I think one of the biggest mistakes made too many times is relying on America to lead outright rather than being more collaborative at the leadership level. Often you must have a clear person leading, but even then they need support team. Too often too many of us just sit back and wait for America to do everything or at least most of it. This is a major flaw in NATO and will eventually repeat in AUKUS because it will eventually become JAUKUS, SKAUKUS or CANAUKUS or some other multi-national behemoth incapable of doing anything like NATO and the UN are now. On the second point your are 1,000,000% right. America has some incredible systemic issues. I used to warn my American friends (because I had studied Orwell) that ANY society could fall into a totalitarian state. That was what Orwell was actually warning about rather than being specifically against communism. They used to tell me that it was impossible for that to happen to America because VIA the Constitution there were the systems of Checks & Balances. Well thanks to Mitch McConnell the Senate is a disaster and thanks to the Federalist Society SCOTUS is a catastrophe and they are the 2 main parts of the Checks & Balances to keep Congress, the Whitehouse, the Military and other agencies from going too far. So, sadly the system is broken and wont get fixed because there are too many people with too much vested interest and are making mountains of money from the broken system that they helped break. On the 3rd point you are also correct and it goes to the first point of over-relying on American leadership. On the 4th point you are even more correct. Australia MUST focus on better relations with the major economies of Asia. As to the South Pacific, our FAILURES there are so bad it should be seen as a national embarrassment that will take years to fix. None of those nations should respect us until we EARN IT BACK and I can't scream that loud enough. I am going to be on the Steve Keen & Friends podcast in a few hours and might bring up a couple of these points because they are so on topic. Just note it will be at 2:00am EST.
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  8150.  @roughhabit9085  Go look at the YT Channel the Analysisnews hosted by Paul Jay. He has recently re-posted an interview he did with Gore Vidal in 2005. Its titled "Mini Doc: Gore Vidal's History of the National Security State" Its right in line with your quote from Mencken As to your second point on food production. Sorry but there is no evidence at all that its guaranteed that a government in charge of food production will cause mass starvation although I will agree that it has happened. One of the most notable times was Mao's "Great Leap Forward" when he pulled people off the farms and shoved them into factories. It would have worked had he given the remaining farmers tractors and mechanised sowing and reaping machinery. What you are claiming is the same sort of nonsense that Milton Friedman claimed which is that governments can't do anything right. I'll give you 4 things on that. 1) The Apollo Program not only did as intended "Get a man to the Moon and safely return him to the Earth" but also gave America such a major technological boost that the money spent was easily recovered via American industry exploiting it. FYI - I did aerospace engineering in America in the late 80s. After the Challenger accident when there were calls for NASA to be disbanded the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics commissioned a study by an economist as to the value of NASA. Due to time constraints the report focused on Apollo. They found that by 1986 Apollo had returned $9:50 for every $1:00 spent making it the most profitable investment in history at that time. Considering that the things it returned money on (industrial output) ahs NOT stopped then that $9:50 is likely to be much higher these days. 2) Here in Australia like many other countries we privatised our power industry on the promise that: "competition would provide better services at lower prices" We now like many other places pay much higher costs for electricity. 3) Private Industry constantly claims it is overregulated and taxes are too high. FIRST - deregulation hasn't helped any industry or shareholders BUT IT HAS massively helped the top 1% make around $200 Trillion since the 1970s. SECOND - deregulation hasn't helped the general population anywhere. Not only has it not delivered for the average person but many services have decline, most consumer protection has evaporated and (1 I hate) is that its lead to things like the Boeing Max-8 where they built a plane that was always going to crash. 4) Here in Australia we have spent over AU$20 Billion on consultants (PwC, KPMG,.......etc) in the last decade or so and yea that number has stunned us. Those consultants were hired by successive governments from both sides to help various government departments do their job better. You will not find many who think we got a damn thing out of that AU$20 Billion because nothing is working any better and that's because most of the consultants are ex-Government employees. Its just 1 giant ongoing scam that was started by Margret Thatcher. Its spread across the entire developed world. So yeah I get Milton Friedman's point that the government can suck, but the solutions his advocates have served up have FAILED and FAILED and FAILED.
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  8151. Vice President Henry A. Wallace wrote in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  8152.  @Red-k7g6m  I think what they are saying is: "Trump thinks he can amend the constitution or at least just ignore it or step around it." And so far Trump has good reasons to believe he can get away with it BECAUSE SO FAR HE HAS GOT AWAY WITH STUFF that would have got him executed in many countries.
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  8153. I heard the same comment about the other GOP debate where Liz Cheney looked like a genius.
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  8154. ​ @cobra8888  EXACTLY and its ingrained into America society to such an extent that its become normalised. Look at how the GOP treat the Democrats. When we do "it" its fine. When you do "it" you are an enemy of humanity and we must destroy you. Here's an example from history. Bill Clinton got caught getting blown by Monica Lewinski. It was uncovered by SPECIAL COUNSEL Ken Star who went OUTSIDE his original scope which was to investigate the Clinton's Whitewater real estate deal. The IMPEACHED CLINTON for lying about getting blown and find him GUILTY. Meanwhile at the same time House Speaker (technically the 3rd most powerful politician on the planet) Newt Gingrich gets caught accepting $5 Million from Rupert Murdoch while having an affair with one of his staff and that doesn't even get investigated and even to this day he flips it all off as nothing. On the flip side of that: Here's an interesting fact about Jack Smith the guy trying to get Trump into court over the documents. From for the 4+ years BEFORE being assigned as Special Counsel to investigate Trump's documents case he worked for the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in the Hague prosecuting War Crimes from the Kosovo War. Now the Kosovo Specialist Chambers are NOT specifically part of the International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) but Jack Smith operated as a Chief Prosecutor in a court prosecuting people from another country. The insanity of that is that All American Service personnel are protected from being similarly prosecuted by international courts (like the ICC) when President George W. Bush signed the American Service-Members' Protection Act, (informally referred to as The Hague Invasion Act) in 2002.
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  8155. Really what makes you think there are only 14 people who would vote for this criminal. If he runs on the "Lets spend on the military!" platform then he might get 1,000,000s of votes from the people who make guns and bullets and bombs and jets and ships and all the other stuff.
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  8156.  @TheMobileHomestead  Your 100% right. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but it was the late 80s so everyone around me had done civics in high school. Not only did they know how the system was meant to work but they could explain it. So from an outside perspective, but with some understanding I think Senate reform is the most important thing that happens in America. There's been all this talk in recent years about the Electoral College system for POTUS, but then POTUS was never meant to be the main political force. Newt Gingrich made a big issue about that when he became speaker. The Speaker & House were meant to run the nation, the Senate were meant to check things, SCOTUS was meant to make sure it was all legal and POTUS was meant to sign it and then shake hands with foreign dignitaries. What Mitch McConnell has done to the Senate is mind boggling. He's not only wrecked the Senate but also the American Judiciary. What he's done its so profound and has such a massive influence that he's more of a threat to Western Democracy than Communism ever was. Consider this: How is any foreign company meant to do business with any American company when the only means to resolve any dispute is via the American courts? Go check the Chevron case with Ecuador over what Texaco (now part of Chevron) did. After losing the case they dragged it back into the America courts and even sent the lawyer representing the Ecuadorians to jail.
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  8157.  Davidson  Yeah in what way am I being foolish. Like s few others in this thread we can see the morons because all they do is make claims without anything to back it up. Trolls like you ought to just stay of the internet all together.
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  8158.  @paulkoon4624  Wake up - geriatric and obese people are some of the most susceptible for a whole range of ailments. But just like other diseases can strike at the fittest in society so can COVID - AND IT HAS. There have been plenty of younger people who got it and some of them died. Al lot of the medical people who died weren't obese of geriatric. Come on these FACTs are old news.
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  8159. When he put it that he would not allow the next AG to investigate Trump people got reminded that Lindsay Graham had his emails hacked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbaXO_Ogw4I What was in those emails, because everyone keeps pointing out that Lindsay Graham went through a massive backflip on Trump. He's got a big problem now because after the 20th he will have NO power because of the Georgia run-off result. That and Trump being Trump, he might just throw whatever it is he has on Graham into the wind for all the world to see.
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  8160. Yeah??? Maybe he meant the gold standard in corruption or unethical behavior! But, lets not forget meatball stood by and watched people get tortured in an illegal prison. So his standards aren't that high.
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  8161. There was a documentary done by a British journalist over 10 years ago in response to issues with lethal injections. It went on the premise "If we are going to execute people is there a simple painless way just to switch people off?" What was disturbing in that documentary wasn't that they found a way to switch a person off but the attitude of the doctor in charge of American executions. The method they found was Carbon Dioxide which is used in some parts of the meat industry. There's been incidents like the the 1986 Lake Nyos incident where a wave of carbon dioxide simply killed over 1,700 people in seconds. There have also been numerous industrial accidents where people have gone into pits or chambers that had excessive amounts of CO2 and they just drop dead. Its why many industries take confined space work so seriously. CO2 can switch a person off in seconds. About all they experience is a moment of light headed euphoria before losing consciousness. I have since heard claims that is not always true and people can have distress before losing consciousness. What was disturbing in that documentary was when they presented the idea of using CO2 to replace lethal injection to the American doctor he replied (as best I can remember) "Its a punishment. Its not meant to be pleasant!"
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  8162.  @LCREEGS  Sorry but that has to be one of the most utterly ignorant statements I have ever seen regarding a profession. Economists have UTTERLY ZERO UNDERSTANDING of systems analysis or systems engineering. Unfortunately you've said this to an aerospace engineer so let me fill you in on some details. Historically Systems Analysis came from Systems Engineering which was developed during the 1950s & 1960s as part of the American ICBM program. It became most well known in its use during the Apollo program which is why some people think it came from the Apollo program. After that it became adopted across the entire aerospace industry and after that a few specific areas of engineering adopted systems engineering. One I know of is naval engineering because these days they have very large complex systems to make work. In general aerospace engineers laugh at other engineers who talk about systems engineering and systems analysis because with few exceptions none of them have any idea what they are talking about. The main reason other engineers never learn it let alone use it is because they just don't need it. Either their systems aren't complicated enough to need it or aren't closely coupled enough to need it. You sound like an economist with the standard training all economists get. I recommend you start listening to people like Steve Keen and Mike Radziki who are trying to get economic profession to update itself on how they do their modelling. Steve has for several decades now been trying to point out the ignorance of the economic profession and he is an economist. He also hosts a podcast Steve keen & Friends, which I hope to be on shortly. Another person you should check out is the Scottish political economist Mark Blyth (Brown U.) Among other things mark hosts an irregular podcast with people who have released books called the Rhodes Center Podcast. A couple of economists he's interviewed recently have been scathing of the economics profession and how ignorant it is of what it has done.
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  8163. IF SAM SEDER AND HIS CREW WANT CREDIBILITY THEN SIMPLY ASK SCOTT GALLOWAY ON. Instead of calling him "Rich Guy" MAYBE (and its just a thought) one of your so called FACT CHECKERS could simply put his name in YouTube Search and you'd find his channel He does several pod casts other than the one he does with Kara Swisher which you can see short parts of on the channel "Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway" He has his own channel "The Prof G Pod" which has the Prof G Show which is a business orientated channel he does with Ed Elson. He also does Raging Moderates with Jessica Tarlov. He's also been on the Daily Show and done several TED talks. Since you guys have 1.64M Subscribers I think he might jump at the chance to be on your show, but NOT if your gonna be DlCKS.
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  8164. I agree they wanted to stomp on the progressives, but that's simply their corporate masters flexing their power. But I don't think anybody actually wants Trump back in except Trump supporters.
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  8165.  @matthewfusaro2590  I think you're right on every point. There is another point others made recently. What happens if Trump runs in 2024 and LOSES AGAIN? Does he just finally go away or does he do something worse?
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  8166.  @teresaf991  Yeah and its now March 5th and WHAT was it that kinda didna happen. I heard there was supposed to be this thing yesterday in Washington. You know that thing that people do when they get elected. ☝😲 Impeachment? No that's the other thing. Um. Um. Arrrgggh. What do you call it when they all get together In Washington and the new guy puts is hand on the good book and says the good words????? I heard from these guys 'P" and 'R' that they were sure it was gonna happen. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8167. VERY SIMPLE QUESTION: Where is she getting this from? Either she's delusional (as in mentally sick) and making stuff up or this was told to her by someone she trusts enough to repeat it. Look at how she's talking and she doesn't seem or sound mentally ill. So I tend to think she is being told this by people she trusts or hearing from sources she feels are reliable.
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  8168.  @AaronWitt  I worked on the Commissioning of Yandi Junction South East, The T155 Port Expansion for Fortescue and did a stint in operations at Tom Price. You have made a mistake. We don't export a million tons per day. We export (in recent years) between 900 and 950 Million tons a year and with 365 days in a year that's is around 2.5 million tons a day. Here's a fun thing to discuss at some point. I work in control systems but my degree is in aerospace. I actually went into our mining because back in 2002 I met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) and he basically told me that mining for Helium-3 on the moon was being seriously considered. So I went off for some mining experience. Along the way got a lesson in reality. Jumping forward I heard Jeff Bezos (the other billionaire space clown) say he wanted to shift heavy industry into Low Earth Orbit where there'd be unlimited power and waste is not an issue, because it just floats away. Problem and I learnt this from working in our mining industry. Iron ore is between 50% and about 95% iron depending on the grade, but mostly its around 70% which is a very convenient number. At 70% 20tons of ore has about 14t of iron in it and 14 t is what the Space Shuttle could bring down as payload. Goin up it could take 30t but landing was limited to 14t So a mine like Tom Price that produces 20 million tons a year would need 1 million space shuttle flights to take the ore up and bring the iron back. Even if we magically came up with something 100 times better than the Space Shuttle we'd still need 10,000 flights a year. And that's just the easy problem to understand. That's what an aerospace engineer got from working in the Australian mining industry - REALITY. FYI - Since you're American. I did my degree at U. of Illinois. Go Illini.
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  8169.  @somethinglikethat2176  They are relying on the old airplane or pyramid scheme if you want to call it that. Another word for it is "the next loser" "lucky loser" or "hot potato" where they pump up the price for something everybody wins except the last person left holding the potato who gets their fingers burned, because they are left with the all the expenses of everyone else's profits The subprime housing market was all based on it and the current Chinese property boom is based on it. Most real estate booms are based on it. These people rely on people thinking that they will never be the last person in line, but these bubble games always burst and there's always somebody who's the last person in line. This is why pyramid schemes are outlawed in many countries as well as multi-level marketing.
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  8170. As an Australian the reason there are still British is inbreeding. Its been there a long time in the British aristocracy and these days its pretty much everywhere. Its why people left for America, Australia and other places. Its why you gotta be careful about mother and sister jokes with the Brits.
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  8171.  @Mark28644  I'm Australian descended from Anglo-Saxon-Pictish-Breton stock. When I was in high school we studied British History from Roman times right through to the 20th century. Almost any Australian over 40 has a reasonable idea about British history. I went to college in America and for most of them history started in 1620 when the Pilgrim fathers landed. Everything before that is the dark ages except for those 34 years starting around 2022 years ago. I'd leave the rest of Britain out of the inbreeding issue except we've all seen British football fans. We don't suspect the cricket fans because we know they can at least count. We've tried eliminating it here too, but without luck. It still persists in a few places like Tasmania and some inner city hot spots like Collingwood and Cronulla.
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  8172.  @ChinaUpdate  I AM BLOCKING THIS SHlTBAG CHANNEL BECAUSE NOTHING THIS GUY EVER SAYS COME TRUE. ITS JUST ANOTHER ANNOYING CLICKBAIT CRAP CHANNEL and YouTube already has 100,000 of those.
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  8173. CONTROL SYSTEMS ENGINEER HERE: This is yet ANOTHER of Sabines rants on Hydrogen which is WRONG. FIRST: I started with a degree in aerospace but have worked for over 30 years in industrial control systems. I am formally trained in Electrical Equipment for Hazardous Areas (EEHA). In this context a hazardous area is one in which there is a potentially explosive gas, dust or gas and dust mix either on a persistent on intermittent basis. I am also formally trained and previously certified by TUV Rhineland in Functional Safety so I am well versed in preventing plants going bang. So UNLIKE Sabine I am formally trained in the design and handling of gases like methane and hydrogen. Sabine is RIGHT about a couple of things. Hydrogen is hard to engineer around, but so are many other things like nuclear power and natural gas plants. Among the most dangerous are Ethylene (C2H4) plants which was considered for use as rocket fuel but it was more dangerous than hydrogen. However - For most situations we have standards and practices that allow these plants to be built and operated safely. The real danger with any high risk process are people who think they don't have to follow the standards. For reference - NASA used hydrogen in the Apollo program. That's how long we have been able to SAFELY use hydrogen. An area where I do agree with Sabine is that hydrogen is not well suited to cars, trucks, vans, buses,...etc. In fact I am dead against those applications because I believe bad accidents are inevitable. There'll be a flash, followed by a bang and car will vanish. The cost of re-training all the mechanics and making safe fuel stations will be too much. Another Area where Sabine and I agree is in aviation. Back in the 1990s when there was a push to get the airlines off Jet Fuel there was a lot of research into replacing it with hydrogen. WHAT Sabine conveniently ignores is that companies like GE, Pratt & Witney, Rolls Royce and others sorted out all the issues with using hydrogen in gas turbines. The reason why they never used it in jets was the fuel tank issues in the jet combined with re-fuelling on the ground. BUT LIKE APOLLO THEY WORKED OUT THE ENGINE ISSUES. ON GRID LEVEL POWER is where I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH SABINE. Simply put if we don't use hydrogen then what do we use? Right now both GE and Siemens offer gas turbines that can run up to 50% Hydrogen in combination with natural gas without any modifications to the engine. These engines get almost 65% thermal efficiency when use as combined cycle generators. Combined cycle is where they use the exhaust form the turbine to boil water to feed to a steam turbine. Also the current generation of electrolyser technology is around 85% efficient and there's newer systems that are getting almost 95% efficiency. As for the transportation and compression costs. NEWS FLASH all gas systems have that issue. How do you think they pump the gas from the gas well to your house? They burn some of the gas in a turbine that drives a compressor (usually a roots type). How about the costs of cooling natural gas down to a liquid to put it on ships and transport it across oceans? How much does that reduce the overall system efficiency? THIS IS ACTUALLY THE THING THAT SABINE HAS SAID THAT REALLY IS GARBAGE AND SHE KNOWS IT. She's NOT telling you the thermal efficiency of other systems or the losses involved because if she did you'd all realise just how inefficient some of our systems are. Go look at the French EPR Nuclear Reactors. You can see the design data on the Wikipedia page for Hinkley Point C. See that the thermal power is 4,524 MWt and the electrical output is 1,630 MWe. The small t is for thermal and the small e is for electrical power. That's an efficiency of 1,630/4,524 x 100 = 36%. Take not that's the latest Gen IV design for nuclear power. I doubt any of the previous generations were better. And that figure of 36% does not include the energy used in mining, processing and creating the fuel rods. It also does not include the un-spent uranium in the fuel rods. To put that into perspective the last time I heard about the efficiency for coal fired plants they were claiming just over 42%, but I have since read there's claims they can get over 45% which is about equal with a gas turbine WITHOUT a cogeneration system attached. SORRY BUT THIS IS A BULLSHlT VIDEO by a physicist who's deliberately NOT explaining what the alternatives deliver. Its a shame because I normally like Sabines work, but she seems to have an unusual bug regarding hydrogen.
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  8174.  @squoblat  Its not so much pie in the sky but willful ignorance. People like Zubrin have enough background and education that they should know better. That's what I don't like about him and I know others don't like him for similar reasons. I get he wants to raise money for his Mars Society but not this way because its so misleading. Just look at some of the comments on this page to see how badly they have sucked in some people. There is way too much of that in technology fields already and the media are just brainless dupes. I feel like about 80% of all media stories about technologies are PR stunts trying to raise money. At least Zubrin's not the complete charlatan that Bas Lansdorp (Founder of Mars One) was. When that collapsed he somehow walked away with about $10 million.
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  8175.  @trajan098117  Look through the comments. Its almost diametric opposites between the people who can't tell the difference between science and science fiction.
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  8176. I am an engineer here's the answer to your challenge. And so we are clear I have already challenged Gerrard to a public debate and so far he's said nothing but they did delete all my comments from this page. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  8177. Its the messaging. I was just watching Kyles vid on the Dems slam ad on Trump and somebody made the simple comment that the Left need to have better messaging more consistently. This is common across the world. I'm Australian and we have the same problem here. I've seen some of what's happened in Britain and they have a similar problem. The Right everywhere have simple more effective straight forward messaging that taps directly into the wilful ignorance of their base. "We'll give you stuff. They'll take your stuff." And it works.
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  8178. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: You can't imagine how damn hard it now is to get people to see any sense in what is and isn't actual reality. Its truly staggering how many people want to lecture engineers about how to engineer things or tell engineers that something is real because they saw it in a movie or on the internet. Here's 3 examples of things I have seen where ADULTS have been sucked in by this sort of nonsense. I had an argument 2 days ago with a clown who was adamant that Australia already has Small Modular Reactors operating in the country at military bases. Strange thing is that ALL the companies who are promoting SMRs as a FUTURE energy solution are saying they HOPE to be in production by the mid 2030s but somehow according to the clown Australia has manged to time warp a few. Just yesterday I saw that 60 Minutes (America) has done a story on 3D printing for houses. They implied that this young Texas Entrepreneur was doing "ground breaking" and "game changing" work that could solve the housing problem and build a moon base. Its not new technology its been around for at least a decade and there are dozens of companies doing it across the world. Its also a technology that wont work in the near vacuum of the moon. BUT IT MAKES for good TV. BUT my all time suck job for bad technology in the media was the American company Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes. Not only did everyone ignore she was a college drop out AND that her father had been one of the key people at Enron when it collapsed but they all forgot the film "Gattaca" with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman where they had "Hollywood technology" that could instantly do a full genetic map of a person and tell them EVERYTHING that was genetically or medically wrong from a single drop of blood. YES Elizabeth Holmes COPIED her idea from a Hollywood film and people handed valued her at US$9 Billion.
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  8179. I was about to jump on that comment and then stopped. YOU ARE RIGHT. There's an obsession in the media with people who are in the media in either entertainment, sports, politics,.... or ANY of those people with PUBLIC presence, just get salacious media attention that belittles all the other occurrences in our society. Gabby Petito's story is tragic, but I wonder if she wasn't in the media with a presence would this be a large public story at all. I'm in Australia and yet another sports star got into a public spat with his girlfriend recently. It got front page & leading stories coverage. If that story didn't involve a high profile person (irrespective of what that profile is) we would never have heard about it.
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  8180.  @fedos  Good point, I missed that. Its actually a very sad aspect of how our societies value some people and not ALL people. If you think about it we quite happily pay entertainers, sports stars,...etc. millions of dollars but then complain about the costs of important services like doctors. But then don't forget that the people you are referring to are getting their opinions formed from information in the media. Never forget that people can only ever form opinions from their own experiences and the information they have at hand. If either of those things are limited or tainted then its never goes or ends well.
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  8181. Kyle just as you describe - HE'S NOT WORTH ANYONE'S TIME. So why don't you just stop posting this crap or at least shortening it down to 2 or 3 minutes. 9 minutes on this loser is at least 6 minutes too long.
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  8182.  @waltergrace565  Not new at all. I have watched Kyle for a couple of years now. Like Kyle I'm tired of the Dave Rubin stories. A few stories ago Kyle related how he encountered him at Justice Dems and all Rubin was about was attention. Rubin's a classic underachieving attention seeker and nobody should waste time on him.
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  8183. ​ @acidbot666  Yeah but even Jeff loses sight of practicality at times, which is an easy thing to do. I'm 100% in agreement with him that the West has mishandled its affairs with Russia. But as to how Vladimir Putin has behaved I have no doubt that's 100% his own making There's a line by Jack Nicholson in the film "A few Good Men." His character is utterly disgusting but he makes several poignant remarks. During the trial when he's snapping back he makes the point that our world has borders and despite all we'd like to think those borders need guarding. The simple fact is there are political leaders who always think they can invade somewhere or take something or get away with something and sometimes that something is incredibly vile. Vladimir Putin has (over the years) proven time and time again he is utterly ruthless and cannot be trusted. As horrible as that is we have to accept this is the world we live in. I really like Jeff but wish he'd be a bit more pragmatic at times.
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  8184.  @acidbot666  As for NATO being on the borders of Russia. Don't forget what the Russians did to those countries for almost 50 years. There's a good reason those countries HATE the Russians and its the same type of hate a lot of people have for America. After 9/11 the Americans bemoaned and wondered about why people in the Middle East hated them. There was an endless stream of clowns proclaiming to the world "Why do they hate us? We gave them Freedom and Democracy." The simple fact is they didn't give those people Freedom and Democracy they gave them military dictatorships. More often than not those countries HAD Democratically elected governments that the CIA overthrew - Iran, Chile, Indonesia, Guatemala,... all had democratically elected governments the CIA overthrew. The Russians overthrew ALL OF EASTERN EUROPE and then proceeded to enslave their populations imprisoning and/or killing ANYONE who disagreed. And the whole time they told everyone they were freeing them from the bourgeois capitalists and the debauchery, decadence and rock & roll. Different SHlT but the SAME STINK.
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  8185.  @linusverclyte4988  Are you throwing that comment about studying in America at me or someone else? Because if you are you shove it back down your ignorant throat.
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  8186.  @BS-vm5bt  Buddy I'm Australian and the French might be good when it comes to THEIR OWN spending but they can be downright horrible when it comes to other countries buying French systems. Back in day we bought French Mirage Jet fighters and they screwed us so many different ways that we were never really going to go with French ever again. Then when we did try with the submarines they tired to screw us again. BUT in their defence I would say that our military procurement people are hopeless and have been hopeless for decades. On top of that the American's are screwing us even worse on the submarines and that's after being totally screwed on the F35. Its like going from someone screwing you with something so big an elephant would feel it to being screwed with something so big a whale would feel it.
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  8187.  @nn-hx8oe  WHY DON'T YOU TELL US ALL WHAT YOUR SOURCE OF WISDOM IS? Is it pro-Trump Fox, Skynews, OAN, Newsmax? OR Is it pro-Putin RT? Your mouthing off at people, hiding behind a pseudonym AND not telling anyone who you listen too. FYI - I don't watch CNN. EXPOSED
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  8188.  @nn-hx8oe  WELL YOU STILL HAVEN'T TOLD US YOUR SOURCE. You've spewed out another pile of incoherent crap and garbage. You can't even form clear sentences or use punctuation properly. Anyone can see your the person repeating what others have told you. Go back to school and learn to read, write and think before you mouth off at others. I hear they are taking new students at Prager U.
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  8189.  @yvonneplant9434  I agree. Way back not long after Trump won 2016 Masha was on the Australian TV program "Planet America" and gave the best explanation that I saw anyone give on that whole fiasco. Masha explained that in Putin's experience elections are decided before election day. Election day is just a confirmation exercise and that's how it works in the Russian version of democracy. Way to often we think (and particularly Americans) there is one version of democracy. In Putin's brain Hilary had already won months and months beforehand. Everything else was just theatre because that how he thinks. So what was Putin doing hacking emails handing stuff to Trump's people? We all tend to forget that Hilary in her career of upsetting people had also slapped Russia (including Putin) with sanctions while she was SecState. PLUS Putin hated the fact that America had undermined and helped trash his glorious Soviet Empire. So he hated her. PLUS Soviet political strategy all through the cold war was "We are unpredictable while America is predictable." So having a lose cannon like Trump in the White House wasn't what Putin wanted. Putin wanted a predictable America he could play the classic Soviet games with. Just imagine what would have happened if Comey had kept quiet about finding the laptop with emails and then Hilary had won. Consider what Trump and the GOP would have done once the Russians started releasing proof that Comey had withheld vital information that helped Hilary win. Can you imagine how Trump and the GOP would have taken that? That's what is great about people like Masha, Julia and Konstantin Kisin. They understand Russian culture because they were all born into Russian culture. For almost 30 years we have been trying to put Russian politics into a Western Democratic Model. Its like trying to run Apple Software on a Windows PC - it doesn't work.
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  8190.  @twatts1523  What, gives you that impression? How does anyone who understands their subject mean they're a spook? I think you're stretching reality a bit too far.
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  8191. Actually the Americans were saying form the first day that Ukraine wanted F16s that it would take at least a year to train pilots AND ALSO TRAIN GROUND CREWS. This is actually a major lesson in systems like the F35 which is even more complex and requires even higher levels of skills to maintain than the F16. There's several videos on the Swedish Saab JAS 39 Gripen. It was purposefully designed to operate of normal roads and be serviceable by a small crew with just 1 highly trained engineer and a the rest reservists. Because of how they were designed and how they are operated the F16 needs very good runways and a seriously well trained ground crew.
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  8192. Vice President Henry A. Wallace wrote in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  8193. As an aerospace engineer compared to the crap level being produced these days about space flight its so much better that its like comparing Will Smith in Shark Tale to a Jacques Cousteau. Some of the garbage being sold to the public these days is so pathetically far from reality that its possible to claim fraud on several organisations. Just ask any engineer how many times they have had to correct family and friends on reality, because somebody saw something on YouTube, TV or a movie?
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  8194. AUSTRALIAN HERE: I am not going to apologise for this cretin. He's simply reiterating in a very blunt way the same garbage that Larry Summers said to Jon Stewart recently about needing to sack lots of workers. Its also the same sentiment the new head of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Michele Bullock said on her first day in the job. For those who don't know the RBA is Australia's equivalent of the Federal Reserve in America. Its our Central bank and Michele Bullock's position is very similar to Janet Yellen's which is also a job Larry Summers held. Economically this is the neoliberal pro-privatisation brigade of economists trying to hide the fact that their policies of off-shoring and global supply chains with NO back-up capacity that's caused the inflation. Current inflation has been caused by interruptions to fragile supply chains coupled with ruthless opportunistic profiteering. Its had nothing to do with working class wages or employment rates and that is being found out EVERWHERE not just America or Australia. FYI - I am an engineer who used to work in manufacturing so I'm very familiar with HOW supply chains actually FUNCTION and OPERATE. I can state very clearly that economists haven't any idea about how to manufacture or build a damn thing other than the bank balances of the top 10% of society.
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  8195. I wonder if he was a different skin color or just simply poor and less well connected if would be the same?
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  8196.  @nomiddlenamenmn427  Here's something and its sort of obvious that 45's limit is 45. Kari Lake age 53 Melania Trump age 52 Nikki Haley age 50 Marjorie Taylor Greene age 48 Stormy Daniels age 43 Ivanka Trump age 41 Hope Hicks age 34
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  8197.  @shadowstalker1515  I am certain Kyle covered it at the time. But there was that event where MTG ambushed a kid in the street and started harassing them about the guns in schools and school shootings.
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  8198. At the very least this is a talking point worth having.
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  8199. Yeah the stupidity of Megyn's claim is when did anyone's daughter walk into a locker room and be confronted by a naked man AS A RESULT of anything Joe Biden did? We can certainly ask Megyn: How many women were sexually confronted or sexually insulted or sexually assaulted by Donald J Trump? That list should also include Megyn Kelly or has she forgotten Trumps comments about her after one of the debates in 2015 when he said she had “blood coming out of her wherever.” You can still find that quote by googling "donald trump megyn kelly blood" like I just did.
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  8200. Reagan said a lot of things that sounded great BUT IN PRACTICE America trampled all over those ideals whenever it was convenient.
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  8201. Yes and No. I'm Australian (just to be clear) so I see the whole Israel-Palestinian situation from a distance. Without any doubt its a mess and has been made into a mess by elements on BOTH SIDES who only have 1 version and that's the elimination and extermination of the other side. The problem with such people in ANY situation is that they see anybody who disagrees with them as being the worst thing in the world. What many people on the Arabic side forget is that it was the Arab League who voted against the 2 state solution when the British decided to give Palestine (as it was then known) independence. They took the stance that they wanted 100% or nothing and they got nothing. What many people on the Israeli side DONT see is that that the rest of the world has heard for 70 years how the Germans tried to exterminate them and now we see how the IDF shoot children and don't care if its being filmed. BOTH SIDES in this conflict have blood on their hands and have behaved disgustingly at times. So long as both sides let fanatics have any say this wont end.
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  8202.  @candeegallagher560  Its a fair question and you're dead wrong if Ivana was a brunette that bleached her hair we'd have seen the dark roots long ago. SO WHY DON'T YOU STOP THE NONSENSE. Why don't you stop making excuses for a family of liars and cheats. You're only embarrassing yourself to the whole world.
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  8203. Looking through the comments here there's a common mistake. You've all equated or linked HONESTY to intellectual capability or intelligence. After completing my degree in aerospace I got 2 scholarships for a Masters followed by a PhD. Just as my Masters was in review I was defrauded by the head of department. Then my new PhD supervisor took money from my scholarship funds to buy plane tickets to a conference. When I confronted him he looked my in the face and said "This is how the system works. Get used to it." These were very smart people with very high intellectual capacity and yet they were also DISHONEST. Go and look at the scandals in Universities and academic dishonesty. Its no different than the corruption or malpractice that happens in other professions like the police, doctors and government. Look at the disaster of FTX. SBF and his friends were all very smart intellectual types with degrees from good universities and yet they have been incredibly dishonest. Go look at the 2008 GFC and all the very smart Harvard, Yale & Columbia types who literally stole billions. They did nothing but lie. As an engineer I have worked with a lot of people on shop floors and in factories. Many could barely pass high school and yet they are among the most honest & decent people I have ever met in my life.
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  8204.  @justinboyan573  NO because they are regional like the EU is regional and the NAFTA was regional. Regional things are very different because of shared borders, shared security, shared natural disasters,.... CANZUK is 1950s throwback. We already have the British Commonwealth which has a staggering population and staggering resource wealth. If you are going to do something why would you throw that away. People don't realise that the British Commonwealth has almost 1/3 of the worlds population at 2.4 billion ->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations One of the things the Chinese laugh at with the Americans. China has reached the point where its own internal markets dwarf America. There's 1.4 billion Chinese and 328 million Americans who buys more Apple iPhones? If the British Commonwealth became a trading block it starts with an extra billion over China, massive resources and a broad mix of labor and skills. To want something where you exclude 2.2 Billion people is so farqing stupid. I'm Australian of Anglo Saxon descent and when you strip below the surface CANZUK is a throw back to white British colonialism and that shit doesn't work for anyone except the most ignorant of people. I was working in Canada 3 years ago and they wont buy into it. I know plenty of Kiwis and they wont buy into it. I know plenty of Seth Ifricans they wouldn't believe anybody could be that stupid.
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  8205.  @cousinjack2841  Yeah fine, but somethings of note from all you pro-CANZUKers. You keep saying I am wrong but never explaining where or how. You never argue any points, maybe because you have none. You keep claiming it will work but never explaining how and that's maybe because you have NO CLUE on how it could work. Why don't you get out from under your little rock and actually say something other than a cheap gutless insults. You clowns want to exclude 2.2 billion people from an economy because they aren't up to some standard that you haven't explained. Do you know that for the past 20+ years those are 2.2 billion people who are experiencing real growth. Australia's, New Zealand's, and Canada's growth is all linked to the growth of China. The next major population to grow is India and you idiots want to exclude 1.3 billion of them. After India there's the other 900million in the commonwealth and you want to exclude them as well. You CLOWNS are so IGNORANT and PATHETIC its embarrassing.
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  8206.  Jack Jones  In what am I a snowflake? All you have done like the rest of your kind is open your mouth and said nothing. Your the one melting down because you can't deal with FACTS. This is the problem with far right wankers, and the clowns from the equally idiotic far left neither of you can handle FACTS. The biggest problem the rest of us have is trying to figure out if you're ignorant, stupid or both. CANZUK is trying to go backwards to a bullshit fantasy that never existed in the first place. You idiots think telling over 2.2 billion people to FK-off is somehow smart. How come NONE OF YOU can explain how CANZUK is a good thing?
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  8207. @Bob Saunders That would be one of the smarter things to consider. It doesn't take anybody long to check the unit costs (they are all on Wikipedia). Here's the unit costs (from Wikipedia) converted to Australian $ British Astute -$3.48B (from $2.65 US 2015 est.) French Barracuda - $2.04B (from 2014 est.) US Virginia Class - $3.68B (basicUS Virginia Class - $4.47B (w/- VPM vertical payload module) Australia's new Attack class were to cost ~$4.6B each when the project was first costed at $55B they are now expected to cost $7.5B with the project now at $90B. The smartest thing we could do is simply by 12 Barracudas (that's even if we actually need 12 anyway) and save about $65 Billion. That would leave a lot of money for Hospitals, Schools, Power Stations - you know the stuff we actually need.
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  8208. @Bob Saunders The whole ToT issue is mute. No matter what we buy for our military it comes with the technology and we have to know how to maintain it. Its that same for almost any technology that we import. Nobody imports black boxes. You might import something where the supplier also set sup shop to support and that happens - look at mining industry and the number of foreign companies who set up shops in Perth. I started with a degree in aerospace but have worked in automation & control systems for 30+ years. Honeywell's (massive American company) main center for mineral technology is in Perth. It started there to support the Aluminum industry and has just grown. Yokogawa (massive Japanese competitor of Honeywell) has its mineral technology center in Chile, because they went there to support the copper mining. So it wont matter if we got SSNs from the UK, France, America or even Russia. They'll set up a support base here. As to the NUMBER - 12 subs, that came from a 2009 white paper. Its still available for public download and the justification for 12 is in 2 paragraphs and all it amounts to is that some moron simply said "lets double the fleet." Its right there on page 64 parts 8.39 and 8.40. You'd think the justification for $90 Billion and the largest single expenditure in our history would be more than 1/2 a page in a 144 page document. https://www.defence.gov.au/whitepaper/2009/
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  8209.  @garynew9637  In what way? You'd be right if you consdier Africa a political basket case but its resources are staggering in raw materials, arable land and people. I was in China 3 years ago for a short business trip and one morning I was discussing the issue of job loses from Australia to China with the interpreter. She told me a couple of interesting things including that China rarely had to offer cheap labor as western companies came looking for it. BUT the odd thing she said was that the Chinese were worried that the same western companies were now looking for even cheaper labor IN AFRICA. She told me it had many Chinese workers scared for their jobs and she described in EXACTLY the same terms Australian workers describe losing their jobs to China. That's one of the big fallacies of CANZUK it totally ignores what many multi-national companies ALREADY VALUE. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8210. There's a great example here on YT in one of the rare TEDx talks by an actual AI developer. They tried to get an AI to recognise fish. So they kept showing the AI pictures of people holding up fish. When the AI failed to learn how to identify fish as opposed to other animals they found what it did recognise as fish were the BACKs of people's hands. When they went back and checked the photos the AI was trained on the photos with fish were all photos of people holding up fish and the MOST CONSISTENT recognisable item in the photos were the backs of the hands of the people holding up the fish. This is one of the great lessons regarding these Large Language Models and other AI. What they actually do is AVERAGE OUT THE DATA SET THEY ARE TRAINED ON by looking for common features and patterns. This is one reason why ChatGPT has been called a Stochastic Parrot because its just a means to average out the information it has access to (which is the Stochastic Part) and then just puts the result out without any real though to what its doing (which is the Parrot Part). Remember parrots just respond to a stimulus and then speak without any understanding. That's why they call ChatGPT a Stochastic Parrot.
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  8211. I agree the entire Nobel prizes system is now so corrupt and bent and twisted that its meaningless. The fact they not only awarded the Peace Prize to a monster like Kissinger is just the start of a very long list of hypocritical winners. In that vein 3 of the most ridiculous I know of are: - Barrack Obama got the Peace Prize as he was increasing drone strikes that lead to more innocent lives being lost. - William Nordhaus won the economics prize for his modelling of climate change economics despite the fact he was instrumental in scuttling climate change policies during the Bush Whitehouse in the early 90s. - Milton Freidman who with Kissinger worked with Pinochet and re-wrote the economics of Chile and that's before anyone starts discussing what Freidman's garbage has done to the rest of Western Society.
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  8212. CAN YOU CLOWNS WITH ECONOMICS and FINANCE backgrounds please *STOP PREACHING technological solutions to issues you don't understand and LEAVE it to the ENGINEERS.* As an engineer who has worked in manufacturing, mining, water treatment and other industries as a control system and automation engineer some of your points are valid and others are so egregiously wrong its barely containable. 1) DO NOT say that nuclear power has zero emissions. I spent 9 months on a Uranium mine doing a water treatment plant and Uranium mining is NOT a zero emission task. Its an idiotic trope perpetuated by ignorant clowns. Its just as idiotic as the clowns who say wind and solar have zero emissions. EVERYTHIGN has some form of emission. Its just some are worse than others. 2) Do NOT as so many others do claim that one technology or another is the ONLY SOLUTION. This is one of the most frustrating tropes engineers have to deal with. Its mostly perpetuated by greedy clowns out to raise money for their projects just like your sponsor MCF needs money to do their projects. Simple fact - some countries are great for wind, others solar, others hydro-electric, others are rich in fossil fuels and some have uranium reserves. Most countries have something in the way of energy they can tap into provided they have the expertise to do so and that expertise is more often than not a matter of their education system not anything else. Claiming that the investment in wind and solar was futile is the same argument that can be made for EVERY OTHER ENERGY OPTION. This is the one solution stupidity that too many people have claimed 3) Natural gas is NOT just used for energy. You even put up a slide showing all the everyday products that come from the petrochemical industry. BASF is not closing its German operations and moving to Louisiana because of labor its closing them because of raw material supply and their biggest raw materials are oil & gas. In the end this is nothing but a shit PR job for a company trying to raise capital. In that you are no different to so many of the other YouTube and other social media hype merchants.
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  8213. Remember when he warned North Korea about how his "big red button worked?" I wonder if the little fat maniac who runs NK realises just how lucky he is to still have a country to oppress?????
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  8214. To andrew joyner I don't know if you found it, but the comment starts at 1:08:20 where Konstantin says I have cut and pasted this from the transcript. The italics, punctuation and bold text are mine. _"The thing is that philosophically speaking the progressive ideology doesn't believe in the existence of bad people. There are no bad people in the Progressive mindset there are people who've been failed by the system."_ Its a statement about social psychology that he's attached a political label to. Yes it can be related to politics, but to suddenly claim that anyone who believes "we need to make progress" believes in this philosophical nonsense about good and bad is ridiculous. I get that Konstantin doesn't like people on the left and I can't blame him. David Pakman (who claims to be a progressive) took a real cheap shot at both Konstantin and Francis recently, after he was on Triggernometry. It was a really cheap shot and I (and others) vented on Pakman's channel. I watch Pakman quite a lot and it was by far his worst ever video. He's normally good but on couple of times he's tried to click bait the "Progressive ...... it didn't go well" theme and its backfired every time. And that time it didn't just backfire it was just pure shite.
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  8215.  @commonsenseskeptic  Fair call. I put together a proposal for the Australian Space Agency and I contacted him via LinkedIn. It was only a few conversations because I was interested in the reusable rocket engines. It didn't go far as he'd not only left XCOR but put it all behind him. Its why I see this as a shame because what he did achieve with the Rocket Racer was pretty extraordinary. If you are interested I'll give you 3 Space subjects below. Pick 1, pick none pick all 3 - your choice.
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  8216.  @commonsenseskeptic  Case 1 of Space BS: Mining Asteroids Part 1 - Logistics. Other than the fact nobody has ever brought back to Earth any more than a few grams of space dust there's the simple task of logistics. Most people have no idea how much stuff we actually dig up each year and turn into cars, boats, planes and all the other toys our society wants. Just so you know current world production of iron ore is just over 3,000,000,000 or a 3,000 Mta (million tons per annum) of which China does 1,200 Mta and Australia 825 Mta which accounts for 2/3rds of world supply. According to Forbes: "16 Psyche—a 140-mile-wide/226-kilometer-wide asteroid—could contain a core of iron, nickel and gold worth $10,000 quadrillion." Other than the logistics and for the sake of math we assume that only 50% of that value is iron. At $100 USD per ton of iron ore that's something like 100 Quadrillion tons equivalent of iron ore. When we only need 3 Trillion tons a year a 100 Quadrillion tons is 33,000 years worth. Even if someone at Forbes got there comma in the wrong place and its only $10 Quadrillion in value not 10,000 then its only 100 trillion tons or 33 YEARS of iron ore. Australia has a single deposit called Yandi creek. Its a part of the earth that split open at some point way way back in time and a pile of magma flowed out and formed an ore body that winds it way over 150km across the Australian outback. Its 100s of meters wide and 100s of meters deep. Yandi has more than a century's worth of iron ore and its just one of our major iron ore reserves and NOBODY needs to fly million of kilometers across space to get it. Plus we ALREADY have the train lines and ports to get it out to the rest of the world. Plus NOBODY needs a space suit costing millions for their PPE.
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  8217.  @commonsenseskeptic  Case 3 of Space BS: Star Wars - the Ronald Regan Type. Just a week ago an Australian journalist warned that we need these new AUKUS submarines because China was building a new high tech military including SPACE LASERS. Only a week before that at a military conference and trade show the head of Australia's military space program said "they were looking at satellite soft kill systems" So you know I did my degree in aerospace in the late 80s when Ronnie Brainspace Reagan was spending huge on space lasers and anything else anyone could suggest that might knock an ICBM out. Other than all the ridiculously hard classes in math, aerodynamics, propulsion,... etc the hardest class I had was one of my electives. Most people did orbital mechanics but a few of us did "Space Craft Dynamics" because we thought controlling how space craft flew about would be "cool." We were so very very wrong. 3/4 of the class were post grads and they struggled. Its applied maths at a level that is staggering high. BUT, One of those post graduates was easily the smartest engineering mathematician I have ever seen and that includes the guys who were doing the funky Computational Fluid Dynamics on the Cray Supercomputer. His specialty was being able to get a space craft turn, point and track WITHOUT wobbling. ALL spacecraft FLEX when they roll, pitch, and yaw or are under thrust and that flexing results in wobbling. Most of the time that's irrelevant, but if you are trying to hit an ICBM that's several 100km (at best) to several 1,000km away with a speed differential measured in kilometers per second its required to point very accurately. Laser, microwave of projectile is irrelevant - you have to point accurately. This postgrad worked out how to cancel out wobbles with counter moves. Don't aske me to explain that math its on the verge of insane. Its involves simultaneous partial differential equations in 3-D polar coordinates with transformations into the cartesian Roll/Pitch/Yaw/translate of the vehicle. Then it has the anti-wobble dynamics on top of that, which is another set of 3-D simultaneous partial differential equations. Yes I spent 4 months in a class with the one guy and his professor who could make space based weapons POINT well enough to be on the fringe of feasible, but even after that there's some very basic problems. ISSUE 1 - Space Lasers. Despite the fact we might be able to make a space laser point where it needs to point and we might even be able to give it enough power to do something at range, there's 2 very simple counters to a space laser. 1) be shiny because light reflects off shiny surfaces. 2) roll slowly because lasers need time to burn through which means they need to be very much on the same spot NOT just on target. ISSUE 2 - Microwave & EM interference with onboard electronics. Despite how snazzy this sounds people forget that space is already an environment needing lost of shielding from EM and other radiation. So trying to punch through with Microwaves or EM is like trying to punch through a tank with a bow and arrow. ISSUE 3 - Hard Kill also known as the dumbest thing anyone can do. Yeah not going to happen unless you want to make Space unusable for everyone for decades. Been tried and can work but also has disastrous consequences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome#Anti-satellite_missile_tests
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  8218. Case 4 of Space BS: Off World Heavy Industry a Jeff Bezos favorite. Yeah good old jeff sayin he wants to move things like iron smelting off world where there's unlimited solar power and nobody has to worry about pollution. Remember the Tom Price mine a mentioned a couple of chapters back?? 20Mta (million tons per annum) is a great easy number to use because thanks to the Space Shuttle it makes the math so easy an economist could get it. Reasonable quality iron ore is about 60-65% iron content. Good quality is around 70% really high grades are above that. 70% makes the math easy because 70% of 20 is 14. The Space Shuttle could take off with a payload of 30tons, but it could only land with 14tons of payload. So it doesn't matter how many flights it takes to get the the 20Mta from a mine like Tom Price up to a processing facility in LEO (low earth orbit) its how many it takes to get the 14 Million tons back down. 14,000,000 tons divided by 14 tons per flight = 1,000,000 flights. Now sure we could have something 10 times better or even 100 times better than a space shuttle but that's irrelevant because even at 100 times better than a Space Shuttle its still 10,000 flights or about 200 flights per week and considering in 30 years the Space Shuttle only did 135 flights that's kind of difficult. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE. Tom Price is 20 Mta and Australia exports over 820 Mta so Tom Price rounds to about 1/41st of Australia's output. So those 10,000 flights with the imaginary super shuttle is actually about 410,000 flights and the rest of the world almost quadruples that number. Cos trying to bring back around 2 Billion tons of iron isn't easy. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE. If you do the kinetic energy calculation of 2 Billion tons of processed iron in orbit doing 7.5 kilometers per second. Its 5.625 x 10E16 Joules or the equivalent of around 950 of the Hiroshima bomb. To Bring that back down all that Kinetic Energy has to be dissipated. That's currently done with Air Friction and its burned off as HEAT. Yeah Jeff Bezos idea to save the planet from CO2 Emissions from iron ore production is to take iron production off planet and then effectively NUKE the upper atmosphere on a daily basis. Yeah - Sorry Mr. Bezos but that's NOT going to work.
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  8219. ​ @commonsenseskeptic  Case 5 of Space BS: Terraforming Mars. Back in college we had an alum who worked at NASA one day give a guest lecture on terraforming Mars. We were pumped and then he dumped on us some reality. He introduced us to what I now call "planetary mechanics" which is basically calculating how much stuff is present. Making a planet actually work is what I call "planetary dynamics" and involves making things like gas cycles, water cycles and ocean currents work so that life can be supported. Thankfully planetary mechanics is math anyone can understand. One thing that is very easy is to take the surface area of a planet in km² and then simply say the first km of atmosphere above the surface is the same number by km³. Yes you can calculate the volume of 2 spheres 1 with a radius 1km larger than the other and get an answer that's less 1% different. But the real point is to give people an idea of what is the volume of the gas that is in that 1km just above the surface. So Mars where one of your favorite clowns Elon Musk wants to go has a surface area of 144,370,000 km² That volume 1 km above the surface of Mars is 144,370,000 km³. 1 m³ of Earth Standard air is 1.2kg so 1km³ is just 9 zeros on that for kilos or 6 for tons. Either way 144,370,000 km³ of Earth Standard Air is 173,244,000,000,000 tons. So if Elon wants to terraform mars he's gonna need 173 Trillion tons of air and that's only for the first kilometer. Who knows what he will need if someone wants to climb up over the edge of Valles Marineris? I actually had one clown claim Elon would only need the Oxygen and none of the Nitrogen so I asked where Elon was going to get 36.4 Trillion tons of oxygen? I'm still waiting.
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  8220.  @commonsenseskeptic  I hope you like those 5 things. There are more and they aren't hard to find because as you keep showing time and again the basic math does not lie. Sure there are those who yell what about this or what about that and it might move the goal posts, BUT IT NEVER changes the outcome. Best to you. I love the channel. Keep doing what you are doing.
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  8221. To all of David's viewers this is not the first time this has happened. Dr. Michael Osterholm (director of CIDRAP) had a video deleted by YouTube that debunked many of the ridiculous claims being made. Yeah - one of the world's leading experts on Pandemic response had one of his videos deleted for explaining how various quack claims were wrong. As others have posted this is what happens when algorithms make decisions instead of people.
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  8222. That's fair based on the outcomes but it also ignores the fact that Guantanamo has become an evil FKing place. For the entire Cold War America preached to the world about justice, freedom and democracy and often pointed out these things the Russian had called Gulags. They were places the Russians sent people they didn't like without trials and rebutted anybody else who asked about them. The Cubans formally asked the Americans to leave Guantanamo but like the bad faith actor they can be they stayed like an illegal squatter. Now America has a prison, in a foreign country where they have been asked to leave. That prison has people in it who are there for no other reason than America "doesn't like them." Many have never been charged let alone seen a court room.
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  8223. SIMPLE FACT: We either learn to MANAGE the World's resources properly or we are going to see modern society collapse. I'm an engineer and this is the same basic issue facing many industries. FOR TOO LONG shirt term profits came before long term viability and that is causing so many problems. In engineering we have a range of techniques we collectively call ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS (RCA for short). If you have ever watched an accident investigation documentary where they trace an accident back to its initiating causes then you've seen this. About 6 years ago after a consulting job into Australia's (my country) energy sector I became aware of some very serious issues with our future. When I looked into HOW we had got to where we are (and its even worse now) I found that it started in the 1970s when Chicago School Economics in the guise of Reaganomics and Thatcherism took over as the dominant economic ideology. If you go and listen to REBEL economists like Steve Keen you'll hear that classical and neo-classical economists don't even include ENERGY in their models. As an engineer I find that absurd because we need energy to run everything. Every modern business in the world as at least 1 (usually electricity) and usually 2 (add in gas or oil) energy bills. I would add to Steve Keen's assessment that classical and neo-classical economists ALSO ignore the function of WATER in in the worlds economy. And if you are wondering - YES Australia has both very serious ENERGY and WATER issues and because the majority of our economists have NO UNDERSTANDING of HOW either energy or water make modern societies function.
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  8224. Go and watch the 2004 Documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" towards the end was a warning/prediction that as Rupert Murdoch dragged his media further and further into the gutter ALL THE OTHER media outlets would inevitably do the same thing to keep their viewers engaged. That was 20 years ago, long before the YouTube & Social media issue we now see, but its surreal to now watch this happen in real time. Just yesterday I watched Ian Bremmer talk about 2024s 10 biggest risks. One of those was the NEGATIVE effects of AI the worst of which is how our lives are becoming dominated by algorithms that decide what we'll read, watch and hear. What did David say about the clickbait titles all being driven by "the algorithm?"
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  8225. I remember that debate. You can see the whole thing if you search YouTube for "oxford union debate woke culture has gone too far" The person who is speaking at that debate is Konstantin Kisin and he was disgusting. Konstantin is the co-host of the Triggernometry podcast which until a few years ago was excellent. Their claim was "interesting people with interesting conversations" and when I first started watching them that's exactly what they were. Early in the Ukraine conflict Konstantin (who's of both Russian and Ukrainian descent) was part of a BBC discussion panel and he was brilliant. He gave some of the best perspectives I have seen anyone give on that conflict. There were 2 notable changes in Konstantin's behavior since then. Triggernometry interviewed David Pakman an American Leftist commentator and David Pakman did a disgusting troll video afterwards. Normally Pakman is accurate and balanced in his commentary but that video was totally unwarranted and unreasonable. Konstantin did a reply video where he showed how upset he was and he was justifiably upset. Around the same time Triggernometry interviewed Nigel Farage and not long afterwards started doing promotions for Nigel Farage's financial consultancy. It was after that Konstatin took a giant leap to the conservative side of public discussion and a lot of it has been utterly disgusting. He toured my home country of Australia on what's best described as a white supremacist culture crusade for a radical far right think tank.
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  8226. HEY PETER Can you please hire an engineer to help you out with this stuff so that none of us keep having to call you out on this stuff. 1) This is NOT a 5 minute 36 second issue. 2) There is going to be a massive double digit possibly triple digit $$$TRILLION build outs ANYWAY. 3) Thanks to all of the microphone hogging clowns with vested interests with big money backing NOBODY has done anything close to what they needed to do over the last 30 years. Those IDI0TS have tied everything up in endless discussions. AND my scorn for those people is aimed at BOTH SIDES. I hold the Greenie CLOWNS just as much contempt as the Fossil Fuel M0R0NS. 4) The easiest way for anyone to see the problem is to go and look at the lists of power stations for any state or nation. You can find them on Wikipedia. What you need to look at are the LARGER power stations and particularly those rated at 1,000MW or more. I call these Gigawatt-class power stations because 1GW = 1,000MW. BUT WHAT is most important is that these are BASE LOAD power stations. They supply the power that keeps everything going 24/7. You'll find that we all pretty, much stopped building them in the 1990s as we privatised all of our energy markets. THE REASON IS SIMPLE - there is no viable business case for building large scale energy plants any longer. Gone are the days when you could just slap things together BECAUSE our populations have grown and we need plants that are much larger. 1GW sized power plants were once considered huge now they are average at best. My country of Australia has 22.6 GW of coal fired power plants to replace because NO MATTER what they are old and wearing out. EVEN WORSE is that they were built well before our population reached 20 million and we are now 26million with plans to be well over 40million by 2050. So we not only have to DOUBLE that 22.6 GW by then as well as add more to that so that we can power all of the electric cars, trucks, vans and busses we want to use. If you take the costs of Hinkley Point C in Britain the cost to just build the power stations is over AU$1.2 Trillion but if you then add in the costs of upgrades the power grid will need that goes past AU$2 Trillion very quickly and may push it past AU$3 Trillion. Go look at your own country (or state) and check out your larger power stations and then check your population growth. What might save us a lot on costs will be the sort of POPULATION DECLINE that many countries are facing and Peter is better than me at explaining. YES PETER and FRIENDS we are in some seriously deep crap when it comes to energy and you all need to start listening to us engineers because we are the ones you are all expecting to solve this.
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  8227. @Dikke Snikkel Open my eyes to see what exactly? The BS parrot crap you are spewing from Newsmax and OAN. You picked the wrong person to throw ignorance at. Since I know your American which in general means you know nothing about the rest of the world, Ill explain some things. Here is the best source of COVID data -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ It comes from official government sources daily. the 4th number form the right is the Fatality rate. Its titled Deaths/1m.pop which stands for how many people die out of every million people in a state or country. All these numbers below are from that column and they do change very day as more deaths happen. The death ratings are incredibly varied across Europe just as they are across America. Europe has 1717 in San Marino and 76 in Monaco and 0 (zero) in the Faeroe Islands. America has New Jersey at 2176 while Hawaii has only 204 in Hawaii. Some parts of Europe are actually worse than America, but most are better. Belgium 1691, Italy 1242, UK 1096 & Spain 1087 are all worse than America at 1080. France at 993, Netherland 673, Austria 663, Greece 473 and Germany 415 are all better than America. Sweden famous for its "herd Immunity approach" is at 861, Except the surrounding countries of Finland 101 Norway 80 & Denmark 232 are a lot better. Belgium looks really bad but they are counting every disease related death that cannot be accounted for by other diseases. We could also consider Canada at 415 on this list they rank at 46th. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ So on COVID your information is garbage.
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  8228.  @leanneheinemann3862  Not a lot of confidence - Biden hired 2 Goldman Sachs the other day. Where's the difference because America just dumped the mutt who had a Goldman Sachs boy running Treasury?
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  8229.  @gerardmackay8909  You are absolutely right Trump's howlers in 2016 would have sunk any other politician in any other country EXCEPT America. Sorry for the long explanation. When I was there during the 1987 season a guy named Gary Hart was the front runner for the Dems. it was his second run but this time he was out front and then came claims of extramarital affairs and it was over in a blink. At one point his wife mentioned words to the effect: "Yes, their marriage had been in trouble but they had worked it out. But what is more important is that Gary is the best man for the job." I can remember being quit impressed with her and how she spoke. When I mentioned that to my coach (I was on a sports scholarship) he went nuts at me in front of the entire squad, telling me I had no clue. He said (paraphrasing) "The Russians will send one of the blond floosies and suck our secrets out of a man like him." He was normally a quiet sort of guy but that set him completely off the rails. When I asked others, they said it was all due to him being part of "that generation" who grew up with the bomb. I hadn't thought about this for years until about a year ago when I could not see why people still followed him. Then I realised there's an incredibly weird thing in politics. Its like following a sports team. We will forgive our players and coaches of almost anything SO LONG AS THEY WIN. We wont care if our club hires a player with a horrible past so long as he helps us win. Trump realised that better than any other politician in recent history and maybe more than anyone in democratic politics ever has. He knew that irrespective of anything he'd ever done so long as he gave them a way to win and get what they wanted that NOBODY would care. This is sort of present in most countries but it seems to be amped up in America. So long as you give the people something that they feel is important they will not care about other things. Go look on the YT channel Secular Talk. A while back Kyle & Krystal interviewed Jesse Ventura and there's a couple of excerpts available. In one of them Jesse talks about Trump and how he won. There was a year JV could not wrestle because of injury and Vince McMahon asked him to commentate. At that time all wrestling commentators had sided with the "good guy" and not the "heel" (bad boy in wrestling terminology). JV said there had never been a "heel" in the commentary booth. He was concerned about it and then Vince McMahon told him just to stick to character and "If you say it then its true." It utterly split the wrestling fan base, but it kept that fan base ENGAGED. Think about how wrestling promotion works and then consider Trumps rallies. he just says things he knows that will hit various people right between the eyes and they will love it and NOT CARE about anything else. Just like wrestling fans they wont care if its all theatre its what they want to see and hear. Interestingly Wrestling promoters stand in the ring with the audience all around them. Normal politicians have supporters behind and the crowd in front. Trump (like a wrestling promoter) stands in the middle with the crowd all around. I highly recommend people go and look up that interview if they want to understand how Trump works. Sorry for the long answer. Tell me what you think after watching that interview with Jesse V.
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  8230. Friendly reminder from Australia. All we heard for 2 years was that Trump's base was shrinking and shrinking and shrinking and shrinking and shrinking and shrinking and shrinking and shrinking and shrinking..... That's all anyone heard for 2 years and in 2020 America would show us some brain function again. Well Trump got 74 million votes in 2020 an extra 11 million over the 64 million he got in 2016. There's only 2 countries in Europe with more than 74 million in total - Germany and Russia. 74 million is almost double the population of Canada and 3 times the population of Australia. The rest of the world is still waiting for MSNBC, CNN, WaPo, NYT and all the others for an explanation of where those extra 11 million came from when his base was supposedly shrinking.
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  8231.  @cavaleer  thanks. I'm actually very upset with the Australian government being sucked into to spending billions of dollars on sci-fi fantasy stuff that I have known for 35+ years is BS. I actually put up a proposal to the government for an AU$720 Million civilian space program focused on water and land management. I got told there wasn't enough money for anything like that. They then gave the RAAF AU7 Billion with a 'B' for "Space Defense" including soft satellite kill technologies - as in a revitalised Ronald Regan/Donald Trump Star Wars/Space Force system. 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂
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  8232.  @SeruraRenge11  Yeah - have you asked Elon about that???? I think he calls it the Tesla-ille or Teslille??? I think its being made in the same lab as the Tesla-bot???
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  8233.  @dylanthomas12321  Please STOP believing the crap and nonsense you keep being told in the media. They are NOT engineers. MOST if not all of what they say is produced for them by special interests. Often its from think tanks who are funded by the military contractors who want the contracts to "do stuff." Its the portrayal of what these hypersonic gliders can do that annoys me as its so misleading and the only intent is to get some juicy contract. There's incredible amounts of money in weapons development contracts. things don't even need to work they just need to have the appearance they might work to get the development contracts. How do you think those "gliders' get to that height and get to those speeds? They're just a development of what's been available since the 1950s when the first ICBMs were made available. All those gliders are is an upgraded version of those systems. Its just told to the public as something new and fantastic. The first warheads from ICBMS were guided during the final stages of flight. They have manoeuvring but its nowhere near the ducking, dipping and weaving shown in the graphics. This notion of doing that at speeds above Mach 5 is simply nonsense. To glide you need air thick enough to glide and manoeuvre. If you have air you also have drag and at Mach 5 that means a lot of heat from air friction. the problems just mount and mount once you start going supersonic and particularly after Mach 2. Its difficult to explain how extraordinary the SR-71 really was without a series of lectures and it only went Mach 3.3. The Russians tried to match its speed with the Mig 25 and for it to go that sort of speed it wrecked the engines. It was something the Russians kept secret for many years. At full speed they threw the engines away afterwards and in some cases the entire aircraft. These guys want to go faster than Mach 5. Think of it this way. Just as lift and drag are functions of velocity squared (v²), the difficulties of supersonic flight are a function of the Mach number squared (M²). Mach 1 is hard Mach 2 is 4 times harder ... Mach 5 is 25 times harder and it just gets worse after that.
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  8234. ​ @kilpatrickkirksimmons5016  Yep you have it right. At those speeds they fly straight and very little else. To any pilot who's done aerobatics its not dissimilar to rolling-g. I've done aerobatics and there's upper speed limits to things like flick rolls or you can rip the wings off. There's an old story about the SR71 the day it broke the transatlantic record. The story I heard was it was going so fast that as it went past Britain it just kept gong and was 1/2 way to Russia before it made the turn back to Britain. How far it really went is debatable but the fact it couldn't simply turn around at Mach 3+ should tell people heaps. These are the sorts of things that drive engineers and scientists crazy all the time. The media no longer care about facts - its all narrative.
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  8235.  @Redmanticore  And for the record NOBODY uses sensors to recognise things like uniforms they use vision systems AND since you clearly don't know the difference between sensors and vision systems then its obvious you're NOT and engineer and haven't a damn clue what you're talking about. Ask questions why these things wont happen don't tell people who do know this stuff garbage - WE ARE TIRED OF IT.
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  8236. SORRY THOM You are 100% right that Trump was involved in an insurrection, but you and others are 100% WRONG that he committed treason. This is because the LEGAL DEFINITION of treason in America is very narrowly limited to times of war. If America had the same basic definition of treason that almost every other country on the planet has then Trump's phone call to Ukraine should have had him charged with treason because he was organising with a foreign party to act against American interests. If America had the same basic definition of sedition then Trump would have been in handcuffs after January 6th and in many countries would have been executed. BUT the Founding Fathers decided rightly or wrongly to get rid of the standard definitions of both treason and sedition which the British had used with utter ruthlessness against the American Colonials and every other nation they took over. Its also what many other European nations used to maintain control of their homeland as well as foreign territories. That's why America has the Impeachment system, which as far as I know NO OTHER COUNTRY in history has ever had. Its (as far as I know) unique to America, because the Found Fathers realised that with such narrow definitions of Treason and Sedition they would not have been able to deal with people like Trump. What the Founding Father's didn't plan on was people using the Senate and Supreme Court as weapons to undermine it.
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  8237.  @gunsack2427  Seriously how are people as ignorant of reality as people like you are? They can only burn off when its safe to do so or have you forgotten the times when they risked it and instead of burning off the fuel load they started major blazes. They are engaging the Aboriginal elders in helping land control you ignorant clown. EFFING reality deniers like you should just STFU, we've had enough of your crap. When everybody can no longer deny what's happening is gonna get ugly for people like you. Enjoy your ignorance for the moment, it wont last.
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  8238.  @Aa-ron01  Do you understand even the basics of climate change, because a lot of people don't. Its pretty simple if you heat up the planet you evaporate more water and sooner or later it will fall out of the sky. Basically it turbocharges the weather. In a nutshell the side of the earth the faces the sun is getting energy pumped into/onto it by a monstrous nuclear furnace. The other side of the planet is dumping excess energy off into space. We are still getting the same amount from the sun on one side but not dumping as much on the other as a result the entire planet has slowly heated up. When its hotter there's more evaporation. If you have more evaporation you have more clouds and eventually you have these events with huge amounts of rain and snow. It was always called climate change by the scientific community it was journalists who called it global warming because that was easier for them to type. Your remark on vegetation is half right. Vegetation doesn't absorb surface water what it does is allow it to be absorbed. The problem with soil (particularly Australian soils) is that when it dries out it switches from water absorbing to water repelling and if you dry it right out its hard to get it back to water absorbing. What vegetation does is help keep moisture in the soil. So it keeps the soil in a water absorbing state so that when it rains the water can soak into the soil. If its dried out then rain can simply run off the land into the creeks and rivers taking topsoil with it. Its one reason why our environmental scientists (not the greenie tree hugging clowns) have been telling us for a while that we have to stop simply clearing land for pasture as we have done. They've now got the evidence that keeping 20% of native trees and vegetation makes our land more productive as it helps maintain the moisture in the soil. Trying to convince people that's true is the next problem.
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  8239.  @gunsack2427  Look just farq-off with your ignorance. They have started engaging the aboriginal elders. And that still doesn't get round the problem that the season for back burning is getting shorter. I grew up in country Victoria and half my family are farmers so I know about working the land moron.
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  8240.  @mim0381  What they mean by once in a century is the amount of rain that's falling and how fast its coming down. Its not the pattern of flood and drought that's unusual its the severity of those patterns. If you heat up the planet you get more evaporation and if you get more evaporation you'll get more rain and more snow and bigger storm systems. Its called the water cycle and heating up the planet drives that cycle harder. Its like putting your foot on the accelerator - more air & fuel makes the engine run harder and faster. And when you hit the tree it hurts more. This is why scientists always called it climate change not global warming. It was journalists who re-labelled it global warming and caused a lot of the confusion.
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  8241.  @wolfiestreet6899  Well that's a complete pile of bullshit. We have fairly accurate records in some places going back 100s of years. One of the "so called" scandals was when they adjusted the data to take into account the time of day that people took temperature measurements. The Murdoch press tried to blow the whole of climate science up over that and failed. Plus with research into tree rings, soil layers and ice cores they have very accurate data going back several million years. So that's an absolute bullshit claim on your behalf.
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  8242.  @gunsack2427  Seriously farq-off we've had that bullshit claim again and again and again. For the 50,000th time climate isn't about what the weather was last week or last year its how its changed over many years and decades. HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO EXPLAIN THESE THINGS TO YOU PEOPLE? Do you not understand that we have had enough of the denial industry? The tobacco companies knew back in the 1950s that tobacco caused cancer. The actual tobacco companies had done the research themselves so that they knew what the claims would be. Exon did the research into climate change back in the 1970s & 80s just the same. Phillip Morris uses a lobbying think tank in Washington called the Heritage Foundation to do the PR work for tobacco. The same Heritage Foundation is the leader in climate change denial often using the same paid hacks to lie about it as they did with tobacco. You clowns scream and yell conspiracy all the time yet you can't see the obvious one right there in front of you. The entire climate change denial is EXACTLY the same as tobacco denial. Its about protecting a bunch of rich people and their investments. And by the way not only does NASA say it s real as well as NOAA so doe the US Military. NASA -> https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ NOAA -> https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide Pentagon -> https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jan/29/2002084200/-1/-1/F1/CLIMATE-CHANGE-REPORT-2019.PDF
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  8243.  @stefanbroughton2292  If you don't want to be called a brainless moron then don't preach garbage. The scientific community NEVER called it global warming that was what journalists called it. And its not something that was started in the 1970s. the first waring came in the late 1890s (yeah 120years ago). The Ozone hole is healing it is NOT yet healed and wont be for decades. China does NOT produce CFCs in any great quantity. They got caught and got shut down on that. The science is in and its done and Murdoch's bullshit artists and other liars can claim all they like - IT WONT CHANGE THE FACTS. The can claim NASA is wrong, but sorry its real -> https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ The can claim NOAA is wrong, but sorry its real -> https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide But I am yet to see any climate change denier even comment on the Pentagon report that says climate change is real and that its going to cost billions extra to maintain their bases -> https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jan/29/2002084200/-1/-1/F1/CLIMATE-CHANGE-REPORT-2019.PDF
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  8244. ​ @ldm3027  EVERY CLAIM YOU MADE IS BULLSHlT - 100% BULLSHlT Where do you get this $100/ton from? IN THE VIDEO Douglas Chan COO Climeworks who have built this plant is STATING $300-400 a ton (5:00). Then you say there's 40bn tons a year in emissions and half gets absorbed by the natural environment. That leaves 20bn ADDITIONAL per year. You claim that removing 10bn tons will cost $1tr a year and that we'll have to pay that for 100+ years. What about the remaining 10bn tons of additional CO2 in the atmosphere? WHAT TF ARE WE MEANT TO DO ABOUT THAT? So not only do you make numbers up that you can't justify you then can't do basic math either. I suggest in future you don't argue with an engineer who can actually do math.
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  8245.  @kausthubh  There's plenty of open unforested space space. I'm Australian we have several million square kilometers for starters. North Africa has massive amounts of open space and YES I damn well know how hard that will be. But that can also be mitigated with tree selection and planting arrangements. There's some pretty amazing videos here on YouTube on re-wilding and how they are reclaiming lots of open space. One of the really important things that has come out of that is variety. If you try and to it via monoculture it will be a disaster. HERE'S the inescapable fact. We have to get 3.5 Trillion tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere and do it fast. There's a clown down the list here (idm3027) who's pulling numbers out of his butt like it will only cost $100 a ton by DAC. IF THATS TRUE and lets not forget that Douglas Chan COO Climeworks is claiming they hope to get it down from $1000/ton to $3-400/ton, then at $100/ton its still going to cost $350 TRILLION. WHERE TF DOES ANYONE THINK THEY ARE GOING TO GET THAT $350 TRILLION? Then there's the actual energy costs. In how many places would we need new power stations to drive that AND WHO'S going to pay for those power stations. Then that's that whole problem of the environmental cost of all the materials required to build all those plants. I started with a degree in aerospace but have spent 30+ years working in industrial control systems and automation. I have spent time in both manufacturing and mining and I KNOW how much energy those industries consume. Do you know there's mor energy used in making a car than it consumes in its lifetime? people forget it take energy to dig all those materials out of the ground and process it into stuff that you can makes bits out of so you can assemble those bits into a car. Its the same for most manufactured goods. In fact a great way to help save the planet is to STOP manufacturing crap products and instead manufacture everything with better quality to last longer. It would massively reduce energy consumption. The other thing is to triple glaze all those glass towers we've build over the last century. mark Blyth the political economist at Brown U. mentioned an engineering report that said if America just triple glazed all its office blocks and skyscrapers the saving in energy would help America get most of the way to meeting the Paris Accords. Architects might be good for designing aesthetically nice buildings but they don't know a damn thing about energy efficiency.
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  8246.  @RobertGonzalez-j1v  Do the math its not that hard. At $1000 per ton removing 2.5 Trillion tons costs $2.5 Quadrillion BUT wait by the mid 2030s it will be 3.5 Trillion tons and by the early 2040s 4.5 Trilllion tons. This guy said they could get it down to $300 per ton. So what even if he got it down to $100 per ton then its still gonna cost $350 Trillion for the basics and 100s of $Trillions after that. The combined wealth of the planet cannot afford that. Being able to use basic arithmetic to get a simple estimate is a necessary skill for an engineer. Here in Australia right now there's calls to go nuclear and 7 sites have been identified. I know those sites and I know I can put an EPR 2 at 4 of those sites and 2 EPR 2s at the other 3 and that's 10 in total. Based of the costs at Hinkley Point C each reactor will be AU$48 Billion each. 10 x 48 = 480 So AU$480 Billion becomes your starting estimate and that simply asks the people pushing that idea to explain where they are going to get $480 Billion from? Because if these sorts of people pushing these sorts of solutions can't answer the basic cost questions then what's the point of discussing anything further?
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  8247. Where are you getting the quote about a test from? because the 1st Amendment says: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." There's nothing about a "test" of any sort, but your premise is absolutely right. Lindsey Graham has no right to question her religious beliefs, but he would have the right to aske her view on other belief systems because that could show how she viewed one of the main freedoms granted by the 1st Amendment. And that's David's point. Is Ketanji Brown Jackson being asked questions that show how she might adjudicate cases before SCOTUS or are they trying to trap her in a way they can reject her nomination. On the flip side of that Michael Knowles has a point there are laws that specifically mention "woman" and/or "women." That requires the words "woman" and "women" to be legally defined or how do you know who to apply those laws to or how to apply them?
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  8248.  @benthompson8913  Go back and check the comments you're about the 3rd to 4th to point that out. Which is important. There's been way too many people making claims about what is and isn't fact. I'm Australian but went to college in America and it astounds me how bad so many people are on basic things. Which is why I find it great that people like you DO KNOW. I was there in the late 80s and back then Americans actually HAD PRIDE that they KNEW their constitution. These days however, I don't know if Americans realise how well so many other people around the world have some understanding of the US Constitution. I had a bunch of frat brothers who were pre-law and they used to drag me into all sorts of hypothetical arguments, but there are many others way better educated than I am. Because of the fall of the Soviet Empire, many countries wrote entirely new constitutions and most of those copied or did variations of the US Constitution. So there are a lot of legal experts all over the world, with excellent understanding of the US Constitution. I hope that explains why so many people from other places are confused about America these days. We all saw Jan 6th and we all went WTF. We are still trying to get our heads around that. If there is one thing I would recommend Biden do RIGHT NOW. Put CIVICS classes back into high schools. FUND state and national essay and debating competitions where the prizes are college scholarships and bonuses to teachers. Schools that produce results also get extra funding. Label it as a Patriotic duty to protect the Constitution so the GOP can't claim anything. As you probably know there is very scary bunch of self appointed fanatics called the Federalist Society. They scare me more than any other political organisation on the planet. Their control of SCOTUS has very serious effects on global politics and trade that most Americans are NOT aware off. The only way to combat their control is education. FYI - I really do want to see America back at its best. In simple terms we need America going like the LA Rams not the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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  8249. Great point, Bannon should be asked if he'll hand back his pardon?
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  8250. Anybody who sees criticisms of their country will be the downfall of their country no matter what country you want to discuss.
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  8251. The lawyer in the cartoon "Wizard of Id" Larsen E. Pettifogger had the famous saying "Everyman is innocent until proven broke"
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  8252. INVESTIGATIONS MEAN NOTHING UNLESS INDICTIMETS COME FROM THEM AND CONVICTIONS COME FROM THOSE INDICTMENTS
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  8253.  @timothyblazer1749  have you listened to any of Jonathon Trent's vids. He's quite likely the worlds best at these complex biological systems people are trying to develop. Having listened to him and chatted via LinkedIn I think the breakthrough IF IT COMES will be with systems that are not designed to be 100% self supporting, but simpler systems that can do what's needed. Sort unrelated are the vertical farming systems people have developed. They aren't meant to replace bulk farming and provide everything humanity needs, but they DO THE JOB they are designed for. When you consider what they tried to do with Biodome it was always going to fail. 🤷‍♀🤷‍♂🤷‍♀🤷‍♂ (edit) But it is good to here that someone else has picked it up and is making progress.
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  8254.  @timothyblazer1749  I'm actually Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship and did aerospace engineering. One of my class mates is very high up in the ISS program. About 20 years ago she told me that NOBODY was going beyond LEO until 2 problems were solved - Life Support and Propulsion. In the last 20 years neither of those problems has been solved. YES ABSOLUETLY there have been people working their asses off working on these problems but none of it is ready to be used. One of the tragic outcomes of the shuttle and ISS programs was they starved other programs of resources of which the biggest resource was money, but it also starved those projects of people. Yes both the shuttle and ISS have been incredible technical achievements. They actually made a reusable spaceplane work. They made, launched and assembled an incredibly complex machine weighing hundreds of tons IN SPACE. BUT AT THE SAME TIME they starved other projects and that's hindered manned space flight. FYI - I met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) back in 2002 and he told me to check out Helium-3. He was trying to get a mine built on the Moon. So I went off to the Australian mining sector to learn how mines got built and how they operated. Right now I have more practical hands on experience building and operating mines in remote places than all of NASA combined. Do you know it still comes back to the same 2 questions, but they're phrased differently? Transportation and Supplies (food, water, fuel, spare parts,....). The biggest 3 tasks are: 1) Getting people, their food, and what they need to and from the mines. People need food and water and a place to sleep. They also shit, shower and shave and all that has to be dealt with. 2) Getting the product from the mines. That might mean a few kilograms (like for gold) or millions of tons like iron ore. Either way it has to be done or what's the purpose of having the mine. 3) Maintenance as in how to you keep several billion dollars of stuff working in the middle of a hostile environment and there's not many places more hostile than the Australian desert. A lot of people think I have wasted my time. I haven't. When I ask them how are you going to do A, B, C,... none of them have answers because they've never asked the questions. They all assume its been done. This is the problem with people like Angry and Elon Musk and so many others. Their hearts are in the right place, but they all assume that some of the very basic things have been done and they haven't. All these clowns talking about mining asteroids have never been near a mine site. I can tell that immediately. I have the papers from a NASA conference (~180pages) on Moon operations and it had 1 and a bit pages on maintenance because they think maintenance will be done using remote robotics. THAT'S GARBAGE. If you ever want to be called an idiot just tell anyone who's ever done maintenance on a mine site that it can be done by remote controlled robots.
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  8255.  @wyrmofvt  You pretty much have it nutted out, because it comes down to some very basic numbers and basic reality. I got bluntly put in my place about 20 years ago by a former classmate who was working on the ISS construction She's now a senior ISS manager and basically without her signature your stuff isn't going to the ISS. I had put it to her, as others had that we should use Shuttle-C and just get all the stuff up there. The whole thing was just dragging out and the shuttle itself was incredibly inefficient for bulk hardware launching. Just pack all the truss modules into 1 launch. She pointed out that I had no idea of the logistics involved in each of those modules and bluntly told me to shut it until I knew what I was talking about. I argued back that while the ISS plodded on we weren't moving forward with manned exploration. We'd been in college when Challenger happened. Up until that morning we all EXPECTED to build Space Station Freedom by the mid 90s and back on the moon circa 2001. That argument was happening circa 2002 and we weren't close to finishing the ISS and people were getting frustrated at the lack of progress. Then she hit me with the slap of slaps. Nobody was going anywhere until we solved the propulsion and life support issues. When I asked what? She said do the basic math and then ask how you get that done. The Apollo LM had 75 hours for 2 men of life support. That's 150 mh (man hours) of life support. A 4 man 14 day (as was the plan at one point) is 4 x 24 x 14 = 1344 mh (basically 9x) That can be basically halved with 3 man 10day lunar surface is 3 x 24 x 10 = 720mh. Irrespective of crew and duration, how do you get that much stuff there just to keep them alive. All that oxygen, food, CO2 filters, waste handling,... has to be lifted off mother earth, flown across the 384,400km gap and landed there on the moon AND THAT'S before you even begin to deal with anything else. Its part of why the Russian lunar program failed. The basic numbers drove them to the N-1 which was too complicated to work. This is what Elon Musk and his cadre of clowns don't get. Just the basics of keeping people alive is a giant task. Adding that 1 extra person and/or staying that bit longer can double that task in a blink and that compounds into a whole pile of other logistics issues which themselves keep compounding the problem. It was a blunt lesson I got from that classmate and yeah it sucked, but I needed it then and a lot of other people need it now.
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  8256.  @wyrmofvt  On that ag issue its all a matter of what you are producing from that land. If its for direct human consumption its one set of numbers and if its for animal feed its another. There's actually a great lesson in complex systems and compounding effects and consequences regarding the Colorado River right now. The river plan that was put in place 100+years ago DELIBERATELY overestimated the amount of water available, because that was what certain politicians wanted. That was compounded with a "use it or lose it" clause. So a lot of farmers need to use their water allocation or lose it. Many grow alfalfa for animal feed BECAUSE its a high water usage crop. If they change to low water crops they can lose their water allocations. So the land and water usage issue is way more complex than most people realise and the causes of that complexity are some really basic stupid decisions. The bigger problem is that people are looking at the problem as "what do I lose" (as in my water rights) instead of "what do we gain" which is food (as in that stuff we all need to survive). And so you know water and land mismanagement is a major problem EVERYWHERE. Where China grows most of its food is where they have major climate change issues. They have also damaged or destroyed over 20,000 rivers and waterways. Or you can look at what the Russians did to the Aral Sea. Or you can come here to Australia and see what we have done with cotton, rice and nut farming.
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  8257. Australian Aerospace engineer here - I did my degree in American and have classmates at NASA. I truly feel for what you guys are facing. Here's something you and NASA can fight back with. I did my degree in the late 80s and when the Challenger accident happened. In the aftermath there were many people who called for NASA to be chopped up and sold off. In response the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) commissioned a report into the value of NASA. I forget who did that but it might have been Deloitte. Eventually the AIAA notified everyone with a summary. In those days the AIAA published a monthly magazine called "Aerospace America." In one of those right inside the front cover on page 1 was a letter to members from the President announcing this study. It was took difficult to analyse all of NASA so they just looked at the Apollo Program because it has finished and they could check money spent and assess it against money earned from technology spinoffs. The basic summary was the Apollo Program was FINANCIALLY the greatest investment in human history having returned in tax (yes tax) over $9 for every $1 spent. By tax they meant the taxes paid on profits earned by companies and income tax paid by employees of those companies that were using Apollo derived technologies. By that stage 100s of American companies and 1000s of American people were producing goods and services based on Apollo derived technology. You see in making it to the moon many new materials and manufacturing technologies were developed. By the late 80s things like digital computers, aluminum alloys, plastics (including Teflon) and a pile of manufacturing technologies and techniques had not only filtered out into American industry but was giving many American companies technological advantages over the rest of the world. Remember by the late 80s companies like Microsoft were emerging and a lot of the computer tech had history in the Apollo Program. Basically Apollo wasn't just a few small steps by 12 guys across the Moon. It was bunch of giant leaps forward in technologies many of which are still earning the American people lots of money. its a story few people know about. I hope you guys can find that report. I'd suggest asking the AIAA to look at issues they might still have of Aerospace America from 1986 & 87. best of luck.
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  8258.  @oohhboy-funhouse  Go read about the AIAA report that followed the Challenger Disaster I wrote about in another reply in this thread.
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  8259. For anyone wondering check your history and note what happened during the 1950s.
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  8260.  @CosmicValkyrie  We are an island buddy surrounded by LOTS OF OCEAN. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8261.  @josephking6515  NO it was in New Zealand.
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  8262. ​ @chriswatson1698  No it doesn't. As Peter has often pointed out urbanisation has far more to do with lowering the birth rate than anything, Following urbanisation the next biggest factor in falling birth rates is the education of women. Yeah I know it sounds incredibly patriarchal but the fact is the more educated women get the fewer children they have. Every time somebody analyses census data and shows it the feminists go nuts. Go watch the start of the film Idiocracy, its actually very close to the truth. As for Australia's housing issues its NOT so much an immigration issue but a collection of idiotic economic policies. Its like a disease that has slightly different symptoms in each patient. In Australia it shows up mainly in our housing market. In America it shows up in their health care. In Britain its currently showing up in their electricity market. Make no mistake they are all symptoms of the same disease. I'm, an engineer and a few years back started informally studying economics because I got so frustrated with interference on projects by clowns with economics degrees. I just wanted to be able to push back at their nonsense. I've watched and listened to a lot of pretty smart well credentialed people here on YT. Its how I ended up watching a lot of Peter Z. His explanations of geopolitics helps explain a lot of this stuff at the macro level, especially when you add it into what some of the economists have been saying for a while. Go watch the channel Gary's Economics here on YT. Gary Stevenson graduated from the LSE and went to work for Citibank where he was there top trader in the world for a couple of years. But he comes from a working class and could see how things were affecting people. So he went of to Oxford and did a masters. His explanations of why economics is failing are brilliant. Go watch his video titled "Why are economists always wrong?"
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  8263.  @chriswatson1698  Just stop being stupid and wasting people's time and just google "fertility rate versus education" You'll find dozens of studies from all over the developed world. If you take a country like Bangladesh and start educating the girls then you will get exactly the fall in fertility rate that's seen and they will start asking for contraception BECAUSE THEY'LL KNOW WHAT IT IS. Go compare Bangladesh to India and Pakistan. India started educating their girls then Bangladesh and Pakistan have barely started.
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  8264. I don't think JBP is arguing to keep things as shitty as they are, I suspect he's having a bucket of trouble dealing with the effects of the almost complete failure of his generation to do anything constructive about climate change. What David doesn't say is this was at the Hoover Institution which is a right wing think tank based at Stanford University. I've watched the first few minutes and found out where David's excerpt comes from which is near the end. Right at the start Peterson crapped on about how Justin Trudeau's a liar with a cleverly crafted public persona. The hypocrisy of that is JBP is also somebody with a cleverly crafted public persona. I don't know if he's lied like a politician but he's certainly overstepped his area of expertise and been wrong. He's doing this talk at a right wing think tank lambasting the left and yet claims not to be a right winger. But then he's so FKD up these days I think he's still suffering after affects from his drug issue. I do find that sad because before that he was a decent psychology professor. He might have been crap at politics, the climate and technology but he knew his stuff on psychology.
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  8265.  @s0515033  I don't know if we are ultimately doomed as in its 100% going to happen, but I'd agree that if we don't change its effectively 100%. And that's the common thread through everything right now. No matter which way people vote NOTHING CHANGES and its not just the environment its everything. I just watched this lecture about US foreign policy and the guy explains it perfectly and he explains why Ukraine has happened and then he said "this is why Trump is president." WTF??? Then I realised it was from November 2017. Yeah the Ukraine thing has happened just like climate policy the political establishment are NOT listening and won't do anything to change. They are so wrapped up in their little bubble world of pandering to billionaires that they can't hear us. So I see your point, but I don't think we are doomed YET, but fark the task is hard.
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  8266.  @s0515033  You're right on all fronts. The single biggest problem are the billionaires who have lost grip with reality. I'm an engineer and spent most of my COVID time looking at economics, because I am always up against them and there standard "Who's going to pay for that?" or "How will you pay for that?" What I found is that most economists think they know what an economy is but actually don't. The best source of WTF is going on is a guy named Mark Blyth (Brown U.). He's a political economist not a political scientist or a straight economist. Political Economy is the study of how politics and economics interact. Instead of treating them as separate subjects to theorise about they look interact in the real world and how it works. Mark Blyth was one of the very few people who predicted both Trump and Brexit and he said it wasn't hard if you just looked at what was going on. It sounds so damn simple and practical, especially to an engineer like me. I did aerospace engineering and we are trained to consider complex systems as conglomerates of sub-systems. We are trained to always consider the effects each subsystem has on all the others so that we don't do something that screws up the whole show. Here's an intro into Angrynomics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY If you can understand that we should have upgraded the economics computer after the 2008 GFC, instead of patch and you've made the first major step to understanding. Its like we are trying to play games designed for PS4/5 on a PS 3 with an Xbox handset. Its slow, incompatible, crashes constantly and the store we got it from doesn't care BECAUSE HE GOT A BONUS.
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  8267. The real question is who got this money? It wasn't Rudy Giuliani because he just claimed Trump owed him money in his bankruptcy documents.
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  8268. I'm Australian but went to college in America and I have been throwing that fact at them for a couple of years now. Here's a couple of hard facts. 1) We DO NOT need America to deal with the World's issues BUT without America problems like climate change, displaced people, wealth inequality,.... become damn hard to deal with. 2) We have no say in who America chooses to be POTUS but we have to live with the choice. 3) America is still 1/4 of the worlds economy and most of us either trade with, or have security arrangements with of BOTH and if that 1/4 goes away or makes a sudden change then it hits the rest of us. It would even hit those countries like Russia, Iran and North Korea. 4) The US Dollar is still the worlds reserve currency. No matter what the BRICS want they will not be replacing the US$ anytime soon. Almost all international trade is either done in US$ or there's US$ underpinning the currency transactions. 5) The Bank of International Settlements, which is where all of our central banks exchange and settle out all the money that's been exchanged, reported (Dec 2022) that there's now $100 Trillion in FX Swaps (Foreign Exchange Swaps) floating about the markets and most (+65%) are held by non-bank entities. A few people commented on it at the time but its basically gone untouched by the mainstream media. Normally FX Swaps are what's needed by people to do various forms of international trade and investments BUT they are also used by people to bet on the currency markets. Nobody knows exactly how much of the $100 Trillion are bets versus normal business but what is known is that if the US$ suddenly shifts then those FX Swaps go from being bets to being toxic. So whoever the American's pick needs to be VERY VERY VERY responsible for the next 2 terms. The next POTUS not only has some very difficult tasks to deal with in America but they have to DE-TUNE the effect of the US$ in the worlds economy without causing a catastrophe.
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  8269. SO YOU ALL KNOW THIS NEWS HAS GONE AROUND THE WORLD. I saw it here in Australia last night a few hours before Kyle posted. We've seen the footage clearly showing the shooter fire at 11:33:24 and the first offices in the hallway at 11:36:00 2 minutes and 36 seconds later. There is no way for the State of Texas, US Government, NRA or anyone else to hide from this. What's more we can HEAR the shooting and anyone who's ever been around guns knows that's not simply an automatic. Either the shooter had a super fast finger or that weapon had a burst fire or fully automatic mode. Part of Kyles analysis is also garbage. At 3:50 when he's talking about cops staying back. I'm not military or police but I have heard them describe how you don't just storm in with a mob, you take up secure positions. In Australia we went through this over the Lindt café shooting. As for the phone background. That's nothing - the actions matter. *The fact they retreated from secure positions matters. The part where he points out the time delay matters even more.* We need answers not opinions. Kyle must know someone from a military or Police background who can explain this.
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  8270.  @Cthulhu013  First sentence very sensible. No police force should have thugs employed, but they all do. After that you get a little confusing. What do you mean by "empathy disorder"? Certainly nobody wants sociopaths (which is one of several empathy disorders) in any police force.
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  8271.  @Cthulhu013  Agreed, so why aren't the screening systems working??? All police officers are supposed to be screened for such issues throughout their training. Psych screening is supposed to be easy. That's part of the great claim McKinsey and KPMG promoted with HR 25+years ago. In 15 questions or less they claimed you can tell who's the best candidate and who's not. So why isn't it working anywhere? And by anywhere I mean in police forces across the world as well as industry in general. The whole world heard about how great psychological profiling was because a few criminals were caught and we got that reinforced with Hollywood movies and TV. What nobody got told was how hard it is and only a few incredibly talented people could ever do it well. Do you know there are software people now claiming they can do a full psych profile based on as few as 15 social media pictures? I'm an engineer and even on the most basic concept that's crap and garbage. But that wont stop companies and governments buying it.
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  8272.  @Cthulhu013  Its one of the great questions of modern business. If HR was to profile everyone and have "all the right people in all the right places for all the right reasons" then why do our government institutions and businesses work so badly? Its not just police departments its everywhere. Government sectors, private sectors, take you pick. If Boeing had "all the right people in all the right places for all the right reasons" then how did they make the Max-8? I can explain that in detail. Look at Uvalde: If they had "all the right people in all the right places for all the right reasons" then how did this happen?
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  8273.  @peterfreeman1585  No need to explain to me what happened. I'm Australian, currently living in Brisbane. I went to college at U. Illinois and it saddens me and angers me to see what has happened. We actually did drop the ball in Victoria at one point and it cost around 700 lives (the equivalent of a couple of packed 747s crashing). When Victoria went into lockdown to get it under control the libertarians went bat crap crazy (to quote Penny) and Murdoch's right wing media went into full attack mode because the Victorian Premier is a left winger they hate. Right now after he got it back under control his approval is its best ever and no one with a brain wants to hear anything from Murdoch's A-holes. We still have some major issues for everyone to realise. Our tourism industry will take years to recover and the 1000s and 1000s of international students wont be back for a while either.
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  8274. You have it the biggest issue in the world right now - ACCOUNTABILITY. America is now paying an incredible price for not holding its leaders accountable. Its not the only country. I'm Australian and we have the same problem, its not yet as bad. I was in Canada for work back in 2017 and they were having a scandal with government contracts that was almost identical to similar scandals we've had and NOBODY was held accountable. This is a problem that is plaguing the entire developed world and so long as we simply let these people in high offices get away with this stuff NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
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  8275.  @mikevale3620  Its the one thing Murdoch has always been good at - knowing just how to push his audience's buttons and pander to their prejudices.
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  8276.  @jraulerson3081  Exactly and all the stupid M0R0NIC legal minds who have BULLSHlTTED and BULLSHlTTED and BULLSHlTTED on for the last 4 years have TOTALLY FAILED to uphold basic laws. I am totally over all these Lawyers and their there garbage intellectual discussions because they NOW MEAN NOTHING. They have done more damage to the human race than Spanish Flu and Ebola combined. What does the law even mean anymore thanks to them?
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  8277. ​ @Beer_Dad1975  No, but he's one of a long list of people who wanted their country to be a better place and went to jail for it. That's the difference between Nelson Mandela and Donald Trump. One wanted his country to be great and went to jail trying to make it great and was awarded a Nobel Prize for his efforts. The other talks about making his country great as he swindles and grifts it for all he can get and got upset when a teenage girl was awarded a Nobel Prize instead of him and has avoided any accountability for a staggering list of crimes any one of which would put a normal person in jail.
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  8278.  @Feanor1169  Nice parrot point but nothing of actual merit in that. In case you missed it the entire Soviet Empire collapsed 30+ years ago. The Chinese shifted into a weird new form of capitalist communism that nobody nut them gets. Sorry but the whole cultural Marxism claim is utterly baseless. Its a bullshit story right wingers tell their children for bedtime stories instead of hugging them.
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  8279. But Elon is a champion of free speech its just how he uses the word FREE. He doesn't charge any money for people to say what he likes and that makes it free speech. He doesn't charge the Russians any money for using bots and that makes it free speech. He doesn't charge the Chinese any money for using bots and that makes it free speech. OH Sorry did you think Elon meant the other kind of "free"????
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  8280. Yeah - you're pretty much right. The problem with BOTH is when people take it too far and it becomes toxic. Its like comparing champagne and moonshine. Sure you can say one is more cultured and refined than the other but if take too much its still just as toxic.
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  8281.  @davidmacy411  I think you're 90% right. Its not so much that the Left use patriotism and the Right use nationalism because they both use some of the other to help push it. You can't push patriotism without having nationalism. You can't push nationalism without having patriotism. Plus they flip that stuff around when it suits. I think one of the things where the poly-sci people have completely screwed up is they have tried to push a "political map" that's a flat sheet. Just like a map of the world might be convenient when its flat the reality is we're on a globe. Here's an interesting thing about living on a globe. If you go east or west, no matter how different the journey you end up in the same place if go far enough. I think Left and Right politics are the same when they go too far. No matter what path or the labels they use it ends up in the same place. A shitty authoritarian state that professes to be free and fair and love its people but they're never free, never fair and NEVER CARE SQUAT ABOUT PEOPLE. Do you really think the people in power and their armies of bureaucrats, lawyers & bankers give a damn about you, me or anyone else?
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  8282. ​ @kiwihib  Why TF are you saying I'm stuck in the past. Your the person who has brought up something that was IN THE PAST and was done away with decades ago. I know exactly what sort of Kiwi you are now. Proverbially speaking 9 out 10 Kiwis come to Australian and they never cause any problems. YOU'RE THE OTHER KIND - arrogant, ignorant, stupid, self righteous, never stops telling everyone how great New Zealand is, never stops complaining about Australia AND IS ALWAYS CAUSING TROUBLE. Do everyone a favor. STFU and stay in New Zealand because you know nothing about the world.
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  8283.  @zapkvr  No, sorry we are both wrong. The actual saying was "He’s about as sharp as a pound of wet leather" which is also mistakenly quoted as "wet liver." http://foghornleghornquotes.com/foghorn-leghorn-sayings/ Do a search for "leather" and you'll find the comments/corrections.
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  8284. Yeah but if he went to Washington the swamp would ruin him as it ruins everyone. Its an interesting hypothetical. If Putin nuked Washington would it be an act of war or an act of mercy for the American people? It would be a tragedy to lose places like the Smithsonian and some of the other great monuments but if it were to completely clean out the swamp what would it be considered?
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  8285. Its the saddest part of Western Society the loss of our public information system. Thomas Jefferson famously hated journalists and newspapers but also recognized how important they are to a fair and free society. I'm Australian and even I know about that. Here's 3 that are incredibly relevant Jefferson quotes to todays issues. On the first one you can easily swap out the words "reads nothing but newspapers" for "watches nothing but opinion TV." That applies to ALL of them, FOX, MSNBC, CNN,....etc. As for the second note what he says about being capable of reading which implies being educated enough to have some discernment. The 3rd is important, because physically pounding FOX, MSNBC, WaPo, NYT or any of the other opinion mutts isn't a solution even though many of them deserve an ass kicking. "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." "The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them." "I am… for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents."
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  8286.  Jose-hs4vk  Yeah sure I'll agree with you any day of the week America and the West are in decline with serious structural issues. BUT if you think that handing control of the planet to China and Russia and the rest of the BRICS will be good THEN YOU'RE INSANE. Both Russia and China are ruthless dictatorships with horrendous human rights records. Both Russia and China have caused some of the worst environmental disasters in human history like the destruction of the Aral Sea and the destruction of Chinese waterways. As for Brasil, India and South Africa they are all rife with issues and corruption. Then there's the Arabian oil states who believe that anyone questioning their rule gets there head removed in public. YES America and the West are in decline but BRICS is NOT a solution.
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  8287.  @emceeboogieboots1608  I have heard that "51st State" line for over 50 years. Maybe not in those exact words but its there. Remember when we had that seat on the UN Security council and basically the entire UN called us America's second vote. Even when we were trying to get that seat the criticism from many was that all we'd do is be America's second vote.
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  8288. When the history of this mess is written Lindsay Graham is going to be labelled as among the most spineless pieces of crap in history. When he put it that he would not allow the next AG to investigate Trump people got reminded that Lindsay Graham had his emails hacked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbaXO_Ogw4I What was in those emails, because everyone keeps pointing out that Lindsay Graham went through a massive backflip on Trump. He's got a big problem now because after the 20th he will have NO power because of the Georgia run-off result. That and Trump being Trump, he might just throw whatever it is he has on Graham into the wind for all the world to see.
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  8289. THIS CLOWN ON THE PHONE is exactly why the Americans get into SO MUCH TROUBLE on the international stage. They think a gun is the way to solve every problem. You cant just go an assassinate a foreign head of state because you don't like how they run their country. This is the STUPIDITY of American EXECEPTIONALISM - Americans think they have THE RIGHT to interfere in other countries and if those countries DO NOT do as they are told the CIA, NSA or one of the other 3 letter agencies will go in and ENFORCE COMPLIANCE. JUST STOP telling the rest of us how to run our countries and EVEN BETTER - STOP GIVING GUNS to CRAZY PEOPLE!
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  8290. IN WHAT WAY IS ANYBODY SURPRISED 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8291. Not all crypto is a scam Some of them are Ponzi schemes, while others are just simply fraud,
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  8292.  @FilipCordas  WTF are you kidding? Sure Stock exchanges are dodgy and get manipulated all the time, but at least there are rules for stock exchanges and every so often the regulators actually punish someone who breaks those rules. Crypto has NO standards, NO rules, NO regulations, NO governance, NO oversight, NO protections from scammers, NO enforcement agencies, AND MOST OF ALL NOTHING backing it up or anything else resembling basic common sense. Like SBF its was a 16,000,000,000% scam from the very beginning.
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  8293.  @FilipCordas  Berkshire Hathaway has NEVER done anything with Crypto. Both Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger have made no secret they think Crypto is garbage and explained why. GO WATCH THE 3rd PART Its towards the end.
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  8294. There's also Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan, who called Bitcoin "hyped up fraud" Its in parts 3 just after Buffet and Munger.
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  8295.  @FilipCordas  It wasn't a billion you IDl0T and Nubank IS NOT A CRYPTO. You people are so ignorant. Its no wonder you get taken by scammers.
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  8296. 3) Will the Dems work out how they missed that the opponent was a scammer????
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  8297. Why should anyone care about people THAT IDIOTIC? Think about all the displaced people in the world and irrespective of whether we consider then illegal immigrants or refugees they all share 1 thing. THEY WANT A BETTER LIFE and are willing to risk everything for a BETTER LIFE. Instead they arrive into a culture (if we can call it culture) that's drowning under the influence of these sorts of clowns.
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  8298. Yeah Krystal and Kyle fawned over Rogan when he backed Bernie Sanders. They fawned over him again and again for other things alike his nonsense on COVID medications and then are surprised when this happens. Those guys are like trying to tame a wild dog. You shouldn't be surprised if it bites you.
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  8299. The 30 Years War was called the 30 Years war for a reason. The 100 Years War was called the 100 Years war for a reason. Forever Wars are called Forever Wars for a reason.
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  8300. Congratulations you 2 just worked out what the rest of the world knows. America is a bi-partisan oligarchy. You have 2 tribes lead by oligarchs who keep their support bases in a constant state of ideological culture war. You guys really need to have Mark Blyth and/or Eric Lonergan on and discuss their book Angrynomics.
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  8301.  @MarcyStuart5x5  And they do the same thing in other countries the only difference is the version of religion they use for their virtue signalling. Even the Godless commies found things to worship. The Russians worshipped Lenin, the Chinese Mao and the North Koreans the Kim family.
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  8302.  @marcwells03  Before you make an even bigger idiot of yourself a second time see if you can tell anyone where Jesus ever said that. I not only know where it was said but WHO actually said it AND what the context was. The only people more ignorant than evangelicals who barely read the Bible yet think they know all that it has are people like you who have never opened it and think you know all that it has. You don't even know who actually said what you are claiming.
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  8303.  @marcwells03  So good of you to ALSO find out it wasn't Jesus who said that. In Ancient Hebrew and ancient Greek the word slave also means EMPLOYEE. The word employee is actually very recent historically. the concept did exist through the ages but the Industrial Revolution changed everything about labor. In the literal translation 1 Peter 2:18 reads, “Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.” In the modern context of an EMPLOYEE the context is: "Employees, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your bosses, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.” Similarly in the same context Ephesians 6:5 would read: “Employees, obey your bosses with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.” And Colossians 3:22 would read, _“Employees, obey your bosses in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord.”
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  8304.  @marcwells03  As to the last part of your comment. You and your attitude is why there is a growing backlash against WOKEISM and WHATABOUTISM. You started this claiming Jesus said something AND YOU WERE WRONG. Do you admit that you were wrong? NO and instead start trolling me. If you want to complain about the hypocrisy of organised religion doing things like preaching compassion as they are uncompassionate towards people then fine I will agree with that any day of the week. BUT DO NOT bark orders and condemn people like a religious zealot because all you are doing right now is EXACTLY what priests have done for centuries. This is why there is a growing backlash against WOKEISM. You are just as judgmental and ignorant as any priesthood from history. You don't care about truth or honesty. This is about you demanding other people comply with your ideology. As I pointed out in my last reply the only thing WORSE than than the ignorant person who reads a page from the bible and thinks they know all IS THE PERSON WHO'S NEVER READ IT AND THINK THEY EVEN MORE.
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  8305.  @marcwells03  And by the way the godless communists under Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and others did plenty of genocide and mass murder. And right now the godless Vladimir Putin has caused the deaths of an estimated 200,000 people and displaced another 8 million people. if you want to criticise the part the Russian Orthodox church has had in supporting Vladimir Putin then fine on that we will agree.
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  8306.  @marcwells03  Is there any point you don't gaslight people? You started this with a ridiculous claim THAT WAS WRONG. You then came back with gaslighting and accusations, without knowing anything about me or my views. Now you come back with more gaslighting. You represent EVERYTHING that is wrong with the Woke Left. Irrespective of how decent or righteous your stance on any issue is. Your response to anything you don't like is to scream and screech at people. This is why people like you always fail.
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  8307.  @marcwells03  WTF - the Woke movement isn't failing??? Then Explain how the US Supreme court just overturned Roe V Wade and how they are gunning for LGBT rights next, which they will win with their 6-3 majority. Explain how in Italy they just elected a radical Far Right lunatic, just like they have in other European States or that in France they almost elected a similar far Right lunatic. Moving on to your other stupidity. How do you know that this planet wasn't seeded with life by a species further up the scale than we are? The scientific community claims there must be other life in the universe but then dismiss that possibility that this planet was engineered or modified for human life. That was the basic theme of Arthur C Clarkes novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. This is the problem with Woke Leftists and Far Right Fanatics. You can't conceive of anything outside your own narrative even when your own narrative contradicts itself or when you're simply wrong you scream and screech and deflect onto the next rant.
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  8308.  @marcwells03  How is your wokeism working in Florida right now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0leqE5I5FsM
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  8309.  @marcwells03  YOU REALLY ARE THIS BLIND AREN'T YOU American had Roe V Wade for a lot longer than 25 years and that went in a blink. WHAT PART OF THAT CAN YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?
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  8310.  @marcwells03  You have the EXACT SAME FOUL ATTITUDE as the most radical evangelical. You demand people believe what you want them to believe and that NEVER WORKS OUT. I spent most of last week arguing AGAINST people who were anti-woke. I was your supporter last week NOT ANYMORE
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  8311. See how much of a condescending sack of SHlT you are? Like all your kind both Left and Right YOU DEMAND others RESPECT YOU as a human being and yet you have NOTHING but DISRESPECT FOR OTHERS. I have been patient and answered your questions and claims. You have shown nothing but narcissistic self righteousness. This is why BOTH the Radical Right and Radical Left always fail. People just get tired of your SHlT ATTITUDE.
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  8312.  @marcwells03 YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR ANYONE. THE WAY YOU TALK TO PEOPLE MAKES THAT CRYSTAL CLEAR.
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  8313.  @marcwells03  Go and troll someone else you ignorant SACK OF SHlT
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  8314.  @marcwells03  You keep claiming you respect people and yet EVERY REPLY IS AN INSULT I have called you out and called you names for your ATTITUDE. BUT I haven't abused you for your beliefs.
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  8315.  @marcwells03  Typical zealot when they can't rationally discuss things all they can do is provoke people You really are as pathetic as the evangelicals.
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  8316.  @marcwells03  And there you go again. You have no idea what I believe and why should anyone try and EXPLAIN ANYTHING to such a SHlT AS YOU.
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  8317.  @marcwells03  There's actually crystal clear evidence that somebody was engineering this planet around 800,000 years ago and more recently about 15,000 years ago. Its right there in the CO2 data. But trying to explain any of that to such an ignorant SHlT is not worth anyone's time.
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  8318.  @wessexmom  I just noticed that 8 months ago the guys interviewed a real POS named Christopher Rufo. He's the guy who set of the whole CR thing in America. John Oliver did a video on CRT recently and he pointed out how this guy just chose a topic to dog whistle and ignite a storm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICp1vGlh_U It doesn't matter if they are from the LEFT or RIGHT we need to get all of these radicals out of the schools everywhere. Not just America but everywhere.
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  8319.  @BasedYoga  Thanks I am getting so tired of the politicians and commentators screaming at the "other side" for doing the same things they do. This is why no matter how people vote the same stuff keeps happening. They call in the consultants to justify how they will cut services, sell anything and privatise everything while spending more and more on the military.
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  8320. Thanks I did just that and found it. I hate to break it to Thom but this Rabbi is just doing what so many other people have done. Rabbi Kulka, like others, is trying to fit text written 1000s of years ago in an ancient language to suit their narrative. Anybody who has ever taken a simple honest examination of the first chapter of Genesis knows that what he is claiming about Adam being androgynos is complete nonsense. Its just as stupid as so many other clowns who try and fit some part of the bible to their narrative.
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  8321. "Word has it" journalistic lingo to let you know what's about to be said has NOT BEEN FACT CHECKED.
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  8322. Id' like to know why nobody is going up to interviewers like this bimbo and asking her why her network continues to spread lies and misinformation and when she claims they're not lies DEMAND she proves it. So long as media people are allowed to produce idiotically biased garbage like this and NEVER be held accountable all the divisive garbage they do around the world will just keep continuing.
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  8323. There's a really important point David brings up here which is Joe Biden's avoidance of getting into a verbal slanging match with Trump. That's prevented Biden being dragged down to Trumps gutter level and its driving Trump insane. Its also forcing people to see what David said right at the end - "Joe Biden spends 9/11 being president. Trump spends 9/11 complaining about Joe Biden." It wont matter if Biden runs or not next year. What he's doing now is leaving Trump with nothing but to blast away with hot air and possibly an aneurysm.
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  8324.  @ytucharliesierra  yep they all have the brain of Homer Simpson jacked up on a combo of crack, speed and LSD.
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  8325. For anyone interested here's the Wikipedia page on CRT -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory
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  8326.  Sean M  Gota pay that. 🙌🙌
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  8327.  @raymack8767  Good question? I was just trying to give people a starting point with the Wikipedia link. Reading some of it I get the impression that people who promote this stuff are more trying to hype up their own intellect rather than inform or educate anyone. It smells more like an intellectual bullshit fest rather than a way to explain anything. I did engineering and had to do a required number of units of "humanities" to make me a more "well rounded" person. Yeah bullshit to that. All I found with the liberal arts was a pack of clowns trying to prove they were smarter than they actually were. They were all so desperate to put meaningless labels on everything that they forgot the most pressing thing humanity needs - solutions.
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  8328. Yeah its a pretty interesting concept. About the only thing he said that I balked at was when he said there's no alternative form of capitalism than we can have. I find that as narrow minded as the fools who say there's no form of socialism that can work after the experiments of Eastern Europe and Asia. If we use those examples then there is no alternative to the world. Humanity has failed with socialism and failed with capitalism before that humanity failed with feudalism, failed with monarchies, theocracies, meritocracies, oligarchies, plutocracies and kleptocracies to name a few. It was a great talk but on that one point I'd ask him: What are we then left with? Because Marxism failed everywhere they tried it, because id didn't eliminate the one thing he points to here - the ruling class. All the Marxist states were run by a ruling class and all their policies were for keeping that ruling class in power.
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  8329. Go and watch John Oliver's vid on CRT and you'll find that Chris Ruffo is a vile opportunist. He's the guy who started and made up the CRT campaign. He just saw it as an opportunity to get in front of a camera and grab attention. He's an incredibly dangerous type of reactionary, because he's the type who's smart enough to realise what other people will react to and respond to with predictable results. I don't think he believes much of what he says, but he knows how Fox viewers will react. Think of all those misguided people who went berserk in school council meetings about something that didn't exist. He was the guy behind all of that.
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  8330. Hooray, somebody else commenting actually knows that.
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  8331.  @andrewpinson1268  Agreed on all points. Except we do have plenty of big holes called open pit mines. Many are big enough and deep enough to bury entire governments in. Its just that environmental laws are pretty stringent about using them to dump toxic waste in - so we can't! 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  8332. On the basic principal I agree. For example in the case of Timothy McVeigh there was no doubt he did what he did. In the case of John Wayne Gacy there was no doubt. In both those case I absolutely agree that justice was done. They both showed what Americans call "depraved indifference," but in many other cases there is doubt or there is at least the appearance of improper procedure. For example: AFTER Donald Trump lost the 2020 election he ordered the execution of 3 convicted people. Irrespective of what they did or didn't do for over 130 years NO President had allowed a federal execution to take place in the period between the election and the inauguration of the next President. The view was that despite the sitting president having duties to fulfill no longer had the mandate for those sorts of decisions and they were to be left for the incoming president. At the same time Donald Trump pardoned the Blackwater 4 who were responsible for killing 17 innocent people in the Nisour Square Massacre. Those 4 were, at the time of their crime, employees of Eric Prince the brother of Betsy DeVos Donald Trumps Secretary of Education. So were those decisions by Donald Trump for justice or politics? FYI - I'm Australian and the last person executed in Australia was Ronald Ryan who was hanged for killing a guard during an attempted prison break. It was in my home state of Victoria. There were serious ballistics issues that suggested the guard was accidentally shot by another guard in a tower. The lone eyewitness to the actual shot simply lied. Decades later records were released of the cabinet discussions. These included people telling the Premier (our equivalent of a state Governor) of these serious flaws in the case. He told colleagues he didn't care as there was an election coming and looking tough of crime was always a winner. Sir Henry Bolte won that election in a landslide and one of the main bridges in Melbourne is named after him. Its now fairy well accepted that Ronald Ryan was hung for political not judicial reasons.
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  8333. AEROSPACE engineer here who works in industrial automation and is familiar with Siemens industrial products. Finally someone in the media has summed up the "AI" claims. Are "AI and innovation more than just buzz words" because so far all I have seen is a mountain of buzz and almost ZERO substance. Its quite possible Siemens will do this a lot better because they have people able to utilise software algorithms in new areas and new ways. One area I think they might suddenly get very good at is predictive failure analysis that can prevent unexpected failures that cost billions every year. Its hard as an engineer to actually explain to non-engineers just how much it costs to have unexpected breakdowns. We really do experience preventable multi-million dollar shutdowns for parts worth only a few $100 or just doing regular maintenance and inspections. The real problem with doing good work in maintenance is that there's almost no evidence its being done because things are working. Its only when you cut maintenance that its value hits home and sometimes that's big $$$.
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  8334.  @fayeb.5855  More to the point they were about POWER. Slavery is/was just a consequence of that power.
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  8335. Australian here: Yeah, Sorry but the whole world knows. What's more important is that WE KNOW just how f*cked up the GOP has become because of the Trump Era. I don't think Americans realise just how concerned we are. Whether the rest of us like it or not there are some inescapable facts. 1) America is still the largest and most power full military force on the planet. Forget China - YES they have huge numbers and can simply overwhelm most other nations but their Military is all designed for operating within the First Island Chain. YES they have a huge Navy and YES they have a staggering number of anti-ship missiles stockpiled. But their missiles have limited range and their submarines are at the same level as the Americans and Soviets were in the 1970s maybe 1980s. Navy on Navy it would be carnage like the world hasn't seen since the Greek and Persian navies went at it 2000 years ago. 2) The American Economy is still the largest economy in the world at just under 25% of the worlds economy. If America sneezes the rest of us get the flu. if America gets genuinely sick its like our economies getting Ebola. 3) The American $$$ Dollar is still the World's reserve currency and NOTHING is going to change that anytime soon. Forget all the reasons why it might be better to get rid of the reserve system based on the $US and everyone's reliance on it - JUST IN PRACTICAL TERMS how does anyone think it can actually be done AND THEN what do we replace it with?
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  8336. I did Aerospace ay U. Illinois (graduated at the end of 87). I never did anything on the CRAYs, but we were being shown what some of the postgrads were doing with CFD modelling. I was into FEA with my professor and we just used one the departments Cybers for that. I was on the swim team and there was a post grad who'd been on the team a few years earlier who the coach still let use our locker room. I forget his name, but was working on the parallel processing compilers for the CRAYs. I remember being quite surprised to find out they were still using Fortran and he explained they did that because the math algorithms had already been proven. What he was working on was how to send different parts of the code to different processors and get the best performance. I graduated at the end of 87 and they were just bringing on the second CRAY which I think might have been a 2 or an XMP-48. I'm actually Australian and its incredibly hard to explain to people here what it was like to be at Illinois in that era. I had done a year at RMIT in Melbourne before going to Illinois. RMIT had all of 1 Cyber mainframe for the entire university. Just the Aerospace department at Illinois had 2 Cybers as well as access to the other engineering VAX main frames. One of my professors had 2 Micro Vax units under a desk in his office. A few years after getting back to Oz our main Science and Research Organisation the CSIRO got a YMP single core and thought it was the greatest thing ever. It was around the time Illinois was commissioning its second XMP-64.
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  8337.  @marcusdamberger  Dude what an awesome story. I do remember Plato, but I hated it. Maybe in 85-86 it was still at that point where it was so cumbersome that it gave us all nightmares. Looking back I am certain that we were just lab rats for that kind of system. What Plato sort of achieved that's really important is what it inspired. The engineering school had been given a bunch of systems. Dozens of IBM compatibles, AT&T Unix PCs (i had one and it was ahhh-ful!) and 2 rooms full of first gen Apple Macs that had a mouse AND THEY were so awesome for term papers. It was a big deal back then having access to fonts and basic spell checking. I like to think that Plato's inspiration was to get the guys at the NSCA make it as easy to use as an Apple Mac AND VOI-ah-LA they gave us the web browser. Think about it why would a bunch of guys playing with CRAYs turn their attention to Plato and make it work like an Apple Mac? Yet they did and arguably made one of the greatest technical achievements of the computer age. It only had 1 downside - it made computers so much easier to use that millions of people suddenly thought they were tech savvy. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  8338.  @AWAVAVA  WHICH NUMBERS??? The 1.5 billion registered cars and 500 million trucks is there on Wikipedia. YEAH there really are that many cars and trucks AND They will all eventually wear out and need replacing ANYWAY. AND the same goes for all the power stations. As for the several hundred years of Lithium production. Simon Michaux who's an engineer from the mining industry calculated that. Its fairly simple. He just looked at how much lithium Elon puts into his Tesla's and his trucks and looked at current Lithium production. I didn't make those numbers up. This is what infuriates engineers. We tell people much stuff needs to be done and then people throw SHlT at us.
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  8339.  @carolynfarrington9351  No probs. And I really do want to see America get back to its best. Not only would it be good for all the friends I have there but it would be good for the world. Its not that we need America to deal with things like climate change and wealth disparity but those tasks just become so much easier with America onside and way more difficult if its not. There's a question Americans, like many others need to ask themselves right now: How do you want history to remember you? Being honest I don't think I'd like to read how history would remember Australia because it might read: Wasted their opportunities and got hijacked by assholes. We all need to do better.
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  8340.  @ryanironheart4154  OMG are you saying Hollywood isn't real? But Elon, Jeff and Mark promised trips to Mars, cars that drive themselves and a new virtual world space??????
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  8341. That's of course sensible and its what scientists have argued for some time. Because of all the ridiculous howling and screaming over COVID one thing that needed to be discussed but has NOT been discussed is the oversight of these labs. Back in 2011 there was a Dutch Researcher named Ron Fouchier who created a variation of avian flu that has been described as the deadliest virus humanity has ever encountered. Had it escaped rather than COVID we'd have already have over 64 million dead instead of 6.6 million. The problem that emerged after Ron Fouchier's work was that nobody was really aware of what he was doing. The Dutch government actually had to step in and shut him down because he wanted to tell the whole world how he did it and show how clever he was. He never considered the maniacs who would use it. If you do take a look at the whole Wuhan issue it was obvious there were issues. I DO NOT think that what they were doing was fundamentally wrong. China had faced MERS and SARS so investigating what might be next was smart. Getting other nations to help with that research was also smart. DOING THAT RESEARCH IN AN UNSAFE WAY WAS NOT SMART. An airborne virus like COVID needed to have been researched in a Level 4 lab NOT a Level 3 lab AND THAT HAS BEEN EXPLAINED BY EXPERTS. And 1 other thing. They redefined what was and what wasn't gain of function. Ron Fouchier's work would no longer be considered gain of function. Just like the work in Wuhan is also not considered to be gain of function. This is something else that has NOT been discussed publicly.
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  8342. Yeah but he understands his audience and how to engage them and make it feel relatable. Until the opposition to this gets that simple fact NOTHING will change. A number of years ago when Kim Kardashian was making millions from just turning up to parties and doing other senseless garbage and advertising guru was asked WTF was going on. He basically said "Forget whether you think she's smart, dumb or irrelevant. She's able to get people to relate to what she does." He went on to explain that this is the most basic part of advertising anything - make it relatable. AND THAT'S what all these people rely on - politicians, commentators, any of them.
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  8343. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Like many engineers I am TIRED of clowns promoting garbage to the public that we then have to explain and explain and explain why its not possible or it won't work. This crap and nonsense is going on constantly, with scammer after scammer promoting the next thing and wasting everyone's time and money. Just the other day I had some ignorant clown tell me that here in Australia we ALREADY HAVE a couple of Small Modular Reactors operating. Funny thing is NONE of the companies involved in SMRs are saying anything other than they HOPE to have them available by the mid 2030s. According to this clown somehow Australia has time warped in a couple of SMRs. As an aerospace engineer I hear all sorts of nonsense from terraforming Mars (which is simply a fantasy), to Jewish or Chinese Space lasers causing grass fires to hypersonic missiles that manoeuvre and dance around the sky AND ITS ALL BULLSHIT. What Thunder00t is doing with these basic calculations of HOW MUCH IS NEEDED is what I call planetary mechanics. Along with my classmates we were introduced to this by a NASA engineer who did a guest lecture one day. He'd just finished a project for NASA on what it would take to terraform Mars. Once NASA realised just how much stuff (like air) is needed to cover a planet they gave up on the idea of EVER terraforming Mars. But 35 years later there are millions of Elon Musk fans who think they will be going to Mars to terraform it. DID you notice for this proposal the team leader is an Architect? If Architects knew how much engineers HATE THEM. Other than a few of the very best architects who know what their designs do to the people who have to make them, the vast majority of architects are PROBLEM CREATORS. The worst part of their attitude is THEY KNOW they are creating problems for other people to deal with.
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  8344.  @keg3212  I wouldn't say its uninteresting, BUT it is repetitive, BUT then so is Elon Musk.
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  8345. Right below your comment is a clearly racist right wing idiot and both of you have missed one of the most important facts. Most of SCOTUS have been actually been chosen by the Federalist Society which was started at Harvard and Yale. Do you know that 14 of the last 18 SCOTUS judges are either Harvard or Yale, including 8 of the current 9? Oh yeah Ketanji Brown Jackson went to Harvard. Did you or any other American Dem or GOP vote on that? Guess what its a big club and YOU ARE NOT PART OF IT.
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  8346. Sorry to debunk this but it was covered as a BS story among the British Tabloids on ABC Australia's media watch program. Putin has displayed most of these mannerisms (like tapping his foot) all through his career and some have speculated on them in the past and been found WRONG. Its here starting at 14:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_DK7Pi7buI
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  8347. P.S. If the Brits don't want you to help then please come down here and help us.
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  8348. I have exactly the same answer I just gave another person. This is a message the American Left NEED TO HEAR. Go back and look for a video Kyle did referencing a Politico story on the 2022 Congressional Budget Office Report Bernie Sanders commissioned on family wealth. Just the first graph in that report (and its easy to find) shows how the Bottom 50% of America have gone NOWHERE for 30+ years. They were smashed in the 2008 GFC losing almost 50% of what little they had. Meanwhile the Top 10% just keep getting everything they ask for. Once you realise just how farked a massive slab is and how fed up they are you will realise that BOTH Hilary and Kamala saying "More of the Same" means the only option for those people to change their lives is Trump. This is the TRUE FAILURE of the Dems. Instead of saying anything aspirational that gives the American people hope of a better future they gave "More of the Same" as their centre policy. When your one of the American Working Class and your life is SHlT and one person is preaching "More of the Same" and the other person is saying they want to "Tear down the System" its easy to see why Trump WON and America LOST. Because they have voted to tear the system down without thinking about what's needed to build it back up and Trump proved in his last 4 years he's clueless at building a better system.
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  8349. To America: This behavior of this SCOTUS no longer just involves America. Absolutely this is way more important to you that anyone else, but for every country that trades with America and especially any country with security arrangements with America this SCOTUS is of serious importance. If any American company gets into an issue for activities outside America they drag the case back to America. Go and look up the case with Steven Donziger and Chevron. That case had nothing to do with America or American courts. Yet it was dragged back to the American Courts where Chevron had everything in their favor. As for security who knows how far this court will go in future. Today they are making SOCIO-POLITiCAL decisions for 328 million people who did NOT vote them into office. What decisions will they make in future that might have grave security implications. The 45th President has been found (in breach of American laws) in possession of classified materials. What if this court makes some ridiculous decision regarding that? What are other countries meant to do if future Presidents just do as they please with classified materials and there's no recourse? FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. A bunch of my friends were pre-law and we ended up discussing the constitution a lot. I can barely believe what's happening with SCOTUS. This is the sort of stuff they told me could never happen. The system of "Checks & Balances" was rock solid. I don't think anyone ever considered that a pack of billionaires along with a few insanely corrupt Senators could smash that system, but they have. SCOTUS is a massive issue but if you don't FIX THE SENATE and get rid of the cancer that's there it won't matter.
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  8350. Actually the FBI have been doing this from the very foundation of the agency under J. Edgar Hoover. It was a rogue agency spying on the entire US population for decades before the Patriot Act ever existed. All the Patriot Act did was make some of its activities legal.
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  8351.  @rainingonyourcharade  I remember watch an ABC Australia 4-Corners program on social media and they went through the basic aspects of Tik Tok and how it tracks people and continuously scans their photo gallery. My immediate thought was "Is this a social media app or a surveillance system?" because I knew that if you let an app like that have access PAST your firewall then it can theoretically access other things. On any smart phone or computer there's the basic firewall and maybe a secondary one and to get to your data hacker, governments and corporations either have to hack or BE GRANTED ACESS. When you sign up to Tik Tok you GRANT ACCESS past the firewall. A few months after that program first aired and I think its still here on YouTube one of our spy chiefs was formally asked in front of a government panel (so he can't lie or its perjury) if Tik Tok could access other things like phone logs and messages AND HE SAID YES. That was (i think) about 2 years ago.
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  8352.  @Ketowski  What really exposed the issue here in Australia because the Tik Tok debate also included the Huawei in 5G issue was the basics of Chinese Corporate Law. Chinese Corporate Law is NOTHING LIKE Western Corporate Law - NOT EVEN CLOSE Under Chinese Corporate Law if the CCP walk in your door and ask for client data it IS NOT a request. You don't get to ask where the warrant is. Chinese Corporate Law states quite simply that all Chinese registered companies hand over client data when asked for it. To WITHHOLD anything is a CRIME and you go to jail. So even if Huawei or Tik Tok or any other Chinese company have data OUTSIDE of China that data still has to be handed over to the CCP when they ask for it. We had this explained to us in Australia over 2 years ago. Its why we simply banned Huawei from 5G and then banned Tik Tok from all government devices. They screamed and yelled and complained and every time we asked how they would get around Chinese Corporate Law and keep our data out of the hands of the CCP they HAD NO ANSWERS. Basically if you have a Tik Tok account then the CCP know who you are, where you go, who you interact with and quite possibly what your political views are depending on what's in your messages.
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  8353.  @Ricecooker112  Great comment. A couple of days ago Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation was interviewed on the Australian program 7:30 Report. Its here on YouTube and titled ‘AI is reliant on mass surveillance’ and we should be cautious, warns head of messaging app Go listen to what she says. ALSO - just yesterday the same program did a story on the use of AI to generate deep fakes. There's been several scandals in high schools here in Australia using AI and a couple of them are pretty ugly. Basically Gate, Suckerberg, Altman, Musk,..... are completely out of control at the moment and because of what technologies they have unleashed with their Silicon Valley "move fast, break things" mentality reigning it in without making the situation worse is going to be incredibly hard.
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  8354. @BomBoo-rn8gj What's the point???? Have you ever heard of the 4th Amendment which is about unreasonable searches. Its also the protection against being spied on or surveilled by the government. Most developed countries have similar laws or legislation. What the car companies are doing is CORPORATE surveillance of a type we'd never let our governments do. And its not just the car companies its pretty much the entire IT industry including YouTube. Since you're already here put "abc Australia Meredith Whittaker" into search and go watch the interview she gave this week. She explained how the AI's that we have all been told are magically wonderful require mass surveillance to work.
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  8355. You just answered your own statement "claims" they are just "claims" Considering how badly prepared the entire world was DESPITE WARNINGS then its real easy to single out people. That's not to say we shouldn't hang the man for incompetence, but you don't hang people on "claims" or at least you shouldn't. And my other reply to everyone who wants to go after people like Tedros and Fauci. If you think you know better and can do better then apply for the job. Otherwise your just another social media clown.
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  8356. Clearly a lot of people here have NEVER worked in the mining industry or have NO IDEA about manufacturing, but then most of these idiots spouting nonsense have NO IDEA because they have never been involved in manufacturing or been involved in mining and I'VE DONE BOTH. I used to work in the Australian automotive sector before it shut down and have since worked in the Australian mining sector in control systems and automation. 1: There's a giant difference between finding a deposit, getting it properly assessed and then being able to mine it. Circa 2006 I worked on the construction of the Ravensthorpe Nickel project. BHP spent $3.5 Billion on the project. It was laterite nickel which is a bitch to process, but it was justified by the quality of the deposit and the value of Nickel. BHP did NOT complete a full drilling test pattern and the deposit was found to be NOWHERE near as good as the PR claimed. The mine was closed after about 18months and sold for less than 1/7th ($500 Million) its. The Lesson: Don't believe the PR hype even when its from a major player. 2: You absolutely do need Nickel for batteries, just as you need copper for the electrical cabling in an EV just as you need all the other metals, glass and plastics. Go and look at your car and see how much stuff is actually in one. If you have ever been in the plants where they make all those bits that go into a car you'll quickly understand that it takes a whole range of raw materials and lots of energy to make the bits that make a car and all of that uses lots of energy. The quickest way we can reduce emissions is to reduce how much energy we consume as a society. THE AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING SECTOR is one of the largest energy consumers because it not only uses a lot of energy making the cars it uses a lot of energy getting the raw materials out of the ground and processing that into the raw feed stock to make the parts the cars are made from. The best thing we can do is NOT replace old cars with new cars but replace the drive systems in old cars with EV and Hybrid systems. It will save huge amounts of energy and resources while keeping millions of people employed. BUILDING EFFICIENCY: The other great (and inefficient) user of energy are BIG BUILDINGS. Mark Blyth the political economist from Brown U. pointed out this a couple of years ago. Some engineer worked out that just triple glazing all of America's buildings would employ 1000's and 1000's of people for well over a decade and reduce America's emissions so much that meeting the Paris goals is easy because you can then turn off a bunch of dirty old coal fired power stations. All those big giant glass boxes are designed by architects to look pretty NOT by engineers to be efficient. Not only would it creat employment but raise the asset values of all those buildings as well as reduce the power costs all the tenants have making them more profitable. I'd like to hear an economist claim that's not a good idea.
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  8357. His name is Rutger Bergman and here is a link to the Speech he gave at Davos in 2019 where he slammed the tax avoidance industry. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paaen3b44XY He was also famous for being cancelled at Fox when during the pre-taping for an interview with Tucker Carlson he told Carlson to his face he was a "millionaire paid by billionaires." The interview was never aired but was leaked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nFI2Zb7qE
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  8358. For anyone who wants here is the full panel that Rutger Bergman was part of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mG-r_3eRCw
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  8359. Australian here and form the OUTSIDE looking in America has done this to itself just like the British did with Brexit and we are doing with AUKUS. On face value there was never a lot wrong with Brexit or with AUKUS or with the concept that Merrick Garland had which was "Its political so let the American people decide it at the ballot box." The problem is Brexit was motivated by stupid opportunistic selfish people who didn't think through what Brexit actually meant or how to get it done. The problem with AUKUS isn't we are cementing our international relationships or getting nuclear powered submarines its the insane cost that's being drive by some stupid opportunistic selfish people who don't give a damn because they are in it for the money. The problem with Garland was he never considered that stupid opportunistic selfish people would take advantage of the situation. Can you see the common thread.
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  8360. I am an engineer and Gerrard deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. I can tell you that a Canadian engineer used these same figures at a recent CIS event that was held before Gerrard did this talk. Like many engineers I am getting incredibly fed up with people like Gerrard who pull these numbers out of thin air or very dubious sources and do it to audiences they know will not question anything. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  8361. David you didn't appear on Dr. Phil because they new you'd want to be sensible, rational and logical and how would that rate? How does Dr. Phil analyse a sensible, rational and logical person?
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  8362. Garland isn't so much a wimp but a federalist society member and an institutionalist. As an Institutionalist his views are reasonably well known that he believes the OFFICE of the presidency to be sacrosanct and it much not be besmirched in any way including dragging any president or ex-president through any court case. This is the same stupidity that lead Gerald Ford to write a blanket pardon to Richard Nixon despite the fact Nixon was never charged with anything. The stupidity of that ideology is that it ignores the fact that the President can commit actual crimes that must be dealt with or the very institution they are trying to protect becomes corrupted to the point of being irrelevant.
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  8363. The American GOP aren't the only party that tells its supporters how great they are as they shaft them. Most parties do it to some extent. BUT the GOP take the Olympic Gold Medal for stabbing their supporters in the neck as they brag about how sharp the knife is.
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  8364. AUSTALIAN ENGINEER HERE: Below is my overall comment but since you mentioned Maggie Thatch I thought I'd let you know. 1) This is NOT just a problem for Britain its a problem across the entire developed world including Australia. 2) This is 100% THE FAULT OF ECONOMISTS This started with American Economist Milton Freidman who's view was Governments are the problem and markets are the solution. 2 of his greatest acolytes were Margret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan who famously said "Governments are NOT the solution. Governments are the problem." Milton Friedman also_"argued that a company has no social responsibility to the public or society; its only responsibility is to its shareholders."_ (Wikipedia) and to maximise profits. The argument that deregulated markets would deliver "cheaper energy with better services" IS ILLOGICAL How can anyone expect there to be any stable market for anything when the OBLIGATION of every CEO in that market is to maximise profits. EITHER they collude to raise prices and lower costs OR they fight it out Hunger Games style until a single victor emerges and then there's no competition and the victor can do whatever they like. I will grant to any economist that in the case of fast moving consumer goods where there are many suppliers, many product options and many options to buy those goods from then Freidman's ideology can work. The problem is that things like infrastructure, water and energy ARE NOT LIKE fast moving consumer goods. They are ESSENTIAL SERVICES to society and the costs involved in DO NOT HAVE a market solution. This is also why economists have made a mess of public education and public health care across the world in recent decades. Economists can't comprehend that there are these ESSENTIAL functions and services that need to be manged by government, NOT so the government can make money but so that the private sector can make money. Roads & bridges DO NOT need to make money they need to enable everyone else to move about and move stuff and make money. Education systems DO NOT need to make money they need to supply private industry with educated workers or with people who can make money and buy their goods and services. Hospitals DO NOT need to make money they need to get people healthy so they can go back to making money. In Britain right now is Hinkley Point C. It took 7 years to approve & design with a 10 year construction period. Even at higher energy prices it will take close to a decade to pay off and then start earning money. How does anyone ask a banker or CEO in the 50s to spend £40+ Billion knowing they wont be making a positive return until they are in there 70s? However if you ask the representative of a nation state to invest in something where over the next 80 years your nation shall grow and prosper from that investment then its a completely different matter. I have done the math of this and depending on how much the French STATE OWNED entity EDF can earn from Hinkley Point C then the French shall not only get their money back but PAY FOR at least 2, possibly 3 and if they work it well enough 4 power stations (8 x EPR 2 reactors in total). This is why Mr Macron could safely order 8 EPR 2 reactors because he know the British Economists are to stupid to do the math and it will NOT be the French people paying for those reactors it will be the British people paying for those reactors. So yeah right now the French people might be asking why are we paying for a power station in Britain. The answer is very simple: So it can pay for the next 2, 3 or 4 in France. AND before you ask. YES Australia is being just as stupid with its energy sector because like the British Economists advising the British Government our Economists advising our Government went to Oxford and Cambridge too. Except for the ones who went to Harvard and Yale.
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  8365. FOR ANYONE wanting to see an amazing comment on the subject of Catholics influence in SCOTUS there's a lecture by a Notre Dame political science professor Patrick Deneen at The Tocqueville Center April 2024. Its titled "April 16, 2024: Part 1 - Catholic Political Thought in America" The actual comment is NOT by Patrick Deneen but by the person introducing the lecture. About 2 minutes into the video he points out that 6 or 7 of the current 9 SCOTUS judges are Catholic or culturally Catholic and then someone in the audience points out that he'd forgotten another of the 9. The lecture itself was about the different groups within American Catholicism, which was mildly interesting because I sort of wondered how many actual Catholics are aware of the influence being peddled by Leonard Leo who's Opus Dei and who's got the $1.6 Billion from Barre Seid to push people onto SCOTUS. The answer is most Catholics have no idea that a branch of Catholicism has this incredible power. Following that lecture there was this panel discussion and it got weird and quickly.
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  8366. I'm Australian and that's a world class one liner.
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  8367. Aerospace Engineer here: This sounds more like a political and management issue rather than a technical issue. The idea of a community battery, especially in country towns makes an awful lot of sense. Buying a bigger industrial size battery in a 10ft or 20ft container SHOULD be a lot cheaper than smaller individual power walls. I was just touting today with someone talking about the costs of nuclear and they were whining about the costs of safety and labour. Safety and labour cost NOTHING compared to bad project management. What's more if there are Cost Plus (C+) contracts involved then bad management can be MORE profitable than good management. People often misunderstand that if a C+ project is mismanaged and takes longer the contractors make more money. For example. On a 1 million man hour project with each man costing $100/hr which in the remote mining industry is realistic. Those million hours cost $100 million. If the C+ rate is 20% then the contractor makes $20 million (cost + 20%). BUT if the contractor works a little slower and is allowed to get away with it. OR if the project managers allow too many design adjustments that take longer. AND THEN the contractor hours go up 10% to 1.1million hours the cost become $110 million and the profit becomes $22 million. Its not bad working poorly or just letting project managers stuff up to get an extra $2 million. That's what's killing projects across the Western World.
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  8368. ALL UP GREAT VID
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  8369.  @3SpoiledDonkeys  thanks
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  8370.  @butchphillips873  I get what you are saying but you simply have it wrong. I have never heard of water or any other state change being described as a BLEVE and you are describing a state change from liquid to gas. The same could be said for when LNG meets water. Even with out an ignition it can be incredibly dangerous because of the rapid expansion as the LNG goes from liquid to gas. BUT IN BOTH CASES is a state change from liquid to gas NOT and ignited chemical reaction explosion. Yeah its splitting hairs and the definition needs to be better. The explosion in Beirut wasn't typical of a BLEVE either because the fuel wasn't stored as a liquid, but with the heat of the fire it became a liquid then went through a 2 stage event. So it wasn't typical but it was still a BLEVE because there was a chemical explosion where there was an expanding vapour cloud that used the oxygen in the air. What you've described is at best a BLEV with no 'E' on the end because there's no explosive reaction.
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  8371.  @MYeahman  SORRY BUT FARK-OFF I am NOT going through that argument again with yet another clown who doesn't know WTF they are talking about. There was a German explosives EXPERT on DW who explained what happened in Beirut and why it was so devastating and why it was classified as a BLEVE. WHY TF do people like you have to keep arguing things like this. Did you NOT farking read my comment and note the point where I said the definition of BLEVE needs to be made clearer. The guy who trained me as in FORMALLY TRAINED ME IN A FORMAL COURSE in FUNCTIONAL SAFETY where one of the first things we covered was BLEVEs is one of the top people in the world. He was one of the first 2 people ever certified as a Functional Safety Expert. When he speaks the entire engineering profession SHOULD shut its collective mouth and listen, BUT there's some clowns who think they know better. I really have had enough of clowns with fark-all knowledge of anything acting like farking experts in stuff they have no idea about.
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  8372.  @Garythefireman66  Agreed. If its not obvious I come from a completely unrelated industry other than a lot of stuff I use or produce ends up on boats. Like a few others I got introduced to Sal via Ward Carroll (F14 RIO) and I haven't stopped watching. Gary Stevenson the young British Economist points out how he was once told if he wanted to understand how the economy was going was to walk down the street and ask people. The idea was you'd get a better idea of how the bulk of the general population felt and how they'd behave in the future. I think Sal is similar. I hear all this stuff about international trade and what various countries are doing. Most of its just some journalist filling a few minutes. You watch Sal an you actually understand how things ACTUALLY MOVE around the world without all the noise.
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  8373. Yeah, but what he's spouting here is a the same sort of economic THEORY that Milton Freidman pumped. The problem is that the absolute freedom clowns like Milton Freidman pumped also means that the worst people in society can do whatever they like. Its just as stupid as the crazies who insist on outcome equality. For that to work everyone has to have the same abilities in everything. Its another fantasy because there's variety among people. We aren't identical clones. I hate to put it but the world doesn't need any more clowns with fantasy driven ideologies. It needs people being practical.
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  8374.  @GrantAugustus1  Not enough people are pointing that out. Rachael Maddow is so like Laura Ingraham in terms of the outrage. Chris Hayes and Tucker Carlson SOUND like they went to the same upper class prep school and IVY League college. When I checked I was surprised because that guess/assessment wasn't far from reality. Hayes went to Brown and Carlson went to Trinity college (which isn't Ivy but it is Private). If you strip of the BS American politics isn't about left or right its about 2 factions driven by the interests of Oligarchs. On one side are the Carbonites (oil, gas, coal,....etc.) backing the Republicans and on the other are the Technocrats (Gates, Bezos,....etc) who back the Democrats (Gates, Bezos, etc.). They do have one thing in common other that claiming to be the true Americans - Goldman Sachs. Trump hired Mnuchin & others. Biden hired 2 just days ago. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/transition-playbook/2020/12/14/goldman-sachs-vets-quietly-added-to-biden-transition-491143 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  8375.  @aliamjon2550  In reply to you call for evidence to Plilcube Cubensis on Trump Releasing "baby killers" I think they are referring to the recent Pardoning of the Blackwater 4. Fact 1: Those 4 were responsible (with others) for the Nisour Square massacre -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisour_Square_massacre Fact 2: In the Nisour Square Massacre a 9year old Ali Mohammed Hafedh Abdul Razzaq was killed. Fact 3: In accepting their Pardon ALL 4 OF THEM ARE ACCEPTING THEIR GUILT.
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  8376.  @aliamjon2550  Way to prove you are a BRAINLESS IDIOT They were convicted of killing UNARMED civilians. There was a court case and they were CONVICTED and in accepting their pardons they have accepted that conviction. This is how stupid you people really are - you've been screaming for weeks about evidence. You don't know what the word means. FACT: there was a court case FACT: evidence was presented that 14 innocent unarmed people were killed including a 9 year old FACT: the Blackwater mercenaries were convicted on that evidence FACT: in accepting their pardons they have accepted they were guilty as charged and proven in court.
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  8377. Its only a matter of time before someone does something very ugly against one of these people. If you keep kicking a dog eventually it will bite. If you keep kicking the poor and disenfranchised they will eventually revolt. There was an Austrian Princess who once told the starving French peasants to "go and eat cake." The French peasants took that brat and shoved her head first into a machine that took her head off. They then did the same to her husband and her children disappeared into history and were never seen again. That's just one of histories lessons. There are plenty of others.
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  8378. I'm an engineer and even went to college at the same college Andreesen went (U. Illinois) All engineers are over caffeinated to some extent. On his thing of America and China pushing their world view of how things are there's going to be a huge push back from Western developed countries TO BOTH. I'm actually Australian and the amount of American influence here is going to blow up shortly. Its one thing to have friends but there's a certain strain within the American system who just can't help interfering with everyone else's business AND ITS WEARING VERY THIN. Everyone is under a lot of pressure with various things these days. Climate change, changing demographics, precarious economics, immigration (both legal and illegal) are just a few things. Having an overbearing and very pushy friend, even if they mean well, just wears people out. And so we are clear the Chinese are just as bad and just as interfering they just go about it in a different way.
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  8379. Sedition absolutely but please stop throwing the word treason around like its confetti. In Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution, treason is specifically limited to levying war against the US, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_States). Love'em or hate'em the founding fathers wrote they wrote because the British had used treason and sedition laws to hammer the colonials and they didn't want any future US Government doing what the British had done. Some things suck, but if you want to know what some of the legal issues are there are people like Glenn Kirschner and Legal Eagle here on YT who are qualified and have been explaining what actually can and can't happen. Look on the bright side 13 more days and Trump is gone.
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  8380. Direct Quote: Ron De Sanctimonious "I know from the military when you're over the target that's when you're taking Flack" He wasn't a pilot he was a JAG Lawyer who did some seriously questionable work at Guantanamo Bay involving the forced feeding of prisoners. By Nuremburg standards he should have been facing charges. Lets NOT forget that all the prisoners at Guantanamo had been take from other countries by the US and transported across international borders to a base where the normal laws do NOT apply. Its on a leased site where the property owners (the nation of Cuba) have told the tenant to leave.
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  8381. So which MMT or MMT sympathetic college professor have you been listening too? Mark Blyth, Adam Tooze, Stephanie Kelton,..... Or do you listen to geopolitical people like Peter Zeihan?
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  8382.  @thiosemicarbizidebenzoylal2921  Yeah I know that. Freidman was the guy behind both Reaganomics and Thatcherism. Thom's done a couple of great exposés on neoliberalism and at least 1 book. He's covered the history of how Freidman and others started their crap in the 1940s and had to wait until the 1970s to unleash it.
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  8383. Actually he said all along that he'd let the Federalist Society pick the judges for him. But that only makes its worse, because for all his professed brilliance that just means he was their BlTCH.
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  8384.  @Gum_Cuzzler  Trump admitted early on that he was going to nominate whoever the Federalist Society presented. Its one of the few things he said that he was 100% true to. People have seemed to forgotten some of these things. Of all the lobbyists and think tanks and other influencers the Federalist Society is by far the most dangerous entity operating in America. Go read the Wikipedia page on it. Go listen to people like Thom Hartman talk about it. Krystal & Saagar interviewed a guy who wrote a book on the FS while they were still at the Hill.
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  8385. Or Australia and its probably similar in Britain, Canada and New Zealand.. We have a thing called "parliamentary privilege" where they can say almost anything and not be legally challenged for it. BUT they must be physically in the house they are elected too and during a constituted session and declare they are exercising parliamentary privilege. Its a privilege that is rarely used because if they get it wrong they can get in a lot of trouble.
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  8386. It might not be treason because that would mean he's trying to overthrow the existing government and Trump's still the legal POTUS. But Sedition is another matter --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition Flynn's problem is that his is military and his oath is for life and sedition is specifically described under the UCMJ and I think he can still be court martialed. I have previously asked Glenn Kirshner who has been both a JAG and Federal Prosecutor about clarifying treason & sedition. He has a channel here on YT and has been clarifying many of the recent legal issues, including Michael Flynn's and other pardons. Here is a link to his most recent comment on Flynn. Flynn's pardon is already being challenged . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlFCJzL8W0
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  8387.  @H-to-O  That's the point its the incoming government not the current government. You can't logically overthrow something that does not yet exist, but you can undermine the institutions of government that has allowed it to become the incoming government. I'm not a lawyer but I have watched a lot of Glenn Kirshner recently. He started as a JAG then worked as a federal prosecutor. He's doing a lot of explanation videos right now. This is his latest on how pardons work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XNPc3qvmAM
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  8388.  @valveman12  Your absolutely right but he except that he has NOT PHYSICALLY attacked the government. He has SPOKEN against the government and its institutions and that's sedition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition This is why I want to hear someone like Glenn Kirshner explain this. He started as a JAG before becoming a federal prosecutor and has ben explaining these things. Her is his latest on pardons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XNPc3qvmAM Yesterday he explained how Flynn's pardon is being challenged IN COURT. Yeah dude, Flynn's pardon is being challenged and he is NOT YET CLEARED. Plus this new stuff of calling for martial law isn't covered by that pardon.
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  8389.  @valveman12  I see your point but you just said he's acting as in doing activities. Its one of the reasons I want to hear form someone like Glenn Kirshner on the Treason versus Sedition issue. Glenn started as a JAG before working as a federal prosecutor. He has actually argued cases in from of Judge Sullivan who is hearing the Flynn case. He has posted a number of explanations on the Flynn case and pardons. Plus Flynn is ex-military and the UCMJ has specifics about sedition and who better than a JAG qualified lawyer to explain that stuff. I have written to Glenn asking for a vid to explain this stuff and hopefully he will. Here's his YT home page, where you will find several recent explanations on aspects of the Flynn case --> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrWmonkmTk5NbvmVnc7f70w
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  8390.  @valveman12  I'm not here to argue either, but I will correct thigs that I know are wrong. And right now its simply wrong to say Trump is guilty of Treason, for the simple fact he is still legally POTUS. POTUS can't easily be guilty of treason unless he is trying to overthrow the government and he's doing nothing against the House or Senate. Plus Biden is not officially president elect until the Electoral College votes and says he is. But the rest of them and charges of sedition - that's very real as people are starting to point out. Its not an easy thing like it is in some countries and was before the American Revolution. In fact the main reason the 1st Amendment exists is because of how the British applied it. There's a perfect example of that in the film "Last of the Mohicans." Hawkeye encouraged people to defy the colonel. The colonel said I am the king's representative that's sedition and Hawkeye will hang. It was that arbitrary use that made the 1st so important and also why it was the 1st thing they wrote. There is a sort of argument that Giuliani and others might had 1st Am. protection, but it does have limits. On the other hand if you served you'd know that does not exist for Flynn even if he's ex-military he has to watch what he says. You should know the UCMJ better than me and its rules on seditious behavior. You should know that the oath to uphold and protect the constitution does not simply end when you leave the military, FYI - I'm actually Australian but went to college in America and a pack of my frat brothers were pre-law and used to love bouncing my head of the walls with hypothetical arguments because I had different perspectives. So other than America being incredibly important to Australia its also a major part of my life. I love the place I love the people, I love the culture but I hate what a small number of people are doing to a great country. Not certain where you are, I regard my self as part Illinois boy, but take care & stay safe. Other than Trump, COVID's out of control and there's still other stuff we need to deal with. The next few years will be very tough and if we don't work together we really are in deep shit.
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  8391.  @valveman12  Go have a look at this, it'll give you a lift --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG3xYDuPc6c FYI - Glen Kirshner started as JAG before becoming a federal prosecutor. He's actually argued cases in from of Judge Sullivan who is handling the Flynn case. He has a lot of interesting stuff to say from a very well credentialed background. I really hope he gets to clarify the differences between treason and sedition and what differences there are for people like Flynn.
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  8392. To all you Americans who care. This was just shown Australia regarding Rupert Murdoch and Fox -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Its the 1st of 2 parts and the 2nd wont be shown until next week. It includes interviews with ex-Fox presenters who detail what happened inside the Murdoch/Fox Empire with regards to Trump. Its been done by ABC Australia (our equivalent of PBS) on a program called "4 Corners" (our equivalent to PBS Frontline). You can expect the Australian Right Wingers to go completely unhinged. Murdoch's Australian operation is called "Sky News Australia" (if you didn't know). Their Equivalent to Hannity is a guy named Alan Jones, but he's just one of a group of narcissistic liars. So watch out for ANYTHING done by Sky News Australia. Murdoch has been trying for more than 20 years to get the ABC dissolved (as in completely annihilated). The right wingers claim the ABC is leftist and the left wingers always claim they are pro-right. The fact is the ABC is publicly funded but under its charter its programming is independent, including its news and current affairs. SO it reports what comes across its desk. Does it get shit wrong at times? ABSOLUTELY, but its also a place where we can still get HONEST in depth investigative journalism. We can never let the ABC go just the same as America must never let PBS go. If you doubt that watch this Frontline from 16 years ago when all this idiotic shit in Iraq and Afghanistan started. For that question of how did this all happen? Here are the answers. For anyone who's forgotten what people like Paul Wolfowitz did to make this shit storm happen. Here's what he and others said -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byu9Yhr0Q_0
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  8393.  @SaintKimbo  As predictable as ever. "I'm not a right winger I just walk, talk and bullshit like one." And as for the ABC paying out. If you read my comment you would have seen I pointed out they do get it wrong. In fact one of there own programs slammed them just a week ago -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SC6LOJqSBY I can't stand Andrew Bolt. I think he's an Olympic gold medal class POS, but his comment was absolutely spot on. But compared to the millions and millions Murdoch has been forced to cough up again and again what the ABC has had to pay out is nothing. You claim the ABC can't be believed then how about Gretchen Carlson -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4
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  8394. Really then why is he lying about Trump being cheated in 2020. That's done and finished. Even Ivanka Trump has admitted he lost. This is disgusting that a former Deputy PM is pandering to this sort of garbage.
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  8395. Its the second week of January 2021 and America is about to go past 400,000 dead just as Joe Biden takes the oath of office.. A few weeks ago Michael was warning about how bad the Christmas - New year could be. I'm Australian but went to college at U. Illinois (1988). I've been watching Michael since the early days, because it was clear he was one of the very few who was being honest with us. He was even interviewed a few times on Australian TV. Like many others from around the world I have followed his updates over much of the last year -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg If you actually add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25.2 million which compares to Australia's 25.6 million. Yes I know quite well there are significant differences in geography, population density and winter conditions, but in terms of medical technology, transportation and technical capability there's zero difference. We got very lucky with the initial spread. We cancelled many events and had NO crowds at all our major sports for the year and all that resulted in us not spreading it. But none of that explains the staggering differences. Australia has a total of 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin total over 33,812 as of 12/1/2021 In the 7 days from 4 to 10 January 2021 Illinois had 971 COVID fatalities. In one week Illinois with half as many people as Australia had more deaths from this than Australia has had in 12 months. On the main table at -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Australia is 54th in population and 86th in COVID fatalities. If Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin were a country they would be 16th. Illinois by itself would rank 21st in the world. New York by itself would be 14th. In terms of death-rate (deaths/1M.pop) Illinois, Indiana & Wisconsin would be 4th (at 1342). 3 American states (New Jersey, New York & Massachusetts) have a higher death-rate than any nation or independent state in the world. For whatever luck and other things that may have favored us, nothing explains that discrepancy other than a complete failure of leadership.
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  8396. I'm an Australian who went to college in America (late 80s), I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and we used to discuss things like the Bill of Rights, because Australia (like many countries) doesn't have one. Its all covered in our laws and legislation. I'd studied Orwell (Animal Farm & 1984) in high school and I used to argue the ANY NATION could fall into a totalitarian dictatorship if it wasn't careful. My frat brothers were adamant that it could NEVER happen in America. They assured me that it was impossible BECAUSE the Constitution would NOT ALLOW FOR IT. I forget all those details but basically the US Constitution has "checks and balances" that act as redundant safety functions (sorry I'm an engineer). I suspect that nobody can believe that these people actually tried to get around all of those "safety functions" built into the constitution. I've heard a few (very few) people comment to the effect "thank goodness the constitution did work as intended or America would be a dictatorship." I'd be interested in your thoughts.
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  8397.  @stephenblack8804  Its been deleted by the cowards that run this crap fest. FYI - I did my degree in aerospace in the states (U. of Illinois) I have mostly worked in industrial control systems, automation and robotics in the manufacturing and mining industries. In 2016 I had a small project to assess Australia's future energy needs and got the shock of my life. I could barely believe how old our plants were OR that we had no 1 plan to replace anyone of them. Worse, 8 years later we still don't have any actual proposal on the table to discuss. The most amazing thing I found was that almost every other developed nation on the world is in a similar predicament. Places like California, Greece, Britain, France,..... despite all the differences all have a similar issue with power generation. We al have lots of ageing power stations that need to be replaced. Th major problem in Australia are the scumbags like Gerard Holland playing politics and telling staggering lies and confusing lots of people with nonsense.
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  8398. Yeah its all amazing how the American right screamed for years about getting justice against the "Biden Crime Family" and have NEVER said anything about the photos of Trump partying with Epstein.
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  8399. Former Vice President Henry A. Wallace in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 wrote: “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  8400. YEAH - SOON AS THE MEDIA PICK UP GUNS AND FIGHT THE REST OF US WILL BE RIGHT THERE. I vote we avoid war by having the children of billionaires, oligarchs, politicians and media personalities fight it to death Hunger Games style and the last one left can declare themselves the winner. Seriously who wouldn't pay good money to watch Putin's and Trump's daughters in a fight to the death?
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  8401.  @MM3Soapgoblin  You're 1/2 right. We can't solve or address the issues of stupid people promoting stupid things UNLESS they are presented, but as someone else on this thread pointed out Rogan SHOULD NOT have given Howard a full episode and if Joe wasn't going to push back then he should have had someone on who was willing to push back and explain why this crap is nonsense. The problem wit Rogan and others like him is that by the time these crap and nonsense claims get refuted they have travelled around the world so many times and reached so many people who have their own prejudices that its almost impossible to put an end to them.
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  8402.  @jimreynolds2399  Seriously dude how much expertise does it take to REFUTE 1x1=2???? Stop making excuses for Rogan and/or any of the other clowns like him.
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  8403.  @rosshughes7977  As part of the exercise I did on alternatives one of those was simply buying 6 upgraded Astutes with American GE reactor systems and a Virginia derived combat system. WHY - because if you don't give the yanks something they'd freak TF out. To pad out the fleet we'd also by 6 German 212s which if you look at what was in that white paper that said we needed 12 subs the 212 was what they had in mind. When I looked into our needs we actually have 2 different needs. First - we need a long range blue water sub capable of going almost anywhere in the Indo-Pacific. Second - we need a cost effective sub that can handle more confined places and shallower waters across our northern coast and around our reef systems. In those places it would be almost impossible for a sub like a Virginia or Astute to operate. They are for deep open ocean waters. Here's another thing. The combined crew size for an Astute and a 212 is around 125 while a single Virginia is 139. The cost of the program I had was over $115billion less than the lower $268b of AUKUS. Nothing against the Virginia. Its clearly a beast that nobody should ever want to mess with but Australia needs to look after Australia first not America. Saving over $100billion is in our nations best interest.
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  8404. Sadly facts don't matter to these people. Its all narrative.
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  8405. Actually Donald Trump getting elected is just symbolic of what's going on across the entire developed world. People everywhere are getting tired of establishment parties that don't deliver. I'm Australian and we call this sort of thing a "protest vote" where people vote in protest against the current party in power. Often the party who's NOT in power puts up what we call a dummy candidate in places they don't expect to win. They're just there to have a name on the ballot and they win in a protest vote. Other times people vote for a minor party or independent as happened several times in our recent past. We even had an election where a billionaire, Clive Palmer (our very own Donald Trump) funded his own party and they nearly got some real power. The main problem we all have is people getting tired of establishment parties who just don't deliver because NO MATTER who gets elected "We the people" gets dumped for whatever the billionaire class want. Donald Trump exploited that in a weird way. Ramaswamy is trying it as well. Over in the UK Rishi Sunak is also on a similar theme. Silvio Berlusconi did it in Italy and that theme is "I'm different and not really part of their club!" combined with "I'm already a rich and can't be bought!"
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  8406.  @CarlGerhardt1  OBVIOUS BOT
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  8407.  @nosondre  I'm assuming that's the sound you expect a GOP clown makes every time he's confronted by a girl with a functioning brain who won't cook and clean for him.
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  8408. It might not be treason because that would mean he's trying to overthrow the existing government and Trump's still the legal POTUS. But Sedition is another matter --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition Flynn's problem is that his is military and his oath is for life and sedition is specifically described under the UCMJ and I think he can still be court martialed. I have previously asked Glenn Kirshner who has been both a JAG and Federal Prosecutor about clarifying treason & sedition. He has a channel here on YT and has been clarifying many of the recent legal issues, including Michael Flynn's and other pardons. Here is a link to his most recent comment on Flynn. Flynn's pardon is already being challenged . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlFCJzL8W0
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  8409. I went and checked and checked the transcript. at 0:43 " we all know their corporate taxes are just the government's way of taxing poor people" and his justification for that claim is "I mean that that's those taxes are passed down whether in the price of the product or in jobs because I see that myself. I've been in corporate world for over 20 years that's what happens when corporate taxes go up either they lay people off they raise the price of their goods. uh. it's it's usually one of those two things." There was time when the wealthy were not taxed it was called feudalism that was noted for slavery or being indentured to the "Lord of the land" as granted to him by the sword of the king. Is that what this clown wants us to revert to? Some form of corporatized feudalism. This is the true stupidity of libertarians they are advocating for a from of anarchy where the wealthy just get everything without any obligation to society at all and deliver nothing to anyone but forms of enslavement and indenture. They all claim to be thinkers, like this guy claiming this leads to that, but they never go further than what's convenient. If a company gets taxed more and that lowers the bottom line then its stupid to sack people or lower wages, because either way you lose productive people. They leave because you make them leave or they leave for better wages somewhere else. Either way the company loses MORE money because its less productive.
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  8410.  @redcommander27  Yeah as I have noticed on a few occasions he lets his passion get ahead of his logic. The one defence he has is that his heart is in the right place. Its a notable thing about Leftists the world over, they want the world to change into a better place, but if left unchecked their passion overrules their logic and if left totally unchallenged you end up with Soviet Russia or even worse North Korea where they become the Left version of a Machiavellian nightmare. A good example of this is the current German Greens. They wanted nuclear power gone and they wanted to save the world. Instead of first shutting down the coal fired power and then the nuclear once the renewable system could what's needed. They shut down the nuclear first. The result has been even higher emissions because they had to run the coal stations flat out. So after spending over €1.3 Trillion on renewables emissions went up. The Russian Soviets wanted to make things fairer and more equal and ended up destroying their economy and also did staggering amounts of environmental damage. Look at what happened to the Aral Sea.
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  8411. That's an ugly and brutal comparison - but saddest of all very , very true.
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  8412. A number of years ago I saw a saw a couple of WW2 comparison studies into combat effectiveness one was the Hurricane compared to the Spitfire and the other was the Sherman versus the Tiger tank. In every fundamental department the Tiger was superior to the Sherman - better armour, bigger gun,..... But it also had some fatal flaws. It was heavy and in soft fields it was easy to get bogged. It was also incredibly complex and difficult to maintain, but by far its biggest issue was how many man hours it took to produce them. The Germans simply didn't have that many and they were simply overwhelmed by the Sherman often outnumbered 10 to 1 or more. If you check Wikipedia there were 1347 Tiger Is and 492 Tiger IIs The Germans also made about 6,000 Panther medium Tanks. By Comparison there were over 49,000 Shermans made. Its pretty easy to see what the Russian plan is. They'll use these old tanks to swarm the Ukrainians and force the Ukrainians to use huge amounts of munitions to deal with them. There's already been serious issues with the consumption of ammunition especially things like stinger missiles being used against drones and javelins used against tanks. Eventually they will simply run out. They're using less stingers now as they have German Anti-Aircraft hardware to shoot them down now. Don't be surprised in there's some incredible carnage this year.
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  8413.  @stereo-soulsoundsystem5070  That is a great point and just the other day I heard about how an Indian Call Centre simply sacked over 90% of their people and replaced them with an AI (Chat GPT clone or similar). When you think about how important the call centre industry in India is that's potentially the first step in a major disaster. A lot of those Indian call centre people have spent a lot of money getting degrees in places like Canada and Australia (my country). If that industry suddenly goes away it will also smash the Canadian and Australian university systems because fewer students will come. AND that's before we get into all the other threats to education that AI is promising WITHOUT any proof it can deliver.
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  8414. ​ @cg.marklemuel  They are a lot closer to taking away millions of simpler jobs like call centers and customer support. Where computer based systems have always worked is on REPETITIVE tasks. What they have managed with these newer systems is to expand that range into things that are not exactly repetitive but are predictable. I mentioned in another comment how I heard that an Indian call center sacked most f its staff and replaced them with an AI. That's the sort of thing that can have dramatic effects with expansive consequences. There are some tasks that AI is particularly good at and there's reasons why. If you think about the text completion in things like search engines. The moment you type the first letter you have suddenly reduced the chances of the what the first word is. Type the second letter and that goes down even further. Complete the first word and start the second word and the number of options reduce dramatically and because of previous searches the rest of the question can be suggested. That's an ideal task for how neural nets can be trained to function and (by extension) also why a lot of customer service work is at risk. Also if you consider things like image analysis tasks like matching finger prints or facial recognition where the task is to compare images or partial images. Its what in engineering can be called a "well defined task." The image can be digitised and key features NUMERICALLY DEFINED into a pattern. Its then a matter of searching for close matches to that numerical pattern. Its a bit like how a person does one of those "Where's Waldo?" photos. Your brain might not just be looking for Waldo but some part of him like his hat. This is why AI is very good at certain tasks or types of tasks. My biggest concern is that its being now PROMOTED as the solution to everything. Think about how many times there's been an announcement of the "next game changing" technology and that's almost the last you ever hear about it. But then we get disasters like Theranos where it gets totally out of hand and people lose out huge.
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  8415.  @farentimonnaewens4662  Agreed there have been people who warned about all sorts of tech including AI and NOBODY listened. WAY BACK around 1990 Silicon Graphics did a demo of there then latest systems at the college I was doing post-grad. They were one of the first to use RISC based systems and their graphics CPUs (what we now call GPUs) ran at TWICE the clock speed of their main CPUs. it was serious stuff at that time. They were foundered to fill the need for data presentation coming out of the Supercomputers. In those days the CRAY SCs were just giant number crunching beasts. They needed a front end to format the data and a back end to present it AND Silicon Graphics were one of the companies that stepped into that space. They were the first ones to do all those fancy flow visualisations of wings and racing cars. I did aerospace so I got to see that stuff. At that display they showed us they had a 100% created in software short film of a girl walking out of the surf onto a perfect beautiful white sandy beach. Had we NOT been told none of us would have noticed it was a simulation. It really was that crisp. A couple of years later that same company Silicon Graphics became famous for what they did on the film Terminator 2 with the liquid metal robot. Even back then Silicon Graphics and others admitted that in future they would be able to make almost anything and the average person would NOT know the difference. What held it back for so long was how much time (both people and computing) to do even a few seconds. That 10-15 seconds of the girl on the beach (I think) took over a month because it required so much ray tracing. With this new stuff what used to take days or weeks takes minutes and hours. If you recall the film "Running Man" where they map Arnnie Swartz onto old footage with Jesse Ventura for a fight scene. That would have take months back in the 90s now its almost as fast as the film. I have heard Ric Beato (here on YT) talk about the sound equipment they have now that can make anyone into a sensational singer and fix almost any sound track. If somebody hits a wrong note they can fix it in the software. I bet you know more about that stuff than I do.
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  8416. Agreed. Someone needs to ask her when did Jesus say "Take over and run the government" because I thought he told Pilate "My kingdom is no part of the world" as in its NOT a political entity. And lets not forget that part when he was asked about taxes and Jesus asked "who's head is on the coin?" I seem to remember he was told Caesar's head is on the coin and he said something like "Pay Caesar things due to Caesar" or simply "pay your taxes." And how many churches pay tax?
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  8417.  @minniemaeshufflebutt116  Great point and it needs to be said more often. It does not matter if its radicals on the far LFET or radicals on the far RIGHT. It does not matter if its radical authoritarians or radical anarchist/libertarians. If they are trying to FORCE people to obey or follow an ideology its bad and we have over 4,000 years of historical records to prove it. It has never mattered what sort of ideology radicals take. Eventually that blind faith and obedience to that ideology hits a snag. The inability to adjust or untangle that snag results in chaos. Look at history every radical revolutionary claimed to be bringing freedom and the moment they hit a snag they started killing people. Even if the snag was minor, just pointing it out got people axed. And by axed I mean their neck, a block of wood and bang.
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  8418.  @minniemaeshufflebutt116  Congratulations you have just perfectly illustrated America's biggest problem - HYPOCRITIC DENIAL. Biden didn't label half of America as semi-fascist he described the MAGA republicans as semi-fascist. PLUS LETS NOT FORGET that the GOP considers that anyone who votes for anyone except Republicans as an ENEMY of the state and they have openly preached that. This is the IDI0CY of people LIKE YOU. You simply ignore reality as you scream about what the other side does. You side is innocent and their side is guilty OF THE SAME STUFF. The blind ignorant clowns who still worship Hilary Clinton are just as bad as the blind ignorant clowns who worship Trump. AND SO YOU KNOW. I don't think Joe Biden is anything remotely close to being the leader America needs to even begin solving its issues.
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  8419. Trumps 100% right about one thing. America isn't a great country anymore, because any country that elects a clown like this to its top position is NOT GREAT!
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  8420. She's through and through a neoliberal and like all neoliberals they think that they are geniuses who are saving humanity from itself, while in fact they are the people who have all but guaranteed the human race will MOST LIKELY NOT survive or at least NOT survive as it is. What else does anyone expect her to be or do? FYI - The planet will survive and some life will survive but humanity is another question entirely.
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  8421. She's certainly so far in front of Kayleigh McEnany and Sarah HS that she looks like super star. And no one can deny she's the breath of fresh air that American politics needed. BUT don't forget she's in politics and is the tip of the spin spear. If there's any spin to come out of the Biden WH she will be the one spinning it. A couple of weeks back some older tweets where she criticized GOP policies that she has now had to backflip on surfaced. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8422.  @blala4306  Actually that's getting common across the western world. At the last European Election all the major centrist parties got smashed. Brexit was a straight out rejection of the establishment of BOTH sides. Trump was in a way another establishment rejection. People forget Trump rolled over the top of 16 GOP candidates who ran with the same bullshit they always run with. The Hilary got the same. People across the world are fed up with bullshit career politicians who don't give a damn. Ted Cruz & Nancy Pelosi are 2 perfect examples. That's what Trump basically campaigned on in 2016 - "I'm not one of them." Unfortunately he turned out to be worse. Trump did 1 great thing however he showed that if you can rally people around an idea, even if its a cheap shitty message like MAGA, you can get past the establishment machine.
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  8423. Go watched the other video where Konstantin Kisin sits opposite his mate Francis and explains Putin's speech where Putin claimed that Ukraine should not even exist. Nigel Farage as usual showed he actually hasn't a damn clue. Remember back when he won his precious Brexit vote. Forgetting if it was right or wrong, the FACT is he immediately resigned from the team. What that meant was that (1st) he didn't expect to win and (2nd) he had NO idea what to do if they won. He had no plan, no ideas and simply threw 67million Brits under his Brexit bus. Like Trump he's another walking talking lump of populist garbage who has no solutions to ANYTHING and creates disasters for other people to clean up.
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  8424. I went and checked his bio on Wikipedia there's. Other than you spelt his name wrong there's a lot more disturbing stuff than a New American Crusade which is actually an old thing Billy Graham tried. Have a look at his personal life. For a God fearing Christian he w=did the Donald Trump thing and cheated on his wife and got another man's wife pregnant. YEAH, sure he's the guy everyone wants????????????
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  8425. From AUSTRALIA with an outside observation: The answer is YES but just as easily they could lose EVERYTHING just as easily. What the American Left has forgotten is the ACTUAL RESULT of 2020. And for the record the American Left is NOT a real Left its just to the Left of the American Right which is so far Right most other Western nations can't recognise it. Forget how many votes Hilary got lets just look at a couple of basic facts. In 2016 Trump got 62,984,828 votes. In 2018 the mid terms did NOT go well for the GOP. the did gain 2 seats in the Senate but LOST 41 House Seats and LOST 7 Gubernatorial seats. In 2019 EVERY POLL said Trumps base was falling and his approval was falling. Even Fox News ran stories that were concerning. In 2020 the Polls were even worse than 2019 and COVID was being terribly mismanaged and that included Trump pushing quack medical advice and straight out lying to the public. YET when it cam tot he election Trump got 74,223,975 votes which more than 11 million MORE THAN 2016. So despite all the polls and the catastrophic mismanagement of COVID and extra 11+ million turned up and voted for Trump. WHEN HAS ANYONE on the American Left acknowledged that basic fact regarding Trumps turn-out? Looking from the OUTSIDE the greatest concern I have is the Democrats FAILING to acknowledge 2020 wasn't that good of a result. They did NOT win outright majority in the Senate until later and then only by the narrowest of margins. They actually lost seats in the House and were slaughtered in the State elections. YES WE GOT THOSE FACTS, but apparently the Democrats didn't. SO YOU ALL KNOW why this is important to other nations like Australia, Canada, Japan, Great Britain, Mexico, all of Europe and many others. Its because the US Dollar (USD$) is still the World's reserve currency which was agreed on at Breton Woods in 1944. YES the Breton Woods agreement is long gone but its after effects are still with us. Many of the international transactions the rest of the world does are either done in USD$ or currencies are exchanged and USD$ is used during the exchanges. When Australia sells iron ore to Japan, South Korea and China that's NOT done in Australian Dollars, Japanese Yen, South Korean Won or Chines Yuan - its done using USD$. Either they use USD$ directly or buy AU$ using USD$. On the reverse of that when we buy cars & stuff from those countries we don't send them AU$ we send USD$ or go a money exchange to get say Japanese Yen to buy a boat load of cars and that money exchange is underpinned by USD$. Simply put NONE of us can afford to have an out of control rampaging clown like Donald Trump in the White House EVER AGAIN. FYI - I was working in Canada when Trump just tore up NAFTA and slapped the Canadians with tariffs. You guys have no idea how much that scares the rest of the world, when you have a temperamental clown surrounded by sycophants who will smack an ally in the face like that.
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  8426. WHY TF IS THIS ANY SORT OF SURPRISE????? Its been obvious for weeks that she was angling to be Trumps VP. Ever since the loss in Arizona its been PAINFULLY obvious she had this in mind. The only person on the planet who might be surprised is Marjorie Taylor Greene who's probably sulking in a dark corner somewhere weeping "Why. Why. Why. It was supposed to be me."
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  8427. The question isn't if he'll last the question is: "What damage will this do to America?" These people have absolutely no clue on fundamental economics, let alone running a country. I did all of Econ 101 as an option to an engineering degree and know more than these clowns do about economics. Then again most economists don't know much about economics, but that's another discussion. McCarthy should have made some sort of deal with the Dems and gone for long term stability. All the Dems have to do now is sit back and watch the shitfest explode into chaos and in 2 years even Hunter Biden could get elected. Don't forget the last time the Tea Party crowd had influence it lead to the Dems controlling both houses.
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  8428.  @soldierforchrist631  Dude don't spout idiotic garbage. The Bible says NOTHING about torturing people endlessly forever. That's a blatant misinterpretation that was created to scare people into compliance with religious authorities centuries ago. Its only being perpetuated by clowns like you to scare people.
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  8429.  @titusmaximus7278  I like that one - magats. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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  8430.  @jal8362  Too blind to see, too deaf to hear and too stupid to think. 🤬🤬 You are right about one thing voter fraud did happen in a couple of places - BY REPUBLICANS. 🧏‍♂️🧏‍♀️🧏‍♂️🧏‍♀️
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  8431. As an Australian I can't say how sorry I am that an Australian (dual US Citizen) owns Fox. I have been to Texas several times and found the people there honest, friendly and decent, but their politicians are a disgrace. I hope that the good people of Texas find a way to get rid of these people.
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  8432. @Martin Baldwin-Edwards Good point. And even if only partly true then its bad faith.
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  8433. TRIBALISM Its called tribalism and once it takes over facts and reality mean NOTHING The only thing that means anything is once tribalism takes over is the NARRATIVE Its been used to justify all sorts of atrocities for all of the 4500+ years recorded history. If you want to see a seemingly innocent example of it. Watch the opening scenes of the Disney film "Mulan " for its portrayal of the Mongolian people. They are large bodied brutes who climb cliffs which has zero fact. The Mongols are mostly short statured. Their military strength came from their horsemanship and archery on open flat land. BUT it SETS THE NARRATIVE for the sweet innocent girl who will save her people from the horrible enemy. What Walkers team are doing is setting a narrative: "Whatever I am. He's worse." Its crap but its crap that works.
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  8434. Peter Zeihan in an answer about a question regarding part of what John Mearsheimer has said noted that those countries total 300 million people. Its actually a bit over 268 million. Here's that interview and the question is at 53:44 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdP01go8wdQ He lists 17 countries totalling over 262 million. If you add in Finland its just over 268 million. And before anyone asks I got the population data from Wikipedia.
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  8435. TO ALL - I could be wrong but I suspect this person is FAKE or is a FRAUD. There's a common trait among FAKE people and bots posting on social media. They make grammatical errors that should be obvious but we tend to gloss over them and focus on the stupidity of what they are claiming as most of you have done with pointing out actual historical facts. TAKE NOTE of what he first says: "My Father was a World Veteran and he told me several things" What's a "World Veteran"? If this guy was a real native English speaker he wouldn't use that expression in fact I can't ever remember ANYONE describing their father like that. They always use the term Vet or Veteran by itself or with the specific war like WW2 Vet or Korean Vet or Vietnam Vet. When have any of you heard the term "World Veteran"? This guy is either an idiot or a fraud.
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  8436. Its called SEDITION - conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch. America is unique in the world because of the 1st Amendment, in almost any other country Louie Gohmert would have been arrested for this. Even with the 1st Amendment there has to be a limit. You guys should call your law professors from college to come on and clarify that limit. When does this go from words protected by the 1st into criminal activity.
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  8437.  @limedickandrew6016  Not disagreeing with you on several points. I have been pointing out the fact for the past few weeks about the guns and 50+ million who really do believe they were cheated. The majority are gun owners who've been stockpiling so much ammunition that gun shops have run out of bullets to sell. More than a few times I have pointed those details only to get very blunt replies that included the words "fu-k" and "off." The top enablers have to go down - Trump, Giuliani and the other clown who spoke at that rally, wound them up and set them on that rampage. Hawley, Cruz and the other opportunists who fueled it despite KNOWING what the constitution actually says. They have to be done for all of that. A COP WAS KILLED TRYING TO PROTECT THEM and today the whole world today saw Matt Getz trying to claim it was ANTIFA. People like Tucker Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham, the clowns at OAN & Newsmax who all fueled this over recent weeks should be on notice, a cop was killed and that elevates everything. I would expect them all to be named in one of the biggest law suits in American history as well as the one all the COVID victims will be throwing their way as well. 4134 died from COVID - the worst day yet for the whole pandemic happened the same day.
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  8438.  @limedickandrew6016  In one respect I agree with your opening remark, while another part of me wants to beat you with a bat. Hurting people who are NOT responsible for anything more than providing public safety is unacceptable. Its not just police either - across the World these past few years all sorts of people who are doing nothing more that trying help those in need have been abused and in many instances killed. I certainly don't know all of America's issues (and I'll do a second note on that), but on a basic comparison between BLM & ANTIFA versus the Trumpists. 1: BLM & ANTIFA have zero political power. The Trumpists have had their man in the White House for the last 4 years. 2: BLM came from a response to rogue members of the authorities killing black people. The Trumpists have had their man publicly call for protestors to be locked up, sacked form the NFL and many other things. 3: BLM & ANTIFA did not at nay stage storm the capitol and tear down the US flag and replace it with their own. 4 BLM & ANTIFA did not call for the overthrow of the government they called for the fair treatment of every person in America. The Trumpists demanded that the 15th Amendment rights of million of American be simply thrown out. 5: BLM & ANTIFA have demanded that all Americans be fairly treated by the courts. The Trumpists got their days in court and either forfeited or lost over 50 times, only winning once in Pennsylvania on a procedural issue that had nothing to do with voting fraud or irregularities. They even got near instant access to SCOTUS where they also go thrown out for a lack of evidence. 6: On the subject of evidence BLM has the bodies of many including Breonna Taylor and the footage of George Floyd having the life choked out of him. the Trumpists have had over 50 occasions in court to provide evidence of their claims and NOTHING of CREDIBILITY has been presented. 7: Finally both are guilty of public disturbance, property damage, assault of law enforcement officers and other crimes. That's the only thing they have in common, but in terms of mitigating circumstances they could not be more different. FYI- I do not what its like to be on the bad side of a rogue police officer. Last year I was assaulted by an off duty officer and the only reason I can read your words is good fortune. I was wearing my reading glasses or the boiling mug of soup he threw in my face (after kicking me and threating to cut my head off) would have blinded me. I had burns all over my face from my chin to the top of my head - my glasses saved my eyesight. Hours later it was police officers who came and dragged him away in hand-cuffs. When they failed to find one of his illegal weapons they listened to me, went back, searched again and found it. So yeah I personally know from a very personnel experience the difference between that majority of police officers whose intent is to make our lives safer and those few who are the opposite.
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  8439.  @limedickandrew6016  On the subject of Americas cancer, which is misinformation. For starters I actually went to college in America and not just on an exchange. I got a sports scholarship and finished my degree there. As part of a varsity team I travelled a lot more than most Americans. On one occasion I compared my list of states visited with my frat brothers - I won. I did engineering but a pack of those frat brothers were pre-law and they loved discussing the US Constitution with me because I had different views. I'm certain a few papers (or parts of them) got written because of things I said and questions I asked. I have lost count of the number of times since those days I have argued with other Australian's abut the US Constitution, and I never lose. I have claimed endlessly that I think the US Constitution is one of the greatest achievements in human history. But I have also pointed out that the Founding Fathers for all there efforts simply never predicted that people like Mitch McConnell would totally subvert a major function of the system - checks and balances. My frat brothers always argued that the checks & balances would protect the system, but even they missed what McConnell could or would do. So I don't say it lightly when I claim to be better informed on America than most (not all). I know I am better informed because my frat brothers made it so. As to the subject of misinformation it is NOT and American blight it infects every society. Rupert Murdoch was born bred and practiced his craft here before he took it global. Here watch this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s23q9DkCaVY) and you'll find out his people are so bad here even one of his kids walked out. And then to add insult we had the hysterical Tomi Lauren screeching back at us. Just the other day I saw this as it popped up in my recommendations. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T9ubqnHilc Firstly its amazing that its a conference only weeks before COVID arrived but more importantly to this discussion it highlights just how dangerous misinformation and taking things out of context can be. At around 18:30 Dr. Michael Osetrholm is talking about the Ebola outbreak and what happened when misinformation started an violence followed. Medical people who were only there to help were getting killed, by MISINFORMED mobs. I hate the fact that the left is now attacking Dr. Fauci. I like Jimmy Dore because he will say and discuss things that others wont. But the other day I saw him attack Dr. Fauci in a way that even some of the Trumpists would baulk at. His criticisms weren't unfounded but they were totally over the top and out of proportion. I watch/listen to Dr. Michael Osterholm a lot and have done so from the earliest days. BUT EVEN HE is stumped at the moment about how COVID is behaving. This is his latest -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdqsznCHv6o Take note of what he's saying around 5 minutes in, that COVID is NOT behaving like influenza. They are only just starting to work this out. So the criticism some of the LEFT have recently thrown at Dr. Fauci has some justification but NOT the vitriol. Our knowledge of COVID is evolving . Could things have been done better in many parts of the world, absolutely, how much difference it would have made is an answer I don't conclusively have. The one thing I do know for sure is that America does have friends in the world and we do want to see America get back on its feet. Things wont be going back to what they were because the rest of us have moved on, but we do want America moving forward with us. After COVID we still have Climate Change, Wealth Disparity and other things to deal with. Simply put we (the whole world) needs America in those fights with the rest of us. Take Care & Stay Safe.
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  8440.  @billtmarchi4320  Dude I had a clown the other day say I was nuts for trying to explain the history of the Democrats. You're welcome to try but expect people to not believe you.
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  8441.  Rosa Barks  At the start of the film Jack Reacher he explains to the lawyer (played by Rosamund Pike) he says there are 4 types of people who go into the military. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0R4DCfuLSk No matter whose military or para-military or police it is they have people are are there that you really don't want armed and trained except in a time of war or distress. Its one of the great quandaries of human society.
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  8442.  oh ok  Its been like that for 1000s of years. Armies are useful tools to get rid of problems in either your own society or your opponents. I know its ugly to say it, but its a form of population control.
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  8443.  @mnomadvfx  And no matter how much they try they never get all of them or think they can "mold" others. The police deal with the same all over the western world. The fire brigades have to look for people with "hero complex" issues. No matter they don't catch them all and then they don't catch all those who change for the worse or truly horrific, like Timothy McVeigh.
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  8444. Yeah every so often he proves that he knows what he's doing. Which also means that when he has those SHlTFESTS where people just scream at each other he KNOWS they are meant to be SHlTFESTS.
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  8445. I 90% agree, because its a matter of why and you pretty much hit the why. Its the craziness part that's 50/50. Its not just a matter of exposing the craziness its a matter of understanding it. David's old Prof Richard Wolff gave a really good explanation of why certain demographics jumped on the Trump wagon. It doesn't explain why they wont get of it, but understanding why people got on it helps us prevent others joining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s
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  8446. 1) He's not funny in any context. 2) I think Pied Piper or Dog Whistler are better terms.
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  8447. Yeah but how did NOBODY in the Dems pick any of this up????? Did they not check out who they were running against?????
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  8448.  @nickthompson1812  In terms of wanting to go against the establishment absolutely. And its not an American thing either. Just look around the world. At the last European Parliamentary elections the centrist establishment was hammered an people flocked to the lefty greens and radical right. That's what Trump tapped into - people have had enough of the establishment. It amazes me that people have forgotten he stream rolled over 16 GOP establishment goons before he got to Hilary. AND that list included Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and other GOP stalwarts. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  8449.  @nickthompson1812  As a follow up. I saw this a while back. Its Richard Wolff who is a professor who teaches Marxism. So he's as LEFT as you can be and still remain sensible and realistic. Just on 2 years ago he Mark Blyth and others did a series of tributes for Michael Brooks who died suddenly. He uses West Virginia as an example. Every stalwart DEM needs this rammed home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s
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  8450.  @dougyoung221  Yeah look what's in progress. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  8451. Bill Murray as John Winger in Stripes. “We're not Watusi. We're not Spartans. We're Americans, with a capital 'A', huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts!” The funny thing is Stripes was meant to be funny and satirical instead it now looks like a documentary.
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  8452. IF THIS IS TRUE then Trump is done. If the Federalist Society has dumped him then there is NO COMEBACK because they control SCOTUS. Either these 2 have split from the main core of the FS run by people like Leonard Leo which has over a $$ Billion to fund campaigns with or Trump really is done. This might be a case of the FS pulling back from all the nonsense with the people they have put on SCOTUS and they are sacrificing Trump and throwing him under the bus to save the rest of their power.
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  8453. Sorry but the "No Choice" claim is complete garbage. Kamala is NOT the Democrats choice through a primary system which was YET AGAIN denied like it was in 2020 and 2016 by the machinations of the DNC. Kamala was PICKED by the DNC. Don't forget she FAILED in 2019 she didn't even make it to 2020 she did so bad. Instead of simply jumping onto the wagon the DNC select for you why TF don't the DNC do the right thing and put it to the actual voters. DON'T FORGET when they played these games in 2016 they helped get Trump elected and they cam too close to blowing 2020 as well. Despite all the claims and rhetoric Hilary wasn't that good of a candidate. She had short comings that the Democrats REFUSED (and many still do to this day) to admit. Despite all the claims of Biden winning the Dems failed to get control of the Senate, lost control of the House and got hammered in the state houses. Also consider that in the last 32 years the Dems have held the Whitehouse for 20years while the GOP have only had it for 12 AND YET who dominates SCOTUS and the federal judicial appointments. Tommy Tuberville held up 100s of military promotions recently. SORRY but the Dems suck at getting stuff done. You and many many others are right about 1 thing. Kamala is a better pick than Trump, but then anyone with a functioning brain and even 1 molecule of ethics or morals is better than Trump. No matter who is the next POTUS there's some damn serious issues for them to handle. 1) An out of control SCOTUS, which is 1,000 times bigger than anyone is really saying. 2) An out of control Congress with clowns like Mike Johnson who just endorsed and genuine war criminal in Netanyahu, which leads to the next point. 3) An out of control Israel which is compounded by the reality that Iran now has nukes or at least the materials for them since Trump ripped up the treaty. Sorry I am an engineer and know about that. 4) An out of control Russia. 5) The wonderful social issues of wealth inequality, health care, education costs and inflation and that leads to the next point 6) Out of control billionaires who fund all this garbage. AND FINALLY 7) Climate change.
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  8454.  @synchronium24  Its not just America. This stuff is happening everywhere. They just get more airtime in the US.
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  8455. Sorry but Willian Happer has been dismissed as a complete fraud. NOTHING and I MEAN NOTHIGN he says stands up to scrutiny.
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  8456.  @KaraBook  Yeah I checked through more than a month of video titles and there's nothing. What I did find was Pakman has an obsession with the Trump family.
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  8457.  @rinzaghi2057  I only pointed this out to the people who had already commented on Pakman in a negative way. I am not supporting him or defending him but I am pointing out that this comment MIGHT NOT exist. SO F⋃CK OFF
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  8458.  @laurengabriel3724  Well done and thanks for the clarification. I don't get the bonus show so I have to trust you on that quote. If that's what he said then what's all this fuss about? Do you know what the context of the comment was? Because there seems to be context missing from this, but then social media is a place bereft of context more often than not.
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  8459.  @calc1657  Good question and the answer is YES. One thing I hear so few mention is that there's not just one sort of reaction going on in a reactor, Its NOT like burning coal or methane where there's a specific chemical reaction. In a reactor you get a range of reactions going on that can include neutrons being absorbed, different types of radioactive decay and atoms splitting. The reactor design and how its operated affects what happens and what's available in the fuel rods. Many of the first generation of British reactors were purposefully designed (breeder reactors) and operated to get as much plutonium as possible.
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  8460.  @careylymanjones  YEAH I KNOW ALL THAT - please read what I said.
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  8461.  @jfarm30  that's as valid of a question as it gets. What bothers me is that NOBODY is publicly stating HOW WE KNEW they had a weapons program. Most of the people claiming it was a weapons program are just making an assumption based on their own personnel beliefs & bias. I was in a group of ~20 people and we had it explained HOW WE KNEW and that was 2005 (19+ years ago) and I have not heard anyone stand up and say "YES WE KNEW and this is HOW WE KNEW." 🙅‍♂🙅‍♀🙅‍♂🙅‍♀🙅‍♂🙅‍♀
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  8462.  @jfarm30  There's something that scares me way way worse than nuclear weapons. The chance of someone using a nuclear weapon is low because everyone that has them knows the consequences if they one. Even the craziest North Korean or Iranian knows if they throw 1 then 10 more will come back. What worries me is some clown in a lab playing God with genetics. During COVID when the whole Gain of Function hysteria was going on DW (Germans) did one of the very few decent honest vid stories on the subject. In it the mentioned Ron Fouchier a Dutch researcher who in 2011 announced he'd cooked up a version of Bird Flu that turned out to be the most dangerous virus in human history AND NOBODY KNEW HE WAS DOING IT. He went to tell the whole world how he did it by publishing his work. The Dutch government slammed that door shut but Ron Fouchier took them to court because he wanted his Nobel Prize. Thankfully the Dutch Courts agreed with the Dutch government and said "NO!" That's what scares me. Someone doing something insane in a lab somewhere and there's no supervision and nobody knows what they are doing.
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  8463.  @jaydugger3291  Yeah if you watch some of his longer presentations they are mostly just variations of the same thing. Its not that I find that egregiously wrong cause most of those things need repeating. Its more a case people need to be aware that Peter's knowledge and analysis has limits and in the case of engineering its very limited.
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  8464.  @Tre-77  That's a great question. My initial response is: Like everyone else with any interest in the matter the only people who EXACTLY know what the Israelis have is the Israelis. I doubt even the American's know exactly what they have. So I did a quick check: Start reading the Wikipedia page for "Nuclear power in Israel" when you get down to the IRR2 there's a link to the Wikipedia page for the Negev Research. Read through that page and not what's said in the section on construction and then down further for what Mordechai Vanunu told the world about that site. Also take note of what the American's have said.
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  8465. Welcome to the club. We have Rupert Murdoch and his wonderful family. How badly do you think they have sullied our reputation?
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  8466. Its amazing how clever and how stupid some people can be. It took me only moments to freeze frame at 1:12 get the temperature controller model on the furnace and google it for the manual (see below). Its an Ascon K38 temperature controller. Go to page 17 and it shows how to set up a temperature profile that can have 4 ramps and 4 soaks. Granted its not the easiest thing to set up but if you are doing these parts on a regular basis once its set up it should be easy to reuse. FYI _ I have been doing control systems engineering for 30 years. Be grateful in the past trying to get a basic temperature controller to do anything except a single value was a pain. Also note that these sorts of temperature controllers have an auto tuning function. (see page 13) RUN IT AT LEAST ONCE. https://www.ascontecnologic.com/images/PRODOTTI/AutomazioneIndustriale/Regolatori-avanzati/PDF/PDF-K38/ISTR-MK38ENG10.pdf
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  8467.  @bIametheniIe  Absolutely true. And if their share price struggles the Pentagon will just bail them out with some ridiculous project or they will be given yet another NASA job to milk like a bloated cow. Prof Mark Blyth (who's pretty damn smart) said recently we need to separate which of our corporations actually can make money from those that are just good at tax management and financial games. I think its pretty obvious where he'd put Boeing and the tragedy is they used to build great stuff now they're a joke.
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  8468.  @CYMotorsport  Yeah all valid comments now please tell everyone how many rich people are on death row and how many poor people are on death row? Or how about the 3 guys Trump sent to the injection table AFTER losing the election compared to the 4 murderers he pardoned a few days later who worked for Blackwater and gad killed 17 people in the Nisor Square massacre. Sorry buckwheat but the American Justice system is broken. In fact most of the justice systems around the world are broken to some extent its just that some are more broken that others.
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  8469.  @MsWobbly1  Clearly you have never worked in software development SO PLEASE DO NOT say anything that stupid or idiotic ever again about something you DO NOT UNDERSTAND. I work in industrial software including safety related systems. 1) It was NOT a logic error. It was a sensor failure that should have been foreseeable. 2) In engineering we have systems. methods and techniques for evaluating errors that look how the hardware and software will react to errors. Among these are: FMEA - Failure Mode Effect Analysis HAZOP - Hazard and Operability CHAZOP - Control Hazard I know about these things because I do it for a living. Boeing did NOT DO the things it should have done by good practice. Boeing cut corners and over 300 people died.
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  8470. ​ @mgoblue0970  Its NOT just America its now a pandemic that's 1000s of times worse than COVID ever was. I'm Australian and we have the same disease infecting our nation. Go watch the news and commentary from anywhere and you'll see it. The only differences from one country to the next are: - How bad the infection is? and - What they are doing about it? Sadly in most cases the answers are BAD and NOTHING.
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  8471.  @maramba32  Actually its: As long as you have ENOUGH money. You wont be charged. Remember buying politicians and controlling the judiciary isn't as cheap as it used to be and the fact you can't claim it as a business expense on your tax return is just un-American.
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  8472.  @Scion3Sevens  Agreed on those basic points. When I did my cost model I built all of the boats in Britain and based the costs and time on the Astute class. Yes I know there's issues with that assumption but I had to use something to construct an alternative and the AUKUS boats themselves are based on the Astute. Remember the actual AUKUS boats are actually a joint AUS-UK effort with US input for things like the reactors and weapons systems.
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  8473. What else do you expect from the extreme end of libertarian stupidity. This is the braindead anarchist objectivism and society doesn't exist nonsense of people like Ayn Rand taken to its extreme. These sorts of people truly believe that they have no obligation to society but that society has obligations to them. For example they'd call on the police or government if somebody did something to them but don't feel the need to contribute (through taxes) to a lawful society that has rules, regulations and a means to enforce those rules and regulations. I have watched a couple of these clowns try and debate this nonsense. Quite simply they are narcissistic and selfish.
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  8474.  @anthonytwohill9726  fair comment. I'm Australian and climate change is sensitive down here. We just told a pack of clowns to FK-OFF. They have left us a mess that will cost 10s of billions to fix.
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  8475. Another Victorian here. I think what we are going to find out is how much price gouging was going on. As I just said in another comment I'm an engineer and we have a horrendous epidemic of government project gouging at the moment. Its been there for a while in both government and in the corporate sector, but its now totally out of control. Other than many of the infrastructure projects the Navy's submarine and ship programs are totally out of control. I've spoken to some other engineers about some of this because we've seen a fair amount of this sort of price gouging during the mining boom and some of that was pretty bad, but this stuff is totally out of control. Here's a simple example. The Navies new Arafura-class offshore patrol vessels are $300 million each and that's more than 10x what the Armidale-class boats they are replacing cost. You'd expect some increases due to inflation and that they are bigger, but 10x the cost is ridiculous. Also the new frigates are more than 3x the cost the British are paying for the same ship. There's no explanation other than we are being ripped off. I strong suspect we'll find out that these issues with external consultants has a lot to do with it. What most people don't realise is that these consultants are NOT there to provide solutions. Their obligation is to their employer and their employer's profit. I think Dan Andrews has simply said "We've had ENOUGH and are not going to be ripped off any more." I absolutely support that thought. I have seen lots of people get kicked off projects for the simple fact they got the job done or wanted to get it done instead of joining in the gouging.
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  8476.  @sourabhthakur6064  I think you will find that most participating nations do pay something in these large events. Its might not be direct as in here's the entry fee for this person or team in that event but there's fees for belonging to organisations. The real question in this is what was costing so much. And so you know right now we have massive issues with large projects and its not just government projects but also military and private sector projects. FYI - I am an engineer and have personal experience with some of what's going on.
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  8477. Ask the Italians, Greeks, Spanish and others who the EU Central Bank keeps forcing German Austerity measures onto cos they'll tell you who won WW2 in the end.
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  8478.  @DigESource  Well actually HE IS a convicted felon or have you forgotten HE PLEADED GUILTY. Plus for his recent comments he can be recalled to active duty and court martialed for sedition and that was publicly aired by another retired colonel. But we'll have to wait until January 21 for those charges.
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  8479.  @DigESource  GO LOOK AND LISTEN. Its after 6:45 and this is from a former JAG & Federal Prosecutor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeXRLBuzrDA
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  8480.  @marybrown7203  GO LOOK AND LISTEN. Its after 6:45 and its a fists in the air YES MOMENT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeXRLBuzrDA
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  8481.  @calm1047  GO LOOK AND LISTEN. Its after 6:45 and its a fists in the air YES MOMENT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeXRLBuzrDA
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  8482.  @ideal7755  GO LOOK AND LISTEN. Its after 6:45 and its a fists in the air YES MOMENT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeXRLBuzrDA
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  8483. They let him in for the obvious reason that if they shut him out, threw him out or refused to let him speak then the rest of Fox would go off their rockers. Brian Tyler Cohen does 2-4 of these videos a week on this moron. He's a complete turd of a human being, but he's the right wings turd and they want him to stink the room up. I wont be surprised when he steps out his door one day and gets the utter crap beat out of him. Sooner or later that is going to start happening to these sorts of bad faith political journalists who's only goal is to PROVOKE a reaction.
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  8484. Go watch Kyle Kulinski and other left commentators talk about him. They savage him every time he pops his head up and for the lack of stuff he got done. Particularly when he had a super majority.
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  8485. AEROSPACE ENGINEER & PILOT HERE and you are 100% CORRECT ALL ATC Controllers across the developed world are pilots. You can't even apply for the job or start training unless you are a pilot first. Any pilot can tell you this for a fact because its covered in flight training. Its simply IMPOSSIBLE to become a pilot with "severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities"
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  8486.  @Gerryjournal  ISAAC ASIMOV SAID There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
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  8487. I'd never heard of him until a couple of years ago when he was interviewed on Australian television. He must have thought it was going to be easy because it was a morning TV show, but he didn't count on a couple of the girls being a fairly serious and decent journalists and they took took him to task about being disingenuous and not having any responsibility. He defended himself by proclaiming as a "provocateur" it wasn't his job to be responsible. You can see it here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ef7Us0zw8Q
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  8488. This is NOT an American problem, this is now across the entire Western Democratic system. Remember the Panama Papers that showed how the rich used a Panamanian financial services company to do tax evasion on an industrial scale. NOBODY has even been charged let alone convicted of anything. That was followed by the Paradise Papers detailing a similar industrial system based in the Bahama's. Again NOBODY has even been charged let alone convicted of anything. That has been followed by the Pandora Papers detailing a system bigger and more widespread than either the Panama Papers or Paradise Papers detailed. So far NOBODY's been charged let alone convicted of anything. Can you see what's going on? The hyper-wealthy now have control of not only our governments but also our justices systems. Every society, tribe or nation that did that ended up in the flames of a peasant revolution.
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  8489. ​ @charlesciminera5881  Yeah the only the super wealthy eve go to jail is when they rip off other super wealthy people - Theranos chick???? On America needing an actual leader the problem is that both the Dems & GOP are so tired to their big donors and doing what those donors want its impossible for a real leader to come from either. Its not like America doesn't have good leaders, its got plenty across various fields it just NONE of them are in politics. I was in America when Walter Payton was playing so I got to see true greatness. The fact he still inspires people to think about others less fortunate in society is incredible. So here's my hypothetical and sorry if its long: Imagine if Andrew Whitworth and Captain Brett Crozier ran on a ticket of "We will give the White House back to the American people. It does not belong to the Democrats or Republicans." If you go back before the great depression the President had very little to do with running the country. That was the job of congress lead by the speaker of the House. Newt Gingrich made a huge fuss that he was going to restore the power of the speaker. He went to great lengths to explain what the Presidents job was supposed to be and it wasn't running the country. So in Andrew Whitworth you have the latest WP Award winner and you saw his acceptance speech you'd want him leading a country. There's no doubt he's a guy who cares about the American people. In Brett Crozier you have a career military man who gave a massive chunk of his life to serving America and when the moment came he put his career on the line for the safety of the men and women he was entrusted to lead. Remember him leaving the ship and the crew cheering? Here's an image: Imagine Vladimir Putin (at 5'6") meeting Andrew Whitworth (at 6'7" and 330lbs) and the scene of Whitworths and wrapping around Putin's hand squeezing just enough to let Putin know. It would be worth voting for him for just that moment. Better that could run on a "We don't need policies, but 1. We will make congress do their job." They could just point out the issues and call out the committees to solve the problem. He could just do the Belichick "Do you job!" line. Plus Brett Crozier could have a ball calling out the waste in the military. Just spend 4 years cleaning the idiots and clowns out of the Pentagon. Its just an idea I thought up for: How can America do a reset without having to have a second revolution or second civil war? Because a second American revolution or civil war is monumentally bad for the entire Western World. For a lot of countries, Australia included, America is our most important trading and security partner. If you are wondering why people are so frightened of a second Trump presidency THAT'S WHY. The problem isn't just if he wins its also what happens if he loses again?
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  8490.  @charlesciminera5881  Obama was close to being an independent but they manged to drag him into line pretty quickly. He promised a lot but actually got very little done, even when he had a super majority. That's how much of a failure he was, for the first 2 years he should have been able to pass almost anything and the only major thing he got past was a health care plan that was basically written by Republicans. Your assessment that the Dems & GOP act like criminal gangs is pretty damn close. I've never heard anybody describe them that way but its right on how they act. That's why I think a president who runs in a very unusual way might be a fix. Otherwise its civil war and that is as big of a problem as a nuclear exchange. It would be catastrophic to world trade and security. I'd put way more of the blame on Republicans for the divide in America but the Dems have been utterly hopeless at fixing it. I saw a recent graphic of the 25 worst offenders for insider training. The top 4 were GOP but there were MORE Dems on the list. They are just as bad as the GOP. We have similar issues here in Australia. We don't have the insider trading but we have a huge issue with people making decisions and then going to work for companies that were favoured by those decisions. There are rules in place to prevent it but they are never enforced. Then we have some raging maniacs including our own Donald Trump, a real POS named Clive Palmer. Right now he's using the EXACT same strategy Trump used in 2016. Our system also makes it possible for a very small party to get incredible power under certain circumstances. Its the same problem they have in places like Israel.
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  8491.  @charlesciminera5881  If we are well informed about America its because the situation scares us so much. As I keep telling people America is the most important trading and security partner many countries have. Do you realise that the 74 million who voted for Trump in 2020 is more people than every country in Europe except for Germany and Russia. The 3rd and 4th places are Britain and France both at 67 million. American's don't seem to realise just how big their nation actually is in terms of population. Have you ever heard of Bretton Woods? It was an economic conference in Vermont a year before the end of World War 2. All of the Allied nations were there and they decided how the worlds economy would work after the war. Everyone else was smashed and flattened and America had more than half the worlds gold reserves so the greenback became the worlds de-facto means of foreign trade. Everybody did well from the trade but America made billions on top of billions via the currency exchanges. Prof Richard Wolff talked about that aspect of Bretton recently, because there are now other means to trade - The Euro and Yuan. Its why Putin has demanded all oil & gas contracts are now paid in Rubbles. Putin might be crazy, his generals might be clowns but apparently he's had some good economic advice.
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  8492. AND YOU ARE EXACTLY WHY THE LEFT LOSES. Do you NOT get that the entire Western World has seen what Radical Left Socialism did to Eastern Europe for 50 years? There is no damn way anyone wants to go back for a second round of what the Soviets did or what happened in East Germany, Romania, Poland or any of the other Eastern block countries. We all know that we can't keep going how we are BUT THERE'S NO WAY that anyone wants the crap your selling.
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  8493.  @brandonrathbone3690  Don't you mean thanks, Obama, Bush V2, Clinton, Bush V1, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon,...... and the rest of the goon brigade who have made America the mess that it is. And lets NOT forget the GREATEST liar of them all DONALD J TRUMP, who's also now a CONVICTED FELON.
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  8494. Welcome to Republican Doublespeak. Its almost like they can channel George Orwell at times.
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  8495. THAT SNL reference is still here on YouTube on the Saturday Night Live channel. Its called 'President Reagan, Mastermind - SNL'
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  8496. What 's Biden's doing is NOT getting in the road. Sometimes the best leader or manager just gets out of the road and is lucky enough to have the right people in the right places getting stuff done. Forget why, because its less important that he's NOT in the road. This is one of Elon Musk's major problems, he such an attention seeker he can't help but be in the center. I'm an aerospace engineer and unlike many I think SpaceX has been incredibly successful. Especially when the success of the Falcon series of rockets are compared to what others have done in the same time period. But Starship is a disaster in similar fashion to Hyperloop, Suncity, Teslabot,... its just not obvious yet. I think the reason why SpaceX has been good is that its so technical he couldn't interfere. Starship is his answer to the geeks. I think the reason Tesla's are good cars is the whole process is so massive he can't interfere and there's a board who have some control over him. But his other crap like Hyperloop, Suncity, Teslabot and Starship are jokes.
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  8497.  @freshdelicecookingtutorial6585  They are NOT invading its basic trespass as in being on someone else's property without permission or a valid or a legal reason. And what so many of the supporters of "economic refugees" don't get is that economic hardship might be understandable, but its NOT a legal reason for entering another country. Lack of food, lack of shelter, threats of violence, etc. are legal reasons, but NOT economics.
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  8498.  @nm5310  1) What previous comment??? 2) On what do you base the claim? (your words) "all populations are vast majority women and children (65-85%)" No doubt that might be true for some countries but NOT ALL. 3) In Australia many of the arrivals we have had have been unattached men and YES we have seen that as problematic and YES we don't discuss it openly enough. We also get a lot of families. That boat that sank off Greece had over 100 children on board. So there were some families on the boat.
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  8499.  @nm5310  I don't mind the longness of that comment at all. I've read through it several times and I agree with all of it. I was really surprised by the number of displaced people. Last I heard was a few years back and they put it around 60 million and growing. So I expected it to be higher but 108 million is where the world needs to STOP and start thinking. You've actually described WHY Australia came down so hard on the boat people issue. The vast majority of those arriving were unaccompanied men. It was kept quite but there were several very ugly incidents in Australia with unaccompanied men coming from cultures where women are seen as property. They simply had no idea of how Western liberal societies operate. Your final paragraph goes right to the core of why Australia reacted as it did. These people had access to enough money to pay the people smugglers. We traced some of that funding back to people already in Australia and that infuriated people. There were millions of dollars leaving the country every week and most of it wasn't helping anyone because it was ending up in the hands of a couple of Pakistani mobsters. The other thing that infuriated people was the money spent on legal claims which was funded by Australia. The concept of "NO - your claim does not meet the criteria." means NOTHING to certain people. You might know it better or explain it better but there is a certain psychology where people define themselves by the attention they get from helping people. My mother made a comment about Mother Terresa many years ago. She said (paraphrasing) "Mother Terresa is a hypocrite. She fights against government funded contraception programs because it would mean fewer orphans for her to take care of and get attention." There's a condition called "Munchausen by proxy" where people seek attention for the illness of others. I think this is something similar where certain people like the attention they get from fighting causes. I think Nigel Farage did that with Brexit. I don't think he cared about it at all except that it got him a lot of attention. We have people in Australia who define their existence on fighting certain causes to the death. I met a lawyer at a social event about 20 years ago when there were a lot of boat people arriving out of Southern China. They explained part of the problem was that they destroyed any and all documentation they had. It makes it almost impossible to identify who they are or where they are from and evaluate their claims, but that never deterred the lawyers supporting their claims and filing claim after claim after claim. We now call these people undocumented arrivals and they are still a problem. Those lawyers actually made the situation WORSE not better and it lead to the "Pacific Solution" that we get condemned for. A significant event was the Tampa Affair, and there's a Wikipedia page on it that's fairly accurate. What's not there is that Australia flipped it back on the international community to asses the 400+ claims which were done under UN supervision. Initially the UN only passed about 20 of the 400+ but over time that number increased but it cost heaps to work out who people were. An odd personal story out of that time. A friend of my father is married to a German and her family in Europe called her up and asked what sort of disgusting racist nation was she was living in. Around 2010 her family were in Australia and all they wanted to know was how did Australia mange to shut down the people smuggling. The answer is unfortunately harsh - we had to be as ruthless as the people smugglers. We simply made it a rule that unless there are exceptional circumstances if you arrive in Australia via a people smuggler we will not let you settle in Australia. It has the tragic outcome that people we should take in miss out and a lot of it stems from how the lawyers behaved that got us so frustrated that we reacted the way we did.
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  8500.  @bladerunner3314  Love your tag. Blade Runner is my fav film of all time. But not quite certain what you meant.
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  8501.  @WhoTheLoL  The Radical Left are as consistently as bad as the far right. Its just these days the Far Right is so loud that it seems they're worse. If there is a difference between the more main stream Left and Right its. The Left tend to have good ideas and terrible execution and fail to get things done while the Right have terrible ideas but execute them well enough to get what they want. A perfect example of that was Obama Care. It started as a good idea that was so badly executed that, despite having a super majority, failed and ended up being the version written by a Right Wing Think Tank. As for the Radicals BOTH Left and Right. Before Jordan Petersen gave himself brain damage he pointed out that psychologically they know when people on the right have gone too far when they become racist BUT there was no similar clear indicator for people going too far to the Left. I think its much simpler for both. People have gone too far when they let their ideology overrule the factual evidence before their eyes to the extent where they will harm people. Its not simply denial but denial with harm for an ideological reason. The Right are far more open and much louder about doing harm than the Left these days, but have a look at the French and Russian Revolutions to see what the Left can do when they go too far. I think we're in a very dangerous situation right now because we have a lot of people showing all the signs of going TOO FAR and they are being egged on by some seriously bad people. Go and check what clown named Laurence Fox said on GB News.
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  8502.  @bluedog562  Do you know how to read? Cos its damn obvious you don't know how to think.
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  8503.  @artemirrlazaris7406  That's the perfect description of what these programs do. They mimic a specific human action and no matter what the processing power they are only capable of doing what's in their coding. The whole idea that AI will save the human race or that it is actually intelligent is a fantasy pushed by liars, charlatans and gullible media. As an engineer I hate the misrepresentations of technology in the media. There's another comment by an assistant professor Henrik Løvold you should look at.
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  8504. I agree that decent public debates need to be had on all manner of subjects, but NOT worthless debates that take 4 hours to go nowhere with people who can't ever solve any of the issues. I'm an engineer and left a lengthy detailed response to this in the Lex's pinned comment at the top.
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  8505.  @miff227  Well for starters when I want to know about something I LISTEN TO EXPERTS. If its physics I listen to physicists If its math I listen to mathematicians If its history I listen to historians If its economics I listen to economists If its journalism I listen to journalists AND the subject is CLIMATE I *LISTEN TO CLIMATOLOGISTS * NOT FARKING economists and NOT FARKING journalists.
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  8506. For anyone who doesn't know it Thunderf00t is spelt with 2 zeros not 2 'o's. There's also Common Sense Skeptic here on YT and yes its spelt with a 'k'. I'm an aerospace engineer and both are very good on their basic facts. They aren't perfect but are pretty good. That said and despite all the nonsense there are a couple of things Elon has done that are very good and do deserve recognition. These things do not excuse the dumb and stupid things he's done but if we are being fair then he's done some good things. 1) Despite having nothing to do with the original development of the Tesla, without any doubt he has dragged the car industry out of its comfort zone and taken electric cars from novelty to main stream. His claims about being a founder are idiotic but he's broken the stranglehold that the fossil fuel companies had on transportation. Sadly their is a real chance Elon could wreck all that he has achieved by not dealing with the infrastructure issues needed to support electric vehicles. 2) Despite the issues with SpaceX's Starship (and there are many many issues there) what SpaceX has achieved is quite spectacular. The last American to fly to the ISS on the Russian Soyuz cost NASA $80 million. The current Crew Dragon system launched on Falcon rockets costs $70 million for 4 people. Its certainly not the revolutionary rocket his fans claim but its certainly a step in the right direction. When you compare Crew Dragon to what Boeing have done with their Starliner alternative then it becomes even more noticeable that its a great achievement. That said the list of things Elon had gotten WRONG are extensive and you can check out Thunderf00t and CSS for details there.
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  8507.  @douglemay7989  Absolutely and I think we could actually do a "go fund me" to get him there.
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  8508. You are absolutely correct except fort the ending. You need to be clear about these things and I think you meat "and elections to replace those in the House." Senators get replaced by the states just as Alex Padilla has been chosen to replace Kamala Harris. You simply need to be clear on this stuff or you end up sounding like Trump and his supporters. Just let them scream, rant, rave and blow smoke out their ass while the rest of us stay clear headed. Best Wishes - 15 more days and Trump is gone.
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  8509. NO David there is NOTHING fascinating bout anything this clown has to say anymore.
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  8510.  @fanrco766  Its descriptive of his behavior. He's lied and lied and lied about so many things. He really should challenge for the GOP POTUS nomination so we can see who can lie the most and claim the most BULLSHlT. Sorry but I have no sympathy for this piece of crap.
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  8511.  @the_kombinator  Correct - How much is being said about the Boeing Max-8 with over 300 dead? - How much is being said about the trawler that sank off Greece with around 700 dead? Dead normies doesn't rate as well as 2 dead billionaires.
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  8512. Donald Trump had Steve Mnuchin of Goldman Sachs fame as Secretary of the Treasury Joe Biden just hired 2 Goldman Sachs muppets to be part of his administration Yeeeeaaaahhhhh, HHmmmmmm. UUmmmmm. I got zip to explain what to make of that.
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  8513. ACTUALLY THE EASY ARGUMANET AT THIS MOMENT IS: Should the rest of America help those people in the Southern States who were smashed by Hurricanes Helene and Milton? Because helping those people is the type of socialism that Tim Walz is explaining. He's NOT advocating the type of socialism that they had in Russia. Do you know who does advocate for the Russian kind of Socialism? Donald Trump's buddy Vladimir Putin. And lets not forget which candidate wants to dismantle free speech and lock up dissidents without trial. That would be Vladimir Putin's buddy Donald Trump.
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  8514. CAN YOU 2 JUST STOP HARPING ON ABOUT HOW NARROW THE LOSS TO TRUMP WAS For F⋃CK SAKE it should never have been close. FYI - I'm AUSTRALIAN and we are F⋃CKING tired of your brainless SHlT STORM that clowns like you 2 have created and we now have to deal with. It should have been easy. There was Trump howling about Haitians "eating cats & dogs" and then there was all the corruption of his presidency including the $2 Billion Jared Kushner got from the Saudis. Kamala Harris was riding high and Tim Walz added to it AND THEN THE DNC, CLINTONS, & OBAMAS STEPPED IN AND GANG F⋃CKED THEIR OWN CAMPAIGN It was the most ridiculous political idiocy in any modern democratic campaign and was even worse than Hilary's "I don't need to campaign in Michigan" stupidity that cost her against Trump. AND BY THE WAY That same clown brigade of campaign consultants who mismanaged Hilary's 2016 disaster did the usual American thing of telling others how to do things. YES ROBERT they came to Australia and screwed up Australian Labors 2019 campaign and then went to Britain and screwed British Labor's campaign. I got that from a Brit when I asked then why British Labor LOST using the same strategy as Australian Labor had used. YOU CLOWNS REALLY NEED TO WAKE THE F⋃CK UP
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  8515.  @ra5928  I don't remember that quote, the Linsey Graham one is more commonly referred to, but I think that one is just as good if not better. Its certainly an accurate description of Trumps presidency. Xtra thumbs to you for reminding people.👍👍👍👍
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  8516.  @ra5928  Thanks. 👍👍
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  8517.  @ra5928  That Harry Reid quote is awesome, not just because it describes Trump but it describes how the GOP created him.
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  8518. To Everyone, I stopped this at 37 seconds for the simple reason that Rubin is talking about Austerity as a way to make an economy grow when its in trouble. BEEN TRIED NEVER WORKED ONCE ANYWHERE ask the Greeks, Italian, Spanish, etc. Prof Mark Blyth from Brown U. has spoke about this extensively. Here's the 5:35 version on why Dave Rubin really is stupid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2bVGi0ReE There's dozens of talks here on YT by Mark Blyth and others explaining this in detail. FYI - I'm an Australian engineer who spent a chunk of COVID time looking into economics and how it works so that after COVID I'd be able to deal with managers with economics degrees. I like Mark Blyth because he talks in a way that suits me. Part of his work at the Watson Institute includes interviewing other people like Stephanie Kelton, Adam Tooze and others. They are all saying we need NEW economics NOT repeats of stuff we know doesn't work like Rubin's saying. For those of you in America please get through to Kyle & Krystal and get them to have people like Mark Blyth & Stephanie Kelton on. Don't just say Rubin is stupid ACTUALLY have people on who can EXPLAIN WHY he's stupid.
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  8519. CAN YOU CLOWNS PLEASE HAVE GARY STEVENSON ON If you want to talk about Economics WHY DON'T you have someone on who knows WTF they are speaking about. FYI - I'm Australian and watch everything Gary puts out because what he talks about is just as pertinent in Australia as anywhere else. Also I watched Rachel Reeves interview with Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell on the YT channel "Leading" and she was spouting the EXACT SAME NONSENSE Margret Thatcher did about TAXING BEFORE SPENDING.
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  8520.  @sandollor  Unfortunately you are missing a horrible truth that George Orwell pointed out in "1984" Winston Smith tells O'Brien that the Proletariat would rise up and O'Brien asks him why would they do that when they don't even know what's going on. He then points out the reason for doublespeak - how can the proletariat protest their position when they don't have the words to formulate the thoughts. No have a think about MAGA supporters and how their brains work on the mind virus they've been fed.
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  8521.  @Shreddah  There's a series of pod casts call "how to fix democracy" which can be found here on YT. The entire second season was devoted to economic issues. One of those interviewed was Nobel Laureate Sir Angus Deaton. He mentioned that another economist back in the 1950s PROVED that a for profit health care system CAN NOT EVER WORK. It not only can't deliver fair and equitable outcomes but it basically eats itself and eventually collapses. So you know I'm Australian and we have a dual system of public and private that works for us. It has flaws and issues but we are far better off than many other places. Many other nations also have a mix of public and private health care. I don't know what the same sort of modelling says on these dual systems and if they are also doomed to fail.
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  8522.  @fd9987  Actually NO. What America needs is a Republican Party that functions in good faith, acts in good faith and behaves as a responsible part of a free and democratic society. The Democrats are not as bad but they to could deal with a healthy dose of good faith and responsibility. America has 2 malfunctioning parties, its just that one of them is malfunctioning more than the other.
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  8523.  @fd9987  I hope democrats can start doing better at math cos Nixon was in 1974 and 2022 -1974 = 48 not 60. But then the Dems have been dysfunctional since they thought Hilary Clinton was a good idea. Despite cheating Bernie Sanders out of the nomination and the fact Bernie Sanders then campaigned ON HER SIDE AGAINST Trump, she's still blaming Bernie Sanders for losing.
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  8524.  @fd9987  2022 -1969 = 53 Yeah your a FKING genius when it comes to math. If you want call me a person who thinks every person in every nation should have the right to basic health care and that politicians should NOT be allowed to trade shares in stocks they have influence over, then yeah I'm Berniecrat. So I'll take that as a compliment over being mathematically illiterate any day. I'd tell you to go back to high school and try again but that would be a waste of time considering your lack of intellectual capacity.
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  8525.  @georgyboi4487  Do you actually believe that crap? Did you miss that bit where it was George Bush and hos neocon Republicans who invaded Iraq? Did you miss the point where John Bolton wanted to start a war with Iran a couple of years ago? When did guns save lives? If you're NOT on medication already then seek help and get some. If you're ON medication go see another doctor because the ones you got ain't working.
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  8526.  @georgyboi4487  Yeah sure they don't agree with Bush and the Neocons THEY JUST VOTED FOR THEM cos they felt like it.
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  8527.  @georgyboi4487  AS FOR THE GUN STUFF JUST FK-OFF NOBODY WITH A BRAIN WILL HEAR THAT CRAP FOR AN INSTANT.
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  8528.  @johnrhodes101875  I doubt Diane Feinstein did any of it. You need to check out the bit where Nancy Pelosi's daughter is the "carer" who's minding Feinstein.
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  8529. This is the first I heard of that story about the protestor at SCOTUS. And he didn't literally set himself on fire he actually set him self on fire and died from the injuries. If you google the incident all the stories are short with not much detail other than his name Wynn Bruce, his age 50, and that he was an environmental activist from Boulder, Colorado.
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  8530. Sorry but this is some of the most ignorant shit I have ever heard and I mean ignorant in that he ignores basic reality. He's IGNORING that he's describing and criticising EVERY socio-political ideology when they go too far. If you took this speech and replaced the words woke and wokeism with conservative & conservatism or left & leftism or right & rightism or ANY OTHER socio-political ideology its exactly the same speech. This is 9 minutes and 12 seconds of political clichéd BULLSHlT that could easily describe every political movement in history. For a couple of people who think this kid has a bright future look at the recently elected American George Santos who has lied about everything in his life. He won the election doing EXACTLY what Tommy Nguyen has done here take the standard tribal political line and tell it to a willing audience. What the real debate should be "This House Believes Political Tribalism Has Gone Too Far"
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  8531.  @Enkarashaddam  We'd probably have Thorium power if those idiots at places like the Gates Institute of Stupidity would stop wasting money by the truckload. But as usual unless BG can get his grubby hands on the patents he's not interested.
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  8532. Actually American congressmen and women ARE REPRESENTING those they are meant to represent. The represent those who can afford to support them. You know the same people who convinced SCOTUS that their corporations are also people and that they should be allowed unlimited political funding.
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  8533.  @SkyDarmos  I think you need to go back to school and learn the basic difference between a representative democracy and a hereditary monarchy, because your comment is absurd. If you want to point out the current flaws in representative democracies where representatives are chosen by parties in ways that have similarities to hereditary feudalism that's another discussion, but to claim representation is an absurd idea is simply idiotic.
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  8534.  @SkyDarmos  You do know that in most authoritarian states they put their most well educated people in re-education camps because to exist they can't have people who can think and reason. The one thing authoritarian states need more than anything else is an uneducated ignorant population that just believes what they are told. So thanks for the compliment. And don't blame me or anyone else you grew up in a place with a failed education system.
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  8535.  @mnomadvfx  Well described.
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  8536. Simple analogy: Think about to players in a game of football (any code) and one player is constantly niggling the other with cheap shots. Finally out of frustration the other player throws a punch. Who's the person who gets "red carded" and thrown out of the game and then gets suspended. To be sure there is NO DOUBT that America broke its promise to the Russians NOT to expand east into the former Soviet block, but that does not allow Vladimir Putin to get 500,000 Russians and Ukrainians DEAD and that number might be conservative.
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  8537.  @Kehwanna  Its not just the Americans - its pretty much everyone. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8538.  @Kehwanna  Good point - I apologize I missed that you were speaking generally and thought you were being specific about America. I'm Australian and we fall into that as well. In fact I worry that too many of us are trying to outdo Americans in the patriotic piety game. Not certain where you are but I hope you are dealing well with COVID. Too many think its over - its not.
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  8539. I think your numbers are WRONG, a bit like most of Jordan Petersons numbers. You're being too kind, I think its more like 1% style and 99% LOOK at ME. On the 99% of Scientists thing. If you take 1,000,000 (million) scientists and/or engineers (and there's a lot more than 1M on the planet) then 1% is 10,000 Scientists and engineers who don't believe in climate change. So its every easy to make a claim like: "I went to a conference where there were 1,000 Scientists and engineers and they all agreed there was no Climate Crisis." and you would be telling the truth. I am an aerospace engineer and this is why people like Jordan Peterson will NOT debate actual scientists and especially not engineers. For those unaware engineering is the profession of APPLIED MATHEMATICS. The rest of science comes up with the math and we APPLY it to real world situations. Its also why Economists hate us lie we are the spawn of Satan. Whatever models Economists have they are decades behind where engineering is. This is also where an engineer can flatten some of Jordan Petersons claims. At Oxford or Cambridge a few years back he claimed we should be listening to people like Bjorn Lomborg who was on a UN Committee that included Nobel Prize Economists. FIRST the Nobel in Economics is fake its not a real Nobel at all. It was instigated by the Swedish Central Bank and was never sanctioned by the Nobel family (see Wikipedia). SECOND William Nordhaus who won the FAKE Nobel for economics for his modelling of climate change economics has been slammed and ridiculed by BOTH the Left and Right. Evn the CATO institute has claimed he's a moron. Sorry to ramble on but Peterson, who I genuinely believe WAS ONCE a good university professor, has now lost his mind on this stuff.
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  8540. Lets not forget that the VERY far left can be just as idiotic and irrational. I'm not talking about people like David but the real radical maniacs. The difference is they don't have the backing of billionaires providing these media networks so they can't weaponize their garbage. There is a fundamental difference in how the radical right are able to present and control information. It has a very bad downside we don't often discuss and that people like Rupert Murdoch and the Kochs have made governing most of the Western World impossible. None of our Western governments can actually make any real changes or the billionaires roll out these people like Jesse Waters screaming and yelling at even basic facts. Prof. Mark Blyth (from Brown U.) made a very interesting point on WHY the Chinese Communist Party has been disappearing and removing (like in Orwell's 1984) all the internet references they can of various actors, actresses and billionaires (see below). Mark pointed out that the Chinese leadership looks at the American billionaire class and how they control or influence all public discussion and basically said NO EFFING WAY. I can't stand these right wing clowns and will laugh the day someone beats the crap out Jesse Waters but the Chinese are damn terrifying on how they deal with dissent. https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/china-erases-billionaire-actress-zhao-wei-from-history/news-story/94100f6569377078cfeee411f5fc3538
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  8541.  @stitchup5637  328 Million people and the only 2 options they could come up with were Joe Biden and Donald Trump. That pretty much says everything anyone needs to know about the DNC and GOP. Imagine of the Italians had an election and all they could come up with were Nero and Caligula. What would they expect the rest of us to think? Its like every Western democracy is infected with these types of delusional narcissists and the most idiotic thing is people actually vote for them.
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  8542.  @stitchup5637  That is great way to describe it. About the only thing I would add is "between 5 year old's over a ball" just to emphasize how childish they are. This shite can't keep going on before people start rioting back. I actually fear that day because it might easily get way out of hand. Go look at the French Revolution. They were a nation technologically ahead of the rest of the world. I'm an engineer and the stuff they were doing was incredible. But their elite class of maniacs were just appalling. They had no concept of limits. AND THEN one day the general population just snapped and they ripped the most advanced nation on the planet apart and killed some of the finest brains the world has ever known.
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  8543. I recommend everyone who's concerned about fundamentalist takeovers watches this and does so asap its already been taken down once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89yDHX-5PAs
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  8544. Just before 3 minutes there's an older guys who says "You have absolutely no idea how to get things done." Its in reply to a girl who says she's 20 and that implies she wants a future. SADLY I think he's dead right. These climate activists know how to make noise. They don't know how to get things done, because there's 2 parts to "getting things done." One is having control of the money and the other is control of the politics. The Greenies have NEVER UNSDERSTOOD this. They have control of NOTHING but the VOLUME KNOB. EVEN SADDER is that these wealthy people always forget as the French, Russian and other aristocracies did that eventually the peasants revolt when they have nothing left to lose. The ugly side of that reality is when the peasants revolt they tend to burn society turn the ground and install insanely repressive vicious regimes that wreck their countries.
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  8545. Your mostly right but Larry Wilkerson who's very well connected pointed out that the Israeli F35s did NOT penetrate Iranian Air space because of fuel restrictions. PLUS UNLESS YOU have actual genuine irrefutable inside information NOBOY knows that the Iranians did or did NOT see of the Israeli F35s. You might well be right and they didn't see any of them, but NONE OF US ACTUALLY KNOW.
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  8546.  @lifewithpets-7588  What??????
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  8547.  @OBEYTHEPYRAMID  Yeah and Bush & Co should have sent Bruce instead of marines into Iraq. Obama should have sent Bruce into Pakistan instead of seal team 6 Trump should have sent Bruce into Biden's basement. Biden doesn't need to send Stingers and Javelins to Ukraine, just send Bruce. In fact send him to Moscow. I just don't know why the nuclear football isn't reprogrammed with Bruce codes. it would make the whole US Foreign policy thing so much easier.
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  8548. ​ @OBEYTHEPYRAMID  Yeah fine. And its not so much they are separated by elitists and hypocrisy because they both have that. Both Obamas Harvard, both Clintons Yale, while Ted Cruz is Princeton & Harvard. There are 9 SCOTUS judges - 4 Harvard, 4 Yale and a Notre Dame. America has 2 factions of Ivy League brats. One group is more narcissistic and the other delusional self superiority. Both have a bunch of common traits and its those common traits that explain why NASA hasn't been back to the moon for 50+ years and why so many other things that cloud have or should have happened haven't. Both groups think they know how do to anything and everything BUT in actual fact know very little about getting anything done at all. They have projected that onto their supporters who also think everything is a matter of "just do this" or "just do that." Look at the comments on this video its a litany of "we'll just do" attitudes. I actually went off to the Australian mining sector to learn how to build mines in remote places, then get them working and then keep them working. So I actually know first hand the stuff you need to have in place BEFORE digging starts. Amazingly the management types are just like the politicians. They all think they know how it all works and what it takes to keep it working AND THEY JUST DON'T. Its a common thread running right through all our societies like a Dunning-Kruger plague. Its just more obvious in some than others.
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  8549. I basically agree. JBP has sadly become the anti-intellectuals pseudo intellectual. Its sort of like how Trump presents himself as the blue collar working mans president as his companies treat blue collar working class people like garbage. JBP should stick to subjects he actually knows.
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  8550. WTF has happened to this channel. 2 years ago you had the label "Interesting conversations with interesting people." Now you just another pair of clowns playing and endless stream of culture war crap. Do I think there are people on the Left who have completely lost the plot and hijacked public discussions on fairness and equality and opportunity? ABSOLUTELY there are people on the Left who are so idiotic that nobody should listen to a word they have to say, but screaming "woke" at everything is equally stupid and equally pathetic.
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  8551.  @haroldpearson6025  HEY SHIT4BRAINS NOBODY anywhere is trying to flip any western nation into a Marxist state or impose Marxist economics. Yes there's a few incredibly ignorant clowns who ignore what Pol Pot, The Kim's of North Korea, Stalin, Mao... did and saying some damn stupid stuff. AND YES I will agree with you any day of the week that those people are incredibly ignorant of history. AND YES I will agree with you any day of the week there are some incredibly disgusting bad faith clowns who have hijacked public discussion on things like gender, education and the environment. BUT for FARK SAKE will you people just stop screaming and screeching "socialism," "Marxism" and "woke" at EVERYTHING you don't like. People have had enough of BOTH the Far Left and the Far Right.
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  8552. Sorry but NOBODY CARES. Anyway you want to look at it the Biden Presidency INCLUDING the Biden TEAM are going to go down as one of history's greatest failures. They were (in the end) so bad they could NOT beat the "They're eating cats and dogs" Orange Gorilla and his billionaire owned muppet of a VP who nobody has seen or heard from since Elon took his place. FYI - I'm Australian and like 7.7 Billion other people on the planet we don't like feeling this nervous about our futures. It was bad enough with Putin being Putin, Xi being Xi and a few others being recalcitrant clowns but at least we could rely on America to have something recognisable as functioning braincells OR at least there'd be an adult in the room when big decisions were made. Even if they were bad decisions like invading Iraq we at least knew there were adults present. Now we have this reactionary man child in charge surrounded by the worst collection of political suck-ups in history. Most of the planet doesn't know who to scream at louder the brainless clowns of the GOP or the arrogant clowns of the DNC who failed and made this happen. MAYBE the best thing we can hope for is that this clown brigade screws up so badly that America finally WAKES THE F⋃CK UP. Democracy is NOT a gift its a BURDEN that you have to carry. Oh yeah we all saw Tommy Tuberville and others claim California had to submit to their demands before any help for the fires in California was coming. That's not only evil but the sign of a broken society.
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  8553. Well said - whoever it is putting the crap headlines up needs a brain check. If you want present yourself as a News Service then behave like a news service.
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  8554. GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  8555. @ Great comment. I'm an engineer who has challenged this accountant (cos that what he is) to a public debate. You can maybe see my comments if they haven't been masked or deleted. Its not that I am against nuclear its just the absurdity of the plan they have or the insanely ridiculous claims on the costs. In this video he claims that $420 Billion can do everything Australia needs for the next 60 years. By that stage our population will be approaching 60 million at the current rates. What makes any of these clowns think they can project energy needs that far forward? The LNP claim of $330 Billion delivering 38% is nonsense. I worked out how they calculated that number is its idiotic. FIRST how they calculated 38% is absurd SECOND it does NOT cover for population growth. THIRD it doesn't cater for the ugly fact that because we haven't built any large base load power stations since the late 90s our current base load system is actually built for 20 million people NOT the 27 we have now. That's why our power bills are so high. FOURTH and this is maybe the worst part they are NOT including any of the costs for decommissioning the plants once they are past their useful life AND/OR the long term storage of spent fuel and waste.
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  8556.  @Lennybird91  Fair call and this is NOT uncommon and many countries have done it. Some of the North Korean stuff is insane. But have a look at some of the political spin news stories coming out of America these days. The other day I saw a vid panning Ted Cruz on a staged stunt he did at a bar. I'm Australian and we do it at times. Just recently the American LCS Ship the Canberra had its commissioning ceremony here in Australia as its named after our capital city. I saw a news item where an Australian Navy officer stood there and talked about how impressive the ship was and how it displayed our ongoing links to America and how firm they were. All gee golly gosh stuff. Just days before that happened I watched a review of the LCS Independence class on the YT Channel "Sub Brief" and he pointed out the many issues with the Independence-class and also pointed out how the Canberra was the first ship in US Navy history to have its decommissioning date set BEFORE its commissioning ceremony. So yeah Putin's stuff is super cringeworthy and totally staged BUT WE ALL DO SIMILAR. Its just that we are better at disguising it.
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  8557.  @ABanRocks  You make an incredibly valid point and its been repeated all through history. if you look at some of last century's list of maniacs - Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot,... and then go back thought history you have to wonder WHY-TF anyone follows these clowns AND YET THEY DO.
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  8558. For the last 77 years since the end of WW2 America's claimed to be the "Leader of the Free World" and yet it effectively keeps over 3.2 million people in subjugate state. There are 21 America states with fewer people that Puerto Rico and they each have 2 senators and at least 1 House representative. The states with similar populations have 4 House seats. Its such a ridiculous thing for any modern country to do to any of its citizens.
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  8559.  @jilliancopeland6825  Yeah I mostly agree on that, but think it was more than just racism. One of the points Mark Blyth and Eric Lonergan brig out in their book Angrynomics is that people around the world are generally angry with their economic position. Angry people look for reasons and opportunists like Farage & Trump love to give them reasons. I'm Australian so I totally agree on the Murdoch's. They are well known for sh*t stirring and racism is their favourite paddle to sh*t stir with. They do it here they do in the UK and they do it in America. So I agree that racism was one of the main the outward expressions but underneath that is economics. And it's not a UK problem its an everywhere problem. The UK has Farage, America has Trump and we have Clive Palmer doing exactly the same stuff.
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  8560.  @genossinwaabooz4373  I am still at a loss why that report is being screamed about from the roof tops. It shows that 10% of America has utterly screwed 50% of the country and then made another 40% pay for it. You'd think that every left leaning commentator would be going nuts and people like Marianne Williamson would be waving it like a Viking Shieldmaiden's axe while screaming at BOTH the Dems and GOP.
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  8561. I'm Australian and can't remember hearing or seeing Finkalstein before I saw him interviewed by Krystal Ball (Breaking Points today) where he was very good and ripped the Clintons apart. This vid popped up in the links. I'd also never heard of Steve Malzberg so I looked up both on Wikipedia. Malzberg works for Newsmax, so that was a red flag that explained his idiotic arrogance. But his craziest BULLSHlT is the claim that Finkelstein hate's him because he's a Jew. Finkelstein (if it wasn't obvious) is also Jewish. Finkelstein's mother, Maryla, grew up in Warsaw and survived the Warsaw Ghetto and the Majdanek concentration camp. His father, Harry, was a survivor of both the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz. There's an interview with him on Democracy Now from 11 years ago and he said both his parents were the sole survivors of their families. Outside of those who died from natural and other causes the rest of Finkelstein's family, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents were ALL exterminated in the Holocaust.
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  8562.  @dogwalker666  spot on
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  8563. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  8564.  @Baddy187  Don't play the superior culture crap moron IT IGNORES 1000s of years of history. We can start pointing out all the barbarity that Europe has endured for the last 2000 years. I'm of Anglo-Saxon descent, should we discuss the great tradition of hang, drawing and quartering. Do you know that for most of the last 1000 years executioners were not valued on how quick they could lop of a head. Most were valued for how long they could make an execution last. Our ancestors used to work 6 days and go to church Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon was usually spent being entertained by the executions. DON'T EVER PLAY THE SUPERIOR CULTURE CARD its stupid and ignorant and it totally ignores historical fact. As for Afghanistan. My bet is you younger and don't remember the 1970s or 80s when it was the most modern society in the Islamic world until the civil war that the Russians jumped into. It might not have been as modern or developed as the West but for certain its been a disaster since. SO STOP BEING IGNORANT, STUPID AND RACIST
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  8565. Horribly sad but true statement on modern society.
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  8566. Really, I am trying to figure out how its taken this long the TMR to report on this.
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  8567.  @nicholascarter9158  In terms of the planet its tiny amounts of nothing. But in terms of upsetting the natural systems its a different story. The oxygen used in iron ore smelting isn't destroyed. The oxygen still exists, but its shifted from being part of Fe2O3 (iron Oxide)or one of the other oxides to CO2. CO2 isn't a problem so long as there is enough plant life to consume it back into O2. Here's the longer story. I did my degree in aerospace and way back in 86 an alum who worked at NASA gave us a special talk one Friday. We were kinda exited because his last project was on terraforming Mars. The news wasn't good. He introduced us to what I now call "planetary mechanics" which is simply calculating how much stuff is involved. Making things like water cycles and oxygen cycles and carbon cycles work is what I call "planetary dynamics." Its sort of the difference between how many car parts and what they all weigh versus assembling all those parts into a working car. To give you an idea of the sorts of numbers involved the surface of the earth is roughly 500,000km² If you consider just the 1st kilometer of air above the surface of the Earth its pretty close to 500,000km³ in volume. In engineering there's HVAC (heating, ventilation & air conditioning) and HVAC works in meters cubed because that's practical for a house or an office block. That 1st kilometer of air in which 90% of humanity lives is roughly 500,000,000,000,000m³ that's 500 quadrillion cubic meters of air. At that's just the 1st kilometer there's at least 99 more on top of it although most of those are fairly thin. But then there' the oceans and water being more dense the weight of water is another damn big number. Bottom line is we live on a very big object with an insanely complex biological system powered by a big giant ball of plasma. Unfortunately science fiction (which I do love) has badly misrepresented science in many ways and the media have been no help either. In short we are NOT going to run out of stuff, which is good. The problem is we have upset the balance of that complex system we depend on for life. Added to that we don't understand enough of how that system works so that we can help nudge it back into balance.
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  8568.  @nicholascarter9158  That's a great question and I don't have an answer. The thing with refining most minerals is that they are net oxygen producing processes not oxygen consuming. Most minerals like iron are oxides and the problem is getting rid of the oxygen. The reason they want pure oxygen for a blast furnace so they are not adding impurities. The reason that metallurgical coal is 2-3times the price of thermal coal is that it has almost zero impurities. Most coal includes sulphur sulphur when it burns produces SO2 which tends to become S03 and that likes to combine with water into H2SO4 better known as sulphuric acid. That's what caused the acid rain crisis in North America that was killing off their forests. They burned cheap coal from places like Southern Illinois that had a very high sulphur content. It was fine for power stations but lousy for steel manufacturing. For that you needed that nice clean black coal from places like West Virginia and Pennsylvania. hence why there were so many steel mills in Pennsylvania. Similarly if you just pump air into a blast furnace 80% of that is Nitrogen and Nitrogen does form compounds with metals (nitrides) including iron. Its great using air if that's what you want but lousy if you want just straight steel. For many other metals they dissolve the ore with acid (or similar) into a solution. Depending on the metal they will then get it back out of solution by various methods. A common way is electrowinning which is basically electrolysis in reverse. On a place like the moon all of that goes away. If you can get any compound hot enough it will breakdown. If done in a vacuum then the gases will just boil away and leave behind the metal. On the moon there's no shortage of direct sunlight and vacuum. It might be as simple as putting ore into a crucible and focusing light on it with mirrors. Its also know with lunar regolith (moon dust) that at around 800C before it melts that it tends to release oxygen and hydrogen that then forms water. So the whole, "how you do stuff" is a bit different on the moon because of what's available. Its really no different to various places here. Why do some countries have lots of Hydro power or lots of wheat farming or lots of fishing? Its what they have.
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  8569. EVERYONE should go and listen to Peter Zeihan's explanation of the whole Israel, Hamas and Gaza that he did 5 days ago. Its a very simple explanation of how the Israeli Government political system works because of how it works and the demographics of Israel. He also gives a very interesting take on the Iranian reasons why they MIGHT be involved. He not only points out that the Iranian people ARE NOT Arabs they're Persians. Its often forgotten there are a number of ethno-tribal groups across the middle east and at times they have different goals. Its an easy video to find. Its titled Israel, Hamas and Gaza: Q&A w/ Peter Zeihan
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  8570. That's an interesting way to put it.
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  8571. I am going to go 1/2 against Thom on this, because as Mitch McConnell, Diane Feinstein and others have shown NOT having limits can be just as worse because you can get entrenched cronyism which is like cancer and just as lethal to a functioning society. Just to check I looked up term limits and there's a Wikipedia page on term limits in the US. Couple of surprises: 1) POTUS is limited to 2 terms but VPOTUS has no limits. 2) Almost all of the state limits are 8 years in all sorts of mixtures of 2 and 4 year terms with a few places having 12 year limits. That seems to be the sort of thing Thom is talking about. Its too short for people to actually make any sort of a long term difference to their state. How do you do anything that's long term when you can't see it through from initial concept to final outcome?
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  8572. Lindsey Graham tweeted "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it. 7:03 AM · May 4, 2016" That is still on twitter. I cut and pasted the quote, time and date on 31/12/2022
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  8573. Well done for the bravery, there's so little of it. The entire Israeli-Palestinian situation is so mind numbingly bad. There's so much wrongdoing on BOTH SIDES that its almost impossible to see how it can ever be resolved. I remember seeing the King of Jordan interviewed on the daily show with Jon Stewart during one of the times to get a peace accord in place. He said words to the effect that if a settlement wasn't reached back then it would be at least another generation before another opportunity would exist and in the meantime the entire middle east would be a mess. I remember him being quite adamant that a failure back then would have enormous repercussions. He explained that solving the Israeli-Palestinian situation would remove one of the key soap boxes for radicals in the middle east. In particular he pointed out that the radical agitators would lose this key talking point about America and that in doing that they would lose one of their prime recruiting tools. He said it would make every middle east government face up to their own radicals, because their own radicals would not be able to scream and rant at Israel & America and they would have to scream and rant at their own governments who would then have to deal with them. I have tried finding a YT on that interview but haven't found it yet. If somebody out there knows where to find it please let all know where it is. Its worth reviewing.
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  8574. SIMPLE ANSWER IS YES - Critical minerals will STOP the transition. For example: There's 1.5 Billion cars and 500 million trucks as well as all the other things relying on Lithium Batteries. Currently the Tesla Model S uses 63kg To replace 1.5 Billion Cars with the same technology as a Tesla requires over 94 Million tons of Lithium According to the US Geological Survey there's about 21 Million tons in known reserves and according to other sources as much as 26 million tons. (its on Lithium page on Wikipedia) The Energy Transition is NOT impossible, BUT WE NEED A BETTER PLAN. We need alternative battery chemistries as well as a few other things. MOST OF ALL WE NEED HONESTY. Like telling people HOW MUCH Lithium we need versus how much we know we can dig up.
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  8575.  @carltalley2389  I said "at least 50%" that actually means its more than that and possibly as high as 100%. The implication is that at beast they are in the majority. Because even 50.000000000000001% is a majority. Actually there's a giant misreading of the concept of the term Armageddon. Its NOT the end of the physical world. There's the well known line about the meek inheriting the Earth. Inheriting a lifeless rock isn't much inheritance for being good. Armageddon is actually a prediction that human politics must eventually fail because humans are fallible. The scary thing is that 99% of the people who want Armageddon are delusional maniacs. The only bits they read, hear or see are the bits that say there's a chosen who get to rule the world afterwards. They think they are those chosen totally ignoring that to be chosen means someone else is doing the choosing. Its what makes them so dangerous and scary they already think they've been chosen, granting them almost unlimited power over the rest of us.
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  8576. AUSTRALIAN HERE: YES our politicians suck. They lie, they cheat and they screw us over at every chance as they had out contracts to their wealthy supporters. BUT NONE of ours are a threat to the World. If you consider some of the other scumbags in the GOP - Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell,.... etc. Sure they're narcissists, but the rest of the world can deal with them because even at their very worst they're still PREDICTABLE and we can handle that. Trump isn't simply a MALIGNANT NARCISSIST but he's also a TEMPESTUOUS SOCIOPATH who lashes out at ANYONE who upsets him. I was actually in Canada for work when he tore up NAFTA in 2017. The Canadians accepted that NAFTA needed updating and re-negotiating. We all know those free trade agreements need that at times. BUT Trump just tore it up because it was done by Clinton. Then he tore up the Iran nuclear agreement because it was done by Obama. When you add into that the behavior of America's billionaires who support him and what they want it gets even worse. Do you guys not realise that it was American Billionaire Robert Mercer (owner of Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica) who was behind the Facebook campaign that influenced the Brexit Vote? YES one of yours caused that ongoing shitfest. COLLECTIVELY they're a very serious threat to ALL of America's security partners as well as ANY country that America does business with. Don't forget that America's businesses can now drag any dispute back to American courts where its rigged. Go look up the Steven Donziger case and ask the Ecuadorians about the Texaco judgments. You American's can have whoever you want as POTUS. That's 100% your choice and you have every right to tell us to FK-OFF and mind our own business, BUT UNDERSTAND the other 7.7 billion of us on the planet have to live with your choice.
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  8577. You've hit on one of the basic realities of extremist politics. When people ignore the real world that other s experience and put their ideology above all other considerations it doesn't matter if they are on the Far Left or the Far Right they lose perspective and can't see they ridiculousness of their hypocrisy. They'll claim they are about Freedom and Liberty as they strip others of their Freedom and Liberty. They'll claim they are strong on security as they strip others of their security. They'll claim they are for justice and integrity but have no integrity and deny others justice. When it comes down to it, no mater if they are on the Far Left or Far Right, they are like a 3 year odl throwing a temper tantrum of "I want what I want right now and I don't care about anyone else."
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  8578. Did God tell him also to steal, lie, cheat, commit fraud, commit adultery and go to jail for it???? Most people are aware of the Sermon on the Mount and how Jesus said the poor and hungry would be looked after among other things. Basically if we look after each other the world will be a better place. What they rarely here about is the last part of the Sermon on the Mount that's recorded in Matthew Chapter 7. Chapters 5 & 6 are often spoken about BUT NOT chapter 7. Its all about identifying frauds and fakes.
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  8579. Only one answer actually matters in this - HOPEFULLY. The down side will be that he can easily set up a similar system totally under his own control.
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  8580. Not anywhere as much as CNN. Their entire Business plan is "Trump Bad" they have 8 more days until they have nothing. Seriously what are CNN going to do after next week other than weather reports.
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  8581.  @robinvik1  Its why impeachment is so important. He needs that mill stone hung round his neck. But it must not stop with Trump. All those who made this happen have to be kicked out of office and then barred from all future office.
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  8582.  @robinvik1  I got the take on CNN's business model from Prof. Mark Blyth - I just extended it a bit.
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  8583.  @jamieg2427  Who? CNN - well what other footage do they have from the last 4 years? I see reports that twitter's share price has tumbled with their ban on Trump. Really - if their business model was that narrowly focused they deserve to fail. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8584.  @hcs4life21  Honestly I just want Trump to go away. We have so many REAL issues to deal with and they are not just American issues. Climate Change, Wealth Disparity, Homeless and Stateless millions and even some more basic things like water & food. That's on top of COVID.
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  8585. First I am not defending Aaron Rogers but David does get something wrong here. In that first clip (from November 2021) Aaron Rogers did NOT say he was against ALL fact checking but that he was against fact checking from people with links to big pharma and that's NOT the same thing. Its quite possible Aaron Rogers is just saying that, because that is a line anti-vaxxers use. Kyle Kulinski just did a vid about Howards Sterns comments on Joe Rogan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksWcjjUbgQE Kyle points out that trusting or distrusting big pharma on COVID vaccines is IRRELEVANT because of the independent studies like the one in France. David says similar and he should stress that point MORE, because that is the thing to point out. Second I totally agree with David that Aaron Rogers thinks its all about him. That's BS from yet another overrated sports star or celebrity who thinks they are special I'm Australian and we had EXACTLY the same situation with Novak Djokovic the tennis player. The Australian Open is on right now and NOBODY here cares that he's gone. Further the BBC (in Britain) just published a story today indicating doubts over when he tested positive. It looks like he lied about the test dates.
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  8586.  @jl8942  And if you want an example of America malfunctioning Kyle Kulinski just posed a vid titled "GOP Politician Goes ALL IN On Flat Earth" He's not the first to report on it but if any American thinks this is what makes a country function properly needs a shot of wake TF up juice directly injected into their brain. And to be honest we have these sorts in Australia too. But so far we haven't let them gain political power.
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  8587.  @jocksharerock7318  Editing??? It doesn't look like editing it looks like it was done in real time.
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  8588.  @krusher74  You need to realise that there are 2 great forces that have been operating socially for most of the last 50 years. Like so many things there are Left & Right versions of this childish selfishness. 1) The well known and often derided Leftist nanny state brigade who preach that you cannot discipline a child because it will stunt their growth. The main complaint of this is that it raises people who think they can endlessly push the limits until they get their way. They interpret the word NO as push harder. 2) The radical Right libertarians who are far more dangerous and far more ruthless. I have heard them called "High Machiavellians." They don't just think the "ends justify the means" these people believe that anything is acceptable if they get their way. They are politically called realists in that they accept humanity is flawed including greed and therefore what their greed is part of the natural way. The reason why I think the Right version of this is more dangerous is because although the Leftist version produces annoying brats who can be incredibly destructive the Right version guarantees destruction because those people have no limits to what they will do to the rest of us. The Left are stupid, foolish and destructive, but the Right are simply willing to destroy the planet if they can't have their way.
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  8589. I think Peters assessment on the microchips was very good but less on this. The Russians didn't damage Nord Stream (why would they when its a cash cow) and the Americans made no secret they wanted Germany to not become reliant of Russian gas while Putin was in power. Plus America has staggering amounts of gas that it simply burns. Go watch one of Peter's longer talks where he shows satellite photos of America at night. The Americans don't want to keep burning that gas they want to sell it and make money. Its a pretty damn simple thing to understand why America or "certain Americans" with a lot of influence didn't want Nord Stream 2 to come on line. I think this will be a rough patch but Germany will get through it. FYI - I'm Australian and I know we can send you a few boatloads of LNG to get you through the winter.
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  8590.  @kevincrady2831  Except when you're the one trying to expose the idiotic stupidity of some clown who deserves the ridicule. Like most things there's a flip side.
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  8591. The craziest thing and most horrible aspect of this stupidity is its only making it harder to find out what did and didn't happen in Wuhan or what certain people did or didn't know or when they knew it. Rabid clowns like this are so idiotically destructive and actually make it harder for anyone to get things done. It doesn't matter if its gun advocates, animal liberationists, tree hugging greenies or the oil industry they're all bonkers bat crap crazy. There was a quote attributed to Jonathan Haidt a while back that basically went - "There's this cacophony where the Radical Right and Radical Left just scream at each other while the rest of us trapped in the middle are exhausted."
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  8592.  @ferox965  Escalating?? In what universe is he escalating?? You Right Wingers are always demanding the police and courts to be tough on crime EXCEPT WHEN YOU'RE THE CRIMINALS.
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  8593. HEY GARY - If you can please look up the report Bernie Sanders had the US Congressional Budget office did on Family Wealth (its easy to find). It covers the years 1989 to 2019 and shows all the sorts of things you have been speaking about these last 2 years about wealth. This data is unarguable as the US Budget Office by CAN'T LIE because all their reports are officially presented to US politicians and in America it would fall under their "Lying to Congress Laws". I'm Australian and have checked what I can of our data which is presented differently BUT IT TELLS the same sort of story, that the people in the top demographics are getting wealthier and wealthier while the lower demographics are going NOWHERE or BACKWARDS. What that US-CBO report in family wealth shows is shocking. When you compare the differences between 2007 and 2010 you have what people lost in the 2008 GFC. When you compare the differences between 2007 and 2019 you see how people have recovered since the 2008 GFC. The TOP 10% of America LOST 11.1% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 21.7% UP on their 2007 wealth. The MIDDLE 40% of America LOST 13.3% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 4.6% UP on their 2007 wealth. The BOTTOM 50% of America LOST 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were STILL DOWN 21.8% So the people who caused the GFC and got bailed out (US$4 Trillion by Bush and US$4 Trillion by Obama) have not only recovered but thrived and by current estimates are over US$30 Trillion from where they were in 2007, WHILE the people who were hit hardest by the stupidity and greed of Wall St. had still NOT RECOVERED and with the economic effects of the COVID pandemic and the money flows you describe have most likely still NOT RECOVERED. Almost nobody in America media has even reported on this report. Bernie Sanders who had it commissioned hasn't said much about it. Its evaluation on the last 30 years of economics policies is as damning as it gets. Lets not forget that countries like Britain (with Thatcherism) and Australia (with Economic Rationalism) have basically run their own versions of Neoliberal Chicago School Economics with the same sorts of results. FYI - I have asked Steve Keen who hosts Steve Keen & Friends to have you on the podcast. I think you have important things to be heard.
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  8594. AEROSPACE ENGINEER & PILOT HERE ALL ATC Controllers across the developed world are pilots. Its a pre-requisite requirement of the job. You can't even apply for the job or start training unless you are a pilot first. Its simply IMPOSSIBLE to become a pilot with "severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities"
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  8595.  @username4755  He's calling TRUMP the bus driver. Read it again.
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  8596.  @username4755  You're clearly a BOT
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  8597. One thing that wont be under speculation is the Defense Lawyers wanting money up front.
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  8598.  @joshuazarate9780  If you know the show its not hard to find just search "Studio 10 Milo Yianopolous"
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  8599.  @lunarmodule6419  The only thing that can happen to Opal Tower is to pull it down. Way back circa 2010 there was concern in the mining industry after they worked out why a bunch of new stuff fell down in the 2008 Chinese Earth Quake. The Chinese in their brilliance were doing this bat crap crazy stuff with re-bar call "thinning" There's not much still available but to be quick its rebar that's almost useless. You see concrete needs rebar because its awesome under compression (squeezing) load but sucks under tension (stretching). If the rebar is crap it cracks and fails. So when the Earth quake hit a lot of new stuff with substandard rebar just cracked, broke and failed. The concern in mining was if this garbage rebar had found its way onto the constructions sites. It didn't and people were relieved. When Opal Tower happened and I saw the reports I wondered. Then by chance about 3 years ago I met a guy who worked installing rebar. I asked him about cheap low quality rebar and he said yeah its crap. I wont say what he said described but he said things that confirmed my suspicions. We have cheap "substandard" Chinese rebar in our construction industry. How much is out there is anyone's guess.
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  8600. @Harry Groundwater It was a channel called "Just have a think" where I heard the story about India. I think we have to move on it here in Australia last week, if not last year. A lot of our farmers have private dams most of which are shallow and have terrible evaporation rates. They should also be covered in panels.
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  8601. The problem isn't the fact Trump is gone the problem is that so many sycophants who allowed him to do what he did are still there in congress and have a lot of influence. That should concern EVERY American as much as it concerns every other person on the planet. It doesn't matter if you are an American ally or trade partner Trump was not the only person involved in making America a sad joke these last 4 years. There was Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham redefining SCOTUS and who is allowed to do what. Then there are the twin clowns of Cruz & Hawley who think promoting fraud and riots is what congressmen do as standard practice. I'm Australian and America is our most important trade and security partner. Its effing scary when America is so dysfunctional. Despite what so many think Trump did nothing prevent (or limit) either China or Russia these last 4 years. And that's before we get onto the subjects of climate change, wealth disparity, a new arms race and the next war America drags us all into. Is Biden a step back from insanity? Absolutely. Can he fix all the things Trump broke? Unlikely because there are too many people wanting things to stay broken so they can blame Biden for not fixing them.
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  8602. Well considering how many 1,000,000s of people who have taken these vaccines then you have to expect some will have a reaction. Just like there are people who have allergies, but without ALL the details on this case who knows. Here's a real doctor discussing that case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UijQ-6jhVuc
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  8603.  @tonl4738  Then you'd know not to make uneducated emotionally driven conclusions like so many are doing. I read your comment and I don't have any problem with people saying they will wait and see just to be sure. BUT I have no time for the fearmongering of many and the outright misinformation of others. I checked out Dr. John Campbell early on and his credentials are fine. You don't get a PhD like he has and not have the ability read through and sort through data better than most people. I have seen some incredibly stupid and ignorant comments made in respect of this video. Here's an example - right below this is a comment that I saw and remarked on by a person using the tag "Authentic Shift" the comment is "Having worked in patient record systems, I can attest that adverse reactions are massively underreported" What country or state or hospital does that apply too? How does anyone know that, that comment has any veracity? Yet it has 530 likes, which means there are 530 idiots who didn't stop and think and yet they are willing to risk their life on comments like that. Only yesterday on another channel about the release of vaccine in Australia (where I am) people started claiming that the Pfizer MRNA vaccine was "experimental gene therapy" which is total bullshit. One person claimed it was even registered in Australia as "gene therapy" and with the challenge to check it, I DID and there is NOTHING on the TGA website or in the documentation that says anything about "gene therapy." And yet by law they would have to publish that sort of information because the doctors have to be able to fully inform their patients. After I put up the TGA website link where EVERYONE could see what was and wasn't TRUE they stopped, yelling at me. https://www.tga.gov.au/covid-19-vaccine-pfizer-australia-comirnaty-bnt162b2-mrna FYI - I haven't had any vaccine yet, because they haven't yet rolled it out for my age group (45-65). In Australia it will take about 6 months to do the entire country and I am not in any of the high priority groups.
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  8604. AUSTRALIAN ENGINEER HERE ATTENTION ALL Engineers like Simon Michaux have been trying to point out these issues for several years now. Currently Teslas require slightly more than 60kgs of Lithium. There are (according to Wikipedia) 1.5 Billion registered cars in the world and 500 million registered trucks. 1) The amount of energy and production required to fully replace those 1.5 Billion cars exceeds what we currently have. Its not generally well known but MORE ENERGY is consumed in making a car than it consumes 20-25 years depending on how much its used. So to fully replace those 1.5 Billion cars is a massive task in energy and resources. 2) EVEN IF we just re-life all the internal combustion engine (ICE) cars as EVs we need between 80 and 90 million tons of Lithium. Currently the worlds know reserves are between 21 and 26 million tons (See Wikipedia). As Simon Michaux likes to say. "The energy transition isn't impossible, but we need a better plan." WE NEED to as Peter says, spend huge on material science and come up with better solutions and then plan how we implement those solutions.
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  8605.  @cobra02411  On the technical side of that Cessna 401 the fact they were taking on such an incredibly complex aircraft was just stupid and their attitude about it sucked. You should know just how much attention to detail a plane like that needs. If they took on a straight forward project with single engine plane (and there's dozens of those available) then it would be so much better and several 1,000% safer for everyone involved.
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  8606. @RetreadPhoto I was once told by a Tiger Moth pilot that anyone could learn to fly a Tiger moth in a few days but it takes the rest of your life to master it.
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  8607.  @johnjensen2217  I might have the model wrong but I was watching them from the start of getting that plane and it was mentioned several times it was a pressurised model. The C401 might have originally been conceived as non-pressurized but for F⋃CK SAKE DlCKHEAD it has a service ceiling of almost 27,000 ft and at that altitude either the cabin is pressurised or the passengers are on oxygen. ON THEIR ATTITUDE There were plenty of people commenting and trying to help. NONE WERE BEING LISTENED TO. So go be your little social media ignorant troll somewhere else.
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  8608.  @johnjensen2217  Didn't watch anything on the Cougar. AS I SAID I STOPPED WATCHING THAT CHANNEL WHEN I REALISED THEY WERE ABOUT HYPE NOT SUBSTANCE.
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  8609.  @johnjensen2217  Juan Browne on the Blancolirio channel has just posted on this incident. Juan is ex-Airforce and current commercial pilot who owns a twin. He goes over a lot of what Rebuild Rescue has done. I suggest you and a few other Rebuild fans go and watch. Also did you know the FAA stepped in at one point regarding the Cessna? I had already given up on the channel BEFORE that point.
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  8610.  @rustyATV  fair call. Its been a while but I thought they mentioned in a video that it was a pressurised version. It also might have been in a comment. Most of the comments I was involved with were about the engines. He had had no idea of what an air balancing turbo was. Just to get those engines started for a ground test he could have simply removed them and ignored the whole issue. More importantly I know from experience and advice form people with a lot more experience than I have if you leave Lycoming engines sit for any length of time the cam shafts corrode because they get no oil being in the very top of the engine. A number of years ago I looked at a Laser 200 and that was the advice I got from a previous owner and an aeronautical engineer who knew his stuff. In the end another pilot bought that plane and ended up doing a second full rebuild after NOT doing as I was advised. On the same airfield there was a Pitts S2A and it suffered the same fate. So I have seen others have very expensive repair bills that could have been avoided. Apparently in the the Lycoming documentation it says that if the engine isn't going to be used for a while then you drain it completely, flush it it out and fill it with a special inhibitor. AND EVEN THEN they still need to be regularly turned over to make sure all the internal surfaces stay protected.
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  8611. In a similar vein: Erich von Däniken famous for "Chariots of the Gods" got most of his from Arthur C Clarkes 2001: A Space Odyssey Elizabeth Holmes the founder of Theranos got her idea of using a single droplet of blood to test from everything from the 1997 film Gattaca with Ethan Hawke and Uma Therman. Elon Musk who claimed to be the "inventor" of Hyperloop actually did not invent the idea of transport pods in tubes, that was shown in numerous sci-fi film and TV shows like the 1976 film Logan's Run and the TV show Space 1999. The actual concept was invented by the godfather of modern rocketry Robert Goddard in 1904 (118 years ago). As an aerospace engineer and avid reader of science fiction I can tell you there is a significant difference between what we can do and what we would like to do. I'd love to have my own Millennium Falcon or Firefly that I could buzz around the solar system with, but that's not likely to ever happen for anyone. For engineers we are limited by the Laws of Physics, while sci-fi authors and techno-grifters are NOT.
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  8612.  @SolidSiren  I think the quote you are looking for is. “It's Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” – Mark Twain.
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  8613.  @JohnSmith-vy4lh  If you are equating what David Icke does to what Vice does then you need to go see a doctor and get a bulk prescription in this amazing new drug called oxyhypergetsomerealitydone.
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  8614. ​ @JamesSmith-je7vf  Do you know how many other countries that logic can be applied to? Here in Australia the Prime minister only has to win his electorate and then win control of his party which is done INTERNALLY to that party. So 99% of Australians don't actually get to decide who our Prime Minister is. In many countries where they have a plethora of minor parties those parties often are required by a major party to form government. So you get these small parties with extraordinary leverage and power over the rest of the country. Israel, Greece and Italy are 3 examples. Yes the American system is NOT perfect, but then nobody else's is either.
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  8615.  @JamesSmith-je7vf  Its actually one of the most forgotten warnings that Orwell gave us. Too many people think he was only concerned with the Soviet version of socialism. He wasn't really condemning socialism but TOTALITARIANISM and cults of personality like his stylised character "Big Brother" as well as INFORMATION CONTROL. Sorry to rant about it but blame my high school English teachers.
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  8616. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE tell this clown and all the others like her to STOP framing everything in terms of white supremacy. As a person from the subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan,....) she should know there are lots of racist narratives that have NOTHING to do with white people. I'm Australian and we have a staggering array of cultures here theses days AND EVERYONE of them has some "issue" with another group or several other groups. Whether you want to call those "issues" racism or cultural bias or tribalism IT DOES NOT MATTER these issues exist and they have nothing to do with white people. If you ever want to hear some really nasty comments get some of the Asians talking about each other or any of the subcontient people talking about each other. Plus has everyone forgotten about the Rwandan Genocide that rage between the Hutu's an Tutsi tribes? There was not a white person in sight of that mess. Racism is not just a white problem its human problem.
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  8617. ​ @CyberiusT  A few years ago I worked with a guy born in India and one day he said some flippant comment and I remarked back that his comment was sort of racist. I knew he wasn't being serious or meant any harm but his next comment stunned me. He said Indian people are not racist. So I asked him about various peoples from countries around India and as I knew he would he said some fairly blunt things. I then asked him about a well known incident involving an Australia cricket player named Andrew Symonds who was of Afro-Caribbean descent in India and he said it wasn't racist when people in the crowd called him a monkey. Eventually I asked him what his definition of racism is and he said "Its what white people are!" He was actually surprised when I told him "No its when anyone degrades another person of a different race based on that persons race." This was a guy who was a well educated engineer. There are a lot of people who have been brought up to believe that only white people are racist and they are surprised to find out that's not true.
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  8618. This will mean NOTHING unless people actually do go to jail. And not just the idiots who turned up claiming they were the electors, but the actual organisers. Way to often the foot soldier gets the firing squad while the general gets a medal. That must NOT happen in this case, because if it does then America is finished.
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  8619. IT WASN'T the HERITAGE FOUNDATION who picked the judges it was the FEDERALIST SOCIETY. The Heritage Foundation along with the CATO Institute have trashed the discussions on climate change. For fark sake if your going to trash the Washington Think Tanks do it properly.
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  8620. THE ANSWER IS VERY SIMPLE --> HOW DO WE, as in America's allies and trading partners TRUST YOU? I'm Australian I went to college in America on a sports scholarship and that would be the one question I would put to ANY and EVERY American official or politician. Colin Powell lied to the whole world at the UN and we followed you into a war that is still going. Obama promised he'd get us all out of it and we are still there. Trump said he would get us all out of it and we are still there. Its been recently reported that Biden has plans to send more troops. Then there is the subject of Climate change. WE KNOW that the Koch brothers have spent money funding think tanks around the world spreading misinformation using the same people who denied tobacco caused cancer and they are just one of the American billionaire class doing shit like that. Australia's security is tied to America for at least the next 30 years because we bought the F35 Lightning II. It was purposefully designed to NOT be cancelled by the US congress by having as many suppliers as possible spread out across America so that any American politician who spoke out would have to face people form their hometown who would lose their jobs. It wasn't design to fight a war it was designed to keep contracts in place. Then there is trade. I was actually in Canada for work when Trump suddenly tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on Canadian products. Australia has now been dragged into the trade war Trump started with China. Yes China needed to be pushed back, but Trumps efforts were bullshit and its caused others a great deal of harm. Its NOT the American people we don't trust its the American Political Establishment we don't trust. No matter who is in charge its still Wall St calling the shots on too many issues. In 2008 the whole world suffered because Wall St got caught out. In the middle of it was Goldman Sachs, doing dirty deals while their management pocketed millions in bonuses. Then Trump made Steve Mnuchin of Goldman Sachs the man in charge of the Treasury. May be that what made Ted Cruz happy considering his wife is a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs. Just recently Joe Biden hired 2 more Goldman Sachs goons along with a Blackrock and McKinsey. Its not that we can't trust the American people, its that we (like the American people) can't trust the American Billionaire class. Because we can't trust them on trade, security or the future of the planet.
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  8621. Like many, many people I would agree that Peter Navarro is a POS who's economics are questionable, but he actually has a PhD in Economics from Harvard, but that opens up other issues. In fact its his Harvard Qualifications are what you should be critical of. Harvard, Yale and the University of Chicago make up what I call the Unholy Trinity of Tertiary MIS-education. Its hard to decide which of the 3 has done the most damage to Western Society. Between them they birthed the political stupidity of neo-conservatives, the economic disaster of neo-liberalism and the fanaticism of the Federalist Society. That hyper pro-corporate SCOTUS they have created is a staggering threat to Western Society. It provides a giant wall of protection to American companies that operate across the world. Roe v Wade is a distraction the real threat is what comes after Citizens United.
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  8622. In answer to Levin's question about people getting 4 indictments under Stalin the answer is NO because Stalin didn't hand out indictments. Stalin either: - sent them to a Gulag WITHOUT a trial; OR - gave them a show trial and then sent them to a Gulag, OR - gave them a show trial and then executed them, OR - just executed them.
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  8623. Yeah the hypocrisy of these people knows no limits. Very shortly I can see a day when one of these Fox maggots steps out their front door into something very very ugly and they are going to squeal like pigs in a slaughter house. Its something BOTH political sides never seem to learn from. The Left NEVER push back hard enough against this sort of stupidity until its too late. The Right NEVER understand that when you keep forcing nonsense onto others they eventually fight back.
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  8624.  @aick  If you want to dismiss them on not telling the truth then you better include every other government in the world because you're a fool if you think any of them tell the truth. They all lie, the only difference is how well they lie and many stupid fools believe them.
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  8625.  @adlucem9845  Yeah fine so long as you call out ALL OF IT. Way to much people finger point at one thing screaming their heads of as they ignore the same thing somewhere else or even worse they excuse the same thing done by others.
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  8626.  @generalmartok3990  Yeah and that surprises NOBODY. When America went into Iraq there were Americans absolutely for it and other Americans totally opposed. Even in Hitler's Germany there were Germans opposed to his invasions. They usually didn't survive for long but they did exist. People keep forgetting there' very little that's actually new in politics. They lie, they cheat, they scream. Once they realised how effective backstabbing was after Brutus knifed Julius Caesar that's been standard practice. Why do you think Putin has meetings at tables long enough to land jets on? He's worried about that guy named Marcov Yuri Brutuski.
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  8627. When the guy who was Citibank's top trader in the world describes crypto as: "I think is just basically a fraudulent asset. It doesn't really exist. It's pure con." (punctuation mine) Then that should be enough, but sadly it wont be because the fraudsters running it are making too much money and the people addicted to it are hooked. Back in 2019 Mark Blyth the Scottish professor who predicted both Trumps win in 2016 and Brexit had the following answer on Bitcoin -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4673s Its a digital asset that people do exactly what Gary says - they gamble with it. So its exactly what the Chinese called it - a digital gambling asset.
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  8628.  @stuartspencer2161  No problems there. As I have pointed out to a few they should never have interviewed Bolton or of they did set him up and let him hang himself. I love the show but this was disappointing.
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  8629.  @yimmeistaryimmeistar7239  Where are you from? Do you even know the show at all?
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  8630.  @cestoblique  That's why people swing to the right as they get older they go from idealistic but stupid to selfish & brainless.
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  8631. NO YOU HAVE IT WRONG He simply needs to be asked (or told) to take his own ignorant butt back to Europe. Poland or which ever other country his "locust" ancestors came from. And by the way you can't prosecute someone for exercising their 1st Amendment opinions. Maybe one thing that needs to change is that, like it is with the US armed forces, police officers and other government officials also need to have their 1st Amendments rights curtailed while they serve. After they have served or if they are running for office, then fine they get all their rights BUT NOT while they serve.
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  8632. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. I could see this stuff back then, it just wasn't so aggressively "in your face" as it is now. People forget that since the end of WW2 Hollywood has pumped out an endless stream of how America saved the world movies. Then there's all the comic book hero's who are mostly defenders of America and American ideals. There was the super cringe speech in the film "Independence Day" where the President rouses the troops with "It wont just be our day it will be the whole World's Independence Day." Don't get me wrong. I do think America is an amazing country with amazing people, but that doesn't mean its perfect. There are some things about America I wished Australia would do like college sport. BUT I wished we had told America to shove off with things like the neoliberal economics we adopted. Other than privatising everything and sending all our manufacturing to China, one of our biggest disasters was restructuring our water markets. It was all done by an Australian economist who went to Harvard. It now works just like the Texas power grid, which was also done by another Harvard economist. Worst of all we also now have our own version of Australian exceptionalism where we treat the smaller surrounding Pacific nations and lesser developed parts of Asia like crap. That's now coming back to bite us.
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  8633. He just proved that he is just another smug arrogant self-aggrandizing snotnosed opportunistic ivy league brat who doesn't give a damn about the reality of the world he lives in. As they pointed out he's made his money being a risk taker who specialises in pump and dump.
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  8634. Yeah but how did NOBODY in the Dems pick any of this up????? Did they not check out who they were running against?????
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  8635.  @jlwebster9  Accountable for what exactly?? Its not a crime to have an idiot for a son otherwise Trump would be facing 2 charges.
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  8636.  @Deebz270  There's a slight understatement "the Earth's biosphere is in early stages of shifting its state of thermoequlibrium" Before I explain why I agree and give you something to think about. There will be a next version of economics. The true effects of Climate Change wont change that, in fact it will drive it. I suggest you listen to Mark Blyth he's better at explaining the economic phases than I am. On the planet. I did my degree in aerospace (late 80s) and we once had a guest lecture from an Alum who had just finished a NASA project on the basics of terraforming Mars. He introduced us to what I now call Planetary Mechanics which is just the basic calculations on how much needs to be done. The other subject is Planetary Dynamics which is the whole how do you make the gas cycles and water cycle work. Its like comparing how many nuts and bolts you need versus how do you make a car actually work properly and not fall apart. The simplest thing I do with people is ask them to look at the surface area of the planet in question in square kilometers and then add 9 (000,000,000) zeros. You now have a very reasonable (within 1%) of the volume of air that's 1km thick covering the surface of you planet. Now that you have that number is pretty easy using a very basic formula to work out how much energy is required to raise the temperature of that volume of air from say 20℃ to 21℃ AND YES its a seriously huge number and if you consider the energy of something like the Hiroshima bomb you can easily work out how many Hiroshima's it takes to raise that much air from 20℃ to 21℃. I wont tell you that number and if you do calculate it I suggest not trying to tell too many people it either freaks them out or they think you're nuts. I use the same method to show how Elon is FOS on terraforming Mars. You do the same thing but instead calculate the MASS of earth standard air which is 1.2kg per m3. You then ask the Muskbots where Elon is going to get 173 Trillion tons of air. I actually had one of them recently say that we only need the oxygen??? So then I asked where they thought Elon would get his hands on roughly 36 Trillion tons of Oxygen. So yes you are dead right the Earth is transitioning, but what its transitioning into is a bugger of a question because there will be things in play that we don't talk about much. Water Vapor is top of that tree. Warmer planet means more water vapor in the sky. Water vapor does a couple of things. It reflects light off the planet so tends to stop it getting hotter but it also acts like a thermal blanket so once its hotter it tends to keep it hotter for a while. Then when it finally does cool it comes down as rain and snow in seriously large amounts. So we can expect these events where lots of moisture gets sucked into the sky and then eventually comes back down with a bit of a deluge effect. I'm Australian we are currently having our 9th major flood this year. We even had snow in a few places. Yeah driest country on the planet and we've been flooded 9 times in one year and been snowed on right before summer starts. Nothing to see here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKnX5wci404 Sorry for the longish reply but you're smart enough to get it.
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  8637. You don't have to worry about that anymore. Uber sold the entire division for self driving cars just as every major manufacturer sold off or cancelled their work in that area as well. It was very quietly done a couple of years ago when they realised that being able to prove the onboard computers would be safe was next to impossible. Its comes down to all of the what ifs. What if A happens, what if B happens,....... and there's more variations than there are alphabets. What they basically concluded was that true driverless cars would need a supercomputer onboard. So until they work out how to build a supercomputer the size of a shoe box its not going to happen. Where driverless vehicles might actually happen is in long haul trucking when the trucks are on freeways with no traffic lights, pedestrians and lots of other stuff. Which would make it a lot more like an autopilot for a passenger jet. The pilot's are onboard the whole time. They do the take off, landing and taxiing, while the autopilot does the long boring part. There will still be drivers who do all the driving around cities and towns but once they are on the freeway/expressway/interstate they'll switch to autopilot. I'm an engineer who works in industrial control systems (including safety systems). I also have a pilots license and there's a misconception that having an autopilot for a car or truck is the same as an autopilot for a plane. The auto pilot in a plane pretty much only has to deal with speed, altitude and direction. A car or truck has to deal with the road, lanes, other vehicles, pedestrians, animals, traffic lights and millions of other things that are all changing every second. Its actually highlighted just how extraordinary the human brain is to do what it does. It also highlights how dangerous even a slightly distracted driver is.
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  8638. AUSTRALIAN HERE: I have been saying for months now that the GREATEST THREAT to the entire Western developed world are these culture war M0R0NS in America who think that ANYONE who does not agree 1,000,000,000% with their latest whim is the worst human ever and needs to be locked up or exterminated. If the security issues affect America it ALSO AFFECTS AMERICA'S ALLIES like Australia, Canada, Japan, Britain,.... BUTas Peter has pointed out the US$ is the worlds reserve currency AND ITS NOT CHANGING because its simply impractical to change. SO NONE OF US can afford America to become either unreliable or unstable because some rednecks want to play chicken with BOTH America's security and America's economy at the same time. I have heard all of Peters arguments about why America DEMOGRAPHICALLY is fine going forward while the rest of us are in serious trouble (including Australia and yes Pete thanks for the heads up on that because NOBODY here speaks about it) BUT THIS ISSUE IS ALSO OUR ISSUE. What happens to everyone else if the crazy faction of American politics, who believe in anything but actual facts, gets even more power than they have now and start doing some really bonkers stuff like cancelling all support for Ukraine as they're threatening? Yeah they'll do stuff that sends America into a spin but this sort of stuff affects the other 7.7 Billion people on the planet in ways that ARE NOT PRODUCTIVE.
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  8639. The better term to describe them is libertarian, but the way they are going about it is reactionary. The truly weird thing about comparing liberals to libertarians is they both found their ideology around the word liberty. My explanation of them is. Libertarians want the government to have as little power as possible so they have the liberty so they CAN FORCE their beliefs on others. Liberals want the government to have the power to regulate what limits people have so that they CANNOT FORCE their beliefs on others. What do you think?
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  8640. It also should make people question how Iraq and Afghanistan actually went if America had started holding the idiots and clowns who planned those disasters accountable when it first became obvious that those were headed into disaster. I think this is a case of TYT blowing smoke aaaahhhh-gen instead of doing the job properly.
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  8641.  @joanneden1829  I'm an Aussie but went to college in America and had many conversations with some of my frat bothers who were pre-law. They used to drive me nuts but its kind of useful now - who knew?? I think the US constitution is an amazing achievement in how it guarantees so many basic rights. It just has 1 flaw - it has no onus on people to be responsible with those rights. I call it the "R" word issue. The one thing you don't push with Americans unless you know them is the subject of responsibility. I learnt that you have to be very careful about discussing responsibility with most people but some (not all) Americans get kind of explosive about it.
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  8642. Hey Tucker if America being crowded is a problem then ALL the people of European descent can go back to Europe, ALL the people of Asian Descent can go back to Asia, ALL the people of African Descent can go back to Africa, ALL the people of Jewish descent can go to Israel,......... Basically everyone can go back to wherever there ancestors came from and leave the country to the 1st Nations people! I'm of Australian of Anglo descent maybe we should do the same here as well - just to be fair. But then maybe all of people of Anglo-Saxon descent should get out of Britain because they aren't actually British as the Angles and Saxons are actually from Denmark & Germany. We should also get rid of any of the towns along the British East coast that end in the letters "by" like Whitby. Those are all Swedish/Norwegian Viking settlements and all of their descendants can go back to Sweden & Norway. Tucker Carlson is an ignorant clown who specializes in IGNORING reality.
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  8643.  @torontoenvironment9899  Yeah I know that you know, but most people don't. I mainly commented back to you in agreement but also to to point out David's interview with Yanis Varoufakis which I think is David's best interview by a long way because of what they discussed. If you take Yanis's ideas further he's basically saying the NEITHER socialism or capitalism can operate in isolation. Whether you're a socialist or capitalist you need enough of the other side or your system will eat itself.
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  8644. Yeah that's what so many people like Kyle & Krystal just don't seem to really get. I find it bizarre that they and others never to acknowledge that Trumps vote WENT UP in 2020. For months and moths the polls had kept saying that Trumps base was falling apart. Even Fox News had a poll that showed Trumps base was shrinking. AND YET and extra 11 million people turned up and voted for Trump. Trumps base hasn't gone anywhere and unless people start to deal with them its not going to end well. I just watched Kyle talk about Jordan Peterson and his nonsense on the Daily Wire about Marxists. Yeah its crazy but it just keeps reinforcing the narrative.
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  8645. I don't know why David is complaining I have seen him do EXACTLYT THE SAME THING HERE ON HIS CHANNEL. A couple of years ago I watched the FULL INTERVIEW that David did on the Triggernometry channel with Konstantin Kisin and his co-host Francis. David afterwards did one of his "I was interviewed by...... it didn't go well" videos and it made the Triggernometry guys look like a-holes. The truth in that instance was David and his team did the clever editing and it was dishonest on David's side. The guys at Triggernometry did a response video and they had every right to be upset as they were taken out of context by David. If you want you can go back and check it out there might even be the comments I left pointing out David's hypocrisy. JUST SO WE ARE CLEAR - I do not support or watch or subscribe to Triggernometry anymore. In fact these days I'd can't stand what Konstantin Kisin promotes. He has gone right of the Radical Right deep end. Around the Time they interviewed David the Triggernometry guys were (past tense) doing some great interviews BUT THEN they started being sponsored by people like Nigel Farage. They also started doing some horrible softball interviews with right wing libertarians like Marion Tupy who's a CATO Institute goon. More recently Konstantin Kisin has been travelling around the world visiting Right Wing think tanks promoting some very unusual ideas about "our special culture." I know that for a fact because he's been here in Australia doing public talks for some of Australia's Right Wing think tanks. He's talked at the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) and the Institute of Pubic Affairs (IPA) both with links to the CATO Institute and Heritage Foundation in America. Some of those talks are posted here on YouTube. FYI - The IPA in particular has become highly right wing radical in recent years. Its not simply denial of reality stuff. During the trump years they were doing promotional videos defending Trump that were clearly aimed at younger Australian's and some of that was also posted here on YouTube.
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  8646. In the future guys will ask other guys if their date last night ended with a Boebert, Lewinski or did it get Stormy!
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  8647.  @SabineHossenfelder  AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I'm Australian but did my degree in America in the late 1980s. In 1987 we had a special guest lecture one day by a NASA engineer who had just completed a project into what it would take to terraform Mars. We were exited because at that time we expected to build Space Station freedom in the 1990s go back to the Moon in the 2000s and start heading to Mars around 2020. His opening remark was "Its impossible and here's why!" He introduced us to 2 topics which I now call Planetary Mechanics and Planetary Dynamics. Planetary Mechanics is the straight forward calculation of "stuff" like how much air would you need to wrap mars in a layer of air 1km thick. That number is 178 Trillion tons of air and YES that's Trillion with a 'T'. The lesson from that is Planets are big and you need lots of stuff to make them work for humans. Planetary Dynamics are things like water cycles, carbon cycles, oxygen cycles,........ stuff that moves and changes and interacts with other things. We barely understand how these cycles work here on Earth and we have ZERO understanding of how to engineer them and tune them for stability. SORRY BUT NASA worked all this out over 30 years ago. I would happily do a video with you on the basic issues with ANY SORT of colony on Mars or the Moon.
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  8648. ​ @SabineHossenfelder  Also regarding your comment on propulsion. Back around 2002-3 I had an interesting email conversation with a college classmate who was at NASA working on the ISS construction. Other than getting her angry when I asked why it was taking a decade longer than planned she also pointed out why the ISS was so critical. Around that time I wanted to start re-fueling communication satellites. Instead of dumping around US$14 Billion of satellites into the ocean each year I wanted to re-fuel them. She very bluntly pointed out that until the propulsion and life support issues were solved NOBODY was going anywhere beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO). What she meant was we needed to find ways to move about the solar system much quicker using far less fuel. Anyone can go watch Don Pettit's talk on the "Tyranny of the Rocket Equation" to have that explained. The other thing was keeping people alive and that means finding ways to replicate what mother Earth does for us bipedal hominids and other species in terms of recycling our air & water while also feeding us. YES people have been working on these things, but they have been starved of funding while other programs got funded and others consumed a lot more money than first budgeted for. 20 years later NOBODY has solved either the life support issue or propulsion issue. AGAIN - if you want to do a video together please let me know.
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  8649. Oui - a croissant in one hand and an axe in the other.
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  8650. A few months ago British Economist Gary Stevenson gave this brilliant insight to all the economists who talk up the economy. To all of their claims he said you need to aid 2 words - "for us" as in "the economy is looking good FOR US" or "the markets are in a slide FOR US." He used it as a way of explaining their disconnect from ordinary people. The same can be applied to the current wave of Right Wing populists across the Western World. They are all claiming that "Elections don't work" when what they really mean is "Elections don't work FOR US!" Considering how much the American Right has Gerrymandered many US States despite SCOTUS decisions and how much they have rigged elections they are now complaining that their shitfuckery is non longer working. So when they say "Elections don't work!" What they really mean is "Elections don't work FOR US!"
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  8651. I am an aerospace engineer and I can explain in detail all the stuff that they have simply not bothered to think about. Its not simply Musk or his fanbots, NASA aren't exactly innocent. There's a staggering amount og science fiction PR garbage in the space industry at the moment. Back in 2002 I met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) and at that time he was talking up the Helium-3 opportunity on the moon. As an Australian at that stage there was no easy way into NASA or even their programs. So an independent project with credibility was possible. At that time Australia was just starting a mining construction boom to feed the Chinese beast. It took a couple of years but I snuck my way into remote mine site construction and the analogies to setting up anything on the moon become fairly obvious after some time doing that work. 1) EVERYTHING needs to be thought ahead. When you are in the middle of the desert nothign is just down the road because the road is 1500km long. Prior to that time I worked in our manufacturing sector and 90% of everything was at worst an hour away. On a remote mine site, even if airplanes come regularly you have to consider everything is at least 3 days away. Its a giant non-stop logistical exercise that never ends. 2) Everything you take for granted in a city like water and power has to be treated very seriously. Most people never consider what happens when they flush the toilet. On a mine site that's a serious consideration along with all other waste. Most of all the food has to be trucked or flown in, then stored, then cooked, then eaten and then cleaned up. Humans eat, shit, pee and breath. Spaceship earth is great for cleaning our mess and we take that for granted. 3) Mine sites are primarily dirt and rock crushing & grinding plants. That means wear and tear on everything. I got hold of the papers for a NASA conference on the moon (well over 200 pages). The total commentary on maintenance was less than 1-1/2 pages, 1/2 of which was a diagram and all they said was we'll do it with robots. That told me that NONE OF THEM had ever spent any time on a mine site. When I see clowns talking about mining asteroids I can tell NONE OF THEM had ever spent time on a mine site. When I hear Jeff Bezos talking about taking all the iron ore processing off planet I know he's not done any of the basic math hon that.
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  8652.  @jitteryjet7525  READ WHAT I SAID The impossible bit was terraforming Mars and that simply comes down to where are you going to get several hundred trillion tons of air in the first place. Forget all the issues with having enough gravity to keep it place and a million other details. Its simply a matter of where do you get that much air from?? As for Earth Yes its arguable some places are getting 6C and others 1.5C but the average for the planet is still at 1C with most of the inhabited regions at 1.2C A lot of that depends on which year they are comparing their data to. Type this into google "NOAA NOAA climate change global temperature" The first link should take you straight to NOAA's page with the current data. That's the most reliable source.
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  8653. HOW LONG BEFORE ROBINHOOD gets hit with a CLASS ACTION in the BILLIONS. If they prevented people trading how they wanted to trade because a client stepped in and caused those people losses then OOPS. RH have 2 problems. First its called market manipulation and that's illegal anywhere in the world. Second there willful actions caused legitimate traders losses - class action. Finally can someone call up that idiot Keith Olberman and inform his ignorant brain about the CIA and what they did in places like Iran, Chile, Guatemala and Indonesia where they helped overthrow democratically elected governments. Yeah the whole world knows that the 2016 American election was interfered with, but many people across the world laughed at it because its what America has done to others and now America got to find out what it feels like.
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  8654. OMG - A "cylinder with a joystick" WTF do clowns like you call a Boeing or an Airbus - "a cylinder with a joystick, wings and jet engines"??? WAY TO PROVE YET AGAIN that journalism is a zombie industry. Its dead but just doesn't know its dead.
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  8655. ENGINEER HERE: This is the sort of thing people need to become way more educated about. Most people have NO IDEA how software is written or how it works AND ESPECIALLY how it can be manipulated AND EVEN WORSE how it can give the wrong answer. I write software for part of my living. I do industrial control systems and automation. Once the computer has the data and starts crunching it all comes down to the algorithm, BUT EVEN before that the data might be wrong. Look at what happened with the Boeing Max-8. Twice the sensor broke and twice the software acting on bad information flew the plane into the ground. There have been accidents where the AI in Tesla cars have been found to have caused fatal accidents. How many times have we heard how a computer system did something awful with records. Here in Australia we had this brilliant thing called "Robodebt" which was a system that was supposed to stop people getting more than they should from social services. It ended up taking millions of dollars off people it should not have. We still haven't got to the bottom of the that mess. Most countries have similar stories. The IT industry has acted, because of the money it can push on politicians through lobbying, gotten away with so much and the AI Revolution is just making that WORSE.
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  8656. They are trying because they have trillions of dollars to protect. Remember that Rand Corporations report that said the top 1% had made $47 Trillion? Well that's climbed to around $55 trillion, part of which came from Trumps tax cuts. They are out to protect that at any cost. Its why people like Barre Seid just gave the Federalist Society $1.6 Billion to makes sure they can keep getting right wing judges appointed. Its why those same billionaires are openly dumping Trump. He's gone from a vote winner to a vote loser. Everything that the Right do is about 1 thing. PROTECTING the Billionaires, through any means. The Left aren't as bad but they aren't a lot better either. Kyle pointed out they're corporate virtue signalling as well.
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  8657.  @julesdalli9716  American Fascists are a slightly different type from Europeans. VPOTUS Henry Wallace talked about them. Here's 2 quotes. "The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism." "The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection." ~New York Times, April 9, 1944
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  8658. I'm Australian and we have similar issues with our corporations that have been privatised. I have heard stories from other places. I'm an engineer and started looking into economics and why they do what they do. It came from frustration of clowns with economics degrees interfering in projects. One of the best people to explain what's wrong with economics is a Brit by the name of Gary Stevenson. He's from a working class background but rose through to become Citibank's top trader in the world. He is one of a group of maverick economists, across the world, now trying to enlighten people to how economists think and operate and why things like this are going on. Because economics has a common curriculum across the developed world the problems are very common no matter where you look. Almost all the text books economic students have are published by Harvard, Yale, Oxford, LSE,... or they are written by people who went to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, LSE,... Its one of the huge issues that's resulting in this stuff and why people like Gary are speaking out. He has a channel here on YT called GarysEconomics: https://www.youtube.com/@GarysEconomics
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  8659. @left_blank Probably the thumb drive they show plugging in. They probably need to go and put money on it first.
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  8660. YEAH but if COVID hadn't made a monkey out of Trump and Biden was forced to leave his basement what would have happened? ALSO DO NOT FORGET THAT the Dems (overall) lost seats in the house, they DID NOT win an outright majority in the Senate which Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have exploited for their own interests AND the Dems (in general) were slaughtered in the state legislatures. Biden actually won because a lot of Republicans hated Trump and either voted for Biden or NOT at all as regards POTUS. That was what really got under Trumps skin. There were a lot of Republicans who still voted Republican for the House, Senate and State seats BUT DID NOT vote for Trump and that rejection cost him the election. Go and look up the stats and see in how many places there were FEWER votes for Trump that for the other GOP candidates down ballot. If that happens to Biden where people still turn up and vote for Democrats down ballot but then don't vote for Biden he could lose JUST LIKE THEY DID IN 2016
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  8661.  @mscom-w9d  And she is pulling EVERY standard Democrat EXCUSE that resulted in Trump getting elected in the first place and then allowing SCOTUS to become the disaster that it is. How many times do these people have to FIAL before you will wake up? WHEN WILL YOU PEOPLE REALISE THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE A SHlTFEST?
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  8662. As an aerospace engineer thank you for bringing this up. Its one of those things I have tried explaining to clowns who think people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos know what they are talking about. You know the people who think Hollywood and the mainstream media actually understands science. Its the one thing no Star Trekker want's to even admit that most of the tech really is impossible BS. Arthur C Clarke wrote a non-fiction book called "Profiles of the Future" in which he discussed the actual possibilities of some of the technologies from his and other peoples fictional work. Its the sort of "Tome of Practical Wisdom" we should bash the crud out of space cadet clowns with.
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  8663. Just remember NOT every AI is a scam. Some of them are Ponzi Schemes as well. While others are Pump & Dump schemes and others just plane fraud. So please people, this summer, get your labels right. After all we wouldn't want any of these AI/Crypto/NFT/VBS people getting upset over us using the wrong labels.
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  8664. Here's what Vice President Henry Wallace said in the New York Times, April 9, 1944. "The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  8665. Is it just me or can you also see the day coming when one of these reality denialist goons steps out of their front door and something very ugly happens to them, because some poor mutt's wife or child is dead from something they denied? Just yesterday I watched a 1/2 hour discussion on the YT channel Democracy Now about the Purdue Pharma Oxycontin decision where various members of the Sackler family have been granted this absurd protection from liability for all time. They had on a father who lost his son to Oxy and his story of what they have been through with Purdue is harrowing. What happens when people finally say they have had enough of the ultra-wealthy just getting away with everything.
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  8666. TO THE PRODUCERS OF THIS VIDEO If you want to be taken seriously then don't label your video with utter crap. All we seem to hear these days is "this WILL change the world." Is this anything new? Actually yes. I am an engineer and I know that getting certification for somethin like this is a big deal. It will make this and other similar technologies more common. Will it change the world? Doubtful. Existing industries are highly resistant to change just look at the coal industry and how it has held on for decades despite better technologies. Staggering amounts of money is invested in existing technologies and that sort of money does not like change. The coal industry (again) being a good example of that. Is it an interesting technology? Yes. Is it truly innovative? Not really. Is the certification significant? Absolutely. Can the producers of YouTube videos be more honest and throw less hyperbole about? Please, yes please.
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  8667. Its not actually that shadowy more like "less in your face"
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  8668. YES and its called neoliberalism and its what's being failing across the entire Western World for the last 40+ years. My first impression is that she's the granddaughter of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Cutting taxes hand in hand with deregulation could win the US Presidency as id did for Reagan, Bush 2.0 and Trump.
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  8669. Yeah I eventually got sick and tired of Saagar's crap and nonsense takes, but dang-it if this clown isn't a rabbit warren of issues worse.
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  8670.  @danny_invadio  That's a fair assessment of Saagar, but he did more than one monologue where he ventured into Weirdville.
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  8671.  @LT72884  I have actually spent most of my career working in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. So I have a lot more experience working as an electrical than as an aerospace. I can tell you for a fact that there's nothing in electrical that's close to the harder aspects of aerospace. Don't get me wrong there's some seriously hard stuff in Electrical. I did 2 options in electrical as an undergrad. 1 was so easy a high school kid could pass it and the other was damn difficult. It was in semiconductors, which I thought would be interesting. It was all about the actual theory of doping and how you create semiconductors with particular properties. So it was a weird combination of physics, electrical and some bizarre math. So I know how hard their classes can be as well as working in the field. PID tuning is a snap as most systems have auto-tuners which do most of the work for you before you even start. Most of automation and electrical is actually developing the knowledge base of what components are available from which suppliers so that you can integrate components into a solution. I hate to tell you but that knowledge base only comes with time out their solving problems. What I would tell any young engineer is that to be very careful getting into large companies straight out of college. Yes there's career pathways, but you can also become indoctrinated into a lot of false beliefs. I have encountered a lot of really good young engineers who simply could not function outside of the company they first joined. In a few cases it took a lot of hard work to re-educate them.
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  8672. No its not ironic is just pure shitfuckery.
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  8673. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  8674. They aren't but then I think you are misunderstanding the power of symbolism especially to national and cultural identity.
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  8675. I AM BLOCKING THIS SHlTBAG CHANNEL BECAUSE NOTHING THIS GUY EVER SAYS COME TRUE. ITS JUST ANOTHER ANNOYING CLICKBAIT CRAP CHANNEL and YouTube already has 100,000 of those.
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  8676.  UDon'tKnowMe  Your right and its not just a Christian thing either. For centuries the Catholics would not allow the Bible to be translated from Latin despite the fact it was not originally written in Latin. They did that so they could say anything from the pulpit and claim "see here it s right here on this page" and NOBODY could check because they could NOT read Latin. The Muslims do a very similar thing the Quran is only the Quran if its written and read in Arabic, but most of the Muslim world does not read, write or speak Arabic. There is a common religious tradition that you keep the bulk of the population ignorant of what is ACTUALLY written. Not condoning or criticizing anything they have done (and I am not one), but the only literate nation that was literate by their religious practices were the Jews. For most of the last 3,500 years they have been the only literate nation/tribe/culture. Its actually a command written by Moses on parents that they teach BOTH their sons and daughters to read and write. They ended up twisting that which was why Jesus said to them they had made the word of God invalid by their traditions. That's also a thing Christians have since ignored as well and often in fact almost all the time.
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  8677.  UDon'tKnowMe  Well for starters you have just done the one ting that keeps fueling the idiocy on both sides of almost every public discussion these days. If you don't like something attack it - f--k civilized discussion just attack. I tell you how the Jews went from being a literate educated people to a failed society fail by following traditions that ARE NOT in their writings and you come back and you try and lump me in with them. Way to prove your an ignorant clown, who can't have a sensible discussion. And for the record there is emphatic archeological evidence that proves people like Moses and Abraham existed. Abraham who was even before Moses was shown to have business dealings with the king of ancient Ur (central Iraq). That got dug up in the mid 70s. Here I am agreeing with you and then explaining how these people IGNORE their own writings and what do you do. You throw me in with them. Way to prove you are just as ignorant as the people you condemn and ignorance is the real issue in the world right now. Just look at the Trump supporters for 5 minutes and if you have 1/2 a brain you'll see their ignorance. Then go watch Rachael Maddow or Chris Hayes for 5 minutes and you'll see the other side of that coin.
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  8678. FIRST - I am in favor of nuclear energy. BUT ITS SHlTHOUSE how Shellenberger trots around the world supported by a mountain of nuclear energy money and never allows himself to be actually challenged on the SHlT he is selling. Like so many others he has been debunked as a cherry picking fraud so many times and YET clownish idiots claiming to be serious media types keep giving him oxygen. Why does he attack Greta Thundberg? Because he's paid to. That's how much of a low life SHlT he's become.
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  8679. Yeah but jets fly using Jet Fuel which is basically refined Kerosene so its NOT quite the same as gasoline and therefore unrelated in Elon's version of reality.
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  8680. Its a year later and right now Tesla has been valued at MORE than the 10 largest car companies combined. NOBODY in the economics, financial or investment spaces are saying "Buy Tesla!" As an engineer do I think Tesla is an amazing achievement? Absolutely. Only an idiot would admit that it hasn't changed the car market and the way the general public perceives electric vehicles. However when it breaks and every over-hyped investment in history has eventually broke it will be catastrophic. Since most of you have commented we have all seen the Crypto bubble burst as well as Elon's twitter disaster.
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  8681.  @pjacobsen1000  That's NOT the point or have your forgotten that Theranos was once worth $9 Billion. How can Tesla in any sensible evaluation be worth more than the 10 largest car companies combined when it only makes a fraction of what they do? Lets not forget it doesn't pay any dividends like a few other infamous tech giants. Have you ever heard of the PE Ratio of a stock? it stands for Price Earnings. Do you know Tesla's PE ratio is ZERO because you actually have to start paying shareholders a dividend cos nothing divided by anything is still nothing. Go ask any stockbroker with a functioning brain if its worth buying.
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  8682.  @25ivysthampton  Thanks for proving we have stupid people who can't think in Australia bozo. You must be a Collingwood supporter with that little grasp of reality.
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  8683.  @25ivysthampton  That would have been my 2nd or 3rd guess if I was looking for a dropkick who can't do basic math. A majority is when there's more of something not when there's less. We eradicated or contained polio, measles, chicken pox, with vaccines. 1,000,000s (as in millions) of people every year avoid or are saved from flu by vaccines and yet idiots who can't do basic math believe in claims they can't verify from people they don't know. Anti-vaxers and other conspiracy clowns are always demanding others prove there claims but never prove anything themselves - wonder why????? What are you doing next week, attending the Flat Earth Convention. 🤣😂🤣😂
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  8684. I might be wrong but aren't medals of honor for the military? I'm certain there's a civilian equivalent, but I don't think bimbo has any clue about basic government functionality. She mouthed off about previous public statements. A statement made in public does not make any part of the statement fact.
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  8685. You need to add that "at that moment" onto the end of that comment. Because Trump, DeSantis, and all the populists are fundamentally OPPORTUNISTS. They all fall into the line of "never let a crisis go to waste" or "never let an opportunity slip by." There's a really great interview that Jesse Ventura did with Breaking Points (Krystal & Saagar) a few months ago. He related a story about his first foray into commentating. He'd been injured and couldn't wrestle so Vince McMahon put him on the commentary team. Jesse had zero experience in commentating, so Vince McMahon gave him a very simple instruction. "If you say it its true." The gloves are off and you can say whatever you like so long as your character believes its true. Basically McMahon told him that truth, facts and reality have nothing to do with pro wrestling or commentating on it. What Jesse was saying is that Trump took that concept into politics. Now people like DeSantis, Marjorie Taylor-Greene, George Santos,... etc. are doing the same thing. They do not care about what happened 5 minutes ago or what is known fact. They will simply say whatever they think will excite their base.
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  8686. Actually when you really look into the Trump era he's just a clown using what he learned from Vince McMahon and the WWE to rile up a mob. America's got bigger problems than Trump. I just did a basic check on DeSantis by checking his Wikipedia page. Guess what he did his undergraduate at Yale and JD at Harvard. Ted Cruz was Princeton and Harvard (JD). The Obama's are both Harvard and the Clintons are both Yale. 8 of the 9 SCOTUS judges are Harvard or Yale. Barret did her JD at Notre Dame. WHEN IS AMERICA GOING TO WAKE UP and realise that places like Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the University of Chicago pump out an endless stream of narcissistic sociopaths who cause nothing but trouble for the world. That's the bigger problem along with the billionaires who fund these factories of greed & chaos.
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  8687.  @devenmurray3580  Well he didn't say Trump was the worst, as in judging him against history. He just said "I didn't think it was possible to be worse than Trump." I don't think a lot of Jordan Peterson, especially since his drug problem, but he made a very good point a while back. Trump did not start a new war, despite a lot of pressure from some of the Hawks like John Bolton. True Trump did many crap things and he didn't END the ongoing wars in the middle east. The ugly question (and I say ugly because it means admitting past mistakes) is America going to keep electing crap people to important offices despite the evidence they are unfit for anything other than a prison jump suit AND that includes BOTH Democrats and Republicans.
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  8688.  @devenmurray3580  There used to be the 3 wise monkeys named hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil. Now there are the 3 bankrupts The Intellectually bankrupt The Morally bankrupt The Ethically bankrupt Some people are so confused they don't know which type they are.
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  8689. Its called BASA - Basic Australian Stupidity and Arrogance. Our business executives are insanely stupid and insanely arrogant. So long as they get their bonuses they don't give a damn about the rest of the country. About 20-30 years ago we used to talk a lot about "value adding" but the execs found it was better to value add in China than here. FYI - I'm a Melbourne boy but did my degree at U. Illinois where one of the real founders of Tesla went and 2 of the 3 YouTube founders went as well as Marc Andreessen who helped create the first proper Web Browser - Netscape. Our current Australian economy is a lot like SoCal where its just easier to value add in Texas or Mexico like the car companies or in China like Apple do. Just like there's a push in America we also need to bring a lot of our manufacturing and supply chains back home. I call COVID "Acid Flu" because it stripped away a lot of economic grime and crap and showed what was underneath. This one looks and sounds good but there's a couple of things to be very cautious about. the biggest issue is NONE of the senior people on this seem to have any experience in manufacturing. I'm an engineer whose worked in manufacturing and that's NOT good. The Cobalt and Nickel Viking raves about is stupid because we are the 3rd biggest supplier of cobalt and 5th biggest in Nickel and have the 2nd largest reserves of both. How can NOT using what we have lots of be good?
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  8690. ENGINEER HERE: This is the sort of story that utterly infuriates engineers, because its engineers who have to do the work to fix this disaster. NOT Economists, NOT Lawyers, NOT Overrated TV personalities and NOT Politicians. Engineers have been trying to tell Australia for over a decade that these power stations were getting too old to keep them running. Like any machine they eventually wear out. I'm mainly from manufacturing and mining and first became aware of how precarious our situation was in 2016 when I did a small project into Australia's energy sector. Other than being shocked at our situation was I found the same situation is prevalent across the developed world AND ITS CUASED BY ECONOMISTS. This is why hearing another Economist blab on as if they know what they are saying is so infuriating. Economists have managed to do more damage than politicians, lawyers and religious fanatics combined. They told everyone the privatise everything including energy BUT they had no idea how energy works in an economy. Go look up STEVE KEEN. He's one of the few economists who's actually awake to how badly the rest of the economic profession has been. We can fix this mess but the clown brigade need to SHUT UP and GET OUT OF THE ROAD.
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  8691. Yeah but Alaska is already a socialist state. Every Alaskan citizen, even people like Sarah Palin get a government cash handout from the oil revenue on a regular basis. None of those people earned that money, except those people who actually work on the oil fields. If that's not socialism then what do you call it?
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  8692.  @HB-oy5hc  Your right. In their rawest forms: Socialism is a society agreeing thru government to collectively PAY for certain services. Things like - basic stuff like education or health care or security/rescue services like the police, fire brigade, park rangers or the army. Communism is a society agreeing to allow collective OWNERSHIP by the COMMUNITY of services, infrastructure and businesses. In their raw basic form neither socialism or communism precludes anyone from owning a business or making their own decisions and their own way in life. Before these modern concepts there were Kings, Emperors and Nobles who simply owned and controlled everything. It was called feudalism. I guess its hard for many people to realise that without these basic concepts that got humanity past feudalism then capitalism was never possible. I guess its hard trying to explain that places like the New York Stock Exchange are where people can do their communist thing and buy into a communally owned business for the purpose of being a capitalist.
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  8693.  @basedtortellini  great point
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  8694. ​ @stevenhall9009  yeah I just thought I'd hang it out there. And there is some really serious SHlT to this issue. I'm Actually Australian and SCOTUS is actually a very serious issue OUTSIDE America. For many countries there's the trade and investment issues coupled with the fact that the US$ is the worlds reserve currency. I don't think many Americans realise just how much trade is done in US$ that is completely outside of America. Late last year there was a report released that said there is $100 Trillion (with a 't') in Foreign exchange swaps just floating about the hyper-space of the finance world and most of those are in US$ and most if it has NOTHING to do with any American. Its just how the worlds trades system works. So if SCOTUS keeps interfering with the US Government and ends up destabilising America (which is now a possibility) it can end up interfering with EVERYTHING. AFTER THAT there's the security issues of countries like Australia, Canada, Britain, Japan, South Korea,... etc. who are all linked together with America at the middle. SOCTUS is a very big issue for Americans. Its also a very big issue for a lot of other people.
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  8695. Well there was that one moment last year when Trump tweeted mid press conference and Cuomo just blasted away. In that moment he really did look like a leader who was taking charge of a bad situation and wasn't taking crap from anyone. That went round the world. I'm Australian and we got that here and for a monument it was like "O.k. so there's at least one adult stepping up and trying to be responsible and take charge in America." BUT there were people at time warning - "NO, that's wrong, that's not typical of this guy, he's a player,....etc." NOW we know what they were warning. Cuomo looked good for a moment and that's all it was "a moment."
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  8696.  @drts6955  I normally wouldn't credit CNN with anything but heaps of crap but I just heard this awesome remark from Scott Galloway (who's pretty good value). He was describing how some of the things going on at twitter are mostly nonsense: "We in the media are like a Tyrannosaurus rex. We're drawn towards violence and movement." Your comment could be: "New media is like a pack of velocoraptors. They're drawn towards violence and movement and tear everything they can to shreds."
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  8697.  @luiscrawford1249  thanks
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  8698.  @williamabbott9437  There's an awful lot in that comment. Some of it is right, but NOT that crap pseudoscience garbage on geomagnetic reversal driving climate change. Its clear that your someone who's read a couple of things and now thinks you have the giant answer. SORRY BUT NO People doing what you are doing is one of the prime drivers of climate change, because you WASTE EVERYONE'S TIME WITH NONSENSE.
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  8699.  @williamabbott9437  Hey M0R0N. There's NO EVIDENCE that the poles are flipping. Stop watching Hollywood films and thinking you know stuff and STOP WASTING PEOPLES TIME.
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  8700. AS AN AUSTRALIAN who went to college in America and has many friends in America and likes many things about America. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL CLOWNS like Mike Pence that the rest of the world NO LONGER considers America an "emblem of democracy." I really do mean that I like a number of things about America. I love college sport. Its brilliant. Earlier to day I watched Oklahoma win their 3rd Softball championship. I went to Illinois so I had no skin o=in that game. I watched because it was good sport worth watching and those softball girls play with great passion and attitude. Right now 100 of those girls could walk into congress and America would be a better place for it. Mike Pence represents a deluded fraction of the American people and I really do hope the rest of you give him and others like him the flick. After all the things America has been through do yourselves a favor and demand better of your leaders. AND YES we should do the same here in Australia.
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  8701. The stupidity of the McKinsey estimate is a story on the BBC. Its titled "Inside the hidden carbon plant pulling CO2 from thin air | BBC News" and can be found by searching "bbc direct carbon capture" and its one of the first few links. Its about a new plant being trialed that aims to pull CO2 from the air using geothermal energy at an initial cost at $1000/ton with a scaled up cost of $300/ton. AT $100/Ton the 2.5 Trillion tons of excess CO2 in the atmosphere right now will cost $250 Trillion. HOWEVER with the current rates of CO2 being pumped out suck a system would need to handle 3.5 Trillion tons and eventually 4.5 Trillion tons. So even if they do scale up and get their costs down to $300/ton we are talking about costs in the $$$$QUADRILLION range not $Trillion range.
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  8702.  @jimgraham6722  I can see CANDUs going in where Hazelwood and Liddell were. Both already have the Grid Connection and BOTH have the water needed. If the grid connection has been removed for Hazelwood the alley is still there. Plus if needed Hazelwood could repurpose the pit as extra cooling storage. The same can also be said for future potential sites like Yallourn North. Does that mean we should just start and get going? Almost, but at the least we need a SENSIBLE public discussion where all the ratbags are DENIED the microphone. By ratbags I mean the ratbags on BOTH sides. Some of the pro-nuclear people are the WORST. Their arrogance stinks and makes sensible discussion impossible. The Greenies are so deluded they aren't worth wasting time on.
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  8703. ​ @jimgraham6722  Portland doesn't have the Fresh water but could use sea water but in its favor there's high powered energy link to Melbourne that was put in for the Aluminum smelter. Its possible but not as practical as the La Trobe valley. Liddell is next to Lake Liddell, near Muswellbrook in the Hunter Valley of Australia. Maybe you're thinking of one of the other soon to be decommission coal fired units in NSW. Almost any coal fired power station is reasonably good for nuclear because: 1) The cooling water is available. 2) The link to the grid is available. 3) You already have a workforce trained in operating and maintaining the steam side of the system right there. They just need to swap the coal skills for nuclear skills which in Australia's case will (long term) come via the Navy.
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  8704.  @davidjknell  That's a nice lateral thought but its just not that simple. For starters how many reactors and how much power do you think they bring for this task? Second you can't just connect any generator to a power grid. You have to sync the generator to the grid or its damn ugly when you close the breaker.
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  8705. I don't know if he failed but he certainly assessed everything through a very narrow viewpoint. And a lot of that included fitting facts to confirm his narrative rather than presenting a narrative to EXPLAIN the facts as we know them.
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  8706. Also this more recent vid just popped in my recommendations list. I have NOT YET watched it but the comments are all over the place with people and gathering from them he's saying similar things to here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHfybd6agUk In the video description it points out how Ritter was someone who said Iraq did NOT have WMDs and the invasion of Iraq was WRONG. Its apparent form BOTH these videos that he's using his assessment of Iraq to get microphone time NOW. That does not make him right or wrong AT THE MOMENT. All it means is he has a track record of going against popular opinion and being right. Only time will tell.
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  8707.  @jaeger251  In what universe do you live???? Look down the comments list and see how many Canadians and others are mentioning health care.
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  8708.  @BeAsOpinionatedAsOpenMinded  Nice tag shame your opinion is idiotic and your mind is so closed Danny Ocean can't find a way to open it.
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  8709. AUSTRALIAN HERE with an outside perspective. That's a very interesting thought and considering how Western politics in general works totally plausible. Below this line is a copy of a comment I made on this and its sort of a warning to the Democrats NOT to get carried away with this news. _____________________________________________________________ YOU have only won a MINOR BATTLE. There's still a War to Win. I suggest you all go and review Sun Tzu's the Art of War RIGHT NOW. FIRST - The Dems now have to get back all of the Joe Forever Crowd and just as the Bernie Bros and others were kicked in the guts and hated it so will the Joe Forever crowd hate this. SO STOP GLOATING SECOND - Harris is NOT a good pick for President. She might have been a good pick for VP but you are all forgetting just how badly she campaigns. Remember that she could NOT even win her home state of California. HOWEVER if she were to stay on as Gavin Newsom's or J. B. Pritzker's VP them it would be a very smart move on her part and an almost guaranteed win. Yes - I know there's the issue of both here and Newsom being from California but that can be dealt with. She might not be a great campaigner but she'd tear JD Vance apart and that would be worth seeing. *THIRD - * The Next POTUS whoever they are has a couple of insanely hard tasks to deal with. 1) An out of control SCOTUS. This doesn't just affect America its affects anyone who has to do business with America because as Chevron showed American companies will drag their foreign issues back into US Courts where there's almost zero chance of justice. 2) An out of control Israel. This isn't just a disaster its a disaster encased in a catastrophe swamped by a tsunami. Everything that Western Democracies fought the Second World War and then the Cold War over - Freedom, Democracy, Equality of Opportunity and Basic Human Rights has been trampled over. 3) Wealth inequality. Bernie Sanders had the Congressional Budget Office update an earlier report on Family Wealth to now include the years 1989 to 2019. Its easy to find on the CBO website and you can download the data for all the graphs. There ahs been little reporting on this report but it is damning and shows that for the past 30+ years the Top 10% of the American population who did things like the GFC has done insanely well, while the Middle Class has had to fight for what they can get as the Bottom 50% have been trampled into the pavement. This is why Trump was able to tap into anger and despair and win in 2016. 4) Climate Change. A month before he won office in 1992 George HW Bush said at a campaign rally that "Global Warming was the challenge of our generation." That notion was hijacked by his chief of staff John H. Sununu (father of Chris), Nobel Prize Winner William Nordhaus and the oil lobby. After those 4 things there are other things. Sorry but Kamala isn't up to the task, but MAYBE if she stays on as the next VP she can do some great work because I think she probably understands these tasks and how hard they are.
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  8710. Yeah but it has One Smart Fuk on his certificate. Cos he was smart enough to get elected without anybody asking pertinent questions or checking his bio or his ID or much else, which only shows how FUKD the American system is. About a week ago I asked the question: "What if this is just a prank to show how FKD up politics has become?" Remember the Eddie Murphy film "the Distinguished Gentleman" where he uses name recognition to get elected. What if some film kids or college brats with access to enough money decided to punk BOTH parties with a fake candidate and recorded the whole lot to make a mocumentary detailing how hopeless the entire system has become? People screamed at me that it was not possible, but then every day it gets worse and the fact checking seems even more hopeless than it was yesterday. Its either the most sleazy political moves ever or its the biggest political prank ever.
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  8711.  @mikemyers7539  SHlT4BRAlNS - DON'T YOU DARE GASLIGHT ME YOU SACK OF CRAP You don't know a damn thing about who I did or didn't vote for in any election anywhere. This is why people look clowns like you straight in the face and tell you FK-OFF. Only fools voted for Sleepy Joe and only IGN0RANT M0R0NS voted for for that lying sack of crap Trump.
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  8712. I'm an Australian engineer and just a couple of days ago I had a clown telling me how Australia ALREADY had small nuclear reactors operating in our country. Problem is 1) NONE of the companies who are into COMMERCIAL SMRs have said they will be ready to supply the market BEFORE the MID 2030s. 2) There's a law banning nuclear power in Australia and yeah we all think its stupid. The World is currently infested with a PLAGUE of UNEDUCATED super geniuses IN EVERY SUBJECT who yell and scream that NOBODY can trust the media but they 1,000,000% believe anything their SOCIAL MEDIA chat friends can pull out of thin air with ZERO EVIDENCE to back it up.
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  8713. You are 100% right. This has always been an issue with Leftists they try and negotiate with EVERYONE and in trying to keep everyone happy they make too many compromises. Its what I call Kumbaya politics and its nonsense. There are times when compromise is needed but there's also times when you have to bluntly tell people "NO this is how it is!" Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin understand this. Trump really understands this and its a major reason WHY his base voted for him in the first place. IT DOES NOT EXCUSE that they voted for Trump him but the complete failure of BOTH the GOP and Dems to offer them something other than bashing them with more NAFTA, more globalisation, drowning them with even more debt and sending more jobs to China explains an awful lot. This is not an American issue either. People like Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping, Vitor Orban, Benjamin Netanyahu and others all do similar things and its why they keep getting elected. People like leaders who can make decisions and they will even forgive or ignore the mistakes because they hate leaders who don't lead.
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  8714. I actually watched that episode of Triggernometry and it was really good, especially the part about Hunter Biden because Sam Harris was willing to put perspective on it. He was simple and straight forward, whatever Hunter Biden might have done it simply doesn't compare to what the Trumps were getting up to. Hunter Biden never worked in the Whitehouse like Jared and Ivanka did. Hunter might have made $3-4million on some questionable deals but Jared & Ivanka made a reported $400 million. That was Sam Harris's point was. Hunter Biden is an irrelevant amateur compared to the Trumps. Its like demanding to be treated for an itch and ignoring the person having a heart attack.
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  8715.  @ipeeinpublicpools543  Fine if you want to talk about backdoor access how about the rest of it. All the billionaires, all the special interests, all the other nations, the CIA, the NSA AND ALL THE OTHER SHIT Whatever access Hunter Biden MIGHT have got for Ukraine it was NOTHING compared to all the other shit that goes on and its NOTHING compared to what Trump, Jared and Ivanka were getting up to. If you and others are so god damned smart then you explain where we should start. Cos one thing is for certain Hunter doesn't have any access to anything right now and hasn't since his art days. He's vanished or haven't you noticed? He was about to sell his art and then NOTHING. My bet is Daddy locked him away in a cabin somewhere surrounded by secret service boys with orders to shoot on site. I wont be surprised if its on a military base. If you think I am wrong then you go find him.
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  8716.  @charlesandrews2360  We all did when they started using it. Then we all realised who was screaming it loudest and at who. You gotta hand it to people like Bannon he's a sneaky bastard.
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  8717.  @charlesandrews2360  Agreed but never forget he's also damn smart. Yeah I know it sucks to admit that and its easy to call him arrogant, sleazy, scumbag and a heap of other things, but underestimating him is what's cost so many so much.
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  8718.  @ivandafoe5451  If you're comparing me in a negative way to one of the worst liars and cheats and pathetic clowns in human history AND your stupid enough to support those lies then I'll take it as a compliment as any person with a functioning brain should. By they way how much money have you given to him?
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  8719.  @thomasrussell4674  Food for thought puts you into the minority who can actually think for themselves. People like to ask if God exists where is he or they might equally ask where are the aliens? Either way its the same answer. They're busy trying to figure out what to do with a planet infested with M0R0NS and with over 7-1/2 billion of them its a big task.
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  8720.  @tommyrotton9468  Then please explain to everyone how a bunch of people involved in Russiagate were charged, tried, convicted and SENT TO JAIL. If ignorance was fire you'd be the solution to the energy crisis buckwheat.
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  8721.  @tommyrotton9468  Well your ignorance is grand sunshine, because nothing anyone did as part of anything involved in Russigate met the requirements for Treason in the US system. NOBODY on either the Dems side or GOP side did anything close to treason. Forget whatever the dictionary definition of treason is, or whatever any other country might have, in America Treason is limited to times of war. And you are only guilty if you then aid the enemy of America in that war. Plenty of legal people with actual law degrees explained that numerous times over the past few years. America has very narrow definitions of both treason and sedition because the British versions were able to be easily applied. It was so bad before the Revolution that if a British officer commanded a civilian to do something and they said "NO" they could be imprisoned for sedition and if the civilian took it far enough they could be hanged for treason. America's Founding Fathers gave that stuff a giant middle finger, gave both very narrow definitions and how some people have worked out they can get away with shite.
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  8722.  @tommyrotton9468  Look DK-HED how many times does it need to be told to you and the other IGNORANT M0R0NS. What did Mike Flynn, George Stephanopoulos, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and others get charged over, tired, convicted and sent to prison over. TRY AND GET THAT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL
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  8723.  @tommyrotton9468  1 THING Trump DID DO that was good for everyone: He did NOT start a New War, even though it is fair to criticise that he also did NOT END either the Afghanistan or Iraq Wars. ANOTHER THING Trump did was shake up the dependence of western nations on international supply chains and get the trade agreements rewritten. Although smashing things was neither helpful or productive. ANOTHER THING Trump did that was good for EVERY Western Democracy was remind the entrenched political establishments that they can be thrown out on their asses when they just stop caring. 1 THING Joe Boden has NOT DONE that is BAD for everyone across the developed world is END the influence of billionaires and billionaire funded think tanks in American politics and with it world politics. ANOTHER THING Joe Boden has NOT DONE is reign in the idiotic clowns ON BOTH SIDES of American politics. He's President of America NOT and that means acting for the American people NOT just the DNC. He should have dragged Sinema and Manchin into the oval office turned off the cameras and microphones and smacked both of them with a Louisville slugger. After that he should have dragged Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Shoeless and told them to do their damn job or get TF out. ANOTHER THING Joe Boden has NOT DONE is end the insider trading of politicians and their families. This totally stinks. They do stuff that would put any of the rest of us in jail. Like most of the world America need leadership not geriatric clowns and NEITHER Trump or Biden are the solution. IS 3 EACH FOR BOTH OF THEM ENOUGH FOR YOUR IGNORANT BRAIN?????? Take your garbage attitude and M0R0NIC ignorance, go back to school and THIS TIME, LISTEN TO THE TEACHERS!
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  8724.  @tommyrotton9468  By the way one thing Biden has done that has been really smart is lock that idiotic drug addled son of his away somewhere that NOBODY can find. Have you noticed he was about to do those ridiculous art deals and then,...?...?...?.... vanished better than anything David Copperfield, Penn & Teller, Siegfried & Roy or any others could do. My bet he's in a cabin somewhere with a secret service team making sure he stays put and NOBODY gets near him. I wouldn't be surprised if its in the back corner of some military base. I wouldn't be surprised if he's not even in America like one of America's island territories. Or have you not noticed that even Fox News has gone quiet on where he is and what he's doing let alone that art fiasco. You should try being smarter than being a DIK
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  8725.  @egorkotkin  Go watch his comment on Sam Harris if you want to see a smug prick trying to out do another smug prick and making an ass of himself.
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  8726.  @justinb864  So you think Trump should have started another war do you? You do know that John Bolton did try to get Trump to invade Iran. You say whatever you like. I personally think Trump is a vile piece of crap who should be in jail for the next 15-20 years for some of what he did. The only leniency I would give to that is the FACT he didn't start another war.
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  8727.  @fubartotale3389  You forgot that he's smart enough to have swindled people out of billions of dollars, consorted with a sex trafficker, put Jared & Ivanka into official positions despite that being illegal and a pile of other stuff AND NOT ONCE BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE. Either he's the luckiest criminal in history or he's got some serious brain function which only IDI0TS underestimate. Its why he keeps making fools of so many. You and others need to wake up. Don't mistake narcissism for stupidity.
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  8728. The fact the Democrats can't find a way to kick her out of the party for being the POS she is just shows how pathetically compromised to corporate interests the Democrats are.
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  8729. AND THEY DON'T GET PAID A FRACTION of what NFL players get.
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  8730. What do you expect for someone of his age? He wasn't nominated just to beat Trump. Almost anyone with a pulse could have done that, which says a lot for Hilary. Biden was nominated to keep those mongrel pesky progressives with those horrible notions of "change" out of the White House. Yeah Obama campaigned on "Hope & Change" but what did he really do, and don't forget he started with a supermajority and the mandate of the American people? News flash until the corporate Dem hacks are gone and the corporate GOP hacks are gone America is staying on its current path to annihilation. You know Osama's last memo form hell to his followers was "Do nothing and just wait till they destroy themselves!" A Dem and a Republican saw it, looked at it, pointed at each other and in unison said "He's talking about YOU!"
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  8731. Australian here with an observation/question. IN WHICH other country (as in other than America) would ANY citizen of that country call people to a protest outside (or close to) the parliament building or other assembly building the AND THEN those people to interfere with the government doing its job of governing the country AND THEN not go to jail? I know that here in Australia had any Australia done what Donald Trump and others did on January 6th, which includes Rudy Giuliani's call for "trial by combat" would get that person immediate jail time and most likely have any and all bail requests denied. I know that in most Western nations it would be a similar outcome. I also know that in many countries Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump Jr. and the others who spoke at the protest before the riot would not only have been detained, they would have been EXECUTED by now. Just think about how the Chinese, North Koreans, Saudis, Iranians and other regimes would have treated them. How do you think Donald Trump's Russian buddy Vladimir Putin would have treated the leaders of such a protest?
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  8732. Have you seen Sports Write Rick Reilly talk about his book "Commander in Cheat"? Its about Donald Trumps golfing behavior. Its tragically funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIiaFMOfbwY I think one reason Trump is so convinced Biden cheated is because he cheats at everything and in his brain he can only be beaten if the other guys cheats more.
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  8733.  @ct5625  Great point on the "data dumping." I have seen that too and the subsequent crashing when their bubble bursts.
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  8734. NOTE Saagar's comment right at the start its right there in the transcript at 34 seconds "Hunter revealed....." Being honest there is NO DOUBT he has made money off his fathers name. BUT when you compare him to Jared and Ivanka he look pathetic. Its been reported that they made over $135million in 2018 while working inside the White House. That's around $500,000 EACH DAY compared to Hunters $50,000 A MONTH when he was in Ukraine. Comparing Hunter Biden to Jared and Ivanka is like comparing a 3 year old with his hand in the cookie jar and Bernie Madoff.
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  8735. It could be worse. She could have been like the Brits who recently complained that climate change was upsetting panelists. It was compared to the film "Don't look up!"
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  8736. Here's the link to the guardians series on Pegasus -> https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project
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  8737.  @heatherdequetteville9184  Yeah I missed that one. Be careful its also one of the most nuclear discussion points on the planet. If you want people screaming at the top of their lungs just bring that point up. (edit) I just checked America had another 344 die yesterday with the total now over 600 thousand. This thing is far from over.
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  8738. Yeah but Trump will wind up the rage and his Trumpist clowns will rage along with him that it was a corrupt trial.
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  8739. If we were holding them accountable then we would have already executed most of them. That whole stupidity of pushing interests rates down and down was always going to bite when they went back up and they were always going to go back up.
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  8740.  @dumdumbrown4225  NOBODY has ever proven that to be TRUE for any country. That's just another function of NEOLIBERAL ECONOMICS and its just as flawed as the REST of NEOLIBERAL ECONOMICS. NONE of the central banks are truly independent because they're all run by people from the banking industry and do whatever the banks want. Go have a look at how many Goldman Sachs people run the US Fed and we're no better. If you don't understand how much power the banks actually have over our lives then you really do need to WAKE UP.
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  8741. If you look at the time stamps she just talked for almost exactly 2 minutes to NOT answer a YES/NO question and avoid dealing with a subject. I wonder how long she would take if asked about insider trading?
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  8742. I'm Australian and how do you think we feel right now about our commitment to the AUKUS Agreement when we see clowns like this running your country as we prepare to spend a few $100 Billion? SO YOU KNOW - I'm 100% in favor of AUKUS in principal with us agreeing to act together to develop the next generation of submarines. HOWEVER as we learned with the F35 program such projects when NOT managed properly end up blowing their costs out. The F35 went US$1.5 Trillion (with a 't') over budget. None of us can afford to do that again and that's exactly where we are headed with AUKUS SO YOU KNOW - I did my degree in aerospace engineering in America. It was during Ronald Regan's Star Wars era in the late 80s and I got to see first hand how people can milk projects when politicians simply throw money at a problem. In the 30+ years since I have worked in several industries and seen again and again how projects can be milked when senior management lose control. Its not just in government projects. This happens in the private sector as well. I have seen companies with good reputations (as far a business operations and making money goes) blown billions on projects and do it so stupidly that people should sent to the insane asylum or jail. BUT it is worse in government and is a major reason why EVERY Government needs to get these sorts of clowns out of politics. They are bad for everyone. When you have clowns like this its NOT just bad for your country its bad for any and every country you deal with because who can ever trust them. And so we are clear, we have them in Australia too. We have people who should never get elected but when it comes to attention seeking narcissists they find ways either through the party systems or as independents.
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  8743. Was that BEFORE or AFTER he developed Alzheimer's??????? Just asking.
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  8744. I'm Australian and you are dead right. We know nothing that goes on there and when I mean nothing I mean nothing. Other than counting how many antennas we can see on Google Earth, which tells us squat about the activities, we get zero. When he said threatening signs what he didn't say (because he might no know) is that if I as an Australian citizen step across a certain line then there's an American security agent who's pretty much free to shoot me. No Australian has been shot, but even the craziest of the anti-war and anti-American protesters know not to test it. For most Australians its a love/hate thing. For those of us who understand its great for our security and we know that if anyone did try and mess with Australia directly (and its come close a couple of times) that America will protect its assets and Pine Gap is one of America's most valuable strategic assets. The downside of that is that its also a first strike nuclear target. If a real US-Soviet or US-China shooting war ever started then Pine Gap is a very high priority target and likely to be struck in the first few minutes of any conflict. I have pilots license and one of the really odd things is that Alice Springs Airport has this massive main runway for a town or city of its size. Its so the Americans can fly in their larger cargo jets to supply Pine Gap.
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  8745. Yeah, HOW MANY TIMES do people have to have these sorts of scams explained and then they go to something with the "I trusted them because I did my research and checked that it wasn't a scam!" excuse. To all those people who got scammed. Do you really expect the rest of us to bail you out? Sorry, but you're just like the rest of us "Little People." SIMPLE REALITY: We are NOT Wall Street CEO's. They get bailed out because they have the money to pay off the politicians. We don't!
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  8746. Don't forget that most of the pro-gun population are also pro-life and want Roe v Wade overturned. So they are pro-life before berth and pro-massacre once children reach school age. Maybe the next t-short to be printed should have a slogan like: "If you're pro-life for the unborn then why aren't you pro-life for school children?" Just a heads up before anyone goes to the t-shirt store. These people might not act rationally to a rational question and the possibility of a violent reaction is high.
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  8747.  @MrZombiecorpse  JUST FK-OFF with that crap or are you trying to claim Timothy McVeigh, the Arian Nation, KKK, and others are Commies. Maybe we have those guys wrong and the "Red Neck" is actually a reference to communism.
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  8748. And Media Executives across the world keep wondering why people have lost faith in what they pump onto the airwaves. I missed it because like so many others I can't be bothered watching their waste of time childish news services anymore. What I watched of the Winter Olympics a lot of it was with the mute button on because the commentary was so damn awful.
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  8749.  @JohnHenryEden2277  Yeah I don't get why people seem to have forgotten that Biden threatened to do it BEFORE it happened.
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  8750. NOT WORTH WATCHING NOT WORTH HEARING ABOUT Why does anyone need to keep hearing about overrated self entitled Hollywood types.
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  8751. Yeah but what does anyone expect we have allowed politicians EVERYWHERE and of EVERY variation to lie so much over the years WHAT ELSE DO YOU EXPECT. 2 weeks ago I actually thought this has to be some elaborate prank of the kind "Lets just see how ridiculous this can actually get before they actually throw somebody out for lying?" As far as I know, he has NOT done anything illegal yet. He hasn't lied under oath (as in perjury). He might have broke campaign finance laws but that's NOT proven. Yes he has played the system and made fools of many people, but then so have many others.
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  8752. Have you all forgotten what the American's did to Nordstream.* That was $US20 Billion worth of damage and cut Europe off from cheap energy. It made it really easy for American companies to be competitive with shipping LNG to Europe.
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  8753.  @morsmordre3459  Pirate economy? Buddy it was the Europeans who invented the Pirate Economy centuries ago. The British, Spanish and others even formalised it and regulated it during their many wars.
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  8754. Its not simply a GOP problem, its now almost universal across the entire developed world where 1 side of politics just screams at the other side of politics because its a lot easier than actually trying to get anything done that might actually help the human race. No matter which country you go to these days there is one pervasive policy that infects and overrides all others: "What do the billionaires want?" This is the true cancer that has infected Western democracies everywhere. The parties NOT in power rant and rage at the incompetency of the parties running governments and the parties in government rant and rage about the mess they were left with by the other aide. Meanwhile you me and 8 billion other people are trapped with few other options other than to listen to the millionaire mouthpieces for the billionaire class tell us its all Ok.
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  8755.  Jaden Johnson  Yeah I heard about the 4 in Oklahoma. There's a sickness in America that everybody wants to fix and nobody wants the cure.
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  8756.  @brettcohen2832  If you are a right wing neoliberal clown who thinks Ronald Reagan was a genius and Margret Thatcher was a goddess then I'd agree its one of the best interviews of the past decade. On the other hand IF you know a few things like where this guy has worked for the past 20 years as in The CATO Institute and you know who funds that place and what their goals are you'd realise this guy is a snake. I actually agree with about 90% of what he says. Its that other 10% that's an issue. He's one of these people who's adept at hiding 1 lie among 9 facts. He's 100% correct that the energy crisis is the result of bad government policy. He's 100% right that the Greenies have an unrealistic view of nuclear power. HOWEVER the bad government policies that have caused the energy crisis have come from people like Charles Koch and Robert Mercer funding campaigns and lobbying through places like the CATO Institute to stall and interfere in government energy policies. They have also been double funding the nuclear issue. On one side they get people like Marion to say its not so bad and then through back channels fund radical Greenies to scream yell and rant BECAUSE that prevents any sensible public discussion on the subject. Marion's also 100% right that there has been no proper planning for the energy transition, but then the billionaires funding him have prevented any sensible planning through political lobbying to protect the fossil fuel assets. Sorry mate but this guy is incredibly good at telling 9 facts to hide 1 lie.
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  8757.  @guidedmeditation2396  Can people like you just STOP LYING. I MEAN REALLY JUST STOP LYING the average CO2 is over 415 PPM. There is no discussion on that. There are monitoring sites all over the world. Just like it was with tobacco we have had enough of the lies. I am an aerospace engineer and NASA sets their CO2 limits by partial pressure not parts per million PPM https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/co2_technical_brief_ochmo.pdf NASA like NOA is quite clear on the current state of CO2 in earths atmosphere. https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/graphic-the-relentless-rise-of-carbon-dioxide/
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  8758.  @philsandele  Go do a background check on Tupy. He has a reputation for being very selective some data, ignoring other data and out right lying. He is by his own admission at the start of this and employee of the CATO Institute a Right Wing Libertarian Think Tank. That's actually an understatement. CATO is one of the big 3 of billionaire funded RWL Think Tanks. The other 2 are the Heritage Foundation which is famous for running the tobacco cancer denial campaign for Phillip Morris and the Federalist Society famous for funding the promotion of RWL judges throughout the American Federal court system. I'm actually very annoyed with both Konstantin and Francis because they never challenged this guy at all, which makes me wonder how much they were paid for this.
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  8759.  @juliehenderson1672  NO they should be allowed to fail the same way any small business does. Send in the receivers and chop it up into bits to sell off. The whole "Too big to fail!" should have been taken as a guilty plea for an anti-trust case. We are now living with the consequences of the cowardice of Eric Holder and his DOJ team at the time.
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  8760. I think what she meant was the people calling for those sorts of those Laws rather than the laws themselves.
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  8761.  @DoesntMatter23  I just watched this piece from David Pakman and I don't think Cancel Culture is the biggest problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5METX-20rQ
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  8762. Trump can't read so even if they have a teleprompter he can't use it anyway.
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  8763. You do in fact you have had 3 notable examples. Tony Blair, David Cameron and Nigel Farage. All 3 are the products of private school educations. Both Blair and Cameron are Oxford boys. DeSantis did his BA at Yale and his JD at Harvard putting him right among the same class of stinking elitists
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  8764. @MilesDoyleSalt Please take you preaching somewhere else. You are DOING NOTHING for anyone other than annoying them.
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  8765. We are at the end of the neoliberal era. It should have ended after 2008, but found a way to hang on and we (all 7.8 billion of us) have been in a precarious position ever since. Instead of admitting that the neoliberal economic model where "privatise everything" became a religious dogma that nobody was allowed to question, we moved to an even riskier model because the risk takers that brought the 2008 GFC were simply bailed out without any consequences. After the Stagflation of the 1970s the unions who were blamed for that were ruthlessly persecuted, but NOT ONE Wall St CEO or board members was held accountable after the 2008 GFC. In fact for many they still got their bonuses. Mark Blyth the political Economist at Brown in November 2016 (as part of the explanation behind the protest vote that handed Donald Trump the White House) said "In 2015, Wall Street bonuses, not regular compensation, bonuses, 7 years after they were bailed out with the public purse, totalled...$28.4 billion. Total compensation paid to every single person in this country who earns a minimum wage, $14 billion." What Britain, Australia (where I am), France, Italy, Germany America and other countries are trying to deal with RIGHT NOW is that NONE of our governments did the right thing in the aftermath of 2008. They bailed out the culprits who went straight back to work as if nothing happened.
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  8766.  @StephenMortimer  Actually Liz Truss is a neoliberal wannabe Margret Thatcher clone who wants to give rich people yet another a tax break. There is nothing woke about her or kwasimoddo. Don't get me wrong I'd pack all the woke clowns onto a boat and call the navy in for target practice.
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  8767.  @Hendreh1  Because in any market that's falling everyone who's bought is losing money and nobody is really interested in buying until it bottoms out. Its what makes is so dangerous to buy stock during a stock bubble or real estate during a real estate bubble. If you can sell before the bubble burst you might be fine. But if you bought just before it bursts you can get wiped out.
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  8768.  @markymark7803  Well that depends on your definition of "normal" If its the normal social media garbage then I haven't a problem. If you want cringe superiority complex look at your own attitude.
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  8769.  @markymark7803  Way to prove your nothing but a pathetic social media troll. What have you got to offer as an argument with any sort of brain function? If you're so smart then tell us all what's wrong with what Patrick has said or what anyone else is saying. Sorry but we all know your kind. The failure at the back of the classroom who makes noise because he's got nothing else.
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  8770.  @omid_tau  Not really his department. You'd be far better off making this to the news and or political commentary channels. And if you are so concerned about innocent lives then you'd better go after EVERY other nation on the planet, because at some time or other they have all done something they'd prefer NOBODY examines closely. Right now do you think the Ukrainians haven't killed any innocent Russians? It might not be anything like what the Russians have done but its a war and ugly things happen in wars. I'm Australian and we are having to face up to some ugly parts of our past. Some more recent than we'd like to admit. We were part of the coalition forces in both Afghanistan and Iraq where numerous human rights abuses including the murder of innocents. happened. Even after the abuses at Abu Ghraib and Bagram AFB, as well as the water boarding and extraordinary rendition programs WERE MADE PUBLIC, we stayed beside the Americans. We are also largely silent on other nations that commit human rights abuses because of "political strategies or sensitivities." There's a country I dare NOT mention in the middle east or I might get a label placed on me that has occupied land ILLEGALLY for decades and treated the locals as sub-human. There is almost not a country, cultural group, or tribe on the planet without some very ugly parts to its history. In fact every tribal or cultural group that still exists today had to do something at some point just to survive. There are many peoples we only know about from archeology because they were wiped out by other competing tribes.
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  8771. I think you mean "produced" not "reduced" although anything Infowars does produce reduces people's brain function so maybe you're onto something.
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  8772. Yeah finally a vid with a title that's actually TRUE. I'm surprised the youtube algorithm didn't delete this video the moment it was posted.
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  8773. @Mainely Yeah that's a fair comment, but Trump wanted to re-write America's position with everyone. It wasn't just NATO he wanted to tear up EVERY treaty & agreement America had because he had sold himself as "The Master of the Deal." I'm Australian and we were damn worried after he tore up NAFTA, Kyoto, Paris and the Pacific Trade agreement. I was actually in Canada for work right when he tore up NAFTA and hit the Canadians with tariffs. Everybody got that sometimes you need to re-evaluate these things. But he just went at it like it was another of his BS real estate deals. That was his method and the clown had no idea that these weren't real estate deals. If he gets back in there wont be a United States of America. It will be a collapse that will make the Soviet collapse seem like a birthday party.
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  8774.  @thelastnwah4743  I think your 1/2 right and 1/2 wrong. He would have avoided it if possible, after all he sacked John Bolton because of Bolton's desire to invade Iran. But I think your 1/2 right because if Trump had done something it would have been done by now. The real issue for Russia (and others) with Trump was his unpredictable nature. He bombed Syria in a blink and then wacked Qasem Soleimani (the Iranian General) in another blink. In a way I DON'T think Putin would have invaded with Trump in the WH because Trump was unpredictable. To get away with this Putin needed a predictable White House and with Biden he got that.
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  8775. I'm Australian, but went to college in America on a sports scholarship. I did engineering but a pack of my frat brothers were pre-law and we used to discuss stuff all the time. I am actually very angry with Van Jones on this because he started this with something that as a well trained Lawyer he should know - this is NOT treason. Its many things like SEDITION, destruction of government property, trespass, assault, theft, BUT none of it is treason and as a lawyer with a very high public profile VAN JONES - SHOULD DO BETTER. He should be clear on what this is and what this isn't. In Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution, treason is specifically limited to levying war against the US, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_States I recently saw Van Jones do a TED talk and it was arguably one of the best commentaries on the American situation, but that claim of treason is just plain wrong and he should know that better than I do. ->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w
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  8776.  @claytonbartels130  Correction to that. In Australia we do have freedom of speech it just has limits because we don't have that guarantee at the same fundamental level as America. About 15 years ago there was a push to have a Bill of Rights put into our constitution similar to America's. IT FAILED because of how America's BoR has been undermined by people/groups like the NRA who have learned how to manipulate it. There are still many people here who do want a BoR but we just don't know how to do it and not f--k up as America has or leave it open to weird interpretations as America has done. I personally thing the US BoR is one of the greatest achievements of all history. Its also incredibly tragic to watch certain groups and people like Trump take advantage of it and undermine it.
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  8777.  @cleanasdirt6832  I was in Canada 3 years ago for work - you're so right. But they do have this aspect about them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZEbRgMr4vw
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  8778.  @Bankable2790  Yep you have described academia pretty well. There is a rather false myth that academics are pure hearted people only interested in learning, knowledge, teaching and truth. I did 3 years of post graduate research and was so disgusted by what I saw I walked away from a fully funded PhD scholarship. My supervisor told me TO MY FACE how he was committing financial fraud by using money assigned for purchasing equipment in my project for airfares for him to a conference and that conversation ended with the words "This is how things are done. Get used to it."
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  8779. ​ @technolus5742  If you have a workable idea that we can all live with about dealing with the pandemic of misinformation THEN PLEASE TELL US. Because other than educating people to think I have nothing and as far as I know humanity has spent several centuries trying to teach people to think and all it got us was Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  8780. AUSTRALIAN HERE - This is exactly why the next US POTUS is such a big deal to the rest of the world. Either America will elect someone who can reign in this out of control SCOTUS or THE REST of the world will end up REBELLING AGAINST America and that includes all those nations that usually side with or are allied to America. No matter what any America thinks there is the simple fact that the US$ is the World's Reserve Currency. Almost all international trade depends on the STABILITY and RELIABILITY of the US$ and for that to happen 2 things have to exist. 1) The US Government is RELIABLE, RESPONSIBLE & PREDICTABLE; and 2) We can rely on the US Courts to be RELIABLE, RESPONSIBLE & PREDICTABLE. And with the current status of SCOTUS neither the US Government or Courts are RELIABLE when SCOTUS can simply overrule anything the US Government wants or overrule anything other courts adjudicate on including courts in other nations. Go look up the Steven Donziger case regarding what Texaco (now part of Chevron) did in Ecuador. How is anyone meant to do business with America when the US Courts behave like that?
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  8781.  @SturmMedik  Well actually both of you are wrong and right? You're both wrong in that we actually don't know who those 22 people were. StrumMedik is right in that there are people there on the ground in Syria who are NOT innocent. Che e is right in why is Biden spending money in Syria instead of getting people the $2k he promised. Have both of you forgotten the first casualty in any war is truth. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8782. Before anyone gets too many ideas just remember here's the list of major American conflicts since WW2. Korea - Draw Vietnam - LOST Grenada - WIN but it was against a tiny Caribbean island Desert Storm - WIN but did not knock out the bad guy. Afghanistan - LOST to the Islamic equivalent of Hillbillies. Iraq - LOST more men than in 9/11 and spent over $1 Trillion. That puts America since WW2 at a win-loss-draw record of 2-3-1. If America was a football team you'd sack the coach and look for a new QB.
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  8783.  @freemanol  Agreed on all but the word technocracy. I get the idea but its not as much about technical education as education based on honest historical assessment. I'm an aerospace engineer by training but work in industrial control systems AND I HATE the lack of technical education. Particularly among people with arts degrees who think because they did a science class or 2 they actually understand how things get done. My mother was a high school teacher who taught home economics but her favorite subject was history. And she taught me to put things into historical context, because it allows you to see how you arrived at a point. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. My classmates and frat bothers had all done CIVICS. So they all had an education on WHY the US Constitution was what it is. So I got an explanation on why certain things exist from them. BUT Dub-ya Bush and his clowns defunded civics and now there's an entire generation of Americans who THINK they know their constitution and just don't. The incredible decline in the American people understanding their own country is a great case study in the consequences of defunding education.
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  8784.  @reveng6705  Very sad and very true.
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  8785.  @KbB-kz9qp  Are you seriously asking that? The EU has some of the largest wind farms on the planet and incredible amounts of solar. The real problem is the world has been stalling on new power generation for over 20 years. A lot of the developed world has not built any new major base load power stations in that time, yet populations have kept growing. I'm Australian and we are no different to many other places. We haven't built a major base load power station since the 1990s. In the same time our population has gone up 25% and with it a higher demand for power. I'm an engineer and have been looking into this for a few years now. A major problem is that a lot of people think we can just build a power stations the same way we cars and its just not that simple. Power stations are complex and linking them into the power grid isn't like plugging in a toaster. Its actually very frustrating at just how bad people are educated about this subject. Making it worse are those people promoting stupidity and fantasy.
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  8786.  @geoeconomics5629  Way to point out the obvious. You sound like a 5 year old pointing at the sky and yelling about the clouds.
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  8787.  @meagantron6938  That podcast is called Steve Keen & Friends.
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  8788. I'm Australian but went to college in America. That's exactly what's going on here in Oz as well as many other places. What's killing centrist parties around the world is they are so into appeasing people and afraid of hurting anyone's feelings that they just aren't getting anything done. The whole Trump thing is just a way for a lot of frustrated, disenfranchised, angry people who feel left out to wave a giant middle finger at the establishment. I thought Hilary Clinton was going to lose when she said she would not campaign in Michigan and instead would do fundraisers in New York with the clowns who closed all those factories across the Rust Belt. I went to college at U. Illinois so I know people form Michigan, Ohio,... etc. Irrespective of their background (education, profession,...) Hilary just flipped them off and that was always going to turn out bad. I can give you similar stories for Australia. British economist Gary Stevenson can explain similar stuff that's happened in Britain. Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis has explained similar stuff that's happened all across Europe. Just in the last week here in Oz I met people from France and Germany and they had similar stories.
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  8789. Notice to America - your not alone EVERY country, state, nation, province, city, town & village has people like Rubin and people who believe them. The only difference is that America's versions of these people have easier access to media. FYI - I'm Australian and we have them too. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8790. You are 100% right but when there is so much distrust in the system what other alternative is there. When you give people no other option but to jump of the cliff into shark infested waters they will jump off the cliff into shark infested waters because maybe the sharks will bite other people. In one of the Michael Brooks Tributes (here on YT) titled "Panel 3 THE MICHAEL BROOKS TRIBUTE SERIES" at 52:50 Richard Wolff (the Marxist Economist) has a really good point and uses West Virginia as the example. Its something people like yourself need to hear. Another person who was on that panel is Brown U. professor Mark Blyth. He did a lecture on Global Trumpism as part of a series at McMaster U in Canada in 2019. During the Q&A after he was asked about Elizabeth Warren and her policies. Its asked just before the hour 20 mark. He gives a simple explanation of why Obama won and then Trump won and why people like Elizabeth Warren don't win.
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  8791.  @markfish8403  The problem was never the one massive Pecan farm. The guy who did it found that America could not supply its own demand. There wasn't suitable land available in America. So he looked elsewhere. People were curious at first but as years went by it was great. He made money, paid taxes, employed people, generated export $$$ and all was great. The problem was when a lot of others wanted to do the same with other nuts when we simply don't have the water resources for that many nut trees. This is just one example of one of humanities big problems: We have too many for whom the words "NO - you can't have that" are some kind of crime. Look at this issue with these rivers. If the industry operates within the capability of the resource there isn't a problem. Look at California and the issues with all the wells drying up because there's big ag sucking the Southern Cal Aquifer dry. They don't care that it can't last. They only care about the next quarterly statement. Its one of the things I try to point out to people THESE ISSSUES ARE COMMON EVERYWHERE. If you go looking about the world its the same thing in place after place. Its like no one is considering what happens next year let alone 5 years or 10 or 20. Prof Mark Blyth (Brown U.) has coined the term Angrynomics and it has to do with with the fact there's a lot of anger in the world these days. Part of what he's saying is that we should have had a major reset to how we operate our economies AFTER the 2008 GFC just like they did after the Great Depression and like they did in the 1970s as inflation got out of control. Instead the top 1% went "FK NO" we're making too much $$$$ and the rest of you can suck it. Here's one of his comments just after Trump won in 2016 to highlight why so many turned on the establishment of the GOP and DNC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmBG3Z4DI&t=1104s Basically the US federal government could supplement every person on minimum wage by $2-5 and hour just by taxing the bonuses from Wall St. The crazy is, it would boost Wall St profits enormously because it would be pumping billions into the economy at the base. The only losers would be a few billionaires. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Here's his basic 3minute primer on Angrynomics and a longer lecture on "How we got here." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE
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  8792.  @markfish8403  There's a couple of good in depth news vids on water over on the German DW news pages. Sadly one on Australia is currently unavailable - I don't know why.
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  8793.  @irinaivanovna6380  I've seen a couple of stories on it. Very bold, very brave and they deserve praise & support for the effort.
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  8794.  @ppazpppaz8618  What sort of stupid question is that? Nobody can organize a natural disaster. They can create one by mismanagement or wanton destruction. In Australia our greatest mismanagement is water followed by land clearing. Both have lead to serious environmental issues that will take decades to fix and billions in costs.
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  8795.  @paranoidrodent  You're on the right path. We have several big Canadian Agri businesses operating in Australia. They usually do it as a joint venture with locals. As far as I know the main reason we let them in, is because we always let in people who arrive with suitcases of money. Our clowns in Canberra are addicted to foreign investment and they make it very worthwhile. For the Canadians its an easy place to come. There's no language barriers. The currencies are effectively 1 to 1. The flipped seasons are great for out of season supply But best of all they don't have to deal with America or Americans. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8796.  @k0zzu21  Go watch/listen to Prof. Mark Blyth on the myth of inflation. Your spouting the common neo-liberal garbage that the top 1% have kept the other 99% trapped for the last 40+ years. I have no time for it.
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  8797.  @k0zzu21  Dude Mark Blyth has the RESULTS that says he knows what he's talking about. Who the f--k are you again? Some people are smart enough to listen to experts in the effort to learn something. Yeah, I did economics 101 too and what I learnt was that most economic theorists are idiots who can't do math. Listening and learning from Mark and others has been an education. AND IT COST ME NOTHING BUT TIME and a WILLINGNESS TO LEARN. Feel free to join the club.
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  8798.  @k0zzu21  Its pretty simple I am not getting into an argument with an idiot. who thinks he smarter than some of the best political economists in the world. Especially when all he's spouting is the neo-liberal crap that's driven the world to where it is.
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  8799.  @k0zzu21  Great way to get credibility - slag off at the guy who predicted Brexit and Trump when so many others didn't. Not getting into throwing sticks as you throw sticks. Yeah - how does that work? Which university did you study at and conferences do you speak at and which major corporations listen to you? If you don't like being told your full of shite then don't spout shite. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8800. In 2020 215,279 Americans voted for Lauren Boebert in 2022 only 163,832 Americans voted for her. In 2020 230,480 Americans voted for Jim Higgins in 2022 only 144,423 Americans voted for him. Maybe it was midterms, maybe a lack of Trump or maybe some people woke up. America's future actually depends on a lot of Americans waking up. Unfortunately there are so many addicted to living in their fantasy dreamland where reality is the opposite to reality there is not much chance of actual change. In fact you know its farked up when you write "where reality is the opposite to reality" and despite your brain saying that makes no sense and yet it makes sense.
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  8801. You've just told the same story other countries have been telling for decades. I remember a news story on Indonesia a few years ago and they had received $30 Billion from the IMF and over $20 Billion has simply disappeared. The building of monuments for politicians to hand their names on is a giant issue everywhere. the Chinese are just getting in on a game the rest of the world has been playing for decades. I'm an Australian engineer and in the engineering game there is nothing better than an egotistical clown wanting to put their name on a monument using ither people's money. We have cases of it here in Australia. They tore down the Sydney football stadium instead of renovating it. By the time the site was levelled they had worked out the rebuild costs and it was so over the planned budget its now just a flat wasted area. Another of our cities, Brisbane has won the 3032 Olympics. They actually didn't win everyone else pulled out when they realised the costs. But our idiots pushed on and so far their planning is ridiculous. We've had programs like 60 minutes tell these same Chinese stories about things in the Pacific. And its the same sorts of similar stories. They find an idiot wanting to put their name on a monument.
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  8802. The problem for the GOP with Trump being gone will be similar to when a mob boss is removed (by whatever circumstances) there'll be a monstrous power vacuum that will be ripe for the worst of opportunists to fight over and as Trump proved the GOP base is a disaster right now. There's a similar problem for the Dems. They have spent 30 years stifling anyone from outside their Ivy League inner circle. At a moment when they and America needs an actual leader who can stand firm, lead and make difficult decisions. The DNC has done everything possible to cut down any potential younger leaders except the rare exceptions with connections. This is NOT uncommon across the world either. I'm Australian and both our parties have spent the last 20-30 years doing the same thing. We get the news from Britain and they're telling a similar story there too. We all have problems with these older politicians who just wont go away and the ex-politicians who become lobbyists.
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  8803. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). 2 Things stun me at the moment. First is how far America has slid of the rails and second that Australia seems determined to go down a similar path. I think every nation has always had some crazy people but these days they are using social media to gather together and reinforce each others lunacy. Last year (here in Oz) the 5G conspiracy clowns joined up with the COVID conspiracy clowns most of it being driven by a nurse (of all people) named Naomi Cook. She was stupid enough to be interviewed by a real journalist. Look at the smirk on her face here at 24:16 as she was trying to claim there was no organization between the 5G clowns and anti-vaxxers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxPWXVFopjQ These people are simply disgusting. It doesn't matter if they are Australian, American or anything else. They are disgusting liars. BUT THEN LOOK AT OUR POLITICAL LEADERS and the examples they set. Everywhere our established parties think that a majority of us still believe their garbage. I was in Canada for work a couple of years ago and at that time Canada had multiple scandals over government contracts and tax evasion as part of the Paradise Papers. Australia's had similar government contract scandals with over 1200 Australians named in the Panama Papers tax evasion scandal. Since then there's been the Pandora papers and to the best of my knowledge NOBODY has been charged ANYWHERE over any of these tax evasion scandals irrespective of business or political affiliation. WTF we are trapped between delusional politicians on on side and crazed conspiracy clowns on the other. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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  8804. OMINOUS WORDS FOR THE IDIOTICALLY OVERCONFIDENT Stockton Rush "it's pretty simple but if we mess it up there's not a lot of recovery"
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  8805. Well the case numbers are from positive tests so that part of your comment is utter BS. Where the dat a is dodgy (as you put it) is when people extend the data with modelling and make estimations. I'm an engineer and we use models as much as (if not more than) any profession and we learn fairly quickly to always check the veracity of what the models tell us. I was very lucky to learn from one of my professors who quite bluntly taught me to check the model all the time.
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  8806. I strongly 3/4 agree. I think on the lab leak he was 100% right and way earlier than anyone else, but unfortunately he came up against an industry determined to protect its interests combined with a raft of truly idiotic claims about bio-weapons. Bret pointed out one fact that's never been refuted and made me change my mind on the whole subject. COVID suddenly appeared in Wuhan ALREADY ADAPTED to humans. I'm yet to see anyone refute that or explain it. He didn't get into silly arguments he just presented a fact. Is he dead right about big pharma and their insidious business practices. Yes and that was well known long before COVID. Over 25 years ago I saw a documentary about a Whistle blower who blew the lid on vitamin pills and how big pharma used trading between their own divisions to make insane profits. We've all seen what Purdue have did with Oxy and that should have put people in jail. On the "alternative treatments" he handled it poorly. He pushed too hard on things like Ivermectin in ways that did not help anyone. WAS HE RIGHT to push for considering alternatives and raise questions on strategy? YES, ABSOLUTLEY YES. In fast moving situations you need a dissenting voice or its too easy for the decision process to fall into a blind spot (tunnel vision) and make bad decisions. BUT (and this is my but with Bret) once an alternative has been proven ineffective MOVE ON. The Ivermectin question was answered and Bret help drag it on and on and on. By not letting go, Bret blew his own credibility right when we needed someone with his knowledge to question the vaccine strategy. Instead of doing right by everyone he was just blabbing about Ivermectin. Overall did he do good? YES, but he also made mistakes.
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  8807.  @Dragonslairminis  Yeah but I think he was right more than twice a day but on a couple of points he really messed up.
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  8808.  @Dragonslairminis  Actually hard to say on that because nobody knows for certain how many people took his alternative advice and then died. Certainly he messed up, and sadly he'll never admit it. But compared to other people's failures are his even close. A quick glance at Worldometers shows America is now past the million COVID deaths. I remember a certain President saying it would be 15 or something and then 50,000 and then 60,000. Now its over 1,000,000. I doubt we can put many of those on Bret Weinstein compared to some others. For instance the entire Fox team of deniers. Or Alex Jones and some of the Televangelists.
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  8809. There's a tragedy in this discussion and that's DESPITE Tim Pool being a walking talking turd of a human being he's also right in some ways. He's basically quoting form the standard playbooks for TV Advertising. Emma as usual is so right about how much of a disaster Tim Poole is, but as she sometimes does she lets her "men bad" and "patriarchy evil" feminism get in the road of her brain. Why do advertisers pay huge money to models who smile nice, look good and have (to quote Tim) large breasts? Why do the political advertisers and strategists use emotionally charged attack advertisements? BECAUSE IT WORKS and YES that's a cold narcissistic view of the mob psychology of the general population but don't forget that 50% of the human race has an IQ of 100 or less and they don't care about nuance or substance. They want nice concise simple answers so they can go and enjoy their time doing other stuff. This is where Lefties go wrong all the time. They think that the entire population will just sit quietly and listen to them and feel wonderful about it. There's a really great scene in the film Gladiator where Senator Gaius (Derek Jacobi) describes how Rome works. Just search YouTube with "Gladiator senator Gracchus" and he explains to the indignation of another senator that the new emperor isn't dumb at all because the new emperor knows how Rome actually works. Go watch what he says and then compare it to Trump and how people like Tim Pool speak. They know their audience and they now how to get that audience pumped up for more because they know the difference between the Roman Senate and sand of the Colosseum.
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  8810. I don't know about murderous but certainly a dictator. And for the entire Western World her type are our biggest threat going forward. For sure Russia, China and other threats will still be with us but sometimes the greatest threat isn't from the outside its from within.
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  8811. And does that make it any different from the 4 years of lunacy he was in the Whitehouse?????? One of his fanbots was screaming at me earlier today about Hilary Clinton!! Another was screaming about Hunter Biden. I don't what they'll be screaming about next, but I expect it will be loud.
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  8812. FOR EVERYONE Interested in why these are potential crimes go and look at the Wikipedia page for Dinesh D'Souza. Look at the last paragraph of the first section that starts "In 2012,...." and note what he got caught doing and pleaded guilty too only to be later pardoned by Donald Trump. Then look at what Kyle is describing with the Chinese donations. The problem might be what the law is NOW as in what has been changed the Election Act due to things like the Citizens United decision.
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  8813. Yeah its typical millennial stupidity. Anything they think or say is an original idea in their tiny minds. Despite the fact we've known about this since Snowden blew the whistle.
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  8814. I had to scroll down but I finally found a 2nd intelligent comment - well done. What I find interesting is that this really is an important discussion and I wished David did more, but there's less than 150 comments (at this moment) which means either a lot of people are unwrapping or they just don't care about important stuff.
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  8815.  @timothyamaraobrien  Your right I wish he would do it more often. He had Richard Wolf on a while back and he was one of David's professors, but the guy I'd like to see him have is Mark Blyth, who was on this panel -->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc I'd like to see him interview someone like Glenn Kirschner who was a JAG before he was a Federal Prosecutor. It was one of his associates at DOJ who prosecuted the 4 Backwater guys Trump just pardoned. Brian Tyler Cohen Interviews a lot of people maybe too many. I'd just like to see David interview more often. 1 a week maybe, what's your number?
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  8816. Political accountability is the rarest thing on this planet these days. NOBODY EVER GETS HELD ACCOUNTABLE. They are all like the kid who blames the dog for eating their homework. Do you remember Hilary Clinton 4 years after losing STILL BLAMED Bernie Sanders while he was battling Joe Biden for the 2020 nomination? In the 8 years since losing she has NEVER accepted a single molecule of blame for losing. And she is just average for Western politicians.
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  8817. About as exciting as watching paint dry, but unbelievably informative. To sum up - in the new Olympic Event of Sneaky Financial Shitfuckery Australia has a really good medal chance in Mr Greensill.
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  8818. @David Rosenberg Do you watch any of Mark Blyth the Political Economist at Brown U? He was one of the very few who got both Brexit & Trump right. He just wrote a book called Angrynomics. This is his 4 minute primer on it -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY There's a for longer talks on it as well. Recently he mentioned a Rand report that said the top 1% of America have made of with over $47,000,000,000,000 since 1975. Here's the Time article on it and the link to the actual Rand report. https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/ https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html If you can't get your head around what 47 Trillion looks like try this. There used to be a game show called "who wants to be millionaire and on it the had a box with $1,000,000 in cash in it. That box was just over 1 cubic foot. A standard 20 ft container has just over 1,100, which means a 20ft container could be filled with a billion dollars. The 20ft container is the actual standard the measure ships with - TEU (twenty foot equivalent). The Ship that was caught in the Suez canal recently is the largest container chip ever built. The previous generation where 11,000 TEU and the current generation is 24,000 TEU. So basically the top 1% of America have made of with 2 boatloads of cash. Its only 2 boatloads because the current generation of container ships is twice as large as the previous generation. If you try and use smaller vessels you need a fleet. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8819. @David Rosenberg There's a great piece by a BBC journalist recently about representation and how disproportionate it is. It actually bordered on racism, but the presenter knew that and explained it upfront. It was some basic statistical truths. Its actually incredible across a wide range of subjects how disproportionate some groups are represented.
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  8820. Why are you surprised, when so can flat earthers? I personally blame Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Before those 2 computers were for engineers and scientists and then those 2 clowns had to make them available to everyone - including the IDl0TICALLY STUPlD. I fell like I need to apologise because my Alma Mater has its fair share of that blame. Marc Andreessen & Eric Bina (Netscape founders), Ray Ozzie (Lotus Notes), Max Levchin (Co-founder of PayPal) and Jawed Karim (Co-founder of YouTube) are just some of the UIUC graduates who helped clowns use computers.
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  8821.  @thepolarphantasm2319  I recommend EVERYONE goes and re-watches the 2004 documentary Outfoxed and listen for the warnings it gives. Its here on YT and can be watched for free.
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  8822.  @Terrible_Peril  Which "he" Tucker of PBD? If you saw Tucker's piece with Putin or at least parts of it he might have a major problem. His lawyers and Fox's lawyers claimed again and again IN COURT that he WAS NOT a journalist but an entertainer and as such his opinions were protected under the 1st Amendment. He claims at the start of that Putin video TO BE A JOURNALIST. That might mean that either he or his lawyers lied in court. Either way all the people who lost in court because of that "he's an entertainer" might now have a right to appeal that. PLUS (and I'd love to see this happen) Tuckers lawyers could (or should) face disciplinary actions in front of the respective Bar because they made a false and misleading claim in court. They specifically claimed he was NOT a journalist which Tucker now claims he is and implied he's been a journalist for some time. Realistically nothing is likely to happen other than in future if Fox, Oan, NewsMax and others try and make the same claim it NOW has a counter argument.
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  8823.  @Terrible_Peril  Yeah I know what you mean. Tucker's a cartoon character, but unlike cartoon characters there's real world consequences with what he does. I sadly expect that somebody is going to take a very serious swipe at him before too long and that person is going to spend time in jail for doing what a lot of people might think Tucker deserves. Remember when that guy confronted him and called him a liar in a mini-mart a couple of years ago. That but more serious.
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  8824.  @CoolMoeDea21  How about your kind leaving since you seem to dislike how THE MAJORITY want to live.
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  8825.  @bobbafett1849  Go check what the French had before the Revolution. They were the world leaders in science and technology. Louis XIV had founded the Académie des sciences in 1666 and that helped catapulted France forward. The industrial revolution should have happened in France not Britain. Within 2 generations of the Sun King (Louis XIV) they burnt their country to the ground. It wasn't just the Monarchy it was their entire Aristocracy going stupid. They had education and technology and development and then rampant stupidity. That's the parallel to America. Its not just America's political class its the billionaire class going stupid.
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  8826. INBREEDING
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  8827.  @DirkNelson-e3e  Combined with even better Illicit drug access.
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  8828. Australian here looking at this from the outside. The craziest aspect of the American-Israeli thing is the GOP's near fanatical pro-Israeli stance, because one of the core fundamentals of GOP ideology is the complete dismantling of social welfare including public education and publicly funded health care. This is all summed up in Ronald Reagan's infamous "Welfare Queen" remark. Heres' the thing. Israel is now politically dominated by the ultra-orthodox Jewish population and they don't work at all. Their men sit in Yeshiva's all day long and study the Torah. Their women mostly stay at home and raise their large families. They get their food, rent, power and medical all paid for by the rest of society and its all underwritten by the American tax payer. Up until recently they rarely served in the military. So how does the GOP support the State of Israel with tax payer money that has a welfare system that they would NOT TOLERATE in America?
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  8829. TO ALL There's a really interesting vid on the A10 and it goes into the design methodology of the A10 and in particular it highlights that from the start it was intended to be EASY TO MAINTAIN. In that vid at 13:25 there is a chart of the costs per hour of flight time for a range of Aircraft. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk6Qr6OO5Xo I'm Australian but did aerospace in America and have done 30+ years of work in industrial automation and robotics. The one thing that concerns me more than anything else with the F35 is MAINTENANCE. Its the same for almost any engineered system - can it be maintained to deliver as designed. Forget mission capability for the moment because there are people with far better credentials than any of us here who can honestly judge the F35's mission capabilities. BUT as they learned in WW2 with superior technologies like the Tiger Tank doesn't mean much if it breaks down all the time. Every Tiger Tank was followed around by a maintenance crew in a truck with a pile of spares. In terms of competing against the Sherman it was almost unbeatable champion. BUT in terms of how hard it was to manufacture and maintain the Tiger was a disaster. AND once they worked out how to beat it with better guns or shooting it in the ass - it was an even bigger disaster. So what concerns me with the F35 is will it become our generation's Tiger Tank - brilliant to use but a disaster to maintain?
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  8830.  @tolep  D-ckhead that is being racist. 🧏‍♂️🧏‍♀️
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  8831.  @garethjackson6187  Yeah I was surprised too and then checked her background and yeah fraud seems to be a family trait, a bit like it is with another well known family in America.
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  8832. Yeah, I think you are right. He'll get past this with the same sort of legal doublethink that billionaires always get off with in these situations. they'll blur the whole thing over what the definition of shadow banning versus terms of service violations. I'm not on Twitter, but I remember hearing there's something in the Twitter fine print where they can just deny service without cause or reason. Or something along those lines. Dorsey's lawyers will just argue they weren't shadow banning they were filtering or denying service because of breaches.
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  8833. The worst part of the whole IDW was that a few of them actually are fairly intellectual, but then lost their minds over things instead of staying objective an rational. Sam Harris is a perfect example. He pushed the whole "be rational" and pushed the term "moral ambiguity" as in "there is no moral ambiguity" over what Hamas did on 7/10. BUT THEN he suddenly dropped the whole rational discussion when it came to Israel's genocidal actions in Gaza. Yeah being rational and clarifying ambiguity was fine until he had to face the reality if his own people and "the morals of genocide." Brett Weinstein along with his brother Eric was also once (past tense) a respectable intellectual but then lost his mind during COVID and his brain hasn't stop failing since. Jordan Peterson was once (past tense) a respectable college professor. I watched a couple of his class lectures a few years ago and he was an excellent teacher who engaged well with his students. BUT since his drug issue his brain has done nothing but malfunction. Ben Shaprio did Law at Harvard. You can't get into Harvard Law let alone finish without a decent brain, but he's also a narcissistic maggot. Douglas Murray is the British version of Ben Shapiro except he uses the the Eaton/Oxford upper class snot nosed "I'm superior" British thing instead of Shapiro's Harvard arrogance. There's a few others who are also fairly (or once were) smart people and there there's the clown brigade who think they are smart. Joe Rogan and Dave Rubin are both as dumb as a box of rocks EXCEPT they (and others like them) know they know what engages with their audience. HOWEVER the worst of them all will always be Bari Weiss. She was the one who wrote about and labelled them the IDW. She's since been found out as a liar and fraud who make stuff up, but like Rogan and Rubin she knows what engages with her audience.
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  8834. KYLE - Justice is blind, its selectively blind to people who have enough money.
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  8835. NAME the states that did not follow their laws? DESCRIBE how the did not follow their laws? Otherwise STFU.
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  8836. Actually this is not really capitalism at all its a perversion of capitalism that is closer to feudalism and serfdom. If you have time go and look up Prof Mark Blyth where he talks about the various forms of capitalism we have gone through in the past 150 years or so. What's happened is that we should have gone through a major transition after 2008 like happened after WW2 and again during 1970s. The super wealthy prevented that from happening by getting bailed out from the GFC. Here's his short primer on what he calls Angrynomics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY
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  8837.  @Khalkara  Well its no longer capitalism as we've practised for most of the last century for a start. If you look at the rise of the middle class in the post WW2 period that was when capitalism was working for much larger percentage of the population and we had functioning social democracies. But that didn't work for some people. There's a great interview here on YT whit David Pakman and Yanis Varoufakis. Its only about 27 minutes so its not that long. Listen to what Yanis says about how social democracy and capitalism needed each other to work but how that's now broken and we are sliding into a form of feudalism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0lNnXAiL0
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  8838.  @Khalkara  WHAT TF DO YOU WANT? There's world class economists EXPLAINING what's gone on and you just sit there like a clownish 5year old saying they don't know what they are talking about. I think all you are after is an argument. Your so ignorant that you said (and these are your exact words) "Also social democracy is capitalism" social democracy is a political system capitalism is an economic system AND YOU DON'T KNOW THAT BASIC DIFFERENCE.
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  8839.  @Khalkara  Seriously what is your education level? YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND the difference between something that describes a political system and something that describes an economic system. Yanis Varoufakis is a world renowned Professor of Economics. If you think you know more than him go ahead because right now you couldn't look more stupid.
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  8840.  @Khalkara  If you understand the difference political and economic subjects THEN WHY DO YOU KEEP SAYING STUPID THINGS. Nobody needs to strawman you they just have to point out what you have said and its clear you don't know the difference between politics and economics. What's there to argue, when you don't even understand the subject. My bet is you never finished High School, because even a high school kid could understand the difference.
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  8841.  @Khalkara  Here's one of your ignorant statements. From your 1st comment to Poju Antsalo "Capitalism by definition will always be 1% VS the 99%." That's nonsense and nothing like what Adam Smith described. The economic system that by definition was 1% versus 99% is called feudalism NOT capitalism. That shows you can't differentiate between various economic systems.
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  8842.  @Khalkara  Here's another of your ignorant statements. From your 2nd comment to Poju Antsalo "Socialism is good yes. Because the system leads to the least harm to the least amount of people." At the level of a reasonable amount of socialism where society collectively pays for social programs like health care and education then YES, but that's an ECONOMIC answer. At the POLITICAL answer you get examples like East Germany, Soviet Russia and North Korea where the cost to the general populace of living under a ruthless police state is horrendous. That shows you can't differentiate between ECONOMICS and POLITICS.
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  8843.  @Khalkara  Here's a great example of your condescending arrogance From your 3rd comment to Poju Antsalo _ "Its really sad that you think that is a good question to ask."_ That's called self righteousness when you attack someone over a question they ask. From the next part of that comment. "1) It assumes that there is no competition of any kind under socialism" "2) It assumes that competition is what leads to better products (coffee)" If you consider the ECONOMIC answer then those 2 statements are reasonably true, but if you consider the POLITICAL answer then socialism actually proved to be viciously uncompetitive. Because the socialist states of East Germany, Soviet Russia, Romania, etc. did nothing but cheat. We have the evidence from decades of Olympic cheating. We also know that whatever competition there was industrially in those countries went nowhere because nobody wanted their manufactured goods. Yet again that shows you can't differentiate between ECONOMICS and POLITICS.
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  8844.  @Khalkara  Then we get to your comments to me. Your first comment to me was "How is this a perversion of capitalism?" I EXPLAINED to you that what we have right now with this is NOT how capitalism has been practiced for most of the last century. You didn't ask how it is different you just started the insults and attacks. I gave you references to people like Yanis Varoufakis and Mark Blyth WHO ARE EXPERTS in these things. You then came back and said you don't have time to listen to experts and that PROVES you are not only IGN0RANT but also ARR0GANT.
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  8845.  @Khalkara  As for the more detailed answer to your first question of how is this a perversion of capitalism. AND THIS COMMENT IS FOR EVERYONE ELSE If you were to read Adam Smith or at least read about Adam Smith the author of "Wealth of Nations" which is considered the origin of capitalist economics, then you'd know he was never about the 1% having all the wealth at the cost of the 99%. Smith was about how the other 99% also gain wealth. Its was in response to the mercantilism which was the economics that came out of the industrial revolution. But going further. Mark Blyth points out that there have been 3 major variations of capitalism over the past 150 years or so. 1) First there was the gold standard that lasted up until World War 2. 2) Then there was Keynesianism that lasted up until the 1970s. 3) Then there was neoliberalism, which is also called Reaganomics and Thatcherism. Mark has pointed out in numerous lectures and at numerous conferences how neoliberalism should have ended after the 2008 GFC and that we need a new version of capitalism. Here's the 3 minute primer on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY Here's the conference talk he did in 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE And going further still into our current post GFC ERA which is a clusterFK. Albena Azmanova has described it as "Precarity Economics" in her book "Capitalism on Edge" which she's discussed with Mark Blyth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2CsqAwb5is Eric Helleiner has described the neomercantilism that has emerged in China which is a new version of the mercantilism the world was economically running before capitalism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4X2qTxtwVM Yanis Varoufakis has explained what he calls "tech-feudalism" many times here's one of those times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghx0sq_gXK4
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  8846.  @Khalkara  IF YOU BOTHERED to actually go and listen to experts in their fields you'd learn things instead of being an ignorant arrogant F⋃CKWIT who annoys people.
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  8847.  @Khalkara  YOUR WORDS "I don't care what Smith describes it as, I'm calling it like I see it." Way to ADMIT you don't know what you're talking about. 😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣 Look up Dunning-Kruger Syndrome. You have a nasty dose of it.
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  8848.  @Khalkara  “He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him” ― Confucius, The Analects
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  8849.  @Khalkara  That's because you keep saying DUMB SHlT. YOUR WORDS (AGAIN) "I don't care what Smith describes it as, I'm calling it like I see it." Go back to school dumbass.
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  8850. Your 1/2 right. Trump and his enablers are currently above the law, but your wrong to say they are the only ones. America like many other nations through history has (or had) people who act as if the law doesn't apply to them or their actions. Sometimes like with Donald Rumsfeld they get away with it all the way to dying comfortably in their bed. Other times like with Saddam Hussein it ends sooner on the end of a rope.
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  8851. HEY LOOK EVERYONE - Kyle has finally "WOKEN UP" I'm Australian but went to college in America. I love America, its people (in general) and parts of the culture (like college sport), but there is something very few Americans rarely understand. Freedom means nothing without responsibility. I will grant any American that the US Constitution is one of humanities finest achievements and the Bill of Rights has been a light on modern life across the developed world. HOWEVER in granting some amazing freedoms it also FAILS to recognise that with freedom comes responsibility to use that freedom wisely. My favorite joke about America is: Why wasn't Jesus born in America? God tried but no matter where he looked he couldn't find 3 wise men or a virgin.
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  8852. You are absolutely right on being closer to Christianity than a right wing MAGA evangelical, but there's also a point here where Kyle is quite wrong. That involves the difference between the social-economics versus the politics. What Kyle and the Pope are talking about here is the social-economic side NOT the political side because Jesus was NEVER into the politics which is one of the reasons he ran foul of the Jewish leaders who thought the Messiah was coming to get rid of the Romans and put them in power. Surprisingly I found out through some study NEITHER Karl Marx nor Adam Smith (the father of capitalism) were that much into politics. That came later and mostly through other people. The oddest thing is the MAGA Evangelicals are actually just like the Jewish leaders who condemned Jesus and handed him over to the Romans to be executed. First and foremost they are looking for a POLITICAL SOLUTION through political power. Secondly they rely on people NOT knowing what Jesus actually said but instead feeding them a highly filtered version. This is why your statement about feeling closer to Christianity than anything the Right Wing MAGA evangelicals represent is totally understandable. MAGA people are politically motivated towards gaining power rather than socially or economically motivated towards making the world a better place for everyone. If you get the chance I'd recommend that you go read Matthew chapters 5 to 7 which is the Sermon on the Mount and you've probably heard a lot about anyway. Most people know its where Jesus says to be nice to people and if you're good you'll be blessed. WHAT MANY DON'T KNOW is what's in chapter 7. Matthew Chapter 7 is entirely about FALSE Christians and identifying them. This is WHY religious leaders for centuries suppressed reading the Bible and purposefully kept people illiterate. If people can't read for themselves they can't reason for themselves AND the last thing political people want are people who think for themselves. If you read further you'll find that's exactly what got Jesus into trouble. He was telling people what was actually written down VERSUS what they were being told and asked them to use their brains. This is why there's the famous line "The truth will set you free." That is actually a reference (in part) of getting free from the religiously orientated political powers.
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  8853.  @zogar8526  Did you even listen to what Michael Osterholm said? If you haven't then do so. He's one of the experts David should have interviewed months ago and kept on interviewing him regularly for update. On the lab leak there is a huge amount of facts and circumstances that make it highly probable. 1: The Chinese were working on making the Bat versions they had more transmissible to humans. That's irrefutable. 2: Anybody who had ever done postgraduate research (and I have in engineering) knows that those types of labs are full of people doing their masters & PhDs or postdoc and they are in their mid 20s to early 30s and they are the ideal carriers of COVID as we learned. 3: It appeared suddenly already adapted to humans and so far there's been zero evidence of a population of animals or humans outside the lab who already had it. 4: If all the versions the Chinese were researching had nothing to do with this particular virus then fine BUT they knew what it was and to lockdown ASAP. YOU ARE RIGHT none of that conclusively says lab leak, but just stop saying there's no evidence because that's bullshit.
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  8854.  Overlord Ainz  There is this one 🤯 And yeah it suits people like Madison Cawthorn.
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  8855.  @nas84payne  I loved Jon Stewarts comment a couple of years ago when he told the media they should take up a hobby. Like they could try journalism. Think about the term reporter. Its the description of a person who reports as in they gather information and inform others. There's always been the cry for "freedom of the press" as in nobody should be forcing them to filter the information they gather because that's censorship. But when do you ever hear the cry for the reporter to NOT filter and tell us what they know without an agenda. That also includes them digging and questioning and not simply allowing government or anyone else to simply push PR.
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  8856. Its called cherry picking and the RADICALS on both sides of the political spectrum have become insanely proficient at hogging the microphone and drowning us in cherry picked information.
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  8857.  @AzyrealLal  "Going to" is more of a case of "already happening." The only real difference is that America does everything louder so we hear about it a lot more.
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  8858. HEY EVERYONE THIS IS NOT JUST AN ARIZONA PROBLEM You are all here on YouTube go and look up the documentaries on the overuse of ground water. Its a problem around the world. People have been trying to warn nations across the world about the overuse of ground water for years. This is part of the worlds complete mismanagement of fresh water systems everywhere and its been going on for decades. Under the Soviet Socialist system they destroyed the Aral Sea through mismanagement and stupidity by damming rivers and mismanaging the irrigation systems. Under the Chinese communist system they have damaged or completely destroyed over 30,000 waterways, creeks and rivers. The Yong Ding river, that Beijing was founded on, has not had any water flow past Beijing in over 30 years because an up stream irrigation system uses 100% of the water. The Colorado River Compact from 1922 has allowed the states to collectively take more water than the river actually has. There are reports that in California they have sucked so much ground water out that its starting to suck sea water into the Southern California Aquifer and that they are starting to see increases in the salinity of water coming up from the wells. YES IT DOES NOT MATTER if the government is Socialist, Communist or Capitalist - they can't manage water and water is life. FYI - I'm Australian and we have the same level of stupidity here and like Arizona we are mostly desert.
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  8859.  @MrKh4O  NO to what? NO Putin wont lose his mind and do something drastic? OR NO Putin will show restraint? Because he wasn't restrained in invading Ukraine. We now know he let Wagner Group go into prisons to recruit for the front line.
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  8860.  @lwilton  Have you seen Peter Zeihan's take on this subject? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH-UtO9clvc
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  8861. I suggested a couple of days ago that this might be some sort of elaborate prank just to prove how stupid modern politics has become. Be warned, there were some people who went bonkers at me. Because lets not forget the Dems missed all of this and the media missed all of this. If this turns out to be a fraud then the GOP, the Dems and the Media all DESERVE to be panned. If this turns out to be a prank then the GOP, the Dems and the Media STILL DESERVE to be panned.
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  8862. 2 words - ELECTION FRAUD In most places in the world if you falsely fill out a ballot its called ELECTION FRAUD
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  8863.  @jennetteseymour4985  Go and look at what De Sanctimonious did as a lawyer at Guantanamo. He had the ethics of a Nazi officer at Auschwitz. I can't say for certain but Harvard Law might be real good at grooming people for SCOTUS but they are utterly hopeless at teaching ETHICS.
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  8864.  @iolitelight  Yeah but populists can get elected once and occasionally a second time but after people workout that they are just talk and no action then they either get dumped or start war. And that's the real problem with populists - they become incredibly destructive once they are found out.
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  8865. INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS engineer here: This is WHY I KNOW FSD (full self driving) is a false and misleading concept at least for the moment. AND APOLOGIES IF THIS IS LONGISH. FYI - My degree was in aerospace but I have spent 30+ years in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. That has included working with many sensor systems including laser scanning systems. Although I don't work with vision systems I was introduced to the basics of vision systems in 1998 and am fully aware of many of the advancements in that area. The actual problem with FSD is the amount of information that needs to be processed. As human beings we just don't realise how much information our visual cortex processes every second and that's because most of it is processed by our peripheral system which is NOT part of our general conscious. Its all there in our periphery and we aren't focussing on it. Our peripheral system is extraordinary at clumping things together and dismissing irrelevant clumps while alerting our conscious system of potential threats or items of interest. For example we don't see a 100,000 leaves attached to 1,000s branches attached to a trunk connected to a root system we see a tree. We don't see several million yellowish hairs covering 4 legs a body, a tail, a head, big teeth and an even bigger set of fangs we see a lion. Out on the African savannah people don't see millions of blades of grass, 1,000s and 1,000s of antelope, wildebeests, birds, insects and other wild life. OUR BRAIN via our peripheral system filters out the noise and will latch onto that 1 lion out of all those millions and millions of items in our visual range and SCREAM "that's a threat." Similarly when driving a car down the average suburban street we see but don't focus on the millions of leaves - we see the trees and dismiss them as NOT a threat. We see don't see all the nuts, bolts, sheets of glass, sheet metal, paint and rubber - we see parked cars and dismiss them as NOT a threat. We see the bricks, boards, windows, window frames, paint - we see houses and dismiss them as NOT a threat. BUT WE DO SEE the bouncing ball coming down a driveway and our peripheral system SCREAMS that there's a dog or a child chasing after that ball OR we'll see a flash of something else and our peripheral system will alert our conscious brain to be aware of it. Like we'll suddenly notice one of the parked cars just moved. This is what our peripheral system does with incredible speed. It processes a staggering mass of data every second and compares it to previous seconds and then filters out all the noise. This is why certain players in team sports seem so amazing in how they can suddenly pass to another player in a way that asks "How did they see them?" The answer is they are people whose peripheral system just operates better than average and in some rare cases a lot better. NOW TRY AND CONSIDER HOW YOU MIGHT GET A COMPUTER TO DO THAT???? Remember no 2 trees are the same, and no 2 cars are ever parked the same, and no 2 houses are the same PLUS no 2 streets are the same anywhere on the planet. There's always something different. NOW CONSIDER that the perspective (as in the visual angles) on that scene is changing every second because your car is MOVING. You now have to process the next image and compare it to previous images to pick up that movement or notice that item that gets the wider scoping part of the system to flag an item of interest to the higher level decision making part of the system. Suddenly you will realise that the scope of the technological task to get a computer to do what the human peripheral system does is monstrous. Once you understand the scope of the task required to to do FSD you'll quickly realise that it MIGHT BE possible for some limited situations or MIGHT be possible once we get the visual scanning systems capable of sorting through all the noise to find those few items that need a higher level of evaluation we can't even begin the task BUT RIGHT NOW we don't have those systems because if they existed we hear all about it. We'd hear about the camera that's as good or better than a human eye and we'd hear about the processor that's as good as the human peripheral system AND NOBODY is even saying they have it under development or has made "the breakthrough". Lets also NOT forget that a bunch of car manufacturers GAVE UP on FSD about 5 years ago. Uber sold off its FSD once they, (like the car manufacturers) realised just what it would take to do the job. This is also why, with the exception of a few tiny companies desperately trying for attention (and money) have stopped trying to build self FLYING air taxis. Sorry if this was longish but I hope you get the gist of why it might be possible in future but NOT NOW.
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  8866.  @judithwake2757  well summed up
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  8867.  @Jibrilfm  that's an interesting point
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  8868.  @harrygearhart4520  Yeah but why after what happened would he want to try again?
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  8869.  @AngryShooter  That's a really great comment. Kind of scary but also well thought out.
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  8870. Don't you know Trump supporters believe IQ is scored like golf - the lowest score wins. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  8871. Actually if you have seen any of the Analysis from Brexit, you'd know that Putin is actually very good at meddling without appearing to meddle. The thing they do the most is look at what's trending and amplify it and nudge it. Go have at look at this form way back in 1984. Its part of an interview with ex-KGB officer Your Bezmenov. In particular look at the line he's says about 2:45 about that they didn't need to do that much any more because America was doing the damage to itself. If you ask how we got here and Russia is f--ked and America is still here. Simple the Russians f--ked themselves way more than anything America did and America is in its current state for the same reason. Go look at history. Its rare that any empire fell to another empire it was usually the empire destroying itself. And when other empires did defeat an older empire it was because that older empire was weaker from internal issues. Rome never really fell it just tore itself in half and then slowly withered. Where Bezmenov was totally wrong was how effective the KGB system actually worked in his day. BUT then came social media and the old KGB misinformation program finally had a platform it could weaponize and they have been f--king with the west ever since. These days they don't need to do much because just as Bezmenov said we do most of the damage to ourselves. Consider that we have just spent weeks denying that the DNC interfered with the presidential election and then this comes out that basically says yes they do cheat. This could send the Trumpists into the streets with guns and they have no shortage of guns or ammunition.
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  8872.  @NinjaOnANinja  Don't forget No One other than Trump and his close people know who he owes over a $100 million to. All we know is that he owes this massive chunk of money to a someone who banks via the Caymans. What we know is that the Drug Cartels, Tax Evaders, Arms Dealers, and other criminals bank via the Caymans. For those people there are 2 things: 1: They loan money via the Caymans to Clean it. 2: You pay those people what you owe or they do really nasty shit.
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  8873.  @NinjaOnANinja  I can say an awful lot about wealth inequality but I would only be repeating what others have published. https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/worlds-billionaires-have-more-wealth-46-billion-people https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/21/world-26-richest-people-own-as-much-as-poorest-50-per-cent-oxfam-report
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  8874. FOR ANYONE INTERESTED THE LINKS TO THE AUSTRALIAN INTERVIEW ARE HERE This is the interview -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk The rest of the links to that entire program (2 parts) for which she was interviewed about Rupert Murdoch's and Fox News' links to Trump and promoting the "Big Lie" see my main comment.
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  8875. Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait America invading Iraq The Russians invading Afghanistan in the 1980s The Americans invading Afghanistan in the 2000s The Germans invading Russia in WW2 The Italians joining the Germans in WW2 The Germans listening to an Austrian before he started WW2. The Japanese bombing Pearl Harbour and not getting the Aircraft carriers. The Australians and New Zealanders trusting the British in WW1 and WW2 that they had a plan. That whole Korean thing. That whole Vietnam thing. That stuff that happened in Mogadishu. ALL that stuff in Israel & Palestine. YEAH that list just keeps getting longer and longer the more I think about it and that just the last century and a bit.
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  8876. That was nothing Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in the electric chair. In any other country in the world Trump and his pack of clowns would have been rounded up on Jan 7th and NOT LET OUT OF PRISON UNTIL THE TRIAL, where they would have been convicted. After that depending on the country they would have received lengthy jail terms or simply been executed. After Tiananmen Square the Chinese rounded them all up, marched them into court told them they were guilty and then shot them all in the back of the head as per standard Chinese practice. In plenty of other countries they wouldn't even get a trial.
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  8877.  @waltergrace565  I'm no psychologist but I believe they call you type a chaotic narcissist. Normal people call you a selfish shite who revels in the chaos and thinks its all game.
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  8878.  @waltergrace565  Oh shite I'm sorry I didn't know your one of those who claim to be realist? So sorry, so sorry, I'm SO SORRY to not understand your pathetic version of self righteous narcissism. Sorry but I have read up on you realists after watching John Mearsheimer explain his version of the world. Ignorance coupled with arrogance mixed in with self righteous narcissism is WHY PEOPLE DON'T LIKE YOU.
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  8879. SOMEBODY should have asked these clowns about Sandy Hook, Uvalde or any of the other places where children were massacred with legally purchased guns.
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  8880.  @kevinc8955  I'll add a correction or clarification to that. Reagan was good at PROJECTING that he was compassionate and likeable, but in truth he was neither compassionate or really that likeable and surrounded himself with a tribe of narcissistic sociopaths who started the entire world down a very destructive path. All the scum that have followed are merely symptoms of a disease that he infected the developed world with. Don't forget he was the one who brought the American Fundamentalists into the main stream of American politics giving them the power they now have.
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  8881.  @maxryder995  if you google "lindsey graham trump will destroy" It will give you a link straight to the original Tweet that is still there and it will even give you the time of day he posted it - 7:03am and its May 4 not May 3.
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  8882. For everyone interested here's the full Henry Wallace quote from the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  8883.  @pliat  That's sadly true.
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  8884.  @louf7178  YEP - Billy Gates and his AI brigade think that their spending a few billion on data centres means the rest of humanity needs to spend a few HUNDRED BILLION to power them and that we ARE GETTING A GOOD DEAL.
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  8885. ​ @dafunkmonster  AND HERE'S ANOTHER POINT. It takes at least 10 years to build nuclear, Just getting it approved takes time and AT best the build time is at least 8 years. If you think you can reduce the average energy bill by $1000 a year (which is feasible) then if you say we'll do it with nuclear then you just said EVERY HOUSE will pay an extra 10,000 over the next decade. AND HERE'S THE CATCH - No matter what we chose to do it all takes time and until we get stuff built people will keep paying high prices.
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  8886. I'm an aerospace engineer and that is THE MOST ANNOYING aspect of technological journalism right now. They are so technically ILLTERATE its staggering they have a job at all. I don't know what they teach in journalism course now days, but it DOES NOT INCLUDE "how to learn about your subject and not BE IGNORANT and report garbage."
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  8887. Here is a link to the speech Rutger Bergman gave at Davos in 2019 where he slammed the tax avoidance industry. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paaen3b44XY He was also famous for being cancelled at Fox when during the pre-taping for an interview with Tucker Carlson he told Carlson to his face he was a "millionaire paid by billionaires." The interview was never aired but was leaked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nFI2Zb7qE
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  8888. For anyone who wants here is the full panel that Rutger Bergman was part of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mG-r_3eRCw
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  8889. I checked the actual MSNBC vid for the interview that's here on YouTube and at 6:35 they mute her. It has to be some of the crappiest journalism in the history of journalism. Do you think MSNBC would do that to Hilary Clinton????
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  8890. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powell interview. I have left a separate answer with additional background information about why Australia is so concerned about Rupert Murdoch's behavior in America. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powell Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  8891. Just a note of caution the RT network is funded by the Government of Russia. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network) Not I saying I disagree with what JV is saying at all in what he is saying, in fact I think he's is absolutely right. If you can't live on $1million a month then you have a problem. BUT that RT logo on his jacket is owned by the Russian Government.
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  8892. For an hour and 15 minutes this was one of the best interviews I have seen in recent years. But the moment it got onto the weaponization of the justice system this guy lost his mind. I'll agree with him on a couple of points: 1) Merrick Garland was utterly hopeless but for the complete opposite reason in that he utterly failed to do his job. 2) the January 6th rioters were in many ways hard done, but not because they were charged and convicted but because the ringleaders were not even charged let alone convicted. I have repeatedly argued Biden should pardon all of them BEFORE Christmas for the simple reason it would go a long way to healing the divide in America. HOWEVER CLAIMING or INSINUATING that Trump did nothing wrong and the pursuit was purely political is the ranting stupidity of an ignorant clown who's letting his own personnel bias drown out common sense. Claiming the COVID was a geopolitical event rather than a health crisis proves that very smart people can also be blindly idiotic in areas that are NOT THEIR EXPERTISE especially when they let personnel beliefs crowd out common sense. This started out so good and ended in an utter shambles.
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  8893. Yeas and with that he also claims to be a Harvard educated man. If true then why can't he simply accept reality. These people just keep pumping this garbage narrative and when pressed he starts on an election from 1/2 a century ago. And again near the end he said regarding the claims of election fraud "we haven't had that debate" So what were all those court cases where they never produced any evidence about? These people are truly demented because any fact they don't like they treat as if it doesn't exist.
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  8894. ​ @robertsharp3238  That is a very very very risky attitude because there is no doubt the Iranians HAD a nuclear weapons program in full swing before the treaty Obama got them to agree to. Since Trump went and did his typically childish thing of tearing up anything Clinton or Obama did that fat clown gave the Iranians the opening they wanted. PLUS (and this is only a guestimate) they traded something to the Russians for those drones. The Iranians have all the oil they need but they might be short of currency and the Ruskies have stacks of that. So maybe they Ruskies paid in gold - reasonable guess. Maybe the Iranians got something else, like N-triggers or other hard to come by parts or maybe the Ruskies traded a couple of tactical units. Not enough to do anything really bad but just enough to tell everyone else to FK-OFF.
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  8895.  @robertsharp3238  The other thing is if the Iranians have any brains those facilities will be so far underground nothing will touch them. And before you can say Tom Cruise can do his Luke Skywalker drop the bomb down the hole trick - this is the real world. But then then again DUMBER things have been happening a lot lately.
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  8896.  @wgowshipping  Sal in a crazy way you make these things seem almost sane. Just so you know Ward Carrol recommended your channel.
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  8897.  @jonisalmela2399  Not certain why you've addressed that to me??? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8898. Only for little people, for the wealthy its been pretty productive. They got about $3 Trillion in breaks from Trumps tax cuts which was a pretty good return on the few million it cost to get that done.
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  8899. ENGINEER HERE: We tried to tell you guys but you were all so wrapped up in the "Elon will save the world cult!" that you weren't interested in listening. Silicon Valley's moto is "Move fast. Break things." In their minds anything that disrupts is good. They are fundamentally techno-anarchists and like all forms of anarchists they can't be told the word "NO" as in "NO you can't do that!" And since they play with technology the rest of you clowns see it all as magic and therefore must be good. You are like natives selling of their land for beads and mirrors.
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  8900. Everybody should go and watch David Pakman's interview with Mark Bankston (yesterday) who's the lawyer for the parents who sued Alex Jones. The Texas limit for punitive damages does NOT always apply and he thinks it might not apply in this case and Alex Jones is up for the full payout. Its worth watching to get some insight into what's next. They already know Alex Jones is moving money around to possibly hide it.
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  8901. Trump was the first president in over 130 years to ORDER the execution of inmates during the lame duck period between the election and the swearing in of the next president. Trump may well have had the legal right to order those executions BUT he certainly did not have the moral or ethical right and depending on how that part of the Constitution reads he may well have violated their civil rights. If Biden were to use his executive discretion the way Trump did he could easily declare Trump a "threat to the nation" or "enemy of the state." I don; think that would be smart because it would send his supporters over the edge.
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  8902. Well not only does Don Jnr look and behave like a crack addict. Kimberly Gilfoyle acts like a crack addicts girlfriend.
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  8903. TO KYLE AND ALL: Please interview Professor Mark Blyth from Brown about this. Recently he pointed out a Rand Corp study that said between 1975 and 2017 the TOP 1% has increased their wealth by $47 Trillion. For those interested here's the link to that study -> https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html And here is a Time article about that report -> https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/ Mark has also pointed out that in the last 12-18 months of COVID that has increased by at least ANOTHER $8 Trillion. Note that this include more people than just the billionaires like those poor sods only worth a few $100 million like Tucker Carlson, Kanye West,... etc. I honestly believe Mark would be a great interviewee for Krystal, Kyle & Friends. For those who don't know who Mark is he's a political economist. He doesn't just look at the politics of countries or the economics of the markets. He looks at how the economic systems and political systems interact with each other. He was one of the very few people who predicted BOTH Brexit and Trump 2016. He recently wrote a book called Angrynomics with Eric Lonergan which is about the general anger and frustration people have with the world these days. Here's the 3 minute primer -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY
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  8904. David Pakman was the first person I hears use the term "toxic sport politics." It perfectly describes how people like Ted Cruz operate. They don't care about anything but winning the next news cycle. The actual substance of anything doesn't matter so long as they can win some meaningless point and when the next news cycle starts win the next meaningless point. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. We have our versions of Ted Cruz. We get the news out of Europe and every country in Europe has their Ted Cruz types. And to be fair ALL SIDES, not just the Right, have these people. Look at Pelosi, she doesn't give a damn about the American people, just winning the next news cycle.
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  8905. Is it just me or can others see that sooner or later there is going to be something very ugly happen to these NRA goons. I can easily see an inconsolable parent or relative reacting. This is what VICE reported on the false flag conspiracy people in 2018. I wonder how they will paint this disaster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To91BJGKr5I I can see it getting very ugly with these reality denier types.
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  8906. You forgot to mention the regime changes and wars that have also been instigated.
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  8907. Hir girlfriend Krystal interviewed Peter Zeihan a few weeks back. He's covered the Russian demographics a lot this year.
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  8908.  @sanjoblanko4086  Hey SHIT4BRAINS the Supreme Court of Arizona DISMISSED most of her claims. All it has given her is to send back to the lower court 1 claim to be reconsidered. HOW THE F⋃CK IS THAT A WIN
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  8909. It also doesn't take much to realise that if he got his wealth from the Dot Com Bubble then it basically means he got out BEFORE the bubble burst. There's NOTHING new about that either. In every bubble there are those few who get out before the bubble bursts and look like geniuses.
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  8910. Remember Trump did something no incumbent had done in over 130 years. He had people executed during the lame duck period after the election. I am not interested in the if they should or should not have been executed. What I am interested in his the double standard. For over a century presidents had left those decisions to the incoming administration. Trump said "No to that" and these 3 are bad people who have been judged and I am sending them to the grave. In the weeks following he pardoned the Nisour Square 4 who had killed innocent civilians 17 people in a massacre in Iraq including a child. So if you work for the brother of Trumps education secretary you can kill 17 people including a child and then get a pardon and if you don't you get a needle.
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  8911.  @davidlafleche1142  Yeah you are right Trump never said or declared that "conservatives breaking the law is not illegal." But why don't you explain all those pardons for criminal convictions that his friends did?
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  8912.  @davidlafleche1142  1ST I regularly point out the failures of not just the Dems and GOp but all of the establishment parties around the world. 2ND Don't ram or pound God down anyone's throat if you wan to be taken seriously. Its the quickest way to be told to FK-OFF. The dirtiest fact of BOTH historical and modern politics is how people have used "God" (or Gods) to hurt people. If you want to bring up as so many do that God will destroy the evil doers in politics and society then you better also believe he will do the same with the evildoers in religion.
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  8913. 19:04 I'd beat her arguments with the Chewbacca defense.
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  8914.  @aravindiyengar  How about the whole film?
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  8915.  @michaelfowler2603  I don't know if its the reason why cops suspect everyone BUT its certainly part of why they have to treat everyone that way. It comes form this BS lawyers all believe in called the "adversarial method" as in the other side (who ever they are) is your enemy and this is combat and as such they are your adversary.
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  8916. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship - U. of Illinois. So I have some fairly strong feelings on the disaster that's happened there. On October 28 Australia had 2 deaths and on November 30 1 death. In the same time Illinois with less than half the population (12.6 million to 25.6) had over 3000 deaths with its BEST day at only 25. On December 2 it was 266 dead. In those 32 days Illinois with half the population of Australia had over 3 times the number of dead that we have had for the entire pandemic (908). https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ This is not simply a disaster its something worse and its heading in the wrong direction. I had 4 thanksgiving holidays there and its about to escalate and then get even worse after Christmas as winter hits. I just hope that the next time I visit the states its to see friends not visit graves.
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  8917. AUSTRALIAN HERE - I find Rachel a little annoying at times BUT DANG-IT (to use an American term) she's absolutely right about the electorate. We just had an election here in Queensland where I live and the winning conservative LNP won on a campaign of "Youth Crime out of Control." It was pointed out that if you only look at the last few years then yes there's been a jump in youth crime statistics, but it you look at the last 25 years the lowest crime rates for youths was about 3 years ago, but its been in decline for most of the last 25 years IRRESPECTIVE of which party was in power. This is the problem Rachel points out and its NOT and American problem. People are so busy these days just dealing with life and there's so much noise being generated that NOBODY has time to filter fact from fiction and too many politicians know how to take advantage of that.
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  8918.  @gaetano5669  Yeah sure Maher can't even remember his own monologue on the bailouts that Wall Street got last year. You right wing bots are so bad with your programming. Your running Windows 3.3 on Windows 11 platform and still don't get it. You really need to go back to the factory for a reboot & upgrade.
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  8919.  @gaetano5669  What about George "bless his little spending heart" Bush He oversaw 6 of the 8 largest deficits EVER in human history. The other 2 are by Obama and Trump. Its odd how you RIGHT WING BULLSHITTERS never say anything when your side spends like drunken monkeys.
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  8920. This is just another example of the Orwellian doublespeak that American Right Wing Libertarians are becoming well known for across the world. They will howl about cancel culture and then cancel others. They howl about regulatory restrictions and then invoke laws to restrict others. They claim relentlessly they are about freedom and liberty as they strip people of freedom and liberty AND THEY ARE EXPORTING IT. I'm Australian and watch David's Channel because its a good way hear about the underlying issues in America. Only yesterday I watched a podcast by one of our ex-Politicians John Anderson. FYI - I went to college in America and love the country and its people, but hate the politics. He interviewed Stanford Professor Jay Bhattacharya and American born Yale educated Australian professor (UNSW) Gigi Foster about Australia's failures handling COVID. Both have been heavily criticised for bad research and bad public commentary. Gig Foster made headlines when she said on Australian 60 Minutes that we shouldn't waste resources on the elderly because they'll die anyway. She's been recently caught lying publicly about COVID data to push her agenda/ideology. During the podcast they both made assertations that we need prevent the rich and powerful from influencing government policy. Jay Bhattacharya was heavily criticised for the bad statistics he used to claim 80,000 had COVID in Santa Clara in a study that was later found to be secretly funded by an American billionaire. He Co-Authored the Great Barrington Declaration that was funded via the billionaire funded American Libertarian think tank the Brownstone Institute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bhattacharya#COVID-19_pandemic Here's that podcast if anyone wants to check. But I can tell you straight up it is littered with lies and misdirection's. Most notably they point out Australia now has a higher rate of COVID infection that America. That's true if you go by the published numbers, but then Australia is still testing and recording data while America Stopped after Trump cut funding. Remember when David reported that and how some states are no longer reporting COVID infections. This sort of statistical data manipulation is something Gigi Foster is becoming well known for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmIM6LxVoxw
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  8921. There was no pipeline sabotaged in Poland it was in the Baltic in Swedish waters, Please stick to the facts.
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  8922.  @peterblood50  LOOK AT WHAT YOU WROTE - THESE ARE YOUR WORDS "You also predicted the pipelines going through Poland would be sabotaged. We don't know yet if that's what happened but it's a possibility." How is anybody meant to read that other than you have just said that the pipeline that was sabotaged was in Poland or Polish waters?
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  8923. TO ALL - IRAN ABSOLUTELY HAD A WEAPONS PROGRAM. I am an engineer and we have known what they were doing for over 15 years. Back circa 2006 I was working in the Australian mining industry doing a project at the ERA Ranger Uranium Mine. Before we started we all had to go through the ANSTO (Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) Induction. That includes a basic run down of the entire process from Uranium in the ground to spent fuel back in the ground. At the time we did that course the Iran situation was in full swing and during one Q&A part the instructor was asked what about what the Iranians were up to. FYI - I am a control system engineer and I do a lot with motor control so I understood part of this better than average. And its the specifics about the motors that gave the Iranian program away for what it actually was. Yes it was heavily damaged by the Stuxnet Virus attack which we think the Israeli's did, but that was mechanical damage that could be repaired. The motors are important because they are critical to the process that is used to purify Uranium-235. Its done using gas centrifuges and they need high speed motors called spindle motors. They're called spindle motors because they are most often used in the spindles of CNC machines. There is nothing secretive or super special because companies like Fanuc, Hermele, DMG Mori, Haas and Okuma buy them all the time. Every CNC machining center or lathe has at least 1. But Its very unusual if the Iranians buy any let alone truckloads (plural) because they don't have the industry that needs them. Its how we know the Iranians had 55,000 gas centrifuges and its that number of gas centrifuges that cannot be argued with. If it was an energy program where they don't need highly pure Uranium-235 they could have done that with less than 10,000 gas centrifuges. For the military grade fuel used in aircraft carriers and submarines you need a higher grade and that requires around 20,000 gas centrifuges. But for weapons grade Uranium-235 you need upwards of 40,000 gas centrifuges. So without any doubt a program with 55,000 gas centrifuges is a weapons program and we have known that clearly for over 15 years. The Iranians can claim whatever they like but for anybody who understands or has had even basic training in the Nuclear industry it is undeniable that the Iranians HAD a weapons program. I say had because we know the Stuxnet virus damaged it and Obama's treaty stopped it from redeveloping. Where that program is following Trump tearing up that treaty is anybody's guess. Taking out 1 guy won't make any difference either.
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  8924. When he is dragged from his home and hung form the nearest tree by a mob of angry peasants no one should be surprised. Charles the 1st of England got his head chopped off with an axe as the crowds cheered.. Louis the 16th of France got his head chopped off in a guillotine as the crowds cheered. The Csar Of Russian and all his family got bullets. The Ceausescu's of Romania got bullets Saddam Hussein and his cronies got their necks stretched and we all saw the footage of the guards cheering. It does not matter how much money or power you have if you push it too far the peasants revolt. Nothing should scare us more than a peasant revolt because peasant revolts get nasty and brutal and destructive.
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  8925. Former Vice President Henry A. Wallace in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 wrote: “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  8926.  @dayegilharno4988  After seeing the new films I decided to read the books again and that one leap off the page and slapped me.
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  8927.  @TheFoolintherainn  Can apologists for Elon just SHUT TF UP. Do I think Elon's a Nazi? NO but he sure is an arrogant clown who thinks his SHlT doesn't stink AND he's got some damn weird political views. DID YOU KNOW he's been supporting and publicly endorsed the FAR RIGHT German AFD party lately? And by FAR RIGHT the AFD are seriously far right and borderline Nazi.
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  8928.  @moonlightfishin4113  Are you seriously asking how has SCOTUS been corrupted? Do you have any idea who or what the Federalist Society is, why they were set up or who funds it? Do you know they scuttled a nomination (Harriet Meirs) by George W Bush? How about the refusal of Mitch McConnell to give Merrick Garland his hearing AND THEN BREAKING HIS OWN RULE to get Amy Barrett installed. Do you know that 15 of last 19 SCOTUS judges came from Harvard or Yale where the Federalist Society was formed? SCOTUS judges are NOT being nominated by Presidents they are being chosen by an organisation that was set up to FORCE on the nation THEIR ideology. THAT'S CORRUPTION.
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  8929. AUSTRALIAN HERE - we had the fact his hotels and golf courses made staggering amounts during his presidency. Because he played golf so often and did so at his own golf courses many foreign governments started renting out rooms and condos at his courses so they could get access to him. We had this reported years ago and how they mostly paid full rates for these rooms and condos. Because nobody knew which course he'd play at next some nations did this at multiple courses. I honestly don't know how this is more widely known in America.
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  8930. Actually they were are/more obsessed with the bio-weapon angle and that's caused a shit load of confusion. The initial claims that it was a bio-weapon were totally idiotic and there has never been any evidence that it was ever a weapon. But a lot of evidence has turned up that shows the possibility of a lab leak is very real. The problem is the media and politicians have made a mess of the public discussion making it very hard to know what's fact and what's not. Dr. Michael Osterholm (the director of CIDRAP) did a great analysis of this mess and how the media has handled it in a recent podcast. This link is time stamped to that part of that podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYNfScnnDVU&t=2610s Note that he honestly points out the issues the CDC has had and how many incidents the CDC has had. Note how he explains that Wuhan and the Wuhan Institute of Virology might just be a coincidence because like Atlanta (home of the CDC) its a major transport hub. Go watch this from DW News that sheds a lot of light on what the Chinese were actually doing at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It DOES NOT conclude it was a lab leak, because nobody has conclusive evidence, but there is a lot of evidence that a lab leak was possible. What it also highlights is that the Lead Scientist in Wuhan Dr. Zheng-Li Shi WAS MODIFYING Bat Corona Viruses, but by the definition that she and others use it wasn't Gain of Function. The fact that the Chinese openly published their work is absolutely conclusive that it wasn't a weapon. Nobody develops weapons and the tells the world how they did it - that's simply idiotic. That would be like developing the next -gen stealth fighter and then putting the design on Facebook. What they show in that documentary is that there is division among virologists over what research is safe to do. They highlight the hyper deadly variant of H5N1 Avian flu that came out of a lab in 2011. Here's the DW documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0nuyPQzU18 Here's an example of what the Chinese published out of Wuhan. Click on the authors names and you will see where they work. You can also see that the lead scientist in Wuhan mentioned in the DW documentary is also one of the authors of this. -> https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698
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  8931.  @TheSecretsoftheUniverse  Hey buddy, you sound like a smart guy who knows what he's talking about. So why do you need bullshit clickbait crap thumbnails? Either you know what you're talking about or you just another social media clown and among the "science communicators" there's no shortage of clowns with no shred of technical education beyond basic high school science. AND THEY GET THINGS WRONG ALL THE TIME
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  8932.  @rajahferrier7475  No not all of them, just an awful lot of them.
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  8933.  @thehumanity0  Him and a lot of others. Pakman who I watch does this as well. Breaking points is sometimes days behind. Almost all of them have these issues.
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  8934. Jimmy seemed to be fine up to that point where the Squad didn't force the vote. Something in Jimmy broke and he's just gone of the rails. Jimmy was always on about being progressive and at its heart progressivism is about change. Jimmy used to interview people like Mark Blyth, Richard Wolff and others who are saying the world needs to change. When the Squad did nothing to force change I think Jimmy saw it as a complete betrayal and it broke him. Jimmy's still about change its just that he now wants to do it with a wrecking ball named Trump.
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  8935.  @Mark-zk3gu  The squad (as in the progressives) didn't force that vote in congress over Medicare for all. Jimmy was rabidly for forcing it even if it lost. To him it didn't matter just having the vote mattered. When they didn't do it he saw it as a total betrayal and cowardice and Jimmy's brain blew several fuses. After that he just started ranting at everything. It got so wild I just stopped watching him. There was nothing in that stuff that had anything to do with Trump. What Jimmy's done is latch onto the next thing that might create change and that's Trump. Trump isn't a progressive in any way shape or form and never has been. If anything Trump was a regressive trying to take America back to the Reagan years at least economically. BUT to his base he represents change as in change away from the GOP & DNC establishments.
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  8936.  @Mark-zk3gu  I don't disagree with that, I'm just telling people what I saw. They didn't force they vote and he flipped out over it. In what farking way have I linked Trump to anything progressive. Trump is NOT (do you understand the word NOT) progressive he's regressive. Do you understand the difference between those words? Progressive means forwards. Regressive is the opposite as in backwards. Both mean change. Jimmy wants change. He didn't get it from progressives so he joined Trumps regressive bullshite. What part of that don't you FARKING UNDERSTAND or do you have a reading problem?
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  8937.  @EroticInferno  Your first point of jimmy maybe true. My bet is your a millennial because all millennials have this over realistic view that "clicks" are the be all and end all purpose of life. Its not ok. The force the vote saga was simply the corporate Dems beating the squad into submission. It had nothing to do with conspiracies and everything to do with modern politics. It isn't about doing stuff its about winning the next news cycle. On Jimmy cosplaying to make money. Its an Occam's Razor answer. If you look at all the other possibilities its the only answer left. At first I didn't agree with that but by the time I got this far - YEAH I think your right. Its an act to make money.
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  8938.  @ryanlott1108  1) I stopped watching Jimmy because 99.9% of it was just howling rage at anyone who stepped in front of him. It was just ridiculous. 2) I've not heard or seen anything to suggest he's had Richard Wolff on and I know who he is. I watch his channel from time to time. Richards pretty good most of the time and gives pretty good insight but there's also times when he's just plain wrong. 3) Mark Blyth was on Jimmy on a regular basis irrespective of if he was a professor or not. As for other commentators on the left - yeah I'd like to see them interview Mark or Stephanie Kelton or others who can actually explain why the world is a mess. The fact they don't is damning on them. In fact its why I have dropped a number of subscriptions. TYT and Majority Report being 2 of them. IRRESPECTIVE, like all of the others JIMMY has to accept responsibility for Jimmy. As I have said to others we can all look at specific events that seemed to flip him out, but he's got to accept responsibility for himself. That's arguably the greatest weakness of American culture (and Western culture in general), too many people want somebody else to blame.
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  8939. EVERYONE: having not heard the term "sonnenrad" I just fact checked with Google and got the Wikipedia page for "Black Sun (symbol)" Have a look at what the symbol is and where it came from its not just a Nazi thing but also got some links that a "Christian" fundamentalist like Ron De Sanctimonious might want to run from.
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  8940.  @TNuss  WTF is your problem? All those classified files he's been caught with ARE EVIDENCE. 🤷‍♂🤦‍♂ Were you born this dumb or did you take classes?
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  8941.  @danasmith3288  I have spent more time in the last few years informally studying economics than anything else. The simple fact is unless I can make the economic arguments then I can't get anything done. Economists simply dominate the big decisions that affect all our lives and unless you can deal with them face to face then you're stuffed. To do that takes time and effort to learn their language.
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  8942.  @Ishmachiah  Actually I'm Australian but went to college in America. and it wasn't for a 1 semester exchange. Don't try any of that revisionist shit on me. We get taught British history in Australia and as such are well informed about British political behavior. King George may not have personally abused the colonials but he sure as the sun comes up allowed his military to do whatever they liked. I studied aerospace engineering, but a bunch of my fraternity brothers were Pre-law and they loved discussing how and why the constitution was written they way it was and why the Bill of RIghts exists. The reason why the 1st Amendment is the 1st Amendment was because the British authorities used to use the sedition and treason laws for anything they liked. American colonials who disagreed with British officers risked getting hanged. Its one reason why it almost impossible to get Trump on treason or sedition. American law has a very narrow definition of Treason and the 1st Amendment makes sedition almost impossible to prosecute except for military personnel because the UCMJ precludes any 1st Amendment claim. The British did similar here in Australia, but not as bad in most ways. And before you yell at me being Australian that I do recognize the Papuan flag and am fully aware of Australia's colonial past and that we got many things wrong and some of them very seriously wrong. And don't be an ass hole on the dates when EVERY AMERICAN and half the civilized world recognizes the year 1776. July 4, 1776 was THE DATE the continental congress ratified its Declaration of Independence. Don't try and tell an American some other revisionist garbage, as I can assure you that you wont like the response.
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  8943.  @tribalismblindsthembutnoty124  I think you missed the point of the quote. Go read some of the other comments on this page.
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  8944.  @BigDG80  Wrong City for that. You have to go to to one of those horrible west coast hippie places where there is so little police coverage they need to send in people who really know how to deny people their rights. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't those clowns violate the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 10th Amendments. I think they should try harder in future that only got 50% of the bill of rights. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8945. Ramaswamy is just nothing but a smug arrogant Harvard-Yale educated clown who thinks his SHlT doesn't stink. When Fox & Friends can fact check you in real time your then your SHlT stinks so bad, aliens in the next galaxy are wondering what the smell is!
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  8946. Only if you want to teach school children how to lie convincingly in public. SORRY but GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  8947. Go look up a lecture Scottish Political-Economist Mark Blyth did in July 2019 at McMaster in Canada. Its here on YouTube. During the Q&A He's asked to comment on Bitcoin (the answer starts at 1:17:50) Listen for what the Chinese have labelled it.
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  8948.  @ClarkPotter  At least trying WHAT exactly? I have repeatedly told people his kicking the auto industry out of its lethargy is great and breaking the stranglehold Boeing and others had on NASA & Spaceflight IS FANTASTIC. BUT that does NOT excuse the stupid things he's done and the stupid things he keeps doing. Do you know he's one of the major reasons there are supply chain issues across the entire Western World? Yeah all his BS crap talk over driverless trucks caused people to NOT train as truck drivers. There's now a world wide shortage of truck drivers. That's a huge part of the supply chain issues as we come out of COVID. Is the single main reason? NO, but he's a major component. Then there's the whole SolarCity debacle, where he ripped off the Tesla shareholders to bailout his own cock up and SolarCity was a disaster.
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  8949. BIGGER BOMBSHELL - The Iranian Prime Minister from the time told this story years ago. The rest of the world accepted what he said its just that America wouldn't.
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  8950. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE who also has a pilots license I am tired of people like Kyle oversimplifying this and making stupid claims. 1) The Boeing Max-8 DID WORK. It made 1,000s and 1,000s of successful flights, was fuel efficient and made money for its owners; BUT 2) It had a hidden flaw that is one of the WORST cases of bad engineering in history. There's also nothing abnormal about high performance planes having nasty stalling characteristics and that's especially true of passenger jets. Test Pilots have crashed and been killed doing basic stall tests after maintenance when they have gone to check things before putting the plane back into service. These planes are NOT designed to be stalled the priority is on making them fly as fuel efficiently as possible from one place to the next. The problem with the MAX-8 was NOT that it was more prone to stalling than previous 737 variants but that the pilots were never told that it was and with that they were also not told about the MCAS system. Why Kyle and many others keep saying stupid things is beyond me. Why they can't ask a pilot or an engineer to explain it is beyond me.
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  8951. THIS IS A GREAT WAY TO SHOW THE WORLD WE CAN BE JUST AS DUMB AS ANY OF THEM. We have COVID results that most of the world is envious of and these morons want to throw all that hard work away. What next - maybe some of these clowns want Trump to be our next PM? 👉🤯
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  8952. As to the answer to the title of this video - WHO'S SURPRISED. If people told me Dershowitz was blaming Joe Bidens old dog for eating the evidence of his innocence, YEAH that's plausible because this guy will blame ANYTHING and ANYONE except the guilty. He and Giuliani are the poster boys for why we hate lawyers.
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  8953. Do you know who this guy actually is? He's one of the main proponents of "offensive realism" out of the University of Chicago the home of the neocons and neoconservative ideology. He represents THE OTHER SIDE of American political ideology - American Realism as opposed to American Liberalism. I saw one of his lectures a couple of weeks ago that he did at Yale in November 2017 and it was BRILLIANT. I have never seen anyone explain why a particular political party did or was doing what it was. For anyone who wants to know WHY Ukraine eventually happened, it was the 2nd of 3 lectures on Liberal Hegemony November 2017. BUT and this is the GIANT BUT I have with this guy. His side gave the world the Invasion of Iraq for which there was no reason other than the neo-cons (his people) wanted regime change in the middle east. That cost America over a trillion dollars and cost 4,431 American lives. That's over 1,400 more than died on 9/11. It might be more pronounced in America but there's a horrible fact about Western politics that's become pervasive. and its best summed up by "What my side does is righteous and what their side does is wrong." Its an infantile selfishness that's making a mess of the world. Its like 5 year olds fighting over a sand castle. I'm Australian and we have it here, its just not as bad as America. Trump just declared everyone who didn't vote for him "the enemy." How infantile is that. Donald Trump called over 180 million American citizens "the enemy" of America. Mearsheimer's description of the American liberals is flawless and his criticism warranted, BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE if Biden was a Republican neo-con he'd be singing how righteous America's response is.
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  8954.  @meshzzizk  BULLSHIT I didn't say he was for or against Iraq. His side of American politics THE NEOCONS did start the Invasion of Iraq. They DID lie and the DID torture people. He's teaches at the place University of Chicago where neoconservatism was born. He's one of the leading proponents of their ideology - "offensive realism." Go read what I actually said. Mearsheimer's right the American Liberals can't stop interfering in other countries because its hardwired into them. What I find repulsive is that its ALSO hardwired into his side to interfere in other countries as well.
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  8955.  @quetailion6762  Actually among the American right he is certainly a leading voice and even more so in his niche "offensive realism." If you want to see some harsh criticism of him Peter Zeihan the geopolitical strategist was asked about part of his recent comments. Its here at 53:44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdP01go8wdQ
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  8956. I hate to break everyone's balls on PART of this. She's actually right that America does not have the energy grid set up for shifting everyone to electric cars and that nobody has a real DETAILED plan to get there, BUT THE REASON WHY there's no plan or progress is because of people like MTG. Remember the now infamous Exxon memo that told their people the plan was to delay all action on climate change for as long as possible? That and other factors, including narcissistic liars such as MTG, are combining into a perfect storm. Here's an explanation sorry if its longish. I'm an Australian engineer who went to college in America. We have the same problem here in Australia and the same problem is in Europe and Asia. This isn't simply an electric car or environmental issue. A few years ago I became aware of how badly Australia's energy grid was being managed. After the 1990s we just stopped building major power stations. By Major I mean those greater than 1,000 Megawatts (1 Gigawatt). Power plants like Diablo Canyon in California, which is 2256MW and Eraring in Australia, which is 2880MW. Diablo Canyon of 36 years old and Eraring is 40 years old. Most power stations are built for 25 years of life which they extend with rebuilds to 40 or more years. Think about how many of you have cars older than 25 years let alone 40. These are the big power stations that underpin our energy grids and keep modern society running. When I looked around its the same everywhere across the entire developed world. Except in China and a few rare cases we all stopped building new coal fired plants because of CO2 emissions. After Chernobyl and Fukushima everyone stopped building nuclear power plants. The problem has been masked by new wind and solar combined with more efficient appliances and lights, but we are starting to hit limits there. The problem is like we are running towards a cliff and people are too busy playing politics. All of our major power plants are now old and only getting older and less reliable. Here in Oz we are at the cliffs edge with old unreliable power stations. So there's not only a shortage of energy supply just to keep society going we don't have enough energy generation to change to electric cars. That's all before we ask where is all this Lithium to make the batteries coming from. Elon Musk's new mega-battery wont be able to make 3% of what's needed and that's by his estimates. So MTG's right that the infrastructure isn't there, BUT her fossil fuel friends ARE THE PROBLEM with getting it done. If there is one thing I'd fault David on is his oversimplification of the plan. Yes there is a general plan but NO there is NOT a detailed plan and the "devil is in the details." Its very frustrating to be an engineer when other people oversimplify what needs to be done. Things like where's all the lithium coming from for the batteries? And then how are we going to make that many batteries? Who's going to build all these new factories? David doesn't have to answer those questions but engineers do. Sorry for he longish comment.
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  8957.  @knackyknack  Sorry but 1984 was about totalitarianism, which can easily occur from any absolutist state. Orwell hated (and rightly so) the radical left wing states of Eastern Europe. But you can also get totalitarian states from the right almost as easily from right wing states. Just look at how many right wing revolutions that America sponsored that ended up as disasters with totalitarian regimes. Go look them up you'll fid plenty of examples across the world from Central & South America to Africa, Asia and the middle East, but arguably one of the best examples is Iran. Your part right Trump was a dick more than a dictator, but he was dictatorial (as in how he behaved). He might not have had them shot but the revolving door at the White House saw just as much action as the death camps many dictators have had. Maybe that's why he cozied up to some of the worst on the planet - he wanted to find out how to get it done. If there's one thing no American has mentioned yet (or maybe they have) what these last few weeks have shown is that the American system has survived. Its been challenged in a way nobody ever expected it to be and its still there or at least its still there so far. Many other countries and empires have not survived this sort of challenge - the Russian Monarchy didn't, the Soviet Empire didn't, the French Monarchy didn't. The Chinese did but they used tanks on unarmed civilians.
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  8958.  @knackyknack  Your second quote is one I haven't heard and its right in line with what I keep trying to tell Americans. They scream and rant about socialism but have no idea what it means. There definition of socialism comes form one thing USSR where that second S is for Socialist. By the same notion East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic and North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea should have made us all hate these things call Democratic Republics because they were/are horrible places where basic human rights and freedoms meant nothing. I'm an engineer and when we label or define something it has meaning and it has to be consistent. In politics labels and definitions mean nothing other than the current context. Thanks for that Orwell Quote, that's ben copied to my collection.
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  8959.  @curthennig9448  Where's Lindsay Graham? Maybe, just maybe he's cruising around Washington looking for his next male prostitute to charge to his government credit card?
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  8960. Bullsh1T, horsesh1t, crapsh1t and every other kind of sh1t you care to consider. It was always about 1 thing - getting Europe to buy American LNG instead of Russian LNG. Go look at Peters discussions where he shows the satellite photograph of America at night where it shows the Bakken shale oil field and all the gas they just burn off. Off all the stupid things Americans do its one of the worst, but they've woken up and now know they can sell it for money. What they need is a willing market wanting to buy boat loads of LNG. If America gets the Germans to get off Russian gas then America gets a market to sell gas into. As usual American foreign policy is first and foremost about oil & gas.
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  8961.  @InXLsisDeo  Yeah thanks. I don't know what worse - the result or the fact NONE of the analysts on either side seem to get what has happened let alone understand it.
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  8962.  @gregorytaylor9104  NO A 1000 TIMES NO It was nothing but people saying look at our situation. they didn't give a damn about any political ideology or much else. They were never asking for people to analyze anything. All they asked was for people to open their eyes and look at the situation. WHY TF does every clown have to try and read stuff into things that were never there. The next clown after this girl quoted the Oxford dictionary for "woke." It might represent what some people think or perceive woke means NOW but its NOT what woke meant at the start.
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  8963.  @akg7873  First my comment was a general statement on the reality that EVERY tribe and cultural group ahs bad people who claim to be the protectors of that groups historical identity AND THAT STILL HOLDS. SECOND what polls are you talking about, what question did they actually ask and what information did they base the questions on? Because I find it damn hard to accept that 95% of Israelis believe that killing 15,000 children who had NOTHING to do with the attacks on October 7th (10/7) as acceptable behavior. ALSO - What were those polls BEFORE October 7th looking like? Prof. Mark Blyth from Brown U. pointed out that the targets for the 10/7 attacks included many Jews (like those at the concert) more likely to support a 2 state solution and how the 10/7 attacks have switched that view. He said he'd seen a massive switch among liberal Jewish people he knew in response to 10/7. ALSO - Are you aware of the polls among Palestinians in Gaza BEFORE October 7th. Hamas was losing support at an incredibly rapid rate. Their management of Gaza was atrocious and rife with corruption. Most of Gaza was fed up with them and had there been elections they would have been tossed out. But with the insanity of the Israeli response Hamas's support has risen. The craziest part of this is that the 2 main protagonists and instigators of this catastrophe (Hamas and Netanyahu's Zionists) were BOTH losing support among their people AND NOW have MORE support. So I find your comment to be insanely ignorant.
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  8964.  @firebyrd437  Yeah and go look at the reply I just got from another person in this thread. This is the insanity of our time. People are unable to discern reality despite the abundance of evidence right before their eyes. I just watched John Mearsheimer lecture/talk that was from 17 May at the Australian Center of Independent Studies here on YouTube. Let me be clear I do NOT support the CIS at all. Tom Switzer the host is a sleazy mutt on his best days. I also don't like Mearsheimer's ideology, BUT I do respect his political analysis. On that he's always worth watching. My main argument with Mearsheimer is that he never critiques his own ideology with the vigor he critiques others. That said the title of that video is "Why Israel is in deep trouble: John Mearsheimer with Tom Switzer" and its totally worth watching. He does make one massive technological mistake regarding Iran and nuclear weapons but then I'm an engineer and knew he was wrong the moment he said certain things. In that he's no different to many others when it comes to explaining technology. I did write a lengthy comment on that subject and simply wished non-technical people would leave technology discussions to STEM people or at least check with us first.
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  8965.  @zenri5363  All those confessors who tortured 1,000s and burned people alive at the stake during the various inquisitions also believed in Jesus AND we can say many similar things for those who had other religious beliefs and those who didn't believe in any god at all. Pol Pot was a godless communist and he tried to kill off 2/3rds of his nation but only managed 1/3rd. Stalin was a godless socialist and he murdered, enslaved and imprisoned millions of his own people. Go and look into some of what happened in the America's before European settlement. No Christians or Muslims or Jews anywhere and many of them practised human sacrifice at industrial levels. They used to literally paint their temples in human blood. Human history is drenched in misery, blood and guts and almost always at the hands of a leader proudly standing out front telling everyone how much they cared. Often with the claim as the TRUE protector of their nations culture.
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  8966.  @almostthere6098  NO I think the Netanyahu crowd THINKS its bigger than it is. They certainly have more money and more control of the political narrative.
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  8967. TO ALL: Prof Mark Blyth has been speaking about this stuff for years now. Here's a snippet out of one of his talks from 2013 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6748QARegxU In more recent times he's mentioned the elephant graph Branco Milanovic put together as part of his explanation of "Angrynomics" Here's an explanation of that graph. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1oHJezqBYU
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  8968. ENGINEER HERE: Normally I would agree 100% with Thunderf00t, but there is a major problem he has missed with the whole carbon capture system and there's simply NO WAY to power it. EVERY VERSION of CARBON CAPTURE REQUIRES ENERGY and by far the single biggest issue facing society right now is energy. I first became aware of the energy issue during a small consulting job in 2016 into Australia's (my country's) future energy needs. Ignoring other things Australia has 22.6 GW of coal fired power to be replaced. Just like many other countries there is no way around this BECAUSE they are OLD and WEARING OUT and HAVE TO BE REPLACED ANYWAY. That build out also has to be double that amount because of population growth. Using Hinkley Point C which is the nuclear power station being constructed in Britain we can get the cost of what it would take Australia to replace that 22.6GW with LOW EMISSION nuclear. Its AU$440 Billion but when you add in expected population growth that doubles to AU$880 Billion. Then when you add in the extra power needed for all the electric cars we want it goes over AU$ 1 Trillion. When you add the power grid upgrades needed it costs around AU$2 TRILLION. I AM NOT AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER but I am calling you and many others out on what it actually costs to do what the job that exists will take. If its going to cost Australia AU$2 Trillion what do you think its going to cost all the other countries around the world with similar problems? Simply put the CO2 removal from the atmosphere has to be done with A LOW ENERGY SYSTEM and I am sorry but that means trees. YES I AGREE with Thunderf00t 100% that doing this with trees will take a monumental world encompassing program and that none of the tree hugging Greenies understand SHlT about what it will take, but trees don't need to be plugged into anything because they're solar powered. At a basic concept it means something like every person on the planet planting 1,000 trees and hoping that 1 in 10 make it to maturity. But those 800 Billion trees that survive to maturity should capture several Trillion tons of Carbon over the next 20-30 years and we need to be thinking about and talking on a level of Trillions of tons. Just so none of you think I'm crazy Statista has the global emissions on graph going from 1940 to 2022. It took the 44 years from 1940 to 1984 to emit 500 Million tons. It took the 21 years to 2005 to emit the second 500 Million tons (making 1 Trillion tons) It took the 15 years to 2020 for the next 500 Million tons making it 1.5 trillion tons of cumulative emissions since 1940. At the current rate of 37 Billion tons a year we'll reach 2 Trillion tons of cumulative emissions around 2033. Sorry TF (and I love your channel) but nobody's mechanical or chemical carbon capture solution is going to work if its needs energy and trees don't need to be plugged in to a power station to work. They only require muscle energy to plant them.
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  8969.  @sanji572  Nobody's denying its a hostile act. What we need to start asking is why did Putin do it? Looking at a couple of his recent speeches he's not as steady and calm as I have seen him in the past. Its barely noticeable but he's shaking at times or little twitches. He's always sat there calm and in control. He's come across as dismissive and "I'm cool and I don't care what you say or think." So why did he do it? It doesn't matter when Ukraine applied they now have a disputed border. He knows that the west knows that. So why do anything, let alone something so drastic with rhetoric so absurd? There's something we are NOT being told.
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  8970.  @justsaying14  What have I lied about DlCK-HED All I have said is maybe this is just a giant prank.
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  8971.  @tmcd5049  Why TF would my name be George DlCK-HED. Like the other clown earlier all I am suggesting is MAYBE, YES MAYBE this is a prank. Seriously if I told you 3 months ago that an openly gay candidate would win for the GOP and NOBODY would find out until afterwards that he's not gay and his entire resume is made up. Would you believe that story?
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  8972.  @tmcd5049  Go read the crappy replies I got earlier and go look at your own and think how it came across. Go take a look in the mirror and ask yourself if the world needs yet another pretentious clown to add to the oversupply it already has.
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  8973. GERRAD HOLLAND IS A COWARD I am an engineer and he deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  8974. I'm wondering if this is all just one giant joke like an SNL skit. I will not be surprised if he just turns around in the next few weeks and says: GOTCHA I wont be surprised if he's making a film titled "Politics: It's really this Stupid!"
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  8975. Well the Trail of Tears was NOT a mass deportation. Because deporting people is when you remove them form your country. The Trail of tears was an forced relocation and ethnic cleansing of a great slab of America so that settlers could move in.
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  8976. FOR ANYONE INTERESTED I checked on the name Reiner Ruellmich and all I found was a Dr. Reiner Fuellmich (with an F). My search turned up a German born Lawyer based in Los Angles and registered with the California Bar Association. Go look him up if you like, but from all I can see he is a garbage lawyer seeking ridiculous claims against the entire world for the pandemic. He is supposedly part of some COVID committee (the German Corona investigation committee) hearing evidence from professionals, but that seems about as credible as Giuliani's so called hearings into election fraud as in its a "self appointed" not Government or other official appointed committee. I did not find out what the Dr. title is for. All I kept seeing is that he is a consumer protection lawyer NOT a lawyer who handles medical damages and claims.
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  8977. I'm Australian and I can tell you its the same here. There's a really good lecture by John Mearsheimer on Liberal Hegemony that he gave at Yale in 2017. Yeah I know Mearsheimer is another University of Chicago goon, but he's an incredibly intelligent goon and his analysis of American Liberals and how they behave in the foreign sphere is 100% spot on. His main point is that its hardwired into American Liberal ideology that if they think any country is not doing what they would do then they are obliged to fix it. Which is what we saw American Liberals do all through Eastern Europe after the end of the Cold War and what they tried to do in Iraq and Afghanistan. What I hate about Mearsheimer is his lack of a similar critique of American Libertarians who not only interfere in other countries but do so in some of the most vicious and ruthless ways imaginable. They have this insane attitude that American profits come first and anything that's out there for the taking should be grabbed AND ANYTHING that might prevent future grabs is to be prevented at all costs which is why they helped fund the Libertarian backed NO Campaign in the recent Australian referendum with a mountain of lies and misdirection.
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  8978. ​ @lessimcdowell9897  that's a good point and the bit I'd say is that liberty isn't an economic or political term and it can be part of almost any political or economic narrative. These days however its pretty much applies to that side of American ideology that believes in the almost anarchist idea that the government should be as small as possible. As Milton Freidman said “Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.” The problem is most American Libertarians actually believe that their liberty supersedes the liberties of other people. Its a case of "I want what I want, f-ck you!"
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  8979.  @RyTrapp0  Obviously you aren't paying attention to the child labor laws being pushed in several states. But then Americans seem to be proud of their ignorance and by ignorance I mean the fact you IGNORE stuff.
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  8980.  @Mr_Fairdale  As I just said to the other clown go check the child labor laws several states are enacting.
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  8981.  @USandGlobal  I know it hurts but try thinking. Its not a crime.
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  8982.  @Mr_Fairdale  Fark you lot are sensitive toady aren't you. Did I hit a raw nerve or something. I actually like lot about America. I love things like college sport, NASCAR and the NFL - go Niners. BUT your farking politics and economics that you have rammed down the throats of the rest of the world is wearing thin. The BS and fantasy about America being true and righteous annoys the hell out of the other 7.7 Billion people on the planet. Its made worse by the idiotic IGNORANCE Americans have about the rest of the world and in particular what American corporations get up to.
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  8983.  @ricoismydaddy2232  Then open your eyes and look SOUTH for the burning crosses. Yes they are a small minority but don't try and deny that they exist. FYI - EVERY society has them. It might not be that obvious but they're there.
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  8984. Yeah it will be the one Mexico pays for.
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  8985. Australian here and I went to college in America. Your not quite right. What they voted for was CHANGE just like they did in 2016. What they have done is REJECT the Status Quo politics of the Democrats and that's NOT an American thing either. This is happening across the developed world. People are tired of the Liberal Elites and their Status Quo politics where they get what they want and the rest of us get left out. There's a Congressional Budget Office report on Family Wealth that Bernie Sanders commissioned. It shows that form 1989 to 2019 the Bottom 50% of America went NOWHERE while the Top 10% GAINED close to $60 Trillion in wealth. Here's the most basic data. Bottom 50% in 1989 were worth $1.4 Trillion and in 2019 they were worth $2.3 Trillion a gain of $0.9 Trillion Top 10% in 1989 were worth $24.3 Trillion and in 2019 they were worth $82.4 Trillion a gain of $58.1 Trillion So the Top 105 with 1/5th as many people gained over 60x what the Bottom 50% gained over those 30 years. Per person those Top 10% gained over 300x as much wealth per person in the Bottom 50% Just go and google "congressional budget office family wealth" Its the report NO Democrat or Republican wants any American to see because it lays bare just how bad BOTH have been in managing America's economy. So when Hilary said "more of the same" she asked to get rejected and she was. And when Kamala said "I'd do nothing different" she asked to be rejected and she was. Trump tapped into the "we want change" undercurrent that's been building in America for decades. AND YES we have the same issue here in Australia AND BOTH SIDES of politics here refuse to acknowledge it.
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  8986. That's a good way to put it because the one grievance I have with Konstantin's argument is that one is worse than the other AND THAT'S INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS because that feeds the "we aren't as bad as them" mantra that fanatics OF ALL TYPES have used through history to justify atrocities. I'm somebody who cannot stand it when people let their ideology (political or religious) override logic and common sense and deny the evidence that's right in front of them. I have that issue with Lefties as much as with Right wingers - they both do it. They like to talk about nuance and then throw nuance out the door like Konstantin did with this argument. There's a great line in the film "Enemy at the Gates" where Joseph Fiennes character says something like "Does it matter if our men are shot with German or Russian bullets?" It was in reply to the fact the Russians machinegunned any of their troops who retreated. There is no worse between Facism and Communism or any other "ism" when you let it go unchallenged because when it goes unchallenged you get the maniacs like Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot,.... etc. and all the misery they bring.
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  8987. To both of you (and any others) this is why the rest of the world is getting more and more scared of America. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). I remember arguing with frat brothers that if America wasn't careful it could lose all that was great about it. They used to argue that the US constitution guaranteed that America could not go the way other nations had. Their 3 favorite reasons why America could never fall into the disaster that Soviet Russia was were: The 1st Amendment, The 4th Amendment and SCOTUS. If the government did something then the entire nation would find out via the free press. If the government wanted touch you then they couldn't because the 4th Amendment protected them from the "police state". Yes they used to explain the other Amendments (mostly the ones about trials). BUT MOST OF ALL they contended that SCOTUS would protect all their basic rights. My favorite argument with Trump trolls is "How do you explain that Trump signed away your 4th Amendment rights tot he NSA?" I then like to remind them the NSA is scanning all social media including their comments. I would love to catch up with all the guys again, maybe this year it finally will. Because I would love to ask them all "How come you guys said all this stuff couldn't happen and yet it has." Even the 1st Amendment is being trampled on. As an Australia we've all watched the Assange fiasco. I know that in the past that would have been laughed out of court of 1st Amendment issues. Not just for the press freedom either. The grievance issue would/could/should make it a slam dunk.
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  8988. To Everyone, I stopped this at 37 seconds for the simple reason that Rubin is talking about Austerity as a way to make an economy grow when its in trouble. BEEN TRIED NEVER WORKED ONCE ANYWHERE ask the Greeks, Italian, Spanish, etc. Prof Mark Blyth from Brown U. has spoke about this extensively. Here's the 5:35 version on why Dave Rubin really is stupid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2bVGi0ReE There's dozens of talks here on YT by Mark Blyth and others explaining this in detail. FYI - I'm an Australian engineer who spent a chunk of COVID time looking into economics and how it works so that after COVID I'd be able to deal with managers with economics degrees. I like Mark Blyth because he talks in a way that suits me. Part of his work at the Watson Institute includes interviewing other people like Stephanie Kelton, Adam Tooze and others. They are all saying we need NEW economics NOT repeats of stuff we know doesn't work like Rubin's saying. For those of you in America please get through to Kyle & Krystal and get them to have people like Mark Blyth & Stephanie Kelton on. Don't just say Rubin is stupid ACTUALLY have people on who can EXPLAIN WHY he's stupid.
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  8989.  @leonardtaylor6526  Don't go down that path unless you want to make fun of the pro Trump evangelists and even that's a very risky comment.
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  8990.  @kathleenwyatt563  less a matter of will and more a matter of "have to." And more than that is "have to succeed," because anything else is is pretty close to an unthinkable outcome. Just remember when it comes to dealing with some of those things America wont be alone you will be joining others.
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  8991.  @leonardtaylor6526  Trying to be helpful. There are people trolling around who like to provoke people and then when people respond back they complain to YouTube and get them kicked off. I responded to a Trumpists claims and got an account cancelled. They don't like being told they are d--kheads. PLUS I was pointing out the channel they were all raging on was scamming them. It was asking for money to "help support bringing the truth out." No offense was meant, just a watch out for the Trumpsters they can't handle facts. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  8992.  @jlepage36  Your half right in that "The point of getting Trump in office was not policy, ideals, or trust." is absolutely true. The bit on deliberately wanting to damage America isn't correct. It was more like an impetuous howling scream at the establishment. In other parts of the world like Britain, Australia and Canada, its called a protest vote. Its when people don't for someone they vote AGAINST someone or something. Recently on a panel Prof. Richard Wolff used the example of West Virginia which was at one point as blue as blue could get. Prof. Wolff teaches was one of David's college professors and has been on David's show in the past. He teaches Marxism and preaches against Capitalism. YET on this panel than included Prof. Mark Blyth from Brown who's a left progressive as well, they explained why those people voted Trump and defended it. People forget that in 2016 before trump beat Hilary his base rejected 16 GOP establishment candidates. Here's a link (time stamped) to where they talk about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s
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  8993.  @seanb9698  Part o fit is he tapped into the frustration of a slab of disenfranchised America and recognized they'd been screwed by both the DNC & GOP establishments. Sadly Trump mislead and lied to them even worse than the DNC & GOP ever did. The biggest problem that both the DNC & GOP now have is the 74 million people who lost so much faith in them they voted for Trump. The biggest question both the DNC and GOP have to ask is "How to we reconnect these people with reality?" So far BOTH are failing. The GOP keep feeding the delusions and the DNC don't care so long as it gives them something to point a finger at.
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  8994.  @Frenchblue8  Which comment are you replying to I made 2. I don't think your wrong on any part of what Trump's motivations were or still are. He's a narcissistic sociopath so he'll do what ever he wants next and not care about anybody in the road. But neither of my comments are about Donald trumps motivations and neither is the comment that started this thread. They are about the people who have been drawn into his BS and what motivates them. You haven't refuted anything that I or anyone else in this thread has said. I doubt you looked at what Richard Wolff or Mark Blyth said about what motivated Trump voters -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s I suggest you really go have a look at that if you and others want to avoid another Trump Presidency in 2024.
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  8995.  @loisfeinberg3932  I did engineering, but in my "humanities options" that was supposed to make me a more well rounded person I did psych 1010, sociology 101, economics 101 and another sociology class on technology and society. So I am not expert on psychology, sociology or economics BUT then I don't need to be because its that obvious. Trump's a narcissistic sociopath as in he's hyper self centered and doesn't empathize with hos base or the damage he's done them. He's used basic group psychology to sell himself to a disenfranchised mob who feel they have been left out and left behind. He didn't have to limit their information stream because Rupert Murdoch had already done that for him. If you want to add word to Trump's narcissistic sociopath it would be opportunist because that what he's done a lot of - seized opportunity.
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  8996. I'm an Australian who went to college in America (late 80s) and have been warning that this is a huge issue to Australia, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Britain, Europe, the Philippines and many others. For so many America is our most important trading partner and MORE IMPORTANTLY our most important security partner. Like others we've staked our security future on things like the F35.
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  8997. As an engineer let me put it this way. Considering the malignant epidemic of technical ignorance that constantly bedazzles the general public anytime somebody does yet another over-hyped story of "wow-wee future tech" that you all suck down into your vacuous brains then NOBODY should expect many people to notice if the BULLSHlT they are being told comes from a clown or an AI. Yesterday 40,000 children died because we didn't feed them, today another 40,000 will die because we aren't feeding them and tomorrow another 40,000 will die because we don't have food for them. And that's before we get onto the 10s of 1000s who will die from simple infections and other easily dealt with ailments. MEANWHILE we have a room full of idiots who think being able to photoshop better is worth spending millions of dollars on. I heard a term recently "Scientism." Its the ideology that science and technology will somehow magically fix everything. As an engineer I don't know which form of technology will magically start feeding children or the magical tech that will fix the climate WHEN M0R0NS keep thinking this crap is more important.
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  8998.  @Paint-brigade1776  I got 2 words for you. One word is OFF see if your lizard brain can guess the other!!!!
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  8999. Yeah its about that stupid. Lets not forget that these nations fight each other as often as they shake hands. Its not a stupid concept to move away from the US$ especially considering the socio-political issues that are currently tearing America down the middle as well as America's attitude to foreign affairs BUT shifting control to countries that OPENLY execute dissidents or assassinates them and are so rife with corruption that its actually part of their standard practices IS NOT A SOLUTION.
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  9000. The single most ridiculous aspect of Trumps claim is that America has repeatedly dragged other foreign leaders in front of courts and held them accountable. Slobodan Milošević (Sebia), Charles Taylor (Liberia) and most notably Saddam Hussein (Iraq) were all political leaders that America helped hold accountable.
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  9001.  @nichellegerkin1677  then how would any of them get elected in the first place?????
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  9002.  @JodiSamurai  Absolutely but then WHAT HAS BIDEN DONE? There's all these claims by clowns like Comer and they have done all this investigating AND NOTHING has been found. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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  9003. I'm Australian and been trying to warn about this garbage with Trump for months now. This nonsense of NOT putting Trump and his pack of Jan 6th organisers in jail right after that was always going to end up a problem for other nations. Its a shame Thom hasn't also mentioned the tensions in Fiji after their recent election or the ongoing issues in other pacific nations. WAKE UP AMERICA and DEL WITH TRUMP
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  9004. AEROSPACE ENIGNEER HERE: there's a very simple logical thought process to the "Are we alone question?" It comes up with an interesting answer. 1) If you are someone who believes in God or Gods, angles, cherubs, spirits,...etc then you are a person who believes we are not alone because you believe there are these other non-human beings with variations of intelligence that we have had various interactions with. You therefore believe we are NOT ALONE. 2) If you are a person who believes in the accepted scientific explanation of evolution then considering how many planets we now know that life must exist somewhere else. It does not matter if you think the occurrence of life and the development of intelligence is common or rare the fact is you believe we are NOT ALONE. 3) You believe we are a unique accident of the universe and that this planet is the only place to have ever developed life and intelligence anywhere in the universe. To have that belief you NEITHER believe in the religious accounts of billions of people NOR the Scientific explanations of billions more. You are therefore very, very rare. The amazing thing about all 3 of these answers is that NONE of the proponents can prove or disprove their claim or the disprove the claims of the other 2. Most importantly RIGHT NOW it doesn't really matter if you believe in any of the 1000s of religions or in science BECAUSE you can't prove anything. For most of us we believe we are NOT ALONE and its only the very rarest of people who believe we are alone in the universe. The more relevant question people should isn't "Are we alone?" Because most of us for various reason believe we are NOT alone. The relevant question is "Where are they and can they help?" My answer to everyone who can process that logic and get to that question is: "If you were a superior species to humanity, which you'd have to be to build & seed planets or travel across interstellar space, and you looked at us and investigated our history and noted how we treat each other and this planet, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?"
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  9005.  @richardbell1427  DlCKHEADS like you have excuses for everything. The clown who testified couldn't produce any evidence BECAUSE HE NEVER HAD ANY TO BEGIN WITH. Everything he said was a case of "I heard this" or "I heard that." It was one of the sorriest jokes in recent times.
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  9006. If Donald Trump truly was a Christian he'd give the Bibles to Oklahoma. Jesus didn't charge admission to the Sermon on Mount and threw the grifters out of the temple in Jerusalem.
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  9007. AUSTRALIAN HERE: The stupidity of this argument is that NOBODY WITH A FUNCTIONING BRAIN should have wanted Trump back after the first 4 years and yet 77,302,580 did which was more than the 74,223,975 who voted for him in 2020 and a lot more than the 62,984,828 who voted for him in 2016. When America's Left actually wakes the EFF up and realises that the Dum-o-crats are the most inept party on the planet and understand that putting forward a viable candidate with a appeal and a policy platform that PEOPEL CAN UNDERSTAND then sure the other 7.7 billion people on the planet might agree that we'll only have 3 years and 10 more months of Trump.
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  9008. Here's the link to the guardians series on Pegasus -> https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project
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  9009. Yep and its being promoted by Matt "how old is she" Gaetz. Their hypocrisy knows no limits.
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  9010. What you're pointing out is yet another ugly case of Dunning Kruger Syndrome. This clown is another person who thinks because he can use technology (computer, video, video editing software, etc.) that he's technically literate. I'm an aerospace engineer and some of the stuff I see published is atrocious but the comments are even worse. Its another aerospace engineer, Emily Callendrelli, who I think hit the nail right on the head in TEDx talk a couple of years ago about STEM education and STEM literacy. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9haKpJakU4 I'd put the issue of STEM literacy among journalists and media content producers as one of the biggest issues the world has right now. How do we have sensible public discussions about transportation or energy production or water management or climate change when the people speaking are technically illiterate?
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  9011.  @terrypussypower  Yeah I know about the scientific method having been trained in it. Actually most scientific fraud NEVER gets exposed, because its not in anyone's interest to publish the facts. I have worked in research and seen it first hand. In both my first and second jobs out of college I saw FIRST HAND both academic and financial fraud. Its why I left that world and have never been back. I can tell by your comment you have never been in research and seen what goes on. people think peer reviewed means its an independent and honest review. That's not always the case. There are the online journals that claim to be peer reviewed. Many of them exist for making money. Anyone can publish almost anything if they pay. Its a real problem and others have spoken about it and a couple have produced really good vids on the subject.
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  9012.  @terrypussypower  I'm in engineering and my research was in engineering and it was in engineering where I saw both academic and financial fraud. So don't BS on about esoteric fields. Clearly you've never worked in research or you'd know what goes on. The tragedy is that there are many people who work their butts off to do great work. But like any field of endeavour sh*t finds a way to float to the top.
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  9013. IF THIS IS TRUE then Trump is done. If the Federalist Society has dumped him then there is NO COMEBACK because they control SCOTUS. Either these 2 have split from the main core of the FS run by people like Leonard Leo which has over a $$ Billion to fund campaigns with or Trump really is done. This might be a case of the FS pulling back from all the nonsense with the people they have put on SCOTUS and they are sacrificing Trump and throwing him under the bus to save the rest of their power.
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  9014. Just a quick addition. I know that since 1940 we have added 1.5 Trillion tons of C02 because I have that data because its well published. And I know that at current rates 1.5 becomes 2.0 Trillion tons in about 2033-34. I am not as sure as the 2.5 to date which you said was 1.7 Trillion tons. I think there is some contention over the pre-1940 data and what the "normal level" is supposed to be. If you look at the historical CO2 graph that NOAA and others publish then it should be below 270ppm for a normal Milankovitch cycle, except there was that event about 200,000 years ago that had one cycle hit 300ppm. Irrespective getting the current 415ppm back down will take a geoengineering effort of staggering scale. The only viable way that I can see it being done is a massive worldwide re-forestation program. We have to see trees as very cheap low maintenance solar powered carbon pumps. The issue is the number we need. In ball park terms we need every person on the planet to physically plant themselves or have others plant for them 1,000 trees. Hoping that we get 1-2 in every 8 survive to adulthood then we'd have 1-2 Trillion trees each pulling 1-2 tons of Carbon from the air. Every other plane like seeding the ocean with iron to promote algae growth or seeding the upper atmosphere with SO2 has major issues in that NOBODY KNOWS what the secondary effects would be. The SO2 idea is the most off the deep end thing I have heard yet. What if it doesn't work? What if it works to well? What if they get it wrong and all that SO2 falls out of the sky as sulphuric acid AND its the same sort of questions for iron seeding the ocean. In the end it comes down to doing something we know will work and we know trees work. We just have to do it at the scale that is needed.
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  9015. Australian with an outside view: In 2020 74,223,975 people voted for Trump and in 2024 73,407,934 voted for Trump ALMOST 1 million FEWER In 2020 81,283,501 people voted for Biden and in 2024 69,076,028 voted for Harris OVER 12 million FEWER. This is the opposite to what's been happening in American elections over the last few cycles. 2000 105,421,423 2004 122,295,345 2008 131,313,820 2012 129,085,410 2016 136,669,276 2020 158,429,631 2024 142,380,403 Except for 2012 when there was a slight decrease American elections have been getting larger and larger turnouts which should NOT be surprising because America's population has been steadily growing from the 282 million in 2000 to the current 335 million. The TRUE RESULT of this election is that almost 16 million Americans saying "we don't care anymore" which is part of the general feeling across the entire developed world that NOTHING CHANGES no matter who we vote for. Go and look up a 2022 Congressional Budget Office on Family Wealth. I have checked the Australian data and British Economist Gary Stevenson describes how Britain is eerily similar. The very first graph shows how the Bottom 50% of the developed world have gone NOWHERE for around 40 years. Other Data like Branko Milanović's famous elephant graph show how wage stagnation for the bulk of the developed world has caused this. There's just no way for most of the developed world to change their lives for the better. This is what Milton Freidman and the Chicago School Economists gave the world via Reaganomics, Thatcherism, Australia's Economic Rationalism and what we now generally call Neoliberal Economics. CENTRAL to Milton Friedman's ideology was that governments are good for nothing and expressed eloquently by Ronald Reagan's famous "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." So Governments around the World started to privatise, de-regulate and hand control of their central banks to the ECONOMISTS. These days most policies are written by Think Tanks and managed by consultants most of whom are ECONOMISTS or MBAs with economic training or Lawyers with economic training. In the PBS Documentary "The Untouchables" about the 2008 GFC (which can be seen here on YT) Former United States Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer (around 50 minutes in) describes how ECONOMIC EFFECTS are a consideration in criminal cases. That's why none of the executives were ever charged. SO THIS BEGS THE QUESTION: Why vote at all, when the government can't get anything done because ECONOMISTS have re-wired how government works and no matter what "We the people vote for" nothing changes? FYI - We have our next Australian Federal Election next year and I fear that the same clown brained campaign strategists who helped fabricate this disaster in America will be here doing the same thing.
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  9016. I'm Australian how do you think we feel about this stuff?? We just signed up for AUKUS and spend AU$300-400 Billion on US submarines as well a shits loads of other stuff and we are supposed to depend on YOU GOVERNMENT as part of our security. AND before you tell me to FK-OFF the Canadians, Brits, Japanese, South Koreans, MOST of Europe and a lot of other people can ask the same damn question. America is not only key to our security arrangements you're also 25% of the worlds economy. EVEN WITHOUT the security issue we can't afford America to go any further down this rabbit hole of idiocy.
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  9017. All these years later and this is all there is on Wikipedia 1 sentence -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devel_Sixteen I know its only Wikipedia but that means either nobody cares enough to even put up a photograph or information is being suppressed.
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  9018.  @jasonu3741  Good points. The downforce might be anything but its a valid point. Its one of the things they have to be very careful with for racing tracks where the cars have high downforce like F1. Effectively the cars act like black smith hammers on the track surface. They not only put down a huge load but do it at very high speed. On the tires, they do have special tires for high speed sports cars. I know a person who owns a Jag XJ220 and the tires on it cost a fortune because they are rated to something like 250mph. I did suggest that he get a set of wheels made up that he could put more standard Pirellis on for just normal street driving and save the specials for track days.
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  9019.  @gregoryallen0001  It starts with venture capitalists who know people will get sucked into the scheme because they understand greed. They are followed by the risk takers who know its a scheme but are willing to risk they can get out before it collapses. Finally the gullible come in and buy when the system is at the lip of the ski-jump. It never goes well for them.
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  9020. FOR FARK SAKE how many times do all of you idiots have to be told THIS IS NOT TEASON. Plenty of lawyers explained this after January 6th and about other things Trump did. Under the treason laws of most countries Trump would be gone in a heartbeat, but the US Constitution has the narrowest definition of treason on the planet. It only applies in time of war and only applies to aiding and comforting the declared enemy. ITS UNBELIEVABLE THAT SO MANY PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS. If Trump or any American aided Russia or Hamas or North Korea even Iran it would NOT be treason because regarding those countries there is NOT a declaration of war. And for the record the Websters dictionary is NOT the Law in America or any other country for that matter. So don't bother quoting the dictionary definition of treason we can all see what that says, but its NOT the law. If you don't like it then change the law. Trump would and then he would lock you all up.
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  9021. NOBODY with functioning braincells should want to be Speaker right now. "Peoples House" has to be considered a joke these days. "House of Lackies Beholden to the Billionaire Masters" is a much better name.
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  9022. FOR ANYONE INTERESTED THE LINKS TO THE AUSTRALIAN INTERVIEW ARE HERE This is the interview -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk It was part of a 2 part special on Rupert Murdoch's (who was born in Australia) links to Donald Trump and the "Big Lie." The program was done by ABC Australia which has no links to ABC America. ABC Australia is the government funded public Broadcaster and is similar to PBS. The 4 Corners program is akin to PBS Frontline. Here are the links to both parts of "The Big Lie" and the Gretchen Carlson interview Part 1 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Part 2 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4
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  9023. As an aerospace engineer I absolutely agree.
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  9024. TODAYS FUN FACT: 100 IQ is the average for society and that means for every 10 people in society 5 of them have an IQ 100 or higher and 5 of them 100 or lower. Developed nations send 80% (or at least aim to) of their population go to college (university) to get a higher degree. That means for that 8 of 10 people who go to college and only 5 of them have an IQ of 100 or more. Do you really think those people with IQs under 100 who go to college are doing Science, Engineering, Pre-Law, Pre-Med or any other technically difficult degree requiring above average intelligence or do you think they are failing to complete their journalism degree like Candace. Its there in her Wikipedia bio.
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  9025.  @Gezira  I wouldn't say capitalism is rapacious by definition BUT would absolutely say it is rapacious by practice. In the same way I'd say socialism and communism aren't idiotic or ridiculous or anything else by definition, BUT how they were practiced BOTH were certainly idiotic and ridiculous. Climate change is a hot topic and we often cite capitalism for its destructive ways, but just look at the damage done in the eastern socialist/communist nations. The Aral sea is just one example out of dozens. China has lost or severely damaged over 20,000 rivers. The main river that once flowed past Beijing hasn't seen a drop in 30+ years because of mismanaged irrigation schemes. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  9026.  @victors8465  Agreed on all points. Now if we just get the people who do support him to see him for what he is. Don't forget this country ALMOST gave him the balance of power a couple of elections ago. I wonder how many people have already forgotten how his own people in parliament abandoned him when he made one stupid claim after another and then told do as I say or else. Don't forget despite being a total clown Graig Kelly keeps winning his seat, but it might be tougher now without the Libs supporting him. Never underestimate the ability for a mob of people to collectively lose their minds when it comes to politics.
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  9027.  @chuston_ai  YES but it will come wrapped in spandex and do nothing but dance like an idiot!!! Sorry but Elon will keep the "Pleasure Models" for himself and he'll need the Assassination units to keep Trump happy.
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  9028. The British problems are NOT the Greens, its NOT the Torries, its NOT Labor ITS YOUR ECONOMISTS Its the same problem Australia has.
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  9029.  @steviesupertramp553  There's a complete stupidity to your support for this comment. THERE IS NOTHING that links green energy to the demise of the British or any other economy. The demise of British Steel and British manufacturing in general was going on for decades BEFORE the green energy transition was even a thing. That demise was all due to the greed of INVESTORS and stupidity of ECONOMISTS. THERE IS NOTHING that links the closure of any mine of any type to the collapse of any nations economy. For sure closing a mine like closing any major industry affects the surrounding region BUT IF IT AFFECTS an entire nation that's a different matter to green energy entirely. Again such things are due to the greed of INVESTORS and stupidity of ECONOMISTS. This is just IGN0RANT scapegoating.
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  9030. HEY THOM: I'm Australian and someone deleted my comment referencing the Murdoch's almost instantly. WHAT IS GOING ON
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  9031. In case you're wondering I referenced 2 episodes of ABC Australia's Media Watch program regarding our terrible 2019-2020 bushfires. On is from 4 Feb 2020 and the other from 9 Sept 2020. The first includes a public statement by James Murdoch and his wife Kathryn's debunking of the claims being made by Murdoch employees regarding how the fires were started by arsons and had nothing to do with climate change. The second program highlights the police report into those allegations and how the lies spoken earlier had been repeated by other Murdoch employees around the world.
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  9032. Agreed on all points.
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  9033.  @bryanhill1406  Buddy at this moment the only difference between the radical Far Right and radical Far Left is how much noise they make. If start at any point on this planet and have 2 people start in opposite directions it does not matter what path they take they will end up in the same place. Politics is EXACTLY the same. It does not matter if you go Left or Right, if you go TOO FAR you end up in the same place - a shitty authoritarian state that professes to care for its people BUT in fact doesn't care squat, strips them of wealth and offers no hope.
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  9034.  @bryanhill1406  Sorry if this is a very long reply but you have asked a very valid point. First off America does NOT have a Left party it has 2 Right Wing Parties its just that one is further to the right and going even further to the right. Remember when Obama said his economic policies where in line with Reagan's. In Britain, Australia, New Zealand and other nations the Labor Parties were started inside the Union Movements. Its why they are called Labor parties. In Europe the Communist and Socialist parties were started by Commies and Socialists. The French Republicans (Girondists and Jacobins) emerged out of the Paris Commune. In the rest of the world the Left Wing parties DID NOT start among a group of self righteous slave owners that later flipped decided to court the union movement, which is exactly what the Democrats did. So there is the first thing to understand. America does NOT have a Left. It has a Right wing party party that is slightly to the Left of a hard core Right Wing party. Second (and I had to think about this) the best way to describe radicals of any sort is: Radicals are people who allow their ideology to take precedence over reality allowing them to justify anything in the defense of that ideology. Further they see anyone who does NOT comply with their narrative based on their ideology as their mortal enemy. They are notably vicious towards dissent from within their power base. Think about the French Revolutionaries. They told France we will free you from the oppression of the aristocrats and then promptly fed anyone who even slightly questioned anything to Madame Guillotine. When the Girodin's began to question them they were purged and exterminated. Westerners tend to think of Radical Islam in terms of Al Qaeda, but take a look at Isis. Their cruelty towards other Muslims was next level. They just simply held mass executions of people they even suspected of dissent. Think about Communist Russia, Marx was an economist who said workers should equally share the profits of business through collective (as in community or communal) ownership. When did the Russian people share in any of the wealth for all those decades and what happened to any dissenters. When Stalin held purges they killed 1000s while 1000s more were sent to their deaths in Siberian Gulags. For examples of the radical Left in America it takes a bit of explaining. Go look up Henry Wallace's quote on American fascists where he said American fascists wont do Fascism the same way as Europeans. They'll do it in an American way. America's radical left are similar they don't do thing's like other radical leftists do but do it in a very American way. If you know what to look for they aren't too hard to spot, but they are adept at hiding in crowds. One of the things George Orwell wrote about was the hijacking of language for political reasons. In his book "1984" he coined the term "doublespeak." In a nutshell its where you hijack language through changing the definitions of words. The aim was very simple - confuse the language so that certain topics were impossible to discuss. There are 2 words that have been hijacked in America in recent years "woke" and "progressive." Woke - is a word first used by African Americans as street slang for "Are you awake to the reality of our situation." It was mainly a reference to wealth, but also included justice, education, public services and health care. There's a City of Boston study that showed the average white Bostonian has a combined wealth (assets less liabilities) of over $240,000 while Black Bostonians are worth $8.00 (yes as in 10 minus 2). Right now that term is almost exclusively associated with sexual identity. I'm not saying that the LGBT community didn't deserve fairness, justice or their turn at the public microphone, but a section of their community did hijack a word. Plus anyone who dares question their narrative is trolled to the hilt. Progressive - was for over 100 years the label used to describe people in the center of politics and it simply meant they were people who didn't care if an idea came from the Left or Right so long as it helped MAKE PROGRESS. Up until a few years ago it had almost dropped out of the public discussion. Then it started being used by anyone wanting to see PROGRESS on things like the economy, job stability, wages, health care, education, the environment, infrastructure, government services and military spending, to name just a few subjects. Then like "woke" the word "progressive" was hijacked by certain elements to mean very specific things like LGBT rights. One of the consequences has been the radical right media to jump on anyone they can and label them as "woke" or "progressive" as radical leftists hell bent on the destruction of society. Go watch some of David's vids on Right Wing media hawks like Tucker Carlson. The result has been that for anyone to even start talking publicly about things like wealth inequality, education costs, health care services the discussion immediately goes into a Right versus Left culture war screamfest AND anyone who tries to keep the discussion sensible is dealt with ruthlessly. Sam Harris is a person who has copped some of that nonsense. He's been labelled a radical right winger by some on the left and a radical leftist by some on the right. If you go and listen to Mark Blyth the political economist from Brown U. He wrote a book with Eric Lonergan who's a hedge fund manager called "Angrynomics" and part of that book is about the subject of anger and how its expressed both privately and publicly. Go listen to what they say about "tribal anger" and once you understand what tribal anger is and how it gets manipulated you'll understand a lot. Again sorry for the length of this.
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  9035.  @bryanhill1406  Can you Americans just STOP trying to tell the world what you DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT. DO YOU REALISE that the rest of the World and particularly the the rest of the developed world consider you the most IGNORANT nation in history when it comes to the rest of the world and your place in it? Your 1st sentence about being centrist is one of the most ridiculous ignorant idiotic stupid braindead thoughtless comments on American politics EVER. That is exactly the sort of remark where people from other nations just can't stop laughing and shaking their heads at. Just get TF out your bubble and go and see the world and STOP trying to tell others what you have no idea about.
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  9036.  @scumbaggo  Yeah this is what its like these days. Western society is dominated by what I call "techno clowns." People who think because they can use a computer that they are somehow technically qualified. Some of them call themselves "futurists" others call themselves "technology educators." Whatever - they are all full of SHlT and rely on an ignorant public who don't know how ignorant they are. Here's my current head scratcher. Less than 2 weeks ago the head of Australia's Space Force (yes we now have one too because if America does then so do we) announced during the Avalon Air Show that we would be focusing on "soft kill satellite technology." I did my degree in aerospace in the late 80s in America when the whole Reagan "Star Wars" thing was going on. Many of the post grads ahead of us were DARPA funded. By around 1987/88 we had all worked out that NONE of it would ever work. We kept quiet because people were getting funding to get through their masters & PhDs. But after the collapse of the Soviets and that whole program got scrapped we could tell the truth. NOW 35 years later I am again hearing about "space lasers" and people wasting lots of money. A couple of years ago I put to the government a small (but what I thought useful) space program proposal using 1/2 the money from a particular government venture which we all knew was ridiculous. So I knew I would not be taking money from any other program. I asked for $720 million. They said NO and then gave the air force $7 Billion for "Star Wars 2.0." How do you think that makes me feel right now????
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  9037. The Tim Poole and Jimmy Dore stuff in this is to be expected as they are both ignorant clowns acting like they actually know what they are saying. BUT Marco Rubio's comments are as dangerous as it gets. He's not a commentator he is a member of the United States Senate and with that position comes (or should come) RESPONSIBILITY. Singling out one side in a decades long nightmare of violence and brutality and de-humanisation is a IRRESPONSIBLE as it gets for someone in his position. BOTH SIDES of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have responsibility in this disaster.
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  9038. Whether he believes this or not OR if Shapiro believes what he says or not, the simple fact is they are pandering to an audience and telling them exactly what they want to hear. This is arguably the biggest issue in the world right now - people living in echo chambers. In some respects Kyle is doing a similar thing, the difference is Kyle isn't condemning a section of society just because they think differently or believe differently. The other difference is that Kyle's audience form what I have seen LISTEN TO OTHER VOICES and OTHER OPINIONS and in general will discuss topics reasonably. These people who live their lives in these echo chambers that only reinforce their views are neither reasonable or willing to discuss ANY topic except from their view. Further they see ANYONE who disagrees as their mortal enemy.
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  9039. You forgot to add that Bannon's a hypocrite as Breitbart was funded by Robert Mercer one of America's most powerful and influential Oligarchs.
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  9040. Yanis Varoufakis said it well. (paraphrasing) "The technology is amazing but its a solution to a problem then doesn't exist." I saw Anthony Pomliano (a millennial) argue with Peter Zeihan (a Gen-X) recently. Its here at 1:02:00 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o-nPyPlBdw Notice what he says about Bitcoin being a secure asset. ALL of the pro-Crypto millennials say similar. Crypto is secure. Yeah fine its TECHNICALLY secure but that does NOT equate to market value or FINANCIAL security. Its like watching the clowns who blew money in Junk Bonds back in the 80s - THEY WERE WARNED. Its like watching the clowns who lost out on Bernie Madoff - THEY WERE WARNED. Its like watching the clowns who lost out on Theranos - THEY WERE WARNED.
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  9041. FOR ALL: This Brown U. Prof. Mark Blyth during a post Trump 2016 analysis. Among other things he points out the frustration many people had towards the establishments of BOTH parties and gives the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmBG3Z4DI&t=1104s
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  9042. This bimbo is so dumb she'd blame Pete Buttigieg for not having an orgasm. I can see her claiming its Pete's fault "for her not having batteries that last long enough in her special nighttime cordless toy."
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  9043. What did you really expect of these people? What does anyone really expect of these people? Politics across the developed world is now BROKEN by a combination of hopeless people being put forward by mainstream parties AND the money that makes those parties malfunction. I'm Australian and BOTH our mainstream parties are just as broken as all the other mainstream parties across the developed world. They have these clustered groups with power that kill off ANYONE who threatens their power. Eventually these parties end up with a menagerie of substandard people getting elected on the party name brand and those candidates can't get a damn thing done because they have no skill sets let alone ideas or policies. Plus starting with the Reagan & Thatcher revolutions governments started out sourcing more and more of the senior management of public institutions to consultants. Here in Australia we've spent over $20Billion on consultants and NOTHING works any better.
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  9044. As an engineer I keep trying to explain to people that there is NO SUCH THING as Artificial Intelligence. We have algorithms that can MIMIC certain human tasks - that's all. So long as the task is reasonably well defined one of these algorithms can be trained to do that task with tremendous efficiency. Even though something like facial recognition of finger print comparisons (which are both forms of image analysis) are abstract in nature they can be reasonably well defined. If you just ask Is this face in this picture that person its a fairly abstract question. But if you are comparing a variety of measurable features like the size of the nose or width of the mouth or separation of the eyes then it switches to a definable problem. When people are asking CHAT-GPT to do their term paper its an abstract task until you give it a subject and number of words. Once that's done its a defined task. Conversations are totally abstract until you decide a subject to discuss. That's why this conversation looks so stupid and ridiculous.
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  9045. Have you heard of or read the book "Angrynomics" by Mark Blyth & Eric Lonergan? Mark's a political economist who studies how studies how politics and economics interact rather than treat them as separate subjects. Eric's a fund manger with a soul as well as a brain. The books basically 2 guys discussing the anger that's prevalent across most of the world right now and the economics causing it They discuss 2 kinds of anger that we see in public with large groups of people. Moral outrage and tribal anger. Moral outrage are things like BLM and union strikes where people are protesting at something they see as morally wrong - cops killing people, companies where wage inequality and conditions are ridiculous, etc. Tribal anger is what you're talking about where politically motivated opportunists are weaponizing anger into tribalism. Things like Qanon, anti-vaxxers, anti-5G,... etc where people angry at government policies that hurt them are having that anger REDIRECTED into mindless rage. Its where we see bad faith actors like Bannon, Hannity, Rachael Maddow, etc. and organisations like Fox, OAN, CNN, MSNBC driving people bonkers. Just look at what Louis CK does here in just a few seconds. "Look at what progressives ALWAYS do..." which plays straight into the "their side does.... but our side is innocent even when it does the same thing" schtick.
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  9046. Consider how all those upper middle and upper class snots take it when they realise all those kids born in the ghettos to teenage mothers can OUT VOTE them with just numbers. If Elon really wants to limit voting to those with a long term stake then BAN people over 45 from voting and let 15 year olds to vote. Because at 45 their lives are half over while at 15 they have a future to fight for. Also put an age limits to all political appointments and judicial appointments to 55 and all elected positions to 60 at the time of the election. That way people would be way more mindful of the younger generations because you'd be relying on them to look after you for the last 2-3 decades of your life. FYI - I'm in my late 50s so I'd be excluded from almost all of this except for being elected in the next couple of years and even then I'd be limited to just 1 term.
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  9047. Just before 3 minutes there's an older guy who says "You have absolutely no idea how to get things done." Its in reply to a girl who says she's 20 and that implies she wants a future. SADLY I think he's dead right. These climate activists know how to make noise. They don't know how to get things done, because there's 2 parts to "getting things done." One is having control of the money and the other is control of the politics. The Greenies have NEVER UNSDERSTOOD this. They have control of NOTHING but the VOLUME KNOB. EVEN SADDER is that these wealthy people always forget as the French, Russian and other aristocracies did that eventually the peasants revolt when they have nothing left to lose. The ugly side of that reality is when the peasants revolt they tend to burn society turn the ground and install insanely repressive vicious regimes that wreck their countries.
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  9048. SORRY but GERRAD HOLLAND IS NOT ONLY A COWARD but his numbers are horrendously WRONG I am an engineer and Gerrard deleted my earlier challenge to a public debate. Now that we know the numbers of the Dutton-Obrien plan of $330 Billion and 38% of Australia's energy to be nuclear supplied I can explain why this plan is idiotic and people like Gerrard have NO IDEA about what they are saying. FIRST I am not against nuclear power. I am against clowns like Gerrard (who is an accountant) sucking the oxygen out of public discussion and preventing engineers from properly informing everyone to the pros and cons of nuclear energy. SECOND there are only 2 realistic options for nuclear power in Australia. 1) The French designed EPR 2 (1.6 GW) which based on Hinkley Point C cost $41-48 Billion each and take 10 years to build. 2) The American designed AP1000 (1.1 GW) which based on Vogtle cost $28.9 Billion each and take 9 years to build. For $330 Billion we can have 8 x EPR 2s or 11 x AP1000s. Irrespective of costs the alternatives all have issues none of the pro-nuclear people will address. The KEPCO who make the the South Korean APR1400 reactors was caught falsifying paper work to their own government. After Fukushima and the serious design flaws were exposed nobody wants Japanese reactors despite they can be built in 4-5 years. The latest generation of Canadian CANDU reactors have been rejected by the Canadian government despite them being the next best alternative to the EPR 2 and AP 1000. THIRD Gerrards claims that Australia's ENTIRE energy solution can be done for $420 Billion compared to $1.2 Trillion for renewables is a GIANT LIE because $420 Billion is only PART of the job. Its like comparing the cost of a new tires for a car to the cost of a whole new car. Yes I know the figures he claims came from some Engineers at a recent CIS event but they are fundamentally flawed because they are only only PART of the job. FOURTH the LNP claim they can do 38% of Australia's energy needs for $300 Billion is accurate PROVIDED you IGNORE REALITY. I've done the modelling and know where the LNP got their numbers from and yes for $330 Billion its possible to build enough reactors to replace 38% of Australia's current energy capacity. Its not the math they've used ITS THE METHOD which is totally ignorant of reality. Like: 1) It assumes Australia will need the same amount of energy 75 years from now that its using today which is crazy considering we expect the population to reach 40 million around 2050, 50 million around 2070 and 60 million around 2090. 2) It assumes we won't need any gird upgrades which is the same as assuming we wont need more power. 3) It assumes there is no cost for the fuel used and no cost for the storage of spent fuel. for the number of reactors we can get for $330 Billion we'd need around 250 tons of fuel each year and it also means we'd produce the same amount of spent fuel and that has to be dealt with. 4) WORST OF ALL It assumes there will be no costs to decommission and clean up these sites AFTER their 60 or (possible) 80 year lifetimes. I recommend that people go and look up the costs the British people paid for cleaning up Sellafield. AND THAT'S before we discuss the REAL REASON our power bills are so high. Due to all the interference engineers have had over the past 30 years from activists, Think Tankers and lobbyists like Gerrard Holland our governments have been badly advised. Instead of keeping up with the demands of modern Australia we now have a shortfall. Basic supply-demand economics says undersupply of any good or service causes prices to rise. Its been fantastic for the power companies (who bought our power stations) being able to sell electricity for double, triple or quadruple the price at no additional costs. Its why putting up wind turbines is now so profitable. They are cheap, they are quick and the infrastructure is somebody else's problem. Australia's energy problems are solvable, but until the Gerrard Holland's and other activists STFU and let the engineers explain what we need to do then I'm sorry but your power bills are going to get worse and it wont matter who you elect.
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  9049. WHT DOES IT SOUND LIKE ITS A LINE FROM THE SOPRANO'S? Because to Rudy the Soprano's wasn't a TV Show it was a Documentary! On the going to jail - YES they can send people like Rudy to jail. Go and look up the place where Jared Kushner's father, Charles, was sent to jail. Hint - its surrounded by a golf course. Use the GPS link to go to Google Earth -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Camp,_Montgomery Sorry to all but David's right its a 2 tiered system and even when convicted upper class folk don't go to the same place the rest of us might go.
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  9050. Watching Megan Kelly debate Dave Rubin is like watching a person with a malfunctioning brain debate a person with a brain that doesn't work at all. Its about a logical as trying to play football with a tennis racket or playing tennis with bazookas.
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  9051. Understatement of 2024 - The theme of this podcast DID NOT AGE WELL Face palm of the Year the follow NYT podcast where Nancy Pelosi claims the election result was NOT a rebuke of the Democratic Party.
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  9052. I'm Australian but went to college in America. So I am not an outside observer who has no idea what the American people are like. Months before the election I told people here that Trump was going to win. Nobody believed me. In the simplest answer: Trump didn't win, but he took advantage of the system and won where it mattered. Hilary was stupid and upset enough people in the wrong places. Those people either voted Trump or not at all and it happened in a few key states like Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Here's the long explanation and I'm sorry if its long and sucks to hear. One of the great things about Democracy is that on a regular basis we get 2 options. We can re-elect people because we think they are doing a reasonable job or we can dump their butt in the gutter. When Australians are angry with the government and dump people we call it a "protest vote." To some extent protest voting is present in every election everywhere, but it manifests differently because of the different systems. In Australia we have compulsory voting so we either get a big swing to the other party OR more common these days we elect independents like we did this year. In America you have voluntary voting so you tend to see people NOT VOTE at all. The moment I believed Hilary Clinton lost was when she announced that she WASN'T going to campaign in places like Michigan because she was doing fundraisers with Wall Street bankers. I went to college in Illinois and I knew that would upset people in Michigan. I also knew it would upset people across the Mid-west and Rust Belt. Do I have intimate knowledge of people in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa,... ? NO, but I knew they'd react badly to Hilary's arrogance. Who wouldn't. Another person who predicted the same result but for a slightly different reason was economic journalist Rana Foroohar. She recently said Hilary's losing moment was the 1st debate with Trump. Everyone else claimed Hilary won easily. Rana said No she lost and lost badly because of one simple topic - NAFTA. Rana's reason was Trump raised NAFTA which Bill Clinton had brought in and NAFTA is hated across the Rust Belt, because they saw NAFTA as costing them their jobs. Go listen to Rana's recent interview on the Realignment podcast here on YT. Others like Mark Blyth and Richard Wolff have also said that the Democrats have repeatedly done had also angered working class people across the Rust Belt. Look at how Biden just crushed the railway workers. The Democrats have been doing that for 40+ years. They suck up to working class people before an election and then dump them afterwards. Here's Richard and Mark talking about this during one of the Michael Brooks tribute podcasts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3171s Hilary lost because her arrogance upset people in some key states. Similarly Trump also lost because he also upset people in some key states.
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  9053. If anyone goes to the Wikipedia page for the ICC there's 2 things to check. The first is the small map upper right that shows who's a signatory. Interestingly it shows that BOTH Russia and America WERE (past tense) signatories. If you look under the heading "Opposition to the Court" you'll find out what a number of countries, including America, did. In America's case its been 4 Presidents at fault Bush who removed America as a signatory and Obama, Trump and Biden who never attempted to resign America. Remember this is not only part of the international system that America helped set up its the court system that America used to prosecute and EXECUTE various people.
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  9054. I'm Australian and your 3rd point about the media is arguably the biggest problem across the World right now. The complete failure of both mainstream and alternative media to EFFECTIVELY INFORM the general population is so profound its hard where to say we start. I'd argue the problem started here in Australia when we let Rupert Murdoch go without any restraint on what his people did and especially with respect to MISINFORMATION. Before he went to Britain Rupert, cut his teeth with magazines and newspapers that disgusted many but always found a willing audience he could tap into. We tried warning the Brits what he was like when he went there, but they didn't listen. We tried warning the Americans what he was like when he went there, but they didn't listen either. In the 2004 documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism there was a prediction that eventually the rest of the media would follow the Fox business model down into Rupert's gutter. As your comment shows that prediction has come true.
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  9055. ​ @Eyeluvlola  That goes all the way back to Milton Freidman and his near fanatical hatred of all things government. I'm just watching Steve Keen (who was one of the few economists who predicted the 2008 GFC) talk to Chris Keefer on the YT channel Decoupled. Chris's channel is mostly about energy and in particular nuclear energy. I'm an engineer and despite some of Chris's attitudes he often has some great people on and Steve is one. At one point Steve explains the difference between the "Theory of Capitalism" and the "Practice of Capitalism" and it goes RIGHT TO YOUR POINT. Ona side issue. If by chance you are interested in nuclear energy from either side. Chris has had James Krellenstein on several times. As an engineer I find James incredibly well informed on the subject of nuclear energy. Both his father and grandfather worked in the nuclear energy industry so he's 3rg generation. He's NOT pushy or let his passions get the better of him, like Chris does at times. James simply explains various aspects of the nuclear energy industry, including where there are some significant issues like construction costs and where the enriched fuel comes from.
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  9056.  @HandleNameIsStupid  Your right, to a point, things are not equal. There's a line people throw back at social justice warriors who preach absolute equality of outcome. "Equality of outcome is slavery, while equality of opportunity is freedom." The problem the world now faces is the top 1% who are stripping away opportunity for the bulk of the population. If you don't meet their needs to provide their next bonus you don't even get to the start line. On the flip side to that are the radical Left who are so enamoured with equal outcomes they are also denying people the opportunity to exercise their capabilities. Not everyone can run that fast or jump that high or be a brain surgeon or be an astronaut, but these people deny the right to be smarter or more athletic and end up doing the most stupid things. Trapped in between these 2 ideologies are the other 90% of us who are having opportunity choked out of our lives.
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  9057. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: And if you'd like I'd like to talk to you about these issues. APOLOGIES NOW for what will feel like a lecture. You are quite right about the volume of the CO2 we have emitted. I just downloaded the data for 1940-2022 and that makes for some serious discussion. It took 44 years from 1940 to 1984 to pump 500 Billion tons into the atmosphere. It took only 21 years 2005 for the next 500 Billion tons It took only 15 years 2020 for the next 500 Billion tons making it 1.5 Trillion tons And we'll go past 2 Trillion tons at the current rate around 2033. That of course doesn't include the billions of tons from badly managed coal mines in places like China or what happened pre-1940 or lots of human activities that aren't counted. So the real problem going forward isn't Net-Zero. Its how we get to Net-Subzero and NOT bankrupt the World's economy or destroy modern civilisation getting there. Because if we do either of those things we really will have an apocalypse. FYI - I did my degree in America and we once had a NASA engineer do a special guest lecture on terraforming Mars. He very simply said "It's Impossible" and then explained WHY. He introduced us to 2 subjects I know call planetary mechanics and planetary dynamics. Planetary mechanics are just the raw amounts like we have 2.5 Trillion tons of CO2 in the atmosphere and it takes X Joules to raise Y cubic kilometers so many degrees. Planetary dynamics are things like gas cycles, water cycles, thermal cycles (like the AMOC). On simple planetary mechanics Mars is impossible to terraform. It ends the discussion when you realise that it takes 178 Trillion tons of air just to make a 1km thick layer of Earth normal air around a body that large. You don't even get to the subject of how to keep it attached to the planet. Its just where do we get that much air in the first place. Here's the problem we have with CO2. I have seen plenty promotion, neutral and debunk videos on both carbon capture & storage (CCS) and direct air capture (DAC). Even if we could use one of the technical solutions the problem is ENERGY. Where do we simply get enough energy to run those systems? If we did try one of those DAC systems you then have to ask how we process that many cubic kilometers to get at those 400 parts per million of CO2 to extract 2.5 Trillion tons. This is the problem the guy from NASA when trying to explain what he found to other people. The numbers are so large that people can't conceive of what those numbers mean. If the Earths surface is 510,072,000km² then that basically equates to 1/2 Billion cubic kilometers of air just in the first kilometer of 100 above the Earths surface. How does anyone actually think they are going to feed volume that through a bunch of factory built units? How much energy and materials will it take and how much CO2 will be produced building all those units? Sorry the only way it can actually be done is with TREES? The question is how do we convince every person on the planet they have to plant (on average) about 1,000 trees. That's about 8 Trillion trees and we need 1 in 10 to grow to maturity and suck in and CAPTURE about 1.5 tons of CO2 each. Sorry but we are going to have to do things like plant tree lines along very fence line on every farm on the planet. AND YES you make an incredibly important point we just can't go throwing trees in the ground we have to actually do some PLANNING. You can't just throw pine trees into the Sahara, but with the right plan we can plant staggering numbers of date palms, olive trees, cedars and other suitable varieties across all that open space of North Africa. YES we'd have to supply staggering amounts of water until they generate their own weather, but there are low energy options there. I worked on the Ravensthorpe Nickel Project back in the mid 2000s and that has an interesting desal plant. Its NOT reverse osmosis which long term has too high maintenance costs. Because I'd worked on another Wier project they gave me the FAT for the desal plant. Weir called it vapour compression but from memory it was built more like a Multi-stage flash distillation system and may well have combined those 2 technologies. Either way it used only a fraction of the power an RO plant of the same size. The reason such plants aren't used a lot is they can be tricky to start-up and they only have 1 speed (flow rate). You can't just turn them on and off at will like you can RO AND YES I have done RO systems one of which was quite complex. So yes it sound crazy to tell everyone we need to plant 8 Trillion trees. But I am sorry but there is no other feasible way to do it. Everything else either relies on a technology we can't build enough of or a technology we can't power or some ridiculous seeding fantasy of the sky or the oceans. If you look at some of the ideas being proposed for seeding the sky to let in less light or seeding the ocean to have more oceanic algae plankton to consume the C02 are so absurd they are only worth considering to see how absurd they are. Nobody knows if they would work, or how much we'd need let alone what happens if it gets out of control and needs shutting down. We can shut down even the most complex plants we build but how would you shut down the SO2 seeding in the upper atmosphere I have seen proposed? Likewise if the iron seeding of the ocean to promote algae growth goes haywire. What's the contingency for that? As an aerospace engineer placing a giant sun shield out at the L1 Lagrange Point makes better sense. We could build it with louvres and control what heat comes in. You just need to get me something like US$50 Trillion and hand me control of the entire engineering infrastructure of the planet. before you ask if it cost US$200 Billion to build the ISS with a weight of 450t in LEO. What do you think it would cost to build something at L1 that weighs on the order of a million tons and needs constant onsite maintenance to keep it orientated and in position. Plus we'd need a fleet of satellites monitoring the entire Earth's surface at 10m resolution or better to watch the effects. Actually we'll need those whatever we do. That's one of the few things we can do. the question is will we do it to save the planet or watch it die.
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  9058. Did you not listen he didn't say that any of those 1170 died of anything but expected causes. If you take 1000 or 10,000 or a million people of any age group then you expect that a certain amount will die each month from all sorts of causes. What he has said is that out of the vaccinated older people is that the death rate is NORMAL. This is actually how they now how devastating the COVID pandemic is. There's the normal death rate and there's 2020 which is above normal. Some of those can be directly attributed to OCIVD because they tested for it. Others they are not clear on because testing wasn't done. Around July August last year the death toll in America that was above normal was about 220,000, but only about 170,000 of those were confirmed COVID. Working out the causes of the other 50,000 will take time and in some cases we will probably never know for certain.
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  9059. Donald Trump had Steve Mnuchin of Goldman Sachs fame as Secretary of the Treasury Joe Biden just hired 2 Goldman Sachs muppets to be part of his administration Yeeeeaaaahhhhh, HHmmmmmm. UUmmmmm. I got zip to explain what to make of that.
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  9060. Its not a matter of whether he can speak or not. Its a matter of can he understand FACTS and make reasonable decisions. If that were the pass mark for an elected official then at least 1/2 the GOP should resign and the 74 million who thought an extra 4 years of Trump should be banned from voting on anything until such time as they can see reason. Like is is reasonable to believe that an election can be fraudulent when BOTH SIDES have observers in the counting rooms AND (and this rarely gets mentioned) there were several 1000 international observers from dozens of countries also present and none of them reported anything. And to be fair, anyone who ever thought Joe Biden was going to solve America's political and social issues was (and still is) out of their minds. Maybe not as far as Trumpists, but they are below the pass mark.
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  9061. This subject is just another example of the horribly tribalized public discussion environment we now find ourselves trapped in. It seems that almost every public discussion these days is getting hijacked by clowns. I just saw a vid over on Majority Report about Tucker Carlson raging about hormone treatments for children. He doesn't care about those kids its just a stick for him to beat his drum with. Look at all these clowns David is pointing out here. Covid vaccines are just a stick to beat their drums with. I'm an engineer. We can't have any sensible discussion on energy right now because the moment anyone tries we get all these tribalized clowns beating their drums and screaming at the world. None of them can build any sort of power station or fix anything with energy but they just keep preventing anything from getting done. Its costing everyone higher energy bills all over the world. My parents were high school teachers and its the same in education. Look at how certain people weaponized the CRT issue. Its NOT FORMALLY TAUGHT in any high school anywhere on the planet and suddenly it became a howling scream shitfest for no other reason that a few clowns thought it would get clicks or votes or both.
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  9062. Yes its a shame Sam never got to interview Daniel Ellsberg as there's a massive mistake in this interview. at 28 minutes The Americans DID NOT depth charged the Russian submarines during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In an interview with theAnalysisNews (which is available here on YT) Daniel Ellsberg who was actually there at the time related what happened. The American's were actually trying to SIGNAL the Russian submarines by throwing hand grenades into the water. That wasn't working because they'd blow up before they went deep enough. So they started wrapping the hand grenades in toilet paper. They'd throw the hand grenades into the water which would then sink before the toilet paper fell away. What the American's didn't know was that this freaked out the Russian because at depth the hand grenades had a concussive effect that made the Russians feel like they were being attacked. What saved the world was the oddity that Vasily Arkhipov was on the particular submarine that thought it was under attack. Normally it only takes 2 people (the commander & political officer) to use a nuclear weapon. The submarine Arkhipov was on (the B-59) was one of 4 Foxtrot submarines sent to Cuba by the Russians. He was NOT the commander of that submarine he was the Commander the flotilla of 4 Foxtrots. On the B-59 the actual commander Valentin Savitsky. Savitsky and his political officer DID PREPARE to launch their T-5 nuclear torpedo, BUT because Arkhipov was on that submarine it also required him to agree and he didn't. He worked out the Americans were only trying to signal them. THAT'S HOW CLOSE IT WAS. Had Arkhipov been on one of the other Foxtrot submarines then Savitsky would have launched the B-59s nuclear torpedo which the Americans didn't even know they had. The Americans didn't find out for many years just how close it came. As a side note of trivia the character played by Liam Nesson (Mikhail "Misha" Polenin, E) in the film K19: The Widomaker is based on Arkhipov.
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  9063. AUSTRALIAN HERE: That clown Tim Gurner has been busy the last few days trying to tell people he's not a bad guy. Nobody's buying it because we all know he's a turd. In Australia we have NO RESPECT for property developers they are all seen as scum sucking charlatans and its been that way for decades. There's been so many corporate collapses where tradesmen (builder, electricians, plumbers,... etc.) get left unpaid we've lost count. Every time we try and drag them into line they blackmail and bribe governments into doing nothing. For a comparison - their lobbyists behave like the Gun Lobbyists in America in terms of using fear and stalling tactics.
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  9064.  @noel7777noel  Yeah but the way I see Libertarians isn't quite reactionary but its certainly narcissistic in that its incredibly self centered. But its also got a major dose of sociopath because they have almost zero empathy for the effects they have on others. Its probably why they love Trump so much because he's almost the walking talking definition of a narcissistic sociopath.
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  9065. What specifically do all these people have in common with Bernard Marcus who is 93? Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Barre Seid, Charles Koch and Rupert Murdoch. This was pointed out to me by a friend recently. Charles Koch is the youngest born in 1935, but their age isn't the specific thing. Its when they were born and what they went through. They were all born during the later part of the great depression and spent their childhood during World War 2. These people are NOT Baby Boomers they are War Babies. Basically anyone older than 75 was born, before during or just after World War 2. They had all their views on the world shaped by that including the threat of nuclear war. Gore Vidal wrote and spoke extensively on the "History of the National Security State" here's a short documentary on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml8XW8WVCd4 NOTE: How they used the fear of nuclear war to build their industrial complex. Those people were about contracts and making lots of money not the Russians. They new the Russians were in no place to fight another war let alone start one *AND THAT was confirmed after the Cold War. The Russians never had the capability to go beyond Eastern Europe. What the MIC proponents did was scare the generation of War Babies out of the minds and they have never gotten over it. They see the Baby Boomers as spoilt brats who were guaranteed jobs, houses and an easy retirement. They resent that the Boomers never went through what they did. They see the Xers, Millennials and Zoomers as just more generations spoilt brats incapable of running anything. NOT ALL of that generation are like these people, but those that are see themselves as the ones who rebuilt human society after WW2 and then saved us from godless communism and godless socialism. They not only see us as spoilt brats but also as people incapable of running what they believe they built.
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  9066. You are 100% correct. But there's a problem and that's this BULLSHlT lingers on like a really bad fart in an elevator. Just last week I had a neighbor tell me I had no idea regarding what Australia (my country) needs for power generation because I didn't understand the Meisner effect. Other than being an engineer (aerospace) with 35+ years experience in industrial control systems across a bunch of industries and projects that has included a power station, I knew that superconductors have NOTHING to do with power generation. IF they can be made to work they will help power distribution but not power generation. That same neighbor had previously tried to convince me that he could prove Newtons Laws were invalid. And this is the real problem with clowns like Ricky. They might not mean to, but they sow staggering amounts of confusion among people with next to zero education and that has a staggering effect on public discussions around technology. The fact that Ricky is an engineer is incredibly sad for other engineers. He's an embarrassment.
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  9067. My top 4 picks for who has these documents are: 1) The Russians 2) The Saudis 3) His latest bimbo porn star wannabe has a big fat yellow envelope she doesn't realise might put her in jail. 4) The plumber who unblocked the toilet at Mar-A-Lago.
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  9068.  @zen1647  Sorry but we need a lot more than just 1% of our land mass for solar and wind. When you look at how much power you get from each square meter of floor space both wind and solar are quite poor compared to other systems. Nuclear is the best in that department. Price is NOT the best way to identify locations for wind and solar geography and condition data are.
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  9069. ​ @PopcornMax179  Yeah - sorry for the length but its a subject I have been looking into ever since I had this consult job about 7 years ago. I found out how old our large power stations were and that there were NO PLANS to replace any of them. Even today right now there are NO PLANS even on the table to even discuss. Its like all the people are involved know there's a problem and are just waiting for "someone else" to do something. That's one of the major flaws I found in neoliberal mentality. One of its central ideas is the notion that "someone else" will do what's needed. Problem is if nobody can see a way to make money then it never gets done and you just have people standing around waiting like we have right now. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂
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  9070.  @zen1647  Your right neoliberalism has some very serious issues. There's lots of people way better qualified than me to talk about that. Mark Blyth is one of the best and his Rhodes Centre podcasts where he talks with a lot of people who have written books is with your time. Mariana Mazucatto is worth your time on the subject of government being effective at managing projects and NOT letting itself be dominated by consultants. There's a recent series of 4 lectures by Damon Silvers on neoliberalism that starts with "Understanding Neoliberalism as a System of Power." Yeah its almost 6 hours in total but totally worth the time if you really want to get your head around neoliberalism.
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  9071.  @MrRatclima  Absolutely correct on the foreign money. We changed the rules years ago and allowed a flood of money to come in. Its was all following the mantra "Foreign investment is good" which is an unquestionable economic policy that NOBODY is allowed to challenge. What we did was allow a lot of very questionable money to be laundered through our real estate market and its had a devastating effect on house prices and the rental market. But because the political power of the banking, real estate and construction lobbies its NOT allowed to be questioned.
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  9072. ​ @MrRatclima  As I have said to others its all symptomatic of neoliberal economics, but people need to realise that neoliberalism more than just economics. Its a whole set of ideas that includes political and social ideology. At its core is the elitist view that people are incompetent and they need to be managed. To do that "we (the elite) have to have the freedom from law to do what we need to do to manage the rest of you." That's where the American Libertarians get their "We need the liberty to strip you of your liberty." political ideology from. Its a weird from of Orwellian logic that comes from what we'd normally consider the political Right rather than the political Left. Its incredibly arrogant and a lot of the hard core neoliberals are insanely arrogant. Their establishments are places like Harvard, Yale and the University of Chicago. Most of their economics comes straight out of Milton Freidman's "Greed is good" and "Corporation's have no other task than profit." mantras. Freidman was a professor at the University of Chicago. Neoliberals manage governments through consultancies and in that game the biggest of the consultancies is McKinsey which was started by James McKinsey another professor from the University of Chicago. They have infected the American justice system and the main player there is the lobbying think tank the Federalist Society which was started by students at Harvard, Yale and the University of Chicago. They felt their universities were the bastions of real judicial knowledge. Right now the 9 on the SCOTUS consist of 4 Harvard, 4 Yale and Notre Dame who's a known member of the Federalist Society. If you really want to understand neoliberalism better. There's a lecture series by Damon Silvers over on the UCP IIPP page here on YT. Warning there's almost 6 hours but its worth your time if you really want to know what neoliberalism is about. The first one is titled "Understanding Neoliberalism as a System of Power" and even if you only watch that one you'll understand neoliberalism better than most people.
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  9073.  @davidcarey9135  Sorry this reply is long but I’d like to know what you think. I had a stunning bit of enlightenment recently. I was watching Steve Keen explain his modelling work to a couple of British students. At one point Steve jumped on his favourite topic of slamming classical & neo-classical economists like William Nordhaus and their inability to properly model things. In the middle of this rant, he suddenly said "They don't even have energy in their models." As an engineer that stuns me because EVERYTHING in human society needs energy and the means to produce & use it. This is why economists have nothing but vacuum on the energy crisis. They don't have any suggestions let alone solutions. They don't even have hot air because hot air requires energy. Its like they just did what some others I have encountered. They drew a line in the dirt and said everything on that side of the line is an engineering problem and has nothing to do with us. I have this idea I call "Engine Theory." I like to explain it in terms of ancient Egypt because that was the world’s first economy. Prof. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) has repeatedly pointed out a Bank of England report (Q1 2014) that has 2 papers that explain what money is and how it’s created BY WORK. The problem is as any engineer will tell you all work is a function of using energy. As in work is produced by converting energy via an "engine" hence the name Engine Theory. Simply put, anything that converts energy into work is an engine (mechanical, biological... whatever). Smith & Marx both termed everything in terms of labour. I think they got it wrong because there’s other ways to do work than just through labour. My idea is that all work stems from the conversion of energy into work no matter if it’s done by a person, animal or machine. Therefore, all economic value comes from energy being consumed or tapped by these “engines.” The fundamental rate of return is actually a function of energy efficiency. The better you consume and use energy the better the rate of return and more wealth is generated. Going back in ancient Egypt they had slaves that sowed & reaped food, built houses, roads and monuments and they were fuelled by food. They had ox that pulled ploughs & heavy wagons and horses that pulled light wagons & chariots and they were fuelled by fodder. The ox & horses aren’t too dissimilar than the comparison of diesel to petrol vehicles. The Egyptians also had sail boats powered by the wind to go up & down the Nile. The difference was that the sails tapped a natural energy source (the wind) rather than consumed fuel like the slaves, ox & horses. Irrespective they had a variety of engines because different engines do certain types of work better and more efficiently and that’s a major part of Engine Theory. In Engine Theory you have different engines for different tasks, and you evaluate them on their efficiency to do that task. In Egypt they could have pulled ploughs with slaves but that’s not as good as an ox. They could have pulled chariots with ox, but that’s not as good as ahorse because chariots need speed. This is why today all the wind, solar, nuclear and other people proclaiming “we have the solution that will save humanity” are all wrong. They have to start seeing themselves as PART of an overall combined solution instead of the single magical “does it all” solution. Then there was the industrial revolution when we started making better engines that could convert fuel (quite literally) by the mountain and with it do mountains of work making mountains of wealth. Plus, some of these news engines didn’t do work and instead they produced energy that other engines could tap instead of converting fuel. We call these things power stations, and they could not only make more energy but do it better allowing energy to be more readily usable across a broader economic landscape. This is why I think economists have it so wrong. Karl Polanyi said you can’t commodify people because they are people. I think energy is the similar. You can’t commodify it because it works at such a fundamental economic level. Neoliberals are trapped in their own ideology and just see it as another thing they MUST marketize because marketization is the best way to distribute anything and everything. Its an ideology not backed up by real world experience. I think a lot of people realise the neoliberals are wrong they just don’t know how to argue it and that’s what I am trying to do. I started informally studying economics out of the frustration of clowns waving economics degrees interfering in projects. Part of the argument is: If work creates value (as economists say), then if they don't include the energy to do that work then they have been WRONG since the dawn of civilisation because the work that has been done has always required energy. It didn’t matter if the fuel was food, fodder or the energy was the wind. They had to convert fuel & energy into work. The massive change was the industrial revolution when we started producing BULK CHEAP energy. The bug in the neoliberal computer (as Mark Blyth puts it) is that they thought they could commodify it like they think they can do with everything and that’s just NOT TRUE as Polanyi pointed out. And this is where the neoliberals have utterly stuffed up. They switched the BULK CHEAP energy systems from economic drivers into profit machines making energy more expensive and with it everything else. That's made everything else less economically efficient because all of the work became more expensive. Unless we can flip that back we’re stuffed. The energy transition won’t make any difference so long as it remains a for profit system because the economics won’t change. We not only have to change to cleaner energy to save the planet but (economically speaking) more efficient to save all our economies which are already on the precipice of a major catastrophe. We dodged a big event in 2008 but the bail outs only made the clowns at the top think they can keep gambling with our future even more. I don’t know if you’re aware but the global FX-Swap market which is a glorified casino now has a betting pool of US$100 Trillion, which is around 5 times the size it was in 2008. Bizarrely NONE of it’s on any balance sheet because of the nature of FX-Swaps and how accountants account for them. Most of it isn’t even held by banks. It’s held by non-banking entities gambling on currency shifts. All it will take is the wrong clown to make the wrong mistake and 2008 will seem like a bad fart in an elevator because there won’t be a way off of this elevator as it plumets down the shaft. Sorry, this was so long but I'd like to know what you think.
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  9074. ​ @davidcarey9135  No, No you misunderstand. The fuel type is irrelevant THE COST of the energy to BOTH society and industry is the important thing. You are totally right about Britain being the first to use coal at scale gave them a growth spurt. The most important thing there is they changed to a better "engine." Remember the rail industry changed from coal to diesel and electricity after WW2 and there was NOTHING forcing it except they were better engines economically. This is something I am trying to get all the players to understand. They various technologies will be the main player wherever they are the better engine. I really do hate when the wind, solar, nuclear (all types), wave and FOSSIL FUEL people all claim that they are the ONLY WAY. That's just garbage. That's the lesson of history, starting with the Egyptians and every economy since. EVERY type of fuel/engine system has its place and its not because people want this or that its because they are the better engine. I seriously can't see fossil fuels being 100% abolished because there will simply be places where its better than everything else, but you can't tell that to a lot of people. Likewise for the fossil fuel people to think that wind & solar aren't going to be major players in certain markets is equally delusional. In some places they will need nuclear because its the best engine in that place. Hydrogen will be a major player, but because of its basic nature its not going to be the savior that many claim and that's being said by someone who's a huge believer in hydrogen. But then I also know the limits of hydrogen. And here's the grating thing - they all lie and all misdirect and it takes hours for engineers to explain it. When I mean they all lie. I mean ALL OF THEM. Wind, solar, nuclear, fossil fuel,..... ALL OF THEM. Even the hydrogen people lie and that's my thing.
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  9075.  @davidcarey9135  Yeah so coal is more energy dense than wood - that's NOT THE POINT. Uranium's energy density is orders of magnitude more energy dense than coal. So is Plutonium and Thorium but I don't see you going on about that. I'm an engine for fark sake you don't need to explain to me about efficiency. I took the classes I have the degree and I have 30+ years of experience. THAT'S NOT THE POINT. You are doing what so many others do. You are fixating on 1 thing. This is exactly why we don't have solutions. We have all these people who hype up lateral thinking and then fixate on 1 thing. This is the entire problem with economics and with it everything else because economics is so dominant in the decision processes. Neoliberals FIXATE on things and then see everything else as the enemy of humanity. Either people STOP fixating on irrelevant issues and coal is as irrelevant as it gets. OR There is no future - period.
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  9076. You are absolutely right and do you know who first talked about and condemned conservatives? Jesus. When this clown says go read the Gospels he really should do it himself because Jesus clashed time and time again with the CONSERVATIVE religious leadership of the day. That was why they got the Romans to execute him. They were tired of him exposing their hypocrisy and greed.
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  9077. Just so people know who this guy actually is? He's one of the main proponents of "offensive realism" out of the University of Chicago the home of the neocons and neoconservative ideology. He represents THE OTHER SIDE of American political ideology - American Realism as opposed to American Liberalism. I saw one of his lectures a couple of weeks ago that he did at Yale in November 2017 and it was BRILLIANT. I have never seen anyone explain why a particular political party did or was doing what it was. For anyone who wants to know WHY Ukraine eventually happened, it was the 2nd of 3 lectures on Liberal Hegemony November 2017. BUT and this is the GIANT BUT I have with this guy. His side gave the world the Invasion of Iraq for which there was no reason other than the neo-cons (his people) wanted regime change in the middle east. That cost America over a trillion dollars and cost 4,431 American lives. That's over 1,400 more than died on 9/11. It might be more pronounced in America but there's a horrible fact about Western politics that's become pervasive. and its best summed up by "What my side does is righteous and what their side does is wrong." Its an infantile selfishness that's making a mess of the world. Its like 5 year olds fighting over a sand castle. I'm Australian and we have it here, its just not as bad as America. Trump just declared everyone who didn't vote for him "the enemy." How infantile is that. Donald Trump called over 180 million American citizens "the enemy" of America. Mearsheimer's description of the American liberals is flawless and his criticism warranted, BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE if Biden was a Republican neo-con he'd be singing how righteous America's response is.
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  9078. FOR ANYONE INTERESTED THE LINKS TO THE AUSTRALIAN INTERVIEW ARE HERE This is the interview -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk The rest of the links to that entire program (2 parts) for which she was interviewed about Rupert Murdoch's and Fox News' links to Trump and promoting the "Big Lie" see my main comment.
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  9079. I'm Australian and watch DW all the time they are one of the last vestiges of journalism left in the world.
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  9080.  @jasonzhang7347  Good point. Now please go tell that maniac in charge of China to stop shooting missiles. Because in a conflict right now he will lose and lose badly.
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  9081.  @Dan210871  Yeah well that just adds weight to my original comment that Bari Weiss is full of crap when it comes to assessing ANYTHING especially intellect. She's just another media clown with no substance hyping what crap she can for attention.
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  9082. Its all very well for Brian, Mehdi Hassan and everyone else to throw this guy into the middle of the street. BUT NONE OF US OR ANY OF THESE COMMENTATORS are faced with losing their job let alone faced with losing their life or the lives of their families to Trumps maniacs. DEMANDING and answer to such an inflammatory this question is almost as bad as Trump DEMANDING fealty. How many of you have put your family's at the same risk this guy has already put his family to? This is shite grandstanding by both Brian and Mehdi.
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  9083. You've just pointed out the biggest issue in the world right now. The lack of accountability of for the world's political and business leaders. Trump isn't the worst, but he's certainly the loudest. Think back to the aftermath of the 2008 GFC. How many of the CEOs responsible were held accountable? There's a PBS Frontline about that. Lanny Breuer the DOJ's lead prosecutor under Eric Holder actually says they had economic reasons for not pursuing the CEOs but brags about the more than 3000 underlings they prosecuted. Its farking amazing to hear the Assistant director of the DOJ claiming that economics outweighs justice. I'm Australian and we ended up having a Royal Commission into our banks. We found widespread systematic theft, money laundering and tax evasion. We had people confess it. NOBODY has ever been charged let alone sent to jail. There were the Panama Papers on industrialised tax evasion. The world said "We got them!" but nobody went to jail. Then came the Paradise Papers on industrialised tax evasion. The world said "Now we got them!" but nobody went to jail. Then came the Singapore Papers and the world said "Who cares we know how this story goes!"
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  9084.  @myself1525  GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT The invasion of Iraq was absolutely illegal under the international laws that AMERICA helped formulate after WW2. Get your ignorant American head out of your ignorant American ass and realise that America is NOT the centre of the universe.
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  9085.  @FrostySumo  Well explained and well said.
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  9086. The Polls were wrong in 2016 The Polls were wrong with Brexit The Polls were wrong in 2020 (as in Biden should have won by more the Dems would have gained in the house and won the Senate) The Polls were wrong in Australia, New Zealand and Britain in recent federal elections. The Polling companies have lost what ever credibility they ever had. SO WHY TF SHOULD ANYONE BELIEVE THESE POLLS.
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  9087. yeah that crowd know EXACTLY what a woman is. She's the big girl who does what she's told and gets on the bed.
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  9088.  @BigSnipp  Yeah that's a common problem for that crowd. Triumph the Insult Dog summed them up well when he asked "What's more likely? Haitians eat cats or Republicans eat Pussy!"
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  9089.  @BedwetterCDN  Not certain about your freedom and meth lab comment but you are spot on with the American exceptionalism. I think every country has it to some extent (Australia certainly does), but America just does it so much louder than everyone else that there's no real comparison. Plus I thought Canada's real problem was Fentanyl??? It was when I was there in late 2017 early 18. And for the record I really liked Canada. I almost moved there in 2019 but the wheels fell off the project. Real shame as it was pretty good project.
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  9090.  @smokelord2002  I never said America's markets were free I said that Americans preached they were free. Yes its a subtle difference but a very important one. I have listened to Brown U. Prof Mark Blyth a lot these last few years. He has a podcast where he interviews some pretty interesting people who have written books on various economic or related subjects. A while back he interviewed Elizabeth Berman who wrote a book "Thinking like an Economist." About 3:30 in she mentioned a guy named Ronald Corse who wrote this extraordinary paper for the Rand Corporation. You can still download it. In the late 50s he suggested that the new radio spectrums and TV spectrums be auctioned off. Both the Rand Corp and Congress thought he was insane because it would guarantee monopolies. By the 1990s the practice of auctioning off government assets and resources had become standard practice. Here in Australia we auction off the water in our rivers and the market for doing that was designed by an Australian who went to Harvard. Our water market is heralded as a great example of "free-market capitalism." The big corporate farms can outbid the smaller private farms for water. The speculators can outbid the smaller private farms for water and then sell it onto them for a profit which has sent many farmers broke because they just can't afford to by water. This is considered a successful system! I didn't find this out form Australian media but from one of DW's (German) documentaries on water.
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  9091. Hey David, Start showing some vids on what Warnock actually stands for or including some of it in these vids. Or even better interview him. You keep saying people need to turn out and vote. SO GIVE THEM A REASON.
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  9092. If you and others are going to keep giving air time to mentally ill people like Kanye West. I'm all for liberty and free speech WITHIN REASONABLE LIMITS. Giving air time to a person with his level of delusion is OUTSIDE THE LIMITS OF WHAT'S REASONABLE. There are some incredibly serious issues in the world right now, from war in Ukraine with the potential to go nuclear, to the genocide of the Uyghur people, to starvation in Africa, to war crimes in Yemen, all the way to climate change AND YOU WASTE TIME ON THIS IDI0T. Please don't ask to be taken seriously and please don't ask to check out your sponsors.
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  9093. TO ALL: That Goldstone report can be found by googling "goldstone report 2009" It came up first link for me. It looks like and odd link because Google says it has no information on the web page, but that's because the link is to the report which is a 452 page pdf document. For reference the report number is A/HRC/12/48 dated 25 September 2009. The file is a-hrc-12-48(dot)pdf
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  9094.  @AprilWatters  Its more complicated than that. If you go all the way back to the formation of Israel, the British who controlled Palestine at the time TRIED to set it up as 2 states. The Brits knew and told everyone that the Zionists and hard core Palestinians would NOT share anything. When the vote came on a 2 state or 1 state at the UN it was actually the Arab League who voted AGAINST the 2 state solution. That's a fact that seems to have been forgotten. It was all the other Arab nations who threw the Palestinians under the bus back in (I think) 1948. If you can try and watch the interviews Jon Stewart had with Abdullah the King of Jordan circa 2011 and there were at least 2. I remember one of them when Abdullah simply told Jon Stewart that if they didn't solve the problem then the entire middle east would remain in turmoil. Despite that it was the Arab nations who threw the Palestinians under the bus they used the plight of the Palestinians as way to stand of their soap boxes and rail against the West. Abdullah said if they solved the Palestinian issue then all of the surrounding Arab nations would have to start dealing with their own internal issues because they'd have to face the fact that their internal issues ARE THEIR FAULT not the West's. I still remember that interview over a decade later because it was so profound and simple and straight forward. Also Abdullah basically predicted that at some point we'd be exactly where we are now if the Palestinian issue was NOT solved.
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  9095.  @zao9256  MAYBE - You should learn how to write a simple sentence in ENGLISH before commenting again. Where ever you're from please STFU and stay there until you actually KNOW WTF you're talking about. NOBODY tired to steal anything in 1948. The British were in control of Palestine in what they called the British Mandate of Palestine. There was a vote at the UN regarding the future of Palestine and it was regarding a 1 state versus 2 state solution. The British and other Western Nations were in favor of a 2 state solution (1 Jewish and 1 Arabic) because they knew of the issues between the Jews and Arabs. It was the Arab League and NOT Western nations that voted against the 2 state solution. So kindly F*CK OFF, learn some history (its all there on Wikipedia) and get your facts right, because you aren't even close to right.
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  9096.  @jts28  Yeah buddy - great way to prove you are a racist POS. Maybe you don't know but the decimal number system 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 is ARABIC. There are also other areas of science we got from the Arabs like Astronomy. All of the Wests wealth that started during the Renaissance and was then boosted by the industrial revolution came about because families like the Medici could operate their banks MORE EFFICIENTLY with the ARABIC DECIMAL SYSTEM the Crusaders brought back. That math eventually lead to the math that others used to kick start the Industrial Revolution. If you want to be honestly critical of Middle Eastern Cultures then ask them how they went from being the most technically advanced civilisation in human history to where they are now? Because that story of how they let their religious leaders wreck what they had should be a LESSON to the West. Because right now the educations systems that are the basis of Western Wealth are under threat from our own fundamentalists. FYI - If the Israelis were actual a superior culture they would NOT need to repress the Palestinians they way they do.
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  9097.  @ren17x50  I was about to disagree and then realised you've got it dead right. Narcissism at its core is about being self centered but that also means they want adoration. But then Mike Lariviere also has it part right because SOME narcissists will do stupid things to get the initial attention. Look at some of Trumps social media rants.
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  9098.  @funkmeyer4614  I think you are 100% right - these people have an organised propaganda plan for pushing these views. I didn't say that outright, because I wanted to see if others also saw it.
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  9099.  @seto_kaiba_  That's a fair point. My point is that all of them have gotten WORSE since joining the Daily Wire. Except for Shapiro who was always a nasty little shite and couldn't get any worse.
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  9100. To Everyone, I stopped this at 37 seconds for the simple reason that Rubin is talking about Austerity as a way to make an economy grow when its in trouble. BEEN TRIED NEVER WORKED ONCE ANYWHERE ask the Greeks, Italian, Spanish, etc. Prof Mark Blyth from Brown U. has spoke about this extensively. Here's the 5:35 version on why Dave Rubin really is stupid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2bVGi0ReE There's dozens of talks here on YT by Mark Blyth and others explaining this in detail. FYI - I'm an Australian engineer who spent a chunk of COVID time looking into economics and how it works so that after COVID I'd be able to deal with managers with economics degrees. I like Mark Blyth because he talks in a way that suits me. Part of his work at the Watson Institute includes interviewing other people like Stephanie Kelton, Adam Tooze and others. They are all saying we need NEW economics NOT repeats of stuff we know doesn't work like Rubin's saying. For those of you in America please get through to Kyle & Krystal and get them to have people like Mark Blyth & Stephanie Kelton on. Don't just say Rubin is stupid ACTUALLY have people on who can EXPLAIN WHY he's stupid.
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  9101.  @commonsenseskeptic  To both you and Mr. Clem the word "engineer" is NOT protected under any law anywhere the sam eas words like doctor and dentist are. I can't explain the history across the world but I can explain what happened in Australia. I started in Mech. Eng at RMIT (Melbourne Australia) in 1983. On day 1 we had the Institute of Engineers Australia talk to us about becoming student members. During that they discussed a couple of legal issues. They went all through the subject of people using the word "engineer." At some point in Australian History just before or just after WW2 several professions were offered the right to claim exclusive legal use of the word that labels their profession. I know of 3, accountants, architects and engineers. Engineers and Accountants opted out because it would take about 50 years to completely retire out all the unqualified people already calling themselves engineer or accountant. The Architects said yes and they'd deal with the unqualified. The institutes for engineers and accountants opted for post graduate certifications and we now have the legal terms "chartered accountant" and "chartered engineer." It usually requires 4 years of practice after graduation to be come eligible to get chartered. I don't know the exact process because for engineers These days anyone can draw a house or building up in CAD or on paper and submit it to planning authorities. They can do it for other people and charge money. BUT if they use the word "architect" to describe themselves in any way and they are NOT degree qualified they can get charged with fraud. For accountants and engineers there are certain specific tasks where being a "chartered accountant" or "chartered engineer" is required. In engineering the only 2 places I know it matters are for civil engineers doing structural work and electrical for power grid/distribution, and then only the civil structural where there's actual legal requirements. Civil Structural engineers get licensed, but then they are the guys who say the bridges and buildings wont collapse. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ An odd area where I know the word "engineer" is strictly controlled is in aircraft maintenance. We call aircraft mechanics LAME (pronounced lay-mee) for Licensed Mechanical Airframe Engineer. They are NOT degree qualified. They are the aircraft equivalent of a motor mechanic. So the word engineer is not a controlled word and that's common. I know it sucks but Elon is free like any other person to declare himself an engineer. I totally effing hate it, but that's how it is. Great vid.
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  9102.  @commonsenseskeptic  We now have terms like "registered professional engineer" BUT NONE of it means squat. So long as LAWYERS & PR protect the CEOs and their sneaky slimy disgusting economists, accountants and HR - the QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE of engineers wont matter. Boeing Max-8 should have FINALLY changed things and been the end of fake and false engineering practices. It certainly should have ended interference from the uneducated over the educated. They killed over 300 people for money and so far NOBODY has been held accountable. Elon will never be held to account for his bad engineering. He could stack 100 dumb fanbots into Starship tomorrow, light the fuse and blow them into confetti without any worry. Kyle Rittenhouse shot 2 people and it was FILMED. The whole world saw it and in any other place EXCEPT America he'd be in jail. When powerful people with vested interests are involved CEOs KNOW they can get away with stuff. There are too many powerful people with money in Tesla. For sure as you pointed out in another vid its monstrously over valued. Its insane how overvalued it is. That doesn't matter squat. Until Elon does something they can't ignore he's free do to whatever he likes. I'm not certain of your qualifications but your clearly smart enough to understand that.
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  9103. There's an awful lot of things in the world these days we would be better off without.
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  9104. HEY SARAH DOES THAT MEAN BEING AN UNMARRIED PREGNANT TEENAGER!
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  9105.  @francois-xavieresperance5007  Interesting comments. What was the article you pointed out - that comment seems to have been deleted. The really big issue I see is that we are tying ourselves even harder to America and the problem there is they showed with Trump there is a significant part of their population who will screw anyone in a heartbeat. I was actually working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and hit them with tariffs. There was simply no warning. Trump just did something that would rate with his base. The Canadians might not ever trust them again after that and we should be very careful. I actually went to college in America on a sports scholarship. I love the place and the people BUT when it comes to politics they are so tribal and its almost impossible to get them to see how destructive that is.
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  9106.  @LouisTsuiful  2 words princess BULL SHIT. Its staggering how ignorant some people are. The PLAN might have a lot of ships but it doesn't have the raw fire power of the USN. 2 Aircraft Carriers versus 11 7 Ballistic missile submarines versus 14 and another 4 missile subs 12 Nuclear powered attack submarines versus 50 Forget the 60 conventional attack subs out in the Pacific they are worthless. The USN has 70 Arleigh Burke destroyers backed up by 22 Ticonderoga cruisers. If the PLAN only tried to take on 1/2 of the USN it would still be a massacre. The open ocean is where America's real strength is not the hills and deserts of the Middle East.
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  9107.  @francois-xavieresperance5007  So briefly what was that article about. Most likely the YouTube algorithm didn't like the link.
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  9108.  @francois-xavieresperance5007  That's fairly blunt across a whole field of issues. The pacific is almost lost as it is to China. Australia, America and others have been very slack and taken for granted all those small island states would always be in our camp. China turned up a decade ago and started funding projects as part of "belt & road." They are no so entrenched its almost impossible to get them out, because so many of those nations now OWE China for the loans (as in the debts). China now has an economic strangle hold on quite a few of them. We found that out very rudely when they all blasted off at Australia over climate change. China was a guest at that conference and it was obvious they were pulling strings to test out their influence. What's truly scary is that the West has totally ignored what China was doing. We all forget that the UN general Assembly is like the US Senate. Every country gets 1 vote irrespective of population size. So 1.4 Billion Chinamen get 1 vote while all those small Pacific nations get over a dozen with barley a million people. What I expect is that China will eventually go for economic sanctions on America and we are going to be stunned on how many nations vote with them. It will only be then will people realise what "belt & road" actually is. I've been trying to tell people for a while how scary this is. They actually learnt this from the Japanese who manipulated the international whaling commission in the same way. Plus to add into that are the immense issues China is going to face over the next 20years. First with its skewed demographics that have resulted form the 1 child policy. Second form its idiotic construction of ghost cities which has sponged up a staggering amount of cash. Third from all the wealthy Chinese who are getting their money out of China as fast as they can. Fourth that massive army they have produces no food or products to sell they are just 1 enormous sponge on resources. If you take a look at the Soviet collapse one of its major factors was the massive military it had in terms of people. Military personnel produce nothing but costs that the rest of society has to provide. Because America's military is more technology bases it doesn't have as many people as some think. Plus because of how America works its military produces a lot of economic turnover which Russia's never did and China's does not do. Plus all those foreign companies that have factories in China can now chase even cheaper labor in India and Africa.
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  9109. Brandon you make a valid point except what your advocating is China where there is no way to rid of the government. They proved that after Tiananmen Square. The thing for corporations is that what happens inside their premises is there responsibility. If there is a full government mandate then those corporations have zero accountability and you are right - accountability is important. The real question is how do you do this so everybody is accountable for the things they are responsible for. That's a massive topic that's not being addressed across a lot more stuff than just COVID. Look at the recent move to have the Sackler family and their henchmen granted immunity over the Oxy scandal. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Accountability is a monstrous issue and NOT one country anywhere is handling well.
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  9110. The following is the comment I just left on another page on the same subject. The worst part of this are how deluded the BLUE MAGA people are. I just watched the Brooks & Capehart segment on PBS titled "Brooks and Capehart on Biden's battle to stay in the race" and at one point Jonathan Capehart throws down. After quoting a string of stats he demands that the people who want Biden to step down explain what they are seeing they he isn't. He then goes on to claim that the Joe Biden he interviewed/met recently is the same Joe Biden he interviewed/met 2 years ago. What we are seeing is a man in OBVIOUS decline who might win the election but is NOT be capable of serving 4 more years. THAT'S WHAT WE SEE. The level of delusion that Jonathan Capehart shows is staggering and he's just one of 1,000s of BLUE MAGA. They are just as bad and just as deluded as RED MAGA its just taken longer for it to be obvious.
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  9111.  @user-jy2sj4ed4i  I just watched part of a NYT podcast (because I could not stomach all of it) where Nancy Pelosi said the election result was NOT a rebuke of the Democrat Party. The level of disconnect with these people is WORSE than anyone yet realises.
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  9112.  @coolsenjoyer  I'm Australian and from an outside view that is one of the most perceptive questions ANYONE has asked in the aftermath of this disaster. I hope you don't get trolled for it. They all noted that the polls were close BUT NONE of them were asking WHY the polls were close and as a result they missed what was happening. Maybe the most amazing an bizarre thing is there's a NYT podcast and Nancy Pelosi claims the result is NOT a rebuke of the Democratic Party. That's the level of disconnect that's going on.
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  9113. Vice President Henry A. Wallace wrote in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  9114. That's sadly closer to the truth than most people realise. Just look at the recent debacle with Trumps 2nd Impeachment. Mitch McConnell said YES Trump was responsible for the riot and then said NO he can't be held accountable. That sad Orwellian Logic is being played out across the entire globe in one form or another. Modern politics operates like: *"We know this is true but we are going to ignore it and do the worst thing possible for our future!" Emily Calandrelli (an aerospace engineer) did a very good TEDx talk on getting people to to take a better approach to discussing climate change. In it she mentioned that the Pentagon were working out how many billions it was going to cost to maintain their bases around the world. And that its a real cost that every American will have to pay for. Here's the Tedx talk she gave in 2018 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9haKpJakU4 Here's the Pentagon report that was PUBLICLY released for ALL the world to see in January 2019 -> https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jan/29/2002084200/-1/-1/F1/CLIMATE-CHANGE-REPORT-2019.PDF
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  9115.  @ddnn974  Sad but true.
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  9116. Its actually simpler than that. Tragically we just let our politicians get away with things and NOT just little things but huge things. I'm Australian and we all let Bush, Cheney, Blair, Howard and the rest get away with the invasion of Iraq. How many of you Americans know that BOTH Tony Blair (The British Prime Minister) and John Howard (The Australian Prime Minister) are lawyers. Tony Blair's wife Cherie is a human rights lawyer who on one occasion came to Australia to argue a case AFTER the invasion of Iraq for which she was publicly denounced as a hypocrite. Right now we are all sitting back letting Benjamin Netanyahu slaughter women and children. Nobody should stop him going after Hamas and those who perpetrated October 7th but the unrestrained slaughter is an abomination and we have all let them get away with it JUST LIKE WE DID with Iraq. Just like we have done with other things. This behavior of NOT HOLDING political people accountable is a cancer that has been metastasizing for decades and is now so far out of control that it will destroy Western Civilisation if we don't finally deal with it. Its not simply Trump, its the whole system that needs to be held accountable. Trumps just the worst of already broken system.
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  9117. Agreed.
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  9118.  @zachthamm9595  I spent the day watching a series of vids by Richard Wolff on Marx & Marxism. I don't Prof Wolff when he is on his high horse of slamming capitalism because when you look at the outcomes Marxism has delivered its just as bad and in many cases worse. At one point he made a valid point that capitalists only count financial costs in their evaluations. And that is true. Nobody in any corporation considers what the social cost of a decisions is because Milton Friedman made sure of that. But likewise I'll happily challenge any Marxist on the social and environmental outcomes in those states that ran on a Marxist platform for the last 70 years. All anybody needs to do is look at the outcomes in placed like the Aral Sea or the starvation & famines that have dogged China and North Korea. The simplest fact is that all these "isms" have their faults and if you get the wrong people in power and let them abuse their power then those faults get magnified and exacerbated and ends up in tears. It was Germany's turn in 1945, then it was Russia's turn 32 years ago and now its America's turn and before long it will be China's turn too.
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  9119. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  9120. At 53:44 in this vid posted the same day he called John Mearsheimer's assessment as "horse shit" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdP01go8wdQ And I checked the population of the countries he lists is 263 Million. Add in Finland and its 268 million. Russia's population is around 140 million.
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  9121.  @seed_drill7135  great line
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  9122. Its been the Hollywood thing for decades. Another film out this year Dune was done back in the 80s and for anyone who ever read the book that film is almost unintelligible. I guess Hollywood can't help itself.
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  9123. Yes David you are quite right: Its already been reported in Britain -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpym-vAH8OQ and Australia -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYv9_JJmeVg
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  9124.  @paulstacey7814  Yep - that's right on the spot.
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  9125. The only question left for Don Junior is: Do you get your drugs from the same supplier as Hunter Biden?
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  9126. Bill proving YET AGAIN just how SHlTHOUSE some (not all) of the Baby Boomers are. Their sense of entitlement to EVERYTHING including public discourse is so PROFOUNDLY SHlTHOUSE. They got free or cheap education. They got cheaper housing with staggering capital gains that they now expect us to pay them for. When the GFC (that they caused) happened they got their investments bailed out and the rest of us got the bill. They get all the tax breaks they ask for. WORST of all they screwed up the planet and now expect the rest of us to clean up their mess.
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  9127.  @chaserofthelight1737  It not yet proven but highly suspected that every employee has their soul removed by a special machine Rupert Murdoch bought from Satan at a garage sale. Most of them find it breaking but a few like Tucker Carlson a refreshing release. To some putting them down is like giving the final shot to a horse with a broken leg - a mercy that puts them out of their misery. To others it puts us out of our misery.
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  9128.  @chaserofthelight1737  It not yet proven but highly suspected that every employee has their soul removed by a special machine Rupert Murdoch bought from Satan at a garage sale. Most of them find it breaking but a few like Tucker Carlson a refreshing release. To some putting them down is like giving the final shot to a horse with a broken leg - a mercy that puts them out of their misery. To others it puts us out of our misery.
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  9129.  @tanyawade5197  Do you want to know the craziest thing of all? Go watch the Interview Jon Stewart had with Gabriel Gatehouse about Qanon. A few minutes in he talks about a parable and then you get to an interesting point about our world. Are there small groups of people with insane levels of power. The answer is YES. Go watch Jake Tran's video on Goldman Sachs for an example. So what's the best way to have the general population NOT look into something important? Have them look elsewhere. there's 2 basic ways to do that. 1) Make a big noise somewhere else; and 2) Have a pack of crazy people all screaming and pointing at it so everyone else looks in other directions.
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  9130. Hopefully.
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  9131. AUSTRALIAN HERE: I have the simple answer DUH As in DUH - you are supplying the Ukrainians (as are we and others) with a giant pile of kick ass toys that they are putting a lot of Russian sons in the grave and causing Putin the biggest headache in Russian history. What part of retaliation don't you get? Do you really think the Russians ARE NOT going to try everything they can to cause as much chaos and harm to America and everyone else that they can? Under the circumstances they can't do anything direct so they have to go through indirect channels and that means spreading as much misinformation on social media that they can. Which has been made even easier by the idiotic greed of America's billionaire class. I bet those GOP clowns have their email inboxes full of bot generated nonsense. We are about to see a shitstorm of misinformation over the coming months and in so many ways the entire Western hemisphere will only have itself to blame because when we should have dragged social media back to something sensible WHICH NOBODY DID after the disaster of the Brexit campaign, which was stage managed by American Billionaire Robert Mercer via Cambridge Analytica. Brexit proved you could MANIPULATE public opinion with the right misinformation campaign.
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  9132.  @thomasjr8318  What it highlights is that we have NOT BEEN TOLD EVERYTHING and until there is a fully independent investigation we wont know. The problem is there are so many vested interests that simply wont ever happen - the Chinese, the W.H.O. Big Pharma 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Dr. Fauci could be telling 100% truth. The Nichols article doesn't say he is directly involved with or helped fund any "gain of function" research. I don't think he realizes that he's wide open to accusations and can't DISPROVE them. It doesn't matter if he's 100% innocent or 100% guilty he's stuffed. He can't prove or disprove anything. If you look at what he said today. Its all legitimate. if he didn't help try and get ready for the next "whatever" he'd be negligent. It would be like NOT doing research into computer hacking. If you don't do the hacking, you wont find the weaknesses and wont plug the gaps in the firewalls. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ So I would expect that he (in his position) would fund research (or see it get funding) and possibly do it in places where these viruses come from. BUT (and this is the crux) what else was possibly going on in that lab? What did they know and when did they know it? I suspect as I said previously that something happened in a petri dish. They didn't realize what it was UNTIL after it got lose. By the time they realized what had happened they went into damage control. Now that several million are dead its full cover-up mode. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  9133.  @mattrogers5188  For sure it was publicly available, I am not claiming that or anything else. BUT Dr. Fauci was in front of congress only days ago unequivocally claiming there was no "gain of function" research in China being funded via the NIH. A couple of days later I see links from another person that show the NIH was funding COVID research in China. I am not saying he was wrong or lied, BUT HE HASN'T explained, in that context, what these other projects were. EVERY TIME I have posted those links I have also said the in my opinion (IMO) considering the previous outbreaks of SARS1 and MERS that China researching these viruses makes sense and that other countries being involved also makes sense . WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS WHY THAT LINK TO THE WUHAN LAB WAS NOT PUBLICLY DISCUSSED 12-15 MONTHS AGO. If you want something truly suspicious Peter Daszak was one of the very few people the Chinese let in to investigate. That's a clear conflict of interest. Plus he is a proponent of gain of function. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ I personally think that Dr. Fauci has the worst job on the planet right now. He's been attacked and screamed at from both the left and right. Nothing he says will satisfy either, but he also hasn't explained somethings which doesn't help. David P is actually one of the very few commentators being rational right now. Just today on Rising (at the Hill) the new hosts Ryan and Emily claimed they had proof Dr. Fauci lied. They showed 2 videos. In the 1st Dr. Fauci says we didn't know at first that masks were effective outside the hospital environment. In the 2nd he says there was a shortage of masks and they wanted to reserve them for hospital staff. They claimed there is a lie in that. Yeah where? Those are not mutually exclusive statements. Do I personally think Dr. Fauci has deliberately lied? NO, but he hasn't told all that he knows at times. Is that defendable? Absolutely - considering how both sides of American politics and media behave. When everything you say gets attacked by one side or the other shutting you mouth is the only option BUT eventually you do need to explain things. What I want is a straight forward explanation of what Peter Daszak (and others) were up to with that lab in Wuhan and so far that has NOT happened. Over 3.7 million are dead, their families deserve honest answers.
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  9134. What I can't believe is that Americans continually act surprised when this stuff surfaces. The CIA have been doing nasty shite since their inception. Just like with America always striving to be #1 at the Olympics over the Soviets. The CIA was in a head to head competition with the KGB for who could be the worst government funded organisation in History. Which coup do we need to explain to people like Kyle - Iran, Guatemala, Chile, Indonesia or any of the others. I guess Kyle's to young to know about Iran-Contra????
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  9135. Exactly "Impeach Biden for what?" This bullshit dog whistling is now so endemic that getting rid of it seems impossible.
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  9136. IT DOESN'T MATTER. If you are being asked to eat a batshit sandwich or a bullshit sandwich, ITS STILL A SHIT SANDWICH.
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  9137. @bina nocht Remember in college almost everything is divided into 2 groups at the undergrad/bachelor level. Arts and Science. My degree is actually a BSc in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. For all the non science people its a Bachelor of Arts in Economics or a Bachelor of Arts in Music or History or something else. Some colleges do issue Bachelors of Engineering or Bachelor of "something specific" but mine didn't. So as an engineer they tell us we have to do X number of credits/hours/classes/courses in "humanities" and that means anything NOT taught by the engineering and science colleges/departments. I did classes in Economics, Psychology, 2 in Sociology, 3 in Classical Civilisations and 1 in Scuba (a PE class) and 1 in Nautical Navigation. Because all were NOT taught by a science or engineering department they all fall under the "humanities" tag.
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  9138. @bina nocht WTF????
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  9139. Aerospace engineer and pilot here: You are 99% right. What they need are planes that can get up to the drones fast AND THEN match speed AND THEN be a stable gun platform. The Yak 52 is nothing like a Spitfire. One is a basic trainer the other is a thoroughbred designed to out fly other planes of the same era and type. Also the Spitfire is from the 1940s and the Yak is from the 1970s. I am actually surprised they have not done this a lot sooner but I also think they are using the wrong plane. Among the Russian planes is the newer Yak 152 which I don't think they have in Ukraine. It was designed to replace the Yak 52. But the planes I do know they have are the Russian aerobatic planes (Yak 54, Yak 55, Sukhoi SU26, 29 & 31). The reason I think the aerobatic planes would be better is they not only have better speed to get to the drones but they are also very stable. Most people assume aerobatic planes are very twitchy and some like the American Pitts Special are. But the current generations of aerobatic planes are designed to be very stable so that they score better in competition. Its like gymnastics with a plane and there's no points for ho wild manoeuvres are the points are for how clean they are just like in gymnastics. In fat the scoring is very similar to gymnastics and springboard diving. So a plane like the German Extra 330 with 4 P90 machine pistols in each wing arranged like they were in the Spitfire gives you a plane that can get up fast chase down drones and then be very stable while you shoot them down. The trick would be MATCHING the speed of the drone so you can take a clean shot at it. So you are very very close. In fact you are closer to what I think is the right answer than anyone else I have seen.
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  9140. The only people on the planet who DO NOT KNOW about how SHlTHOUSE the CIA were in places like Iran, Chile, Indonesia, Guatemala and a heap of other places are the American people who keep believing the fantasy that they are this nation than never did things like the Soviets did during the Cold war. As for Henry Kissinger even though he is 100 years old SHOULD be prosecuted for the CRIMES he committed. Even if he is on his death bead they should prosecute him so that he can't go away like Rumsfeld who's last thought was "I got away with it!"
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  9141. You forgot to add the word "YET" to the end of that. Who will be surprised when China makes ANOTHER man made island up that way and declares they own everything? There's a chunk of the Antarctic that nobody has claimed, maybe they'll claim that next. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  9142.  @coreymetzker2521  Accurate data is one reason why I ONLY quote COVIC data from worldometers because they link/reference the sources. If you look at the US page and look at the 2nd from right column -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ Whoever set up and is maintaining those pages at worldometers did a superb job. On 2008 the best answer was from Mark Blyth in explaining 2016 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmBG3Z4DI He starts talking at 13:13 but you'll love what he said at 18:30. He said that 4 years ago and its still pertinent and maybe even more so today.
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  9143. It hasn't since Reagan gave explicit instructions to stop pursuing anti-trust cases. That's since spread into other areas the top 1% want the DOJ to stay away from.
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  9144.  @bentucker7280  You're right and that's just another of the advantages of air launching. The only real problem is that that there is a practical size limit and I think that's part of Launcher Ones issues. Its almost 50% heavier than Pegasus XL which is a fairly big. A Tomahawk extended range cruise missile and AGM 129 are both around 1.6 tons Pegasus XL is 23.1t Launcher One is around 30t That's a lot of mass to be holding in the way air launched rockets are launched.
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  9145.  @trouty7947  Yep I know all those points well. For rockets up to a certain size (and I think Pegasus XL is close to the limit and Launcher One is past the limit) there is nothing better than air launching. Smaller rockets are less efficient in terms of payload than larger ones because not everything scales down. So getting some of that back by launching at 40-50,000 ft and needing less fuel to get onto the right orbital track is a big deal. Plus not having to build launch facilities saves millions that can go into jet fuel and rocket fuel.
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  9146.  @h8GW  NO - other direction. They would have been far better off starting with a smaller rocket on a smaller jet and then building up. The single biggest cost in flying jets (after the fuel) is the engine maintenance. Its why twin engine jets have become the main stay of the air industry. Go back to the 70s and 80s and there were lots of triple engine jets like the L-1011 and DC-10, 727 and they have all gone the way of the dodo. The cost savings on engine maintenance is huge.
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  9147. Actually there was a time - they guy in charge at the time got in trouble because he believed slavery was wrong. His name was Lincoln.
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  9148.  @guacamole7493  You must be a millennial. Its called knowing about history DK-HED
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  9149. Absolutely 100% CORRECT. However Trump is NOT wrong, just misguided. As 1 harsh hour and things will change. Its just who is it going to change for. What the Right NEVER LEARNS (and history is full of examples) is that when the established conservative power tries to conserve its position and keeps kicking the rest of a society, or hitting them with a whip or whatever else they do to keep them subdued. EVENTUALLY they snap. If you go back there were numerous slave revolts like the one lead by Spartacus. Then there were revolutions like happened in France and Russia. Most of all what the American Oligarchy needs to be more aware of is WHY the American Revolution happened. There was an established power who treated the general population with complete contempt and beat them down at every opportunity. EVENTUALLY they said "We've had enough."
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  9150. That is so brutal of a comparison BUT ALSO 100% on topic.
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  9151. EVERYONE it was answered by Jeff Daniels in his famous what makes America great rant. Its right here at 2:18 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIpKfw17-yY From the political side - it doesn't cost money it costs votes. What the Dems don't get is that they will NEVER get those votes anyway and NOT doing anything costs votes.
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  9152.  @ChillAssTurtle  Sorry, you misunderstood but the biblical word for slavery meant BOTH and other things. Yeah it meant literal ownership of a human BUT it also meant employee, indentured servant, serf as well as what we might now call a contractor. People don't realise that older languages didn't have the variety of words we now have and the older the language the fewer words they had. its what makes interpreting older languages difficult. I'm not an ancient Hebrew scholar but I know a couple of things. Its a language that's built around descriptive words not specific labels. The best example I know of is the word used for round objects. Ancient Hebrew didn't have specific words for circle, band, sphere, globe, disk, ellipse, oval, ovoid, cylinder,... It just had a word for labelling or describing round things. Its why the religious element of the flat earthers claim the bible calls the Earth, Sun and Moon flat disks because it uses the word to describe disks. It doesn't say they are disks it just says the Earth Sun and Moon are round. That comes up in flat earth discussions from time to time. The slavery thing comes up occasionally in discussions about what the bible did or didn't say about slavery and employment. Prior to the concept of modern economics and contract law the idea of an employee was almost non existent.
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  9153.  @jeffc1347  Mate, come to Australia and see how satirical it is that a 1/2 the country still lives in the 18th century where we owe allegiance to the crown!!!! If you ask me if Britain an important trading and security partner? You can ask the exact same question about Australia & America. Both times the answer is ABSOLUTELY, but they key word is "partner" not colony or subjects. Too many Australian's don't get that.
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  9154.  @vinsanity40k  Because they preach what the top 1% want said. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  9155. I absolutely agree with that, but he does have a point (around 3:32) where he says "even the decisions that folks you know stories that The Hill publishes are about ratings" That's true, sad but true of EVERY NEWS OUTLET. Anytime any of us click on a headline or read below a headline because it catches our attention their people have done their job of getting our attention. It doesn't matter what the media format is either. Look at any standard network news (TV or radio) 5 minutes before it starts the last add break always starts with "coming up........." and that blurb usually includes words like "shocking" and "amazing" and "extraordinary" and it finishes with ".......full details coming up." The media on which they present our news might have changed but the methods haven't. People like Murdoch didn't invent trash, garbage and scandal news, but he certainly weaponized it. As for people like Maddow, go watch the documentary "Outfoxed" it warns how Fox was driving the rest of the media to be just as aggressive and hyperbole driven.
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  9156. "Word has it" is journalistic lingo to let you know what's about to be said has NOT BEEN FACT CHECKED.
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  9157.  @melanieking724  It was actually Ghostbusters 2 but then I'd forgotten that. Good point. Your explanation is better than mine.
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  9158.  @lorenzoblum868  Fair enough.
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  9159.  @lorenzoblum868  But I do like the Ghostbusters idea. And no where does Thom actually say where they got the expression pink slime from or why they are calling these fake news sites pink slime just that they are being labelled pink slime. Check the text.
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  9160.  @lorenzoblum868  Yeah I saw that in the text and didn't buy it. Who's ever tried to pass off pink slime as meat??????????
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  9161.  @lorenzoblum868  No. WTF are you asking that for? I've never heard anyone claim pink slime meant bad or fake meat, but the pink slime in Ghostbusters did make people fight against each other. I've never heard the term before today and it looks like a fairly recent label somebody has started and its not that clear why they started using it. That said its as good of a label as any for what people are doing.
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  9162. HEY FOLKS I found the 2024 Whitehouse Press conference Guidelines. Rule #1 DO NOT answer a direct question with a direct answer.. Rule #2 If asked a direct question then ramble on about any UNRELATED TOPIC that comes to mind. Rule #3 If persistently asked direct questions use large multi-syllabic buzz words that can be interpreted in multiple ways and keep the answer as vague as possible. NEVER FORGET: A confusing answer is still an answer.
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  9163. "Word has it" is journalistic lingo to let you know what's about to be said has NOT BEEN FACT CHECKED.
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  9164. To be fair AOC does like being the center of attention, but then so does Megyn Kelly. This is the hypocrisy of the modern political-media landscape. They are all so busy scrambling to be the centre of attention (even Kyle, Krystal, Saagar & Marshall) that they just don't see how stupid they look at times.
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  9165. There's actually a series of giant misunderstandings in this. I am an engineer who's worked in control systems, automation and robotics for 30+ years. NOBODY ever lost their job to automation or a robot or AI. This is a trope that economists (both Left and Right) have used for decades and its simply WRONG. NOT ONCE in 30+ years has a job I have done cost a person their job. You see when a company INVESTS in automation jobs don't disappear they change. Most of the jobs lost in the Western World were lost when companies closed older inefficient factories and MOVED. In America sometimes they moved to another state with incentives like lower taxes (like Texas) but usually moved to places with cheaper labor like Mexico or China. As for AI that's a pathetic joke. The Software that's marketed as AI is not anything that's actually thinking. Its one of the greatest frauds perpetrated on the general public in history. There simply is no such thing as a mand made intelligence. What exists are algorithms that can mimic specific tasks and do them in a way that seems intelligent. They are particularly well suited to methodical repetitive tasks - things like facial recognition. Where a human can look at a photo for a few seconds and compare it to a known photo an algorithm can do the same but at a rate of 100s each second.
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  9166. You are absolutely right but NONE OF IT MATTERS. So long as Ukraine has a disputed border irrespective of it being with Russia or anyone else, it CANNOT join NATO. Its a basic rule of joining NATO all borders must be settle and not even 1 inch in dispute.
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  9167. Well pointed out this is not simply a matter of definition its a matter of public confusion because of partisan politics. I'm an aerospace engineer who did post graduate research. What angers me so much with this argument is that we are NOT getting a clear picture of what the NIH was doing in Wuhan. I remember that May 11 confrontation, because it was just after the Wade Nichols article, and yes I know there's been some debunking of that article. -> https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/ But following on from that article others posted links to these NIH project reports which clearly show NIH funding to Ecohealth Alliance and managed by Peter Daszak for Corona virus research in China. https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9491676 https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9819304 I'm not a virologist or epidemiologist (an most of us aren't). I do know what researchers can be like. At times very fine details and definitions are incredibly important because they can be doing work that is right at the balance point between 1 definition and another. For anyone who has never done research or development that's more common than you think. I did a water treatment plant a couple of years back where we had to be EXTREMELY careful about everything we said or wrote in emails and reports because there were 2 competing companies, both with patents pending that were very, very close in what they claimed as original work. Its quite possible that how researchers define Gain of Function and where they draw the line between it and other methods might not make sense to the rest of us but makes perfect sense to them. We DO NEED is clarity from an expert in the field as to why certain research is regarded as Gain of Function and some is NOT. I don't want to hear from any more commentators or politicians about this - I WANT TO HEAR FROM AN EXPERT.
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  9168.  @yonghominale8884  I'd agree on that. But then this is part of the media landscape where all that anyone is trying for is a "Gotcha!" moment or something else to be outraged by. I don't think latest gaff proves anything that we didn't already know about De Sanctimonious. He's a walking talking opportunistic turd. As for Nikki Haley, she's a sad joke.
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  9169. The only way you could see this as a plot twist is that you are claiming that this has gone from a straight dive into the ground into a spiral dive into the ground.
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  9170.  @R-A-F  You mean the 🍊🦑 I think we need some new emojis for all this crap.
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  9171. If you didn't pick it up 2 years ago, Ambassador Alexander Robson is Australian, like me and Steve. I'm actually an engineer whos' been looking into economics because I found some idiotic and extremely destructive economics in the energy sector. I wont go into that now because I am raising it in Steve's podcast "Steve Keen & Friends" So it was (for me) great to find an economist who actually recognises there's a major issue in the economics of energy. When you consider the utter mindless idiocy of people Alex Robson, how blind they are to alternative thought and how much INFLUENCE they have NOBODY should be surprised our economies are basket cases. I highly recommend for anyone interested to join in on the live Podcast.
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  9172. Here's an argument what's more important to human history the screw or Vaucanson's metal lathe? Yeah I saw your video on Jacques de Vaucanson's incredible lathe, which is one of the most important engineering videos I have ever seen (I'm an aerospace engineer with a background in automation, robotics and control systems). It also completely refutes the ideology of Milton Freidman - the father of "greed is good." He famously claimed that greed alone drove innovation and that we needed to free up regulations to support greed and drive innovation. It was the justification and basis for his entire economic theory which became Reaganomics and Thatcherism, which has lead the world to its current financial catastrophe. As to your question on bolts & screws. You are essentially right, if its forms its own thread then its a screw, but then you have things like "set screws" which don't form their own threads and are essential to holding many things in place, like pulleys on shafts. But consider that the 2 words bolt and screw can both be used as verbs. You can "bolt things together" or "screw something down." Notably when you bolt things together you use nuts. So it might be possible to define things by purpose and if you use a nut its a bolt and if you don't its a screw. But then there are tings like shoulder bolts and if you use one in a fixture without a nut its still a shoulder bolt. After writing the above I checked Wikipedia starting with "bolt" (which include the word nut) and then got to this -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw#Differentiation_between_bolt_and_screw Note what it says about the naming of lag bolts and coach bolts which are clearly screws but been named bolts. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ As anyone can see going down that page the word bolt and nut keep being interchanged, so the definition is anything but clear. But in the most simplest case if it uses a nut to be tightened then its a bolt.
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  9173. NO KYLE LIKE SO MANY OTHER YOU CHOSE TO IGNORE THE OBVIOUS SIGNS Just like so many did with Elizabeth Holmes. Just like so many did with Bernie Madoff. just Like so many did with Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi.
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  9174. Good point. If a cover-up was going on the question isn't who knew, its more like how many knew and why it took this long to break.
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  9175. Yeah this is 8 minutes of the same economic crap that got us where we are. All Jennifer Westacott is saying is the investor class want the same crap they always want - lower corporate taxes and less regulation. They have been getting that again and again and again since Reagan and Thatcher unleashed their SHlT upon us and no matter what they get its never enough. For Sarah Ferguson not to simply say straight to her face "Isn't this the same stuff you've been saying for years?" is just pathetic on her part.
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  9176. There's some bullshit in calling him the "highest rating" because its highest rated on Fox BUSINESS not Fox and he got about 1/10th of people like Tucker Carlson do on the main Fox channel. So don't anyone read too much into "highest rated." Sure he's named in the legal documents and its great to see someone like him get cancelled but he's no where near that important.
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  9177.  @roblwsn4802  Biden is an old guy well past his prime who was dragged out by the corporate Dems to prevent anyone else having anything to say. The biggest problem in Western democratic parties are the core establishments that will do anything to hold onto control and power. Its not a Left thing or a Right thing because they all do it. This is one of the things people around the world are getting very frustrated with. They have lost faith with the establishments because it doesn't matter what the establishments promise they all share one common theme. "What do the billionaires want us to do?"
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  9178.  @paweljuraszek7923  Recently someone talked about how Nixon's backers who were stalling and blocking all attempts to nail him. Finally a group of them were put in a room and presented with the irrefutable evidence he'd done the deed. They could NOT DENY IT and had to flip. I think the same is about to happen to Trump, but instead of pushing him out the door the MAGA movement will explode and tear itself apart. Some will have their delusions shattered and people are patient with them they wont be a problem. Others however will be a nightmare. How America deals with them will define America's future. America was already digging its own grave before Trump dug it even deeper, threw in buckets of toxic waste and explosives, before pushing the country into the hole. The real question is whether the GOP is going to let Trump light the fuse and blow it all up or dump him and deal with the backlash.
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  9179. Yeah - that's the saddest fact of modern media. There's always some channel somewhere that will give clowns like Pillow air time. Actually David and the rest of the progressive media should just stop giving him more air time and keep it as brief as possible. The more air time he gets the more he keeps going. He's one of those classic "there is no such thing as bad publicity" types.
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  9180. This is so hilarious to watch all the S0FTC0CKS in the media go off about this. How many stories have they done over rent years telling the whole world how amazing AI was and praising all the magical things it would do and how it would fix the world? Anyone could have and should have seen this coming. Who need to pay for some clown to do the weather report or read the news or give the sports results when you can get ChatGPT or one of the other AIs to do it for you. Next will be the accountants, stockbrokers bankers and financial advisors because all of them RELY on DATA ANALYSIS and if there's one thing AI will do well its data analysis.
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  9181. ​ @jlvandat69  Actually the reusable rocket was done long before SpaceX did it. Don't get me wrong I give credit where its due and what SpaceX has done getting a better more cost effective means to get people up & down with Crew Dragon than the Space Shuttle could is fantastic. Especially when you compare Crew Dragon to Boeing Starliner. The thing that impresses me about Crew Dragon is NOT the innovation because there's not that much. Its the fact they combined a lot of existing tech with a few new things and put together a better package. in other areas like robotics an automation its called "integration." Its where you take bits and pieces from other systems and combine them with a few new bits to produce a solution. That's what I really like about Crew Dragon - its a really great example of integration. I Crew Dragon give a 9/10 because it might not be that innovative but it DELIVERED and at the time it was desperately needed to be RELIABLE more than anything else. HOWEVER the Starship based moon mission is a disaster in the making and its obvious. Go watch the video Destin Sandlin did. Its here on YouTube - Smarter Every Day Ep 293. And that's part of the problem evaluating companies like SpaceX, Boeing, Rockwell......etc. The Space Shuttle was an amazing technical achievement just on the fact they made it work, but it was also a failure in that it cost to much and crashed twice. These companies can be brilliant and utter failures and sometimes at the same time.
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  9182.  @angelavonhalle5144  Not sure why you'd think engineers would argue with climatologists?
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  9183.  @kirkbennett3927  Soon as you and all the other people I have had exactly the same argument with can explain what has changed we can discuss it. But in 30 years and actually the last few million years NOTHING has changed on Mars. Its still the same planet and anyone who wants to terraform it will have to START with the planet that is there NOT what they think they can make it into. As for Elon go and look at the time frames he promises and when things get delivered. As I just explained to another person there's things about SpaceX that I really like and defend all the time, but things like Elon's claims about Mars are just complete BS.
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  9184.  @piotrpilinko639  Fantastic point and their have been multiple attempts with biodomes and all failed. On the technical side they often had nitrogen issues and on the psychological side they had serious issues between people.
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  9185.  @kirkbennett3927  Actually his reply is utterly ignorant of reality. Go see what I wrote to him and others.
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  9186.  @350claus  Yeah Sorry I read the introduction and I hate to bust your balls but the guy is utterly delusional. If you scroll down to the bottom MOST of his references are to his own work. So he's building arguments for what he wants rather than practical reality. Its probably useful as a reference in the "what might you have to do basket" but his 50 year timeframe is utterly ridiculous. Its the exact sort of paper that people/groups like the Mars Society loved to publish because it kept reinforcing their ideas of what they WANTED to do rather than what can be done. The fundamental problem with all of those arguments is they eventually rely on something NOBODY has yet solved and NOBODY knows how to solve it but everyone assumes that somebody will solve that problem before its needed. That's actually not uncommon in engineering projects and people get caught all the time time with "we assumed that part would work!" or "we assumed we could get one of those!"
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  9187.  @matttownsend7119  Sorry mate I keep forgetting that science fiction is NOT fiction. Go do a course in orbital mechanics and do the math for what it would take to move TRILLIONS of tons from the Oort Cloud down to Mars orbit. I think it was Kim Stanley Robinson who suggested in one of his works that we could slam a comet into Mars for water. YEAH Sorry, but that was science fiction too. Sorry, I love science fiction and find it inspiring, but as an engineer I am also firmly stuck in the pragmatism of project work.
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  9188.  @jakemon4550  As I just said to another person and I have had this argument dozens of times over many years. NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN THE LAST 30 YEARS. Not meaning to be harsh but everyone has assumed that lots has changed and its simply NOT true. Mars is still the same planet it was 30 years ago in fact it HAS NOT CHANGED in millennia.. The basic logistics of getting anything to Mars HAS NOT CHANGED in 30 years. The basic requirement for a life support system HAS NOT CHANGED in 30 years. In fact the basics of life support is why Artemis was changed from 4 people on the moon for 14 days to 3 people for 10 days. If you want to talk about living in domes. Sorry but that has also been done to death and the technological task HAS NOT CHANGED in 30 years. YES ABSOLUTELY there are people who have been working their butts off trying to solve these problems, but sadly most of those programs have been starved of funding and resources for most of the last 30+ years. The Space Shuttle was a magnificent technological success in that they got it to work. The ISS is another amazing technological success in that they got it built. The tragedy is that both the SST and ISS soaked up a lot more money & people and that starved a lot of other programs of money & resources. That's why people assume a lot has change din 30 years when in fact very little has changed for some of the required technologies for either a Lunar Base or Mars Colony.
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  9189.  @kirkbennett3927  I really do wish it was different, but wishful thinking does NOT make up for pragmatic reality. Had other decisions been made we'd be in a very different place and my career and many other careers might have been vastly different. As I said at the start we expected to build a space station in the 90s, be on the moon in the 2000s and off to Mars by 2020. A few years ago I did some research and discovered there were plans for NOT 1 but 3 more X-15 variants. I knew there was 1 but didn't expect to find 3. There was a 2 seater, a delta wing and a delta wing with a scram jet. YES their plan was to develop a manned SCRAMJET powered plane in the late 1960s based on working technology. Can you imagine where we'd be if we'd sorted out SCRAMJET technology in the early 70s? Do you know that after the Challenger accident and they decided to build a replacement shuttle for $3 Billion that Kelly Johnson (P-38, U2 & SR71) said DON'T. He asked for the $3 Billion to build an SSTO and considering his prowess and the prowess of his team I have wondered for 35 years WTF did they know they everybody else didn't? As far as I know nobody has ever disclosed what Kelly Johnson proposed, but can you imagine where we'd be if people had stopped and said "Let's listen to Kelly's idea and fund it!" There's just 2 of the great "what Ifs"
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  9190.  @RandyHill-bj9pc  Please don't waste anyone's time with Robert Zubrin or other ridiculous claims. Sorry to hear you are another person taken in by Zubrin's BS. He has less than ZERO credibility these days. Nothing he's ever claimed has come true in the slightest. This is the difference between people who LISTEN TO FACTS and those who listen to fantasy.
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  9191.  @RandyHill-bj9pc  Sorry mate but Zubrin is an idiot who has been dismissed years ago and I am serious about this. There might have been a time when he was in the mix but that has long since past and there are several videos here on YouTube explaining why he has been dismissed. As for the Mars Society they too had at one time a sound reputation, but they refused to accept any criticisms of their plans and they eventually alienated EVERYONE. Its why their funding died off and NOBODY takes them seriously anymore.
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  9192. Great point - where has all the anti-vax stuff come from? It wasn't even on anybody's mind in the 90s. I wonder how much of it stems from the utter ruthlessness of big pharma. Not to excuse any of their idiotic garbage but they aren't wrong they claim big pharma can't be trusted.
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  9193.  @jakemccluremd  That's a valid point but how much of that decline is due to the people seeking prescriptions dying from overdoses. Alternatively did doctors just stop or reduce or restrict, prescribing them based on the outcomes they saw?
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  9194. Go watch the piece Kyle Kulinski did - it includes his interview with Chris Wallace on Fox. Its truly bizarre. Chris Wallace sounded like a CNN/MSNBC host and Manchin sounded like McConnell's younger brother. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd2HaP18XbI
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  9195.  @easyenetwork2023  Compared to Trump she lost gracefully BUT compared to other humans on the planet NO SHE DID NOT. Have you forgotten she complained about: 1) How she won the popular vote and it was unfair? 2) How she blamed Bernie Sanders for her loss in 2020?
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  9196. Simple answer - NO Not so simple answer - NO, the Democrats LOST. Complex answer - NO, the idiotic lame brained strategists at the DNC who blew it in 2016 LOST with the same sort of stupid idiotic nonsense. Anthony Scaramucci, who Kyle & Krystal need to interview ASAP pointed out. If your the mother of a teenage son who's struggling what did DEI Kamala offer him and what did the pussy grabber offer you? If your the father of a teenage daughter who's worried about boys in the locker room what did DEI Kamala offer her and what did the convicted felon who'd grab her by the pussy offer you. Similarly if you were a college student who simply wanted to see the genocide in Gaza STOP then what did "I'd do nothing different" Kamala offer you and what did Bibi Netanyahu's preferred candidate offer you? Maybe that's why over 10 million people who voted in 2020 SIMPLY NOT VOTE THIS TIME. What actual choice did they have other than "That candidate's worse than me!" Maybe (and its just a thought) that the party which has for 3 elections in a row ignored its primary process and selected its candidate via a small gaggle of elitists and tells their base "to suck it up" is ALSO a threat to democracy.
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  9197. Aerospace Engineer here: And this is just ANOTHER example of what I now call a "Zombie Technology" Here's the definition of 'Zombie Tech' 1) A technology that has been PREVIOUSLY dismissed or proven to NOT work being marketed to a new audience like a zombie that despite being killed comes back to life. Eg. Elon Musk's Hyperloop, which was first proposed by Robert Goddard a century before and numerous times since and always been found to have the same basic technical problems of having people in a pod fired down an evacuated tube. 2) A technology that uses another technology under its skin to allow it to be marketed as something new like a Zombie that uses a underlying zombie virus to appear as if its alive. Eg. Theranos used other existing lab testing to make it appear as if it worked. When their Edison analyser did not work they hid that by using third party labs. 3) A technology that uses another technology as its outward appearance or face allowing it to be marketed to a new audience like a zombie virus that re-animates a dead body so that it can wonder about as if its alive. Eg. Rabbit is basically Chat GPT and other existing platforms with a new body on top of it.
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  9198.  @3natey  Careful Bill's pants might be round his ankles but Hilary holds grudges. Ask Bernie Sanders and he supported her. Her nickname among the vampires of Washington is the Walrus cos her fangs are so damn large they are actually tusks.
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  9199. AUSTRALIAN HERE - I went to college in America in the late 80s on a scholarship and did aerospace engineering at the U. of Illinois. That was when the Internet was being born and the Cray supercomputers were doing amazing things. Marc Andreessen did his degree in computing at Illinois in the years just after I graduated. Andreessen along with Eric Bina and others developed the worlds first practical web browser Mosaic while there. I actually used the precursor system called Plato while there and its hard to explain how bad it was and how much a functional web browser was needed. Mosaic eventually morphed into Netscape which Microsoft bought and then morphed into MS Internet Explorer. Go and look at the Wikipedia page for the U of Illinois notable Alumni and look down the list of people who have made huge contributions to America's computer industries and other technologies. You'll see references to YouTube and Tesla in that list. So I know first hand what the value of the American State funded college systems are worth. I mention Andreessen specifically because he has been so vocal in recent years about defunding state backed college systems. I find that repulsively hypocritical because I KNOW from FIRST HAND experience what an incredible advantage in life he got from attending a state funded college. FYI - The Illini thumping Michigan was fantastic, but what would be better is that America can find a way past its current political issues because that's a benefit to the whole world.
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  9200. There's some BULLSHlT logic at the start of this where they are suggesting hunter Biden wants to hide something by testifying in public. WTF is that meant to mean - how do you hide something by testifying in public??? I think Sam & Co meant - what do the GOP goons know that they don't want him to say out loud? Because one of the main claims against the Bidens is their activities in China. We all just found out the Trumps have even more business in China than the Bidens. Maybe Hunter wants to talk in public so he can tell us what he knows from his dealings with the Chinese about what he knows about the Trump's dealings with the Chinese. On the Trump garbage - can Jack Smith or one of the others just do their damn job and throw him in jail.
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  9201.  @leightonemitchellify I am hoping that he's got his people dotting every "i" and crossing every "t" so that slippery orange clown doesn't slip by a third time. Lets not forget that 74million voted for him and the only way they MIGHT accept it is if the evidence is so overwhelming that they have to accept it. That's not going to be easy considering how little they can grasp facts now. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  9202. VERY SIMPLE QUESTION: Where is she getting this from? Either she's delusional (as in mentally sick) and making stuff up or this was told to her by someone she trusts enough to repeat it. Look at how she's talking and she doesn't seem or sound mentally ill. So I tend to think she is being told this by people she trusts or hearing from sources she feels are reliable.
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  9203.  @MrJturner74  Why only flying wings? They are a jet engine they can be used in anything that's suitable AND that can carry the fuel. Liquid Hydrogen is a incredibly hard to use - ask NASA.
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  9204.  @Stupidityindex  Yeah the dimming thing is real and we know that from 9/11, but I doubt we could rely on it as any sort of mechanism to tackle the subject. We just must stop pumping carbon into the atmosphere at the levels we are and start massively increasing the mechanisms that suck it out of the air and sequester it in the ground. The planet can handle a lot but not this much. We just have to stop burning coal in power stations period and there are alternatives. Just for start the Chinese could flip all their coal fired power plants to gas fired with cheap Russian gas. That alone would be a massive hit to emissions.
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  9205. ​ @RichardLewisCaldwell  Not certain which way your going with that but there's no doubt the Hamas murderers (and they are murderers in every context) have to be held accountable, BUT at the same time we need to HONESTLY ask why they ended up the twisted monsters that they became. I'm an engineer and there's 2 BASIC ways to handle an engineering problem. You can patch it up, replace what's broken and hope it doesn't fail again OR you can work out why it failed and fix the problem in a way it doesn't happen again. One way is relatively easy and straight forward. The other is generally harder because it takes and effort. It also requires HONESTY to admit there is a problem and that we need HONESTLY review what's happened. In engineering we call it lessons learned. You'd be amazed how often people don't like it and how willing they are to hide or leave out important information. Think Boeing Max-8 and you'll understand what I mean.
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  9206.  @guest4888  Professor Mark Blyth (Brown U.) who is someone these guys need to interview on a regular basis, often refers to a paper written by Michael Kalecki in 1943 "Political Aspects of Full Employment." I finally got round to looking at it this morning while the Internet was down. Its an odd paper by any discipline. It has no graphs, no charts and no formulas it just explains some concepts regarding economics, employment and politics. Its mainly observations and one of them is "But obstinate ignorance is usually a manifestation of underlying political motives." So when you compare these guys and others to main stream media. What you have these guys NOT pushing a political agenda versus main stream media owned by billionaires ALWAYS pushing political agendas. So you have these guys being open and enquiring versus the pig headed obstinance of main stream media that ignores anything they don't like. Your comment struck me as "I was just reading about this a few hours ago" because its right in line with what a Kalecki wrote almost 80 years ago during WW2 about public information and political agendas.
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  9207.  @pippo-1073  Its amazing how idiotic people like you are. You point the finger at anyone and everyone you can accusing them OF WHAT YOU DO. Trump politicized EVERYHTING. The Dems politicized EVERYHTING. The GOP politicized EVERYHTING. MSNC, FOX, CNN, OAN they all politicized EVERYHTING you ignorant moron As for Hunters laptop - Where is it? Simple as that who's got it? How nobody including Rudy Giuliani has stepped forward INFRONT of TV camera and said "See, here it is." and shown everyone the serial number and proved its actually Hunters laptop. Its called EVIDENCE moron.
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  9208.  @benzemamumba  I agree to a point that they are at least at times partisan hacks. But the question is are they doing it deliberately like the "opinion as fact" hacks at MSNBC, CNN, FOX, OAN,... etc. He's definitely failed here by trying to be a serious journalist and simplify a complex problem. I know how complex it is because one of the worlds leading experts talked about this in detail this time LAST YEAR. Dr. Michael Osterholm (who Joe Rogan interviewed right at the start of the pandemic) did a great explanation on mandates and hesitancy. Rogan's interview with him was gold, because Rogan kept his opinions out of the discussion. He asked questions and listened to the answers. Why Rogan hasn't had him back defies logic in my mind. Anyway what Dr. Osterholm described is that there are actually 3 main groups. 1) the pro-vaccine people who just get vaccinated as soon as they can. 2) the anti-vaxxers who just won't and can't be reasoned with. 3) the hesitant who can have an array of reasons and degrees of hesitancy making it a complex subject. Dr. O has decades of experience explained that mandates are meaningless to the first 2 groups. They're simple because their minds are made up, but the hesitant aren't a simple answer and mandates are an added pressure that doesn't help. Often leading to them being even more hesitant. Konstantin has put this all down to 1 simple answer of failed trust, which is just plain WRONG. Good to see someone else spotted it for the failure it is.
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  9209.  @menzicosce  I found this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDDzR2zSgsM
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  9210.  @robetclo2516  I've been listening to Dr. Michael Osterholm (director of CIDRAP) since the start and he's warned about so many things and so few people listened and its gone bad every time. This time last year he was warning that COVID was not behaving like Flu and nobody listened. He warned that December and January were going to be bad no one listened. He's warned and warned people about sharing each others air in crowds and nobody listens. He was one of the people who advocated NOT doing risky Gain of Function research that benefitted no one. He warned that labs were notoriously bad places for leaks. Even the best labs in the world like the CDC still had leaks. I think he knew that sooner or later somebody would get careless.
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  9211. ATTENTION ALL: There is a huge mistake at 28 minutes. The Americans DID NOT depth charged the Russian submarines during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In an interview with theAnalysisNews (which is available here on YT) Daniel Ellsberg who was actually there at the time related what happened. The American's were actually trying to SIGNAL the Russian submarines by throwing hand grenades into the water. That wasn't working because they'd blow up before they went deep enough. So they started wrapping the hand grenades in toilet paper. They'd throw the hand grenades into the water which would then sink before the toilet paper fell away. What the American's didn't know was that this freaked out the Russian because at depth the hand grenades had a concussive effect that made the Russians feel like they were being attacked. What saved the world was the oddity that Vasily Arkhipov was on the particular submarine that thought it was under attack. Normally it only takes 2 people (the commander & political officer) to use a nuclear weapon. The submarine Arkhipov was on (the B-59) was one of 4 Foxtrot submarines sent to Cuba by the Russians. He was NOT the commander of that submarine he was the Commander the flotilla of 4 Foxtrots. On the B-59 the actual commander Valentin Savitsky. Savitsky and his political officer DID PREPARE to launch their T-5 nuclear torpedo, BUT because Arkhipov was on that submarine it also required him to agree and he didn't. He worked out the Americans were only trying to signal them. THAT'S HOW CLOSE IT WAS. Had Arkhipov been on one of the other Foxtrot submarines then Savitsky would have launched the B-59s nuclear torpedo which the Americans didn't even know they had. The Americans didn't find out for many years just how close it came. As a side note of trivia the character played by Liam Nesson (Mikhail "Misha" Polenin, E) in the film K19: The Widomaker is based on Arkhipov.
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  9212. I really like Prof Wolff, because he's at the very least giving an educated alternative opinion on economics, but there are times he lets brain take it too far. To call Capitalism unstable is to ignore what the terms stable and unstable actually mean. I'm an engineer and we have to learn and understand what stable and unstable actually mean because otherwise the modern world can't exist. Power stations and the power grid wont work, your car wont work and airplanes will tear themselves apart mid-air- that kind of stuff. Sorry this is a longish explanation. This is basic high school science level. Something that is naturally stable is something that will self correct from a disturbance. An example of stable system is a ball in a bowl. If you bump the bowl and the ball moves, it will eventually settle back down to the bottom of the bowl. An unstable system will not recover from a disturbance. If you balance a broom stick on its end. Any disturbance and it will just fall over. HOWEVER if we stand the broom stick upright on our hand and move our hand to correct for disturbances you then have something not entirely stable or unstable. We call that "artificially stable," as in there is something else keeping the system in a stable state. In engineering we have many systems that are artificially stable and quite often there's a combination of stabilisers. The suspension in your car has shock absorbers that allow you to hit bumps and not have the suspension bounce around. There's also the tires and suspension geometry. A main part of it is the drivers brain which makes corrections like steering inputs. One of the incredibly important concepts of artificially stable systems is that the stabilisers have limits and if you exceed those limits the system can break or fail. If 1 of the shock absorbers fails and reduces the cars stability. If the car hits a big enough bump and shock absorbers reach their limit. IF driver's brain cannot compensate then the car crashes. Modern capitalist systems are "artificially stable." There are shock absorbers and adjustments that governments use to keep there economies stable. Part of that system are interest rates, but there's also government spending (via policies and projects), the rate at which they print new money, bond rates and the regulations they place on private industry (like banking rules). The real problem is we are now bumping into the limits that our economic stabilisers can handle.
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  9213. FYI - That's a great quote.
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  9214. I generally like Thom but this is simply the worst story I have ever seen him do. Hilary Clinton like the GOP idiots who ran against Trump misunderstood the American public. Worse all Hilary and others have done since is blame everyone else and taken not 1 gram of responsibility for their own failures. Go and look up the interview that Rana Foroohar gave to the Realignment Podcast. Its easy to find just search "rana foroohar realignment." Its episode 301 and about 29 minutes she she explains where BOTH the GOP and Dems went wrong with handling Trump in 2015 primaries and 2016 election. Also Mark Blyth predicted Trump would win more than 6 months out form the 2016 election for similar reasons. This is why is just so egregious to hear YET ANOTHER Hilary Clinton symp blaming other people for their failure.
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  9215. There's something quote special in this. For one of the very rare times an American is openly admitting that they are they ONLY nation to have used nuclear weapons let alone do so on civilian populations. I'm Australian and known Americans for decades and that has been a ABSOLUTE NO GO SUBJECT for decades. The mantra has been without question that Hiroshima saved a "million American lives" by not having to invade the main islands of Japan. And for decades only the brave even suggested that maybe wasn't true or exact. Let alone suggest that neither Hiroshima or Nagasaki were significant military targets. FYI - Australia is one of only a handful of nations where another country detonated a nuclear device. The Brits used us in the 1950s and the French used Algeria and the US used the Marshall islands. Kazakhstan (now an independent nation) was part of the USSR when they were used for testing Russian nukes. Lets ot forget that America used 100s of there own military personnel in live nuke testing in the1950s. There's a lesser known Martin Sheen & Emilio Estevez film called Nightbreaker based on it.
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  9216. This is just another example of an uneducated angry mob CHOOSING what they want as factual. Nothing else. I have heard comedians point out the following 2 points. - The village idiot used to be confined to their village but now they can get together on the internet and reinforce each others stupidity and then spread it further. - Consider how stupid the average person can be and then realise that there's 4 billion people on the planet even dumber than they are.
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  9217.  @ivovlot4094  Most of the Western World is on edge for any of several reasons, but we collectively share climate change. But America has guns, lots and lots of guns. Its been widely reported that 2020 was the best year ever for gun sales and that many local stores simply ran out of ammunition. Sadly I don't think it will be a matter of IF it will be a matter of WHAT & WHEN. What will somebody do that set's it ablaze and when will they do it. I hope I'm wrong. Go watch something like Criminal Minds (or similar) and they are always talking about stresses and triggers. We all have lots of pressure and stress. Unless its relieved then its more likely it gets triggered. Without some major stress relief then the explosion or implosion is inevitable.
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  9218.  @ivovlot4094  On your brothers - I hope so to. We've seen the reports of Trumps grifting and we can barely believe that its apparently legal to gain political funding the way he's doing it.
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  9219. Its standard political distraction. When your economy is in the gutter and you have no way out of it - start a war. Go look at why the Argentinians invaded the Falklands. Why do you think America is sword rattling over Taiwan and Ukraine? It makes it so much easier to ignore the wealth gap, health care and other issues in America.
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  9220. I don't know if they come much crazier than MTG without being declare legally insane and being institutionalised. I bet there are girls from trailer parks across America going "Sure I live in a trailer park and sure we gots our issues but at least we ain't MTG Trash. That b*tch got some SERIOUS issues."
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  9221.  @phoenix5054  Hey Canadians are normally polite and generous, but if you put an ice hockey stick in their hands they become raging maniacs. Its why America never invaded. They were afraid of the Canadian Battalions of Ice Hockey Berserkers. And even more scared of their mothers.
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  9222. This has been going on for years now, this is only a new phase in the ongoing asset management surge being lead by companies like Blackrock, Vanguard, etc. Prof. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) did a video on the subject of "Asset Manager Capitalism." About 9 minutes in he has a slide showing how much Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street now have. Its not just scary it should terrify the world. America's plutocrats & oligarchs really are out of control. Its the culmination of Reagan's policy of not hindering business by killing DOJs ability to prosecute anti-trust cases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHlEkaXfgMw
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  9223. This whole BOTH parties are garbage is NOT unique to America. Here in Australia we are now referring to our political Right as SHlT and our political Left as SHlT-LITE. I was in Canada late 2017 early 2018 for work and they basically described the same sort of stuff. I have seen discussions by the Brits (here on YT) that BOTH the Tory Party and British Labor are the same. What's killing Western Society is the malignant Neoliberal narcissism that's acting like a cancer. Its killing all of our main stream parties from the inside. Almost all of the people who run these parties (both the elected and administrative) come out of small clusters of so called "elite Universities" where they're all taught the same Neoliberal nonsense from the same text books. Its why NOTHING changes no matter how elections go. I have a friend who back in the early 90s was into student politics. It takes too long to explain but the actual parties used student politics like it was the Hunger Games. It was vicious and nasty because the parties wanted to find people who could FIGHT and WIN without any consideration of HOW. Looking back at what he told me, he basically described a Machiavellian system designed to FILTER OUT anyone with morals or ethics. Look at politics across the developed world its infected with malignant narcissists. Trump is just the monster at the top of a pile of SHlT.
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  9224. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did aerospace engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and used to drag me into their discussions. So I got an interesting education in this minor 1 page document called the BILL OF RIGHTS which just might be one of the most profound single page documents in human history. Despite the fact it is currently being presided over by a pack of clowns let me remind all of America some of the things my classmates, fraternity brothers and others taught me about. The FIRST Amendment expressly prohibits the Government from restricting free speech and this nonsense clearly violates that. The SECOND Amendment (bless it cos it matters now) guarantees that the American population can protect itself from the Government going to far. Someone really needs to explain to Elon that some swords have 2 edges and the SECOND Amendment is one of history's greatest 2 edge swords. You guys need to realise that EVERY American has a right to arm and protect themselves 😉😉 The FOURTH Amendment which is about to become seriously big and was the one we most often discussed when I was in college because in the late 80s computer databases with everyone's information were starting to grow and there were genuine concerns over what the US Government could and could NOT get their hands on. This was largely stomped on with things like the Patriot Act. You guys really need to go and brush up on this one while you still can. The FIFTH thru EIGHTH Amendments are about making sure Americans are dealt fairly by the Justice System. You guys are gonna need this, so brush up on it and don't hold back when you need to kick back. The NINTH Amendment is gonna become your favorite or equal favorite with the FOURTH if you are willing to fight for it. This was one of the most important parts of the Roe-v-Wade decision along with the FOURTH. Go read up on it on Wikipedia because during the overturning of Roe-v-Wade and other case law the SCOTUS basically claimed the FOURTH and NINTH Amendments do not exist. The TENTH Amendment is kind a interesting because in a way it my be a way to Elon Musk and his muskrat legion to simply F⋃CK OFF ANYWAY I HOPE YOU GUYS CAN GET YOUR HEADS INTO IT and use the awesome gift your founding fathers entrusted you with to look after your nation and be wise with it and belt these clowns out of the park.
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  9225.  @_notbrandon  I absolutely agree on the tribalism. I watch Pakman a fair amount and he recently interviewed a virologist who I mainly agreed with, but he also made one quite bad mistake. He claimed the Chinese were NOT involved in COVID virus modification research which we know is simply not true. The Chinese have published research on what they have done. When I pointed that out people went nuts. I got called commie Putin supporter at one point. What these idiots failed to see is that the Chinese research that was published totally eliminates the bio-weapon conspiracy because nobody would publish their bio-weapon research. The tribal mentality is what's preventing a lot of very serious issues being dealt with. Climate change, refugees, food, infrastructure, military spending,.... etc. Go look at any of these issues that just seem to go nowhere and tribal politics is there.
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  9226. not woke but delusional which should suit the GOP base because delusional is their call sign
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  9227. Here's the problem if she were to simply ignore him then the right wing media would go berserk - they would go of their rails with howls of 1st Amendment violation, civil rights abuse and anything else they could scream about. For sure the radical left have their idiotic issues they push but they are fairly consistent with them and when they get caught they might howl about it but they do accept their mistakes. However the radical right have the insane notion that whatever they do is fine and WHENEVER anyone else does the same thing its NOT. The have this insane double standard mentality and part of it is to never admit wrongdoing. Before long the rest of the human race will have had enough of it and lash out.
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  9228. Can we stop saying the Political Right EVERYWHERE has a plan or a strategy for anything other than they want their benefactors to make more money. Everything else is just smoke & mirrors.
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  9229. I know it sounds terrible but the simple fact is that the rich and powerful have done this sort of thing since the dawn of history. Kings, Emperors and their lackeys pretty much did whatever they liked and took whatever they wanted. We might not have moved that far or improved that much but the simple fact we have moved on. What's disgusting is that Trump thinks we still live in one of those bygone eras. Worse is that he believes he can get away with it because he's always gotten away with it..
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  9230.  @laurendaryani4893  That's a great point but its not just restricted to Trumpists. Unfortunately there are supporters of every political party who are just as blind and believe their party is infallible. They might not be as bat crap crazy as the MAGA hats, but they are just as blind.
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  9231. Its not simply Fox. By far the biggest influence peddlers are the think tanks and its not just an American issue they ARE EVERYWHERE. They are all funded and controlled by Baby Boomers in their 70s, 80s & 90s who just wont stop interfering in everything. David Koch funds more than 90 think tanks around the world to stall and delay any action on climate change. They all have names that include the words Foundation, Society or Institute to make it sound like they are some from of benevolent or academic institution. At some point we will have to confront them and their influence peddling.
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  9232. The bullshit factor is running fairly high on this. Which fighter pilot flies with his mobile switched on and ready to snap selfies as he's flying his jet other than the idiot who's about to get grounded? Where would he hide it so its easy to get at in that instant - have you ever seen those flight suits and all the stuff they have? Until they land in Central Park for all the world to see, I'm with Ryan on this its bullshit.
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  9233.  @djluminol  Well said. I hadn't heard the term "Movement Conservatism," but then I am not that much a student of politics. I did aerospace engineering and they taught me logic and complex systems methodology. When you look at that Henry Wallace quote none of the last 20 years was unpredictable. Especially when you consider the 50s, 60s, 70s,.....etc. But so many just can't think. Some of the garbage some people say is just so idiotic. Some twit the other day told me they were the top of the history and economics class and they didn't even know that the Dems started out as the pro-slavery party of the South. I'm constantly staggered at how bad most Americans now are with their basic understanding of the US Constitution. Its not just a lack of education its a lack of understanding. I've listened to a lot of Mark Blyth this last year. He uses similar systems analysis techniques to explain economics and how we are where we are economically. Here's a couple of his best. How we got here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE Global Trumpism -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0 (watch the Q&A after the lecture) His interview with the Greeks on Europe -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGvZil0qWPg
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  9234. AUSTRALIAN HERE: I am not going to apologise for this cretin. He's simply reiterating in a very blunt way the same garbage that Larry Summers said to Jon Stewart recently about needing to sack lots of workers. Its also the same sentiment the new head of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Michele Bullock said on her first day in the job. For those who don't know the RBA is Australia's equivalent of the Federal Reserve in America. Its our Central bank and Michele Bullock's position is very similar to Janet Yellen's which is also a job Larry Summers held. Economically this is the neoliberal pro-privatisation brigade of economists trying to hide the fact that their policies of off-shoring and global supply chains with NO back-up capacity that's caused the inflation. Current inflation has been caused by interruptions to fragile supply chains coupled with ruthless opportunistic profiteering. Its had nothing to do with working class wages or employment rates and that is being found out EVERWHERE not just America or Australia. FYI - I am an engineer who used to work in manufacturing so I'm very familiar with HOW supply chains actually FUNCTION and OPERATE. I can state very clearly that economists haven't any idea about how to manufacture or build a damn thing other than the bank balances of the top 10% of society.
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  9235.  @USandGlobal  Yeah I'd agree but that's only because its so rare that the Americans actually do what places like Australian and Britain do. Forget the elections our parties rip themselves apart on such a regular basis its hard to know who in charge today let alone tomorrow. We used to have jokes about how many New Zealanders were coming to Australia. They ended up throwing that back at us with - "Which one of you is in charge and will you still be in charge tomorrow?" I'm certain if there was a Far Side for Australian politics it would have aliens landing and saying "Take us to your leader" and the Australian asking "Which one - today's or tomorrow's?"
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  9236.  @USandGlobal  Just wait for the Brits to finally stop howling and work out exactly how they were conned into Brexit. Plenty of them know but few have ever listened. It wasn't the Russians although they did their bit of meddling. It was actually an American billionaire doing a Beta Test of his public manipulation systems. His name is Robert Mercer. He's a reclusive tech billionaire with some weird views on how the world should work. He's most known for funding Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica and Brexit was a Beta Test of what they had at Cambridge Analytica and because NOBODY has held him accountable he's still out there with a lot of money, people, skill sets and technology. He actually did his PhD at the same university I did my degree at.
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  9237.  @thelonerick  The French subs aren't outdated. They are the latest development. The version we were buying with had what might be considered an outdated power plant but that was all. What also might have been questionable is were we getting the latest versions of all the electronic surveillance and weapons systems. If you want to talk about something that is outdated go and look at the Sub Brief (here on YT) about the German 212 CD from about a year ago. He talks about the outer hull shape which has changed from the earlier versions and how that shape is consistent with stealth aircraft. he notes that the British Astute also incorporates similar design features BUT the American Virginia DOES NOT. So if we are talking about being out dated the we possibly should be talking about the Virginia HULL DESIGN.
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  9238. Prof. MARK BLYTH a person David should absolutely interview made a comment a few weeks ago regarding the response to the Colonial pipeline attack. He does state its not an official report, but he did say the US Cyber response people DID STOMP on those hackers. He said the US used less than 1% of their capability and totally wiped the hackers out. They wiped their servers and hard drives wiped clean clean and their bitcoins deleted or damaged so they wont work anymore. There's not much detail available anywhere but apparently included letting certain countries know who those people are and what was done to them. It was described like here is what our sling shot can do would you like us to shoot our cannon next or just bomb your systems into oblivion. it musty be taken as only an uncorroborated story but Mark Blyth doesn't generally say things without reason or a reliable source.
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  9239.  @nunyabusiness7237  When your less angry go look up a guy named Peter Zeihan. He works in demographics and one of the things he's pointed out is that there is a massive shift going on in American politics right now. Its not the first time its happened in America politics its just the first in living memory. There's entire blocks of people swapping sides and its causing chaos. The GOP is now almost unrecognizable to 35-40 years ago and the Dems are 2/3rds the way there. It started when Reagan who had been pro-choice flipped and pandered to the Christian fundamentalists. That set America on the path to where it is now.
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  9240. The only immunity America has to COVID is the ability to rationally discuss it.
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  9241. Its not simply a matter of them just believing what's in front of them. Its a matter of NOT hearing anything else. Go and look at the history of almost any country and you'll find all sorts of events where the general population believed in an absurd narrative, because that was the only thing they heard. This is why studying history in school is so incredibly important because it gives people a framework within which to place things. Here's a simple question: How many different parties have gotten people elected as POTUS? What do you think most people might say considering they have only ever heard of the Republican and Democratic parties? Here's another one: Presidents - Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and John Quincy Adams were all in the same party where they Democrats or Republicans?
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  9242.  @utilid4lifefigureitout602  Kyle Kulinksi just did a vid going over a survey someone did on who are the most trusted news outlets. At the top were the BBC and PBS.
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  9243.  @utilid4lifefigureitout602  Yeah, I find it hard to watch a lot of stuff through to the end these days. Its called condescension or self indulgence and at times self righteousness. I just simply call it "The Media."
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  9244. Yep - like all her kind they claim to be champions of freedom and liberty but their true definitions of freedom and liberty are - "I demand the Freedom and Liberty to strip others of their Freedoms and Liberties!"
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  9245. ​ @JesseJames-vc2bm  I don't particularly disagree with you EXCEPT that like so many on BOTH SIDES you take a very simplistic view of a complex problem. AND I REALLY DO MEAN BOTH SIDES The pro-trans community have a some blame in the culture war shitfest, but that doesn't excuse the nasty vindictive crap of the anti-trans culture war warriors especially the opportunists in the right wing media. If you never want the few to become many then don't be a pig headed mongrel who thinks what they SELFISHLY want matters more than what anyone else needs AND THAT APPLIES TO BOTH SIDES.
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  9246. Funny thing is the Russians aren't in any better of a place in terms of manufacturing than America is. A while back (and I believe Peter talked about this) the Ukrainians were consuming things like Stinger missiles so fast that it was going to be impossible for anyone to supply them. What they were getting was older stock that was close to being sent for destruction which you have to do with older munitions because things like the explosives become unstable or just have no bang at all. I remember Peter talking about the Russians and their issues with that. At the start of this war America was in the process of moving from one generation of Stinger to the next, but there was a screw up in the logistics. They were running out of the older guidance chips and the new production line for the next gen guidance chips would not be ready for 2-3 years. Minding that if you're the country that starts a war and you don't have enough bullets to get the job done and have to go to a country like North Korea then YEAH - YOU'RE HOSED.
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  9247. Everyone should go watch ex-Citibank trader Gary Stevenson's explanation of why so many of the so called "business experts" in the media are hopeless and consistently wrong. Anyone who watches Kyle knows about Jim Crammer and Larry Kudlow. But Gary has this brilliant video explaining "Why Are Economists Always Wrong?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5b1vzARyfI FYI - I'm Australian while Gary is a Brit from London and I have no involvement with him. I'm just trying to work out how economists think. I'm an engineer and tired of their crap and interference in projects. Gary's coming form the other direction and trying to explain to people how the system works.
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  9248. And you should GET THE FARK OVER THAT. It was because the stupid idiotic stuck up clown Hillary Diane Clinton (née Rodham) was so damn arrogant that she IGNORED the people in some key states and then lost those stated to that clown. Comey didn't cause the loss. Hilary Clinton's arrogance, stupid campaigning and Democrat betrayal of the working class cost Hilary Clinton in 2016. Even David's old professor from college Richard Wolff has explained that. He gave West Virginia as an example in this discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3171s
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  9249. The idea that politics is about reality or truth left the building centuries ago. Its been about spin and narrative for a very long time. All that's changed is how obvious it is and how oblivious these people are to how easily we can see it. They don't care for one simple reason. They know their supporters don't care either.
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  9250.  @duewhit310  Oh dude you are so, so, so,......... utterly WRONG. Its a shame nobody ever taught you sarcasm. Crypto like all Ponzi schemes is a fantasy based on FALSE and MISLEADING math. They really do think you can convince people 1 + 1 = 3. Have you seen the Hollywood actor Terrence Howard trying to convince people 1 x 1 = 2???? There are people who believe him.
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  9251.  @KeithHays-ek4vr  yeah imagine what those NFTs are going to be worth in the future. All this stuff relies on the same thing as every other trading orientated Scam. You need someone to pay you MORE than what you paid for whatever "it is." Go watch Pawn Stars and see what people think their stuff is worth. Some of its insane and some of its even more insane.
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  9252.  @KeithHays-ek4vr  thanks
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  9253. We don't need to imagine anything, just watch a re-run of "Dumb and Dumber."
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  9254. ​ @Leszek.Rzepecki  Someone else said exactly the same thing about Fascism and Communism being opposite sides of the same coin. If there is a subtle difference its that Fascism is more a straight up political ideology that came from the wealthy class wanting absolute control of government while communism started as a economic concept that became political. BOTH have been disasters and trying to claim one is worse is like trying to say Ebola is worse than Nerve gas. Its nonsensical. I'm an engineer and a started looking into economics a couple of years ago out of the frustration of dealing with clowns waving economics degrees interfering in projects. One thing I found was that in the past they only taught political-economy at universities. It only separated into 2 distinct fields later on. People like Mark Blyth are trying to reverse that. I can't see how they ever separated it. because you have to have both politics and economics to have a nation state. A nation might mix and switch its politics and economics but you have to have both or you're not a nation. I think this is now so poorly understood it a major factor in why the entire developed world is having lots of issues. America's problem has been exacerbated by the defunding of civics education. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s and was amazed how well all my classmates understood the constitution. I was doing engineering so didn't have much interest but they used to drag me into discussions. These days I am convinced that one of the best things Australia could do is institute an Australian version of the old American Civics education. It would make our country work so much better. For starters our politicians wouldn't be able to get away with a tiny fraction of what they do now. I think its damn simple if you DON'T want Fascism, Communism or any other sort of Authoritarianism then teach civics.
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  9255.  @Boris80b  That makes you one of the very rare to admit that. You must have spent time outside of America to understand that.
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  9256.  @craiggallagher7292  That's maybe as good an answer as any.
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  9257.  @Stopinvadingmyhardware  Which comment are you referring to? If your asking about Epstein there's not much we really know for certain. He was extremely good at picking vulnerable young girls out of a crowd and just as good at serving them up to specific men. We'll never really know for sure but my bet is, he was one of the most clever blackmailers in history. I suspect he's dead because somebody got hold of his information stash. Ask yourself how does somebody in that game stay alive? Leverage. How do they get killed? They lose their leverage. What amazes me is that Ghislaine Maxwell is still alive. She must have something stashed away that people know about but not where it is and that's kept her alive. If you have any better answers feel free.
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  9258.  @wildmano1965  Yeah it started under Reagan when he castrated the DOJs ability to prosecute anti-trust cases. Now 40 years later the western world is paying the price of being dominated by monopolies and the 3rd world has been raped of their resources. Its one reason I hate the American Right. They are always screaming about how they believe in and protect the Constitution and yet have trampled on and neutered parts of it to their own benefit.
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  9259.  @a.k2483  WTF doe you mean by "No"????? Have they not explained in this how the top level of Wall St. got away with everything they did that caused the 2008 GFC??? If you don't like being called a M0R0N then don't be a M0R0N.
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  9260. The best assessment of the pros & cons of Warren was by Mark Blyth in July 2019. He was one of the very few who predicted both Brexit and Trump 2016. During the Q&A after a lecture on Global Trumpism (which is totally worth spending time on) he was asked about Warren. The link is time stamped to the question on Warren. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s
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  9261. At the level that they are PROTESTING against the establishment its totally understandable. BUT protesting is about saying something is WRONG and its needs to be FIXED. Yes the Trumpsters are protesting but their solution is NOT to fix but destroy what they claim they want fixed. They claim the Bidens are a crime family they want out of politics and then vote for an even worse crime family. They scream and howl about the Constitution and their rights and then vote for a family determined to destroy the Constitution and strip them of their rights.
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  9262. As an aerospace engineer its because NOBODY ASKS THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW. Its really is that simple. As an example after the Challenger disaster (my junior year) Kelly Johnson who had been the lead engineer on the P38, U2 and SR-71 publicly said (paraphrasing) "DON'T REPLACE IT, its a flawed system that's too expensive to do the basic job we need which is just getting people up and down. Spend the money on doing something better." The decision to build another space shuttle was emotional and NOT practical or rational or sensible. You'd think when you have one of the greatest engineers of all time publicly say what needs to be done and all but a few ignore him claiming national security for a non-existent threat and there's your explanation.
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  9263. Unfortunately America is blessed with the 1st Amendment. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I think the American Bill of Rights is one of the greatest achievements in human history BUT ITS NOT PERFECT. It has flaws and one of the most obvious is this sort of nonsense where people have this sort of disconnection from reality and the media just keep putting microphones in front of them. And YES I'm well aware that one of Western Society's greatest problems is Rupert Murdoch who exploits weaknesses in our systems. BUT THEN we tried warning the Brits what he was like when he went there AND THEN we tried warning America when he went there AND NEITHER listened to those warnings.
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  9264. I just checked its 5-Sept-2021 a few weeks later and they still haven't given the official cause which might explain it.
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  9265.  @roxannehale1386  Yeah I'd agree with that. They'll never hear it. But then that's part of the echo chamber culture we now live in. Social media rode in as this great White Knight of democratised information. And to a certain extent its been brilliant, but MOSTLY its been a shitstorm culture war battle ground where people rage at each other and we are all guilty of it to some extent.
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  9266.  @neworder736  What are the words for arrogant, ignorant and dickhead in your language? I'd like to be able to tell you "Don't ever be so arrogant or ignorant or that much of a dickhead to think you know how to speak another persons language" and not be misunderstood.
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  9267.  @dcrooky3  I actually remember that test session being telecast in Australia. As I said in a previous comment that Alan Jones was publicly voicing safety concerns over how teams were approaching the rule changes. What they did with the rules was put a limit on the gap between the side skirts and the road. Its intent was to get rid of the floating side skirts Lotus had developed that kept contact with the road. By having an air gap it reduced the effectiveness of the side tunnels by letting air get sucked in from the side. What teams were doing was setting soft suspensions so the car would lower and close the gap and increase the effectiveness of the side tunnels. Because they would be running with the suspension bottomed out it meant that ANY BUMP could send the car flying off into oblivion. AJ was quite vocal at the time about how dangerous the next season might be if the rules weren't clarified. I don't remember what they exactly did but they did something and the next season wasn't chaos. Its one of those really odd stories and I only know about it because it was news in Australia at the time.
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  9268.  @chriswilkinson7636  Well spotted - they are extremely puritanical in their view of the world and with any form of dissent. Jihadis in suits.
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  9269. I can see the time this guy steps out his front door into a John Lennon moment, except there wont be any tributes. People like this guy just don't get how stressed the entire Western World is right now. Even before COVID we had 40+ years of almost zero wage growth for the middle class and less than zero wage growth for the working class and this clown think he can just keep pressing peoples buttons. Go look up the Elephant Graph that shows wage growth over the last 40+ years.
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  9270. What do you expect when they put a sex trafficking pedo on the judiciary committee. I'm waiting for these people to name a child care centre after Timothy McVeigh.
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  9271.  @rjkmusicmedia  The evidence has been in the public sphere for over a year DlP SHlT. He transported a 17 year old girl across a state border and out of the country FOR SEX. Why he hasn't been charged is anyone's guess?
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  9272.  @rjkmusicmedia  Wake up and get your head out of your ass. The only possible reason he hasn't been charged is the witnesses are other criminals and they'd make lousy witnesses in court. People are getting fed up with DlCKHEADS like you.
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  9273.  @rjkmusicmedia  They had the credit card statements DlCKHEAD. They have the girl's statements DlCKHEAD. They have the mobile payment receipts DlCKHEAD. They have Joel Greenberg's statements DlCKHEAD. Greenberg pleaded guilty and asked Trump for a pardon. If he isn't guilty then why was he asking Trump for a pardon?
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  9274.  @rjkmusicmedia  JUST FARK OFF. You're clearly so mindlessly partisan that he could admit to rapping a dozen girls with all of it filmed and you would still say he's a saint.
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  9275.  @rjkmusicmedia  How farking typical of your kind of "non-partisan" could you be. People really are tired of your kind of HYPOSCRISY. If its evidence you like then its 100% rock solid and its not to your liking then its irrelevant. Congratulations on supporting a sex trafficking pedo. You're a real champion of justice.
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  9276.  @rjkmusicmedia  JUST FARK OFF There's NOTHING anyone can tell a IGNORANT person like you. You are like the flat earther clown who we could fly into space and show them the earth and they'd FLOAT around asking "where's the evidence." You are like the moon hoax clown who we could fly to the moon and show them Neil Armstrong's footprint and they say "where's the evidence." You don't care about evidence. People like you are why the world is failing.
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  9277.  @rjkmusicmedia  You are a partisan hack because you just can't accept UNDESPUTABLE FACTS pertaining to a politician you clearly support. 1) He paid a 17 year old for sex. 2) He transported a 17 year old across state lines for sex. 3) He transported a 17 year old to another country for sex. You are a pathetically disgusting person for trying to dismiss what he has done.
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  9278.  @rjkmusicmedia  FARK OFF I JUST GAVE YOU EVIDENCE YOU SACK OF CRAP. Can people like you ever stop lying and being dishonest? You are like a damn flat earth fanatic no matter how many times evidence is presented they just deny that its real.
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  9279.  @rjkmusicmedia  YOU ARE A SlCK FARK for supporting such a person.
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  9280.  @rjkmusicmedia  Congratulations you just told the world what you are. A RIGHT WING PSYCHO WHO SUPPORTS SEX TRAFFICKING UNDERAGE GIRLS.
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  9281.  @rjkmusicmedia  By the way the FBI & NSA monitor social media for people like you. You better but something over the camera on your lap top and get a new phone and phone number. 😫😫😫🤬🤬🤬
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  9282.  @rjkmusicmedia  For the record I have some very conservative views on certain aspects of human life ONE OF THEM IS NOT EXCUSING OR SUPPORTING CHILD RAPISTS
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  9283.  @rjkmusicmedia  FINE THEN FK 0FF back to your PED0 friends in Florida, you know the place of free speech and cocaine.
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  9284.  @rjkmusicmedia  You so farking wrong. I'm NOT from the Left. I'm from the middle and I HATE BOTH the BULLSHlT of the Right and the HORSESHlT of the Left. This is one of the stupidest things about you partisan clowns you think there are only 2 sides and everything is black & white. I just spent 2 days arguing with one of those arrogant woke freaks. He was worse than you. Ranting about how woke was taking over and here to stay. When I asked him to explain the failure of Roe V Wade he became more stupid than you. Newsflash DlCKHEAD NOBODY has to be on the DELUSIONAL LEFT or NARCISSISTIC RIGHT and can think for themselves including telling BOTH the Left and Right to FARK 0FF.
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  9285.  @rjkmusicmedia  BULLSHlT if you were center left you'd be straight up accepting there is evidence to go to court with charges for: 1) underage sex 2) sex trafficking 3) prostitution AND YOU HAVE NOT ARGUED A SINGLE POINT OF FACT
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  9286.  @rjkmusicmedia  And you are dead wrong I have lots of balance. What I did have is zero tolerance for F⋃CKWlTS who just start worthless arguments for no reason and then think they are clever. If you are a Lefty I know exactly what sort you are. the kind who does idiotic and stupid shite just for attention. But I doubt you're a Lefty the narcissism gives you away. Unless you're one of those who think they are more enlightened than the Far Right but is still a closet righty like Dave Rubin.
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  9287.  @rjkmusicmedia  The problem with the woke left starts with their hijacking of the word woke. Its not the only thing wrong with them, but right now its the most prominent thing. Until recently woke was African American street slang for "Are you awake to our actual circumstances." Prof Mark Blyth (Brown U.) has pointed out a study by the City of Boston. The average white person has a net wealth of just over $240,000 while the average black Bostonian has a net wealth (assets less debts) of $8. Yes if you gave every black person in Boston a $10 note you would more than double their wealth. Until a couple of years ago woke had nothing to do with police killings. It was about basic things like services, education, jobs, but mostly opportunity. That's what CRT was about. Why, after all these years of programs costing millions and millions are these people still in this situation? Then we all got to watch George Floyd die and it blew up into a lot more. Then far left saw an opportunity and jumped in with other issues and they hijacked the word woke to suddenly mean a lot of things. That really angers me because redefining language for political gain is one of the main things Orwell warned about. Yeah I had Orwell (AF & 1984) fed to me in high school. Hated it then but grateful for it now. After that came the rise of the Social Justice Warrior movement. Its not that they hadn't existed but suddenly they had a word and they flipped that into a narrative which is NOT TO BE QUESTIONED. That's a trait common to all political extremists both Left & Right. Again I learned that from studying Orwell. The narratives they use might be different but their responses to anyone who questions it is the same. This is why the woke left will fail and fail dramatically. People don't like being forced to believe something especially when its nonsense.
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  9288.  @rjkmusicmedia  The Right are a shorter story, thankfully. Its pretty similar and almost identical. Lots of poorer rural folk compared to their city cousins who show them little respect despite the fact they feed and clothe those city folk. It breeds resentment and resentment can be taken advantage of. In this case its a small group of insanely wealthy old men like Charles Koch, Barre Seid and Rupert Murdoch. They are ruthless and don't give a damn about anything except what they want. Backing them up are a successive generations of equally narcissistic scum like a certain Florida representative. PBS just re-posted a Frontline episode first aired in October 2012 about the effects of "Citizens United" (see below) They interviewed people involved including Jim Bopp the lawyer who pushed that case. The straight up denial of undisputable facts by these people is unbelievably infuriating. When shown the damage they've done, they just don't care. Facts are irrelevant. They have their ideology and just don't care. If you ask why I reacted to you the way I did. That's why. You asked for facts. I gave you simple undisputable facts and you just went "No - don't care." That's exactly what the people behind Citizens United did. Here's the PBS episode go watch it -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xxiIejOmSo It might be 10 years old but if you want America to survive you better get your head around this. Take note of the guy about 25 minutes in who was a sitting REPUBLICAN and how they attacked him. The Radical Right have spent most of the last 10-20 years exterminating mild Republicans and now they are coming for the rest of America. Their main Leftist opposition is split into 2 camps. A bunch of clowns bought and paid for by other billionaires and another bunch of delusional clowns who are so stupid they should be under supervised care. Trapped in the middle are around 200+ million Americans who are tired and confused at all the noise.
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  9289.  @rjkmusicmedia  Well replied on the subject of the black people in Boston. And well put on how the woke left have hijacked the word, but its probably hard to say how many actually are offended by what they have done and how many don't realise what they have done or how dangerous it is. The danger is that once you start letting people redefine words that are important to the public discussion it creates confusion. That makes it very hard to solve problems and very hard to argue back against those in power. That was Orwell's warning. If the Proletariat can't form clear arguments they can't fight against those in power. This is why I am so blunt about these basic concepts. The moment you have to start arguing basic reality its almost over for your society. One of my favorite people to tune into at the moment is Gary Stevenson. Who's a young British Economist. He's a genuine prodigy and was Citibank's top trader in the world by his mid 20s. He was recently on a BBC panel and gave these highlights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1sD80TXKwQ But what's super interesting is his follow up where he describes that what he really got out of being on the panel was how badly informed the British government is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olhY3NI7jbE Again this is one of these very basic realities of the world right now and its the same problem EVERYWHERE.
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  9290.  @rjkmusicmedia  Gary's not simply economically literate. He's from working class but got into the LSE graduating top of class. Went to work for Citibank where he was their top trader in the world by his mid 20s. He then went to Oxford for a masters. If you want to see a great eye opener got watch his vid "Why are economists always wrong." The Harry Potter comment's a classic.
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  9291.  @rjkmusicmedia  BTW - I'm Australian but went to college in America. Love the place love the people utterly hate their politics for what its doing. Totally hate a certain person (RM) born here who's made a mess of 3 countries now causing nothing but strife and conflict. There's a couple of reasons I hate this nonsense. 1) I really do like the place and hate what's happening 2) They are Australia's (and others) most important security partner. Right now we are negotiating the AUKUS submarine deal. Its an insignificant drop in American spending, but to us its staggering. We can't afford America to malfunction and right now they are malfunctioning. 3) They are Australia's biggest trading partner with some seriously big US Companies operating in Australia. They are also taking us to the cleaners on tax evasion. The auditors telling us its "all Ok" are also Americans. We just caught PwC stabbing our government in the back. They were advising our government how to close tax loopholes as they were disclosing the advice to their clients so they could lobby against any changes. I was there in the late 80s and could see the start of it back then. I told people that this stuff was going to backfire one day. I used to tell them "If you're confronted by a starving person and you have a gold bar in one hand and hamburger in the other. They wont care if you offer the gold bar. They'll simply kill you for the hamburger." They never seemed to get it.
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  9292.  @rjkmusicmedia  You should find this interesting. Since your British I'd expect you know some history having grown up with a functioning education system and fully understand what he says at 6:35 about a modern reincarnation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfZD-MfBfuo
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  9293.  @rjkmusicmedia  Yeah but who wins with easy mortgage access? Is it the home buyer or the bank? There was this other time period where mortgages were the easiest they ever were in history. In fact some of those loans were called so easy to get they were called Ninja loans. It stood for No income, No job. We got the 2008 GFC out of that nonsense. And it only cost you, me and a billion other people $41 Trillion to bail out the worlds banks and billionaires. There's 2 sides to every story.
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  9294.  @rjkmusicmedia  On the AUKUS deal. I worked with an electrician back in 2006 when the replacement sub stuff started. He was American and before coming to Australia had been in the US Navy as a nuclear power plant operator/technician on a Nimitz class. We had some very interesting conversations. That included the utter nonsense of having diesel electric subs when we had so much water to cover. I have drawn up a plan we we do a 3+2 deal with the UK and get 3 with an option of 2 more Astutes BUILT IN BRITAIN. They'd be copies of the most recent one Agincourt which has the new improved PWR-3 reactor. We get them built in the UK but the project includes and Australian workforce, paid for by us. FROM AN ENGINEERING and PROJECT MANAGMENT and ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE 1) We don't need to spend billions building infrastructure to make them. We'd still need infrastructure for maintenance but we already have most of that. 2) Britain gets to save money (which it needs) by delaying the construction of the Dreadnaught class. 3) Britain gets ~2,500 Australians paid for by Australia spending money in Britain. Its not much but better than nothing until you consider that its like importing cash. 4) Because we'd be rotating through people we'd get about 10,000 Australians trained in among other things nuclear power systems. In other words we right their cost off as a training program. 5) BAE, Rolls Royce and other British contractors win and win huge. They don't have to redesign anything. They just make more of what they already know how to make. In engineering that's ab-fab, because you have already sorted out the manufacturing bugs. PLUS those companies get some free labor to help make it even more profitable courtesy of our training program. 5) It opens up the possibility of you selling the Canadians a couple more subs as well. Its a super monster win, win, win all round. Its pretty obvious for you Brits. Its called jobs and profit. For us we save somewhere between $30 and $75 Billion and our Navy still gets what it wants. If after 3 we decide to go with the new sub that people are talking about then so what. We'll buy a couple of those instead of a couple more Astutes. Either way we end up with a fleet of 4 active and 1 reserve subs. And an Astute is at least an order of magnitude above what we have and at least 2 orders above what anyone else in the region has or will have in the next 20-30years. Other some a few greedy snots who were trying to screw everyone over with nonsense overvalued contracts, who loses?
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  9295.  @rjkmusicmedia  Never heard the term Wonga loans before, but I know the sort. We have Wallet Wizard here - same smell different shite. 50% in 3 years is utter BS when blue chip stocks have averaged 7-8% returns for over a century. Every time some get rich scheme blows up there's always at least 1 expert who shrugs their shoulders and reminds everyone of that basic stat. Have you watched any of Gary's stuff yet? He's not like so many others. He's explained things like why people get burned trading when they are in a market place with people like what he was at Citibank. Its amazing to hear what people in those positions do and why they make money and the rest of us get screwed. Its not simply that he has a talent for reading trends, but its the level of information he used to get. He pointed out that even at Citibank there are the people who talk to the media and are on £60K and then there are guys like him on £1 Million+ a year and they never speak to the media. Its one reason he's doing what he is doing because the system really is rigged in favor of the 1% while maybe some do well, but the rest of us get screwed. The Americans released a report last September and anyone can access it. Just search "congressional budget office family wealth" I might have mentioned it already. What it shows its the top 10% of America have not only bounced back from 2008 but on average are 21.7% better off than in 2007. The next 40% are now about 4.6% ahead. Both lost a bit over 11% in the GFC. The bottom 50% of America lost 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC and ARE STILL 21.8% BELOW their 2007 position. Plus that data is only up to 2019. So it doesn't include the pandemic. That's 165 million Americans who are worse off in 2019 than they were 12 years earlier in 2007.
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  9296.  @rjkmusicmedia  Couple of thing. Over time even the most blue chip of stocks only average about 7.5% paid as dividends. You need to split capital gains from actual dividends. There's way too much emphasis on capital gains these days AND its pushed by people with vested interests. On taxing the wealthy, that simply has to happen. Many of them pay almost nothing and many of there companies pay nothing. Here in Australia we have subsidised the construction of new LNG export facilities to the tune of over $10 Billion. In the last few years those companies that we subsidised have made in excess of $140 Billion and PAID NOTHING. This is where economists have utterly farked us over as a society and by society I mean the entire human race. They promoted the crap out of trickle down economics and foreign investment. Trickle down is a lie but foreign investment is a scam. At every opportunity they screamed from the rooftops how great it is. What the people screaming never said was their take. As bankers they got transfer fees as the money came in and transfer fees again as the profit went out. The economists were paid by the bankers to keep pumping the mantra. This is what people like Gary are trying to tell people. We are being taken to the cleaners. There's a rand report that say's America's top 1% made $47 Trillion, but since that report its estimated they made another 8. If America is about 25% of the worlds economy then by proportion the world's top 1% have collectively made around $200-220 Trillion in the last 40 years, while the rest of us have been squeezed for it.
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  9297.  @rjkmusicmedia  Yes I have seen that and NO it doesn't change the facts and it never does in these sorts of cases. Glenn Kirshner who is an ex federal prosecutor with the DOJ and before that a military JAG lawyer went through it all. First thing he pointed out was that Gaetz's buddy Joel Greenberg got 11 years on a plea deal. Yeah he got 11 years on a plea deal, but as Glenn explains in the idiotically convoluted world of the American legal system that's good (not bad) for Matt Gaetz. It used to be good for prosecutors to have a defendant plead deal and then testify. Now its not. If anything this is a perfect example of the insanity of modern legal systems. They are NOT justice systems as people think but legal systems. Maybe they were always legal systems and never justice systems. Maybe replacing lawyers with AI will be better for everyone. This is the link to Glenn's vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxgMNUkKgYY
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  9298. This is going to be a replay of when Michael Spinks said he could match it with Mike Tyson. It was over 1/2 way through the 1st round. Sorry for the history reference.
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  9299. Did you not listen? Old people die, its called old aged. He's not claiming when old people die it means nothing. He's saying he's not concerned in the context of the COVID vaccine effectiveness. Do you know that about 40,000 children die every day from simply NOT being fed. Or that about 50,000 die from simple infections and ailments because they don't have access to basic medicines that many take for granted. 1000s of people die every day simply from old age. All he is saying is that with the vaccines its back to normal and that does sound cold, but its also simply life as we know it.
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  9300.  @diegestive4167  Well for starters your full of shite claiming "There hasn’t been a natural death from old age since this started" That's simply crap. So if you don't like having your idiocy shoved back down your throat then keep it in check for future reference.
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  9301.  @esecallum  Seriously go take that anti-vaxer crap and shove it. You people are responsible for getting children killed from measles and hooping cough and other preventable diseases and NOT ONCE have any of you clowns accepted any responsibility for that. If you lot had actually been sensible then people might have taken you seriously but instead you just made up brainless crap. If anything you lot have helped big pharma with your stupidity. Did you ever think of that?
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  9302. Australian here with an outside view. This is America's Brexit. The difference is that when the Brits did Brexit it only F⋃CKED UP their economy and maybe bits of Europe BUT it didn't F⋃CK WITH the World's Economy. The US Dollar is still the World's reserve currency and if Trump does this stupid Bitcoin thing it might tank the US$ or at least cause a dip in its value. The problem is there's $100 TRILLION (YES trillion with a 'T') in Foreign Exchange Swaps (FX Swaps) mostly in US$ floating about the world as part of global trade. If that gets whacked there won't a global trade system. There wont be a BRICS system either cos it will whack those countries too.
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  9303.  @SolutionsWithin  Trumpelstiltskin says he wants the US Government to have a reserve of Bitcoin. I heard the number 1 billion mentioned but don't know if that's 1M BTC or $1B in value of BTC. Either way that would mean the US government would have to dump $US reserves to buy the BTC and that could cause a major drop in the value of $US on world currency markets. it would be great for BTC and potentially catastrophic for global trade. If you didn't know almost all international trade is either done in $US or the currency swaps/exchanges are backed by $US. That's what it means to be the World's reserve currency. There was an alarming Bank of International Settlements report 2 years ago about the amount of money tied up (as in being gambled on) in FX Swaps and of the $100 Trillion a lot of those swaps were in $US but held by non-US non-bank entities. In other words there's a lot of people who are not bankers around the world holding $US FX Swaps. For the companies that do a lot of international trade that's not unusual, but there's a lot that's just straight up currency betting. So if the $US takes a sharp sudden hit and people start dumping their FX Swaps before they lose value then it could get damn nasty very very quickly. There's a few people here on YT talking about this.
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  9304. Its January 2025 and I just saw a video by another channel on Potosi and this popped in the recommendations. Is it just my imagination or is there some weird background noise that when I filter it out sounds like someone laughing and saying "crypto."
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  9305. Congrats for being sensible, just know that the twitter clowns will now try and hunt you down as a heretic.
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  9306. HEY THUNDERFOOT - Who's filtering out and hiding comments? Is it you or the YT algorithm?
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  9307. I'm Australian, I went to college in America (U. Illinois) and was working in Canada 3 years ago. About 10 years ago after a couple of medical scandals we looked at other nations and investigated America, Canada and Britain to name a few. So not only have I personnel experience with the American system Australia has done the research into other health care systems. If we add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25.2 million compared to Australia's 25.6. Yes there is massive differences in geographical size and population density. The winters are very different. BUT the medical technology, education, manufacturing capability and transportation are near identical. Australia has 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin have 33,435 COVID fatalities. (sourced -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) In just the last 7 days (4-1 thru 10-1-2021) just Illinois with less than half the population of Australia has had 971 fatalities. Illinois is a Blue Democrat State and the Country has been run by Red Republicans so neither side can blame the other for this tragedy. I can personally testify that the people of those states are mostly decent, honest and hard working. They don't deserve this. I am currently in the city of Brisbane. We just came out of a 3 day lockdown because of 2 cases of the new British strain turned up and they don't how how 1 of those people got it. There is now mandatory mask wearing in all public places along with enforced distancing regulations until the 20th. That's just while they work out how we got 2 cases of the British Strain!!! Australia *DOESN'T have some magic Kangaroo juice or any other magic medical technology. Our leaders have their flaws and they do make mistakes. So how else can anyone explain what has happened in places like Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin other than a catastrophic failure of leadership?
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  9308. I'm Australian and was working in Sask when Trump tore up NAFTA, imposed tariffs and told 35 million of the politest people in history to go f--k themselves.. I suspect you and a few others are enjoying a pretty good party about now. Just don't get too carried away, if this shit goes truly of the deep end then you might get a few million refugees heading North. 🤔🤫
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  9309. ENGINEER HERE: You had me thinking this might be possible until you dropped the "magical AI solution" remark. I have 35+ years in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. When people start making claims about how AI will make robotics or automation better then I KNOW THEY ARE SPEAKING GARBAGE and all they are trying to do is raise money from stupid people who think AI can do anything. We have had self tuning control algorithms for Fuzzy Logic combined with PID Control loops for 25+ years. Sorry but this claim that AI has suddenly fixed the control algorithm is GARBAGE. FYI - I did my degree in aerospace at the U. of Illinois in the late 80s. In my final year they dumped on us this thing called an "Expert System" to play with. It was one of the very early systems for doing what ChatGPT does. The neural net methods it was partly based on go back to the 1930s when the first analog computers were developed that eventually morphed into things like the engine control units for fighter planes in World War 2. The pinnacle of those was the engine control unit in the Focke-Wulf Fw 190. The other truly ingenious machine of that type was the system Alan Turing developed to break the Enigma codes. it worked on a similar principle to how people solve Sudoku puzzles in that it looked for things that the answer can't be and eliminated slabs of possible answers. The reason why it took 30+ years to go from those systems to ChatGPT was being able to find a way to write the algorithms to train these AI models. For that they needed massive data sets to feed them. That was never possible until the internet grew enough to provide the volume of data needed. The problem we now have is that these systems are being trained on AVAILABLE DATA and the systems have a huge issue with discerning between data that is TRUE and data that is FALSE. Instead it looks at all available data and finds and average solution. This is why I recently had to spend a day explaining to a client why ChatGPT was wrong regarding a power quality issue. Chat GPT saw many claims about "pure sine wave inverters" and took that to mean that they actually put out a pure sine wave WHIC IS NOT TRUE. The "pure sine wave inverter" tag is just advertising jargon and NOT a technical statement. This is why I keep telling people NOT TO TRUST AI. It can't tell fact from fiction all it can say is what's mentioned most in the world.
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  9310. FOLLOW UP You and I don't always agree on certain things and usually its an engineering topic. However the YouTube Algorithm recommended a video on the Channel Quantverse and they did a quite nasty hit piece on you. You can see my reply to them. Its in their pinned comment unless they have deleted it. Also know that a lot of other people defended you. I was sorry to hear your experience during post grad as I had a very similar experience when I had a PhD Scholarship. Not only was free work DEMANDED of me but when I went to buy a piece of equipment my Supervisor told me there was no money. My contract (yes there was a contract) included an annual equipment budget and my supervisor told me to my face that he was using that money for air fares to a conference. Yes my supervisor told me directly to my face that he was committing financial fraud and then he told me "This is how it works. Get used to it." I still remember those words 33 years later. That's why I have no postgraduate qualifications.
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  9311.  @michaeljfigueroa  Not certain why you are unsubscribing. Most of the papers published by academia are behind paywalls. There's an awful lot of content here on YouTube behind paywalls. If there is something you actually need for research then write to her and see if she will lend/send a copy.
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  9312. Yeah but so far no one has definitively said what those devices are or actually confirmed they existed. With that crowd nothing should surprise anyone. Its fairly well known they like their guns and have been stockpiling ammunition. I'm surprised only 4 people died. I know there is a lot of negative talk about the police, but maybe (and its only a maybe) they've learned how to NOT escalate these situations or were told to not escalate. This could have been way worse than it was.
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  9313.  @JackDaniels-ru2xy  SHIT4BRAINS Can you read and think or is that TOO MUCH to ask these days? This bridge was built in 1977. At that time THE LARGEST container ships had less than 1/3rd the carrying capacity of the MV Dali which is actually less than 1/2 the carrying capacity of todays largest ships. Whatever they might have done in 1977 would not have been planned for a ship of this size.
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  9314.  @ilcyclista1  Yeah great idea but how are they supposed to upgrade the bridges and who is supposed to pay for it? So you know the largest container ships that operated at the time the bridge was built had less than 1/3rd the carrying capacity of the MV Dali. Plus the MV Dali is actually smallish by todays standards. The vessel that got stuck in the Suez a couple of years ago was almost 2-1/2 times the carrying capacity of the MV Dali.
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  9315. Yes he did and people are reminding the WORLD of it. I'm Australian and even we've been reminded of that. This craziness has hit here and other places. One one hand what is this mean for similarly aligned minority religious groups? And YES we have (as others do) evangelical Christian churches aligned with (and in some cases funded by) American interests and they also want abortions banned. The EPA issue was also known to be coming because we also know WHO Neil Gorsuch is and what his mission in life is and that's to dismantle the EPA as his mother tried when she worked for Reagan. What is more disturbing about that is what's next. The whole world saw the failure of the FAA with respect to the Boeing Max-8. Is Neil Gorsuch going to dismantle that next? What about consumer protection laws, like those that make cars safe to drive? America needs to realise that SCOTUS has been corrupted by some extremely selfish people who don't give a damn about the consequences to America or the rest of the world.
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  9316. AS AN AUSTRLIAN (who also went to college in America) Kyle has barely scratched the surface of how bad that this bullshit neo-liberal crap has done to us. We privatized our ELECTRICITY being told "competition and a free market would deliver better cheaper services." We now pay among the highest rates in the world for electricity. I was in Canada a few years ago for work they pay 15cents a kilowatt hour we pay 55cents. We privatized our GAS being told "competition and a free market would deliver better cheaper services." We are now the largest exporter of LNG (liquid natural gas) in the world. BUT I can by Australian produced LNG in Japan and bring it back to Australia and sell it into our market for a profit. We privatized our WATER being told "competition and a free market would deliver better cheaper services." That was all designed by an Australian educated at Harvard. Our water market is designed along the lines of the Texas Energy Market and its failing us the same way. We have been told again and again how privatizing public assets would provide "competition and a free market that would deliver better cheaper services." IT HAS NEVER WORKED - NOT ONCE.
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  9317. Which one? The Fox clown at the start or the OAN clown afterwards. Joan Rivers once claimed Bo Derek was so dumb she would have to study for a Pap Test. What do you think she'd say about those 2? As for Pearson SHARP - Foghorn Leghorn said it best. "That boy's about as sharp as a bowling ball."
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  9318. I think there was a film a couple of years ago where there was this famous line about no being able to handle the truth??????? Maybe you've heard it before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sLcfQKU_co
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  9319. TO ALL: That Goldstone report can be found by googling "goldstone report 2009" It came up first link for me. It looks like and odd link because Google says it has no information on the web page, but that's because the link is to the report which is a 452 page pdf document. For reference the report number is A/HRC/12/48 dated 25 September 2009. The file is a-hrc-12-48(dot)pdf
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  9320.  @Daniel-yo5es  Thinking - its free but most people seem to prefer paying someone else to do it for them. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  9321. This sounds like a drug user migrating from soft or social drugs onto CRACK, ICE, Crystal Meth, Heroin,...etc.
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  9322.  @laniefeleski7288  Gerrymandering has been practiced all over the world in various forms Here in Australia we used to joke that in Queensland sheep and bulldozers had more voting rights than people. In Western Australia its dump trucks, bulldozers and diggers with voting rights. In Tasmania its salmon that vote. While in South Australia tuna vote. In parts of Victoria and News South Wales, sheep, cows, dogs and tractors can vote but they aren't allowed to run for office YET. Meanwhile back in the motherland of Britain its worked like this for centuries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6mJw50OdZ4
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  9323.  @laniefeleski7288  I'd agree with that. The GOP is way worse than the Democrats and particularly the new Trumpian GOP. BUT THEN the problem with the Democrats is they have the attitude "We aren't as bad, therefore we are good." The problem is they FAIL at leadership & governance as well and that's my point. NOBODY SHOULD ACCEPT BAD GOVERNANCE OF THEIR SOCIETY. And just claiming that one party isn't as bad does NOT equate to good governance. I actually put a hypothetical to a bunch of friends of mine a couple of years ago here in Australia. And yes we have the same problem with our establishment parties its just not as toxic. YET I have 5 fav topics - Economy, Industry, Health Care, Education and Environment. I use those 5 because I know that reasonably smart people will agree that: People want an economy that's stable and industries that provide decent careers at every level. People want to know that they will get cared for if they get sick. People want to know their children will get a decent education so they can have a good life. People want an clean environment where they can breath the air, drink the water and eat the food. So I asked these friends what would happen if a new party started and had those 5 things as their core and had clear simple answers on how all 5 could be done or at least made better? One word was common - annihilate. Either that new party would annihilate the establishment parties OR through nefarious means the establishment would annihilate that new party through the media they own or control.
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  9324.  @laniefeleski7288  yeah I sort of hear a bit about the erosion of the "checks & balances" but I don't see it as a top level item. Its almost like there are people who get it, but don't want to face it or face up to how hard its going be to fix. How does you fix a problem like the current state of the US Senate? Here in Australia we have a huge problem that I have only recently become aware off in our Judiciary. Our judges in our upper courts can simply seal their judgements and other than the decision. Its ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to get an answer on how or why the judgement was made. How dose any country fix these sorts of entrenched issues where people have built these fortresses? Every country has 1 or more of these entrenched bureaucratic monstrosities with almost no way to reform or fix them.
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  9325. Actually Bidens's 100% correct - there is no real comparison between Israel & Hamas. One was elected to power by a democratic process and is now at war with their leaders declared war criminals. The other was elected to power by a democratic process and is now at war with their leaders declared war criminals. PLUS - they both think the other has no right to exist. So there's nothing much to compare there. The difference is that 1 of them committed a horrendous unforgivable attack that killed 1,139 people, including 764 civilians, while the other has killed over 35,000 including more than 15,000 innocent children. So how do you compare those basic figures. I think Joe is right. What's there to actually compare? Some of the facts are so close to identical there's nothing to compare and other facts so different they are incomparable.
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  9326.  @TheQueenRulesAll  Yep , its called Spaceship Earth, the life support system is failing and the command staff wont listen.
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  9327. Cheeky Australian here - 👍👍😉😉🤣🤣😅😅🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤔🤔🤦‍♂🤦‍♂ So many emojis and not enough time to put them all up for that comment.
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  9328. On that CHINESE SPY BALLOON go and watch Peter Zeihan's take on it. In a nutshell by letting it fly over American airspace they were able to monitor EVERYTHING it did and transmitted. After they shot it down they were able to recover it and then workout how all the Chinese technology worked. According Peter Z. its been one of the best security bonuses ever in that US agencies were able to decode everything and trace the information all the way back to the terminals (computers) in China where the operators sat. In other words its (possibly) allowed American agencies access into the Chinese systems at a level they have never had previously.
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  9329. ENGINEER HERE - If we don't do something very soon you effing M0R0N we will be in the dark anyway. Will all you clowns get this very very simple concept into your brains. Coal fired power stations are just like anything else THEY WEAR OUT and need to be replaced. Its the same for nuclear as both the French and British have found out and are no w panicking over. Eventually the wind and solar clowns will also have to face that fact as well. Bearings in wind turbines wear out while solar cells lose efficiency over time and batteries don't last either. EVERYTHING WEARS OUT and EVENTUALLY NEEDS REPLACING. Right now our coal fired power stations are turning off because they are worn out. Climate change had NOTHING TO DO with closing Hazelwood, Liddell or any of the others. They were OLD and WORN OUT and cost too much to keep running. It was NOT the fault of the Coalition or Labor that those companies did NOT look after their own assets. THAT WAS 100% the fault of the owners of those power stations. And please don't get started on those clowns at the National Energy Market they are so stupid they are a threat to society anytime they are unsupervised AND BOTH SIDES of Politics have failed to supervise them. That's something we can blame the Coalition and Labor for doing. NOT PROPERLY supervising AEMO.
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  9330.  @lesleyosborne9319  NO IT DOESN'T you idiot because if we don't replace those older power stations we will be in the dark anyway BECASUE THEY ARE OLD AND WORN OUT and NEED to be REPLACED. Some of our power stations were built when Peter Brock was still driving Toranas and the first Commodore wasn't even on the drawing table.
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  9331.  @DrWhom  Thanks for every occasion an engineer clarifies something another charlatan makes another claim and 2 more media people pop up praising their genius. Its like playing infinite exponential whack-a-mole. In college one of my options was in Greek Mythology. Both Hercules and/or Jason of Argonauts fame fought it but the problem was for every head you cut off 2 more grew out of the neck. That's what dealing with these people is like.
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  9332. Just like the BULLSHlT this clown is presenting your argument is that there is only 1 version of Palestinians is absurd. Its like claiming that there's only 1 version of Jew when just for starters there's the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews. Its as absurd as claiming that all Europeans are the same while ignoring the different cultures and languages. As to this clowns claims nobody can answer these questions let me answer the first one. Why do I care? BECAUSE THEY ARE HUMAN BEINGS and any society that claims its decent and fair and honest and reasonable DOSE NOT randomly kill 11,000 children who did nothing wrong. Does Israel have the right and duty to hunt down the Hamas perpetrators of October 7th? ABSOLUTELY and they'd have worldwide support. It was an inhumane atrocity that deserves retribution, but killing 11,000 children is NOT an acceptable response in anyone's language.
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  9333.  @skie6282  They Trumpists actually won that case in Pennsylvania. In the end the judge said the election officials had to stick to what was written in the state election law. AS FAR AS I KNOW THAT WAS THE ONLY CASE THEY WON As for all the other claims that has been explained and explained and explained and NOTHING will satisfy the Trumpists. Facts don't matter, reality doesn't matter nothing matters because these people got swept up in the madness and LIES of ass hole.
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  9334.  @dianaprince3176  I agree - have you ever seen Noam Chomsky's detailing of all the post WW2 presidents? Its brutal.
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  9335. I suspect the filters are hiding them. Somebody recently pointed out how many comments are being hidden. Just look at the numbers YT shows for comments and then count them. Quite often you can see the YT system is hiding comments. Also I got a warning recently for using the word "more-on" soon as I hit the reply YT warned me about community standards. Maybe the algorithm has gotten better with bot detection and that's why comments are being hidden. Then maybe the trolls have just gone to Trumps truth media thing - I hear its doing really great.
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  9336.  @thedissidentleftist6997  WTF is that meant to mean - who is we? Make sense or go back to Facebook.
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  9337.  @thedissidentleftist6997  I'll pay that.🙌🙌 Just don't say it out loud in case they hear. 🤫🤫
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  9338.  @JohnMichaelGodier  As an engineer who works in the real world let me be as blunt as possible with YT throwing me away. This is 23 minutes and 17 seconds of FANTASY NONSENSE by yet another "futurist." It is utterly infuriating to have people with ZERO training in technology to be peddling this sort of nonsense as if its real. Because of people like you peddling nonsense other people who actually know how to do engineering and science have to spend more and more time explaining to everyday people WHY this stuff is nonsense and that people like you are peddling science fiction as if it was science fact. And for the record I have a degree in aerospace engineering and have over 30 years working industrial control systems, automation and robotics. I actually design the sensor & actuator systems as well as WRITE the software for machines for a living. I have written algorithms that by themselves can work out how to make a process work as desired. If I described them to a clown like you you'd think it was godlike and would make idiotic claims. In reality it was just what we call a rules based algorithm. There's nothing dramatic about such programs, but to IGNORANT people they are somehow magical. FYI - Like most STEM people I love sci-fi, but hate people who peddle it as if it was real. SO PLEASE STOP PEDDLING FANTASY AS IF IT WERE FACT.
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  9339.  David McConville  Great point on FDR. What I find so interesting about the term "Progressive" is that until recently I never heard it and yet its not new term at all. It was actually another Roosevelt who championed the term --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1912) My basic definition of the term is that it describes people who realise that humanity has to make progress if we are to survive. Simply for any society to advance it has to make progress. To go from point A to point B you can't just jump at the society level it simply is implausible so you have to do it in progressive steps. To me that's kind of logical as I'm an engineer and we do projects by progressing through steps, stages, phases,... etc. This is the real problem that progressively minded people have with the Dems. The Dems might not be as regressive as the far right half of the Republicans, but they are trapped into dependency on the corporate establishment who simply want nothing to change unless they can profit from it. I suspect (and almost expect) both the Democrats and Republicans to split in half. Half the Republicans will become a far right fundamentalist nightmare. Half the Democrats will become a new progressive (but sadly too far leftist) party. The remaining establishment halves of the Dems & Reps will form an uneasy and unhealthy Republicrat (coalition). I call them Republicrats because Democritans sounds shit.
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  9340. YEAH we can ask DON Jnr where to go get the first one!
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  9341. Its easy to say Joe Biden is or has been corrupt, but I am yet to see anything definitive that can be used in court. I'd put it as fairly likely Joe Biden has done something based on the fact of how corrupt Washington has become in recent decades. There's no doubt his son traded on daddy's name to get a job in Ukraine and maybe that has something to do with the current situation. Hilary was easy because she cheated to win the nomination in 2016 and everybody knew it. That more than anything else cost her the election. Forget Comey, emails and Russia. How many people simply did not turn out because they didn't want to vote for a cheat? Joe Biden is probably corrupt in some way or at least done something just from having been in Washington for that long. The saddest part of that is how long will it take for Washington to corrupt all the new people who've gone there with good intentions.
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  9342.  @agny369  That all depends on how willing you are to risk a relationship. I think we've all had friends we could say anything to and they'd listen AND also had friends we know we can't say certain things to. Different people take things differently.
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  9343. @Embargo Brain Very good point. Krystal and Sagaar have been SILENT on Rogan having on those 2 quacks. In one way someone does need to interview those sorts of people so they can be challenged. Most of the flat earth and conspiracy promoters get away with what they do because they NEVER get challenged and they make certain they never get challenged. Rogan's problem is that he thinks he's smart enough to challenge those types and HE'S NOT. But then there's a lot of journalists who think similar.
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  9344. Its pretty simple - they are NOT the target audience. Fox, OAN, MSNBC, CNN, NYT, WaPo and others have target audiences they want subscriptions from. They don't care about people who aren't going to subscribe.
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  9345.  @tonywords6713  Most of the Western World is suffering from boomer life support syndrome.
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  9346.  @dominicfucinari1942  You forgot to add int the re-run and re-birthing model of TV programing OR the Hollywood model of what superhero movie do we do next model AND both of them suck. Sorry I'd talk more but I gotta get back to my Playstation and relieve some of my stress by bludgeoning the crud out of another hoard of scumbags. Oh there is one thing. Maybe one of these gaming companies could make a version of their game where all the opponents are Wall Streeters and their lawyers and their lobbyists.
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  9347. Hey everyone Trump just said something that was actually true -> "the people of Georgia are angry" I bet all those people in Georgia who are having their 15th Amendment Rights (the right to vote) shat on ARE ANGRY. I bet those officials who are receiving death threats and now need protection from crazy people are damn angry as well.
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  9348.  @jakebredthauer5100  Yeah but Russia should also stop being a pain in the butt to the rest of the world. I can see a moment coming when one some guy from a small country gets up in the United Nations and just lets fly at how America, Russia and China just wont stop interfering in everyone else's business and tells the 3 of them to FK-OFF. And when the Brits, French and others laugh at it he throws stuff at them too.
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  9349. Its called Dunning Kruger Syndrome as this clown has a near fatal case of it.
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  9350. Yeah I don't think this is a vote winner for someone who relies on a base that hates government regulations.
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  9351.  @commonsenseskeptic  I know its a year late but you haven't been totally clean with the issues of NASA, Falcon and Soyuz. *YES you are absolutely right SpaceX was late delivering Crew Dragon, and that Starship is a disaster in the making, but: You didn't put Falcon and Crew Dragon in perspective against other programs. Look at how many other projects that were put forward NONE of which delivered anything. Boeing in particular has so far TOTALLY FAILED with Starliner and Starliner is costed at millions more per launch. You did put up the costs of Shuttle but didn't mention that if even 5 of those American crews had been done using the Space Shuttle that would have cost over $2.2 Billion. I did my degree in aerospace and along with my class mates watched our dreams go up with Challenger in January 1986. I was in a minority but was further disheartened when NASA announced a replacement (Endeavour). I agreed with Kelly Johnson (lead engineer for the SR-71) who said that money needed to go to a replacement and with his background should have been listened to. IMHO I think Gwynne Shotwell and the Space X team that works on the Falcon series including Crew Dragon have done an incredible job DESPITE the presence of Elon Musk. This is even more evident when compared against Boeing's Starliner and the Ares/Constellation and SLS programs none of which have yet successfully flown. In fact it might be a good question to where they might be IF Elon Musk wasn't sapping them of resources on his fantasy clown stupidity of Starship. Yeah mate IMHO Starship will be a bigger failure than the Space Shuttle. The Space Shuttle was an incredible technical achievement in that they made a reusable space plane work, BUT it was a total failure in how much it cost in resources (both financial and manpower) and STARVED other programs of those resources. What's Starship doing at the moment? I know you have done vids on other parts of Musk's space programs but if you want some technical input on doing any more I'd be happy to help.
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  9352. I'm Australian and as an outsider looking in that is one of the BEST SUMMATIONS yet of this SHlTSHOW. I actually went to college in America in the late 80s. So I was there to watch the decline of Reagan, the election of "I don't like broccoli" Bush, the "I didn't have sex with that girl" Gary Hart AND Iran Contra. To grasp how bad this makes America look NOW compared to what I saw is difficult. You have a CONVICTED criminal who does nothing but lie against a feeble old man who doesn't know what day of the week it is AND 2 parties in such a state of denial that the guy with a worm in his brain looks like a viable option.
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  9353. THERE IS SOMETHING SURPRISING - ITS ONLY $170,000,000. I thought that the Trumps were better at grifting than this. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  9354. AUSTRALIAN here with an outside observation. Apologies for the length of comment. YES - American deserved Trump (past tense) and in some ways almost every other democracy in the world (including Australia) needs (or deserves) their version of Donald Trump. For decades we have all kept electing clowns, idiots, morons, liars, cheats and all we do is complain about them. ONE of the great things about democracy is that we can change our government when it fails us, but when we all we do is decide which flavor political SHlT sandwich we'll eat for the next few years we should NOT complain about how that tastes. Donald Trump is NOT the problem, he's just a symptom of the problem. The Constitution is NOT the problem. I went to college in America in the late 80s and was surrounded by people who'd all studied the constitution in Civics class. A bunch of them were pre-law and were studying it even further. These days, (from all the conversations we had) I have no doubt the US Constitution is one of humanities finest achievements. So its NOT the problem. The problem is the American people who keep electing crap into their state and federal politics for all the wrong reasons and those people then trample all over the constitution. The American people have ALLOWED organisations like the Federalist Society to wreck the court system. The American people have ALLOWED Lobbyists and Think Tanks like the Heritage Society and CATO Institute to corrupt the political system so a handful of billionaires can do whatever they like. The American people have ALLOWED their politicians to buy and trade stocks while deciding which companies won which contracts. The American people have ALLOWED their education and health care systems to be gutted for profit. The American people have ALLOWED their infrastructure to crumble. The American people have ALLOWED their politicians to send their sons and daughters to be stationed in places of no value to die for no sensible reason. AND TO BE SURE - EVERY other democracy on the planet is doing similar things and that INCLUDES Australia. CASE 1) Australia recently caught PwC (Price Waterhouse Coopers) handing over confidential information. PwC had been hired as consultants to help the Australian government close up tax loop holes. They then on sold information to other clients to get around what they were advising the Australian government. Instead of CHARGING PwC and their clients with conspiracy to defraud the Australian people they have been let off WITHOUT ANYTHING. CASE 2) Before the PwC scandal we had a Royal Commission into our banks. For Americans its not to dissimilar to a Senate Inquiry in that its a activity where the presiding officers can subpoena people to appear and if they lie its perjury and the evidence gathered can then be used at subsequent trials. Our banks admitted to things like systematic theft from accounts with illegal fees. CEOs, CFOs, and other actually admitted to the commission that they did it. They did things that would put a normal person in jail for decades. Just like after the 2008 GFC NOBODY when America's DOJ refused to prosecute the CEOs and CFOs who caused the problem nobody here was charged and nobody went to jail and NOTHING was fixed. The problem is "We the People" have failed "Us the People" by continually electing people who lie and cheat us. America got Donald Trump because they elected him. Every other democracy got who they got because they elected them.
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  9355. POTENITAL Future phone call: Hey Trumpski, its Vlad. Good to see you got my girl through her confirmation. Don't know how you did it but well done. _Why don't your boys come to Moscow so we can discuss the future Trump Odessa gold club. _
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  9356. That is exactly the point. Why did the Dems ever let it get this far? Well actually they are in a way to BLAME. They funded or campaigned (via PACs) the crazies during the GOP primaries. They reasoned that that people would not vote for crazy in a general election TOTALLY IGNORINNG the reality that people mostly vote for their party no matter the candidate. The strategists in the Democratic party are the stupidest most idiotic political operatives on the planet. Not only were they never held accountable for 2016 they then went and did the same thing in other countries. I'm actually Australian and after the 2019 failure of British Labor I asked a Brit why they had used the same losing strategy that Australian Labor had failed with earlier in 2019. They told me British Labor had used some of the same campaign strategists Australian Labor had used and they were AMERICANS who had been involved Hilary's 2016 failure. Its so embarrassing here in Oz that nobody will admit it to this day. I had to find it out from a Brit. If you these campaigns where people are losing in the polls to pathetic candidates American needs to ask are the Democrats the ugliest question: Are they really this incompetent or is it deliberate?
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  9357.  @mytwosense9135  1) he never said to silence dissenting views 2) the Commie reference shows you just another right wing bigot. 3) the campaign Jacinta Price is part of is based on LIES. BIG LIE #1 There is no provision for the voice having any influence over non-aboriginal issues like the military. BIG LIE #2 There's the claim that once done the Voice cannot be undone and that's absurd because its claiming we can't change the constitution and yet this referendum is like every other referendum before it a means to change the constitution.
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  9358. AND ITS EXACTLY WHY SHE LOST NUMB NUTS. Its called democracy and if you PUSH people AWAY they will vote for the other person. If America AND OTHER COUNTRIES don't start giving these people an education and dealing with their issues (things like jobs and cost of living) then we are all farked. FYI - I am Australian and we have our own version of Trump in a real POS named Clive Palmer. We are in the middle of an election right now and Clive Palmer isn't just being a bit like Trump he's using EXACTLY the same campaign strategy. He's targeting all the disenfranchised people who feel that our political establishment don't care (does that sound familiar). He's already captured the conspiracy crowd (anti-vaxxers and anti-5G). AND He's a billionaire with dubious business dealings. And our main establishment parties are ignoring the danger and doing stupid stuff just like Hilary did.
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  9359. ITS ACTUALLY WORSE THAN KYLE IS SAYING I have been trying to highlight this report for over 6 months ago when RICHARD WOLLF mentioned it. The report was published in SEPTEMBER 2022 nearly 10 months ago. Anyone can find the report just google "congressional budget office family wealth" and the actual home page for the report should come up. On that page you can not only download the report but an Excel spreadsheet with all the data in the graphs. Here's some facts from the data of the very first graph in that report which is the one shown by Kyle at 4:26. From that graph you can not only get the effect of the 2008 GFC by comparing the 2007 data to 2010 but also the recovery by comparing the 2007 data to 2019. Adjusting for population and averaging the data on a per person value: The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 21.1% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 4.6% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were STILL 21.8% BELOW their 2007 value. So after the GFC that they caused the Top 10% got around US$4 Trillion from Bush and another US$4 Trillion from Obama and have since recovered and by 2019 were US$20 Trillion ABOVE their 2007 value. Estimates have them at least US$8 Trillion above that during the COVID Pandemic. The current collective value of the Top 10% can be estimated to be above US$90 Trillion compared to an estimated collective value of US$2.5Trillion for the 165 million people who make up America's Bottom 50%. This is neoliberal economics in overdrive. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America on a scholarship this is my gift to you all. Apologies if its blunt, but I do love America and the American people. I do want to see America back at its best and right now America is NOT at its best. And so you know this sort of neoliberal brain virus is doing just as much damage in Australia. We are in the midst of a full blown double crisis of housing and energy and our genius economists have said things like "its just the markets adjusting."
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  9360.  @robinsss  You're 1/2 right they didn't steal that $50 Trillion they DEFRAUDED the American people out of it. They paid off all the professors at Harvard, Yale and the University of Chicago to advise the government that making their rich benefactors even richer by lowering taxes and removing regulations and castrating the DOJ from prosecuting them in any and everyway was a good thing. When you're paying off the advisors to the government for financial gain when the relationships between the advisors and you who's funding them is not made clear ITS CALLED FRAUD.
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  9361. The bit that shites the rest of the World is that George "Dubya" Bush removed America from the International Criminal Court when he signed the American Service-Members' Protection Act in 2002 to protect American service panel from being judged by others. Obama never redressed it and Trump gave it the middle finger. Here go look at the map and take note that BOTH America and Russia were (past tense) signatories but are not now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court After you check the map look under the heading "Opposition to the Court"
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  9362. I just saw him debate Cenk over on the David Pakman Show and to put it mildly Destiny is one of the dumbest pieces of garbage in politics. He's also equally matched by Cenk's stupidity. Destiny was asked if his stance from before the election that the Democrats should tell the Progressives to get lost was still true. HE SAID YES and was emphatic about it. That just showed how stupid he is because the simplest of facts is that with voluntary elections you MUST MOTIVATE people to ACTUALLY TURN UP AND VOTE. Telling people in the 2020 election they had to vote for the person YOU CHOSE for them or they could go away and only just winning WAS STUPID. DOING IT AGAIN in 2024 was idiotic beyond idiotic. Then going into a debate and maintaining that telling those people to NOT vote AFTER LOSING to "they're eating cats & dogs" boy is staggering. THIS WAS AFTER LOSING. After not having millions of people show up and vote for your candidate this IDIOT still maintains that telling a massive slab of their base to go away What is there NOT to understand about this brainless IDI0T?
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  9363.  @user-bj1mx2ip1c  I saw him debate Cenk on the David Pakman Show yesterday. He was pathetic. Cenk wasn't to good but Destiny made him look like genius.
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  9364. Its not a stupid concept to move away from the US$ especially considering the socio-political issues that are currently tearing America down the middle as well as America's attitude to foreign affairs BUT shifting financial control to countries that are (at times) OPENLY hostile to each other AND OPENLY execute dissidents or assassinate them as well as being so rife with CORRUPTION that its actually part of their standard practices IS NOT A SOLUTION. Lets not forget that these countries DON'T like each other that much. India has issues with Pakistan and China that often ends with bullets. Russia has issues with China despite selling them heaps of oil & gas and lets not forget that China is still pissed they lost Outer Manchuria to the Russians a century ago. Most of the middle east and former Soviet Republics prefer shooting at each other than trade. The biggest resource of BRICS is actually people. They still have young people who are the primary consumers in any developed society. Peter Zeihan points this out all the time and its why India thinks it will be a major player in future. HOWEVER - both China and Russia are in serious population decline. At least the Russians haven't wasted Trillions on those ghost cities, but then the Russians have allowed Trillions to leave and spent on boats and soccer teams. Brasil and India have massive populations but MOST of them are poor and can't afford consumer goods yet. But the biggest issue they face are the monstrous cultural issues surrounding Religion. B - Brasil is Catholic; R - Russia is Eastern Orthodox; I - India is Hindu; C - China is 1/2 godless communists and 1/2 Confucians with a smattering of Muslims in between; S - South Africa is mostly Protestant Christian (Dutch & English) who don't much like Catholics or Orthodox with the rest being African Shamanism. Yeah sure that lot will be 100% cooperative considering chunks of their population believe the others are the spore of Satan and now they are inviting in BOTH Sunni and Shia Muslims to join. Yeah I can see this working out real good. Plus and this might be a huge bug. There's billions and billions of Chinese money invested in America as well as a lot of Russian Oligarch money hidden in places like Idaho which now has a banking system like Switzerland.
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  9365. ​ @andrewduan5123  There was an ABC story where they revealed that there were 10-12 ex US Navy officers (including at least 1 admiral) who had been in Australia for more than 10 years consulting on the Collins replacement. They were being paid between $5,000 and $8,000 PER DAY that's $1.2 million to $1.9million a year. Further to what I looked through I found that ASPI, the think tank in Canberra that is heavily funded by our government to give advice ALSO receives money from the US State Department. I think that's called a conflict of interest.
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  9366. Recently I heard a comment about which institutions had done the most damage to America and it was Harvard, Yale and the University of Chicago. McKinsey was founded by one and populated by the other 2. And lets not forget where Pete Buttigieg got his work experience.
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  9367.  @st-ex8506  Yeah that's known BUT HE STILL WORKED THERE.
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  9368.  @st-ex8506  I lost contact with most over the years but reconnected with a bunch of them via LinkedIn in recent years. It was fantastic to find out how many have some incredibly successful careers. I've just never had the opportunity to go back and spend any real time catching up which has been horribly disappointing. The ideal time would be homecoming, but that time of year just never seemed to clear up because of projects. I either had money and no time or time and no money. So its been frustrating. One year my college basketball team played a post season tour in Australia. The first I heard about it was 2 months after they left. I wrote to the Athletic Director and asked why they hadn't contacted me and NOBODY contacted any of us. They all assumed somebody else would inform us. I didn't know if I should scream or cry.
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  9369.  @st-ex8506  Not certain where you are coming from. I spent 3-1/2 years in America going to college and getting a degree in aerospace engineering and at a top engineering school only to be repeatedly shat on by idiots in HR and who gave the world HR. I FKING HATE McKINSEY, KPMG and the rest of shit advice brigade. Who the hell do they think they are unleashing a pack of clowns who decide the fate of people's careers without any understanding of what people actually do in their job. If HR is so FKING fantastic at getting the right people in the right places for the right reasons then why are so many businesses reliant on tax evasion to make a profit instead of just being profitable? Why are so many projects in both the public and private sectors so badly managed if McKinsey, KPMG and the rest are so FKING fantastic at their job? Australia's NBN was supposed to cost $20 Billion. Now its over $52 and still counting. Snowy 2.0 was supposed to cost $4B and now is budgeted at over $12B. Chevron's Gorgon gas project went $15 Billion overbudget and Wheatstone over $3 Billion over budget. ENI Darwin still not up to design spec. Mining projects left right and centre late and over budget. And everywhere you look there are consultants handing out advice and charging crap loads for it. I can tell you from personnel experience how they totally FKD-UP our car industry where I used to worked. I've seen what they do in mining and oil & gas as well. We called them seagulls because they fly in make lots of noise, SHIT on everything and fly off leaving a mess for others to clean up.
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  9370. I just commented to someone else that. Mike Pence has less spine than an octopus.
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  9371. I'm Australian and this is the stuff that makes the rest of the planet scared. The insane delusion these people have when they rant about Woke indoctrination. Its a continuation of the BS that started in Florida with the campaign against CRT that wasn't even being taught. When you hear people from other countries refer to the "American Taliban" this is what we are talking about.
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  9372. AUSTRALIAN HERE: This is incredibly surprising, but also great news for the entire Western World. If we can't hold our leaders accountable then we are doomed. I actually thought he'd get off for the simple reason that so many other people of similar public position have never even been charged let alone gone to trial let alone been convicted. On your point of Trump really facing consequences, well this is a CONSEQUENCE and no matter what he claims he went in front of a jury and was found GUILTY on 34 of 34 charges. That's maybe the most single surprising outcome. They found him guilty on all 34 charges. As for consequences, Trump is and always has been wrapped up in his IMAGE and that image now has the word CONVICTED FELON stamped on it. Trump is now OFFICIALLY a CRIMINAL. If somebody in the street yells out that Trump is a criminal he can't sue them for deformation. If a journalist uses the word criminal in the same sentence as Trump's name he can't sue them for deformation. It might not seem like it but this has consequences.
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  9373. Yeah why is anyone surprised then American libertarianism is best described as: "We want the liberty to strip you of your liberty!"
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  9374. Go and type "25th" nothing else just "25th" into google and see what the algorithm pops up.
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  9375. Of course England is less English. The Royal family are German, the only smart guy in this conversation was born in Russia and the Scots actually want to leave. I'm grateful my great great grandparents left this madhouse behind and moved to Australia.
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  9376.  @tatvela6915  Yeah but if he's met Kyle I'd be surprised if he hasn't at least met the others. But then how many names does he mention 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  9377.  @BettyWhiteTheVibratorSlayer  Well there's one way to declare your self one of 2 things. Either your a right wing clown or a radical far left SJW maniac.
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  9378. Napoleon, “Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake.” Both Biden and now Hobbs have done this. BUT its a major mistake to think you can just do nothing. Look at Georgia where its now in a run-off. Herschel Walker should have been the most easily beatable candidate and yet he almost won. Look at how many other races the Dems have lost to complete clowns in recent years. In 2020 in Georgia Marcus Flowers still got 88,000 votes despite having withdrawn. Marjorie Taylor Green got 188,000. That should have told the Dems that at least 30% of the people don't want a crazy person representing them. The Dems need to be smarter in future.
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  9379. Yeah I have to agree. Back in July 2019 Prof Mark Blyth was asked about Elizabeth Warrens chances and he gives a really great assessment of HOW politics fundamentally works and why seemingly unelectable people get elected and why other incredibly better candidates lose. Its here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4795s If you actually listen through he was even right about Trump, except its was COVID that Trump mishandled and don't forget as many do, Trumps vote went UP 11 million in 2020.
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  9380. YEAH - Go watch Jeff Daniels famous "Why America is NOT the Greatest" from the Newsroom. Why do people hate Liberals? Because they're losers. If they are so damn smart how come they keep losing.
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  9381. I think that's a pretty accurate description of what's happening. What other explanation could there be. There was a moment where she looked like a potential Sec State. She was going difficult places and dealing face to face with difficult people. One of the real tasks Sec State has is to go to places and calm things down not wind them up as this current clown has been doing for weeks. About the only excuse anybody might (and its a very small might) give her is the DNC are so inept she felt going this way helps irrespective its actually worse.
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  9382. He's dead and conspiracy idiots don't care.
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  9383.  @EmeraldMara85  Sorry if you have misread that. I put the link up so people could actually hear and see what they said. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with them and they themselves are NOT being exclusive about anything. I'm actually more inclined that it occurred naturally when the wrong 2 animals got together in the wrong Chinese market place. When the man-made claims were first dismissed it was because EXPERTS felt the virus was beyond anybody's capability to specifically engineer. I still tend to agree on that because last I heard we splice genes to TRY and get certain traits but as for actual redesign like we do for planes trains & automobiles NO. BUT the Weinstein's do make a valid point and that is until we know for sure we should not TOTALLY dismiss anything. Don't forget VX nerve gas was an effectively an accident from pesticide development. There's a possibility that this virus could have come from research and something unexpected happened in a petri dish which has to be plausible if we claim it can ALSO happen in a wet market. I'm certainly not doing any worshipping as you irrationally claimed. I know nothing about your unrelated claims and haven't heard anything about Brett Weinstein shutting a college or claiming election fraud.
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  9384.  @RationallySkeptical  Just remember in science a lack of evidence isn't evidence. At this point we don't need to know what might or might not be we need to let the investigators do their job and get us answers.
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  9385. JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT TRUMP'S GRIFTING COULDN'T GET WORSE - IT GOT WORSE. What was it Lindsay Graham said about nominating Trump back when he still had a semblance of a spine????
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  9386. AUSTRALIAN with an outside observation. When all that anyone had to compare Trump to was an ageing frail Biden then Trump didn't look as bad as he does compared to a much younger Kamala Harris. The real set if issues facing whoever is the next POTUS include: 1) An out of control SCOTUS backed by a cadre of out of control billionaires; 2) An out of control Israel backed by a cadre of out of control billionaires; 3) An out of control House run by a religious maniac in Mike Johnson and backed by a cadre of out of control billionaires; 4) An out of control Russia run by a cadre of out of control billionaires; 5) An out of control China run by a single man with homegrown issues so out of control its hard to see China surviving. 6) Wealth inequality that's been caused by out of control billionaires meddling in politics to get whatever they want and is causing the incredible 120 million displaced people and refugees trying to find a better life and causing all sorts of issues. 7) Climate change.
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  9387.  @roxannehale1386  Listen to David's opening remarks in the video about Dan Crenshaw and Tucker Carlson.
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  9388.  @SuperStrik9  I was in Canada in late 2017 early 2018 doing a project in Saskatchewan. At the time they were dealing with (among other things) the girls who'd simply disappeared and it wasn't a small number. Some of the issues like that were eerily similar to things we'd had in Australia. What separates Australia, Canada and New Zealand from many others is that we are at least TRYING to resolve these issues. If anyone asks "could we do better?" The answer is YES, we could always do better just like we could be doing better in many other issues with human society. But at least on these issues we are trying.
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  9389. Here's the link to the guardians series on Pegasus -> https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project
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  9390. Maybe and maybe NOT. That can only come with time and by time I don't mean a few weeks or months I mean years and years.
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  9391.  @rachelatwood9555  fair but unless you know them, what do you base that on? I certainly don't agree with another rant I just saw in this thread or at least the bluntness of it. That's just unnecessary. Its something that none of us really know about. Plus none of us really know why Krystal's marriage broke apart. So its something none of us should really comment on. About the only thing any of us know is that they are happy together and leave it at that.
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  9392.  @rachelatwood9555  Fair call.
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  9393.  @keirfarnum6811  Sorry but that discussion is over. WE KNOW what the Chinese were doing There are experts who have studied the research the Chinese published and they have said what was going on. Do you self a favor and listen to them and this short documentary isn't on FOX or CNN or OAN or MSNBC. DW is one of the most reputable news services in the world right now. Dr. Alina Chan who's in this works at Harvard and MIT how much credibility do need? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0nuyPQzU18 Its called listening to experts you should try it. As for Vincent I don't know if he made a simple honest mistake and I said that up front. But the fact is he was wrong.
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  9394.  @yossarrian  FK-OFF with your self righteousness. I have pointed out a basic fact or historical reality. If you missed the satirical slant or the poignancy of one group of migrants railing against another group of migrants then that's your issue NOT ANYONE ELSE'S.
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  9395. Sorry but, facts became irrelevant to the media about 20 years ago. Go back and check the warnings in the 2004 documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism." One of the main people in that documentary Robert McChesney did a talk that you can see here on YT. Its titled "Digital Disconnect: The Internet and Democracy" from 2015 (but posted 2022). In it he says facts are no longer profitable with respect to the media. This is the real issue with what Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the media have done. Facts no longer matter.
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  9396. What SCARES the rest of the world is 74 million people who thought Trump should have a second term. What SCARES a lot of people around the world EVEN MORE is that the Democrats still haven't explained that if Trump was so bad (and many of us agree with that sentiment) then how come and extra 11 million people turned up for him in 2020 than did in 2016. I'm Australian and we heard again and again how his numbers were dropping. EVEN Fox News reported his numbers were dropping and yet on election day another 11 million turned up. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHERE THOSE 11 Million CAME FROM?
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  9397.  @educortazarc  Dude EVERY Government is trash. Its just some trash cans stink worse than others.
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  9398.  @educortazarc  We all have them. Right now there's a giant argument raging here in Australia. Months ago when we had outbreaks in Victoria and other states they asked New South Wales to send any extra vaccine they had. THEY REFUSED. Right now NSW has an outbreak and is asking everyone else to send extra vaccines to them. They getting the same answer they gave others. I just watched a NSW political commentator (on TV) denigrating the rest of us for how other Australians only thought of themselves. Today I watched 4 of our girls win the relay in Tokyo for the 3rd time in a row. So only minutes apart I watched the very best my nation has and then the most gutless of hypocritical political maggots. Sadly we have too few of the first and too many of the second.
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  9399. Aerospace engineer here - 100% agree
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  9400. If its anyone it'll be Ivanka, clearly she's his favorite. As far as her being accepted just go and check how Marine Le Pen has done in France --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Le_Pen
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  9401.  @ln5425  If you saw Barrick O on Colbert this last week you'd know that her book has out sold his. If you consider the children of most of the previous presidents, apart from George W & Jeb Bush most have taken very low public profiles. On book sales its pretty simple its called promotion. If you're the publisher and you want your investment to work you have to promote it. I think its actually sad. These people had their time and now its over - go away and enjoy your retirement or what ever else is next in you life.
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  9402. Just as a question what did your church tell you about Jesus warning about false prophets that he gave as part of the Sermon on the Mount? Its right there in Mathew 7 because anyone who checks what Jesus himself said and considers what sort of people he warns about It looks just like Jesus himself personally warned about people just like Jim Baker, Creflo Dollar, Kenneth Copeland and others. Its not like those a casual words he just said to the disciples or someone in the street. That was what he said to a crowd of 1000s. Paraphrasing what he said: Watch out for these people. They are frauds and I will have nothing to do with them.
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  9403. Good to see there's at least 1 thread calling out the bullshite and hypocrisy of these 3 liars. And they are LIARS in big capital letters. POINT 1: Gigi Foster is NOT a medical doctor, she is an economist and no qualifications at all to be handing out pandemic response advice to anyone. POINT 2: Older people need to be advised that Gigi said we should let older people just die because "they'll die anyway." Go watch her interview on 60 Minutes for which other professors at UNSW criticised her for. POINT 3: Jay Bhattacharya was heavily criticised by other scientist for his STATISTICAL analysis where he claimed that 80,000 people in Santa Clara had COVID. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bhattacharya#COVID-19_pandemic *POINT 4: *These 2 have repeatedly pointed out during this 1h11m discourse that we should not allow our society to be dominated by powerful full rich people and yet they are also representatives of a number of extremely powerful American Billionaires. The Great Barrington Declaration Jay co-authored was funded via the Brownstone Institute which is an American Libertarian Think Tank funded by Anarcho-Capitalist Jeffery Tucker. POINT 5: They lied about the data, notably about Sweden and where Australia actually sits. But that's a longer discussion and I will happily present anyone with the facts of those lies. In simple terms go look at the data and this source is accurate. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ In simple terms if were had the same outcome as Sweden we'd have approximately 50,000 dead Australians instead of 15,000 because Sweden's fatality rate is about 3-1/3rd times what ours is. Australia looks like we have a much higher incidence of COVID because we kept testing and recording the data and America STOPPED because Donald Trump ordered testing to stop.
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  9404.  @Zom13y  Yeah it actually did happen. Don't forget we live in a world where history keeps telling us that groups of people will simply dismiss reality at times and follow the most ridiculous ideas despite all other evidence.
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  9405. SP has less brain damage, but then she's a "hockey mom" not a football player.
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  9406.  @joelrivard5598  In what way are they geniuses. They only thing I see Palin and Walker do better than Biden and Harris is convince M0R0NS to vote for them.
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  9407. Nope just a grumpy old man in decline forgetting what day of the week it is.
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  9408.  @grassCrow  Yeah but smart Presidents surround themselves with intelligent people not a pack of gutless suckrats.
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  9409. OMG someone else actually knows some basic history. Great job mate.
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  9410.  @MrRaulstrnad  My favorite thought exercise is to ask people -> How many engineers does it take so the average person can turn on a light? Be honest and remember your first number. I've had only a couple of other engineers even begin to get close. When I give you the number you'll think I'm crazy.
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  9411.  @MrRaulstrnad  What was your first thought? For most people it's about 5 (usually 3-8) because they don't go beyond the switch or socket - they think of a desk lamp or a room light. A few engineers (mostly with an electrical background) go onto the power station, but even fewer (without prompting go back to the basic metals needed. Since I have worked in manufacturing and more recently mining I just go with the metals and my basic list is. Tungsten (filament) Tin (bulb cap) Copper (low voltage wiring) Aluminum (for the cores of the HV transmission lines) Iron (transformers, transmission towers & lines) Zinc (for galvanizing exposed iron components) Nickel, Manganese & Chromium (for the stainless that wraps around HV transmission lines) Coal (to process the iron ore) Sulphur (to make sulphuric acid to process the other ores except aluminum) Soda Ash (to make caustic soda to process the aluminum) So that's at least 10 (or more) mines with all the factories that make mining equipment - diggers, trucks, crushers, conveyors, screens, tanks, pipes,..............etc Then there's the trains, trucks, & ships that take the raw mining materials of to the processing plants. Then there's the processing plants for taking the raw mining materials and producing raw stock - iron, nickel, aluminum smelters.....,etc. Then there's the factories that make all the things that go into building a power station. Then there's the factories that make all the things that go into building a power grid Then there's the factories that make all the things that go into building a house with wiring. Then there's the factories that make all the things that go into building a light. And does not include any of the other infrastructure or many other raw materials required so that 1 person can have a home and turn on that light. It's at least 20,000 and may be well over 50,000.
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  9412. Agreed on that.
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  9413. How about Kristanna Loken from T3?? But before she lost her mind promoting conspiracy nonsense.
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  9414. I'll give you the short story. The world is a mess and we are struggling to find any solutions because brainless attention seekers LIKE YOU and your gal pal Cleo Abrams wont shut up and keep pumping out nonsense on social media. You act like you care and yet spin these great tales of "look see, we are telling you stuff" and all you do is confuse people with highly selective data. I'm an engineer. I started with a degree in aerospace but have spent most of the last 35 years in industrial control systems which are the sensors and computers that run things. My goal in life was to build a moon base. That requires a working knowledge of mining, mineral processing, manufacturing, water treatment, waste treatment and many other things including farming because humans need food. By chance, working as a control systems engineer I have worked in all of those industries, except I got the farming from my grandparents. I can tell you straight up the problem is NOT Liberal or Libertarian or Socialist or Theocratic ideology or any other political ideology its ECONOMIC IDEOLOGY. No matter what the political system you society has these days, every politician is either an economist or has an economic adviser and they have all been taught the same economics from the same text books. Across every industry I have worked I found a common issue - economics. All of the people in management have the same economics training Go ask any engineer, school teacher, doctor, nurse and many others who know their industry. They will tell you that at every attempt to make anything better they get intercepted by, interfered with and block by someone asking "What's the business case for that?" and/or "Who's going to pay for that?" Added to that are people LIKE YOU who just create more and more confusion because there is a business case that says "more clicks equals more money". Johnny YOU ARE the PROBLEM
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  9415. The worst part of this are how deluded the BLUE MAGA people are. I just watched the Brooks & Capehart segment on PBS titled "Brooks and Capehart on Biden's battle to stay in the race" and at one point Jonathan Capehart throws down. After quoting a string of stats he demands that the people who want Biden to step down explain what they are seeing they he isn't. He then goes on to claim that the Joe Biden he interviewed/met recently is the same Joe Biden he interviewed/met 2 years ago. What we are seeing is a man in OBVIOUS decline who might win the election but is NOT be capable of serving 4 more years. THAT'S WHAT WE SEE. The level of delusion that Jonathan Capehart shows is staggering and he's just one of 1,000s of BLUE MAGA. They are just as bad and just as deluded as RED MAGA its just taken longer for it to be obvious.
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  9416.  @Form383  In just the last couple of hours I have heard multiple commentators make the point that within the Biden Camp there's EXACTLY your point going on. They are running on a mantra of. "Only Joe can save the US and the World from Trump." They are simply so wrapped up in their delusion its terrifying. America and the World needs leaders NOT opportunists who can win an election BUT ACTUAL LEADERS. Irrespective of if Biden can or cannot win the real question is "Can he lead for the next 4 years?" And to be 100% fair the same should be asked of Trump, Kamala, JD Vance as well as every other political leader in the World.
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  9417. Go and watch the 2004 Documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" towards the end was a warning/prediction that as Rupert Murdoch dragged his media further and further into the gutter ALL THE OTHER media outlets would inevitably do the same thing to keep their viewers engaged. That was 20 years ago, long before the YouTube & Social media issue we now see, but its surreal to now watch this happen in real time. Just yesterday I watched Ian Bremmer talk about 2024s 10 biggest risks. One of those was the NEGATIVE effects of AI the worst of which is how our lives are becoming dominated by algorithms that decide what we'll read, watch and hear. What did David say about the clickbait titles all being driven by "the algorithm?"
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  9418. David Pakman called it "toxic sport politics" and its about the best description I have seen anyone give it. Its got nothing to do with facts. Its got nothing to do with anything relevant. Its about scoring points in the current news cycle and then moving on to the next news cycle without any discussion of relevance, morals or integrity. They know that by the time anyone can fact check anything we're into the next news cycle and then its the next dog whistle to score the next points in the endless game of "toxic sport politics."
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  9419. That pigeon should get a medal. He not only escaped Alabama he made it all the way to Australia. Possible next ambassador to Australia. 👍🦘 Its that or that or they are so stupid they sent us news Trump was voted out by carrier pigeon as a backup.
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  9420.  @Pooopers  I wouldn't even put it at pushing green politics. I had a look at the channel and its claimed to be a "Making science make sense." and looking through their vids it just an endless pile of nonsense form clowns who know little about science.
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  9421. What does anyone think after he was caught as one of Epstein's crowd?
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  9422. Funny how he mentions the Tech Giants but then ignores the Big Oil and Big Pharma??????
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  9423. GREAT KYLE - now please take a look in the mirror because you do some of the same crap CNN , MSNBC and others do. Perfect example was last week when you labelled one of your Jordan Peterson interview vids as "EXPLOSIVE: Jordan Peterson On Trans Rights, Elliot Page Controversy". That interview was one of the best interviews I have seen anyone do with Jordan Peterson, BUT IT WAS NOT EXPLOSIVE. There wasn't any yelling or screaming or earth shattering revelations. It got a little heated and Kyle did try and bait Jordan Peterson a few times with almost stupid whataboutism hypotheticals. Other than the stupid title it and the other part were really good. Kyle pressed as a good interviewer should and then allowed Peterson to answer. The only disappointing things for me were, Kyle needs to upload the whole vid to YT and that most of the comments where brain dead remarks.
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  9424. NEWS FLASH AMERICA The rest of the world already knew how corrupt the whole Jared & Ivanka show was. 1) No where else in the western world would they have been allowed to hold official positions. Its called nepotism and every respectable country has laws against it. The fact they were unqualified just made it more ridiculous. We all know Trump made the claim the executive branch was exempt from those laws. 2) As a government official or appointee doing personnel business while on a government paid overseas trip is considered illegal in most countries. The reason is first your being paid by or your expenses are being paid by the government for your time to do government work NOT your own. Its called corruption. Secondly if your personnel business is with a foreign government there's a clear conflict of interest. - So when Ivanka was in China on US Government business and she ALSO secured her trademarks with the Chinese - ILLEGAL, its called "using government resources for personnel gain" - So when Jared &Ivanka signed a deal with the Israeli Government for a new Trump resort in Israel when they were there for the opening of the new US Embassy in Jerusalem. ILLEGAL its called bribery or corruption. The state of Israel wanted a major nation to back up their claim Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel. Trump did as they wanted and got rewarded for it by the approval of their new resort. Its called a kickback, in case you forgot. 3) When Jared used White House Resources to get information he could use to play the various Arab nations against each other to save his families real estate business that broke more laws than people could count. The entire Western world knows that was why he lost his security clearance. I'm Australian and every one of our news services (TV, Radio & Print) except of the Murdoch owned stuff reported on this stuff again and again. The Brits, Germans, Japanese,.... also reported on this stuff. These things were the worst kept secrets in US History.
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  9425. HEY AMERICA - Welcome to the FREE MARKET that you have preached to the whole world for decades. Thom Hartman in one of his recent video stories on Neoliberal economics pointed out that in one of his books Milton Freidman said that doctors should not be licensed. People would work out that some doctors are no good because of the dead bodies and the market would self correct because people would not go to the bad doctors. This is what happens when you allow an ideology to go unrestrained and lets be absolutely clear - Neoliberalism is an ideology. The clowns out of the University of Chicago, Harvard, Yale,.... etc can dress it up as fancy as they like but it is an ideology based on some insane ideas like "Greed is good!" Another of Milton Freidman's idiotic and false claims was that "All innovation is drive by greed." He said that in an interview with Phil Donahue, that can be seen here on YouTube. I'm an engineer and the most recent super innovation boost to human society was the Apollo program. The computer you are at right now, your mobile phone, your television and many of the modern alloys found on things like cars can all be traced back to the Apollo program AND THEY DIDN'T GO TO THE MOON FOR GREED. Prior to Apollo the 2 most important innovators in human history were Frenchman Jacques de Vaucanson with his lathe and Swede Carl Edvard Johansson with his gauge blocks. Without those 2 men the world as you know it does not exist because all of modern industry relies on what they did. If there is a 3rd great innovator who was also not driven by greed, it would probably be Nikola Tesla with his electric motors, but then his motors can't exist without Vaucanson's lathe and can't be mass produced without Johansson's gauge blocks.
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  9426. Trump would NEVER let her finish. There's a compliment that started with a kudos to Vivek for letting her speak. Trump would never have let her finish without interrupting and afterwards he did he'd have stomped on her and ridiculed her out of the building. Trump's a schoolyard bully and school yard bullies don't respond nicely to being intellectually beaten. Vivek probably let her say what she said because he's a smug arrogant Ivy League snot who thinks he's the smartest person in every conversation he has. She is beyond all doubt 100% RIGHT in EVERYTHING except she is also SADLY100% WRONG. There are only 2 qualifications for any and every democratically elected government official in the world. 1) That they are eligible under the electoral rules as set out by which ever constitution the election is being run under. 2) That they convince enough of those eligible to vote that you are a better option that the other people running. UNLESS the Constitution (electoral rules) the election runs under REQUIRES specific qualifications then Education and Experience HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT and NEVER HAVE. Anyone can put "us president eligibility" into Google and the first link will take you straight to the usa(dot)gov web page that simply explains that the U.S. Constitution states that the president must: - Be a natural-born citizen of the United States - Be at least 35 years old - Have been a resident of the United States for 14 years If anyone needs this explained the go look up a presentation by Prof. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) from July 2019 titled "Global Trumpism and the Future of the Global Economy." At 1:199:55 during the Q&A he's asked about the policies of Elizabeth Warren. In about 4 minutes he explains why Obama won, Hilary lost, How Trump won 2016 and nearly won in 2020. Most importantly he explains WHY being a long winded gas bag with a pointed intellectual argument might work for a certain percentage of the population BUT FOR THE MAJORITY of any population it doesn't work. This is something the Left doesn't understand and the Right does.
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  9427. What do all these places have in common. Public discussions dominated by economists, lawyers, charlatans, con men, consultants, greenies AND geopolitical strategists while very one tells the engineers who can fix these problems to go sit in the corner and shut up. There are many things we can do but first of all the rest of the "I have an opinion based on nothing" brigade need to shut up.
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  9428. That and the fact he trampled all over the GOP establishment and they want their party back.
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  9429.  @ohms497  One of the great questions of modern society is: "If aliens exist where are they?" The answer is simple. They're hiding from us until they work out a way to deal with us.
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  9430. There's actually a very simple way to look at this. Consider the size of the electric motors in the cranes. I do control systems and automation and they don't look much over 100kW. Even if they 200 or 250kW during discharge they are only discharging 50% of the time (at best) because they have to go up and get the next block. So even if you use really big motors your going to struggle to get anything more than a few hundred kilowatts out of this thing on discharge. How does that work with a solar farm of wind farm producing megawatts let alone on a grid where things are measured in gigawatts?
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  9431.  @tobythehairlessdog8876  👍🤣
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  9432. I agree, he's actually pointed out the basic fact that Trump is a grade school bully. What he's NOT saying is that grade school bullies are also SQUEALERS. Whenever they do get called out or don't get their way they squeal about it and Trump is a squealer. The other thing Benny isn't saying is that the grade school bully always have those yapping little mutts who back them up. You know the ones - cowardly little sh*ts who are always saying things and starting fights that others have to finish. That's why Benny loves Trump and thinks he's funny.
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  9433.  @gabybabi01  Nobody's condemning that Trump made money while in the Whitehouse ITS HOW HE MADE IT. For FCK sake can't you see that. His people howl about Hunter Biden and China or Hunter Biden and Ukraine. From what I know Hunter Biden is a sleazy drugged up turd who made a pile of money using his father's name, BUT COMPARED TO WHAT Jared and Ivanka did while working in the Whitehouse and using resources the American people paid for to make deals happen then Hunter Biden is an irrelevant amateur. Estimates are Hunter made a few million and for that he should be taken down. That's nothing Jared bailed out the Kushner family business playing the Saudis against the Qataris using classified information. Ivanka magically secured all of her trademarks in China which is damn hard and she did it while on a trip PAID FOR by the American Tax Payers. SHlT DUDE WAKE UP - the Trump family scammed America. The Hunter Biden thing is a distraction.
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  9434. For anyone and everyone just read the first part of Larry's bio to get an idea of what sort of neo-liberal snake he is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers
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  9435. HEY PATRICK I NORMALLY LIKE YOUR STUFF I am an engineer and I ma trying to understand how to make economic arguments. But when you start with "The demand for electricity has been soaring around the world, and this increase in demand is expected to continue." I want to scream "DUH M0R0N." Guess what if you increase the population of any society you increase how much food the need, how much housing they need, how much water they need and how much energy they need. How hard is that to understand???? Engineers have been trying to tell you F⋃KING M0R0Ns these things for DECADES but "NO how dare any engineer tell a clown with an economics degree something they don't want to hear." You have no idea how much as an engineer I want to scream at you business clowns over this stuff. Seriously why does it always seem to come as a surprise when a power station finally gets so old that it can't keep running??? Or is it simply a case that you are so used to other people maintaining your stuff or you just trade up for something else that you just don't get the idea that things wear out???
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  9436. Oh and lets NOT forget how projects get behind and get late. Engineers like to build and economists like to overrule them with Milton Friedman's stupidity of "Greed is Good." Yes we've had that rammed down out throats. So projects aren't about getting the job done or on time or anything else its about being able to charge as much as possible while delivering as little as possible. If the client wants better they can par for it. One of the golden rules (and there are several) of not getting sacked by an economist is to NOT TELL THE CLIENT that their proposal has flaws UP FRONT and it should be fixed before getting started. If you do that there's fewer chances for variations and the profit that comes from them. So when you clowns BlTCH about projects going over budget its you M0NGRELS with economics degrees INTERFERING with getting the job done that's the cause AND BEFORE you claim innocence just remember that your little nasty princesses in HR who make the claims that they have the right people in the right places for the right reasons! If HR are doing their job properly and they had the right people in the right places for the right reasons then why would projects be late or over budget????
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  9437.  @thedave7760  Buddy I have worked on Rio Tinto sites and one of the last people on the planet ANYONE should ask for any sort of opinion is the CEO of Rio Tinto. Go and look at what they did at Gove. Over $3 Billion wasted upgrading a plant and then they shut it down. Its just one of their screw ups. BHP, Glencore, Anglo and the rest aren't any better either. If share holders actually knew how often those clowns screwed up it would end up like an episode of the Borgias or Sopranos.
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  9438. DOES EVERYONE REALISE that in parts of France and Belgium they are still digging up LIVE munitions from World War ONE and I spelt out ONE so you know its not a typo where I missed the 2-key. And just like those WW1 bombs, there's WW2 bombs and just like those we have all known about this bomb for years. We all know that the money behind 9/11 came from members of the Saudi Royal Family. I saw documentaries on this stuff at least 15 years ago. Go and look at the main Wikipedia page for 9/11. Half way down there's a section titled Investigations below that the 6th of 6 subsections is titled "Alleged Saudi government role" and take note that right below the title line for that section is a link to the main page for "Alleged Saudi role in the September 11 attacks." YES there's an Wikipedia page for this. Also take note that in the upper right there's a drop down menu so that page can be read in 5 other languages. The top 2 languages in the pull down menu are Arabic and Persian. Now let s NOT be too hard on Kyle after all he's only a millennial toy boy.
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  9439.  @Orangesjesus  Somebody else pointed out that quote a while back, and others use it too. So don't give me credit for anything else but sharing it.
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  9440. When your entire reality is based on a lack of logic and reason then anything and everything you say is real. Go back and watch the interview Kyle and Krystal had with Jesse Ventura where JV talks about the instructions Vince McMahon gave him about Wrestling commentary. The MAGA people live in a pseudo fantasy land that's similar to pro-Wrestling where whatever you want to believe is real even if its the complete opposite of what you believed 5 minutes ago. I'd also recommend people go watch the 1984 Interview Ex-KGB officer Yuri Bezmenov gave Canadian television and listen to what he says about people being so confused they can't tell what's real. He talks about what the KGB called "Active Measures" which is the label the KGB gave to psychological warfare. He says "What it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves their families their community and their country." The craziest thing about what Bezmenov said was how wrong he was about the success because we all know the Soviets collapsed and America didn't AND YET America then went and did what the Soviets tried TO THEMSELVES.
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  9441. I VERY MUCH DOUBT Mike Flynn is a bat crap crazy Qanon believer. It was pointed a while back that he spent most of his career in the blackest of the black-op areas of the intelligence services. HE PRACTICED the art of convincing large groups of people of things that were NOT TRUE. He is what most people would call a Psy-Op or Propaganda specialist. People like John Bolton might have initiated coups but its people like Flynn who do the actual work. He's spent a career operating in military and government departments where the normal rules that the rest of us are governed by DO NOT APPLY.
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  9442. If Laura Ingraham wanted to make a sensible argument regarding pot there's actual scientific studies showing there are some dangers. Notable the USAF did a study back in the 80s where they had fighter pilots take all sorts of things and then put them in simulators to see what the issues were. They found out that for pilots of fighter jets (which require extraordinary skill to operate) that pot is the most dangerous drug because it affects their response times. They also found that fighter pilots were unable to operate the jets safely for several days after smoking as little as a single joint. More recently Swinburne University in Australia did a similar study with respect to pot as well as the combination of pot and alcohol on driving cars. Studies had shown that when pot was involved in a car accident the chances of it being a fatal accident were markedly higher when pot was involved. What they found at Swinburne confirmed what the USAF had found years earlier. Pot affects response times, but they went a little further and found that this is caused by a reduction in peripheral vision which is where humans get their sense of speed from. They found people who'd smoked pot were less aware of how fast they were going. So when they crashed in the simulator they tended to crash at higher speeds and more speed equals more pain. Swinburne also found it was even worse when pot and alcohol were combined.
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  9443. To be perfectly honest Eagle Boy, this is all fairly pathetic bureaucratic nonsense as people just delay, delay, hope and delay that they don't have to make an actual decision. The level of cowardice by Garland and others just shows how broken the American system is. In any other country in the world Trump and others would have been in jail as fast as authorities could have gotten to them after January 6th. They would have been refused bail, faced trial and been sentenced by now. In more than a few nations some of the leaders would already have been EXECUTED. Sorry buddy but you and the rest of the Legal profession have ruined America with a relentless flood of garbage, nonsense and shitfuckery over the last few decades.
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  9444. I'm Australian and we know about this. She's behaving because the WHOLE WORLD is WATCHING, because this has implications that matter to all of us. IF Trump is not dealt with and this idiotic nonsense that the GOP are up to with trying impeach Biden with nothing but rumors and innuendos then HOW DOES ANYONE who has security arrangements with America trust America? AND YES we know about the new plans the American Right Wing Think Tanks are working on so they can take over in 2024 or 2025. YES we know who the Heritage society is and what they are organising. This is not longer just an American issue and America needs to wake up to that.
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  9445. Apologies to all for the length of this. Everyone should go and watch Stephanie Kelton's lectures or read her book "The Deficit Myth" By the time you get 1/2 way through the second chapter you'll understand how full of garbage this guy is. He's preaching standard economic doctrine, which by now most people with functioning brains know there's something very wrong with. Disclaimer - I'm not one of her students. I'm an engineer on the other side of the planet in Australia. I spent a chunk of my COVID time looking into economics because I'm fed up with clowns with economics degrees interfering in projects. I just wanted to be able to push back against their crap. Right now here in Oz we are having a big discussion on skills and training. In 2005 while on a mine site in Australia I was told about a shortage of welders. I found (that with a basic welding ticket) I could get $50,000 more than what I was earning as an engineer and at that time I was on the best ever wages. Just last week I heard that in America a high school graduate who's done a basic 6 month welding course earns more in their 1st year than a college graduate does in their 1st year. How is it that I'm hearing the same story today about America I heard on an Australian mine site 17 years ago? This entire skills training and tertiary education issue is not an American problem. Its a problem across most of the Western World because we have all been following similar economic policies and so long as we keep following them we are all in trouble.
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  9446. Follow up with some further explanation - apologies for the length. I have heard and seen push back on the student debt as a from of MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) under the claim MMT promotes "free money." Stephanie Kelton is an MMT advocate and the first time I heard her speak I thought she was bonkers and that MMT was a fairytale and nonsense because what she was said flew in the face of everything we are told about economics. Then Mark Blyth Interviewed her as part of his podcast -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfKiW0Gfn04 I've read Mark's book Angrynomics. Its a really good start on the subject of what's actually going on. Here's his intro to that -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY In Stephanie's book she admits when she first heard about MMT she also thought it was bonkers, because everything about it sounds backwards. But then anyone can look at economics over the last 25+ years and think its already backwards. So looking at economics from another perspective makes sense. What MMT is actually about is explaining what money, taxes and government spending are and how they work. Its the reason why this clown from John Hopkins is so adamant about his position. He and his kind are terrified that the rest of us will see behind their economic curtain and realise its been a giant "Wizard of Oz" con. Before Kyle spoke about it, Mark Blyth pointed out the 2018 Rand Report on wages that showed how the top1% of America had made $47 Trillion between 1975 and 2018. He's talked about the long term interest rate decline and Branko Milanovic's Elephant graph of wage growth. PEOPLE KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH OUR ECONOMICS. How can our societies be so wealthy and yet we have so many people struggling. At the most basic level the MMT people are trying to change the perspective on how we look at economics. Even Warren Mosler has said he doesn't know if MMT is right but what he and many others are saying is that staying in the current economic model IS WRONG AND WE KNOW ITS WRONG. I don't agree with Kyle that all higher education should be free, because if there is no value put on it people will devalue it. That happened in the past and we don't need to repeat the past. However the cost of education needs to be such that its a worthwhile investment. The current costs of many degrees do not make it a worthwhile investment and any economist should be able to explain that, but most wont because then they'd have to admit to all the mistakes they've made.
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  9447. An early challenger for the 2021 WTF award to the people with NO INTEGRITY starting a political party called the "Integrity Party?" 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ I think this is just some more Republicans trying to prove that Orwell was a prophet.
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  9448. I just checked its 5-Sept-2021 a few weeks later and they still haven't given the official cause which might explain it.
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  9449.  @govindagovindaji4662  REALLY look at what he wrote "400lbs" NOT "£400" And that's before we get into what sort of penthouse costs £400. £400k or £400,000 makes some sense but NOT 400lbs £400 would barely buy the front door in most parts of London where billionaires live. Try being less of a DlCKHEAD in future. Its not a crime to actually think.
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  9450. DON'T FORGET voting in America is voluntary and in these situations who's MOTIVATED to turn up? One thing all of the right wing parties across the Western World know is that older people who have assets are MOTIVATED to protect them. Its why older people mostly vote for the party that SAYS they will protect their assets and/or their way of life. Its the same across the Western World. I know he is a pig of a human being but listen to some of Rick Wilson's (no relation) comments about what motivates people and how he advised contenders to win elections (and he won a lot). He was the one who said old people will drag their oxygen bottles down to the booth while younger people wont get out of bed BECAUSE of how motivated they are to protect what they perceive as their way of life. Larry Elder for all the garbage he represents also represents a section of the community who ARE MOTIVATED to turn up and vote.
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  9451.  @davidanon1568  Regarding Epstein: Now you need to visualise 4 people. One standing on a chair. One standing next to the chair but lifting up the 3rd person up so that persons head is about chest level with the guy on the chair and the 4th standing by the door. Q: What did the CIA assassin say to the MI6 assassin? A: You're tying the knot wrong! Q: What did the MI6 assassin say back to the CIA assassin? A: Just shut up and hold him still. Q: What did the Mossad assassin say to both of them? A: Will you 2 just get on with it. I only paid the guards to be gone for 1/2 an hour.
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  9452. SO WHY aren't these people also defunding the investigation into Hunter Biden??? They're all claiming the Trump investigations are political so what do they call the Hunter Biden investigation???
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  9453.  @RevelsEnd  What's logical about denying to others what you have had access to? Unless of course your a narcissistic sociopath in which case Vivek is your role model.
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  9454.  @ColaSpandex  No one should expect a conviction of any of the top 1%. Right now in the world its an absurd concept to think any of them will even be charged let alone convicted of anything. I've heard clowns howling about Vladimir Putin's crimes and how he has to be held accountable. Yeah which laws? Would those be the same laws that America and its allies broke when they invaded Iraq? Who was held accountable over that. That invasion was followed the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib and Bagram AFB. Yeah a few low level soldiers were charged but none of the officers and non of the politicians who pushed it. Do you know the Lawyer John Yoo who wrote the infamous torture memo that kicked it all off is now a tenured Law Professor. After the 2008 GFC the American DOJ prosecuted over 3,000 cases BUT NOT one of them was a CEO or Senior Manager. Since then the world has had the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers and Pandora Papers released detailing the industrialized tax evasion of the worlds elite. So far (as far as I know) not a single person anywhere in the world has been charged of anything. We now know the Sackler family made billions as they doped up millions and got 1,000s and 1,000s dead and NONE of them have been charged with squat. Since the Reagan years (when he started suppressing it) the American DOJ has not prosecuted a single major anti-trust case. That's allowed the tech monopolies of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. Its also allowed the commercial monopolies like Walmart and others. Anti-trust was meant to protect society from (among other things) the existence of "too big to fail. I just saw a talk by Mark Blyth about Asset manager Capitalism. Between them Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street now own over 20% of the entire S&P 500. That means they have people on every board in the S&P 500. What makes anyone think that anyone in the top 1% gets served justice for what they do? We are headed into some extraordinary times right now. There are so many pressures on the entire human race - economics, war, food and the one the top 1% hate climate. What's going to happen when something finally snaps and the obvious things become unignorable.
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  9455. And also Mark Blyth who was the first I heard mention the Rand report had this to say in 2016 just after Trump won. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmBG3Z4DI&t=1104s Mark Blyth was also part of a panel that included Richard Wolf paying tribute to Michael Brooks. During it they were discussing the reasons why Trump won. Prof. Wolff gives the following explanation -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s FYI - Prof Wolff was one of David Pakman's college professors. Pakman interviewed him a while back on his channel about economics and Prof Wolff also interviewed Pakman on his channel about what it takes to operate a small media outlet in todays environment. Both are worth the time to go back and watch.
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  9456. That's about the only comment in this list that's worth replying too. The rest is just a heap if whining. The amazing thing about the return to Robber Baron Economics is that the single most important university for neoliberal economics is the University of Chicago and why neoliberal economics is also called Chicago School economics. Do you know who that it was the greatest Robber Barron of the Robber Barrons John D. Rockefeller was the main person to help fund UC when it started? Also out of UC came the consulting industry, via McKinsey who was a professor of accounting at UC. The consulting industry is now a plague on democracy.
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  9457.  @insidetheuniverse1  I don't actually have a problem with anyone being insanely wealthy including being a billionaire. The problem I have is how they got that wealth AND how they hang onto it AND how they manipulate politics with it. Those are the real issues here. Instead of people whining we need to deal with the real issues. How do they get that wealth in the first place? How do they hand onto it despite having to "supposedly" paying higher taxes? AND THEN there's the biggest issue of all. WHY does anyone allow them to MANIPULATE politics? Because once you start asking those questions and searching for answers you get the ROOT CAUSE of why democracies across the World are failing. Here's a hint. After the 2022 midterms Thom Hartman mentioned a report that said America's billionaires spent over $900 million supporting various candidates. Of that $900M over $800 was supplied by a group of less than 25 people out of the 800+ billionaires in America.
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  9458.  @insidetheuniverse1  On the gilded age there's a problem with gilded ages. Like real gilding its just a layer over the top that makes things look like they are solid gold when in reality its just a very thin layer over the top of standard materials.
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  9459. @qwertyuiop123 That's EVERY COUNTRY that's every invaded or colonised some other place.
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  9460. You are 100% right NOTE WHAT Kevin McCarthy actually says. I cut & past this form the transcript of the video. The punctuation is mine and there's correction of the word warrant which the YT algorithm had the word "weren't." Starting at 1:42 "Despite these serious allegations. It appears that the president's family has been offered special treatment by Biden's own Administration. Treatment that not otherwise would have received if they were not related to the President. These are allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption and they warrant further investigation by the House of Representatives." Think about what that actually says. 1) There's allegations NOT EVIDENCE. 2) There's appearance NOT EVIDENCE. 3) Regarding the allegations of favoritism to family members, maybe he can explain how Jared & Ivanka were given positions in the Trump Whitehouse despite having NO RELEVANT Experience for those positions. 4) Regarding the allegations of abuse of power, maybe Kevin McCarthy can explain how the GOP ignored what Trump did with his "perfect call" to Ukraine during Trump's 1st Impeachment. 5) Regarding the allegations of obstruction, maybe Kevin McCarthy can explain how the GOP ignored Trumps obstruction with counting votes on January 6th during Trump's 2nd Impeachment. 6) Regarding the allegations of corruption, maybe Kevin McCarthy can explain why there has been NO Investigation regarding Jared Kushner's use of government resources to play various Arab states against each other to secure several hundred million dollars to bail out his family's investment in the New York office tower 666 Fifth Avenue OR How Jared Kushner was able to get $2 Billion from the Saudi Arabian Sovereign Wealth Fund as he left the Whitehouse. OR How Donald Trump's golf courses made millions of dollars because he spent so much time at them as President that countries were forced to rent suites and villas at them to hold meetings. PLUS the US government had to pay for the rental of suites and villas and golf carts and food at those golf courses for Whitehouse Staff and Secret Service agents.
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  9461.  @odeball22  Who and what are you referring to DK-HED?
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  9462. @william breen Go and watch any of the decent documentaries on ITER.
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  9463.  @nobot99997_xxl  Th heat isn't the problem you think it is as its confined to the plasma and there's actually very little mass in that plasma. On the transfer problem that's been known ever since people first put forward the idea of having giant solar power stations circling the Earth. How do you send the power down and its not simply just down the distances are massive. Geostationary orbit is 35,786 km (22,236 mi) in altitude above Earth's Equator.
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  9464.  La maison Rock du Procrastinateur  Go watch Peter Zeihan talk about demographics. The worlds population is about to start shrinking, because all the developed countries have low birth rates. The developing world will soon start following as they develop further. Peter Zeihan believes China's population will drop by 1/2 over coming decades because the "One Child" policy worked too well.
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  9465. @william breen If its the original comment then its real easy to have people distract your material and not even bother if it looks like click bait and there's not only a lot of click bait out there most of it is for garbage information especially on technology. And some of those so called technology informers are incredibly bad and yet they have millions of subscribers. I can't say I agree with everything this guy says, but he's well above average and we do need better content for technology. So I 'd hate to see people skipping past his vids because they see him as just another click bait clown.
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  9466.  @nobot99997_xxl  Did you do that from your phone or is that how you normally ask questions and make statements. Because nothing you said makes sense or has any logic or facts to base it on.
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  9467.  @nobot99997_xxl  You make claims than you cannot back up. You said the temperature is too high and it will melt the reactor and that's garbage. None of the Tokamaks or other experiments have melted despite having plasma temperatures in the millions of degrees. The plasma is trapped by the magnetic fields and its only a small stream right in the center. You made the claim the must run for 7 seconds. Where does that come from? Don't pull data out of your ass and expect people not to react. If you actually are German then you should know about the Stellarator which I think has a far better chance of working industrially than the Tokamaks like ITER. But that doesn't mean ITER wont be a valuable facility. I saw a great documentary on fusion a few years ago. It included many variations and projects that people had under development including the ITER and the Stellarator. Michel Laberge the founder of General Fusion in Canada who are developing a process using lasers said that ITER is totally impractical as a commercial power generator, but because of its capability it will answer a lot of questions. All that said I have no hopes that fusion will be working industrially anytime soon. Look at how long ITER is taking to build its impractical to think it will solve the worlds energy problem. BUT its possibly going to be a major step forward.
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  9468.  @nobot99997_xxl  Those are all valid parts of the ongoing issues of trying to pout the sun in a bottle. In a star its gravity that causes the compression and you only need to watch some of the footage of the surface of our star to see that its incredibly turbulent. That's part of the differences between Stellarator and Tokamak. Tokamaks are supposed to operate in bursts not continuously like Stellarators. The problem with both has been getting enough magnetic power to drive the process. My bigger concern for several years is that the mechanism for getting heat out of the plasma is fast neutrons, not radiation as in photons. Fast neutrons come of and hit atoms in the walls and impart kinetic energy as heat. This is also how they hope to generate more tritium. The problem with fast neutrons is they are the deadliest from of radiation known. They smash up DNA. There's also the problem of using superconducting coils in the magnets. Super conducting materials don't like getting hot so when you're wrapped around a giant heat source you need to keep them cool and cooling requires energy. I don't think their chances of delivering anything soon are good, but then sometimes people make genuine game changing breakthroughs.
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  9469.  @nobot99997_xxl  The ARC reactor design sounds interesting and they are certainly tyring to do some lateral thinking. I hate to say it but those MIT kids are very smart and when they get things right it can be brilliant, but for every piece of brilliant they also tend to have a bunch of failures. Go look up what happened with the WAMSR (waste annihilating molten salt reactor). They did a TEDx where they announced to the world how they had solved the great problem of nuclear waste. Right at the very start they missed a couple of things and their concept was NEVER going to work. It was a shame because the idea is brilliant. I actually wrote to Leslie Dewan and encouraged her to not give up but to look at the problem from other perspectives because being able to eliminate the waste stockpile would be one of the greatest technical achievements ever.
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  9470.  @nobot99997_xxl  I'm quite well aware of not taking things from YouTube or TV or the any other media as gospel.
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  9471. ATTENTION ALL: YES Just to prove how utterly ignorant this story is go and look up the List of nuclear weapons on Wikipedia and you will very quickly find out that the B61 was first put into production in 1967 and was in full production in 1968. There have so far been 13 variations. There have been 3155 made and the current cost of a Version 12 is $28 million. THAT TAKES MINUTES TO FIND Its not a new bomb its an update to a bomb that's been around since the 1960s. PLUS for the numerically literate. The Hiroshima bomb was 13-18 kilotons. The W76 from the Trident I and Trident II (submarine ballistic missiles) are up to 100 kilotons and a Trident I could carry up to 8 (800kt total) and Trident ii up to 14 W76s AND the Ohio-class can carry up to 24 Trident. BUT WAIT the Trident II missile can also use the W88 warhead which is up to 475kt but then the missile only can carry 8 of them. So a single Trident I can deliver up to 1400 kt or up to 107 times what the Hiroshima bomb delivered, BUT a trident ii can delivered as much at 5,700 kt of explosive power or over 316 times and maybe over 400 times what Hiroshima AND an OHIO-class can have 24 of those missiles.
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  9472. Go back to the prisoner Abuse Scandal in Iraq and Afghanistan. A few soldiers were charged, court martialed and sent to prison, BUT NONE of the officers or political leaders were even charged let alone anything else. Move on to the 2008 GFC. About 3000 low down banking employees were charged and faced court, BUT NONE of the Managers or CEOs were even charged let alone anything else. Move forward onto the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers and Pandora Papers that details tax evasion on an industrial scale, BUT NONE of the people who have avoided billions in tax have been charged or fined or anything. Move forward to the aftermath of January 6, 2021 and there have been 100s of arrests, a few court cases and some jail terms handed out, BUT NONE of the instigators have been charged let alone faced court and at their instigation 5 people died as the world watched. CAN ANYONE SEE THE PATTERN?
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  9473. Well to be 100% honest if we wanted to hear from an expert about the media and politics and spinning false narratives then who else knows more about how its done that Meatball Ron De Sanctimonious???????
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  9474. SMRs DO NOT USE Thorium. All of the SMRs under proposal use Uranium. How many times do people need to explain these things????????
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  9475. Lets go a step further than that - Trump is disclosing NATIONAL SECURITY information. This is operational information, not just politics. How is this NOT criminal?
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  9476. I'm Australian and we had TV, Radio, newspapers and notice boards long before Facebook ever existed. We didn't need it for decades and we certainly never needed a digital soap box for misinformation clowns - we already had Rupert Murdoch and his brigade of clowns for that. What we will most likely find out is that Facebook just isn't that important. I never had it and rarely accessed it for anything. It has survived on HYPE and the ILLUSION of being necessary and it SIMPLY ISN'T! Hopefully we'll prove to the rest of the world that Facebook isn't necessary for people to have meaning.
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  9477.  @danbridges4755  How did she castrate or circumcise him?? You guys are implying that Tim Pool had balls and a dick to be circumcised in the first place.
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  9478. Its not really different to many other disenfranchised people who are trying to find their place in the world. They're just doing it (like many other sovereign citizen types) in a really stupid way. Have any of them even done a genetic test to see if they are actually descended from any part of the Moorish empire? As for the claim the Americas were once part of the Moorish Empire. Considering how much territory they are claiming there would be some sort of archeological evidence and there's NONE.
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  9479.  @ericwood3709  He makes that mistake because he's just a BULLSHlT YouTuber who pumps out video after video after video across a bunch of channels every day. His business model is NOT being factual but BULK NOISE. Its the new media paradigm. Don't bother with truth, fact checking or integrity. Just keep pumping out video after video after video hoping you generate enough clicks to make money.
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  9480. On Australia why don't you all go and look at how the tennis players are complaining. We found a way to make it possible for all these pampered wankers to have their F--KING tennis tournament and they haven't stopped complaining.
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  9481. Here's the best monologue (or short speech) on American politics EVER Note what is said about American Liberals -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIpKfw17-yY
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  9482. Who else has come back to watch or re-watch this after Jan 6th 2021?
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  9483.  @bodyloverz30  The fact you call a riot where the capitol was stormed, 5 people (including a police officer died) and the American flag was torn down and replaced with another flag, A GATHERING, shows just how detached from reality you are. A legal election was held as per the constitution. The votes were counted as per the constitution. In several places those votes were recounted as per the constitution. Cases were heard and rejected by the courts over 50 times as per the constitution. The electoral college representatives were selected as per the constitution. The electoral college met and voted as per the constitution. Trump lost as per the constitution. Trump is the tyrant who refuses to follow the constitution and anybody interfering with the outcome of the election is an enemy of the constitution.
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  9484.  @mickeywicked478  That's because crisis actors DO NOT EXIST you FKING CLOWN. The real fakes and frauds are the people claiming false flags you sick maggot.
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  9485.  **  There are no both ways crisis actors do not exist and never existed. The liars and fraudsters claiming false flags are real and very SICK and very DEMENTED..
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  9486.  @Luixxxd1  You forgot that "nobody knows it better than Trump." Of all the Trump stats its the one I wish somebody knew. How many times did Trump claim "nobody knows it better than I do"?
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  9487.  @myplan8166  Motivation is a subject too many dismiss out of hand. Prof. Mark Blyth who was one of the very few who got BOTH Brexit and Trump 2016 right point out the issue of motivation when it came to the 2020 election. Listen to part of this answer when it comes to motivation. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s
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  9488.  @petercase7697  Go back and edit your question so that it makes sense.
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  9489.  Vic Melloni  Way back when they were first emerging as a force to be noted and nobody really knew who they were and the first ugly stories started to come out I remember this one story. It was about a nurse who was taken by the Taliban. She was raped, stoned to death and the body was burnt. It was medieval brutality and meant to terrorize people. Her crime was having a job outside the family home. That was a couple of years BEFORE the 9/11 attacks.
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  9490.  @petercase7697  If you're going to ask a question ask a question. If your going to yell at the world incoherently don't complain when people wonder WTF you're on about.
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  9491.  @petercase7697  2 Reasons why I care about what happens in America. 1: My friends & their families over there. 2: Its Australia's most important trading and security partner. Right now we are in a trade war with China over Trumps BS. We have tied the next 30+ years of our security to the F35 program. We just can't afford America to be dysfunctional. We aren't alone in that - Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, MOST of Europe, Canada, Mexico, Israel, just to name a few with similar concerns. NONE of us can afford America to be dysfunctional.
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  9492. You are right but sadly this is NOT treason. If he was in almost any other country except American it would be treason (working with outsiders AGAINST the state) or sedition (working with insiders to OVERTHROW the state). But America has a very narrow definition of treason that is basically limited to helping a declared enemy during time of war. Sedition is almost impossible due to the 1st Amendment. Its sort of why they went with seditious conspiracy for the Jan 6 clown brigade. Unless they have Trump on tape talking to the Saudi's about how he KNOWS they were involved in 9/11 because "I've got this "Top Secret" report and here it is to prove what I am saying!"_ kind of stuff then sorry but its just plain espionage.
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  9493. If America saw what America was doing to America. America would invade America to rescue America from America.
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  9494.  @pphil1267  No joe Biden is far from the biggest idiot of all time. The millions of people who think he is the solution to America's problems are bigger idiots and the 74 million people who thought 4 more years of Donald Trump are even bigger idiots than those people. Anyone who thinks either the Dem or GOP is going to solve America's problems is an idiot. Its just that some of them are dumber than others..
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  9495.  @pphil1267  TRUMP IS A LIAR and HE LIES ABOUT EVERYTHING He cheats on his wives, he cheats on his taxes and HE LIES ABOUT EVERYTHING The other 7.8 billion people on the planet know it. How stupid are you to believe what he says?
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  9496.  @pphil1267  Yeah sure he cheated on Ivana, he cheated on Marls and he cheated on Melania. Trump cheats and lies about *EVERYTHING YOU M0R0N*.
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  9497.  @pphil1267  Yeah Trump never cheated anyone. You are such a sucker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM2E_DXwYhI
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  9498.  @pphil1267  Yeah the cognitive deficient sucker is the one who believes a "good father" is the one bonking a porn star while his wife is in the maternity ward having just given birth to his 5th child by his 3rd wife.
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  9499.  @pphil1267  Oh I am sorry for having hurt your feelings WITH FACTS 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
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  9500.  @pphil1267  You should be extra careful going outside. Snowflakes can melt in sunlight.
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  9501.  @pphil1267  DARG-LAS DARG-LAS DOUG-LAS Why don't you take your own meds you clown. You claimed a guy who was off banging a porn star while his 3RD WIFE was in hospital recovering from childbirth was a good father. Why don't you go to church and ask for some forgiveness of your ignorance.
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  9502.  @pphil1267  DARG-LAS DARG-LAS DARG-LAS the only competition I am behind you is in a race to the bottom and that's a race we are all happy to lose to you. Come on and tell us again just how good of a role model Trump is. That's of course if we can find him NOT stealing top secret documents to sell to the Arabs or bonking porn stars.
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  9503.  @pphil1267  And yeah we know nothing will change you mind. That would require brain function.
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  9504.  @pphil1267  DARG-LAS DARG-LAS DARG-LAS the only reason anyone needs to go to the basement is to help you get out of it. What's your problem with the TRUTH. Trump stole top secret documents. Trump was bonking a porn star while his wife recovered from child birth. Trump lost the election. Sorry that hurts.
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  9505. I'm another Aussie whos' been watching Gary from the start if his channel after seeing him interviewed on another podcast. I have been trying to tell people for several years now that these problems are being experienced all over the developed world. I'm an engineer and during a project in 2016 found out how bad our energy situation is. What stunned me was the source of the problem was economists. They have this view the rest of us are problems they have to manage. So they stick their noses into everything, like education, health care, infrastructure AND ENERGY. To illustrate just last week the ABC ran YET another story of Australia's energy issues. They interviewed 3 experts ALL OF THEM WERE economists. Economists have completely cut engineers out of the public energy discussions and when you all find out just how bad it 27 million Australians will SHlT BRICKS and YES I am trying to get people to notice. AND SO WE ARE CLEAR Its not Labor or the Libs at fault ITS ALL OF THEM because every politician is either an economist or has an economic advisor and they never hear from engineers.
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  9506.  @sampainter8151  As I have said to others I went to college in America in the late 80s at a time when people still did things like Civics at high school. So I have been around long enough to know what happened with de-regulating the American Savings & Home loans industry. When it was properly regulated I think it was one of the greatest things any nation has ever done for its people. I remember seeing a documentary on the 90s S&L scandal and they went right into the history of the S&L system so that they could explain what happened when they de-regulated it. The brilliance of that system was that it not only secured the banks form bad debts it also protected the home owners from bad times. It also meant that they didn't need to pay home loan insurance every year like we do in Australia. AND SO WE ARE CLEAR him loan insurance in Australia does NOT protect the home owner it bails out the bank. If we had a similar system here people would be putting that extra money each month into their home loans instead of into the pockets of some seriously greedy people. Because Australia has had this insane housing bubble caused by some stupid policies all geared towards protecting investors we are now at risk of having so many loans fail at once that NOTHING can prevent a massive collapse. Not only will people be unable to sell the banks wont be able to sell the repossessed homes because NOBODY will have money for them except the billionaires who'll screw everyone down to pennys on the dollar. It will be a death spiral of epic proportions.
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  9507.  @stylembonkers1094  Well SHlIT4BRAINS let me explain it this way. There is the market price and THAT'S ALL THERE IS because market price is called REALITY. There is no such thing as what it should be. There's projections, estimates, guesses, desires, controls, manipulation and even hope BUT THERE IS NO SUCH THING as what it should be. So NOBODY not even the God of free market capitalism Milton Friedman can answer your ignorant question. And yes I did take a class in economics that's how I know this.
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  9508.  @stuartstibbs2069  Why am I supposed to specifically talk about Lima DlCKHEAD when the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), NAFTA, the European Common Market and other free trade agreements have done a lot more damage to Australia and for a lot longer. Lima was nothing but something for ignorant clowns like you to squeal about. It wasn't even a real agreement like the FTAs. The loss of Australian manufacturing had NOTHIGN to do with UNIDO or Lima or the declarations. We lost our car industry because Australian economists like Keating and Costello didn't like manufacturing and wanted to re-model Australia into a service based economy. So go waste someone else's time.
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  9509.  @davidmallender7878  I think you'll find that Gough was just another link in a very long chain. Its just some of those links are more problematic than others and trying to figure out which link was or is the weakest link is almost impossible.
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  9510.  @dougdownunder5622  I think I get where your going but can you give some more details rather than trying to assume what you mean because I think your comment might apply to a lot more than just migrants. For example what about first home buyers and even those who have moved to a larger home because they now have a family or people who've down sized because the kids have fled the nest. Plus right now we know Australia has a lot of household financial distress and a lot of home loans are in distress. So my gut says YOU'RE RIGHT but there's indicators that don't agree. On Wikipedia there's a page that lists countries by wealth per adult. On MEDIAN wealth Australia ranks 4th and on MEAN wealth Australia ranks 6th Interestingly Iceland, A country that was bankrupt beyond bankrupt after the 2008 GFC is. On MEDIAN they're 1st and on MEAN they're 5th. Of real interest on that page is the column for GINI which is a measure of wealth distribution and is indicative of wealth inequality and on that Australia drops to 9th while Iceland is 6th. I think there is something wrong that these indicators don't show. So I'm honestly asking what it is that you know or feel about this?
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  9511.  @krisushi1  And finally I really do appreciate your comment. You brought up a lot great material.
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  9512. ​ @krisushi1  While I looked for something the a story from ABC News In-Depth titled "The United States' growing military footprint in Australia explained | 7.30" Listen to what they say at the start when America first started deploying to Australia. Also when they say Perth is getting $8 Billion that's ALMOST DOUBLE what the original proposal was ($4.3 Billion). I have spent a lot of the last 20 years in the mining industry building new mines. When I compare what's proposed in Perth to the sort of works needed for a mine there's some similarities because MOST of it is the infrastructure to support the main activity. Things like power, water, offices , accommodation, workshops,....... etc. I've spoken to people I know and asked if we did A, B, C, D,..... would it cost $4.3 Billion and NOBODY has said anything other than "WTF are they doing?" Remember how the Victoria Government cancelled the Comm games when the costs blew out? Remember back to the Schools program Julia Gillard funded in the aftermath of the GFC. They spent over $4.5 Billion and over $2.5B of that vanished in management fees. In engineering there is NOTHING more profitable than a clown with a pile of other people's money doing a PR exercise as they strive to put their name on a brass plaque attached to an edifice.
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  9513. Same here - I thought this was another one of his interviews on the current 2023/24 conflict. What's amazing is that at that time following 2014 the ICC did NOTHING.
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  9514. TO ALL: That Goldstone report can be found by googling "goldstone report 2009" It came up first link for me. It looks like and odd link because Google says it has no information on the web page, but that's because the link is to the report which is a 452 page pdf document. For reference the report number is A/HRC/12/48 dated 25 September 2009. The file is a-hrc-12-48(dot)pdf
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  9515.  @CyFr  That's a good point. Musk at least has plans to escape to Mars or at least give himself the option. The problem he's got is that Mars is just so awful of a place for humans to live. Its frighteningly cold. It has no atmosphere we can breath. Because of how little atmosphere and magnetic field it has its also constantly doused in solar radiation and not the nice stuff that makes plants grow, but the stuff that kills life as we know it. The moon isn't any better and Venus is a hell hole.
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  9516. Its the second week of January 2021 and America is about to go past 400,000 dead just as Joe Biden takes the oath of office.. A few weeks ago Michael was warning about how bad the Christmas - New year could be. I'm Australian but went to college at U. Illinois. I've been watching Michael since the early days, because it was clear he was one of the very few who was being honest with us. He was even interviewed a few times on Australian TV. Like many others from around the world I have followed his updates over much of the last year -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg If you actually add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25.2 million which compares to Australia's 25.6 million. Yes I know quite well there are significant differences in geography, population density and winter conditions, but in terms of medical technology, transportation and technical capability there's zero difference. We got very lucky with the initial spread. We cancelled many events and had NO crowds at all our major sports for the year and all that resulted in us not spreading it. But none of that explains the staggering differences. Australia has a total of 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin total over 33,812 as of 12/1/2021 In the 7 days from 4 to 10 January 2021 Illinois had 971 COVID fatalities. In one week Illinois with half as many people as Australia had more deaths from this than Australia has had in 12 months. On the main table at -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Australia is 54th in population and 86th in COVID fatalities. If Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin were a country they would be 16th. Illinois by itself would rank 21st in the world. New York by itself would be 14th. In terms of death-rate (deaths/1M.pop) Illinois, Indiana & Wisconsin would be 4th (at 1342). 3 American states (New Jersey, New York & Massachusetts) have a higher death-rate than any nation or independent state in the world. For whatever luck and other things that may have favored us, nothing explains that discrepancy other than a complete failure of leadership.
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  9517. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powell interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powell Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk Below is more background information, some of which David P viewers probably know. And yes (like many others) I can write pages about this stuff. Australia's ABC is often claimed to be a leftist organization by Australian Right Wing conservatives. Its also claimed to favor the right by leftists when it exposes things the left get up to. The Murdoch's and other prominent media owners like the Packers and Fairfax's have wanted the ABC dismantled for decades, particularly the independent journalism. You can easily find this by looking for "Sky News Australia" which is Rupert Murdoch's Australian outlet and has its own versions of Hannity, Carlson,.... etc. As to why Australia is so interested in this. Its simple America is Australia's most important trading and security partner AND and Australian born business man is influencing America in a massive way. Yes, Murdoch also has huge influence here in Australia and in Britain buts its not as massive as it is in America. Here in Australia 2 ex-Prime Ministers (Rudd and Turnbull) have launched an inquiry into Murdoch influence in Australia. Rudd is a leftist and Turnbull is center right, so they represent BOTH sides of our politics. But note, Turnbull is seen as a pariah (and traitor) by the far right. Turnbull has also claimed that Murdoch was part of the "cabal" that had him dumped from the leadership. As a political position Australia's Prime Minister (like the British, Canadian,...... etc.) is more akin to the American "Speaker of the House." As such the PM can be dumped from that position at almost anytime. As a trading and security partner Australia is similar to a few other countries like Canada, Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines,.... etc. I was actually in Canada for work when Trump tore up NAFTA and saw their reaction (not pretty). America was the driver behind NAFTA and the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) and Trump tore both apart. Australia like a few others have staked their future security on the F35 Lightning II. Before COVID and before Trump we struggled to get our jets delivered and now struggle to get spare parts. In several ways Australia (like many other countries) just can't afford to have America be this dysfunctional. We have people who simply hate America and even they admit (when pressed) that "a healthy functioning America is in our best interests." Fox News with its influence is making America MORE dysfunctional. If you watch Part 1 (above) you'll see that Fox News was the first to call Arizona. People were then fired from Fox, for upsetting Trump and risking the business. It's not like the Western World wasn't warned about Murdoch. Here's where you can watch the 2004 Documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P74oHhU5MDk
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  9518. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  9519. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  9520. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  9521. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  9522.  @pacotaco5526  NO to what? If its "no" Vincent didn't make a mistake. Sorry BUT HE DID. The Chinese have been researching Corona viruses for years and some of it has even been funded by the NIH. That's where a lot of claims against Dr. Fauci stem from. If you take the time to listen a wider range of experts you'll realise there's significant disagreement among virology researchers about the definitions of what is and what isn't Gain of Function research as well as what research should be done and what should NOT be done. Do yourself a favor and watch the DW News documentary about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0nuyPQzU18 FYI - I don't think Dr. Fauci has either lied or has been treated fairly, but I do think he's withheld information at times. In other discussions I've had we all agreed in the end (irrespective of our views) he was caught in a no win situation.
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  9523.  @NickMarshallMusic  LOL lets try and have brain function and get our words right instead of looking stupid. Disinformation - claiming things as if the are fact when they are NOT. Censorship - when the government wont allow people to speak freely whether it be right or wrong.
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  9524.  @NickMarshallMusic  That would be one question I have for Vincent. Did he simply make a mistake in saying the Chinese were NOT researching these viruses when there's overwhelming evidence in the scientific literature that says they were. OR Is he in that group of researchers who DON'T want anything to change or any scrutiny of their work to actually start happening. The DW News doco I keep mentioning basically concludes there is a wider issue with research going on that has no checks or scrutiny over whether is safe. FYI - I'm an engineer who has done post-grad research and I ended up walking away from a PhD scholarship because of the fraud and corruption. So I have been inside the research world and seen how ugly it can get.
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  9525. As an Australian all I can say is that he's at least no bothering us anymore. I wonder if that offer for him to go for swim had anything to do with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWPh8AIVLaA
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  9526. I DON'T CARE WTF THIS CLOWN HAS TO SAY THE CLICKBAIT TITLE IS AS STUPID AS IT GETS
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  9527. I'm Australian and when he made that comment about how people outside America would see America he was 100% SPOT ON. I actually went to college in America. I love the place and the people and it saddens me to see America divided the way it is. HOWEVER his remarks on Trump being victimised are JUST TOTAL BULLSHlT AND THE REST OF THE WORLD KNOWS IT. At that moment he came across as just another pig headed American Baby Boomer. Trump got away with things that NO OTHER CIVILISED COUNTRY on the planet would allow and especially regarding January 6th he would have been arrested ASAP. Less civilised places like Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea,..... etc would have dragged him and all those people away and given them sham trials before executing them. The documents case was a slam dunk. The whole world knows that other US Service people WENT TO JAIL for accidentally mishandling classified documents. Trump deliberately held onto classified materials and then showed them to people as a way of bragging. One of those people was Australian businessman Anthony Pratt. I'd agree with him that the January 6th rioters have been hard done by. Biden bragging about how many years they got was stupid. In fact I have told a few people BIDEN should PARDON all of them BEFORE Christmas. If for nothing else it would calm America down, but it would also go a long way towards getting America back to sensibility. All that garbage could have been avoided had Mitch McConnell done an honest job AND its those old stubborn pigs in BOTH PARTIES like McConnell and Nancy Pelosi that really do scare the rest of the planet because they more than anyone else made America so dysfunctional. That whole nonsense with Diane Feinstein was utterly disgusting and the whole world saw it. Until America realises that the problem is that BOTH PARTIES are dysfunctional nothing will get fixed AND FYI Australia has the same problem with BOTH its major parties. Its just not as bad yet.
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  9528. TO ALL FROM AUSTRALIA Here are the links to the interview and the full program it was done as part of. A bit of background for those unfamiliar with Australia's ABC and the program called "4 Corners" this interview was done for. Australia's ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) no affiliation to America's ABC. It is our public broadcaster in a similar way to America's PBS and the British BBC. The program "4 Corners" does investigative long length stories the same way PBS's Frontline and BBC's Panorama do. This interview was done as part of a 2 Part special about how the Murdoch owned Fox News became Donald Trumps propaganda machine called "Fox and the Big Lie". The program included interviews with several ex-Fox presenters including Gretchen Carlson as well as the Sidney Powel interview. Fox and the Big Lie Part 1-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Fox and the Big Lie Part 2-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJhqOPe6rw Gretchen Carlson Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEAsp95AE4 Sidney Powel Interview-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
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  9529. SO YOU ALL KNOW THIS NEWS HAS GONE AROUND THE WORLD. I saw it here in Australia last night a few hours before Kyle posted. We had the screams edits but NOT the gunfire. We've seen the footage clearly showing the shooter fire at 11:33:24 and the first offices in the hallway at 11:36:00 2 minutes and 36 seconds later. There is no way for the State of Texas, US Government, NRA or anyone else to hide from this. What's more we can HEAR the shooting and anyone who's ever been around guns knows that's not simply an automatic. Either the shooter had a super fast finger or that weapon had a burst fire or fully automatic mode. Part of Kyles analysis is also garbage. At 3:50 when he's talking about cops staying back. I'm not military or police but I have heard them describe how you don't just storm in with a mob, you take up secure positions. In Australia we went through this over the Lindt café shooting. As for the phone background. That's nothing - the actions matter. *The fact they retreated from secure positions matters. The part where he points out the time delay matters even more.* We need answers not opinions. Kyle must know someone from a military or Police background who can explain this.
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  9530.  @mrs.butterworth400  In another post here I pointed out this has been seen around the world. I saw it hours before Kyle posted and with the gunshots. We only had the screaming children edited out. We've seen the footage clearly showing the shooter start firing at 11:33:24 and the first offices in the hallway at 11:36:00 2 minutes and 36 seconds later. There is no way for the State of Texas, US Government, NRA or anyone else to hide from this. THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS. What's more we can HEAR the shooting and anyone who's ever been around guns knows that's not simply an automatic. Either the shooter had a super fast finger or that weapon had a burst fire or fully automatic mode. Also did you note that the camera followed the shooter from the front door to the classroom. Someone was operating that camera, so the cops KNEW where the shooter was. There really is no way for certain parties to hide from this.
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  9531. HEY DEMOCRACY NOW - Can you please STOP putting microphones in front of people who just repeat the same things again and again. IT DOES NOTHING TO FURTHER THE CONVERSATION. I am an engineer and I have worked in the mining part of Australia's nuclear industry. Vladimir Slivyak says the are 3 things to consider. 1) We need action on climate now. Yes this is correct but it has nothing to do with the viability of nuclear power its just a statement of fact. He also says at this point nuclear is slow to construct. This is also true for the traditional types of reactors like pressure water reactors. But this is misleading because there are more than one type of nuclear reactor and some take considerably longer to build that others. The EPR (European power Reactor) that was recently commissioned in Finland took 18 years to build but the 2 new EPRs at Hinkley Point in Britain will take 10 and the most recent CANDU (Canadian) style reactor built in China took 4 years. 2) Its risky technology that produces nuclear waste. First despite the spectacular accidents at 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear energy is responsible for far fewer deaths than coal. Yes nuclear power has risks but so does everything. If we can't use nuclear power because of the risks then we also have to ban all cars, truck, airplanes, plastics and pretty much everything else that makes the modern world the modern world because they all have risks and they all create pollution. Yes spent nuclear fuel is dangerous to handle especially when it first comes out of the reactor because its still fairly active. On the current generation of reactors. They are safer than they have ever been. There have been some harsh lessons from both Chernobyl and Fukushima that nobody wants repeated. As an engineer with formal safety system qualifications I can state that if the engineers are allowed to do their jobs properly then nuclear is safe. YES there is a BIG IF to that claim and has been show repeatedly in many industries if people are allowed to cut corners they will. Disasters like the Bhopal accident cannot be allowed to happen again and that is simply a matter of ENFORCING regulations and HOLDING MANAGERS ACCOUNTABLE. 3) He claims nuclear power is the most expensive of all energy sources and this is true BUT LIKE SO MANY he doesn't say by how much. He doesn't talk about the costs over time. For sure Nuclear is more expensive than wind and solar especially the initial construction costs. But if we replace coal fired plants with equivalent sized nuclear plants then the costs of upgrading the grid either does not exist or is much less. One genuine criticism of the wind/solar proponents is where are we going to get all the copper, aluminium, steel, zinc, and other materials needed to expand the energy grids out to where the wind turbines and solar panels are. PLUS AND I NEVER HEAR pro-solar people discuss it, how do we dispose of or recycle the solar cells when they have reached the end of their useful life which is around 25 years. PLUS AND I NEVER HEAR pro-wind power people discuss what we do with all of the worn out parts to the wind turbines because they DO NOT LAST FOREVER and they can be a major disposal issue. WHAT PEOPEL LIKE Vladimir ARE NOT SAYING INCLUDE: FIRST - We don't have enough of certain resources to even try and do the energy transition as its currently being done. Its not that the transition is impossible but WE NEED A BETTER PLAN and people like Vladimir keep repeating the same things because its all they have. They know they can't answer certain questions. There are 1.5 Billion cars on the planet and 500 million trucks. The Tesla Model S uses 63kg of Lithium. If we try and replace all the cars with electric cars with the same methods we currently use we need around 94 million tons of Lithium. According to the US Geological Survey there's about 21 million tons in current reserves and by other estimates maybe 26 million tons. That's before we try and answer we we'll get all the cobalt, nickel, copper and other metals needed to do the transition. The simple fact is we need new energy storage technologies. SECOND - there is a significant difference between the types of power that Wind/Solar and Nuclear deliver into a power grid. There's what engineers call BASE LOAD. This the power we need 24 hours a day 7 days a week just to keep society running. Nuclear is great for this because it can just run irrespective of what the weather is doing. Wind/Solar are not good for base load as they require storage systems. Then there's what engineers call LOAD FOLLOWING, which is also called ON DEMAND and PEAKING. These are the energy demand swings that happen every day in the modern world. As people wake up in the morning they turn lots of things on. That settles down during the day before there's another surge as people go home and turn on lots more stuff. In the traditional energy sector they have tended to build smaller power stations right next to much larger power stations. For an example look at the Loy Yang power station in my home stats of Victoria. Literally across the street is the Valley Power station which has a capacity of 300MW, which is less than 1/10th the capacity of Loy Yang. Loy yang is a large BASE LOAD power station which can be adjusted but its big and adjusts slowly. The Valley Power station has gas turbines which are the same basic technology as jet engines. They can be started and stopped reasonably quickly and can adjust to power needs quickly. Nuclear is great for BASE LOAD because it can be there 24/7. Wind/Solar is great for LOAD FOLLOWING because it can be started & stopped and adjusted quickly to handle the daily swings especially when combined with some storage. THIRD and this really irks me because its the sort of thing people like Vladimir should be howling about. WHERE does anyone think they are getting the fuel for all these new reactors they talk about? This subject in particular shows how IGN0RANT people like Vladimir really are. There's not as much Uranium as most people think. YES - there's a lot but it still has to be dug out of the ground and then processed into fuel. Canada is historically the largest producer of Uranium ore, but Australia has the largest reserves BUT THAT'S NOT THE REAL PROBLEM. Because of events like Chernobyl and Fukushima there's a WORLD WIDE SHORTAGE of processing facilities to turn the raw Uranium into fuel grade Uranium. America in particular has a shortage of processing capacity. At the moment 1 in 20 American homes is powered by Uranium that was enriched in RUSSIA because Russia still has spare capacity. Despite all the publicity about sanctions the one thing America has NOT sanctioned is Russian fuel grade Uranium exports because without that supply America would be in trouble. So the anti-nuclear people SHOULD BE HIGHLIGHTING THIS and they aren't because they are IGNORANT. And as long as the media keep handing the microphone over to IGN0RANT people we are screwed.
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  9532.  @skippythealien9627  Yeah I also find Neil a bit hit and miss. I think he's right about a lot of things but he fails on a few things, but then at least he's found a way to get heard which so few of the STEM community get. More often than not we get stomped on by economists with their standard push backs: "What's the business case for that?" and "Who's going to pay for that" And when the economists aren't kicking us its the media, politicians and fanatics.
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  9533.  @trumpjr3940  I'd agree with most of what you have said, but are you now claiming that that everyone should trust a 1,000,000% Lying sack of garbage like Trump and his 1,000,000% lying minions like Kari Lake or maybe the brain damaged clowns like Hershel Walker?
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  9534. I saw this on other channels and made a similar comment to this. THIS IS NOT AN AMERICAN PROBLEM - Its a problem across the Western World. I'm Australian and we have a serious disconnect issue with Our Officials and the rest of society. I was working in Canada a couple of years back and I heard the same stuff there. We have people form all over the world here in Oz and I keep hearing the same stuff from again and again. if you strip away the BS about Brexit and break it down the Disconnect between much of Britain and London (where the pro-Euro crowd is strongest) is just as staggering. We have governments (and their officials) who have spent so much time pandering to billionaires that almost everything else involves some level of disconnect. Look at Hilary Clinton's 2016 loss where they just assumed places like Michigan were theirs and they simply never went there - that's almost the very definition of disconnect. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  9535. That might not be far from the truth. Except for one thing. Its been reported that Biden's people have been repeatedly throwing Kamila under the bus by putting her in impossible positions. But then she's so easy to throw under the bus its hard to tell if she's being thrown or jumping under all by herself.
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  9536.  @ypatel1070  This is a complex problem and simple solutions won't do much. The plenty of ways to put it but curing symptoms wont cure the disease.
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  9537.  @ypatel1070  I didn't mean that the starvation was complex I meant the overall situation. The starvation is the result of other more complex things and is therefore more like a symptom. We can send food, medicine and other supplies but wont fix the underlying causes. Blocking the money is the immediate underlying the cause. Getting them food and supplies NOW is a priority. Sorting out the money is a necessity or this will just keep happening.
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  9538. This is all theatre where each side ignores what their side does and they all scream bout what someone on the other side did. Its just like the media clowns reporting on Hunter Biden getting $250,000 from some Chinese guy as they conveniently forget Ivanka Trump used her position in the White house to secure her trade marks in China and make 10s of Millions. If they actually held politicians (and their families) accountable (and this goes for politicians EVERYWHERE) then the Libertarians and Anarchists would actually get their way because there wouldn't be any governments anywhere, because they'd all be in jail.
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  9539. OFF COURSE HE'S WORKING TIRELESSLY - HE'S WORKING TIRELESSLEY ON HIS SHORT GAME How else is he going to claim that his 2.8 Handicap is as real as all his other claims. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤬
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  9540. Hey when you Swiss stop being the worlds money and stolen art laundering house you start handing out advice. In the meantime go clean up country. I'd call you a nation of thieves, but I'll be democratic and fair - you're not a nation of thieves your their laundering house.
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  9541.  @konmoe121  Australia and my sister in law and her mother both carry Swiss passports. My problem isn't with YOU or any other person in Switzerland. Its the way your country operates with respect to money, money laundering, tax evasion, corporate regulation and protection of thieves. We know about the hyper security storage facilities where the hyper wealthy hide all the things they have stolen over the decades. We know about places like Zug that have some of the laxest corporate laws in the world allowing for multinational companies to hide from accountability. Nobody should have to remind anyone on Switzerland what your country does. So you know - Switzerland isn't the only country doing these things. Britain has its overseas territories. There's Ireland and Holland with there low corporate taxes. There's Luxembourg, Monaco, San Marino and other small states that exist for nothing else that wealthy sports people to hide taxes. Even Australia has a couple of island states its quietly encouraged to have lax banking systems. BUT Switzerland is the worst overall by virtue of those storage facilities.
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  9542.  @konmoe121  I wouldn't claim I am well informed but I know more than average. As I hinted at I do know there are Swiss people trying to clean up their banks, corporate laws and other things. I'd just warn that be careful that you don't come across as if you are ignoring those issues, because some of those issues can literally ignite a storm. As for Australia, we are one of the most well aware nations of our history. I was in Canada for work a couple of years ago and they too are trying to deal with their past which echoes ours. New Zealand is another country dealing with its past which is similar. The way I put it is and I include Canada and New Zealand in this. We are far from perfect and we have a long way to go, but at least we have recognized our past and are making progress towards a resolution. As for our support of America and Britain that's something a lot more complex. We are aware there's many issues there and we have gotten involved in things we should have said no too. There's a lot of Australians nervous over even tighter links to America and Britain considering the unpredictable futures of both. I actually went to college in America and can barely believe where America is at this time. I can see a real chance that America will split into several smaller federations over the next 10-20 years. I hope it doesn't happen as it will be a disaster for Western Society. Its one reason why i want to see all the secret banking systems cleaned up, because its those people who can afford those systems that are causing most of our troubles.
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  9543.  @robinsss  Well if you don't know what Neil Gorsuch is up to and don't know his background them maybe you should shut up and start listening and realise just how far the Libertarians are taking their nonsense. Gorsuch's mother was a Libertarian appointed by Ronald Reagan to dismantle the EPA until she got thrown out for being ridiculous. Gorsuch has been looking for payback ever since. Most recently he made rulings that make the EPA's job almost impossible. AND BACKING IT are people like Charles Koch the oil billionaire who's brother ran against Reagan as a potential VP on the Libertarian ticket for the RNC nomination. At the time he openly said Reagan was weak on Libertarian principles as wasn't taking the dismantling of government agencies far enough. These people really do want to dismantle the US Federal Government and go back to the robber baron era. Its a 21st century version of feudalism where the warlord is replaced with a corporation.
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  9544. I'm assuming this is in reference to the other Vice story from March 2021 about Washington County, Utah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWpui1P9cAY
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  9545.  @freddfezzo8524  I have actually done a couple of these "HEY DAVE" comments and he's been replying or one of his staff has. Its all very basic mob/sports psychology. I was a swimmer in my college days and the sports psychologists used to say the most important thing is you have to think about what you need to do not what anyone else thinks or needs to do. Bill Belichick has that great line "Do your job." It fundamentally means that if you do your basic job then you can help your teammates do there job and very quickly you win. This is what I am worried about with the Dems and the Lefty media. They are so focused on the GOP they aren't thinking what they need to do. Its the lefty strategy they lose elections with all over the world. "They're bad. I'm good." is not a winning strategy. "They're crazy, but I am going to do stuff for you" WINS irrespective of what stuff is. Look at 2016. Hilary: "He's bad and I'm going to be the 1st woman president" Trump "MAGA, life sucks because of them and I'm going to bring back jobs from China." Go look at an interview with Rana Foroohar just did on "the Realignment" and listen for when she knew Hilary was toast. Look at 2020: Trump: "He's old. I'm awesome" Biden: "Shut up man. I'll handle COVID and get the country back to work." Look at what's happening right now. Who's saying "They're bad" and Who's saying "We'll do stuff." If you are willing to accept some very basic psychology then its a no brainer. Sorry for the long answer.
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  9546.  @freddfezzo8524  Go look up some basic Sports psychology. You never think in terms of what you don't do you think in terms of what you do want to do Think of a place kicker with his team 2 points down 4 seconds on the clock and its a 45yard attempt. An accurate kick is totally reliant on muscle memory. For that to happen they teach athletes to think very simply about basic things that must happen. If they think things like "I mustn't miss" they'll miss. They picture that kick perfectly - step, plant, kick, follow, through. This where the left go wrong they want people thinking too much on stuff that must not happen instead of things that must happen. It has to be kept very simple. We WANT to keep social security in place. We WANT to keep medicare in place. We WANT the rich to pay their fair share of tax. Vote for us so we can do these things. Think about how the GOP use the "we will protect your 2nd amendment rights" vote for us so we can do that meme and how successful it is. Mark Blyth talked about this back in July 2019 during the primaries. He was one of the very few who predicted Trumps win and Brexit. Listen to what he says about this stuff in response to a question on Elizabeth Warren. The link is time stamped right to the spot. That should tell you how often I use it. What he says applies anywhere at any level. The whole lecture is worth your time if you have it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4795s
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  9547.  @phillipphil1615  Have you ever heard of the The Marshall Islands in the Pacific?? Be warned if you go checking it out because some of what was done has been described as a crime. The native populations of of Rongelap and Utirik atolls were basically used as lab rats. Go look up Castle Bravo.
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  9548.  @damianpeterkelly1234  That's a good description of what most of the Europeans did during the colonial era and have kept doing since. The Pacific Islanders have in recent years taken to reminding Australia and New Zealand on a regular basis that they are NO LONGER colonies and NOT a cheap supply of rugby players.
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  9549.  @danielbecker4365  Nice way to prove your an IDIOT with racist tendencies. My first comment was sarcasm. Sorry it hit a raw nerve with the ignorant red neck crowd and they needed some reality thrown back. And right now America needs a giant dose of reality or did you miss that SHlTFEST of a GOP debate that the rest of the world is shaking it collective head at. If you look at that pack of clowns do you really think the rest of the world want's them in control of nuclear weapons? Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy are arguably 2 of the best educated among that crowd and I wouldn't trust either of them with a box of matches let alone anything that can go bang.
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  9550.  @seang-vw7qj  yeah it was a public discussion that got hijacked by malignant narcissists the same way the last referendum was hijacked by malignant narcissists and the same way most of our public discussions get hijacked these days. It should have been a very simple YES or No question that everyone could understand and instead they made it into a mess. They did similar with the Republic referendum. That one should have been a very simple "Do we want to become a Republic with an Australian head of state?" Yes or No without any of the nonsense about how we'd do it. This one should have been similar. "Do we want the native Australian peoples to have their own elected body to represent their affairs?" Yes or No without any of the crap and nonsense about UN military troops ready to take control of Uluru and other places. Instead both times we had A-Holes ask questions designed to fail so they could say "Sorry but we did try!"
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  9551. @Ringside Rebel Mark Twain said, “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience".
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  9552. @Ringside Rebel Mark Twain said, “Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
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  9553.  @joostdriesens3984  It wasn't so much that he was being disingenuous he was just SIIMPLY WRONG. I'd heard him say it a couple of times IN THE PAST (before COVID) but not lately. I did look but couldn't find a vid to show you. He was never implying the left were being secretly "anything" he was comparing what people know about people going too far in EITHER direction. FYI - I'm very neutral and have no time for either the radicals on the right or the left. I think it was Jonathan Haidt that said "There's a cacophony of noise where the radical left and radical right just scream at each other and the rest of us trapped in the middle are exhausted." I'm one of those in the middle who's had enough of BOTH of both the radical left and radical right and all their crappy ideologies. What JBP was saying is that there's a really clear marker for people radicalised on the right (racism) and there is NOT a similar marker on the radical left. I think he's just wrong because the marker isn't specifically racism its when people let their ideology override common sense, ethics, morality, reality or a combination of those things. I grew up in the 1970s when there were BOTH right and left wing terrorists hijacking planes and blowing stuff up each week. Does it matter if they are right or left when they hijack a plane or blow something up? NO because for the rest of us they are both people with no morals, ethics or sense of reality. BTW - I don't follow JBP much. From what I have seen these days he's clearly still suffering the after effects of his drug issue.
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  9554.  @mc1993  I see you went to the same school as Samuel L. Jackson and too lessons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Xkb4lyRKQ
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  9555.  @alext7074  Thinking critically isn't what any these people are doing. He's not trying to solve a problem, none of them are. If they really wanted to go to the moon stroll about and take some happy snaps they could have done that. We've known how to go to the moon and get back for 50years. All the math is done, all the science works its just inefficient and costly. To change the costs and efficiency takes people to listen to those people who know what they are talking about and none of them want to do that. They don't want to be told what they don't want to hear. The sad fact is people prefer to listen to blowhards, suck-ups and con men.
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  9556.  @Jonathan.D  Here's an update on Elon's twitter deal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SfXoCj4TLk Summation. Elon might be in some trouble. he's just been successfully sued in Delaware over the SolarCity debacle but the amount is yet to be finalised. Now there's this where he might be trapped. Hmmmmmmmm!
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  9557. AUSTRALIAN HERE: What does anyone expect from a person like Piers Morgan who worked most of his career for Rupert Murdoch. This is the Murdoch business model in action. Keep people engaged by keeping them enraged. This is what the Murdoch first learned to do here in Australia and then took it to England which already had a history of its media "selling rage." From the moment that commercial print media started the owners learned 1 thing. Grab people's attention and then keep it by any means necessary and the easiest way is to start with something outrageous and then keep pumping the outrage. Its the entire basis for advertising and that includes both political and commercial advertising.
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  9558. Why TF is this even a talking point in June 2021 when this has been so obvious form the very start of the Lincoln Project.
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  9559.  @ivancho5854  Your right, except its a combination of YouTube and the main stream media to blame for the misrepresentation of engineering and technology in general. The Greens are in the majority badly informed and for too many a religious like movement, BUT NOT all of them. Back around 2005 there was a monster split in Greenpeace. The practical people said that the way to replace coal fired power stations was a combination of wind, solar and nuclear. They reasoned that you needed nuclear for base load stability. They were screamed at and driven away. There was a great observation attributed to Jonathan Haidt that went basically "There's a cacophony where the radical Left and Radical Right just scream at each other while the rest of us trapped in the middle are exhausted!" It highlights how difficult it is to have any public discussion these days because there's always somebody from one side or the other who will just snatch the microphone and start screaming. Their view is very simple "Either you're on my side or you are the enemy." As in there is no middle ground. Its not helped by a media landscape that feeds off conflict and rage. Its also not helped by armies of PR people who see inflaming any and every public discussion into a rage fest as a way to do business. Best wishes to you too. Where ever you are I hope you and your family are good.
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  9560. SIMPLE FACT: Q: How do these people respond when anyone threatens their MAGA judges on SCOTUS? A: They yell and scream about it before demanding the law be enforced and the harshest of penalties applied.
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  9561.  @chriszanf  Do you know the amazing thing about the whole Superman line of "I'm here for Truth, Justice and the American Way." If you think about that it means that "the American Way" does not include either Truth or Justice. If Truth and Justice were part of the American Way then why did they need to be mentioned at all other than its kind of poetic? I just find it amusing that it implies the American Way doesn't include Truth or Justice.
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  9562.  @epic6434  WTF are you talking about with either reply. Go read what you wrote and see if you make sense. Maybe English isn't your first language.
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  9563. Yeah but how many of these people EVER get held accountable. I bet the few of these types who do actually get some accountability all feel victimised because so many others got away with there scams.
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  9564. Australian here and even I can answer that. Merrick Garland is an institutionalist which means he believes in protecting the institution above all else. Such people THINK or BELIEVE putting Trump in jail, just like putting Nixon in jail would weaken the institution of the President and make it less capable of doing its job no matter who sits in the Oval Office. This is not an American thing its the sort of thing nations and other entities have been doing for 100s if not 1,000s of years. This is the sort of mentality that made things like the Catholic church hide pedophile priests rather than dealing with them. This is why the military (of any nation) will hide and cover up atrocities. This is why corporate types like Mark Suckerberg has more PR people than the Washington Post has journalists AND YES somebody made that point recently. This is why the movie studios have covered up pedophiles, rapists, drug users, pregnant actresses and all sorts of other things among their people. THEY ARE ALL trying to protect the institution and its REPUTATION. The giant problem with this is that when it finally breaks down it breaks down catastrophically like it has for the Catholic Church, like it did for Harvey Weinstein, like it has done for a number of other Hollywood types and a number of sports stars and a number of professional sports teams. IT NEVER ENDS WELL. The real question America need to ask isn't if Trump should be in jail along with a bunch of people its a matter of how bad its going to hurt America when the crash finally happens.
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  9565. The most dangerous aspect of this technology are the clowns who keep claiming that we can make computers that are smarter than we are and grossly misleading the general public which has happened way too much with technology in recent years. Do not misunderstand me, these are incredibly complex systems that have processed incredible amounts of data to set up their models of how to respond, but they do NOT think and they are NOT smart. They are basically statistical engines in that they derive all their responses from statistical analysis of massive data sets.
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  9566.  @llundo9051  Thanks bro, but its the simple truth.
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  9567. YES it has become crystal clear that ANYTIME somebody claims "this is a game changer" then what they claim is BULLSHlT. It doesn't matter what the technology is or if its military or civilian. If people are claiming game changer then its BULLSHlT.
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  9568.  @degoth_spirestone  Be careful about claiming that comments are deleted. MOST of that is being done by the YT Algorithm. For what ever reason about a year ago there was a change and many comments are ghosted. The most common cause I've heard is people putting links in their comments even if they are to other YouTube videos. I suspect its more than that and possibly something to do with dislikes. No doubt there is odd stuff going on at Google and YT.
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  9569. I SUGGEST EVERYONE go and watch the YT channel What's going on with shipping host by Sam Mercogliano. Sam's actually a genuine Subject Matter Expert on commercial shipping and the issues with commercial shipping. Sam's been the best person to explain the issues with the Red Sea and the Houthi attacks and how they are effecting things. On the issue with Baltimore, he just did a vid on the insurance issues and how the insurance for shipping is completely different to normal insurance. Peter has pointed out the insurance issues with shipping a few times but Sam understands it and can explain it at another level. Peter might be right on a lot of things but there are a number of subjects where there are better people to listen to.
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  9570.  @icyx9268  yep its gonna get interesting
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  9571. WHO THE FARK NEEDS 4minutes and 16 Seconds to KNOW the answer. IF they keep going as they are, being corporatist ass holes trying to live in the past - YES!!!!!!
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  9572. Its January 2025 and I just saw a video by another channel on Potosi and this popped in the recommendations. Is it just my imagination or is there some weird background noise that when I filter it out sounds like someone laughing and saying "crypto."
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  9573. That's actually a very good way to describe this. How stupid and ignorant can Nicki Aitken be when she wants to argue with the guy who was Citibank's top trader in the world. I here she has plans to tell Sir Alex Ferguson how to coach football and Jaimie Oliver how to cook.
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  9574. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS GRADUATE HERE which is the same college Andreessen did his degree at. I graduated in aerospace engineering the year before (88) that Andreessen started there (89). What he is NOT explaining well is HOW LUCKY he was to be there at that time. When I was there the PC desk top industry was just getting started and those companies were dumping truck loads of stuff on us. My department one day got a couple of dozen AT&T desktops with UNIX operating systems. We had 2 rooms full of Apple McIntosh's with this thing call a GUI (graphic user interface) and a mouse. We did all our term papers on them. The really cool kids doing PhDs got a CRAY-2 Supercomputer to dop aerodynamic simulations on. Then they got a CRAY-XMP64 to do even bigger more complex simulations on. Then CRAY moved to Champaign because the US Government set up the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). On top of all that there was one of the Worlds first wide area network & data base systems called Plato. It was a precursor to what you all call the Internet. Its was ghastly and horrible to use in my time. By Andreessen's time it was obvious that for wide area networks to become viable they had to become user friendly. There were several teams working on that and through GOOD LUCK Andreessen and the team he was on developed Mosaic the precursor to NetScape. You can read about this on his Wikipedia page. HERE'S THE POINT Like all the tech bro-billionaires we know about these days Andreessen is JUST LUCKY. He was in the right place at the right time and got the right breaks and his product prevailed in a competitive marketplace. Suckerberg is the same he wasn't the only person developing social media. Musk and Thiel are the same they weren't the only people working on secure internet transactions. ALL OF THEM got lucky breaks that enabled their pet project to thrive and these days NONE OF THEM respect any of the work others did that made their work possible in the first place. That's what I hate about them. They just have no respect for the rest of the STEM professions or the people who work in them.
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  9575. THEY DON'T CARE. Its the most basic fact of American politics - THEY DON'T CARE. BOTH sides don't care its only a matter of degrees. The Dems DON'T CARE and the Republicans CARE EVEN LESS. 19 dead children is just another line in one of the sickest stories in history.
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  9576. No so easy. There are massive parts of China where you cant grow anything, because its desert. I'm Australian and our mainland is close in size to mainland America. They have 330 million we have 25 and that simply because most of our country is simply not suitable for agriculture. What is coming is a war for food or water or both and its going to get very, very, ugly.
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  9577. Have a look at the rotating restaurant perched on the tail and look at the edge of it Have a look at the struts on the tail bracing the rotating restaurant - they're square. Have a look at all the stuff under the main wing connecting it to the lower wing. This is OBVIOUSLY somebodies joke just to see how many news services would bite. Thunderf00t should have started or finished with that.
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  9578. I'm similar, I think Trump was an utter catastrophe but Biden is also NOT a step in the right direction. America and the rest of the Western hemisphere needs forward vision not backwards. But this is an interesting turn of events considering the number of claims that he and his son Hunter did huge deals earning millions of dollars with the CCP. The only question I'd have to Peters' assessment is how much has he factored in that the Chinese have already bought or stolen an incredible amount of technical information and that maybe behind this move. The Chinese might have finally taken something that's forced the US to say "enough." The other thing is they have had people at Western Universities for over 20 years learning how to do a lot of stuff. So I'd agree this will smash the Chinese manufacturing industry in the short term, but they do have the people with at lease some of the skills recover down the line. As an engineer I'd tend to put the issue in terms of project management Because if the Chinese want to build a midrange semi-conductor plant their problem will be finding someone capable of putting it all together.
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  9579.  @borisbadenov8613  Have a look at what I wrote DlCKHEAD I said Alumina NOT Aluminium. Learn to read.
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  9580.  @xiaoranmo7308  Hey I have explained it so many times its getting tired. Australia is the 51st State BECAUSE WE PAID FOR IT. Canada didn't pay for it and Puerto Rico didn't pay for so they can fight over who gets to be 52nd and 53rd.
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  9581. WHEN EVERYTHING in your life is NOT BASED in reality or fact then everything that is real or factual appears as a psy-op. The craziest thing is the Russians were actually trying this to America for decades AND FAILED. It took Americans to do what they loved doing most which is out doing everyone else especially the Russians and did it to themselves. EVERYONE should go and look up the interview ex-KGB office Yuri Bezmenov gave Canadian TV way back in 1984. There's a 13+ minute excerpt that's easy to find here on YouTube. In the first couple of minutes he explains what the KGB called Ideological Subversion or Active Measures. He says "Basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves their families, their community and their country." Of course we know the Russians FAILED because the Soviet system collapsed and America won the Cold War, BUT THEN the Russians didn't have the platform for their Active Measures to be truly effective. They didn't have access to enough of America in the way social media has provided. They thought subverting college kids was the way, when in fact it was the people who didn't go to college were the people they needed to subvert. American has ended up doing TO ITSELF what the Russians failed to do. The real problem is how does anyone fix this mess?
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  9582.  @theaross8562  No doubt there are people playing both sides but if you look at the main players in all of this and where the heart lands of Republicans and Democrats are you can almost break this down to Carbon versus Silicon. There aren't many people on the planet who have as good of a handle on the world its economy and particularly America as Mark Blyth the Professor at Brown U. I don't like basic Ideology of Richard Wolf but in many ways he also 1st class analyst. Both of them spoke recently on the Michael Brooks show. Part of the discussion was an analysis of America. Just after 52:45 Wolf uses West Virginia as an example of the situation. Its pretty amazing to watch a Marxist justify that those people were voting in their economic interest when the backed Trump. Just after it at about 56:10 you'll see where I get my carbon versus silicon concept. Basically at the center of the Republican economy is carbon and at the center of the Democrat economy is silicon. YES there's a lot more nuance to it with other things and people on both sides who play the wider field. But when you have the Kochs, Bushes, and others with their carbon billions on one side and the Musks, Bezos, Gates and others with their silicon billions on the other you basically have carbon versus silicon. Its where the big influential backers make the bulk of their money. Note the box Mark talks about at 59:30 its carbon inside the box and silicon outside. Note the remark about people becoming coders. That's been mentioned a few times since Biden made that claim of retraining coal miners as coders. Its total BS because anybody becoming a coder will quickly learn they are up against 1.3 billion Indians and 1.4 billion Chinese who have between them millions and millions of coders. Look at your phone apps and where they come from. I'm an engineer and I work in control systems (the computers that run factories, power stations, mine sites,...etc.) I can tell you for a fact that the coding thing is utter bullshit. We have CAD & software tools now that do so much work for us that the need for large teams at the design phase n longer exists. Construction, commissioning and maintenance will not change much and it is utter bullshit when people claim that it will.
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  9583.  @beeinthehive  If you want to understand the mechanics of how we got here Mark Blyth is one of the best if not the best you'll see. I'm an engineer so I am pre-wired to understanding how things work or why they work the way they do. I did aerospace and we are taught systems analysis methods and he uses similar techniques to explain why we have what we have so his explanations work well for me. I can't say I agree with everything he says but he is one of the very very few in the economic commentary field who understands any of the engineering that underpins society. He certainly has people in his circle who understand the effects of automation. In one talk/interview he gave he related how a buddy who put robots in his prosciutto factory to hang the hams. Instead of employing less he now employs more because the increased efficiency led to increased production and that grew the business creating new jobs.
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  9584.  @beeinthehive  I am certainly no anarchist or libertarian. The engineer in me is a firm believer in rules and regulations because we have learnt way too many times that when you lower the regulatory requirements idiots take over and bad shit happens. Most notably of recent times the Boeing Max-8. On Automation there are many instances where it is done for no other reason than to improve quality. Its like having a better quality more accurate tool. You would also be amazed how switched on workers become. I've watched people go from the abject computer illiteracy to being quite confident on very technically advanced machines. Way too often people start the conversation with "automation costs jobs" and then you spend the rest of the time debunking it.
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  9585.  @ODoyleIYourFamilysGoingDown  Yes I saw this the other day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PL32ea0MqM I'm really impressed with what he is doing. Another one I saw was this which sounds similar but is totally different https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMLu9Dtw9yI The 2nd vid has a graph where he shows where the existing battery tech lies and where the liquid air will go. At the moment that central space has only 1 real emerging technology and that's Hydrogen distilled from water. I think where the liquid metal will fit is over the top of the Li-ion and Flow batteries. Its looks like it will have the snap type response of Li-ion but have the larger capacity of the flow battery. In Australia I think we have a huge market for local mass storage. We buy a lot of Tesla power walls but they are farq-off expensive and we need a better alternative and people are talking about "community batteries." Com-bats are where groups of people collectively buy a big battery that they can dump all their excess solar into instead of buying an individual battery for their house. Very Very early days on the Com-bat concept because their isn't a ready supplier of big batteries. Elon either supplies house size or city size when we actually need town/community size. So Sadoway's unit that he has (https://ambri.com/technology/) looks just like what a Com-bat would be. A 10ft x 10ft x 10ft battery that can support a local community or a shopping mall. My basic impression is that I think he really has something special. He's super smart, just listen to how he went about creating this. Its a matter of can he get market share or at least a foothold and keep it. History tells us that good technology doe not always win out. What they all have to realise across the entire energy sector is that we are in a major industrial transition from carbon to silicon in terms of the underpinning technology. Have a look at the US the Reps & Dems is Carbon versus Silicon. Yeah its more complicate than that but if you strip it down far enough its carbon versus silicone and by silicon. That will require a variety of energy production and storage solutions. To many of them yell and scream theirs is "the only solution" when the reality is we will need variety. I think if Sadoway is smart and targets the right markets in the right ways he will clean up.
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  9586. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  9587. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  9588. Yeah that's a great concept in that part of the universe where REALITY operates. Its called LOGIC, Critical Thinking, Perception, being educated and a few other things BUT Trumps base runs on a combination of outrage and moonshine, reality has nothing to do with any of it.
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  9589. Actually Eylon Levy is not a psychopath he's a narcissistic sociopath. I watched most of that debate and it was chilling to see Eylon Levy say the things he said. His opening remarks were full of things we KNOW are not true and he called Mehdi a liar during that opening. Psych 101 - Psychopaths are impulse driven and can't generally understand the effects of what they do. - Sociopaths lack the ability to empathise with others and generally DO UNDERSTAND the effects of what they do they just can't feel anything about that. - Narcissists are self centred. They want what they want, whether its attention, money, power whatever. There's overlap with all these things but as we have learned in recent years the combination of narcissistic sociopath is the worst of the worst because they KNOW what they do is wrong but they don't care because what they want comes first. Trying to ask someone like Eylon Levy to justify killing over 16,000 children is a waste of time because in his brain they just don't matter and never did. Those 16,000+ children were just a problem to be removed.
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  9590. HORSESHlT CLICKBIT TITLE THE YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF There is nothing new in this. If you keep doing this I will BLOCK your channel which will affect how the algorithm recommends you.
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  9591. Considering that they sold this all over the world they should simply be charged with "crimes against humanity" Unfortunately America protects its own from foreign criminal prosecutions.
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  9592. The FIRST hint should have been its done by a company registered in Hong Kong. The SECOND hint should have been the managers surname "Yip" as in its not Wallace, Bruce, Stuart, Taggart McTavish, McDonald, McIntyre or any of the other 100+ SCOTTISH family names. The THIRD hint should have been this mainly targeted Americans the most IGN0RANT nation on the planet when it comes to ANYTHING that happens outside their country. What next, maybe someone in Nigeria or Russia will start selling parts of Australia or Canada so they can claim 1st nations land title status; or some part of Japan and call themselves Samurai; or some best of all some part of Harlem so they can claim they are a Warlord.
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  9593. I don't know why this is so surprising. In Australia we've been through this already and found our forces committed a number of crimes including a number of illegal killings. We've had to admit that having people in that environment for all that time just built up pressure to the point where some of them cracked. Its like nobody learnt the lessons from Vietnam.
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  9594.  @ashwinipingle8832  Its been a while but it was mostly on Australian related subjects and it comes from her NOT interviewing other people. I think she'd be a lot more effective if she occasionally interviewed people and simply hit them with "the what's your view on this?" I might be wrong but I can't remember her ever speaking with anyone else on any subject. So you never hear any other perspective. Its not a criticism just of Palki its a criticism I'd put it on many, many commentators including Australian commentators.
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  9595.  @donalduncleusa6552  Please note that I said "worked for WION" and that she had moved on. PAST TENSE. People aren't stupid they can find her pretty easily. Kyle should have said who she is and where she works NOT ME.
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  9596.  @Manirvana  Just watch the show like any other of its type it has her opinions. Its not a negative its just a fact of this type of journalism. Stop being so parochial. I think she's fantastic and way better than many others but that does NOT mean she's perfect.
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  9597.  @nealdip22  Lets not forget how Andrew Symonds the cricket player was racially tormented by Indian cricket fans most notably in 2007 with "monkey" taunts. How about that racist piece of garbage Harbhajan Singh who called Symonds a monkey to his face. Don't go pointing fingers at other people when your people can be just as disgusting.
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  9598.  @ankitrai8180  Yeah I know people have been pointing that out.
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  9599.  @Akshay18124  WTF are you talking about now??
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  9600.  @Akshay18124  Fair enuff
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  9601. Go look at the latest debunk video Thunderf00t has done on a company that's claiming they can use solar power to get water from the air and supply their needs. And this isn't the first company in recent times to try this. What was it that Luke Skywalker's Uncle Owen did for a living? Moisture Farmer!!!!!
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  9602. One of the most common things with radicalisation is intolerance to CRITIQUE and its particularly prevalent among populists both Left & Right like DeSantis. And I say critique specifically rather than criticism because it means people analysing them. Most of their populism is based on cultural war talking points with less substance than the vacuum of space. As such they can't handle any form of ANALYSIS and to critique is to analyse. Bizarrely they actually need criticism because that gives them something to push back against. Steve Bannon in a talk he gave in France (I think) a few years back said words to the effect "When they call you a bigot or call you a racist. You know you doing the right thing." He's a good example of somebody who revels in criticism but can't handle critique. This is what DeSantis really wants to limit or control. Its the critique as in the analysis of what he's doing.
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  9603. There was a point a few years ago when Jimmy's anti establishment had a specific message and that was the DNC were NOT being Democratic. Jimmy seemed to lose his mind over Bernie Sanders being dumped for a second time by the same corrupt clowns in the DNC and just started ranting at everything. Sam makes a great point around 4:30 _"it's one thing to be to critique the the powers that be but one thing that's problematic about it is when you're not specific about what those powers are it becomes very easy to drift"_ Jimmy lost his mind and hasn't stop ranting at the sky ever since. Jimmy might not have had much of a brain before that time but he's had nothing between his ears since. I'm not certain who the guy in the middle is but he makes a great point about famous people thinking their fame makes their opinion more valuable. The reason is they don't get challenged that much. I'd warn EVERYONE in the media including the 3 people on this video is to NOT fall into the same trap of thinking they're opinion is perfect.
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  9604. A lack of evidence is not proof of anything other than there is not evidence or not enough evidence to support a particular claim or conclusion. That's because the state of evidence can change. Investigators might find something new or a different test might show something new. All you are really saying is they have not yet found something that makes a particular conclusion reasonable or provable in a court of law.
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  9605. I think you're saying he has some good ideas, but his lack of understanding of how politics works and his lack of experience with political policy platforms shows.
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  9606. Its called frustration and anybody who thinks there aren't large slabs of the developed world who feel left out, left behind, thrown in the gutter and left feeling their is no way forward has NOT been paying attention. Go into any developed country and check on governmental policies that promised to make our lives better. How many times did a few people get it better and the rest paid for it. How many times did a factory get shut down and everyone was promised getting cheaper products from somewhere else would be better for consumers. Seriously how many time have you heard that claim - "consumers will be better off" and we never were. Its not just a matter of these people being crazy they have been driven crazy by decades of having their lives trampled. Added to that the incessant need for our political leaders & parties to have one policy that rules above all others "What do the billionaires want us to do." There's an old line about beating a dog with a stick. No matter how many times it submits one day it will turn and bite.
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  9607. NEVER TAKE ANY ADVICE FROM AN UNQUALIFED PERSON. Its not just a medical issue its a wider issue with current society with M0R0Ns and CLOWNS being handed the microphone and then spewing out crap they have no understanding of. I'm an engineer and its almost a full time job CORRECTING all the nonsense I see and hear coming from people who ARE NOT QUALIFIED. There's a reason we have an energy crisis that is only going to get a SHlTLOAD worse. Too many idiots speaking. There's a reason we have mad next to fark-all progress on climate change. Too many idiots speaking. There's a reason why the COVID crisis was worse than it needed to be. Too many idiots speaking. There's a reason why we can't fix child poverty, infant mortality or education. Too many idiots speaking.
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  9608.  @raybin6873  Imagine the dirt he knows? Look what happened to Epstein. He simply knew too much that too many powerful people didn't want heard. I wonder what his Vegas Odd are?
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  9609. I think you meant "IS NOT what you want to hear from you physician"
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  9610.  @bryandepaepe5984  Yeah I got that from the whole vid. But none of this stuff actually helps have rational discussions. No doubt Trump started this shit but too many people just keep throwing fuel in the fire.
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  9611.  @bryandepaepe5984  Don't forget that just because the vast majority are on one side that the other side doesn't have any. A couple of weeks ago I pointed out a mistake Vincent Racianello made. Now I don't know if he simply made a mistake or got the wording wrong or was deliberately misleading. But some people went crazy. I tried telling a few that I had agreed with the rest of what Vincent had said but NO WAY unless you adhere to the group think 100% then some people see you has the enemy. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♀️
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  9612.  @silverlinings3946  Government subsidies in the energy sector are completely out of control around the world. Here in Australia we have given over AU$10 Billion to the gas companies to help them develop new fields and gas plants. They have made over AU$140 Billion and not paid a cent in tax. The YT Channel Just have a think recently did a vid on subsidies and the number is staggering.
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  9613.  @snoogles007  In recent months I have begun to participate in a live stream called Steve Keen and Friends. Steve is a fellow Australian but currently based in Europe. Like Gary he's what I'd call a rebel economist as in someone who's calling out the main stream economists for the frauds they are and the damage they are doing. Steve is also one of the very few economists anywhere who's reasonably attuned to the energy issues. He's come at it from the economics side and I am coming at it from the engineering side.
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  9614. WHERE'S YOUR WIFE DONALD or should we be looking for this weeks porn star???
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  9615. ​ @njartvideos7694  That's not a bad way to put it. I think half the worlds problems are actually cultural misunderstandings. One of the great mistakes of the British was the policy to "make the whole world British." Just as bad is the current American policy to "make the whole world American." Which is matched by equally stupid policies out of Russia and China.
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  9616.  @karandullet380  Like so many other societies India is NOT free of politically inspired murder (assassination). Go back to Roman times they almost made it the national pass time in between gladiator contests. They spread that to every part of Europe they went. If you read up on English history and especially the Tudor period it almost looks like there was another political murder each day. I'm certain you'll find it in almost any society that develops a competitive political structure.
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  9617.  @rishavkumar1250  WTF are you talking about. I know the Bible very well and there's NO CASTE SYSTEM anywhere in Christianity. I covered Islam in high school and there was no mention of a caste system. I have worked with a few Muslims and they've NEVER mentioned a caste system. So WTF are you on about?
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  9618.  @person1858  Somebody else said similar. However NONE of the Indian people I have worked with or known socially have ever mentioned anything about it and there's been a few have ever mentioned it. In a wat it doesn't surprise me if it happens in some odd way because Catholicism in particular has always let local peoples adapt some of their practices into Catholicism. In fact I have heard people claim that Catholicism is so riddled with older European pagan practices its barely recognisable as Christianity. The most notable example of this is Santa Claus which is a Nordic pagan thing.
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  9619.  @person1858  All that said there is NOTHING in the texts or practice of European Christianity that includes any sort of caste system. And to the best of my knowledge there's nothing in Islam about any sort of caste system either.
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  9620. Sportswriter Rick Reilly wrote a book "Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump" Here's a book talk he gave. I could describe it but its better if you watch it. There's nothing Kyle said here that even begins to detail how much Trump cheats. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIiaFMOfbwY
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  9621. Trump plays politics the same way he plays golf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIiaFMOfbwY
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  9622. Dude there are people old enough to remember films like Logan's Run (1976) where they had pods in tubes or TV Shows like Space 1999 (1975-77) where they had pods in tubes. There's nothing new about pods in tubes. Robert Goddard the grandfather of modern rocketry proposed vactrains (trains in vacuum tubes) in 1904. Elon like others pinches stuff from science fiction and then flogs it off to gullible fools. Go watch the film Gattaca (1997) and you'll see where Elizabeth Holmes got here idea that you test for everything with a single drop of blood. Go watch the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and you'll see where Erich von Däniken got his ideas that aliens were responsible for making modern man out of monkeys and apes. OR you can also watch the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) along with many films and TV shows from that time period and you'll see where the Gateway Foundation got their ideas from which Common Sense Skeptic covered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVd-PCo6NbU And if you really want to see where Elon gets a lot of his ideas go and watch TV shows like the "Thunderbirds," "Captain Scarlett", "Fireball XL5" all done out of the Gerry & Silvia Anderson studio Century 21 Productions.
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  9623.  @sgfx  Buddy I have just had a 1/2 go at Thunderf00t over part of this video. You can see that comment in the comment he's pinned at the top of this. I am actually full of praise for what he's done to break the strangle hold the auto industry had on our lives. I am equally full of praise for what he's done breaking the stranglehold Boeing & others had on space. BUT NONE OF THAT EXCUSES THE HORSESHIT HE SPEWS CONSTANTLY Have you seen the assessment on Solar City. The final judgement for money isn't finalised but it looks like he will go down for 8-12 billion. He's in a lot of trouble over that. Don't like so many others say he's been out of hyperloop for years as a way to excuse what he did. HE BULLSHITTED EVERYONE on hyperloop. As for his crap on driverless cars, that takes pages to explain but in a nutshell. HE BULLSHITTED EVERYONE on driverless cars. STOP EXCUSING HIS GARBAGE
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  9624. I'm an engineer and we have a saying that "Engineering regulations are written blood." And the meaning of that is almost every engineering regulation on the planet can be traced back to a fatal incident or series of incidents where people died. Sadly I think the world is going to pay a horrendous price for the arrogant stupidity of these people. Are they right to criticise Big Pharma and their idiotic greed? ABSOLUTLEY. Purdue Pharma and their wonder drug Oxycontin has shown that better than any other Big Pharma example. Around 500,000 Americans dead an nobody held accountable. BUT YOU DON'T THROW OUT THINGS THAT WORK
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  9625. I hear David Irving the great English biographer, who cleared up all that stuff in the 1940s about that Austrian guy, has been signed up to write Trumps biography. I feel so good it will all be cleared up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Irving
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  9626. I did aerospace engineering but work in industrial control systems including safety related subsystems. You're NOT wrong, but not quite right either. People who hide pertinent information FOR ANYTHING that results in the deaths of others need to face CRIMINAL CHARGES. Murder charges versus manslaughter or other charges would be dependent on what they knew and what they hid. One of the key things we do as part of standard engineering processes are called HAZOPs (Hazard & Operability Studies). The purpose is to identify hazards and work out mitigation strategies. Once you work out a strategy (or solution) the next step is called FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis). Its where we assess the components in a system or subsystem and consider the known types of failure and assess what the effects are. That comment by the Boeing Engineer that asked what happens if the AOA Sensor fails is exactly what should have been the start of an FMEA. That question should have been assigned to a person or team and there should be a readily traceable set of paperwork. For a critical safety functions or systems. Option 1 You're designing as per standards or guidelines using certified components, which is always my preferred option. Certified components become certified from FMEAs and testing. Using certified components comes with added costs but also come with all the safety information. Option 2 You are taking responsibility for everything including FMEAs, certification and anything else. Option 3 Ignore the Question. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ If you consider the comment by one of the Boeing engineers (at 30:30) ASKING about "what would happen if the AOA sensor failed" that tells me NO ONE DID an FMEA on that system. Because if they had there would be a paper trail and by now someone would have found it. I can't imagine any circumstance where experienced engineers WOULD NOT have realised this system would eventually crash a plane. Its part of basic safety ideology that any failure you can reasonably describe will eventually happen. You assume the failure WILL EVENTUALLY HAPPEN and then assess what then happens. I actually wrote to Ralph Nader (who lost a relative in one of these accidents) and explained my background and qualifications. I told him what his people needed to look for in terms of design paper work and reports. THEY NEVER GOT BACK TO ME. I do hope they got the right people with the right advice.
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  9627.  @TheEvertw  We agree on one thing - it was absurd. Sorry but I wont waste much time on someone who wont listen to experience training and qualifications. Even the most basic analysis says the MCAS was going to crash planes. It was a 1oo1 system that was NOT fail safe and its obvious one of its basic failure modes was going to drive the plane into the ground. That leaves very few answers. - They never did an FMEA at all; or - They did a very poor FMEA; or - They did and proper FMEA and then DELIBERATELY IGNORED it. Those first 2 options are negligence, the 3rd is WILLFUL negligence and legally very different.
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  9628. ​ @MostlyPennyCat  TO YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE who have never done any engineering costing let me give you a basic lesson. First AU$ means Australian dollars and US$ means American dollars. I am an engineer with over 30 years works in industrial control systems, automation and robotics across a number of industries. My general my employers expect me to be able to justify the costs of projects and get them value for their money. So working out what various bits and pieces cost is part of my job and there's nothing special about that as EVERY engineer eventually learns how to cost projects. By cost we don't just mean what's in the catalogue but what it costs to deliver and install and maintain. This also has nothing to do with any industry or monetary amount because its the same basic process EVERYWHERE. But you always start with the basics and here's the basics. The British Navy is paying AU$1.5 Billion per Type 26 The Australian Navy is budgeting AU$5.1 Billion per Hunter-class based on the total AU$46 Billion project cost for 9 of them. So my first question is what is that extra $3.6 Billion per boat for? For perspective and in 2024 valuations An Arleigh Burke-class destroyer has a cost of US$2.2 which is AU$3.3 Billion. At an export cost of US$4 Million (AU$6 million) each that AU$3.6 Billion would buy 600 Tomahawk cruise missiles. So that extra AU$3.6 Billion isn't for the American stuff. You can't simply triple the cost of ANYTHING with a few changes. We are simply being ripped off and our government is being taken for suckers. The real question is where is the money going? There's nothing new in this. I see it all the time in industry. I've worked for companies I knew were ripping the client off and been threatened with losing my job to keep quiet. The bigger the company the worse it gets. Smaller engineering companies have to deliver value because they operate in a competitive space. Larger engineering companies have almost no competitors. Look at where Boeing is now that they have no US competitors in commercial aviation since the demise of Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas in that space. They've gone from being the best aircraft manufacturer building the safest planes to the current disasters. If you want an explanation of the ways these large engineering companies rip their customer off let me know.
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  9629.  @Chenzooo  Read the answer I gave James Neave. Plus there is nothing cheap about marine grade aluminium or steel AND there's few suppliers with similar costs. Raw materials cost what they cost and apart from the shipping costs around the world they are pretty much the same everywhere. Even the Chinese stuff isn't that cheap because they still have to pay market prices for the raw materials.
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  9630.  @badluck5647  Buddy let me put it this way. I'm an engineer and do project costing plans for a living. If Australia had simply bought the French Subs with nuclear power and all the exact same stuff the French Navy has then 12 subs were going to cost about AU$30 Billion. If you then add in the cost estimates for port upgrades to handle the maintenance that was going to climb to between AU$45 and AU$50 Billion. AND YET we were going to pay AU$96 Billion for less capable subs. Can you explain what that other AU$46 was for? If we simply bought 8 Virginia class subs that would cost $40-$50 Billion depending on the options of things like the VPM Module. Virginias are about AU$5.5 Billion each baseline. The LOW END of AUKUS has them costed at AU$33.5 Billion each and the HIGH END is about AU$46 Billion EACH. I've checked the costs of weapons and running costs and even estimated the costs of decommissioning and burial and none of it comes close to explaining anything. When you can explain the extra AU$28 Billion FOR EACH SUB then you can tell me what I don't know.
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  9631. That's maybe the best comment on the situation. Its Chinese whispers on crack.
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  9632.  @slightlycynical1335  Looking through these comments I think you've hit it right. Yang never pushed back against Tucker. Why I don't know, but the fact he never pushed back was just simply poor. Its where people like Tucker get away with so much. People don't push back.
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  9633. Don't forget that most of the pro-gun population are also pro-life and want Roe v Wade overturned. So they are pro-life before berth and pro-massacre once children reach school age. Maybe the next t-short to be printed should have a slogan like: "If you're pro-life for the unborn then why aren't you pro-life for school children?" Just a heads up before anyone goes to the t-shirt store. These people might not act rationally to a rational question and the possibility of a violent reaction is high.
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  9634. In terms of money $89 Billion is not even that big of a number anymore. Its not a small or trivial number but its not that big either. I'm Australian and the new gas plants at Ashburton, Darwin, Barrow Island and Curtis Island totaled well over $100 Billion. At the current rate of renewable energy Australia is faced with a bill up around $200 Billion for new clean energy generation. Not only do we have to replace existing plants but build new ones for an increasing population. The British spent over £200 Billion just cleaning up Sellafield and are now building a bunch of new nuclear power stations. The Germans spent a reported €1.3 Trillion (€1,300 Billion) on renewable infrastructure. So you all need to consider that number in the context of current engineering project size. What they should consider is converting some of that energy into Hydrogen and piping it across Europe. Pipe lines are actually not that expensive in relative terms and we know how to lay them. Yes it takes exergy to make, energy to make and its not that efficient to convert back into electrical energy but it has a couple of big advantages: 1: The power stations at the user end are BASE LOAD in that they can run 24/7/365 (except for maintenance. 2: If they build hydrogen fueled power stations on the existing power station sites then the grid connection is already in place saving a lot of money. 3: Hydrogen can be stored with very little (mainly leaks) loss. The only question is how much needs to be sent as Hydrogen to keep the power grids of Europe stable.
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  9635.  @cennon  How TF have I distracted from the need to get rid of the Republicans? I said NOTHING about them. Why TF do people like you always have to project yourself onto others? You're not getting rid of the Republicans. 74 million of them voted for Trump. How do you think you are getting rid of 74 million people? That's almost double the population of Canada and 3 times Australia. Its more people than Britain or France. They genuinely believe they were robbed and haven't budged on ANYTHING. On the flip side the Dems are the most disorganised pack of pretentious clowns the Western World has seen in centuries. Do you have any idea of the scope of the issue that America is facing or what it means for the rest of the Western World? Trump 2.0 isn't a nightmare its Putin's and Xi's wettest of wet dreams.
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  9636.  @roseromans8497  Considering the machine that Hilary had she should have won easily and by so far it wasn't worth turning up. Oh that's right they didn't turn up in the right places. It was just like Green Bay a few weeks ago. They started well, had everything going their way, had stopped the 49ers offense cold and still got dumped on their ASS. How did they lose, just like Hilary they forgot to do some basics. In Hilary's case snubbing Michigan and other states. Hilary was an arrogant stupid idiotic clown with a garbage game plan and she got steam rolled and the WORLD lost 4 years because of it. Don't go blaming anyone for her loss except her.
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  9637.  @roseromans8497  Your right I do hate Hilary Clinton. Her and her friends in the DNC CHEATED to win the nomination and then blew an election with arrogant stupidity. WORSE she never accepted any responsibility and instead blamed every one else. She got outthought and outplayed by at the election booth. Her supporters have been stupid an arrogant ever since endlessly whining about the popular vote instead of coming up with a better strategy. How come people like you keep excusing her? You're just as pathetic as the Trump supporters who wont accept the 2020 election result.
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  9638.  @roseromans8497  Don't get self righteous, THAT WAS HILARY'S MISTAKE. If you can't understand why people are angry at how she has behaved these last 6 years since, then you are as blind to reality as the Trump supporters. That sort of pig headed tribalism is the biggest hinderance to solving any problem we face. It doesn't matter if you're a Clinton, Obama, Bush, Reagan, Trump, Putin, Kim, Xi devotee. That blind faith to messianic political figures is mindlessness at its worst. None of them give a damn about our future. Its ridiculous how selfish they all are. Have you seen the Intro Hilary does for he "master class" where she reads what was going to be her 2016 acceptance speech. ITS PATHETIC. Look at what the Clintons and Obamas did during the primaries. Did they let people vote or did they do back room deals to get what they wanted? The DNC might not be as as bad as the GOP, but that's like asking a condemned prisoner if he wants to be shot or hanged. We are at a turning point in history and if you hide in some delusional past whether its the Clinton years or Reagan years it does not matter - you are going to be caught on the wrong side of history.
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  9639. That and they are easy to manipulate from behind the scenes. If you are a billionaire tycoon and want the government to do what you want then paying for low quality populist candidates who you can manipulate is a very worthwhile investment. Charles Koch actually said in an Axios interview that he expects congressmen to do what he wants when he gets them elected. Thom Hartman made the recent point they (the billionaires) have paid $9 Billion over recent years. Trump's tax cuts delivered them $1 Trillion back to them. That's basically $10 back for every $1 spent. In any business class in the world they are going to tell you that's smart business.
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  9640. I half agree, because I don't see the problem are people of immense wealth ITS HOW THEY GOT THAT WEALTH and then how they hang onto it. When you look at Theil, Yarvin Andreessen, Musk, Altman they are mostly people who got lucky with timing and have no grasp that they were just lucky. Sorry if this is a longer explanation but I have an example. I actually went to U. of Illinois where Andreessen went and finished my degree in aerospace just before he went there. So I know what the state of the computer systems were when he got there. The amount of money being pumped into that place on computing by the US government via agencies like DARPA was staggering. Tons of money went into the supercomputing centre. We also had one of the main cores of a system called Plato which was was (in a way) a forerunner of the internet. It was horrible use with everything in text. YES text, with NO pictures, NO videos, just straight ASCII text. To say it sucked does not do justice to how bad it was to use. In that space lots of people were working on ways to make systems like Plato useable by non-engineers. Andreessen and a guy named Eric Bina came up with a program called Mosaic. Basically they made Plato as easy to use as an Apple McIntosh. Their company became Netscape which they sold for a ton of money (see Wikipedia). And there's the problem Andreessen was just lucky to be at the right university at the right time with HEAPS of GOVERNMENT FUNDING. If Andreessen had been one of the elite programmers he would have been working on the Cray Supercomputers not Plato. So he wasn't an elite programmer but got insanely lucky. And that's my bit with these people. Most of them are just lucky and instead of helping other people get lucky they are instead trying to crush other innovations or absorb them into their mega-corps.
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  9641.  @Skunk106  That's a valid point, but America in every case wanted to and tried to install its own puppet regimes in those countries. Underneath it all Putin's a Soviet era goon and the Soviets used to invade and install puppet regimes the same as America did. I think you're right that this time its a bit different, but who knows what Putin's actual aim really is. Is it take over and absorb or is it invade and install a puppet regime.
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  9642.  @Skunk106  I also think you are 100% idiotically deluded to think that America only ever installed independent regimes that treated their people well. Sorry but that didn't happen in South Vietnam and it was even worse in places like Iran, Guatemala and Chile where America installed some of the Cold War era's worst and most vicious dictators.
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  9643.  @lorizoli  Good points.
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  9644. You're absolutely right but what this shows is WHY we aren't seeing anything on the January 6 attempted coup. Just 2 years after this story (in 2015) it was reported that Wall St bonuses topped $28 Billion while the entire minimum wage bill for America was $14 Billion. In the years since there have been no major anti-trust cases to break up the "too big to fail" crowd. In fact the DOJ has not pursued any major anti-trust case for decades. In the years since there have been the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers and most recently the Pandora Papers and no major player has been charged. How far has any investigation gone on the Jeffery Epstein situation or his involvement with Trump, Clinton and others. Watching Lanny Breuer give nothing but cowardly excuses explains why nothing is being done about ANYTHING. What this shows is that the cancer in the DOJ has been festering for decades. They are so scared of losing a case they don't prosecute anything but the surest of cases. Its cowardly and its helped wreck the world.
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  9645.  @edwardmullendore2007  Your 2nd grade teacher must be disappointed. I'm certain she tried to teach you how to spell and write a meaningful sentence.
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  9646. AUSTRALIAN HERE and I am going to stick my nose in here because YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT will decide many many things in the world that greatly affect the world that YOU GET TO CHOOSE and we have NO SAY. America wanted to be Number 1 Big Dog Superpower. FINE CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE THE BIG DOG SUPERPOWER. But that comes with RESPONSIBILITY when the rest of the world is involved AND nuclear weapons are on the table. The claim that America can't have another round of President Trump is irrelevant. America can't keep having 2 DYSFUNCTIONAL parties. The Democrats can't get anything done and the Republicans only want to obstruct and tear things apart. Most of America' problems exist in other countries. Australian Labour can't get things done and the Australian Liberal National Coalition only wants to obstruct and tear things apart. The difference is when we f*ck up it doesn't affect America that much When the Canadians or Mexicans f*ck up it doesn't affect America that much When the Japanese, South Koreans or anyone else in Asia f*cks up it doesn't affect America that much. When the Europeans and Brits f*ck up it doesn't affect America that much. BUT WHEN AMERICA F*CKS UP IT HITS THE REST OF US. Like it did in the 2008 GFC.
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  9647. Everyone needs to remember this guy is trapped between Trumps maniacs and Democrat grandstanding. Neither Brian of Mehdi Hassan or any other journalist is risking their family. We all know the answer but DEMANDING it under current circumstances is just shit grandstanding from both Brian and Mehdi.
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  9648.  Aaron Neville  Your part right and part wrong. America was NEVER meant to be a 2 party system - its just evolved into a 2 party system. Go look at the list of presidents and what parties they belonged to. Bothe the GOP and DNC as we see them now are NOTHING like their origins. The giant problem with the current state of the American System which has been fueled by this hyper-partisan garbage that was seeded during the Reagan years when he pandered to the fundamentalists. It came out recently about how Reagan's team just one day decided that to win they just needed the southern fundamentalists on side. Then guy named Rupert Murdoch who loved Reaganomics stepped in and drove the right wing opinion based news service off the deep end. If you go back and watch the documentary "Outfoxed" there's a warning that what he was doing would drag the rest of the media into the gutter and it would divide America into to camps lead by crazies. It was kind of prophetic. Add to that the billionaire class and their monstrous PR machines and that's just the start of the issue. America's political problems are way more than just having 2 parties.
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  9649.  @JimBananas  You're absolutely right but Flynn wasn't trying to arrange the overthrow of the government. I am not a lawyer but my understanding is that the basic difference is treason is "trying to overthrow" versus sedition "trying to undermine and incite." One of those would be very difficult despite the sentiment but the other should be a laydown. He has called for martial law as part of a concerted program to undermine a function of the government. Because he's military the UCMJ might still apply in which case he really is in trouble. Its why I want to hear from someone like Glenn Kirshner who started as a JAG and then was a federal prosecutor. If anyone can explain this properly he is the sort of person who can.
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  9650.  Chuck Nelson  A few people might like to see that, but he can think for himself and there are some Dem power brokers who don't like people who can think for themselves. If you have seen heard his comments on Sullivan then the real push should be to expand SCOTUS and get Sullivan in there ASAP. The really smart move by Biden should be to give Puerto Rico statehood and get 2 senators elected. The Reps would go ballistic but farqem.
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  9651.  @JimBananas  Pardons should not be scrapped anywhere in any country they are a mechanism of a justice, but like any mechanism of justice they should never be allowed to be abused. If there is one thing that the Biden Admin has to address is the political abuses that have plagued America for too long. That's not an American thing either its something EVERY country has to deal with every so often. Because either you have that cleanout or you end up having a revolution.
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  9652. That's simply idiotic Right Wing BS. That's exactly the sort of tribal partisan stick a label on something and start screaming garbage she's talking about. Biden's issues are simply that he's part of the political establishment that wants nothing to change. Both Obama and Trump campaigned on change, but in different ways. Obama was "Hope & Change" Trump was MAGA and BOTH FAILED. Obama never really delivered and Trump was simply a wrecking ball when America needs rebuilding. The real issue America has is breaking the control of the establishment and that's not just an American issue its across the entire Western Developed world. We all have these monstrous political establishments that are failing us all. Its why I call COVID "Acid Flu" because its stripped away the veneers we all have and exposed the underlying issues of wealth division, environment, education costs, job & financial security,.... etc. and that list is damn long.
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  9653.  @fnjesusfreak  Go check your history lessons. Bullies come in 2 types. The power bully who simply has the physical power to do what they like and the narcissist who thinks they can get away with it, because 99% of the time they do get away with it. Right wingers (wannabe kings & wannabe emperors) like Trump, Bannon, Clinton are mostly the second type. They do what they do because they KNOW 99% of the time they can do it without risk. It works until that one day the quiet kid belts them. The problem as Czar Nicholas II, Louis XVI of France, the Ceaușescus of Romania and others have found out is that when its not just 1 quiet kid but the majority of your entire nation not only do you get FKD-UP but they wipe out your entire family, your supporters and everything else they can burn, crush or bulldoze. That's the problem every right wing leader has never understood - that eventually the peasants will come for them with pitch forks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8
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  9654. Another Australian here: Be careful pointing that finger because the Liberal-National Coalition here is heading down the same path. I went to college in America in the late 80s. I was there for the 87 campaign season and OUR AUSTRALIAN campaigns are now WORSE than what I saw happen in America. Just look at how the referendum campaigns went. NOT the result but the actual campaigns. Our politics is NOT YET as bad as America's but we are catching up. A major part of the problem is that our campaigns are infected with American campaign consultants and have been for a while. On top of that is the insane influence of the American Consultant Industry. PwC, KPMG, EY, Deloitte, McKinsey,.... etc. ARE ALL AMERICAN. After that is the even more insane influence of the Think Tanks which also have links back to the American Think Tank system. Since you are here on YT. Go and look up Australia's most influential Think Tank the Institute of Public Affairs and scroll down to the links to "Other Organisations" and look at who they link to. Check them out if you don't recognise who the CATO Institute, Heritage Foundation and others are.
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  9655. What don't you stop for a moment and consider what this clown is actually saying. 1) What rights are actually being violated? These people are always screaming about how their rights are being violated and NEVER say what rights are actually being violated. 2) Look at the English language skills - "if want to suspend the constitution" Who this clown talking about? This is the language skill of a high school failure. 3) How would it even be possible for ANY American State or the Federal Government to "suspend the constitution" This is dog whistling at its dumbest and look at all the dogs barking.
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  9656. And its not going to matter squat how stupid she is or how ridiculous she sounds. The GOP base will lap it all up and put her in congress just like they have with others.
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  9657.  @JohnMac3837  If Trump isn't a neo-fascist gangster then what is he? And don't dare claim he's all innocent - he's just spent the 6 weeks lying his ass off to get donations out of people to pay his campaign debts. Don't dare claim his kids a innocent either. Don't dare complain about Hunter Biden when Ivanka and Jared got jobs IN THE WHITE HOUSE and made millions while they were there. We all know Hunter used daddy's name to get a sweet job, but at least he wasn't working in the WHITE HOUSE. We are all F--KING tired of hearing about Hunter while you are all silent on Jared & Ivanka.
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  9658.  @skm1091  Yeah somebody else pointed that out to me a while back AND YES ITS REAL. Our knew master is a lump of software that I call "Agent Smith" named after the character in the The Matrix We could also call the customer complaint software "O'Brien" named after the character in Orwell's 1984. Note: That its spelt with an 'e' note an 'a'
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  9659.  @Steelmage99  I don't particularly want to see anything happen either, but there's old sayings about kicking a dog and not expecting to get bit. Its a trade mark of bullies and cowards that they just keep niggling and poking at people they think wont fight back or throw a punch or lash out at them when they have had enough. There's an array of narcissistic people who think they can just keep pushing at people because they know that most people don't want to start a fight or get ugly. Trumps just a typical school yard bully. Cruz is just that coward who hide behind the bully. You know the one who's always got smart remark. I don't want to see something bad happening, but sadly I can see people being pushed too far.
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  9660. I wonder when Tucker will blame the Young Jewish guy in the White House. I think his name is Jared. 🤔
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  9661.  @brunovanhove1832  Don't waste your time he's a 23 year old nothing. Go look at how he responded to my comment.
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  9662. It only took a few seconds -> I'm a patriot and the legal system doesn't work because it didn't do what I want. It was only fraud in the states where they voted in ways I didn't like. Hilary Clinton might be a piece of crap but at least she and her supporters could accept a loss, even if she kept blaming others.
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  9663. 1 - Everybody knows Trump is running again in 2024. 2 - Everybody knows Mike Pence will NOT be his VP. 3 - Everybody knows Marjorie Taylor Green has been promoting herself as Trumps potential VP for months.
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  9664. Yeah but its just, one mouthy do nothing clown calling out another mouthy do nothing clown.
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  9665.  @johnshite4656  You're right on Trump. At his age unless he's done something really bad we don't yet know about he'll get house arrest. At worst he'll go to where Charles Kushner (Jared's father) was sent. Go look it up its got a golf course next door. Seriously it looks like a boarding school or military college with a tall chain link fence. As for the "rules are meant to be broke" or the "rules don't apply to me" hypothesis that's just plain wrong and its the mantra that's been force feed to generations of Americans as part of the libertarian doctrine. Go look at Thom Hartman's vid he did recently on Ayn Rand a true narcissistic psychopath.
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  9666.  @MHO999999  Established principal NOT LAW! NOT LAW! NOT LAW! How manty times does this need explaining to some of you people? Trump is no longer in office. 1) How do you impeach someone who no longer holds public office? 2) The moment he left office he became a citizen just like everyone else. 3) Nowhere in the duties of the president does it list exemptions for fraud, tax evasion or stealing government property.
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  9667.  @tammyboon6259  Go back to 2015/16 and Lindsey Graham said that if the GOP nominated Trump he would destroy the GOP and they'd deserve it. On the CIA Kystal Ball (talking about how ineffective the Left is) pointed out the CIA's "Simple sabotage field manual" which is publicly available. It lists these things. • Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions. • Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. • When possible, refer all matters to committees for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committee as large as possible – never less than five. • Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible • Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes resolutions. • Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. • Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reasonable” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassment or difficulties later on. And yes I have it in a word document for cutting and pasting to people.
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  9668.  @fionad6338  The Supreme court thing hit here in Australia like a bullet to the head. It just flew in the face of the reality of being a reliable developed society. As far as I'm concerned the far scarier thing SCOTUS did was the EPA decision that Gorsuch pushed through. If you look at his past his mother was appointed by Ronald Reagan to break the EPA to pieces and she ended up getting sacked. He's been on a crusade ever since to get even. Gorsuch wants to pull the FAA apart and all the other regulatory agencies. Imagine if he gets his way with the nuclear energy regulators. Gorsuch is unfit for public office. And he's just one of the problems. How is anyone meant to do business with America when your highest court is out of control.
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  9669.  @fionad6338  Its all there on his and his mothers Wikipedia pages.
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  9670.  @MHO999999  Don't tell people to calm the F down when you speak complete bullshite and they call it out. Funny how your previous comment claiming "established principle" is nowhere to be found??? If you spout nonsense don't complain when people call you out.
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  9671.  @tammyboon6259  No probs I absolutely get your point. Go watch the Sam Harris interview on Triggernometry (here on YT) and listen for when he compares the Hunter Biden versus Trump family issues. A few people (like Dave Rubin) went bonkers over his comments. He put that into perspective. If there is something about the Cheney family its NOT LOSING perspective over what they did. Dick Cheney was center to starting 2 wars by lying to the entire planet where over a million innocent lives were lost. I saw a recent documentary on that time and a whole pack of those people should have been dragged off to the Hague and be tried for crimes against humanity. That said you are right Trump is a bigger threat. The really big threat isn't to American Democracy its what that destruction causes the world. Back in 1944 at Breton Woods 44 allied nations plotted out how they would reconstruct what had been smashed and flattened. Part of that was the US Dollar ($US) was that it would become the worlds reserve currency. Part of that is we all these nations agreed to keep some of their gold reserve in a vault in New York at the Federal Reserve. That vault in the film Die Hard 2 with all the stacks of gold actually exists. When countries do business people go into the vault and move gold bars around. Bretton Wood might be gone but that system still exists and the entire world trading system relies on it working. Even Putin needs it to work. Now that he wants people to pay for his oil & gas in Russian Rubles they have to go and buy those rubles on the currency markets. The currency markets work because the system works. Key to the system working is the stability of the US Dollar. Even when international trade is done in other currencies it still relies on the UD Dollar, because as the reserve currency its the foundation on which its all built. Right now Trump and the billionaires backing his nonsense are a threat to a system that the entire world relies on and takes for granted will keep working as it has for the last 75+ years. Imagine if all of a sudden the entire world trading system stops because people can't rely on the US Dollar. YES - Trump's not simply a threat to US Democracy he's pretty serious threat to a lot of the world.
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  9672. Actually privatising water and electricity systems is economically stupid rather than outright criminal. The reason we have done it is because under the Milton Friedman inspired Reaganomics and Thatcherism government was the problem and private industry was the solution. That might have been true for some things, but totally untrue for others. The real problem with the Friedman economics is that the "only obligation a corporation has is to its owners" (or share holders. That's the core of his "greed is good" philosophy. So there is no obligation to deliver quality or value in the Friedman ideology. Its always sold to the public under the guise that "competition delivers lower prices and provides better services," but there is no obligation for that. Plus it totally fails if a market becomes monopolised because there is no competition. I might be an engineer but I did Econ 101 and that was one of the first lessons. Basic utilities like power and water are ALWAYS MONOPOLISED supply systems. There is not a 2nd or third set of power wires and there isn't s 2nd or 3rd set of pipes to give customers choice of either power or water utilities. No matter how it is spun by the PR industry or promised by economists power and water are monopolised systems. And there is no obligation for an owner to provide better or cheaper services in a monopolised system. This is economics at such a basic level its amazing anyone ever bought into it.
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  9673.  @MidwestSurvivalYT  You have to be an economist because only economists keep repeating that utter garbage about privatisation of basic utility systems. All across the world people were told that privatising water and electricity would provide better services at lower costs. NOBODY ANYWHERE has been provided with better services or lower rates. Milton Freidman was a self centered narcissistic clown who had no idea about basic economics let alone complex economics. Things like Branko Milanovics Elephant Graph and the Rand Wage Report have PROVEN that his ideas were nonsense and WRONG. Delivering socialism for the top 1% while completely destroying the middle and lower class only leads to revolution as history has shown. ONLY an IDI0T makes the claims you've made.
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  9674.  @johnvincent4048  Buddy I have done water treatment in 3 countries and its the same story EVERYTIME. "Its the other guys fault!" The plant I did in Canad that was destroyed because the local engineer let if freeze solid when he didn't do as instructed and check the heating system. All he had to do was get a mobile phone chip and install it in the modem so that it would send him text messages. The insurance companies involved spent a year saying: "Its the other guys fault!"
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  9675. Following on from the Rand corporation report Bernie mentioned. Recently Richard Wolf mentioned a report from the Congressional Budget Office on family wealth. Its easy to find by googling "congressional budget office family wealth" (the publication number 57598) Its downloadable but the main graph on the web page is interactive and you can see that data. Right now the bottom 50% of America is worth $2.3 Trillion while the top 10% is worth $82.4 Trillion. That's 36x the combined wealth for 1/5th the number of people. If you do the math each person in the top 10% of America is worth (on average) 180x what each person in the bottom 50% (on average) is worth. I don't know why Bernie isn't screaming from the roof top of congress about this report as his people in his office should have received it. Also that Rand report on wages is easy to find by googling "rand wages report" Its titled "Trends in Income From 1975 to 2018" (the report number is WRA516-1) FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America which is part of why I watch America. I also watch America because our economics are also run by people who went to Harvard & Yale. I checked our Bureau of Statistics and there data (which is presented differently) shows that our top 20% are 90x the net worth (on average) of our bottom 20% (on average).
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  9676. I've gone back and watched the full original on Trigonometry and am wondering WTF is DAVID doing claiming its a disaster? When you look through the whole part of prisons its a clusterf*ck by everyone. They 1/2 agreed on 1/3rd of nothing and then kept trying to be in the right despite arguing the answers to hypotheticals that have no basis in the real world. Konstantin argued the 2 prison solution doesn't work and David kept trying to put the answer into the 2 prison system. They were both 1/2 right and both 1/2 horribly wrong. That part of the discussion fell into a typical philosophical whataboutism that SOLVED NOTHING. I think David has acted in VERY BAD FAITH IN THE TITLE OF THIS.
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  9677.  @cd5139  That's an interesting way to describe any part of modern politics. There's probably a lot of words you can put in that sentence. You could put the name of any western political party into the sentence, because in some way or other they all hide from one truth or another. "The _____________ party politics are for people who don't want the truth."
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  9678.  @simonjones4941  Well done, I said the same days ago. I find some of the progressive commentators who claim they are different to main stream media to be exactly like main stream media at times. This is just another example. Kyle Kulinksi titled one of his recent vids with Jordan Peterson "EXPLOSIVE" (in capitals) and its simply wasn't explosive. It was actually a pretty good interview. Saagar & Krystal for all their talk about a "new mainstream" do it every week.
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  9679. Despite the fact Trump was a complete pig of a human being there's a couple of very important things that he did do. I was challenged by a Trumpist a while back to say just 1 thing I felt Trump got right. I gave him 3 and he then disappeared. What I find amazing is that neither Trump, any other GOP official nor any of his supporters say any of these things maybe because they are like handling kryptonite and require nuance. 1) He renegotiated NAFTA - irrespective of if he did or didn't get the best deal the fact is he did tear up an international trade treaty. Ever since these treaties started being put in place working class people got smashed, but to challenge these treaties was considered heresy by economists and the bankers and traders who made TRILLIONS off what these treaties let them get away with. Irrespective of how ugly it was when Trump tore up NAFTA the fact is he proved YOU CAN tear one up of these treaties and renegotiate it. 2) Even though he came incredibly close a couple of times Trump did not START a new war and there were people like John Bolton who pushed damn hard. AND YES its fair to say Trump didn't end either the disaster in Iraq or the disaster in Afghanistan or close the gulag in Guantanamo. But the fact is he did NOT START another war. 3) At the very least Trump did the entire democratic world a favor but its a double edged favor and it can cut both ways. Trump proved that even an advanced nation will DUMP its establishment parties when they get TOO LAZY and become more interested in pandering to their donors than making their nations and the world better. Trump's favor to us all is proving that if establishment parties FORGET who votes they will get dumped for alternatives and what we all need to learn from the Trump years is that the alternatives CAN BE WORSE if we vote in a narcissistic clown like Trump
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  9680.  stephen9302  In a NORMAL COURT you are 100% correct but in the court of public opinion evidence is irrelevant because narrative is all that matters. In fact if you ask any trial lawyer in respect to evidence in a normal court the most important thing is the narrative you present that evidence in because that narrative is what sways a jury to value or disregard that evidence.
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  9681.  @BeTheChangeYouWantToBeNow  Thanks.
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  9682. Its actually what we should have expected. Since European settlement there's almost not a single part of Australia that hasn't flooded at some time. Even some of our desert areas have flooded. When our droughts break its usually in a big way, but this is something bigger than expected. 2 weeks ago it was as dry as dry could be. A bush fire would have been massive. What's surprised people is just how much fell in an insanely short time.
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  9683. PEOPLE LIKE George Conway NEED TO SHUT THE HELL UP AND GET OTU OF OUR LIVES Its all these people like him driving anyone bonkers that are the reason why we are now in crazy land. Way back in 2004 there was the documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism and in that documentary was the warning that the media was being DRIVEN FROM fact based journalism to opinioned based journalism. So its all these echo chamber BULLSHlT artists like George Conway who are the problem.
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  9684.  @johnhargreaves3620  YES I AM WELL AWARE that many of the SMRs proposed are based on the military units out of subs and aircraft carriers. Its one of the main reasons I tell people they should take what Rolls Royce, GE and Framatome say seriously and the rest of the SMR crowd as just people trying to make noise to raise money. So if one of the engineers from Rolls Royce is saying that it will be AT BEST 2035 for the first production SMRs then that's the best date and everyone else can STFU.
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  9685.  @Withnail1969  What you are talking about is called HALEU fuel, which stands for High Assay Low Enriched Uranium. For uranium the dividing line between low enriched and highly enriched where it can be used for weapons is 20% U235. Natural Uranium is around 0.7% U235. Typical fuel grade is 3-5% U235. Military grade was typically around 8% but it varied depending on reactor type and how long they wanted to go between refuelling. That changed with more modern military reactors which use HALEU and is why they can go 20+ years without refuelling. HALEU is around 19-19.5% as in just below that 20% value. On that 20% value as far as I know its theoretically possible to make a critical mass device go bang with 20% but as far as I know nobody did that. Hiroshima was a combination of 50% and 80%. If you want to read up on it Wikipedia is actually very good on the subject.
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  9686.  @Withnail1969  Agreed. On a basic level you need 2-5 times as many gas centrifuges depending on what your normal U235 fuel is. that alone costs a lot of money to build, operate and maintain. Then there's the TRISO fuel many are claiming they want to use. NOBODY has yet made enough of it to run a real test and prove it works. There is a real chance SMRs will find a niche but its not going to be in the next couple of years. That's just pure nonsense. I just saw Peter's latest on the Israeli attack on Iran and that's even worse than this one for basic technical facts.
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  9687.  @syyner1748  No I'm not I have been quite critical of a lot of what he's said lately. Most if not all of what I have seen lately is a damn joke. I suspect he's still suffering the after effects of his drug issues. If you actually read my comment you'll see I have been complimentary of Kyle for pressing him on these issues, which Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin and others aren't. But the nonsense some people LIKE YOU are going on about is just as bad. The reason why nothing is getting solved is because idiots LIKE YOU who wont listen and consider anything you don't like an outrage.
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  9688.  @glycohead  What TF are you talking about? Do you think Trump is getting another 4 years? ITS OVER - TRUMP LOST Even Republicans and even the Judges Trump appointed have said TRUMP LOST. 81,283,485 Americans VOTED BIDEN and the electoral college VOTED BIDEN. Its called DEMOCRACY and TRUMP LOST Even Newsmax and Fox have admitted THERE WAS NO FRAUD and TRUMP LOST You poor stupid idiot to be still sucked in by this fraud. Stop listening to OAN they are owned by yet another radical billionaire who only cares about his money. If Trump and his people are innocent then WHY DO THEY NEED PARDONS? You only need a pardon if you're guilty, so why does Trump, his kids and all their suck ups need these magic pardons? Why don't you answer that. WHY DO THEY NEED PARDONS?
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  9689. YEAH absolutely - This M0R0N needs her facts checked. Hilary Clinton did not lose because of anyone else but Hilary Clinton. Her and her fans are still blaming everyone else and not taking any responsibility for what happened in 2016 and its disgusting. When will they get over themselves and accept some responsibility. For anyone who wants to check go and look up the interview that Rana Foroohar gave to the Realignment Podcast. Its easy to find just search "rana foroohar realignment." Its episode 301 and about 29 minutes she she explains where BOTH the GOP and Dems went wrong with handling Trump in 2015 primaries and 2016 election. Also Mark Blyth predicted Trump would win more than 6 months out form the 2016 election for similar reasons. This is why is just so egregious to hear YET ANOTHER Hilary Clinton symp blaming other people for their failure.
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  9690. Yeah that's a conversation that's gonna do well on Fox. Why don't you throw some nitro-glycerine on a fire, it might be less explosive.
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  9691. If you have wondered "If aliens exist where are they?" The answer is: They're being secretive because they are trying work out how to contain us from breaking out into the wider universe. Think about it this way: If you had the technology that enabled you to (at least) travel across the galaxy and possibly the universe and you came across a species as aggressive as ours is then what would you do?
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  9692. WHY IS ANYONE SURPRISED? I'm an engineer and there are so many 1,000s of chemicals we use in industry to make all those things you all love. Just as drug addicts are addicted to their drugs most of the planet is addicted to all the cheap stuff that that you buy. For almost EVERYTHING that you have in your home there's a BETTER ALTERNATIVE its just less profitable to do the right thing. This isn't a capitalist or communist thing either as BOTH systems have proven time and time again that they will trash the environment. For all those Lefties don't claim your side doesn't trash the planet. For the socialists out there go look at what the Soviets did to the Aral Sea. For all the Communists go look at what the Chinese have done to their rivers and waterways. This is just the result of the Top 1% of the planet being insanely stupid and greedy.
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  9693. AT LEAST HE'S UNDER 70 YEARS OF AGE 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  9694.  @phillysupra  No actually it was a serious question that deserves a fair answer. If I was making a joke I ask Hunter if he thinks of learning to paint would help Junior with his chemical issue or would he just start paint sniffing?
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  9695. Please see my main comment Vincent Racaniello made a mistake regarding what the Chinese were researching.
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  9696. Go and watch an interview Jess Ventura had with Kyle & Krystal (its on Secular Talk) a few weeks ago. In it he describes his introduction to commentating when he was out injured one year. Vince McMahon gave him a clear instruction: "If you believe it, then its true" and unleashed him. If it evoked passion in the crowd then dial it up as far as you can. It was the first time that there was a "heel" (a bad guy) on the commentary team and it set the fan base on fire. If you watch that interview then you'll understand exactly how trump and Lindell and other operate. Its all act. They are treating the American people like a WWE crowd. Reality is irrelevant and hype is currency.
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  9697. That is kidnapping thing is going to end up the worst PR in Russian history. I saw the interview the Russian Minister gave a few weeks ago and she did the classic "Its not what you think" standard political reply. When they were the Soviet Union and did all that bat crap crazy stuff it was ostensibly to their own people. BUT they let all these other states become SOVEREIGN nations and what they used to do no longer applies. Putin and the clown brigade around him think they are going to reclaim a Soviet Empire that he himself once described "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain." We really are stepping into dangerous times.
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  9698. @Jon Little Yeah but Peter included it in part of his commentary. Peter's pretty good on many many things, but he's occasionally off the mark with some of the details. Like he's wrong about silver being well supplied. A lot of people might not realise it but there's less silver available to mine than gold. Its just been that historically speaking there has been enough silver. In fact ancient Athens rise as an economic power was based on a nearby silver mine and they could mint coins and trade.
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  9699. @Jon Little I'm an Australian engineer and work in our mining sector. I followed what Lynas Corp our biggest rare earth producer was doing. I was working out of Perth when they made their announcements for mining and the construction of a processing plant in Malaysia. The plant in Malaysia was built because the Malaysians subsidised it. It was built was going to cost a lot more in Australia because we have environmental laws. The local Malaysians are trying to close the plant because its so bad. When Lynas were pushing their promos for investors they described a lot of what had happened. One of the biggest and richest RE deposits in the world is the hills behind Los Angeles. But it ended up in temporary shutdown because of low market prices, which is very common in the mining industry. The Chinese bought the processing machinery from that mine and took it all too China. That's also not rare in mining. Quite often people buy mines so they can move all the hardware to another mine. There are people who specialise in dismantling mine sites and selling the stuff item by item. So the Americans let the Chinese take the hardware, because they knew full well how worn it was and that the actual reserve in California would still be there for a future time. So Peter's quite right about most f this, but he misses a few details, but then I 'm an engineer and he's not.
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  9700. @Jon Little DlCKHEAD Don't preach to me. I work in the mining industry.
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  9701. @Jon Little WELL THEN GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT Its not a crime to use your brain before you open your mouth.
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  9702.  @AUniqueHandleName444  LOOK at the comment that started this thread. Just because you think there is a LOT of something doesn't mean its over or under supplied. I can tell you have never doe a day in mining or manufacturing just by how you speak. Don't panic most people have no idea what it takes to make the world work. Even some of the smartest and wealthiest people can make stupid mistakes when it comes to the world's supply chains. My favorite of not understanding was Jeff Bezos saying he wants to move heavy industry off world so they can take advantage of unlimited solar power and not worry about pollution. A noble and wonderful idea and also utterly ridiculous. One of the iron ore mines I've worked at is Tom Price in Western Australia. It produces 20 mta (million tons per annum). Its a great place to consider because that the math is easy to follow. Good iron ore on average is about 70% iron by weight. So 20Mta of decent iron ore produces about 14 million tons of steel. The space shuttle is (to date) the only vehicle capable of bringing more than a few 100kgs back down and it could bring 14tons back down. 14 million divided by 14 is 1 million. So if Jeff Bezos wants to process that 20mta from Tom Price at his orbital refinery it will take 1 million space shuttle flights to bring back down the 14 million tons of steel. HERE'S THE PROBLEM Australia does around 815mta these days and China (internally at its own mines) does over 1,200 mta and the rest of the world does almost another 1,000 mta. All up world production of iron ore is just over 3,000 mta which would take around 150 million space shuttle flights to bring the steel back down. Even if we made a shuttle 10 times better that would still be 15million flights EACH YEAR. In 30 years the shuttle flew 135 times. Yeah what Jeff Bezos said sounds really good until you do the basic math. And its exactly the same for the rest of what the human race burns through each year and most people have no idea what any of it means.
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  9703. Go look up the issues anti-vaxxers have already caused. Childhood diseases like measles and whooping cough were practically eliminated. There are now THANKS TO THE ANTI-VAXXERS outbreaks ARE happening in modern western societies. Children have actually died. I found this page on Wikipedia, note the Presidential comments in the History section -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles_resurgence_in_the_United_States
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  9704. How about we call it the Clobama Party because its run by the Clintons and Obamas.
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  9705. AEROSPACE Engineer here and I've heard some similar stories regarding many technologies like: 1950 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1960 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1970 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1980 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1990 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2000 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2010 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2020 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. By chance can you guess how far away nuclear fusion will be in 2030? I'm Australian but did my degree in America. I was doing my degree in the late 80s and we EXPECTED to build Space Station Freedom in the 1990s and then be back on the Moon by 2001 to start setting up a lunar base that would be the start of a permanent settlement AND YES we took that date from the film. THEN the Challenger accident happened and as we know it was because of poor decisions being made by the wrong people. That has been followed by several 1,000 poor decisions being made by the wrong people and we are no closer to a permanent lunar base than we were January 28, 1986 when Challenger happened. I have spent the last 30+ years working across a variety of industries doing industrial control systems and trying quietly to learn from these industries how we might do stuff on the moon. So long as we have the combination of the wrong people making bad decisions in combination with the unrealistic promotions (and at least Cold Fusion does but "providers" into the story) of effectively vacant over rated (and often over hyped) "future technologies" that will re-shape humanity we wont (as a species) move forward because too many of the basic things like food, shelter, clean water, clean energy and a few other things are NOT DEALT WITH as a priority. I have spent most of the last 20 years working on construction mines in remote locations because it presents the same sorts of issues building a lunar base has. Everything is at least 3 days away, the environment is hostile and you have to build all the basic infrastructure any modern society needs including housing, food storage, food prep, clean water, waste water, power (including power distribution), roads and very importantly workshops for maintenance. While we have story after story of the latest break though technology we are also surrounded by crumbling infrastructure. Go and look at any modern society and you will find major infrastructure issues. They might differ from country to country but we all have them. Energy infrastructure is the major issue that most have and its a serious issue because everything needs energy.
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  9706.  @joanneden1829  Your wrong, they don't care about their ignorance and they don't care about their bases ignorance. That was the essence of Trumps entire 2016 campaign. You only need to care about those who will turn up and vote.
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  9707. Aerospace Engineer here - This was actually a lot better than I thought it was going to be because of the title. I generally hate people who over-hype expressions like "will change everything" because most times its just hype. BUT what you're talking about here is consequences and that's something very few people ever consider. I have spent most of my 30+ years in industrial control systems and have seen FIRST HAND what happens when you shut down massive slabs of industry without consideration of consequences. I used to work in the supply chains of the Australian automotive industry making production cells for parts that went onto cars. Under the wonderful ideology of neoliberal economics we shut down that entire industry because they claimed "We can get cars made overseas for less money and consumers will be better off!" The question those economists never answered was - What were all those people who had spent years (in many cases decades) making car parts and assembling cars going to do next? Some of those people who lost their jobs weren't even employed in any company that made car parts or cars. they were people like the truck drivers who took raw materials to factories or the parts made in one factory to the next factory in the supply chain. They were people like me who made or serviced production machinery or the technicians, machinists, welders and electricians who made and serviced those machines or the people who supplied all the stuff we made those machines out of. Not only were those questions NOT answered, they were NOT even asked and still to this day has NEVER been answered. Fun fact that all neoliberal economists ignore - unemployed people don't buy much because they don't have the money to buy much. There's been a general decline of the retail sectors across the developed world and yet NOBODY seems to have put the fact that millions of people were laid off from high paying value adding jobs in manufacturing into less productive almost ZERO value adding service sector jobs. NOW many of those very service sector jobs are facing annihilation, because YET AGAIN the psychotically greedy and selfish maniacs we call business leaders don't care about the consequences of their decisions.
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  9708. I agree on your assessment of Kyle, but a half/half on Jimmy Dore. Up until a few months back Jimmy was making a fair amount of sense, but he's slipped into an endless attack everything mode of late. I think what David said just before 4:00 is right on. Jimmy's become cynically counterproductive and I think Jimmy's let his frustrations boil over. I don't think he's wrong in pointing out how Biden has fucked America with not getting the $2000 stimulus through. Mark Blyth (the prof from Brown U.) makes the point often how Harry Truman bluffed the Republicans to save the New Deal in his day. This link is from July 2020 and its time stamped to the Q&A after a lecture on Trumpism about a question on Elizabeth Warren at about 1:23:00 he talks about how Truman bluffed the Republicans and saved the New Deal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s What Biden should have done the day after his inauguration is simply drop an executive order for $2000k and RAMMED it down Congresses throat. Just told them straight to their faces - "F you, this if for the American people who are hurting and I'm going to help them." Cruz, Hawley, McConnell and others would have lost their minds over it. BUT all Biden had to do was remind America that Trump spent and EXTRA $80Billion on the military and nobody said squat. Biden simply could have said NO I am giving that to needy Americans so they feed their families. Jimmy's not wrong, Biden has done nothing, but he's also being very counterproductive on how he's voicing it. I think Kyle is doing a far better job and being more constructive. David, Krystal & Saagar and the others need to lift their game. Jimmy needs to take a chill pill and some very deep breaths.
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  9709.  @NameofaYouTubeChannel  The whole world (except Putin) was glad to see the end of Trump. Now they are just starting to realise that Joe & Co. are not the solution. They are more like a pressure bandage on a bullet wound. It might help but its not going to fix the real problem. America isn't alone either, Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada, Britain and the rest of the entire Western world need to realise just how much deep shit we are in. Across the entire Western hemisphere our politicians only seem to think one question matter's - What does big business WANT us to do?
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  9710.  @joyceroberts3886  Look at the footage, its called seat numbers and cabin crew are trained to take notes not escalate situations. They will have simply strolled through the cabin and taken seat numbers. They'll know who they all are by now. Airlines have absolutely no sense of humor when it comes to safety - not after 9/11. If you cause a problem on a plane its your last flight.
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  9711.  @joyceroberts3886  No Probs. Happy to help. Take Care & Stay Safe
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  9712.  @josiplilic3384  I know who Cornel West, Richard Wolf & Zizek are. I watch Richard Wolff fairly often and have seen a few interviews with Cornell West. I haven't watched much of Zizek at all. Richard & Cornell are a little too far to the left for my liking, but I watch them because they mostly make good points. Mark Blyth is a leftist he's just not as far to the left. It takes a bit but capitalism 4.0 is nothing like capitalism 3.0 (what we call neoliberalism). Its more like something in between capitalism and socialism. I have even seen people refer to capitalist socialism. Capitalism 3.0 all stems from people like Milton Freidman, who's famous for "Greed is good" and "greed is the ONLY driver of innovation". His most famous/infamous concept was that corporations have no other obligation than to deliver profit. He claimed that corporations had NO responsibilities to the societies they operate in. It was heavily promoted by politicians like Thatcher and Reagan. 'The complete failure of capitalism 3.0 is that it resulted in a staggering transfer of wealth from the bottom 99% to the top 1% as it destroyed the growth of both the working class and middle class. I tend to call Capitalism 4.0 as "Social Capitalism" because its geared towards wealth growth for the working and middle classes. Mark Blyth talks about doing things like sovereign wealth funds but on a local (not national) level. The big problem I see with it is how do you stop the top 1% from just taking over anything and everything that the 99% try. They just have so much wealth and control so much of our lives. The really dangerous thing these days is that the anger people have can be weaponized. That's what Trump did and several others around the world. The question is what will the next populist who weaponizes the anger & frustration do with it?
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  9713.  @josiplilic3384  This is a long play explanation of Angrynomics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVyQDiDpoTs
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  9714. INVESTIGATIONS MEAN NOTHING UNLESS INDICTIMETS COME FROM THEM AND CONVICTIONS COME FROM THOSE INDICTMENTS
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  9715. Actually there is something to be concerned with this. Its just MTG is the WORST kind of person to speak about it. I'm an engineer and the number of hackable devices in our lives are growing and it should be a discussed BUT NOT by clowns like MTG. Almost any electronic device with a WiFi can be hacked these days. There's been a massive push to connect everything to the internet by the Silicon Valley crowd for years now. Their main reason is data is currency to them. They want more data to sell to the advertising/marketing companies. So they make everything easier and easier to connect. Security is not their concern because they want data they can sell. What's that meant is we all now have multiple devices that can be hacked and therefore used to monitor what we do. Most people are aware that our phones and computers all come with cameras and microphones. What people are less aware of are things like TVs many of which these days have WiFi, cameras and microphones. Its makes them great for conferencing or Skyping or linking to your computer to use as a big screen. It also makes them POTENTIALLY a way to monitor people just like George Orwell described. This is actually a serious topic. Having a clown like MTG rant about it doesn't help anyone.
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  9716. Australian here - go see my longer comment. I clarify that point.
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  9717.  @awf6554  Thanks.
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  9718.  @awf6554  Have you seen the cost of the submarines. There's no limits being set their. And there weren't limits on how many F35s we could have. So what limits are you talking about.
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  9719.  @awf6554  I'm Australian but went to college in America. I was there in 1985 when the David Lange said "NO Nuclear anything" to America and caused a huge stir. The Yanks blew a fuse over it. They were incensed that NZ had the audacity to say NO. More than a few of them asked me (and very bluntly) Who TF these people are to say No to America. It actually freaked them out. Whenever I replied something like "Its New Zealand. Its their country and they get to decide what happens in their country." It only freaked the Yanks out more. They really couldn't handle an ally saying "NO." So I'd say NZ has had far more separation from America than Oz has had.
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  9720. I remember reading and hearing that Jared & Ivanka made $400 million during the Trump Presidency while Don Snr made $1.6 Billion. I'm Australian and we've heard all this stuff. It wasn't much of a secret around the world. We all heard how countries kept rooms, apartments and condos at Trump's golf courses so that they could have meetings with him. Imagine how much money it cost to keep rooms at full day rates, week after week, month after month for several years. Add into that room service, golf carts and any other expenses. Trump's resorts made a mountain of cash.
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  9721.  @edwardskoda2409  Nobody ever said Trump put the cash in his hand they said his resorts made buckets, which meant his 2 idiot sons Junior & Eric most likely handled it. What actually happened to that money nobody knows. What actually happened with Trump and Russia is now such a mess thanks to Rachel Madcow and the rest of the Dem Corporate media goon squad is anyone's guess. The best assessment I ever saw anyone with a brain give on that mess was by Russian born journalist Masha Gessen on Australian TV. Masha said it was highly unlikely Putin wanted or ever expected Trump to be President. Russian democracy isn't like the West. Elections are decided well before hand the voting just confirms what they already knew. So in Putin's mind Clinton had already won. Putin hated Clinton because she had hit him with sanctions while SecState. Masha's conclusion was that Putin was in the process of setting Clinton up. Consider this. If Comey had kept quiet and Clinton won and then the Russians release that Comey kept quiet. What do you think the GOP and Trump would have done? In 5+ years I haven't seen anyone say that wasn't plausible.
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  9722.  @edwardskoda2409  ALSO - I haven't seen anyone dispute that Jared and Ivanka didn't make buckets of money from inside the WH. In fact most of the people defending them say it was fine and "good on them for making money." The same people then scream about Hunter Biden making a tiny fraction of what they made.
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  9723.  @edwardskoda2409  As for Elon Musk, ANYONE who believes a thing he says publicly is an IDI0T of EPIC PROPORTION. Just go look at the sceptic channels that have exposed his BS. I'm actually an aerospace engineer so I'll defend Elon on certain things. There's no doubt he brought a great team together at SpaceX and they have done brilliantly, but his Starship program and Mars colonisation is nonsense. What Elon's done for making electric cars a viable option for transportation is worthy of the highest praise. Some of his idiotic claims on transportation however deserve ridicule and scorn of equally high levels. His free speech advocacy has proven to be nonsense and garbage as well.
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  9724.  @edwardskoda2409  WTF - the $2B from the Saudis is all documented. They set up a hedge fund with Jared Kushner as its manager. That's all documented in the SEC filings. Everyone on Wall St knows how much money they handed over for Jared to play with AND he's going to get a farkload of money managing it. Get out from under your rock.
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  9725. In simplest terms Saagar is trying to apologize for the right taking too many things too far and NEVER accepting responsibility when it goes bad. Sorry Saagar but this is for your apology that is way too little and way too late. 🖕
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  9726. HEY MT: Yes I got A/C but the other significant use for swash plate pumps is in hydraulic systems for the supply pump like the systems we use in manufacturing lines for shears and punches and presses. You also see these in the hydraulic systems for things like bulldozers, diggers and back hoes as well as some farm machinery. Basically anything with hydraulic rams probable has one of these. The reason we see them in hydraulics is because they are POSITIVE DISPALCEMENT pumps which makes them suited for the high pressures needed. Loved the video as always. Since you're keen on people like this how about Hero of Alexandria. In my field of control systems and automation he is not as famous as he should be, because he is credited with the invention of closed loop control. His book Automata is where we get the job title automation engineer, which after 2,000 years was STOLEN by the IT industry a few years ago. I once enquired about a job for an automation engineer at one of our universities in Australia. My question to the professor was why did he need an automation engineer for IT. It was then I found out why I was getting a lot of odd adds in my LinkedIn. The clowns in IT has STOLEN the job title "automation engineer." When I told the professor there were already engineers using that he asked how long had we been using that. I said "About 2,000 years, ever since hero of Alexandria wrote the book Automata" Yes there were many great mathematicians and thinkers in the ancient world but Hero was the great engineer who has simply been missed by many and forgotten by too many. Among his clever stuff were the first programmable machines, the first steam turbine (Aeolipile), automatic opening and closing doors (on of my favorites) and really cute he also invented the vending machine. His feed back loop was for a water clock. Water clocks usually had to vessels with 1 dripping water into the other. They didn't keep consistent time because as they drained they lost head pressure in the upper vessel. So Hero installed a 3rd storage vessel above the vessel that dripped water. Using a float valve he kept the head pressure constant and the clock kept consistent time. All of this circa 60 A.D.
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  9727. What I can't believe is that Americans continually act surprised when this stuff surfaces. The CIA have been doing nasty shite since their inception. Just like with America always striving to be #1 at the Olympics over the Soviets. The CIA was in a head to head competition with the KGB for who could be the worst government funded organisation in History. Which coup do we need to explain to people like Kyle - Iran, Guatemala, Chile, Indonesia or any of the others. I guess Kyle's to young to know about Iran-Contra????
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  9728.  @Cromwellsseveredhead  Sadly for Australia the most influential Australian in history is going to go down as one of histories worst maggots. There's an ongoing joke how the Canadians are always saying they're "Sorry!" I wonder WTF Australian's will say in the future whenever they are reminded what Rupert has done. The scarier thing is that his heir apparent Lachlan is reported to be WORSE. Lachlan isn't regarded as being as sharp business wise and has had several spectacular fails, BUT politically he's been reported as a pure 100% FAR Right wing nutter and total Trumpist. The rest of Rupert's kids have chequered business careers that indicate that NONE of them have the sharpness Rupert has/had.
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  9729. @ FARKING GO AND LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS AROUND 25 MINUTES All of the problems with the LA fires was due to personnel. According this maggot. - There was nothing to do with building houses in fire prone areas. - There was no issue trying to rely on a water system built to service houses not deal with massive fires - There was NOTHING to do with the fact they had very high hot dry winds and high natural fuel loads from several years of wet weather. PLEASE USE YOUR BRAIN ITS NOT A CRIME TO THINK
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  9730.  @hillclimbracingfan5821  I didn't mean it that way although I am an Impreza boy. It could easily have been Sebastian Loeb in his old Citroën or any of a few others.
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  9731. As a man I agree with what your saying, but I recommend that in future you don't capitalise the entire statement. Just capitalise these key points and if you really want to emphasise a particular word or phrase then also use bold. In the simplest way I can put it. Men DON'T KNOW enough about women or the things they go through with respect to human reproduction to tell them what they can and can't do. They way I would put this to religious conservatives is to remind them of what's actually in the Book of Genesis, Chapter 2 AND REMEMEBR the Jews, Christians and Muslims all share the same creation story. At verse 18 (NIV) it says: The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” In other translations it says "helper comparable" or "compliment." Remember they are translating from ancient Hebrew, which isn't straight forward. IRRESPECTIVE of semantics, traditions and interpretations the basic thing for all religious conservatives is that Eve was A GIFT FROM GOD to Adam. She wasn't a tool to be used or a something to order about or a slave to be dominated. Eve was a gift from God to make Adam's life BETTER. So all the religious conservatives should be asked "How do you think God would like you to treat this gift?"
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  9732.  @thatrogersmith  Oh I'm so sorry I didn't know this thread was being monitored buy the punctuation police. Obviously you’re completely oblivious to the fact that your reply is IRRELEVANT to the discussion or the point I was making which had to do with emphasis or the slightly more important point other point I was making which was: a) Men not telling women what to do about stuff they have no experience with; and b) reminding the religious conservatives they have forgotten an important point on the second page of their book of books. You must be from Alabama, where I here they have a vast oversupply of self righteous clowns with their heads stuck up the rectums.
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  9733. There is NOTHING NEW about this and its NOT an American thing either. Here in Australia we have this done by both side of politics in the past. At one point the state of Queensland used to have the joke that sheep voted because the gerrymandering was so favorable towards farming areas. FYI - I went to college at U. Illinois, so I know where Ohio is and despite my feelings towards Buckeyes, Wolverines, Spartans etc. I hate to see what's being done to those states. In the 3-1/2 years I was there I had mostly very good experiences in across that entire region.
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  9734. COMPLETELY UTTERLY TOTAL WASTE OF EVERYONE'S TIME TO EVEN WATCH OR LISTEN TO THIS Did nobody learn anything of Trump's 2 Impeachments? Unless the dum-o-crats can find a way to get total control of the Senate and complete control of congress AND control of the Whitehouse why is anyone bothering anyone with this garbage.
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  9735. Yeah its a lot easier to keep a population under control by ignorance. The Catholic Church was very good at this for over 1000 years until that that annoying German named Gutenberg and his blasted printing press made education a lot easier. What truly wrecked it for the religious conservatives was us blasted engineers (Yes I'm one) and all those very useful things like electricity, washing machines and refrigeration that allowed girls the time to go to school.
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  9736.  @Sublime-  Well she can READ and WRITE and pronounce words correctly can't she. She's also published 2 books. And by the way, in 1987, Lakeridge High School was honored in the Blue Ribbon Schools Program, the highest honor a school can receive in the United States. She would have graduated around 1989-90 so she would have been there around that time. Go read her bio on Wikipedia. She got into Ayn Rand's ideology and Ayn Rand's philosophy can be summed up as "I want what I want and I don't care about the consequences to anyone else (as in f*ck you)." Its the most childish & selfish ideology in human history.
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  9737. AUSTRALIAN HERE: I'm an engineer but my mother's family are mostly farmers and mum and my grandparents kept me well informed on farming issues. What is amazing in this story is the parallel to Australia's farming industry. In my home state of Victoria, which has Australia's largest dairy industry, the number of dairy farmers has fall from just over 7,400 in the early 2000s to just under 2,800 now. Those numbers are from a recent ABC Australia story. Previously I saw a report that said Australia (in total) has gone from over 20,000 dairy farmers to under 8,000. Most bizarrely is that in total Australia produces 3 times as much food as it consumes, as in there's 26 million of us and we feed another 50 million in other countries. This also includes a significant milk product export trade. About 6 years ago I did a project at a milk processing plant and saw an article in that companies news letter that said Victoria was exporting over $1 Billion a month in milk products. When I asked I found that a lot of that was in milk powders (like baby formula) and from the plant I was at frozen cream for the Japanese market. DESPITE those facts we are now importing milk products DUE TO A DROUGHT and one of the biggest issues for dairy farmers (as well as other farmers) has been the cost of water. We now have a "world class" water trading scheme created by an Australian born economist who went to Harvard (yes that Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts). Its a brilliant system where the large corporate farms and corporate vultures simply outbid the smaller farmers at the water auctions. It works so well that many of our basic foods have gone up around 30% and in some cases 50%. I like chip-n-dip and corn chips have gone from $1.60 to $2.30 in less than 2 years and that's over 43%. Also, early in this story JBS is mentioned. JBS is a Brazilian company that has been involved in a massive scandal in Brasil where they bribed people to get the loans they used to buy farming and food production assets all over the world including in BOTH Australia and America. ABC Australia's program 4 Corners (our equivalent to to PBS Frontline) did a story on this that is here on YouTube and includes comments by American officials on this problem. That video is titled "The world's biggest meat company is built on corruption and it's growing in Australia | Four Corners" and its on the channel ABC NEWS In-depth and was posted 25 Apr 2022. FYI - I went to U. Illinois on a scholarship and one of my team mates was from Iowa and he used to mention that for every Iowan there were 10 hogs. So yes I do know where Iowa is and have been there. Other than the rivalry with the Hawkeye's I had a pretty good impression of Iowa (nice and decent people) and YES everyone in Australia loved Radar O'Reilly. So I find this sad to see that Iowa families are struggling like ours are and for the same sorts of reasons.
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  9738. What TF is that meant to mean? Are you claiming anybody who gets vaccinated is a dumb ass loser???
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  9739. The only question left for Don Junior is: Do you get your drugs from the same supplier as Hunter Biden?
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  9740. AUSTRALIAN HERE - we have some experience with bad fires, the loss of life, loss of property and general mayhem of lives being ripped apart. After our last major fire season in 2019 there was the same sort of political misinformation campaign and a lot of it came from the MURDOCH media. Murdoch people made so many claims about arson that we ended up spending millions on a full public enquiry that investigated more than 30 of the major fires that season. YES we had over 30 major fires that season and in the end NOT ONE fire was found to be caused by arson, but there were a couple of inconclusive causes. The vast majority of fires in Australia are from lightning strikes and power lines where there's been insufficient maintenance keeping the power lines clear of trees. Another major factor was a shortening of the time period when we could safely burn-off of the fuel loads. Just as Adams recent guest Dr. Daniel Swain explained about California we'd had several good years of rain that caused a lot of growth followed by a drought which dried it all out. So the fuel load in 2019 was very high making those fires worse than usual. The other thing that the faux-media (with few exceptions) point out is that like Australian Eucalyptus trees the California scrub brush is high in oil content. The sap in those trees is a form of oil. So they don't just burn they literally explode when the fire gets fierce enough. In 2019 we had trees blast apart and shower the surrounding area in eucalyptus oil. Another thing the faux-media fail to highlight is the effects of an unusually high hot wind event. We knew in 2019 that it was going to be a day of high winds and it doesn't matter who's in charge they can't affect the weather. All you can do is hope to be prepared well enough with water, fire trucks, water bombers and people, that you can handle the situation.
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  9741. Check how you wrote that because I think you meant. "he has a moral obligation to condemn and NOT support immorality."
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  9742. ITS VERY SIMPLE - Ramaswamy is an arrogant smug clown who thinks that every time he opens his mouth that every person in the room thinks he's a genius. We've all met these types all through our lives. They can't be told "NO" to anything. They are an expert in everything. They are always HAVE TO BE the center of attention and get obnoxious whenever anyone else gets attention. And if people really start to ignore them or tell them to "just go away" they start breaking things. Malignant narcissism mixed with sociopathy seems to fit as a description quite well.
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  9743. Yes and No If no one challenges them then they just keep sharing their stupidity. Some no one can reach like a drug addict who doesn't want help. BUT there are those who do want and explanation and if we can reach them then we need to at least try.
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  9744. NO DEREK NO the combustion triangle is FUEL-OXGEN-IGNITION not heat. Common on man that's a brain fart you should not get wrong.
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  9745.  @tarant315  Let me be simple. I am getting damn farking tired of people who ARE NOT ENGINEERS TELLING ME HOW TO DO MY JOB. Its clowns like you who can't STFU and listen WHY we are in the mess we are in. I can tell you have no clue because of the flippant way you just think its that simple. Here's some facts. We can't buffer with batteries because we simply don't have enough Lithium. The World's known Lithium reserves don't have enough Lithium to do 1/3 of the cars let alone the Mega batteries. At the current lithium production rates we need around 300 years of supply in the next 10 years. All those Mega Batteries put in 5-8 years ago need all their cells replaced and we still DO NOT have a viable recycling plant ANYWHERE. We need an alternative battery technology and other than the Sadoway Battery there's nothing currently available at any viable rate. There's a lot under development but we need stuff in production NOT development. Mega batteries are loved by investors cos they pay off in around 18 months and then make a giant pile of money until the cells degrade. Renewables are loved by investors because they are fast to install and cheap to operate compared to nuclear, coal, hydro, gas turbines... etc. Plus you need 100% of the capital up front for those technologies. With wind and Solar you just need enough of a project done so you can start connecting it to the grid and start earning money to help pay for the rest. Plus because of the way the construction bandits operate Nuke, coal, hydro,..... ALWAYS COST MORE than budgeted. FINALLY THE RENEWABLE PROBLEM is NOT what most people think. Its NOT the irregularity of the power. Its NOT the base load issues. Its HOW renewables inject power onto the grid. It causes harmonics on top of the power wave and those harmonics are an issue few know about and fewer understand. Ireland has already hit this wall. My country Australia is also close to hitting that wall.
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  9746.  @flothus  Since you claiming to be a fellow engineer let me give you this little benefit of hindsight for 35+ years. If it doesn't work as required then it doesn't matter what it cost and economics are irrelevant. RIGHT NOW one of the single biggest issues in the world is energy for the very simple reason (quoting economist Steve Keen) "Capital without energy is a statue and Labor without energy is a corpse." No matter what you want to talk about it needs energy. People & machines in that respect are the same they just need different forms of energy. All of the machinery of modern society needs electricity, either to build it or to run it. AND RIGHT NOW the most important thing is installing cleaner energy systems THAT WORK. All the BS about SMRs means nothing because NONE of them have anything yet that people can buy. All the BS about Fusion means nothing because NOBODY has anything that works yet. All the fossil fuel clowns can shut p because they've done so much damage to the planet its barely comprehensible. All the renewables people can shut up because their solutions all have giant holes in them BECAUSE THEY WONT LISTEN. That's why we are in so much trouble. Too many vested interests with too much too say and everyone NOT understanding that our energy systems MUST WORK.
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  9747.  @flothus  And I forgot to mention YES ABSOLUTELY: the German Energiewende is a catastrophe. But its exactly what you get when blind ideology overrides common sense.
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  9748.  @biankacosma  I'm Australian and, as I have been pointing out, we have 2 reports in Australia on nuclear. One by the LEFT wing government that says nuclear is utterly uneconomic AND The other by the RIGHT wing opposition that says its economically the only way to save the economy. BOTH were written by economists making economic arguments with the same data AND BOTH are totally worthless.
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  9749. ​ @tripper0354  Good point and it will be interesting. Fortescue Metals have been trialling hydrogen powered dump trucks for a couple of years but have been fairly quiet about it. What bugs me right now is that these companies HAVE PROVEN that you can make the technology work at the driving end and its NOT being acknowledged. For example GE have the 9HA 500MW turbine (800MW with combined cycle) and it RIGHT NOW run on 50% Hydrogen-50% natural gas with a pathway to go 100% hydrogen. The 9HA turbine by itself gets over 46% thermal efficiency and over 34% in combined cycle. In Australia we have 2 quite old gas thermal plants. They are just like a coal fired plant except they burn gas. So they are a little cleaner but they are also limited by the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and Carnot efficiency. At their best those plants got about 35% and they are well past their best. We had one of our coal fired units down to 20% by the time it closed. By chance 1 is 800MW and the other 500MW so they are the prefect size for a 9HA replacement. Replacing the 800MW unit would drop the Natural Gas required by ~50% WITHOUT using Hydrogen and would reduce it by ~75% with Hydrogen. That would have an incredible effect on both the local energy and gas markets on just costs alone. I have struggled for several years to get anyone to listen because every door is guarded by swarms of economists, think tankers and special interests. Hence my frustration levels.
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  9750.  @flothus  I'll give you a couple of minor corrections and they are NUANCE. There's nothing wrong about Green Sentiment ITS HOW THEY ARE GOING ABOUT IT THAT'S THE PROBLEM. Having a functioning healthy planet is a good thing for everyone - Marxist, Capitalist or I-hate-all-politics-ist it doesn't matter if we can't feed ourselves or breath the air its all over. HOWEVER dismantling industries that we need to get there DOES NOT HELP ANYONE and I can't scream that loud enough. Secondly Nuclear is incredibly dangerous. WHAT MAKES IT SAFE are very well trained engineers operating in an environment where they can tell everyone else and their opinions to F--K OFF. I hope you get the nuance in both points.
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  9751. ​ @flothus  You are absolutely right the STRATEGY IS OFF. And worse the technical explanation of WHY those big Hydrogen Turbines are needed is incredibly important. This is about the simplest I can explain it. Most people know AC power is a sine wave. What they don't know is that every time something is switched on or off it taps that sine wave and as a result of the stuff going on that sinewave is noisy. In the past this wasn't that much of a problem because behind that sine wave were large lumps of spinning metal called turbines and they have inertia. The actual physical inertia of those turbines HELPED keep power grids stable. However these days we have lots of energy being pumped onto grids via DC-to-AC inverters. I know how these things work because its the same tech used in AC motor control which I have been doing for 30+ years. They don't put out a clean wave form just like music CDs don't put out perfect wave forms because its digital. So in recent decades we have been taking out the big turbines that help keep the grid stable and replacing them with inverter technology DOESN'T. If that sounds like it can't be too much trouble to fix the answer is NO. One simple way to help is build a couple of big nuclear plants. If you're in Europe that would be a couple of EPR 2s and with their big massive turbines, but they take 10years and cost a lot. And somewhere in the next 10 years we will all see grids having more and more issues. Ireland is first off the rank in that game and I expect here in Australia we aren't far behind. That's the main reason why I want a couple of these big hydrogen turbines. Even at only 50% hydrogen they lower emissions which makes even the greenest greenie less disappointed. Plus they can off take the excess wasted energy all wind/solar farms produce and use it. The efficiency isn't really a problem because the benefit of the turbines for grid stability is huge and actually helps the renewable industry work. Also they can help nuclear if you want to go that way in the future. No matter what the design is nuclear power works best at 100% output form the plant. They can but they aren't that good at following the daily swings in power demand that you can see on the "duck curve." So having a system with renewables, hydrogen turbines and nuclear can work because the hydrogen turbines help both the renewable and nuclear run better.
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  9752.  @danielduggan7126  You have 1/2 said the right thing. We use H2 WHERE its the best or better solution to other options. Actually one of the key places where H2 can be incredibly good is in energy. Sorry I am an engineer and I am damn tired of people who DO NOT know what they are talking about mouthing off on social media. Sabine is a physicist NOT an ENGINEER and her numbers ARE WRONG and the numbers she presents are taken out of context.
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  9753.  @colayco  You know how I can tell you're NEITHER an engineer or a physicist??? Because you make stupid claims about the Laws of physicists without any explanation. The answers below are not just for you they're for everyone else in this thread. FIRST Batteries as we now have then CANNOT do the type of grid level power storage needed. Here in Australia we have some of the largest Mega batteries on the planet. CASE 1) The 750MWH battery on the site of the now closed Liddell Power station (2,000MW) can put out the same power as the power station for 23 minutes. That can't replace a power station except for short time duration peak demands. CASE 2) The Snowy 2.0 Pumped Storage system is designed to supply 2,000MW constant for up to 7 days. That's 336,000 MWH of storage which is almost 450 times the capacity of the unit at Liddell. That's what grid level storage looks like. It can't be something with minutes of supply it has to be something with DAYS OF SUPPLY. And that's the reality of complex energy grids. Batteries are good for short term peak demands and utterly uneconomic for long duration AND THAT'S a COMBINATION OF PHYSICS and ECONOMICS SECOND THE LITHIUM ISSUE Then there is the giant issue of Lithium. If you go and look up Lithium on Wikipedia there's a table form the US geological survey for reserves and resources. Most people do NOT understand the differences. Resources are what's ESTIMATED to exist whole reserves are what's KNOWN to exist in minable quantities. You can go to any spot on the planet and dig up a cubic meter of dirt and process it and you'll find some gold, iron, aluminium, uranium, lithium and everything else. The problem is that in most cases it is utterly unfeasible to extract those quantities AND THAT'S AN ECONOMIC ISSUE. Currently EVs need about 65kg of lithium (Tesla S needs 66kg). With known reserves of lithium we only have about 1/3rd of what's need for the 1.5 Billion cars on the planet. So there's just NOT enough Lithium to do mega batteries AND THAT'S A PHYSICAL LIMIT. THIRD THE GRID STABILITY ISSUE We use AC power to transmit energy and AC power is based on a sine curve and the problem is that every time anything is switched on or off that curve is disrupted. Most of the time the noise on the grid is harmless and goes unnoticed but sometimes you get harmonics which combine into dangerous energy spikes. Those spikes can cause all sorts of issue from simply frying electrical equipment to causing blackouts. Some cities or parts of cities and even buildings can be incredibly susceptible to harmonics and they need surge divertors and expensive filter systems. The problem with ANY TECHNOLOGY that stores energy in DC needs to put that energy onto the grid via an INVERTER and inverters are noisy and cause harmonics. I know this because its the same technology used in motor control systems. One of the main reasons harmonics were less of a problem in previous decades was the supply of energy onto the grid came from turbines spinning generators. The actual mass of the turbines had enough inertia to absorb most of the grid disturbances. Now that we are decommissioning power plants that have large turbines with systems using inverter technology that problem has gotten WORSE and THAT'S A STRIGHT ENGINEERING PROBLEM based on the PHYSICS of GENERATORS versus INVERTER SYSTEMS. THE FACT IS (not the Laws of physics) that we can't do large expansive energy grids how people think and many clowns keep claiming. We need to do certain things on those grids to overcome the shortfall in various technologies and EVERY technology has its limits. Pumped storage is great is you have the geography for it. Current Mega Batteries are brilliant if you want to make money and only have shirt term goals. But id you have other needs that can't be done with batteries or pumped storage then OTHER technologies must be considered and RIGHT NOW Hydrogen technology is not only available IT WORKS and compared to many other options it is economical.
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  9754. AUSTRALIAN HERE with an outside perspective. YOU have only won a MINOR BATTLE. There's still a War to Win. I suggest you all go and review Sun Tzu's the Art of War RIGHT NOW. FIRST - The Dems now have to get back all of the Joe Forever Crowd and just as the Bernie Bros and others were kicked in the guts and hated it so will the Joe Forever crowd hate this. SO STOP GLOATING SECOND - Harris is NOT a good pick for President. She might have been a good pick for VP but you are all forgetting just how badly she campaigns. Remember that she could NOT even win her home state of California. HOWEVER if she were to stay on as Gavin Newsom's or J. B. Pritzker's VP them it would be a very smart move on her part and an almost guaranteed win. Yes - I know there's the issue of both here and Newsom being from California but that can be dealt with. She might not be a great campaigner but she'd tear JD Vance apart and that would be worth seeing. *THIRD - * The Next POTUS whoever they are has a couple of insanely hard tasks to deal with. 1) An out of control SCOTUS. This doesn't just affect America its affects anyone who has to do business with America because as Chevron showed American companies will drag their foreign issues back into US Courts where there's almost zero chance of justice. 2) An out of control Israel. This isn't just a disaster its a disaster encased in a catastrophe swamped by a tsunami. Everything that Western Democracies fought the Second World War and then the Cold War over - Freedom, Democracy, Equality of Opportunity and Basic Human Rights has been trampled over. 3) Wealth inequality. Bernie Sanders had the Congressional Budget Office update an earlier report on Family Wealth to now include the years 1989 to 2019. Its easy to find on the CBO website and you can download the data for all the graphs. There ahs been little reporting on this report but it is damning and shows that for the past 30+ years the Top 10% of the American population who did things like the GFC has done insanely well, while the Middle Class has had to fight for what they can get as the Bottom 50% have been trampled into the pavement. This is why Trump was able to tap into anger and despair and win in 2016. 4) Climate Change. A month before he won office in 1992 George HW Bush said at a campaign rally that "Global Warming was the challenge of our generation." That notion was hijacked by his chief of staff John H. Sununu (father of Chris), Nobel Prize Winner William Nordhaus and the oil lobby. After those 4 things there are other things. Sorry but Kamala isn't up to the task, but MAYBE if she stays on as the next VP she can do some great work because I think she probably understands these tasks and how hard they are.
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  9755. I think you will find they don't hate Palestinians, but rather DO NOT CARE about what's happening to them and that they are more afraid of a backlash from the Zionist Lobby in America who are vicious to say the least.
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  9756.  @surfwriter8461  NICE WAY TO PROVE YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH AND YOU ADMIT David's in control which is a nice way to prove your a clown as well as an IDI0T
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  9757. Along with standard political practice EVERYWHERE. The rarest thing in the world these days a politician telling the truth. The second rarest thing in the world these days are political commentators telling the truth. Here's a multiple choice on interesting question: Where are the Aliens? A) They just don't want to talk to an species this stupid. B) They suspect we are a virus and don't yet have a way to vaccinate the rest of the universe from us. C) They are too busy collecting samples on all the other species on Earth they can so they can rebuild the planet after we exterminate ourselves. D) All of the Above.
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  9758. AND THE FOLLOW UP Video will be titled _"DC-10: How McDonnell Outsmarted Douglas after buying them out!"_🤷‍♂ FOLLOWED BY a video titled _"Max-8: How McDonnell Outsmarted Boeing (again) after getting bought out!"_🤷‍♂ FOLLOWED BY a video titled _"Starliner: How McDonnell Outsmarted NASA by sponging of the Government!"_🤷‍♂
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  9759.  @joevenuti1201  I think you made a typo or have your aircraft mixed up. Wikipedia lists the 737 as having 11,797 built as of June 2024. Is 2037 a variant or another aircraft? There were 1,832 of the 727 built.
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  9760. HEY DAVID You need to look on the bright side. Trump is going to finally deal with the Sackler family. They sold drugs (Oxy) through a vast distribution network and those drugs killed 1000s and 1000s of Americans. I suspect many many Americans will be happy if they are dealt with Trump style. Someone needs to ask Donald about his buddy Chairman Xi and Fentanyl. Fentanyl (the artificial opioid) which is now responsible for 1000s of American deaths across North America is manufactured in China.
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  9761. Sorry but here's some news you missed. Hilary Clinton like the GOP idiots who ran against Trump misunderstood the American public. All Hilary and others have done since is blame everyone else and taken not 1 gram of responsibility. Go and look up the interview that Rana Foroohar gave to the Realignment Podcast. Its easy to find just search "rana foroohar realignment." Its episode 301 and about 29 minutes she she explains where BOTH the GOP and Dems went wrong with handling Trump in 2015 primaries and 2016 election. Also Mark Blyth predicted Trump would win more than 6 months out form the 2016 election for similar reasons. This is why is just so egregious to hear YET ANOTHER Hilary Clinton symp blaming other people for their failure.
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  9762.  @Cedarlick  Yeah I know. There's a few states where the words wife, sister, and daughter all have the same meaning. How did the late great Robin Williams put it. In Georgia the penalty for sodomy is to be locked in a cell with a man who will sodomise you. Do you know what the virginity test is in Marjorie Taylor Greene's state of Georgia? Test if she can run faster than her brothers. Do you why people in certain places NEVER ask their friends if they think their daughters a sexually active? Because too often the answer is: "No she just lies still like her mother!"
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  9763.  @Cedarlick  Yeah how come it was wrong for Bill Clinton to get blown in the White House but Lauren can give a hand job in public and its not an issue. I think there's a double standard there or is it a matter of who had to pay the laundry bill afterwards?
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  9764.  @prophetherbandderp2733  Why does that assessment not surprise me in the slightest. They surely must know Trump doesn't care about the Bible or anything in it. So why vote for an adulterous scumbag like him? He gave them 3 hyper conservative SCOTUS justices who would overturn Roe V Wade. This has been a problem with human civilisation for centuries - societies or sub-cultures that define their existence by a single issue who are willing to ignore any fault or negative consequence of that single issue. Before he dissolved 1/2 his brain Jordan Peterson made an astute comment about how they knew people on the right had gone to far - they became racist. He also said we didn't have a simple clear marker like that for people on the left. I think he was part right and part wrong because I think its pretty simple to see when most people have lost the plot. The focus on a single issue and do not care how illogical their view of that issue is AND are willing to commit violence to protect their stance on that issue. We see that with racists We see that with pro-life anti-abortionists We saw decades of it across the communist nations. We see it in Israel's hard right settler faction and we see it in the hardline Islamic groups. I am afraid we'll start to see it with the Greenies and Fossil Fuel people before too long and it will go from calm to explosive so fast we'll be shocked.
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  9765. The first thing the American Democrats need to do is clean out their own leadership who are almost as pathetically corrupt as the GOP. The entire world has seen the Feinstein issue unfolding and its as disgusting as it gets in politics.
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